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If you want to dip your toes in the marketing world, but aren't ready (or aren't hireable enough) full-time job, give freelancing a try. Apparently it's a good time to do so.
Every quarter and year, Elance looks at which industries are hiring freelancers. Looking at last year's data, marketing grew in leaps and bounds in specific niches:
- Digital marketing
- Social media
- Content writing
- Blog writing
- Web design
- Graphic design
Local Economies No Longer an Issue
One hypothesis on why earnings have increased so drastically (just digital marketing saw a 190% increase year-on-year) is that geography is no longer a barrier to finding good talent. So if an employer runs an office out of Church Point, Louisiana (population 4,575), he can find talent anywhere in the world. That opens up the possibility to finding better talent. What that means for you as that talent is that you aren't limited to finding a job within commuting distance.
The report showed that Rhode Island, whose unemployment rate is 10.2% showed an 89% increase in earnings for marketing freelancers. So in addition to removing geographic barriers, the freelancing industry is helping alleviate a bit of that unemployment rate to boot!
More Marketing, More Jobs
While a few years ago, companies of every size held back on social media and blogging as part of their marketing strategy, they're embracing them like crazy now. And that means that they need more bloggers, social media strategists and overall Internet marketing experts. But that doesn't always mean they want to hire full-time roles. Often this work can be done part-time externally, which saves the company on benefits, salaries and overhead.
If you're smart about it, you can piece together a decent living through freelancing. Find a few clients who need content marketing, design work or social media execution — all of which tend to be ongoing work — and you've got yourself a paycheck!
How to Start Freelancing in Marketing
Step 1: Search for Gigs. If you've got some experience in marketing, you can start looking for projects on sites like Elance, as well as Guru.com and others. Beef up your profile as much as possible: add samples of your work to your portfolio so potential clients can see what you've done.
These sites let you search categories for projects. Some will be one-time projects, while others may need someone long-term. Make sure you have the skills the project requires, and send a well-crafted application letter, targeting the key points you feel make you qualified. If you've worked on similar projects, make sure to say so, as many employers would be more comfortable with someone who has worked in their industry before.
Step 2: Get a Website and Blog. Build a simple website that also highlights your work, outlines your services, and provides contact information. It's wise to start a blog and write about the areas you want work in. The more you demonstrate your expertise, the easier it is for potential employers to trust in your skills and hire you.
Step 3: Network. Reach out to companies in your area — especially smaller ones that might not have in-house marketing and let them know the services you offer. Also connect with marketing agencies, as often they have more work than they can handle and need extra help.
It may take a while, but you'll find that once you get a few projects under your belt, you'll have some experience to back you up and it will because easier to close a new project.


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MINNEAPOLIS, March 14 (UPI) -- Several U.S. cities report norovirus -- also known as stomach flu -- has hit nursing homes, veterans' homes, schools, libraries and even a coffee shop.
Four residents of the state veterans home in Minneapolis died last weekend and more than a dozen employees reportedly called in sick from a suspected outbreak or norovirus, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The veterans' home said it put a temporary hold on any new admissions.
Norovirus causes vomiting, diarrhea and cramps and each year causes up to 70,000 hospitalizations and 800 deaths, but it is not related to influenza, which is an upper respiratory virus.
Last week, 125 veterans and a couple of dozen veteran's home staff were sickened with what was reported as norovirus, while a veterans facility in Boise, Idaho, was quarantined and norovirus was confirmed, the Star Tribune reported.
WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. reported an Alexandria, Va., elementary school was closed Friday, after more than 200 students and 30 staff fell ill due to possible norovirus. An Asheville, N.C., elementary school reported more than 150 students and several staff reported with symptoms typical of stomach flu.
All school districts and daycare facilities in Muskegon County in Michigan were sent a letter from the health department Wednesday warning students and employees who suffered nausea, vomiting and diarrhea must remain out of school at least 48 hours after their symptoms subsided, the Muskegon Chronicle reported. The week before more than 460 students in county schools and day cares were suspected to have norovirus.
More than 200 patients and staff were sickened with suspected norovirus at the Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center and Clinics based in White City, Ore., but the virus seems to be on the wane. However, 17 people were treated in a hospital for dehydration.
Since it only takes a few particles of the norovirus to infect someone, CNN asked the U.S. Navy how it managed to keep its staff healthy.
The U.S. Navy told CNN it managed to prevent any major outbreaks of contagious diseases because it takes any outbreak of sickness seriously.
Capt. Jim McGovern, commanding officer on the USS Iwo Jima, said aboard his ship docked in Norfolk, Va., any crew member who feels ill must report to sick bay and be isolated from others to keep it from spreading if it is contagious.
Even if a sailor doesn't want to go be treated, the supervisor will make him or her be isolated if they have a contagious disease and make sure they do not have contact with the general population of the ship and stay away from where food is served, McGovern said.
Members of the Navy are also required to help keep the ship clean every day.
In addition, kitchens are constantly cleaned, inspected and tested to prevent foodborne illnesses several times a day, Jakeila Owens, Iwo Jima culinary specialist, told CNN.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After suffering a pair of heartbreaking five-set losses to Endicott College earlier in the season, the newly nationally-ranked No. 13 MIT men's volleyball team picked up a crucial 30-21, 31-29, 30-23, NECVA New England Division win over the No. 6 Gulls on Wednesday night. The Engineers (22-7, 10-2) snapped the hosts' 12 match-winning streak and also gave them their first conference loss of the season.
Endicott established a 4-1 lead in the opening set, but MIT responded with a 16-6 run to go ahead for good. The Gulls cut their deficit to five on three occasions, the last at 25-20. The Engineers went on to score five of the next six points to close out the game.
The second stanza was a back-and-forth affair as it featured 19 ties and six lead changes. In addition, neither side led by more than three points. Trailing 27-26, back-to-back Matt Hohenberger kills and an Endicott hitting error put the Cardinal and Gray at set point. Strikes by A.J. Witkofsky and James Sliva extended the frame, but hits from Hohenberger and David Thomas sealed the set.
MIT jumped out to a 6-2 advantage, but the Gulls battled back to tie the score at 10. The Engineers recorded a 7-3 spurt which was followed by a trio of points from Endicott that brought it within one (17-16). MIT countered with an 8-3 run, but the Gulls replied with another three-point spree to close the gap to 25-22. The Engineers maintained control by recording five of the last six points down the stretch.
MIT featured a balanced attack and a team hitting percentage of .314. Thomas led the charge with 15 kills to go along with two blocks as Patrick Vatterott racked up 10 kills and six blocks. Hohenberger tallied 13 kills, four aces, and three blocks while Mike Demyttenaere posted seven kills and three blocks. Eric Reuland collected 11 digs as Garrett Winther totaled five digs, four kills, and two blocks. Jeremy Velazquez contributed five digs while Tim Lee totaled 41 assists and five digs.


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By: Jonathon Cant, Category: Lifelong Learning, Date: 30 Sep 2011
Is there a natural solution to our carbon emissions problem?
A recent newsarticle indicated to the world that apparently the worlds plants are processing our CO2 at faster rate than previously thought and this prompted me to think, what about the concept of a carbon sink?
A carbon sink is "a natural or artificial reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period." To learn more about carbon sinks (aka carbon sequestration), click here.
Many of the worlds major forests are considered to be carbon sinks, it is even theorised that we may be able to develop plantations of forests to act like giant sponges to soak up our carbon emissions. It's not just the trees, the largest carbon sink in the world surrounds every border of Australia, yep, you guessed it, our beloved ocean is the bigest carbon sink in the entire world.
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Santa from Cincinnati
As you might imagine, the early life of Santa Claus was a liiiiiiiittle different from the childhood of your average kid. His first words were "ho ho ho!" By five he was wearing a fake beard and mustache, and could rarely be found without his favorite stuffed reindeer. It was clear from a very young age that he was destined to be unique...
