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What are Shelter's opening hours?
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What kind of music will I find in Shelter?
Shelter's programming is founded greatly on quality house and techno. There is plenty of room, though, for disco and more progressive, leftfield or other kinds of unconventional electronica.
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Every year, the Texas Department of Public Safety publishes the Crime in Texas Report, which provides summary information on seven types of crimes tracked and reported by law enforcement agencies that participate in Uniform Crime Reporting. These crimes include: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and auto theft. The uniformity of this reporting makes it easy to compare crime across the different law enforcement jurisdictions in Texas. In October 2017, the 2016 report was released. It contains information on the number of crimes reported, crimes cleared, and arrests made under each of the 7 index crimes.
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Bruton Museum is delighted to be welcoming Dorcas Casey, a Bristol-based artist, to join its team over the summer. Working with local people, Dorcas will create contemporary works inspired by the wonderful objects in the museum collections and their stories. The artworks will go on public display at the museum during Somerset Art Weeks (23 September to 8 October.) Later in the year it will be displayed at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton (November 2017 to January 2018) with work created by seven other artists at museums across Somerset and Devon.
A first-class degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art launched Dorcas's career and she has sold her work at both Bristol and London Contemporary Art galleries. Although now based in studios in Bristol, Dorcas hails from Glastonbury and says she knows Bruton well, having already exhibited a Casespace there in 2015. She works with found materials, fabric, resin and plaster, commenting:
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This really happened when Ella, a friend of ours, was house sitting and minding two dogs for one of her longtime friends, Gai.
Ella was out one evening when a severe storm struck, with much loud thunder and several lightning strikes. When she came home the dogs were gone, and she supposed that they were frightened by the storm and had escaped along the river bank beyond Gai's yard.
There was much searching with neighbours all joining in. Next morning the young dog returned but there was no sign of the much loved older dog that had been the family pet for many years.
Ella thought the poor old fellow probably followed the young dog along the river and might have become caught up in something, so she started to search along the river bank. Sure enough, and much to her dismay, she found the body of a poor old bedraggled dog, caught up in debris. Gai's son, who had come home to help in the search, confirmed that it was their dog, and they took the poor old fellow home and found a nice spot on the river bank behind Gai's place to bury him.
A few of the friends and neighbours who had joined in the search, gathered for the burial; some bottles of wine were opened and quite a nice little wake was held on the riverbank while the poor old faithful dog was laid to rest. Ella rang to tell Gai the sad news - Gai was, of course, sad but philosophical.
A day later the sun was shining bright when there was a knock at the door. It was the RSPCA who were bringing home Gai's dog which had been found lost and wandering after the storm and placed in their care. They had washed and groomed the animal and had traced it's owner through council records.
Ella was delighted to get the old dog back, especially when the RSPCA man said they would waive the $300 fee for recovering and caring for Gai's dog, since Ella had saved them the job of attending to the body of the dog she had found in the river.
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I just realised I didn't even know the guys first name.
As a favour, Tuesday night I went and took some shots of Mr Hudson & the Library, who played a sold out Scala, Kings Cross. Was a damn good show and full of energy (considering he'd just flown back from Texas after the SXSW jam). Only pain was the pit was frikkin tiny and a few of my shots was just up his nose.
Tribe girl and original homie Phoebe interviewed the man afterwards.
I found him to be quite level headed, didn't boast at all about his links to the likes of Kanye and Jigga man.
Then we took a cab down the road (women and heels..tut) to the Double Club for the after party, with Acyde and Mr. Yates spinnin. The crowd was a mix of concert-goers, industry folk and even some regular faces. I couldn't understand why the heating was on!
Addicted to communication?
My night ended with the 25 bus airing me like a proper tit and then the N86 breaking down 5 stops from my front door. Long.
He deserved it.
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Grandad 2.0
INT: Grandad's house.
Dad: So, Jimmy. Looking forward to seeing your grandfather?
Jimmy: Yes, dad. I hope he is better.
Dad: Doctors say that he's clean now, son. Two years without a drop.
Mum: Amazing to think he's changed so much. You'd hardly recognise him.
Dad: Yeah, I think everything's going to be fine. Jimmy:
Yeah! Grandad is great!
Grandad opens the door. His silver hair is neatly combed and his eyes glimmer with lively sobriety. He welcomes them in.
Grandad: Hello! Lovely to see you. Jimmy! My grandson.
Jimmy: Hello grandad. You look great!
Grandad: Thanks, grandad is all better. Do you all want a nice cup of tea? I have some orange juice for Jimmy.
Dad: Sounds good dad, place looks brilliant. You've taken good care of it.
Grandad: Yep. Keeping active, doing all kinds of stuff about the house. Let me just go to the kitchen and get the tea.
Grandad disappears from the room.
Dad: Brilliant. He's really done well. Hasn't he, Jimmy?
Jimmy: Yes dad. Suddenly, a smashing sound is heard, and the sound of screaming.
Grandad enters the room, swigging from a bottle, eyes red raw, hair caked and matted against a shimmering, sweating head. He is partially retching.
Grandad: FUCK! fuckinellldooyoocuntsget in…HIC…help her fuckin…fuc…self to my fucinstuff wontyer..
Dad: Dad! What happened to you? You were only in there two minutes!
Grandad: Been FUCKING WELL HAVING SOME GOOD TIMES inni EH? Fore I have to look at your stupid faces…what's that thing?
Jimmy: I'm your grandson Grandad.
Grandad: SMALL face on that cunt, like yours but smaller. *Points at Jimmy* Getcher small face sorted out, 'therwise you're never going to grow up, small face.
Jimmy: I'm a kid, Grandad.
Grandad: TIT OFF SHITBALLS, WEEEEEEEEHE! OOS THIS PIECE OF ASS?
Dad: It's your daughter in law. My wife.
Grandad: BIT OF FUCKING ALRIIGHT. SHIT THIS TWO CUNTS OFF SWEETHEA…..HIC..ART…I'll show you some old dog's fuckin' tricks..
Mum: Sob.
Grandad: WWWWWWWWWWWOOOAAAH!!!!
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Monday, 29 July 2013
'My Bastard Dog': Another sit-com idea.
INT: Man's house.
Man: Oi. Dog. Come here.
Dog: Arf…woof!
Man: How original. As you know, I've been working my balls off for a year to keep us living and you in Pedigree Chum. Which by the way isn't fucking cheap.
Dog: Yelp! Grr…woof!
Man: …..yes. Anyway, I'm going on holiday. I picked it out of a hat full of ideas. The Arctic. Sounds nice. Sort of continental. Anyway, while I am off sunning the fuck out of my cock and bollocks, you're looking after the place.
Dog: Yip! Bark…
Man: What I absolutely don't want is to come back to a house that's burned down, empty of my stuff, or covered in shit.
Dog: Howl…
Man: Which means you need to look after it you cunt. Look. I've left the oven on so you can cook some potatoes or something. There are some baked beans as well and the stove's on. REMEMBER TO TURN THE CUNT OFF when they're done. My taxi's in two minutes.
Dog: ARF! WOOF!
Man. Good. Glad we understand each other. Fuck, i'm late. Well, have fun, and don't shit on the furniture, you absolute cockend. (Man walks down the path and leaves the front door open.)
Man: LEFT THE FUCKING FRONT DOOR OPEN SO YOU CAN WALK YOURSELF! Don't forget to CLOSE IT WHEN YOU GET BACK IN!!
Dog: Yelp! WOOF ARF!
Man: (Does wanker sign at dog.) Fuck off, prick. I'm off. Two weeks of sun!
Man: What a great holiday. I don't think. Who'd have thought the fucking Arctic would be that cold. I should have gone in July, I suppo….FUCK! (The front door is open. Dog shit all over the floor. Man enters the house.)
Man: What the FUCK is this? Where's all my stuff?
Dog: YELP! ARF!
Man: Fucking prick. I TOLD YOU TO CLOSE THE DOOR!!
