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i was looking into trying out Qtractor, but was wondering how is it in performance compared to ardour 5,
i use ardour often and i like it, but i also want to try out Qtractor,
if you ask me, with my author's hat on, i'd say that my opinion would be profoundly biased, don't you think? add to that that i don't load ardour any often'round here ;)
the best answer you can get is about trying yourself and do all the judgement from your POV.
i'd rather let other folks here and there speak for them selves now :)
> in performance compared to ardour 5
You mean your performance, or the software's? Event if it's the latter, it's still a weird question : Each of them does its best ;p
If we talk about performance and stability, I think that Qtractor is the winner,
In addition the speed with which it develops is simply terrifying, to be the (80% or more Rui code).
When it came out, ardour 4, had a bug in loop midi, (the midi part is essential for me, I abandon it)
When it came out ardour 5 I tried again and in bug was still there. 5.4.
Rui is constantly correcting bugs,
A bug so important will not last a whole version, (at least I think).
Qtractor, it's only solid ..
Until now I used Ardour, I'm very new to digital recording and I started with it. Actually I once tried Cubase on Windows but maybe once or twice, then I had other things to do and quit.
But since I went on Linux I thought about recording so in the past few months I started.
Being new I didnt' know, and still don't know, many things. So I went for Ardour and also supported it until I discovered there's no way to make midi works.
To me it's something I don't understand. The most of my tracks are audio since I mainly use guitars and bas through amplis. But if I have to record a synth, or an orchestra, I have to go for midi. And Ardour doesn't do that.
So I came to Qtractor and I'm still trying it. If everything will work fine, I'll trash Ardour.
For me it's quite silly having being forced to use two different daws because one doesn't allow midi and the other audio or other.
Also, for a newbie like me, I find that the explanations in Ardour are very lacking clarity. Several sections of the manual are yet to be written, other sections tell you what a certain button does but not why, how and when. So I'll never understand anything in this way.
What comforts me is the fact that is not me, or totally me being dumb. Some days ago I met a friend I haven't seen for years, who always did digital recording. He used quite all daw in history and now it's on windows and Protools. We were talking about it and he told me he tried Ardour, even though it was the 3 version, and he was about getting insane with jack, all the connections to do and so on.
He suggested me to get back on windows and protools which "doesn't require any effort: you just plug what you have to do, and protools does everything by itself".
But I want to stay with free stuff, so I'm trying to learn Qtractor.
So I went for Ardour and also supported it until I discovered there's no way to make midi works
well, that must be something strange going on this world, ardour does work with MIDI since its V3 incarnation, i believe, which is more than 3 years ago from now--whether it has been satisfaction to all souls is quite another story though ;)
after 6 months tests qtractor seems more stable!!
ardour crashes a lot when using virtual instruments!!
also editing midi note velocities in ardour is awful!!!


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The Peach App - A Space for Friends. Just like Facebook…Right?
Launched in early January, the Peach app is the latest social network to hit the market. It hasn't gotten much momentum in my circle (according to this source, the app is already dead). Only 2 of my friends in my address book have a profile. Both work on media, one at Buzzfeed. Pretty typical, right? Developed by Byte Inc., also responsible for Vine, the Peach App creates a new way for people to connect, primarily through GIF's. GIF's are animated moving pictures, also known as Graphics Interchange Format. We all have group chats where we share inside jokes with our friends. Ever wanted to be super humorous with popular gifs? Often times looking for the right photo or gif to belabor a point is difficult. The Peach App solves this problem and makes it simple.
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Download Peach on your iPhone or iPad.
- Make an account. I am @fortunewriter on Peach, but you can create whatever username you want.
- Then type in a status. Similar to a text message: "Craving peaches and cream ice cream!" Press "Post."
- Post a photo where it says "Insert from your photo album."
- What fascinated me came this message next: "Lovely. Now let's get a little more magical. Type "gif", then tap the button that shows up between the camera and checkmark buttons to search for a GIF."
- Voila! A search box appears below and you can type in anything you want in there and gifs show up, powered by Giphy. This is what they call using a "magic word" on the app, which "activates all sorts of features that give you fun and interesting things to post to your space." Another feature or magic word is "Draw" which allows you to draw in your space. Other magic words include gif, here, goodmorning, goodnight, battery, weather, move, meetings, safari, dice, time, date, movie, tv, and game.
- To leave a comment, just click on someone's post or gif and click Comment. To delete, do the same thing and hit Delete.
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MAC 800 Portable ECG System
Portable ECG systems aren't exactly something that we cover on a daily basis, but this one looks pretty interesting that we guess it deserves some airtime on Coolest Gadgets. The nice people at the FDA have recently given their collective nod of approval for GE Healthcare's MAC 800 portable ECG system. What seems to come in a relatively lightweight package, the MAC 800 is able to save further space thanks to the keyboard that is styled after that of a cell phone instead of the standard, full size variety. It is interesting to note that the MAC 800 was originally developed for the Chinese market, but has been adapted and will now be marketed in the US.
A full size ECG device will generally tip the scales at 65 pounds thereabouts, but thanks to the wonders and miracles of modern technology as well as miniaturization techniques, GE Healthcare has managed to cram all the features found in the aforementioned ECG device into the MAC 800 that weighs slightly below seven pounds – at that is with the battery, to boot! The MAC 800 itself comes with an integrated carrying handle that allows clinicians to carry it like a briefcase, virtually enabling an expanding access to care without the patient's location being a hindrance. The built-in lithium ion battery will keep the MAC 800 going for around 2 hours, while a four hour charging time makes downtime a minimal bone of contention.
Being connected to a physician's work environment is essential in order to maximize the use of the MAC 800, which is why it comes with a wide range of connectivity options including a LAN port, a built-in modem, an SD memory card reader and a serial port which allows one to store and send ECG data from any location. You can also output data in either PDF or XML formats for universally recognized storing and data sharing purposes.
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has ended his bid for the White House, leaving Mitt Romney as the presumptive nominee.
The former Pennsylvania senator made the announcement at a news conference in the city of Gettysburg.
"While this presidential race is over for me, we are not done fighting," said Mr Santorum, a social conservative.
He had been campaigning in Pennsylvania, his home state, ahead of its primary on 24 April.
But he was far behind Mr Romney in terms of funding and was in danger of losing the state for the second time in six years, analysts said.
In 2006 Mr Santorum lost his Pennsylvania Senate seat by an 18-point margin.
In the current race for the Republican nomination, Mr Santorum lags far behind Mr Romney in terms of the number of delegates needed to seal the nomination at the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida, in late August.
'Against all odds'
Mr Santorum's children and his wife Karen stood behind him in Gettysburg as he made the announcement that he was suspending his campaign.
He had taken time off the campaign trail in recent days as his three-year-old daughter Isabella, who has a rare genetic disorder, was admitted to hospital.
Mr Santorum proved to be the most resilient of the Republican rivals challenging Mr Romney's front-runner status.
