Bred as a trained bird dog for over 400 years, the English Setter's origins lie in evidence pointing to crosses of Spanish Pointer, large Water spaniel and Springer Spaniel combining to produce a superb bird dog with a high degree of proficiency in finding & pointing game in open country.
Having owned an Orange Belton many years ago and my ex's family having a magnificent matched pair of Blue Beltons to match I suppose their matched pair of Purdeys, I have long had affection for this elegant dog spending inordinate hours in years gone past, bathing and blow drying the featherings and furnishings to perfection.
Apart from his rather boisterous nature as a youngster, the English Setter is defined as being of medium height, clean in outline and elegant in appearance & movement with a keen game sense. He is nonetheless, intensely friendly & good natured. Thus being an outdoors dog, one needs to keep in mind the secret to a good coat and that is to keep it oiled and even shaded if in hot climate to prevent damage.
Between shows oil this coat with Plush Puppy Seabreeze Oil at a ratio of 1 tbspn to 1 gal/4 Lt water. Work well into the coat with a large sponge or carefully pour over and squish through well. Then use the oil undiluted direct from the spray to the areas around where they pee. This is a bad area for breakage. Keeping it oiled will help prevent the hair from getting brittle or tangled and will deter accumulation of debris from the yard. This is a super oil, all organic and primarily top quality Evening Primrose & Calendula Oils. It is water soluble & won't build up or be greasy or nasty to live. There simply is nothing quite like it & it is the best secret on the planet! We love the depth of colour it tends to add to the coat & the wonderful healthy vigour that goes with continued use.
I also recommend Plush Puppy Sunshade every couple of days to keep the coat from burning. Orange, lemon, blues & livers are a nightmare to keep from fading in the sun and despite best efforts, if you have an outdoors woodsman as you canine friend, it's going to be a tough call otherwise. I like to spray enough onto the hand & spread between my hands over the top of the head & top line. This unique pump action on this bottle allows for a spray with a light depression of the nozzle and a full lotion dispenser when fully depressed. Clever innovation in pumps!
For show grooming, your standard calls for the coat & feathering to be a long silky coat, flat without curl or woolliness. Use Plush Puppy Herbal Whitening Shampoo which is a great toning shampoo for whites and indeed any faded colours too and best suited to the English Setter, at a ratio of 5:1, I.e. 5 parts water to one part shampoo. This allows for easier and even dispersion.
Follow after rinsing with Plush Puppy Silk Protein Conditioner diluted at the same ratio as the shampoo to keep the silkiness and required texture on the furnishings & featherings – not on topline. Your topline will already be hydrated with the Seabreeze Oil routine.
Now here's where the hard stuff begins. In order to get that soft, draping fall to the lengths without wave, usePlush Puppy Swishy Coat. There are those who like to apply it undiluted but I always recommend dilution as you have a large dog & not only is it easier to work through the coat but also it ensures even application. Dilute at a ratio of 1 tbspn to 3 cups water depending on the texture – you can dilute further or less but this is a good rule of thumb for most English Setter coats. Sponge or pour thoroughly through the coat ensuring even distribution. Squeeze out excess & blow dry.
A little hint for show baths, is to include a small amount of the Seabreeze Oil into this final rinse. I suggest a tspn only which can be included to save time with the 1 tbspn Swishy into a 4 Lt/1 gal bucket of warm water and left in.
I always use the Plush Puppy Oval Pin Cushion Brush for blow drying as you never want to overstretch or rip the coat at this point. When 3/4 dry, switch to the Plush Puppy Porcupine Brush which is an oval 1/2 bristle 1/2 nylon brush, This will give that smoother, straighter and glossier finish to your drying that the Pin Brush cannot do. I also like to get in under the lengths with the brush and gently bend the ends around the curve of the brush. I never entirely dry with a top brushing action only. I find this just flicks the short pieces in the coat outwards and gives a fly away look to the coat. We are after all wanting a polished professional look that once you have mastered, is just breathtaking. Should you have a coat that is too curly or wavy, add a tbspn of Plush Puppy Blow Dry Cream to the Swishy mix as this will further flatten the coat.
The trimming is relatively easy but does need attention & time. There are those who are the purists and don't like a neater, trimmed look and those that do. Whatever is your preference & whether as in the AKC standard which does stipulate trimming is required, or the ANKC standard where it is not mentioned at all and does not therefore penalise you for doing it, it is is up to your conscience and preference if and how much you do it.
The standard states an emphasis on lean head & clean neck. I suggest a #10 blade on an Oster clipper for the neck to a V at the top of the sternum in front of the neck & around the sides. The nape ought to be hand stripped in concert with a stripping knife. All whiskers should come right off to emphasise that long & lean head. Some like to go in in with the blade of the clipper & emphasise this further along the whisker area with long strokes stroking back & upwards. The topline ought to sit flat & needs relatively little stripping. The ears, some like to take almost right off & others just the top 1/3 off depending on which standard is applicable.
The featherings seem to be the point of contention. How about a compromise?
Rather than going gungho with the scissors and sculpting a sharp curve or doing nothing at all, why not use the thinning shears and following the desired arc, gently shape the edge for a softer effect giving a fairly natural look to the curve. The end result is still to shape the dog to his best without looking totally contrived.
All excess feathering is to be removed from the feet but I am advised by an expert that the rear hock looks just wonderful if when trimmed, you angle the line slightly outwards as you go upwards & then angle downwards from the top of the hock to meet the upward line already created. This gives the illusion of a really long line from the hip to the hock enforcing the requirements of the standard.
Show day, spray with Plush Puppy Odour Muncher & Plush Puppy Shine & Comb for that final glamour. I do like a light dusting of Plush Puppy Pixie Dust applied on strategic areas with your brush. The secret is just a dusting and not to turn the dog into the glitter fairy!
Your English Setter is now ready to compete. You have not sold your soul to the devil in the process & the dog is showing himself as a true part of the gundog group in both form & function. Your dog is also groomed to perfection able to vie with all those glamour queens of the dog world and is second to none.


