No Way Home (2021).
Wicked became the best PG-rated first-day ticket pre-seller of the year and the number 3 best PG-rated first-day ticket pre-seller of all time, behind Frozen 2 and the 2019 remake of The Lion King.
Terrifier 3 became the highest-grossing unrated film of all time.

== Events ==

=== Scheduled award ceremonies ===

=== Film festivals ===

== Awards ==

Palme d'Or (77th Cannes Film Festival):

Anora, directed by Sean Baker, USA
Golden Lion (81st Venice International Film Festival):

The Room Next Door, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
Golden Bear (74th Berlin International Film Festival):

Dahomey, directed by Mati Diop, France
People's Choice Award (48th Toronto International Film Festival):

The Life of Chuck, directed by Mike Flanagan, USA

== 2024 films ==

=== By country/region ===
List of American films of 2024
List of Argentine films of 2024
List of Australian films of 2024
List of Bangladeshi films of 2024
List of Brazilian films of 2024
List of<|endoftext|>bster Award from  K @ Planning And Foresight

The Basic Guidelines:
Nominate 5 blogs with less than 300 followers
Share 5 random facts
Answer 5 questions
Think of 5 new questions for those you nominate.

 My Nominations in alphabetical order.
     I enjoy each of your blogs and wish I could list more

DFW @ Countin the Days

Gorges Smythe @ Gorges' Grouse

Jane of Virginia @ Rational Preparedness

Sandy @ Oklahoma Transient

Tombstone Livestock @ Tombstones Tidings

5 Random Facts:
1. I have been a caregiver to my son for 18 years
2.  Before the economy fell apart I hybridized Brugmansia flowers and was the owner of Seed Sprout Nursery
3. Our family has been featured on Fox News
4. I believe I am exactly where I am supposed to be
5. I love everything about homesteading
5 Questions answered:

1- What is your favorite color?  Red 2- What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? huh? 3- What started you into blogging? I started out with American Preppers and ran the first Florida Blog.  There use to be a whole lot of squabbling between people there and I decided to give it up and started my own blog.  I deleted my first one and missed it so I am again. 4- What is your favorite disaster/survival movie?
My newest one is The Grey 5- If you only had three plugs for electricity: What would you have plugged in? (no power strips!)    It would have to be for the Marine.  His air bed, oxygen concentrate and suction machine

 5 New questions:
1.  If you could invent a vaccine for any one disease that would not harm anyone, what would it be?
2.  What is the most favorite object inside your home?
3.  What is your favorite food?
4.  Will you be able to grow most of your food if you could not go shopping?
5.  What is your best talent?

  1. Thank you for nominating Rational Preparedness. My fellow nominees are definitely the cream of the crop ! If I need to answer questions, do the answers need to appear on my blog ? Thanks Mamma Bear.

    1. The way I understood it Jane is to answer the 5 new questions (I posted) and add 5 of your own for the 5 you nominate on your blog. I just copied and pasted and changed the things I needed to although when I went back and looked at my post my questions and answers ran together. I hope this made sense!

  2. Dear Mama Bear:

    I deeply appreciate the nomination, and the fact that you've been following my blog so loyally. However, I've always made it a practice to avoid giving or accepting awards and such things on my blog. Please accept my apologies for being such a stick-in-the-mud and give my spot to whoever was # 6 on your list. Bless you.

    1. you are too sweet GS... This is the second time I have received this. It's just fun and may help create more traffic to someone's blog. I put the little award picture this time on my blog so I can be passed over and it be given to another should it come around again.

  3. Mamma Bear,

    You are too sweet, thank you for the nomination for the Liebster Award.
    This is a first, I'm not sure, I'll handle completing the requirements for this award correctly. If I don't handle this correctly, promise me you'll walk me through it?

Search This Blog<|endoftext|>Wandering Cheapo: Europe in the Caribbean?

Terre-de-Haut, Guadeloupe, a part of the French Caribbean.

Three European countries have territories in the Caribbean today: France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. If one measures things in terms of citizenship rights, then all of these three countries’ Caribbean territories are part of Europe. If one measures them instead in terms of full territorial integration with their European “mother countries,” then only the French territories can be said to be fully a part of Europe today.

The French territories include the overseas departments of French Guiana (well to the east of the Caribbean sea on the northern coast of South America, though often grouped with the Caribbean), Guadeloupe, and Martinique, as well as the smaller “overseas collectivities” of Saint Barthélemy (or Saint Barts) and Saint Martin.

Click for an island map.

Click for an island map.

French Caribbean

Guadeloupe has three “offshore island” groups—the picture-perfect Les Saintes archipelago, with just two inhabited islands, Terre-de-Bas and Terre-de-Haut; the rural rum-producing island of Marie-Galante; and the small fishing isle of La Désirade.

The French territories are interesting for their complete integration into the French state, just as Hawaii and Alaska are integrated into the United States. Every citizen of these overseas territories is represented in Paris by an elected politician. The French territories consequently feel far more European than their Dutch and British counterparts.

Dutch Caribbean

Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles are the Dutch Caribbean territories. The latter is a federation of five islands, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten. Aruba, the former, broke apart from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986. The Dutch territories are semi-autonomous parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The islands are not part of the European Union, though their citizens are all Dutch citizens, and by extension also EU citizens.

Incidentally, the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist sometime in the next few years. The two larger islands in the current federation, Curaçao and St. Maarten, will run their own affairs, as Aruba has been doing for over two decades now, while Bonaire, Saba, and St. Eustatius will become Dutch overseas municipalities. These three tiny islands—with a combined population of around 20,000—will be integrated by and large into the Netherlands’ legal framework. Once the switch takes place, the citizens of these three tiny islands will also vote in Dutch and EU elections.

British Caribbean

The United Kingdom’s Caribbean territories consist of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The final of these, though not technically a part of the Caribbean at the southeastern flank of the Bahamas, is usually associated with the region. In 2002, these islands’ residents obtained British citizenship—and with it, EU citizenship.

The British territories are a real hodgepodge, and feel least tied to the mother country of the three. The variation in living standards and culture is great. It includes the massive per capita incomes of the Cayman Islands, the hardscrabble survivor spirit of Montserrat and the bucolic, backwater feel of many of the Caicos and British Virgin Islands.

Where are we?

Your Wandering Cheapo is currently holed up on one of the exquisite islands catalogued above. Which one, you wonder? Stay tuned–he’ll spill the beans and fill in the blanks on Friday.

Alex Robertson Textor is Editor-at-Large at EuroCheapo. He writes travel stories for the New York Post, New York Times, and Rough Guides, among other publications, and he also maintains Spendthrift Shoestring, a blog on budget travel and culture.

About the author

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Posted in: French Caribbean
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Leave a Comment<|endoftext|>Classification cannot afford any delay. With the start

Classificationin costs entails the division of expenses incurred into different groups asdirect or indirect costs.

At Drones For You LLC, our prices are quite friendlywhen it comes to our navigation packages and services. We offer unique productsat a price the market cannot reach. The two types of costs: variable and fixedare coming among businesses.

bster Award from  K @ Planning And Foresight

The Basic Guidelines:
Nominate 5 blogs with less than 300 followers
Share 5 random facts
Answer 5 questions
Think of 5 new questions for those you nominate.

 My Nominations in alphabetical order.
     I enjoy each of your blogs and wish I could list more

DFW @ Countin the Days

Gorges Smythe @ Gorges' Grouse

Jane of Virginia @ Rational Preparedness

Sandy @ Oklahoma Transient

Tombstone Livestock @ Tombstones Tidings

5 Random Facts:
1. I have been a caregiver to my son for 18 years
2.  Before the economy fell apart I hybridized Brugmansia flowers and was the owner of Seed Sprout Nursery
3. Our family has been featured on Fox News
4. I believe I am exactly where I am supposed to be
5. I love everything about homesteading
5 Questions answered:

1- What is your favorite color?  Red 2- What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? huh? 3- What started you into blogging? I started out with American Preppers and ran the first Florida Blog.  There use to be a whole lot of squabbling between people there and I decided to give it up and started my own blog.  I deleted my first one and missed it so I am again. 4- What is your favorite disaster/survival movie?
My newest one is The Grey 5- If you only had three plugs for electricity: What would you have plugged in? (no power strips!)    It would have to be for the Marine.  His air bed, oxygen concentrate and suction machine

 5 New questions:
1.  If you could invent a vaccine for any one disease that would not harm anyone, what would it be?
2.  What is the most favorite object inside your home?
3.  What is your favorite food?
4.  Will you be able to grow most of your food if you could not go shopping?
5.  What is your best talent?

  1. Thank you for nominating Rational Preparedness. My fellow nominees are definitely the cream of the crop ! If I need to answer questions, do the answers need to appear on my blog ? Thanks Mamma Bear.

    1. The way I understood it Jane is to answer the 5 new questions (I posted) and add 5 of your own for the 5 you nominate on your blog. I just copied and pasted and changed the things I needed to although when I went back and looked at my post my questions and answers ran together. I hope this made sense!

