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Modern Identity Strategies for Today's Healthcare IT Realities
Healthcare IT leaders face market and regulation requirements to expand and modernize their digital strategies. Whether it is delivering applications and platforms to accommodate consumer-centric healthcare or fast paced M&A, successful IT leaders are focusing on initiatives that are meant to profoundly impact the healthcare value chain and reinvent operations.
Identity is central to this transformation.
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- How modern identity platforms help accelerate digital transformation
- How to improve and secure your patient, care giver & employee experience
- How Mount Sinai is developing technology to enable seamless and effective collaboration on patient care across several organizations
Nov 30 2016
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Protecting Privacy in an Identity-centric World
May 24 2019
43 mins
Marc Rogers, Kurt Opsahi, Jon Callas, Sara-Jayne Terp, Joseph Menn
2018 was yet another hallmark year of data breaches, and this time with them came along a new slew of consumer privacy problems. Amid the chaos looms a larger set of questions: what is our digital identity?
Who is the custodian of that information? And what rights do we, as citizens of the digital globe, have? Companies today have a wealth of knowledge beyond identifying numbers like SSNs or credit card numbers that get at the crux of who we are as individuals, such as biometrics and behavior.
So what needs to change when it comes to protecting the privacy of our most precious information – our identities?
Marc Rogers Executive Director, Cybersecurity Strategy Okta
Kurt Opsahl Deputy Executive Director General Counsel EFF
Jon Callas Senior Technology Fellow ACLU
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But with the ever increasing number of data breaches, privacy concerns, and misuse of data, lawmakers are stepping in to arm data regulation with teeth. In the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was the first step taken to set a new standard for data privacy.
In the race to become GDPR compliant, many companies have adopted manual processes for handling GDPR requirements such as customer requests for profile information and the right to be forgotten. As these organizations embark on the journey of continual data privacy compliance with more regulations being proposed and enacted, enterprises must take a second look at automating, securing and future-proofing their infrastructure.
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Listen to this webinar to hear about:
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Gartner predicts that by 2022, API abuses will be the most-frequent attack vector resulting in data breaches for enterprise applications. In this on-demand, we'll reconsider our earliest assumptions and use the new understanding to bring our APIs out of the shadows and create an effective API security strategy to protect ourselves, our partners, and our customers.
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A dynamic identity and access management platform should be extensible and integrate with your existing detection and response tools, as well as give you flexible automation and orchestration in managing an end user's lifecycle journey.
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Teju Shyamsundar, Okta, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
It's no secret that today's hackers are smarter than ever before - a motivated hacker can use a variety of different methods to steal passwords from unsuspecting users.
While two-factor authentication solutions have been around for a while, they're no longer comprehensive enough to defend the new perimeter. Join us to learn the anatomy of common identity attacks, and how to keep hackers out of your organization.
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Identity attacks that exploit insecure methods of authentication
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What to look for in a multi-factor authentication solution
Speaker: Teju Shyamsundar, Okta, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Bio: Teju is a Product Marketing Manager on Okta's product team, focusing on integrations across Okta's set of core products. She is responsible for driving the value of the integrations across not just Okta's products, but also integrations with the vendors that Okta partners with. Prior to Okta, Teju was a field engineer at Microsoft, focusing on getting customers setup with enterprise mobility deployments.
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Data Breach Myths vs. Reality
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Data breaches can happen to any organization, so it's important to understand your organization's risk of a data breach. But where should you start your assessment? What practical and pragmatic steps can you take?
In this presentation, we'll discuss the myths vs. the realities on how:
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Sami is a security professional with over 15 years of experience across the security spectrum helping large enterprises with card fraud, web-scale user authentication and risk management and cloud workload security. At Okta Sami is responsible for technical marketing of Okta security business. Previously Sami was Principal Technologist at CloudPassage and before that he ran RSA's Americas Sales Engineering for their Fraud Prevention product lines.
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55 mins
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With the demise of the traditional enterprise network security perimeter, enterprises are leveraging the power of identity to secure and control access to all applications, systems, and data. All this IT infrastructure is housed both on-premises and in the cloud, and must be accessed by authorized local and remote employees as well as a growing web of partners, contractors, and suppliers.
Join us to learn how the Okta Identity Cloud coupled with SailPoint Identity Governance can help you securely and effectively authenticate, provision, and govern access to all applications and data across the hybrid cloud and on-premises enterprise.
Join the two leaders in Identity for this informative webinar and learn how to:
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Over their 100-year history, Nexteer Automotive welcomed technology advancements and innovations. They continue this journey in the era of digital transformation to fuel productivity, efficiency and innovation.
While modernizing IT led to automation and productivity gains it also significantly increased their attack surface in a time when cyber threats are all too common. The complexity of legacy infrastructure, on-prem apps, and adoption of cloud apps, produced a multitude of end-user entry points. This complicated both security and user lifecycle management.
Join CISO Arun Desouza from Nexteer to learn how they used identity as the lynchpin to connect disparate systems and applications. He will discuss how they used identity management to:
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- Improve user lifecycle management by provisioning employees into all on-prem and cloud apps using HR-as-a-Master.
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Don't want to miss this opportunity to hear how Nexteer used identity architecture to connect everything and improve ease of use, scalability, automation and productivity.
About the speakers:
Arun Desouza is Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer at Nexteer Automotive Corporation. Previously, he served as CISO and Director, Strategic Planning and Information Security at Inergy Automotive Systems. Arun's expertise includes security strategy, risk management, identity management, cloud and privacy.
Sibrina Subedar is a Director of Product Marketing at Okta. She spent 12 years at Cisco in many roles including Customer Advocacy & Product Management and working across many technologies like routing, switching, security, VoIP. The following 3 years at NetApp she started with product management on security products.
