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Can't wait to hear this spinning on the local turn tables, it sounds like a pretty good album. Will have to listen in the morning, excited to hear this.
Album Rating: 3.5I was definitely surprised. Especially after hearing the first single.
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Nice review Willie. Glad to see that this won't disappoint. I'm definitely going to check this out now.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffAh ah, happy to read this. The samples on youtube had given me this idea they were at least trying something different. I've ordered it and am a bit impatient now.
From what you say about Angst and Nihil, I do prefer bad songwriting to good.
Album Rating: 3.5From what you say about Angst and Nihil, I do prefer bad songwriting to good.What do you mean? Do you not like those two albums?
From what you say about Angst and Nihil, I do prefer bad songwriting to good.
Album Rating: 2.5Gonna check this out. Never been big on KMFDM but this sounds quite interesting.
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I have always had a soft for these guys. Nice review!
These guys are alright.
These guys are great faggot
Haven't they released about 20 albums or something?
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eh, I don't have high hopes
I might listen to this though, just for the hell of it
Solid writing Willie. Can't say it's my thing though. Still, if the opportunity arises for a listen I'll be sure to get through it just for you ;)
wow I didn't expect it to be this bad
sorry Willie, just not feeling it. at best you are right in that they are trying something different on sonically at times, and it is interesting. at worst though.... ugh.
nothing feels cohesive and I don't feel a renewed sense energy at all, more like a lot of flat ideas hiding behind a vibrant production. my main complaint with a lot of their later work
in all fairness i'll give it another listen though just to see if it grows on me. I often find I write off industrial metal albums only to return to them months later and wonder what the hell I was thinking
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off"From what you say about Angst and Nihil, I do prefer bad songwriting to good."
"What do you mean? Do you not like those two albums?"
I do like them, I was just a bit disappointed when I listened to Nihil that the songs' structure was so predictable (for an album which was supposed to be their best). I think I like when the structure of a song is a bit random like on Angst.
But yeah, I'm not saying Nihil isn't good. It is great.
Raaaa Meatplow is the harsh one again. Both your opinions seem believable guys, the stupid fan that I am is worried now.
I kind of like parts of it the more I skim through it, in fact the songs I found most annoying (Rebels In Kontrol and Take It Like a Man) I kind of enjoy now. I can't stand the quieter parts of Lynchmob, though the chorus is powerful. those guitars are carving
this is really hard to decide, it has me scratching my head. it's definitely better than some of their other work. the production is great, as I mentioned, but something is just off. i'll bump it to a 2.5 for now
Just gonna 4 this without hearing beforehand.
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my friend faps to these guys like it's his job but i never really got the hype
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David Tennant will star in the new BBC America mini-series "The Spies of Warsaw," the network said Wednesday.
The miniseries, based on the Alan Furst novel of the same name, is set in Poland, Paris, London and Berlin, in the years leading up to World War II. Former "Doctor Who" star Tennant will play Col. Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war who's "drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw" while serving as a military attache at the French embassy, according to BBC America.
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His love interest, played by "Black Swan" actress Janet Montgomery, is a Parisian lawyer for the League of Nations. The two enjoy an intensifying love affair as German tanks drive through the Black Forest.
The cast also includes Burn Gorman of "The Dark Knight Rises," Anton Lesser of "The Hour" and Dan Fredenburgh ("The Bourne Ultimatum"), among many others.
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Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Finding My Path in Life (2011)[edit]
- Sanjay Gupta (2011) "Finding My Path in Life" in: Guideposts magazine, April 2011 (online)
- I was a bookish kid. I spent long hours in the library reading everything I could find, histories, biographies, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries. I was curious about the world and there's no better way to find things out than through the pages of a book. Even today if some kid asks me what's the first step to take to become a doctor, I answer, "Read, read, read."
- I was in my teens when our family faced a medical crisis. My grandfather, with whom I was very close, had a stroke and landed in the hospital. Sitting anxiously at his bedside, I watched nurses come and go, checking his vitals and looking at the monitors attached to his body. I remember sitting there wondering what could I do to make him feel better—to bring back the warm, thoughtful man I knew.
- It was the neurosurgeons who fascinated me. When they explained what they could do surgically to help, I thought, I want to be like them. I want to know what they know and have the ability to heal like they do. Eventually my grandfather got better, and my path in life was started.


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It is quite easy to qualify for fast online payday loans. Criteria are very basic but you must be an American citizen and employed with a certain amount as income, be aged 18 or above and have an active checking account. The majority of payday loan-seekers prefer going online because of the speed with which everything is processed and the many choices available on the Net.
You can narrow down your choice by which lender will give you the required funds and at what interest rates. Sites offering multiple lenders from which to choose have now become increasingly popular. Sitting in the comfort of your home, with your laptop trying to figure out which lender to choose, sure beats pounding the pavements and coming up with nothing that suits your needs.In fact, fast online payday loans are available at lower interest rates than what you would get if you walked into a lender's office. This perhaps can be attributed to the overheads in running an office such as rentals, furnishing and employing staff.
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The 2014 Winter Olympics begin in Sochi, Russia this upcoming week, and still, despite my constant stream of strongly worded letters, they've ignored all of my pleas to include some car-based events in the festivities. Clearly, this is an outrage that should not stand.
If the world won't let cars into the party, then maybe we should start our own party. Top Gear created its own version of the Winter Olympics a few years back, and that was all well and good, but it was a bit frustrating that many of the events they offered were based on current Olympic sports. And while Car Hockey is quite possibly the most genius thing I've ever heard, I'm not sure it's a true test of driver and machine.
If people who love cars were to create their own wintery competition, the events would have to be tough, they'd have to be brutal, they would have to make those of the frigid persuasion marvel at the incredible feats displayed, much as we marvel at the superhuman undertakings about to take place halfway around the world.
Events like the Automotive Ice Climb. A steep hill, a slick sheet of the slipperiest ice, and nothing but driver skill and studded tires allowed. No traction control here. Watching someone blast up an incline at over 100 miles an hour while you sit and spin your wheels in two inches of slush will make you appreciate just how monumental a task is being undertaken.
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Topologists famously think that a doughnut is the same as a coffee cup because one can be deformed into the other without tearing or cutting. In other words, topology doesn't care about exact measurements of quantities like lengths, angles and areas. Instead, it looks only at the overall shape of an object, considering two objects to be the same as long as you can morph one into the other without breaking it. But how do you work with such a slippery concept? One useful tool is what's called the fundamental group of a shape.
Last week leading researchers in sports technology met at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London to demonstrate just how far their field has come over recent years. The changes they make to athletes' equipment and clothes may only make a tiny difference to their performance, but once they're added up they can mean the difference between gold and silver.
