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Claude Stephenson
The Upper Rio Grande Matachines Dance
Sylvia Rodríguez
Understanding Los Matachines
Larry Torres
Moctezuma and the Elders, the Virgin and the Bull: the Matachines Dance of Greater Mexico
Enrique R. Lamadrid
One Name, Many Dances: Differentiating the Danzas de los Matachines
Yaqui Matachinis
Jim Griffith
For Her: The Tortugas Danza and the Virgin of Guadalupe
Deidre Sklar
Matachines: Enduring the Centuries
Jack Loeffler
The Role of Gender in Matachines Enactments
Brenda M. Romero
Visioning La Malinche
Miguel Gandert
Entriega
The dance-drama of los Matachines is an ancient tradition in the Hispanic Southwest. It is one of the very few dances shared by both Hispanic and Native peoples. Its roots can trace their influences back to the Middle Ages in Europe and at the same time, find New World influences included within their scope. Just as the sites where the dance-drama is produced are different, the 44 catalogued versions in the Americas also span places as far-flung as Pueblo in the State of Colorado and the deep rainforests of Belize. Taking a look at the Old World influences, many have remarked that the costumes worn by the dance participants are tremendously influenced by the Moorish culture. It must be remembered that the Moors occupied the Iberian Peninsula between the years 711-1492 A.D. Each dancer is appropriately masked with scarves hiding the lower part of their faces with fringe, called fleco, masking their foreheads and eyes.
The heads of the Matachines are surmounted by tall headdresses made of costly fabrics such as velvet and silk. These cupiles are decorated with silk ruffle borders and jeweled trinkets and symbols. From the back of the headdresses hang long silk ribbons arranged in patterns pleasing to the eye.
The masking of the hand is continued with many scarves that bedeck the dancers. Held within the right hand is a three-pronged wand called a palma. It represents the Trinitarian belief that God is one and three at the same time. In the Old World, St. Patrick explained it by holding the triple-leafed shamrock out to the Druids. In the New World it is reflected as the triune god Quetzalcoatl of Mexico who is lord of the air, lord of the land, and lord of the water at the same time.
In the Old World los Matachines found themselves reflected in the Italian commedia dell'arte as mattachinos. The people of England would certainly recognize their own beribboned "Morris Dancers" as "Moorish Dancers."
As los Matachines became an increasingly popular dance, much symbolism was attributed to them. They were made figures to be seen only during feast days or during mid-winter mumming rituals. New Mexico scholars such as the late Fray Angélico Chávez however, ask us to consider the possibility that los Matachines was originally merely a form of social dance.
Be the case as it may, it is known that the oldest unbroken tradition of dancing los Matachines can be traced to the town of Bernalillo, New Mexico, where they have been performed for 315 years straight. According to many references, the citizens of Bernalillo made a promise when they returned to their homes after The Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, that if their patron saint San Lorenzo were to keep them safe, they would dance in his honor every year. Other scholars who have studied the dance have suggested that los Matachines is a homoerotic dance, that is, a dance done by men, for men, since female figures were not originally part of the dance. Just as female societies guarded their secrets, even so did men's secret societies guard their own. The only female figure in the dance, an ogress called la Perejundia, was always played by a man dressed as a woman. In this way the figure was assured of having both the strength of the man and the power of the woman.
As the history of the dance unfolded among the indigenous tribes of the New World, more symbolism was added to it. The ancient ogres called Abuelos, were brought in to keep order in the dance as well as to call out the movements to the dancers. They played the role of dance monitors called bastoneros. Part of their duties also included keeping the dancers' ribbons nicely arranged and keeping the spectators out of the arena. As the Abuelos took on the traits of trickster figures, they also teased the sacrificial bull of the dance.
The bull is called el Toro while he is dancing and el Capeo whenever he is ritually castrated. He must bow low before the chief dancer called "Monarca" among the Spanish and "Monanca" among the Tiwa Natives. Monarca is easily recognized as he is the only dancer who wears solid white. It is only after the bull is felled that the ogress Perejundia will fall on the floor at his side and give birth to a newborn abuelito who will then become the spirit of the dance the following year. Whenever this happens, los Matachines can be interpreted as a fertility rite.
In looking at Native influences on the Dance of los Matachines, it must first be noted that the participants, whose numbers vary according to their interpretations, carry masked rattles in their left hands. The rattles are highly decorated gourds. To this may be added the notion that they also gird their waists with loincloths called tapa-rabos. The loincloths are decorated with ritual symbols known only to the dancers. About their lower shins, they wear fancy leggings.
The newest addition to the dance-drama is the little girl figure called la Malinche. Her name stems from the ancient records that say that she was the paramour of the conquistador Hernán Cortés. In fact, in Belize los Matachines is known as "The Dance of Cortés" according to full-blooded Maya Native, Victor Choc. Again, the symbolism attached to la Malinche depends on her interpretation. In Belize there are four Malinches who dance. In Bernalillo there are three. In Jemez there are two. In Arroyo Seco, there is only one. Depending on how she is seen, she can represent the waxing, full, and waning moon or the dawn, full day, and the dusk. In the village of Tortugas she is the spirit of purity and she often wears attributes belonging to the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The music of los Matachines may vary in tenor and speed. It is usually done with guitar and violin among the Spanish villages and with ritual drum and rattle in Native villages. But what people watching the dance will remark upon the most is that it is a fine example of how the differences among people can serve more as a means of unifying everyone than of dividing us.


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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Steve Stricker opened a six-stroke lead in the U.S. Senior Open on Saturday at Notre Dame, shooting a 4-under 66 and extending his bogey-free run to 48 holes.
Seeking his second senior major title after winning the Regions Tradition by six strokes in May in Alabama, the 52-year-old Stricker had a tournament-record 18-under 192 total on the rain-softened Warren Golf Course. He opened with a 62 to tie the tournament record and share the first-round lead with David Toms, then shot a 64 on Friday to take a two-stroke advantage.
Fellow Madison, Wisconsin, player Jerry Kelly was second after a 70. Kelly beat Stricker and Retief Goosen in a playoff last week in Madison in the PGA Tour Champions event that Stricker hosts.
Toms was third at 11 under after a 70. Bob Estes had a 68 to get to 10 under.