Despite this, his parents went to great lengths to maintain normalcy in his life. They had him learn guitar (he was in a rock band!), and play baseball (he had quite an arm), and even do chores (okay—here he was like any other kid on earth—he hated chores). But there was no stopping Santa from being Santa, and one winter, he began to make his lists. He checked them twice, and delivered toys to children all over Cincinnati. Then, all over Ohio. Then—the world.
Compiled from his baby book, family photos, and report cards, Santa from Cincinnati provides a full-spectrum view of the boy who grew to be the man who grew to be Santa.
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The farming "gotta-haves"—water and labor—took center stage at the 32nd Annual Agribusiness Management Conference in Fresno, with reports of timely developments in each area.
Two days after some speakers at the conference visited mostly conservative politicians in Washington, D.C., to press for immigration reform, they were able to report some progress in the wooing of Republicans in Congress to back changes; see story.
And those who spoke on the water front painted a mostly dark picture of the dangers of overdrafting groundwater in the face of low precipitation and cutbacks in federal surface water deliveries.
The view from water panelists was influenced in large measure by low snow and rain levels in recent months, coupled with constraints on federal water deliveries because of Endangered Species Act restrictions intended to protect fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Tom Birmingham, general manager of the Westlands Water District, said the "What's on Tap" title for the panel discussion was apt. His response: It's likely that, for the federal Central Valley Project, "when you open the tap next year, nothing is going to come out unless we see a dramatic change in the hydrology that we have been experiencing over the course of the last eight months."
Even if there is average precipitation, he said, water allocations for CVP agricultural customers south of the delta are likely to first be set at zero, and then possibly upgraded to 5 percent or 10 percent.
"We're facing a repeat of what we saw in 2009, when nearly half of the bare ground (in Westlands) was fallowed, there was incredible unemployment and people stood in line to receive food that included carrots grown in China," Birmingham said. "That's a tragedy, unconscionable."
Both Birmingham and Brent Walthall, with the Kern County Water Agency, said availability of groundwater has been a key to growers in weathering challenges in recent years. But each said that has had its costs.
In Westlands, Birmingham said, groundwater use has led to further land subsidence. The Kern County agency has 14 groundwater banking programs that enable farmers to survive two or three years of drought, but Walthall said he would like to see changes in deliveries of water that could better assure a more stable water supply, given that five of the top crops in the county are permanent plantings.
Ron Jacobsma, general manger of the Friant Water Authority, noted what he called "a disturbing trend: Groundwater is not recharging as it used to; the bank is finite."
Birmingham said he expects some type of groundwater regulation to emerge. If regulation is to come, he said he would prefer that it be done on the regional level. Birmingham said growers are split between those who oppose any regulations and those who say it would be better to be proactive and prevent imposition of regulations from agencies that could include the state.
Birmingham said water transfers have helped keep farming alive in Westlands and elsewhere, and said transfers of water from the valley's east side would require infrastructure changes.
A panel on immigration followed the one on water.
"We're here to talk about the other 'gotta-have': labor," said Craig Regelbrugge, co-chair of the Agricultural Coalition for Immigration Reform and vice president for government relations and research with the American Nursery and Landscape Association.
He and others said a broken immigration system has led to labor shortages that have resulted in uncertainty, a lack of food security and economic setbacks that include the loss this year of pears in Northern California and apples in Michigan.
Regelbrugge acknowledged it will be a challenge to get the 218 votes needed to pass immigration reform legislation in the House. And the challenge compounds itself with an election year coming in 2014, followed by the prospect of moving lame-duck legislators afterward, if needed.
Advocate Monte Lake with the firm CJ Lake said the issue of immigration reform "is more important to the Central Valley than to anywhere." The region has a significant share of the 2 million farmworkers in the nation, most of them immigrants.
Lake said stepped-up action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the form of raids on packinghouses and other agricultural operations has had a chilling effect.
Among those who traveled to Washington earlier in the week as part of a Bibles, Badges and Businesses lobbying effort was Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims.
"As a public safety official, I find it heartbreaking (that) a sector of our community is afraid of us," Mims said, referring to "an inherent fear" among undocumented workers who fail to report crimes against them.
Jock O'Connell, with Beacon Economics, closed the conference with a talk on challenges the San Joaquin Valley will face from a burgeoning population, climate change and political gridlock.
He said foreign trade and investment will play a bigger role in California's economy.
(Dennis Pollock is a reporter in Fresno. He may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
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As tenure vote looms, ASD Ass't Principal Steven Lindenfeld steps down
Steven Lindenfeld, the embattled assistant principal at Amityville Memorial High School, has resigned from his post. The Amityville Board of Education accepted his resignation at its May 2 meeting. Lindenfeld's decison came after a resolution to award him tenure failed to pass in a split vote on March 14.
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Too late: Judge denies bid to stop Parkway
Judge Jay Swett denied a preliminary injunction to halt construction on the Meadowcreek Parkway, ruling that the plaintiffs waited until ground had already been broken and damage done before filing their injunction, and that the Virginia Department of Transportation would suffer "substantial harm" from stopping work, to the tune of $20,000 a day.
The Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park, represented by former City Council candidate Jennifer McKeever, is made up of longtime parkway opponents like Rich Collins, Stratton Salidis, and Peter Kleeman (the latter two also Council candidates), and they contend the city illegally gave land to VDOT in June 2008 when it did so with a 3-2 vote by City Council, rather than a super-majority vote required by the Constitution of Virginia when selling public land.
City Attorney Craig Brown argued that the Coalition had no standing for requesting the injunction, that they were unlikely to prevail in a lawsuit, and that the attorney general had issued an opinion that a super-majority vote was not necessary when granting a permanent easement. And VDOT attorney Lori Pound noted that taxpayers would be stuck with that $20K-a-day bill if work stopped.
Throughout the two-and-a-half-hour hearing, Swett questioned the injunction's timing, coming nine months after the city approved the land transfer. "Why not seek it before the first tree came down?" he asked. "The damage has been done."
In his ruling, Judge Swett found that the Coalition did have standing to file the injunction, but he cautioned that if he's wrong, the case could be thrown out on appeal solely on that issue.
Another point for issuing an injunction is the likelihood the plaintiff will prevail in a lawsuit over the land transfer. "I cannot find as of today the Coalition will prevail," said Swett. "I do not find the Coalition will be irreparably harmed if I do not grant an injunction."
Pointing out once again that the group could have filed before the first shovelful of dirt was dug, Swett added, "The plaintiff has to bear some of that responsibility."
The judge did allow an expedited trial in the Coalition's suit, so the parties will be back in court in May. By that time, Faulconer Construction, which began building a 1.4-mile stretch of the Parkway in February, may have felled hundreds of trees and moved thousands of feet of earth.
Coalition member and witness John Cruickshank seemed undismayed.
"It was very clear the judge took our case very seriously," he said, after the hearing. "He was very fair, and he said we're on some new legal ground."
And the Coalition may have more lawsuits up its sleeve. According to Cruickshank, it's hired a Washington lawyer to represent its contention that the Parkway violates federal law that protects parks and historic sites.
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Time for some proverbial heads to roll on City Council!! This city deserves much better than it has gotten in the past few decades. The Parkway is an incredibly stupid non-solution to a real problem.
I attended the hearing. The main question--whether City Council can grant a permanent easement for road construction without a super-majority vote, remains unresolved. The Judge decided only not to halt the bulldozers, before that question is answered.
Judge Swett came thoroughly prepared. He did an outstanding job grilling lawyers and witnesses. He poked and prodded; under his probing questions lawyers for each side, by turns, were left gasping and wordless and groping for answers.
Then at the end Judge Swett reached a considered result. Equally important, he was seen to reach a considered result. Witnesses had said their say and lawyers had argued their arguments, and nobody went away thinking they were not heard. A Supreme Court-level judicial performance.
A ruling on a preliminary issue perhaps (to this observer) may have erred on the side of mercy, rather than crisply dispatch the Plaintiff's case. No matter. Lingering uncertainty on the main legal issue will be resolved soon enough--in May.