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Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, California, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s. They would subsequently release nine studio albums on the major label DGC Records, beginning with Goo in 1990. Gordon was also a founding member of the musical project Free Kitten, which she formed with Julia Cafritz in 1993.

Sonic Youth released their sixteenth and final studio album, The Eternal (2009), on Matador Records before disbanding in 2011 after Gordon and Moore separated. Following the dissolution of Sonic Youth and her divorce from Moore, Gordon formed the experimental duo Body/Head with Bill Nace, releasing their debut album Coming Apart in 2013. She subsequently formed Glitterbust with Alex Knost, releasing a self-titled debut album in 2016. Body/Head released their second studio album, The Switch, in 2018. She released her first solo album, No Home Record, in 2019.

In addition to her work as a musician, Gordon has had ventures in record producing, fashion, and acting, and has worked consistently as a visual artist throughout her musical career. She debuted as a producer on Hole's debut album Pretty on the Inside (1991), and founded the Los Angeles-based clothing line X-Girl in 1993. Beginning in the mid-2000s, Gordon began acting, making minor appearances in such films as Last Days (2005) and I'm Not There (2007), followed by guest-starring appearances on several television series. In February 2015, she published a memoir, Girl in a Band, by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books.

Life and career

1953–1978: Early life
Kim Althea Gordon was born April 28, 1953 in Rochester, New York, the second child of Althea ( 2002) and Calvin Wayne Gordon (19151998). At the time of her birth, Gordon's father, a native of Kansas, was a professor in the sociology department at the University of Rochester. Her mother, a descendant of American pioneers of the West Coast, learned to sew during her upbringing in the Great Depression, and worked as a seamstress throughout Gordon's childhood. She was described by Gordon as "reserved and usually anxious" and "an unfulfilled artist." Gordon has one older brother, Keller ( 1949  2023), whom she described as "brilliant, manipulative, sadistic, arrogant, almost unbearably articulate," and "the person who more than anyone else in the world shaped who I was, and who I turned out to be."

At the age of five, Gordon and her family relocated to Los Angeles, California when her father was offered a professorship in the sociology department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he later became the Dean of Faculty. As a child, Gordon attended University Elementary School, a progressive elementary school affiliated with UCLA, which she described as "learn[ing] by doing. So we were always making African spears and going down to the river and making mud huts, or skinning a cowhide and drying it and throwing it off the cliff at Dana Point." In her memoir, Gordon recounts spending summers with her family in Klamath, California, near the Oregon border. The family also lived in British Hong Kong for one year during her childhood.

Gordon attended University High School in Los Angeles, and dated classmate Danny Elfman while a student there. After graduating high school, she attended Santa Monica College for two years before transferring to York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gordon soon grew homesick and chose to drop out of York at the end of the school year and return to Los Angeles. "I was less and less happy as the bleak Toronto winter moved in," she recalled. "Without the benefit of California sunshine, my hair grew darker and darker, and I had no idea how to dress for the cold." She decided to enroll at the Otis College of Art and Design, which she said "changed my life." Gordon lived in Culver City and Venice, Los Angeles, and worked at an Indian restaurant to pay her tuition. She also briefly worked for art dealer Larry Gagosian as a side-job. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977.

While she was a student at Otis, Gordon's older brother Keller suffered a psychotic episode on the day of his graduation from the University of California, Berkeley, where he had earned a Master's degree in classics. He was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and for a time lived in halfway houses before becoming a ward of the state of California. The song "Schizophrenia," which appeared on Sonic Youth's fourth studio album, Sister (1987), was partly inspired by her brother.

