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Exclusive: 'AGT' Star Michael Winslow Gives a Crash Course in Voice Artistry
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AGT star Michael Winslow is already a voiceover legend. He has had an impressive career since his breakout role in the Police Academy franchise. He joined us live on YouTube after his astounding audition aired during Tuesday night's episode. This is an interview you're certainly not going to want to miss.
Michael Winslow Describes His 'AGT' Audition Experience
Winslow started off the interview in a way that only he could, pretending to have a faulty internet connection. He sat "frozen" and stared at the screen before making sounds to imitate a spotty video chat. It was the best "gotcha" moment of all time and really showed off his fun personality.
The 62-year-old said he has been doing "a lot of travel" since his audition including gigs in the Pacific Northwest with Morgan Preston, a comedian, and friend of his. Winslow is accompanied by a drummer and a guitarist for this act called the Unicorn Pony Invisible Band. He went solo on AGT and was instantly recognized by Simon Cowell and Howie Mandel for his past work.
"It is another planet when you're on that stage," Winslow said about his AGT audition. "It's a different atmosphere, a different planet but I'm glad to see everybody in the meantime."
Though he is famous for appearing in seven Police Academy movies and a role in Mel Brooks' 1987 film Spaceballs, Winslow started off on a show where most comedians' careers blossom.
"One of the first times I got paid to do it was The Gong Show with Chuck Barris," he said. "I got $516.32."
To him, it was like a $1 million payday. Now, times have definitely changed as Winslow has a very good chance of actually winning the $1 million on AGT. He did say that if he won the prize he would give some of it away to "who needs help the most." His awesome attitude was on full display during his AGT audition. He loved the experience because he was able to be his true self.
"If you remember, the thing about AGT is the rule is kind of like there is not a stiff dress code, you come as you are," he said. "So basically you bring yourself. It's the one thing that I've liked about this show and I enjoy all of the other shows because when you think about it, all of these shows including AGT, this is American entertainment. This is the American dream."
Winslow Teaches Fans How to Make Some Classic Sounds
Winslow wanted everyone in our audience to relax a little bit by making some beachy ocean sounds. It was only just the beginning of the crash course he started for those tuning in. He taught us how to make the sound of a door opening. Well, he tried to teach us but it ended with a lot of saliva flying through the air. This sound seems simple and it happens in two parts. You use your lips to imitate the door unlocking, and screech like a pterodactyl to sound like a door creaking.
"I encourage everybody to practice their own noises because everybody's got a skillset that they just haven't used," he said.
Just when you thought Winslow's performance on AGT was insane, he has so many more sounds up his sleeve. His barking like a dog at the camera will probably upset a lot of dog owners. He sounds identical to a dog and warned us "don't have the speaker on" when he is around. He took things even further when he came up with a huge Shark Tank idea.
"I would love to be able to have my own pop vinyl or Funko toy and put noises in it," he said.
Winslow went on to tell us that his job is to "help everybody forget about the rent for an hour." He did just that with this light-hearted interview. He closed out the interview by teaching everyone how to pretend that they're working on Zoom by making keyboard noises. This is a technique that probably all of us will be using for the rest of our lives.
The Gremlins actor made us do our best Morgan Freeman impressions even though his is unmatched. We all took a ride in a helicopter, with Winslow absolutely nailing the sounds of takeoff. Going on a virtual helicopter ride with Winslow was such an awesome experience. He is certainly one of the acts to look forward to if he makes it to the live shows this season on AGT. Just based on the reactions of the judges and the fans, it looks like he will for sure be a contender to win the show.
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Tri-Rail wants more control but can't afford it
By Michael Turnbell and Sun Sentinel
POMPANO BEACH — They fought for years to take control of train dispatching and track maintenance.
But after mulling over an agreement that would give them what they wanted, Tri-Rail's board of directors on Friday said no.
Too expensive.
"This would be a catastrophe," board member Jim Cummings said.
In 2007, the Florida Department of Transportation and the CSX freight railroad agreed that Tri-Rail should control dispatching and maintenance on the tracks, now run by CSX. But missing was the serious infusion of cash necessary for Tri-Rail to carry out those functions.
The Legislature came up with the money — $15 million a year — during a special session in 2009 to help Tri-Rail, but made no promises after 2014.
A consultant told the board the information used to project Tri-Rail's funding needs for maintenance did not take into account several factors that would drive up costs.
Board members expressed no concern about taking over dispatching, which would mean the most to passengers because it would give commuter trains priority over freight service.
Tri-Rail and CSX have squabbled over the years about dispatchers' letting slow-moving freight trains on the corridor at rush hour, causing significant delays to commuters. The freight company has maintained it has a responsibility to its customers to move their goods.
But Tri-Rail could not accept one part of the agreement and reject the rest; it was all or nothing.
If Tri-Rail took on maintenance, it would be responsible for the main tracks plus about 150 miles of track spurs and the Hialeah Rail Yard.
It would also have to pay to maintain a "positive train control" system that would allow trains to be controlled remotely and prevent collisions. The system must be in place on all rail lines in the United States by 2015.
Cost was not the only reason board members didn't like the agreement, which was negotiated by the state and CSX with little input from Tri-Rail staff.
The agreement would have allowed CSX to run additional freight trains in midday hours. Under those terms, officials said it would be harder to expand commuter service outside rush hour.
Residential development along the tracks – long a desire by officials to make Tri-Rail a more desirable alternative to driving — also would have been prohibited unless CSX approved it.
"Why are they trying to get us to buy into a deal that is totally ridiculous?" Cummings said. "Is there some other agenda we don't know about?"
Tensions between the state and Tri-Rail have run high ever since DOT officials said last year that Tri-Rail could be run for $10 million less a year.
The DOT also has asked the Legislature to change the balance of Tri-Rail's board. Currently, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties hold six of the nine seats on the board. But under the bill, the new board would consist of three county commissioners, a DOT official and three appointees picked by the governor.
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Did not take one picture of our day because we were busy the ENTIRE time! The kids are getting use to the routine and each day is better than the last! It's going to be a GREAT year!


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Coronavirus crisis: Scientists to begin human trials of drug to help hospital patients
A British team received the green light yesterday to begin Phase II human trials of a drug that could help hospital patients fight off infection. And Boris Johnson revealed that Public Health England is close to perfecting an antibody test that will be a game-changer for diagnosis. Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said Public Health England's work on the antibody test is "progressing very fast" and will provide valuable insight into the pandemic.
Sir Patrick said: "It is a game-changer. It allows you to understand the proportion of the population who's had this disease but hasn't had symptoms.
