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Words, Thoughts, Poems, Unsoliceted Advice
Christmas Jackhammers
Christmas Jackhammers
Projecting on the Melbourne Town Hall
Replacing the Christmas song this year
With pure force
They used to hang big speakers and play the same song over and over for a whole month.
Now they are bulding a new train station
I don't know which soundtrack I prefer
So I made a new one
Fortunately it lasts only 45 seconds
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Radio Nature
Radio nature features birdsong for the hours of the light and gives the stage to pulsating insect buzz to entertain at night.
Conducted by swinging trees to a tempo set by wind.
Rivers whisper and drops of rain
Relieve the pain
We dance to nature's song
Its loudness hardly masks the sound of our beating heart,
Deep breaths of fresh mountain air
The power of your sneeze echoing through the valleys,
Can kill an unsuspecting butterfly.
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Fear has two potential consequences:
One is bad -
Failure and suffering.
One is good -
A rush of adrenalin and sense of accomplishment.
Ignorance has two potential consequences:
One is bad -
Uninformed judgment.
One is good -
Childish excitement and no worries.
Failure has two potential consequences:
One is bad -
Suffering and loss
One is good -
Learning and improving chance for future success.
Suffering has two potential consequences:
One is bad -
One is good -
Bulding resilience and discipline.
A rush of adrenalin has two potential consequences:
One is bad -
Addiction and overdose.
One is good -
Joy and fulfilment.
A sense of accomplishment has two potential consequences:
One is bad -
Arrogance and over confidence.
One is good -
The common question is why?
The sensible question is what?
The reasonable question is how?
The urgent question is when?
We should try to be positive about the world and If we identify something negative we must not be afraid to call it, but also not just dismiss as negative, but try to unpack it and discuss why it is negative and what can be done about it.
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A rough outline to my musical background and aspirations.
My grandpa used to play classical music and opera at home. He introduced me to the Beethoven, Mozart and Chikovsky. I'd listen to the Nutcracker and Beethoven 5th tapes before i'd go to sleep along with other tapes of children songs in Hebrew. My early childhood romance with classical music ended when i started to have friends and mainstream pop music was a thing. at the age of thirteen I picked up my cousin old guitar and decided I want to major in music in high school. Naturally, the guitar and my cousin led me to discover rock music and admire the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Joe Satriani, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Dream Theatre and later King Crimson Genesis, Pink Floyd, Radiohead and the likes.
Local folk music was always in the radio in the background and some of it i liked and still love. Some of it I mocked but when I hear it today, it's nostalgic. Maybe because Israeli music is less common in Australia.
At the time I started with the guitar, my childish admiration was to music that was loud or difficult to perform. I categorised the music I liked as good. Music I didn't like was dismissed with accusations of being too popular, too corny, to middle eastern and In general, I disliked what I categorised as bogan music. Often, social circumstances co-insided with musical flavours to deter or attract me from engaging. For example, the rock music I was inspired to play and listen to in the high school music room or at home with friends had a comforting and pleasant effect on me. Where being at a typical popular high school party or a wedding involved loud and "simple" popular music with middle eastern melodies and unexpected behaviours by people that made me feel anxious at times… I felt that these sort of social gatherings imposed inferior music on me that I did not want to be culturally associated with in my adolescence struggle to define my identity.
I took private lessons with the local guitar teacher hero who I could hear smoking bongs before the lesson when I was waiting outside. He taught me basic scales and songs and how to play famous rock and roll solos (the Hotel California Solo, Sweet Child of Mine etc.) At that time, I wanted to be a rock star. I also started doing some shifts at a local sound company which scored me backstage entry into the dubious glamour of the arts and entertainment industry. I played around with large PA systems, trucks, technical production, logistics and for the first time, the human substance, the ego and attitudes of real performers, PR people and management. At that time, my musical aspirations were underdeveloped and mainly consisted of being good at music, which to me meant playing fast guitar solos. The shredding of John Patrucci, Steve Vai, Slash, and others was the holy grail. It took me a while to realise fast and loud does not equal good…
One day, when I was sitting in the school yard during a break, Sarah, the hippy girl from my class approached with her minidisk and headphones. "you gotta listen to this". She stressed and fitted her headphones on my head. When she pressed play, she started a new area of music appreciation in my heart.
The sound that came out of those headphones was something i've never heard before. The track was taken from "Go Plastic" an album by Squarepusher. It was consistent of the fastest and clearest beats I've ever heard, intertwined with infectious jazz inspired groove manipulated in ways I never thought possible, while the melody was subtle to nonexistent. Squarpusher's music proved to me that anything that is difficult or impossible to perform for a human, can be made 'perfect' with electronic music. I saw it as a sign to explore this kind of music more, and worry less about performing complicated guitar solos. I also had no chance of standing out in a music class of about 30 students, half of which are guitarist that picked up a guitar years before me. By the last year of high school i had a different guitar teacher, he didn't smoke bongs in hiding and taught me to love improvisation. Playing together was what made the difference, but more than playing, it was learning when to listen and when to be quite, when to lead and when to follow and drift. The new approach to music came in the form of listening to new music as much as it was in the form of playing differently and experimenting with technology. As the joke about music goes: "what is the difference between Rock and Roll and Jazz? - In Rock music, you play four chords to ten thousand people. In Jazz, you play ten thousand chords to four people". I stopped caring about my audience and delved into the world of listening, focusing more on time and scales. i tried to follow Bach's advice - "Playing music is easy, all you need to do is to play the right note at the right time". I don't know if he actually said that.
Many sleepless nights went by (for my mother and possibly some neighbours) when my friends and I was categorically downloading and listening to music while getting high on weed. We'd explore the world of jazz from contemporary American grooves to oldies and the great European jazz label ECM with artist like Miroslav Vitous, Terje Rypdal, Meredith Monk and many others. Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and traditional jazz musicians were also featuring regularly on the playlist.
The attempt by contemporary musicians to take the fluid nature of classical and jazz music and combine it with modern electronic sounds fascinated me the most and i tried to keep abreast of the latest releases and backlog of albums. Me and my friends would maintain an infinite list and listen to it categorically. Most of my modest teenage salary would go for CD's.
I started to get into the music of Bjork, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Aphex Twin, Mr Bungle, John Zorn. By the time i was 21 I was working at a commercial recording and post production studio in Tel Aviv, recording mainstream music and working on sound post-production for television and cinema while rehearsing and writing music with my band after hours in the studio.
As the variety of music i listen to grew, i stopped thinking about what is good music as i started to be more aware of the affect silence has on music and the complicated relationship between music and noise. In the simplest terms, the paradox is apparent when trying to listen to your favourite tune on repeat. At some point, everyone would get sick of it and it would become a disturbance rather than a source of pleasure.
There must be silence so noise can be distinguished from music. Even the best music can get too much if played for too long or too loudly or too often. The louder my environment becomes, the more insensitive and impatient I become to it.