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Friday, 26 July 2013
Alan overlord.
I am Titchmarsh, the single most terrifying beast in the world. I crush skulls in my fist. I paint trees with the blood of my victims. I wear a hat made from ears, and my car's seats are made from the skin of sinners. I am Titchmarsh.
If you don't listen to me, I will rend you asunder and leave your scarred bones on the floor of a public toilet, to be eaten by the dogs.
That said, I am here to talk about tea. Tea, if you will humour me, is the single greatest intoxicant of our time. It is better than cocaine, speed, or cracks. Tea makes me a God, tea makes my garden grow and my cock grow roots. You think you've seen a man fully erect? You haven't until you've seen me consume tea and fuck my way through a good area of Sussex in an all night tea fuck-frenzy.
Tea was invented a long time ago, and used to be in black and white. Back then it was sold in giant bin-bags. There were no "tea-bags" back then. Tea would be strained in sacks, condoms, and pigskins. There was only two teas back then. White and black. Milk or no milk. In fact, the first cow was made by scientists for the sole use of tea drinkers.
There are many ways to drink it. It is very versatile. You can drink it in a prison cell. You can drink it in a bin. You can drink it at a funeral. You can even drink it while attacking your family with a fork. Tea can be consumed in any orifice, but must ALWAYS be finished. If you don't, I will cave your fucking head in. Here are my favourite teas.
1. Earl Grey. – Aromatic, nice with a burned rabbit cock.
2. Normal. – You can buy it anywhere. Put it in a mug and drink the bollocks out of it. The most famous of these is PG probably. Or Tetley. There's Value, but you're a cunt if you drink that.
3. Camomile. I don't know what the fuck this one is. I think it's probably drunk by rich people or something.
4. Human tea. Made from the secretions of humans. I drink a lot of my own tea. I am made of me. I am made of tea. Do you see? So, to end this harvest of facts, if I see ANY of you not drinking tea, I will drape your intestines over my cock and wank myself to a screaming orgasm.
So there it is. Everything you need to know about my taste in hot beverages. Now fuck off. I have a cup of tea to tip into my juddering fucking maw.
Alan Titchmarsh is a writer of romantic fiction, and a lover of tea. He also does some thing in gardens I expect.
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Thursday, 25 July 2013
Optimo @ Hoults Yard Think Tank. Sat 27th July. + Live mix.
On Saturday, if you're ears are tuned to the correct frequency, all roads head towards Newcastles East end to the Think Tank space down at Hoults Yard for a long overdue visit to our city for both JD Twitch and JG Wilkes, collectively known as 'Optimo'.
I won't run off at the mouth too much about them as I'm assuming that if you're reading this you'll already be aware of the gravity of reputation they hold. For anyone who may not realise this here's a a quick potted history.
Launched back in the late 1990s as Britain's 'superclubs' began to imploded, Optimo, - Jonnie Wilkes and Keith McIvor – alias JG Wilkes and JD Twitch – founded a regular Sunday night hoedown in fair Glasgow (somewhere round late '97 to be more accurate) at the Sub Club. With a music policy and party attitude that crossed borders, religions and philosophies of all kinds. And the rest, as they say, is history. Optimo, then went on to first take Glasgow, then the world.
Like John Peel before them, fundamentally they are true enthusiasts, easily among the UK's most catholic and discerning record collector, their sets (bloated with the kind of exquisite obscurities that most would kill for) reflecting this with post-punk and acid house sitting comfortably along side krautrock, psyche and dub techno, never less than bang on the money.
They gave up regular Sunday night party in late 2010, setting their sights on a more regular international touring schedule as well as clearing out more time to focus on production, but recently they have been popping up on a bi-monthly basis back at The Sub Club.
So, Saturday see's both Twitch and Wilkes team up (first time BOTH have played together in Newcastle!) once more to reprise the sound which defined Glasgow's last decade and a half. In these jaded times, Wilkes and Twitch make clubbing once again seem like the most exciting activity in the world.
Details on tickets and other stuff here.
Big love. X
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Wednesday, 24 July 2013
First look at 'Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey'
In a in a follow up to my post about the new series of 'Cosmos' it turns out that the makers released the teaser trailer for the new show on YouTube earlier this week. With a visual tone somewhere between Aronofsky's 'The Fountain' and Terrence Malik's 'Tree Of Life' is more than apparent that the producers have thrown some pretty serious money at the show.
Presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson, 'Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey' picks up where Carl Sagan's iconic 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage' left off. With the series is set to run on Fox and the National Geographic Channel in the US and a yet undisclosed channel in the UK (although word has it that Sky are in advanced negotiations to snap it up). With production by Seth MacFarlane and Sagan's widow Ann Druyan, fingers crossed we could be waiting for the next big thing in 'must see' television!
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013
About the author.
For years, Mark has pronounced the word 'Faux' as 'Fox'. Which doesn't sound like that big of a deal until you step into a PETA meeting and announce to everyone in the room to 'relax' cause the coat you are wearing is made "entirely out of Fox Fur".
He is the bloke who pulls up too far away from the McDonalds drive-through and has to open his door to lay his entire body through the window to get his food. He lives in the hearts of hardworking Northerners. Anytime a stressed-out factory worker prays for the strength to finish another shift or a immigrant African baby sees snow for the first time, he is there.
In a much more literal sense, he lives outside Newcastle. He is 40 years old and has won several international awards in fields as diverse as music, street boxing, writing and lovemaking. He is a personal friend of Johan Cruyff and Desmond Tutu. He is also a liar.
Some have referred to Mark as a renaissance man, not because he is skilled in many disciplines, but because he has a 15th Century understanding of science and geography, also he has gout and carries around a sword. He thinks Kanye West is an airline, Billie Halliday was a rest day and that The Bay City Rollers are an attraction at Alton Towers theme park.
He is available for children's parties - not to read or entertain; he just has a lot of free time and enjoys cake. This is his web-log: a 'blog' where Mark breaks all the rules. ,,,, Well, not ALL the rules,,,, the whole arson rule is definitely not broken and nothing like tax fraud, murder or anything serious like that. When I think about it, he still follows an overwhelming majority of the rules.
Here endeth the lesson.
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Monday, 22 July 2013
My New Sitcom
Lets face it comedy sitcoms are utter rubbish these days, I swear I've seen funnier plots in a children's cemetery. But don't worry, since we dissolved our involvement in the old Tourist-Mag blog we've not just been sitting about resting on our arses, no no, we've been using the extra time this has free'd up writing this really top class sit-com to pitch to the Channel 4 or BBC 3 or sutin' and it's chock full of proper fucking hi-larious capers and stuff that I wanted to tell you cats about.
Like there's this one scene where my brothers and I ask our Mum which one of us she loves the most and she responds, "It's a tie …for last place!" (cue studio audience goeing PURE stark raving acka.) It's full of super edgy, radge situations and stuff like that. Like there will be a scene where a poisonous snake bites my upper thigh right and my friend has to suck the poison out but he's all hesitant to because he doesn't want to appear to be a massive gaylord! Insert MEGALOLZ here!
You know, cause men would rather have their friends die screaming in front of them then to do something that kind of looks similar to something a homo person would do yeah?. That's just comedy! Here, I'm in stitches just thinking about it man. Also we are going to insert the word "bro" into other words,,,, a lot! Like a girl will ask my character, "Are you pro-life?" and I'll respond "I'm bro-life!" Then I will high-five the one black guy friend I'm going to write into the show, who I will have a… wait for it…wait for it,,,,, 'bro-mance' with. FUCKING LOLZILLA!
Also a lot of this 'hip irreverent comedy' will focus around me and my pals relationship. The relationship will run the spectrum of 'It's funny cause they are guys and have almost a 'couples' relationship, ya know, almost like they are gay but we know they are not from all the poon they slay." to "it's funny because they are uncomfortable in situations that may be misconstrued as gay.' LOL! Put on your laughing hats folks, it's going to be a fucking LOLOCAUST!