My time having been consumed trying to save another city park at Ragged Mt and convince the elected officials to get accurate information about dredging our main water supply, I was surprised to hear at today's court proceeding that the County portion of this road cannot be opened until the city portion thru McIntire Park and the interchange at 250 have been completed. When the construction representative was questioned about this by the judge he answered that the economy being what it is there is a possibility the other 2 sections may not be completed. He then went on to contradict himself and say that the county portion would open as a stand alone road.
Another question I have is I heard the VDOT lawyer claim that anyone could use this road. I had understood this would not be open to trucks, but she seemed to imply it would be open to all vehicles
Would someone who has followed this closely clarify these points. Thank you
Well since the County has begun construction with the good faith belief that the City intends to take care of their part, it would seem to me that if the City backs out (through whatever means, be it changing their collective mind for the upteenth time or be it a court decision) then the City would be on the hook for every penny the County has spent. Perhaps the laws governing transactions and agreements between jurisdictions are different, but if this were two people or two businesses the City would be liable for a lot.
I write this in response to the queries related to the Parkway use. First, the City has said that no single semgne of this one road would be opened for use until all segments of the road are open for use. Secondly, the City indicated that the road would not be open to trucks. .
More importantly, I think, is that the public knows that although the Coalition was unable to enjoin the tree-cutting on the portion of road at issue, the question of the legality of this road does not depend just on the city transfer of land. Leaving economic and cost issues aside there are at least two outstanding environmental issues that have not been resolved: the Corp of Engineers must issue a permit, and this permit will not be granted until issues of water quality and road design are resolved in meetings in the next few months. These meetings will include "consulting parties" like Rich Collins, Dan Bluestone Peter Kleeman and Colette Hall as well as the state Department of Historic Resources.
The Coalition has retained a respected attorney known nationally for her work on environmental and historic preservation. She has already sent a letter to public officials alerting them that the Coalition believes that the road violates federal park protection and for properties eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, McIntire Park's golf course has this status. We reserve the right to challenge the road in federal court if attempts at resolution of these issues by VDOT are unacceptable.
If a federal court accepts the proposition that the MCP including the Interhchange is one road with a purpose and need that includes the federally funded interchange, McIntire Park will become what Mr. Mcintire intended: Charlotteville's Central Park now enhanced by the Rivanna Trail and the Schenck's Branch Greenway.
Finally, the opponents of the MCP have been joined by groups concerned with keeping McIntire Park green, such as those who play ssoftball, golfers, arborists,etc. On this note I urge everyone to visit the website for The First Tee Charlottesville and learn more about the City's contract with this group that uses golf as a wtool for youth and community development. It appears to me that the City isn't fulfilling its commitments on this matter. Check it out.
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Dear Mr. Collins, why were you so late to file? Why are you more qualified then my elected officials and consulted at all? I didn't elect you or your cohorts to do anything. You continue to pop up like mushroom after the rain, rant about some government malfeasances, go to court, and then get beaten. You waste time, taxpayer money and your legal assertions have yet to ever be proven correct. It is your right to do so but please don't act like you are doing me a favor.
Getting a letter from an attorney is as easy as writing a check- I'm not impressed. Your assertions of Paul Goodloe McIntire's wishes ignore his history. He would have wanted a road that allows his park gift to be better used by the public, make Park Street more livable, and requires the city/county to create MORE parkland. The parkway is exactly what he would have approved.
When Meadowcreek was expand to 18 holes (taking away riverside parkland) the city stated this was being done to replace the sub standard sand green park you now defend. Has everyone forgotten that?
Its ridiculous to not open the road to trucks. Why make the vehicles that get 4 MPG and spew soot drive more miles? Where's the vote for air quality?


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Building 320 was our second home after moving out of our tiny barracks in 404E. I think 320 might have been the old hospital morgue, but we made do. I started building spark transmitters on the roof after visiting a mad scientist in Australia named Kurt Landecker who claimed he could generate vast amount sof RF pulse power by charging capacitors in parallel and discharging them in parallel in a radiating loop or ring. Mr. Rubberband by this time had hired an exceptionally bright and highly spirited young secretary, Miss Jane Osterizer. (She later married Murray Baron but was unable to launch him into an orbit around Mars despite repeated efforts). I remember the hassles we had getting enough phones. Ray had the first speaker phone ever invented and we all used it to call friends when Ray was back East. Well another near-fatal fiasco or mine was organizing a dedication for Ray's new office. Someone (not me!) painted Ray's great oak desk flaming pink and we all recklessly filled his office with very large meteorological balloons--filled with water. As I said, this was one one several great disastrous mistakes of my life for which there is no forgiveness to be had on judgment day, and on top of that Ray was not amused. Soon after that Ma Bell announced they were doing away with phone number prefixes such as KLondike 7 or MEridian 6 and Ray decided to roll heads. Either the phone company cease and desist and leave us with our colorful history or we would take our business elsewhere, Ray told the CEO or some high muckety muck at PacBell. But our loud protests were in vain--there was only one phone company to choose from back then.
Working Environment in the 60s and 70s (typical)
We grew and grew and now the Communications Group under Vincent headed off to be their own lab and RPL marched ahead boldly. Slim Rubberband solicited all our inputs on a new Building 44. It had to have a hydraulic elevator with front and back doors and a huge High Bay capable of holding an 85 foot dish under construction and who knows how many 40-foot vans. It had sealed windows and individual thermostats with hot and cold air plenums over every office. The roof was extra strong for antenna work, but Steel Nafford had designed the high bay roof trusses so we were all a bit careful up there.
From the Menlo Park City Hall across the street the city fathers could see that we had built a respectable 2 story concrete office and lab. But secretly added was the Third Floor restauraunt featuring Joe Wagner's All-Girl orchestra with Dinner Dancing. Our ballroom could only be reached by the sticky hydraulic elevator, so access was a bit slow on Friday nights. For safety's sake Mr. Nafford built us an escape slide in the back, taken from a crashed Boeing Stratocruiser cabin door. Joseph preferred Viennese waltzes (having been raised in Austria) but RLL sent him off to dance-band school and Joe added steel drums from Antigua and other exotic instruments collected by our brilliant scientists on their world travels. Ever popular over the years, Vagner added a line of chorus girls from Stanford and belly-dancers flown in from Cairo. The latter were hand picked by our own Bob Bollen from the 23rd Floor of the SherAtone Hotel Night Club on the Nile, and most of them looked OK if the lights were kept dimmed.
Dedication date for Building 44 was a gala affair with helpful placards located throughout the building so people could find the Blue Room, the Red Room, the War Room, the restrooms, and the restauraunt. Mr. L's office was of course properly festooned with flags and banners and "What Me Worry?" posters put into place by this unnamed but well-meaning, dedicated ever-helpful lab staff member. Trouble was, Mr. Alvin Van Every from ARPA showed up for a visit on opening day and Mr. Leadabrand had to run through the building hiding signs that might be misleading to our benevolent funding agency. Not funny McGee, after all, sad to say.
It came time for more nuclear tests by our government and they needed radar work done out in the Pacific by our lab. I flew to Astoria, Oregon to check out coast guard cutters and destroyers as a possible platform and we even inquired about an aircraft carrier (The Giant Hydrogen-filled Dirigible-with-75 foot-steel-framework-disk-in-the-nose Project came later). John V. N. Granger who was high up in the lab when I came on board had his start up company going and he said his whiz kid high school student Gordon McGinnity could build three radars for us in 3 months. Desperate to find a practical way to get the radars on site, Dick Stenger and I flew to Newport Beach where yacht broker George Michaud found us the biggest and best yacht he had--the Motor Vessel Acania--a luxury twin diesel with teak decks built for Actress Constance Bennett in 1929. Signing the lease Dick and I got on board and spent a very sea-sick weak end sailing from Southern California to our berth at Treasure Island. The ship was sturdy and sound but would roll 30 degrees in mild swells, pitch violently when pointed into the wind and waves, and wallow like a drunken fat lady in a following sea. But she was fast: 10 knots! You can imagine Mr. Hilly's ire when I sailed into port and placed a 100k of rush purchase orders the same day. The government, Hilly said, would never allow us to lease a ship, certainly not a yacht, and the Air Force who we worked for by National Policy was not allowed around ships. Well, Mr. Leadabrand rolled heads and we kept the Acania for years and years and years! The Acania needed lots of work: air conditioning, a 200 kw generator, a water distillation plant, fuel tanks, water tanks--and of course five big radars all crammed into the main salon. Stafford's 30 foot dish folded down nicely on the after deck, the gun-mounted yagi array up front was stowable and we even added a 75 foot cranked up tower later on for upper atmospheric sounding with a nifty new HF step sounder. A trip to MSTS in Seattle brought me to the office of a wonderful retired captain, Harold Berg, who agreed to sail us to the South Pacific. Mr. Swengler agreed to go to Hawaii for the ride and the ship left in the middle of a great winter storm. Unlike the Titanic, the Acania was unsinkable, but never a smooth ride, so Mr. Stenger lost 200 pounds (we think) and was sick and forlorn when photographed at the Aloha Pier in Honolulu after 14 days strapped into his bunk.