The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John Willard Milnor of Stony Brook University, New York for "pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra".
Physicists at the University of California, Los Angeles set out to design a better transistor and ended up with a discovery that may lead to a new explanation of electron spin and possibly even the nature of space.
The Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics 2011 has this week been awarded to Michael Aschbacher "for his
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Our cities are filled with buildings, roads, cars, buses, trains, bikes, parks and gardens. They are crisscrossed with power, water, sewage and transport systems. They are built by engineers, architects, planners, technologists, doctors, designers and artists. Our cities are shaped by our environment, our society and our culture. And each and every part is built on mathematics.
You can join Plus author and Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Marcus du Sautoy, on a mathematical adventure in the city. Marcus and his team of mathemagicians are constructing walking tours of the city — but they need your help!
Rising like a giant pringle from the Olympic Park construction site, the Velodrome is the first of the 2012 London Olympic venues to be completed. With its sweeping curved roof and beautiful cedar clad exterior the Velodrome is a stunning building. But what most of the athletes are excited about is the elegant wooden cycle track enclosed inside, the medals that will be won, and the records that might be broken, in the summer of 2012.


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Journeyman, Ken Duke wrapped up a playoff victory at the Travelers Championship for his first PGA Tour win in 187 starts.
Winning on the PGA Tour sometimes requires a little luck, Duke's approach into the tenth hole ricocheted of off a greenside tree to within five feet of the pin. Duke converted the birdie and proceeded to birdie three more holes on the back nine, en route to a final round 66. His four round total of 12 under par placed him into a playoff. The playoff was short lived as Duke birdied the second hole of sudden death to secure the win.
"You gotta believe in yourself in everything you do," Duke said. "That's why those guys at the top are winning week in, week out because they believe they can do it. It's kind of one of those things once you finally do it it might come easier the next time. That's kind of the way I feel."
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Kevin Streelman (in FJ ICON and SciFlex) tamed the daunting Innisbrook Copperheard course to claim his first PGA Tour title in his 153rd PGA Tour start. Entering the weekend at even par, Streelman played his next 36 holes at 10 under, not dropping a single shot over the stretch. The ten under total was good enough to take home a two stroke victory.
"I just stayed really patient and had a peace about me today...It's such a tough golf course where you've got to pick your battles." said Streelman of his controlled round.
The win earns Streelman an invitation to this years' Masters Tournament.
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On the European Tour, Thomas Aiken won the Avantha Masters with a final round 67 to win by three strokes. Aiken, in FJ ICON MyJoys, shot all four rounds in the 60's, including a blistering ten under par 62 on Saturday to race to the top of the leaderboard. Aiken carded twenty-one birdies and two eagles versus only two bogeys over the 72 holes of tournament play.
"I've been playing very nicely the last four months, not making a lot of mistakes, but just not sinking enough putts," said Aiken, continuing, "This week a few went in, I hit some better iron shots which gave me a better chance to sink some putts, and I played some phenomenal golf."
This is Aiken's second European Tour Victory; the win also moves Aiken into the top 100 on the official world golf rankings.
Stacy Lewis has captured the world number one position with a win at the RR Donnelly LPGA Founders Cup. Entering the final round four behind, Lewis in FJ Sport BOA and StaSof, biridied nine of the final 18 holes to run away with a three shot victory.
Lewis's 23 under par total set a tournament record.
This is Stacy's seventh LPGA Tour victory and second of 2013.
In 1996, a young Lee Westwood won his maiden European tour victory at the Nordea Masters. Now fast forward to 2012 and Westwood has added another Nordea Masters to his impressive worldwide resume. Westwood, in FJ Sport and SciFlex, shot rounds of 68, 64, 68, and 69 to reach the -19 under par total, five clear of his closest competitor.
"I played really well this week - you don't win tournaments by five shots without playing well." Westwood later said of the impressive victory. He then added some levity to the moment," It feels really special winning here another time – I've won it in three decades now which just shows how old we're getting!"
This is Westwood's 22nd career win on the European tour.
Westwood will now head to The Olympic Club in San Francisco for his shot at the U.S. Open. In the opening two rounds he will be paired with fellow FJ staffers Rory McIlroy and Luke Donald.
Jason Dufner (XPS-1 and FJ Apparel) won the HP Byron Nelson Championship in dramatic fashion by holing a 25 foot birdie putt on the last hole of regulation to win by one over fellow FJ staffer, Dicky Pride (FJ Sport and SciFlex).
Beginning the day with the lead, Dufner fell behind with early bogeys on two and three. He bounced back quickly with a birdie on the fourth, fifth, and seventh holes to join the leaders at nine under par.
He added a birdie at ten to retake the lead alone. Dufner, first in greens in regulation and second in driving accuracy, birdied the sixteenth hole to keep pace with surging playing competitors. On the final hole, with a hazard left and trees right, Dufner launched his tee ball straight up the middle. With only a short wedge shot left, Dufner played a shot to the middle of the green, 25 feet from the pin. He then poured in the downhill, right to left putt for the one stroke victory.
Post round Dufner stated, "You probably couldn't dream it any better than what's been going on
here" Continuing, "The wedding has been in the works for close to a
year, so we know that's been coming around the corner. And there's been a
lot of good golf since then, but to win two events and get married in
the span of 22 days, pretty remarkable."
This is Dufner's second win in his past three starts. The win also moves him to the top spot on the FedEx Cup leaderboard and into third place on the Ryder Cup points list.
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Lee Westwood cruised to a seven-shot victory on Sunday in the Thailand Golf Championship. Westwood wearing FJ Sport and SciFlex set the pace early, opening the tournament with a 12 under par 60 on the Amata Springs course. He then followed the stellar round with an impressive eight-under par 64 to open a 11 shot lead through two rounds of play.
"I've amazed myself really...It's been
staggering, it all came together well. It's probably the best I've ever
played." Westwood said of his blistering start to the tourney.
Despite his massive lead, Westwood felt the pressure of holding onto it, "I've never had an 11-shot lead before and it was difficult to come out
and refocus and reset goals...it's yours to
lose really with an 11-shot lead. There was pressure involved.
Yesterday, I didn't know how to approach it or handle it." Westwood handled the pressure just closing with a three under par 69 to win by seven shots. The win moves Westwood to number two on the official world golf rankings.
Sunday at Bay Hill was the toughest final round on tour this year and Martin Laird (SciFlex) emerged from the calamity to claim the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Laird's day included a 3 stroke lead and also 3 stroke deficit in a span of 7 holes. Laird later said, "When I saw I was three down, I didn't have a choice. I had to start
playing some good golf. I had to make birdies. Steve was playing too
good. That was really the focus. It was trying to get this trophy."