1979–1994: Sonic Youth and X-Girl

After graduating from the Otis Art Institute, Gordon moved to New York City in 1980, hoping to pursue a career in art. There, she took art-related jobs to earn an income, such as working as a writer for Artforum, and launched a "D.I.Y. project called Design Office, doing low-fi artistic interventions" in friends' apartments. In 1981, she curated an exhibition at White Columns Gallery that involved contributions from Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler, among others. Around 1981, Gordon became interested in "no-wave" bands, recalling: "When I came to New York, I'd go and see bands downtown playing no-wave music. It was expressionistic and it was also nihilistic. Punk rock was tongue-in-cheek, saying, 'Yeah, we're destroying rock.' No-wave music is more like, 'NO, we're really destroying rock.' It was very dissonant. I just felt like, Wow, this is really free. I could do that."

In 1981, Gordon joined the short-lived band CKM, with Christine Hahn and Stanton Miranda, and met her future Sonic Youth bandmates Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore through Miranda. At the time, Gordon, then 27 years old, had never played an instrument. Gordon began dating Moore and, together with Ranaldo, the couple then formed Sonic Youth in 1981. Originally the band released their first unnamed EP (considered by the band to be their first album) in 1982 and their first two albums, Confusion is Sex (1983) and Bad Moon Rising (1985) on Neutral and Homestead Records, respectively, before signing with SST to release EVOL (1986) and Sister (1987). Gordon and Moore married in 1984, three years after beginning Sonic Youth. In October 1988, the band released Daydream Nation through Enigma Records.

In 1989, Sonic Youth signed onto DGC Records, a subsidiary of Geffen, and released Goo (1990), which became the group's first commercial hit. Also in 1989, Gordon, Sadie May, and Lydia Lunch formed Harry Crews, and released the album Naked in Garden Hills. To promote Goo, Gordon toured with Sonic Youth extensively between 1990 and 1991, and a documentary titled 1991: The Year Punk Broke documented the band's tour with Nirvana, Babes in Toyland, Dinosaur Jr., Gumball and Mudhoney. In early 1991, Courtney Love, who had been influenced by Sonic Youth and the no wave scene, sent Gordon a letter asking her to produce her band Hole's debut record, Pretty on the Inside. Gordon, along with assistance from Don Fleming, produced the album in March 1991, which received critical acclaim and later achieved cult status. Gordon commented on the recording sessions that Love "was either charming and nice or screaming at her band" but that she was "a really good singer and entertainer and front person." In 1992, Gordon released a single, "Electric Pen," with Mirror/Dash, a short-lived project she formed with Moore.

Beginning in 1993, Gordon co-owned, with Daisy von Furth, a women's streetwear clothing company in Los Angeles, called X-Girl. The company was a spin-off of X-Large, a men's streetwear company co-founded by Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys. The first X-Girl store was opened in Los Angeles in 1994. Actress Chloë Sevigny served as a model for several pieces in the clothing line. Also in 1993, Gordon formed the musical project Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz. On July 1, 1994, Gordon gave birth to her only child, daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, with Thurston Moore.

1995–2008: Music, art, and acting
Free Kitten released their debut studio album, Nice Ass, in 1995, followed by Sentimental Education (1997), both on the independent label Kill Rock Stars. In 1993, Gordon co-directed The Breeders' "Cannonball" music video with Spike Jonze, and was also involved in an exhibition entitled Baby Generation at Parco gallery in Tokyo. Gordon's exhibition Kim's Bedroom was shown at MU in the Netherlands, and included drawing and paintings alongside live music and special guests.

As a part of Sonic Youth, Gordon released several albums in the mid–late 1990s, including Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (1994), Washing Machine (1995), and A Thousand Leaves (1998), all on DGC Records. They subsequently released NYC Ghosts & Flowers in 2000, and Murray Street in 2002. In 1999, after selling her share of X-Girl, Gordon relocated with Moore from New York City to Northampton, Massachusetts, to raise their daughter. Around 2002, Gordon became involved with The Supreme Indifference, a musical collaboration that involved Gordon, Jim O'Rourke and Alan Licht. The band appeared on the 2002 compilation Fields and Streams, though their contribution was deemed "annoying" and the project "self-indulgent" by critic Adrian Begrand of PopMatters.

In 2003, Gordon was featured in the Gothenburg Biennale and exhibited Club In The Shadow, an installation art collaboration with artist Jutta Koether, at Kenny Schachter's Contemporary Gallery in New York City. In 2005, she submitted another collaboration with Koether for the Her Noise exhibition in London, United Kingdom, entitled "Reverse Karaoke." In the same year, an artist's book Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol. 1 was published and featured photos of Gordon throughout her life. The following year, Kim Gordon Chronicles Vol. 2 was released and featured her drawings, collages, and paintings.

