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After seven years as a freelance writer for rap magazines both of his own design (HardC.O.R.E., HEADzUP!) and those owned and run by others (181-4.com, HipHopSite, URB Magazine) Steve 'Flash' Juon conceived of the idea for a site in December of 1999 as both a one-stop resource for hip-hop reviews and news.
Starting with an archive of 150 reviews from the previous 18 months that had appeared on OHHLA.com, no less than 500 reviews were archived by the end of 2000 including a large catalogue of work and submissions from fine writers such as B. Ridge and DJ Fatboy. The ultimate goal of RapReviews is to be the internet's definitive one- stop resource for any rap album, EVER. It's a monumental goal but one which means the website will be continually enhanced with new material.
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Official news shows that the popular animation IP "LALALACOCO" is expected to log on to ANIMETA platform on December 23, with a total of 150 series of NFT works online. At that time, users all over the world can participate in rush buying through the home page of ANIMETA APP client.
Selling Details of NFT of "LALALACOCO" Series
Online platform: ANIMETA platform( http://h5.animemeta.io/#/ )
NFT work: LALALACOCO
Sales quantity: 150
Initial selling price: 200 USDT
NFT sales time: specific rush purchase time can be viewed in the official APP
LALALACOCO is about to launch ANIMETA NFT market
This is a little girl who takes "looking for all kinds of cute things" as her duty every day. The standard glasses and straight bangs are fascinating. She has a doll like beautiful clothes and a changing wardrobe. She is bright and interesting, fashionable and lovely, just like a fashion friend around us. She has no sense of distance, knows how to create happiness, and is full of infinite possibilities.
About LALALACOCO
LALALACOCO is the latest anime image designed by the original author of Hello Kitty and the famous Japanese illustrator image designer "Yuko Qingshui" after 11 years. Yuko Shimizu graduated from Musashino University of Fine Arts in 1969. Hello Kitty was born on November 1, 1974.
On November 1, 2016, Yuko Qingshui took a gold pen and drew the original image of LALALACOCO with a pencil. This Harajuku character with red glasses, wavy curly hair, two cat ears exposed, and a big bow tie has once again inherited the fashion and cute genes.
Yuko Qingshui once mentioned that her father gave her three white cats on her third birthday. They gave her a lot of inspiration in the process of creation. She believes that role creation should convey warmth and comfort, and she hopes that her creation can give people a friendly feeling, just like meeting an old friend.
It is worth mentioning that at present, LALALACOCO brand has launched animated series in Chinese Mainland, and has launched the Bilibili platform. The number of fans has reached 95000, with a total score of 8.2 points.
Picture of the 13th episode of LALALACOCO animation
Introduction to ANIMETA Platform
ANIMETA is positioned as an open and aggregated animation NFT trading platform, covering NFT asset creation, circulation, storage, trading and other functions and play methods.
ANIMETA is committed to playing NFT animation ecology. Build an NFT trading platform for animation IP with blockchain technology. To provide creators with animation information traceability, copyright protection, and precision marketing, so as to build a fast and efficient aggregate fringe benefit collection. In ANIMETA's ecology, everyone can participate in creation and invest in works. Creators can set pricing and trading methods for their works through ANIMETA to obtain fair benefits.
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Ideal for relaxed, weekend wear, the ONEBYONE Have You Seen Her Tank has an edgy, urban appeal with a contrast motif on the front.
Our model is wearing a size large singlet, and usually takes a size medium/39 shirt. He is 6'2" (188cm) tall with a 39" (99cm) chest and a 32" (81cm) waist.
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What do I Need to Know about the Financial Calendar?
If you are trading in the forex market, you need to keep track of global events that could impact the exchange rate of the currency pair that you are trading in. The easiest way to do so is to use a financial calendar that tracks such market-moving events. Some of the most influential events are changes in the GDP of the nations of the currencies you are trading, interest rate decisions in these countries, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) and jobs data like the non-farm payroll (NFP), among others.
Choose a financial calendar you are comfortable with
While you could research online for key future political and economic indicators and create your own calendar, there are several reliable online platforms that offer economic calendars, with the indicators being automatically updated at regular intervals. easyMarkets has an excellent financial calendar that also highlights the importance of each economic indicator giving you an indication of which are more likely to move markets. If you're trading specific markets you might choose to add those indicators into your own personal calendar.The key to success in using these events to your advantage is not only knowing when they will occur but in anticipating which direction the market will move as a result and why. However, most of the times, the reaction of the markets can be unpredictable, although they do present the trader with excellent opportunities to make a successful trade. It is completely your decision whether or not you want to use these events to trade but knowing when these events will occur still remains crucial. The first step is, of course, to choose a financial calendar that you are comfortable with.
Step 1: How to Choose a Financial Calendar
While you could research online for key future political and economic indicators and create your own calendar, there are several reliable online platforms that offer economic calendars, with the indicators being automatically updated at regular intervals. easyMarkets has an excellent financial calendar that also highlights the importance of each economic indicator giving you an indication of which are more likely to move markets. If you're trading specific markets you might choose to add those indicators into your own personal calendar.
Step 2: How to Choose the Right Indicators
Experienced forex traders monitor future economic events in an attempt to predict currency movements and act in time to make the most of the economic announcements. They usually already calculate the impact on their currency pair and plan their trade accordingly. They also tend to lay greater emphasis on specific indicators that they believe will be the most influential or meaningful for their currency pair.
How they use the economic calendar is that they keep track of approaching announcements. What usually occurs is that economic experts forecast the measures that are likely to be announced. The forex trader then uses these forecasts to price in the value into their currency pair, responding to currency movements before others have a chance and thereby maximising their gains. The reality is that economic events can alter the direction of currency movement within seconds and the quicker you respond with a trading decision, the more likely you are to gain. Of course, making a profit would ultimately depend on whether you have been able to predict the movement or volatility accurately. Often it is not about the actual data that comes out but whether the data is outside of expectations. So if for example people expect an NFP number of new jobs added to come in at 130,000 and it comes way above or below that number, then it's possible to see some large moves for the US dollar in response.
Step 3: Using the Calendar
There are many macroeconomic indicators to choose from, the question is which one is the best for you. The first thing you should consider when looking at the economic calendar is what asset you are trading: certain indicators affect currency pairs either directly or indirectly. A direct relationship would be if you were trading EUR/USD and the ECB had an upcoming interest rate decision and an indirect relationship would be if a policy was announced that effects a currency that has a direct relationship with the currency or the currency pair you are trading.
