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Arrow, Circle, Spiral and Cylinder – Different Conceptions of Time and History
The Arrow
Jürgen Kuhlmann wrote an interesting article about the different concepts of history from a theologist`s point of view (Kreis oder Pfeil, 1982). He noticed, that Christianity (Western thinking) mainly focuses on linear conceptions of time (and history), while Eastern philosophy mainly focuses on concentric structures.
Jürgen Kuhlmann: born 1936 in Swinemünde, 1962 Priest in Rome, 1965 Promotion to Dr. theol. At the University Gregoriana in Rome, 1965-1972 Kaplan in Naila and Nürnberg, 1972 Marriage, 1973 Laisierung. http://www.stereo-denken.de/pfeil-kr.htm
Prof. Dr. Dr. Norbert Lohfink is a specialist for the exegesis of the Old Testament. He explained the development of a linear construction of history in the "Priestly Source". Around 600-500 BC the Jews were enslaved by the Babylonian empire and lived under hard circumstances in the "Babylonian Exile". The consignees of their scriptures should see, that the loss of their motherland would only be a temporary state. In this dynamic, the world seems to be stable (if no human misbehaviour would interfere). (Orientierung 1977,147 f).
In "Messianism in linear and cyclical contexts" Jan A.B. Jongeneel writes: Although scholars write about messianic figures and movements in cyclical contexts, they cannot ignore the matter of fact that not one of the holy books of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, or Shinto, but the Bible has given birth to the concept of the Messiah. Since that time the Messiah is really at home in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as linear belief-systems. However, it is questionable whether each of these three monotheistic religions can be labeled as a "messianic religion." All these three religions are indeed "prophetic," but merely the Jesus movement, known as Christianity, seems to be "messianic." Neither Moses as the founder of the Jewish religion nor Muhammad as the founder of Islam is proclaimed as the Messiah. But Christians continuously proclaim Jesus of Nazareth, ardent adherent and renovator of the linear view of time and history in the Hebrew Bible, as the Messiah of Israel and the gentile nations. As such Jesus has axial significance in world history. Asian and African Christians take the lead in the dialogue with the adherents of the cyclical view of time and history. They try to harmonize, speaking about the spiral as a bridge of the cycle and the line. M.M. Thomas does not want to value the cyclical view of time and history negatively. He merely wants to add a dimension which is lacking wherever the cycle prevails: "The Christian understanding of historical and cosmic process need not deny the reality of the cycles of nature and life. But it stands or falls with the doctrine of the ultimate divine purpose of that process". That doctrine culminates in proclaiming the return of Jesus as the Messiah at the end of the times. (Read his article online here or get the pdf here.)
Annotation of the editor: at the same time the idea of the "Natural Philosophy" spread in Greece, which fits perfectly to the model of the arrow: an individual shoots throughout the time like an arrow. The implementation of the circular model is the eternal life after death, like the arrival in the Promised Land.
This picture hangs in my home since I can think. It is called "Der breite und der schmale Weg – The Broad And The Narrow Way". It is a good example for the linear conception of time in Christian cultures. You get this funny picture in 500kb at Luzius Schneider . Also hard copies are available there.
Bible, Jesaja 43
16 This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, 17 who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: 18 'Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. 20 The wild animals honour me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, 21 the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.
The Circle
Laotzi lived at the same time as the Jews suffered from the Babylonian Exile about 500 years ago. That time China was suffering from never-ending civil wars and a decay of culture. As the leading intellectual of his time, he surely was aware of the great past of his country and searched for the reasons for this cultural decay. According to the changes in nature following different rhythms (moon, seasons, day and night, …) he developed the Dao (Tao) aka The Way, meaning to follow the natural order of nature. This natural order also includes a magic order of numbers. Like day and night, the seasons or the Chinese dynasties, all is due to a permanent change: up & down, raise & fall. Laotzi described those rhythms as circles in the Taoteking (tao te king),which is probably the main Asian contribution to human culture.
The Buddhist Samsara, the Wheel of Life is a model of human life. The devil holds this wheel, biting into the outer ring, representing the direct influence of the evil on daily life. The inner axle is formed by three animals, representing the deep human inner drives.
Taoism and Buddhism both have in common a circular perception of life. Both form the circular model of Chinese / Asian thinking.
See a nice Samsara here (http://brian.hoffert.faculty.noctrl.edu/REL255/03.Jainism.Mahavira.html – broken link)
Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.
The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind;
Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily;
Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;
Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.
Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.
[dt. v. Richard Wilhelm ,Jena 1921, Nr. 29 and edited by Dan Baruth)
For applications of circular vs. linear thinking please click here.
The Spiral
Swiss journalist Lily Abegg, developed the model of the spiral. She writes according to the limited English skills of the editor: World history is similar to a unique, irreversible process, in which all cultures and individuals swings in a spiral. (…) Eastasians only see the concentric structures and do not see, that the spiral opens. We (i.e. Western people) mostly focus on distances and steps, skipping the concentric structures until the perspective looks linear.
(Ostasien denkt anders (Zürich 1949), 403 f)
The Cylinder
In "Social Change and Modernity" Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser noted: The original Judaeo-Christian eschatology still conceives history within the bounds of a model based on the action period. By virtue of its covenant with a mighty God and the intervention of his Son, a people remembers and experiences its history as the path toward a salvation that, to begin with, was understood in quite earthly terms. This ultimately magical pattern of interpretation was not so much based on the separation of different temporal levels as on the topological difference between the chosen people and the heathens. It was not until after it became obvious that the return of the Redeemer could not be expected within a single lifetime that—under the influence of classical philosophy—the time horizon and the topological difference between life on earth and the hereafter, between God and the world, between the immortal soul and mortal flesh, and between the terrestrial and heavenly realms were expanded and thus diverted attention away from the division between the chosen people and the heathens. There was an added topological difference between the individual and the world historical levels of explanation. The individual was able to make progress along the path to salvation; the world, via the sequence of the three realms (paradise, life after the fall, and salvation), carried out God's promise of deliverance. Another development of momentous significance was the new form taken on by the process model for change in the secular sphere. The cyclical view of the rise and fall of empires was supplemented by the perspective of the unilinear and irreversible development of the world and progress toward salvation.
Moreover, for history to be seen as the history of salvation, it was also necessary for humankind to be active in its approach and to strive for salvation. Redemption and the reconciliation of earthly life with the hereafter were not solely the work of God but involved humanity as well. This eschatological dualism introduced a comprehensive, positive moment of tension into historical change. No longer was change merely short-term unrest without underlying hope. It now had as its goal and ultimate end the perfection and redemption of the world. The beginning and end of history were in turn determined by the timelessness of paradise, past and future. Naturally, the eschatological process at first remained completely within the bounds of action-theoretical notions: the world has been created by a personal God who issued commandments, and if humanity followed these it would ensure its own progress to salvation. (Get the whole article as pdf here or read it online at The Center For Sociological Research And Development Studies Of China)
Quran: Al-Fatiha
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful (1)
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, (2) The Beneficent, the Merciful. (3) Owner of the Day of Judgment, (4) Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help. (5) Show us the straight path, (6) The path of those whom Thou hast favoured. Not (the path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray. (7)
Additional Material
Mental Representations of Time in Chinese Language (Mandarin)
The immediate and chronic influence of spatio-temporal metaphors on the mental representations of time in English, Mandarin, and Mandarin-English speakers by Vicky Tzuyin Lai (Neurobiology of Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Lera Boroditsky (Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US) – Front. Psychol., 09 April 2013 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00142
Read the full .pdf online here or here.