Beginning in 2005, Gordon began appearing in minor or supporting parts in films, first as a record executive in Gus Van Sant's Last Days. She then had a small role portraying a textile exporter in the 2007 French thriller film Boarding Gate, and in Todd Haynes's I'm Not There (2007), inspired by the life of Bob Dylan. The same year, she played a street troubadour in the season six finale of the television series Gilmore Girls, along with husband Moore and their daughter Coco, performing the song "What a Waste" from the album Rather Ripped.

In September 2008, Gordon launched a limited-edition fashion line called Mirror/Dash (also the name of a musical side project that was created with Moore), inspired by Françoise Hardy and based on the idea that "there's a need for clothes for cool moms."

2009–2011: Dissolution of Sonic Youth; personal struggles
Sonic Youth released their final studio album, The Eternal, in 2009. Rolling Stone journalist Will Hermes wrote of the album: "It's amusing to think that the fiercely freaky Sonic Youth were a major-label act for nearly 20 years. The Eternal marks their literal return to indie rock – and that's no big whoop, since they've always done pretty much what they want anyway. The irony is that The Eternal might be their most concise record ever. It's also a rock & roll ass-kicker." The same year, Gordon, along with the rest of Sonic Youth, made an appearance in the television series Gossip Girl and performed an acoustic version of the song "Starpower".

In 2011 Gordon and Moore  separated after 27 years of marriage. The next month, bandmate Ranaldo said Sonic Youth had disbanded, after having been together 30 years. After their divorce was finalized in April 2013, Gordon revealed that she had confronted Moore about a text message from another woman which was then followed by counseling sessions, and the separation occurred because Moore continued his extra-marital relationship. Gordon said her ex-husband was "like a lost soul."

She also said she had been diagnosed with DCIS breast cancer during her divorce, which was successfully treated with surgery.

2012–present: Body/Head and other projects

Following the announcement of Sonic Youth's hiatus, Gordon commenced touring with Ikue Mori, Tokyo-born drummer of late-1970s band DNA—Gordon had performed with Mori previously at events such as the NoFunFest in 2004. The duo completed a European tour in mid-2012 and Gordon explained during a corresponding interview: "You sorta want to get lost and you hope that the audience gets lost with you ... You can feel if they're listening, you can feel if there's some connection." Together with Bill Nace, Gordon and Mori were selected for the June 2013 All Tomorrow's Parties event that was curated by the band Deerhunter. Around 2012, Gordon formed a noise guitar project with Nace, entitled Body/Head, and a single called "The Eyes, The Mouth" was released in 2012 on Belgian label Ultra Eczema. The band's debut album Coming Apart was released on September 10, 2013, on the Matador Records label and the band completed a U.S. tour during the fall of 2013.

Gordon also immersed herself in producing art, having felt that music had "sidetracked" her career as a visual artist. She held several art exhibitions in 2013, including "The Show Is Over," at Gagosian Gallery in London, and the survey "Design Office with Kim Gordon–Since 1980," at White Columns, New York, the latter a revival of a project she had begun in 1980. In 2014, she presented newly created Wreath Paintings throughout Rudolf Schindler's iconic Fitzpatrick-Leland House under the byname of Design Office. In January 2014, she appeared in the season three premiere of the series Girls as Mindy, a recovering drug addict in a rehab support group. She then appeared as herself in a March 2014 episode of Portlandia.

Gordon published a memoir, Girl in a Band, on February 24, 2015, by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street Books. The memoir explores her childhood, life in art and Sonic Youth, and marriage to and divorce from Thurston Moore. Its title, Girl in a Band, stems from a lyric in "Sacred Trickster" from Sonic Youth's final album, The Eternal (2009). The lyric goes, "What's it like to be a girl in a band?/ I don't quite understand." The same year, Gordon appeared in The Nightmare (2015), a German horror film in which she portrayed a schoolteacher, which was released at the Locarno International Film Festival. She also contributed to its soundtrack. In November that year, Gordon relocated from the Massachusetts home she had shared with Moore and their daughter to her hometown of Los Angeles, purchasing a home in the Franklin Hills neighborhood.

Also in 2015, Gordon formed the experimental musical group Glitterbust with guitarist Alex Knost, releasing a self-titled debut album in March 2016. Gordon then appeared in Tony Oursler's film Imponderable, which screened at the Museum of Modern Art in June 2016. On September 12, 2016, Gordon released her first solo single, "Murdered Out", followed on August 20, 2019, by a second solo single, "Sketch Artist". A third track, "Air BnB", was released on September 11. All tracks appear on her first solo record on Matador Records, No Home Record, which was released on October 13, 2019.

In 2017, Gordon had a small role on the HBO series Animals, followed by a supporting role in Gus Van Sant's comedy-drama film Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot. Her album No Home Record was rated number 8 of Paste Magazine's "20 Best Punk Albums of 2019".

Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour, Gordon's first North American museum solo-exhibition, opened at The Andy Warhol Museum in 2019. The exhibition features a commissioned score for Andy Warhol's 1963–64 silent film Kiss in conversation with text paintings, figure drawings and erotic sculpture.

In December 2021, Gordon recorded a 7" single on Sub Pop Records with J Mascis titled "Abstract Blues" backed with "Slow Boy".

Artistry
Gordon possesses a contralto vocal range. A 2016 review from Pitchfork noted her voice as "one of the great instruments in post-punk history, though she doesn't always get credit for the variety of her technique." Despite her prolific career in music, Gordon told journalist Evan Smith in a 2015 interview that she never considered herself a musician, explaining that she had been "drawn into the world" of the music scenes happening in the 1980s, and that she "felt like an outsider" once part of it. Gordon's instrumental work as a guitarist has been described as "free-form" and experimental.

Influences
Several female musicians influenced Gordon. She stated in 2015:

Public image

Gordon is a popular culture icon, epitomizing an "ineffable, magnetic coolness" and "a certain brand of aloof, downtown cool." Some journalists have noted her as a public figure who has "never given much away" about herself. Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys commented on Gordon's persona, stating: "Wherever Kim ends up, she is the coolest person in the room. But I know her, and I know she'd rather be at home grilling hot dogs."

Gordon has also been cited as "a modest polymath" given her varied career pursuits in art, music, fashion, and acting. While observations were made by the media of Gordon being "dauntingly impressive and self-assured" during her tenure with Sonic Youth, she commented in a retrospective interview that she was "pretty insecure about my image and where I fitted in." Describing her image, she said: "I knew I couldn't achieve some kind of cool, stylised image, that just wasn't me...  It was a reaction to corporate style. So it was kind of just being yourself, you know walking on stage wearing a t-shirt."

Upon the release of her 2015 memoir, Gordon received some criticism for comments made about other musicians, among them Lana Del Rey: "Naturally, [she]'s just a persona. If she really truly believes it's beautiful when young musicians go out on a hot flame of drugs and depression, why doesn't she just off herself?" Gordon also reflected on working with Courtney Love in 1991, writing: "No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it's good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behavior, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill." Gordon clarified her comments on Del Rey in a subsequent interview, stating: "Initially it was about just seeing something in the paper... something about how rock stars should just like kill themselves with drugs, and Frances Bean [Cobain] had really reacted to that and I felt really actually weirdly protective of Frances. So I was basically just trying to point out that it was a persona and I just offhandedly said what I said...  I guess I could have articulated the whole thing a lot better."

Honors
On May 21, 2015, Gordon was honored at The Kitchen's Spring Gala.

On May 5, 2018, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Legacy
Gordon and her contributions in Sonic Youth are considered by critics and music scholars to have been key influences in the development of grunge music and riot grrrl, both musical movements which began in the early 1990s. Among those who have cited her as an influence are filmmaker Sofia Coppola, musician Kathleen Hanna, and Irish singer Róisín Murphy. Hanna explained in 2013:

She was a forerunner, musically. Just knowing a woman was in a band trading lead vocals, playing bass, and being a visual artist at the same time made me feel less alone. As a radical feminist singer, I wasn't particularly well liked. I was in a punk underground scene dominated by hardcore dudes who yelled mean shit at me every night, and journalists routinely called my voice shrill, unlistenable. Kim made me feel accepted in a way I hadn't before. Fucking Kim Gordon thought I was on the right track, haters be damned. It made the bullshit easier to take, knowing she was in my corner.

Discography
Solo
 No Home Record (2019)
 At Issue (2022) (with Loren Connors)

Sonic Youth

Free Kitten
 Unboxed (1994)
 Nice Ass (1995)
 Sentimental Education (1997)
 Inherit (2008)

Body/Head
 Body/Head 12" (2013)
 Coming Apart (2013)
 No Waves (2016)
 The Switch (2018)

Glitterbust
 Glitterbust (2016)