  2. Dear Mama Bear:

    I deeply appreciate the nomination, and the fact that you've been following my blog so loyally. However, I've always made it a practice to avoid giving or accepting awards and such things on my blog. Please accept my apologies for being such a stick-in-the-mud and give my spot to whoever was # 6 on your list. Bless you.

    1. you are too sweet GS... This is the second time I have received this. It's just fun and may help create more traffic to someone's blog. I put the little award picture this time on my blog so I can be passed over and it be given to another should it come around again.

  3. Mamma Bear,

    You are too sweet, thank you for the nomination for the Liebster Award.
    This is a first, I'm not sure, I'll handle completing the requirements for this award correctly. If I don't handle this correctly, promise me you'll walk me through it?

Search This Blog<|endoftext|>Wandering Cheapo: Europe in the Caribbean?

Terre-de-Haut, Guadeloupe, a part of the French Caribbean.

Three European countries have territories in the Caribbean today: France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. If one measures things in terms of citizenship rights, then all of these three countries’ Caribbean territories are part of Europe. If one measures them instead in terms of full territorial integration with their European “mother countries,” then only the French territories can be said to be fully a part of Europe today.

The French territories include the overseas departments of French Guiana (well to the east of the Caribbean sea on the northern coast of South America, though often grouped with the Caribbean), Guadeloupe, and Martinique, as well as the smaller “overseas collectivities” of Saint Barthélemy (or Saint Barts) and Saint Martin.

Click for an island map.

Click for an island map.

French Caribbean

Guadeloupe has three “offshore island” groups—the picture-perfect Les Saintes archipelago, with just two inhabited islands, Terre-de-Bas and Terre-de-Haut; the rural rum-producing island of Marie-Galante; and the small fishing isle of La Désirade.

The French territories are interesting for their complete integration into the French state, just as Hawaii and Alaska are integrated into the United States. Every citizen of these overseas territories is represented in Paris by an elected politician. The French territories consequently feel far more European than their Dutch and British counterparts.

Dutch Caribbean

Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles are the Dutch Caribbean territories. The latter is a federation of five islands, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten. Aruba, the former, broke apart from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986. The Dutch territories are semi-autonomous parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The islands are not part of the European Union, though their citizens are all Dutch citizens, and by extension also EU citizens.

Incidentally, the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist sometime in the next few years. The two larger islands in the current federation, Curaçao and St. Maarten, will run their own affairs, as Aruba has been doing for over two decades now, while Bonaire, Saba, and St. Eustatius will become Dutch overseas municipalities. These three tiny islands—with a combined population of around 20,000—will be integrated by and large into the Netherlands’ legal framework. Once the switch takes place, the citizens of these three tiny islands will also vote in Dutch and EU elections.

British Caribbean

The United Kingdom’s Caribbean territories consist of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The final of these, though not technically a part of the Caribbean at the southeastern flank of the Bahamas, is usually associated with the region. In 2002, these islands’ residents obtained British citizenship—and with it, EU citizenship.

The British territories are a real hodgepodge, and feel least tied to the mother country of the three. The variation in living standards and culture is great. It includes the massive per capita incomes of the Cayman Islands, the hardscrabble survivor spirit of Montserrat and the bucolic, backwater feel of many of the Caicos and British Virgin Islands.

Where are we?

Your Wandering Cheapo is currently holed up on one of the exquisite islands catalogued above. Which one, you wonder? Stay tuned–he’ll spill the beans and fill in the blanks on Friday.

Alex Robertson Textor is Editor-at-Large at EuroCheapo. He writes travel stories for the New York Post, New York Times, and Rough Guides, among other publications, and he also maintains Spendthrift Shoestring, a blog on budget travel and culture.

About the author

Alex Robertson Textor
Posted in: French Caribbean
Related tags: , , , , , ,

Leave a Comment<|endoftext|>Classification cannot afford any delay. With the start

Classificationin costs entails the division of expenses incurred into different groups asdirect or indirect costs.

At Drones For You LLC, our prices are quite friendlywhen it comes to our navigation packages and services. We offer unique productsat a price the market cannot reach. The two types of costs: variable and fixedare coming among businesses.

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 I am.” That experience seems to have changed his life. Later, when the viceroy of Egypt (Joseph, not yet recognised by the brothers) threatens to hold Benjamin as a prisoner, Judah offers to spend his life as a slave so that his brother can go free. Judah is the clearest example in Bereishit of someone who takes adversity as a learning experience rather than as failure. In Dweck’s terminology, he had a growth mindset. Evidently he handed on this trait to his descendants, Caleb among them.

As for Joshua, the text tells us, specifically in the story of the spies, that Moses had changed his name. Originally he was called Hoshea, but Moses added a letter to his name (Num. 13: 16). A change of name always implies a change of character or calling. Abram became Abraham. Jacob became Israel. When our name changes, says Maimonides, it is as if we or someone else were saying, “You are not the same person as you were before” (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Repentance 2: 4). Anyone who has experienced a name-change has been inducted into a growth mindset.

People with the growth mindset do not fear failure. They relish challenges. They know that if they fail, they will try again until they succeed. It cannot be coincidence that the two people among the spies who had the growth mindset were also the two who were unafraid of the risks and trials of conquering the land. Nor can it be accidental that the ten others, all of whom carried the burden of people’s expectations (as leaders, princes, men of high rank) were reluctant to do so.

If this analysis is correct, the story of the spies holds a significant message for us. G-d does not ask us never to fail. He asks of us that we give of our best. He lifts us when we fall and forgives us when we fail. It is this that gives us the courage to take risks. That is what Joshua and Caleb knew, one through his name change, the other through the experience of his ancestor Judah.

Hence the paradoxical but deeply liberating truth: Fear of failure causes us to fail. It is the willingness to fail that allows us to succeed.
<|endoftext|>But there was one injured border guard. No hostages were taken."

== Aftermath ==

=== Reactions ===
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, said in a televised address that Ukrainian neo-Nazi "terrorists" crossed the border and targeted civilians. Putin said the attack confirmed that Russia did the right thing by invading Ukraine. "They won't achieve anything. We will crush them," Putin said, claiming the group consisted of people who wanted to strip Russia of its history and language. Russia officially treats the event as an act of terrorism, and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has initiated a terrorism probe.
The Ukrainian government and military denied carrying out a cross-border raid, and suggested Russia could use the allegations to justify further attacks on Ukraine. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine, wrote on Twitter: "The story of a Ukrainian sabotage group in the Russian Federation is a classic deliberate provocation". He said<|endoftext|>Show a hidden empty stave on selected pages

I have hide empty staves on. Is it possible to show an empty stave that is otherwise hidden on a particular page?

Add something, anything, to one of those bars. You can hide whatever you add, but the program will still recognize that system as “not empty.”

I certainly use some shift-X spaces at positions where I want to make sure it does not get hidden. You can alt-click those text spaces or copy paste if there are multiple instances.

Fine for the score, but this easily ruins the parts …<|endoftext|>Date of Award

Fall 9-23-2013

Degree Type

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

First Advisor

Dr. Kathryn B. Grant

The interaction of small molecules with DNA has been extensively studied and has produced a large catalogue of molecules that non-covalently bind to DNA though groove binding, intercalation, electrostatics, or a combination of these binding modes. Anthracene, acridine, and carbocyanine-based chromophores have been examined for their DNA binding properties and photo-reactivities. Their planar aromatic structures make them ideal chromophores that can be used to probe DNA structural interactions and binding patterns. We have studied DNA binding and photocleavgage properties of a bisacridine chromophore joined by a 2,6-bis(aminomethyl)pyridine copper-binding linker (Chapter II), a series of 9-aminomethyl anthracene chromophores (Chapters III and IV), both under conditions of high and low ionic strength, as well as a series of pentamethine linked symmetrical carbocyanine dyes (Chapter V). In Chapter II we present data showing that high ionic strength efficiently increases copper(II)-dependent photocleavage of plasmid DNA by the bisacridine based chromophore (419 nm, pH 7.0). In Chapters III and IV, using an pyridine N-substituted 9-(aminomethyl)anthracene (Chapter III), a bis-9-(aminomethyl)anthracene, and its mono 9-(aminomethyl)anthracene analogue (Chapter IV), pUC19 plasmid DNA was photo-converted to highly diffuse DNA fragments (350 nm, pH 7.0) in the presence of 150 mM NaCl and 260 mM KCl. Spectroscopic analyses suggest that the combination of salts promotes a change in DNA helical structure that initiate a switch in anthracene binding mode from intercalation to an external or groove binding interactions. The alteration in DNA structure and binding mode leads to an increase in the anthracene-sensitized production of DNA damaging reactive oxygen species. Finally, in Chapter V, pUC19 plasmid DNA is converted to its nicked circular and linear forms following irradiation of a series of pentamethine linked symmetrical carbocyanines (red light, pH 7.0). The data suggest that the relative levels of photocleavage arise from the different substituents on the nitrogen alkyl side chain and the pentamethine linker.<|endoftext|>Police Use New Technology To Patrol

By  |

Panama City Beach police have a relatively new tool they're using this year to keep an eye on spring breakers and locals. Police have set-up a special security tower in the parking lot of the Walmart on Front Beach Road. It allows them to go 25 feet above the crowd to spot problems, and hopefully act as a deterrent to trouble.