In his statement he said he had surpassed expectations, adding that "against all odds, we won 11 states, millions of voters, millions of votes".
"We were winning in a very different way," Mr Santorum said, "We were touching hearts."
He remembered some of the volunteers he worked with during the campaign.
Without the help of people like Wendy in Iowa, who made 5,000 phone calls or the girls in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose song "Game On" became an internet sensation, the campaign would not have come as far as it did, Mr Santorum said.
Mr Santorum mentioned his visit to the factory of the Minnesota manufacturer of his sweater vests, which became known as the former Senator's signature outfit.
'Worthy competitor'
Mr Santorum won a total of 11 primaries and caucuses , and picked up additional delegates in states that awarded them proportionally.
He emerged on the national scene on the night of the Iowa caucuses in January, eventually winning the state by a whisker after victory was initially handed to Mr Romney.
His old-fashioned, hard-working campaign style saw him visit every one of the Iowa's 99 counties in the months preceding the vote, and won him the respect and support of many in the state.
He continued to garner strong support in the Midwest and in the South, halting Mr Romney in a swathe of states from Minnesota to Alabama and as far west as Colorado and North Dakota.
In conceding that he could not win the nomination Mr Santorum made no specific mention of Mr Romney, and did not say whether he planned to endorse the front-runner.
However, he reportedly telephoned the former governor to concede shortly before speaking to reporters.
In a statement, Mr Romney congratulated Mr Santorum on his campaign, calling him an "able and worthy competitor".
"He has proven himself to be an important voice in our party and in the nation," the former Massachusetts governor said.
Gingrich and Paul defiant
Meanwhile, fellow candidate Newt Gingrich said Mr Santorum had run a "remarkable campaign", adding that "his success is a testament to his tenacity and the power of conservative principles".
Mr Gingrich, though, insisted that he would remain in the race in an effort to broaden the policy discussion and offer a conservative alternative to Mr Romney.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul congratulated the former senator on running a "spirited campaign". Mr Paul has the fewest delegates but, like Mr Gingrich, has refused to pull out of the contest.
Despite them remaining in the race, many analysts quickly characterised Mr Santorum's decision as the moment the general election campaign effectively began.
Mr Romney, who made his fortune in a private equity firm is now seen as the man to take on Democratic President Barack Obama, a former law professor and community organiser, in November's election.


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Hillary Clinton, American workers enemy #1. In her home state of New York, Senator Clinton's track record shows she gives American jobs away at a rate of 50 to 1. Imagine 8 years of her as commander of chief, all Americans jobs will be outsourced.
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According to the beginning of Saturday's show, last week:
The Battle Continued:
Disappointingly, sans any actual bloodshed.
A lot of people went 'Ohhhh ohh woah-oh':
"Ohhohohwoah woah woah woah, what do you mean I might actually end up owing Simon Cowell money??"
...and some people did impressions of the usual range of emotions I experience as I watch the X Factor:
"Meh", "Pfft!" and "Bleeuuuarghh", respectively.
This week:
Gary thinks Kye is AWFUL:
Gary thinks Kye is AWFUL:
"You left sooty footprints all over the carpet and you didn't even bother to unblock the flue properly!"
Firstname Lastname/Lastname Firstname sensation James Arthur COLLAPSES:
"He's not getting enough votes, someone knock him out."
I don't even need to see the rest, this is by far my favourite performance of the week already.
Don't you dare apologise Lucy. Tulisa told you to 'be who you gotta be' and sometimes that requires falling asleep inside some unidentified packaging.
Dermot and his merry band of tarts are back and I'm about to make some comment about how none of these women are his wife when this happens:
In case you can't make that out, that's Dermot doing multiple backflips towards the front of the stage. It's obviously not actually Dermot so I'm expecting a Carry On-esque comedy swap at the end of the performance, where the real Dermot runs on stage and the stuntman runs off (maybe they even bump into each other in the process -- hee hee!) and it's all very charming and British.
In actual fact, we cut to Dermot squatting in front of the judges as though it really was him Cirque Du Soleil-ing all over the shop. He's even sweating. How did they do that? Was the ending pre-recorded? Why are they going to such great lengths to make it look real? Are they genuinely trying to make us believe that was him or is it meant to be a joke?
What am I supposed to make of this??
No one deigns to explain themselves and I'm left feeling a little baffled as we plough on with the show.
This week's theme is 'club classics'. Shit off.
The judges come on and there is nothing particularly remarkable about what they're wearing:
Except for Nicole who looks a bit like you might be able to flip her dress up and turn her into a cupcake.
Today's blast from the past is sponsored by Cupcake Dolls! Does anyone remember these? They used to smell like candyfloss if candyfloss was made out of organic polymers.
First up is Mr. C. Baloney. Gary is worried about him singing a club classic but as far as I'm aware, his greatest talents are crying and falling over and that's what most people do in clubs anyway.
He's got 'Oceana Chic' down to a tee.
Brian's attempts to make him dance also look uncomfortably rapey:
Don't worry, I'm fairly sure that's just a bit of the shirt tied round that guy's waist.
He launches into Waiting For A Star To Fall by Boy Meets Girl and is almost immediately upstaged by a dancer flashing her bare behind at the crowd.
The performance is okay although there is no sign of all the dancing he was banging on about.
Nicole thinks he is like a warm cheese toastie, potentially ruining one of my favourite lunchtime dishes forever.
Tulisa seems to be in a shocking mood and, in addition to barely cracking a smile all night, treats Christopher to some pretty harsh criticism.
What's the matter T? Cat got your sex tape?
Next up is Fresh Prince of Milton Keynes: MK1.
They're having trouble because they're worried that singing something too underground will make people hate them and singing pop will make people hate them.
They're having trouble because they're worried that singing something too underground will make people hate them and singing pop will make people hate them.
When whatever you do makes people hate you, you ought to start realising that there's a common denominator.
They decide on a mash-up between Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters (otherwise known as that song that goes 'la da dee la da dah, la da dee la da dah') and Pass Out by Tinie Tempah.
Neither of the words in Tinie Tempah's name are spelled correctly. He is 100% incorrect.
I'm surprised to find that I don't hate the first half and then reassured when I do hate the second half. (Tinie Tempah's awful right? We're all in agreement? Good.)
All the judges agree with me except Nicole who calls it 'shamazing'...?
What the hell is 'shamazing' Nicole? Also, oh my god, why are your nails chained together?
It's time for the Jahmene event! There's been some pretty horrible stories about his family in the press recently and he had the decency not to use his sob story in auditions so I feel like I can't quite be as mean to him this week.
UNLESS they've been waiting for his popularity to dip to release the story so that they have something suitably heartbreaking with which to encourage a pity vote. In which case, congrats to the wardrobe department for dressing him like a giant ventriloquist's dummy:
The judges have no choice but to be extra nice to him. He still cries anyway.
Just goes to show there's no cheering up some people.
According to Tulisa, Jade Ellis has had the worst. Week. EVER.
And it's not even because she's been spotted here looking like E.T. in a wig.