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Institute of the Black World's Post-Election Town Hall Meeting
By IBW21Events, News & Current Affairs, SOBWC Posts, Video/Audio
On Thursday, Nov. 5, two days after one of the most consequential elections in the history of the U.S., the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, convened a virtual Town Hall Meeting to assess the impact of the election on Black America and the Pan-African World. Host Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Special Guest Danny Glover, Moderators Dr. Julianne Malveaux and Rev. Mark Thompson…
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Institute of the Black World's Post-Election Town Hall Meeting Assessing Election's Impact on Black America and the Pan-African World. Newark, Nov 2, 2020 — On Thursday, Nov. 5, two days after one of the most consequential elections in the history of the U.S., the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), will convene a virtual Town Hall Meeting to assess the impact of the election on Black America and…
Why We Can't Wait: Danny Glover's Statement in Support of HR-40
By IBW21News & Current Affairs, Reparations
By Danny Glover United Nations Ambassador for the International Decade for People of African Descent, Board Member Institute for Policy Studies — The public lynching of George Floyd pierced deep into the "souls of Black folks" compelling a thorough-going examination of the flawed foundation, values, systems and symbols of white supremacy and structural/institutional racism in these United States. A massive Black Lives Matter-led, multiracial, cross-generational movement has erupted in cities large…
Danny Glover Expresses Strong Support for Reparations Calls for Swift Passage of HR-40
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Danny Glover makes pitch for Bernie Sanders in Mississippi
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Reparations Initiative Touted as a Model. Danny Glover to Speak at Town Hall Meeting Download or print PDF version — here. New York, December 2, 2019 — Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and Convener of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) announced today that a team of Commissioners will visit Evanston, IL December 10-11 to review and provide support for the…
Shining a light on Black suffering and slaughter in Latin America
By Michael Z. Muhammad — Though there are differences, Blacks in the Western Hemisphere are suffering and need to find ways to connect and support their struggle, overcome racial oppression and thrive. That was a major message from "The Decade of the Diaspora: A Conversation on the Afro Descendant Experience in Latin America" panel discussion at the Washington Convention Center during the recent Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's…
'Cut the Check': The Americans Who Deserve Reparations Walk Among Us
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HR 40 calls the country to account for racist predation inflicted upon black folks living and dead. By Aaron Ross Coleman, The Nation — When I saw a little black boy standing outside the Rayburn House Office Building holding a placard that read "Cut the Check—MLK," I knew it was going to be an extraordinary day in Washington, DC. This Juneteenth, Congress held its first hearing on the resolution to…


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A: I am not entirely sure what your question is, however, I am confident that I can answer your question.  What you need to do is make an image of the partition that LFS is on.  I would assume that your entire LFS system is on one partition, and thus you can just make an image of your partition and then burn that to a DVD or a USB drive.
You would do something like this:
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Traditionally, the Dunhill Links constellates the stars of stage and green in headline-grabbing pairs: Michael Douglas and Colin Montgomerie, for example, or Hugh Grant and David Howell. So it seemed a novelty on Friday when the second-round lead was seized by two names, in Tommy Fleetwood and Michael Hoey, of whom few at this exalted pro-am had ever heard.
Fleetwood, the 20 year-old from Merseyside, fully merited his place in the Scottish sun, shooting a nine-under-par 63 at St Andrews by virtue of his gung-ho play.
He could boast intimate knowledge of the Old Course, having studied its vagaries during his amateur rounds there in the St Andrews Links. But never did he expect, as a member of the second-tier Challenge Tour, to lead a field of this calibre — especially when his last win came in the less august surrounds of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
While the aristocracy of Luke Donald, Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy struggled at Carnoustie to impose themselves upon the leaderboard, Fleetwood eclipsed them all through his arresting display across the Firth of Tay.
The prospects of this talent from Formby Hall, ranked 202nd in the world, have been trumpeted since he narrowly lost the final of the Amateur Championship in 2008. He has not risen to the top of the Challenge Tour rankings for nothing, and the knowledge he had already earned a European Tour card for next season emboldened him during his 63, just one shy of Westwood's course record.
Hoey, at 32, is a more established presence, but the Northern Irishman failed to exert any sustained impression on tour prior to winning in Madeira in May. He led at the Dunhill at the halfway stage in May, and his fluent 66 around Kingsbarns, including six birdies, bore the hallmarks of a potential champion. "My putting has improved with a new coach, so I'm hopeful this will be my week," he said.