(retrieved 31.10.2013 at www.frontiersin.org/Journal/DownloadFile.ashx?pdf=1&FileId=11690&articleId=28033&Version=1&ContentTypeId=21&FileName=fpsyg-04-00142.pdf)
J. Gabriell and T. Hedden "How culture influences Brain"
Asians and Westeners had to answer questions about absolute quantities (is, is not, how many?) or relative qualities (bigger than, higher than, more red than,…)
It became obvious, that Western people have to spend more energy to render relative judgments (bigger than, lower than, …) than Asians. Vice versa it showed, that Asians needed more energy rendering absolute judgments (is or is not).
J. Gabriell and T. Hedden from Mc Govern Institute in TechTalk by MIT (Mass. Institute for Technology), volume 52, No. 14 (30.01.2008)
Download the full pdf here, the article is on page 4 below.
Michael Heeney: Spiral Staircases and Cylindrical Pools: The Implosion of "Circular" and "Linear" Gestalts
In modern German psychology, there is a concept called the gestalt which is useful for this discussion. In it, human beings are viewed as open systems in active interaction with their environment. People naturally organize their perceptions according to certain patterns, which have similar structural properties that influence concepts across the spectrum of human thought. It is essential to use this term when discussing "circular" and "linear" structures of thought, since these seemingly simple terms will come to represent their own individual gestalts, encapsulating multiple binary concepts subsumed and ordered under their respective structuring principles. The author Virginia Woolf provides an ideal springboard to expound upon this, since her novels attempt to encapsulate a fusion of the two structures into a singular, universal gestalt, or structuring principle. In many of her novels, particularly Orlando for the sake of this discussion, the goal of this is a synthesis between two different kinds of minds, the rational masculine and the subjective feminine, to produce the harmonized androgynous. This process is created through the synthesis of two different conceptions of time, the linear historical and circular subjective. Finally, the entire new gestalt is illustrated by how the dialectic of circles and lines combine to synthesize a cylinder, a spatial idea which symbolizes how the new androgynous mind articulates itself through time which respectively, as Kant has said, is merely the form of inner sense. (…)
It appears that in this case, the duality between male and female does have biological origins, but those of cognition, not those of gender. (…)
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Read the full essay online at http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/evolit/s05/web3/mheeney.html or download as pdf here.
Time as the Action Period
(…) An analysis of this kind starts out from an interpretational pattern that makes no distinction between processes of social action, on the one hand, and processes of social order and social change, on the other hand. There is no recognizable social order standing out above processes of interaction within the framework of this interpretational pattern. The perception of change and temporal alteration is limited to the time-period one has lived through and remembered, to the durée of social action.[7] Hence the "narrative" logic by which action is recounted both frames and structures the logic underlying the passage of time.[8] The "stories" recalled are kept in motion by interaction among a number of actors, and the stories' beginnings and ends are determined by how the theme of interaction is dealt with.[9]
Both the change experienced in the world during the course of action and the change experienced in the subjects themselves that they remember as they consider own personal experience of getting old are of course limited as long as there is no social structure differentiating among time periods. Aging processes take place synchronously and therefore hardly give cause for the social differentiation of periods of time or of temporal levels. Beyond the period of action and the lifetime as directly experienced the world is experienced as something timeless and ultimately chaotic.
Primitive classifications, which by definition are not systematized by any superordinate principle, clearly show the unordered complexity of the world. They barely offer a topological "toehold" for identifying time that reaches beyond one's own lifetime or beyond the actions of the present (Lévi-Strauss 1962). The only way in which primitive classification allows a number of lifetimes to be linked together is via the kinship link of conception and birth; this pushes the temporal horizon back into the past and creates an awareness of continuity and change independent of the experience of the present. Evidently, the extension of such a genealogical model of time marks out a line of development running from the action-period notion of time to the socially differentiated notion of time.
Apart from the extension of historical space in Voltaire's philosophy of history, the natural sciences' concept of time in the eighteenth century also broke through the barriers of the hierarchical model of temporal levels. The concept of an objective measurable passage of time determined and moved by the laws of nature gradually asserted itself as a point of reference. Against it, historical time appears limited, imprecise, and inconstant. The temporality of the world, on the one hand, and that of the passage of history and experience, on the other hand, are hence ever more sharply delineated by different process models. "Objective" time moves according to the eternal laws of nature, whereas historical time is kept in motion by the progress of the human race (Elias 1984).
An analogous paradigmatic switch occurred in biology when the Linnean classification of natural processes was succeeded by the Darwinian theory of evolution. Darwin's theory of the origin of the species by natural selection, which was to prove extraordinarily momentous for the theory of society that followed, brings out, in its very name, the temporalization of order. A number of observers have noted that Darwinian theory itself took as its model certain economic theories of the day. (…)
The Temporalization of Social Order : Some Theoretical Remarks on the Change in 'Change' by Bernhard Giesen; Publ. 1992 in: Social change and modernity / ed. by Hans Haferkamp … Berkeley : Univ. of California Press, 1992, pp. 294-319
Read the except online here or download .pdf here.
See also A Geography of Time
(reviewed 12.07.2013)
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15/01/2010 at 20:18
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40 Children Taken From Christian Community After 'Massive' German Police Raid
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter
Forty children have been taken from a Christian community in Bavaria in a raid by German police following allegations of child abuse, though the members have said they spank children only to discipline then.
"We have lived now for some time in your vicinity, dear citizens of Wörnitz and neighbors of the Ries valley," the Community of the Twelve Tribes in Klosterzimmern & Wörnitz said in a statement. "We call on you to give your opinion on the allegations – surely you have seen us and our children stroll through the village? What impression do you have of our children and their well-being? Were they happy? Were they respectful?"
Over 100 police officers participated in the operation that seized 40 children children aged seven months to 17 years old from a monastery in Klosterzimmern and from a communal house in the village of Wornitz. The children were then placed in foster families while authorities carry out an investigation into the group, The Guardian reported. The raids were apparently prompted by "fresh evidence indicating significant and ongoing child abuse by the members."
"We suspect that parents were exercising abuse," said Helmut Beyschlag, head of Noldingen district court. Evidence has allegedly shown that children were struck on their feet, arms and backs by disciplinary rods soaked in oil. Eyewitnesses said that the community members did not show resistance during the raid.