Music today can be amplified to physically painful levels for unlimited amount of time and result in adverse health effects. It's peculiar to me that some people love listening to music really loudly. Douglas Adams also pondered on loudness and thus he wrote about the loudest band in the universe: "Disaster Area was a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and was generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also as being the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judged that the best sound balance was usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.
"Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.
"Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties."
This has not, however, stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently been appointed Professor of Neomathematics at the University of Maximegalon, in recognition of both his General and his Special Theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns, in which he proves that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent.
Disaster Area are fronted by Hotblack Desiato.
Their best selling single was released on Earth under the band name PRISM and is titled Spaceship Superstar
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.
For archival and reference purposes - Here's a list of my 42 most influential artists, albums, books and at some point, I'll probably add songs in a form of a playlist.
Stay tuned.
42 "good" Artists in no particular order:
Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Bjork, Radiohead, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Robert Wyatt, Medeski Martin & Wood, Squarepusher, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Silver Mt Zion, Frank Zappa, Mike Patton, John Zorn, Bill Evans, Fredriech Chopin, Bach, TV on the Radio, Portishead, Kaveret, Massive Attack, Manu Delago, Philip Glass, Hanne Hukkelberg, Gorillaz, Mum, Beck, Pat Metheny, Alog, Paco De Lucia, Matt Elliott, Zakir Hussain, Prefuse 73, Miroslav Vitous, Gary Peacock, King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ros, Terje Rypdal
42 "good" Albums in no particular order:
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) - Recomposed by Max Richter
The Nutckracker - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett
My Spanish Heart - Chick Corea
Red - King Crimson
Making Music - Zakir Hussain
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
The Grand Wazoo - Frank Zappa
California - Mr Bungle
If You Wait - London Grammar
Black Sands - Bonobo
Damon Days - Gorillaz
Horses in the Sky - Silver Mt Zion
Strange Place for Snow - Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Sea Change - Back
Go Plastic - Squarepusher
La Maison de Mon Reve - CocoRosie
Dummy - Portishead
Metamorphosis - Philip Glass
Amelie - Yann Tiersen
Vespertine - Bjork
An Awesome Wave - Alt J
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Ys - Joanna Newsome
Protection - Massive Attack
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Tripper - Efterklang
Little Things - Hanne Hukkleberg
Mitz - The Apples
Uninvisible - Medeski Martin and Wood
Peeping Tom - Mike Patton
Duck Rabbit - Alog
Universal Syncopations - Miroslav Vitous
The Mess We Made - Matt Elliott
Sirens - Nicholas Jaar
Simple Things - Zero 7
Mercy - Meredith Monk
M Ward - Transistor Radio
Rounds - Fourtet
Eureka - Jim O'Rourke
When I play, write, record or practice music, I try to be kind to my neighbours, my lover and myself by not pursuing perfection and settling for mediocracy. My interest in music, sound and noise is wide and i try to keep it like that. If a particular project require instrumental expertise, I prefer to work with someone else. It's always nicer together. Over the years, the people i collaborated with inspired me to keep going and without the constant feedback of collaborators i would probably get bored with making music.
When I don't have anyone to play with, I practice and play my growing collection of musical instruments and sound making gadgets. This includes two bass guitars, one is a standard 4 string and the other is a special Kala Uke Bass with strings made of nylon core with silver plated windings. In some of the songs I play Bouzouki, Banjo, Charango, Glockenspiel, Clarinet, Nylon string guitar, my beloved Ernie Ball Musician Silhouette electric guitar I got for my sixteenth birthday and assorted percussive instruments. For electronic sounds there are a few Korg synths including 2 Kaoss pads, Microkorg and a Roland V-11 electronic drum kit. software instrument are mainly Native Instruments Komplete and Logic X built in VST instruments. Recently I've added a real flute and a tabla to the collection but the road is still long until I place a microphone anywhere near it.
"Music is a sort of noise, it whiles away for the odd half hour but if lasts for any longer bores everyone, though no one dares to say so. Music nowadays is simply the art of executing something that is difficult to perform, and in the long run, something that is merely difficult, ceases to amuse"
Voltaire, Candid.
It is striking that these words were written more than a hundred years before music could be recorded.
Today I still work as the interface between culture and entertainment in the radio, museum, various music festivals and in collaboration with artists and filmmakers.
I dream that one day I will live in a world where every sound is pleasant music and life is a dance.
If you are interested in the history, physics and metaphysics of music, and the relationship to sound and noise, I recommend the following books:
On the Sensations of Tone - Hermann Helmholtz
For understanding the relationship between sound and music.
The World in Six Songs - Daniel Levitin
For an overview on what role music played in the evolution of the human brain.
This is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
For a neurological perspective on how the brain respond to music.
Musicophillia - Oliver Sacks
Extraordinarily compelling accounts of real musical "disorders" in people and the role music has on people who experience physical and mental disadvantages due to illness.
The First Word - Christine Keneally
Further reading. The history of linguistics gracefully laid out to give music further context.
Essay on the Origin of Languages - Jean-Jacque Rousseau
A convincing pre-neuroscince argument for music preceding language.
Discord - Mike Goldsmith
A history of noise. with fascinating legal and social anecdotes.
The Great Animal Orchestra - Bernie Kraus
A delightful book sound and the delicate sonic fabric of nature and the animal kingdom and the devastating effect human development impart on it.
The Universal Sense - Seth Horowitz
Tales of hearing mechanics.
Noise - Jacques Attali
The political economy of noise.
Perfecting Sound Forever - Greg Milner
The story of the development of recorded music.
Music Quickens Time - Daniel Barenboim
An account of how music knows no boundaries.
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free - Cory Doctorow.
Laws for the digital age. Slightly off topic, ever so relevant given this platform.
The Real Frank Zappa Book
Just for fun.
Leaving Home
From racism to compassion, between passionate love and violent war, The milky land of honey craves German made life in the freezing cold of the holocaust. Vegans and carnivores from Tel Aviv to Berlin, paint a digital world with righteous statuses and videos of cute cats. Opinionated taxi drivers and angry bus drivers shedding their hard shell of rage when facing an honest smile. Day to day struggles of students and working people's life is bonding most of us, our legs threaded with shackles made of gold coins and it is too heavy to rise above the endless sea of illusions kindly produced by the media and conveniently priced for affordable people. It was just a leg in the trip, proving that the fabric of reality is endlessly deep but it can also be simple and sweet. For now I choose to only peer into the abyss, floating in the shallow waters, warmed by the afternoon sun. Surrounded by friends and family to remind myself how nice it is to feel loved, to belong. Until next time, the journey continues. Terms and conditions apply.
Quiet Please, this is culture!
Music posses the power to make people shut up for up to an hour straight, and listen. This incredible feature is evermore incredible when people are in a social environment, such as a live music concert.
This relative quietness of human beings is rare in the city and in modern live music events in general.
Humans omit sound from their mouth and produce it via their limbs*.
During rock concerts or electronic music events, the effectiveness of the sound reinforcement system can over-power any conversation or other acoustic eruption a human can produce (on their own).