"Down around La Vela and Spinnaker, we have a lot more officer presence down in that area,” said Lt. Rich McClanahan with the Panama City Beach Police Dept. “Up in this area the tower being up in the air keeps a lot of cars from getting broken into, keeps people a little bit more under control from wanting to get into those big groups and fight."

Officials believe these towers could be a real asset where large crowds congregate.

"There's just different events where we have large crowds and by having one of these it'll keep the crowds safer if a child was to go missing, it just gets a set of eyes up higher over those crowds."

And since it’s imposing, it has a way of helping things say calm.

"When they're in the area, people tend to behave a little bit better or think or know that the officers are present and watching, so less likely to have car burglaries, fights.

Although these towers are on loan, McClanahan says the department is trying to find grants and other ways to fund their own purchase of the towers.<|endoftext|>The Secret to Back Pain is in Your Feet! The 5 Exercises That Fix Everything!

Back pain is a very common problem that most of the people experience at some point in their life. Such pains can be triggered by different body postures, improper sitting, standing and many others and they can appear on a daily basis. However, this article provides you an easy and very simple way to release your pain. It includes exercises that will help you remove pain in the back, knees, and hip.

If you practice them more often, you won’t experience any problems.

These are the moves that will improve your balance and body posture, and relieve your pain.

Feet Are Very Important

Feet are one of the most important body parts that control your overall balance, body posture and some pains. They enable our movement throughout the day while withstanding some uncomfortable footwear. A suitable care of them will provide a prime condition of the whole body.

With aging our feet become deteriorated and painful so it is hard to walk. That’s the reason why one in three Americans fall suddenly and the risk of falling increases in the 80s and the 90s.

While walking, the pressure on each foot controls the balance of the rest of the body. Also, pain in one foot can put off your balanced walking or standing.

If you exercise on a regular basis, you will strengthen your muscles and keep a proper blood flow thus preventing any balance problems connected with age.

The balance relates to body posture and it involves a proper alignment of bones and muscles to keep your upright. If they are not aligned in the proper manner your body posture can out of balance.

According to a study, women who wear high heels have greater risk of experiencing pain in the lower back. This pain can cause problems with the posture and you have to undertake different methods to relieve

 righteous than I am.” That experience seems to have changed his life. Later, when the viceroy of Egypt (Joseph, not yet recognised by the brothers) threatens to hold Benjamin as a prisoner, Judah offers to spend his life as a slave so that his brother can go free. Judah is the clearest example in Bereishit of someone who takes adversity as a learning experience rather than as failure. In Dweck’s terminology, he had a growth mindset. Evidently he handed on this trait to his descendants, Caleb among them.

As for Joshua, the text tells us, specifically in the story of the spies, that Moses had changed his name. Originally he was called Hoshea, but Moses added a letter to his name (Num. 13: 16). A change of name always implies a change of character or calling. Abram became Abraham. Jacob became Israel. When our name changes, says Maimonides, it is as if we or someone else were saying, “You are not the same person as you were before” (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Repentance 2: 4). Anyone who has experienced a name-change has been inducted into a growth mindset.

People with the growth mindset do not fear failure. They relish challenges. They know that if they fail, they will try again until they succeed. It cannot be coincidence that the two people among the spies who had the growth mindset were also the two who were unafraid of the risks and trials of conquering the land. Nor can it be accidental that the ten others, all of whom carried the burden of people’s expectations (as leaders, princes, men of high rank) were reluctant to do so.

If this analysis is correct, the story of the spies holds a significant message for us. G-d does not ask us never to fail. He asks of us that we give of our best. He lifts us when we fall and forgives us when we fail. It is this that gives us the courage to take risks. That is what Joshua and Caleb knew, one through his name change, the other through the experience of his ancestor Judah.

Hence the paradoxical but deeply liberating truth: Fear of failure causes us to fail. It is the willingness to fail that allows us to succeed.
<|endoftext|>Show a hidden empty stave on selected pages

I have hide empty staves on. Is it possible to show an empty stave that is otherwise hidden on a particular page?

Add something, anything, to one of those bars. You can hide whatever you add, but the program will still recognize that system as “not empty.”

I certainly use some shift-X spaces at positions where I want to make sure it does not get hidden. You can alt-click those text spaces or copy paste if there are multiple instances.

Fine for the score, but this easily ruins the parts …<|endoftext|>Date of Award

Fall 9-23-2013

Degree Type

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

First Advisor

Dr. Kathryn B. Grant

The interaction of small molecules with DNA has been extensively studied and has produced a large catalogue of molecules that non-covalently bind to DNA though groove binding, intercalation, electrostatics, or a combination of these binding modes. Anthracene, acridine, and carbocyanine-based chromophores have been examined for their DNA binding properties and photo-reactivities. Their planar aromatic structures make them ideal chromophores that can be used to probe DNA structural interactions and binding patterns. We have studied DNA binding and photocleavgage properties of a bisacridine chromophore joined by a 2,6-bis(aminomethyl)pyridine copper-binding linker (Chapter II), a series of 9-aminomethyl anthracene chromophores (Chapters III and IV), both under conditions of high and low ionic strength, as well as a series of pentamethine linked symmetrical carbocyanine dyes (Chapter V). In Chapter II we present data showing that high ionic strength efficiently increases copper(II)-dependent photocleavage of plasmid DNA by the bisacridine based chromophore (419 nm, pH 7.0). In Chapters III and IV, using an pyridine N-substituted 9-(aminomethyl)anthracene (Chapter III), a bis-9-(aminomethyl)anthracene, and its mono 9-(aminomethyl)anthracene analogue (Chapter IV), pUC19 plasmid DNA was photo-converted to highly diffuse DNA fragments (350 nm, pH 7.0) in the presence of 150 mM NaCl and 260 mM KCl. Spectroscopic analyses suggest that the combination of salts promotes a change in DNA helical structure that initiate a switch in anthracene binding mode from intercalation to an external or groove binding interactions. The alteration in DNA structure and binding mode leads to an increase in the anthracene-sensitized production of DNA damaging reactive oxygen species. Finally, in Chapter V, pUC19 plasmid DNA is converted to its nicked circular and linear forms following irradiation of a series of pentamethine linked symmetrical carbocyanines (red light, pH 7.0). The data suggest that the relative levels of photocleavage arise from the different substituents on the nitrogen alkyl side chain and the pentamethine linker.<|endoftext|>Police Use New Technology To Patrol

By  |

Panama City Beach police have a relatively new tool they're using this year to keep an eye on spring breakers and locals. Police have set-up a special security tower in the parking lot of the Walmart on Front Beach Road. It allows them to go 25 feet above the crowd to spot problems, and hopefully act as a deterrent to trouble.

"Down around La Vela and Spinnaker, we have a lot more officer presence down in that area,” said Lt. Rich McClanahan with the Panama City Beach Police Dept. “Up in this area the tower being up in the air keeps a lot of cars from getting broken into, keeps people a little bit more under control from wanting to get into those big groups and fight."

Officials believe these towers could be a real asset where large crowds congregate.

"There's just different events where we have large crowds and by having one of these it'll keep the crowds safer if a child was to go missing, it just gets a set of eyes up higher over those crowds."

And since it’s imposing, it has a way of helping things say calm.

"When they're in the area, people tend to behave a little bit better or think or know that the officers are present and watching, so less likely to have car burglaries, fights.

Although these towers are on loan, McClanahan says the department is trying to find grants and other ways to fund their own purchase of the towers.<|endoftext|>The Secret to Back Pain is in Your Feet! The 5 Exercises That Fix Everything!

Back pain is a very common problem that most of the people experience at some point in their life. Such pains can be triggered by different body postures, improper sitting, standing and many others and they can appear on a daily basis. However, this article provides you an easy and very simple way to release your pain. It includes exercises that will help you remove pain in the back, knees, and hip.

If you practice them more often, you won’t experience any problems.

These are the moves that will improve your balance and body posture, and relieve your pain.

Feet Are Very Important

Feet are one of the most important body parts that control your overall balance, body posture and some pains. They enable our movement throughout the day while withstanding some uncomfortable footwear. A suitable care of them will provide a prime condition of the whole body.

With aging our feet become deteriorated and painful so it is hard to walk. That’s the reason why one in three Americans fall suddenly and the risk of falling increases in the 80s and the 90s.

While walking, the pressure on each foot controls the balance of the rest of the body. Also, pain in one foot can put off your balanced walking or standing.

If you exercise on a regular basis, you will strengthen your muscles and keep a proper blood flow thus preventing any balance problems connected with age.