The "Twelve Tribes" group, founded in 1972 in the U.S. and numbering close to 3,000 members worldwide, describe themselves as a Messianic Community who follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, who they refer to as "Yahshua." On their official website, members admit that they spank children, but only out of 'love.'
"We teach them to listen to what their parents say and to obey their parents and teachers. When they are disobedient or intentionally hurtful to others we spank them with a small reed-like rod, which only inflicts pain and not damage. Desiring to be good parents, we do not hit our children in anger, nor with our hand or fist," the community says.
"We know that some people consider this aspect of our life controversial, but we have seen from experience that discipline keeps a child from becoming mean-spirited and disrespectful of authority. The Columbine tragedy in particular points to the potentially terrible consequences of children left to themselves, who are not held accountable for their actions," the explanation adds, referring to the 1999 Columbine High School Massare in Colorado where two senior students killed 12 other students and a school teacher.
The Twelve Tribes community lives a self-sufficient existence, producing its own food and electricity, its members dress modestly and they do not allow children to watch TV.
The Christian group has faced problems with German authorities before, BBC News reported, particularly for its refusal to send its children to public schools. Officials recently withdrew an education license from a Twelve Tribes school at Klosterzimmern, reportedly because of a lack of suitable teachers – though the Bavarian state education ministry said the raid on Thursday is not connected with the issue.
"The action today has nothing to do with the subject of compulsory education," a spokesman for the education ministry shared with German daily newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine.
The community noted that a court hearing on the charges will take place next week. In the meantime, the children are expected to remain in foster care.

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Topic: 8" Real Action Boba Fett Metal Figure
Well, these are finally shipping out and some of you may have been lucky enough to get them before Christmas. A fairly sharp looking figure, to say the least. And when they said METAL, man they weren't kidding. The inside body frame is die-cast metal, as well.
Is it me, or do the Japanese really like to put stuff together. The Marmit figures and the Kotobukiya models were in pieces like this. Of course, the Kotobukiya stuff ARE models, so they're actually supposed to be put together, but you get what I saying. Definitely going to have to play dress up with this figure, before you can display him.
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I have a Wordpress blog (private at this stage but soon to be made public) and want to make my abc tunebooks (currently held as abc files on my windows pc) available to visitors. I looked for a Wordpress plugin to help, but found only one, called ScoreRender http://scorerender.abelcheung.org/ , that is no longer supported or downloadable. Does anyone know an alternative?
Failing that, my best bet seems to be to host my tunebooks online and link to the online location from Wordpress. Possibilities that occur to me are holding tunebooks in a public folder in Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com (but that would just give access to the raw files) or hosting my abc tunebooks on a third party site such as folktunefinder.com http://www.folktunefinder.com/ or The Session https://thesession.org/.
Has anyone any experience of doing this, particularly in Wordpress, that they can share?


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Bridesmaid Dresses: Lazaro
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Groom/Groomsmen Fashion: Vera Wang
Rings: Iannelli Diamonds
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere) have driven the rapid development over the past decade of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—robotic planes flown by some combination of remote "pilot" operators, software, and GPS navigation. Ranging in size from that of a flying model kit to full-sized aircraft, UAVs, also referred to as unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), have done everything from spotting roadside bombs to bombing alleged Al-Qaeda hideouts—and now they're ready for civilian jobs. As war efforts wind down, the military is preparing to bring home the over 7,500 UAVs deployed overseas—and the companies that build them are looking to create a domestic market for the technology.
Federal Aviation Administration rules have so far tightly limited the use of UAVs to the same sets of rules applied to hobbyists flying radio-controlled model aircraft. But all that is set to change, thanks to legislation slipped into the FAA's 2012 funding bill, signed on February 14. The law is pushing the FAA to stop worrying and love the drone by setting deadlines for starting UAVs' "integration into the national airspace." The FAA is now soliciting public input on locations for six test sites where it will look at ways to integrate UAVs into the same airspace as human-piloted aircraft.
In addition to fast-tracking the use of small UAVs by law enforcement and emergency responders by as early as May, the law also sets deadlines that could allow the first wave of certified "safe" drones to take to the skies as early as August. By September of 2015, the law dictates that the FAA will have rules set for the licensing of commercial and civil UAVs, and that they will be fully integrated into the "national airspace."
That could have a potentially huge impact on society and culture—in both a positive and negative sense. "There's a stunning amount of innovation going on in the drone world," and a long list of potential applications, said John Villasenor, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and professor of electrical engineering at UCLA, at a panel discussion on drones at Brookings on April 4. He called drones the equivalent of the space program in terms of their potential impact on technological change.
"What the military has shown abroad is there's a tremendous amount of stuff you can do with this, if the regulatory environment permits—not just surveillance," said Benjamin Wittes, a senior Brookings fellow, also at the April 4 event. Based on the advances in self-guidance and self-landing technology, he said, "there is no good reason anymore for there to be pilots in the domestic airspace. The main barrier is psychological, not technical."
The applications for unmanned aircraft—both for government and business—range from the mundane to the insane, covering everything from the monitoring of highway traffic and land use to airborne wireless Internet gateways. The military has already begun work on adopting autonomous helicopters based on the Kaman K-MAX to deliver cargo on the battlefield; airfreight companies could be among those lined up to bring that technology to the commercial world.
But Villasenor, Wittes, and others don't see the rise of the drones as an absolute good. Privacy advocates and legal and technical experts have voiced concerns over the impact that cheap and pervasive flying sensor platforms will have on privacy, civil liberties, security, and demand for wireless spectrum. And if the FAA and other authorities don't move early to coordinate regulation and oversight of unmanned aircraft, they could face a huge public backlash, warns Paul Rosenzweig, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC. "If policymakers push too rapidly, they will lose the support of the public and kill the goose that laid the golden egg," he said.
Pushing the hobbyist envelope
Current FAA regulations have kept most use of UAVs in the US in the realm of the hobbyists and researchers—they are banned from commercial use, or to provide a commercial service. And the FAA has issued only a small number of "special airworthiness certificates" to a select number of civilian operators—13 in total—for highly restricted experimental use of UAVs that operate out of the visual range of their earthbound pilot.
That has left most individuals and organizations testing drones to test the limits of what is possible in the hobbyist "model aircraft" envelope—remaining at altitudes below 400 feet and within the line of sight of the operator. But even within those limits, law enforcement agencies and other organizations (and individuals) are starting to push the envelope. Some have pushed it too far—in January, real estate agents in Los Angeles got a little ahead of regulations and hired a helicopter drone to take aerial photos of clients' homes until they were warned off by police.
For safety's sake, Villasenor said that there should be "no rush to allow real estate agents to fly drones over communities." He said that in certifying "safe" drones, the FAA should follow the guidelines set by the Academy of Model Aeronautics and not allow any unmanned aircraft flown by "first person view"—with a camera giving the aircraft's operator a virtual cockpit view—over 10 pounds.