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"Yes" to Identity. "No" to Parrots.
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Dr. Ronald Ross, NIST, David Hogue, NSA, Joe Diamond, Okta
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In this webinar, originally hosted by i360Gov, leaders from government and industry provide an overview of current initiatives and solutions to the many IT modernization challenges agencies face, such as:
- Maintenance that often requires immediate attention and runs the risk of breaking integrations and upgrades
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"Wouldn't it be great if Einsturzende Neubaten had Shangri-Las songs?" - Jim Reid.
And so heralds the starting point for The Jesus & Mary Chain, a band totally out of place upon their arrival in 1984 yet whose influence and legacy has lived on for three decades since. Indeed, as an impressionable schoolboy in the dead end mining town of Mansfield during the mid-Eighties, hearing the ear-splitting squall of 'You Trip Me Up' sounded like nothing else on earth. Deadpan vocals colliding with a wall of feedback and white noise seemed a million miles away from the synthetic pop of Nik Kershaw and King that filled the airwaves at the time. Despite my initial response being "Is it really meant to sound like that?" it didn't take long to become hooked and ultimately shape my musical palette for the next 26 years. The fractious relationship between brothers Jim and William Reid only served to make The Mary Chain even more real than the sea of poseurs they were swimming against.
Even now in 2011, debut album Psychocandy still sounds as relevant and shocking as it did when first issued in November 1985. Argue the point if you wish but it would be inconceivable to imagine genres such as shoegaze, post-rock, C86 or indeed many of the more leftfield, guitar-based independent sub-genres even existing without Psychocandy paving the way. Imagine a world without My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Mogwai, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Nine Inch Nails and many more whose names could be added to that list as we know and admire them? Exactly, impossible to contemplate isn't it. What's more, instead of sticking to the unique formula they created on that initial masterpiece, The Mary Chain evolved with every subsequent release. Some may claim they'd run out of ideas and more probably patience by the time 1998's Munki rang the death knell. Nevertheless, for 14 years they proudly raised two fingers at the mainstream, infiltrating it at their leisure throughout. How many top ten singles can you name that open with the immortal line "I wanna die like Jesus Christ, I wanna die on a bed of spikes"? Uncompromising until the end, if ever a band deserved the remastered box set treatment with added warts and all it would be East Kilbride's finest.
Over the next three weeks, starting with Psychocandy and Darklands on September 26th and finishing with Stoned And Dethroned and Munki on October 10th, each of their six albums is to be re-issued as a triple CD/DVD deluxe box set containing remastered versions, singles and b-sides, demo recordings, live concerts, television appearances and numerous rare and unreleased songs complete with extensive booklets containing interviews with band members, lyric sheets and rare photographs and memorabilia. Here, DiS reviews and reflects on each re-issue.
If hearing Never Mind The Bollocks for the first time acted as some kind of musical awakening, then Psychocandy represents my official Groundhog Day. Christmas Day in 1985 would be where lines were drawn, old cassettes and vinyl cast aside, and pretty much everything else discarded as being irrelevant. From the opening echoes of 'Just Like Honey' to the crushing finale that is 'It's So Hard', every single solitary part of Psychocandy's 14 piece jigsaw signified a new dawn in the way so-called alternative, independent or experimental bands (*delete where appropriate) would approach music in the future. Sure enough, the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, Einsturzende Neubaten and Throbbing Gristle had already crossed previously forbidden boundaries, but here was a band not afraid to fuse melody with obnoxious bursts of white noise. Unafraid of publicly confessing an unashamed love of Phil Spector and Motown alongside more obvious influences like The Velvet Underground. Let's not forget back in the mid-Eighties you had to belong to a faction. You had to be a skinhead, or a punk, or a mod, or a rocker, or a futurist, or a soul boy. There was no in-between. In the smalltown I grew up in any fusion between sub-genres was deemed unacceptable, the actions of a 'poseur'. So for a band to come along and make music completely alien to anything heard before while stating their inspiration had come from opposite ends of the musical spectrum was just totally flooring.
It goes without saying that alongside The Head On The Door and Meat Is Murder, Psychocandy was one of the few highlights in what was an especially bleak year for UK music. Simmering with vitriol, brutality and an underlying subtlety and substance few could comprehend, there isn't a moment on the entire album where the skip button takes precedence over the record's contents. Lyrically ambiguous but ultimately dark in sentiment, the likes of 'The Living End' and 'Taste The Floor' could have been about anything you wanted them to be, the latter's admission that "The sun don't shine, and all the stars don't shine, and all the walls fall down, and all the fish get drowned" making even Morrissey seem like a stand-up comedian in comparison.
What's more, every song on Psychocandy could quite easily have been released as a single in its own right. The three that were, 'Never Understand', 'You Trip Me Up' and 'Just Like Honey' all stand up today as timeless, seminal masterpieces. That debut single 'Upside Down' never made the cut for Psychocandy probably tells its own story, as great a 45 that it was. Reading through the accompanying 32-page booklet bass player Douglas Hart reveals the main inspiration for the production on Psychocandy was Norman Whitfield, who worked on a lot of classic Marvin Gaye and Temptations records. You probably can't hear it through all the distortion and feedback, but on the record's more laidback offerings like 'Cut Dead' and 'Sowing Seeds' the Mary Chain embrace melody and deliver exquisitely.