No, apparently Jade is losing her voice! We're treated to a disgusting view of the inside of Jade because X Factor producers hate the public.
Just tell me that her vocal chords are swollen. I do not need to see it.
Jade partakes in a number of pagan rituals to try and save her voice, such as worshipping bowls of water:
And pretentiously writing bullshit on an iPad:
She's singing You're Free by Yomanda with a whole host of male models even though she's openly gay:
Why was Spraggers allowed to have hot women?
I am entirely distracted from the judges' comments because Brian the choreographer is dressed like a vampire!
Brian the Vampire -- the worst demon name in history.
Next up it's James and the Giant Fuss Over Nothing.
Last Saturday, he had a severe attack of 'shit Jahmene has a sob story' but he's all right now if anyone cares. No? Okay, let's move on then.
He's decided to have a bit of fun by singing Sexy And I Know It by LMFAO.
I think it's supposed to be funny because he's not.
Still, it's actually pretty good and James even gets to borrow Dermot's Prozzie Parade for a little bit, which he seems to enjoy.
A real boy band would be able to find excitable girls at a trainspotters' convention.
Just FYI boys: the girls are not following you around, they are shopping.
They're singing another manly classic: When Love Takes Over by Kelly Rowland.
When oestrogen takes over.
It's pretty much impossible to hear the judges over the screaming from the crowd but it sounds positive. They are probably afraid that negative comments will cause the band's rabid fans to swarm the panel and devour the judges' faces bath-salts style.
Looks like Rylan is inexplicably back for another week! He admits to being loud, Essex, and orange but -- like Jahmene and his nervous laugh -- Rylan has a traumatic reason for his behaviour.
He used to be ginger.
Now the judges can't be mean to him either.
Hang on, Rylan seems to think the problem was that he looked like the moon. Never mind.
Tonight Matthew, Rylan is going to be Lady Gaga again! (if Lady Gaga sang Don't Stop The Music by Rihanna).
Lady RyRy
Half way through the performance, Rylan feels it necessary to apologise for his behaviour.
In general?
The critiques are mixed although Louis loves it because: half-naked man. The fact that Rylan can't really sing doesn't matter anyway because everyone agrees that the choreography has stolen the show as usual.
"Brian the Vampire is pleased with your flattery."
Uh oh, Lucy's in trouble. Along with the honour of being the first X Factor contestant to sing an original song, she's also now the first to be filmed with a hangover.
"Whyy am I still on this shitty shoow?"
She and Rylan have been made an example of by being kicked out of the fancy hotel but we aren't shown where they have moved to so I can only assume it's another fancy hotel.
She's singing 'Titanium' by David Guetta feat. Sia with her own verses thrown in for good measure.
It's much more believable than when Jahmene sang it, that's all I'm saying.
Once again, Nicole compares the performance to food -- this time it was 'a great little cup of tea and yummy piece of toast' -- which makes me wonder whether her management let her eat anything.
Gary asks to have a private chat with Kye about how shit he was last week, presumably to save Kye the embarrassment of everyone hearing him being slagged off by his own mentor.
Naturally their little chat is fully mic'ed up and filmed so we all get to witness his humiliation anyway. Yaay!
"Flat. Flat. Flat. Flat. Flat." - It's okay Kye, just tell everyone he was showing you the new Rightmove app.
Gary gently lets Kye know that he sang 32 flat notes in two minutes and that he is awful. After those words of encouragement, Kye's all fired up for this week's performance!
And by that I mean it looks like he is literally about to be burnt at the stake:
Is this another chimney sweep joke? Even I'm getting tired of those. Well, not really, but mine are better.
He still sounds pretty flat to me but I have some sympathy because sitting him on a giant bonfire probably didn't help.
Nicole doesn't care that he doesn't always hit the right note because she only cares if something has meaning. This is funny because 90% of the things she says have no meaning whatsoever.
Oh Gary, don't nod when someone calls you a genius you smug bastard.
District 3's mentor is even worse for their chances of survival than Haymitch Abernathy but this week he gives them a slightly more modern song in the shape of Beggin' by Madcon.
Beggin', beggin' wardrobe, to stop dressing people in bow ties.
I feel a bit sorry for them because they aren't given the screaming girls at the front of the stage or the Topshop ogle-fest that Union J had. Probably because they look too much like children.
Which makes this all kinds of wrong.
The judges think they're good though so I guess no one will be putting them out of their misery just yet.
Closing the show is Adele-a Henderson!
At least it's better than Yoko Ono.
Apparently she's going to be dancing although, after Baloney, I'm not holding out much hope.
Yep, she barely moves except for some arm waving. Still, being just about the only person who can actually sing in this entire competition, all is forgiven.
Gary thinks that the dance routine was something Steps did which is stupid because everyone knows the dance routine to Tragedy and it ain't that. It's okay though because Tulisa puts him in his place by screaming at him like an angry chav on a night bus.
What crummy ex-X Factor contestant are we dragging out of the cupboard this week Dermot?
It's: JLSssshhhhh zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Labrinth and Emili Sandé will also be skipped by me this week because, like 'Tinie Tempah' [sic], neither of them can spell their own names properly.
For future reference guys, it should be Labyrinth and Emily Sandy.
Union J
District 3
and Jade
Meaning that yet another of Gazza's acts is in the sing off. Not so smug now Borelow!
MK1 are singing Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script
The Script: so urban.
It is not very good.
In a last act of desperation, Gary introduces Kye by explaining that he's had flu all week.
Inadvertent lols.
Kye is singing Turn Down The Lights by Shanice.
"Turn down the lights and turn up the fire instead because I'm going to need the work when I get kicked off this show."
But he doesn't need to worry too much because the judges go to deadlock again. Since everyone hates roundabouts, the public vote off MK1.
... and Kye can put away his extendable broom for one more week.


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And now the trend predictions of 2012. (I warn you I'm not that good in it haha, decide for yourself!)
Like someone said on the previous post it will be pretty much the same as last year.
And finally it might lead to white, yes bright white! With a touch minimalism probably, and a touch of neon possibly.
|H&M ss 2012 (loove the skirt and dress!)
Maxi skirts will be adapted more and more. Welcome assymetric skirts, see through skirt, skirts with special cuts, etc. Like it started in 2011, it will break through and become very hip in 2012.
|Stockholm streetstyle for Forever 21 (Antwerp)
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And of course this is just the beginning, 2012 will be filled with trends. I'm looking forward to it, I hope you're too ! Have a great 2012 !
Love, Siel
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In my specialist ASD primary school, I have been looking for narrative activities for a class of fairly verbal 7-9 year olds. Puppet pals (a free app) presents a wealth of different opportunities for expressive language in an individual as well as whole class setting and could work from preschool upwards.
Here's a plan for a narrative group that has worked well over the past half term with a group of seven students. The students were highly motivated by the idea of making their own movie and watching it at the end of each weekly session.
