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Monday, August 13th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on Airborne Event
Diamond Terrifier, the solo project of Sam Hillmer of Zs, builds tightly compressed songs out of looped shards of effects-laden saxophone and pure reed tones. August 14th is the release date for Diamond Terrifier's first full-length album, "Kill the Self That Wants to Kill Yourself," out on Northern-Spy Records. Tune in a day early to hear a special live set in the WFMU studios.
Monday, August 13th, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on Minor Music with Jesse Krakow
The superchild of "Weird Al" Yankovic & Led Zeppelin, TBNB are a band that manage to rock people's faces off while simultaneously making them laugh said faces off. These three young musicians (ages totaling 30) will be stopping by to entertain us, enrich our lives, and (hopefully) explain what their name means.
Juicy J & Skrillex
Monday, August 13th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Interviews with Juicy J of the Three 6 Mafia (Memphis, TN) and Skrillex (Los Angeles, CA)! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Royal Headache
Saturday, August 11th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Syndey's Royal Headache combine sweetly crooned tunes and punking rock rama lama. Their 2011 self-titled debut album was recently re-released stateside by What's Your Rupture? and is earning rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork and the Onion AV Club. Catch them now as they begin to light up the northern hemisphere.
Allan Fraser
Saturday, August 11th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison
Allan Fraser, as half of the folk duo Fraser and DeBolt, released two albums on Columbia in 1971 and 1973. Despite rave reviews and touring the music circuit, the records sold only modestly, eventually falling into obscurity. Neither of the Fraser and DeBolt records has had an official reissue, but they have gained greater attention and a larger number of devoted fans in recent years. Their debut is simply one of the finest records to emerge from that era, and retains the ability to startle with its daring and its beauty. Daisy DeBolt and Allan Fraser went their separate ways after the second release, pursuing different avenues in the music world. As is the case with many Canadian artists, they were very well-known in their native country and less so in the United States. Fraser spoke with us by phone from his home in Montreal.
Doug Gillard
Thursday, August 9th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
As busy as he is -- just having finished a tour with Nada Surf, putting out his own solo record last year and completed recording a new record with Death of Samantha (yes it is 2012) -- Doug Gillard has found the time to visit WFMU once again, this time as a Guest DJ on the PEER PRESSURE segment of Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine. As of late, he also has under his belt a collaboration LP with Robert Pollard under the name Lifeguards, and co-wrote and recorded with Sally Crewe for a Sally Crewe And The Sudden Moves EP last year ("Transmit/Recieve"). It's likely you'll hear some of his music for the period previous, so tune in at noon, hear Doug at 1pm! Listeners are encouraged to ask Doug questions via the live playlist.
Cannibalism Night at the UCB Theater with Ken & Andy, Baratunde Thurston, Chuck Klosterman & The Dotted Eyes
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Seven Second Delay with Andy and Ken
It's Cannibalism Night as Ken & Andy return to the stage of the UCB Theater next Wednesday, August 8th at 6pm for the Bath Salts episode of Seven Second Delay. Joining Andy and an MDPV-ingesting Ken will be author & comedian Baratunde Thurston, Ethicist & Journalist Chuck Klosterman, and musical guests The Dotted Eyes, starring Josh Breckman! There will be a Q&A session following the Dotted Eyes set and please do NOT bring up anal sex during it. The UCB Theatre is at 307 West 26th St in NYC, near 8th Avenue. Admission is $5.
Potty Mouth and Chemical Peel
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on Distort Jersey City with Reed Dunlea
Potty Mouth and Chemical Peel from South Carolina take a break from their tour, complete with their van dying while double parked in front of the station, for a fantastic split set. Potty Mouth are an all girl band from Western Mass who play catchy as hell power pop songs about dogs and small towns and other good stuff. Chemical Peel is mostly made up of girls, and they sound a little but like a 2012 Sonic Youth from the south. Check out Chemical Peel's awesome self-titled LP and Potty Mouth's brand new LP on Feeble Minds and Ride The Snake. Great session not to be missed.
DJ Berbere
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
on Neighbors Noise with Jesse Kaminsky (on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
International superstar about town. Dj'd gigs in Arusha Tanzania, Bangkok Thailand, Hanoi Vietnam, and Hardcore House in Jamaica Plain MA USA. Also does live music at Berbere Superstar.
Jeff Salkin
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Aerial View
Jeff Salkin, the Anti-Defamation League's NJ Community Director on Guns, God, Oi & Hate Music.
Tom Lax from Siltbreeze Records Guest DJ's
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
Another great annual visit from Siltbreeze Records honcho Tom Lax, bringing yet more esoteric, uncategorizable and otherworldly slabs of wax to confound even the most obscuro-hound WFMU listeners. Even after several years of guest DJ sessions, we've barely scratched the surface of the fabulous motherlode of DIY recordings Tom has in the vaults; expect high grade entertainment!
Diane Cluck
Monday, August 6th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on Airborne Event
The idiosyncratic folk musician Diane Cluck will visit the Airborne Event for a live set on piano and guitar with cello accompaniment. She calls her music "intuitive folk," and has collaborated with fellow travelers like Herman Dune and CocoRosie. Lately, she's been exploring alternative ways of connecting with listeners through a subscription "song-of-the-week" service that offers her new songs as they come out and can even include songs on the topic of the subscriber's choice.
Sean Lennon & The White Stripes
Monday, August 6th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Nard digs into the vaults and unearths some of his past interviews with Sean Lennon and The White Stripes! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Bill McKibben
Monday, August 6th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker
Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben talks about the terrifying numbers behind global warming and the debut of a new TMI special corespondent - Josh Glenn "semiotic Brand consultant" PLUS the NRA, Hot lanes and Hot bikes
Joe McGasko, Lizzie Davis, Kelly Jones, Liz Berg, Jeff Moore, David Van Dokkum, Chris M., Anna Fiswak, Bryce, Scott Williams, Ken Freedman, and Yvonne Szymczak fill in for Jim Price
Monday, August 6th, 2012, 3pm - 3:01pm
on Jim Price's show
Jamaica Independence Day Special (Jeff Sarge fills in for Glen and X.Ray, 12-3pm)
Sunday, August 5th, 2012, 9am - 3pm
on Reggae Schoolroom with Jeff Sarge
Please Join Jeff Sarge as he celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Jamaican Independence with a special extended version of The Reggae Schoolroom on Sunday, August 5th, 2012 from 9am to 3pm.
Jeff will have a variety of guests in studio and on the phone, including: Musical Icons Gemini Sounds, Merritone Music, Radio Icon Jeff Barnes, Cultural Presenter Miss Mattie Lou, Herbie Miller, Director/Curator of the Jamaica Music Museum at the Institute of Jamaica, plus Surprise guest artists and many more!
Don't miss this joyous exploration of Jamaican artists and their contributions to history through music and culture.
Sunday, August 5th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on Undancing In The Dirt with Thomas Storck
New York City's Zulus are perhaps noise rock at it's most inviting, a dark but welcoming wall of sound with some of the deepest guitar sounds in recent memory. To say the least, they are a very LOUD band, relentlessly at times, creating a reverb-soaked sound-space the listener can feel in a very physical way. Their debut full-length, "Zulus" is just out on Aagoo Records and the band stops by WFMU to perform their last show of the summer.
Colin Blunstone of The Zombies
Saturday, August 4th, 2012, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael chats with Colin Blunstone, lead singer of The Zombies, who are currently on tour celebrating the band's 50th anniversary!
Hella Hungarian Hip-Hop: Part One
Friday, August 3rd, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
For this week's episode of "Put the Needle on the Record," Billy Jam travels to Budapest, Hungary for the first in a two part series from the Central European country to unearth underground Hungarian hip-hop, and produce a live hip-hop session with American transplants Community Education from the studios of Tilos [pronounced Tilosh] Radio - the Budapest community radio station that bases its operation on the WFMU model.
Jonathan Cummins
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
You may know him as the guitarist for the awesomely poptastic Doughboys in the 80's/90s, or in Bionic at the "turn of the century" or PERHAPS you're already schooled in USA Out of Vietnam, his new band. Either way, Mr. Cummins will be kicking ass with a killer playlist on the PEER PRESSURE segment of Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine starting at 1pm! Listeners will be able to ask him questions via the LIVE interactive playlist.
No Class and Dark Ages
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012, 3am - 6am
on Distort Jersey City with Reed Dunlea
This week on Distort Jersey City we have a split set from the two hardest bands from Kansas City, Missouri, No Class and Dark Ages. Boredom tends to produce the best hardcore punk... Both bands have a similar vibe, while Dark Ages tends to be a little catchier while No Class tends to be really, really ignorant. Recommended for fans of bashing your head against a wall repeatedly and loud, abrasive hardcore. Dark Ages are on Sorry State Records and No Class are on Deranged Records. Tired, bored, angry and violent. Be prepared to uncontrollably mosh your bedroom, car, cubicle, sidewalk, or wherever you may be living out the bleak monotony of your mortal existence.