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Wait a Sec — Did 'Floribama Shore' Star Kortni Gilson Just Reveal Her Castmate Is Pregnant?
Just two days ago, 25-year-old Candace attended the Hollywood Confidential with Tiffany Haddish in a belly-baring ensemble that revealed a toned set of abs.
"One of the most inspiring nights I've had in a long time listening to @tiffanyhaddish speak," she wrote in the caption on Instagram. "Don't ever give up on your dreams… oh yeah… I'm back straight baybeeee." Of course, she could be in her first trimester, which means she wouldn't be showing just yet!
Candace's castmate, Nilsa, also stepped out in a crop top and maxi skirt on Sunday while out to brunch in the Sunshine State and looked absolutely stunning. "B—hes be brunchin'," she captioned the shot.
The reality star just finalized her divorce earlier this year and she's made no mention of a new man in her life, but that's not to say she can't be with child.
That just leaves us with Aimee! The 25-year-old had been dating someone for 10 years but recently put an end to things after he impregnated another woman.
On the very first episode of the show, during an introduction, she said, "I just wanna have one night stands!" So is it possible that Aimee has a bun in the oven after a quick fling to get back at her cheating man? Or, plot twist, maybe Kortni was talking to one of the guys? You'll just have to tune in to find out!
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The Black Middle
Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan
Matthew Restall
History / Latin American
History / Imperialism and Colonialism
History / Race and Ethnicity
Winner of the 2010 Mexican History Book Prize, sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History.
Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2010 Mexican History Book Prize.
The Black Middle is the first full-length study of black African slaves and other people of African descent in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan. Matthew Restall makes expert use of Spanish and Maya language documents from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, found in a dozen different archives. His goal is to discover what life was like for a people hitherto ignored by historians. He explores such topics as slavery and freedom, militia service and family life, bigamy and witchcraft, and the ways in which Afro-Yucatecans (as he dubs them) interacted with Mayas and Spaniards. Restall concludes that, in numerous ways, Afro-Yucatecans lived and worked in a middle space between—but closely connected to—Mayas and Spaniards. The book's "black middle" thesis has profound implications for the study of Africans throughout the Americas.
Matthew Restall is Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Since 1995, he has written or edited numerous books, including The Maya World(Stanford, 1997).
"Matthew Restall's book is a wonderful addition to a number of fields, most prominently Latin American history, slave and Diaspora studies, ethnohistory, and Atlantic world history. The book is exceptionally well written with an engaging and informative style. The work draws on an impressive array of archival sources and nicely complements statistical evidence with real-life stories. The book's eloquence and revisionism ensure that it will be widely read and influential."
—Jeremy Baskes, Enterprise and Society
"Restall provides strong evidence supporting the important role that Afro-Yucatecans played in Spanish and Maya communities, and in Yucatecan society in general . . . Restall's ability to make arcane data come to life through stories and examples expands the work's readership beyond academia."
—Mark Z. Christensen, Colonial Latin American Historical Review
"Restall opens each chapter with a detailed case study that makes for compelling reading and proves impressive in the depth of research and thoughtful and informed speculation required to give the stories depth and meaning. Restall's study will be of great interest to specialists in the African and Afro-American experiences in colonial Latin America and the wider Atlantic World."
—Frank "Trey" Proctor III, The Americas
"Matthew Restall is an expert on the Maya . . . This is a crucial contribution to the history of a too neglected aspect of colonial management, the history of freedom and slavery, the history of witchcraft (in which African, indigenous, and Spanish elements were pixed, pagan, and Christian), and much more . . . The book is soundly researched. The personal stories add an important human touch to the general coverage."
—Leonard R. N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"Restall has given us a full-blooded portrait of a historically important and interesting corner of the colonial world. In addition to his focus on the African-origin population of the Yucatan, Restall provides a full-scale, detailed, and eloquent social history of the entire region, demonstrating the ways in which his 'black middle' population was embedded in the larger society. The archival sources are truly impressive, expertly handled, and deployed with smart critical discussion."
—Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego
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Outrage Builds Against 'Discriminatory' Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program
Some say the process amounted to little more than a typing competition.
By Liz Haq
Re-thinking Canadian Parents and Grandparents Immigration Program/Facebook
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As an only child, the burden of responsibility on Penny Li to care for her aging parents is particularly heavy. When Li, 31, finally became a Canadian citizen last year — eight years after she began a University of Saskatchewan master's program and secured a lucrative living in the commodity trading industry — finding a way to bring her mother and father closer was the first thing on her wish list.
Health concerns and imminent retirement made frequent travel financially and physically precarious for the couple. Li dreamed of her parents coming to Canada for more than six months at a time — the stretch allotted for visits on a temporary visa.
Just before the immigration department's brand-new Parent and Grandparent (PGP) sponsorship site was set to go live on Jan. 28 — a departure from last year's controversial lottery system — Li assembled her documents, double-checked her Wi-Fi connection and anxiously awaited her shot.
The first hurdle was to successfully submit an "interest to sponsor" form, which would be added to a pile of 27,000 on a first-come, first-serve basis. Later, those 27,000 people would be vetted for eligibility and invited to apply for one of 20,000 spots available this year.
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Saskatoon resident Penny Li hoped to sponsor her parents through the 2019 Parent and Grandparent sponsorship program. She says the process was discriminatory and poorly designed.
Li felt like she was bidding on concert tickets. When the form appeared at 12 p.m. EST, she diligently filled in all the required information. Although after-the-fact corrections could be submitted via email, the government advised that the process would take around 10 minutes. She was confident she had plenty of time to get it right the first time, and figured it was wrong to submit an incomplete or mistake-riddled form to the government.
But when Li hit "submit," a notification informed her that the 27,000 quota had been filled and the program was closed. It had been nine minutes since the site had gone live.
"It was devastating," Li said. "I was in complete shock, because I had done everything exactly as they told me to."
Li wasn't alone. Messages of disappointment began to bubble up on social media. Some people reported receiving the same message around the same time, others said they could not access the form at all.
I was in complete shock because I had done everything exactly as they told me to.Penny Li, would-be sponsor
More than 100,000 people attempted to access the interest to sponsor form at noon on Jan. 28, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said in a statement. In response to the mounting complaints, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said there was no evidence of technical issues, and that the number of would-be sponsors simply exceeded the number of spots available for them.
"It is important to note that the Department did extensive testing to ensure systems were able to handle the volume," Mathieu Genest, a spokesman for Hussen, told HuffPost Canada. "In addition, IRCC also implemented anti-bot features in order to ensure that submissions received were legitimate."
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Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen in Ottawa on Feb. 4, 2019.
Li was dissatisfied with the government's response, so she took to Facebook where a group for failed applicants began to organize within hours of the form closing. Concerns in the Re-thinking Canadian Parents and Grandparents Immigration Program group included discrimination on the basis of physical typing ability and digital savvy, superior English or French language comprehension and access to reliable and fast internet — none of which are criteria for sponsorship itself.
Natalia Korobkova, who works for global nonprofit World Vision International, is one of the group's administrators. She is managing the group's petition and helping organize a series of protests across the country set to take place Monday — which is Family Day in many provinces, coincidentally.
"People lost out in a huge way because of the government's poor design and communication," Korobkova said. She was not able to submit the sponsorship form for her grandmother in Russia and her mother in Costa Rica. "There was the assumption that you should be very detailed and accurate and take your time, like every government form, but that was not the case. In fact, it was simply a competition of who could type the fastest."
People lost out in a huge way because of the government's poor design and communication.Natalia Korobkova, organizer
Vancouver lawyer Will Tao believes there is a solid case to be made under Sec. 15. (1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees equality rights "without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability." His firm has stepped in to represent 30 complainants in a motion to stop IRCC from further processing.
His firm, Edelmann & Co., was approached by two people whose physically disabilities barred them from fully participating: one person with a temporary hand injury and another who is dyslexic. The firm is trying to cover one of these clients through their pro bono funds.
The government has not responded directly to the petition or the pending legal action.
"They are taking a wait-and-see approach," Tao said. "They won't rush to follow-up because they think this will cool off. But the momentum is growing."
Some applicants paid for outside representation
Some would-be sponsors also hired outside law firms to fill the form on their behalf. While the practice was not explicitly prohibited by the government, Li felt it stacked the chances of success in favour of those with cash to spare.
"If you don't ban that [the use of outside representation] outright, it's discriminatory against people who don't have the means to hire professionals who speak perfect English or French, and can fill out legal forms very fast," she said.
Li found several ads on Chinese social media app WeChat offering clients a range of services in relation to PGP sponsorship, including filling out and submitting the form.
It is unclear, however, whether hiring outside helped put an applicant ahead of the curb: Toronto-based lawyer Wennie Lee told the Toronto Star only half of her firm's clients were able to submit applications.
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Problems with the PGP program are not new. But the Liberals have made family reunification a centrepiece of their immigration platform, and protesters charge the program's shortcomings don't square with that commitment.
"The majority of people who are protesting are Canadian citizens for many years," Korobkova said. "But we are considered second-rate compared to Canadians whose families are already in the country."
"The more years pass, the more immigrants will be welcome to Canada, the more immigrants will want to live fulfilled lives with their families," she added. "How do we ensure that all Canadians are equal? How do we ensure social cohesion? These are the questions the government must answer."
So far, the government is staying tight-lipped about any possible changes to next year's PGP program.
"While IRCC regularly reviews its programs, policies and procedures to assess whether changes or improvements should be made, no formal review of the program is being done at this time," Genest said in an email to HuffPost. "It is too early to speculate on any future program or policy changes."
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Caldwell County High School baseball head coach Jimmy Dyer (left) speaks with assistants Dono McGregor (center) and Jake McCoy before his announcement as the school's new baseball coach Monday.
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Caldwell Co. names Dyer as next baseball coach
By DAVID B. SNOW dsnow@paducahsun.com
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PRINCETON — Caldwell County High School has hired Jimmy Dyer as the school's next baseball coach.
The announcement was made Monday by CCHS athletics director Kim Farmer at VFW Field, where the Tigers play their home games.
"Mr. Dyer brings to us experience, enthusiasm, a love for the game and a vested interest in our program," she said. "We are really, really excited to have him back on staff as our head baseball coach."
Dyer succeeds Bradley Stallins, who resigned his position last May as the Tigers' winningest coach with a 301-212 mark over 18 seasons. The team did not play last spring due to COVID-19 regulations.
Dyer, a 1982 CCHS graduate who teaches science at Livingston Central High School, said he felt great about coming back home to be a coach.
"When I graduated, I knew that I wanted to be a schoolteacher because I wanted to come back and coach Caldwell County baseball," he said. "That was my driving force.
"I taught at Lyon County for six years and coached baseball there for six years. I came here and coached with Danny Beavers until 2000, when I took over as head coach."
Dyer coached the Tigers for three years, when a personal decision kept him away from the diamond.
"God put it on my heart that we were going to have another child, and I wanted to be a daddy to this one," he said. "I was not around a whole lot with the first two because I was coaching baseball, basketball and football.
"I've taken the last 18 years off. I retired Nov. 1 of last year from education — did not like it, so I'm teaching at Livingston County right now. When this opened up, I get a second chance to do what put me into education to begin with."
Dyer spoke with several of this year's players about workouts and the coaching staff before the announcement was made at VFW Field.
CCHS Principal Christy Phelps praised Dyer for the professionalism he showed in previous tenures at the school.
"We worked with Jimmy in the past, and his work ethic is outstanding," she said. "His character is top-notch, and he loves the kids. He's going to really develop some players and, beyond players, some good citizens. He's highly competitive, and we're looking forward to having him."
Dyer said he is looking forward to getting started with Caldwell County.
"Everything in my closet is still blue," he said. "I always thought that I might want to come back someday. I didn't know that it would present itself or not, but it did. I've got way too much energy to stay home, so I'm ready to go.
"We're going to get the kids into individual workouts ASAP (as soon as possible) — tomorrow, if we can. If we can't, whenever they turn us loose."
Dyer said the team will be coached by a triumvirate of coaches with input from assistants Dono McGregor and Jake McCoy.
"My leadership philosophy is to hire people smarter than you," he said. "Dono is awesome. When I coached in 2000, the first call I made was to him. He's been around the program ever since then. Jake McCoy — I've seen the way he works with the kids. Everybody I talked to just gave him glowing reports.
"I'm going to surround myself with smart people and turn them loose and try to stay out of their way. We're going to be more of a three-headed monster this year instead of a head coach and assistants."
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Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold spectacularly shoots down negative Stereogum review
Lee Thomas-Mason· June 11, 2017
Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold has decided to outright confront a negative review of the band's new record Crack-Up.
Stereogum ran a less-than complimentary feature on the new LP and, in an unprecedented move, Pecknold addressed the author with a detailed comment on the bottom of the piece.
To be brutally honest, it's both wonderfully refreshing to see an artist taking the opportunity to voice their opinion in response to criticism… and utterly terrifying thrilling for people like me who might actually write something that warrants such a time consuming response:
Sorry the record didn't do it for you. I clearly didn't do a very good job of setting this record up for people in advance, partly because I'd consider too much blogosphere-facing narrative control to be pageant-ish, and partly because I wanted listeners to come to it without too many preconceived notions as to what exactly it was. That said, I obviously let the "successful band dude goes to college" thing metastasize into a louder storyline than it should have been, by virtue of there being nothing else provided to frame the album around. Truthfully, my short time at college didn't have much to do with this album. All the arcane lyrics you mention (which are really only found on three imagistic songs) were written before I went back to school. I picked up a couple music theory tricks that helped with arrangements, but most of the brainstorming as to what this record would be was done in 2013, including the title, and college mostly just served to delay its making and release.
Also. Speaking as a Straight White Male music listener, I'd say, generally speaking, that the Straight White Male is the last voice of "cultural relevance" that I'm actively looking to, or sympathetic to, in this particular cultural moment. Just, who cares, you know? This obviously creates a problem for the Straight White Male artist who still desires to make relevant art – do you attempt to gentrify the landscape, White Savior yourself, and demand through inference or testimony that your voice is that of a leader for these times, when your phenotype is culturally inert if not malignant, and that even presuming to have something genuinely important to add is arguably an invocation of privilege? This approach seems like a fool's errand to me. I instead mostly took the tack that I was using my particular set of cultivated talents to make a Use Object, something useful, a balm, something experientially or aesthetically moving, a reprieve. If you think I should be trying to muscle my way into a position of cultural relevance that I don't deserve, in a culture that is currently filled with far more interesting and sympathetic perspectives than that of the Straight White Male, then I can't really help you, because I am a little too self aware to have tried to do that. I can still comfortably and with a clear conscience make music that is beautiful and useful to people who are receptive, but I don't do so from a sage-like position at all. You obviously care enough about music to place musicians in positions of veneration, and I do too, but I'm sooner doing so with Frank and Kendrick and Solange at the moment than I am with any straight white male artist currently in the landscape, and obviously (duh) I'm not alone in that, as they are enormously successful, beloved, and influential artists.
That said, this record is more present-aware than you're giving it credit for, it's just more from the perspective of an observer, or participant, than it is from that of one sent from on high. "Cassius" is explicitly about participating in protests following the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile last summer, as well as the death of Muhammad Ali. "If You Need To, Keep Time On Me" and "Crack-Up" are about post-election confusion and anxiety, alternative facts, as are portions of "Third of May" and "I Should See Memphis" – how are references to the American Civil War not also relevant to 2017, and how is an album title like "Crack-Up" not obviously a reference to our current political climate as much as it is a reference to any personal psychology? If some of the lyrics are more imagistic than explicit, they're still more engaged in the present world than anything on our first album, where the lyrics were just pure RPG fantasy, and they are at least more graceful than "If I had an orchard, I'd work till I'm sore."
It always confuses me to read reviews that focus on biographical details and lyrics. In the taxonomy of concerns relating to music, biography and lyrics are the two I personally find least interesting, as both a listener and as an artist. I'm most moved by and interested in chords, melody, dynamics, structure, texture, arrangement, flow, scale, invention, instrumentation, mood, contrast, depiction, et cetera. If the things that excited me in the making of this record didn't do anything for you in the listening, I completely accept that. But I'll say in conclusion that recording this album was the first time in my creative life that I really felt in control, and like I was making something very closely aligned with my values and my own listening predilections, that I couldn't write off to myself as pastiche, trend-hopping, genre exercise, or a bald-faced attempt to crack 9.0 on Pitchfork. Buoyed by this feeling, I would often then have the competing thought that this self-assurance was a bad sign, as the insecurity and desire to please others that often guided me in making music before had also payed off in the pleasing of the arbiters of the blogosphere. It was a gamble then, and I lost that gamble with you, Tom, but thanks for listening and giving it a chance in the first place.