- Choose two or three characters. These can be fictional characters loaded into the app e.g. kings/queens/dragons. Or in the case of my class, they wanted the teaching assistants (TAs) to feature. It's very easy to take pictures of the TAs on the ipad during the session and insert under "Add actor from photo".
- Choose objects which can help you build up SVO sentences. For example, create a picture of a cake in a symbol programme, take a photo of the screen on the ipad and then crop and insert into the programme as an 'actor.' Very easy to do.
- Choose a scene. My class were keen to use their own classroom as a backdrop by taking a photo and inserting it into the programme.
- Story creation. Each student creates a sentence for a story using the characters available. Depending on their level, they can be prompted to do this with colourful semantics picture options, e.g. The King/Queen/Clare baked/threw/sang a cake/ball/song. We started out producing fairly random stories but gradually changed the vocabulary options available to helping the students think through a more logical story progression.
- Writing the story. Type each student's sentence into symbol software as you go along so they can see their story building up on the whiteboard. This is also helpful for reading back.
- Recording the Movie. Each student then records their sentence onto the ipad. In my group, several students were very distracted by being able to move the characters around on the ipad while they were talking – a tricky one to manage while trying to record.
- Name the movie. A good opportunity for students to take ownership of their class movie and give it a name.
- Play "movie" by linking up the ipad to the big screen (see previous post).


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Presenter:Dr. Jane-Frances Agbu Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology & Honorary ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources & Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria
Due to technical challenges the webinar scheduled for 24 April will be postponed to a later date. If you have already signed up for this event we will inform you of a new date as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime we still encourage you to visit the seminar landing page
Format: Asynchronous discussion from 24 – 28 April + Live online meeting on Monday 24 April at 4 pm (SAST)
There is a need for African Higher Education Institutions to reflect on their position and profile with respect to the new concepts of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Dr. Jane-Frances Agbu argues that many institutions probably will consider the benefits to outweigh the barriers. The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) combines its 'classical' openness with the new digital openness by fully embracing the OER approach and converting its complete course base into OER. NOUN is currently implementing its strategy towards becoming an OER-based Open University with a special niche for MOOCs. During a launch event in December 2015, the first 40 OER-based courses were presented as well as the first 3 OER-based MOOCs. NOUN is one of the first open universities in the world with a full-fledged OER (& MOOCs) implementation route. What have been some of the successes, challenges and lessons learned since then? Dr. Jane-Frances Agbu will discuss NOUN's OER strategy (including sensitization, capacity building, design of NOUN 1st OER based MOOCs) and lessons learned.
Dr. Jane-Frances Agbu, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the National Open University of Nigeria. She is also an Honorary ICDE Chair in Open Educational Resources and has been involved NOUN's OER strategy since 2014. She has been in open education system for the past eleven years and has contributed immensely in this sector. She is passionate about opening-up knowledge for the common good.
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Jaws are being scratched and beards pulled in newsrooms and football clubs around the world – "what made Blatter go?" – just four days after his triumphant re-election. Looking back over the past few weeks, there seem to be three main possibilities.
Right after his election he ran into deeper trouble as he played geopolitics way out of his league while FBI investigators closed in. That was a dumb move, but it's hard to see how that would have dislodged him so quickly.
Or it could be that people in Switzerland, now that the Swiss government has opened corruption enquiries, tapped him on his shoulder, adding to what was already a heavy load. But that's not really the Swiss way.
Then there's the FBI and their US law-enforcement comrades. When the FBI started to show an interest some years ago, they started writing their team sheet of who might be indicted. Sepp Blatter and his General Secretary Jerome Valcke were not named in the starting line-up.
Neither of them were football superstars in their younger days, so no surprise in that.
But rumours grew that they may be called in from the substitutes' bench. OK, so maybe Mr Blatter learned he was facing indictment.
But that doesn't best explain his choice to stay on for a few more months. No point in shredding documents, it's all on the net anyway. In any case the Fibbies hate a fibber, so they will keep looking until they are sure there are none left that they can touch.
Something more subtle is at work. The big global corporate sponsor monster has been raising its head. Only one of them mouthing more than platitudes, but we'll come to that.
First, let's cast our minds back to the corruption scandal before this one. Scandal number 2022, when several FIFA corporate partners and sponsors spoke out against corruption allegations surrounding the choice of Qatar.
But not the other scandal number 2022, the huge hidden workforce that is living and dyingto deliver by the 2022 deadline, that debases not only Qatar and some of its Gulf neighbours, but the whole world by the very fact that it exists on the face of our planet.
Graphic designers and cartoonists put an abrupt end to that by flooding the internet with powerful memes and images, in the great tradition of their craft, nudging global opinion at a stroke. Sponsors and other big business began to talk about workers' rights.
But they have chosen their words carefully, in the best tradition of CSR-speak. For good reason, as most of them have their own hidden workforces.
Whether McDonald's with its arms-length franchise system to squeeze its workers, the giant sports brands with their dependence on a supply chain model that impoverishes, or others who also effectively own workers' lives but won't own up to their own global workforce.
In the end, and purely guessing, that subtle pathway might lead to Visa. Corporate giants are not always on the same page, and for most of the sponsors, this month's FIFA scandal was very worrying but would probably not yet hurt their business model.
Not so for Visa. Their business is money, and even being seen near corruption is a mortal threat. So perhaps that's where the tap on the shoulder may have come from. "Show yourself the door or we'll walk through it outside to where the air is clean."
So maybe, just maybe, a threatened Visa exit precipitated Sepp Blatter's exit visa. Either that or the US is about to add to the team sheet.
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Effects of impurities and vortices on the low-energy spin excitations in high-Tc materials
- Authors:
- 10.1016/j.jpcs.2010.10.025
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- We review a theoretical scenario for the origin of the spin-glass phase of underdoped cuprate materials. In particular it is shown how disorder in a correlated d-wave superconductor generates a magnetic phase by inducing local droplets of antiferromagnetic order which eventually merge and form a quasi-long range ordered state. When correlations are sufficiently strong, disorder is unimportant for the generation of static magnetism but plays an additional role of pinning disordered stripe configurations. We calculate the spin excitations in a disordered spin-density wave phase, and show how disorder and/or applied magnetic fields lead to a slowing down of the dynamical spin fluctuations in agreement with neutron scattering and muon spin rotation (mSR) experiments.
- Type:
- Journal article
- Language:
- English
- Published in:
- Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2011, Vol 72, Issue 5, p. 358-361
- Main Research Area:
- Science/technology
- Publication Status:
- Published
- Review type:
- Peer Review
- Submission year:
- 2011
- Scientific Level:
- Scientific
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Everyone seeks the glory of Google's first page, yet many do so with content that's not Google-friendly. If you can build pages the way search engines want them, your pages will quickly move to the top. Here are 6 SEO methods that belong in every digital marketer's toolkit.
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The pivotal step of content creation is the proper use of keywords. Keyword placement is perhaps the dominant force of SEO. The keyword or phrase is what the user is searching for; therefore, the keyword should be located in a prominent position, within the first sentence of the first paragraph. This is one method search engines determine if the content is a good match.