Magzilla and BATHAUS
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
on Neighbors Noise with Jesse Kaminsky (on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
Maggie Cavallo (Magzilla) and Ashley Capachione (BATHAUS) are two homies conjuring up sounds & experiences in Boston, MA. They work individually and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary, multi-media collective creating work though the cumulative fusion of sound, visuals and performance.
Experimental Cassette Culture with Ryan Martin from DAIS Records
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
Brooklynite and avid tape fan Ryan Martin (DAIS Records, Robert & Leopold Tapes, member of York Factory Complaint and DeTrop) returns to Brian's show for a third year sporting another heady batch of way-out cassettes from his archives. Lots of experimental sounds past and present accompanied by some scholarly observations by Mr. Martin. Playlisted photos of the tape art will be on display for listeners live yet again (postponed from July 10th)
Monday, July 30th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on Airborne Event
Zaïmph is the solo guitar project of the prolific experimentalist Marcia Bassett, who has visited the Airborne Event before as a member of the Double Leopards, the duo Zaika with Tom Carter of Charalambides, and Shackamaxon. Her recent duo record with Samara Lubelski has been roiling the airwaves at WFMU, and she visits on the heels of a new release from Zaïmph. Perhaps the closest one can come to describing Zaïmph's music is simply to explain that the project takes its name from a sacred object imbued with both dread and bliss -- the mysterious veil of the moon-goddess Tanit of Carthage.
Tommy Lee & Hannibal Burress
Monday, July 30th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Interviews with Tommy Lee (Los Angeles, CA) and comedian Hannibal Buress (Chicago, IL) ! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo !
Interview with Jonathan Sterne
Monday, July 30th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Radio Free Culture
Benjamen Walker interviews author Jonathan Sterne, who wrote "The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction" (Duke, 2003), and "MP3: The Meaning of a Format" (Duke 2012), and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture. Jonathan teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University. He is also the editor of "The Sound Studies Reader" (Routledge, 2012).
Monday, July 30th, 2012, 3:01pm - 6pm
on Scott Williams's show
The San Fran-based Jealousy summons muses such as Spacemen 3, Throbbing Gristle and Neu! with little more than a bass guitar, a theremin, and some mysterious and indistinct vocalising. For this, their second visit to WFMU, they're in very exploratory mode, mostly improvising songs on the spot and spelunking through some very dark caves. Look out for 2 soon-to-be released recordings on Moniker Records, including a split with Psychedelic Horseshit and Jennifer Herrema.
Istanbulive: Selda and friends (live remote broadcast from Lincoln Center Out of Doors)
Saturday, July 28th, 2012, 6pm - 10pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
WFMU returns to Lincoln Center's Damrosch Bandshell to broadcast the fourth annual Istanbulive - a musical celebration of Turkey. This year's Istanbulive is the most exciting yet: The headliner is legendary Anatolian folk-rocker Selda Bağcan, making her US debut after a 40 year career. Earlier in the evening we'll hear from Ilhan Ersahin's Wonderland, the Turkish-roots project of the saxophonist / club and label maven (NuBlu), producer (Wax Poetic) - featuring Turkish Roma (Gypsy) clarinet wizard Hüsnü Şenlendirici. And opening the show will be The Secret Trio, a virtuosic mult-culti trio that bridges traditional and contemporary Mediterranean, East European and Turkish music. The concert, like all Lincoln Center Out of Doors events, is free. So join us there, or tune in for a very special evening of Turkish-tinged global music.
Summer Music Spectacular with Beach Boys expert, author Jon Stebbins
Saturday, July 28th, 2012, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael spins two hours of music celebrating Summer, and will chat with special guest Jon Stebbins, music journalist whose new book is titled "The Beach Boys FAQ."
Live broadcast from Austin, TX
Friday, July 27th, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
Mr. Fine Wine will be doing a live edition of Downtown Soulville at Antone's Record Shop in Austin, Texas.
Alan Dubin (GNAW, Khanate, O.L.D.), Guest DJ
Thursday, July 26th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Thursday, July 26th from 1-2:30 PM, Alan Dubin, the voice associated with some of the most terrifying music ever, will be guest DJing on the Peer Pressure segment of Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine on WFMU.
Listeners can ask Alan questions LIVE on the online playlist during the program! Tune in and hear what's between the ears of this vocal sh*tstorm while Diane picks his brain and Alan picks the music!
Kieran Turner, writer/director of "Jobriath A.D."
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
The new documentary Jobriath A.D. delves into the life and legacy of '70s glam-rocker Jobriath in a way that's never been done before. Known variously as "The American Bowie,' 'The True Fairy of Rock & Roll, 'Hype of the Year" -- as well as the first openly gay rock star -- Jobriath recorded two albums before the overwrought hype bubble burst. He subsequently moved to the Chelsea Hotel and tried remaking himself as "Cole Berlin," a Weimar-era cabaret singer, before passing away in July 1983 of AIDS-related illnesses. In the years since his death he has been cited as an influence by The Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, and Morrissey.
Jobriath A.D. weaves together interviews, archival material and animation, and it has already received critical acclaim on the festival circuit. It will have its NYC premiere on Saturday, July 28, as part of Lincoln Center's NewFest 2012. Writer/director Kieran Turner will join Evan "Funk" Davies to discuss the film (and share some rare bootleg recordings!) on Wednesday night, July 25th. Don't miss it!
SSD at the UCB with Pat Cooper, Kyle McDonald & Tammy Faye Starlite
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Seven Second Delay with Andy and Ken
Ken & Andy return to the stage of the UCB Theater this Wed, July 25th at 6pm for another live episode of Seven Second Delay. Joining Ken and Andy will be legendary comedian Pat Cooper, NYU Professor, Artist & Secret Service Interviewee Kyle McDonald, Hypnotist Steve Marino, and musical guests Tammy Faye Starlite! The UCB Theatre is at 307 West 26th St in NYC, near 8th Avenue. Admission is $5.
Dr. Jimmy & Mr. Jim
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Aerial View
Dave Marsh joins Chris T. to discuss Quadrophenia & Aurora.
Black Sea Hotel and Hallock Hill on Airborne Event, live from the Castello Plan
Monday, July 23rd, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on Airborne Event
The third installment of what's shaping up to be a monthly remote Airborne Event broadcast from Ditmas Park's Castello Plan restaurant. On July 23rd, Dan is delighted to welcome Black Sea Hotel, a NYC ensemble singing a capella Balkan music rooted in the tradition of Bulgarian women's choirs. By turns delicate and gutsy, the group masterfully works through folk songs and modern arrangements. We will also hear the live debut of Hallock Hill, a solo acoustic guitar and electronics project of Tom Lecky. His albums "The Union" and "There He Unforeseen" have generated a lot of buzz. Hallock Hill presents intimate guitar environments that seem like they'd fit into the guitar soli tradition, but speak in a completely unique voice without real precedent. Listen on WFMU or join us live at Castello Plan, 1213 Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn by the Cortelyou Road Q train stop.
The New York Dolls
Monday, July 23rd, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
An interview with David Johansen of The New York Dolls! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Dirty Beaches
Monday, July 23rd, 2012, 3:01pm - 6pm
on Scott Williams's show
Dirty Beaches is the rockabilly-nowave-hiphop project of Alex Zhang Hungtai, a bicoastal Canadian of Taiwanese birth and no place of his own. Dirty Beaches play displacement anthems for biker westerns starring Alan Vega and directed by David Lynch. A series of cassettes and split releases with folks like U.S. Girls and Ela Orleans lead to 2011's full-length "Badlands", an instant FMU hit and one of Scott's top records of the year.
Lee Feldman
Monday, July 23rd, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Irene Trudel's show
For "Album No. 4: Trying to Put the Things Together that Never Been Together Before," Lee Feldman travels familiar musical territory with another great collection of tunes that are sweet and funny, poignant and absurd. In Lee's latest newsletter, The Feldman, he asks,"Why make something as expensive and labor intensive as a hi-fi CD and put it into an over-saturated music market in a post-compensation society?" Even though the music business has not been especially kind to Lee, it's probably because he's totally driven to do it, as a self-described "pianist, songwriter, teacher, student, collaborator, franchise owner, Brooklynite and a fully effective nice fellow." Lee Feldman drops by WFMU's "Love Room" to play live and chat about the new album and his other musical ventures.
Thought Broadcast
Saturday, July 21st, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on Daniel Blumin's show
Sounding like a lost gem from the Vanity Records catalog or an unearthed DIY cassette of yore, Thought Broadcast's primitive electronics pulsate with suspense. Who needs movie night as Ravi Binning's machines turn your Saturday night into a soundtrack of decrepit generator buzz, creaky loops, cracked rhythm boxes, and electric dread? Tune in! Thought Broadcast has a limited edition S/T LP out now on Olde English Spelling Bee with Emergency Stairway coming this September on Editions Mego.