The balance relates to body posture and it involves a proper alignment of bones and muscles to keep your upright. If they are not aligned in the proper manner your body posture can out of balance.

According to a study, women who wear high heels have greater risk of experiencing pain in the lower back. This pain can cause problems with the posture and you have to undertake different methods to relieve the pain.

  1. Toe – Pressing

Before you exercise any part of your body, you need to warm up your toes. By toe pressing you will improve the flow of blood in your feet and in the same time you will relax them. You just have to stand up, bend your knees slightly, grasp the floor with the toes and stay in that position for three seconds. Do this exercise for 10 times, 3 times every day in order to keep your toes young and strong.

  1. Toe – Walking

You will strengthen your muscles, ligaments and toes by toe walking as a ballerina for twenty seconds. Standing like that will significantly improve your feet. Do this exercise twice a day, five times with small pause in between. If you notice your balance is not perfect, hold on walls or surfaces but do not worry at all because it will significantly better with practice.

  1. Ank


and record engineer Steve Albini, who died ten days before its release.
19 – Abi Carter won the 22nd season of American Idol. Will Moseley was named runner-up.
21 – Asher HaVon won the 25th season of The Voice. Josh Sanders was named runner-up. Bryan Olesen, Nathan Chester, and Karen Waldrup finished in third, fourth, and fifth place respectively.
24 – Lenny Kravitz released his first album in six years, Blue Electric Light.
Say Anything released their first studio album in five years, ...Is Committed.
DIIV released their first studio album in five years, Frog in Boiling Water.
31 – Buffalo Tom released their first studio album in seven years, Jump Rope.
+/- released their first studio album in ten years, Further Afield.
The Hope Conspiracy released their first studio album in 18 years, Tools of Oppression / Rule by Deception.

=== June ===
7 – Bon Jovi released their first studio album in four years, Forever.
NxWorries, consisting of Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge, released their<|endoftext|> command rushed Guardians of the Cedars troops from Beirut in support of the local forces in Zahle.

A ceasefire was quickly imposed on December 26 1980 and fighting soon died down but blood had been drawn.

Not wanting Zahle to be cut off from Mount Lebanon and to reduce its vulnerability to siege, the Lebanese Forces began constructing a road linking Baskinta to Zahle so as to avoid passing through Syrian held territory. The Syrians were against the construction of the road and responded by again surrounding Zahle with 2600 troops. The people of Zahle started take up arms and prepared for the inevitable Syrian assault. On April 2nd 1981 Syria began bombarding the city. At the start of the battle the Syrian commander announced that his troops had moved to evict the Lebanese Forces from Zahle as it was vital for Syrian security to prevent the construction of the road between Mount Lebanon and Zahle.

On the first day of battle the Syrians tried to seize the high ground above the city but were repelled with the loss of three armored vehicles and the death of over twenty soldiers and so the next day the Syrians retaliated with an artillery barrage on east Beirut which inflicted heavy civilian casualties. For days the Syrians launched assault after assault and the city but were unable to breach the defenses of Zahle due to the stiff resistance put up by the people of Zahle themselves as well as the small number of troops stationed there. Syrian forces in the capital were redeployed to Zahle to bolster artillery fire, which was rapidly turning central Zahle into ruins. The population of Zahle refused to surrender and so it was decided by the Syrians that they would force it to submission through siege. Ghassan Tueni, Lebanon's delegate to the United Nations, called for UNIFIL forces to take over the Zahle region. As the situation grew critical, Lebanon's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Hassan al-Khalid, joined with Pope John Paul II in expressing concern over the intensive fighting. Both men reasserted the obvious fact that the conflict in Lebanon was not religious in nature.

At the start of 1981 Syria had launched its "Program of National Reconciliation," which was designed to install Sulayman Franjieh as president. Bashir Gemayel found the proposition unpalatable, but he was impotent to oppose it politically. Therefore, to strengthen his position he desperately needed a victory in Zahle. Bashir Gemayel needed to reinforce Zahle and managed to infiltrate another 100 Lebanese Forces militiamen into the city to support the forces already there and to attack Syrian positions and to shell the Syrian headquarters in the adjacent town of Shtawrah.

By the last week of April, two ineffectual cease-fires had collapsed and Syrian Mig jets had strafed the outskirts of the beleaguered town. This was, apparently, an attempt to show the Phalangists that Syria still had an open option--air power. The Zahle defenders could either surrender or face annihilation by air attack. The air raid was followed by a land-based missile attack, using Soviet-made Grad rockets. The attacks drove the Lebanese Forces from the outlying city buildings, giving the Syrians their first, tentative, victory.

The town sagged under heavy fire as its defenders began to run low on food, medical supplies, and ammunition. An attempt to break out and reach the suburbs of Beirut was abruptly terminated by Syrian special forces in their distinctive tiger-patterned uniforms. Supply lines were set up from Ouyoun El Simman and Baskinta. The weather conditions were terrible with heavy snow covering the mountain peaks over which many of the supplies were brought in on foot.They were aided by tactical air power. The siege of Zahle was beginning to resemble a new version of the campaign for Tal Zaatar.

At the end of April, the Syrians had entered into direct negotiations with the Zahle leadership and had reached a tentative accord. The agreement called for a pullback by the Syrians, the safe removal of the right-wing militiamen, and the assignment of the Lebanese police to secure the town. The Phalangists considered the agreement a victory, for it ended Syrian attempts to infiltrate the city.

However, Syria would not accept a plan that insulted its prerogatives and disputed its power and authority in Lebanon. President Assad ordered artillery fire and helicopter assaults against the Phalangist fortifications. The choppers flew Syrian special forces into battle for Mt. Sannin, in the hills above Zahle, which overlooked and guarded the Bekaa Valley. The Syrian troops, rappelling downward from the choppers, ran into a group of militiamen on patrol and a fire-fight ensued. The Lebanese Front ordered its negotiating team in Zahle to cut off all talks with the Syrians. Pulling out at this point, was seen as a defeat for Syria. The Syrian Air Force went into action, strafing Gharfat al-Fransawiye, a mountain stronghold of the militia, about eight miles west of Zahle. The second air attack came on the twenty-sixth day of the conflict.

Soon afterward, the Syrian forces began to move against the hilltop emplacements above the city, which had been established and fortified by the Lebanese Forces to protect the main entrance to the city. Bashir Gemayel ordered his entombed militia to fight to the end, pledging every possible effort to reach them with additional supplies and manpower. Meanwhile, Syrian reinforcements poured into the battle, creating traffic congestion along the Beirut-Damascus highway and its arterials. The hills above Zahle became the prime targets for Syrian gunners. The town itself was completely encircled, with Syrian soldiers holding all access points under tight siege. The Lebanese Forces in Zahle had been badly mauled and battered, but their fighting spirit was undiminished. Moreover, the Syrians knew this, for they had committed approximately half their force of twenty-two thousand men to the campaign. The mountain strongholds, which overlooked Zahle, remained in rightist hands, forcing the Syrian command to send additional airborne troops into battle.

As the fighting intensified Gemayel called an urgent meeting with Begin and convinced him that the Syrians intended to follow through on the siege with an all-out attack on the Christian heartland and urged Israel to launch an air strike against the Syrians. On April 28, the Israeli cabinet convened and authorized a limited air strike, but it did so over the strident objections of Israel's intelligence chiefs, who suspected that the crisis was a Lebanese Forces ploy. Israeli fighter jets carried out the raid and downed two Syrian helicopter troop transports on Mount Sannine, a strategic mountain overlooking Zahle. The brief air battle astronomically raised tensions to a new climax by pitting the Syrians against their archenemy, the Israelis. The Syrians backed off a bit but then resumed an around-the-clock artillery bombardment of the town, pledging to leave it in total devastation, a pile of rubble for the Phalangists to sift through, if it refused to surrender.

Moreover, to counter the Israeli moves, Syria introduced at least nine antiaircraft missiles, SAM-6s, near the Riyaq air base, in the Bekaa Valley. Under the cover of the missiles, the Syrians sent land forces up Mt. Sannin and took it from its defenders in heavy, bloody, close combat. The rightists were exhausted and had run out of ammunition and supplies. Zahle however, held fast, repulsing one attack after another.

As the days went on sharp differences erupted within the Lebanese Forces in Zahle as to how to best defend the city. The forces in Zahle had been unprepared for a big showdown. Fuad Abou Nader and Boutros Khawand were dispatched to settle matters as well as the commander of the LF armored battalion, Joseph Elias who was himself from Zahle and had a tough reputation. However, they failed to reconcile the field commanders.

By the time Samir Geagea arrived the Lebanese Forces command headquarters had been wrecked by Syrian shelling and the officers were in complete disarray. Geagea decided to immediately return to Beirut and left in the middle of the night via Wadi Al Arayesh with about 40 troops who had also decided to return to Beirut fed up

 command rushed Guardians of the Cedars troops from Beirut in support of the local forces in Zahle.