Actually Mr. Stenger did not exactly like the food on board the Acania. Our cook, Hans, pictured here with Commodore Doldrums during a 30 degree roll, stored only cabbage, sauerkraut, and nachwurst in the deck produce lockers and forepeak freezers. Enroute to the South Pacific Stenger in a fit of unbridled frenzy threw overboard hundreds of pounds of frozen nachwurst--poisoning fish and sharks for miles around, and forcing our 10 man crew to eat canned chili and peanuts from the ship's bar for the rest of the voyage. In port, Hans stocked up just as he always had, nachwurst and cabbage.
The radars weren't all finished yet so a bunch of us joined the ship in Honolulu and rebuilt the radars radically as we sailed pitching and tossing and tolling and heaving to Entiwetok Lagoon where our tiny craft the Acania looked like a row boat alongside all the carriers and battleships of our sister projects. But we cleared port and went down to lovely Wotho atoll where we anchored awaiting for our particular bomb tests to come up on the schedule. Trips ashore helped us to appreciate native life on exotic tropical lagoons with native dancing girls. These experiences finally culminated in Alan Selby's vanishing into the culture on Raratonga in 1962 where he began to be the object of many legends and true stories that are but another part of the glorious heritage of the lab. The radars never did work right in the Marshall Islands--the time frame was simply do short to work such miracles, but the tests we were there for were delayed in time and also moved to Johnston Island so we had a reprieve in Honolulu.
Our project paper work had been hastily sent down through channels from the Highest Levels of the Pentagon and finally trickled down to Commander Field Command AF SWAP at Albuquerque. I was summoned to fly down (via TWA Constellation) to ABQ where I bonded immediately with Lt. Col. Ed. Halligan who was assigned to lead me step by step through stacks of red tape and paper work our project required in order to get us on site and relocated. I was horrified with the thought of all the paper work that had to be done right and in military jargon, too, and 12 copies. I commuted that spring (Pan Am again) some 8 times to Hawaii fixing radars and had no time to fill out forms. The Air Force did not own any ships and had no idea of fore and aft or bilge pumps and martinis on the fantail before dinner. They were in for a long, but proud learning curve and ended up with a gen-U-ine navy after all. I really liked Col. Halligan. He talked acronyms and numbers non-stop so I had to generate my own dictionary. (Mr. L. showed me the first HP hand held calculator about that time, only $395, good for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, but not yet anywhere near a Franklin language dictionary). Well, the forms got filled out for the ship's motley crew--(it turns the first crew of 10 were from the very dregs of the docks of San Francisco). Our agents, Pillsbury and Martignoni, long term SF ship chandlers, had done well for us except in the matter of our crew. But Captain Robert Fall who joined us after Entiwetok was very capable and gradually we learned how to sail the old ship as a yacht not a Liberian freighter. Roy Long ran the Acania well into the next decade getting better and better at food and amenities and congenial crew members as well as superbly functioning equipment including scuba gear and wind surfing gear of course.
Lots of money spent in haste at Honolulu shipyards and the ship sailed a few months later with a minimal crew the 700 miles to Johnston island while the rest of us flew MATS in giant drafty swaying C124 flying boxcars. We had a bit of hassle at Hickam AFB as the passenger manifest showed a missing man, a certain Michael Victor Acania. When we told the desk sergeant we had sent Michael on ahead, a security crisis of great magnitude ensued and (as I recall) we had to roust Col. Ed Halligan out of bed in ABQ to get the Air Force Navy back on track. We all liked JI. Our on board ship food was better, and we had fantail luxury whereas the other projects and MPs ashore languished in stuffy stifling hot tents and barracks with food catering provided by Holmes and Never (pardon me, that's "Narver"). The lagoon at JI was not crystal clear as it had been at Wotho but we enjoyed some scuba diving amongst the sea snakes, and snail boating in our dinghies. Night and day Arch McKinley and the rest of us fussed with radars, clip leading 30 kilovolt leads haphazardly everywhere while squeezed in between the wet salon windows and the huge transmitter cabinets. Mr. Leadabrand showed up on a VIP flight in time for the big tests and we hastened to tape all the knobs and dials in place with "No Tweaking" signs everywhere.
Flashback note: Mr. L. liked to turn knobs a lot and had previously aroused the ire of Sir Ron PreTzel in Alaska who didn't like anyone turning his dials, "Now see here, just tell me what you want and I will make it work the way you want, but no tweaking the high voltage. I am sick, sick to giant death of you guys coming in here and ruining my radars and arcing over my klystron and tracking snow and ice on my nice waxed floor. Go back to the Traveller's Inn and I'll call you when there is aurora for you to watch and you can take Polaroid pictures." The expression "Sick to Giant Death" became a watchword ever after, etched in the minds of the next generation of would be knob tweakers. Later, Hank Olsen built stuff without real knobs on front panels (they were in back) and he put lots of fake "Leadabrand knobs" on the front panel that could could be tweaked harmlessly. Sad to say, we young bucks did cause Mr. L. lots of pain and grief because he was the last of the great knob tweakers. Firing up an old APS World War I radar one day I saw him masterfully pull in clutter echoes from B29s over Berlin long after the war had ended. Ray really was good and he knew auroral echoes when he saw them. Years later when Rolf Dycehere thought he had discovered tropical aurora at Antigua during martini hour on the fantail, our Glorious Leader immediately confirmed the result and procured another million dollars from Mr. Van Every for ongoing work.
Well the nuclear tests at JI were unforgettable. I got to stay on the ship during the events as did Ray and our chief engineer and the Captain and a couple of others. We fired up the 200 kw generator, and the fire pumps and had the lifeboats checked out and ready. Everyone else was evacuated a safe distance away and dropped on the board the Carrier USS Boxer. Sounding rockets launched vertically upwards from the Island came crashing around us during the test. We had carefully covered our nice teak rails with aluminum foil in case of flash burns and our tiny crew on board the Acania that night experienced an unforgettable, lifechanging event which is forever etched in our memories. Juggling finniky radars all night, and changing Dick King's Ampex 12-channel tape reels frantically we grabbed all the data we could, little knowing that that very data would be studied endlessly for many years to come. The ship did not sink and next morning I gave the Project 7.1 preliminary test report at a meeting of Generals and Admirals and staff scientists and rocket experts and the bomb designers. I was only 26 at the time and certainly did not yet know which way was up. But Mr. Leadabrand was great about delegating responsibility and he knew we would all grow faster if we were working way over our depth with far too much too do and no time to do it in. He allowed us to make our own mistakes, and mine were many, frequent--and often near disasters. Oh, yes, I need to say one word about April Weather. We were allowed ham radio in those days and our ancient veteran Ray Irvine was able to work the world from the South Pacific and also send a daily "Weather Report" in the clear back to the lab in Menlo Park. Ahead of time we had newsy codes planned that would tell the folks at home about health and morale and we could pass on sea sickness reports. We could also place orders for supplies. I remember ordering one million feet of plumber's tape one day when I was frustrated with equipment falling out of relay racks. Good old plumber's tape was perfect, but when the million feet arrived we had quite a time storing it ever after.