Back links
It's not just the quantity of links that matter; it is also the quality of those links. You want links that are relevant to your website and also provide the site more credibility. For example, if your site is about "Nike running shoes", you'll get more vigor from a link having to do with running shoes or exercise or marathons, because they are all relevant to "Nike running shoes."
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Images have become a compelling focal point that draws more interest and keeps visitors on the page, not to mention images are a pivotal factor in SEO rankings.
- Constructively place your keyword in the file name.
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Meta Content
Here's an opportunity to provide short introductory descriptions for your visitor and for Google robots. This information appears in the search results and provides relevance about your website.
Internal Anchor Text
Utilizing anchor text has become more important to search ranking position. Anchor text provides an opportunity to link useful information together and help visitors locate more information on the same subject.
Effective Sitemaps
Often overlooked, sitemaps are the most efficient road maps to help people quickly locate what they need.
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Google has launched its 'My Ramadan Companion', at google.com/ramadan, a digital hub that integrates Google's best technology like YouTube, Play, Maps and Search. The hub will offer customized local information throughout the month of Ramadan with features that include sunset time in a given country, popular shows on YouTube, cooking tutorials, traffic status and calendar planning.
As part of the 'My Ramadan Companion' experience and for the very first time, Google is releasing locally designed Google Now Cards dedicated to the holy month. Google Now is a feature within the Google Search mobile application that automatically organizes information into simple mobile-friendly cards which provide information, updates and assistance throughout the day. Ramadan Google Now Cards work based on preferences of users who can control the information they receive by managing their settings. The hub is available in five languages: English, Arabic, Turkish, Bahasa Indonesian and Bahasa Malaysian.
My Ramadan Companion will also aggregate local content on YouTube from more than 15 content creators across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and more. It will feature trending YouTube content from drama series, comedy sketches, health tips, delicious food recipes and more. Google Play will feature a special section for mobile applications that users might need during Ramadan, which include cooking, lifestyle and communication apps. It will also be featuring special discounts on many of its paid apps and games within the Play Store.
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Community writing program spotlight
Anton Chekhov: A Playwright's Writer
When I am asked which playwright to study to learn the craft of writing for the stage, I say, "Chekhov."
Chekhov was not a product of the privileged elite. His father was an emancipated serf. The family of seven lived in a wretched little hamlet on the Black sea, where Anton's fanatical father beat his children mercilessly, on the pretext of instilling morality. This treatment did not endear Chekhov to the Christian church but it created his lifelong hatred of cruelty.
When Chekhov was sixteen, the family absconded, creditors in hot pursuit, leaving Anton to fend for himself. He educated himself at the library. Three years later, he received a scholarship to medical school in Moscow. There, he found his family living in one room in the brothel district. To raise money, he started writing funny pieces for newspapers: squibs, sketches, satirical observations from life. His first story is said to have bought a pie for his mother's birthday. He supported his entire family, training to be a doctor by day and writing in the evenings. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he wrote, "literature my mistress." However, the strain of maintaining two professions was intolerable, and by the time he was twenty, Chekhov had consumption.
On a visit to St Petersburg, Chekhov discovered he was famous for his syndicated stories. Three years later, he received the Russian Academy's prestigious Pushkin prize for literary achievement.
In his late twenties, for reasons known only to himself, Chekhov undertook a 2,000-mile journey to the notorious penal colony of Sakhalin, in Siberia. Here he wrote stories about the appalling conditions and abuse suffered by the prisoners. In his thirties, he bought an three-hundred-acre estate south of Moscow where he planted trees, built schools, endowed libraries and treated thousands of peasants, unpaid.
Chekhov wrote an estimated 8oo short stories, everything from one-page jeux to novellas, only half of which have been translated. "I could write a story about an ash-tray," he said. He invented the modern short story by changing the thrust of the narrative from mere relation of events to the revelation of character through incident.
Chekhov always insisted that his literary skill, his perceptive and penetrating understanding of men and women, was honed by his medical training. He examined the society he found around him, taking samples, studying the specimens in detail, and presenting its truth in brief but vivid moments of human interaction. Chekhov's stories evolved into profound psychological studies of the people of Russia during the last years of the 19th century, to the moment before the Russian revolution exploded. To read Chekhov is to experience the everyday details of history. Though his observations of human behavior are scrupulously honest, his response is not cynicism or sentiment but laughter--ironic and sometimes sad and regretful. But the socially responsible, workaholic, vegetarian doctor always has a twinkle in his eye.
In his later years, Chekhov began to write for the theatre. His first major work, The Sea Gull, explores the theme of what makes a creative artist and introduced a new style of realism to Russian theatre. It was booed off the stage. A few years later, Stanislavski produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Moscow Art Theatre with great success and followed it with a revival of The Sea Gull. The principal female role was played by the great actress Olga Kneiper. Well-to-do audiences wept at the existential plight of aristocrats marooned on their estates; Chekhov insisted his plays were comedies; Stanislavski patted him on the head and told him he did not understand what he had written.
As Chekhov's health deteriorated, he moved to the warmer climate of Yalta. In 1901, Three Sisters opened, again featuring Olga Knieper. She and Chekhov were married, in a sanitarium. Forced to spend much time apart, they wrote each other almost daily.
His last short story, The Betrothed (1903), displayed a determination to break with the past and a new hopefulness about the future. On January 17th, 1904, Chekhov's 44th birthday, his last play opened. The Cherry Orchard depicts the twilight of an era; but Chekhov would not live to see the dawn of the next.
In a sanitarium in the Black Forest, the doctor ordered champagne to ease his breathing. As related by Olga, "He picked up his glass, turned to me, smiled his wonderful smile and said, 'It's been a long time since I've had champagne.' He drank it all to the last drop, lay quietly on his left side, was soon silent forever. The stillness was broken only by a huge nocturnal moth, which kept crashing painfully into the light bulbs. Then, the cork flew out of the half-empty champagne bottle with a tremendous noise." A detail of his funeral might have appeared in one of his stories. His body was brought back to Russia in a refrigerated freight car on which was written in large letters, For Carting Fresh Oysters.
After the Bolshevik revolution, the theatres were reopened in Moscow. Seats formerly for the very rich were available free. Now they were occupied by workers whose laughter at the excessive self-pity and boredom of the leisured classes filled the theatre to the rafters.
Today, Chekhov's plays are performed in the Moscow Art Theatre in Stanislavksy's productions, the stage movement and costumes identical to the first performances. Today's audience sees the joke, even when the sentiments expressed, the strategies and self-deceptions employed by those indelible characters, are uncomfortably familiar to our own behavior and we are forced to admit that, ultimately, the joke is on us. Chekhov's ironic sensibility, his constant awareness of the bewildering and apparently senseless complexity of life are tempered with a great affection for all who are trapped on the treadmill of modern civilization.
Chekhov's stories work, not because he expounds a philosophy or recommends a morality but precisely because he does not. Chekhov shows, without comment, people as they are. "Man will only change," he wrote, "when you show him what he is."