He did exactly that with birdies on 15 and 16, followed by clutch pars on the final 2 holes to finish victorious.
Steve Marino (FJ Sport and SciFlex) finished in solo second after two plugged lies derailed his chances to win.
This is the 4th victory for the SciFlex glove this year.
Mark Wilson began the day with a 2 stroke lead in the frost delayed Waste Management
Open over fellow FootJoy player Jason Dufner. Dufner (FJ Sport) birdied the
famed par 3 16th and the drivable par 4 17th to force a playoff with
Wilson. After exchanging pars on the first playoff hole, Wilson laid back with his tee shot and struck a smooth 7 iron approach that set up a 9 footer for the win. Wilson, trusting FJ Icon Style # 52354 and a
SciFlex glove emerged
from the playoff to win the Waste Management Open for his second victory in
only three starts this season. "I'm just enjoying the ride here and that's just kind of the way I'm
going to look at the year here, just ride this train as long as I can,"
Wilson said of the victory.
Mark Wilson (FJ ICON #52308, SciFlex glove) went bogey-free over the final 36 holes Sunday en route to capturing the Sony Open by two shots over fellow FJ players Tim Clark (DryJoys Tour style #53767) and Steve Marino (FJ Sport style #53102, SciFlex). Wilson shot a 5-under 65 in the morning to take a one-shot lead into the afternoon round. Despite only six minutes between rounds, he closed with a 3-under 67 for his third career victory.The win came with some anxious moments, courtesy of Marino and Clark. Marino was 13 under and needed an eagle on 18, which looked improbable when his drive splashed out of the bunker and onto the side of a hill.With his feet in the sand, and the ball about chest-high on the hill, Marino lashed at it with a fairway metal and watched it hook onto the front of the green and stop 40 feet away."I saw the ball, and I thought, 'OK, eagle is going to be pretty tough for him to make.' It was one incredible shot," Wilson said.Marino's eagle putt narrowly missed, and Wilson pitched to 4 feet and made a birdie he didn't need. He finished at 16-under 264.The big move of the day came from Clark, and he was on the other side of the course.Because of the 36-hole final -- forced by a washout in the first round Thursday -- players did not change groups for the afternoon. Clark started the day six shots out of the lead, shot 66 in the morning and made his move on the front nine -- his last nine holes. His birdie on No. 6 took him to 12 under, then he nearly made an ace on the par-3 seventh for a tap-in birdie and gave himself two good looks at the end.With this win, Wilson earns his second trip to Augusta for the Masters. His first came in 2001 as a spectator. Wilson won the Honda Classic in 2007, but a month later Augusta National changed its criteria to invite most PGA TOUR winners. He won in Mexico two years later, but that doesn't count toward the Masters because it is an opposite-field tournament.Wilson finally returns to Augusta as a player, and he can only hope his celebration ends by April."From what I've learned over the years is the more you succeed out here, the more people expect of you," Wilson said. "But I'm going to enjoy this like crazy."


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Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai or Chou En-lai (both: jō ĕn-lī), 1898–1976, Chinese Communist leader. A member of a noted Mandarin family, he was educated at an American-supported school in China and a university in Japan. His involvement in radical movements led to several months imprisonment. After his release he studied (1920–22) in France. A founder of the Chinese Communist party, he established (1922) the Paris-based Chinese Communist Youth Group. After a few months in England, he studied in Germany. Zhou returned (1924) to China and joined Sun Yat-sen, who was then cooperating with the Communists. He served (1924–26) as deputy director of the political department at the Whampoa Military Academy, of which Chiang Kai-shek was commandant. After the Northern Expedition began, he worked as a labor organizer. In 1927 he directed a general strike in Shanghai, opening the city to Chiang's Nationalist forces. When Chiang broke with the Communists, executing many of his former allies, Zhou became a fugitive from the Kuomintang. Later, holding prominent military and political posts in the Communist party, he participated in the long march (1934–35) to NW China. During the partial Communist-Kuomintang rapprochement (1936–46) he was the chief Communist liaison officer.
In 1949, with the establishment of the People's Republic of China at Beijing, Zhou became premier and foreign minister. He headed the Chinese Communist delegation to the Geneva Conference of 1954 and to the Bandung Conference (1955). In 1958 he relinquished the foreign ministry but retained the premiership. A practical-minded administrator, Zhou maintained his position through all of Communist China's ideological upheavals, including the Great Leap Forward (1958) and the Cultural Revolution (1966–76). Initially supportive of the latter, he was periodically attacked by Red Guards for attempting to shelter its victims. He was largely responsible for China's reestablishing contacts with the West in the early 1970s before becoming ill.
See biographies by D. W. Chang (1984), D. Wilson (1984), and G. Wenqian (2003, tr. 2007).


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UK Ministry of Defence Close To Gaining Patent On Key GPS Technology; US Not Amused
from the so-much-for-special-relationships dept
Normally, we think of the US as the champion of patenting "anything under the sun that is made by man," while the UK is generally more reticent. So it's rather surprising to find the roles reversed in the following story about a new standard for the GPS navigation system:
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is weeks away from approving a controversial British patent that could force American consumers to pay more for GPS navigation devices and even affect the operations of the American military.
This is no ordinary patent spat -- it could have global consequences: according to the article quoted above, US officials are so incensed about this unsporting move that they might drop the interoperability plans altogether. What's ironic here is that the US was assuming that the new standard's technology formed a kind of commons -- available to all, but owned by no one -- and it was the UK that decided to enclose part of that commons using patents, a move which now risks destroying it for everyone.
The patent is one of dozens filed around the world by the British defense establishment asserting ownership of technology developed jointly by the United States and the European Union (EU). The patents lay claim to a signal structure crafted by American and European experts to make Europe's still-emerging Galileo satellite navigation system interoperable with GPS and improve service for users of both systems.