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BlackBerry Coming Back from the Edge?
A funny thing happened to BlackBerry stock yesterday: it went up. A lot.
The stock of Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, traded as high as $14.67 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday, January 14. That's a gain of $1.36 or 10.2 percent, according to CTV News. That's the highest it's been since April of 2012, when it traded at $14.95.
RIM is holding a special launch event for BlackBerry 10, the next generation of its mobile operating system, on January 30. That's one reason investors might be bullish about the company for a change. It might also have to do with recent leaks, reported by TechRadar, that functionality like Twitter and Google Talk connectivity will be built right into the BlackBerry Hub, BlackBerry 10's centralized inbox.
There's further good news for RIM. The company held a "port-a-thon" to get developers to submit BlackBerry 10 apps. The developer of each approved app would receive a $100 bounty. The idea was to have as many apps available as possible for the launch event. In the end, more than 15,000 apps were submitted in less than two days. Even if only some of these apps are approved, it's a good deal more content than would have been available otherwise.
Then again, investors could have just been shifting money from other mobile technology vendors. The same trading day saw a sizable decline in the stock price of Apple, maker of the device RIM can only hope to compete with: the iPhone. CTV News reported that Apple stock was down $18.64 or 3.6 percent to $501.66. That decline came on the news that Apple was reducing orders for iPhone 5 parts.
Obviously, it's tough to compare two stock prices in such different leagues. But it does indicate one thing: there's drama left in the smartphone wars after all.
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The goal for Connected Courses is to build an inclusive and expansive network of teachers and students, and provide educational offerings that make high quality, meaningful, and socially connected learning available to everyone. The go-at-your-own-pace collaborative course is free and open to all.
Connected Courses was first offered from September 2 to December 12, 2014.
Orientation/Registration/ Move In
Facilitators: Alan Levine, Jim Groom, and Howard Rheingold
Jim Groom, Alan Levine, Howard Rheingold will talk about the how and why of blogging for Connected Courses.
Unit 1: Why We Need a Why
Facilitators: Mike Wesch, Mimi Ito, Helen Keegan
What is, or should be, the future of higher education? What do we stand to lose or gain in pursuing the possibilities opened up by the Web? What are the underlying logics and effects of different approaches to teaching with technology/online?
Unit 2: Trust and Network Fluency (Leveraging your "Why")
Facilitators: Jonathan Worth, Kira Baker-Doyle
In the quantum learning space where interest is a key driver, how do we employ the same dynamics in our teaching? or How do we leverage the power of open? How do we maintain trust and a sense of security in open networks? How do we build our networks? What is social capital? How do we enable at-large learners to engage in our courses? Where should we teach our classes?
Unit 3: The World Wide Web - From Concept to Platform to Cultures
Facilitators: Gardner Campbell, Kim Jaxon, Chris Mattia, Howard Rheingold, Laura HIlliger
What is this thing called the World Wide Web? What are the values and ambitions that gave rise to its design? If "the medium is the message," what is the message of the web? What are some threshold concepts that help us to understand what is meant by "the web"? How is it reframing learning and education? What do we stand to lose or gain in pursuing the possibilities opened up by the web?
Unit 4: Diversity, Equity, Access
Facilitators: Lisa Nakamura, Anne Balsamo, Liz Losh
Co-Instructors: Veronica Paredes
Goals / Topics:
The Dialogic Creation of Knowledge
Networking Across Differences
Infrastructuring Equity, Access, and Participation
Subtopics: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Pedagogy, Praxis of Networking and Mentoring
Unit 5: About Co-learning
Facilitators: Howard Rheingold, Mia Zamora, Alec Couros
What is co-learning? Why co-learning? How can teachers empower students as co-learners? How does this pedagogy differ from traditional methods of teaching & learning? How does the instructor support a co-learning environment? What obstacles might educators encounter in this paradigm shift? What obstacles might students encounter in this paradigm shift?
Unit 6: Putting it all into practice. Planning the connected course
Facilitators: Jim Groom, Lisa M. Lane, Jaime Hannans, Jaimie Hoffman, Mikhail Gershovich, Alan Levine
Focus on practical issues, overview of issues in teaching open online classes, reflections on previous weeks' activities, goals for the future.