Despite this, and despite having a constant and almost painful bombardment of the ears in many modern music events, people still try to talk and laugh amongst themselves and even use noisy plastic bags in public lectures. (plastic bag is roughly equivalent in the level of annoyance to that of a strong whistle by a person near you in a rock concert)
I noticed that in some electronic music and rock events, even in those rare moments, when the music becomes a little more quite, the audience starts to cheer and whistle, and the music can barley be heard amongst a sea of chatter, bar activity, and the loud noise of exited apes.
Some classical music, electrically amplified or not, can change from being very soft to very loud throughout a long piece and so it is expected that people attending a live concert will remain as silent as they possibly can so as to not interrupt others to enjoy the music.
It seems that cosiderable portion of the 10,000 audience members at MSO concert managed to keep quiet enough for the massive variations between soft sounds and loud sounds to be heard clearly. (with the aid of roughly three tones of speaker boxes hanging from the structures cavernous ceiling).
In this series of the orchestra free concerts, alcohol and food was allowed and a picnic was thrown by many on the grassy hill.
The music tamed the intoxicated desire of people to make themselves known by producing sound.
Of course, many could not help themselves and destroyed the experience of many others.
On Wednesday night, Hungarian Dances by Brahms was played live by a symphony orchestra. it was a powerful and inspiring musical success and celebration.
Here is a partial list of actions and objects with a potential to annoy at a public gathering that requires concentration from it's participants:
Disturbing human noises: Clapping, Whistling, Tapping, Chewing crunchy food, Breathing from the mouth, Sneezing, Snoring, Farting, Blowing the nose / sniffing, Humming, Talking, Crying with pain, Laughing with joy, Footsteps.
Disturbing objects: Mobile phones (and generally any electrical and mechanical object that is unrelated to the performance, even if it is not making any sound. torches or lasers for example) Plastic bags, Glass clinging, metallic cutlery, News papers, Zippers, Velcro, Chair dragging, Doors, Jewellery that makes dandling sound upon movement of the person, Sticky tape, Soda bottles, Aluminium foil.
* and other organs, but those sounds are not loud enough to consider as interruptions, perhaps, except farting, which may cause annoyance in a quiet classical music concerts. I'm speculating that there are more farting people in classical music concerts than in any other live music event, maybe because of the demographics and the food consumed before the concert. It is almost certain that it is more likely to hear a fart in a classical music concert than it is in a rock concert. I wonder if the likelihood of smelling them is also grater in classical music.
Uncertainty (un-intuition)
When I don't know
I try to calculate
I try to remember, imagine and guess
Recollect and connect visions with sounds,
Smells with tastes
Study the facts, measure, observe
Asses sensations of failure vs success
I desperately try to recognise danger
Expect disappointment
But hope for the best
On every thought, decision or action
Pure chance argues with my gut
Sometimes they agree
It makes decisions feels right
It also kicks my confidence up
Which evokes the desire to board the ship of fate
And sail deep into the sea of uncertainty
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Borcho is a fictional author and poet who burns books at the barbershop in order to absorb arbitrary inspiration for whistling different songs. The poem and music in this publication were inspired by the unknown and the uncertainty of the poet about allegedly certain things. Any distribution or re-distribution of the poem and music is strictly prohibited except on sad days in order to encourage a positive atmosphere. All rights reserved to Alberto Lies Distribution Inc. (THE PUBLISHER) except the right to freedom which is reserved to any person under the condition that they do not engage in socially unacceptable behaviour. The reader may be inspired by the poetry and music in this publication in accordance with clause 5.12 of the spontaneous inspiration act in which it is stated that "no person shall receive inspiration whether spiritual, physical, literal, musical, nutritional or any other idea from another person who thought about the idea before them without signing an inspiration release form (attached) in the presence of a lawyer, magistrate, milkman, plumber and a magician. The recipient of the inspiration agrees not to use the inspiration in any way other than in accordance with the inspiration release agreement. Any unauthorised use may result in legal action. The maximum penalty for infringement of the inspiration release agreement is interference with the offender's plumbing, cutting down the offender's milk supply, insults by a public official and vanishing of all of the offender's belongings by a magician.
Fast Track
It took me about 30 hours and just over a week to produce 7 short musical pieces, from one minute to three minutes long. All together just over 15 minutes of music divided into daily anecdotes. Every piece was composed, performed, recorded, mixed and uploaded in 3 to 6 hours and on the same night. From tuning the instruments (sometimes haphazardly) to playing, arranging and programming beats to selecting a picture and publishing on the interweb.
Among the participating sounds and instruments: nylon string guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, glockenspiel, clarinet, drums (midi), viola (midi), cello (midi) double bass (midi) synthesiser (midi) and other bits of digital manipulation of various sounds.
This mini project reinforced my notion that music is indeed everything and nothing at the same time.
It can take a year to make a crappy song or it can take an hour to make a still crappy but less expensive song.
What determines the how "good" a song is, are the people who listen to it and the PR campaign behind it.
A couple of products from this experiment:
Diary Entry 3
My clarinet is off the grid. My beats are tight.
Diary Entry 5 D A D A C# D
Music is like war, mankind cannot live in peace without it.
Diary Entry 7
Thursday's broken jazz.
Trying to jazz with yourself resembles masturbation - It is fun, but nicer with a friend. If good jazz is like a good game of football with lots of passes, a beautifully orchestrated team effort. this is like the antipasti of jazz football. A cool jazz cat once said: "The difference between Jazz and rock'n'roll is that in rock music you play four chords to ten thousand people and in jazz music you play ten thousand chords to four people."
Produced by Borcho with very limited liability. Various disclaimers apply. Things can change any minute and retrospectively.
When someone dies and in their life that person was selfish and unpleasant, their death is harder to overcome for their relatives than the death of someone who was loved and admired by all. When someone who was loved and admired dies, their relatives feel that a legacy was left to follow and with their departure, their soul becomes a part of them and in their death they celebrate the life of their loved one and vow to continue their path. When someone who was selfish and unpleasant dies, their relatives forever remain with a question mark, wandering about their selfish life and the degree of their involvement in shaping that person's character. Guilt and regret showers the family with questions such as: where have we gone wrong?
When my grandpa Menachem passed away, everyone cried like they cry for the loss of a good and beloved mentor. When my grandpa Joseph passed away, everyone shed tears of relief and self pity. Grandpa Menachem had cancer. Grandpa Joseph had dementia. Both grandparents surly suffered dying. I'm ashamed to admit that perhaps the medications given to grandpa Joseph and the treatment from his own sons and grandchildren (excluding the care he was given by my grandma in a cold, Bulgarian loyal wife manner) killed his soul long before his body gave up.
