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Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds
Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes under the regulated slave trade act of 1788
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The Transatlantic Slave trade
The transatlantic slave trade was the forced migration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to work as slaves in the Americas.
It was a brutal form of commerce that treated people as items of property. The trafficking of enslaved Africans across the ocean began during the sixteenth century and continued until the nineteenth century. Estimates of the slave trade show that at least twelve and a half million men, women and children were forced across the Atlantic in European ships during this time.
Many slaves died before leaving the African coast, and the horrendous conditions on the ocean crossing – often referred to as the Middle Passage – meant that more than one in every ten slaves died before reaching the Americas. Those who did survive these voyages were forced to work in various occupations but by far the most common form of work was agricultural labour on New World plantations. Most of them ended up producing crops like sugar, tobacco, cotton, indigo or coffee – crops that fed a rising demand in Europe for cheap tropical luxuries.
The slave trade was part of a transatlantic system created by European merchants and planters from various maritime nations, including Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands and Britain. It was a system driven by private investment but encouraged and protected by national governments, and it involved complex maritime and commercial logistics that connected three continents by means of navigation around the Atlantic Ocean. Colonies in the Americas were linked to markets in Europe and to a ready supply of enslaved labour from West Africa. At the centre of the system lay the plantation, and it was the cultivation of one crop – sugar – that did most to shape the experience of slavery in the Atlantic and that sealed the fates of millions of enslaved Africans. Most of the slaves who were forced to cross the Atlantic went to Brazil and the Caribbean – regions dominated by sugar production.
By the time that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492, Europeans had begun to experiment with the production of sugar. After trying sugar production on Atlantic islands like São Tomé and the Cape Verde Islands, Portuguese planters successfully raised crops in Brazil, and during the seventeenth century, a Sugar Revolution swept through the Caribbean.
The arduous work required to produce sugar made it difficult to find people to work in the cane fields and encouraged European planters to turn to slave labour. The character of tropical sugar production also meant that planters became dependent on the slave trade from West Africa. On the plantations, slaves died more quickly than they were born, meaning that slaveholders regularly bought newly trafficked people simply to keep up the number of workers on their plantations.
There were some exceptions to this. Only about one in every twenty of the enslaved people who survived the Middle Passage made landfall in North America: the region that became the United States. There, rather than arriving via the slave trade from Africa, slaves were more commonly born into slavery on the plantations where they were forced to work. However, it would be a mistake to assume slavery in North America was a benign institution. There, as across the Americas, enslaved people were kept to their tasks by the use of torture and terror. The whip was synonymous with this, but it was just one of many physical and psychological techniques that slaveholders used to keep slaves in a continual state of uncertainty and fear.
Slaves were never the passive victims of slavery. Everywhere that slavery existed, so too did resistance. This was evident on the ships that crossed the Atlantic. About one in every ten slave ships witnessed a revolt of some kind, but only a few of these uprisings (like the famous Amistad case) resulted in the successful seizure of the vessel. Slave ships employed larger crews than normal merchant vessels and carried equipment to deal with efforts by enslaved people to resist or escape, including netting designed to prevent people from jumping overboard. Enslaved people did what they could to develop their own cultural traditions and ways of coping with the horrors of slavery, even on the slave ships. In the Americas, enslaved Africans often remembered their 'shipmates' with fondness, treating the people they had experienced the trauma of being trafficked with as though they were related by blood.
European Abolitionist campaigns helped end the transatlantic slave trade during the nineteenth century. The British ended their slave trade in 1807 and phased out slavery in the British empire during the 1830s, turning their attention to suppressing the slaving activities of other powers. Transatlantic slave trading ended in the middle of the nineteenth century, but the institution of slavery lasted longer. In the United States, slavery came to an end as a result of the American Civil War during the 1860s, and the institution survived in Cuba and in Brazil until the 1880s.
Dr Christer Petley - Senior lecturer in History at University of Southampton
© University of Southampton, 2017
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An Interview with NICK LAKE
Vampires are all the rage in YA and genre fiction, but not many of the series has jumped out at me as particularly original. Then along came Nick Lake's Blood Ninja series, which mixes vampires, feudal Japan and ninjas into an action-packed and entertaining melange. This week, therefore, and following in the wake of a guest post on Influences & Inspirations, Nick agreed to answer a few questions about writing, his series, juggling his writing with work as an editor, and also possible personal teleportation.
Your debut novel, Blood Ninja, is out now in paperback; and the sequel, Lord Oda's Revenge is out in August 2011. How would you introduce the series to new readers? What can we expect from the second novel, and the series' future?
Blood Ninja is the story of Taro, a simple peasant from a fishing family on Japan's coast. When his father is murdered one night by ninjas, Taro is rescued by another ninja – and discovers one of the hidden truths of 16th century Japan: that all ninjas are vampires, thus explaining their speed, stealth, skill and preference for nighttime activity. Taro gets to know all this intimately, when Shusaku, the ninja who saved him, is forced to turn him in order to save his life. There is loads of fighting, a prophecy, quite a few people (and vampires) get their heads cut off, and we learn that Taro might not be a simple peasant after all… If I had to pitch it, I'd say it's Across the Nightingale Floor (a book I love, by the way), with ninjas. And vampires.
Book 2… What can I say, without giving away book 1 to those who haven't read it, or spoiling book 2 for those who have? Well… I will say this: Taro journeys to Death in book 2, and there are ghosts and at least two enormous battles featuring whole armies, and a show-down between Taro and an impossibly powerful foe. People who Taro loves die in front of his eyes. Things burn. Vanquished enemies rise again. But in the end, Taro might just get his bloody revenge. Whether he likes it or not…
Your series draws on Japanese history and vampire/horror literature. Where did your interest in such things come from, and how did you go about turning these interests into a series of novels?