While every home should own at least one copy of Psychocandy already, the accompanying bonus discs offer another whopping 29 songs, most notably the 'Upside Down' single and its b-side, the Mary Chain's incendiary cover of Syd Barrett's 'Vegetable Man' along with long lost demo and one-time centre of tabloid controversy 'Jesus Fuck'. Elsewhere, three John Peel radio sessions taken over a 12-month period between October 1984 and 1985 evidently document the band's development, hinting at where their next musical excursion is heading as new songs 'Some Candy Talking' and 'Psychocandy' sit side-by-side with a stripped down acoustic jaunt through 'You Trip Me Up'.
Meanwhile, the DVD collects promo videos for the three singles alongside television appearances from The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Tube and a Belgian music programme entitled VRT, which is more notable for Jim Reid arguing with the presenter over his apparent hatred of all things Joy Division and drummer-at-the-time Bobby Gillespie getting it on with his then-girlfriend in the background. As a stand alone entity, Psychocandy remains flawless. With the added extras contained in the Deluxe Edition, its an essential purchase for anyone remotely interested in The Jesus & Mary Chain or just the development of independent guitar music in general. (10).
Following up such perfection as Psychocandy was never going to be easy. "We had a choice of whether to make Psychocandy 2 or try another thing...A lot was getting written about the noise element of our music and not enough about the actual songs underneath the noise, so we decided to showcase the songs rather than the guitars", said Jim Reid to DiS recently. While not an entirely unfeasible shape shift from its predecessor's barbed wire halo of noise and disaffection, Darklands still proved a shock to the system for those who'd dismissed the Mary Chain as a band bereft of any musical talent while immersed in the shock tactics of the Sex Pistols before them. It probably seems unthinkable now but at the time of the band's arrival on the scene they often found themselves compared to the Pistols.
While this record heralded a more mellow, delicate approach than Psychocandy, it's also notable for being the album which brought the songwriting and vocal talents of William Reid to the forefront. Having spent the majority of their early period with his back to the audience detuning guitars and conjuring up an array of explosive noises, the decision to let him take the lead on Darklands proved something of a masterstroke, not least due to it coinciding with the band gatecrashing the mainstream courtesy of 'in between' single 'Some Candy Talking', yet another controversial moment for the Mary Chain thanks to its ambiguous lyrics that had several commentators jumping to conclusions it promoted heroin use.
In terms of commercial success, Darklands breached the top five of the album charts while spawning the band's biggest hit single 'April Skies' which reached the top ten culminating in their one and only 'live' appearance on Top Of The Pops. Delving into its ten pieces it's clear the record was written in a completely different headspace to its predecessor, the likes of 'Cherry Came Too', 'Happy When It Rains' and 'About You' all eschewing skewered messages of a romantic notion, albeit occasionally destructive ("I'm on the edge of something, you take me back to nothing"). Having spent a lot of the recording sessions arguing with their label about producers and such like, its perhaps worth noting that sound engineer John Loder once again augments the band's sonic version with distinction.
Occasionally there is a tendency to increase the volume. 'Down On Me' and 'Fall' both take off into familiar territories of yore at various intervals while even the coda of 'April Skies' signs off with a desultory screech of feedback for good measure. Overall though Darklands showcases the songs in favour of the noise element associated with the band from the outset while dispelling any myths that the band were simply one-trick ponies covering up a lack of musical nuance under an avalanche of reverb. Although not as immediate as Psychocandy, there's little doubt Darklands has also stood the test of time and among its contents lies some of the band's most memorable and popular songs from their entire back catalogue.
The Deluxe Edition features another 29 songs including the 'Some Candy Talking' EP, numerous b-sides and a collection of outtakes including covers of The Beach Boys 'Surfin' USA' and Can's 'Mushroom'. A radio interview with Janice Long at the end of session versions of 'Darklands', 'Down On Me' and 'Deep One Perfect Morning' reveals them in more upbeat confines than one would imagine, while the DVD collects five promotional videos (The rarely seen film for 'April Skies's excellent b-side 'Kill Surf City' is also included) alongside television appearances on the aforementioned Top Of The Pops and shortlived ITV commissioned music show The Roxy respectively.
Overall, Darklands wasn't so much a 'difficult' second album but an obvious vantage point for a band seeking newer climates rather than resting on their laurels. As a result, its appeal hasn't diminished in the twenty-four years since its release and the added extras of this re-issue package only serves to reinforce the message that Darklands deserves its place among that era's finest. (9).
As the end of the Eighties approached, the dynamic of the band changed too. If Darklands was William Reid's most personal documentation to date, then Automatic was the record where The Jesus & Mary Chain would effectively become a two-piece. While original bass player Douglas Hart was still a touring member of the band at this point, all of the bass parts on Automatic were covered by a pre-programmed synthesizer with a drum machine adding processed beats on all but one song.
Nevertheless, demand was still high for the band and with television programmes like The Chart Show and Snub TV focusing heavily on underground, or 'indie' music as it was coming to be known, artists such as The Jesus & Mary Chain and many of their contemporaries regularly found themselves camped in the upper echelons of the charts. It was also the age of the multi-format, something employed by record labels to ensure their acts received a high chart placing during the first week of release by encouraging fans to purchase various editions of the same record with different b-sides, sleeves, shapes and sizes. For the two singles lifted off Automatic, 'Blues From A Gun' and 'Head On', Blanco y Negro employed this tactic to full effect, particularly on the latter which actually came out as four separate 7-inches with an accompanying box to put them all in. That it stalled at number 57, the Mary Chain's lowest chart placing since the release of 'Upside Down' five years earlier probably owed more to the fact it followed the album by a good two-and-a-half months, not to mention each format being split over a four-week period rather than forcefed on the day of release.