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CoinEx brought some much-needed warmth to several sick children in Venezuela.
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On August 19, a group of compassionate volunteers traveled to Cumaná, Venezuela, to spend the day at the Hospital Universitario Antonio Patricio de Alcalá (HUAPA).
They visited the pediatric wards of the hospital while wearing costumes and acting as popular children's cartoon characters like Spider-Man and Elsa. While doing so, they carried books and toys as gifts for the sick children who were being treated there. This is a charity event for children in Venezuela who are suffering from illness, and it was methodically arranged for them by CoinEx Charity, a global charity. During the event, the charity gave sick children gifts, including 500 cakes, 300 fruit bundles, and 130 toys, as well as hired actors to play cartoon characters. The event was also attended by actors. CoinEx Charity has high expectations that the warmth and joy that the cartoon characters and gifts bring to the children will help them temporarily forget about their disease and the agony that they are experiencing. The day of the occasion, the youngsters greeted their unique "friends" and received presents and toys in return. They also got the opportunity to play games with their favorite cartoon characters, which brought a lot of joy and laughter to the wards. The joyful atmosphere helped children feel less anxious, and they were able to temporarily forget about their suffering as they focused on the happiness and presents that had been delivered to them by their heroes.
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Children are fearless and carefree because childhood, the best beginning of life, is filled to the brim with joy and wonder, but disease robs some children of the opportunity to experience such joy and wonder. CoinEx Charity established the Multi-Million-Dollar Charity Fund in 2022 with the intention of enhancing the standard of living of marginalized communities all over the world.
The nonprofit organization, which places a primary emphasis on the health and happiness of children and adolescents, has provided financial assistance to low-income families that have sick children in order to reduce the emotional and financial burden such families are under.
CoinEx Charity sought out local performers who have a passion for giving back to the community and enlisted them to assist arrange and execute this surprise party for the purpose of uplifting the spirits of sick children and enhancing their overall health. The performers inspired the children to face their health challenges head on by donning costumes of their favorite cartoon characters, so bringing the children a step closer to the role models they look up to.
The group crafted a magnificent cartoon world for the children, along with a nice memory from their youth for everyone of them. Throughout the course of the event, the CoinEx Charity prepared presents and refreshments for more than 120 sick children who were being treated at the HUAPA Hospital.
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These included: 200 breakfasts, 300 fruit packages, 200 juices, 80 infant supplements, 500 cakes, and other items. The children who were being cared for in the hospital were taken completely by surprise when they received these thoughtful gifts. At the hospital, CoinEx Charity was showered with thanks from both the parents and the medical staff; in addition, the children themselves smiled happily to convey their appreciation.
CoinEx Charity has never ceased working toward achieving its philanthropic aims. In addition to its trip to Venezuela, the organization made a stop at the Uniuyo Teaching Hospital in Nigeria, where it made a donation of medical supplies for children who were ill there. Recently, it formed a partnership with KAUV (Hope Foundation for Children with Cancer), which is situated in Turkey, in order to fund unwell children and provide them with access to high-quality educational opportunities. The relevance of charity has left an impression on the organization, particularly during those programs that are geared toward children.
CoinEx Charity is appealing to people all around the world to help underprivileged children by performing charitable deeds that will enhance the quality of their living and educational environments. If we work together, we can ensure that every child has a healthy and joyful childhood!
Charity is an ongoing endeavor.
Helping those in need needs unselfish actions. CoinEx Charity remains steadfastly committed to its founding purpose and continues to make contributions to the philanthropic cause of shielding underprivileged people all over the world.
Its primary focus is on the living situations of children all over the world, and its ultimate goal is to develop into a loving and compassionate corporation dedicated to philanthropic causes while simultaneously respecting its corporate duties through concrete acts.
The CoinEx Charity will continue to pay close attention, in the future, to the educational opportunities and living conditions of these children who have special needs. In addition to this, it encourages caring people all around the world to look out for members of vulnerable communities, such as children who are ill or who are experiencing any number of challenges, and to do everything in their power to assist and safeguard children. The mission of CoinEx Charity is to create a supportive social environment for children and to ensure that they have a joyful childhood.
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State of Decay 2: Homecoming update remasters and expands map
We weren't particularly excited about State of Decay 2 when it first released, but that didn't stop 10 million players from shooting zombies and creating their randomly generated zombie shooter games. Undead Labs celebrated this milestone by announcing a major new DLC at Gamescom.
Check out the trailer above for a preview of State of Decay 2: Homecoming.
State of Decay 2: Homecoming is, as Undead Labs puts it, the third act in the Trumbull Valley saga. One of the game's five maps, Trumbull Valley was added in June 2019 for the Heartland update. Heartland was more of a linear story mode, and players weren't able to bring their home bases into it, but Homecoming changes that.
The map has been completely remastered and two new territories that Heartland did not have. Players will see the aftermath of what happened in the Heartland update, which has changed over the years since your last visit, and obviously get some closure on some narrative threads. In a more material sense, the map comes with new items that can only be found there: 12 new hats and outfits, 10 new weapons, six new bases, two new achievements, and the game's 12th bounty pack.
The map itself sits in the shadow of a giant snow-capped mountain. Think Colorado, with a mix of urban areas, forest reserves, and even a downed plane to search. Most importantly, there is some sort of dinosaur themed park where you can shoot zombies from the top of a brachiosaurus statue.
State of Decay 2: Homecoming will be released on September 1 and is free to game owners and Game Pass members.