I'm not sure where the interest in Japan came from. I'm not an anime guy, particularly. I've traveled all around China (though sadly not Japan, yet), so I think some of it is more an interest in Buddhism and Tao and certain aspects of mythology, ghost stories and the like, which very much transcend both countries. But also I got very into Studio Ghibli films, at a certain point. I'd also cite Across the Nightingale Floor as a huge influence. In terms of the vampires: I'm not sure that I'd say I have a particular interest in them (though it hasn't stopped me reading at least two academic books about them, so maybe I'm kidding myself). It's more that I thought, at the point when I started writing Blood Ninja, that it was a shame, with the ascendance of Twilight, that teenage boys were being neglected a little. I wanted to give them some vampires. Vampire ninjas actually! It's just what I would have LOVED to read when I was a teenage boy, instead of dreary books about kids who find bits of WWII bombs, or whatever.
How were you introduced to sci-fi and fantasy?
Oh, good question. I don't really know. I'm not a fantasy buff, I should say from the off. I only started on George R.R. Martin a couple of years ago. (Though still before the TV series, all you Point Scorers.) I did read a lot of Terry Pratchett as a kid, but that's about it.
I do read quite a lot of fantasy now, though: people like Scott Lynch and the amazing Joe Abercrombie (easily the best writer of action I have ever read). But I think I probably came to it more through editing and reading children's books, which had this explosion of fantasy in the wake of Harry Potter. Which is ironic, because now I'm working – in my day job as an editor – with all these kids' authors who came to children's books from comics and fantasy, people like Derek Landy, Will Hill and Sarwat Chadda. And yet I was precisely the other way round: I was introduced to fantasy by Coraline, and Harry Potter, and Philip Pullman.
Of course, fantasy and children's books are very closely linked. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis wrote for children – and so modern fantasy arguably grew out of children's books. Which in turn arguably grew out of what was discarded from adult literature. That's not my idea: C.S. Lewis said in one of his essays that children's literature was like an attic in which no-longer-fashionable but still useable furniture was stored – that furniture being a certain kind of storytelling that has been increasingly squeezed out of adult literature by preoccupations with philosophy and identity; fairytale and myth and the heroic narrative, basically. All the apparatus of story, which is the big thing that children's books and fantasy have in common.
How do you enjoy being a writer and working within the publishing industry, while also maintaining a day job? Do you have any specific working, writing, researching practices?
Well, I work as an editor. And I don't think of editing and writing as being terribly different, actually. They're both about shaping stories. When you're editing, you get a first draft from the author, and then you make suggestions: to beef up the third act, to bring back a character who only appears once, to remove extraneous scenes, to work on the logic of the plotting, to add poignancy or drama or humour. And then the author goes away and works on it, and comes up with their own solutions to some of the problems, and solutions to problems you didn't even think of too.
The only real difference when you're the writer is that you have to actually write the first draft, and then do the work that your editor is suggesting! So editing is like an easier version of the same enjoyable activity, in some ways: you still get to have a certain input into the shape of the story, but without a lot of the hard work. You also get to work on so many different projects. One day I might be editing one of David Walliams' hilarious and moving tales for 9+, and the next I might be working on the 500-page action-packed manuscript for Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer. Which makes editing a lot of fun.
It would be tempting to say that the flipside of this is that, when writing, there is a greater pleasure in it being your own book. But it wouldn't even be true: my own books are edited, by editors, who often suggest the best scenes or dramatic devices. I couldn't call them my own. So maybe that's a simpler way to put it: most books, unless the author is a megalomaniac or the editor is lazy, are collaborations between author and editor. I just jump sides.
I don't think I have any writing or research practices that differ from anyone else's. I read, I watch things, I type. I type very fast, though – the top end of touch-typing – and that helps massively because my day job is extremely busy and I only get so much time for writing.
When did you realise you wanted to be an author, and what was your first foray into writing? Do you still look back on it fondly?
I don't really remember. Definitely when I was doing English at University, but maybe before that. I wrote terrible poetry as a teenager, then a play at University, which was performed, and then didn't start writing fiction until I was in my 20s. By then I was editing children's and YA, so that seemed the natural thing to try to write. My biggest problem was that for years I didn't know what to write – which I think is a common affliction. Then something happened – a big change in my life – and weirdly after that I had loads of ideas for stories. I don't know if that's common or not.
I don't look back on my teenage poetry fondly. It was awful.
What's your opinion of the genre today, and where do you see your work fitting into it?
I don't know if I can answer that. (See previous comment about not being a fantasy buff!) I think people like Joe Abercrombie are really exciting. And it's nice to see them getting the big mainstream sales.
What projects do you have in the pipeline? Any projects unrelated to your Blood Ninja series?
Yes. Aside from Blood Ninja III, which I've just finished writing, there's my first book for older readers – it's being published in adult and YA editions – called In Darkness, which is coming out in January next year.
It's narrated by a teenage boy, trapped alone under the rubble after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti – looking back on his life up till that point, the mistakes he's made, and also, of course, thinking about whether or not he'll be rescued. Then strange things start to happen, and the question becomes: is he alone after all? It's not a ghost story though: it's about violence and forgiveness and the thin membrane between the past and the present… and vodou and slavery and murder and vengeance and love.
Who are you reading at the moment (fiction and/or non-fiction)?
I'm reading A Dance With Dragons, of course! And a lovely Canadian literary novel with unusually beautiful typesetting called The Sentimentalists, because I like to mix it up. And because Dragons is too big to take on the train.
What's something readers might be surprised to learn about you?
That I can teleport.
Unfortunately, not at will. Or to where I want to go. It's actually not very useful.
What are you most looking forward to in the next year?
I can't wait for my daughter, who's nine months now, to start talking. It's an unbelievably exciting thought. Though she does, in fairness to her, already manage to get an amazing range of expression out of the word "ooh".
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Grilled Lemon Pepper Chicken Drumsticks are exactly what your summer grilling dreams are made of. They're so easy to make and have deliciously crispy and flavorful skin on the outside and perfectly tender meat on the inside!
Squeeze the juice from the lemons into a bowl (you should end up with around 1/2 cup).
Add oil, lemon pepper, garlic powder and salt and whisk until well combined.
Pour into a plastic bag and add chicken.
Seal the bag and shake well until the drumsticks are well coated with the marinade.
Refrigerate the chicken until you're ready to cook and remove it from the refrigerator 15-20 minutes prior to cooking.
Spray the grill with cooking spray and preheat it to medium-high heat.
Cook the drumsticks for around 15 minutes, turning them often. The cooking time will vary based on your grill and the size of the drum sticks. You'll want to have a really nice char on every side.
Rest the chicken for 10 minutes and serve immediately after.