Another consideration when choosing which indicator to follow is what type of trading you do. If you are intraday or a "Buy and Hold" trader, different indicators will affect markets either temporarily or long-term. There are indicators that affect both though, like interest rate hikes for example. Short term they either bolster or hurt market sentiment and long term it can affect the price (because it has a direct correlation with inflation which has a reverse correlation with a currencies exchange rate).
Some indicators like global GDP or Global Oil Reserves (especially when it comes in under expectation) have the potential to cause volatility globally.
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The bottom line is that if you monitor the calendar regularly, you will be able to follow trends better and even spot a trend before the market does and benefit from your analysis of the trend.
While using an economic calendar, what is important to remember is that you will need to consider all the political and economic factors that can impact your currency pair. This essentially means that you need to keep the bigger picture in mind and not just specific announcements or events. For instance, an event that impact a currency that you might not be trading in could have an impact on your pair too. So, while choosing indicators to follow on the calendar, make sure you choose carefully.


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Jason Aldean Says Miranda Lambert 'Kinda Flipped Out' Over 'Drowns the Whiskey' Duet
Jason Aldean says Miranda Lambert was on the fence about the first song he proposed for their duet on his new Rearview Town album, but he didn't give up.
The "You Make It Easy" singer really wanted the reigning ACM Female Vocalist of the Year on his new album. They're friends, having come up in the music business at the same time and from touring together through the years.
"I've always been a fan of her voice, and I've always said if I was a female singer that's the kind of stuff I would do," he tells Taste of Country. "She's a rocker, but can also be like really country. Really well-rounded."
Hoping to create something more memorable than "Grown Woman," an album cut on Aldean's Relentless album (2007) that featured Lambert's harmonies, he pitched her on a second song, "Drowns the Whiskey," a traditional country ballad that aches just like you'd expect.
"When I sent her that one, she kind of flipped out. She was on board then. And then she came in to sing it and nailed it," he recalls.
"Drowns the Whiskey" is an old-school-style country weeper, which Aldean says Lambert can do as well as anyone. "And our voices blend really well together," he adds.
"Whiskey's supposed to drown the memory / I've gone from one to one too many / And the thing that really gets me / Is how your memory drowns the whiskey," he sings with Lambert harmonizing through much of the chorus.
Aldean says the song is one of his favorites on Rearview Town. The 2018 WE Fest headliner stresses that it's important for him to not only have traditional country songs on each record, but songs with lyrical weight. As he gets older, that's even more important. Songs like this and "Better at Being Who I Am" fit the description.
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Beatles Debut New Image With 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Penny Lane' Videos
In the first four years of the Beatles' recording career, from 1962-66, the Fab Four had released more than 30 singles and an armload of LPs. They had appeared in a couple of feature films, shown up repeatedly on televised variety shows and toured relentlessly. The Beatles, it seemed, were omnipresent.
And then, in August 1966, the trail went cold. That month, the Beatles put out Revolver, released "Yellow Submarine" as a single and played what they said would be their final concert in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. For the entirety of the fall of '66 and the beginning of the winter of '67, the band went quiet. No music, no movies, no concerts, no nothing.
With the band's timeline so firmly established in the minds of millions of Beatles fans, we know now that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were getting more experimental in the studio as they began to create what would become Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But at the time, nothing was certain. While unsubstantiated break-up rumors swirled, some music fans became disenchanted with the group. You need only watch a 1967 clip from American Bandstand to see how many teenagers in the audience thought the Beatles were has-beens.
To combat this, and get some Beatles music to the public, the band's record companies decided to line up a pair of new recordings as a double-a-sided single. In early '67, both Parlophone and Capitol made plans to release "Penny Lane" backed with "Strawberry Fields Forever." Because of the group's attachment to the studio and reluctance to play live, the Beatles were directed to make film clips to accompany each song and promote the single.
Now, this wasn't a new practice for the band. In both 1965 and '66, the Beatles had made short film clips set to their new singles and b-sides, usually featuring the boys lip-synching and pretending to play to recordings. It was a way of getting the band on television without them actually having to travel and perform for the cameras.
Watch the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' Video
It was the same circumstance with "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever," and yet, it was also different. The British Musicians Union had become sticklers about acts who "mimed" to their records on screen, and so the band took an alternate approach. On the recommendation of Beatle buddy Klaus Voormann, the lads hired Swedish director Peter Goldman to helm the shoot. Beatles assistant Tony Bramwell served as the film producer, and the pair came up with concepts for the clips.
"I was amazed to find that there was a ban in Britain which prevented the Beatles from miming to their record," said Goldman, who has been inspired by Richard Lester and the band's work in A Hard Day's Night. "So I had to find settings and ideas which were sympathetic to their songs without turning them into comic actors."
For "Strawberry Fields," it was determined that the promotional film would be shot in late January in Knole Park, near Sevenoaks in Kent – about 20 miles outside of London. Bramwell found the location, because of something Voormann had suggested after listening to the Lennon/McCartney tune.
"Klaus Voormann came up with the idea of a strange instrument in a tree… so I had to find a site with a suitable tree, which was Knole Park," he recalled. "We found a piano, ripped it up, and then spent ages going up and down the tree with miles and miles of the glittery string you use to wrap Christmas presents. We didn't have a storyline as such. We were just trying things out, like changing the speed of the camera, and running the film backwards."
The psychedelic film experiments – like cutting from day to night and having Paul leap into the dead tree by playing the footage backwards – reflected the Beatles' studio experimentation on the song. The strange aesthetic would provide a window into the sort of music the band was exploring on its new recordings. One of those would be "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," inspired by a poster that Lennon purchased in between takes of the "Strawberry Fields" promo.
Meanwhile, the "Penny Lane" clip took on a more nostalgic atmosphere. With the group unwilling to film at the actual Liverpool street, the musicians were filmed on London's Angel Lane in February. Footage of the Beatles' hometown was shot separately and edited in later. For the video's finale, the Beatles returned to Knole Park to ride horses past their instruments, then partake in a surreal meal at a fancy table.
"The 'Penny Lane' one on the horses wasn't quite that exciting for me," Starr recalled in The Beatles Anthology. "It was a bit real!"
Watch the Beatles' 'Penny Lane' Video
During filming for both clips in Kent, the cast and crew were surrounded by a bunch of local kids who had decided to skip school to witness the shoots. A couple of then-teenage attendees, shared their memories of the shoot with Kent Live, including the lax security, the agreeable Beatles and that Lennon kept singing, "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees."