When I visited the hospital several weeks before his body stopped functioning, it seemed to me as if the weak groans he still managed to produce from his fading throat were a last attempt to tell us everything that he was hiding in his heart for all those years – all his secret wishes, all his desires and disappointments, all the life he wanted to live. In the hospital, I noticed that he could still see, hear and feel but could not express the sensations forced on him by the world in a way anyone could understand. I've asked my dad to buy him a portable music player with headphones so he would at least be able to listen to operas he liked so much and which functioned as the soundtrack for his fading life when he was still at home and mentally abusing my grandma. Dad dismissed it with a vague excuse about too many wires and tubes attached to my grandpa already. He dismissed it, despite other patients with no less tubes and wires than my grandpa wearing headphones in the ward. Other patients were also allowed flowers, teddy bears and pictures of their loved ones on their beside table. My grandpa's bed side table was empty and his environment was full of loneliness and silence.
The sadness of a loss of unfulfilled life leaves deep doubts within those who still walk the earth. Their walk might become heavy and slow as if their legs are chained with guilt and regret. Or, they can easily rise from the ground and fly on the wings of a soul which has nothing left to do other than forgive.
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Old forest
It lived through generations of broken branches
They are now intertwined and decorate the ground
Making love with the bush and the moth
Renewing the earth
Allowing the water to flow underneath
In a rapid of history
And sounds
Of melted ice
The water pours into quiet lakes
Lakes are curators of stories
Of life
Featuring a variety of chewing, scratching, running creatures
Wild animals do not show much interest for curious people
Tired but happy they march (the people)
On unfinished trails
On roads with no end
Defeated by desire
Green of envy
Hungry for control
Sated with progress
They sit around the fire
Intoxicated by the flames
While the wind is blowing down the hill
Gently stroking the rocks
Carry the birds
And guide the bugs
To a safe refuge from the night's biting cold
And from the men who hope
To conquer the hill's top
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Borcho is a fictional author and poet who writes in sign language in order to discriminate blind people. He was born in a hospital and immediately felt disappointment due to the horrible smell of the place and the discomfort compared to the warm liquid that was supporting him a few minutes earlier. The poem and accompanied musical piece were written and produced after Borcho was inspired by the stunning nature and wildlife around Cradle Mountain National Park in Tasmania. The Foundation for Musical Mediocracy adopted Borcho in his effort to entertain himself. The poem and featured music is a great demonstration of a mediocre collaboration between the two. Different musical instruments were used in the performance such as a Greek bouzouki, Kung -fu drum, tambourine and Chinese balls with guest musician David Gros on the bass. Original sound recording of the environment around Cradle Mountain taken by Heshel featuring throughout the piece. No deaths or complaints from the neighbours registered during the production. The piece was tested on animals (cats and flies). No emotional change was found.
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When is a triple-B bond safer than a triple-A? The answer, based on historical default rates, is when the triple-B is a municipal bond and the other is a corporate security.
The ratings divergence isn't only a consideration for investors trying to choose between munis and corporates. On June 15 a Dodd-Frank Act rule goes into effect that requires rating agencies to adopt procedures designed so credit ratings weigh default risk "in a manner that is consistent" for all rated obligors and securities.
The approaching deadline "creates an imperative to get everything lined up," said Mark Adelson, a former chief credit officer at Standard & Poor's.
S&P and Moody's spokesmen said they were taking the rule seriously.
"We've been making preparations for this for years," a Moody's spokesman said. "Most of the preparations are pretty much done. We've already made most of the changes."
In the long run, the new rule "will only help the municipal upgrade trend," said Municipal Market Analytics managing director Matt Fabian. "Historically municipal ratings have been too low and have exaggerated the risk of default."
An attorney with experience in SEC regulatory compliance, speaking anonymously, said he was skeptical the current ratings for munis and corporates would be acceptable to the SEC.
"There is no way that is a uniform scale, and all it really takes to get the ball rolling is a complaint to the SEC that points out that disparity in default statistics," he said.
As for the investor implications, since BBB munis offer higher yields than AAA corporates as well as a tax exemption that the corporates lack, some may ask: why should anyone or any entity own corporates?
Studies published by Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's show that the default rates of munis 10 years after being rated BBB are lower than the default rates of corporates 10 years after being rated AAA.
According to a Moody's report "US Municipal Bond Defaults and Recoveries, 1970-2013," the 10-year cumulative default rate for munis rated Baa1, Baa2 or Baa3 was 0.32%. According to the same study, the rate for Aaa corporates was 0.49%.
S&P Wednesday released its latest default report. The study by analyst Lawrence Witte found that in the 10 years after municipal bonds were rated BBB-plus, BBB, or BBB-minus, 0.42% defaulted. A March 2014 study by S&P managing director Diane Vazza and several others found that in the 10 years after corporate bonds were rated AAA, 0.87% defaulted.
If that history provides guidance, then Chicago (Baa2) is a safer investment over the long-term than Microsoft (Aaa). Moody's dropped the city's general obligation rating in February, citing the city's high levels of debt and pension obligations and expected growth in unfunded pension liabilities. S&P rates Chicago A-plus.
Even with lower default rates, investors in the munis are getting higher yields. On April 27, according to S&P Global Fixed Income, the average yield for a triple-A corporate bond with a 10 year maturity was 2.69%.
By comparison, according to Municipal Market Data on that date the average yield for a BBB general obligation municipal bond with a 10-year maturity was 2.94% and for a BBB taxable municipal bond with this maturity it was 4.13%. The BBB-rated muni yields are the average for BBB-plus, BBB, BBB-minus, Baa1, Baa2, and Baa3 bonds.
The interest of the GO would be tax-free while the interest from the corporate would be taxable.
After federal taxes, for those in the highest federal tax bracket, a corporate 10-year AAA bond bought on April 27 would have yielded 1.51% and the taxable muni would have yielded 2.31%. For those in a more moderate federal 25% tax bracket, these same bonds would have yielded 2.02% and 3.10% after federal taxes, respectively. These after-tax yields take into account federal taxes but not state or local taxes, which would normally lower the effective yield further.
Triple-B category GO muni bonds have consistently had more yield than AAA corporates. One year ago the spread was 31 basis points, five years ago 43 basis points, and 10 years ago nine basis points. None of these spreads take into account the impact taxes have in lowering corporate bonds' effective yields.
At any given point on the rating scale, munis have far less history of default than do corporates. In the 10 years after being rated Aaa 0.00% of the munis defaulted, while 0.49% of corporates defaulted, according to Moody's. Ten years after being rated Baa1, Baa2, or Baa3, 0.32% of munis defaulted, while 4.61% of corporates defaulted. Finally, in the 10 years after being rated Ba1, Ba2, or Ba3, 3.53% of munis defaulted, but 19.27% of corporates defaulted.
Given munis' apparent superiority over corporates in terms of both yield and safety, The Bond Buyer asked several investment firms about the wisdom of holding corporates instead of munis. Citi, JPMorgan, Franklin Templeton, OppenheimerFunds, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch declined to answer.
MMA's Fabian said munis were frequently less liquid and less transparent than corporates. As for the liquidity issue, many munis "lack price discovery or ready markets," he said. Corporate bonds "often have a homogenous security pledge while municipal deals are essentially bespoke financings requiring that investors fully read the documents to know what they own."
"Lenders will look past these problems with municipals only because the default rates are so low," Fabian said.