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A couple of weeks ago, I attended a series of conferences hosted in Edmonton by the Association for Canadian Studies. The conference, and my trip to Edmonton are part of the reasons I'm writing this entry. I wanted to say very clearly, however, at the beginning of this entry that my comments are about conservatism. They are not about regionalism, the west, Alberta or Edmontonians. Instead, it is a question about the ideological character of Canadian conservatism today. At one of the conferences I attended, the Alberta Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance made a speech during lunch hour. In her speech, she engaged in a fictional dialogue designed to address the question "why has Alberta been successful?" There are many grounds on which one could claim Alberta as a success , but the Minister was clearly talking about provincial finances and the large surplus Alberta runs. This surplus — as we all know — allows Alberta to maintain the lowest taxes in Canada, to not have a provincial sales tax, and to not have a provincial debt. Why? What makes Alberta so successful.
Most of us would immediately say "oil" (which would be, btw, a drastic simplification) but the Minister did not. In fact, she rarely mentioned oil. She did note it briefly near the very end of the speech, but clealry wanted to marginalize natural resources as a factor. I found this interesting but it became more interesting when other conservatives discussed this same issue in exactly the same way. Quebec, another conservative (an anglophone from Montreal, just to make the point again that I am talking about conservatives and not Albertans), has the same potential for natural resource development so natural resources alone can't be the reason for Alberta's wealth. So ... what is the reason?
According to two conservatives I heard speak, the reason is the Alberta mentality. The Minister called in a "maverick" attitude. I forget the exact term the other conservative used but it was basically the same. Albertans, the Minister said, trace their history back to pioneers who rolled up their sleeves and did their work. Alberta's success is a matter of will. It is a matter of thinking differently and working hard to accomplish goals. Anyone, the Minister said, who brings this view is welcome in Alberta and will succeed. You will recall that Stephen Harper took a lot of heat — and rightly so — for suggesting that the Maritimes needed a change of attitude.
This is an interesting discourse. Other examples might be piled on but they would illustrate only the same thing. All of these conservatives presented financial success — in one way or another — as a matter of will. It was a matter having the right attitude, of not accepting no, of hard and determined work. Success could be willed. Now, obviously this type of explanatio nof regional economic success or failure is so simplistic as to be silly, but whether this view is right or wrong is beside my point. What fascinates me about it is that it has nothing to do with conservatism. It represents, instead, an form of nihilism. It is philosophy that portrays individual will as the basis of, in this case, economic success but I suppose it could be used in any other situation or for any other policy. What is required is determination, commitment and effort commensurate with those. It is an intensely individualistic perspective - those who have the necessary will power succeed; those who don't are simply weak and will, ergo, fail. And, we should not make any apologies for this. What was equally interesting was the number of times the Minister said something like "I make no apologies for X." Apologizing is not part of nihilism. To apologize is to lower standards. It is to pander to the weak. If we think about other elements of conservative discourse, we can find in it what I see as disturbing elements of a dark-sided nihilism. The most evident example is conservative support for military spending and frequent concern about Canada's weakness on the international stage. Increased military spending, of course, is not necessarily conservative. In fact, neo-cons with their focus on a balanced budget might be disturbed by spending on the military (in the US, of course, military spending has thrown the national budget into disarray). Yet, Canadian conservatives talk endlessly about military spending and not just increasing spending but dramatically increasing and expanding the military. The concern is that to make Canada stornger. Why? To what end? What role will Canada's military serve? For nihilists (and many Canadian conservatives) these questions don't need to be asked let alone answered because the answer — strength — is so self-evidently good that the idea of discussing or explaining a matter of public policy is not even considered to be needed.
One can think of this what one will. It has never been a particularly strong influence on Canadian politics. I'd go so far as to say that it has been of almost no political importance whatsoever and of a very limited cultural importance. Nihilism is, of course, not conservatism. This is what is surprising to me. Canada has a long tradition of conservative thought. Conservative philosophy was embedded into the original confederation agree that created Canada. It underscored John A Macdonald's national policy. It formed the basis of George Grant's thinking. Why would Canadian conservatives abandon their own intellectual traditions and embrace nihilism, an intensely problematic philosophy support of which will actually do more to keep the conservatives out of power at the federal level than any new policies the Liberals can come up with.
There may be other reasons that the Alberta Finance Minister prefers to talk about will as the key to success (as opposed to oil). Perhaps it might make her feel good. The Albertans I met at these conferences who were not conservatives laughed at this. They should because its simply silly. No one is poor because they lack will. No region of Canada is less wealthy than Alberta because its resident are weak. And, problems can't be solved by will. Environmental problems, child poverty, homelessness, crime will not be solved by will. They will be solved by policy. The United States — if it ever does win its war on terror — will win this war by military strength; not by will. Among conservatives this type of argument might be accepted but, what is clear, is that the vast majority of Canadians don't believe.