"It's going to be critically important to be able to monitor this disease well because only by being able to monitor it can we start relaxing measures again."
New hope of a breakthrough came as the death toll jumped by 33, taking the UK total to 104.
The Government has announced schools will close from tomorrow and it is believed London could soon go into lockdown to slow the spread of the disease.
The PM said up to 25,000 people will soon be swabbed for the virus in hospitals daily, as testing is ramped up.
More than 200,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported around the world and 8,000 people have died, according to the World Health Organisation. Italy reported a big spike in deaths – 475 in 24 hours – taking its total to 2,978.
The global race to find a treatment has been joined by a team from Southampton University.
They have been developing a drug known as SNG001 to help people with chronic lung disease fight off viruses and believe it could have the same effect on Covid-19.
Up to ten hospitals will begin giving the inhaled drug to 50 patients next week and a further 50 will receive a placebo. If effective, it could be available for wider use within months.
Chief trial investigator Professor Tom Wilkinson said: "The science definitely adds up. We're learning a lot about the pandemic every day.
"But that's why we need to do this study, to understand whether the drug does work.
"If we see positive signals of safety and benefit in patients, we can then move rapidly into much larger studies and even into treatment. I'm optimistic and we will soon see the results."
SNG001 works by delivering a dose of a protein called interferon beta to the lung cells. We all have interferon beta in our cells and it helps to co-ordinate the immune response when viruses attack.
However, old and sick people have lower levels. Viruses also suppress the production of interferon beta when they attack.
By giving patients an extra dose daily, the drug boosts the immune response and reduces the rate at which the virus spreads in the body in people with lung conditions.
Researchers yesterday received approval to begin Phase II trials.
Testing will be undertaken with Synairgen, a drug company founded by Southampton professors Stephen Holgate, Donna Davies and Ratko Djukanovic.Patients will receive treatment at hospitals across the UK, co-ordinated by experts at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. The trial will focus on those who have tested positive for coronavirus.
However, the next step will be to see if it could be given to elderly and vulnerable people at the first sign of infection to prevent them ending up in hospital.
NHS workers who develop symptoms could also be offered immediate treatment to help them return to work sooner. Prof Wilkinson said research across the globe was moving at an incredible pace to tackle this pandemic. He added: "People have come together very efficiently and very quickly. Processes which usually take weeks have taken days."
The trial is one of the first in the UK to begin testing a possible treatment in coronavirus patients.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials said a Japanese flu drug was "clearly effective" against coronavirus.
Zhang Xinmin, of China's science ministry, said favipiravir, had shown promise during trials in Wuhan and Shenzhen involving 340 patients.
"It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment," he said.Patients given the medicine in Shenzhen tested negative for the virus after a median of four days after becoming positive, compared with 11 days for those not given a drug, Japanese media reported.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, has compared the coronavirus pandemic to a nuclear explosion.
He warned it "may well be the last straw" for many towns and smaller communities.
"The crisis through which we are passing will change this nation in deep and unpredictable ways," he added.
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On June 21, 2018, Dalit Women Rights Activists presented witness accounts of the state of affairs of caste based violence faced by women and girls in India, to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in its 38th session in Geneva.
The report aims to find recommendations for policy and implementation within the UN and beyond, and "forge new alliances and partnerships and agree on international level strategies to help fight caste based violence and impunity in India". A panel of experts hearing the testimonies at Geneva include Ms Rita lzsak-Ndiaye, member of UN CERD Committee, who presented her first comprehensive report on caste based discrimination as a global phenomenon to the UNHRC in 2016, Ms Dubravka Simonovic, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Ms. Vrinda Grover, Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India.
The report states how dalit women are protesting against impunity in connection with a spate of rapes and violence against Dalit women in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, and Maharashtra, and believe that the police is involved. "The girls, their families and people from their community have been camping out and protesting in New delhi for months – demanding justice. They are afraid to return to their village in fear of violent reprisals from the dominant castes." it states.
The report titled "Voices Against Caste Impunity: Narratives of Dalit Women in India" further recounts that dalit women in India are often forced to work in modern slavery and are key targets for trafficking into slave labour and prostitution. Almost 98% of the women who are forced into the dehumanising work of manual scavenging are dalits.
The report quotes the National Family Health Survey, which states that by the age of 15, 33.2% scheduled caste women experience physical violence. It quotes several activists, who have worked with the National Dalit Movement for Justice, and notes the pattern of discrimination that starts early in the life of a dalit woman, slowly graduating from the education system to the woman's access to healthcare or an infant's access to nutrition in India.
It harps on the recent implementation of the SC and ST Prevention of Atrocities Act by the Supreme Court that makes legal recourse and justice inaccessible for dalit women, in the recent times in India. It points at the Commission's incompetence in understanding caste based violence against women in India.


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Supreme Court Report: Federal Election Comm'n v. Ted Cruz for Senate, 21-12
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October 6, 2021 NAAG, Attorneys General
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This Report summarizes cases granted review on September 30, 2021 (Part I).
Case Granted Review: Federal Election Comm'n v. Ted Cruz for Senate, 21-12
Federal Election Comm'n v. Ted Cruz for Senate, 21-12. Section 304 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 provides that when a candidate for federal office lends money to his own election campaign there is a $250,000 cap on the amount of post-election contributions that the campaign may use to repay the debt owed to the candidate. Under review is a three-judge district court ruling that Section 304 violates the First Amendment; the Supreme Court will also address whether appellees have standing to challenge the provision.
In 2018, appellee Senator Ted Cruz ran for reelection. The day before the general election, Senator Cruz lent his committee (also an appellee) $260,000—$10,000 more than the maximum amount that BCRA's loan-repayment provision allows to be repaid with post-election contributions. After the election, the committee had approximately $2.2 million in cash on hand. The committee could have used those pre-election funds to repay Senator Cruz in whole or in part, but it chose not to do so. Once the 20-day deadline to do so elapsed, an FEC regulation required that $10,000 of the prior $260,000 loan be recharacterized as a contribution from Senator Cruz to his campaign. The committee then repaid Senator Cruz $250,000. But because the committee had waited until 20 days had elapsed, it could not repay the remaining $10,000. On April 1, 2019, appellees sued the Commission in federal district court, alleging that BCRA's loan-repayment limit violates the First Amendment. The FEC moved to dismiss the claims before a three-judge court had been convened, arguing that appellees lacked standing to sue. The district court concluded that Senator Cruz had standing to sue because he had suffered a "$10,000 financial injury" due to BCRA's loan-repayment limit. 2019 WL 8272774. The FEC argued that, because the committee could easily have used pre-election contributions to repay all or part of Senator Cruz's loan during the 20-day post-election window, Senator Cruz's injury was self-inflicted. The court rejected that contention, stating that "[t]he flaw in the FEC's argument [wa]s that it would require Senator Cruz to avoid an injury by subjecting himself to the very framework he alleges is unconstitutional."