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[This is my action item from the XHTML2 WG telecon a week or two ago.] The current state of play with @role and @class is that @role represents a predicate of xh:role, whilst @class represents a predicate of rdf:type. The main motivations were as follows: * we need to do _something_ with @class, since it is widely used; * we need an easy way of indicating rdf:type; * having a 'role' of 'toolbar' is not the same as _being_ a toolbar, and so @role shouldn't be used for rdf:type. I don't mind this position, and I think it works fine, but I'd like to throw some observations into the pot which might help people decide one way or the other. I've been trying to provoke an RDF-based response for a while now about whether (at a *logical* level) if something _plays the role_ of something it *is* that thing. My feeling has generally been that it isn't, which I'll try to illustrate. Say I have the following mark-up: <div role="xf:range"> ... </div> I basically have a 'div' that I am suggesting plays the role of an XForms range control. I'm happy with this, since exactly 'how' the 'div' plays this role is not my concern, I've simply said it does. But I haven't said it *is* a range control, since that would imply certain components such as a handle to grab, certain methods and properties, extra CSS classes that can be set to format the indicators, indicate whether it's a vertical or horizontal control, and so on. In other words, reversing the more familiar formula, I'm saying that if it doesn't quack or walk like a duck, then chances are it isn't a duck. (If the 'div' doesn't have the methods and properties of a range control, then it isn't one.) However, we've discussed this many times on the HTML calls, and I've yet to be able to explain successfully to anyone who is actually using @role what the difference is! So I'm increasingly beginning to wonder whether it's really worth bothering with such a distinction. I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is, though. Most people who are using @role are using it as a hook for server-side translation, or even run-time augmentation. This means that--to return to the more familiar form of the familiar formula--if they see a 'div' with @role="duck", then they add webbed feet, a beak, and a method called quack(). In short, by the end of the process, the element really *is* what the @role attribute says it is. So the question we need to ask is whether this is just one use case of @role, or the *main* use case. If it's one use case amongst many, then those who are currently using @role to carry out server-side transformations will need to add an inference rule to their triple stores that says that the predicate xh:role is equivalent to rdf:type. This would keep the mapping local to their system, not affecting others, and of course it would be a true reflection of their system, since by the end of the process the elements 'really are' the thing that they are impersonating. But this would be unnecessary if we can't think of situations where having an rdf:type value set 'automatically' would cause a problem. For example, in Firefox's implementation of @role, the presence of the attribute and its value does actually change the nature of the element that the attribute is attached to. (See http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessible_DHTML.) So, I'm now wondering...since: * the logic experts have not thought the distinction significant enough to warrant a comment; * and the users of @role don't see the difference (because they'd rather there was no difference); then perhaps there is no meaningful difference? Should we just return to having @role provide rdf:type? (I say 'return' although technically we never had it in the spec, it just so happened that people found it a convenient way to indicate rdf:type, so they started using it.) SUMMARY I still believe that we need rdf:type from somewhere, so the only thing I'm raising is whether it should be @role or @class. In terms of the 'logic' I personally believe that @role should _not_ equal rdf:type, but as I've shown here, the arguments in favour of this may be so marginal--and the weight of opinion behind using @role to carry rdf:type may be so strong--that you could argue, why not just go for @role as rdf:type. What might tip the balance decisively would be if there were any other uses that could be found for @class, or if arguments against using @class for rdf:type were to be put forward. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer firstname.lastname@example.com | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation.Received on Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:30:03 UTC
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Previously, we explained what the first section of the MSDS covers. But what about the other seven sections? Here's a short recap you might find helpful.
Section 2, Hazardous Ingredients, lists the amount of much of each hazardous ingredient and tells you how toxic it is.
Section 3, Physical/Chemical Characteristics, helps you identify the material by how it looks and smells. It may provide exposure control information.
Section 4, Fire and Explosion, tells you the temperature at which the material gives off vapor that will burn (its flashpoint) and (if applicable) provides fire control information.
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I have an Aspire 6930G with Vista. It has 2 hard discs and one is devided in 2 which is C: and E: I wish to install Linux on Disc D which is the second disc of 465gb. How do I do this please.
This is a template for a future guide to running Linux with the Acer Aspire 6930G laptop. If you have the Acer Aspire 6930G and are running Linux on it please consider editing this page or adding a comment below with your compatibility details. By contributing you will help other people running this laptop or trying to make a decision on whether to buy it or not.
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|Acer Aspire 6930G
|Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T9550
|16" WXGA (1366×768) Widescreen
|Up to 4GB
|Up to 2 x 500GB
|Optical Drive
|NVIDIA® GeForce 9600M GT
|Ethernet, Intel 5100 802.11abgn, Bluetooth
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Optical Drive
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works but still figuring out how to optimize the 5.1 surround
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Not Tested
|56K Modem
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|Card Reader
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|ExpressCard Slot
|Not Tested
|Fingerprint Reader
|Tested on Ubuntu 9.04
|use the instructions here
|Tested on Kubuntu 8.10
|works perfectly
|TV Tuner
|Tested on Ubuntu 9.04
|works perfectly on 2.6.30 kernel or newer or by compiling a v4l-dvb snapshot on an old kernel
You can enter notes of how well the Acer Aspire 6930G works with Linux here.
The Acer Aspire 6930G here ships with Vista and works well but it is a joy to format it and run (Linux)(K)ubuntu. Pretty much everything is detected and runs out of the box. What pleased me the most was the wireless range added by the fact that it supports 802.11n. The network detection range is amazing and the speed makes doing things on it, a breeze. The model I own and tested is pretty much maxed out apart from not having a fingerprint reader (I hate those, they are easy to trick) and bluetooth. Its a real breath of fresh air since everything just works, very unlike my older Acer where I had to hand compile a lot of things. All in all its the best Notebook I have installed linux on
I have an Aspire 6930G with Vista. It has 2 hard discs and one is devided in 2 which is C: and E: I wish to install Linux on Disc D which is the second disc of 465gb. How do I do this please.
hi, i used mint 9 on this model for about a year and everything was great except for audio and mic… like everyone else.
Now I run Arch linux (2010.5) and everything work just great, everything.
That's because you install just what you need and the incredible wiki and many other tutorials helps you throught installation.
Even the mic works, with this method, maybe it can be applied to ather distros as well:
it's in italian but the commands are the same, if you don't understand feel free to ask via mail.
The only thing that migth scare during installation is that is recommended to use an open source driver for nvidia card instead of the proprietary one due to its incopatibility with the last xorg version.
But I haven't noticed any difference in performance(I'm not games fan), I noticed instead a sensible gpu and cpu temperature decrease.
To sum up I'd give to Arch linux for running on the Acer Aspire 6930g a 10/10
hi… here is a bad experience:
acer6930g…. evrrrything perfect…except internet…"agp in not installed..and mac is in deep sleep.." what does it mean? there is a "windows network" emblem and unaccesible.. how?
I have the same problem than Reskejal, the headphone and mic switch doesn't work.
Everything else is working fine (On Ubuntu 09.04 I think, it's the lastest).
the sound on my acer 6930g is not working. It plays when it starts but does not play while browsing, eg when watching youtube vids.