At Charles Schwab, managing director Rob Williams and director Collin Martin wrote in an email that the default studies looked backward not forward. The migration of ratings upward by Moody's and S&P in the munis space in recent years may make their default rates more closely compare to corporates in the future. "Still, we expect that the default rate, on average, for investment-grade munis should remain lower than the default rate on investment-grade corporates," they wrote.
The Schwab officials also said there are fewer high-yield munis to choose from, compared with the selection of corporates. For investors who want to buy higher-yield bonds, corporates offer a wider choice, they said.
Corporate bonds can also be a wise choice for investors who plan to put them into tax-deferred accounts, like 401(k)s, they said.
"While default and recovery statistics appear better for municipal than like-rated corporate debt, that is based on historical information," said Howard Cure, director of municipal research at Evercore Wealth Management. "We are in a new era where we can see more municipal defaults going forward."
Alexandra Lebenthal, chief executive officer of Lebenthal Holdings, said she assumed that most corporate bonds are held in tax-deferred accounts, and people generally want to spread their eggs around.
The default rates and returns "show why munis make more sense," she said.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provision requiring comparability of ratings within an agency is paragraph (b)(3) of Rule 17g-8 on Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations.
In the final rule the SEC noted that the divergence between ratings' default rates at ratings agencies are not just between safer munis and riskier corporates. According to one study up to 2005, the five-year default rates of collateralized debt obligations at the lowest investment grade ratings from one ratings agency was about 10 times higher than the five-year default rates for corporate bonds, the SEC said.
The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act requires the SEC to examine each nationally recognized statistical rating organization once a year and issue an annual report summarizing the examination findings. The annual report to Congress is required by the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006.
In a December 2014 story on the SEC's increased demands on the ratings agencies, Moody's said in a statement to The Bond Buyer, "Moody's continues to enhance our policies and procedures in light of regulatory developments, and the SEC staff's findings and recommendations are helpful in that effort."
How the new rule affects ratings agencies' ratings remains to be seen.
In recent years both Moody's and S&P have engaged in recalibrations or applied new criteria to U.S. public finance, leading to broadly higher ratings for munis.
On average the changes were subtle. For example, in 2013 and 2014 S&P introduced a new local government rating criteria. This led to an approximately average 0.4 notch increase in the local government credits. Local government credits are 28% of all credits that S&P's U.S. Public Finance Group handles. So the changes to the local government rating criteria led to an average increase in ratings of about 0.1 notch across all the credits.
In 2010 Moody's did a recalibration of some of its municipal issuer ratings to address the category's comparative lack of risk at different rating levels. In categories closest to government, like general obligation and public water and sewer utility bonds, it raised ratings about one notch in the Aa category, two in the A category, and about three in the Baa category. Speculative grade ratings were left unchanged. For non-utility enterprise, public university, mass transit and a few other categories, S&P raised the ratings by one notch around the Aa and A categories. It left ratings unchanged for several other categories like nonprofits and public electric power utility bonds.
Neither S&P nor Moody's provided details on the overall average shift in their ratings due to these broad-based rating shifts.
One reason the ratings agencies maintain different levels of credit risks for given ratings between munis and corporates is that, "if you call [all municipal bonds] AAA then one is not creating a lot of value," for the user of municipal ratings, said Adelson, the former S&P chief credit officer, who now is chief strategy officer at BondFactor.
In response to queries from The Bond Buyer about the divergent default histories at a given rating between munis and corporates, S&P and Moody's gave similar answers.
"Comparability of ratings across asset classes and geographies is one of Standard & Poor's main goals and one of the benefits of our global ratings scale," S&P said in an email. "To accomplish this goal, we've adjusted all of our ratings to a common set of stress scenarios and definitions, which are embedded in all of our criteria.
"Our criteria are subject to regular periodic review across sectors to provide additional transparency and comparability. These improvements are intended to help market participants understand our approach to assigning ratings, enhance the forward-looking nature of these ratings, and enable better comparisons across ratings."
Moody's vice president Al Medioli said, "This is why Moody's underwent its recalibration back in 2010, which put all our ratings on a single, universal scale." He added, "Muni default rates are rising although still very low, and recovery rates are now similar to corporates in recent bankruptcies."
Both S&P and Moody's have known that default risks of their ratings diverge between corporates and munis since at least the early 1990s, Adelson said. They have shifted their responses back and forth over time but have never gone beyond making small adjustments to the ratings, he said.
Robert Slavin is a reporter for The Bond Buyer.
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Yesterday the Ocean State Policy Research Institute released my study on the migration of people and income out of Rhode Island: "Leaving Rhode Island: Policy Lessons from Rhode Island's Exodus of People and Money." (pdf) Here is the excellent cover art followed by the Press Release.
The Ocean State Policy Research Institute (OSPRI) released today its "Leaving Rhode Island" study, documenting the people and wealth that are leaving the state due to out-migration.
A Press Conference will be held today (January 20), at 2:00 pm at the RI State House Rotunda, to discuss the study. Speakers will include Alan Hassenfeld; Bill Felkner, J. Scott Moody (Fellow on Economic Policy), and Mike Stenhouse.
The study, which is based on actual figures from IRS and US Census data, and which can be downloaded from the OSPRI website at www.OceanStatePolicy.org/leavingri.html, paints a grim picture of how Rhode Island's oppressive tax structure is driving both human and capital resources out of the state. Among the specific findings:
- Rhodes Island lost a net of 107,086 residents to other states between 1991 and 2009, or about one in ten current residents.
- Between 1995 and 2007, total net income (in-migration minus out-migration) leaving the state averaged $78,468,000 every year translating into a total loss of over $1 billion.
- If the annual income loss is compounded over the thirteen years examined in this study, the state has cumulatively lost $4.6 billion.
- Had this income stayed in Rhode Island, an additional $540 million would have been collected in state and local taxes.
- Of the seven variables examined, the Estate Tax is the most influential to where people and wealth migrate.
"Virtually all of my wealthy friends and fellow philanthropists have moved their residencies out of RI," said Alan Hassenfeld, whose Hassenfeld Family Initiatives foundation commissioned the OSPRI study. "This loss of income to our state's economy, to our tax revenue base, and for local charitable-giving is a LOSE-LOSE situation for everyone involved. Unless there is a drastic change in the punitive estate tax here in Rhode Island, anyone in my position would be a fool not to leave."
"If our Rhode Island economy is to ever reach its full potential, we must stop the hemorrhaging of people and wealth", said Bill Felkner, OSPRI founder and Director of Policy. "We hope that the General Assembly seriously considers these findings and that they can find a way to reverse this trend."
According to the OSPRI study, Rhode Islanders are fleeing to states where the average tax burden is 14% lower. The Estate Tax, however, is the primary driver of the out-migration of wealth.
"The estate tax is one of the most counter-productive taxes in our state's tax code", continued Felkner. "Small and family businesses are often forced to dissolve and many prudent high-net-worth individuals will simply leave Rhode Island to avoid the 'death tax'."