The three-judge district court subsequently granted appellees' motion for summary judgment and held that BCRA's loan-repayment limit violates the First Amendment. 2021 WL 2269415. The court explained that the limit "burdens candidates who wish to make . . . personal loans" to their campaigns by "constrain[ing] the repayment options available to the candidate." The court suggested that, as a result of the limit, a candidate could be "inhibited from making a personal loan . . . out of concern that she will be left holding the bag on any unpaid campaign debt." Applying heightened scrutiny, the district court then concluded that the government had not adequately justified this burden on political speech. The court concluded that the FEC had "fail[ed] to demonstrate that quid pro quo corruption or its appearance arises from post-election contributions to retire a candidate's personal debt." The court also deemed the limit "over inclusive" because it "applies across the board to winning and losing candidates, although any purported anticorruption rationale applies only to winning candidates." And the court found the limit "substantially underinclusive" because "[a] person may contribute to retire any outstanding campaign debt, with the exception of a candidate's personal loans over $250,00."
The FEC argues in its jurisdictional statement that appellees lack standing and that Section 304 is constitutional. As to jurisdiction, the FEC asserts that, "[a]lthough the loss of $10,000 constituted injury, that injury was not fairly traceable to the FEC's enforcement of the loan-repayment limit. That is so for two separate reasons: (1) that injury was not traceable to the enforcement of the specific statutory provision that the district court held unconstitutional, and (2) the injury was self-inflicted." On the former point, the FEC maintains that "by the time the three-judge district court ruled on the merits of appellees' First Amendment challenge to BCRA's loan-repayment limit, the record made clear that appellees had used pre- rather than post-election contributions to repay Senator Cruz $250,000. At that point, any continued reliance on the contrary allegation in appellees' complaint was unwarranted." And "[b]ecause the prior $250,000 repayment to Senator Cruz was made using pre-election funds, nothing in BCRA's loan-repayment provision stops the committee from raising post-election contributions and using those contributions to repay the remaining $10,000 owed to Senator Cruz." (Appellees flatly deny the factual allegations behind this argument.) On the merits, the FEC asserts that "the loan-repayment limit imposes at most a modest burden on First Amendment rights," and that "the use of post-election contributions to repay personal loans creates a heightened risk of actual and apparent quid pro quo corruption." Among the reasons that is so, the Commission argues, is that "money that repays a personal loan after an election effectively goes into the candidate's pocket. A payment that adds to a candidate's personal wealth (and that can accordingly be used for personal purposes) poses a greater threat of quid pro quo corruption than a payment that merely adds to a campaign's treasury (and that can accordingly be used only for campaign purposes)."
[Editor's note: Some of the language in the background section of the summary above was taken from the petition for writ of certiorari and brief in opposition.]
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BVI Acting Premier Dr. the Honourable Kedrick Pickering is pictured as he received a courtesy visit from Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, who is in the Territory to meet with nationals of St. Kitts-Nevis residing in the British Virgin Islands.
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 20TH, 2016 (PRESS SEC) – Shortly after landing in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands this afternoon, Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris of St. Kitts and Nevis paid a courtesy call on Dr. the Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering, who is Acting Premier while Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE is away on business for the B.V.I. Asian Trade Mission.
The visit was cordial and warm, and the two men discussed, among other things, Prime Minister Harris' forthcoming town hall meeting with Nationals of St. Kitts and Nevis who live in the B.V.I. The town hall is scheduled for 8:00pm this Saturday, October 22nd at the Althea Scatliffe Primary School in Road Town.
Dr. Harris and Dr. Pickering will meet again tomorrow, Friday, October 21st at the 86th Meeting of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). The meeting will be convened via video conference from the Headquarters of the ECCB in Basseterre, St. Kitts. Prime Minister Harris, who is the OECS Authority Chairman, is scheduled to join the 9:00am meeting via video conference from the Office of the Premier in Road Town.
Prior to the 86th Monetary Council Meeting, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis will have breakfast with the B.V.I.'s Leader of the Opposition, Honourable Julian Fraser, RA. Mr. Fraser, a registered architect who represents District 3, extended an invitation to Prime Minister Harris to be his special guest at breakfast in the company of his wife Mrs. Kharid Fraser and several St. Kitts-Nevis Nationals who live in his district.
Tonight (Thursday) from 8:00pm, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis will be the special guest on ZBVI Radio 780 AM's program Umoja [which means unity in Swahili] hosted by Mr. Cromwell Smith who is popularly known as Edju En Ka. You can listen live at http://www.zbviradio.com.
During his Umoja radio appearance, Prime Minister Harris will offer a preview of what he will say to St. Kitts-Nevis Nationals at Saturday's town hall and highlight the stellar economic performance of the Federation, which stems in large part from his Team Unity Government's people-oriented policies and prosperity agenda.
Dr. Harris will also discuss the mission and objectives of the Department of People's Empowerment in the Office of the Prime Minister. The Department's Director, Mr. Duncan Wattley, is accompanying the Prime Minister in the British Virgin Islands. Outreach to Kittitians and Nevisians who live in the diaspora falls under Mr. Wattley's purview.


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Healthier Generation, Laureus USA and Red Nose Day Team Up to "Reimagine Recess"
National campaign seeks to redefine a critical time of day for youth
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) October 9, 2018 – Today, Alliance for a Healthier Generation (Healthier Generation) – a national organization empowering kids to develop lifelong, healthy habits – in partnership with the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation (Laureus USA) and Red Nose Day launched Reimagine Recess, an educational campaign that challenges the conventional perception of recess as just a time for kids to run around.
When the school bell rings for recess, kids across the country run to various play spaces ready to be active and spend time with their friends. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), K-5 students in more than 90 percent of elementary schools participate in regularly scheduled recess during the school day. Given the high rate of participation, recess offers a unique opportunity for educators to redefine recess as more than just a chance for physical activity and incorporate social-emotional health topics – such as empathy, conflict resolution and relationship skills.
"Healthier Generation is excited to collaborate with Laureus USA and Red Nose Day to highlight the importance of recess and its role in positive youth development," said Brian Weaver, Chief Program Officer at Healthier Generation. "Research shows that kids' health greatly influences their ability to succeed in school. Reimagine Recess invites educators to consider creative ways that recess can support student health and well-being, both physically and emotionally."