"I remember feeling as excited as I had ever felt, worrying a little about cutting school, but then thinking this may never happen again, so had to be done," Trevor Nicholson, who was 12 at the time, recalled. "I think they smashed up the piano after the filming, so the schoolkids who were there swarmed over the bits to find a souvenir."
Beatles devotees were almost as excited, and shocked, to see the band in the films when they hit the air. The twin clips made their U.S. debuts on March 11, 1967 when they were introduced by Dick Clark on American Bandstand (and subsequently shown on other, local music programs). The music had been out for a few weeks, but music fans hadn't gotten a look at the lads in a while.
"All the Beatles look completely changed: grown men with newly flourished facial hair including handlebar mustaches and flowing black coats," remembered NPR's Bob Boilen. As a 13-year-old, he was struck by "Lennon's new wire-rimmed glasses (which I'd later find the likes of at a flea market and wear)."
The way the Beatles' appeared in the "Strawberry Fields" clip would inspire how John, Paul, George and Ringo were drawn for the animated Yellow Submarine film. The only major change was the loss of McCartney's mustache.
But the "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" promos had an impact that went far deeper than the Beatles' cartoon movie. These short films helped prepare audiences for Pepper and rock's embrace of psychedelia, both visual and aural. The non-narrative clips changed how bands would promote their music, leading – eventually – to the birth of the music video and MTV.
Later in 1967, the Beatles would return to Kent to film scenes for Magical Mystery Tour – a film project more infamous than the band's celebrated "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" footage.
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Womens NAUTICA Cotton Crewneck Jumper Sweatshirt M
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Scott Adams occupies an odd position in interactive fiction in that he tends to get more love from those outside the active modern community than from those within it. Every year brings one or two fawning interviews with the always obliging Mr. Adams on mainstream or retro-gaming sites. Within the IF community, however, Adams's works are usually mentioned, if at all, only as historical curiosities, and certainly aren't accorded even a sliver of the respect given to the Infocom canon, outside of a handful of reactionary voices who declare this lack of respect for Adams's simplistic but fun games to be symptomatic of the general literary pretensions of the community as a whole that have made the modern text adventure a No Fun Allowed zone. (For a classic and entertaining rant in this vein, see the discussion page of the Adventureland Wikipedia entry.) Further confusing the issue is an unfortunate if blessedly only occasional tendency toward self-aggrandizement on Adams's own part, such as the FAQ entry on his home page that states he is "credited [by whom?] with starting the entire multi billion dollar a year computer game industry." "Helping to start" I would be fine with, but as it stands… really, Scott? You singlehandedly started the computer-game industry?
Still, Adams does deserve more credit and respect than he generally receives within community circles for bringing text adventures into homes for the first time and, not incidentally, showing that one could make a pretty good living from the things. His creation of a playable adventure game on a TRS-80 with just 16 K of RAM and a cassette drive was conceptually audacious and technically impressive, and that he did it in the slow, inefficient TRS-80 BASIC just made it even more remarkable. Adams's greatest failing in the long run was perhaps his inability to make the transition from treasure-hunting text adventures to the more sophisticated storytelling of Infocom's interactive fiction, as evidenced by his seeming disinterest in improving the core technology of his games beyond gilding these simplistic lillies with graphics and colors. But that's material for later posts. Today I want to talk about Adams's initial masterstroke, Adventureland.
Born in 1952, Adams already had extensive professional experience with computers before he created Adventureland in 1978, having majored in the field at the Florida Institute of Technology, worked with computers during a stint in the Navy, and found employment thereafter with Stromberg-Carlson, an early manufacturer of telephone PBX equipment, as a programmer. Adams had also been building and experimenting with microcomputers in his home since 1975, when he built a Sphere 1 from a kit. Beginning with a tic-tac-toe game which "could never lose," his main activity with these machines had been writing and playing games. Like so many other hackers, he was entranced when Adventure turned up on the computer at his workplace, and, also like so many others, after completing it at last he turned his attention to writing his own. But unlike the others, who did their work on big institutional computers, Adams chose the little TRS-80 as his target platform.
Adams did not set out with grand ideas about bringing interactive narrative to the masses. In standard hacker fashion, he was drawn to the project as an interesting technical challenge in light of the constraints of the TRS-80, and as a chance to work extensively with text, something he hadn't done previously. As an experienced programmer, Adams shared most hackers' preference for creating robust, reusable systems and tools in lieu of one-off programs, and so began working not so much on an adventure game as on a reusable adventure implementation system. He thus divided the project into three parts: a database editor of sorts to let him input the data that would make up the virtual world of each game, an interpreter to read in that data and let the player interact with it, and finally the data that made up the game itself.
It's a remarkable system, but it also should be understood that Adams did not create a full-fledged virtual machine in the sense of Infocom's later Z-Machine. While the interpreter does indeed read in the details of rooms, objects, etc., much functionality is hard-coded into the BASIC interpreter. The engine, for instance, assumes that gameplay will revolve around gathering a collection of objects (treasures) and dropping them back in a certain location. Any but the most basic modifications to the Adventureland game will also require modifying the code of the interpreter, if only because the name of the game itself and instructions for play are hard-coded there.
It's really a hybrid system, surprisingly similar in its construction to Adventure itself, which also divided its functionality between the program code and a data file.
In fact, having just played through the original Adventureland I'm struck by how many similarities it bears to its predecessor. Like Adventure, Adventureland is a plot-less treasure hunt that begins above-ground in a forest.
Adventureland's wilderness area is actually larger and more interesting than Adventure's, containing a number of puzzles in its own right beyond the obvious one of finding one's way underground. Its underground complex is, however, vastly smaller, as one would expect given the constraints Adams was working under. This is not entirely to the game's disadvantage, as Adams's inability to indulge himself with dozens of empty locations keeps things much more tightly focused and manageable for the player; the obligatory maze, for example, consists of a modest six rooms, a marked and welcome contrast to Adventure's monstrosities.