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We live in a world of finite resources. If you're a business owner, you know this to be all too true. Allocating your operating budget between staffing, leases, supplies, utilities, taxes and marketing costs can be a daunting task. Breaking down a marketing strategy into something smaller than "War And Peace" can be just as formidable at times. What can be explained in a short time, however, is allocating your finite marketing resources between SEO and SEM.
Being that we are well into the digital age, you probably have some understanding of what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is. Simply put, SEO involves increasing where your website shows on a search engine results page (SERP). There are a lot of similarities between SEO and real estate in this manner. It's all about location, location, location. Regarding SEO, owning multiple top spots on SERPs is always the goal.
Where things start to differ is how this is accomplished. SEO involves work on both the frontend (what users see) and backend (what Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. see) of your website to be effective. Some of it, such as content creation, can be easily crafted by a business owner. Other aspects of it, such as the coding of the site and garnering backlinks, requires more specialized experience.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is likely something you have some experience with as well. Just like SEO, SEM is about getting top spots on SERPs. SEM is a little different as it involves paying for these spots by bidding on keywords people are searching. These keywords can be complex as Phoenix Plumbers Who Repair Instant Hot Water Systems to something as simple as Phoenix Plumbers. The goal here is to get the top ad spot in as many relevant searches possible as cheaply as possible.
Anyone working in digital marketing for more than a year has been asked this question. In late 2000, when Google Ads (then known as AdWords) launched, picking one over the other was a possibility. This is no longer a valid option. SEO and SEM are two sides of the same coin which weave together like an ornate tapestry when executed correctly.
SEO is a long game. By creating unique content (streamlined with your everyday operations for efficiency), backlinks, a social media presence, and conversion oriented online user experiences – your site can develop almost self-sustaining traffic. This takes continual upkeep and a longer ramp-up period for this to occur. Metrics like time on site, back to search, bounce rate and others will be an obsession for you or your marketing team for a year straight as baselines are crafted. This is where SEM comes in.
To start, SEM is a short game. When executed correctly, SEM is an almost immediate source of relevant traffic and leads for your business. Depending on your vertical, ramp-up times for SEM are 1 to 3 months. Experimentation with targeting parameters, landing page design, and textual content will provide invaluable data for SEO.
Once your site has enough history and is ranking well on SERPs for several keywords – SEM can take a different form. From here, SEM can be utilized to re-engage website visitors with hyper-relevant ads, explore new keywords to guide your SEO efforts, fortify your strongest SEO terms and uplift your weakest SEO terms. One of SEM's biggest strengths is how quickly it can be changed. Ads can be modified with the most relevant data to your company and users at a moment's notice – while SEO would take weeks or even months to do this.
SEO and SEM are two sides of the same coin, and when executed correctly, weave together like an ornate tapestry.
As noted earlier, marketing resources are finite. A business that endlessly spends more money than it brings in isn't going to remain a business for very long. A marketing agency that's worth your time and money are going to be cognizant of this.
Whether you run your own digital marketing efforts or work with an agency, one of the most important aspects of success is going to be having a plan. Starting out, ensure your site is up-to-date with the current SEO best practices such as proper HTML structures, mobile responsiveness, fast load times and being coded for Google Amp. Getting these SEO basics out of the way first will increase your initial input cost but will help increase the success of all other marketing efforts that succeed it.
Once a good foundation is in place, SEM should be your next focus. This will bring in instantaneous traffic while your other SEO efforts take time to gain momentum. If all of this sounds foreign or a bit overwhelming, try not to stress too much. An agency partner like Defero can work with your team to structure monthly budgets going forward for both SEO and SEM.
You don't want to lose the forest for the trees. Remember, money taken from SEM early on means fewer leads coming in at that time – while money taken from SEO means fewer efforts being put into your site's future self-sustaining traffic. Find a balance that reflects your goals for the year and where your business's online presence realistically is. A marketing agency that acts as an extension of your business can help find the perfect balance of SEO and SEM and identify other important service lines that can help boost your performance. Defero prides itself on being that true partner to its clients, helping your business establish practices that yield measurable improvements and long-term success.