Mark Algar: Let's never come here again because it will never be as much fun,,,, by Thoughts On Love And Smoking. on Mixcloud
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Sunday, 21 July 2013
"Dead or alive you're coming with me."
I'm not a fan of Robocop. Its a faintly dreary science fiction franchise about a metal cop who clanks and whirs his way through three incredibly depressing films, and barely manages to stop some men doing some crime stuff with some things that they made. It's so boring there's no point remembering who the villains are and exactly why they have to be stopped. The only thing to remember is that Robocop himself is a boring tin-man. A tedious motherboard in a tin hat. A rubbish Terminator. A normal man wearing a terrible fancy dress constume.
He's also absolutely rubbish. There's never been a more terrible super-hero, though I doubt he even qualifies as one?! For a start, there's his shit suit. It looks like a fancy dress costume of the character he's playing. It doesn't look like a proper suit. It looks like it cost exactly five pounds ninety nine pence at the market, and was made for someone to go to a party dressed like Robocop.
Secondly, he's slow as fuck. His walking speed is about two miles an hour. Thank God for cars, because if he didn't have one of those, he'd be fucked. "Oi, Robocop! There's a terrorist attack you need to stop. Three days to get there? Okay, cheers then." By that time shit is fucked up and the hostages are dead! There's a reason there's only one Robocop. He's a prick. They only keep him around to laugh at him. The other cops are fleshy and weak, but at least they can get to a crime on time, and dodge a fucking bullet. Robocop is a trudging vending machine who wanders blithely into bullets and bombs. He's a cock. There's no stealth for a start! He makes more noises when he walks than a bag full of cutlery being tossed down a fucking great lift shaft.
So far then thats, slow, no agility and noisy. He can't sneak in. He's got a jet pack, but he's so shit at flying that he just gets missiles tossed at him by criminals who luckily miss all the time due to their aim being so bad because they're pissing themselves laughing at the flying bin!
The only thing in his favour is ability to withstand damage. That's because he's so shit at everything, it's all he can do. He just stands there, looking like a plastic prick, while being hammered with weaponry. It works to a certain point, until someone sticks a bit of dynamite into one of the holes in his crap armour, then bang, he's fucked.
Robocop gets regularly trashed. And the ONLY reason he survives is the same weak humans he's supposed to be better than fixing him up like a weary car owner who desperately hopes it will stay fixed, so he doesn't have to buy a new one. "Oh. Robocop's trashed again. Fuck's sake. Okay, we'll patch him up and send him back out to soak up some more bullets, the tin tosser." That's the gist.
In the LAST film (Before this awful series comes back in 2014) at the very last scene, Robocop has to fight two scary Japanese bot type things. He manages to spar with them for precisely twenty seconds, before they knock him over. He gets out of this by lying motionless, while some woman and a kid sort it out for him. It's like an adult pretending their shit kid is good at drawing, when the kid keeps showing them another picture of a dog that looks like a shit tossed into a ceiling fan.
Robocop is a cunt.
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Friday, 19 July 2013
You can force your story's shape, but the colo(u)r will always bloom.
This year's cinema landscape – to this point – has been a dry, arid wasteland of disappointing blockbusters, unfunny broad comedies and paint-by-numbers horror films. Pretty much like every year to be honest. For people who love and want to see intelligent, creative, original filmmaking that isn't risk-averse and tries to show audiences something they haven't seen before, the wait has been long and unsatisfying. Until now.
Writer director Shane Carruth's new film 'Upstream Colour' is an improvement in almost every single way over his dizzyingly confusing time travel stroy 'Primer' (shot for a reported $9000) and the leap from Carruth's debut feature to this 9 years later, is the kind of exhilarating jump you only see from a very select group of filmmakers. Where 'Primer' was cold, confusing, calculating and distant (all intentional on some level, and could never overcome its own desire to keep the viewer at arm's length) it ultimately felt like an exercise in filmmaking rather than a full-blooded film, more interested in constructing and showing off its Rubik's Cube-like time-travel logic than in creating a work of art (or entertainment) which is why 'Primer' remains a little-seen cult favorite exactly because of those flaws, 'Upstream Color' is luscious, cinematic, engaging. Where 'Primer' felt like it was trying to fry your brain and stay three steps ahead of you, nothing about this film feels thick of puzzle obsessed.
In fact, one of the beauties of Carruth's direction, editing and script is that it treats its audience with an abundance of respect. It neither dumbs itself down, nor does it sacrifice its rhythms and pacing to make sure everything is spelled out. Scenes flow almost unevenly, starting later and concluding sooner than audiences are traditionally used to seeing. This isn't sloppiness or cuteness, but a trust on the part of Carruth that if you are watching his film, you are intelligent enough to decipher and understand what's going on in a given scene and that you can put two-and-two together. That doesn't sound revolutionary, but the film's elliptical, yet concise nature isn't something one generally finds in most mainstream pictures. Sure, unanswered questions remain and linger, but they add to the film's enigmatic nature instead of becoming the foundation for a frustrating, irritating viewing.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that I don't really want to tell you much more about it. I want everyone's first viewing to be as unencumbered by foreknowledge as mine was and I believe the less you know or think about it before and while you're watching it, the better, more entrancing that experience will be.
Much of the film almost entirely eschews dialogue, opting instead for a confident, rapid editing process marked by beautiful digital photography and an auditory combination of sounds and music that play a huge part not only in our watching of the movie, but of what's going on in the film itself. Even though the dialogue ebbs towards the end and things occur (starting with a climax featuring piglets) that cannot be readily explained, it never threatens to slide into absurdity or parody (a charge even Malick has not fully escaped with his latest work). It's not boring. It's not frustrating. It's not amateurish. What it is, is a film that uncomfortably pokes away at our conceptions of identity, commitment, control, relationships, loss and love. It invokes the power of nature, relishes in the explainable, while complexly but confidently moving with elegance and effortlessness towards its almost tragic grand finale. It's not a puzzle film designed to confuse, stump or trick you. It wants you to go along with it and immerse yourself – maybe hypnotically on some level – into its world and this existential story about the things that make us human (life, love, loss, broken beings and uncovered redemption) and beings of nature we know only a little about.
Carruth's primary theme and interpretation revolves around identity and 'whether we control our identity or whether our identity controls us.' As if that wasn't heady enough stuff to touch, there are other ways of looking at the film, including a notable subtext of drug culture and addiction and how it affects individuals, relationships and society at large. Upstream Color feels like a new kind of film and Carruth seems to be at the vanguard of a brave new generation of American auteurs. It is the kind of art that results in the best kind of life cycle for movie lovers and audiences: curiosity, investigation, analysis, obsession.
In summation, this really is extraordinary.
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Thursday, 18 July 2013
Wake up! Wake up! You're already dead.
"People often accuse me of being a lefty,,,,"
Since the early 1990s Adam Curtis has made a number of serial documentaries and films for the BBC using a seemingly playful mix of journalistic reportage and a wide range of avant-garde filmmaking techniques. The films are linked through their interest in using and reassembling the fragments of the past—recorded on film and video―to try and make sense of the chaotic events of the present. While Curtis himself is not an artist, many artists over the last decade or two have become increasingly interested in how his films break down the divide between art and modern political reportage, opening up a dialogue between the two. The most recent of these has seen Curtis team up with Robert '3D' Del Naja of Massive attack, connecting the dark, intense music and visual work art of both with the thought-provoking vision of Curtis as a filmmaker in a haunted, captivating production. From the universally rave reviews this partnership has received, it sounds as though the two have genuinely completely redefine the very idea of "the gig". If this sounds like your thing or if your interested in finding out more about Curtis (many may well remember him from early series' of Charlie Brookers 'Screenwipe') and we encourage that you do, then grab your thinking cap, settle down, and enjoy some time with of one of the UK's most revelatory filmmakers. A good place to start, and my personal favourite of his work is his 2007 series 'The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream Of Freedom' which covers subjects such as cold war era Game Theory, behaviour modifying drugs, Dawkins' 'selfish gene' analogy as reductionism and Isiah Berlin's concepts of positive and negative liberty.