Which is not to say that Adventureland is exactly playable, at least by modern standards. The above-ground areas are filled with the usual non-reversable room connections that make mapping and navigation a non-intuitive pain, redeemed (once again) only by the fact that there are so few locations in all. The logistics of light sources and inventory management are once again a big part of the challenge, and there are heaps of ways to screw up and make the game unwinnable, many unhinted at before they happen. To understand the full cruelty of this, you have to put yourself in the shoes of someone playing the game on an actual TRS-80, where it is only possible to restore a saved position by restarting the game entirely from cassette, a process that takes about 25 minutes. Saving a game, meanwhile, takes over 4 minutes. No wonder Adams could advertise that Adventureland would take weeks or months to complete! What he didn't mention was that in addition to a TRS-80 it would require the patience of Job…
I notice the same dichotomy in Adventureland's puzzles that I wrote about with respect to Adventure's: most are either very straightforward and commonsensical or unfair to the point of absurdity, with only a few occupying a satisfying middle ground. Also like Adventure, Adventureland is surprisingly progressive in some ways, managing to shoehorn a fair number of hints into its 16 K, but also leaves some of its worst offending puzzles totally unclued. An example is the bear puzzle (a character whose presence is yet another echo of Adventure). He is blocking your way, and can be moved only by the completely unmotivated action of YELLing. Later versions did allow the player to SCREAM at the bear (see Grunion Guy's review for an hilarious anecdote related to that), but in this original version it was YELLing or nothing.
To make this puzzle even worse, the bear is described as "looking hungry." This naturally leads the player to want to feed him the honey which she can find elsewhere in the game, which in fact works — except that said honey is also a treasure (?!) she needs to collect to finish the game. Not only is all this supremely cruel, but, just to make it all worse, the false solution actually makes for a much fairer and more satisfying puzzle than the correct one.
Granted, Adventureland's extremely primitive parser and world model do once again perhaps make it difficult to build really challenging puzzles that don't spill over into unfairness. Its implementation of the THROW verb is quite interesting, as it already shows Adams struggling with the limitations of his two-word parser.
It's not really fair to judge Adventureland's text by literary standards, since every "the" and "a" use precious memory (and thus were often dropped entirely). Still, Adams does at times achieve a sort of minimalist poetry.
He does have some issues with spelling…
…but there's a sort of goofy charm about the whole experience…
…which finally comes down to this.
And that's about all there is to say about it, really. There are no advances over the treasure-hunt template laid down by Adventure, but Adventureland is an impressive achievement merely for existing, and even today is still kind of fun in its simple way.
If you'd like to play it for yourself, there are plenty of ways to do so, the most accessible of which is a browser-based version at iFiction. Scott Adams himself hosts downloadable versions on his website. Or, if you want the most authentic experience possible, I have a MESS TRS-80 saved state that will let you play the original BASIC version on its original (virtual) hardware. (See my notes on MESS TRS-80 emulation to get started.)
Next time I'll talk about Adventureland's marketing and reception and the TRS-80 adventure-game craze it started.


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The nation of Israel celebrated its sixty-first birthday by sending their new Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on May 18, 2009 to Washington. Conspicuously absent upon his arrival were the welcoming parades, "Star of David" banners, and blue and white birthday balloons, evidencing that this was no festive occasion.
With his marching orders in hand he came on a mission to deliver his people's urgent message to the international community through a meeting with its most powerful modern day king, president Barrack Obama. Positioning himself upon the world's highest platform, he gave the world official notice that ISRAEL WILL SURVIVE!
Sitting side by side the two powerful kings, Netanyahu and Obama, posed for the press, shared some political niceties, and answered a few seemingly scripted questions. However, when one filters through the nominal pomp and circumstance, what can the "Joe the plumbers" of the world walk away with from the experience?
According to all the verbal and meta-communication, it became quite obvious that Israel not only wants to exist, but insists upon possessing the right to as well! Understandably, the Jews are concerned that within seven decades of the holocaust another genocidal campaign may be disastrously headed their way.
While most world leaders are clamoring for a one-world banking system to bail themselves out of their sinking economies, Israel has far greater problems. Netanyahu wants the world to wake up and take notice that Israel's enemies not only continue to maintain and ancient hatred toward them, but are about to possess the wherewithal to destroy them!
Iran, whose president Ahmadinejad has declared his intent to "wipe Israel off of the map", might produce its first nuclear weapon by years end, and on or about the same timetable the Taliban and/or their dangerous Al-Qaeda friends could have some of the sixty to one-hundred Pakistani Nukes lining their terrorist quiver as well. These predominately Islamic populations along with the Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinians, and several of the Arab nations sharing common borders with Israel don't believe Israel has the right to exist and continue collectively to plot against the restoration of the Jewish State.
In his attempt to be presidential, Barrack Obama unveiled his new trial by error Mideast foreign policy called "Engagement". He informed Prime Minister Netanyahu that he hopes to convince Israel's neighbors to accept Israel's right to exist as the Jewish State, and sideline Iran's nuclear aspirations through what he believes will be a "persuasive argument".
America's charismatic president suggested that isolating Israel's enemies and refusing to talk to them has been problematic. He cited Israel's ongoing problems with the Hezbollah and the Hamas as defining examples. Instead, through a process of elimination he proposes a policy of "Engagement".
It is a diplomatic approach involving important high-ranking discussions between America and Israel's adversaries that are intended to bring about a peaceful resolution to the burgeoning Middle East problem. To the layman it appears to resemble a sort of Rodney King, "can't we all just get along," approach.
"Engagement" is the result of a process of hypothetical political deduction. Obama reasons that if one method hasn't worked, in fairness the reverse method should be tried. In essence Israel has become the political test tube for Obama's new experimental Mideast foreign policy.
Remember that Obama's aspiration to talk Israel's enemies down through persuasive arguments is not a new concept. His predecessors before him have attempted this method unsuccessfully. Israel's enemies, with the exception of Iran, have been persuasively talked to in the past. Peace plan after peace plan has been presented to the Palestinians and their Arab cohorts. In fact, only through defeat in several wars did Egypt and Jordan resort to trying a diplomatic peace plan approach with Israel. However, the Palestinians, Syrians, and several other predominately Arab populations have refused to do the same.
The most embarrassing example occurred in July of 2000 at Camp David under the Clinton Administration whereby the then Prime Minister Ehud Barack of Israel offered PLO chairman Yasser Arafat unprecedented concessions for peace. Israeli's were astonished to see Arafat refuse the broad sweeping proposal and do everything but spit in Ehud Barack's face.
Today many Israeli's look to that momentous event as a hard lesson learned. The al-Aqsa intifada that immediately followed in September 2000, coupled with the Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006 and the daily barrage of Hamas rockets into Israel proper, are a sobering daily reminder that not all Arabs want peace with Israel.
Iran's present leadership has stated on numerous occasions that it wants to destroy Israel. This evidences that Iran embraces the similar Anti-Semitic sentiment as those Arab populations listed above who have not been previously persuasively argued into a peace-pact with Israel. Therefore, unless Obama's forthcoming persuasive argument will contain some new content, then further talks hold no future promise of peace.