Jonah Parzen-Johnson and the Exposed Blues Duo
Friday, July 20th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk
A Summer Spectacular of Dismantled Americana! Piedmont Blues and Appalachian Folk melt into American Avant Garde with live sets from Jonah Parzen-Johnson and the Exposed Blues Duo.
Jonah Parzen-Johnson grew up on the South Side of Chicago surrounded by the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and South Side music community. His music for solo baritone saxophone depicts a meticulously constructed world of warm memories recalled in a cold present, as he melds the evocative nature of American Folk music with the chilling power of experimentalism.
Vocalist Fay Victor formed Exposed Blues Duo with guitarist Anders Nilsson five years ago in order to explore the blues and enter its nasty, yearning, humorous world, performing open-ended versions, running the gamut from a whisper to a scream of Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, the Doors, traditionalism and free improvisation.
Friday, July 20th, 2012, Midnight - 3am
on Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Ken Montgomery, aka Gen Ken, joins us on-air to promote a week-long, multi-venue series of events to celebrate the life and work of his friend and collaborator Conrad Schnitzler. Schnitzler (who passed away in 2011), was a driving, founding force in electronic and avant-garde music, and instrumental in the christening of the Krautrock movement, performance art, and "industrial" music, now more commonly referred to as "noise" or "sound art." Events planned include film screenings, cassette CON-certs, and a whole lot more, running from 7/24-7/30 in New York City, and streaming live on the Web. More information to come during the broadcast, as well as a live-mixed cassette CON-cert from Ken! Also see the event page.
Brad Davidson
Thursday, July 19th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Bassist of the Wipers, the recent Phantom Ratio, and who also did a stint with Jesus and Mary Chain, Brad comes to the program with a pedigree of musical tastes and background that listeners will want to know about! Listeners will be able to ask him questions via the accuplaylist in real time! Show starts at noon, Brad will be on the Peer Pressure segment, which starts at 1pm.
Ashland Mines aka DJ Total Freedom
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
On Mudd Up! this Wednesday, artist & musicians Ashland Mines aka DJ Total Freedom will stop by the show to discuss his creative approach to DJing, the ongoing performance installation at Suzanne Geiss gallery which he organized, as well as talk about Los Angeles, the role of collaboration in his work, and more.
Debo Band live set for Duane's 1st annual Martini Lunch party
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on The Duane Train
Duane and special guests Tummy Touch head honcho Tim Love Lee, Brooklyn DJ Tiffany Krunk Pony, and others join Duane as they revisit an ol' time-tested tradition of the Martini Lunch on air. They'll spin records, shake up some elixirs, and just generally have a gay old time. The Boston Based 10-piece Ethio-Ethno outfit Debo Band, also will swing by to play live. They have a killer debut album out now on Sub Pop that requires your immediate attention.
California X
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on Distort Jersey City with Reed Dunlea
This week we get a visit from California X hailing from Western Massachusetts. With a single out and a 12 inch on the way, we get a taste of a fresh as hell rock and roll band that I'm sure we are only going to keep hearing. Cali X play fuzzed out, crunchy guitar rock with super catchy riffs and vocals. They kind of sound like if Milk Music lived on the east coast and never played hacky sack, ever. Tune in for five tracks of excellent punk rock coming out of one of the coolest spots in America for true underground music.
Allison Williams
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
on Neighbors Noise with Jesse Kaminsky (on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
Allison Williams is an oldtime musician, audio engineer, and hedgerow folklorist. She has hosted the Cumberland Trail radio show, on east Tennessee's WDVX, and DJed at the only lesbian bar in the Arkansas Ozarks, where she was fired for not playing enough Shania Twain.
Switchblades & Barclays!
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Aerial View
Chris T. is joined by legendary author of all things Juvenile Delinquent, Harlan Ellison, whose new book "Pulling a Train" is out now from Kicks (the Norton Records imprint). And then the Angry Accountant is back for round 2 of our Libor discussion!
Caroline Gorman
Monday, July 16th, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on Minor Music with Jesse Krakow
Possessing a maturity and musicality that belies her age, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Caroline Gorman is quickly making a name for herself in the teenage indie music scene. She'll be stopping by to chat, play DJ, and perform songs from her debut album "Portrait Of A Picture Of A Person". Fans of Suzanne Vega, Aimee Mann, and Liz Phair - take notice.
DJ Premier
Monday, July 16th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Interview with Producer DJ Premier (Brooklyn, NY)! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Clare and the Reasons
Monday, July 16th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Irene Trudel's show
After two endearing albums of sweet-voiced tunes, Brooklyn-based Clare and the Reasons uprooted to Berlin to inspire their next release. Inspiration came in the form of their 1968 Schwalbe moped model KR-51s, which Clare, Olivier and Bob used to motor throughout the city they called, "a blurred filmstrip of cobblestones, trees, and graffiti." Clare and the Reasons then went to the German village of Haldern-Rees to record the album, "KR-51." The resulting music is a lush pastiche of Olivier's Paris conservatory training with pop overtones, Bob's secret mastery of Yngwie Malmsteen's guitar solos, Clare's vocal upbringing in the Muldaur family tinted by her love of Lotte Lenya and Kate Bush, and the ancient/modern culture of Berlin. Clare and the Reasons play live on Irene's show.
TWO bands- Lame Drivers/ Home Blitz
Saturday, July 14th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Last year, Jason Sigal's Lame Drivers released "Cruisin' Classics 2003-2010," a free Creative Commons mp3 sampler that was Terre's #1 self-release of 2011. Filled with hooks, Lame Drivers songs are like a mashup all the best rock elements, from punk and power-pop, to classic indie and international psych. With bassist Joe Posner and drummer Jeff Wood, Lame Drivers tour the coasts this summer to support their "Flexi-Starter, a flexi-disc series and debut LP.
Home Blitz surfaced in the mid-2000s as the home recording project of Daniel DiMaggio, a British scouser trapped in a latent New Jersey teenager's body. Pretty much as lo-fi as you can get without the tape disintegrating, Home Blitz songs bristle with the sort of nervous energy that powered groups like the Feelies and Game Theory. When they power through it in the live setting (with guitarist Theresa Smith, bassist Jason Sigal and teenage drummer Henry Hynes in tow), they become the greatest band on the East Coast for that moment. The new Home Blitz 12" EP "Frozen Track" is out July 17th on Mexican Summer, followed by an East coast tour.
Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Producer Ken Caillat
Saturday, July 14th, 2012, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael chats with record producer Ken Caillat whose new book "Making Rumours" tells the full first hand story of what really went into recording Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" (endless partying, relationship dramas, creative struggles). The album took twelve months to finish, employed seven recording studios, cost nearly a million dollars and would go on have four top ten singles and win the Grammy for Best Album in 1977.
Miniature Minotaurs Third Friday the Thirteenth Special
Friday, July 13th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk
Miniature Minotaurs marks the third and final Friday the 13th of 2012 with a special remix call-out! Download the submissions from the previous MM Friday the 13th specials (Thelonious Monk and Jason Voorhees) and send your megamix to miniature.minotaurs [at] gmail [dot] com by July 10th to be a part of this epic and historic broadcast.
Chris Forsyth
Friday, July 13th, 2012, 9am - Noon
on The Long Rally with Scott McDowell
In the midst of a US tour to celebrate his new Northern-Spy release "Kenzo Deluxe," Chris Forsyth returns to WFMU to lace us with his idiosyncratic psychedelic guitar stylings. Chris plays within a long tradition of American/UK blues & folk guitarists and yet is restlessly searching for other planes of there. Tune in, drop out, etc. etc.
Jesse Jarnow, author of "Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock"
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
Yo La Tengo are certainly no strangers to WFMU or WFMU listeners, but it's doubtful that even the most ardent fan is aware of all the historic details and decade-spanning connections uncovered in the fascinating new book Big Day Coming. Music writer and, yes, WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow links the lengthy and at times meandering rise of YLT to such hallowed institutions as Maxwell's, New York Rocker, Matador Records and many more; tune in on Wednesday night, July 11th, as Jesse and EFD discuss the book and play music from YLT and others!
Tunde Adebimpe
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Lamin
Tunde Adebimpe is a musician, actor, and visual artist (best known as lead singer of TV on the Radio). He'll be stopping by Lamin's show to play records and maybe talk about musical influences, music technology, current projects, inspirations, etc.
Vela Phelan
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
on Neighbors Noise with Jesse Kaminsky (on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
Vela is an active member of the New England performance/art community both through the MEME gallery, as a member of the noise/performance group GangClanMafia and as a solo installation artist and performer. He creates energy from objects, sounds and actions while blending subconscious with spirit and allowing the unknown to present itself. He'll cohost with Jesse as they broadcast live from Roxbury, MA for two hours of song trading.