The appeal of being able to operate further out with unmanned aircraft is obvious—they are a cheap way to provide a view of places it would be otherwise too expensive or dangerous to get to with people. The Department of Homeland Security has pushed for drone use in patrolling borders to fill in the huge gaps left by its expensive and failed "smart fence" efforts. "The fences are difficult and expensive to construct, and easy to evade," said Rosenzweig. "There's a reason why Homeland Security wants more UAVs."
Borders aren't the only spaces that the government wants to keep an eye on. There's a potential big win for environmental and agricultural enforcement as well. In January, that was demonstrated when an anonymous hobbyist flying a $75 drone equipped with a point-and-shoot camera spotted a river of pig blood from a Dallas meat packing plant pouring into a waterway, leading to the execution of a search warrant by the EPA and Texas environmental protection authorities. And in Europe, governments are testing UAVs to enforce agricultural regulations, remotely inspecting farms to ensure they're not evading taxes or fraudulently taking subsidy payments.
Airborne Robocops
Police departments and other law enforcement agencies see UAVs as a way to save money or gain capabilities they've never been able to afford before. Because they are so much cheaper to purchase and operate than manned aircraft, drones could give even small police departments an eye in the sky for dealing with tracking suspects on the run, observing criminal activity at a distance, or monitoring hostage situations.
In Texas, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office acquired a Shadowhawk helicopter UAV from Vanguard Defense Industries last September with some funding help from the Department of Homeland Security to support the department's SWAT team; the Shadowhawk costs $40 an hour to operate, compared to the $500-per-hour cost of a full-sized helicopter. There are downsides—last month, a Shadowhawk prototype crashed into a SWAT armored vehicle during a photo op when it lost contact with the controller and shut down.
There are some in law enforcement who are interested in doing more than just watching with UAVs—some have expressed interest in arming UAVs with nonlethal weapons. Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel told The Daily in March that the office was "open to the idea" of adding weapons to their Shadowhawk, which could include flares, smoke grenades, tear gas, tasers, or rubber bullets for crowd control—allowing police to disperse protestors or angry mobs without even being on the scene. The Shadowhawk could also be equipped with a beanbag "force baton" to be used to subdue a suspect "from altitude."
The idea of armed flying police robots seems, to some, a really bad idea. Security technologist Bruce Schneier responded to the news of Montgomery County's purchase of the Shadowhawk with the question, "Why does anyone think this is a good idea?" American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Catherine Crump expressed her incredulity over the concept as well at the Brookings event. "The potential weaponization of drones and the way the debate has developed, I found startling," she said—the potential for inappropriate use of force against individuals by police could be huge if actions were based solely on what could be seen through an UAV's cameras.
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The Shadowhawk currently operates under at short range, mostly in line of sight of the operator. But privacy advocates are concerned that if law enforcement (or anyone) gains the ability to operate UAVs that can fly at higher altitudes or without line-of-sight control without proper oversight, it could create huge privacy concerns. Allowing the "non-line-of-site" operation of small drones, said Villasenor, "would make it possible to fly into a fenced yard, hover, and peek in the windows."
The potential ease with which law enforcement agencies could operate larger UAVs for long periods of time over an area, said Crump, raises concerns about ongoing surveillance of public and private places. UAVs can fly for hours, or in some cases for days or more, without direct control, she said. And when used in combination with facial recognition and other software, Crump said drones "could possibly be used to film an area for a long time and then reconstruct individuals' movements."
That could run up against potential constitutional issues, based on the recent Supreme Court ruling in US vs. Jones—which forced the FBI to shut down widespread use of GPS tracking devices. "We are not opposed to use of drones domestically," she said, "but at the same time we are concerned that they not become tools of general or pervasive surveillance. It would be nice if there were a real democratic debate about the policies under which drones are adopted."
Crump also said that it is important to make sure that as UAVs are more widely deployed, they are not restricted to government use, because they "hold promise as a way to hold government accountable" in the hands of citizens. For example, she said, drones could help collect surveillance footage of police to watch for use of excessive or unlawful force —as some involved with Occupy Wall Street attempted to do with a Parrot AR drone dubbed the "OccuCopter," hacked to stream live video to the Internet. Since they're "tools for free speech," Crump said, "they need to be regulated in a more sensitive way."
Filling the airwaves
While some experts talk about how revolutionary UAVs could be for businesses and other organizations that trade in data, whether it be gathering live weather or traffic data, or monitoring, they often lose sight of one major limitation of non-line-of-site drones. There's a fundamental limit to how many UAVs can be flown under direct human control, because it requires available wireless bandwidth.
In the case of military UAVs such as General Atomic's Predator and Reaper, it means using satellite communications, because there's no guarantee of wireless communications infrastructure over the areas they fly in—and there's only so much satellite capacity to go around. A report by Northern Sky Research found that UAV demand for Ku-band satellite could exceed the available capacity for "communications on the move" before 2020. Smaller UAVs operating within a metropolitan area are going to hit a similar wall, as competition for broadband wireless spectrum continues to heat up. So as the skies become increasingly crowded, so do the airwaves.


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(Pocket-lint) - Back in October, Pure, the radio specialist, officially announced Pure Music; a streaming service that sees it going head-to-head with Spotify. Although you won't hear a Pure employee mention the S word, the similarities are obvious and it is impossible not to compare the two. Pure, however is keen to stress that its music streaming platform is built for an already existing ecosystem. That ecosystem is, of course, the numerous internet radio devices that bear the Pure name, as well as its online "Lounge" portal and its mobile app offerings too.
Building on the success of last year's FlowSongs platform, Pure Music has again teamed-up with 7Digital to offer access to its extensive catalogue, but this time around it doesn't require users to pay for individual downloads.
For £4.99 a month Pure Music offers unlimited streaming across multiple devices. There's a web-based player on the Lounge website, mobile apps (iOS available now, Android coming soon) and, of course, the service is available on all eight of the company's internet connected radios.
One differentiating factor from Spotify is the tagging service, introduced with FlowSongs. This means that when listening to the radio, if you hear a tune you like, you can tag it and then explore the artist and stream their music. It worked well FlowSongs too, which scored a very respectable 8/10 in our review. The tagging service works almost flawlessly, which isn't surprising as it's all Shazam-powered and, with Pure Music, makes for an easy playlist creating tool.
The streaming service works on 3G and Wi-Fi and there are no limits to the amount of devices that you can hook-up to your account. Pure will be monitoring IP addresses though, so you won't be able to share an account with your buddies.
The main event – the desktop player
Looks-wise, the web player looks a bit like Spotify's paler cousin; with a white and grey theme going on. All of the usual ingredients are there, like playlists, recommendations, the ability to share tracks via social networks, email and so on.