I do want to mention our dear colleague Dr. Rolf Dycehere, a really bright young scientist just coming into puberty whom Mr. Leadabrand had adopted on one of his trips back East. I think Dycehere had been to Cornell or Lincoln Labs and it was said he knew the great Gordon Pettingill and had actually seen the Lincoln labs radar dome in person. The photo at right taken using one of our scope cameras shows Murray Baron disguised to look like Dr. Dycehere reading an inflammatory cheap pulp sci-fi novel. Rolf was actually outside at the pier waiting for the boat out to his riometer shack on a remote island. In the background Mr. PreTzel mans the radar controls and in the rear J. Loren Dye is obviously soldering something under the total masterful direction of the Radar Master. The van may look cozy (it had cots in back) and it was very hot with 100% humidity outside, but Ron kept the air conditioning blasts at near zero which he found comfortable even with shorts on, unlike the rest of us. Dr. Dycehere always wore shorts even at high level meetings in the Pentagon. "Oh dear me, my goodness, Ray, I seem to have lost my riometer charts. Can you hand me that match cover and a pen and I'll scribble the curves out here so General Folderol here can see the absorption in the D layer caused by overflying goonie birds." "Well, I don't know I never thought about that I suppose we would jury rig a scarecrow to keep the damn (excuse me, Ray that was not polite of me) birds off my antennas." Rolf did great work later on, raking leaves out from under the crater dish at Arecibo and sweeping the catwalk out to the feed point. We are reminded that a good scientist is not ashamed to sweep out his van and change the ink wells on the chart recorders.
The next round of tests at JI in '62 were more sane as far as lead time, and more sensible equipment-wise as Ron PreTzel had time to build good radars and Holmes and Never built us a new big dish on JI after new specs from the ever creative Steel Nafford (his collection of match cover sketches is, we think, in the Foothill Electronics history museum). The next nuclear test series under the direction of General Birdseed (sp?) was frustrating and long drawn out. I snitched a piece of blown up Redstone missile fuel pump from the runway after one failed test, and Mr. R. still uses it to this day as a radioactive paperwork as I recall. Dr. Water Closet assumed a major role behind the scenes about that time. He kept four secretaries busy at all times and was the perfect model of a brilliant, eccentric, dazzlingly gifted --but not always practical--great scientist we could all emulate. When I was around him I always wished I could remember my freshman physics a bit better. I always had a hard time about these guys with brains. It never bothered Ray that he had flunked French and was almost, but not quite a real doctor, but in a way I always wished I had stayed on at Stanford for another decade and had Mr. Chan tutor me until I passed all my comp exams. Still, I would have missed a lot of swashbucking adventure had I done so, and a lot of PhDs I met were really quite dull and boring people.
Sir Neil Stafford at Johnston Island about 1962 or so.
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- iDroidsMania is a great game with excellent controls, well designed levels, and nice looking graphics. This is the perfect game for anybody looking for an old school platform game with a unique theme." - AppChatter
Other Reviews:
- "iDroidsMania is yet another game showing off incredibly high production values; the game looks and sounds superb - another fantastic addition to the iPhone's portfolio of quality games." - AppGamer.net
- "iDroidsMania is just pretty to look at. The use of colors in the design of the levels is superb and gives it a very polished feel." - no dpad
- "iDroidsMania contains some very appealing backgrounds, graphics, and weapons." - Apple iPhone apps.com
- "A nice looking side scrolling platformer." - touchArcade
- "Platformer enthusiasts should enjoy iDroidsMania very much." - Frapstr, The Podium Network
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You are an iDroid! More specifically, HAXX, the rural farmer from iDroidAbama with a heart of steel…and copper.
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Looking for an amorous getaway for Valentine's Day — or any other day? Here are some of our favorite romance-inspiring lodgings:
Bartlett Pear Inn
Yes, the decor is all about pears, but not because the owners are crazy about the fruit. It's because the husband wanted the inn to reflect his wife's maiden name of Bartlett. How romantic is that? And that's just the beginning at this gracious B&B on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where feng-shui principles make sure that your bed faces the door and the spaces pertaining to love and marriage are properly painted Valentine's Day red.
28 S. Harrison St., Easton, Md. 410-770-3300. bartlettpearinn.com. Rooms from $149 Dec.-Feb., from $169 March-Nov.
Bavarian Inn
It's not a romantic chalet in the mountains of southern Germany, but it's just as good as one. This Alpine-flavored West Virginia hostelry overlooking the Potomac River will transport you to the hills of "Heidi" while pampering you with all the comforts of home. The restaurant, complete with dirndl-clad waitresses, is more than good, and the river views are just beautiful.
164 Shepherd Grade Rd., Shepherdstown, W.Va. 304-876-2551. www.bavarianinnwv.com. Rooms from $95.
Colonial Williamsburg historic houses
When the daytime crowds thin out, stroll the brick sidewalks by moonlight with your special someone. Night is an enchanting time at the living history museum, and you can make your visit even more authentic by staying at one of the restored historic buildings. You may never want to go back to the 21st century.
Williamsburg, Va. 800-447-8679. www.colonialwilliamsburg.com. Rooms from $169.
Grand Summit Hotel
Think madcap 1930s romantic comedies, Cary Grant and Greer Garson and misunderstandings and make-ups, and you'll get a sense of the atmosphere at this grand lady with a dash of the country lodge in the hills of northern New Jersey. The restaurant's excellent, the art is eye-catching and the neighborhood's pretty. So forget that quarrel and make up already.
570 Springfield Ave., Summit, N.J. 908-273-3000. www.grandsummit.com. Rooms from $145.
Hotel Rouge
For an urban getaway — or staycation — this Kimpton hotel radiates a sexy vibe, thanks in no small part to the not-so-subtle use of its signature color. The lobby can get a little chilly in the winter, but why hang out there when your room is 450 square feet? Besides, you can lounge all day in your leopard-print robes and feel positively animalistic.
1315 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 202-232-8000. www.rougehotel.com. Rooms from $159.
Inn at Meander Plantation
After a day of touring vineyards in Virginia's wine country, retreat to this gracious historic manor, where you can stay in the 1776 house or a detached cottage. The breakfast is superb, the innkeepers are friendly and the scenery is stunning. Also pet-friendly.
2333 N. James Madison Hwy., Locust Dale, Va. 800-385-4936. www.meander.net. Rooms from $185.
Inn at Willow Grove
The operative words are "elegance" and "whimsy," both of which are in more-than-ample supply at this gorgeous lodging on a former Virginia plantation outside Orange. The decor is lush and subdued, except when it surprises you with sudden splashes of color and unexpected pops of fancy, be they cow paintings in the bathrooms or a chair made of book spines. Be sure to have a meal in the stylish restaurant.
14079 Plantation Way, Orange, Va. 540-317-1206. innatwillowgrove.com. Rooms from $265.
Lackawanna Bed & Breakfast
This 19th-century Virginia house has only three guest rooms, so you won't be overwhelmed by other visitors. It's very prettily situated, with a view of the Shenandoah River, not far from downtown Front Royal, where you can take a walk before dinner.
236 Riverside Drive, Front Royal, Va. 540-636-7945. www.lackawannabb.com. Rooms from $154.
Mansion on O Street
Room after room after room (100 of them, in fact) crammed with art and books and objets of the most fanciful and exotic kind lend this fantastic crazy quilt of a hotel an air of mystery and magic that can't be beat. Just succumb to the lure, have fun wandering among the maze of halls and themed suites, finding the secret doors and passages, ogling the decor and living in a kind of all-embracing romantic dream.
2020 O St. NW, Washington, D.C. 202-496-2000. www.omansion.com. Rooms from $350.
Savage River Lodge
Snuggle in front of the fireplace in your own private, pet-friendly cottage at this resort in western Maryland. The restaurant serves above-average food in a romantically rustic setting, and you won't have to leave your room for breakfast thanks to the morning muffin delivery.