The problem is not the Ubuntu distribution. The problems are the plugins needed for the firefox (I suppose) to run the SWF media. You have to install the adobe flash or gnash, the one that you prefer, to be able to run all the videos in the browser.
If you install another browser, opera, this plugins will be installed from the origin.
Please do not try to use ext4 under ubuntu 9.04.
I have Acer 6930G and i had a problems like a system freezes using ubuntu 9.04 and ext4 for 1-2 weeks. After reinstalling ubuntu with ext3 all problems are gone.
I think kernel is not ready or has some incompatibilities with ext4.
Many thanks for the above details everyone, everything I make use of in this laptop now works fine under Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64
Only have one problem under ubuntu 9.04, the computer goes hot and freezes. The a-lock on by the power button is lid, havent been able to figure what that means yet, nor what is getting to hot.
Other then that everything works like a charm.
Napra: I have the same problem with the sound to, both in linux and windows. Think it's the hardware that is crap, well compared to my other systems atleast.
good evening,to all…
i am from portugal,and i bought ACER ASPIRE 6930G but there are two problems.
1º- i touch the bluetooth device and it says "no device found"
2º-The sound of my computer is too low is not a good quality sound.
Can anyone help me,please
Kinds regards,
I have an Acer 6930G but the CPU is slightly different.
I was wondering if you guy have the blue touch buttons above the keyboard. Do they work under Ubuntu?
I am trying to find an easy way to back up the drivers for those buttons that are stashed on the small parition. I reckon it would be a crying shame to lose those buttons they are really useful.
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 on aspire 6930G and i have some trouble.
Processor – works perfectly
Screen – works perfectly
HDD – works perfectly
Optical Drive – works perfectly
Graphics – works perfectly with Nvidia driver 180.60 elsewhere you cant get tty.
Sound – the surround is not perfect and internal mic and headphone switch don't work
Ethernet – works perfectly
Wireless – works perfectly
Bluetooth – Not Present
56K Modem – Not Tested
Card Reader – works perfectly
ExpressCard Slot – Not Tested
Fingerprint Reader – Not Present
Camera Tested – works perfectly
Now i'd like to get internal mic working, but nothing. I have read the post on 6930 and using realtek driver but nothing.plz help me!!
Also the rt-kernel don't work but is a iusse of nvidia driver.
hey ciropi, i'm italian too. how did you create a partition for linux? which partition from original vista installation did you erase?
Hi, see also the discussion in: http://www.linlap.com/wiki/acer+aspire+6930
After playing with all the hotkey's and rebooting my wireless didnt come up anymore.
After looking at dmesg output i found "radio disabled by HW RF kill switch". Now i dont know where this hardware kill switch is, or which action induced it.
My solution to get it working again:
open terminal from accessoiry menu.
sudo su
gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options
add the following two lines at the end of the file:
options iwlagn disable=0
options acer-wmi wireless=1
now reboot your laptop. Wireless should work!
hi! (sorry for my english, i'm italian)
Sometimes when i want to boot ubuntuon my acer aspire 6930g, the pc freezes, and the only way to restart is to extract the battery. And then i have to go in vista to enable the wi-fi. What i have to do to fix this problem? Thanks


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The OCF references the GILH for the most-appropriate "hinges," Morning and Evening Prayer:
350. At morning prayer the Christian community recalls "the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the true light enlightening all people (see John 1:9) and 'the sun of justice' (Malachi 4:2) 'rising from on high' (Luke 1:78)." (GILH 38) The celebration of morning prayer from the office for the dead relates the death of the Christian to Christ's victory over death and affirms the hope that those who have received the light of Christ at baptism will share in that victory.
351. At evening prayer the Christian community gathers to give thanks for the gifts it has received, to recall the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the saving works of redemption, and to call upon Christ, the evening star and the unconquerable light. (GILH 39) Through evening prayer from the office for the dead the community give thanks to God for the gift of life received by the deceased and praises the Father for the redemption brought about by the sacrifice of his Son, who is the joy-giving light and true source of hope.
Would these qualities of morning and evening prayer help determine if one of them would be more suitable? My sense is that both hours present the "sacrifice" and the resurrection well enough. The choice of psalmody and even music will likely be more helpful in focusing the mood of either of these celebrations.
My friend John mentioned the use of Compline. With the focus on the end of the day, on simple repeatable psalms, looking to one's final death, and the dedication of the community to the Blessed Mother, I can see how this would be also a very moving experience. In a community that prays the Office daily, I can understand the preference for Morning or Evening Prayer–it would be a "bigger" celebration. But for a parish that doesn't pray the Hours: the call for mercy and forgiveness after a personal examination of conscience, the Canticle of Simeon, and the Marian antiphon would be powerful connectors to the grace of Christ and the hope for eternal life by means of that grace.


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Hello everyone.
I just stumbled upon this forum by accident, and was suprised by the friendly tone used here. To often programming forums consist of a few very good, but sadly very elitist and selfcentered, programmers byting everyones head off, and finding it infinetly funny to link lmgtfy, to every single question.
This however seems different, so Im looking very much forward to being a part of this community.
A little about myself. Having had java for a semester in CS, Ive had a sniff at java, but still need a lot af actual experience to call myself a programmer. At school the focus was heavily at OOP koncepts, oral exam and all, so im looking forward to getting my hands dirty, as I really enjoy programming.
Currently im doing small, just for fun projekts, involving all kinds of bots, which I for some reason is very fascinated by.
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Sony brings Samsung and NXP into the FeliCa fold
NFC-F: It'll bonk just about anything
MWC 2012 Japan's FeliCa system will soon boast NFC alongside the existing proximity system, using chips from Samsung and NXP to provide pay-by-bonk for Japanese abroad and gaijin alike.
Japanese companies want to be able to process NFC payments, made with a tap of the phone, just like everyone else, but while in the rest of the world the nascent industry is struggling to explain the advantage of paying by tap, in Japan the problem is making NFC backwards-compatible with the existing infrastructure which has been doing that for more than a decade, with Sony's solution being to pack two electronic purses into each phone handset.
The FeliCa system has been providing bonk-based services domestically since 1997, but electronic payments came in 2001 with the launch of the Edy electronic wallet which is closest to how we now imagine NFC to work. Japan was able to take such a lead thanks to the vertically-integrated DoCoMo, who could turn a profit by owning a significant share in every part of the value chain, but despite that DoCoMo failed to push the standard abroad (Edy stands for euro, dollar and yen, indicating its international aspirations).