Talking takes time and in light of the existential threats to their national existence, time is no longer a commodity Israel possesses. Many analysts believe that Israel will strike Iran sometime this year in fulfillment of a Netanyahu campaign promise that Iran will not become a nuclear nation. Obama's engagement timetable will likely begin after the June 7 elections in Lebanon, and the June 12 elections in Iran. Hezbollah, Israel's vowed enemy, currently possesses veto power and eleven parliamentary seats. They are expected to hold onto those and pick up more of the nineteen remaining seats as a result of the Lebanese election.
Additionally, most experts think that Ahmadinejad, also a vowed enemy of Israel, will win the upcoming Iranian elections as well. Thus another month will go by before Obama can twist some Middle East arms with his persuasive argument. More importantly such a delay puts Iran one month closer to producing its first nuclear weapon.
President Obama said that he expected to know by the end of the year whether Iran was making "a good-faith effort to resolve differences" in talks aimed at ending its nuclear program. Furthermore he attempted to comfort Netanyahu by declaring that all options still remain on the table.
Will engagement work? As pointed out in my book Isralestine: The Ancient Blueprints of the Future Middle East, the Bible foretells that at least a temporary peace in the Middle East will be achieved militarily rather than politically. Psalm 83 forewarns that ten ancient predominately Arab populations alongside their modern day equivalents will come to wipe Israel off of the map. Surprisingly Iran is not among them. Why not? Does Israel strike Iran and render them temporarily of little utility to the Arab attackers?
Fortunately these generally Islamic populations inclusive of their terrorist sympathizers fail. Israel survives, but the looming question is does Israel go it alone? If they do, it evidences the disconnect of world leaders from God's longstanding divine foreign policy contained in Genesis 12:3. This passage informs us that those who bless Abraham and his Jewish descendants will be blessed, but those who curse the Jews will be cursed.
It is entirely possible that Obama's process of elimination policy of engagement could be the epitome of stupidity. It should be obvious to most onlookers that the only thing facing elimination is the existence of the nation Israel. Daniel 2:21 informs us that God puts kings in their places and it could be that Netanyahu, who has prioritized the national security of Israel above all else, is the man God wants to lead Israel in the midst of the coming Psalm 83 war.
If this war is coming soon, it hints of several things: an Israeli strike upon Iran could be the catalyst of the Psalm 83 war, that Obama has been put into office at such a time as this to evidence the dangerous depravity of a world unmindful of God's Genesis 12:3 foreign policy, and that God is about to do a mighty work through the Israeli Defense Forces in order to remind the world that He is not now, nor will he ever be, done with the Jews!
Related News
Israel to US: We reserve 'right' to bomb Iran - PRESS TV
How late it is, how late - Economist
Iran Can Strike Israel With Missile - The Right Perspective


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Web Policies
Why Create a Web Policy
The manner in which material is presented as well as the quality of the in formation published by the College of Science at SJSU plays an important role in conveying its reputation and image. The policy presented here has been developed to ensure that official College information published via the Web is 1) representative of the College and the University; 2) accurate, well-written, and visually appealing; and 3) on par with the same high standards as other official publications which appear in print or other formats (audiovisual, etc.).
The following policies and guidelines have been developed to provide direction to College departments and organizations in developing and maintaining local Websites. These guidelines attempt to provide flexibility and creativity at the department level while maintaining a consistent and professional tone.
Who May Publish
College of Science faculty, staff, administrative departments, research programs, institutes, journals and official student organizations may post Web pages that are linked off the College of Science Web site as a Web Information Publisher[i]. However, anyone publishing Departmental[ii], Program[iii] or Associated[iv] pages will be responsible for assuring that they comply with the policies and guidelines presented here. They will also be responsible for providing Network and Computing Services (NCS) with their contact information and the specific page(s) they maintain.
Each unit within the College should have a designated representative[v] appointed by the Dean, their Director or Department Chair. There may be multiple representatives per unit, but o?nly o?ne individual should be in charge of a specific page or link. These designated reps will be responsible for checking that the content of the unit's Web page(s) adheres to the appropriate policies and guidelines. Although these reps may also act as Web Information Publishers, their main role is to monitor their unit's Web space to assure the information presented is up-to-date and accurate. They are responsible for the integrity of their Web page content. Departments and other groups maintaining pages within the College of Science should provide NCS with the contact information for their representatives and what pages they are maintaining. Any group or individual posting pages within the College of Science domain must be approved by and answerable to either a department within the College of Science or the dean's office.
Responsibilities of Publishers
Anyone posting electronic documents o?n any University hosted Web site is responsible for their content, including their compliance with local, state and federal laws and with CSU and SJSU policies. These policies include the SJSU Responsible Use Policy [pdf].
Other considerations, such as making the page accessible to the disabled and acknowledging copyrighted material should be part of the page design. More information can be in the SJSU Web Policy and Guidelines.
The designated representative is responsible assuring that their web pages comply with University and College policies as well as for the accuracy and completeness of the information presented in the page. Inappropriate use or failure to meet relevant guidelines will result in a request by the College Webmaster or the unit representative to modify the page. If the resulting action is not satisfactory, as judged by the College of Science Computer Committee, the Webmaster may remove the page from the College site.
Rights of Publishers
Nothing in this document is intended to restrict the academic freedom of the faculty authors; if a question arises concerning academic freedom of the author of a web page hosted within the College of Science, then the Dean in consultation with the Council of Chairs shall appoint a review committee of faculty to attempt to resolve the issue.
Nothing in this document should be construed as an intention to limit a faculty member's intellectual property rights in any way.
Appropriate Use
Use of the College of Science Web servers should be in keeping with the statements written in this document. Use of the College of Science Web pages for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. Links from a page in the College of Science websites to a non-University site must not imply University endorsement of the site's products or services. A disclaimer, approved by the College, should be displayed if non-endorsement is not evident from the content, for instance:
"Links to commercial sites do not represent endorsement by the College or its affiliates."
Support Options
Departments can assume complete responsibility for their entire site by running their own servers and pages or by designating others to do so for them. This is acceptable as long as appropriate links are maintained between these pages and pages hosted on the central server. However, these units should be aware that problems with their server or links between it and the central college server might make their pages inaccessible.