Angry Accountant Howie Seligman
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Aerial View
The Angry Accountant Howie Seligman returns to Aerial View to talk Money & Happiness, LIBOR & scandal and more!
Theme for an Imaginary Nachum Segal Fill-in
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Tony Coulter's show (on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
Three hours of Israeli psych, prog, and experimental music.
John Lurie
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 9am - Noon
on This Is The Modern World with Trouble
The fabulous John Lurie will visit This is the Modern World with Trouble, 9am-noon. John Lurie, the musician: leader of the Lounge Lizards. John Lurie, the actor: 'Stranger than Paradise', 'Down by Law', 'Fishing with John'. John Lurie, the artist. But most importantly John Lurie: the fabulous Guest. This is his second visit out to WFMU and he is a great interview, do not miss this!
Bombay Rickey
Monday, July 9th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on Airborne Event
Airborne Event is delighted to host Bombay Rickey at the WFMU studios. What began as an idea for an Yma Sumac cover band morphed into the cumbia-surf-guitar-spaghetti-western soundtrack to a Bollywood noir film from the 1960s that never existed. A few Yma Sumac and other covers speckle a repertoire mostly composed by singer/accordionist Kamala Sankaram [pronounced SHANkar-um], guitarist Drew Fleming, reeds player Jeff Hudgins, bassist Gil Smuskowitz, and percussionist Timothy Quigley. You can see Bombay Rickey at Barbès on Thursday July 5th and Branded Saloon on Friday July 13th, and in between you can catch them on Airborne Event. Too much Bombay Rickey is not possible!
Richard Wolff
Monday, July 9th, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on Minor Music with Jesse Krakow
A cross between Syd Barrett & Harry Potter, Richard Wolff is a young singer-songwriter whose words and music do not belong to any existing genre. He'll be stopping by to play live, talk about music, and explain to us the mysteries of scorpions & giant spiders.
Roger Allen: All Cassette Show
Monday, July 9th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Roger Allen brings in a pile of cassettes for Nardwuar to play! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Guitarist Matt Munisteri
Monday, July 9th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Irene Trudel's show
Noted ace guitarist, singer, and songwriter Matt Munisteri has been described as having a "Pre-War Heart" when it comes to musical passions. Matt has played with a lot of current jazz notables, like violinist Mark O'Connor, Steven Bernstein, "Little" Jimmy Scott, Geoff Muldaur and bandleader/arranger Vince Giordano, who did the music for "Boardwalk Empire." But latest passion goes back to the 1920's with pianist/arranger Willard Robison, whose music Munisteri brings to life on his latest CD ""Still Runnin' ʻRound in The Wilderness." Matt Munisteri plays live and talks about the importance of Willard Robison's music.
Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson AND The English Beat's Dave Wakeling AND film maker Stan Warnow!
Saturday, July 7th, 2012, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael chats with Belle & Sebastian's Stevie Jackson about his brand new debut new solo album "(I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson" AND Michael talks to The English Beat's Dave Wakeling about the band's new retrospective box set and current tour. Michael also chats with film maker Stan Warnow, about his new documentary film 'Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott', which is opening in NY on July 13th at the QUAD CINEMA.
Meg Baird
Saturday, July 7th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison
Singer-songwriter Meg Baird is a member of the band Espers and also half of the Baird Sisters with sister Laura. Meg has released two gorgeous solo LPs, "Dear Companion", and "Seasons on Earth". As a singer, she will call to mind some of the greats of both the American and UK folk tradition. As a guitarist, she is quiet yet dazzling. She moves effortlessly between her own poetic songs and covers, making them indelibly hers. We were treated to five songs from her two solo albums on a recent trip to the WFMU studios, and spent time chatting as well. Vinyl hounds note that the Baird Sisters have a new release on the Grapefruit label.
Mike Viola
Friday, July 6th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on Pseu's Thing With A Hook
The 'Hook welcomes back Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Mike Viola for a special live acoustic session. His unstoppable schedule this past year has included touring Europe and the U.S., and releasing 2 albums while continuing to write music for film and television such as the new ABC Family series "Bunheads" and NBC's "The Voice". His association with WFMU recently yielded a cover of Andrew Gold's "Lonely Boy" for Michael Shelley's amazing marathon compilation of covers, and his last electric appearance on Pseu's program became an instant classic available on the Free Music Archive.
Disco Indepen-dance Party!
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to dance up a storm, tune in to the 4th sort-of-annual EFD Disco Dance Party! You'll hear old-school classics along with some lost gems you'll wish you'd heard 30 years ago! Watch the fireworks reflect off your mirror ball while you celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of the perfect beat starting at 9pm on the 4th of July!
Casanovas in Heat
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on Distort Jersey City with Reed Dunlea
Casanovas in Heat from Boston, MA sound like if you were in the 8th grade and wanted to start a really catchy and upbeat punk band because you were listening to everything on early '90s Epitaph, and then you were in your early 20's and actually did start that band. Members of Boston powerhouses Male Nurses, Subclinix, and probably a bunch of others. They have been compared to The Replacements, which does hold some water. Their demo tape is fantastic and they have an upcoming EP on Deranged Records. Tune in for the great jams, stay for the Dorchester accents.
The Old Codger fills in for Mac
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison
Since he last appeared on WFMU, the Old Codger has had five additional mid-life crises. But he's weathered the storms to emerge as crusty and cranky as ever. The Codger fills in for Mac's Antique Phonograph Hour on Tuesday, July 3, from 8-9pm (Eastern). With his usual delicate touch, he will be playing 78 rpm records like they're goin' outta style.
The Union Square Round Table
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
on Neighbors Noise with Jesse Kaminsky (on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
At irregular intervals, The Union Square Round Table puts on a show that is mostly comedy. They say "We reserve the right to claim that not everything we do is comedy so that we have an 'out.'"
Tim Kreider
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Aerial View
Chris T. is back with a new Aerial View featuring an interview with Tim Kreider ("We Learn Nothing") about his New York Times Sunday Review piece "The Busy Trap". Are you too busy to listen?
The Sights
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Get ready for some pre Fourth of July fireworks as the rock and soul explosion known as the Sights blasts back to WFMU! On tour now with Tenacious D!
The Luddites
Monday, July 2nd, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on Minor Music with Jesse Krakow
Mixing jazz, latin, modern classical, and avant-prog, The Luddites are an octet that is rapidly and radically redeveloping the shape of teenage music as we know it. They'll be stopping by to play live, talk about music, and prove to that jazz is not dead, nor does it smell funny.
Sharon Van Etten & Lemmy of Motorhead
Monday, July 2nd, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Interviews with Sharon Van Etten (New Jersey) and Lemmy of Motorhead (London, UK)! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Choban Elektrik
Saturday, June 30th, 2012, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Vintage-keyboard-driven Balkan-inspired instrumental power trio Choban Elektrik hits the Studio B radio stage playing tunes from its new self-titled debut cd and lots more. The combo, whose name means "the Electric Shepherds", hopes the positive vibes of our magical studio will grant them the good luck they'll need for their next club gig - Friday the 13th at Freddy's in Brooklyn's South Slope.
The Electric Mess
Saturday, June 30th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
The Cherry Blossom Clinic is so excited to welcome The Electric Mess to the WFMU airwaves on June 30th! This Brooklyn band - fronted by the enigmatic and captivating Chip Fontaine - is a garage rock powerhouse, combining the sneer of the Yardbirds and early Stones with the Farfisa-driven punch of the Seeds. Their amazing second album "Falling Off the Face of the Earth" (Groovie records) is out now, but whether you're a super fan or a first-timer, be sure to check out The Electric Mess on the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T on June 30th!
Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman of Weird NJ
Friday, June 29th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
Now celebrating their 20th year the folks at Weird NJ magazine are presenting a mixed media, gallery show opening at Maxwell's in Hoboken on July 9 that, among other things, will feature a live graffiti installation plus interpretive readings by X Ray Burns and Wheeler Antabanez of letters to the editor from "the insane, criminals, conspiracy theorists, religious kooks, the incarcerated" - ones that "will never" be published. In advance of that Maxwell's event the two Weird NJ publishers Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, along with Wheeler Antabanez and WFMU's own X.Ray Burns will join Billy Jam on the air when they stop by "Put The Needle On The Record" on Friday, June 29th at 7pm on WFMU.
Julie Christmas
Thursday, June 28th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Julie Christmas, vocalist for Made Out of Babies and Battle of Mice will be the guest DJ for the Peer Pressure segment of Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine this Thursday, June 28th! She will be live and listeners can ask her questions in real time on the interactive playlist. She has one of the most intense voices in heavy music and we will surely hear tracks from her solo record: "The Bad Wife" as well. Julie will be on at 1pm, Diane's show starts at NOON! Tune IN!