2015 has begun. A new year, full of opportunities for young students all over the world. Here, a list of the most relevant and suggested conferences that are still receiving applications. Don't miss them!
The 12th International Solidarity Forum, an annual event of World Youth Alliance for its active members, will take place in New York on March 23-26, 2015. The theme of the ISF will be 'Health and Education: Keys to Development' and will bring together members from across the world, experts on issues related to health and education and diplomats.
February 10, 2015 (for those who need US Visas).
March 10, 2015 (for those who don't need US Visas).
The International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) will hold in London its 2nd edition of the largest conference for students interested in Politics and Political Science. Under the topic "The Politics of Conflict and Cooperation", this congress will focus on three core strands of social sciences: Political Science, International Relations and Political Theory. Ideal for BA, MA, PhD or post-doctoral students in these fields.
Vilnus, the capital city of Lithuania, will receive 100 students from all over the world to participate in the 1st edition of this event, whose main goal is to bridge the gap between today's world leaders and the future ones. The main topic in this conference will be the role of the youth, in different fields: social entrepreneurship, unemployment, education, decision-making processes, diplomacy and the empowerment of female youth.
The 45th edition of one of the oldest symposia in the world will be held on May 2015, and will provide the set for relevant debates on topics of management, politics, and civil society. Run at the St Gallen University, in Switzerland, gathers 200 students willing to change the statu quo. Application consists of an essay-writing competition, whose winner (the most prestigious) receives The St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award of 20 000 EUR.
This 7th edition of the international student forum will take place in Taiwan on July 2015. Its goal is to provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas, thoughts, dialogue between students and global leaders, focusing on a main topic. This year's is: "From Individual to Influential".
This conference will focus particularly on the overpopulation issue that is concerning our world, and how to feed the increasing population with the limited available resources. Thought for 18-25 year-olds, the summit will be held in Canberra, Australia and will gather 100 minds that will share ideas on how to solve this matter with experts on the field.
The 8th edition of this major event will take place on September 2015 and will gather 35 students from around the world, in Munich, for 10 days of intense entrepreneurial work. The goal of this Summer School is to create a product that solves a global issue and pitch it to investors. Aimed for entrepreneur-wannabes.
The world economy is fuelled by energy. Resources depletion and severe environmental effect resulting from the continuous use of fossil fuels has motivated an increasing amount of interest in renewable energy resources and the search for sustainable energy policies. The 6th edition of this international event will take place in Medellín, Colombia between the 2nd and 4th of September 2015.
IdeaLab is a start-up conference held in Vallendar, Germany and entirely run by students of the WHU University. For over a decade, this event has been gathering experienced entrepreneurs, investors and students eager to become the next founder of a successful start-up. Its characteristic relaxed atmosphere labels it as a different kind of conference.
Application deadlines: not informed yet.
Closing the list, two conferences that are closely related with the South American Business Forum: the World Business Dialogue and the Asia Pacific Week. Unfortunately, the application period for the first one has already ended (the forum will be held next March). For the second event, the Organising Team has not informed the corresponding dates yet; we highly recommend to stay tuned in the next few weeks.
The 11th edition of the South American Business Forum will be held in Buenos Aires on August 6-8 2015. Applications are received between February 2nd and May 3rd, under the topic "The Challenge of Inclusion". The event is free of charge (though transportation fees to and from Buenos Aires are not covered).