DoCoMo still owns 38 per cent of FeliCa, the standard which underlines Edy and other proximity systems in Japan, but Sony owns 57 per cent and neither party is prepared let Japan remain an isolated platform even if it is the leading one (the remaining 5 per cent of FeliCa belongs to the largest train operator in Japan, JR-EAST, which probably don't care either way). So Sony has signed up Samsung and NXP to make a chip set which will support both NFC and FeliCa in the same device.
That's less a matter of integration and more a matter of parallel systems – the FeliCa platform has its own secure element (embedded in the handset), while Sony is absolute that NFC secure elements should go in the SIM, under the control of the network operator (unlike Google Wallet). So in Japan "NFC-F" handsets will keep FeliCa and NFC applications entirely separated, with the sharing is limited to the radio stack and the antenna. Even then there won't be any chips until next year, with dual-bonk handsets following some time afterwards, but Japan's entry into the NFC business still shouldn't be taken lightly.
While we get excited about tapping phones together to exchange business cards, or checking into Foursquare without having to run an app, millions of Japanese are paying by bonk every day. They're unlocking (luxury) apartments, and downloading their boarding cards on the way to the airport – and not just to show that it's possible, they've been doing this for years.
What that means is that Japanese developers have hammered out the business models around who pays whom for what, and created interfaces which allow the user to control the (secured) applications which have been installed. Compared to that, the technology behind NFC, and FeliCa, is trivial, and if those skills prove exportable (cultural mores permitting) then Japanese companies such as Sony could be well-placed to make money telling people around the world how to make use of NFC, which is rather the point. ®
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Venturing Advancement
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Advancement in Venturing is not a single, simple path like Boy Scouting advancement program. It contains a main branch of five bronze awards, the Gold Award, and the Silver Award, the highest award in Venturing. The program also offers "Expert-level" awards: the Ranger Award, the Quest Award, and the TRUST Award, all of which are expansions and 'sequels' to a particular bronze award. There is also an advancement path specifically for Sea Scouts which leads to its highest award, the Quartermaster Award.
Venturers may advance along the Boy Scout Eagle trail under certain conditions.
Venturing advancement
Venturers may earn the Bronze, Gold, or Silver awards. Criteria for these awards can be found in the Venturing Silver Award Guidebook. Venturers may earn any or all of the five different Bronze awards; however, only one is required for the Gold Award. The Gold and Silver awards require a crew review process.
Venturers may also earn the Ranger Award, TRUST Award and the Quest Award. These awards requires no crew review.
All work on all Venturing advancement must be completed prior to the young person's 21st birthday.
Source: Advancement Committee Policies and Procedures, #33088B, revised 1999
Basic advancement system
Bronze awards
There are five Bronze Awards. They can be earned in any order or concurrently, like merit badges in the Boy Scouting program. Three bronze (Outdoor, Religious and Community Life, and Sports) are part of an expert-level award, meaning three expert-level awards build from a bronze award. Arts and Hobbies Bronze Award is not part of an expert-level award; Sea Scout Bronze Award may lead to the Quartermaster Award, but the Venturer must be a member of a Sea Scout ship.
Earning one Bronze Award is required in order to earn the Gold Award.
Gold Award
Building upon lessons and skill learned in earning one or more bronze awards, the Gold Award is the construction and completion of personal goals. The gold Award is designed to recognize significant accomplishment in a Venturer's life as he or she has proven outstanding performance in a broad spectrum of activities.
Silver Award
Developing from the precepts of the Gold Award, the Silver Award is the highest advancement award in Venturing. The Silver Award focuses on the three principles of leadership, ethics, and emergency preparedness. Its purpose is to provide a pathway for personal development; encourage Venturers to learn, grow, and serve; and recognize the high level of achievement of Venturers who acquire Venturing skills.
Expert-level awards
Expert-level awards recognize Venturers who have attained in-depth knowledge and experience in the areas of outdoorsmanship, religious and community life, or sports.
Ranger Award
The Venturing Ranger Award builds directly on the Outdoor Bronze Award.
The purpose of the award is to encourage Venturers to achieve a high level of outdoor skills proficiency; recognize achievement of this high level of outdoor skills proficiency; provide a path for outdoor/high-adventure skills training; and establish Rangers as a highly trained leadership resource for crews, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and the community.
TRUST Award
The Venturing TRUST Award builds directly on the Religious and Community Life Bronze Award.
This award focuses chiefly on the principles of religion, community, and tolerance. Its purpose is to provide a pathway for personal development in the forms of service and devotion to God. Once earned, the Venturer will be recognized as not only one who understands others, but who also looks out for them and their needs.
Quest Award
The Venturing Quest Award builds directly on the Sports Bronze Award.
It focuses on the traditions of sportsmanship and lifelong fitness. By teaching about non-traditional sports, this award allows Venturers to learn skills and fitness techniques they might never have a chance to encounter before.
Sea Scouting advancement
Sea Scout advancements are approved by the ship's quarterdeck. In the case of the Quartermaster Award, the application is reviewed by the ship's committee with a member of the district advancement committee as chairman. Since the Quartermaster award is a Venturing recognition, it may be earned by any young man or young woman registered as a Venturer up to his or her 21st birthday.
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Saudi Oil Worth More to Democrats Than American Oil?
Daily oil production on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area which Congress originally designated for oil exploration when it set up the refuge, is estimated by the Energy Information Administration (Dept. of Energy) to be able to produce approximately 1, 000,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
With current imports of foreign oil running over 12,000,000 barrels per day (EIA chart), production of one million barrels of U.S. oil would be an important first step to energy independence.
But this is how Senator Charles Schumer dismissed the benefits of ANWR in an April 28 press conference:
SCHUMER: What does the president do? He takes out the old saw of ANWR. ANWR wouldnt produce a drop of oil in ten years, and its estimated that if they drilled in ANWR, in 20 years it would reduce the price one penny. Weve been pushing for a long time for energy efficiency. We believe in a price-gouging bill so that the big oil companies cant collude. We believe that theres too much speculation in the markets, and we believe that ought to be reined in.
So why did he say this two weeks later on the Senate floor:
SCHUMER: If Saudi Arabia were to increase its production by 1 million barrels per day that translates to a reduction of 20 percent to 25 percent in the world price of crude oil, and crude oil prices could fall by more than $25 dollar per barrel from its current level of $126 per barrel. In turn, that would lower the price of gasoline between 13 percent and 17 percent, or by more than 62 cents off the expected summer regular-grade price offering much needed relief to struggling families.
One penny for American oil but 62 cents for Saudi oil?
The Current American Mood on Congressional Ianactivity ::D
What a complete dog and pony show the Senate and the House has put on over the past two days grilling oil execs when they know full well that as world production has leveled off, demand has sky-rocketed. How many people actually know that since the early 90s (because of fuel efficiency and improvement in transit systems) this countrys demand for oil has barely changed?