Prior to Automatic the band had put out the 'Sidewalking' single, a song whose drum beat samples Roxanne Shante's 'Brothers Ain't Shit'. While not exactly a drastic seachange for a band so disparate as the Mary Chain, their use of DATs and electronic gadgets on Automatic shouldn't have surprised that many people. It also marks the first time a then little-known engineer called Alan Moulder stamped his authority on the band's trademark sound, his panache for fusing heavily orchestrated guitar parts with radio friendly melodies coming to the fore here. Although initially having worked with them three years earlier on the 'Some Candy Talking' EP, it was Automatic that undoubtedly kickstarted his career.
Lyrically upbeat - bar the despairing plea of 'Halfway To Crazy' - and more Americanised than anything the Mary Chain had previously put their names to, songs like 'Coast To Coast ("Junk town nothing, got to keep it coming") and 'Blues From A Gun' ("Too young kid, you're gonna get hit, looks like you're never gonna make it off the government list") emphasised both band and label's seemingly then-obsession with embracing (and conquering..?) all things Stateside. Although not remembered as fondly as either of its predecessors, looking back on Automatic it represents a brave statement of intent from a band desperate to move away from any pigeonhole assigned to them, and while the likes of 'Between Planets' or 'Take It' don't resonate with the same energy and force as say 'In A Hole' or 'Happy When It Rains' from their more illustrious past, its a record many bands would be proud of, particularly at the third album stage very few have the tenacity to reach.
Of the additional tracks here, the 'Sidewalking' single and its various mixes and b-sides along with their distortiuon heavy cover of the Beach Boys 'Surfin' USA' make for interesting listening. A couple of John Peel sessions from the summer of 1988 and November 1989 are also included, the former most notably for their heartfelt rendition of The Temptations 'My Girl'. Elsewhere, the DVD features an interview with MTV filmed in Australia at the back end of '89 alongside numerous promo videos and TV appearances for Rapido and Snub TV respectively. For an enthusiast its another worthwhile addition to the collection, while even casual observers could do far worse than investing their hard earned dosh on this. (8).
After the release of Automatic, the next couple of years were fairly quiet in terms of new recordings as far as The Jesus & Mary Chain were concerned. An EP (Rollercoaster) in September 1990 aside, there was little in the way of new material, and certainly no forewarning of what was to emerge in the spring of 1992. A lot of that time between records was spent building their own studio, The Drugstore, in the Elephant & Castle area of London. With it came a more efficient way of working than the band had previously encountered, something Jim Reid touches upon in the accompanying booklet to album number four, Honey's Dead. "I wish we could have kept the work ethic we had on 'Honey's Dead' throughout," he explains. "We were still sober making that record, we had not yet discovered the Queen's Head pub opposite the band's studio, so we just knuckled down to it and recorded that album quite quickly."
Not that Honey's Dead sounds in any way rushed. Once again employing Alan Moulder to work his magic in the studio on all but one of the record's 12 tracks (Flood engineered 'Rollercoaster') with the Reid brothers contributing all of the music bar the drums, courtesy of Curve's Steve Monti. After the lukewarm response to Automatic both critically and commercially the band were seen by many as a spent force. Even their label didn't have very high expectations for Honey's Dead, hence the reason no promotional video was originally commissioned for lead single, Reverence'. "They didn't see the point, and we argued that surely it was in their best interests to have some form of visual representation of the song," admits Jim. "They still refused to back down, so I said "Give me a grand and I'll make one", and that's what happened. I'm really proud of that video now. To me it's as good as any of the other videos we ever made." Even more astonishingly, 'Reverence' forced its way into the top ten singles chart without the aid of any radio play due to the 'blasphemous' nature of its lyrics ("I wanna die just like Jesus Christ"), thereby paving the way for the band's most successful period in over five years.
Influenced in parts by the baggy scene purported by the likes of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays yet also carrying their now customary guitar sound along the way, Honey's Dead wasn't so much a return to form as a hefty two fingered salute to anyone that dared to question the band's relevance in this changing musical landscape. Across the 12 songs that comprised Honey's Dead was a concentrated mix of the styles and sounds that cemented all three of this record's predecessors. If 'Reverence' harked a return to the bombast of Psychocandy, then the mellow tones of 'Almost Gold' rivalled Darklands' mellower moments for subtlety and inhibition. From the Einsturzende Neubaten-sampling 'Tumbledown' to the dirty rock'n'roll of 'Teenage Lust', Honey's Dead conveyed the sound of a band at ease with their past while coming to terms with the present, receiving the ultimate accolade later that year by being shortlisted for the inaugural Mercury Music Prize, Primal Scream's Screamadelica narrowly pipping them at the post.
Looking back, Honey's Dead is possibly their most accessible record and one which never sounds staid or dated. The aforementioned 'Rollercoaster' EP that preceded the record and ended up as the name of the tour the band participated in around the time of Honey's Dead's release alongside My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr and Blur didn't really offer that much of a clue as to what direction they were heading. Indeed the lead song from that EP is possibly the weakest track on Honey's Dead.
Of the extras included as part of the Deluxe Edition, the band's first dalliances in remix territory such as the Arc Weld version of 'Far Gone And Out' and Grand Exalted Poobah's take on 'Teenage Lust' make for interesting listening. Several covers which featured on various EPs and b-sides around this time, most notably Leonard Cohen's 'Tower Of Song', Elvis Presley's 'Guitarman' and 'Reverberation (Doubt)' by the 13th Floor Elevators demonstrate the eclectic nature of the Reid brothers make-up. The inclusion of seven tracks from the Sheffield leg of the 'Rollercoaster' tour - a show yours truly is proud to say he attended - also highlights the progress made from those riotous days of 1985's 15 minute gigs. The DVD meanwhile files the obligatory promo videos alongside appearances on The Word and The Late Show plus an MTV interview and video retrospective.