1600 Mount Aetna Rd., Frostburg, Md. 301-689-3200. www.savageriverlodge.com. Rooms from $225.


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AMD revs Athlons for Windows 7 assault
Catching the small PC wave
In the rush to catch the PC upgrade tsunami that may or may not materialize after the Windows 7 earthquake this Thursday, chip seller Advanced Micro Devices has had its wafer baker, GlobalFoundries, cook up new Athlon II processors for mainstream desktop PCs.
The Athlon II chips come in dual-, tri-, and quad-core variants and are pitched against Intel's Core 2 Duo, Core i5, and Core i7 desktop processors.
The Athlon II X2 200e series of chips are rated at 45 watts and aimed at all-in-one PCs that cram the PC into the back of a monitor. These 200e chips are also being deployed inside some small form factor microtower PCs because you can make the desktop footprint very small.
The Athlon II X3 400e family of chips has three processor cores and comes in 45 watt and 95 watt thermal envelopes; the hotter chips offer more bang and cost more money. The X3 chips are used in all-in-one and small footprint desktops as well as in some mainstream PCs.
Further up the family is the Athlon II X4 600e series, which are quad core chips also in a 45 watt power band, and the line tops out with the Phenom II X4 900e series, which is rated at 65 watts and which is the top-end mainstream part in terms of performance. All of these chips are based on 45 nanometer chip making processes and plug into AMD3 sockets.
Here are the eight new Athlon II chips that AMD kicked out today, including their thermal envelope, clock speed, and price per unit when buying 1,000-unit bins:
- Athlon II X4 605e: 45 watts, 2.3 GHz, $143
- Athlon II X4 600e: 45 watts, 2.2 GHz, $133
- Athlon II X3 435: 95 watts, 2.9 GHz, $87
- Athlon II X3 425: 95 watts, 2.7 GHz, $76
- Athlon II X3 405e: 45 watts, 2.3 GHz, $102
- Athlon II X3 400e: 45 watts, 2.2 GHz, $97
- Athlon II X2 240e: 45 watts, 2.8 GHz, $77
- Athlon II X2 235e: 45 watts, 2.7 GHz, $69
AMD is not only hoping to surf on the Windows 7 wave, but also on transitions to new desktop PC form factors.
The vast majority of desktop PCs sold in 2006 (around 65 per cent) were for minitowers, with another 10 per cent coming from tower PCs. A little less than 20 per cent of the PCs sold were for so-called small form factor PCs. (This is IDC data, by the way, which you can see here in this presentation put together by AMD.) This data shows that small form factor PCs are growing at the expense of minitowers, and will continue to do so between now and 2013.
Interestingly, ultra small form factor PCs, tiny PCs, and all-in-one PCs are all showing reasonably high adoption rates, and are displacing all kinds of larger PCs. Businesses and consumers alike want smaller PCs as much as they want faster ones with better graphics. The point is, AMD has to crank up its 45 watt, low-power offerings to catch this other wave. ®


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New talented band: Churches
Churches are a Scottish electronic pop band formed last year.
The band members are:
- Lauren Mayberry (vocals)
- Martin Doherty (synths)
- Iain Cook (synths).
So far they released just one song, "Lies": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvJBD9MVI4
But what a song!
Before I saw who posted it I assumed this was a JAG
But in actual fact, cheers, this is pretty great. I shall be playing this a lot over the next few days.
Its nice to have a scottish female vocalist who keeps her accent while singing
Most adopt that faux warbling shit. This kinda sounds like a scottish Ellie Goulding.
The song is really catchy. The more you play it, the more you like it.
I like also the subtle industrial sounds.
NME seems to like them a lot
[magazine scan with a short review of their second show]
The other songs seems to be also great.
Saw them last night.
They were great.
they're playing Edinburgh this week?
selling real fast fyi
- stalecloud this'd this
Yeah just listened to this about 7 times in a row.
It's the LA SUXXX of 2012!
just so you know
this is half of areogramme/unwinding hours/twilight sad
having been at their first (and still only, i think) glasgow show this is all a bit mental, me and Lauren have lived in the same flat!JaguarPirate this'd this
Love the new song too
I just fucking love her voice I think, music's cool too though.
I have said it before
and I'll say it again;
Enough with the single pluralised word band names. Particularly geographical ones.
Fucking Churches. Not as good as Cathedrals.eltham this'd this
Really neat!
liking this more with every listen
but then it does sound like Paramore dunked in the lighter side of Crystal Castles
yeah, this I like
she has such a good accent, and the beat sounds massive
Like it
Quite similar to Purity Ring, that's not a bad thing though is it?
It's a good track
I'd be pleasantly surprised if they can carry this formula through to a strong album. Dave ^there mentioned Purity Ring, and I can see the similarity for sure, but this is more well worn electro pop to me, and even Purity Ring suffered a little bit on their album from being one trick ponies.
Still, be happy to be proved wrong.dave9cakes and JaguarPirate this'd this
- JaguarPirate, littlebirds, automatik, deep-blue, and _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
I THINK I NEED A LIE DOWNrainmaker and badmanreturns this'd this
It reminds me of Heartbeats by The Knife
Esp. the rhythm section. Amazing song.
Yes. But that "v" tend to make me pronounce it as "v" instead "u".
I think it's not too late to come with an entirely new band name if Churches (with "u") is gone...
New song: 'The Mother We Share' - The Knife reference?
Seems pretty likely, given their sound.
Ah I see
But I of course mean 'We Share Our Mother's Health' in particular.
This "angel miike guy" did an awful video for 'The Mother We Share'
I really hope this will not be the official video.
oh so he just makes videos then?
didn't know if he was a label boss or summat
In the description of the video:
"VIDEO EDIT BY *_* (ttp://www.facebook.com/angelmiike)"
PS: he ate a "h"...
Definitely the best new band I've heard this year.
There's nothing really original about them is there
maybe that's not what you're looking for idk. It seems strange to me to hold something in such high esteem that treads a path that's already so well worn, without bringing much else in. I guess they've got plenty of time to figure that out though, i loved the purity ring album, which is an example of people getting this sort of thing right.
Sorry to be a killjoyKnightboat this'd this
OMG – someone has finally said a bad word against Chruches!?!
The problem I have with Churches is the same sad story that has ruined chances many talented unsigned Scottish Bands that have struggled from the sidelines which is unbiased favouritism from those privileged to be "connected"
IMO it's not the second coming that everyone in Glasgow or Blogburn are building them up to be. It's a band that played in a very heavy style (I'm a massive gramme fan) to jumping on the electro synth bandwagon to appease the Murdoch & Kapranos tastemakers of Glasgow
I wouldn't have a problem with Churches if other promising unsigned bands in Scotland got the same amount nationwide praise / admiration. It just seems that no other new bands in Scotland exist except Churches - who have well known contacts around Glasgow and chummy with the right people.
At the end of the day I know the White Knights of this thread will tell me that "you know nothing" and whatever but spare a thought for those hard working bands in Scotland who deserve the same amount of press/live reviews as Churches have unfairly gotten in the space of 4 months.Severed799 and poptimusgrime this'd this
- badmanreturns this'd this
Pretty much love both these songs now
and maybe the lead singer a bit after watching that video so many times.
Good stuff.
Subthread: I love hearing pop vixens say 'fuck'
Jenny Lewis does it in several Rilo Kiley songs and it's always the sexiest thing ever.
Another recent example: Phantogram - 'Don't Move'
moar plz
Emily Haines of Metric
- at the beginning of "Artificial Nocturne": "I'm just as fucked up as they say / I can't fake the daytime".
- "Satellite Mind": "Flashback of a feeling, sixth sense of a call / And heard you fuck through the wall, I heard you fuck"
- "Crowd Surf a Cliff": "It's not for a fuck, or a kiss / Rather give the world away than wake up lonely / Everywhere and every way I see you with me / Crowd surf off a cliff".
I'm looking forward to seeing them support Passion Pit.
I'll probably develop diabetes at that gig.