John M. Harpootian, a principal in the law firm of Paster & Harpootian, Ltd. who limits his practice to estate planning, stated that "It is a common practice to advise Rhode Island residents that a change of domicile can save significant estate tax … . During just the last 5 years, our office has seen nearly 100 of some of the wealthiest Rhode Island residents change their domicile to avoid paying RI estate taxes at their deaths."
On January 14, OSPRI conducted a briefing for legislators who were interested in learning more about the study's findings. Attending the briefing, conducted by Scott Moody and Bill Felkner, were Senators Kettle, Maher, Pinga, O'Neil, Ottiano, and Shibley along with Representatives Chippendale and Gordon. Also attending the briefing was Gary Sasse, former Director of Administration and former RIPEC Executive Director, who supported the study's findings in stating that "RI's Estate Tax has a negative impact on the State's ability to maintain wealth and thus enhance investments. We must develop and implement a tax reform strategy to address this if we are going to going to improve our economic competitiveness."
"OSPRI will continue to provide vital research about the critical issues we face in our state", said Stenhouse (OSPRI Executive Director). "Out-migration is a serious problem for RI. Without an honest debate about the actual consequences of our public policy, we will continue to chase our tail."


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Discussion in 'Wii - Hardware, Devices and Utilities' started by Samnitmar, Nov 18, 2008.
I broke mine (Cut the wire into two) and can't get it to work. Any way to run it using batteries?
How would batteries fix the problem? If you cut the wire in two then you couldn't connect it to the Wii.
Just order a replacement from Nintendo.
You do know the sensor bar doesn't send or recieve data from the wii, it just takes in power. Have you seen how people use flashlights and candles instead of sensor bars? I've been using flashlights, but I'm sick of having to change their batteries that drain really fast >.>
Its probably possible to wire up a battery to the sensor bar but really what is the point? You can buy a replacement for fairly cheap, is it really worth the hassle messing about? If you want to run one off batteries why not buy one of the 3rd party wireless sensor bars?
I'll consider buying a 3rd party one from a local retailer, but I have no patience when waiting for something from Nintendo. I guess I really shouldn't mess around with this stuff. Thanks


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We had to go to Nashville on business last week.
Sometimes — okay, almost always — when I take a road trip, I allow myself a snack when I gas up.
As I browsed everything in a cellophane package at a store somewhere along Interstate 24, I couldn't help but overhear a customer talking to the clerk.
I could tell he had been going on for several minutes before I tuned into the conversation.
He was complaining about all things online-shopping related — Amazon, PayPal, eBay, and the like. He didn't have one positive thing to say about any of them.
Then, just as I was about to pick beef jerky over cashews, he set his sights on social media. I couldn't resist moving closer, because I could sense it was about to get good.
He went on and on saying just about what I expected he would say, and then he offered up this nugget:
"I'll tell you what else," he said. "I'm done with Facebook. I don't care if your toe hurts, or if you've got gangrene. I don't want to hear about it."
Obviously, that killed my beef jerky vibe.
Both clerks agreed with him, and like clockwork, offered their opinions on the matter.
I couldn't get my mind off of what he said as the day went on for a couple of reasons.
First of all, who with gangrene announces on Facebook they have it? I don't think that's something I would do. Then again, I don't announce where I eat lunch, my every mood or 11,000 before-and-after pictures of me cleaning up the garage.
Oversharing is one thing. Telling the universe on Facebook you have gangrene is another.
Of course, I don't know if the guy was telling the truth or just being hyperbolic.
Let's pretend for minute that he was telling the truth.
I did a little research and math, and I learned that 0.01 percent of the US population is treated for gangrene each year.
With this knowledge, we can establish the odds of getting it in the first place are astronomical.
Second, the odds of this guy knowing someone who got it are even more astronomical.
And finally, the odds of him and me being in the same place while he was talking about it are simply incalculable.
I guess I'm being silly, but isn't the universe an interesting place? If I had gotten stopped at a traffic light right after I left the house, I probably wouldn't have heard him say that. What would I have seen instead? Maybe the place got robbed after I left. Or, maybe I missed Jimmy Buffett stopping in to play a couple of numbers.
Over the course of two days last week, I saw four traffic accidents. I ran upon two of the four immediately after they happened.
When something like this occurs, I always think about how the slightest difference in my decision making up to that point could've caused me to be involved.
I try not to think about things like that too much because if I do, I'll go nuts.
But I'll tell you this. The next time I'm on the road, I'm keeping my eyes peeled for Jimmy Buffett. After the experience with the guy at the store, I think my odds are pretty good.


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Thank you so very much for you thoughtfulness in sending me a copy of that poem.It did remind me of when my husband wrote letters home about time he spent on some of those Pacific Islands.Although he didn't say too much, you could read between the lines, and know the misery he went through.
The islands he mentions in his letters, were:Abemama, (or Apamama),Baker, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, Bougainville, and Saipan.He also mentions New Guinea, but I don't think he made it there.He was trained in San Diego, CA, and then in Pearl Harbor, before he made the invasions.I have a little diary he kept, but it is very fragile, and hard to read.I've tried to transcribe it on the computer.But there are a couple of pages I just can'tdecipher.
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The whole point of our SPX wrap-up/wind-down/reviewening is that we all go in hard to review every single comic we picked up at the show as swiftly as we can, so that we can deliver the full flavor of the SPX community and their wonderful work to you readers at home as quickly as we can. We don't want our stuff going bad in the fridge, so to speak. Sitting down with my first set of books tonight, I immediately realized how hard that is going to be. I set out with the intention of doing one roundup to talk about some of my shorter issues, but I'm already digging a book I picked up so much that my gushing praise for it could not be constrained to one paragraph in a roundup. All Star, Chapter One?
So. Good.
This sucker is so flippin' good, that the second I had picked it up off of Jesse Lonergan's table and opened it up, I came upon a panel I was so wowed by that I immediately made sure to let him know it. That's right, I enjoyed it so much that I forgot all concepts of politeness and shoved my appreciation for it right into his face. Pleasant social interactions aside, All Star is the story of Carl Carter, a naturally gifted athlete leading his high-school baseball team to victory, and his friend Esden Hubbard, a teenager with more than his fair share of trouble at home. It's certainly a short book, but I couldn't help but be continually impressed by the art. Mr. Lonegran has a clean, exaggerated style that feels only steps away from pure animation. His composition is effortless, effective, and a joyful congregation of swift action and potent movements.
You wanna know why this book is awesome? Check out the panel work in the following scene, as Carl steps up to the plate at the bottom of the ninth...
That ball, screaming across the first panel, drawing your eye from the initial arc of motion towards the right side of the page where it's then drawn directly below to an open-bordered panel, isolating the moment and movement of Carl Carter's glorious arc to fantastic effect. Below his feet, the pitcher, the crowd, and Carl's teammates follow that same arc in an anxious, anticipatory moment where it seems the only thing anyone can do is watch in awe. And then?