Units may also opt to maintain their Departmental or Program pages, but have them hosted o?n the central College server. In this case, NCS would provide access to files and space o?n the server to Web Information Publishers as requested by their designated representative. Publishers are encouraged to use this resource as it is optimized for this purpose.
If they prefer, units can request that the College Webmaster maintain their pages for them. The designated representative would still be responsible for the accuracy or timeliness of the information, but would contact the Webmaster to actually post this data.
College of Science Publication Policies and Guidelines
All official College pages are required to include certain key items, as well as adherence to some general guidelines. These include style elements, accuracy of information and consistency in the type of information provided. These policies are in no way intended to minimize the individuality of the sites, but are rather an attempt to present the user with a common navigation system across all College sites.
College Policy
Each page is required to have:
1. The name of San José State University and the College of Science should appear on the main page of every department's web site. Your audience should know exactly where they are when they are viewing your main web page.
2. The date the information was last updated
3. An email address for feedback. For Associated Pages, this address may be the individuals personal email account, but for all other College pages, it is recommended that there be a separate and somewhat generic account set up for contacting the person who maintains the page (e.g.; firstname.lastname@example.com). NCS staff can help you set up these accounts, if so desired.
General Guidelines
- Every effort should be made to make the page menu items easy to interpret and access. For example, designers may want to consider keeping menu items in a common location for all linked pages they administer. Interactive web pages as well as other types of pages may pose security risks to the College of Science. Servers should be closely coordinated with the department or College technical staff.
- Navigational aids should be provided, such as links back to the corresponding Homepage, the College of Science Homepage or to the appropriate Official Page.
- Specific information that should be included or, if applicable, linked to each Departmental or Program Homepage:
- List of classes
- Schedules of classes, seminars, etc.
- Department Office and contact information
- Enrollment and major information
- List of staff, which may include links to personal pages
- Associated clubs or organizations
- List of faculty, including:
- office location
- Phone number
- email address or a link to the faculty member's web page
- and preferably:
- courses and sections taught
- office hours
- area of specialty
- brief bio
- links to personal pages
Policy for Personal Webpages
The College of Science encourages faculty and staff to create their own personal Web pages providing relevant information to the individuals role at the University. However, College resources may not be used for personal gain or be linked to a personal business, except as permitted by other University policies.
If a page is found to be in violation of any of these or other applicable guidelines, the unit must either deactivate the unsuitable links or remove those pages from College-owned computing equipment as requested by the representative designated by the College Computer Committee.
Suggested Guidelines for Web Page Development
The following are general guidelines for any Web page development.
- For pages longer than a few screens, you should also provide links back to the top of the page.
- Be cautious when developing pages that are dependent on graphics. Many users configure their browsers to not display graphics by default. For non-decorative images, use an ALT attribute within the image tags.
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- Be aware of your audience's screen size. A page developed for viewing at 600 x 800 may be too large and require excessive scrolling for someone with a screen that has 640 x 480 resolution.
- Place the most important information on the first screen your viewers see.
- Whenever possible test your pages thoroughly on as many platforms and with as many browsers as possible (i.e., Macs, PCs, Netscape 4.x, Netscape 6.x, IE, Opera, WebTV). This is especially important when creating pages with vendor specific applications such as Microsoft's FrontPage application. Make sure all links and images work.
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A trumeau mirror updated with a graphic nineteenth-century botanical depiction of a cactus. |
I have never been fond of trumeau mirrors, whether trumeau de glace, trumeau de cheminée, or trumeau whatever. Perhaps I've just seen too many second-rate examples of these tall, thin looking glasses, where the upper panel is filled with an indifferent painting depicting mincing courtiers or twee arrangements of flowers and usually displayed in a saccharine French-style room.
Yesterday, however, I was at a friend's house in Cooperstown, New York, and remembered she owns a pair of matching trumeau mirrors and has jazzed up their tasseled Louis XVI formality with gritty botanical prints depicting tropical plants. So out came my iPhone and I started clicking. One trumeau contains an image of a wonderfully spiky cactus; the other, which hangs in a spare room over a chest of drawers, displays a portrait of a bunch of unripe bananas, as if the stalk had been hacked from a tree with a machete mere moments before. The gutsy works of art add an unexpected south-of-the-border swagger to the elegant green-and-gold frames. One could easily imagine them hanging in a mansion in Mexico City or in the salon of a ranch on the Argentine pampas.
My friend's departure from the trumeau norm gave me an idea that I might pursue, if I ever come across a trumeau that's attractive enough and cheap enough to seduce me. Why not fill the upper section with a mod watercolor, an abstract oil painting, a graphic map, a striking photograph, a Matisse-style collage made by your child, even a fascinating scrap of exotic fabric? After all a trumeau is just a frame with a reflective section below. So why not be creative with what you put in it?
Inspired, I took an online spin through the engrossing website of The Old Print Shop in New York City and found a few interesting possibilities, such as a fantastically fiery Currier & Ives print of the flaming wreck of steamboat Lexington in 1840 and a bold 2001 abstract woodcut by Su-Li Hung.
The trumeau hanging in a friend's spare room is fitted with a botanical image of a bunch of bananas. |


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Xamarin Forms is cool because it allows to share not just the business logic but also the user interface, unlike the traditional Xamarin approach, which requires to create multiple projects with its own user experience and features. However, at some point, even with Xamarin Forms you have to deal with platform specific code: unless your application leverages only plain and simple features that can be embedded into a PCL (like in the sample project we've created in the previous posts, where we simply downloaded some data from a REST API and we displayed it to the user), sooner or later you will have to use a feature that requires to write code which is different based on the target platform. There are many samples of this scenario: one of the most common is geo localization. Android, iOS and Windows offer a way to geo localize the user, but every platform uses its own approach and APIs, so you can't include them in the Portable Class Library, since these APIs aren't shared among the platform.
Luckily, to make the developer's life easier, Xamarin has created many plugins for the most common scenarios, like geo localization, file system access, network, etc. which are available on NuGet or GitHub (https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents)
However, not all the scenarios are covered, so it may easily happen that you are required to implement your own plugin. Xamarin Forms includes an infrastructure to handle this requirement in an easy way, based on a class called DependencyService. From a high level, here is how it works:
- In your PCL you create an interface, which describes the methods you want to use in your shared code (for example, you could create an interface called IGeolocatorService which offers a GetPosition() method to retrieve the current location of the user). However, since it's an interface, it describes just the operations you want to perform, without actually implementing them.