Yamulkah & Stripper Night at the UCB Theater with Ken and Andy
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on Seven Second Delay with Andy and Ken
Next Wednesday, June 27th is Yamulkah & Stripper Night at NYC's UCB Theater as Ken & Andy return to the stage from 6-7pm for another live episode of Seven Second Delay. The first 50 people to the show that night will get their very own Seven Second Delay Yamulkah, emblazoned with the beloved slogan "אוהב את השידור" (Love the Show). Joining Ken and Andy will be stripper & writer Sarah Tressler, author of Diary of an Angry Stripper, George Carlin sibling/collaborator Patrick Carlin, Hypnotist Steve Marino, and musical guests The Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co! The UCB Theatre is at 307 West 26th St in NYC, near 8th Avenue. Admission is $5.
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Nick Matthew said his natural stubbornness made the crucial difference after dredging up a fractious five-game victory over England rival James Willstrop to retain his Commonwealth Games men's squash title at Scotstoun.
Only five weeks after undergoing a knee operation which threatened his participation in the Commonwealth Games, the world number two clung on through a torrid and exciting one hour and 40 minutes to win 11-9 8-11 11-5 6-11 11-5 and retain his title.
"It wasn't the prettiest squash I've ever played but I'm a Yorkshireman, an only child and a Leo so if you put that together you've got one hell of a stubborn so-and-so," said Matthew. "Having my back to the wall brings out the best in me."
Matthew and Willstrop make no excuses over their dislike for one another - although as Willstrop stated, "It's not as if we go round hitting each other with cricket bats" - and the Harrogate resident must be sick of the sight of his conqueror, who has now won 42 of their 53 career meetings.
Willstrop at least managed to push three-time world champion Matthew to the limit, in a marked contrast to their final four years ago in Delhi, which was won in straight games by Matthew.
The roots of their rivalry goes back to a sledging incident, instigated by Matthew, during the 2009 British Open final in Manchester.
The pair have barely been on speaking terms since, with Matthew admitting in his 2013 autobiography, 'Sweating Blood', that "four years on, they [Willstrop's team] are still seething".
Injury problems provided an intriguing subtext, with Willstrop also hampered by a recent hip problem so severe he was told by doctors six weeks ago it threatened his future in the sport.
The simmering rivalry was evident from the start of a sweaty and snarly final, although the first interruption in play was down to an incident as innocent as Matthew's need to replace a contact lens.
The brief breakout of entente cordiale was never likely to last for long, and a handful of long points later Matthew flung back open the court door to remonstrate with the referee over the award of a stroke penalty in favour of his opponent.
Matthew, despite his insistence that he "never had one bit of control in the whole match", commanded the first game, but the momentum swung the other way in the second as Willstrop refused to relinquish an early-won points advantage.
Again Matthew seemed to make a break for it in the third, only to be reeled back in by a determined Willstrop, forcing the deciding game yearned for by a capacity crowd relishing every moment of a high-quality showdown.
Matthew, whose wife Esme is heavily pregnant with their first child, described the point of victory as the greatest moment of his life.
He must now prepare for the men's doubles competition starting on Tuesday, but said: "In my life this ranks number one but it is only going to be number one for a matter of weeks because I have got a little girl on the way."
Willstrop, who collapsed in a mixture of emotion and exhaustion after Matthew finally wrapped up victory, paid a noble tribute to a fellow Yorkshireman with whom he freely acknowledges he will never be the best of friends.
"There is a mutual respect despite being disparate characters," said Willstrop. "He was very humble and sincere as he always is after matches. But it's sometimes easy to be sincere when he beats me all the time."
Peter Barker ensured a podium clean sweep for England, securing his second consecutive Commonwealth Games bronze medal with an 11-5 6-11 11-5 11-6 win over India's Saurav Ghosal.
Earlier, Laura Massaro came up short in her bid to build on this year's surprise world title win in Penang by dethroning world number one and reigning champion Nicol David.
David, still smarting from her failure to claim an eighth world title out of nine in her home city, survived a first game point against her and ultimately made short work of the English player, triumphing 12-10 11-2 11-5.
Even worse for Massaro was a sore mouth she sustained midway through the first game after being hit by a David back-swing - for which Massaro was also penalised with a stroke penalty.
"I was close enough in her swing for her to hit me but I feel she was close enough to the ball," said Massaro. "That's why I reviewed it and I was disappointed with that - but ultimately my squash wasn't good enough today."
England's Alison Waters missed out on a medal as she was beaten 11-7 11-7 11-5 by New Zealand's Joelie King in the bronze medal play-off.
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Three V112 3MW and nine V90 2MW turbines will be delivered to three projects in Flanders. Delivery is set for the end of the year, with construction scheduled for Q1 2014.
This marks the first time an onshore V112 has been ordered in Belgium. Aspiravi is one of the co-developers of the 216MW Northwind offshore project, which uses V112 turbines.


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Stand Up to Cancer telethon takes over network TV
Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night with a live telethon that aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS.
Jack Black, Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry and Keanu Reeves — along with presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama — were among the stars participating in "Stand Up to Cancer," an hourlong, commercial-free fundraising show spearheaded by entertainment-industry heavyweights whose lives have been touched by the disease.
"This is an absolutely historic night, thanks to the unbelievable generosity of the three networks," producer and cancer survivor Laura Ziskin told the audience at the Kodak Theatre before the show began.
"We hope we're going to make you laugh, and I know we're going to make you cry, so I have some party favors," she said as she tossed packets of Kleenex into the crowd.
Cancer survivors Lance Armstrong and Elizabeth Edwards kicked off the program with statistics: Cancer kills 550,000 Americans and six million people worldwide each year.
"That's the equivalent of 9/11 every two days," Armstrong said.
Patrick Swayze, Billy Crystal, Salma Hayek and Christina Applegate urged viewers to call in and donate, while Neil Patrick Harris, America Ferrera, Christina Ricci and Kirsten Dunst answered phones. A visibly pregnant Jennifer Garner, along with Berry, Forest Whitaker and Casey Affleck, read personal accounts from those battling cancer.
Network news anchors Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams emceed the program, discussing advances in research and telling heartwrenching tales of those struggling with the disease.
Black provided a dose of comic relief: "I usually watch these things at home in my underwear," he said, adding that the celebrities answering phones may have some of the fattest pockets around.
"I'm going to make these gravy-trainers pony up," he said. "Who's got Spielberg's number? He's got a lot of dough."
Brad Garrett, who underwent a prostate exam on the show, said, "I can't believe that Fox is counterprogramming against this."
Charles Barkley shared his colonoscopy with viewers. The worst part of the experience? Fasting.
"I'm a fat guy. I don't like to go the whole day without eating," the basketball star said.
The show featured musical performances by James Taylor and Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban and Monica Mancini, Melissa Etheridge with Sugarland, BeBe Winans and Jason Mraz. It also featured a performance by more than a dozen divas — including Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige and Rihanna — who sang their new charity song, "Just Stand Up," via video from the Fashion Rocks show in New York.
Aniston helped close the program with a nod to Hollywood.
"In our world, the boy gets the girl, the hero defeats the villain and cancer is no more," she said.
Skateboarder Tony Hawk, who lost his father to lung cancer 15 years ago and a close friend to a brain tumor last month, said he was just happy to participate.
"I'm here doing whatever they ask of me," he told reporters before the telethon began. "As long as I don't have to sing or dance, it's all good."
Ziskin, one of the event's organizers, has fought cancer since 2004. After seeing what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for environmental awareness, she wanted to make a documentary about cancer. But instead she teamed up with Couric, Sherry Lansing and other cancer community activists to put on the live telethon.
"Cancer is not in the closet anymore, and now that it's out of the closet we have to motivate the public to demand that as a country we do better," she said. "And if the country won't do it, we'll do it. We'll raise money ourselves and try to spend that money in a way that will lead to better, less toxic treatments that we can get to patients more quickly."
The aim of Stand Up to Cancer is to raise funds for "translational research," Ziskin said, which encourages scientists to collaborate rather than compete, translating basic science into applicable therapies for patients. She compared the approach to the Manhattan project.
"We took the best and brightest and locked them up in Los Alamos and said you can't leave until you split the atom and create, unfortunately, a bomb," Ziskin said. "This is no less a problem, with half a million Americans a year dying from this disease. If we take best and brightest, encourage them and reward them for working together, the answers will come much more quickly."
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Power management
The aim of this page is to try to gather all the informations which are available on the topic of linux power management features. There are several places where one can change power management settings:
- Kernel command line parameters in the boot loader
- systemd
- Settings by pm-utils
- Upower
- laptop-mode-tools
Power settings you set in one place could be overwritten in another place.