Overall, Honey's Dead is up there alongside Psychocandy and Darklands as one of The Jesus & Mary Chain's finest collections and remains an essential purchase today. (9).
With the unexpected success of Honey's Dead still fresh in their minds and lengthy 'Rollercoaster' and Lollapalooza tours behind them, The Jesus & Mary Chain decamped to the studio at the start of 1993 intending to make an acoustic album. "We'd been talking for years about making an acoustic album and then with the songs we had at that time it just seemed appropriate," recalls Jim Reid. "And then when we actually got into the studio we realised that we weren't good enough as musicians to make a bloody acoustic album!" Over the course of the next 11 months, Stoned & Dethroned would gradually fall into place. It was also the first time since Psychocandy that the Mary Chain had recorded as a full band, with long time touring band member Ben Lurie and Curve's Steve Monti contributing bass and drum parts respectively.
Although not technically an acoustic record in its purest sense, Stoned & Dethroned was a marked departure from anything else the band had conceived previously. Adventurously mellow throughout, its deluge of influences collected from Americana, country & western and West Coast pop as well as the driving rock and roll we'd come to expect over the past decade, Stoned & Dethroned was a brave attempt at redefining their capabilities while experimenting with new sounds and ideas. Its best known and ultimately standout moment, 'Sometimes Always' featured guest vocals from Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, then girlfriend of William Reid, and the spacey arrangements which punctuated the album could perhaps best be compared to that outfit's So Tonight That I Might See, also from the same era.
The record received mixed reviews at the time, most of the criticism aimed at the album's length (17 tracks in total) rather than quality of the content. Indeed the stripped down nature of Stoned & Dethroned possibly lost the band a lot of their hardcore fanbase, and yet looking back it can almost be viewed as a precursor to a lot of the alternative country rock that the likes of Fleet Foxes would take out of the underground and into the mainstream a decade or so later.
On a personal level, it's possibly the album that least connects. Lyrically bleak ("We've got nothing but that's alright" - 'Cold', "I feel sick and unholy, my soul don't want to know me" - 'Save Me'), while audacious in its planning, some of Stoned & Dethroned could have been executed in a more proficient manner and in hindsight, the slippery slope towards the band's disintegration could be traced back to here.
Once again the additional CD and DVD offers a plethora of bonus tracks and live performances. There's an entire live set from Bristol's Trinity Centre in April 1995 alongside a lengthy interview with Steve Lamacq for Radio One. The band's first appearance on BBC2's Later With Jools Holland is captured, opting to play 'Snakedriver' off the 'Sound Of Speed' EP which predates Stoned & Dethroned by a year as well as lead single 'Something I Can't Have'.
Interestingly, despite the divided opinions surrounding Stoned & Dethroned, Jim Reid is adamant in his summising, "I don't listen to our records all of the time, just every now and then, but that's one which I definitely believe hasn't dated badly at all." Neverheless, when compared with the rest of their back catalogue, its weaknesses become ever more apparent. (6).
So, last but not least, the now labelless Mary Chain head back to familiar territories for their final long player. Having parted ways with Warner Brothers; indeed, the demo recordings for Munki were given to the label but they chose not to release it and associations terminated forthwith, the Reid brothers decided to return to their old stamping ground, Creation Records, only to find it unrecognisably different to what it had been fifteen years earlier. "It was nothing like it used to be," recalls Jim Reid. "The first time we were on Creation we spent days folding the paper covers inside plastic sleeves for 'Upside Down' in Alan McGee's back bedroom in Tottenham. Alan still held down a day job back then, so to go back 15 years later to do Munki it was like they'd become a proper record company!" he remarks.
In another fairly ambitious move, the band set out a plan to record a double album of back-to-basics rock and roll. What they hadn't bargained for was the serious deterioration of Jim and William Reid's relationship to the point where both recorded their parts separately. Its perhaps surprising then that the majority of Munki follows a cohesive and well-structured path. Although not quite on a par with the likes of Honey's Dead from yore, it once again demonstrates that even after 15 years, The Jesus & Mary Chain still had it in them to create an album bursting with intensity and a fire belying their almost veteran status.
It's also worth remembering that Munki initially came out amidst a sea of all things Britpop yet still managed to achieve a longevity and relevance many other records released that year (1998) haven't succeeded in doing so. Lead single 'Cracking Up' revealed their most cuttingly vitriolic statement of intent since 'Reverence' six years earlier, while the likes of 'Stardust Remedy' and 'I Hate Rock'n'Roll' would easily make it onto a Best Of The Jesus & Mary Chain compilation were one to exist. With vocal contributions from Hope Sandoval and Sister Vanilla, the late Nick Sanderson of Earl Brutus and World Of Twist fame on drums, and former Higsons horn player Terry Edwards also on board, Munki represents the band at their most collaborative and stands as a fitting final chapter.
Of course the ensuing tour to promote Munki culminated in the band's break-up during the American leg, Jim Reid's famous quote ""After each tour we wanted to kill each other, and after the final tour we tried" describing the aftermath. From a commercial perspective, Munki didn't sell anywhere near as many copies as most of its predecessors and coupled with the negative energy surrounding the Reids, the writing was probably on the wall before the tour tipped them over the edge.
Looking back at Munki now, it's one of those records that in hindsight serves as a document of a band that's falling apart. The likes of 'Commercial' and 'Never Understood' have a tragicomic edge to them not previously displayed by the Mary Chain while even opener 'I Love Rock'n'Roll' acts as a reaffirmation in terms of the song's sentiment ("I love what I'm doing").