A ceasefire was quickly imposed on December 26 1980 and fighting soon died down but blood had been drawn.

Not wanting Zahle to be cut off from Mount Lebanon and to reduce its vulnerability to siege, the Lebanese Forces began constructing a road linking Baskinta to Zahle so as to avoid passing through Syrian held territory. The Syrians were against the construction of the road and responded by again surrounding Zahle with 2600 troops. The people of Zahle started take up arms and prepared for the inevitable Syrian assault. On April 2nd 1981 Syria began bombarding the city. At the start of the battle the Syrian commander announced that his troops had moved to evict the Lebanese Forces from Zahle as it was vital for Syrian security to prevent the construction of the road between Mount Lebanon and Zahle.

On the first day of battle the Syrians tried to seize the high ground above the city but were repelled with the loss of three armored vehicles and the death of over twenty soldiers and so the next day the Syrians retaliated with an artillery barrage on east Beirut which inflicted heavy civilian casualties. For days the Syrians launched assault after assault and the city but were unable to breach the defenses of Zahle due to the stiff resistance put up by the people of Zahle themselves as well as the small number of troops stationed there. Syrian forces in the capital were redeployed to Zahle to bolster artillery fire, which was rapidly turning central Zahle into ruins. The population of Zahle refused to surrender and so it was decided by the Syrians that they would force it to submission through siege. Ghassan Tueni, Lebanon's delegate to the United Nations, called for UNIFIL forces to take over the Zahle region. As the situation grew critical, Lebanon's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Hassan al-Khalid, joined with Pope John Paul II in expressing concern over the intensive fighting. Both men reasserted the obvious fact that the conflict in Lebanon was not religious in nature.

At the start of 1981 Syria had launched its "Program of National Reconciliation," which was designed to install Sulayman Franjieh as president. Bashir Gemayel found the proposition unpalatable, but he was impotent to oppose it politically. Therefore, to strengthen his position he desperately needed a victory in Zahle. Bashir Gemayel needed to reinforce Zahle and managed to infiltrate another 100 Lebanese Forces militiamen into the city to support the forces already there and to attack Syrian positions and to shell the Syrian headquarters in the adjacent town of Shtawrah.

By the last week of April, two ineffectual cease-fires had collapsed and Syrian Mig jets had strafed the outskirts of the beleaguered town. This was, apparently, an attempt to show the Phalangists that Syria still had an open option--air power. The Zahle defenders could either surrender or face annihilation by air attack. The air raid was followed by a land-based missile attack, using Soviet-made Grad rockets. The attacks drove the Lebanese Forces from the outlying city buildings, giving the Syrians their first, tentative, victory.

The town sagged under heavy fire as its defenders began to run low on food, medical supplies, and ammunition. An attempt to break out and reach the suburbs of Beirut was abruptly terminated by Syrian special forces in their distinctive tiger-patterned uniforms. Supply lines were set up from Ouyoun El Simman and Baskinta. The weather conditions were terrible with heavy snow covering the mountain peaks over which many of the supplies were brought in on foot.They were aided by tactical air power. The siege of Zahle was beginning to resemble a new version of the campaign for Tal Zaatar.

At the end of April, the Syrians had entered into direct negotiations with the Zahle leadership and had reached a tentative accord. The agreement called for a pullback by the Syrians, the safe removal of the right-wing militiamen, and the assignment of the Lebanese police to secure the town. The Phalangists considered the agreement a victory, for it ended Syrian attempts to infiltrate the city.

However, Syria would not accept a plan that insulted its prerogatives and disputed its power and authority in Lebanon. President Assad ordered artillery fire and helicopter assaults against the Phalangist fortifications. The choppers flew Syrian special forces into battle for Mt. Sannin, in the hills above Zahle, which overlooked and guarded the Bekaa Valley. The Syrian troops, rappelling downward from the choppers, ran into a group of militiamen on patrol and a fire-fight ensued. The Lebanese Front ordered its negotiating team in Zahle to cut off all talks with the Syrians. Pulling out at this point, was seen as a defeat for Syria. The Syrian Air Force went into action, strafing Gharfat al-Fransawiye, a mountain stronghold of the militia, about eight miles west of Zahle. The second air attack came on the twenty-sixth day of the conflict.

Soon afterward, the Syrian forces began to move against the hilltop emplacements above the city, which had been established and fortified by the Lebanese Forces to protect the main entrance to the city. Bashir Gemayel ordered his entombed militia to fight to the end, pledging every possible effort to reach them with additional supplies and manpower. Meanwhile, Syrian reinforcements poured into the battle, creating traffic congestion along the Beirut-Damascus highway and its arterials. The hills above Zahle became the prime targets for Syrian gunners. The town itself was completely encircled, with Syrian soldiers holding all access points under tight siege. The Lebanese Forces in Zahle had been badly mauled and battered, but their fighting spirit was undiminished. Moreover, the Syrians knew this, for they had committed approximately half their force of twenty-two thousand men to the campaign. The mountain strongholds, which overlooked Zahle, remained in rightist hands, forcing the Syrian command to send additional airborne troops into battle.

As the fighting intensified Gemayel called an urgent meeting with Begin and convinced him that the Syrians intended to follow through on the siege with an all-out attack on the Christian heartland and urged Israel to launch an air strike against the Syrians. On April 28, the Israeli cabinet convened and authorized a limited air strike, but it did so over the strident objections of Israel's intelligence chiefs, who suspected that the crisis was a Lebanese Forces ploy. Israeli fighter jets carried out the raid and downed two Syrian helicopter troop transports on Mount Sannine, a strategic mountain overlooking Zahle. The brief air battle astronomically raised tensions to a new climax by pitting the Syrians against their archenemy, the Israelis. The Syrians backed off a bit but then resumed an around-the-clock artillery bombardment of the town, pledging to leave it in total devastation, a pile of rubble for the Phalangists to sift through, if it refused to surrender.

Moreover, to counter the Israeli moves, Syria introduced at least nine antiaircraft missiles, SAM-6s, near the Riyaq air base, in the Bekaa Valley. Under the cover of the missiles, the Syrians sent land forces up Mt. Sannin and took it from its defenders in heavy, bloody, close combat. The rightists were exhausted and had run out of ammunition and supplies. Zahle however, held fast, repulsing one attack after another.

As the days went on sharp differences erupted within the Lebanese Forces in Zahle as to how to best defend the city. The forces in Zahle had been unprepared for a big showdown. Fuad Abou Nader and Boutros Khawand were dispatched to settle matters as well as the commander of the LF armored battalion, Joseph Elias who was himself from Zahle and had a tough reputation. However, they failed to reconcile the field commanders.

By the time Samir Geagea arrived the Lebanese Forces command headquarters had been wrecked by Syrian shelling and the officers were in complete disarray. Geagea decided to immediately return to Beirut and left in the middle of the night via Wadi Al Arayesh with about 40 troops who had also decided to return to Beirut fed up with the break down of the command structure. Geagea's report stated that the city was a total military loss but Bashir refused to abandon Zahle.

The siege of Zahle and heavy fighting continued throughout May and reached its formal end on 30th June when it was agreed that both sides would withdraw their forces. Local Lebanese Forces troops had to disarm and forces from Beirut had to leave. The security of Zahle was handed over to Lebanese government internal security forces. The Syrians would be allowed to maintain check points around Zahle to prevent the Lebanese Forces form returning. Trucks and buses were provided to evacuate the Lebanese Forces fighters and 95 returned to Beirut on the 1st of July 1981. Over the next couple of days the Syrians pulled out of their fortifications about the city. Failure to defeat Zahle was a humiliation for the Syrians and a victory for Bashir Gemayel. Of far greater significance, however, was the exceptionally strong resistance put forth by the right-wing militiamen. They had shown considerable strength and resourcefulness, tenacity, and spirit in blunting the Syrian thrust. For the time being, the Syrians would forgo any attempt


2003, except for the historically bad 2023 season. Soot and ash from Jasper landed on the Athabasca Glacier, allowing the glacier to absorb more sunlight. Combined with rising temperatures from climate change, the deposits have put the glacier into what hydrologist John Pomeroy described as a "death spiral".
Massive plumes of smoke from the fires in mid-July formed trails spanning thousands of kilometres away across Canada and the mid-western United states, reducing air quality. As fires continued through August, they reduced air quality and caused hazy skies in almost all of Canada, as well bordering states and the Northeastern United States. Smoke in the west plagued the Canadian Prairies, and major cities including Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, and Flin Flon reached 10+ (the highest value) on the Air Quality Health Index. The smoke traveled east across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching Western Europe on August 17 and continuing to Scandinavia.
Officials from Natural Resources Canada<|endoftext|>Spartacus'. Not a bad choice at all for a 6-year old! Although the other early one I recall viewing there was of a slightly lesser grade, Jack the Giant Killer. Saw many a movie at the Juliet over the years, including Ken Russell's 'The Devils' in '71.