Curtis' most recent dissection of life in the modern era 'All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace' is another work of almost unparraled brilliance. Shown on BBC 2 back in 2011 this series of three films see's Curtis argue that we have been colonised by the machines we have built. From the dreams of internet Utopians and again he refers back to the "selfish gene" theory of human behaviour and onwards to the Twitter and Facebook revolutions. The films show dramatically how in every case there is an underlying vision of human beings as nodes in networks acting and reacting to flows of information around the system. As usual, Curtis illustrates his ideas by telling an extraordinary range of stories, from novelist Ayn Rand's tragic love affairs to the dreams and the frightening reality of the hippie communes, to the brutal politics of the Belgian Congo. In an age disillusioned by politics, this machine ideology seemed to offer a new way of ordering the world. But the shift in ideologies has come at a very high price – the idea that progress and political struggle can change the world for the better.
All watched over by machines of loving grace from mayo11 on Vimeo.
Well, we usually try to give you some music to listen to in our posts and in the interests of nothing more than self promotion we decided to whack up a mix I did for the radio show back in January when the show had first aired. Quiet timely actually as the Femi Kuti and Alicia Keys tracks are finally getting full releases now so I guess we'll say that's the reason we've put this particular mix up. Yes, that'll do. X
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Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Live mix: Cheap Nob Gags Vol 3.
Just a quick post for a mix I did for our monthly Saturday night radio show last weekend. I remembered to hit record at the start this time so you get the full 2 hours live and direct, crackles, scratches and fuck ups galore. Enjoy. X
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Billions and billions.
It's no secret to anyone who knows me or had read the old 'Tourist' blog (on which I wrote extensively about him) that Carl Sagan was and still is a huge personal hero of mine. He would have been 79 years old last month if he was still alive. He was an educator, astronomer, best selling author, and creator and host of Cosmos, which to this day remains the most widely-watched non cable series in the American TV history.
He was every bit the hard-nosed scientist while able to somehow, simultaneously not just recognize but celebrate our humanity which he found to be every bit as wonderful and mysterious as the universe within which we somehow managed to find ourselves. He did many remarkable things remarkably well before leaving us too soon at the age of 62 in 1996. It seems fitting to remember his life, work and continued impact by noting the incredible things that have been discovered and achieved since his passing that he, no doubt, would have liked very much. Among those that come to mind are the jaw-dropping images that have been sent back from the Hubble Telescope. We have found evidence of water on Mars and the moon alike. And very recently NASA scientists have determined that amino acids, proteins precursors and the building blocks of life, have been detected on the surface of a comet. Not as contradictory as it may appear on the surface of things, Sagan was highly skeptical of sightings of UFOs and tales of abductions but was also one of the driving forces behind the quest for signs of life out there and served as a trustee for the SETI Institute whose core mission is to explore and explain the existence of life throughout the universe. He wanted us to celebrate our lives here on earth and to continue the search for it elsewhere. He simply asked that we embrace and employ good, sound methods, and he was genuinely, infectiously enthusiastic about that.
Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we can revisit his groundbreaking series 'Cosmos' in part or in full any time on Youtube. (since none of us probably have the 12 hours to dig in right now)
Anyhoo, my main point to this post is that 'Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey' a brand new follow-up to Sagan's original 'Cosmos: A Personal Vovage' documentary series has finally been scheduled to be shown in early 2014. The new series will be presented by another of my all time favourite science teachers, the brilliant Neil deGrasse Tysson and is produced, somewhat puzzlingly by Seth MacFarlane of 'Family Guy' fame (I'll put my mistrust of the writer and producer of that awful piece of TV on the back burner!) and Sagan's widow and co-writer and producer of the original series Ann Duryan.
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
- Carl Sagan.
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Monday, 15 July 2013
Ivan Smagghe & Andrew Weatherall: For (social) club use only.
You're living in the distopian, urban wasteland yeah? WELL THIS SHIT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE! The Complete guide to 'Gangsta slang',,,, Ashington style,,,,,
1. Assassassination: a gangland hit on a rivals arse.
2. Biddy: An older gangster who dons a floral dress and has his hair blue-rinsed in order to display his elevated status within the gang heirarchy.
3. Blongin': Something both lengthy and ostentatious, such as a gold hosepipe.
4. Chalet: Ones home.
5. The Bronx: Wallsend.
6. Chevy Chase: Being persued by 5-0 in a Chevette.
7. Crisps: Crisps.
8. Danger Trumpet: A gun. ("I be parpin' 'you are dead' on my danger trumpet" - 'I Am Hard' by 50 Cent.)
9. Elsie: A gangsters winkie.
10. Fart One Off: To drop a heavy rhyme ("Causin' bubbles in yo bath when I fart one off" - 'Pass The Soap' by Jay-Z.)
11. Fifi: An effeminate 'Dawg.
12. Gang Banger: a sausage-like gangsta.
13. Goin' Margot: To go absolutely apeshit in manner similar to Penelope Keiths character in 'The Good Life'. ("You keep frontin' like Briars, I'm goin' Margot on yo' ass" - 'Naff Off' by Nas.)
14. Jiggy: A wig made of jelly. ("I rock a blackcurrant jiggy 'neath a cashmere kangol!" - 'Ponce Strutt' By Snoop Dogg.)
15. Ye Olde Boobe Shoppe: A prozzer.
16. Scone Vouchers: Money ("Got my stack of scone vouchers, where the fucks my clotted cream ho'?" - 'Cream Tea Thuggin'' By Noreaga')
17. Water Pistol: A makeshift gun made of ice, often used in a prison fight.
18. Pebble Dash: A crackheads fevered sprint to their local dealers house.
19. Mr Kippling: A drug dealer who possess some exceedingly good crack.
And if that shit isn't enough for you here's a mix that we've I've had on steady rotation since it energed back in December '12. Ivan Smagghe and Andrew Weatherall going back to back over almost 4 hours at Bigfoot Strikes. Big.
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Sunday, 14 July 2013
Op-ti-mo,,, on the ra-di-o-o-o-o!!
The monthly Optimo radio show on Rinse FM has become somewhat of a musical high point (along with Dan Avery's show) each month since it began at the start of the year. Keith and Johnny's broadcast remains one of the, if not THE best chance of hearing a record, regardless of genre or age that still has the power to stop you in your tracks and give you a real 'what the fuck' moment. We've been uploading their shows, along with other assorted oddities and bits that have caught our attention for some time now and just thought we'd give anyone missing out a polite, friendly nudge in their direction.
You can thank us later.
Big love. X
You can thank us later.
Big love. X
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Monday, 8 July 2013
'Lord Of The Isles' Mix.
There's been a lot of heat on 'Lord Of The Isles' recently! Occasionally a producer can quietly develop for some years before they come to the wider attention of the public, each release surrounding the talent with more good will and promoting their name in the process. The name Lord of the Isles has been increasingly spread of late. From modest beginnings, releasing on relatively unknown labels like Adult Contemporary, Catune and Ene, the producer's name has gone from a whisper to a buzz, catching the attention of the Phonica, Unthank and Shevchenko imprints more recently. His hypnotic brand of disco and boogie-tinged house has found favor among the listening public as well, furthering his reputation and placing his releases in high demand. With little information on the Scottish talent otherwise known as Neil McDonald I've bunged this mix uop for your listening pleasure. Now go on,,,, get it up ye!!
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Sunday, 7 July 2013
The Elegant Gentleman's Guide To Knife Fighting.