Filmography

Publications

See also
Sonic Youth discography
Experimental music
Alternative rock

Notes and references

Notes

References

Sources

External links

1953 births
Living people
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American alternative rock musicians
American experimental musicians
American women rock singers
American contraltos
American feminists
American memoirists
American rock bass guitarists
American rock guitarists
American rock singers
Artists from Los Angeles
Women bass guitarists
Feminist artists
Feminist musicians
Guitarists from Los Angeles
No wave musicians
Noise rock musicians
Painters from California
Singers from Los Angeles
Sonic Youth members
Songwriters from California
Otis College of Art and Design alumni
Santa Monica College alumni
University High School (Los Angeles) alumni
York University alumni
20th-century American artists
20th-century American women artists
20th-century American bass guitarists
20th-century American women singers
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21st-century American bass guitarists
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Telstra hacked
Avaddon ransomware gang claimed to have stolen tens of thousands of SIM cards belonging to the telecom giant Telstra. The compromised information includes both the banking and personal details of users.
Three new malware
Three new malware DOUBLEDRAG, DOUBLEDROP, and DOUBLEBACK have been associated with a massive cyberespionage campaign that targeted many organizations in the U.S. Launched via phishing emails, the attacks were carried out by a new financially motivated threat actor group dubbed UNC2529.
Panda Stealer
A new cryptocurrency stealer variant, Panda Stealer, is being spread through a global spam campaign that leverages Discord channels as one of its infection channels. The malware has been found targeting individuals across the U.S., Australia, Japan, and Germany.
Javali trojan spotted
A malware tracked as Javali, is being widely used to target users not just in Brazil, but in the wider Latin America and Europe. The malware is distributed via phishing emails that pretend to be a delivery notice.
Google's Patch Tuesday
Google's May 2021 Patch Tuesday includes updates for 42 vulnerabilities affecting the Android operating system. The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that could enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. Around 29 of these flaws affect framework, kernel, AMLogic, ARM, MediaTek, Unisoc, Qualcomm, and Qualcomm closed-source.
Exim patches 21 vulnerabilities
The maintainers of Exim have released patches for as many as 21 vulnerabilities that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root privileges. Collectively named 21Nails, the flaws affect millions of email servers.
Pulse Secure issues a fix
Pulse Secure has issued a fix for a critical zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the wild by at least two Chinese APTs. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2021-22893 and has been used to attack U.S. defense, finance, and government organizations, as well as victims in Europe.
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Hands-on Java 10 Programming with JShell [Video]
Mohamed Taman
Want to be an Interactive Java programming ninja? Unleash your super-powers with this self-paced, practical guide, including real-life examples and clear instructions.
Understand Java SE 10 interactive programming (JShell) concepts and goals.
Understand how JShell provides a fast and friendly environment that enables you to quickly explore, discover, and experiment with Java language features and its extensive libraries.
See how JShell replaces the tedious cycle of editing, compiling, and executing with its Read-Evaluate-Print Loop (REPL).
How to work with JShell features and commands, and how to control the feedback level for more information.
Master JShell and use it for rapid prototyping.
Build an application using the JDK internal API to execute Java code like Unix Shell scripts.
This practical video series will help you master Java SE 10's JShell core concepts, commands, and advanced features, so you can become an interactive programming Ninja.
By the end of the first section, you will have mastered JShell, Java 10's REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print Loop) flagship feature that enables you to quickly explore, discover, and experiment with the Java language and API features. You'll learn to reduce boilerplate coding using the new Java 10 feature var Local-Variable Type Inference while maintaining Java's compile-time type checking. We supply quick examples to help you understand what can and can't be done with this feature. Then you'll start and exit a JShell session, declare variables, evaluate expressions, import classes, and execute and edit code snippets.
The second section delves into more advanced and complex JShell features. You'll edit code snippets and save them to a file, open a JShell snippets file to evaluate them, and set and use your favorite external editor to edit snippets. You'll declare and use classes and methods, and learn how to use the auto-complete feature to display method parameters and overloads. You'll work with JShell commands, and show the Java API documentation in JShell, learn how JShell wraps exceptions, and how to control JShell's feedback level for more verbose information.