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OSM offers CBT training courses teaching students easy-to-use business applications that aid in the operations of vessels.
OSM offers a range of CBT courses training how to manage and maintain systems for the marine industry.
These courses aim to provide practical knowledge on the key features and functions of PMS Star IPS and PMS AMOS-Windows. Upon successful completion of these courses, students should be able to operate the standard systems in performing their day-to-day shipboard maintenance tasks.


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Sunflowers, who doesn't love them? I'm sure there are are folks out there who don't, but for the most part, they are adored by many, inspiration to others, and an important food and oil source for birds and humans. Van … Continue reading
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Brigadier General John Charteris, General Headquarters, BEF
Taken from 'The Great War: 1914-1918' by Peter Hart.
Following last weeks heavy weapon teams I now managed to get some snipers and a guy with an Anti Tank Rifle done. I don't know when I'll ever use three snipers but the models were too great not to be painted.
|Unfortunately the barrel was twisted and I didn't manage to get it straight.
Now there's still one sniper and a Flamethrower team left. I don't think I'll get the 4th sniper done (I don't really like the model anyway) but hope to finish the Flamethrower before the competition over on Curt's Analogue Hobbies starts. If I don't... well then they'll simply be painted during the challenge.
On the other hand I'd love to paint something more colorful at the moment. Not that I'd be easily distracted but after having seen Pat's magnificent Romano-British and Saxons for Dux Britanniarum I'm a bit (ok, a really huge bit) tempted.
I hope you enjoyed and thanks for viewing!


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NAGPUR: In a yet another breakthrough, a team of forest officials from Melghat and local police netted tiger skin and body parts trader Ranjitsingh Bawaria from Golukonda village in Vijayanagram district of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours of Sunday. Two others who have been arrested include Jagdish and Sarabjit, who are said to be involved with Ranjit in poaching of tigers here. All were nabbed from a makeshift camp near the railway station.
Though senior forest officials confirmed Ranjit's arrest, they were not so forthcoming about the details in view of the fiasco of Keru Rajgond's arrest by MP forest department last month. Keru turned out to be Makhanlal Rajput.
Ranjit was nabbed on the basis of call detail records (CDR) by a team led by assistant conservator of forest (ACF) Vishal Mali and others from Melghat. Mali is also in charge of cyber cell operations in Amravati Circle.
Ranjit, a close associate of tiger skin trader Sansarchand, who is now lodged in Tihar Jail, is wanted for trafficking tiger skins from Maharashtra. He is also an accused in a poaching case of 2009 pending in a CBI court at Nagpur. Ranjit was involved in killing a tiger at Dhakna in Melghat Tiger Reserve.
Dalbir, another tiger skin trader arrested recently and lodged in Central Jail, is closely associated with Ranjit. In his confessional statement, Dalbir has said that Ranjit was the one who procured a skin from Sevagram last year. He is also said to have been involved in killing a tiger at Akot last year.
However, even as chief conservator of forests (CCF) Mohan Jha of Amravati, and DK Tyagi of Melghat Tiger Reserve are closely monitoring the arrest of Ranjit, their counterparts in Nagpur division are hesitating to take custody of the accused. This is despite the fact that the names of all three figure in Dalbir's statements.
Ranjit is the fourth tiger skin trader after Suraj Pal alias Chacha, Sarju Bagdi, Naresh Lala and Dalbir to be arrested. Although official figures of tigers poached during last one year has touched 12, Sarju had told TOI that he was not alone in trafficking tiger skins from here, but Kallu, Katta, Sheru, Ranjit, Dalbir and others too were involved in smuggling skins and body parts.


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Designs for a Climate Safe House were presented to us by Otago Polytechnic Design students recently, and they were inspiring! A public exhibit of this work will be held in the New Year and a final detailed design will be prepared in the first half of 2017. We have valued working with the Design and Communications teams and their students at the Polytechnic and we're excited about this project moving forward. While we've already mentioned some details in the past, they are worth repeating. Our longer term goal is to build a Climate Safe House, one that is affordable, relocatable, self-contained, warm and cosy. We're working to provide an example solution to the challenges of our changing climate. Enphase Energy, a global energy technology company, is the first sponsor on-board, and has committed to providing a whole of house energy system including solar generation and grid-tied storage when the house is built, and we're very excited to have such an innovative international company as a sponsor for the project.
Visit www.climatesafehouse.nz for details about the project. This is the website where all the information will be put as the project develops and our thanks to Martin Kean and Tom Clark for making it real and attractive. One of the really neat things about this project is the very positive partnerships we're managing to establish.
Research is another critical aspect of the Climate Safe House work and it's being generously funded by the Otago Community Trust. We are looking for people living on the flats of Waitati and in Long Beach who would value, at no cost, a detailed Home Performance Assessment. This includes an assessment of the house, a diagnosis of problem areas, and an assessment of options with prioritised recommended actions. We can provide Home Performance Assessments in Waitati and Long Beach and if there is not enough demand we have other areas of the city who are crying out for this free service, so please get in touch with us promptly if you are interested.
Recently we were part of the Cosy Homes stand at the Great Kiwi Home and Living Show. As a result, our Cosy Energy Advice service has been in greater demand and insulation enquiries have increased as well. So with the coming of warmer weather its a good time to get things sorted before autumn reminds us of what we meant to do over summer to ensure we had a cosy home. There are four critical elements:
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One such example, appearing on Saturday morning cartoons from Sept 9, 1967 until Sept. 6, 1969 was BIRDMAN. From the same creative genius' at Hanna-Barbera (and created by Alex Toth), this was something special, in the same league as Space Ghost (check out our Funko POP custom) and Jonny Quest.
Here we had a combination superhero and spy (at least he took orders from a spy, a sort of Nick Fury look-alike) who was solar powered, and had a trained bird for a best friend and sidekick. Yup, it had something for everybody.
Years later. Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, brought Birdman back, sort of, as a lawyer of all things (named Harvey?), although still wearing his trademarked hood. For purists like me, that never happened. (The less said about it, the better, lol).
In any case, here's the classic Birdman in reference pics:
and here's my custom Funko POP of Birdman
Can't you just hear him shouting the classic "B-I-R-D-M-A-N......."
As far as the custom recipe is concerned for this Funko POP!
- The head is a Wolverine POP, repainted
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Angular and polarization multiplexing techniques are utilized in both object and reference arms in the digital holographic microscopy system to improve its resolution. The angular multiplexing provides on-axis and off-axis illumination and reference beams with different carrier frequencies. Polarization multiplexing prohibits the occurrence of interference between low and high object spatial frequencies and reference beams. The proposed system does not require special light sources or filtering masks. Experimental results show that the resolution of the synthesized image exceeds the resolution determined by the numerical aperture of the imaging microscope objective.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
and a few more...
Got my sizzix machine out again for these flowers... just adore this design and can't stop using them everywhere....
and here's another one of my friend and I - having some really good caipirinhas at the market and also having abit of fun with misting.