- niallKP, fiddygent, and littlebirds this'd this
I can't work out for sure whether you just need to 'buy' the free tickets
and that ensures you entry, or it's going to be first come first serve too... I got a bunch for me and pals anyway.
Yeah I assume it'll be first come first serve with tickets
I've never been to the venue so have no idea how big it is, hopefully shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Cannot wait
Possibly pointing out the obvious
but the v in the name is just a stylised u, the same as Edinburgh Council use. They're still Churches on Facebook.
I read an interview (possibly with the Observer?)
where they said they changed it just to make it easier to Google them. Makes sense.
Ah cool, that would make sense.
It's just that I've heard people talking about their stupid unpronounceable name before.
Oh right yeah
With you on that one, it's clearly just pronounced Churches!littlebirds this'd this
They're awesome live!
Here is a HD video with two songs performed live: "The Mother We Share" & "Lies" (near the end): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu1Q7UNiq6Y
Excellent quality.
she's actually a year older than me
and i'm 24.
This is fantastic
Good find!
She always looks so nervous on stage!
I want to wrap her up in a blanket and bring her tea and Marmite on toast.
nah, I had sort of the same thought (substituting American comfort foods for British staples). I'm always surprised to see somebody be nervous on stage when they clearly have talent and an attentive audience.
- Severed799 this'd this
Glasgow talent
Glasgow seems to be on the up just now. Chvrches and Holy Esque are great. From what I heard last night both are on the verge of deals with Warner and HE invited to play SXSW next year.Jacksonville this'd this
They performed live at BBC Radio 1
So far, there's one video for "The Mother We Share" live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD9LQ73QHwE
Doors open at 8pm
Miaow Miaow supporting.
That's about all I know.....can't wait.
and do those tickets guarantee entry?
...bugger it i'll just call electrowerkz tomorrow.
i very much doubt it.
I'm going early.
Miaow Miaow is ace anyway.
Found 2 nice videos
With Lauren & her previous band The Blue Sky Archives:
BTW, she can also play the drums and keys!
Boyfriend/Girlfriend FTW
Fuck this.
I wanted a decent electro-pop album all summer long and CHVRCHES could have duly obliged, but instead they're releasing it in the Autumn.
Even Haim's album would have been better for the ears on sunny days.
Why do so many artists leave July/ August as a veritable wasteland as far as big anticipated releases are concerned?
Anyone going to their Forum gig
tonight? Anyone know stage times? I've seen them at Field Day, Birthdays and The Scala. I wonder what they'll be like at a large venue like The Forum. I had a ticket to their Shepherds Bush gig but gave it away to someone on here. Anyone go to that?


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Cooler Master Hyper N620 Review
Over the past few years, the CPU heatsink market has exploded with many new products - and that alone can make it difficult to narrow down potential selections, even before looking at the specifications of each candidate. With overclocking becoming more and more popular, the demand for aftermarket heatsinks has shot up drastically. So manufacturers, even new ones that are sprouting up, are constantly putting out new coolers to suit its customers' individual needs. There are big ones and small ones. Some are made of copper, while some are aluminum, or sometimes it's a combination of the two. Cooler Master has been consistently putting out new cooling products; those of which work quite well. I am anxious to see how the Hyper N620 from Cooler Master performs. Since this is actually the first Cooler Master heatsink I've had my hands on, it adds to my anticipation to get the ball rolling and get it right into testing. However, I first need to check out the package, its features, and evaluate its looks.
Closer Look:
The Hyper N620 is packaged in a white and purple box, similar to that of the packaging scheme of other Cooler Master products. The package makes it obvious that it is LGA 1366 compatible, as it blares blatantly beside the heatsink's picture and above all the other socket compatibilities. This makes sense for Cooler Master to make this clear, as LGA 1366 is becoming more and more popular - plus the infamous i7 chips from Intel run hot... very hot. At the bottom of the front face, other compatible processors are listed. On one of the sides, it lists all of its mount compatibilities; LGA 775, LGA 771 (Skulltrail only), AM2+, AM2, Socket 939, and Socket 754. The other side displays "CPU Cooler - For more information please visit our website" in about 20 different languages.
Once out of the box, I noted how big the cooler is. I was interested to get it completely out of the package, where it was sandwiched between two pieces of fitted plastic that snaps together. Loosely inside the box itself were two sets of paper, a warranty slip and a very large, fold-out, quick-setup instruction manual.
Included are all the supported motherboard backplates and brackets, thermal paste, required screws, rubber dampers, nuts and a socket for a screwdriver to tighten the nuts, the manual, and a warranty booklet. The rubber dampers are adhesive-backed and stick to the motherboard brackets on the surface that gets bolted down. The last picture is how one of these brackets look assembled, with the rubber damper and the through screw. The one neat thing I noticed about the through screw was that it was threaded backwards. Cooler Master did this so that when tightening the nuts down from the back side of the motherboard, the through screws wouldn't back out nor require a screwdriver on the other side holding them in place. This was a convenient solution.
With everything unpacked, I'll be taking a closer look at the heatsink on the next page.


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Last night's Met Ball (or what most like to call the the "Oscars of fashion") was a serious celebration of style. The theme of the night for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute gala took a more formal turn this year -- and there were some definite head-turning numbers. Take a look:
1. LaLa Anthony
LaLa Anthony
Gorgeous! The beautiful Latina showed off her new short 'do and played to her curves in this Cushnie et Ochs gown.
2. Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana
The actress went billowy in Prabal Gurung.
3. Thalia
Thalia kept it beautiful and formal in this Tommy Hilfiger gown.
4. Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez
Selenita vamped it up in this beautiful burgundy number by Diane Von Furstenberg.
5. Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie showed off her thin figure in this Donna Karan Atelier custom-dyed Sage backless dress. We're still loving the purple hair!
6. Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita definitely took the biggest fashion risk of the night in this Prada number. We're lovin' it!
7. Joan Smalls
Joan Smalls
The Boricua model looked gorgeous in a gown by Vera Wang — but our eyes are on that fierce fishtail braid and purple lip!
8. Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba
The actress and entrepreneur rocked this gold Diane Von Furstenberg dress.
9. Gisele Bundchen
Gisele Bundchen
Gisele went for glam in this Balenciaga gown with plunges in both the front and back.
10. Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
The part Salvadoran model looked beautiful in this Calvin Klein gown.
11. Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima
The newly separated model looked stunning in Givenchy.


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The philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Co. will award $1 million in automotive design scholarships over the next 20 years in honor of William Clay Ford Sr., the former company vice chairman and last surviving grandson of founder Henry Ford who died Sunday.
The Ford Motor Co. Fund will award five automotive design students $10,000 per year each under the William Clay Ford Automotive Design Scholarship that commemorates the late Ford's design legacy, the fund announced today.
Ford was design committee chairman of the company's policy and strategy committee from 1957 until his retirement in 1989; he died at age 88 of pneumonia Sunday morning at his home. His son, William Clay Ford Jr., is executive chairman of the Dearborn-based automaker.
"Design was Mr. Ford's passion, and his creative vision transformed vehicle design at Ford," Ford Fund President Jim Vella said in a statement. "We are honoring William Clay Ford's legacy by encouraging and supporting the next generation of innovative automotive designers through this scholarship."
The late Ford is credited with overseeing development of a number of classic Ford vehicle designs — including the Lincoln Continental Mark II, perhaps best known for the spare tire mounted into an impression of the sheet metal of the car trunk, which became an iconic image of the brand.
The grant will fund scholarships to five college sophomores or juniors each year pursuing a degree in automotive design. Further details are expected in the coming months.
The Ford Motor Co. Fund, established in 1949 and funded with Ford profits, awards grants to support local initiatives and quality-of-life programs in communities where Ford operates. The automaker in 2011 moved an additional $10 million into the fund over and above its typical annual contribution.


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Disagreement over a plan to build a gas station on the edge of a residential neighborhood has created an us-versus-them situation on North Charleston City Council, according to a councilman on the losing side of a recent vote.