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Lightning è un connettore prodotto da Apple a partire dal 2012. L'interfaccia è compatibile con iPhone 5, iPod touch 5G, iPad 4, iPad mini, iPod nano 7G e successivi.

Storia
Pensato per sostituire il connettore Dock, è stato presentato il 12 settembre 2012, durante una conferenza Apple a San Jose. Esso è compatibile con tutti i dispositivi presentati all'evento, come iPhone 5, iPod touch 5G, iPad e iPod nano 7G.

I prodotti presentati successivamente, come l'iPad mini, sono tutti dotati di collegamento con Lightning, fino ad arrivare al 30 ottobre 2018, data in cui Apple ha dichiarato che i nuovi modelli di iPad Pro saranno dotati di connettore USB-C.

Tecnologia

Lightning è un connettore a 8 pin completamente digitale dove il guscio metallico funziona come nono connettore di massa. A differenza del suo predecessore, lo spinotto può essere introdotto all'interno del dispositivo in entrambi i versi. Apple offre vari adattatori che consentono di utilizzare il connettore Lightning con altre interfacce, come connettore a 30 pin, USB 3.0, HDMI, VGA e SD. L'adattatore da Lightning a 30 pin supporta solo un sottoinsieme limitato dei segnali a 30 pin disponibili: dati USB 2.0, ricarica USB e uscita audio analogica (tramite il DAC all'interno dell'adattatore).

Lightning è più piccolo e versatile del vecchio connettore a 30 pin, e leggermente più largo dei connettori micro-USB.

I piedini del connettore occupano l'intero spessore dello stesso. In altre parole, il primo pin del lato sinistro e l'ultimo del lato destro corrispondono a due facce dello stesso piedino. Pertanto, anche se possibile, inserire la spina con un determinato orientamento non è elettricamente equivalente a inserirla in quello opposto. Per ovviare alla situazione, il connettore dispone di un chip che determina ogni volta in quale direzione lo spinotto è stato inserito all'interno del dispositivo e passa i segnali elettrici ai piedini corretti.

I cavi Lightning originali contengono un chip di autenticazione che rende difficile ai terzi la produzione di accessori compatibili senza l'approvazione da parte di Apple. Tuttavia, una società cinese è riuscita a bypassare questo protocollo ed ha iniziato a produrre stazioni di ricarica a partire dall'ottobre 2012.

Nel dicembre 2012, Belkin è diventata la prima società autorizzata a vendere accessori Lightning.

Gli analisti pensano che questo connettore, come il suo predecessore, rimarrà uno standard per i prodotti Apple per almeno dieci anni. Nell'ottobre 2018, durante il consueto evento Apple, è stato presentato il nuovo iPad Pro equipaggiato con connettore USB-C in sostituzione del precedente connettore Lightning.

Con la presentazione dell'iPhone 7 e 7 Plus, sono state presentate i primi auricolari Apple EarPods con connettore Lightning, che vanno a sostituire le vecchie EarPods con connettore Jack da 3,5 mm.

Marchio
Il 25 novembre 2012 Apple ha acquisito da Harley-Davidson il marchio "Lightning", la quale però mantiene i diritti di utilizzo del nome per i prodotti correlati alle sue motociclette.

Note

Voci correlate
 Connettore Dock
 Thunderbolt (interfaccia)

Altri progetti

IPhone
Hardware Apple
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I was feeling a little sick today so I enlisted the help of the Sproul'e boys to get me to my 10g mark. Always up for an adventure we left town not knowing where we were going. Safe in the knowledge that we would be in for some great skiing we drove towards the pass. Doug mentioned Hamilton creek, a name which I did not know, although it turns out I had skied there before. Hamilton creek is 10 km form town and is rarely skied, I skied there five years ago and I wonder if anybody else has ventured up there since.
The reason no one visits this area is the start off point is at 1900 feet and the summit is at 8400 feet, so 6500 feet to gain the summit. We charged up this 6500 feet summiting by noon and enjoying our first turns thereafter. Here is Dave scoping the final pitch. We had some great turns down the south face skiing 2200 feet before we could stop.
After our first run we toured up through some burnt trees and gained the next lesser bump and skied a 1500 foot run of it. Again great snow, a little wind affected in the alpine but really silky below tree line. Then with 1500 foot to go we toured up to the third bump and skied a 3000 foot avalanche path down into Hamilton creek. We followed this somewhat of a challenge/ kinda okay creek to the highway and hiked back to the car.
Seems like when the three of us get together we get things down and explore some great areas, today was exploratory for all of us. I had summited the peaks before but i had not enjoyed the descents off them. So new lead for all of us to draw on our maps once we got home. 10 500 foot day.