As part of the campaign, an interactive resource center is available for educators to access innovative tools and resources, as well as create a customized recess guide to meet the unique needs of their school environment.
"Red Nose Day is on a mission to End Child Poverty. A crucial part of the process is raising awareness of the issue especially with the next generation," said Rick Scott, Senior Vice President of Grants and Philanthropy, Red Nose Day. "Our Red Nose Day in School program offers free educational resources to help teachers foster empathy-building in the classroom – but we realize that the opportunity for social-emotional learning doesn't stop there. We are thrilled to lend our support to this program, in partnership with Laureus USA and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation."
Schools are encouraged to promote their reimagined recess on social media using the hashtag #ReimagineRecess. Participating schools will have a chance to win one of two $2,500 grants from Laureus USA to purchase recess equipment for their school. The grant entry period begins today and ends on October 26, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Two grant winners will be announced in early November.
"At Laureus USA, we strongly believe that recess is just as important as reading or math in developing healthy and happy children," said Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, CEO of Laureus USA and Olympic Gold Medalist. "It is our hope that Reimagine Recess will help more educators tap into the social, emotional and physical benefits of this important time during the school day."
For more information about Reimagine Recess and access to the resource center, visit ReimagineRecess.org.
About the Alliance for a Healthier Generation
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Clouds of privacy are constantly weighing on social media applications. Therefore, in order to make the user environment more secure, the photo sharing giant has adopted a series of measures. Instagram has introduced a new feature that will allow you, the users, to manage various data shared by third-party applications. All this could be achieved from the application itself. Let's see this new feature in detail and see how this could be enabled.
Manage data sharing securely with Instagram
When connecting to a website or blog, you may have noticed an option to Connect with Instagram or Log in via Instagram. Even if you set up your profile, you would have allowed sites to access your name, profile picture, and so on. from Instagram. You grant these third-party websites access to your profiles, but you often forget to revoke their access. As a result, your Instagram details remain with these apps forever. To counter this, Instagram has added a new feature to improve the data shared with these third-party applications. In one blog article On October 15, Instagram said:
"We are introducing new features in the app to help you (the users) better control data shared with third parties via Instagram."
Let's see how to access this feature and whether it is really available to everyone or not. In addition, the steps below also apply to the Instagram Lite version.
Remove third-party services from Instagram
According to Instagram, the functionality of effective management of data shared with applications will be rolled out over a period of six months. However, I received the feature film the very day of its launch. You can also check whether the feature has been enabled or not. If it has been enabled on your Instagram account, delete the desired third-party services by following the instructions below. Apart from that, there are 5 Instagram tips and tricks that you should know.
Head to your Instagram app and go to your profile section.
Press the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines at the top right) and select the Settings option. It would be downstairs.
Go now to security section and press Applications and websites. There you will find two sections:
Active: It contains the apps and websites you've recently connected to (or shared your information) with Instagram. It's this section on Instagram that displays the name and description of the applications with which your data is shared.
Expired: It contains a list of the allowed applications that have expired. They may still have access to information that you have shared, but the ability to request additional permissions for your account information has expired.
We are interested here in the old. Therefore, head to the active tongue.
Now in the application list, just press Remove next to the application whose access you want to revoke. A detailed description of each of these applications can also be found under the application name.
After you press Delete, a confirmation dialog box appears. Again, press Remove. This third party service will no longer have access to your Instagram account.
Apart from Instagram offering the functionality to efficiently manage your shared data, it has also introduced a updated authorization screen. This list lists all the information that the third party requests to access. You can take it on the lines of the Play Store. Each time you install a store application, it displays all the different types of application permissions required by the application. Likewise, if you connect to a website through Instagram, it lists all the permissions required by the application. You will also have the option to activate or revoke access to any service directly from this screen.
Thus, Instagram providing a platform to efficiently manage data shared with third-party services is indeed a useful feature. However, keep this in mind. By revoking access, this prevents applications from further collecting your Instagram data in the future. But this feature will have no effect on data already collected before you revoke access.
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Q: SQL Statement IF EXIST(SELECT THEN ELSE) on MS ACCESS I have problem to show "NOT PAID" in MS Access SQL Statement:-
I using Nz and IIF functions but not get what I wants.
(Select Nz(m.amount, "NOT PAID")
 From monthly m
 Where  m.year = s.year
        AND m.month='February') As PayFeb

You can refer related this question.
This only show amount if record found, but PayFeb will empty if Record Not Found where it's should be show "NOT PAID".
Please help me how to solve this matter.

A: To use the IIF function, there should be a condition, and I can't find any condition in your code.
Please try the below;
Select iif( m.amount>0, m.amount, "NOT PAID")
From   monthly m
Where  m.year = s.year
And    m.month='February'

A: The SQL you gave is probably being used as a subquery of another query (as it has an alias and brackets around it and a where clause that refers to the main query I think).
You can't get the table "monthly" to return a row that it does not have in a SELECT statement.  However, what you can do in your main query is to do a LEFT JOIN from another table to this subquery.   Your main query can then have the following in the select clause:  iif(isnull(PayFeb.PrimaryKeyField),"NOT PAID",PayFeb.amount)
(Note that I use iif not NZ as iif is a native SQL function and is therefore quicker than Nz which is a VBA function).
eg something like this
SELECT
FROM AllMonths
LEFT JOIN
    (Select MonthNumber, Nz(m.amount, "NOT PAID") AS Amount
      From
        monthly m
      Where
        m.month='February') As PayFeb
    ON AllMonths.MonthNumber = monthly.MonthNumber
       AND
       AllMonths.year = PayFeb.year

PART TWO
I refer to Thorsten Kettner's answer to your almost duplicate question here
His answer does exactly what you need.  Study it more and understand what the code he wrote does.
eg
nz(format(max(iif(m.desc = 'PAY FEB', m.amount, null)), 'Standard'), 'NOT PAID')
which shows 'NOT PAID' in case of NULL.

A: Firstly I like to thanks HaveNONameDisplay, Nadeem_MK and HarveyFrench where truly helping and point me a right directions. I just like to share based all your solutions where I found a trick and hope it worthy to know.
Based on MS ACCESS IDE Query I found
A) IF RECORD IS EMPTY or EXIST by SELECTION then using (Select Nz(MAX(m.amount),'NOT PAID') as PAYFEB.
All kind solutions like LEFT JOIN or Direct SUBQUERIES are working actually. But I more prefer SUBQUERIES because more organize and I can see if any syntax or field are not register.
Lastly, without yours support I cannot get this answer of this matter. Thanks you very much guys.