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Radiohead emerged from the silent darkness and began the night with "Burn the Witch," the abrupt first single off their latest album, Moon Shaped Pool.
Radiohead: Dialed in at the Shrine
The English quintet sends 6300 fans into frenzy
By Matthew Craig Burke, Aug. 11, 2016
Shrine Auditorium has a gorgeous personality, a haunting elegance that paired well with Radiohead's bipolar extravagance, as the English quintet performing 24 intimate songs to a sold-out crowd of 6300. The night looked like a sporting event — you never see more people wearing the headliner's T-shirt than at a Radiohead concert — with the roar of the crowd at the beginning of a recognizable chord and fans yelping and applauding in the middle of song. It was electrifying.
"Burn the Witch"
...off of Radiohead's Moon Shaped Pool
The warmth within the crowded lobby along with the atmosphere of excitement and anticipation had us in a pre-concert sweat. But a rush of chills draped the audience as the Radiohead emerged from the silent darkness and began the night with "Burn the Witch," the abrupt first single off their latest album, Moon Shaped Pool. The psychedelic rocker was full of fidgety strings, Yorke's cooing vocals, and a hip-hop drum track played by Portishead drummer Clive Deamer behind Philip Selway's pocket-drumming. Radiohead proceeded to play the first five tracks off the new album, and then came the opening chords from 1998's "My Iron Lung," sending the crowd into frenzy — the song was perfectly placed.
Instruments were filtered on and off stage, capturing every intricacy Radiohead has in their arsenal, and keeping the sound crew extra busy. Wheeling out a piano here, exchanging a guitar there, and more drums!? Guitarist Jonny Greenwood was even required to spank a few drums in order to pull off the fitful drumming from The King of Limbs' "Morning Mr. Magpie." Then it was "Lucky" that had everyone singing along to the triumphant 1997 single off of OK Computer. After the hype, Radiohead crawled into the deep and dark. A plodding piano, overlapped by Yorke's chilling vocals, delivered "Pyramid Song," slowing down the set.
The venue was loud, the cheers of the audience ear-splitting, sometimes louder than the music. The bass kick on "Everything in Its Right Place" had fans stomping and clapping like at a European soccer game. Yet everyone kept eyes glued to the stage.
Between Thom Yorke's frantic dancing that had the ladies in awe during "Feral" to the somber and intimate melancholy of "Daydreamer," Radiohead pulled out with mixed emotions. A double encore ended the night with the gloomy and beautiful "Reckoner," stamping the fact that Radiohead is fresh, unpredictable, even after nearly 30 years together.
Concert: Radiohead
Date: August 8
Venue: Shrine Auditorium
Seats: Balcony 2 right, row 15, seat 92


between Collins Bay and Beascochea Bay, Graham Coast, was roughly charted by BeAE, 13 February 1898, and named Cap de Trooz after J. de Trooz (Trooz Glacier, q.v.) (Gerlache, 1902b, p.296; Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5). Kap de Trooz (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol.2, first end map). The cape was further charted by FAE, 1903-05, in 1904 and, because of ignorance of the earlier naming, renamed Cap des Trois Pérez after the brothers Manuelo, Fernando and Leopoldo Pérez, of Buenos Aires, who there assisted the expedition in December 1903 and February 1905 (Charcot, 1906a, map facing p.316). Cape de Trooz (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p.316). Pointe Pérez (Charcot, 1906b, p.474). Cape des Trois Pérez (BA chart 1238, ix.1908; 1930, p.86). Cabo Trooz (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Cabo Trois(-)Pérez (Gourdon, , p.130; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.282). Cap des 3 Pérez (Charcot, 1910, map facing p.370). Three Pérez Cape (Charcot, 1911a, p.252). Cape Trois Pérez (Charcot, [1911b], p.69; Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948). The cape was recharted by BGLE in 1935. Cabo Tres Pérez (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.694). Cabo Pérez (Vila Labra, 1947, map facing p.200). Cabo de Los Tres Pérez (Argentina. CNA, 1947, p.57). Cape Pérez (BA chart 3570, 27.vi.1952; APC, 1955, p.17; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). Cap Pérez (France. SHM, 1954, p.49). The cape was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RN in 1958. Mys Peres (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Trois Pérez (Chile. DNH chart 1500, 1963). Cabo Tres Peres [sic], as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.283).


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Q: Comparing two table columns to see what one table is missing So currently I have two tables,
Servers              Admins
-------             --------
ServerID             AdminID
ServerName           AdminFirstName
Server location      AdminFirstName
AdminID

What I am currently trying to do is go through the AdminID column in the Servers table and compare it to the AdminID column in the Admins table.
The comparison I'm trying to make is "What admins have not been assigned to a server yet?", and "What servers do not have an admin assigned to them yet?"
I have tried the following (to attempt the first question):
SELECT CONCAT(AdminLastName,',',AdminFirstName)
FROM Admins
WHERE AdminID NOT IN(SELECT AdminID FROM Servers)

The query is returning 0 results, when it should be returning a few.
Since both questions can be answered with virtually the same logic, I just need a push in the right direction as to why this is not working.
Thanks in advance

A: Your query looks correct to me, but I tend to try to avoid NOT IN when possible, as I usually get better performance out of a query written like:
select adminId, adminfirstname, adminlastname
from admins a
left join servers s on a.adminId = s.adminId
where s.adminId is null

the above is the same idea, just using a join and showing only the results that didn't successfully join.
the other one could be written as:
select serverId, serverName, [server location]
from servers
where adminId is null

A: Your query seems to be correct.
It can be due to several things :

*

*All admins are actually assigned to a server

*You dont execute query on the right database...