In terms of navigating around the client, you're looking at the same point and click based fun that you're probably already accustomed to with the wealth of music players out there now. If you see an artist name that you like click it, and you'll get top tracks, singles, albums and so on. There are recommendation tools on-board too, for similar artists and genres. There's artwork where available and where not, a silhouette of a band looking suspiciously like Oasis. No bios as of yet, but hey – there's always Wikipedia for that type of nonsense.
The front page has a few banners and tiles trying to lure you into certain sections: top tracks of the year, Christmas songs, movie soundtracks, highlighted albums and so forth, and there's also sections for best selling artists and personal recommendations. From within these sections you are still afforded the usual array of options, such as adding tunes to playlists, sharing them or, if available, buying them. Once a song is purchased, or even just added to a playlist – you'll be able to access these on your Pure devices and apps.
There's nothing new about Pure Music's UI and nothing too revolutionary about what's on offer. But it does the job and is a decent standalone browser-based music player which, essentially, works well as a slave to get the tunes you want on your Pure radios and via apps.
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Of the 15 million songs available on the 7Digital-provided catalogue, Pure states that "the vast majority" are streamable and that licensing deals will extend the offerings over time. We didn't have many issues in not being able to find artists that we wanted; we did a test of around 50 artists from a wide genre and time-frame and the majority were all present and correct. However, we must stress here that we've been testing a preview version of the platform and the availability of songs to stream, download or both may differ when Pure Music goes live.
For now, the songs are purchased as DRM-free MP3s encoded at 320kbps that you can move to any computer or MP3 player, and 128kbps MP3 files for streaming. The platform is set to evolve though; we're told that a lossless format will arrive along with launches in more countries - for now it's UK-only.
On Pure radios and the apps
If you've got a Pure radio this is where the fun starts. Because, as well as the old FlowSongs tagging service, and the playback of songs that you've paid for - you can now access Pure Music so long as you cough up your monthly fee.
Yes, it's clunky as hell trying to find anyone using a Pure radio's control options (even on the touchscreen of the Pure Sensia) but if you've already created playlists using the desktop client then you're away.
The mobile apps (iPhone tested) work in much the same way, although it is much easier to find artists, albums and particular tracks obviously. AirPlay worked without an issue as well, although there's no caching, as per Spotify's app, so you'll always need a data connection to stream your music.
It's impossible not to compare Pure Music to Spotify. As much as the company wishes that we wouldn't, and, as such, it's impossible not to mark the digital radio specialist's effort down a touch on the few aspects where it falls a bit short.
Pure Music isn't solely a music streaming service, but that's certainly a large part of it, and as such, it would be nice to see the streams at a better quality than 128kpbs MP3s. Spotify, as a comparison, uses the Ogg Vorbis format for streaming at three quality ratings; q3 (96 kbps), q5 (160 kbps) and q9 (320 kbps) with the top level available for Premium users. As mentioned, there is talk that the quality of the platform's streams would improve over time and we hope this is the case.
The next aspect where the service falls a bit short of its Scandinavian rival is the usability of desktop client. Sure, Pure Music's web based platform is easy enough to use, but the fact that it's web browser-based does mean it comes with certain limitations. You can't carry on streaming a song, for example, and browse for more tunes without the song being cut mid-flow as the page refreshes - although there is a pop-out player to work around this. And if your browser crashes thanks to another rogue tab, it can bring down the whole show.
However, those slight faults shouldn't take away from what is a brilliant service, especially if you're already using Pure's internet radios. The ecosystem, and the fact that you can access and stream tracks on any of your Pure web-connected devices and apps, means that, for half the price you pay for your Spotify subscription, you're getting incredible value for money. Searching for artists and tracks using your Pure radio's interface and controls may be a painful affair, but the fact that you can chuck over playlists from your browser and access your tagged and purchased tracks instantly means that you never really have to do this anyway.
Pure Music definitely has a whiff of "work in progress" about it, but it's still a fantastic platform that will perhaps appeal to first-time streamers, especially those already on-board the Pure bandwagon, rather than tempting existing Spotify fanatics.
Pure Music is due to go live before 2011 is finished, we'd thoroughly recommend that you take it for a spin.


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OML's MC Modular Workholding System uses fixed and movable vise jaws and patented self-locking CLAK parallels to achieve multiple clamping solutions and increased part accuracy with less set up time. Unique features on the MC vise include snap-in, self-locking middle-jaw CLAK parallels that are held in place when the vise is opened in the vertical position, making it ideal for use on tombstones. The CLAK system allows for quick-change of parallels, angular parallels, soft jaws and "V" jaws, making part changeovers and size changes quick and easy. A unique tapered-jaw design pulls the workpiece down against the parallels as the vise is closed, eliminating the need to hammer the part down.
The MC vise is designed for quick changeovers with a moveable clamping jaw that can be lifted from the base, shuttled to the next position and lowered into place for a different size workpiece.Held in place with a toggle locking mechanism, the moveable jaw unlocks from the base with a flip of the wrist.By relocating the clamp jaw close to the workpiece, the length of the clamp screw can be kept short, minimizing jaw distortion under high force. The clamp screw can also be replaced with a hydraulic cylinder for automated operation. The MC vise accommodates jaws with rolls, GRIP jaws, aluminum jaws, middle jaws, jaws with grippers UGE, Plus 3D jaws and floating side-ways for raw workpieces. Various jaw adapters, including one for Kurt jaws, allow the use of legacy vise accessories. Adding to their versatility, the vises are easily transported between machine tools. The 6 in. x 8 in. (150 mm x 200 mm) base with a simple clamping system weighs only 55 lbs. (25 kg).
The base length determines the vise's clamping capacity and the jaws can be used with any base configuration, providing a flexible workholding solution with minimum investment. Bases are 6 in. wide (150 mm) and available in 8 in. (200 mm), 10 in. (250 mm), and 12 in. (300 mm) lengths. An 8 in. (200 mm) x 12 in. (300 mm) base is also available, as well as two extended length MC-XL models, with lengths of 21.5 in. (545 mm) and 26 in. (655 mm).