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In this series of short articles, a double star in both the northern and southern hemispheres will be highlighted for observation with small telescopes, with new objects being selected for each month.
STT 215 (10 16 16.05 +17 44 24.6) is one of Otto Struve's discoveries at Pulkova and is a slow moving binary. In 1844 the stars were just 0".47 apart in position angle 256°. Since then, slow retrograde motion has brought them to 177° and 1".5, sufficiently wide to be well-seen in a small telescope although the relative faintness of the two stars does require a night of good seeing and transparency to get a good view - it is not the easiest of pairs to measure with the Cambridge 8-inch OG. Surprisingly, the star is not in the Dover edition of Webb's `Celestial Objects' but it is described in Hartung and Haas. The current orbit projects a period of 670 years with the separation continuing to increase slowly. Hipparcos puts this star at a distance of 375 light years and the WDS gives the spectral type of the primary as A9IV.
I11 (09 15 14.64 -45 33 19.8) is in Vela, currently prominent from southern latitudes, and which is full of interesting double stars. It is located about 2 degrees south following λ Vel and was one of Robert Innes' first discoveries with a borrowed 6-inch refractor from Sydney in the last decade of the 19th century. Set in a fine field Hartung found both stars to be yellow, although the spectral type of the primary is B8V. This is undoubtedly a binary, albeit of very long period. Having closed slightly since discovery with increasing position angle, it was found at 290° and 0".8 in 1997 when last measured. It is a very distant system, only just giving a significant parallax form the observations made by Hipparcos which place it at a distance of almost 1900 light years.
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No project is too difficult or too complex
By Cheryl Long
Atwill-Morin Group is in the business of preserving history by their contributions in restoring Canadian architecture. Whether it is a centuries-old church or a condominium built in the 1990s, Atwill-Morin Group is able to breathe new life into the buildings using a combination of time honored technics and modern day technology.
Formed in 2007 by the Atwill-Morin brothers, the third generation masonry entrepreneurs were following in the footsteps of their father and grand-father when they launched their own business. They have to date built an organization with offices in Montréal, Québec and Ottawa, Ontario.
"We are a specialised company that works on some of the most difficult and complex projects in eastern Canada and there is no project too difficult or too complex for us. We thrive on the challenge", said Matthew, President of the company.
Atwill-Morin Group performs restoration of heritage buildings, ranging from commercial to industrial to residential and institutional structures. They are able to restore and repair everything from a stone stairway to entire facades, using technics and materials that maintain the building's original character. "The older buildings we restore are the ones that give us the most pride. We give these building a second life and we renew them to be as per their original specifications", commented Matthew.
Under the supervision of Matthew-President, Mark-Director of operations/general superintendent and Jonathan-Senior Project Manager, Atwill-Morin Group has grown substantially since its conception and today has approximately 35 different sites throughout the provinces of Québec and Ontario.
Atwill-Morin has worked on several notable structures over the years; buildings that now stand the test of time thanks to the exceptionally skilled work that goes into a restoration project. Among our numerous projects, the masonry stabilization of McGill University's MacDonald Stewart Library in Montreal was one of our more complicated and complex tasks. It involved erecting scaffolding on the roof at different angles in order to dismantle parts of the walls, repairing and resetting the old stones and reconstructing the walls. Another memorable project was Linton Apartments on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, an historic building dating back to 1905. The 13 stories high building constructed with terra cotta was a multi-million dollar project. The magnificent classic façade was restored by 30 skilled masons. "It turned out to be a project that we are very proud of" Matthew said.
"One of our largest projects involved an old Montreal girls' school which is being converted into prestigious condominium units. M sur la Montagne was a unique and complex site with very specific requirements such as three-storey windows", Matthew explained. "We had to engineer new structures to compensate for the masonry that was being removed and pierce through 30 inches of stone in a straight line from top to bottom while keeping the structural integrity of the building during the restoration. It was extremely challenging, we had to invent a type of shoring for the structural work that we had to do; nothing off the shelf. It had to be drawn up by one of our engineers", Matthew stated.
One of the interesting aspects of restoration work is the adherence to regulations. Unless specified in the project's specs, the building only has to be brought back to the original construction code but that does not stop Atwill-Morin from giving an old building a better than new facelift. They apply modern technics to classic architectural styling.
We have over 20 people in management and approximately 150 certified masons and apprentices. Atwill-Morin Group believes in investing in the education of their employees. Their office personnel are offered to better their abilities by attending seminars to update their knowledge in their domain, as well as safety courses etc. Their apprentice masons have the opportunity of advancing in their field by acquiring new technics in the courses provided by the company. Every winter, an experienced mason instructs 15 to 20 aspiring apprentices. The four month course teaches them their trade and gives them the proper knowledge to work on an Atwill-Morin jobsite. The course is offered in partnership with the Commission de la Construction du Québec (CCQ) and the hours can be applied towards a journeyman or Red Seal certificate. Matthew added "We are proud of what we do!"
The investment in manpower is extremely valuable in a field where skilled labour is on the decline. Though it is still possible to hire experienced masons in Québec, finding someone who knows complex restoration is difficult. Therefore it makes sense for our company to invest time and money in our employees' ongoing education. The company's reputation in the masonry field for the wellbeing of their employees as well as the set up and safety requirements on sites often attracts hopeful applicants to walk-into the offices and request an application for employment.
Part of their success and competitive edge stems from a substantial investment in equipment; purchasing the latest in scaffolding, lifts, drills and chippers, among other tools gives them the advantage in quoting. One of their more innovative acquisitions was a machine that can make anchors in house.
"It will bend, it will punch and it will shear stainless steel in order to make the anchors that we require to hold the stone for the structure. Many companies will sub out this work and it can take three, to four weeks until they receive their order. By that time, we have completed the work" commented Matthew.
The company's work based on ISO 9001 standards and reputation has also earned industry recognition. They were featured in the construction magazine, Champions de la construction in Québec, as the masonry company with the highest number of declared hours with the CCQ. We have been on top for two years running declared Matthew.
Continued growth and success in eastern Canada means that the company is starting to look towards the Maritimes for possible new projects, the brothers have also launched a new scaffolding business in this past year, Impact Scaffolding. This enterprise provides all of the scaffolding for Atwill-Morin Group and also supplies the services of rental, erection and dismantlement to outside companies ranging from construction sites to movie shoot locations to Special events such as the Grand Prix.
For more information and a look at the some of the company's past projects, visit:
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Made with a small aquamarine Swarovski crystal and sterling silver plated brass filigree, oxidized to bring out the exquisite details.