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As I was rolling around in my miracle whip (my mayonnaise colored Camry) last week, I had the radio on like I sometimes do to stay up to date on the latest turn-ups going on. To my surprise, on Energy 106.9FM I heard a song that had a sample from a 90's R&B song. Cool.
I flipped the station to V100 and heard...
Then I flipped again to 98.3FM and heard...
Then I flipped back to V100 while the first song ended and the next one had...
Four songs in a row where 90's R&B, some of my favorite music, was being used as the backdrop.
Now, I'm not saying this is the beginning of some new trend because any song that is or was popular will get sampled quickly. One of the first times I noticed this was when Tupac's "I Ain't Mad At Cha" came out in September of 1996, which sampled DeBarge's "A Dream" from 1983. Just a few months later, February of 1997 to be exact, Blackstreet released "Don't Leave Me" which had the same sample. I thought it was a remix, but it wasn't. It was an entirely different song but I always connect those two songs in my mind.
Side note: I was 11 at the time so please give me a pass for not remembering any other twice used samples before then in my life. Get off me.
Also, I do realize that songs from all generations and genres get sampled on the regular. With so many artists out here now and websites like WhoSampled.com, it's easy to pay better attention and watch these sample lists grow with songs you would have never heard otherwise.
Well then, what ARE you saying then Bizzon?
I'm saying that at this moment, some of MY favorite songs from one of MY favorite eras of music growing up are getting sampled and getting major radio play which I'm happy about. Sure, some samples get used better than others and some have been done before. But, if it's causing another 11 year-old to get on the internets and learn about music that's older than them AND put it in a context they can relate to AND find an appreciation for the original, then I'm all for it. Let's face it, hip hop did for for so many of us with jazz, funk and soul, so let's let this new generation have their fun.
Now, let's take a trip down memory lane and enjoy these recently released songs that's use 90's R&B samples. And hit the comments with other newer songs you have heard that bring back some memories.
Chris Brown's "She Ain't You" samples Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" and SWV's "Right Here"
When I first heard this back in 2011, my immediate thought was, "Duuuude, we've done this some many times already. Let's do something else." Also, it sparked my own line of questioning about how much of this is biting versus creating something new. I mean it's damn near the same song.
But as I thought about it more, I realized that many of these kids NEVER heard "Human Nature" or "Right Here" and probably wouldn't outside of this context. And I like "Right Here" which was damn near the same as Human Nature outside of the added drums. So yeah, this generation should have a version of their own. And the video is a tribute to MJ so I quickly stopped hating.
Ciara's "Body Party" samples Ghost Town DJ's "My Boo"
For anyone that has ever heard me DJ, they know I play "My Boo" at 95% of my gigs (along with "Check The Rhime" from A Tribe Called Quest). It is my favorite song from the era and I remember watching it on the Box. Channel 8. Yes. So when I heard JUST the bass-line of "Body Party" I knew where it was going. Then she flipped the chorus, somewhat replicating the original and I was back in 1995 again.
But this and the Chris Brown really made me pay attention just a bit more to what was going on with these samples, especially with newer pop music...
Drake's Legend samples Ginuwine's "So Anxious"
So, now it's 2015 and Drake just released If You're Reading This Its Too Late. "Legend" stood out to me for it's Ginuwine sample. It's extremely slowed down and filtered, but you hear it. And "So Anxious" came out in 1999 so it still counts. Barely.
Drake's "How Bout Now" samples Jodeci's "My Heart Belongs To You"
While "Legend" was cool, "How Bout Now" was the yam though. The way they flipped Jodeci's "My Heart Belongs To You" was fresh, especially at the end of the chorus. I don't always give Drake props, but I had to for this one.
Big Sean's "Play No Games" samples Guy's "Piece Of My Love"
"Girl it's true...."
Immediately "Play No Games" lets you know this is gonna be a throwback joint and the video nails down the point even more. Just from the colors in the video, you can tell they are paying tribute to the second best black sitcom of the 90's, Martin. The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air being the first. But they acted out all the characters from the show too. Dope.
Tory Lanez "Say It" samples Brownstone's "If You Love Me"
There are plenty songs from the 90's that unapologetically say, "Yes, this is a 90's song", but Brownstone's "If You Love Me" is one that says it the loudest. So when Tory Lanez came out with his version, "Say It", it honestly took me a minute to tell the difference. It's faster and since it's 2016 of course it has more bass. But I thought some new producer just made a quick remix, not a full fledged song. I was wrong.
Bryson Tiller's "Exchange" samples K.P. & Envyi's "Shawty Swing My Way"
So my second favorite 90's R&B song is "Shawty Swing My Way" from K.P. & Envyi and I was so glad to hear Bryson Tiller flip it on his song "Exchange." He's kinda taking over the R&B world right now with his TRAPSOUL album and joints like this are the reason why. Instead of sampling the beat, chorus or lyrics, all they did was take the ad-libs from the intro and throw some effects on it. That's honestly all I needed.
Zendaya's "Something New" samples TLC's "Creep"
So, I was never a big fan of "Creep" from TLC but I know it meant a lot to everyone else. So much so that it gets sampled all the time actually and Zendaya used it for her joint "Something New". The main melody from "Creep" is used from the jump and throughout the song, so you'll notice it quickly.
Luke Nasty's "Might Be" samples Xscape's "Who Can I Run To"
When it comes to slow jams of the 90's Xscape had the jackpot. From "Understanding" to "The Arms of the One Who Loves You" to their biggest hit (to me) "Who Can I Run To". The latter was recently used for Luke Nasty's new song "Might Be". And Xscape's version was a remake of the actual original from The Jones Girls back in 1979. The main melody was used and instead of using the word "Ahhhh" from the intro he kind of turns it into "high", which I'm kind of ok with.
Diplo's "Be Right There" samples Jade's "Dont Walk Away"
The most surprising song on this list Diplo's latest song "Be Right There". I wasn't expecting a new EDM joint to take it back to the 90's, but they did using Jade's "Don't Walk Away". As a DJ, I'm always trying to find songs in genres I'm not the biggest fan of that I, and the crowds I play for, can relate to. This one does just that as they took the acapella of the chorus and threw it over a oontz-banger beat. I'm still 50-50 on it but I give them props for it nonetheless.
Bonus: Colonel Loud's "California" samples Maze's "We Are One"
Now, I know "We Are One" came out in the early 80's, but with so many 40-50 year-old people loving Colonel Loud's "California", it's the perfect example of what I'm trying to say.
Songs like these connect generations together in ways your average song can't. And (hopefully) Maze gets money put in their pockets from the licensing, so it's a win for the original artist that was sampled, the new artist that used the sample and the fans, old and new alike. Everyone is learning something new in the process and that's something we all can benefit from.
Now the most important question, who's gonna flip some Zhane for me?