How many people know that underneath the high, scrub-covered rangeland of northwest Colorado is the worlds biggest oil field? The areas deposits of oil shale are believed to be larger than all the oil reserves of the Middle EastLINK
The fact is that the left wing anti-business enviro-nuts have choked this nation from producing our own vast oil reserves for the better part of thirty years while we have become slaves to the Middle Eastern countries and nutcases like Chavez.
Maybe when gas gets up to $15 bucks a gallon this nation will wake up to the reality that progressives would prefer that we live in the stone ages to once again become one with nature.
Watching Wasserman-Schultz, Dem Congressperson from Florida earlier today on Cavuto.
She caught a bad case of the vapors when Neal mentioned maybe we should drill for our own oil instead of depending on the Saudis, Chavez, etc.
This wuss stated she was NOT going to allow oil drilling as it would affect her states greatest industry, tourism. I just screamed at the TV for Cavuto to ask her just how in hell that tourism industry would be working out with 10 bucks a gallon gas and no one was traveling to her fair state.
Jeez! I would have nailed her wussy butt to the cross with that question, but not good old Cavuto.
Course she was spinning like a top and he didnt get many words in edgewise.
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Lingvo Phrases for Windows is the most convenient and functional phrasebook ever invented, it provides instant bidirectional translation of thousands of practical and useful phrase. You will always be understood - even if you can't speak a word of another language. Thanks to its adjustable speech recognition capabilities you can easily access its topic areas by simply speaking into the device.


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Parents often fret that their tweens and teens spend too much time playing video games and not enough time personally interacting with others. But what if they could do both?
That's the aim of World Gamer Nation in Greenlawn, a LAN (local area network) center.
The idea is for gamers to play in the same room, together, instead of speaking through headsets and working the controllers alone in the dark of their respective bedrooms.
"What's missing is the communication," says World Gamer Nation owner Rory O'Donoghue, referring to typical video game play.
"When they come here, they also meet people with similar interests.... It's competitive and cooperative gaming in a social environment," O'Donoghue says.
Indeed, on a recent afternoon, at least 25 players are sitting in the darkened room with high-back, cushioned chairs in front of consoles, complete with 24-inch computer screens and Turtle Beach headsets designed for gaming. There is a 120-inch projection screen where a group of gamers can play with Connect and WiiU games.
Chris Temperino, 18, from Centerport says it's a great place to hang out with friends after school. "We all play together," he says.
Video games include all the teen favorites -- Call of Duty: Black Ops, DayZ, Minecraft, Halo, Left for Dead. There's also driving simulator game Grand Turismo 5, a larger version of what you see in video arcades.
Parents must sign a consent form, since some of the video games are rated Teen or Mature.
It's a place for families, too. Centerport residents Hayes and Sandy Cohen often bring their son Max, 11, to play. They enjoy it as much as Max, they say, and have been introduced to new video games, such as DayZ, one of the many zombie games to hit the market and one of their faves. "We need more moms and dads to come down," says Sandy Cohen.
"We often have kids tell us they wish their parents came down to play," adds Hayes Cohen.
The staff is helpful when gamers don't understand how a game works, they say, one of the important advantages of playing there. "We're here to help," says O'Donoghue.
Serious gamers know there's a technical reason to play on a LAN-based system. World Gamer Nation hosts its own local network -- not the Internet -- which eliminates lag time and network down time, important where speed is the name of the game. And all the equipment is set up for gaming.
"When you are on the same network, you are all on the same speed," taking away unfair advantage, says O'Donoghue, a certified Cisco network associate.
World Gamer Nation holds special gaming tournaments, and is planning a summer Black Ops II tournament or weekly competition.
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INFO 631-651-5004, worldgamernation.com
COST $7 an hour, or $10 for 5-9 p.m. daily. Tuesday special is $2.50 an hour. Annual $30 membership includes hourly discounts and buy two hours, get one free deals.
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INFO 631-772-6786, battlegroundsli.com
COST $8 for full day play Sunday-Thursday or $22 Friday-Saturday. Specials abound.
While LAN-based gaming centers are still uncommon on Long Island, BattleGrounds in Shirley is another place where kids can play their favorite games together.
BattleGrounds has eight Xbox 360s and 16 PCs as well as 5 tables for Magic: The Gathering (a card trading game) and many popular video games -- Call of Duty: Black Ops and Modern Warfare, Halo III and IV and Tron, among others.
"I have people all day from different age groups," says assistant manager Jeff Denigris. "Right now, we have from age 11 to people in their 20s."
Children younger than 13 must be accompanied by a guardian. They also have Smash Bros. tournaments. Says Denigris, "It's a really competitive game."
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How did Kelly Wearstler develop her killer aesthetic sensibility? By auction- and flea-hopping all through the eighties. "In one row, I would see things that were turn-of-the-century, French and Italian pieces, and in the next row, there'd be something completely modern," Kelly explains. "Educating my eye and seeing these different objects play against each other made me fall in love with art."
Her next move? Art school, naturally. The South Carolina native packed her bags and headed for Boston where she waited tables by day and spent her nights studying graphic design and architecture at the Massachusetts College of Art. After graduation, she signed up for an apprenticeship with world-renowned graphic designer Milton Glaser (That "I ♥ NY" logo? Yep, that's him) to put her already-sophisticated design skills to work. By 1998, she was well on her to becoming an interior-designer powerhouse, starting with the Avalon Hotel Beverly Hills and moving onto the Viceroy Hotels and Bergdorf Goodman's BG Restaurant—oh, and her own home line, which oozes her signature raw-meets-refined style.
But Kelly found no need to stop at décor. With a loooong list of happy clients already under her very stylish belt, she decided to bring her skills to, well, belts—and jewelry, jackets, dresses, and bags, taking her namesake label into the apparel-and-accessories realm in 2011. "You just have to be focused," she explains of her envy-inducing empire. "I'm confident, I know what I want, and I know what I don't like. There's no, 'Let me think about it.' It's just, 'Yes. I like it, let's move on.'" —monica derevjanik
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European Commission - Press release
European Commission proposes an optional Common European Sales Law to boost trade and expand consumer choice
Brussels, 11 October 2011 – Despite the success of the EU's Single Market, barriers to cross-border trade remain. Many of these result from divergent sales laws between the 27 Member States. They make selling abroad complicated and costly, especially for small firms. Traders who are dissuaded from cross-border transactions due to contract law obstacles forgo at least €26 billion in intra-EU trade every year. Meanwhile, 500 million consumers in Europe lose out on greater choice and lower prices because fewer firms make cross-border offers, particularly in smaller national markets.