- 1 Where To Change Power Settings
- 2 Kernel Command Line Parameters
- 3 Systemd Settings
- 4 pm-utils Settings
- 5 See Also
Where To Change Power Settings
One can pass a kernel command line parameter in the boot loader to activate power management features in certain kernel modules. If you are using systemd you can change some power management options in systemd config files or execute your own config file. pm-utils and upower are working together. pm-utils is responsible for changing the power management options while upower informs pm-utils about system changes. For example if you umplug your laptop from AC upower will signal to pm-utils that the laptop is running on battery. This will cause pm-utils to change some power management options according to it's config files.
Kernel Command Line Parameters
Append the lines to your kernel command line parameter to enable these options. If you change settings for kernel modules make sure they are either compiled into your initrd (insert module name in MODULES in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf) or pass an option via a modprobe config file (Kernel_modules#Using_files_in_.2Fetc.2Fmodprobe.d.2F).
PCI-e ASPM
Disable NMI Watchdog
Enable RC6 Power Save Options
Where #Nr:
- 1: enable rc6
- 3: enable rc6 and deep rc6
- 5: enable rc6 and deepest rc6
- 7: enable rc6, deep and deepest rc6
Activate Power Save For Intel HD Audio
Change Usbcore Autosuspend Time
Systemd Settings
There is a nice blog post from Andrea Scarpino about using systemd for power management: Power Saving With Systemd
pm-utils Settings
The pm-utils (see also: Pm-utils#Power_saving) package provides quirks for suspend to RAM and suspend to disk but also includes some scripts for power management. You need upower which registers power changes and signals that information to pm-utils.
Enable SATA Link Power Management
Execute the following command to enable SATA link power management when on battery:
# echo SATA_ALPM_ENABLE=true > /etc/pm/config.d/sata_alpm
Scripts For Pm-utils Which Enable Power Management Options
These scripts have to be made executable via
# chmod +x <script file>
Enable Runtime PM for PCI Devices
#!/bin/sh device_pm() { for dpcontrol in /sys/bus/{pci,spi,i2c}/devices/*/power/control; do [ -w "$dpcontrol" ]
Enable Power Management For USB Devices
#!/bin/sh case "$1" in true) # USB powersaving for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend; do echo 1 > $i done for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control; do echo auto > $i done sysctl kernel.nmi_watchdog=0 ;; false) for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend; do echo 2 > $i done for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control; do echo on > $i done sysctl kernel.nmi_watchdog=1 ;; esac exit 0
Increase VM Writeback Timeout
#!/bin/sh case "$1" in true) # Less VM disk activity. Suggested by powertop echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs ;; false) #Return settings to default on AC power echo 500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs ;; esac exit 0


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One of my New Year's resolutions was that I would post on this blog more. Well, better late than never.
On Postbourgie, Shani highlights an interesting study from the Chronicle of Higher Education blog. The study found that children who grew up in a house with 500+ books stay in school three years longer than kids who grew up in homes with fewer books.
Thus it seems that scholarly culture, and the taste for books that it brings, flows from generation to generation largely of its own accord, little affected by education, occupational status, or other aspects of class … Parents give their infants toy books to play with in the bath; read stories to little children at bed-time; give books as presents to older children; talk, explain, imagine, fantasize, and play with words unceasingly. Their children get a taste for all this, learn the words, master the skills, buy the books. And that pays off handsomely in schools.
It definitely worked for me. I was a bookworm to the max as a kid, reading so many books my parents sometimes asked me to read LESS and go spend some time outdoors playing kickball or whatever. Until high school, when I became too busy with academics and extracurriculars, reading for pleasure was one of my favorite things to do. In summers, I'd take a book and read outside. And when the weather was too hot to handle, I'd seek refuge in the air-conditioned library, full of hundreds of books and magazines.
Shani also points out in her post that not everyone can buy hundreds of books, and wonders where library memberships fit into this research – I'd have to agree that I wonder if kids whose parents hold library memberships and take them to the library regularly develop the same appreciation for reading and ideas. For me as a kid, getting to go the library was always a treat ; my parents took us almost weekly, and moreso in summer to help stave off boredom from not being occupied with school all week. Taking me and my brother to the library regularly was a good thing for them because it helped keep their kids occupied so we wouldn't drive them up the walls at home. For us, though, I think it had a profound impact on how we grew up and what we value now. It instilled in both of us an interest in learning about the world around us, and taught us to question everything.
Today I'm on the internet almost all the time, but still have a lust for reading… I've just put a large part of my reading efforts into Google Reader. But I still love buying and reading fresh, clean, new books from bookstores, and think it's incredibly important that today's kids and students are still being encouraged to read books, and not the iPad kind. By the time I was in high school I was reading less books for pleasure – presumably because I was busy with academics, extracurriculars, and with trying to get into college, but I wonder if it also had something to do with the fact that the internet was growing in popularity by then. In high school I would much rather spend the hours after class IMing my friends (remember AOL ?!) than reading a book; the only books I managed to read through those four years were the ones assigned to us in school.
I've written before about my questions on what will happen to books in an increasingly digital era; given the new research that's out there about the impact books have on children as they grow, it seems books are more important than ever. I don't think it matters whether the books are at home or in a library, as long as kids have access to books on a regular basis and are encouraged to read for pleasure, both by parents and teachers. That, I think, is what it takes to develop that "scholarly culture" found in bookish families – not just access to lots of books, but also encouragement from adults to kids to spend their time reading books.


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Harmonic Balancer at 1A Auto
What is a harmonic balancer and where is it located?
While the harmonic balancer may sound like it should be some sort of quest item in a video game or fantasy novel, it is actually an important part of your engine's functioning. It can be found at the front of the engine connected to the end of the crankshaft. It helps to dampen the vibrations of the crankshaft, and for this reason it is sometimes called a crankshaft damper (or dampener) or a torsional damper (or dampener). In addition to these, you may also hear a few other names used when referring to a harmonic balancer, including:
- Harmonic damper
- Crank pulley damper
- Vibration damper
The crankshaft converts the up and down motion of the engine pistons into rotational motion needed to move the vehicle. As the pistons act on the crankshaft, it is subject to certain vibrations. At high revolutions per minute these vibrations could be damaging to the crankshaft if not dampened.
That's where the harmonic balancer comes in. It is connected to the crankshaft and absorbs some of the torsional vibrations. To accomplish this, it consists of three parts: a hub that connects it to the crankshaft, a rubber disc that can flex and bend by small increments to absorb the vibrations, and a metal ring on the outside which gives it weight.
In many vehicles, the harmonic balancer serves double duty, also acting as the crank shaft pulley, which drives the serpentine belt to run the water pump, alternator, and other engine accessories. For this purpose, the outside of the ring will have timing marks and pulley grooves.
How do I know if my harmonic balancer needs to be replaced?
Since the harmonic balancer's job is to dampen vibrations, any engine vibration is a sign that the harmonic balancer may be worn or damaged. You may find that the engine vibrates at particular RPM levels. This is because, at certain frequencies, the crankshaft may vibrate at a harmonic resonance, causing a particularly strong vibration. Think of those old films of bridges shaking and falling apart in a strong wind. That's what could happen to your crankshaft without your harmonic balancer.
The ability of the harmonic balancer to dampen torsional vibrations can be compromised by damage or wear to the rubber ring. Heat generated by the engine and from the forces experienced by the harmonic balancer can wear down the rubber over time. The rubber can also be degraded by oil leaking from the engine. If the rubber wears down it may separate from the outer metal ring, making the harmonic balancer less effective. Separation of the outer ring may cause a knocking noise. If the outer ring separates completely from the rubber and comes off, it could damage nearby engine parts.
A failing harmonic balancer, in its capacity as the crankshaft pulley, may also cause the serpentine belt to slip. This can result in poor acceleration, engine misfiring or problems with systems like the air conditioning, alternator or water pump. If this is occurring, you may find that the pulley's timing marks are off or that the belt is damaged.
An ineffective harmonic balancer can lead to damage to the crankshaft which will cause more serious problems and result in expensive major repairs. If there is something wrong with your harmonic balancer, you ought to fix it before it causes further problems.
Can I replace a harmonic balancer myself?
Replacing the harmonic balancer will require effort, patience, and a variety of tools as well as a specialty tool called a harmonic balancer puller. The engine compartment layout varies from one vehicle to another, so accessing the harmonic balancer will be different on different models. In some cases, it will require you to remove other engine parts. It is important to be careful with the harmonic balancer as you are installing it, because if it suffers any damage during installation, its balance may be thrown off and you'll be just as bad off as you were before. A harmonic balancer puller helps you to remove the harmonic balancer without damaging the engine, avoiding these sorts of problems.