Aside from different businesses inhabiting the storefronts, the street hasn't changed much at all architecturally. Traffic circles have recently replaced lights from this point south along the Vassar street front; sitting on the bench, I noticed there were apparently still locals who have little idea how to negotiate these obstacles. Called Carol, with whom I'm sure I attended a movie or two here while in high school, had a fine conversation. I'd just seen Betsy and Emily, two dear Vassar friends, the night before so the nostalgic convergence at this particular bench was wonderfully intense.

Happy Glen left his wallet.

* My 3rd grade teacher was Mrs. Fratz, one of the two best instructors of my youth (the other, in 5th grade, was the beautifully named, hard smoking Sonia Brousalian). Mrs. Fratz (I remember "Mrs.", though I'm not sure) was overtly unattractive, looking very much like Max Patkin, the erstwhile Clown Prince of Baseball, with the added indignity of having severe elephantiasis in both lower legs. But what a teacher! Wonderful temperament combined with pushing this bunch of eight-year olds well beyond our supposed limits. I specifically recall learning 8th grade math, algebra, in her 3rd grade class. She retired during my senior year in High School, 1972, and apparently I wasn't the only one with fond appreciation for her toil, as our class gave her a nice retirement party. Thanks, Mrs. Fratz. Speaking of that gaggle of imps, if Martin Winn or Ronald May ever reads this, give a mail; always curious how you fared.

Monday, October 05, 2009

Lucio Capece/Radu Malfatti - berlinerstrasse 20 (b-boim)

I remain way, way behind in my grasp of everything Malfatti's been up to in recent years, but I think it's safe to say that, broadly speaking, this duo doesn't sound un-Malfatti-ish. The silences, though present, are of shorter duration than is found in much of what I've heard and the ancillary sounds--here, all manner of clicks and rustles--are also more in evidence. At heart, though, are the paired, quiet, lengthy breathlike tones from trombone and bass clarinet (a luscious enough sound marriage in any case). That dissolving of the borders between structure and pure sound seems to me, in part, to be what Malfatti's about anyway and this is a fantastic example of same. One's mind flits back and forth between these concepts; as soon as I find myself wallowing in the lush depths of Capece's bass clarinet, frosted by the trombone, I flash back to the layered structure that would be there regardless of the specific sound source and find that fascinating enough for me to forget the exact sounds involved. There's an utterly lovely sequence near the end where Malfatti taps a cadence with his fingertips on the trombone over a low, burred tone from Capece that's worth the price of admission. For all the glacial pace, one's brain is constantly active, slipping from one mode to another, maybe once in a while attaining some kind of illusory balance. Beautiful recording.

Should soon (?) be available stateside via erstdist?

Green Blossoms - Whiskey Leaves (digitalis)

Much of Anthony Guerra's work in recent years has trended toward the lush and melodic, often very attractively so. Here, as Green Blossoms, in collaboration with his partner Aiko Noga, he pushes even further in that direction, the pair compiling a set of dreamy songs over a mix of electronics and guitar-generated tones that range from delightful whimsy to gauzy evocations that all but evaporate. There are a couple of tracks that tilt too far toward the folky/poppy/woozy for my taste but there are also a couple, "Hana-Akari" and the title piece, that are just gorgeous tunes, catchy little memes that linger in the brain. Really nice closing track as well, a moody meditation on harmonium (I think) and guitar. Refreshing like lime sorbet. Nice work.

green blossoms

SLW - Fifteen Point Nine Grams (organized music from Thessaloniki)

The second offering from this high-potential quartet (Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies, Toshi Nakamura), recorded in 2007. One piece, though it falls into two sections. This first, lasting some 25 minutes, is wonderful, beginning in scrabbling fashion, mid-volume, then collecting itself, reducing things to strong, low hum, then gradually piling on sounds until a fine dull roar is achieved, Beins working up a fine lather. Not an unusual approach, but very subtly done here, with tones that often exist in a narrow range but are laid out with a sensitivity that allows each its space. I would have preferred it had ended at that point as the ensuing 19 or so minutes, while not bad, edges a bit into noodling territory and, to my ears, never quite gels until the very end, a keening sequence (I think Capece's buzzing soprano is the main element). Good recording overall, though, entirely worth hearing.

organized music from thessaloniki

Very saddened to hear of the death of Suzanne Fiol today. Apart from creating and managing the finest new music venue in NYC (Issue Project Room), the site of many a beautiful performance, I always greatly enjoyed talking with her, a very vibrant person.

Thanks for everything, Suzanne.

Sunday, October 04, 2009

OK, so in the course of sifting through ancient drawings and scanning some of same, I came across a bunch done while working at Environ (and a handful at other loft venues from around the same time). Figured they were worth posting here (and on fb). These would have been done between Oct. '76 and early 1980. I think there are more around I haven't unearthed yet. Lots of these are done on the back of concert fliers, in fact.

A couple quick sketches of Abdul Wadud to start:

On one or two occasions we had blues musicians up to the loft. I'm pretty sure Son House was there--would love to confirm that. But I clearly remember the Sunday afternoon we hosted Bob Gaddy and Sweet Papa Stovepipe.

Charles Tyler was often at hand, great guy and, as I posted yesterday, he wanted to use one of my drawings of him--one of those I can't yet find--as a cover for a solo album which, afaik, was never recorded. Here's another:

Some of the AACM school. Brings back strong memories of Muhal, often around, always up for a good conversation. Great man. Hopkins, Jenkins, Hemphill, all gone now.

(Fred Hopkins' bass)

(Leroy Jenkins' violin and set-up)

(Julius Hemphill)

Naturally, I also sketched the environs of Environ; here are a handful:

More when/if I run across them.

[Not sure why these images come out huge when clicked on...maybe someone with more knowledge on scanning intricacies can clue me in.)

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Testing my new scanner.....

Friday, October 02, 2009

Delicate Sen - s/t (Copy for your records)

This is just a really good, varied and strong live set by the trio of Billy Gomberg (synthesizer), Anne Guthrie (french horn) and Richard Kamerman (motors, objects), recorded in March of this year. I think they have a leg up with the delicious instrumental blend here: Kamerman tends toward the harsh and metallic while Gomberg has a refreshing tendency, when I've heard him, to linger in tonal byways. Add to this the all too rare, in this music, timbre of the french horn, beautifully deployed here by Guthrie, and you have a delicious prospect from the get-go. And then

Spartacus'. Not a bad choice at all for a 6-year old! Although the other early one I recall viewing there was of a slightly lesser grade, Jack the Giant Killer. Saw many a movie at the Juliet over the years, including Ken Russell's 'The Devils' in '71.

Aside from different businesses inhabiting the storefronts, the street hasn't changed much at all architecturally. Traffic circles have recently replaced lights from this point south along the Vassar street front; sitting on the bench, I noticed there were apparently still locals who have little idea how to negotiate these obstacles. Called Carol, with whom I'm sure I attended a movie or two here while in high school, had a fine conversation. I'd just seen Betsy and Emily, two dear Vassar friends, the night before so the nostalgic convergence at this particular bench was wonderfully intense.

Happy Glen left his wallet.

* My 3rd grade teacher was Mrs. Fratz, one of the two best instructors of my youth (the other, in 5th grade, was the beautifully named, hard smoking Sonia Brousalian). Mrs. Fratz (I remember "Mrs.", though I'm not sure) was overtly unattractive, looking very much like Max Patkin, the erstwhile Clown Prince of Baseball, with the added indignity of having severe elephantiasis in both lower legs. But what a teacher! Wonderful temperament combined with pushing this bunch of eight-year olds well beyond our supposed limits. I specifically recall learning 8th grade math, algebra, in her 3rd grade class. She retired during my senior year in High School, 1972, and apparently I wasn't the only one with fond appreciation for her toil, as our class gave her a nice retirement party. Thanks, Mrs. Fratz. Speaking of that gaggle of imps, if Martin Winn or Ronald May ever reads this, give a mail; always curious how you fared.

Monday, October 05, 2009

Lucio Capece/Radu Malfatti - berlinerstrasse 20 (b-boim)

I remain way, way behind in my grasp of everything Malfatti's been up to in recent years, but I think it's safe to say that, broadly speaking, this duo doesn't sound un-Malfatti-ish. The silences, though present, are of shorter duration than is found in much of what I've heard and the ancillary sounds--here, all manner of clicks and rustles--are also more in evidence. At heart, though, are the paired, quiet, lengthy breathlike tones from trombone and bass clarinet (a luscious enough sound marriage in any case). That dissolving of the borders between structure and pure sound seems to me, in part, to be what Malfatti's about anyway and this is a fantastic example of same. One's mind flits back and forth between these concepts; as soon as I find myself wallowing in the lush depths of Capece's bass clarinet, frosted by the trombone, I flash back to the layered structure that would be there regardless of the specific sound source and find that fascinating enough for me to forget the exact sounds involved. There's an utterly lovely sequence near the end where Malfatti taps a cadence with his fingertips on the trombone over a low, burred tone from Capece that's worth the price of admission. For all the glacial pace, one's brain is constantly active, slipping from one mode to another, maybe once in a while attaining some kind of illusory balance. Beautiful recording.