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|Natural Gas Exploration & Reserves
|Lease Condensate Proved Reserves
|Key Terms
|The volume of proved reserves gained by the purchase of an existing fields or properties, from the date of purchase or transfer.
|The quantity which preserves an exact annual reserves balance within each State or State
subdivision of the following form:
Adjustments + Revision Increases - Revision Decreases - Sales + Acquisitions + Extensions and Discoveries - Report Year Production = Published Proved Reserves at End of Report Year
These adjustments are the yearly changes in the published reserve estimates that cannot be attributed to the estimates for other reserve change categories because of the survey and statistical estimation methods employed. For example, variations as a result of changes in the operator frame, different random samples or imputations for missing or unreported reserve changes, could contribute to adjustments.
|Crude Oil
|A mixture of hydrocarbons that exists in liquid phase in natural underground reservoirs and remains liquid at atmospheric pressure after passing through surface separating facilities. Depending upon the characteristics of the crude stream, it may also include: Small amounts of hydrocarbons that exist in gaseous phase in natural underground reservoirs but are liquid at atmospheric pressure after being recovered from oil well (casinghead) gas in lease separators and are subsequently commingled with the crude stream without being separately measured. Lease condensate recovered as a liquid from natural gas wells in lease or field separation facilities and later mixed into the crude stream is also included; Small amounts of nonhydrocarbons produced with the oil, such as sulfur and various metals; Drip gases, and liquid hydrocarbons produced from tar sands, gilsonite, and oil shale. Liquids produced at natural gas processing plants are excluded. Crude oil is refined to produce a wide array of petroleum products, including heating oils; gasoline, diesel and jet fuels; lubricants; asphalt; ethane, propane, and butane; and many other products used for their energy or chemical content.
|Extensions and Discoveries
|Additions to a county's proved reserves that result from (1) extension of the proved acreage of previously discovered (old) reserves through additional drilling in periods subsequent to discovery and (2) discovery of new fields with proved reserves or of new reservoirs of proved reserves in old fields.
|The reserves credited to a reservoir because of enlargement of its proved area. Normally the ultimate size of newly discovered fields, or newly discovered reservoirs in old fields, is determined by wells drilled in years subsequent to discovery. When such wells add to the proved area of a previously discovered reservoir, the increase in proved reserves is classified as an extension.
|Lease Condensate
|A mixture consisting primarily of pentanes and heavier hydrocarbons which is recovered as a liquid from natural gas in lease separation facilities. This category excludes natural gas plant liquids, such as butane and propane, which are recovered at downstream natural gas processing plants or facilities.
|New Field Discoveries
|The volumes of proved reserves of crude oil, natural gas and/or natural gas liquids discovered in new fields during the report year.
|New Reservoir Discoveries in Old Fields
|The volumes of proved reserves of crude oil, natural gas, and/or natural gas liquids discovered during the report year in new reservoir(s) located in old fields.
|Proved Reserves
|Proved reserves of natural gas as of December 31 of the report year are the estimated
quantities which analysis of geological and engineering data demonstrate with reasonable
certainty to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under existing
economic and operating conditions.
Reservoirs are considered proved if economic producibility is supported by actual production or conclusive formation test (drill stem or wire line), or if economic producibility is supported by core analyses and/or electric or other log interpretations.
The area of a gas reservoir considered proved includes: (1) that portion delineated by drilling and defined by gas -- oil and/or gas -- water contacts, if any; and (2) the immediately adjoining portions not yet drilled, but which can be reasonably judged as economically productive on the basis of available geological and engineering data. In the absence of information on fluid contacts, the lowest known structural occurrence of hydrocarbons is considered to be the lower proved limit of the reservoir.
Volumes of natural gas placed in underground storage are not to be considered proved reserves.
For natural gas, wet after lease seperation, an appropriate reduction in the reservoir gas volume has been made to cover the removal of the liquefiable portions of the gas in lease and/or field separation facilities and the exclusion of nonhydrocarbon gases where they occur in sufficient quantity to reder the gas unmarketable.
For dry natural gas, an appropriate reduction in the gas volume has been made to cover the removal of the liquefiable portions of the gas in lease and/or field separation facilities, and in natural gas processing plants, and the exclusion of nonhydrocarbon gases where they occur in sufficient quantity to render the gas unmarketable.
It is not necessary that production, gathering, or transportation facilities be installed or operative for a reservoir to be considered proved. It is to be assumed that compression will be initiated if and when economically justified.
|Proved Reserves of Lease Condensate
|Proved reserves of lease condensate as of December 31 of the report year are the volumes of lease condensate expected to be recovered in future years in conjunction with the production of proved reserves of natural gas as of December 31 of the report year, based on the recovery efficiency of lease and/or field separation facilities installed as of December 31 of the report year.
|Changes to prior year-end proved reserves estimates, either positive or negative, resulting from new information other than an increase in proved acreage (extension). Revisions include increases of proved reserves associated with the installation of improved recovery techniques or equipment. They also include correction of prior report year arithmetical or clerical errors and adjustments to prior year-end production volumes to the extent that these alter reported prior year reserves estimates.
|The volume of proved reserves deducted from an operator's total reserves when selling an existing field or property, during the calendar year.
|For definitions of related energy terms, refer to the EIA Energy Glossary.
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Indian users recently received DDUAND1 Android 4.2.2 update for Galaxy S Duos 2 and now we have a full guide on how you can update any Galaxy S Duos 2 no matter what the region. Don't expect anything major with this firmware except for a few bug fixes here and there, importantly this firmware will be based on Android 4.2.2. The tutorial below will work on any unlocked Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 user. You can check Samsung KIES and OTA (over-the-air) update system for this firmware as Samsung is continuously pushing this build to newer regions. S7582DDUAND1 firmware is an official firmware by Samsung, not a custom or modified firmware. You can easily update Galaxy S Duos 2 S7582 to DDUAND1 Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean official firmware. We will soon do a complete rooting guide as well for the Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2.
As you continue reading below, we will guide you how to install DDUAND1 Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on Galaxy S Duos 2 S7582 using ODIN. We have also given some tips on how to backup your phone data and have given some other important tips. Don't forget to backup all your apps and personal data as a precaution. These firmwares sometimes factory reset the device hence backing up data is vital if you want to keep it from being lost. Let's continue with the tutorial now.
Disclaimer: All the custom ROMs and firmwares, official software updates, tools, mods or anything mentioned in the tutorial belong to their respective owners/developers. We (TeamAndroid.com) or the developers are not to be held responsible if you damage or brick your device. We don't have you on gun point to try out this tutorial 😉
Android 4.2.2 DDUAND1 Firmware Details:
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Model name: GALAXY S DUOS 2
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Version: Android 4.2.2
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Build date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:33:27 +0000
Product Code: INU
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Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 USB Drivers
You will need to connect your Android phone with the computer. For that, please make sure you have installed the USB drivers for Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 properly. If not, you can download the latest official drivers from our Android USB Drivers section here:
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Done with the USB drivers? Perfect. The tutorial is on the next page, but first, please take a look at the following tips and important points you need to take care of. These are important, as we don't want anyone losing their personal data or apps:
Always backup your important data that you might need after you install a new custom ROM, an official software update or anything else. Make a backup for just in case, you never know when anything might go wrong. See below for some tips on how to backup data:
- Backup your Apps. How? –> How to Backup Android Apps.
- Backup your SMS messages. How? –> How to Backup/Restore SMS Messages.
- Backup Contacts, Gmail and Google Data. How? –> Sync with Google Sync.
- Backup Call History. How? –> How to Backup Call History.
- Backup WhatsApp Messages. How? –> How to Backup/Restore WhatsApp Messages.
- Backup APN Settings: GPRS, 3G, MMS Settings. How? Note down everything from: Settings > Wireless & Networks (More…) > Mobile networks > Access Point Names.