The pendant measures approximately 1.9in (48.3mm) in height and 1.75in (44.5mm) in width. The chain is sterling silver plated steel and the length is adjustable from 16 to 18 inches (40.6 to 45.7cm) and closes with a lobster clasp.


After the last scone is gone, Meghan's mom is good enough.
Five years ago, I wrote about a British royal birth. This week, I expected to be discoursing about Prince Harry and his new bride, Meghan Markle, because there wasn't any way to escape news of the nuptials.
But the woman who stole the show was, in my view, Doria Ragland, the bride's mom – the most unlikely of heroines to emerge from the polished, PR fairytale that keeps blue blood clean and relevant.
For people whose wealth could generate three square meals a day for probably millions of impoverished commoners, the British royals have been pretty lucky in terms of public popularity.
At one point, anti-royalists were cheering and champing at the bit as we saw a near fall from grace, when we, the proletariat, began rumbling against the centuries-old monarchy machine, finally deciding that there were far too few "haves" versus "have-nots" in the world; and enough of that fox-hunting malarkey, too.
But as any old journalist will tell you, nothing beats a good human interest story.
And the writers who've polished up the fantasy narrative that keeps these aristocrats in the pound seats have created a perennial best-seller; no matter your position, you can't – even if you badly want to – ignore it.
We have our own royal families in South Africa. But they can't beat the Windsors for international press success. Where social media networks might breed a wide variety of different topics on any given day, it fell to its knees and bowed as Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, married, and then gave birth to children.
So too, did the global audience become enraptured last weekend by the wedding of Harry and his beautiful American actress.
As a reporter on local, royalty-related events for several years, I became a bit jaded about the whole thing. But whatever the reason for it, people love a good fairytale – and won't be swayed otherwise.
I have a healthy mix of young, old, black and white friends on Facebook. A few Chinese acquaintances, a handful of atheists and agnostics, plenty of mainstream religious types; plenty of pensioners and a group of school pupils; people with kids and without, guys who drive motorbikes and men who wear lipstick.
All, bar one, were talking about the British royal baby five years ago – and again, years later, when his uncle wed.
You'd think that most people equate archaic royal bloodlines with corruption and unfairly chopped-off heads. But they don't.
Writer Zuzanna Grzeskiewicz wonders why the British royal family receives such an "unprecedented and globally unequalled amount of attention" compared to other royals. And, I suppose, the rest of us?
Close to 25 million people tuned in to watch Kate and William's wedding in 2011. I don't even have to type out their full titles. Most everybody with a television aerial knows who they are.
In short, it boils down to good public relations. And as any savvy PR person will tell you, image is everything.
As much as I hate bursting bubbles, the truth is that what you're seeing is a carefully stage-managed affair.
Royalists – and even lukewarm fans who just love celebrity babies and expensive wedding dresses – are being fed healthy doses of love potion to keep the game alive.
The British royals, says Grzeskiewicz, could themselves be the masterminds "behind the obsession behind them, as they actively promote interest in the daily events of the family, similar to celebrities and businesses".
That they have dozens of advisers, assistants and media experts working with them is no lie: they have taken up residence in our hearts as part of a modern-day fixation with celebrity culture.
Then again, once the last scone has been eaten, and the dust has settled, does it really matter?
I'm not sure that even the most sophisticated PR plan could have pulled off what seemed so natural and unrehearsed: a single mother, an American woman with a challenging past, sitting by herself in a stuffy church, looking both nervous and delighted as her daughter walked down the aisle.
We'll never really know how much of the fluff to believe. But in Doria Ragland, there's the shimmer of hope that no matter how much money, fame or fortune one has, being a good enough mom is good enough.


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The Jurassic rocks of Denmark and East Greenland record the evolution of two discrete portions of the Mesozoic rift complex, now separated by the North Atlantic Ocean. The Jurassic of Denmark and adjacent areas occurs mostly in the subsurface and research has thus focussed on the wealth of borehole and reflection seismic data resulting from over thirty years of hydrorcarbon exploration. The Jurassic of East Greenland, in contrast, is exposed in spectacular cliffs along fjords and mountainsides and has come to be regarded as a unique 'field laboratory', particularly amongst those working on the Norwegian shelf - the conjugate margin of East Greenland.
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Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of paralic and shallow marine Upper Jurassic sandstones in the northern Danish Central Graben (pdf, 2.0 Mb)
P.N. Johannessen
Volgian–Ryazanian 'hot shales' of the Bo Member (Farsund Formation) in the Danish Central Graben, North Sea: stratigraphy, facies and geochemistry (pdf, 2.0 Mb)
J.R. Ineson, J.A. Bojesen-Koefoed, K. Dybkjær and L.H. Nielsen
Danish Basin and Fennoscandian Border Zone
Triassic and Jurassic transtension along part of the Sorgenfrei–Tornquist Zone in the Danish Kattegat (pdf, 2.3 Mb)
T.E. Mogensen and J.A. Korstgård
Late Triassic – Jurassic development of the Danish Basin and the Fennoscandian Border Zone, southern Scandinavia (pdf, 3.7 Mb)
L.H. Nielsen
The Jurassic of Skåne, southern Sweden (pdf, 1.2 Mb)
A. Ahlberg, U. Sivhed and M. Erlström
An offshore transgressive–regressive mudstone-dominated succession from the Sinemurian of Skåne, Sweden (pdf, 0.9 Mb)
N. Frandsen and F. Surlyk
Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) ammonites from Bornholm, Baltic Sea, Denmark (pdf, 2.6 Mb)
D.T. Donovan and F. Surlyk
The Lower–Middle Jurassic of the Anholt borehole: implications for the geological evolution of the eastern margin of the Danish Basin (pdf, 1.0 Mb)
O.B. Nielsen, M.-S. Seidenkrantz, N. Abrahamsen, B.J. Schmidt, E.B. Koppelhus, H. Ravn-Sørensen, U. Korsbech and K.G. Nielsen
Burial depth and post-Early Cretaceous uplift of Lower–Middle Jurassic strata in the Fennoscandian Border Zone based on organic maturity (pdf, 1.5 Mb)
H.I. Petersen, L.H. Nielsen, T. Bidstrup and E. Thomsen
Early and Middle Jurassic mires of Bornholm and the Fennoscandian Border Zone: a comparison of depositional environments and vegetation (pdf, 1.5 Mb)
H.I. Petersen, L.H. Nielsen, E.B. Koppelhus and H.S. Sørensen
East Greenland
The Jurassic of East Greenland: a sedimentary record of thermal subsidence, onset and culmination of rifting (pdf, 10.7 Mb)
F. Surlyk
Palynostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Rævekløft, Gule Horn and Ostreaelv Formations (Lower–Middle Jurassic), Neill Klinter Group, Jameson Land, East Greenland (pdf, 3.6 Mb)
E.B. Koppelhus and G. Dam
Palynostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Middle Jurassic Sortehat Formation (Neill Klinter Group), Jameson Land, East Greenland (pdf, 3.5 Mb)
E.B. Koppelhus and C.F. Hansen
Shallow marine syn-rift sedimentation: Middle Jurassic Pelion Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland (pdf, 3.1 Mb)
M. Engkilde and F. Surlyk
The Jurassic of Kuhn Ø, North-East Greenland (pdf, 3.8 Mb)
P.C. Alsgaard, V.L. Felt, H. Vosgerau and F. Surlyk
Stratigraphy and sedimentology of a basement-onlapping shallow marine sandstone succession, the Charcot Bugt Formation, Middle–Upper Jurassic, East Greenland (pdf, 2.2 Mb)
M. Larsen, S. Piasecki and F. Surlyk
Shelf-edge delta and slope deposition in the Upper Callovian – Middle Oxfordian Olympen Formation, East Greenland (pdf, 1.7 Mb)
M. Larsen and F. Surlyk
Jon R. Ineson Finn Surlyk
The Jurassic sedimentary successions of Denmark and East Greenland accumulated on opposite sides of a complex rifted seaway between present-day Greenland and Northwest Europe. The Mesozoic–Cenozoic sedimentary basins created along this seaway are of major importance both scientifically, as they preserve a record of the early evolution of the North Atlantic region, and economically as one of the rift arms contains the North Sea petroleum province. The Jurassic System, in particular, has been the focus of intensive study in Northwest Europe and Greenland. Not only has this system, since the days of William Smith, been at the forefront of stratigraphic research but it also forms a critical component of the North Sea hydrocarbon province, yielding both the most important source rocks and a wide range of sandstone reservoirs.