Glorious victory. Check out that ball, moving so fast it crashes through the panel itself! I love that little touch, it's simple, incredibly effective, and generally indicative of how much talent Jesse Lonergan has. And it's not just the art that's great either. The dialogue in this book is smart, funny and honest, while the narration has just enough character to take on a life of its own without becoming an unwelcome presence.
It's awesome I tell you, awesome.
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Recently I was the recipient of outstandingly excellent service at Tread+Miller's Cavendish Store, buying birthday treats for myself courtesy of my Forældres, so I was excited to be invited to preview their latest store to open at the V&A Waterfront.
For those not in the know, and I doubt there are any South African men with style who don't know about Cape Union Mart's new urban footwear store Tread + Miller and how it is bringing an engaging and interactive experience to the shopper who seeks a range of quality, gentleman's club type standards, where they can expect a combination of old-world touches with a new age appeal.
'We wanted to create a sophisticated experience with a modern twist,' said Candy Swart, marketing manager at Cape Union Mart at the launch a few months ago. 'A refined and relaxed shopping environment where the décor relies on leather ottomans and wooden finishes.'
In addition to shoes, the brand also offers a range of South African made belts and socks and an array of other accessories such as bags and wallets with an added benefit of being able to shop all items online.
The new store is definitely a danger to my financial health with a wide range of 'must have's and 'have to have's amongst other the quality leather items offered at Tread + Miller. So if you think you deserve a little treat, head down to any one of the Tread+Miller stores but be warned: you may have to eat crackers and pilchards for the month because they don't play when it comes to lust-worthiness.


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Now in its sixth year, The Village Voice's Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival has become the borough's premier beer event. Once again, craft beer lovers will get to sample over 100 craft beers and ciders, along with select imports. Tickets are on sale now and all include unlimited samples. The festival will also offer food for purchase from participating vendors. For updates and more information, visit The Village Voice/Brooklyn Pour.
Who: The Village Voice
What: 6th Annual Brooklyn Pour Craft Beer Festival
When: Saturday, September 24, 2016 3 - 6 PM
Where: Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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Join Bark for a hike to one of the most unique, facinating and historic places we could think of in Mt. Hood National Forest: Lemiti Butte. Once a stop on the historic Oregon Skyline trail, this part of the forest is now being proposed for "salvage" logging after a mountain pine beetle outbreak occurred several years ago. But instead of a dead landscape, this area has turned into a diverse new ecosystem - alive with wildflowers, birds and a new generation of trees coming up. There are few better places to learn about the role of natural disturbance and how it has shaped Pacific Northwest forests (and what we can do to protect them)!
Lemiti in 1934 - (Photo by USFS, taken from Green Cascadia)
Carpools meet at the Hollywood Trader Joe's, 4121 NE Halsey in Portland at 9am sharp. It is across the street from the Hollywood Transit Center, near the I-84 exit 2. If you are able to drive, we greatly appreciate your contribution to helping make a successful hike. If you are looking for a ride, please come prepared to reimburse your driver. Because this area is a tad bit further into the forest than we usually go on Bark Abouts, participants should be prepared to be back to Portland as late as 6 PM.
Be prepared to hike off trail. Bring lunch, water, and whatever else you need to feel comfortable for a day in the forest. To protect off trail resources, please no dogs on this hikeTo protect off trail resources, please no dogs on this hike.
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Madagascar, as an island, possesses a large fishing zone and various "deposits" seawater and freshwater, with 5,000 kilometres of coastline, 2 miles of continental marine plateau, 2,000 km2 of lakes, rivers and several aquaculture centres.
The Government of Madagascar is very keen on developing the fishing sector because of its economic (source of foreign currency), social role (employment creation), and a development factor (through the increase revenues to local communities and balanced nutrition of the population).
The fishing sector can be divided into three fields:
1-"Inland fishing", consists of freshwater (streams and lakes) fishing which is mainly traditional,
2-"Coastal fishing", consists of seawater fishing, which is divided into three fishing categories based on the technique used: Industrial fishing, on a Large scale, by specialized Businesses with professional material; Fishing as family businesses and fishermen's associations with small motored boats not exceeding 50 horsepower. The most common fishing technique used is the trawl, Traditional fishing (by foot or by paddling boat).
3-"Aquaculture", which is further divided into two types of cultures depending on the environment, seawater and freshwater: The marine aquaculture today the main culture is the shrimp. The branch also includes the culture of sea cucumber and sealgae.
The freshwater fish farming
|Inland fishing
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|30 0000
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|Coastal fishing
|85 841
|84 904
|87 970
|87 435
|5 127
|4 503
|6 087
|7 241
|Total Production
|120 968
|119 407
|123 057
|124 676
Source: Ministry of Fishing and Seafood resources
Fishing production
|118 877
|142 193 t
Sector potentialities and opportunities:
The fishing sector presents many potential and opportunities according to the following points:
-Many waters still not enough exploited
-Possibility to triple the aquaculture production in the next 10 years
-Large water ways in the country, favourable to the culture of other species like trout
-The production of tuna still needs to be improved (10 000 Tons per year only)
-The emergence of the culture of marine algas


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Solent University's maritime strategy has reached an exciting new phase, starting with the relocation of officer cadet provision to new premises in Southampton city centre.
The University's new maritime centre for the tuition of first certification of officer cadets is a dedicated building at St Mary's campus, within the grounds of City College.
The move forms part of Solent's ambitious plans to bring part of its professional and higher level maritime education programmes from the Warsash campus to the city centre by 2019.
Teaching for the fire school, maritime safety and offshore, first aid and medical, and seamanship courses will remain at the waterside, lower site of the Warsash campus, with investment plans for new and improved facilities.
The University remains committed to investing in high quality maritime education and training and will continue to build upon the heritage associated with Warsash Maritime Academy in the new premises.
If you have any queries please email us.
The University invested £6m in the renovation of new premises at St Mary's campus. The new maritime centre of excellence opened in September 2017 and provides a distinct modern teaching environment exclusively for seafarers studying for their first Certificate of Competency. How to find St Mary's Campus
St Mary's campus is just a 10-minute walk from the main University campus at East Park Terrace, meaning officer cadets can take full advantage of all the facilities on offer there, including:
Additionally, cadets can use the City College canteen facilities, which serve breakfast, lunch and refreshments, with indoor and outdoor seating.
The location also puts cadets within easy reach of excellent access to rail and bus transport links and the full range of Southampton city centre's amenities.
Cadets at Warsash Maritime Academy have use of the University's David Moxon and Emily Davies student residences. Both residences are located in Southampton city centre and are a short walk from the St Mary's campus, and the University's main East Park Terrace campus.
The David Moxon student residence offers:
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The teaching provision for Merchant Navy senior officers, commercial yacht certification, bridge, engine and liquid cargo operations simulation courses will remain at the Warsash campus until transition to the East Park Terrace campus from 2018.
For these courses, the University is embarking on a refurbishment programme of the Reginald Mitchell building at its East Park Terrace campus (shown in the image, left). This will include classrooms, labs, workshops and the simulator suite, and is only a ten minute walk from the new building at St Mary's campus.