For the purpose of the Deluxe Edition, numerous radio sessions, b-sides and a recording of one of the band's last ever concerts before the aforementioned split at Camden's Electric Ballroom in April '98 create an air of finality to what is essentially yet another worthwhile purchase. The accompanying DVD meanwhile focuses on their last appearance on Later With Jools Holland, the aforementioned 'Cracking Up' once again standing out as a sublime end statement. (7).
Whether The Jesus & Mary Chain will make another album remains to be seen. Having briefly reformed in 2007, Jim Reid hinted at a new record, and even as recently as two weeks ago when speaking to DiS, he admitted "Between us, we've definitely got enough songs to do a Mary Chain double album if we wanted to...". I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but with their legacy firmly in tact, each of these six re-issues goes some way towards explaining why The Jesus & Mary Chain are possibly the most important UK guitar band of the past 30 years.
The Jesus & Mary Chain's entire back catalogue will be released in a Deluxe 2 CD + DVD edition format as follows:-
26 September
3 October
Honey's Dead
10 October
Stoned And Dethroned
For more information on the band visit their official website.


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Kyoto is Japan's historic capital, a UNESCO heritage site which contains temples and businesses which are hundreds upon hundreds of years old. It was thus with some surprise that I discovered that almost every trace that I had lived here only 3 years earlier had already disappeared.
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About MrBeck
If I were the plaintiff, I'd watch the Bank's on-line security carefully, the instant they "improve" the security I'd re-instigate the suit with new evidence, that the Bank has seen it necessary to implement different security.
Apparently there is this company on the internet that is has been somewhat successful selling ads internationally and supporting their services through these ads. I believe they are called Google. I believe broadcaster=dinosaur and that alone is the problem. They had a good run, as did the buggy whip makers and now they are about as useful. The only thing keeping them alive are the millions spent on lobbying our "public servants" to strangle competition. Whatever the solution I find it very unlikely the current crop of broadcasters and content "suppliers" (they don't make it, and the people who do are beginning to discover they don't need them) will be part of it.
The BBC care because the sell the shows to the US. If the US watch the shows via some other means, the value goes down so the BBC make less money when they come to sell the show. Why they don't offer a subscription for internet TV I have no idea. Teh licence fee is about $20 per month so a sub of the same price would seem reasonable.
A word to the wise. If you want to control what people who do not use the Latin alphabet call your product, do not trust transliteration. Get language appropriate names out for all the markets you want to operate in. Chinese has no useful transliteration, Japanese has two phonetic alphabets (one is Romanji, using the Latin characters, but normally reserved for "foreign" words). Arabic names are spelled differently in different Latin alphabet based languages since the letters in the alphabet are pronounced differently in different languages, not just the vowels, the consonants too. Just ask a Dutchman to pronounce Jans.
You must be referring to Al Gore. Tim B-L is British and he was working at CERN (in Switzerland) at the time he proposed this work.
You have a future in North Korean PR.
Despite what the author says, unless another vendor put wifi on a mobile before Nokia, unlikely, JukiSpot was the first to put a hot-spot on the phone. They released the code for the first Nokia with wifi, about 2003/4, and as I remember it pre-3G. So it was wifi and GPRS. Why Nokia didn't include the function in the phones I'll never understand. The E series have DLNA and VoIP built-in (no need for an app for that) but baulked at hot-spot, go figure.
Anybody registered the above name? Seems appropriate as a alternative for Twitter
Nokia has the largest market share for smartphones in the world, twice that of Android (2nd) and iPhone (3rd). The E-Series is my choice, probably not a smartphone on this blog as they do not have touchscreens, but they do have SIP client built in, and satnav with local maps, and keys, real live keys. Phones that work as phones (even have noise canceling mikes)and can be operated in winter (with gloves on), with one hand. I have never seen a fart app though so maybe not really a smartphone.
The maps are stored on the phone, by using OTA, wifi or via your PC. There is zero connection needed to use th emaps.
Huh? The whole UI concept of an iPhone is that any idiot can use one. Just read the original reviews, filled with descriptions of how you don't need manuals or anything, just pick it up and use it. And descriptions of how other smartphones are so complicated. If iPhones are now considered complicated the whooshing sound you hear the sound of the national IQ in freefall.
Firstly, there are different tickers for different exchanges, the ticker is assigned by the market (exchange) not designed by the company which gets it. I assume you are talking about North American markets when you refer to "tickers" but market data suppliers use "tickers" for the same instrument (share, bond, ...) that differ from the ticker used on the trading exchange and other exchanges use different tickers for the local version of the equity (IBM has about 18 equity tickers around the world, "IBM" is one of them). Asian exchanges generally use numbers for "tickers" and Reuters assigns its own "ticker" (called a Reuters Instrument Code or RIC) for each of the thousands of equity instruments it monitors (capital market instruments have tickers assigned too). If you want to use RICs you need a licence from Reuters. You will find that you need a licence for SEDOL, DUNS and others too.
While most folks think of the wires as feeds to conventional news distribution channels and websites, that is not what lies behind the admonition to "not scoop the wires". Thousand of desktops in financial institutions receive a feed of Reuters wire news (in addition to various feeds of financial data) and Reuters compares its delivery of news of market changing events to its competitors (DJ, AFP, Blomberg, ..) in milliseconds, as do some of the larger customers. He who is first wins (the next contract). Market changing events are released as headlines only initially to get them out as quickly as possible. The story follows and develops as the event is better understood and reported. What constitutes a Market Changing Event? How about an earthquake in Chile and copper prices, very significant for the initial event (the headline). You have a third of a second to buy cheap copper. Not much interest afterwards to the commodities desk as the market will now have adjusted, therefore no money to be made.