Samsung users can also back up data using Samsung KIES. If you backup data manually, you get more options what to choose from and it is very easy to move data across Android devices from different manufacturers, i.e moving Samsung Galaxy Note backup data to HTC One X.
If you already have a custom recovery (ClockworkMod, TWRP etc.) installed on your phone, we strongly recommend a backup using that as it creates a complete image of your existing phone set up.
A few more optional tips that you should remember:
1. Having problems connecting your Android phone to the computer? You need to enable USB debugging mode. See here: How to Enable USB Debugging — for Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean.
2. Make sure your Android device is charged up to 80-85% battery level. This might help you: How to Check Battery Percentage. Why? Because, if your phone goes off suddenly while installing a custom ROM, flashing an official firmware update or installing mods etc. — your phone might get bricked or go dead permanently. No one wants that, right?
4. Most of the tutorials and how-to guides on Team Android are for factory unlocked Android phones and tablets. We recommend NOT to try our guides if your phone is locked to a carrier, unless we have specified the carrier name or device model.
If you find the above tips useful and they were helpful to you, please consider giving us a +1 or LIKE to thank us!
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When you connect power to your AirPort base station, the status light on the front of the base station flashes green for one second, then glows solid amber while the base station starts up. Afterward, if the base station is set up correctly and can connect to the Internet, the status light glows solid green. If there is a problem, the status light flashes amber.
|Status light
No power
Solid amber
Completing the startup sequence
Solid green
Working normally
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|Startup is complete, but the base station has detected a condition that requires your attention.
Solid blue*
Ready to allow a wireless client to access the network via Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS).
Flashing green*
In some older versions of AirPort Utility, you can choose Flash On Activity from the Status Light pop-up menu in the settings for that base station. Flashing green indicates normal activity.
|Alternating amber/green*
|In some older versions of AirPort Utility, you can select the base station and choose Base Station > Identify from the menu bar, which causes this alternating light sequence. It helps you to identify the selected base station when multiple base stations are available.
* Available on 802.11a/b/g/n models of AirPort Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme.
If the status light flashes amber
These are some typical reasons for the status light to flash amber:
- The base station hasn't been set up, or it was reset and needs to be set up again. Use AirPort Utility to set up your base station.
- A firmware update is available for the base station.
- The base station is set up to use Back to My Mac, but Back to My Mac isn't working or the password is incorrect. As of July 1, 2019, Back to My Mac service is no longer available.
- The base station can't connect to the Internet, such as when Internet service is down at your location, the base station can't acquire an IP address from your primary router, or the WAN Ethernet connection to your router isn't working.
- The base station is set up to wirelessly extend the range of your network, but is too far away from the primary Wi-Fi base station.
- If your base station is an AirPort Time Capsule, its internal hard disk is experiencing an issue that requires repair.
Check base station settings
To resolve an issue related to base station settings, you can either change the setting or tell AirPort Utility to ignore it. Ignoring an issue doesn't resolve it, but causes the status light to stop flashing for that issue.
- Open AirPort Utility, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
- In the AirPort Utility window, click the base station to see a details pop-up with more information about the issue. Either choose the setting to ignore the issue, or click Edit to open the settings window.
- Make any changes needed in settings, then click Update to apply those changes and restart the base station.
Repeat these steps as needed until all settings-related issues are resolved or ignored.
Learn more
- When you connect an Ethernet cable to an Ethernet port of your base station, the status light above that port glows solid green.
- The original 802.11 b/g model of AirPort Extreme Base Station had three status lights, not one. For details, see the AirPort Extreme Base Station User Guide (PDF).


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Other places you shouldn't miss are the castles at Romantic Road, Munich's English Garden and beer halls, the Warehouse City in Hamburg, plus the TV Tower and Animal Garden Frankfurt.
You can also see the best of Germany by joining the exciting events and festivals! If you can handle your liquor, Oktoberfest is your calling. Do you love music and art? Berlin has the Jazzfest and Berlin International Film Festival. And if you want to feel the holiday spirit, there are Christmas markets across the country.
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As someone who relies on trying to create a diverse playlist, week after week, the topic of MUSIC GENRES is one that's dear to my heart. Useful as they are though, identifying genres is a murky and nebulous exercise, open to countless individual interpretations. Just go into any music store and try to establish why Ian Dury's Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll can find itself in pop, rock and alternative, all at the same time, and you'll know what I mean.
In 1979 Malcolm McLaren's art school classmate Robin Scott had a one hit wonder with POP MUZIK, an ironic and mischievous little tune, under his pseudonym, M: "New York, London, Paris, Munich…. everybody's talking 'bout pop music."
According to Bob Seger, today's music doesn't have the same soul. He's feeling nostalgic for some OLD TIME ROCK N ROLL. Sugarhill Gang, on the other hand, are more interested in hip-hop. Their song, RAPPERS DELIGHT, while not the first single to feature rapping, is generally considered to be the song that first made hip hop popular.
Wild Cherry's song PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC is autobiographical in that Wild Cherry was mostly a hard rock outfit. In 1976, however, the Disco era was all the rage and many of the group's loyal followers were asking for more dance songs. And so was born the request: "play that funky music, white boy":
Back in 1970, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground celebrated ROCK & ROLL with their hit song of the same name. By 1977, Bob Marley – together with Steve Tyler & Joe Perry – were giving us three genres for the price of one on ROOTS, ROCK AND REGGAE.
Punk rocker Wreckless Eric took a swipe at the record companies, for the pressure they put on artists to produce a hit single, on POP SONG: "Just a two minute song with a snazzy middle eight." Yeah, that's all they wanted.
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band refuse to take anything too seriously, even the blues. So if you merge music hall and blues, it begs the question: CAN BLUE MEN SING THE WHITES? Our girl Joan Jett is nothing but a rock chick so of course she's going to sing, I LOVE ROCK N ROLL.
Brooklyn rappers Stetsasonic responded to early criticisms of their sampling by releasing TALKIN' ALL THAT JAZZ which used a clever collage of borrowings from the likes of Lonnie Liston Smith and Donald Byrd.
I think Lynyrd Skynyrd may know a little bit about the track, SWAMP MUSIC. This style of music is particular to America's south, particularly Louisiana and Southeastern Texas but it's developed a worldwide following and I, for one, love it.
It's both funny and revealing that The Killers wrote INDIE ROCK N ROLL to poke fun at the pretentious and sterile independent scene in their native Las Vegas, only to find that the song was embraced world-wide as a cheerfully un-ironic anthem. Here they are playing live and sounding great:
The Beatles take Chuck Berry's ROCK N ROLL MUSIC and attack it with such intensity that it seems to symbolise what became known as the British Invasion of the 60's. In total contrast is Wilco's wistful ode to youth on HEAVY METAL DRUMMER, from the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot:
Stevie Wonder 's contribution to this week's topic came in the form of his dedication to Duke Ellington and other jazz greats on SIR DUKE. Arthur Conley did something similar, with his shout out to all the soul icons, on SWEET SOUL MUSIC:
Time for some blues, Creole style, with BOOGIE WOOGIE ZYDECO from Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band. Then it was a great piece of music, that recognises the enormous influence of Jazz on all kinds of music: JAZZ THING from Gang Starr. It's from the soundtrack to the Spike Lee film MO BETTER BLUES, starring Denzel Washington. Absolutely brilliant clip.