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Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announces he will not run for reelection next year
Posted 4:36 am, July 22, 2019, by CNN Wire
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Sunday that he will not run for reelection next year and is resigning as the president of the New Progressive Party, following protests over the past week.
"A huge portion of the population is unhappy and I recognize it," Rosselló said on Facebook Live. "I've heard you, I love the island and people. … Today I have the responsibility to direct my strengths to try to find alternatives so that with God we may be able to move forward."
Rosselló is two and a half years into his four year term.
"I'm going to be looking forward to turning over power to the person elected democratically," he said.
Rosselló did not say he would resign as governor of the US territory, upsetting residents who have been calling for his resignation after offensive private chat messages between Rosselló and his inner circle were made public last week.
"We want him gone, that's it," Xavier Garcia, 28, said. "It's about respect."
Jomaries Amezaga, 40, told CNN she knew Rosselló wasn't going to step down.
"He's like a little child having a tantrum. He's lived an easy life of privilege and he doesn't want to give it up," Amezaga said.
Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in Washington, also called for his resignation Sunday.
"It is a good first step but he must resign as governor and allow another to finish the term," González-Colón said in a statement. She also serves as the vice president of the New Progressive Party.
Puerto Rico Senator Eduardo Bhatia told CNN that Rosselló "is totally disconnected from reality" and that the impeachment process must begin. He said that Puerto Ricans "are scared to death."
"We feel that we are on a plane and the pilot has lost control," Bhatia said. "We want to get rid of the pilot."
The scene outside of La Fortaleza, the governor's mansion, was like a massive block party after the announcement, in stark contrast to the tense protests in recent days. People yelled anti-Rosselló chants, waved Puerto Rican flags and blasted music. Vendors were selling "resign Rosselló" T-shirts.
Rafael "June" Rivera Ortega, secretary general of the New Progressive Party, said in a statement that working with Rosselló "has been a true honor." After a new party president has been chosen, Ortega said he too will step down as secretary general.
"During these two and a half years, we have made great progress in terms of the reorganization of our party, reinforcing the message of Statehood, and we have been able to carry out multiple special elections without controversy, creating unity of our party," Ortega said.
Governor not considering resigning
Last week, the Center for Investigative Journalism published nearly 900 pages of leaked chats from the governor's private Telegram Messenger group, in which he and 11 top aides and Cabinet members exchanged profanity-laced, homophobic and misogynistic messages about fellow politicians, members of the media and celebrities. In one, Christian Sobrino Vega, then Puerto Rico's chief financial officer, appeared to joke about those who died in Hurricane Maria.
Puerto Rico's Justice Department has issued summonses for everyone involved in the private chat group. They will be ordered to appear before Justice Department officials to have their phones inspected, department spokeswoman Mariana Cobian said.
As protests continued last week, Rosselló consistently refused to step down. In a statement posted to Twitter on Thursday, he said he would continue to work toward regaining the Puerto Rican people's trust.
"I recognize the challenge that I have before me because of the recent controversies, but I firmly believe that it is possible to restore confidence and that we will be able, after this painful process, to achieve reconciliation," he said.
On Friday, his official Instagram account shared images of the governor at work, as if it were a typical day for his administration. The same day, Public Affairs Secretary Anthony Maceira said that the governor "is not considering resignation."
New allegations of corruption
The leaked messages were not the only thing driving the protests. Demonstrators have also alleged government corruption, as the island battles high poverty rates, crushing debt and a painful recovery from 2017's devastating Hurricane Maria.
On Saturday, Rosselló's longtime family friend and business partner, Yosem E. Companys, claimed in an interview with news outlet NotiCel that the governor had accepted money from the island's legislature for access to his father, a former governor. Companys claimed Rosselló told him he kept up to a million dollars in bank accounts, according to the report.
Rosselló said on Twitter that the allegations were "totally false."
"It is truly lamentable and disappointing that a person which I considered a friend would make such ill-intentioned and false comments," the governor tweeted.
Companys told NotiCel that the payments came up when he was discussing a business investment with Rosselló.
"Ricky told me he had all the money we needed. I asked him if it was family money," Companys told NotiCel.
"He told me, 'Don't say anything, but basically I get paid around $100,000 to $200,000 as adviser to the legislature and I don't have to do anything. The only thing I have to do is when they want to contact my dad, I give them access," Companys said.
Companys said he asked Rosselló whether he thought it was unethical, according to the report, and that Rosselló told him, "I am on their payroll; that's how things function in Puerto Rico."
The exchange occurred between 2006 and 2007, Companys said.
Committee checks possible impeachable offenses
The president of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives, Carlos "Johnny" Méndez, created a special committee Friday to advise him on whether the governor committed impeachable offenses.
The impeachment research committee includes three attorneys who will have 10 days to provide Méndez with a detailed report, according to a news release from his spokesman, Raúl Colón.
The committee will evaluate the content of the leaked messages between Rosselló and Cabinet members and determine if there's proof Rosselló committed a crime, Méndez said.
"We are here to order this evaluation, one that will be transparent and responsible," he said. "I thank this group of lawyers for giving a step forward in this historic moment for Puerto Rico. We will thoroughly evaluate the conclusions of this committee so we can proceed."
If it is found that the governor did commit impeachable acts, and a vote to impeach passes the House, it goes to the Senate and a trial presided over by the head of the Supreme Court, with the senators as jurors. A two-thirds vote is needed in both chambers for the impeachment to go through.
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R&J #501 – I Don't Wanna Be Sedated
In Blogs, Rob and Joe by Robby September 21, 2020
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R&J #500 – Through the Years
P1 Mac Bergson joins Rob and Joe to renew his power rankings live on the show. While the top spot is as expected, there are plenty of surprises. Following their first Purple Power Hour on 98 Rock, Rob and Joe evaluate the inaugural effort. Rob joins Mickey Cucchiella for a comedy show on September 11th and grudgingly gets roped in …
R&J #495 – A Nine-Year-Old at Knife Point
In Blogs, Rob and Joe by Robby August 10, 2020
Gramps is receiving accolades for his appearance on the show, but at Joe's expense. Rob gets praise for his week on 98 Rock and explains why he had such a good time doing the morning show. Joe travels to North Carolina and returns unscathed by the hurricane, the earthquake or his father-in-laws verbal barbs. Joe talks about Katie's reaction to …
R&J #492 – Go Communism!
In Blogs, Rob and Joe by Robby July 27, 2020
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At the top of the show Rob is offered a gig. With that, a government grant and his Drybar appearance being released soon he should be rolling in dough. Katie hires a cleaning lady and gets far more than she expected. With the Redskins on the verge of retiring their 87-year-old moniker, Rob asks for a review of the best …
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In Blogs, Rob and Joe by Robby April 27, 2020
Several fans and show personalities were in attendance for the first Rob and Joe Zoom party. Joe tells a story about the ongoing house hunt, with a disgusting twist. During the NFL draft coverage, Joe provides spot-on analysis on his social media. This leads to another rant about people entrenched in their positions about how the current world crisis will …


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Tudor and Stuart Technical Research
May 2003 – October 2005
Tate holds a significant collection of paintings by artists working in England during the Tudor and Stuart periods, which stretched from the early sixteenth century to the 1700s. Supported by generous funding from the Getty Grant Program, conservators and conservation scientists at Tate completed the technical examination and scientific analysis of over a hundred such paintings, using techniques including X-radiography, infrared reflectography, microscopical examination, paint analysis, dendrochronology and detailed photography.
Tudor and Stuart Technical Entries
Browse all the in-depth technical reports on Tudor and Stuart works from the Tate collection.
The earliest dated painting in this study is An Unknown Man in a Black Cap, painted in 1545 by John Bettes, and the latest is The Harvey Family 1721 by Sir Godfrey Kneller. In between them are a host of paintings by both foreign and English artists who made a living primarily by painting portraits, for example Hans Eworth, George Gower, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Anthony Van Dyck, William Dobson, Peter Lely, John Michael Wright and Cornelius Johnson. This is the period that saw traditional English portraiture – somewhat stiff and prone to the diagrammatic – adapting itself to the courtly elegance and painterly sophistication evident in paintings by artists who moved to England from the continent. It has been interesting to find that the materials of painting – the pigments and the oils for binding them together – were potentially available to all, whether at court or in the countryside in the north-west of England, where an unknown artist painted the Cholmondeley sisters in the early seventeenth century. The range of materials used during this period is matched by a wealth of painterly styles, which this research project has also helped uncover.
Art historical research on the paintings has been compiled by Tate curators Karen Hearn and Tabitha Barber. Catalogue entries on specific works from this period appear as links in the relevant technical entries.
The technical research project was led by Rica Jones, Senior Conservator of Paintings at Tate, and Joyce Townsend, Senior Conservation Scientist at Tate. Over the years many other conservators and conservation scientists were involved: Jacqueline Ridge, Natasha Walker, Kate Stonor, Helen Brett, Mary Bustin, Bronwyn Ormsby, Helen Spande, Patricia Favero while working at Tate, the Isabel Horovitz conservation studio, and for external analysis Ashok Roy, Jo Kirby-Atkinson, Libby Sheldon, Brian Singer, Jaap Boon, Katrien Keune, Ian Tyers and Peter Klein. Tate's Photography Department also contributed to both the research and realisation of the project. We were enriched too by comparative information and support from the following institutions: National Gallery, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the National Trust. Several private collections and independent conservators also contributed to the project.
Lead department
Tate Conservation
Rica Jones, Senior Paintings Conservator, Tate
Joyce H. Townsend, Senior Conservation Scientist, Tate