Finally, the third and last section will give you out-of-the-box ideas; it will show you how to import a custom package and modules for use in a JShell session, how JShell reinterprets Java for interactive use, and will provide hands-on experience of how to use the JDK internal API to develop an application to execute Java code such as Unix Shell scripts.
This course takes a step-by-step approach to Java SE 10 Interactive programming core topics using JShell tool, which are explained in a conversational and easy-to-follow style. Each topic is explained sequentially in the process, with detailed explanations of the basic and advanced features of JShell.
Learn about JShell—Java 10's REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print Loop) flagship feature.
Learn how to reduce boilerplate code using the new Java 10 feature var Local-Variable Type Inference, while maintaining Java's compile-time type checking.
Learn to start and exit a JShell session.
Learn how to declare and use a class and methods.
Learn how to use the auto-complete feature and JShell commands and import a custom package for use in a JShell session, and how to work with modules in JShell.
Learn how to use the internal JDK API to develop an application to execute Java code such as Unix Shell scripts.
1 Interactive Java Shell 10 Basics
What Is JShell?
Installing Java SE 10 on macOS
Welcome to JShell
Java 10, var Local-Variable Type Inference
Java 10 var Type – Limitations
Playing More with JShell
Command-Line Input in JShell
2 JShell – A Bigger Scale
Working with Classes
Discovery with Auto-Completion
Discovery of Class's Members and Their Documentation
Declaring Methods
Exceptions Handling
Working with CLASSPATH
3 JShell – Advanced Topics
Working with Modules
Using an External Editor
Overview of JShell Commands
How JShell Reinterprets Java for Interactive Use?
Execute Java Code Like OS Shell Script
Mohamed Taman is an Enterprise Architect/Senior Software Engineer at WebCentric Company. He is a frequent consultant with around 20+ years' experience in Java. He holds a Diploma in Computer and Automatic Control in 1999, and a BSc in computer systems engineering, with a major in Electrical Engineering in 2005. He formerly lived in Cairo, Egypt, but has just relocated to Belgrade, Serbia.
Mohamed's experiences strongly include development in Java and JavaScript, web, mobile, and IoT for industries including financial, banking, tourism, government, and healthcare; he has worked for Pfizer, Silicon Expert, Google, Oracle, and e-finance. He has worked with a number of technologies including UX, user-facing GUI frontend engineering, DevOps, cloud computing, AI, ML, big data, Blockchain, backend, mid-tiers, and integrations of large-scale systems in Agile environments.
Mohamed enjoys talking at international conferences to evangelize Java standards, Java EE, Java SE, and his experience in different domains, as he is a very knowledgeable Java community member. He worked closely with the teams responsible for the development of the JDK and Java EE.
In addition, he is a member of Adopt-a-JSR of Java EE 8, OpenJDK 9, 10, and 11, and JavaFX programs. He is a JCP member, was 2014 JCP Executive Committee member, and is on the Java Community Process (JCP) expert group (EG) for JSRs 354, 363, and 373.
Community-wise, Mohamed is a Java Champion, Oracle Developer Champion, EGJUG leader, MoroccoJUG member, and Oracle Egypt Architects Club board member, and won the 2014 and 2015 Duke's choice awards, 11th annual JCP adopt 2013 awards, and United Nations Mobile Hackathon 2015, gaining second place worldwide.
Mohamed is the author of his own blog http://tamanmohamed.blogspot.com, a Most Valuable Blogger (MVB) at DZone, and a Java Code Geek. Mohamed authored the JavaFX Essentials book for Packt Publishing and was a reviewer of Getting Started with Oracle Public Cloud for Packt Publishing.
You can find him on the following channels:
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Last week, AMD confirmed that they have running 7nm Vega silicon in their hardware labs, with thanks to an online benchmark validation blunder has allowed benchmarks of a graphics card with a 66A0 id to surface online.
This codename has long been rumoured for AMD's 7nm Vega 20 graphics chip, with this 3DMARK listing revealing increased HBM2 memory speeds of 1250MHz and a huge 32GB frame buffer, though the performance levels offered by this early sample are similar to AMD's existing Vega Frontier Edition.
While some will be disappointed at these performance levels, remember that it is still early days for 7nm Vega silicon, with TSMC's 7nm process only now entering volume production. Vega 20's performance is expected to improve in time, and the 1000MHz clock speeds shown below are likely an error in 3DMARK's hardware analysis tools.
AMD has stated that their 7nm Vega graphics chips are designed for machine learning as a Radeon Instinct Product, which means that these graphics cards are expected to run within enterprise-grade systems with no display outputs. In theory, RX gaming and FirePro series graphics cards could also be in the works with Vega 20 silicon, though at this time nothing has been confirmed.
You can join the discussion on these early Vega 20 benchmarks on the OC3D Forums.