Today, the European Commission proposed an optional Common European Sales Law to help break down these barriers and give consumers more choice and a high level of protection. It will facilitate trade by offering a single set of rules for cross-border contracts in all 27 EU countries. If traders offer their products on the basis of the Common European Sales law, consumers would have the option of choosing a user-friendly European contract with a high level of protection with just one click of a mouse. The Commission's proposal now needs approval from EU Member States and the European Parliament, which already signalled its overwhelming support in a vote earlier this year (IP/11/683).
"The optional Common European Sales Law will help kick-start the Single Market, Europe's engine for economic growth. It will provide firms with an easy and cheap way to expand their business to new markets in Europe while giving consumers better deals and a high level of protection," said Vice-President Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "Instead of setting aside national laws, today the European Commission is taking an innovative approach based on free choice, subsidiarity and competition."
The Common European Sales Law breaks down barriers and maximises benefits for consumers and businesses.
1. Advantages for Companies:
2. Advantages for Consumers:
The Common European Sales Law will be applicable:
Contracts are essential for running businesses and making sales to consumers. They formalise an agreement between parties and can cover a broad range of matters, including the sale of goods and associated services such as repairs and maintenance.
Companies use a wide variety of contracts that are governed by different national contract laws when operating in Europe's Single Market. The 27 different sets of national rules can lead to additional transaction costs, a lack of legal certainty for businesses and a lack of consumer confidence. These can act as a deterrent for both consumers and businesses to shopping and trading across EU borders. Small and medium-sized companies are particularly affected by higher transaction costs.
This contrasts with the United States' internal market, where a trader in Maryland can easily sell his products to a consumer in Alaska.
Under the Europe 2020 strategy (IP/10/225), the Commission is tackling bottlenecks in the Single Market to drive economic recovery. This includes making progress towards a European contract law.
In July 2010, the Commission put forward several options in a Green Paper for a more coherent approach to contract law. The Commission then held a public consultation that ran until 31 January 2011 and resulted in 320 responses (MEMO/11/55).
On 3 May 2011, an expert group established by the Commission delivered a feasibility study on a future initiative on European contract law (IP/11/523). The Commission consulted stakeholders and citizens during the feasibility study and received 120 responses.
On 8 June 2011, the European Parliament backed an optional European contract law in a plenary vote on an own-initiative report by MEP Diana Wallis (MEMO/11/236).
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tuesday 12-inch Flashback: 'Spacer'
I remember it fondly for its grade-A Chic groove, propelled by the chugging rhythm guitar of Nile Rodgers.
As producers, Rodgers and Bernard Edwards were kings of the world at that point. Sister Sledge had blown up the year before. And Nile and Bernard rocked the charts later in 1980 with "Upside Down" for Diana Ross... and with "Rebels Are We," Chic's last Top 10 R&B single.
So... who the heck were Sheila & B. Devotion? "Sheila" was the stage name of Annie Chancel, a pop star in France since the '60s.
B. Devotion – sometimes known as Black Devotion – were Sheila's backup singers. You can see them prancing around in the music video for "Spacer."
Anyway... cheers to the Vinyl Morpher for dropping the needle on this.
9 comments:
- bklyn6 said...
I don't think I remember this song. The name of the group rings a bell, but not the name of the song. It does sound a bit Chic-y, though.
Only years later did I notice the Chic touch on those Sister Sledge songs.
- June 24, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- Thembi said...
I had no idea that Niles Rodgers was behind this! Mika samples "Spacer" for "Relax," as does Alcazar for the super campy eurodance hit "Crying at the Discoteque." I actually choreographed a salute to one of my dearest gay friends to that song...but maybe I've already said too much.
- June 24, 2008 at 2:42 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Your love sustains me!
- June 24, 2008 at 3:10 PM
- Zackory Kirk said...
I checked out the song, and I watched the documentary on Douglas and NCLB. Thanks for sharing.
- June 24, 2008 at 6:16 PM
- DRE said...
okay you got me. 29 milk crates of records in my basement, mostly from the 80's, and although I knew this song, I never knew who made it. Thanks UBM.
- June 24, 2008 at 7:06 PM
- Pocat said...
Not only did Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards compose, arrange, conduct, play on & produce all those hits and songs on:
-Sister Sledge's albums "We Are Family" (79) & "Love Somebody Today" (80),
-Diana Ross' "diana" (80),
-Norma Jean "selftitled" contained hit "Saturday" (78),
-Sheila & B. Devotion "King Of The World" (80),
-Johnny Mathis "I Love My Lady" unreleased (81),
-Fonzi Thornton "untitled" unreleased (82)
The CHIC Organization also did almost all the back-up vocals and played all the music. In fact those albums where CHIC albums in all but name. Today they would've probably been released as "CHIC featuring Sister Sledge....." etc.
CHIC did also make an album with Debbie Harry & Chris Stein (Blondie), which was more of a real collaboration. The result was Debbie's first solo album "Koo Koo" (81). http://www.chictribute.com/arkiv/reviews/kookoo81.html
As for sampling the CHIC catalogue is arguably the most sampled songslist in history. Check out just a fraction of CHIC samplings, covers and influence on this page: http://www.chictribute.com/disco/emul.html
"Spacer" reached: #9 in Germany, #5 in Italy and #3 in France.
For more on CHIC, check out my fan site:
- June 26, 2008 at 7:52 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Welcome, Pocat. My favorite non-Chic Chic song: "High Society."
- June 26, 2008 at 11:07 AM
- Pocat said...
Thanks UBM.
I really like "Hold Me Lonely Boy" because of the VERY CHIC staccato back-up singing in the chorus. And I also love "I Like Love" because of Nile's hot intro guitar and his playing in the break. The Norma Jean album and the '79 single is much better than the sales showed.
- June 26, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- skierpage said...
Yo, pocat!
Rob Sabino's piano on this is TO DIE FOR!!!!!!! Then Nile's nastyyy guitar, then 'Nard and Tony Thompson rebuilding it with the CHIC strings swirling in. A fantastic group effort. My review. I love how Sheila's non-native English works with the song.
So, the big question is whether there's an extended disco version with more of those ringing octaves. The album version on "King of the World" is 6:15 long.
My favorite non-CHIC song changes, but "You Fooled Around" off Sister Sledge's Got to Love Somebody Today, and the following song "I'm a Good Girl" are a great 1-2 combo. I just finished the book "CHIC: Everybody Dance: The Politics of Disco" and it sounds like Bernard Edwards (RIP) did so much to coax amazing vocals from women.
Thank you!
- July 5, 2008 at 10:54 PM