Although the stratigraphic development of the Jurassic in Denmark and East Greenland can be compared at a number of levels, the nature of the occurrences in the two regions is very different. The Jurassic of East Greenland is one of the world's best-exposed ancient rift basins and is widely regarded as a classic 'field laboratory'. The Jurassic strata are exposed in spectacular cliff sections that provide unique opportunities for detailed research into process sedimentology, genetic stratigraphy and 3D sedimentary architecture. The Danish Jurassic strata, in contrast, have limited outcrop but are well known from the subsurface, both on land and beneath the waters of the North Sea. The papers collected in this volume reflect this contrast – the stratigraphic evolution of East Greenland has been deciphered primarily on the basis of detailed outcrop geological studies whereas the corresponding stratigraphic analyses of the Danish Basin and the Danish sector of the Central Graben are largely dependent on 'remote' subsurface data. Jurassic stratigraphic research in Denmark over the last two decades has benefited immensely from the interaction between these two contrasting yet complementary approaches.
The origins of this book go back to the early 1990s when the idea was mooted for a book on the 'Jurassic of Denmark and adjacent areas', initially with a view to publication of the main results of Ph.D. studies that were underway at the Geological Survey of Denmark (DGU) at that time. In 1995, with the amalgamation of DGU with the Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU) to form the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), the conceptual framework of the book expanded to include the Jurassic of East Greenland, a research area that was under sharp focus both at GGU and at the University of Copenhagen. As the editing of the book entered the final phase, the Geological Survey relocated to the new Geocenter Copenhagen – a centralised amalgam of the Survey (including the Danish Lithosphere Centre) and the Geological and Geographical Institutes and the Geological Museum of the University of Copenhagen. From conception to publication, therefore, the book charts the changing structure of some of the central geological research bodies in Denmark, and its completion coincided with the inception of a new integrated natural science research centre.
The central aim of the book is to present the results of an intense period of research activity in Denmark on the Jurassic System over the last fifteen years – and, where relevant, to present these results at a comprehensive level that is almost impossible in modern scientific journals. Although covering a range of subjects, the common thread that runs through the book is the detailed documentation of the history of the Jurassic rift system as recorded in the sedimentary basins of Greenland and Denmark. Particular areas of focus include: (1) the sedimentary and stratigraphic signatures of syn-rift successions, whether revealed by detailed outcrop study or on the basis of integrated reflection seismic, petrophysical and core data; and (2) testing and application of sequence stratigraphic models and concepts at a variety of scales and in different structural settings.
Although focussing on broad geoscientific topics of general relevance, the book also provides data of specific value to the hydrocarbon industry. The Danish Basin and, in particular, the Danish Central Graben are prospective basins with exploration histories stretching back nearly fifty years. A number of Jurassic fields are under development and production in the Danish Central Graben, and exploration interest remains high. The structural, sedimentological and stratigraphic papers in this volume thus represent a direct source of essential data for the hydrocarbon industry. The onshore East Greenland basins, in contrast, are not prospective per se , yet the detailed sedimentological and stratigraphic analyses included here will be of particular interest to petroleum geologists both as direct stratigraphic analogues of the succession on the conjugate margin (mid-Norway shelf) and as reservoir analogues or case studies applicable particularly to the North Sea region but also valid elsewhere.
Introductory chronostratigraphic reviews of the Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic were planned from the outset, and contributions were solicited from three international authorities in this field, together with a paper on the Jurassic of southern Sweden. Furthermore, a review of the Jurassic of the Netherlands was invited from the Geological Survey of the Netherlands (RGD) for comparative purposes, building on previous close stratigraphic co-operation between DGU and RGD in the late 1980s.
The aim has been to produce a book that is as balanced and consistent as possible, in terms of content, terminology and appearance. Given the range of subjects covered, however, a certain degree of heterogeneity is inevitable and full consistency in terminology cannot be achieved. The Gradstein et al. (1994) timescale is used in most cases but the Haq et al. (1988) and Harland et al. (1990) time-scales are employed by some authors; in all cases, the origin of the time-scale used is clearly indicated. Several forms of chronostratigraphic terminology are in common use, all being inherently logical and fully acceptable; particularly prevalent are the 'Standard Zone' nomenclature (Callomon & Donovan 1974) and the 'chronozone' terminology, as laid down in the International Stratigraphic Guide (Salvador 1994). Editorial flexibility has been exercised here, although consistency within individual articles was required. To enhance uniformity, a common graphical style has been imposed wherever possible; detailed sedimentary logs are somewhat variable, however, being dictated by different individual styles and demands.