Tuition for fire fighting, maritime safety and offshore, medical, and seamanship certification will remain at Warsash lower site, with plans for development (subject to planning permissions and funding), including:
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- Friends of St Marks meet monthly on the 3rd Monday at 9am.
- Mothers Union St Marks meet monthly on the 2nd Monday at 10am.
- Craft Group meet in the Resource Room, Thursdays 1.30 - 3pm.
- Sunday School meet Sunday 8.30am Service at St. Mark's Church (school term only).
St. Mark's Women's Guild
Has fourteen (14) members who are enthusiastic to join in the Fellowship and to contribute to the betterment of our Church.
Widow's Support Group.
Our group continues to be a supporting one, offering friendship and fellowship to those who need and enjoy it. We are a friendly and caring group. We continue to gather together each Monday morning at the BelleVue Café for morning tea, where Mark and his team look after us wonderfully with a delicious range of homemade goodies to tempt us. While the official gathering time is 9.30am, it is a case of get there when you can, whether it is earlier or later. We can at times be a noisy bunch, but a happy one, and if anyone needs some extra support we are there to assist or comfort. There is no cost to coming along or to be involved, except to pay for your own morning tea.
Any single lady can come along and join us whether you are a widow or not. When you are on your own, it is great to be able to join in a group where you are welcome and the friendship mat is rolled out. We are non-denominational and are there to hold out a comforting hand or shoulder and to offer friendship and fellowship. If you would like to come along and join in or if you know someone who could benefit by having a 'cuppa' and a chat with a friendly and caring group of ladies (or girls as we refer to ourselves), just come along on a Monday morning and you will be made very welcome or you can contact Glenna on 4661 3300 for more information.
MU (formerly Mothers' Union)
Meets the 2nd Monday of the month (February to November); 10am, St. Mark's Hall or Resource Room
The purpose of Mother's Union is to be especially concerned with all that strengthens and preserves marriage and Christian family life. Mothers Union (MU) holds other special meeting days, Pancake Day, Mothering Sunday, Wave of Prayer and our members attend Deanery Days at other branches in our Deanery. St. Mark's MU turns 110 in September 2017.
Who are we?
We are part of a global movement of Christians of diverse interests, talents and resources who join together to work for a better society for all. We are part of the Mothers' Union which was formed in England by Mary Sumner in 1876 and which now operates in 81 countries around the world with a membership of over 4million women and men. We are part of the Anglican Communion, but are not exclusively an Anglican organisation. All are welcome to become involved in our fellowship and programmes. Full membership is open to all who support our Aim and Objectives and have been baptised in the name of the Holy Trinity. We would welcome and encourage others to join.
Friend's of St. Mark's
Meets 3rd Monday of the month in St. Mark's Hall or Resource Room
Friend's is a group of women who raise funds for various requirements in and around St. Mark's. We are a friendly, happy group of women who enjoy one another's company whilst working with the group and others to set and achieve our community's outcomes. All are welcome to join.
St. Mark's Craft
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Miami Dolphins use dominant defensive effort to beat Titans in home opener
- by Fredrick Graves
- in Sport
- — Oct 9, 2017
Mularkey says he would be comfortable playing the quarterback Sunday even without a full practice. That's wahat you're looking for in an National Football League quarterback.
The Titans and Dolphins have faced off 36 times since 1966 when the Titans were still the Houston Oilers. From the other side, I kind of have a pretty good feel for who they are. The QB is officially listed as questionable with a hamstring injury, but his status may be a game-time decision. "On third down opportunities we have to convert more to keep ourselves on the field". Former Heisman Trophy victor Derrick Henry is churning out 4.6 yards per tote this season, but Mariota leads the club with three rushing touchdowns.
Weeden did have a reasonable understanding of the Titans' offense, though. The Dolphins are averaging 8.3 points and 271 yards per game on offense.
Kaepernick has remained un-signed since last season, leading many to believe his controversial national-anthem protest, which has since been carried out throughout the NFL, has led teams to stay away from signing him.
Jarvis Landry scored the go-ahead touchdown with 10:33 left in the fourth quarter to lead the Miami Dolphins to a 16-10 win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium. He thought he managed the game well. Jay Ajayi has been held to just 184 rushing yards on 51 carries while Jay Cutler has thrown for 614 yards and two touchdowns.
Alonso, who hit Cassel as his arm was cocked, said he wasn't sure if it was a fumble or incomplete pass.
Cutler watched video of the Titans surrendering four touchdown passes by Texans rookie Deshaun Watson, but knows that's no guarantee Miami will be move the ball.
"We gotta run the ball better", Murray said.
"But once we got out there, you take a drop, kind of pick a target and rip it".
That means everything is still very much up for grabs and it will be interesting to see which of the teams will take advantage of the situation and pull themselves clear at the top in the coming weeks.
Mariota said he needs to have some mobility in order to be able to play.
Mariota, however, is completely ready to play if he can manage it. Tennessee officials were contacted and made aware of Kaepernick's fitness level, his regimen and his desire to work out for the team, but sources said the matter was unable to advance. He wasn't Aaron Rodgers, but Cassel did what he needed to do for the Titans to win the game.


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June 16, 2014
TV5 and activeTV Asia are about to launch the second season of The Amazing Race Philippines hosted by Derek Ramsay, and they are looking for contestants who are up for the adventure of a lifetime!
They are on the search for couples or pairs (with pre-existing relationships) with the following requirements:
- Aged 21 years old and above
- Filipino citizens
- Physically and mentally fit
- Bursting with personality
- With valid passports
- At least one member must have a driver's license and can drive automatic transmission and manual transmission
They have on ground auditions on the following dates and venues:
June 20 - Matina Town Square, Davao
June 22 - Marquee Mall, Pampanga
June 28 - Eastwood City Libis, Quezon City
The Amazing Race Philippines is broadcast on TV5 and will be produced by the International Emmy Award winning Production team, activeTV Asia (producers of Asia's Next Top Model Season 2, The Amazing Race Asia, The Amazing Race Australia, The Amazing Race Israel, The Amazing Race Ukraine, Cash Cab Asia, E! News Asia).
This season, the stakes are higher and the prizes will be bigger!!!
The site is now open for application, and this can be found at: www.theamazingrace.ph
Good luck!
♥ Mwah! ♥
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Silver Streams offers three different types of accommodation depending on your needs.
The 17 luxury suites are perfect for a getaway for a couple or a small family. The rooms with connecting doors make them ideal for families, while the peerless luxury will wash away all your cares. They are convenient to the restaurant and the pool, and ideal for relaxation.
The Rhino House, a luxury self-catering house that can sleep 8 people in comfort, is perfect for groups who are travelling together, parties, and family holidays. The Rhino House offers privacy and luxury in a splendid setting.
The Silver Rocks Caravan Park is just the thing for guests who want to get up close and personal with Mother Nature. These stands, some of which are shaded, offer electricity and fresh water, are covered with grass to avoid a dusty stay yet still have the Bushveld feel. The stands have access to ablution facilities that would not be out of place in any ordinary 4 star hotel.
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