It goes without sayin' that you have to admire the determination of Ms. Pankhurst's crew when it came to letting themselves be heard and bringing the much needed attention to the plight of women's rights in the days when Charlie Chaplin was actually liked by J. Edgar Hoover. By the 1960s we had Germain Greer having lengthy conversations, (as well as lengthy fanny hair,) with the food in her fridge and relentlessly campaigning for middle class women to get those boardroom jobs that middle class men were usually boxed off with. As we enter a brave new millenium you would be forgiven for thinking that womankind had reached the pinnacle of existence, hmmmm,,,
That is until you wander in to any bar in Newcastle, or in fact, in any city, on any night over the 4 day weekend. You can't move for women, who have taken up the mantle of independence and confidence,,,, lying on their back or puking in a pissy corner. Yep, it would seem that the hard efforts of the many women who came before them fall somewhat silent on the bulk of the female population of today. Sadly, the theme music from the Charlies Angels film doesnt go down too well whilst being played in a club with most of the independent women staggering around the gaff with their snide Prada strides hanging off, or crawling across the damp carpet to the bogs.
WOMEN, nowadays, are just as handy as fellas for road rage or keeping the local courtroom economy in tip top shape. We even got female England hooligans now, wanting to stick it to Johnny Foreigner as a preference to their previous-tedious lifestyle, such as watching Corrie or Eastenders or spending all day and night on fucking MSN Messenger.
Times seem to now have changed since the 1960s and now most middle class women want to be presenting the Footy, as opposed to being a bank manager or controller of the BBC. THOUGH many may think this determination is a modern development, I have to add that, back in the early 1980s the Suffragettes of The Toon were sporting cagoules, Gang Of Four T-Shirts, Trimm Trabs and drainpipes.
This sent a bit of an ambiguous message and confused girls this side of the Tyne. Was it a fashion statement? A Sexual Revolution? Had the fighting spirit of Germaine Greer reached the shores of Newcastle? Sadly not, it was just the early wardrobe of the female smack head.
Not always renowned for their sartorial efforts, this particular look spread to many field, near and far! I recently read an old article on the net from the music press, dated way back in the mid 1980s, a sensationalized piece that was based around an A.C.R. gig down in London.
Rather than the journalist's version of events, which opened with reference to a chap arguing with his girl outside the venue, it has since been disclosed that what had actually happened was that the journalist responsible for the article actually caught the end of an argument which had resulted in a yarkin upper-cut on the lad by his missus in a row over who was wearing the best Trainers? Him or her? Apparently it was her, as she was sporting Adidas SL's whilst he was still in a pair of Hi-Tech, ouuuch! OFTEN the vanguard of the women's rights movement is the eternal hater of men.
Now, some men deserve to be called fit to burn when it comes to how they view or treat women. This isn't the case of all men, though this does not deter the hater of men and that legendary line is never far away: 'A woman does not need a man to get pregnant, a turkey baster will do! AHAHHAHAAAA' Thing is, turkey basters are poor conversationalists, look ridiculous in a sun hat and string vest on holiday,,, AND CANT CHANGE A FUCKING PLUG FOR YOUR NEW CERAMIC BASTARD HAIR STRAIGTENERS FOR YOU YOU FAT, STINKING, BARREN, MAN-HATING BULL-DYKE FUCK!!
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Don't you hate it when a man explains Man-Splanning. It reminds me that we still have work to do. Women can be just as bad. At a meeting the other day, we were discussing medicines and a new lady in the group was contributing some solid, interesting facts, and then another women turns to her and asks, "Are you a nurse?" She replied, "No, I'm a doctor." Maybe we should get our ducks in a row before hounding the men.
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Cleaning my house is an awful job. I don't hire anyone because I'm certain I will have to trail behind them wiping down what they miss. I wish I could sit back and not care. I try to make the chore fun with music or books on tape, but kneeling before a toilet to rid it of its grossness will never be fun. Glad to see companies trying to make it easier on us by inventing time saving devices. Maybe, someday, they will invent the blink nose twitch – you know, the talent of Samantha Stevens from Bewitched and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie. When that hits the market, I'm the first one in line.
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Jane Austen is a gem. I have been a fan for over twenty-five years. With the release of my new novel, I began to dig deep to find out why I love her work so much. It's simple really. Her creations are timeless. Even though old English can seem thick, Austen makes reading her sentences so enjoyable you don't even notice the multitude of semicolons and words like hallooing and boatswain. She knew what women wanted and she topped it with delicious humor. What makes it even more amazing is two hundred years later women still want to indulge in realistic romance, intrigue, and crazy relatives. Like I sad, she is a gem who is priceless.
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When September comes, my head fills with lists of chores. When the yellow busses start trolling my neighborhood, I know it is time to organize my house decorations. When the leaves change color, I crave roasted turkey and stuffing. When September arrives, it is all down hill to the new year, so hold on to your hats my friends.
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It arches at just the right moment.
Its red borders part with no effort.
I'm filled with joy, passion, and excitement.
I am not alone.
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I love a good scene with fun dialogue. The movie "While You Were Sleeping" has a delightful dinner table discussion. Everyone is having a conversation with themselves. It is cute, humorous, and moves the story along. I hope to bring that bravado to my next novel. Bravado is probably the wrong word - oh well!
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With joy and optimism, the Holidays come to call. I clear my throat and breathe in the cool air. It is time for peace, love, and kindness. I allow their warmth to fill my heart. God bless everyone!
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Craig Lancaster, author of the widely praised 600 Hours of Edward and the forthcoming novel The Summer Son to be released by AmazonEncore in early 2011) wanted to do something for others this Christmas season, so he wrote a fantastic holiday-themed story, "Comfort and Joy," to sell on Amazon and Smashwords for $1.
However, that he plans to donate 100% of the proceeds to Feeding America, whose 200+ food banks distribute to all fifty states, wasn't enough for us at Inside the Writers' Studio. When we learned of his plan to write some short fiction, he hadn't yet begun "Comfort and Joy," and we were more than happy to catch him early enough to challenge him to find a way to incorporate a few random words.
The words: snowman, hot chocolate, and jingle balls.
LANCASTER: I thought my "Jingle Balls" solution might have been a little reach, but I was 12 years old once, and it's something I might have come up with.
He managed to write the (approx.) 5,500-word story in just 24 hours.
LANCASTER: The idea has been bouncing around in my head for a while, and it's easily adaptable to a holiday angle. Short-story productivity, for me, comes and goes, and for whatever reason, I've been in a fertile period. I'll sit down in the next couple of days and knock it out. The funny thing is, I've never really written fiction on a deadline, but I have one now: I've pledged to send this story to the in-boxes of donors by Dec. 15.
He made good on his pledge; "Comfort and Joy" is available at Amazon and Smashwords right now (click a link to buy a copy – you can always come back here when you're done), and it will stay there indefinitely with the proceeds continuing to benefit Feeding America. And, as promised, it's only $1. "But why not charge more to give more?" we wondered.
LANCASTER: Two reasons. The first is the greater-volume-at-a-lower-price idea. The second is that I hope this isn't the be-all, end-all of people's giving. A few folks have written to me and said, "I want to give more than a buck," and my response has been this: "Send me a buck. Send your local food bank, or some other charity there at home, as much as you feel like you can give."
INSIDE THE WRITERS' STUDIO: What made you choose this particular charity? : I've been reading a lot about how stressed food banks are. Times are hard, and charitable giving is down. And since (I hope) donations will be coming in from all over, it didn't seem quite right to roll whatever money is generated toward the food bank where I live, though it certainly could use the help. So I figured that Feeding America, with its national focus, made sense.
One of the things that put this at the top of my mind was seeing a plea from my friend Carol Buchanan on Facebook that people not buy her books as gifts but instead donate to their local food bank. She said she'd eat whether the books are bought or not. Others -- many, many others -- are not so fortunate.
This effort is nothing like the NPR fundraising drive—there's no dollar amount in mind, no set goal ("I have no expectation here," Lancaster says. "If it's five bucks, it's five bucks."), but he does hope to turn this into an annual effort, one that involves more writers contributing to a holiday-themed anthology.