The repair may involve the removal of systems like the air intake, radiator, and serpentine belt to access the harmonic balancer. To remove the balancer you will need a tool called a harmonic balancer puller and a method to keep the crankshaft in place, such as making a holding tool with a plank of wood. Keep the crank shaft in place and loosen the balancer bolt. Then mount the puller with two or three bolts to the balancer, and tighten the puller. This should loosen the harmonic balancer pulley and then pull it free.
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Installing and Configuring your Web Test Environment
Selenium tests can best be developed using a plug-in for the Firefox browser. This plug-in can record all actions you perform on a web page and replay them. It also contains an editor to manually extend or adapt your test cases.
Once the code Selenium code (they call it Selenese) has been developed, it can be executed in all browsers.
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- Introduction
- History
- Classification and distribution of forests
- Purposes and techniques of forest management
Forestry, the management of forested land, together with associated waters and wasteland, primarily for harvesting timber. To a large degree, modern forestry has evolved in parallel with the movement to conserve natural resources. As a consequence, professional foresters have increasingly become involved in activities related to the conservation of soil, water, and wildlife resources and to recreation.
This article traces the history of forestry from its origin in ancient practices to its development as a scientific profession in the modern world, and it discusses the kinds and distribution of forests as well as the principal techniques and methods of modern forest management in detail.
The ancient world
It is believed that Homo erectus used wood for fire at least 750,000 years ago. The oldest evidence of the use of wood for construction, found at the Kalambo Falls site in Tanzania, dates from some 60,000 years ago. Early organized communities were located along waterways that flowed through the arid regions of India, Pakistan, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, where scattered trees along riverbanks were used much as they are today—for fuel, construction, and handles for tools. Writers of the Hebrew Bible make frequent reference to the use of wood. Pictures in Egyptian tombs show the use of the wooden plow and other wooden tools to prepare the land for sowing. Carpenters and shipwrights fabricated wooden boats as early as 2700 bce. Theophrastus, Varro, Pliny, Cato, and Virgil wrote extensively on the subject of trees, their classification, manner of growth, and the environmental characteristics that affect them.
The Romans took a keen interest in trees and imported tree seedlings throughout the Mediterranean region and Germany, establishing groves comparable to those in Carthage, Lebanon, and elsewhere. The fall of the Roman Empire signaled an end to conservation works throughout the Mediterranean and a renewal of unregulated cutting, fire, and grazing of sheep and goats, which resulted in the destruction of the forests. This, in turn, caused serious soil loss, silting of streams and harbours, and the conversion of forest to a scrubby brush cover known as maquis.
Medieval Europe
In medieval Europe, forest laws were aimed initially at protecting game and defining rights and responsibilities. Hunting rights were vested in the feudal lord who owned the property and who had the sole right to cut trees and export timber. Peasants were permitted to gather fuel, timber, and litter for use on their own properties and to pasture defined numbers of animals. By 1165, however, land clearing for agriculture had gone so far that Germany forbade further forest removal. The systematic management of forests had its true beginnings, however, in the German states during the 16th century. Each forest property was divided into sections for timber harvesting and regeneration to ensure a sustainable yield of timber for the entire property. This working plan called for accurate maps and assessments of timber volume and expected growth rates.
Trees have been raised from seed or cuttings since biblical times, but the earliest record of a planned forest nursery is that of William Blair, cellarer to the Abbey of Coupar Angus in Scotland, who raised trees to grow in the Highland Forest of Ferter as early as 1460. After the dissolution of the monasteries, many newly rich landowners in Scotland and England found a profitable long-term investment in artificial plantations established on poor land. John Evelyn, a courtier in the reign of Charles II, published his classic textbook Sylva in 1664, exhorting them to do so, and today virtually all of Britain's 2.1 million hectares (5.2 million acres) of woodland consists of artificial plantations. Other countries had managed their natural forests better and had little need, until recently, to afforest bare land. The 20th century, however, has seen a tremendous expansion of artificial plantations in all the continents, planned to meet the ever-growing needs for wood and paper as essential materials in modern civilization.
Modern developments
Formal education in forestry began about 1825 when private forestry schools were established. These were the outgrowth of the old master schools such as Cotta Master School, which developed into the forestry college at Tharandt—one of the leading forestry schools in Germany. The National School of Forestry was established in Nancy, France, in 1825.
During the 19th century the reputation of German foresters stood so high that they were employed in most continental European countries. Early American foresters, including the great conservation pioneer Gifford Pinchot, gained their training at European centres. But the doctrine of responsible control had to fight a hard battle against timber merchants who sought quick profits.
The 20th century has seen the steady growth of national forest laws and policies designed to protect woodlands as enduring assets. Beginning in the 1940s vast land reclamation was undertaken by Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the Maghrib countries of North Africa to restore forests to the slopes laid bare by past abuse. The main objective of the tree planting is to save what remains of the soil and to protect the watersheds. In China, where forests once extended over 30 percent of the land, centuries of overcutting, overgrazing, and fires reduced this proportion to approximately 7 percent. China has taken major steps to improve land use, including construction of reservoirs and a huge forest planting program, which reported the planting of 15.8 million hectares (38.9 million acres) between 1950 and 1957 alone.
The character of forest policies around the world reflects national political philosophies. In communist countries all forests are owned by the state. In the United States both the federal and the state governments have deemed it prudent to hold substantial areas of natural forest, while allowing commercial companies and private individuals to own other areas outright. Similar patterns of ownership are found throughout most of Asia, western Europe, and the Commonwealth countries. In Japan the extensive forests are largely state owned. Tribal ownership is found in many African countries and proves a serious obstacle to effective modern management. International cooperation is effected by the Forestry Department of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, with headquarters in Rome.
Development of U.S. policies
The history of forestry in the United States followed the same path as forestry in Europe—land clearing, repeated burning, overcutting, and overgrazing—until a bill was passed by Congress in 1891 authorizing the president to set apart from the public domain reserves of forested land. In 1905 an act of Congress, with strong encouragement from President Theodore Roosevelt, transferred the Bureau of Forestry from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. Gifford Pinchot, who had been chief of the bureau, was made chief of the newly named Forest Service. Pinchot developed the U.S. Forest Service into a federal agency that today is recognized worldwide for its research, education, and land and forest management expertise. On the state level the Morrill Act of 1862 provided for federal–state cooperative programs in which the federal government granted first land, then money, to the states for the establishment of technical agricultural colleges. The Weeks Act of 1911 authorized the federal government to assist the states in protecting forests from fire, and the Clark-McNary Act of 1924 extended the provisions of the Weeks Act to include cooperation in forest extension, planting, and assistance to forest owners. During the Great Depression of the 1930s the interests of forestry were served most imaginatively and thoroughly by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which planted trees, fought forest fires, and improved access to woodlands across the United States. The CCC, rooted in the system of public works initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, continued until 1942, acquainting many people with forestry as a major government activity.
The complete mobilization of resources for the U.S. involvement in World Wars I and II and the pent-up demand for consumer goods made heavy demands on forest resources and industries. As a result, forestry on a national basis entered a period of the most rapid advance since the turn of the century. This time the advance was stimulated by the need for forest products and by the conviction on the part of the major timber companies that they must protect their raw material supply. To protect the forests from growing pressure from single-interest groups, Congress passed the Multiple Use–Sustained Yield Act of 1960. This act directed that the national forests be managed under principles of multiple use so as to produce a sustained yield of products and services. The Bureau of Outdoor Recreation was established shortly thereafter in the Department of the Interior. The Land and Water Conservation Fund, established in 1964, launched a comprehensive program for planning and developing outdoor recreation facilities. State forestry programs had their beginnings in the United States during colonial times, but it was the Weeks and Clark–McNary laws that provided the impetus to develop recognized state forestry departments. The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 allotted funds through the state agricultural colleges for extension work in forestry. Initial programs emphasized tree planting and demonstrations, but today all aspects of forestry and natural and related resources are included.
Industrial forestry began around 1912 when Finch, Pruyn, and Company started a forestry program on its Adirondack holding in New York. Trees to be cut were marked by foresters, and the cutting budget was projected on a sustained-yield basis. A rapid expansion of company forestry programs in the northeastern United States began in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Following World War II, paper companies expanded rapidly throughout the South and West and to a lesser extent in the Northeast. Pulp and paper companies were quick to recognize the benefits to be realized from research financed by the Forest Service and by universities in such fields as tree physiology, entomology, genetics, and tree improvement. A few companies established their own experimental forests and research teams.
The cause of forestry in the United States also has been advanced by citizens' organizations. These vary from lay and youth organizations, such as the Boy Scouts and garden clubs, to the nation's most prestigious scientific societies. The American Association for the Advancement of Science stimulated Congress in 1876 to embark on a sustained federal forestry program. The National Academy of Sciences 1896 report on forest reserves began its long involvement in forest conservation. The Society of American Foresters, founded in 1900, together with its sister societies in Canada and Mexico, represents the profession of forestry in North America.