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Friedhof Altglienicke Burial & Commemorative Site
Posted on 26. August 2019 13. November 2021
The Friedhof Altglienicke burial and commemorative site is completed, was taken over by the Senate Administration on September 23 and inaugurated on September 27, 2021
Photos: Marian Stefanowski
Photo documentation of the construction work: Ronald Seiffert.
More than 1350 people took part in the creation of the memorial site at the Altglienicke cemetery by writing one name each.
The urns of more than 1,360 victims of national socialist violence were buried anonymously in a small area of the Friedhof Altglienicke. In order to restore the names to these victims, the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection put out a call for a competition to redesign the site in late 2018. On the recommendation of the prize jury, the commission was awarded to the working collective struber_gruber together with outside < landschaftsarchitektur.
The core of the new design is a green, glass wall that will soon display these people's names and birth and death dates in a special form: all of the information will be personally handwritten.
This special touch will be possible through the participation of a great number of people who are alive today. In this way, together with a great number of volunteers, a site for memory and learning arises, which also enables proper mourning for the bereaved.
View of the design by struber_gruber
Remembrance forms collectively
The new design of this burial site is based on living memory. Buried at the Friedhof Altglienicke are people who were murdered in the concentration camps Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Dachau; in euthanasia centers as patients in Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Bernburg, Grafeneck, Brandenburg, and Hadamar; and in the prison Plötzensee.
The participatory process focuses on the names of those who fell victim to national socialist violence. We are looking for volunteers to record by hand, the names, and birth and death dates of those buried here. This personal handwriting shapes the main design element at the memorial site.
Continue reading "Remembrance forms collectively"
Existing state
The burial site for the victims of national socialist tyranny is located in a small area at the entrance to the Altglienicke Friedhof. Around 1950, an official measure was taken to install a collective memorial stone, which by today's standards, is rather minimal. The fact that you are standing on a collective grave first becomes apparent when you read the inscription on the memorial stone.
A dignified ceremony will now give back the names to those buried here. Similar to the two-part burial site of grave and gravestone, we are designing a two-part memorial site: on the burial site for the urns of the victims, plants will be grown, and it will be wrapped with a ribbon of letters thus forming a communal burial field. Next to it, the names of the dead will be written on a large glass element.
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The Friedhof Altglienicke is part of Berlin's Treptow-Köpenick neighborhood, located on its western border. The cemetery is bordered to the north, west, and south by green spaces, or individually standing structures, and to the east by an avenue, Schönefelder Chaussee (since 1920, previously Schönefelder Weg). The address of the cemetery is Schönefelder Chaussee 100, 12524 Berlin, which is where the entrance is located. The entire area of the cemetery comprises roughly 23,500 m².
The peculiarity of burial grounds U1 / U2 at Friedhof Altglienicke, namely, the collective-grave-like burial of large numbers of urns, which was carried out for a brief time from 1940 to 1943, has direct links to the national socialist reign. In the early years of World War II, urns of the victims of concentration camps and euthanasia centers were buried individually. Towards the end of the war, the ashes were brought unsorted to be placed first in collective graves and later, mass graves, for example, in ditches or adjacent bodies of water.
Historical plan burial grounds U1/U2
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Burial & Commemorative Site
Construction Diary
Writing of the names:
24.6.2010, 15:00 – 20:00 h
Senatsverwaltung für Umwelt,
Verkehr und Klimaschutz
23.6.2020 8:00 – 15:00 h
Rathaus Köpenick, Ratssaal
18.4.2020 14:00 – 17:00 h
Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen
9.3.2020 10:00 – 13:00 h
Rathaus Köpenick, Raum 170
27.01.2020, 9:30 – 19:30 h
Rathaus Köpenick
4.12.2019, 18:30h
Bürgersaal Altglienicke
Ortolfstraße 182
Press Conference & Project Presentation
Altglienicke Cemetary
Schönefelder Chaussee 100
DE-12524 Berlin / Germany
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While antivirus and tech-security companies search for ways to detect and deflect current threats, hackers are creating a host of new viruses, rootkits and Trojans. But according to a recent WHIR article Google-backed startup Shape Security may have the answer to constantly changing threats: polymorphic code.
What is polymorphic code? Put simply, this kind of code dynamically changes to achieve the identical results but appear different each time it is run. Consider a math problem for comparison: 10-7 and 2+1 yield the same answer, but the equations look completely different. To create this combination of changing exterior and static interior, polymorphic code is encrypted. Each time a program executes, its encryption and decryption keys are rewritten, making it almost impossible to detect.
Not surprisingly, polymorphic code got its start on the wrong side of the tracks. As noted by the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC) in its "History of Viruses," variable encryption arrived in 1989 with the 1260 virus, coded by Mark Washburn. The virus was built on Ralph Burger's Vienna virus source code, but Washburn made it more difficult to detect by randomizing its decryption algorithm. Hacker Dark Avenger created the Mutation Engine in 1992, which could be attached to any malware and make it polymorphic.
Experts are split on the potential impact of Shape's solution. A recent ZDnet article notes that using polymorphic code for white-hat endeavors could affect the economics of large-scale malware attacks; at the very least, hackers would be forced to stop relying on automated attacks. But as Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, pointed out in a recent Forbes piece, Shape has to persuade security pros that they should add another appliance and also reassure them that polymorphic code won't slow down websites or negatively affect the user experience.
To combat online threats, most reputable web hosts offer access to real-time security-monitoring services, many of which boast detection rates of over 95 percent. Polymorphic code, however, isn't designed to take the place of detection and disinfection services; rather, it acts as a frontline deflection method, virtually eliminating static elements on a web page.
As software engineer Peter Kleissner notes on his research and development website, some companies (for example, Google) already use polymorphic code to encrypt proprietary software and algorithms. But is it realistic for the everyday website owner to run a polymorphic appliance? Although Shape Security is currently rolling out seven- and eight-figure enterprise contracts, the next step in their plan is to add cloud-based service, allowing small and midsize companies the same kind of access.
Much like the cloud, ShapeShifter comes packaged with an inherent asset and an inherent flaw: It is disruptive. Polymorphic code relies on methods typically regarded as black hat and forces companies to give up a measure of control over their web data, which means both eager adoption and stinging backlash are likely outcomes. While there's evidence that this kind of code can work effectively as a safeguard rather than a subversive, time will tell if a great idea — and Google's backing — is enough to shift the web security landscape.


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