LANCASTER: Say, 15 or 20 holiday-themed stories, from a wide variety of genres, all with the aim of putting some food on the tables of people who badly need it. Wheels are already turning for next year: an anthology, from writers across the traditional and indie spectrums. Zombie Christmas, romance Christmas, bizarro, whatever. I think if I were to get people on board in, say, July, we'd be able to offer all kinds of options: individual stories, the entire collection, e-book, short POD run.
IWS: Do you think you might choose different charities in the future? : I haven't even thought about that. I'm pretty passionate about food banks. They're chronically understocked, and it's one form of charity that is completely without political overtones.
IWS: Have you ever donated to/worked in/needed a food bank? : I've pulled a few shifts stacking boxes and such, and I'm a reliable bring-a-canned-good-to-whatever-event guy, but I've never done it on a consistent basis. One of the things I hope to do, beyond the holiday season, is become a lot more involved with that sort of thing on a local level.
IWS: That sounds like a perfect New Year's resolution. Speaking of the new year—your upcoming novel, The Summer Son, will be released in January. Tell us about it. : It's a multi-decade father-and-son story. Mitch Quillen and his father, Jim, have been largely estranged for nearly 30 years, and the breach stems from a violent summer when Mitch was 11 years old. In the present day, they've been thrown together again and they try to work through the distance between them. All the while, Mitch is reliving that long-ago summer in the form of a note to his wife, whom he's kept away from that part of his life, in an effort to reconcile his own failing relationship with her. It's a story about the things we experience and how those things shape us -- and how those same things get interpreted in different ways by other people who were there.
IWS: Final question. Fruitcake: yay or nay? : You know, I'd love to say yay, just to be the contrary bastard I tend to be. But I cannot. Fruitcake is a nay. It's a nay to the 100th power. It's a nay that pushes at the outer edges of the space-time continuum. It's the nay that keeps on giving. Let's face it: Fruitcake sucks.
Thank you for allowing us to post our interview on your blog site and spread the word about Craig Lancaster's effort. - Kris & Kel, IWS
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When my mind goes numb and my attitude is grouchy as if I eliminated chocolate from my diet, I come to the realization that I haven't written any fiction in a few days. My need to spin a tale with made-up people with extraordinary characteristics is actually a physical longing like food and sleep. It is an addiction in a way. I must make some fiction or I will get the shakes.
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There is a fluffy layer of snow draping the tree in front of my house. A red bird is resting on a branch, wanting to sing, knowing no one will hear. The sun's dim rays are hiding behind a stormy, angry cloud. The road needs to be treated with salt. No sounds. No movement. All is still.
I put the photo back on top of the pile sitting on my desk. The mound of pictures is from last February's blast.
My hands are in the praying position.


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Click here for the full appeal with the state Shorelines Hearings Board.
You can find more background information at the end of this page, and at www.re-sources.org/tesoroxylene.
Joint press release below:
The coalition requests that the State Shorelines Hearings Board vacate the permit and require additional environmental review. That review, performed by Skagit County staff, failed to adequately consider the impacts from increased vessel traffic in the Salish Sea, increased risk of petrochemical and oil spills, increased emissions of greenhouse gases, increased impacts to air and water quality and increased threats to public health and safety. It also overlooked increased impacts to fish and wildlife resources — including the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. Governor Inslee recently signed an Executive Order instructing state agencies to take aggressive action to recover Southern Resident killer whales because they are "an iconic and treasured species in Washington and throughout the Pacific Northwest."
The groups are also appealing the decision to only require a Shoreline Substantial Development Permit, instead of a stronger Shoreline Conditional Use Permit. The more rigorous permit is required when older facilities propose new uses in the shoreline area, and when large bulk transfer operations are involved. Because of the unique risks associated with these types of projects, the State Department of Ecology is responsible for approving shoreline conditional uses.
Following the announcement, environmental organizations issued the following statements:
"This project's potential for doing irreparable environmental harm to our Salish Sea is why our environmental coalition came together in a steadfast effort to hold governments and industry to the highest standards. Skagit County has failed to properly regulate new industrial activity and its impacts. This project will transform the existing wharf into a petrochemical export terminal, a new use that was never before been considered or approved. We are acting today to protect not only the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve and the Fidalgo Bay Aquatic Reserve – both with shorelines designated Shoreline of Statewide Significance – but also Fidalgo, Guemes, and Samish Islands," - Tom Glade, President of Evergreen Islands.
"This project would increase air pollution, and that needs to be properly factored into the decision. Last year, the Shorelines Hearings Board ruled that Cowlitz County had improperly estimated the greenhouse gas emissions and impacts of a project in the same ways that Skagit County has now. We are confident that in this case too, the work will have to be redone." - Eddy Ury, Clean Energy Program Manager for RE Sources for Sustainable Communities.
"The Salish Sea is irreplaceable and this project unnecessarily puts it at risk. The Environmental Impact Statement was deeply flawed, failed to account for the acoustic impacts on Southern Resident Killer Whales and failed to account for the real risk of a worst-case spill. This project would mean 60 new petrochemical vessels coming to Anacortes every year. Many of these would be the under-regulated articulated tug barges (ATBs); in November 2016 an ATB ran aground, sank, and spilled over 100,000 liters of diesel near Bella Bella. Just one year later an ATB's "emergency situation" came close to causing another spill in the same location in British Columbia. A spill from this project's vessels could cause far greater environmental and economic impacts." - Stephanie Buffum, Executive Director with Friends of the San Juans.
"We are going to keep pushing to get this right. Tesoro's plan is to ship massive quantities of petrochemicals through the community. The environmental study downplays the the risk of a major spill and the impact from climate pollution" said Chris Winter, co-director of Crag Law Center (crag.org), which is representing the appealing organizations. "We can't trust the oil industry to keep our communities and environment safe. This case is about holding industry accountable and protecting the public from yet another plan to export fossil fuels to foreign countries."
Xylenes are toxic, flammable petrochemicals used to make plastic and synthetics. The Andeavor Anacortes Refinery petrochemical expansion project would add capacity and allow the refinery to begin producing and exporting 15,000 barrels (630,000 gallons) of xylenes per day for export to Asia. It would increase Salish Sea tanker traffic by an additional five tankers per month.
More than 7,500 people submitted comments on the project's draft environmental impact statement (EIS), the majority of which asked Skagit County to address concerns over worker safety standards, petrochemical spills in the Salish Sea, risks to endangered orcas, massive increases in the pollution that causes global warming, and use of the new facility for crude oil export. Commenters also asked the county to separately review the xylene export and clean products upgrade components of the project, while properly accounting for greenhouse gas pollution.
In July 2017, Skagit County Planning and Development Services issued the project's final environmental impact statement, just two months after the public comment period on the draft EIS. The final EIS did not adequately address concerns in many areas.
In November 2017, more than 100 people attended a public hearing on the project's Shoreline Substantial Development Permit. The overwhelming majority of them were there to continue to highlight flaws in the project's final EIS, and to call on the Skagit County Hearing Examiner to deny the crucial shoreline permit for the project.
On February 27, the Skagit County Board of Commissioners held a two hour hearing with presentations by attorneys for the appellants, and Tesoro and comments by parties of record. The hearing was attended by more than 100 people. The Board announced their decision to uphold the Hearing Examiner's decision on March 9.
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December 2012 Fitness Retreat Boot Camp saw another great turnover of guests, ten in all and from all over the globe. We saw boot campers from the UK, Denmark, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia traveling too our luxury Spa resort Boot camp, Chiang Mai to get fit, lose a few pounds, have some fun and make new friends.
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Here are a few of the comments from our December 2012 Boot Camp.
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David lost a staggering 4.3kg and 2.6% of his overall body weight. He also lost 4cm from his waist and improved his bleep test result by over one level, going from 10.6 to 11.5, amazing what only 7 days of good clean exercise and some healthy eating can do!
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Sinus samples are obtained by surgery. One of the most common samples is "antral washings" from the maxillary sinus where volumes of saline are used to wash out sinus contents.