Should soon (?) be available stateside via erstdist?

Green Blossoms - Whiskey Leaves (digitalis)

Much of Anthony Guerra's work in recent years has trended toward the lush and melodic, often very attractively so. Here, as Green Blossoms, in collaboration with his partner Aiko Noga, he pushes even further in that direction, the pair compiling a set of dreamy songs over a mix of electronics and guitar-generated tones that range from delightful whimsy to gauzy evocations that all but evaporate. There are a couple of tracks that tilt too far toward the folky/poppy/woozy for my taste but there are also a couple, "Hana-Akari" and the title piece, that are just gorgeous tunes, catchy little memes that linger in the brain. Really nice closing track as well, a moody meditation on harmonium (I think) and guitar. Refreshing like lime sorbet. Nice work.

green blossoms

SLW - Fifteen Point Nine Grams (organized music from Thessaloniki)

The second offering from this high-potential quartet (Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies, Toshi Nakamura), recorded in 2007. One piece, though it falls into two sections. This first, lasting some 25 minutes, is wonderful, beginning in scrabbling fashion, mid-volume, then collecting itself, reducing things to strong, low hum, then gradually piling on sounds until a fine dull roar is achieved, Beins working up a fine lather. Not an unusual approach, but very subtly done here, with tones that often exist in a narrow range but are laid out with a sensitivity that allows each its space. I would have preferred it had ended at that point as the ensuing 19 or so minutes, while not bad, edges a bit into noodling territory and, to my ears, never quite gels until the very end, a keening sequence (I think Capece's buzzing soprano is the main element). Good recording overall, though, entirely worth hearing.

organized music from thessaloniki

Very saddened to hear of the death of Suzanne Fiol today. Apart from creating and managing the finest new music venue in NYC (Issue Project Room), the site of many a beautiful performance, I always greatly enjoyed talking with her, a very vibrant person.

Thanks for everything, Suzanne.

Sunday, October 04, 2009

OK, so in the course of sifting through ancient drawings and scanning some of same, I came across a bunch done while working at Environ (and a handful at other loft venues from around the same time). Figured they were worth posting here (and on fb). These would have been done between Oct. '76 and early 1980. I think there are more around I haven't unearthed yet. Lots of these are done on the back of concert fliers, in fact.

A couple quick sketches of Abdul Wadud to start:

On one or two occasions we had blues musicians up to the loft. I'm pretty sure Son House was there--would love to confirm that. But I clearly remember the Sunday afternoon we hosted Bob Gaddy and Sweet Papa Stovepipe.

Charles Tyler was often at hand, great guy and, as I posted yesterday, he wanted to use one of my drawings of him--one of those I can't yet find--as a cover for a solo album which, afaik, was never recorded. Here's another:

Some of the AACM school. Brings back strong memories of Muhal, often around, always up for a good conversation. Great man. Hopkins, Jenkins, Hemphill, all gone now.

(Fred Hopkins' bass)

(Leroy Jenkins' violin and set-up)

(Julius Hemphill)

Naturally, I also sketched the environs of Environ; here are a handful:

More when/if I run across them.

[Not sure why these images come out huge when clicked on...maybe someone with more knowledge on scanning intricacies can clue me in.)

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Testing my new scanner.....

Friday, October 02, 2009

Delicate Sen - s/t (Copy for your records)

This is just a really good, varied and strong live set by the trio of Billy Gomberg (synthesizer), Anne Guthrie (french horn) and Richard Kamerman (motors, objects), recorded in March of this year. I think they have a leg up with the delicious instrumental blend here: Kamerman tends toward the harsh and metallic while Gomberg has a refreshing tendency, when I've heard him, to linger in tonal byways. Add to this the all too rare, in this music, timbre of the french horn, beautifully deployed here by Guthrie, and you have a delicious prospect from the get-go. And then they construct this utterly captivating performance that wends its way through numerous neighborhoods, each of interest, almost never flagging over its 40 minutes. There's a point about halfway through where Gomberg adopts an almost church-organ kind of sound opposite Kamerman's jangling metal that's fantastic and when Guthrie plants long, burred tones in the midst, transcendent. Fine work. [from chatting with Gomberg a few nights back, I learned that there was in fact a loose kind of system employed to structure the performance, not one, I daresay, that any at-home listener is likely to discern]

Richard Kamerman - And She Sat Up In The Street In The Sun (copy for your records)

Kamerman's latest solo release is, not surprisingly, quite difficult to grasp in its entirety. It's very unwieldy in the sense of being almost impossible to have any idea what direction it's going to take though, those directions turn out to be generally both enticing and


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If exercising for 60 minutes or longer, choosing a formulated sports drink to supplement water may be in order, Kidd said. Formulated beverages typically include salt (sodium chloride), an essential electrolyte that regulates the amount of water in body systems.

A sports drink also will typically have less sugar--about six to eight percent--than a carbonated beverage, which usually has 10 to 15 percent sugar, said Kidd, who also is a registered dietitian.

"Consuming fruits and vegetables with high water contents during meals and snacks can be helpful in rehydrating the body, yet eating immediately before exercising is not recommended," Kidd said. "It takes about 20 to 30 minutes for foods to start moving out of the stomach and through the digestive system. That's why old advice--don't go swimming until 30 minutes after eating a light meal or snack--is still good advice."

In the heat, she encourages people to take rest breaks in the shade and to learn to recognize the signs of heat stroke and heat exhaustion.

Early warning signs of heat exhaustion may include heavy sweating, nausea, vomiting, a feeling of weakness or dizziness and any combination of those symptoms. With heat exhaustion, body temperature usually remains close to normal.

If heat exhaustion is suspected, Kidd said, loosen the clothing of the person suffering from heat exhaustion, encourage him or her to drink fluids, especially water, and to lie down and elevate their feet slightly. Apply cool, wet cloths to the forehead, and fan the person. It's also a good idea to move him or her to a shaded area, air-conditioned facility, or fan-cooled room.

Early warning signs of heat stroke include a rising body temperature (104 degrees F or higher); inability to sweat (skin is dry, flushed); difficulty breathing; confusion or agitation, nausea and vomiting. If heat stroke is suspected, seek medical treatment immediately.

More information about physical activity and health is available at the county or district K-State Research and Extension office or log on to Extension's websites: www.ksre.ksu.edu or www.ksre.ksu.edu/humannutrition/.

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Browse Archives<|endoftext|>With the Harpo team in Chicago hurtling toward the The Oprah Winfrey Show finale on May 25, the talk-show queen is in a talkative mood.

As Winfrey launches one behemoth (the OWN network) while ending another (the 25th and final season of her daytime show), she essentially confessed to what fans already adore her for: She's only human.

"I feel like I have not begun to give anything to OWN," she told EW.com in a revealing interview. "Its going to improve exponentially with the amount of time and service I can give." She added candidly, "It's not where I want it to be."

When discussing OWN's reality show 'Oprah Behind the Scenes,' she brought up the Jennifer Hudson episode. The slimmed-down singer had attended an Oprah Show soundcheck during a week of severe snowfall, then quietly flew to Texas for a gig; her delay returning to Chicago the next morning for her final Oprah appearance upset both staff and host, and made for intense 'BTS' footage.

"That was a lot of high drama because we've never been stood up before," Winfrey said, hinting that tactful editing went into what otherwise might have been a bleep-filled episode. "Everybody was mad. I wanted to make sure that there was not one single thing in that episode that had anything to do with us being mad or upset in that moment. It was dramatic. Nobody has ever not shown up, ever. Especially if they were here the night before."<|endoftext|>Compromising Radiations

I first remember coming across this some years ago, but I just recently read a declassified report available from NASA about the control of compromising radiations, codenamed Tempest. This has geekery and Cold War espionage together in one place! From the report, it would seem the Russians were on to this before the Americans, which is not really surprising. Russia has a great deal of top-notch science and engineering talent. If I remember correctly, it was a Russian scientist who first theorized that you could create a material or structure that would have low visibility on radar (stealth) but no one thought anything of it, so he published it in an open access journal.

Anyhow, I first heard of this as van Eck phreaking, the surreptitious interception of CRT signals so you could see what was on someone's monitor. van Eck published in 1985, and then it turned out that the American government had known about it for years, but had done it's best not to let on.<|endoftext|>On Location: The day after the morning before

IT WAS a sense of superiority I hadn't felt since doing a milk round. I came out of the pub in Smithfield market at 10 in the morning, looked at the rest of civilisation and thought, "I've already got drunk today and some of you lazy sods haven't even started work."

The Hope opens every day at seven. By this time the road outside is full of choruses of "Wo wo wo wo wo" being yelled at reversing lorries, forklift truck drivers whistling "I Will Survive", stalls being hosed, carcasses on shoulders, and porters wheeling trolley-loads of pig heads, the odd one spilling on to the road. Strangely, the pigs' faces have a happier expression than you ever see on a complete pig.