(Lily Bee - Laugh Out Loud)
Thanks for stopping by and all the wonderful comments.
Thanks guys!
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Beautiful pages!!! You did Amazing!!! Love those pps!!!!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMarch 3, 2010 at 11:04 AM
They are all so beautiful girl.. I like the photos very much, did you do some image transfer or Photoshop? How are your break so far?ReplyDelete
fun, fun layouts!! as always, you did such a great job with these!ReplyDelete
Lovely! Great misting and I love the way you cut out the honeycomb pattern on the second layout!ReplyDelete
Amazing layouts as always, i love how you handcutted pieces on the last one!ReplyDelete
lovely layoutsReplyDelete
these are both so gorgeous - I must say it all the time but you are just such an inspiration to ME!!ReplyDelete
Love the layouts, Piradee! And big congrats on being part of Shimelle's class!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Hi babe, so nice to hear from You again. For my first class, it was so nerve wacking that I got into cold sweat.. Haha but now alot better. Most impt is plan ur class, maybe with sketches or some handouts. Normally I do the easier part then leave the hardest part toward the end. Otherwise will overrun too. Good luck to your first class ya. Keep me posted how it goes :) meanwhile take careReplyDelete
Hi there...was blog hoppin... rmb me... gor some beautiful buttons frm u years back...ReplyDelete
good luck on your class... i am amazed at how you used non conventional colours for a layout on love... sweet!


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Iman Verjee grew up in Kenya, studied and fell in love with Canada, then moved to London to pursue a MA in Creative Writing at City University. It was during her time there that she completed her first novel, In Between Dreams, a story about a taboo love affair and its inescapable consequences
Iman is the winner of the 2012 Peters Fraser &Dunlop/City University Prize for Fiction for her novel In Between Dreams was published by Oneworld Publications in May 2014. Her second novel Who Will Catch Us As We Fall will be published in 2016.
WHO WILL CATCH US AS WE CALL — buy it here.
Growing up in the Nairobi of the 90s, a seething boiling pot of racial tension and conflicting cultural taboos, Leena and Jai are raised to believe in a Kenya full of possibility and potential. But as they come of age and venture into a world of underground activists beyond the confines of their tight-knit East Asian community and closely guarded, gated compound, they start to see a country divided by deep ethnic allegiances and on the brink of something very sinister. Soon Leena and Jai find themselves entangled in a shady world of crooked policemen, seedy salesmen, prostitutes, and bohemian artists. As the city tightens its grip, so begins a dangerous game of corruption and conspiracy, where rebellions simmer, and a tangled web of power unravels as dark forces collide and disturbing revelations surface.
A powerful tale of love and politics in contemporary Nairobi, Who Will Catch Us As We Fall depicts a Kenya on the cusp of change in all its complexity. Through two of the most memorable and remarkable characters in contemporary African fiction, Iman Verjee has penned a moving portrait of a family torn apart by national politics and prejudice, yet still painfully tethered together.
PUBLISHER: Oneworld
PUBLICATION DATE: July 2016
IN BETWEEN DREAMS – Buy it here
Set in Canada, spanning the colourful 1960s to the drab 1990s, this powerful story follows James who is desperate to be a dedicated, loving family-man but who lives his life handicapped by a terrible sexual addiction. Intertwined with his narrative is that of his teenage daughter – thieving, manipulative and deliciously unhinged, Frances is a young girl struggling to come-of-age under the smoky weight of her own secret inextricably linked to that of her father's. It's a story about the fluid, easily-traversed boundary between normality and perversity.
PUBLISHER: Oneworld Publications
PUBLICATION DATE: 15th May 2014


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Lightnin' Slim
|Lightnin' Slim
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Lightnin' Slim on the cover of his Ace Records Winter Time Blues album
|Background information
March 13, 1913
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|July 27, 1974
(aged 61)
Detroit, Michigan, United States
|Louisiana blues, swamp blues
|Guitarist, singer, songwriter
|Guitar, vocals
|Excello, Stateside, Flyright
|Notable instruments
|Music sample
Lightnin' Slim (March 13, 1913 – July 27, 1974) was an African-American Louisiana blues musician,[1] who recorded for Excello Records and played in a style similar to its other Louisiana artists. Blues critic ED Denson has ranked him as one of the five great bluesmen of the 1950s, along with Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson.[citation needed]
Lightnin' Slim was born Otis V. Hicks on a farm outside St. Louis, Missouri.[2] moving to Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the age of thirteen. Taught guitar by his older brother Layfield, Slim was playing in bars in Baton Rouge by the late 1940s.[3]
He debuted on J. D. "Jay" Miller's Feature Records label in 1954 with "Bad Luck Blues" ("If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all").[4] Slim then recorded for Excello Records for twelve years, starting in the mid-1950s, often collaborating with his brother-in-law, Slim Harpo and with harmonica player Lazy Lester.[4]
Slim took time off from the blues for a period of time and ended up working in a foundry in Pontiac, Michigan,[citation needed] which resulted in him suffering from constantly having his hands exposed to high temperatures. He was re-discovered by Fred Reif in 1970, in Pontiac, where he was living in a rented room at Slim Harpo's sister's house. Reif soon got him back performing again and a new recording contract with Excello, this time through Bud Howell, the present President of the company. His first gig was a reunion concert at the 1971 University of Chicago Folk Festival with Lazy Lester, whom Reif had brought from Baton Rouge in January 1971.
In the 1970s, Slim performed on tours in Europe,[3] both in the United Kingdom and at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland where he was often accompanied by Moses "Whispering" Smith on harmonica. He last toured the UK in 1973, with the American Blues Legends package.[5]
In July 1974, Slim died of stomach cancer in Detroit, Michigan, aged 61.[6][7]
Slim has been cited as a major influence by several contemporary blues artists, including Captain Beefheart, who in a 1987 radio interview with Kristine McKenna, stated that Lightnin' Slim was the only artist he could recommend somebody listening to.[citation needed]
- Rooster Blues (Excello LPS-8000, 1960) (CD release: Hip-O/MCA #40134, 1998 - with 3 bonus tracks)
- Authentic R & B (three tracks; various artists - UK Stateside SL-10068, 1963)
- The Real R & B (two tracks; various artists - UK Stateside SL-10112, 1964)
- A Long Drink Of Blues (six tracks...all of side 1; compilation album shared with Slim Harpo - UK Stateside SL-10135, 1964)
- Lightnin' Slim's Bell Ringer (Excello LPS-8004, 1965) (CD release: Ace Records #CDCHD-517, 1994)
- The Real Blues (one track; various artists - Excello LPS-8011, 1969)
- High & Low Down (Excello LPS-8018, 1971 and Sonet SNTF-770, 1978) (CD release: Ace Records #CDCHD-578, 1994)
- That's All Right (Quicksilver QS-5062, 1983) -note: reissue of Excello LPS-8018
- London Gumbo (Excello LPS-8023, 1972 and Sonet SNTF-757, 1978)
- The Excello Story (three tracks; various artists - Excello LPS-8025, 1972) 2LP
- Montreux Blues Festival (10 tracks; various artists - Excello LPS-8026, 1972) 2LP
- The Early Years (Flyright FLYLP-524, 1976)
- Trip To Chicago (Flyright FLYLP-533, 1978)
- The Feature Sides 1954 (Flyright FLYLP-583, 1981)
- We Gotta Rock Tonight (Flyright FLYLP-612, 1986)
CD compilations
- Rollin' Stone (Flyright #FLYCD-08, 1989)
- King Of The Swamp Blues 1954-1961 (Flyright #FLYCD-47, 1992)
- Blue Lightning (Indigo Records #IGOCD-2002, 1992)
- I'm Evil: Rare & Unissued Excello Masters, Volume One (Excello/AVI #3002, 1994)
- It's Mighty Crazy! (Ace Records #CDCHD-587, 1995)
- Nothin' But The Devil (Ace Records #CDCHD-616, 1996)
- Winter Time Blues (The Later Excello Sessions 1962-1965) (Ace Records #CDCHD-674, 1998)
- The Best Of Lightnin' Slim (Hip-O/MCA #12010, 1999)
- I'm A Rolling Stone: The Singles As & Bs 1954-1962 Centenary Edition (Jasmine #JASMCD-3045, 2015) 2CD set
Individual songs
"Farming Blues" 1954, "New Orleans Bound" 1954, "Bad Luck and Trouble" 1956. "It's Mighty Crazy" 1957.