In an enterprise of this type, undertaken over a number of years, there are clearly many people both in Denmark and abroad who have helped us towards publication. The research projects that formed the initial stimulus behind the book were supported both by state funding – the Danish Energy Agency (Energy Research Program, EFP), the Danish Natural Science Research Council (SNF), the Danish Research Academy and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) – and by the private sector, including Amerada Hess, Amoco, British Petroleum, the Carlsberg Foundation, Conoco, Mærsk Olie og Gas, Norsk Hydro, Saga Petroleum and Statoil. The long-term support of Danish geological research by these funding bodies and companies is gratefully acknowledged. We are also indebted to a long list of international referees; their contribution is acknowledged elsewhere but their importance in upholding the international standard of the papers bears repetition. During the scientific and technical editing phase, we have leaned heavily on three key personnel: Hanne B. Sørensen, who converted editorial hieroglyphics into ordered manuscripts; Birgit Eriksen, who meticulously checked final manuscripts and proof copies; and Stefan Sølberg whose skilled graphical imprint is engraved on almost every illustration in the book. On editorial matters, we have also benefited greatly from close co-operation with Peter R. Dawes and Esben W. Glendal in the editorial office at GEUS. In the latter stages we have been increasingly reliant on the professional layout work by Carsten E. Thuesen.
To all the above, we offer our heartfelt thanks.
On behalf of the 'Jurassic book' convening group: Jon R. Ineson, Finn Surlyk, Karen Dybkjær, Lars. H. Nielsen,
Niels E. Poulsen.
Callomon, J.H. & Donovan, D.T. 1974: A code of Mesozoic stratigraphic nomenclature. In: Colloque du Jurassique à Luxembourg 1967. Mémoire du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 75 , 75–81.
Gradstein, F.M., Agterberg, F.P., Ogg, J.G., Hardenbol, J., van Veen, P., Thierry, J. & Huang, Z. 1994: A Mesozoic time scale. Journal of Geophysical Research 99 , 24051–24074.
Haq, B.U., Hardenbol, J. & Vail, P. 1988: Mesozoic and Cenozoic chronostratigraphy and cycles of sea-level change. In: Wilgus, C.K. et al. (eds): Sea-level changes – an integrated approach. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 42 , 71–108.
Harland, W.B., Armstrong, R.L., Cox, A.V., Craig, L.E., Smith, A.G. & Smith, D.G. 1990: A geologic time scale 1989, 263 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Salvador, A. (ed.) 1994: International stratigraphic guide. A guide to stratigraphic classification, terminology, and procedure, 2nd edition, 214 pp. Boulder, Colorado: International Union of Geological Sciences and Geological Society of America, Inc.
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Interview: Doug Tuttle
Doug interviewed by John Knoernschild
We're here today talking with Doug Tuttle. Formerly of MMOSS, Doug went solo and in 2014 released his first, self-titled record.
Doug, tell us a little bit about your years with MMOSS and the influence that Rachel Neveu and Justin DeArmitt had in the sound and feel of the band.
MMOSS went through many changes in its seven years both stylistically and member wise (16 different people can say they've been in MMOSS).
Rachel, Justin and I were the longest participants (Rachel and I from 2006 on, Justin from 2008 on).
It's hard to say what influence ANY of us had on MMOSS, it was a band where it was either happening, or it wasn't. The three of us were generally on the same page with what to do and what not to.
We did perhaps each have things we pushed a bit more though, for me it was always the more pop oriented songs. Justin always got excited by new sounds and finding ways to incorporate those into songs, and Rachel was a big proponent of the free/improvised aspects of the band and was always pushing for more of that.
When did you first decide to go it alone and start work on your solo project and what was the reason for the new direction?
I honestly wasn't too jazzed on the direction MMOSS was taking at the very end, things just weren't gelling, I would have rode it out, but when the personal relationship between Rachel and myself ended, it was time to do something different.
What are your plans for the future?
Working on record number three and trying to figure out how to afford to tour a bit more.
Well I for one am stoked to hear you are working on your next album. Can you give us some
idea of the shape album number three is taking?
That's tricky to say, I always record more songs then I need, so I really won't know what songs will be on this one till it's done. There are a couple in the running that were recorded while working on the last record, tunes that just didn't fit the vibe, but are making more sense with the current batch. So I guess it'll be a bit of a different feel from the last one at the very least.
Interesting indeed, I like your approach. Tell us a bit about your writing process. Where do these amazing psychedelic songs come from?
I generally just write a chord progression and hum melodies over it 'till something sticks.
Then it's a matter of deconstructing the chords/melody and finding other moving lines within/around them and assigning those to other instruments.
What were your biggest influences in music when you first started? Is there an artist out there that had a huge impact on you?
I found my dad's Byrds greatest hits record pretty early on, took it to my room and never returned it. That music just without fail takes me somewhere.
That's a good record to find so early in life. I can hear their influence in your style. I recently found out that you are the owner of Mid-Fi Electronics. If our readers don't know about Mid-Fi Electronics, they, or Doug really, make some of the finest guitar effects pedals on the market today. They can be found under the feet of some very well-known artists. I have it on good authority that both Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline of Wilco use pedals made by your company. Can you confirm these allegations Doug?
Yeah, I make pedals. I've been selling to Nels since before he was in Wilco, he was the roommate of Bobb Bruno (now of Best Coast) who was my second ever customer. I've seen pictures of Jeff Tweedy using my pedals but have never sold any directly to him, he must go through a retailer. I only met him briefly once.
Some other big names have used my stuff and Nels has mentioned it in guitar magazines. I'm hugely thankful for this as it's allowed me to scrape by without a real job for a number of years. Just kind of lucked out, and word spread a bit.
When did you start Mid-Fi Electronics?
I started building pedals in '98. I'd look at early pedal building websites and take out electronics hobby books from the library.
Back then people were pretty pumped if someone new was making pedals so it was a lot easier to get people interested.
Before "It Calls On Me" was released, you were touring the UK and playing at the Eindhoven Psych Lab. How was that experience? How was it playing in the UK versus playing around the United States?
We did a month all around Europe on that trip and had a great time. The big difference is being fed and having a place to stay every night.
Well that's certainly a welcome change I'm sure. Sounds like a great experience.
I really appreciate your time here Doug. I'm sure our readers do as well. I'll be keeping my eye out for your next album. I can't wait to spin that fresh vinyl!
Check out Doug's two Trouble in Mind albums here.
And here's a little something from our archives:
Forever Changing - A Tribute To Love's Forever Changes (AL025) by Doug Tuttle
Labels: Interviews, John Knoernschild
cuckookachoo 23 May 2016 at 15:56
Great interview! Doug's two lps are amazing front to back, like lost nuggets from the golden era of psychedelia but with an ear toward the future as well. Can't wait for another one...
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