- In every platform specific project, you create a class that implement this interface, using the actual APIs provided by the platform. This means that, for example, your Android project will contain an AndroidGeolocatorService, which will contain the actual implementation of the GetPosition() method using the Android APIs. These classes have to be decorated with a special attribute provided by Xamarin Forms called Dependency with, as parameter, a reference to the type of the class itself:
[assembly: Dependency(typeof(AndroidGeolocatorService))] namespace InfoSeries.Droid.Services { public class AndroidGeolocatorService: IGeolocatorService { public async Coordinates GetPosition() { //implementation using Android APIs } } }
Thanks to this attribute, you are now able to use the DependencyService class and the Get<T>() method (where T is the interface type) in your PCL to get the proper implementation of the service, based on the platform where the app is running. Consequently, let's say that in your PCL you have, at some point, the following code:
IGeolocatorService service = DependencyService.Get<IGeolocatorService>(); var result = service.GetPosition();
When the Xamarin Forms app is launched on an Android device, the Get<IGeolocatorService>() method will return an instance of the AndroidGeolocationService class; vice versa, if the app is launched on a Windows 10 device, the method will return an instance of the UwpGeolocationService class, which would have been created into the specific UWP project of the solution.
So far, so good. However, to reach this goal in our MVVM application, we would need to use the DependencyService class in a ViewModel, which isn't a great approach: using a static property in a ViewModel makes things harder to test. Additionally, this approach would require us to use two different approaches based on the service type:
- If it's a non platform specific service (like the TsApiService class we created in the previous posts to interact with the TrackSeries APIs), we register it into the Prism container and we let it automatically be injected into the ViewModel's constructor.
- If it's a platform specific service (like the previous AndroidGeolocatorService class), we have to access to it through the DependencyService class and not through the standard Prims container.
With other MVVM frameworks, a typical workaround is to use the DependencyService in the framework's bootstrapper to get the platform specific instance and then register it into the dependency container we're using. This way, we can continue to leverage the usual approach to simply add a parameter in the ViewModel's constructor and to have its implementation automatically injected. This is made possible by the fact that basically all the dependency containers allow to register not only a generic type (which means that, in this case, the container will create a new instance of the class when it's requested) but also to assign a specific implementation to an interface.
Here is a sample code of how it would work:
protected override void RegisterTypes() { Container.RegisterTypeForNavigation<NavigationPage>(); Container.RegisterTypeForNavigation<MainPage>(); Container.RegisterTypeForNavigation<DetailPage>(); Container.RegisterType<ITsApiService, TsApiService>(); var geoService = DependencyService.Get<IGeolocationService>(); Container.RegisterInstance<IGeolocationService>(geoService); }
However, Prism is smarter than that and it's automatically able to register into its container every class he finds in each platform specific project decorated with the Dependency attribute. You can find a real example in the InfoSeries app on my GitHub repository: https://github.com/qmatteoq/XamarinForms-Prism/tree/master/InfoSeries
I've decided to implement a feature that allows a user to share, from within the detail page of a TV Show, the poster image of the show. This is something that needs to be implemented in a different way for each platform (since each of them has its own unique APIs to share content) and we can't leverage an existing plugin (since the one available in the Xamarin repository supports only text sharing). As such, I've created in the Xamarin Forms Portable Class Library the following interface:
public interface IShareService { Task SharePoster(string title, string image); }
The interface simply describes an asynchronous method, called ShareShirt(), which accepts as parameter the title of the show and the path of the image to share. The next step is to implement this interface in every platform specific project. I won't go into the details, because it would be out of scope for the post but, for example, here is how it looks the implementation in the Android project:
using System; using System.IO; using System.Net.Http; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Android.App; using Android.Content; using InfoSeries.Droid.Services; using InfoSeries.Services; using Xamarin.Forms; using Environment = Android.OS.Environment; [assembly: Dependency(typeof(AndroidShareService))] namespace InfoSeries.Droid.Services { public class AndroidShareService: IShareService { public async Task SharePoster(string title, string image) { var intent = new Intent(Intent.ActionSend); intent.SetType("image/png"); Guid guid = Guid.NewGuid(); var path = Environment.GetExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DataDirectory + Java.IO.File.Separator + guid + ".png"); HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); var httpResponse = await client.GetAsync(image); byte[] imageBuffer = await httpResponse.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync(); if (File.Exists(path.AbsolutePath)) { File.Delete(path.AbsolutePath); } using (var os = new System.IO.FileStream(path.AbsolutePath, System.IO.FileMode.Create)) { await os.WriteAsync(imageBuffer, 0, imageBuffer.Length); } intent.PutExtra(Intent.ExtraStream, Android.Net.Uri.FromFile(path)); var intentChooser = Intent.CreateChooser(intent, "Share via"); Activity activity = Forms.Context as Activity; activity.StartActivityForResult(intentChooser, 100); } } }
As you can see, the class implements the ShareShirt() method by downloading the poster image in the local storage of the app and then, by using specific Android APIs (like Activity or Intent), it starts the sharing operation. As you can see, the class is decorated with the Dependency attribute with, as parameter, the type of the class itself.
Thanks to Prism, that's all we need to do. Now simply add, in the DetailPageViewModel, a parameter of type IShareService in the class constructor, so that you can use it the command that will be invoked when the user will press the button to share the image. Here is how our updated DetailPageViewModel looks like:
public class DetailPageViewModel : BindableBase, INavigationAware { private readonly IShareService _shareService; private SerieFollowersVM _selectedShow; public SerieFollowersVM SelectedShow { get { return _selectedShow; } set { SetProperty(ref _selectedShow, value); } } public DetailPageViewModel(IShareService shareService) { _shareService = shareService; } public void OnNavigatedFrom(NavigationParameters parameters) { } public void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationParameters parameters) { SelectedShow = parameters["show"] as SerieFollowersVM; } private DelegateCommand _shareItemCommand; public DelegateCommand ShareItemCommand { get { if (_shareItemCommand == null) { _shareItemCommand = new DelegateCommand(async () => { string image = SelectedShow.Images.Poster; await _shareService.SharePoster(SelectedShow.Name, image); }); } return _shareItemCommand; } } }
We have added an IShareService parameter in the constructor and we have defined a DelegateCommand called ShareItemCommand: when it's invoked, it will simply call the ShareShirt() method exposed by the IShareService interface, passing as parameter the name of the show and the URL of the poster image (which can be both retrieved from the SelectedShow property).