There are so many songs that pay tribute to rock n roll that I had to be careful to not let them dominate. But there's one that I couldn't leave out – Ian Dury and the Blockheads with the rock n roll anthem, SEX & DRUGS & ROCK N ROLL. I hate the overuse of the word 'awesome' but in this case, it's warranted – AWESOME!!
A song that merges soul and reggae is the very appropriately named REGGAE GOT SOUL from Toots and the Maytals. There are also loads of songs with Blues in the title, so many in fact that I had to restrain myself in this department too. But if you're going to play one of them, you can't get better than Buddy Guy with THE FIRST TIME I MET THE BLUES. In this clip he performs with bass player David Myers. It's from the film CHICAGO BLUES, made in 1970. Now that's what I call real music.
Bet you thought I wouldn't give classical a mention. Well, Chuck Berry helped me out there with ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN. Here he expresses the desire for rhythm and blues to replace classical music on his local radio station. On this video clip he's having a little bit of fun on a French TV show. Not sure of the year, but the song was recorded in 1956:
Couldn't let disco get away with just a passing mention, so space was made for FRENCH DISKO by Stereolab. The Ramones rescue their disco queen and introduce her to something a bit more rebellious. Now, SHEENA IS A PUNK ROCKER.
We closed the show with a classic from Dire Straits – a song about a jazz band called SULTANS OF SWING.
Love to have your input for next week's show. The theme is FUNNY SONGS: Songs that make you laugh or at least smirk because they are clever and witty. Ooh I'm looking forward to seeing what you send me.
Meanwhile, here's this week's complete playlist:
Pop Muzik – Pop Muzik, M
Old Time Rock N' Roll – Bob Seger
Rappers Delight – Sugarhill Gang
Play That Funky Music – Those Fabulous '70s, Wild Cherry
Rock and Roll – Velvet Underground
Roots, Rock, Reggae – Chant Down Babylon, Bob Marley + Steven Tyler + Joe Perry
A Pop Song – Big Smash, Wreckless Eric
Can Blue Men Sing The Whites? – Cornology [Disc 1], Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
I Love Rock and Roll – Joan Jett
Mambo Italiano – Latin Fever [Disc 1], Shaft
Talkin' All That Jazz – Hed Kandi: Back to Love, Vol. 4 Disc 2, Stetsasonic
Swamp Music – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Indie RnR – Demo, The Killers
Rock And Roll Music – Live At The BBC [Disc 2], The Beatles
Heavy Metal Drummer – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
Sir Duke (Duke Ellington) – Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder
Sweet Soul Music – 60's Soul, Arthur Conley
Boogie Woogie Zydeco – Boogie Woogie Zydeco, Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band
Jazz Thing – Moment of Truth, Gang Starr
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – No Thanks! – The '70s Punk Rebellion (Disc 3), Ian Dury
Soul Makossa – Makossa Man: The Very Best Of Manu Dibango, Manu Dibango
Reggae Got Soul – True Love, Toots & The Maytals
First Time I Met The Blues – Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues – A Musical Journey, Buddy Guy
Roll Over Beethoven – 1956-Rock & Roll Era, Chuck Berry
French Disko – Refried Ectoplasm, Stereolab
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker – All The Stuff (And More), The Ramones
Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
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This Friday, Amber Heard stars in cult director John Carpenter's mental asylum-haunted house thriller "The Ward" - but her experiences there are nothing compared to the terror of squeezing into a bunny suit for her upcoming series "The Playboy Club" (debuting this fall on NBC).
"It's very uncomfortable – I do not recommend it," Heard tells PopcornBiz of her stint in the iconic 60s-era cotton-tailed outfit worn by waitress during the glory years of Hugh Hefner's membership-only nightclubs. "I'm doing 'Playboy Club' because I love the pain of the corsets. No, I'm kidding: Because I'm having a good time, it's the right project for me and a very interesting character. That's why I work on any project."
Despite the rabbit costume's rib-crushing qualities, the 25-year-old actress says while playing Bunny Maureen for the pilot she's become fascinated with the heyday of Hef's hot spots, which spread Playboy magazine's brand from the original Chicago outpost opened in 1960 to a chain of clubs across the globe that endured into the early 1990s and were revived five years ago.
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"What I love so much about the series that there's so much texture in it. I feel like it's a very rich platform," says Heard. "It's full of all these different elements, from music and dance and performance in a classical sense to the crime and sex and love and social revolutions – I mean, everything that was going on at the time! Just the music alone in that era is exciting and fun and different than we have today, so I'm excited on so many different levels about the project. I have very high expectations of it and I hope that it's as wonderful as I think it can be."
Heard's also been doing her homework on the era, and is hoping to get some wisdom from Hef himself. "I haven't spoken to Mr. Hefner about it, but I hear that he's enthusiastic and participating on some level," she explains. "I did meet with Playboy Bunnies from this particular era. and many of them are still working kind of alongside Playboy in more of the white collar side more of the business part of things. But it's fascinating, and when I hear the women talk about it, there's just a lot of warmth and a lot of appreciation."
"I have yet to meet a woman who's bitter about the experience – I'm sure there are, but I have yet to meet them," she says.
The consistent thing the Playboy name's suggested during its nearly six-decade existence is, of course, nudity. So how far can a network series go when it comes to "The Playboy Club's" depiction of the Bunnies' sex lives?
"I don't know," admits Heard, who along with other castmates signed contracts that included nudity clauses. "That's I guess up to the network to decide. I'm sure that they can't push it too far, but having filmed the pilot I can say that it's not very racy. I don't know if they want me to say that, but I don't feel like it's that racy. I'm sure, because they are a network, that they'll go as far as possible."


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GARY GETS WINE: In 2006, with a flipcam and NY Jets bucket Gary began WineLibraryTV which revolutionized the wine world. Today, his irreverent wine reviews currently attract over 90,000 viewers each day and his email queue typically holds 1,000 messages from die-hard fans, self-named "Vayniacs." Gary's cult-like following is the result of his unconventional, often irreverent commentary on wine. Using comical expressions like "Sniffy sniff" and "The Oakmonster," he encourages straightforward wine tasting and debunks wine myths. Wine Library recently launched Cinderella Wine, a wine website which features one wine per day beginning at 9PM EST for 24 hours sold at a severely discounted price. Gary also owns Cork'd, where wine lovers can review, share and discuss wine in a fun, interactive way.
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