Councilman Bobby Jameson said things will never be the same after he was humiliated at a committee meeting Sept. 19, when most council members voted against him on the gas station plan in his district, which he supported.
"(Councilman) Ron Brinson's the one who messed things up," Jameson said. "He hasn't been on council long enough to know the rules of the game."
The unspoken rule has been that council members defer to the wishes of the council member who represents the district in question. Jameson claims Brinson rallied council members to oppose the gas station plan because Brinson's relatives live in that neighborhood.
Brinson said Jameson's remarks were "very unfortunate" and denies working to influence the vote. But he also said that when it comes to changing the city's land use plan, it's time to end the practice of voting however a district's council member wants.
"I think that day has come and gone, if the issue involves the city's comprehensive plan," Brinson said. "Not that the plan is etched in stone, but what is it etched in? Melting Jello?"
"Property owners have a right to rely on that plan," he said.
Jameson's council district includes Deer Park. where a Sunoco station and convenience store was proposed on University Boulevard at Fernwood Drive. Jameson supported the zoning and land use changes needed by Sunoco, and on North Charleston City Council the district representative's support has usually been enough to assure approval.
However, Deer Park residents came out against that zoning request at two meetings, where they also opposed another zoning change requested in the neighborhood. Brinson's sister-in-law, Linda Brinson, was among the Deer Park residents who spoke out against the Sunoco project.
"I think he's probably upset that my brother and sister-in-law were involved, but I didn't lobby anyone, and I was kind of surprised by the outcome," Brinson said.
Jameson lost the zoning vote 6-3, joined only by his sister, Councilwoman Rhonda Jerome, and by Councilwoman Dot Williams.
"It embarrassed me, and it embarrassed me for my city, in front of people who were ready to invest $4 million in my city," Jameson said Friday.
He said that while the gas station plan needed a zoning change, it was a good plan that addressed traffic and buffers between the property and its neighbors.
"Whatever goes in there later has the potential to be much worse, and that's why I supported the Sunoco," said Jameson, who stressed that he had nothing to gain personally. "It would have been a positive for a neighborhood."
The Sunoco plan and an unrelated proposal to build a parking lot where a home now sits on Dantzler Drive were opposed by neighborhood residents who said the city had promised commercial zoning wouldn't be allowed past a certain point, on Deer Park's residential streets.
City Council also recommended rejecting the Dantzler Drive zoning change, at the committee meeting, but both zoning questions won't be settled until a final City Council vote Thursday.
"We were very satisfied," said Dantzler Drive resident Joanne Crosby. "We hope and pray they don't change their minds at the council meeting Thursday."
Neighborhood Council President Beth Evans also expressed cautious optimism Friday.
"I was happy with last night's results, but it won't be over until it's over," Evans said. "They can change their votes, so it's not completely over."
The City Council Public Safety Committee consists of all members of council, so they essentially make recommendations to themselves, then vote on the same issues again at a later council meeting.
Mayor Keith Summey and Councilman Sam Hart were not at the Sept. 19 committee meeting, but if all council members are present Thursday, the outcome of the Sunoco vote still wouldn't change unless at least one council member voted differently than at the committee meeting.
"I think it's still in play, but it doesn't matter to me one way or the other," said Jameson.
Reach David Slade at 937-5552 or dslade@post andcourier.com


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In November, Bogosian dropped Cody Eakin with an elbow across the head. It was arguably clean. In December, Bogoian wrecked Pierre-Marc Bouchard face-first into the boards. It was very arguably dirty. Both times, Bogosian escaped suspension.
Last night, he outright destroyed Hurricanes winger Andreas Nodl, pretty clearly leaving his feet before the moment of impact. Bogosian got nailed for charging and took a game misconduct, and we can't imagine there won't be a phone call from Brendan Shanahan in his future. With Winnipeg just two points out of the eight spot in the east, it was a poor time for Bogosian to test his luck a third time.
Update: Hey, what do I know? Bob McKenzie is reporting that Bogosian won't face any supplemental discipline. Perhaps Shanahan doesn't like to be bothered on Monday mornings.


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Travelodge Hotel from Shipping Containers
You try to live green while at home but are you always able to continue your sustainable living practices out on the road? One Travelodge hotel in the UK is making traveling sustainably a little easier with their first recycled hotel made from 86 shipping containers.
Travelodge, the budget hotel company that most of us are familiar with, used steel containers in two different sizes to create 120 rooms and a bar/cafe in their Uxbridge hotel. Prepared ahead of time in China with plasterboard walls, full wiring and plumbing, the containers are simply bolted together on site. All that's left to install are windows, decoration and furnishings.
While it's not the epitome of stylish design, the construction does save the developer money and time. Constructed by Verbus Systems, this unique modular construction system has been in development for the last four years. It is a revolutionary design ideal for not only temporary accommodations at festivals and major sporting events, but also for long-term deployments like this hotel. Traditional 100-bed hotels typically cost Travelodge around £5 million to build however by utilizing shipping containers, the same size development costs around £4.5 million but has the added advantage of using recycled materials. The shipping container method also reduces construction time by 25% resulting in a less expensive and quicker to construct hotel that's greener than the rest.


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Friday Favorites: File Cabinet, Kilim & Tolix Stool
It's the end of the week, which means my list of favorites from our Classifieds. Have a wonderful weekend, and happy scavenging!
• Chicago, IL: Corbusier Style Chaise - $159
• Brooklyn, NY: Reclaimed File Box - $225
• Sherman Oaks, CA: Latch Hook Tapestry - $75
• San Francisco, CA: Kilim Rug - $300
• Queens, NY: Pink Tolix Stool - $160
Shoppers, check out the Classifieds for many more listings. Sellers, gather up your goods and list them in our Classifieds to turn them into a little extra spending cash.
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Apartment Therapy is not the seller of these items. This is an edited selection of our favorite offerings from our Classifieds. For more information, see How it Works. Happy Scavenging!


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Oil futures settled lower Wednesday, at their lowest level in more than a week as traders bet that a weekly report will show a rise in U.S. crude supplies.
July crude CLN4, +0.00% fell $1.39, or 1.3%, to settle at $102.72 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Tracking the most-active contracts, prices logged their lowest settlement since May 20, FactSet data show.
On Tuesday, oil futures settled 0.2% lower, pulling back from their highest close in five weeks as Ukraine's presidential election results were viewed as a step toward easing tensions there.
Due to last Monday's Memorial Day holiday, the American Petroleum Institute will issue its weekly oil supply data later Wednesday. The Energy Information Administration will follow with its more closely watched petroleum-supply report at 11 a.m. Eastern on Thursday. The weekly inventory report on natural gas will be released as usual on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Eastern.
U.S. commercial crude supplies likely increased by 1 million barrels for the week ended May 23, according to a Platts survey of analysts. Analysts also expect gasoline stockpiles to fall 200,000 barrels and distillate supplies, which include heating oil, to climb by 290,000 barrels.
On Nymex, gasoline for June delivery US:RBM4 closed up a cent, or 0.4%, at $3.01 a gallon, while June heating oil US:HOM4 finished at $2.93 a gallon, down nearly 1 cent, or 0.3%.
Also read: Gas prices reach early peak, but may fall soon
Natural-gas futures, meanwhile, scored a gain on the expiration day for the June contracts.
June natural gas US:NGM14 added 11 cents, or 2.5%, to $4.62 per million British thermal units. July natural gas US:NGN14 tacked on 10 cents, or 2.3%, to end at $4.615 per million Btus.
Analysts expect data on Thursday to show an increase of between 107 billion cubic feet and 111 cubic feet in U.S. natural-gas stockpiles.
For oil, "the fundamentals are strong and we think that this pullback could be an opportunity to buy back the black gold," said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at AvaTrade, adding that oil has more potential to move towards the upside. "The growth story, which is the main fundamental for demand, is very much intact in the U.S."
Elsewhere in the energy complex on Wednesday, July Brent crude LCON4, +0.14% the European benchmark, declined by 21 cents, or 0.2%, to $109.81 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
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