In the end, in the DetailPage.xaml we have added a ToolbarItem control, which adds a new button in the UI's toolbar (which is rendered in a different way based on the platform, for example on UWP it's rendered as a button in the CommandBar):
<ContentPage.ToolbarItems> <ToolbarItem Text="Share" Command="{Binding Path=ShareItemCommand}" Order="Secondary"/> </ContentPage.ToolbarItems>
Nothing special here: the control has a text and it's connected through binding to the ShareItemCommand we have previously defined in the ViewModel. Now launch the application on an Android device or emulator, choose one TV Show and use the new share option we've just added: automagically, Android will show us the share chooser, which will allow the user to choose which target application will receive the image. As you can see, we didn't have to register anything related to the IShareService in the App class: Prism did everything on its own. Of course, if we want to achieve the same result also when the app is running on iOS or on Windows 10, we need to create also an implementation of the IShareService interface in the other platform specific projects.
Pretty cool, isn't it?
Wrapping up
We have concluded our journey in learning how the most recent version of the Prism framework has been greatly improved, specifically when it comes to support Xamarin Forms. Thanks to Prism and Xamarin, it will be much easier to create great cross platform application using the MVVM pattern and leveraging the same skills you have learned as a developer by creating WPF, Silverlight, Windows Store or UWP apps. As a final reminder, don't forger that all the samples used in this series of posts are available on my GitHub account: https://github.com/qmatteoq/XamarinForms-Prism
Happy coding!


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The best drum gear of the year: 2013
Drum kit of the year
After back-to-back wins for the Black Panther range in our kit of the year category, DW has finally broken Mapex's dominance.
The Design Series is DW's latest line of wares that take the company's boutique approach to creating top quality drums, but these gorgeous shells come with a more wallet-friendly price tag than the US firm's Collector's Series. We were wowed by the kit's superb build quality and stunning sound.
The win is all the more impressive as there were some seriously tasty kits released this year. A particularly honourable mention must go to Sonor's deliciously dark Prolite kit.
5 out of 5
Read: DW Design Series kit review
Also in the running
Budget drum kit of the year (under £1,000)
Finding a killer kit for under £1,000 is impressive. Getting one with change from £500 is a darn right steal.
Ludwig offered just that this year with the launch of the Breakbeats kit. Designed in conjunction with The Roots' sticksman Questlove, the diminutive kit was built with ease of transportation in mind, with Questlove wanting a set-up that could easily be shoved in the back of a New York cab on the way to a gig. Don't worry, it's also perfect for being lugged into the back of an old Ford KA en route to your local.
We must also doff our hats to the re-launched Pearl Export, which allows drummers to get their hands on an iconic range for sub £700.
4 out of 5
Read: Ludwig Questlove Breakbeats kit review
Also in the running
Electronic drum kit of the year
Yamaha treated us with a brace of new e-kits this year, the budget conscious DTX522 and the slightly more bells and whistles-laden DTX562.
Both kits come into Yamaha's mid-price range, utilising the new DTX502 module. The DTX526K really caught our eye thanks, in part, to the excellent response we got from the kit's textured cellular silicone playing surfaces and the fact that it'll all set you back just a whisker over £1,500.
Even better, the new and improved module features more than double the memory and around 250 more sounds than its predecessor.
4 out of 5
Read: Yamaha DTX562 review
Budget electronic drum kit of the year (Under £1,000)
Last year Roland impressed us with the mind-bogglingly pricey TD-30KV, this year we love a kit right at the other end of the spectrum.
The titchy TD-4KP is one hell of an option for newbies, or simply those with limited space. The P in the name stands for portable, and this rig is certainly that. The entire kit can be neatly folded away and packed down into the provided gig bag, which is perfect for jumping on the bus with to your next gig.
Now, you couldn't do that with a Terry Bozzio-esque acoustic set-up, could you? Not without causing some serious back pain, anyway.
4 out of 5
Read: Roland TD-4KP review
Cymbals of the year
Paiste takes our Cymbal of the Year gong for the second year in succession. This time it's the Paiste Precision range that has impressed us.
These metals share many characteristics of Paiste's iconic Signature line. They are, in fact, made from the same phosphor bronze as the Signature cymbals but come in around 20-percent less expensive. And that cheaper price point doesn't mean a sub-standard product, we loved the Precision range for its brilliant warm sound and cutting clarity.
4 out of 5
Snare of the year
Premier has done a whole heap of work in the last few years in returning to the top table of the drum world, and the One series snares only added to its resurgence.
The latest snares to be made by Premier's UK-based drum building guru Keith Keough, the One range impresses thanks to sheer scope.
With a seemingly never-ending array of exotic woods and finishes to choose from, this line of one-off drums is a bold undertaking by Premier, but deserves to be a massive success, and one that sees Premier reclaim its place as a major player on a global scale.
5 out of 5
Acoustic percussion of the year
Ever since global giant Marshall took over the Natal brand back in 2010 we've seen plenty of stunning kits and snares from the rejuvenated company, but not so much in what Natal built its name on - percussion.
This year that all changed. As well as a smattering of cajons, bongos and cowbells (the ridiculously affordable Natal NSTC line particularly excelled on the latter front), Natal unleashed these frankly beautiful Classic Series fibreglass congas.
The stunning gloss white finish piqued our interest, but it was the rich tones that the congas delivered and their wide tuning range that really impressed.
4 out of 5
Electric percussion of the year
We've seen a veritable feast of Wavedrums launched from the Korg stable since the electro percussion device was re-introduced in 2010 - the Oriental, Mini, Black and now the Global.
While so many updates in three years may seem excessive, the Global is a damn fine device in its own right. And what a versatile instrument it is.
You can just about do what the hell you want with it - play it like an acoustic drum, hit it with sticks, tap it with mallets or bash it with your own fine hands to access some of the many sounds on board.
Speaking of sounds, there's loads of them jammed into the Wavedrum Global, with 140 loop phases, reverb and delay effects and plenty more.
Yes, at £599 it does carry a premium price tag, but if you want quality you, more often than not, need to put your hand in your pocket and shell out a wad of cold, hard cash.
4 out of 5
Drum heads of the year
It's pretty rare that any drum company completely overhauls its production methods, but that's what Evans did with its Level 360 revolution.
Now, each and every head to come out of Evans' New York factory features the Level 360 design, which utilises a newly-designed collar that gives a snug fit on drums of all shapes, sizes, makes and vintages.
In turn, this means that your days of over tensioning heads just to get the things to sit evenly are over. You certainly won't want to go back to your old heads after giving these a whirl. And for that, we salute Evans.
5 out of 5