Witnessing these barrows seems to highlight the flaw in the vegetarian argument that runs, "I don't know how you could eat that when it was once a living creature." See these trolleys and you realise the answer is simply, "It's not now though, is it?" After all, if you didn't eat that pork chop, it would be very unlikely to grow a squiggly tail and revert to running around in mud. If I was captured by cannibals, I'd be even more annoyed if I thought that after boiling me they'd say "I don't know how you could" and sling me on a skip.

Despite this activity, going into a pub at that time feels like smoking in the school toilets. It's seedy and makes you one of the bad kids, and you expect the door to swing open at any moment to reveal a man in a tie shouting, "What the hell is the meaning of this? I will NOT have drinking at this time of the morning!"

The first pint tastes a little awkward, in the knowledge that it's being drunk before the Farming Today team have left the studio. But you're soon into a rhythm, made easier by the way the session corresponds to normal drinking hours, except it's am instead of pm. There's even a couple snogging in the corner. I can see why couples snog in pubs in the evening, losing self-control in public as a prelude to going to bed. But why would any couple that was already in bed think, "As we're both snuggled up and feeling romantic, let's go to the early morning pub and snog behind some blokes who are covered in dried sheep's blood"?

Occasionally, there are reminders of the time of day. A labourer on his way to work, in one action, expressed more about the current labour shortage in the building trade than any Financial Times supplement. He dialled a number on his mobile phone, then said, "I shan't be in until nine. I'm stuck on a train in London Bridge", making no effort to hide the pub noises around him. Then he ordered another pint.

Two railway engineers off their night shift were succeeding in making almost every second word a derivative of the F-word, and at one point complained that their bed and breakfast had given them jam mixed in with the "margafuckinrene". A devilish trick, to fit an extra one in the middle of a word.

Despite this, sociologists

 is typically slow to exit the digestive system, and may cause a tummy ache."

If exercising for 60 minutes or longer, choosing a formulated sports drink to supplement water may be in order, Kidd said. Formulated beverages typically include salt (sodium chloride), an essential electrolyte that regulates the amount of water in body systems.

A sports drink also will typically have less sugar--about six to eight percent--than a carbonated beverage, which usually has 10 to 15 percent sugar, said Kidd, who also is a registered dietitian.

"Consuming fruits and vegetables with high water contents during meals and snacks can be helpful in rehydrating the body, yet eating immediately before exercising is not recommended," Kidd said. "It takes about 20 to 30 minutes for foods to start moving out of the stomach and through the digestive system. That's why old advice--don't go swimming until 30 minutes after eating a light meal or snack--is still good advice."

In the heat, she encourages people to take rest breaks in the shade and to learn to recognize the signs of heat stroke and heat exhaustion.

Early warning signs of heat exhaustion may include heavy sweating, nausea, vomiting, a feeling of weakness or dizziness and any combination of those symptoms. With heat exhaustion, body temperature usually remains close to normal.

If heat exhaustion is suspected, Kidd said, loosen the clothing of the person suffering from heat exhaustion, encourage him or her to drink fluids, especially water, and to lie down and elevate their feet slightly. Apply cool, wet cloths to the forehead, and fan the person. It's also a good idea to move him or her to a shaded area, air-conditioned facility, or fan-cooled room.

Early warning signs of heat stroke include a rising body temperature (104 degrees F or higher); inability to sweat (skin is dry, flushed); difficulty breathing; confusion or agitation, nausea and vomiting. If heat stroke is suspected, seek medical treatment immediately.

More information about physical activity and health is available at the county or district K-State Research and Extension office or log on to Extension's websites: www.ksre.ksu.edu or www.ksre.ksu.edu/humannutrition/.

Click for related articles Texas schools, AgriLife Extension walk the talk on obesity
Keeping kids in school is focus of new program
Less can be more with repellents
Choose foods, lifestyle to prevent diabetes
Think twice before relying on credit cards
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Browse Archives<|endoftext|>With the Harpo team in Chicago hurtling toward the The Oprah Winfrey Show finale on May 25, the talk-show queen is in a talkative mood.

As Winfrey launches one behemoth (the OWN network) while ending another (the 25th and final season of her daytime show), she essentially confessed to what fans already adore her for: She's only human.

"I feel like I have not begun to give anything to OWN," she told EW.com in a revealing interview. "Its going to improve exponentially with the amount of time and service I can give." She added candidly, "It's not where I want it to be."

When discussing OWN's reality show 'Oprah Behind the Scenes,' she brought up the Jennifer Hudson episode. The slimmed-down singer had attended an Oprah Show soundcheck during a week of severe snowfall, then quietly flew to Texas for a gig; her delay returning to Chicago the next morning for her final Oprah appearance upset both staff and host, and made for intense 'BTS' footage.

"That was a lot of high drama because we've never been stood up before," Winfrey said, hinting that tactful editing went into what otherwise might have been a bleep-filled episode. "Everybody was mad. I wanted to make sure that there was not one single thing in that episode that had anything to do with us being mad or upset in that moment. It was dramatic. Nobody has ever not shown up, ever. Especially if they were here the night before."<|endoftext|>Compromising Radiations

I first remember coming across this some years ago, but I just recently read a declassified report available from NASA about the control of compromising radiations, codenamed Tempest. This has geekery and Cold War espionage together in one place! From the report, it would seem the Russians were on to this before the Americans, which is not really surprising. Russia has a great deal of top-notch science and engineering talent. If I remember correctly, it was a Russian scientist who first theorized that you could create a material or structure that would have low visibility on radar (stealth) but no one thought anything of it, so he published it in an open access journal.

Anyhow, I first heard of this as van Eck phreaking, the surreptitious interception of CRT signals so you could see what was on someone's monitor. van Eck published in 1985, and then it turned out that the American government had known about it for years, but had done it's best not to let on.<|endoftext|>On Location: The day after the morning before

IT WAS a sense of superiority I hadn't felt since doing a milk round. I came out of the pub in Smithfield market at 10 in the morning, looked at the rest of civilisation and thought, "I've already got drunk today and some of you lazy sods haven't even started work."

The Hope opens every day at seven. By this time the road outside is full of choruses of "Wo wo wo wo wo" being yelled at reversing lorries, forklift truck drivers whistling "I Will Survive", stalls being hosed, carcasses on shoulders, and porters wheeling trolley-loads of pig heads, the odd one spilling on to the road. Strangely, the pigs' faces have a happier expression than you ever see on a complete pig.

Witnessing these barrows seems to highlight the flaw in the vegetarian argument that runs, "I don't know how you could eat that when it was once a living creature." See these trolleys and you realise the answer is simply, "It's not now though, is it?" After all, if you didn't eat that pork chop, it would be very unlikely to grow a squiggly tail and revert to running around in mud. If I was captured by cannibals, I'd be even more annoyed if I thought that after boiling me they'd say "I don't know how you could" and sling me on a skip.

Despite this activity, going into a pub at that time feels like smoking in the school toilets. It's seedy and makes you one of the bad kids, and you expect the door to swing open at any moment to reveal a man in a tie shouting, "What the hell is the meaning of this? I will NOT have drinking at this time of the morning!"

The first pint tastes a little awkward, in the knowledge that it's being drunk before the Farming Today team have left the studio. But you're soon into a rhythm, made easier by the way the session corresponds to normal drinking hours, except it's am instead of pm. There's even a couple snogging in the corner. I can see why couples snog in pubs in the evening, losing self-control in public as a prelude to going to bed. But why would any couple that was already in bed think, "As we're both snuggled up and feeling romantic, let's go to the early morning pub and snog behind some blokes who are covered in dried sheep's blood"?

Occasionally, there are reminders of the time of day. A labourer on his way to work, in one action, expressed more about the current labour shortage in the building trade than any Financial Times supplement. He dialled a number on his mobile phone, then said, "I shan't be in until nine. I'm stuck on a train in London Bridge", making no effort to hide the pub noises around him. Then he ordered another pint.

Two railway engineers off their night shift were succeeding in making almost every second word a derivative of the F-word, and at one point complained that their bed and breakfast had given them jam mixed in with the "margafuckinrene". A devilish trick, to fit an extra one in the middle of a word.

Despite this, sociologists would delight in how the clientele symbolises the disappearance of the working class. The pub is open traditionally for workers from the market, but Smithfield is in decline, and now only one corner is occupied by butchers and porters, wearing their traditional uniform of white overalls tinted with splashings of blood. The supermarkets had all but ruined the butchers' trade, Tom told me. Smithfield only survives at all, he said, through the Chinese, Greek and Turkish trade. "Besides, I'll get home, have a kip, get up for dinner, go back to bed and be up at 1.30 ready for tomorrow. No youngster today would work those hours."

So the biggest group was of "youngsters" in their twenties, including three women and a lad in a woollen Rastafarian hat, probably on their way back from an all-night club.

At the bar, one of the railwaymen was rattling through The Daily Telegraph crossword. What would happen, I wondered, if one of the