*There is a problem with ID column's contents : if it's not INTEGER it can contain spaces or other non-desired characters in one of the two tables, and it does not match for the database system. Try to TRIM() the Id's for example

*Depending on your database system, it can be better to write table names explicitly since you have the same field name in multiple tables
For example :
SELECT CONCAT(AdminLastName,',',AdminFirstName)
FROM Admins
WHERE TRIM(Admins.AdminID) NOT IN(SELECT TRIM(Servers.AdminID) FROM Servers)

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Home Lakers Collapse Down The Stretch, Lose 77-75 To Thunder
Lakers Collapse Down The Stretch, Lose 77-75 To Thunder
What We Learned About the Lakers From Game 2 vs the Thunder
The Los Angeles Lakers played hard and played solid defense all night; building a seven-point lead with two minutes left in the ball game. But, at the very end, they made mistakes and the Oklahoma City Thunder used to opportunity to mount a comeback and win, 77-75.
We'll save the quarter-by-quarter breakdown today, and just get straight to it. The Lakers played tremendously on defense, and did most of the things we thought they must do in order to win. However, with the Lakers up by seven points with just two minutes left to go in the game, the Lakers committed costly turnovers and the Thunder, namely Kevin Durant, were able to take advantage.
Kobe Bryant finished with 20 points (on 9-25 shooting), four assists, four steals, three rebounds, and two blocks. Andrew Bynum notched 20 points, nine rebounds, and two blocks while Pau Gasol had 14 points, 11 rebounds, and three assists. Metta World Peace added eight points, five rebounds, three steals, and two assists. Jordan Hill had six points and Steve Blake had five points. Ramon Sessions had just two points and three rebounds as Matt Barnes was scoreless in ten minutes of play.
For the Thunder, Kevin Durant led the way with 22 points, seven rebounds, five assists, and two steals. Russell Westbrook chipped in with 15 points, six rebounds, and four assists while James Harden added 13 points. Serge Ibaka was huge with eight points and seven blocks, and Nick Collison and Thabo Sefolosha had six points and three rebounds each. Derek Fisher added three points, while Kendrick Perkins had just two points and five rebounds.
Now, let's break down the disappointing loss.
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'Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena' DOP (ABTM) is produced from cooked grape must, aged through a slow acetification process, due to natural fermentation and gradual concentration through an extremely long ageing process in a series of barrels made of different types of wood. With its dark brown, shiny colour, it shows its true self with the right flowing syrupy texture.
It has a complex, characteristic and pervasive perfume with a clear but pleasant note of harmonic acidity. It has a traditional and unique flavour, with a good balance of sweet and sour, tasty with velvety nuances. Supplied in its unique bottle which complies with legal requirements, it is available in two different ages
Ivory label: ABTM, minimum ageing of 12 years
Gold label: ABTM extra old, ageing over 25 years
HOW TO TASTE IT:
Place 15/20 drops on a teaspoon.
Put it in your mouth, spreading the product over your tongue. Close your eyes and breathe a small amount of air.
You will start to taste the aromas and flavours that come from the typical vines of Modena (Trebbiano and Lambrusco), the various types of wooden barrels (sessile oak, chestnut, mulberry, cherry and juniper), and the ageing process.
You should start from the ABTM Extra Vecchio (Gold label) as it has more harmony between the sweet-aromatic and acetic notes, thanks to its very long ageing process.
Then, you should continue with the ABTM (Ivory label) as its shorter ageing process makes it more lively highlighting its acidity and the aromas of the grapes and the wood.
CULINARY USE:
ABTM is an extremely versatile product but it is also very touchy.
It's versatile thanks to the perfect harmony and balance between its aromatic/sweet and its acetic notes.
These make it suitable for any culinary combination be it a starter or a dessert, meat or fish, a complex or a simple recipe..
At the same time ABTM is also touchy because, being a dressing and not an ingredient, it needs to be used pure, directly on the table.
How to store it: at room temperature.
Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena aged for over 12 years D.O.P.
This vinegar is aged for over 12 years, in barrels of different sorts of wood, oak, chestnut, mulberry, ash, it has a full dark colour, clear and thick with a wide scent with sensations of volatile acidity more pronounced compared to the extra-old one.
This vinegar has reached a minimum ageing of 25 years, in old family barrels, which have conferred it an extraordinary quality, unfolding in its full dark intense color, in its wide and persistent scent and in its full bodied and harmonic taste, more fruity than acid.
© 2020 Acetaia Gambigliani Zoccoli - All rights reserved. Credits.


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Global Resilience Partnership
http://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/
The Global Resilience Partnership Secretariat is hosted at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Kräftriket 2B, 10691, email: info@globalresiliencepartnership.org
The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is a partnership of public and private organisations joining forces towards a resilient, sustainable and prosperous future for vulnerable people and places. The Partnership consists of three bodies:
1. GRP Partners - organisations active in resilience, who share GRP's vision & objectives, and who have joined the Partnership.
2. Advisory Council - a body of 10 members that advise on the implementation of GRP's strategy and provide guidance.
3. GRP Secretariat - To service the Partnership, including convening and catalysing actions the Partners and implementing specific activities on behalf of the Partnership. The Secretariat is hosted at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at Stockholm University.
Network/Consortium/Partnership
The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is a partnership of public and private organisations joining forces towards a resilient, sustainable and prosperous future for vulnerable people and places. GRP believes that resilience underpins sustainable development in an increasingly unpredictable world. We envision a world where vulnerable people and place are able to thrive in the face of surprise, uncertainty and change.
To create transformational impact on the resilience of people and planet, by reducing vulnerability and expanding opportunities for sustainable development. To instil resilience principles and actions in institutional and policy environments and incorporate private sector innovation to reshape the development and humanitarian sector.
1. Create a safe space for resilience innovation & scaling
2. Promote shared learning & mainstreaming of resilience practice
3. Convene diverse voices to shape resilience policy & investment
4. Advance the collective understanding & knowledge about resilience
Established in 2014, the GRP has in its first phase:
•	Accelerated resilience innovations benefiting 5.7 million people through investments of more than US$30 million across 16 countries in some of the most vulnerable parts of Africa and South & South East Asia. These innovations have received numerous prestigious international awards, including: Two UNFCCC Momentum for Change Awards (2018 & 2019), The UNISDR Sasakawa Award (2019), The Munich Re Risk Award (2019), and a UN Global Climate Action Award: Women for Results (2019)
•	Advanced the shared knowledge of resilience programming, most notably through GRP's recent Resilience Insights Report that synthesised current state of knowledge on resilience programming based on GRP's own investments into resilience innovations and learnings from across 42 partners organisations and programmes.
•	Convened diverse voices to build political momentum for resilience at the highest level, most notably by playing a major role in building momentum and ambition towards the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. This culminated in the GRP convened Building a Resilient Future day at the UN Climate Action Summit, in September 2019. This event was attended by around 500 participants, including government ministers and private sector CEOs and Presidents, and resulted in around 100 ambitious commitments and collaborative actions on resilience, that will be taken forward by this movement.
Sustainable Development Impact:
Fundraising, Financing
Financing — Funds disbursed
Value (MUS$) 100
Fundraising — Funds raised
Information expected for this section in January 2017.
Funds raised: 150 M$. Financing: This ICI gave 10 M$ to 10 winners from Sahel in the Global Resilience Challenge.
Companies 3 Sociants-REMA INC (USA),One Architecture (Netherlands),MetaMeta (Netherlands).
Business organisations 3 KPMG (United Kingdom), BSR (USA), Cervest (United Kingdom).
Research and educational organisations 14 ASCENT (USA), CDKN (South Africa), ICCCAD (Bangladesh), IDRC (Canada), IFPRI (USA), IIED (United Kingdom), LUCCC (United Kingdom), Mekelle University (Ethiopia), ODI (United Kingdom), PIK (Germany), RCCC (USA), SEEP Network (USA), SRC (Canada), SIDA (Sweden), UoE (United Kingdom)
Non-governmental organisations 13 AWS (USA), Atma Connect (USA), BIFERD (Congo), BSR (USA), CARE (Switzerland), Huairou Commission (USA), Mercy Corps (USA), Raks Thai Foundation (Thailand), Scale Up NGO (USA), TNC (USA), Wetlands International (Netherlands), We Effect (Sweden).
National states 0
Governmental actors 4 Department for International Development (United Kingdom), Sida (Sweden), USAID (USA), GFDRR (Philippines).
Intergovernmental organisations 4 CILSS (Burkina Faso), GEF (USA), IGAD (Djibouti), UNDP (USA).
Financial Institutions 2 Zurich (Switzerland), AXA XL (USA).
Other members 1 ORRAA (Bermuda).
Supporting partners 4 USAID, Sida, DFID, Zurich
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Last update: 2 July 2020 11:04:20
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FUMAGALLI is a leading manufacturer of outdoor resin lamps offering a wide and complete range of items for distribution and project business, both in classic and modern style.
Fumagalli lamps are not affected by chemical fertilizers or pollutants.
All Fumagalli products are entirely and proudly manufactured in Italy.