Acute sinusitis commonly involves upper respiratory tract organisms such as S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, M. catarrhalis and Group A streptococcus. S. aureus, B. cepacia and P. aeruginosa are also potential pathogens especially in immunocompromised patients. Anaerobic and fungal cultures are done on request only.
Nasal and nasopharyngeal specimens are unacceptable for diagnosis of sinusitis and are cultured for Staphylococcus aureus colonization only.
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i have a compaq presario 1255 laptop it has windows 98 but i want to upgrade to windows 7 how do i remove windows 98
That computer isn't gonna run Windows 7, I'll tell you that for sure. The specs don't even come close to Win 7 requirements. You best leave that computer with Windows 98.
You've been helped by a 15 year old.
RMT2 is correct. Per the specs:
the maximum memory the machine will take is 160MB. Win7 requires 1GB to run (at the "not-so-fun" speed), so you're best bet is to stick with Win98, or perhaps a "stripped-down install" of Windows 2000 (after upgrading it to it's maximum RAM and HDD capacity).
"Channeling the spirit of jboy..."
Or possibly a version of Linux.
Or you can upgrade to Windows XP? But it will run slow... Just have that in mind
That laptop will not run WinXP. See the specs linked below. Hard drive is too small and max. RAM is 160MB.
Might want to read all the replies before posting.
Yes, saw that the harddrive was too small, but if he is compressing the drive, be might just be able to install Windows XP, without any updates or programs etc.
Have you consider to look up Windows 2000? It should run OK if you don't install any updates
AKDOS, even with compression, imagine trying to use Windows XP on that computer. My older laptops even with 256 MB of RAM barely struggle to run XP SP3, no updates, no anti-virus. Plus XP slows down massively when there isn't enough free space on the HDD. It would best be left at '98.
You've been helped by a 15 year old.
There is a diffrence to "run" and to "run good"
Yes, but what is the point if the computer is running so slow it isn't usable? Then it just becomes a paperweight.
You've been helped by a 15 year old.


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Power motion means that you can stop the recliner seat and back with simultaneous movement at whatever position best suits you.
Wall-saver recliner mechanisms slide slightly forward instead of straight back, allowing you to keep your recliner close to a wall.
This item has built-in USB charger(s) to keep cell phones, tablets, and other devices charged and ready to use.
The Kool Gel cushion features open cell foam infused with cooling gel. This temperature-control cushion helps to draw heat away from the body and has great bounce back for long-lasting support and durability.
This recliner has a no-gap cushion that extends from the seat to the feet. This style offers fuller comfort and support for your legs, and eliminates the open gap that toddlers can get fingers or toys stuck in.
Kool Gel cushioning in the seat cushion adds to the comfort of this power recliner, while its track arms and sleek back add to its contemporary style.
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Did you know that coffee is considered to be one of the "dirty dozen"? We're not talking about the old 1960s movie - we're referring to the twelve foods with the highest levels of pesticide contamination. When you drink a cup of non-organic coffee, you're ingesting lots of pesticide residue along with your daily brew.
The US government has no say over how much pesticide farmers use on their coffee crops because most coffee is grown outside the US. However, some of the most dangerous and toxic chemicals that are not allowed to be used on American farms are exported to other countries and used on crops (like coffee) that are then imported into the US.
Just how much toxicity you're getting in that eye-opening cup o'java isn't clear, but it is known that up to 250 pounds of pesticide is used to treat every one-acre parcel of a coffee plantation. That's a lot of carcinogens.
So what's a coffee lover to do? The answer is deliciously simple: buy organic coffee. In order for any crop to be certified as organic, the farm on which it's grown needs to meet specific USDA requirements, including (but not limited to) avoiding the use of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and other restricted chemicals.
Some coffee connoisseurs feel that organic coffee actually has a richer, fuller taste and aroma than non-organic. And of course, we've all heard about the health benefits coffee offers, like containing antioxidants that can help lower inflammation, which in turn can help prevent serious diseases like cancer.
While it's true that you'll pay more for any organic product, you'll also have the peace of mind that you're preserving your health along with the earth and even the small wildlife that come in contact with the crops. And that always feels good!
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Accommodation › Casa particular
The private room directory, is a listing with the better Casa's in the Centro district.
Most of this rooms, offer good accommodation, cold and hot water, airconditioning, bathroom, private toilet and TV.
The average price is 25-30 Cuc per night depending on the saison.
Marta NEW
calle Lealtad #308 between San Miguel and Neptuno street
Habana Centro
Phone:+537 878 50 38 Write to us for Reservation and
more information and pictures by e-mail:casamartica(at)yahoo.com.mx
Independent apartment, 2 rooms with air conditioning, private suite bathroom
email: casamartica(at)yahoo.com.mx (replace (at) by @)
website : Marta Habana Centro
promotion price for our visitors only 20 CUC if you mention Havana-guide.com
Pilar y Marcelino NEW
Calle Barcelona #107 between Anguila and Galiano street
Habana Centro -
Independent apartment with all necessary amenities, in the heart of the Old City. (2 rooms with double beds - airco- TV)
Phone:+537 863 70 11
email: pilarmarcelino(at)yahoo.com.mx - replace (at) by @
website: Pilar y Marcelino Habana
Price range: 25 CUC
Maria Elena NEW
Calle Aguila #309 between Neptuno and Concordia street
Habana Centro
Distinguised house in a beautiful building in the heart of the Old city near the Prado and the Capitol. Rooms with airco, private bathroom.
Phone: +537 863 01 19
email: mariaelenautria(at)yahoo.com.mx (replace (at) by @
website: Maria Elena Habana
Price range: 25 CUC
Miguelina NEW
Calle Lealtad #419 between San Rafael and San José street
Habana Centro
Independent apartement close to the historical center, China town and the Malecon. The apartment has airco, double bed, private bathroom, kitchen and terrace.
Phone: +537 863 95 08
email: miguelinavaldes(at)yahoo.com.mx (replace (at) by @
Miguelina Havana
Price range: 25 CUC
calle Blanco #111 between Animas and Trocadero street
Habana Centro
Phone: +537 863 40 33
email: rbarroso(at)infomed.sld.cu (replace (at) by @
website: Abel Havana
Calle Trocadero #259
Between Aguila and Amistad street Habana Centro
Phone: +537 864 42 86
email: casaluly(at)yahoo.es (replace (at) by @
Luly Havana
Price range 30 Cuc
calle Virtudes #511
Between Perseverancia and Lealtad street
Habana Centro
Phone: +537 863 18 02
Cary Havana
Price range 25 cuc.
calle Virtudes 624
between Gervacio and Escobar street
Habana Centro
Phone: +537 867 99 87
Cellphone: 537 052 686 005
website: Botello Habana
Daniel y Fina
Calle Hospital #661
between Salud and Jesus Peregrino street
Habana Centro
Phone: +537 870 09 45
Daniel y Fina Havana
calle Manrique #256
between Neptuno and Concordia street
Habana Centro
email: ivan.lopez.hola(at)gmail.com (replace at by @)
website: Lopez Havana
Price range: 25 cuc
Alexis y Mary Havana
Calle San Juan de Dios #106 second floor, between Aguacate and Compostela street
Habana Centro
email: alexisymarinelda(at)gmail.com (replace (at) by @
Phone: +53 8 633740
Mobile:+53 52 843224
Price range: 25-30 Cuc
Pablo Habana
calle Neptuno #404 first floor
between San Nicolas and Manrique street
Havana Centro Cuba
Phone: +53 7 867 2055
Mobile phone: 53450785
email: septiembre1997(at)hotmail.com
Website : Pablo Havana Centro
Price range: 20-25 Cuc per night (meals not included)
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Defining The Term: 'Bonk/Hit the Wall'Posted on May 19, 2013 under Events | No Comment
I overheard a conversation at the Tour of California that inspired me to write this blog post. Two spectators were trying to explain what it meant to 'bonk' after one of the color commentators mentioned something.
Learning the proper terminology when it comes to cycling and endurance sports can be difficult, but it's important to understand certain phrases.