I'm afraid that in the UK there is no "freedom of speech" as enshrined in the US Constitution. The effect is as shown, there is no requirement to demonstrate "harm" to declare the "speech" unlawful, hence there is no requirement that the "speech" was ever heard. As an American who has lived in the UK for over 30 years, I am still amazed that there has never been a modern revolution here to establish some modicum of citizens rights (like the bill of rights). My only relief is knowing that Europe is even worse.
maybe NBC should just set-up a proxy
What did Orwell call it, "new speak"?
No Contract = contract
unlimited = limited
full coverage = partial coverage
I think this is great by which I mean I think its crap.
They knew this (a new res system) would cause terrible problems. It always does. If they didn't understand that then they are truly incompetent and have never looked at the history of this action in the airline business.
Their reaction appears to be one of denial. I think we should all watch this carefully as it may well be the rare opportunity to watch a company commit suicide.
As to what the travelling public should do?, fly someone else and see how you like it, you may get a surprise.
Firstly, I fall into the WINE is not an emulator since it doesn't actually emulate a machine only an API layer. But for those who do consider this emulation I would like to point out the following, WinNT3 and 3.5 contained the first Win32 API systems available and by the logic that makes WINE an emulator, all Windows systems since NT 3.5 are emulations of these OS version too.
There was a time before the amateurs took over that words used in computing had precise meanings as they do in other sciences. Unfortunately that no longer applies.


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If you join within 6 months of your termination date there is simply a 50 dollar reinstatement fee plus any prorated dues you may have missed during your absence. Between a year and 6 months you must pay all the entrance fees like a new member, however you are not required to take New Member Orientation. After a year, you must join as a new member.
If you currently work at a firm who is a member, or under a broker who is a member, you are required to join. Every licensed agent at your company is required to be a member.
You have 30 days from when your license is active with the state, or is transferred to a firm that is a current member. If you fail to apply with in those 30 days there will be a late application fee. You may, however, apply before your license is issued.
Yes. As an agent, you need a broker's signature for all forms. Your application, New Member Orientation form, and Member Change Form all require a broker's signature.
You may join the Greater Lansing Association of REALTORS® as a Primary or Seconday Designated REALTOR®, as a Primary or Secondary REALTOR®, as an Affiliate Member, an MLS Only Participant or an Unlicensed MLS Office Assistant.
The initial fee to join is prorated depending on the month you join. Call The Association for more precise information regarding fees.
Life Membership is obtained after 35 years of consecutive or 40 years of cumulative membership with the Greater Lansing Association of REALTORS®. Life Members are exempt from local dues. Emeritus REALTOR® membership is obtained through NAR (The National Association of REALTORS®) after 40 years of consecutive membership. Emeritus REALTORS® are exempt from local, state and national dues and are only responsible for the monthly MLS fees.
An individual is a Primary Member if The Association pays State and National dues based on such Member. An individual is a Secondary Member if State and National dues are paid through another Board/Association.
No. In order to be an Unlicensed MLS Office Assistant you must be unlicensed. This means you can't have an active license whether you actively practice real estate or not. You must either return your license to the state or join as a REALTOR® member.
Once you update your license with the state from a salesperson to a Broker you can apply at The Association. You will be required to fill our a DR application and pay a DR upgrade fee. Call The Association for more information.
You must complete the course in the first or second opportunity available from when you first apply. If it is not completed with in the first two attempts, there will be a 50 dollar late fee.


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April 2013
Where's the evolution?
Much of the story of the domestication of cattle has been uncovered in the last five years. This research shows that the evolutionary origins of all domestic cattle lie in the wild aurochs, which ranged through Europe, Asia, and North Africa, before being driven extinct in 1627. Aurochsen, immortalized in the 17,000 year old cave paintings of Lascaux, looked something like cows on steroids; they were bigger, more muscled, and had larger horns than most modern cows.
Between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago, people in the Middle East began to domesticate wild aurochsen living nearby through the process of artificial selection. These early humans saw the advantage of maintaining aurochs for their personal use, as opposed to relying on what they could gain from hunting wild animals. As they began to live more closely with aurochsen, they spurred the evolution of their animals by selecting for individuals with particular traits. This may have been done consciously or unconsciously. For example, perhaps naturally docile animals were the only ones that the herdspeople could prevent from escaping, so without anyone intending it, ancestral cattle herds ended up with an unusually high frequency of gene versions that confer a quiet temperament. Other traits that differentiate domestic cattle from aurochs (like small horns) may have been consciously chosen. In either case, humans likely selected which individuals would be part of their herds and which individuals would be mated to maintain the herd all the while, favoring individuals with traits that made them more useful to us. Through many generations of this process, an ancestral population of wild aurochs evolved into the animals that we recognize as cows.
Shortly after the domestication of aurochs began in the Middle East, the same process began on the Indian subcontinent. The results of these independent domestication events were two distinct lineages of cows each drawing on slightly different subsets of the genetic variation present in the aurochs species. Though still closely enough related to mate with one another, the lineages had distinct traits. The Middle Eastern cows (known as the taurine lineage) had a flat back and upright ears. The Indian cows (known as the indicine lineage) had a hump at the shoulders and droopy ears. Because of the conditions in which they were domesticated, the indicine cattle were also hardier and held up better in times of drought and low feed availability.
Soon after domestication, the two newly minted cow breeds began to travel with their herdspeople. Taurine cows were taken to Europe, where they interbred with local aurochs and were further artificially selected into breeds such as the Angus and the Shorthorn. Indicine cows spread throughout India. Both taurine and indicine cows made their way to Africa, where they were mated to each other, forming breeds like the N'Dama.