Early December 2014: Delivery! Enjoy your new pack and we're eternally grateful for your support of this project and making the world's first smart pack a reality!
When working in manufacturing one of the most obvious challenges is production delays. However, we've carefully planned and built our production timeline so even if there's a production delay we can still deliver backers' rewards on time. We have factored a production delay into our timeline, just in case, so we can still deliver by the estimated delivery date even in the event of a delay. If there's no delay, we'll actually be able to deliver rewards to our backers earlier than they expected. The backers of this project should have confidence in us and our ability to deliver as we have well over a decade of combined experience in large-scale manufacturing. We're not new to this at all. We have tons of knowledge and experience in manufacturing, logistics and delivering product world-wide as we've successfully done this for years producing outdoor backpacks under our MHM brand. The Colfax packs used in the video are fully functional prototypes that perform exactly as described, the images are actual photos that are not rendered at all. This is a real product that's nearly ready for you to carry around town. We just need everyone's much appreciated help to back this project and turn it into a reality!
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Even the slightest contribution helps make the Colfax and Colfax PHD a reality. For your support, we'll send you a personal hand-written thank you with awesome die-cut stickers!
Get a high-quality CO.ALITION branded t-shirt to rock around town.
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Posts Tagged 'the sequester'
Thursday Links! Guaranteed* Not to Bum You Out!
* Class Action: An Activist Teacher's Handbook.
* I would have thought this was still a few years off: "Faculty object to plan to replace humanities requirement with self-help course."
* The Marquette Tribune has an article on adjuncts at our university today.
* Unraveling the response to this incident, and where it seemed to go wrong and why, offers a glimpse into the complexity of responding to cases of sexual assault in study abroad, the competing legal frameworks that study abroad programs exist within, and the tensions that can result when the best interests of the institution and the student are arguably not one and the same.
* The flipped classroom as MOOC waste product.
* "You go to an Ivy League school. Then you either become an investment banker or a management consultant. After two-three years, you apply to law school or b-school. And if you fall off the path for even one year, you can't get back on."
* Major League Baseball owners, despite earning more than $8 billion in revenue in 2013, voted in January to allow individual teams to slash or eliminate pension-plan offerings to their non-uniformed personnel.
* The Wolf of Sesame Street: Revealing the Secret Corruption Inside PBS's News Division.
* The NSA and Climate Change Spying: What We Know So Far.
* All in all, the NEADA estimates that sequestration caused about 300,000 families to lose home energy assistance.
* Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn't allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.
* BDS gaining steam within Israel itself.
* Even a Stationery Logo Pits Palestinians Against Israel.
* The Book of Revelation speaks of a great two-headed beast, paradoxically describing each head as providing worse cable service than the other.
* Oliver Sacks and the Mystery of Hallucinations.
* Another woman speaks out over Bill Cosby sexual abuse allegations.
* There Have Been At Least 44 School Shootings Since Newtown.
* Barbie to Be a Featured "Model" in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Ugh.
* The Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual.
* Is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actually a show about interracial family? You may have seen me going back and forth with Scott a bit this morning about how to include the romance elements of the show here; if this is supposed to be about family, it seems like we have to deal with the fact that all the siblings are in love and Big Bro is sleeping with Mom.
* Anthology alert! Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse.
* And here's what a Martian space elevator might actually look like. Sold.
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His Royal Highness Prince Monday the First
* When Nada Al-Ahdal discovered that her parents had sold her she ran away. She is 11 years old, and this is her message. Wow.
* Obama, Trayvon and the Problem That Won't Be Named.
* A study finds the odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston. 5.6% in Milwaukee. According to this map, without the Dakota oil boom America would have essentially no class mobility at all.
* American children raised at the top, and at the bottom, are more likely to land on the same rung of the income ladder as their fathers than their Canadian counterparts. More than one-quarter of sons raised by fathers in the top 10 percent stay in the top 10 percent as adults, and another quarter fall no further than the top third. Meanwhile, half of those raised by fathers in the bottom 10 percent remain at the bottom or rise no further than the bottom third. In Canada there is less stickiness at the top, and children raised in the bottom are more likely to rise to the top half in earnings.
* The American dream: Survival is not an aspiration.
* Occupy nowhere: Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill.
* The sequester is gutting the public defender system too. More here.
* Faint praise watch: "The Newsroom," Season 2: Not an Unpardonable Train Wreck Like Season 1.
* A new language emerges in Northern Australia.
* MOOCs are a fundamental misperception of how teaching works. No! Gasp!
* Anthropocene art show at Duke.
* Your 'Distressed' Jeans Are Wearing Out Workers' Lungs.
* Dan Harmon! Dan Harmon! Dan Harmon!
* Republicans to gut the NEH.
* And everything in Iraq's going juuuuuuuust fine.
Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday.
The deadly raid on the high-security jail happened as Sunni Muslim militants are gaining momentum in their insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government that came to power after the U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein.
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* #AltAc megapost: Humanities Unbound: Careers & Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track.
* Decadence watch: Flights Delayed Across Country Amid Budget-Cut Furloughs of Air Controllers.
* Reddit wants you to know it is sorry. Time to focus on its core competencies of creepshots and porn.
* World's energy nearly as dirty today as it was 20 years ago.
* France Legalizes Gay Marriage After Harsh Debate.
France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate and protests that flooded the streets of Paris. Legions of officers and water cannon stood ready near France's National Assembly ahead of the final vote, bracing for possible violence on an issue that galvanized the country's faltering conservative movement.
The measure passed easily in the Socialist-majority Assembly, 331-225, just minutes after the president of the legislative body expelled a disruptive protester in pink, the color adopted by French opponents of gay marriage.
I have a lot of questions.
* REPORT: Hundreds Of Immigrants Are Being Deported From Their Hospital Beds.
* Tumblr of the day: http://100percentmen.tumblr.com.
* Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr stated in letters to the Michigan Employee Relations Commission (MERC) that it is within his power to end collective bargaining in the city. Specifically, Orr claimed he is under no legal obligation to participate in bargaining or compulsory arbitration with public safety employees, including police, firefighters and emergency medical responders.
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"This is the kind of music you're best off not thinking too much about."
Let's be honest, you weren't expecting Mac & Devin Go to High School to be particularly good.
It's no secret that Snoop Dogg is a hustler's hustler, and over the years he's seemingly hustled every product willing to cut a check. Want to hear Snoop give you turn by turn directions? Grab a Snoop GPS. Love Snoop and Pony shoes? Slip on a pair of Doggy Biscuitz. Want to smoke with Snoop? Fire up some of Snoop's own medical marijuana (California residents only). So when it was announced that he'd be doing both a collaborative movie and album with Wiz Khalifa, you could almost hear Snoop's marketing team discussing synergy and cross-branding opportunities. Slim, chronically high and charismatic, it's hard not to look at Wiz and see the new generation's Snoop. The fit was perfect, and since Wiz' fame was skyrocketing at the same time Snoop seemed to be settling into a well-earned period of coasting on the mic, expectations were somewhere less than high. All signs pointed to some money being made, some fun being had, some fame being rejuvenated, and then Snoop and Wiz would go their separate ways. No harm, no foul.
But somewhere along the way, things changed. After decades in the game and multiple classics, maybe Snoop was determined not to let a young kid upstage him and put in work like he hadn't in years. Maybe Wiz was equally determined to prove that he could hold his own next to a legend. Maybe the two got their hands on a new strain of marijuana that paradoxically made them work harder than they intended, but whatever the reason, Mac & Devin Go to High School is a much better album than the pessimists (obviously including myself) were expecting. Don't get me wrong, this isn't undun. It's perfectly enjoyable stoner rap; nothing more, nothing less. But this is the most I've enjoyed Snoop in a minute, and I like Wiz here more than I did on Rolling Papers—and yes, I was completely sober when I wrote that.
The "damn, this might actually be pretty dope" epiphany comes early on Mac & Devinas the album's first track, Smokin On, lights up. Drumma Boy serves up a beat that sounds like Lex Luger and Timbaland had a baby, while a surprisingly aggressive Wiz lights up the mic, followed by the Doggfather flexing some of his trademark, supremely smooth rhyme patterns. Plus Juicy J in all his ignorant brilliance? Looks like I have a new turn the volume up, turn my brain off jam. The hazy OG is the opposite side of the same coin, taking a lightly accented I.D. Labs beat that Wiz floats through and Snoop kills with some fluctuating yet still smooth flows. Snoop's lyricism on OG isn't exactly Murder Was the Case, but it doesn't have to be. I'll take a 16 from Snoop like this any day, and speaking of "way better than I first assumed," Curren$y closes out the festivities with his usual assortment of off-kilter references and relaxed swag. Similarly, Talent Show surpasses the track's potentially forced concept and simply sounds dope (bonus points for the Bishop Magic Don Juan outro) and there's a reason that the catchy and slightly ironic Young, Wild & Free is starting to climb up the charts. No one's claiming this is the second coming of Illmatic, but in the right mood, I'm more than fine with smoking on some Smokin On, musically speaking of course.
That doesn't mean Mac & Devin doesn't have its valleys to drag down the highs. The album never gets cut down to sticks and stems, but at its worst, it's not exactly potent. 6:30 is a lightly bouncing track that may work better in the movie but in purely musical form just doesn't really connect. Hearing 6:30 after Smokin On is like eating a Butterfinger after some Reese Cups – one's just clearly better than the other. And while I'm feeling the slowly bluesy World Class, and I have to admit that Wiz' singing is solid, by touching on some serious subjects but then backing off the verses feel oddly disconnected from the beat and the hook.
So yes, by the time you're finished listening to Mac & Devin there will be a small handful of tracks that you'll struggle to remember, but considering the state you'll probably listen to the album in, you'll be lucky if you remember your own phone number. The simple truth is this is the kind of music you're best off not thinking too much about. It may not be a classic, but let's just say that if Snoop and Wiz announce that they're doing a sequel, my expectations will be considerably higher (pun intended) the second time around.
Take out all the sticks and stems and Wiz just dropped a pretty dank new mixtape.


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