Classification and distribution of forests
Botanical classification places forest trees into two main groups, Gymnospermae and Angiospermae. The gymnosperms consist exclusively of trees and woody shrubs, whereas the angiosperms are a diverse group of plants that include trees and shrubs as well as grasses and herbaceous plants. The gymnosperms probably gave rise to the angiosperms, although the manner in which this took place is disputed.
The gymnosperms are of very ancient lineage and include the earliest trees on the evolutionary scale. With certain exceptions, the seeds of gymnosperms are borne in cones, where they develop naked or exposed on the upper surface of the cone scales. The wood of these trees has a simple structure. Many species are extinct, such as the tree ferns of the Carboniferous Period (280,000,000 to 345,000,000 years ago), and are known only as fossils. The ginkgo, or maidenhair tree, is the sole survivor of an entire order of gymnosperms, the Ginkgoales. Among the gymnosperms, the most important and numerous forest trees are the conifers, also known as softwoods. This group includes the well-known pines, spruces, firs, cedars, junipers, hemlocks, and sequoias. These species are so dominant in the gymnosperm class that forests of gymnosperm trees are typically called coniferous forests. Except for the ginkgo, larches, and bald cypress, all gymnosperms are evergreen.
The angiosperms constitute the dominant plant life of the present geologic era. They are the products of a long line of evolutionary development that has culminated in the highly specialized organ of reproduction known as the flower, in which seed development occurs within an ovary. This group includes a large variety of broad-leaved trees, most with a deciduous leaf habit but some that are evergreen. The angiosperms are further divided into monocots and dicots. Trees are represented in both groups.
The monocots include principally the palms and bamboos. Palm trees form extensive savannas in certain tropical and subtropical zones but are more usually seen along watersides or in plantations.
Palm trees have no growth rings, being made up of spirally arranged bundles of fibres, giving a light, spongy wood. Palms are valuable, however, for their various fruits (coconuts, dates, and palm kernels) and leaf products (carnauba wax, raffia, and thatching and walling materials for houses in the tropics).
Another form of tropical monocotyledonous forest is the bamboo thicket, common in Asia, composed of giant woody grasses. One of the most versatile plants in the world, bamboo is valuable as a construction material, as well as for hundreds of other applications. Its young shoots are eaten as vegetables and are a valuable source of certain enzymes.
Finally, a more highly evolved group of forest trees is the dicots, or broad-leaved trees, also called hardwoods. Their wood structure is complex, and each sort of broad-leaved lumber has characteristic properties that fit it for particular uses.
Occurrence and distribution
Approximately 4,000,000,000 hectares, or about one-third of the total land area in the world, is covered with closed forests of broad-leaved and coniferous species and open forests or savannas (Table 1). Because of the varying characteristics of individual tree species, the kind and distribution of the world's forests are largely determined by local conditions. Each combination of temperature, rainfall, and soil has a peculiar association of trees and other vegetation that are best equipped to compete with other plants for that site. The open forest is characteristically a tropical grassland, often disturbed by fire, with forest along streams and scattered individual trees or small groves. Closed thorn forests usually appear adjacent to the savannas. In general, coniferous forests are found in the cooler, drier areas, and the broad-leaved species are predominant in the warmer, usually moister parts of the world. Tropical forests consist almost exclusively of broad-leaved species. Mixed broad-leaved and coniferous forests are found near the boundaries between these two climatic zones.
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Coniferous forests are largely found in the temperate climate of the Northern Hemisphere, where they cover approximately 1,100,000,000 hectares; some 85 percent of them are in North America and the erstwhile Soviet Union. The northern coniferous forest, or taiga, extends across North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic, across northern Europe through Scandinavia and Russia, and across Asia through Siberia to Mongolia, northern China, and northern Japan. It has outliers along all the temperate mountain ranges, including the Rockies, the Appalachians, the Alps, the Urals, and the Himalayas. Its principal trees are spruces (of the genus Picea), northern pines (Pinus), silver firs (Abies), Douglas firs (Pseudotsuga), hemlocks (Tsuga), and larches (Larix). Together these northern softwood forests form a world resource of tremendous importance, yielding the bulk of the lumber and pulpwood handled commercially. Northern conifers from many lands are extensively planted in Europe, including the British Isles.
The southern coniferous forest has a discontinuous spread through the southern part of the Northern Hemisphere, including California, the southeastern states of the United States, the Mediterranean lands of southern Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, parts of the Asian mainland, and southern Japan. Pines are the principal trees, along with cypresses (Cupressus and Chamaecyparis), cedars (Cedrus), and redwoods and mammoth trees (Sequoia and Sequoiadendron). Certain southern pines such as the California Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) grow poorly in their native habitat but exceptionally fast when planted in subtropical Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.
In addition to the plantations of introduced pines, small areas of coniferous forest are found in the Southern Hemisphere, notably the Chile pine, Araucaria araucana, in the Andes; hoop pine, or bunyabunya, Araucaria bidwillii, in Australia; and kauri pine, Agathis australis, in New Zealand.
The dicotyledonous broad-leaved species form three characteristic types of forests: temperate deciduous, subtropical evergreen, and tropical evergreen.
Temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests are made up of the summer-green trees of North America, northern Europe, and the temperate regions of Asia and South America. Characteristic trees are oaks (Quercus species), beeches (Fagus and Nothofagus), ash trees (Fraxinus), birches (Betula), elms (Ulmus), alders (Alnus), and sweet chestnuts (Castanea). Temperate broad-leaved trees expand their foliage in spring, grow rapidly in summer, and shed all their leaves each fall.
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests grow largely in countries with a Mediterranean type of climate—i.e., hot, dry summers and cool, moist winters. Their trees have characteristic thick, hard-surfaced, leathery-textured leaves with waxy coatings that enable them to resist water loss during summer droughts. Their evergreen habit enables them to make use of moist winters. Typical trees are the evergreen oaks, species of Quercus, and the madrone, or Arbutus, while in Australia most evergreen broadleaf trees are species of Eucalyptus. Few evergreen broadleaf trees have high timber value, and many are little more than scrub, highly inflammable during hot, dry summers. Their world distribution embraces California; the southeastern states of the United States; Mexico; parts of Chile and Argentina; the Mediterranean shores of Europe, Asia, and North Africa; South Africa; and most of Australia.
Tropical evergreen broad-leaved forests, or tropical rain forests, grow in the hot, humid belt of high rainfall that follows the Equator around the globe. They occur in West and Central Africa, South Asia, the northern zone of Australia, and in Central and South America. Where they extend into regions of seasonal rainfall, such as monsoon zones, they become less truly evergreen, holding many trees that stand leafless during the short dry seasons. Tropical rain forests hold a great variety of tree species. A few of the timbers, such as teak, Tectona grandis, in India, and mahogany, Swietenia macrophylla, in Central America, have uniquely useful properties or ornamental appearance and hence a high commercial value. Balsa, Ochroma pyramidale, from Central America, is the lightest timber known; it is used for rafts, aircraft construction, and insulation against noise, heat, and cold.
Trees outside areas classified as forestland, such as those in windbreaks, along rights-of-way, or around farm fields, are also important resources, especially in densely populated areas. For example, some 20 percent of Rwanda's farmland is maintained by farmers as woodlots and wooded pastures. These roughly 200,000 hectares of dispersed trees exceed the combined area of the country's natural forests and state and communal plantations. In the Kakamega District of Kenya more than 90 percent of the farms have scattered trees maintained for animal fodder and fuelwood. Of the 7,200,000,000 trees planted in the densely settled plains region of China, 5,800,000,000 have been planted around homes and in villages, with each household tending an average of 74 trees. Even in France, where trees are not used much for fuelwood, trees outside the forests occupy 883,000 hectares. There are no good estimates of the worldwide totals of such scattered trees, but their existence provides many locally useful products and extends the resources in the forested areas.


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"Foster continues the same line of study initiated in 1985 with the publication of Alternative voices in the Latin American narrative (see HLAS 48:5657). Questions body of literary criticism devoted exclusively to the study of major Latin American authors. Seeks to broaden understanding of the history of lettered production in Latin America by examining a more diverse body of works. Studies gay culture, children's and women's literature, and Argentine Jewish theater as representative of a national consciousness. Carefully researched and clearly written"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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Sarah Finn Job as : Casting, Priscilla John Job as : Casting, Wendy Partridge Job as : Costume Design, Alan Taylor Job as : Director, Don Payne Job as : Story, Christopher Yost Job as : Screenplay, Christopher Markus Job as : Screenplay, Stephen McFeely Job as : Screenplay, Kramer Morgenthau Job as : Director of Photography, Kevin Feige Job as : Producer, Stan Lee Job as : Executive Producer, Brian Tyler Job as : Original Music Composer, Malcolm Jamieson Job as : Editor, Louis D'Esposito Job as : Executive Producer,
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