See also
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- ↑ Cub Coda (2013). "Lightnin' Slim". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 October 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Lightnin' Slim / Otis Hicks". Thebluestrail.com. Retrieved November 19, 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books Limited. pp. 135–6. ISBN 1-85868-255-X.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 266. CN 5585.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ John Broven (1983). South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous. Pelican Publishing Company. Retrieved 12 October 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Otis "Lightnin' Slim" Hicks at Find a Grave
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- American blues singers
- People from St. Louis, Missouri
- Deaths from stomach cancer
- Cancer deaths in Michigan
- Ace Records artists
- Musicians from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Louisiana blues musicians
- Swamp blues musicians
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Date created: 2008-06-17 Name: Ticked off
Location: Florida
Years owned: 1
Satisfaction Rating:
"1 1/2 yrs old and already costing me $$$"
Unit barely 1 1/2 years old, brand new house, and already I'm shelling out $600 to replace the evaporator coil that sprung a leak. It's under warranty, but not the labor of course. So what does the tech tell me that comes out when I ask if this is normal? You have a Goodman so yes, it is normal for this brand of A/C unit. He's been replacing a lot of them lately as they were all installed approximately the same time as mine. I'm filing a complaint with the builder, with Goodman, with my attorney, and with everyone else I can possibly find to complain to.
Date created: 2008-06-16 Name: J .Martinez
Location: NJ
Years owned: 7
Satisfaction Rating:
"Goodman's are good when installed proper"
I've been installing Goodman furnaces and Central A/C for over 7 years and never had a compressor failure nor major issue as stated in many of these postings. I also believe that most of these failures that the people on these posting have experienced is due to a lack of know how by their installers. From past experience I have found that many of these contractors tend to undersize or oversize the units and also use improper duct sizing. I find that 14 seer and over are surprisingly quiet for their size.
Date created: 2008-06-16 Name: J Badgley
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
Years owned: 10
Satisfaction Rating:
"J Badgley"
I have been in the HVAC field for 40 years. I have worked for a utility company's service department for 38 years. We repaired Goodman equipment and in general they are simple to repair and very reliable. Proper installation is the key to good running equipment. The installer must read the installation manual! I inspected new installations for the utility and you would be surprise on how many installers don't read the manuals. I am going to replace my AC system with a Goodman because they give you bang for the buck. Also I replace my equipment every 9 years. Technology changes and efficiency improves. It pays to upgrade if you can afford it.
Date created: 2008-06-13 Name: Jennifer Downs
Location: Davidsonville, Maryland
Years owned: 4
Satisfaction Rating:
"Unhappy Home Owner"
Bought a system in August of 04. August of 07, the fan motor needed to be replaced. June of 08, Reversing valve leaked all freon out and so I had that replaced and the system re-charged. I called the consumer affairs department with Goodman and the lady told me I should have bought the extended warranty (it's not even 5 years old!) Even though the parts were under warranty, I've spent over $500 in labor.
Date created: 2008-06-12 Name: A Peterson
Location: Texas
Years owned: 2
Satisfaction Rating:
My unit is just over 2 years old, The contractor that built my house swore by the unit. They have worked flawlessly up to the 2-year mark. Then 1 of the 2 units started acting up. First service call, installed a hot start, second service call, a compressor, now waiting on the third service call, hopefully they make it today, its supposed to get 98 degrees today. Stay away from these units.
Date created: 2008-06-11 Name: Vicki V.
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Years owned: 7
Satisfaction Rating:
"Goodman: The Bucket of Bolts"
We built a brand new house in 2001 and have had problems with this unit from day 1! I wanted a Trane, but the builder strong armed us into a Goodman. I'm sure he got a kickback. Every year it loses freon and we have to have someone come out and add more freon. Our air-conditioner man said that Goodman is the bottom of the line. I am looking at putting in another unit next year.
Date created: 2008-06-10 Name: Don Q.
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Years owned: 13
Satisfaction Rating:
"Good units for the money"
Had 2 Goodman units in the house when we moved in 12 years ago, 1 gas pack downstairs and 1 split for upstairs. Both lasted 12/13 years with virtually no problems. Recently replaced both with the new Goodman units (13 seer), working great so far and saving on electric bills too. Was told by my HVAC guy who I trust 100% that Goodman bought out Amana a few years back and began using their designs, especially for heat exchangers, which are excellent. Like any brand, a proper installation is critical for longevity/performance.
Date created: 2008-06-09 Name: Kevin
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Years owned: 5
Satisfaction Rating:
"Waste of Money"
We have 2 Goodman units, and have had constant maintenance problems. We have done all of the maintenance required - filters, cleaning coils, etc only to be hit constantly by the machine's breaking down. Same part broke 7 times for 2 ac units at $150 a pop. One of the compressors just went on the larger unit and the repairman said Goodman is such a crappy brand to just replace it.
Date created: 2008-06-09 Name: Gerrianne Cannon
Location: Hazlet, New Jersey
Years owned: 4
Satisfaction Rating:
"Air Conditioning Unit"
I replaced my old unit with a Goodman recommended by my subcontractor. I bought it in Sept of 2004. In Sept of 05 I had to replace the fan motor. It is now June of 08 and I am replacing the fan motor again.
Date created: 2008-06-08 Name: Paul Olson
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Satisfaction Rating:
"Goodman As Good as it Gets"
We installed a Goodman 2.5 ton a/c Furnace combination to replace a five year old Carrier system. Our energy bills dropped by 15% and our home was never cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Great product that has performed flawlessly
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