That accounts for historical cattle herds in Europe, Africa, and Asia, but how did cows come to America? Researchers recently tried to answer this question by investigating the genetics of New World cow breeds. Historical documents reveal that, in 1493, Christopher Columbus picked up cattle from Spain's Canary Islands, sailed across the Atlantic, and introduced those animals to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. In the next 20 years, this small Caribbean population was supplemented with additional cattle brought by Spanish colonists. Soon the cows were thriving, and the descendents of this ancestral population were introduced to Mexico, Texas, Colombia, and Venezuela. Then, in a move that might seem counterproductive to their thousands of years of domestication and breeding, the cows were allowed to run wild, and for 400 years, experienced the vagaries of natural selection in the wild, as opposed to artificial selection at the hands of people. Because it likely increased the frequency of gene variants that improved the animals' ability to resist disease and survive in harsh western landscapes, this period of natural selection may have been critical to the development of American cattle breeds. During the 1800s, the feral cow populations began to be treated as livestock once again and were bred into Texas Longhorns, Corriente cattle from Mexico, and Romosinuano cattle from Colombia, which are known to be particularly hardy and disease resistant.
When researchers studied the gene variants possessed by those New World breeds, they found that the animals were much like breeds from Southern Europe, from which New World cattle were presumably derived. No surprise there. However, they also found some unexpected gene variants linking cows like the Texas Longhorn to India. The new analysis of DNA from cows all over the world suggested that after taurine and indicine cows interbred in Africa, some of those hybrids were carried over the strait of Gibraltar, probably with the Moors who invaded Spain between the 8th and 13th centuries. The indicine DNA in American cattle seems to have come to them via a long and winding path from cows that sailed with Christopher Columbus, who got it from Southern European cows, who got it from cows who crossed the Mediterranean with the Moors, who got it from their African ancestors, who got it from animals who travelled to Africa across the Sinai Peninsula, who got it from their Indian ancestors, who, presumably got it from the aurochs populations living in that region 10,000 years ago. Perhaps some of the traits that make American breeds so tough and resilient were inherited from their African and Indian ancestors that also experienced selection shaping them to the rigors of a harsh environment.
With the improvement of genetic technology and advances in analytical techniques, biologists have been able to work out the complex evolutionary histories underlying many of the organisms that we encounter on a daily basis and depend on for food and other materials. Researchers have studied cats, dogs, sheep, chickens, rice, cotton, corn, brussel sprouts, and many more. Often the stories of these organisms are deeply intertwined with our own evolutionary history. So, the next time you sit down to a juicy burger (or pull on a cotton sweater, or play fetch with your dog), take a moment to appreciate the long and arduous evolutionary journeys that have shaped the very qualities that make these organisms so appealing to us humans.
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MILTON — The community got together this weekend to celebrate winter and have some family fun, during the annual Winter Carnival .
Parks and Recreation Director Karen Brown said the Selectmen's chambers on Saturday were packed with people coming to see the traveling zoo, and Simplicity the clown was at the Town Hall making balloon animals and organizing children's games.
Surrounded by what Brown called a "humongous crowd," members of the N.H. Farm Museum also demonstrated large chunks of ice being taken out of the lake, as part of the ice harvesting demo.
Brown said that back in the day, ice harvesting was one of the largest industries in Milton. The ice was shipped to Boston, and likely used for refrigeration.
At the fishing derby Saturday morning, 4-year-old Austin Bruce won two awards — for having the first catch of the day, and the biggest catch of the day.
At the beach front, fifth-graders from Milton Elementary School launched hot air balloons, which they made using tissue paper. Brown said it was lucky there was no strong winds on Saturday morning, and there was no danger for the hot air balloons to get swept away.
Brown said that the Winter Carnival provides fun for all ages. She said it's one of the few events in which the seniors can be seen playing Bingo alongside young children.
"It's a day of community spirit and pride," she said.
The Winter Carnival began Friday night, when residents gathered at the Moose Lodge to sample chocolate, taste chili and win prizes.
At this year's Winter Carnival, a chocolate cook-off was added to the event, in addition to the traditional chili cook-off.
Friday evening, participants were sampling eight different chocolate desserts, including cakes, cookies, and brownie Popsicles. Then, they voted on their favorite.
Town resident Jennifer Brown, member of the Moose Lodge, made champagne-infused chocolate ganache covered strawberries for the chocolate cook-off. She said she has been participating in the Winter Carnival to help the Moose Lodge with fundraising it desperately needs.
While proceeds from the chocolate cook-off went to support the Moose Lodge, proceeds from the chili cook-off went to support the Winter Carnival.
One of the chili cook-off contestants was Moose Lodge member Barry Nye, 31, of Middleton. While Nye has been the winner of the chili cook-off for the past three years, on Friday he wasn't confident he would be victorious this time around. Nye said he had tasted a sample of another contestant's chili, and was impressed by the amount of spices and flavor.
Friday was also the first year to include chowder in the cook-off competition, but only one contestant brought in chowder on Friday.
Participants also played "meat bingo," in which the winner receives a package of meat. Residents also treated themselves to a pool tournament, which occurred later in the evening.


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The Power Pad is a contraption that you stand on while you shower, recycling hot water to lower the energy usage of your water heater. Clever!
By running the hot water over cold water that's pumped through the pad, it pre-heats water your heater has yet to warm up. With a warmer starting temperature, that water then takes less energy to heat up, saving you money. Manufactured by Haier in China, the Power Pad is set to go on sale there for about $US600. If it works well, it will presumably come here, too. [GizMag via Engadget]


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