From the official Amgen Tour of California guide:
"Both are bad news for a cyclist. To 'bonk' or to 'hit the wall' means a rider has not consumed enough calories to fuel his/her bbody. Cycling races are usually long and require careful replenishment of calories and electrolytes. Failure to fuel correctly can lead to a rider falling off the pace of the main group and may even cause them to drop out of a race."
It's likely inevitable you will bonk during training – and hopefully not during a race – but there is a lot of work
Alameda Runners: Long Distance Training Supplies
Alameda Runners: Importance of Proper Carb Consumption
Fueling for Cycling (PDF)
TriRadar: How to Avoid Bonking While Cycling
Bicycling.com: Cycling Nutrition: Coca-Cola
I'm sure sports nutrition and avoiding the bonk will be discussed again in the future here on Alameda Runners.


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Bio: Jeanise Rosado has successfully organized group classes, tournaments, after school programs and summer camps. In 2015 Jeanise became Head Coach for the Briar Woods High School girls varsity tennis team. In her first season Jeanise lead the girls team to win first place in Districts. Along with the team win, she also coached the #1 Double's Team to District Champions, Regional Champions (first time in Briar Woods history) and runner up in States. Jeanise is also passionate about coaching the younger children in the Academy. Her goal is to have all the 8 and under children participate in the Spring 8U red ball teams. "It is very important that a child's first introduction to tennis is a positive one. I incorporate fun and learning in all my 8U classes. My overall goal is to empower all our athletes to be their best on and off the court".


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The thing that we care to oneself, often can be without difficulty remember. Accordingly, pupil can will go to school of the toy that sees in road call-over write down as clear as dayly, more active besides the cerebral ministry activity because of children outside, more important is they were full of curiosity to the thing. Contrary, one drives the person that the bus commutes everyday, do not have the impression of a bit however to the vista outside the window, this was not holding interesting affection in the arms to admire because of him namely. Accordingly, memorial precondition depends on arousing interest.
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We have conducted a series of field observations along the Izu ridge in order to investigate the role of mixing induced from an isolated island due to Kuroshio on the planktonic ecosystem. We have developed a new microstructure free fall profiler, Turbulence-ocean Microstructure Acquisition Profiler (TurboMAP), to measure both turbulence and chlorophyll field simultaneously. We also used a towed hydrographic instrument, Aquashuttle, to map the hydrography of the upper ocean. We studied three islands during the grant period. The first is Oshima, which locates at the northern end of the Izu ridge. Kuroshio extends the branches of the flow around this island. We have identified three distinguished hydrographic patterns : eastward stream, westward stream and no branch effect. All three cases had a common feature being the eastern part of the island showed higher chlorophyll level than the eastern part.We surveyed Mikura-island as the second investigation site. Aoga-shima is the third inves
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tigation island. Both island locate the southern end of the Izu ridge and Kuroshio hits the island directly. In October 1999, we measured the hydrography of Mikura-island and dropped a few TurboMAP profiles. Unfortunately, the winch designed of TurboMAP during this experiment was not suited for this type of open ocean operation, we did not have sufficient information to get the global picture of the mixing event. In October 2000, we improved the winch system and the cable for TurboMAP.During this experimental period Kuroshio directly hit Aoga-shima. Although the weather was hash, we made successful microstructure measurements behind the island.In order to the level of understanding on the coupling between mixing and planktonic ecosystem, the head investigator (HI) has collaborating with numerous people from the north America. The HI studied the interaction between turbulence and planktonic organisms using a video system with collaborators from Woods Hole oceanographic institution. The HI also review the coupling problems for small scale physical processes and planktonic organism with collaborators from University of Victoria and Institute of Ocean Science of Canada. Less
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When fellow councillors gasped in shock he said:
My apologies to everyone concerned. It was not intentional. I do hope the gentleman of the press doesn't report that.Unfortunately for Cllr Thierry, the gentleman of the press did report it and the festive period being a couple of slow news weeks, the national press have picked up on it as well. If this was a UKIP councillor the party would have been denounced as racists and the BBC's resident left wing comedians would be making oh so funny sneering jokes about UKIP members. Funnily enough, they seem to be silent about this Conservative.


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Beer funnels, also known as beer bongs, have become popular on the college and party scene over the years. There are single-person models as well as multiple-person versions to choose from. There are plenty of premade ones on the market that are ready to be purchased, or you can follow a few steps to make your own customised model to utilise at your next social gathering.
Cut the plastic tubing into five sections that are each 2 to 3 feet long with heavy duty scissors or a sharp box cutter. Cut another piece that is 1 foot long. A home-improvement store worker may be able to help you with the cutting part of the process. The diameter of the tubing will depend on your preference; 1 inch is a popular choice. The size of the tubing will determine the size of the valves and adaptors. If you choose a 1-inch tube, then the other pieces will be the same size, as the tubing will stretch snugly over the other pieces.
Attach the 1-foot section of tubing to the bottom part of a "Y" connector. Connect an adaptor and the bottom part of a "Y" connector to each of the top parts of the first "Y" connector. At this point you would have enough outlets for a four-person beer funnel, but you need one more outlet.
Connect another adaptor and bottom part of a "Y" connector to one of the top sections of one of the "Y" connectors that you just attached. Now you should have five outlets for tubing. The "Y" connectors are preferable over regular connectors with 90 degree angles, as these will make the beer foam as the liquid goes through them.
Connect one of the 2-to-3-foot tubing sections to each of the five outlets that you have just constructed. Make sure they are snug to prevent spilling.
Attach the free end of each of the five longer tubes to its own adaptor. Each adaptor then connects snugly into the PVC ball valves. The valve will help to reduce spilling, and you won't have to plug the end with your thumb when the beer is loaded but you are not using it.
Attach the free end of the 1-foot section to the funnel.
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- When you purchase your supplies, you can ask a salesperson at the home-improvement store for any clarification as to which supplies will best fit your needs, or how to fit the pieces together. They are knowledgeable about the merchandise and usually very helpful.
- Beer funnels introduce alcohol into your system at a rapid rate. Use caution with the amount and frequency that individuals use the beer funnel, as this may become dangerous to their health or can even be fatal. Never stick anything in the beer bong that isn't liquid, to avoid choking. Always obey the legal drinking age.


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Step 1
Identify the trust's successor trustee. This is the person the decedent named in his trust documents to take over management after his death. If you're the person named, you won't need court authorization to act on behalf of the trust; the documents are enough.
Step 2
Refer to the trust documents to find out how the decedent wanted his assets distributed. You might have to have some of them appraised and valued. If the decedent stated that he's leaving half the trust assets to his spouse and 25 percent to each of his two children, you'll have to determine how much everything is worth in order to work out that equation. The amount you'll divide among them is what remains after paying for any necessary appraisals and valuations.
Step 3
Call a meeting of the decedent's beneficiaries. If the decedent left his estate in percentages, provide the beneficiaries with copies of any appraisals you've had done to establish the value of the assets. Provide them with a written, detailed summary of what you're going to distribute to each of them to equal those percentages. In some cases, the decedent might have left specific assets to certain beneficiaries. The trust documents can corroborate these bequests. Ask the beneficiaries to sign a consent that they agree with your distribution.
Step 4
Take the trust documents, as well as a copy of the death certificate, to all financial institutions holding accounts in the name of the trust that are to be transferred to the decedent's beneficiaries. Because the trust documents name you as successor trustee, this acts as authorization for the institution to follow your directive to transfer the accounts to the named beneficiaries.
Step 5
Confer with an attorney to find out what kind of deed your state accepts for transfer of any real estate the trust might contain. This is usually a trustee's deed, but it can vary from state to state. After you know what sort of deed to prepare, you can have one drawn up for each piece of real estate to transfer title to the named beneficiary.
Step 6
Distribute the last assets, such as any personal property the trust included, and close the trust. If you have to transfer title to automobiles, check with your state's department of motor vehicles to determine the exact procedure in your jurisdiction.