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LONDON – Husband and wife team Kurosh Tehranchian and Niki Rokni are feeling their clients' pain. The economic crisis has severely dented the wealth of oil-rich Russia, which makes up more than half the revenue of their fast-growing private jet company, Ocean Sky.
The British-Iranian couple jumped into the Russian private jet market four years ago when it was relatively untapped, finding favor with a few wealthy businessmen who'd pay as much as $10 million a year to have them manage, charter and maintain their private jets, or occasionally sell them new ones. They have around 175, mostly-chartering clients in Russia who arrange trips to Nice or Chambrie. But the 60% plunge in oil prices and slide in other commodities since last summer has forced clients to cut back severely on luxuries. "They had overstretched themselves," says Kurosh, 46. London-heaquartered Ocean Sky booked a 5.6 million pound ($8.9 million) loss last year, on turnover of $100.8 million.
The company is largely debt free, and should weather the downturn, thanks in part to its deep-pocketed backers. The son of a former Russian client named Timur Sardarov owns 49% of the business through his Luxembourg-based investment vehicle Ocean Group International. That fund is managed by Belgian financier Jean Francois Cordeman who has 24% of Ocean Sky; the couple retains 26%.
Maintaining business in Russia isn't just about "numbers on a piece of paper," says Tehranchian, who doesn't speak any Russian. "Culturally it's about getting on with the guy and understanding what he's about." Even before Tehranchian convinced Sardarov to invest in his fledgling jet brokerage in late 2005–then called Aircraft Zone–he was already making headway in the Russian business community. He took his first trip to Moscow in 2004 to meet with luxury travel agents like IntertourRuss and Meridian, which had contacted Aircraft Zone because there were few such domestic firms. Soon he was being referred to Russia's so-called protocol managers, who took care of travel and accommodation arrangements for executives.
Kurosh and Niki then attended aviation exhibitions in Moscow, Geneva and Britain where they had meetings with lawyers and accountants on behalf of their clients, who often preferred indirect negotiations with charter companies like theirs. Pilots, secretaries or existing clients could make referrals — there was no structured way of finding new business. "It was completely random," says Kurosh, and at times strange, with clients cutting $100,000 deals in small apartments rather than their own offices. But every client insisted on absolute confidentiality. If they liked the service, some would grant the Tehranchian's request for a referral. About 10 Russian charter clients referred the firm to new clients for charter in 2004. The Tehranchians offered no discounts or rebates for getting a friend on board–it was enough for a client to be able to boast he had found a good private jet company, Kurosh says.
His most important client was a cold caller. Rashid Sardarov was president of South Urals Industrial Group when he contacted Aircraft Zone in May 2004. He wanted to arrange a flight to Africa, where he had planned a hunting expedition. Sardarov went on to become Ocean Sky's biggest charter customer.
The following year, Sardarov's 23-year-old son, Timur, got talking to Kurosh about a possible investment and suggested the same to his father. (Timur was also a principle investor in the recently-liquidated private equity firm Kronos Capital.) Cue a hasty trip to Moscow by Tehranchian to present an initial plan, and then three months of intense work. By December, the Tehranchians' former client had agreed to invest through his Luxembourg fund Ocean Group, prompting a name change to Ocean Sky. Cordeman, who sells financial services in Russia and who manages the fund, also agreed to come on board as a passive investor.
Not surprisingly, this investment led to some of Kurosh's biggest referrals. In early 2005 Sardarov introduced him to four "extremely wealthy" jet-owners who needed someone to manage their aircraft. Those clients ended up contributing about 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) to the company's profits in 2006, and allowed Ocean to buy two new Challenger 604′s for 23.7 million pounds ($37.7 million) and 25.4 million pounds ($40.4 million). With asset prices still climbing, Tehranchian was able to sell those jets the following year–one for a profit, the other broke even–to trade up for newer models. Meanwhile the big four clients of 2006 liked Ocean Sky's service enough to refer them to yet more of Russia's profligate elite.
Today it's a different world and those exclusive connections aren't enough anymore. That's why Tehranchian is shifting his focus to help cut costs, by convincing his indebted Russian clients to let him manage their aircraft and charter them out.
Kurosh has doubled his trips to Russia since January to one a month. He has kept 24 Russian clients whose jets he has under management happy by supporting their negotiations with private banks (mostly in Switzerland) to refinance their jets. Then he flouts his ability to bulk-buy and cut down a client's costs of running a jet to say, $2 million a year from $5 million. Crews, parking fees (particularly in London and Moscow) and maintenance can cost some up to $10 million a year.
Ocean Sky also has its own huge expenses: it pays around 15 million pounds ($23.8 million) a year to run the six, mostly heavy jets it owns–as well as $8 million a year to finance those jets. But revenues from managing aircraft doubled to 30% of their total sales this year.
Management itself is a zero-margin business that acts as a gateway to chartering for clients. Half of all Ocean Sky's charter business–which give much healthier margins of 15%–comes from the jets it manages for Russian clients. Whenever Ocean Sky charters a client's jet, it gets 20% of the subsequent revenues.
Maintenance and flight handling in U.K. airports Luton, Prestwick and Manchester are also a consistent business for Ocean Sky, each making up around 12% of revenues; jet sales are now nil, though last year they represented 7% of revenues and offered a 1% margin.
Tehranchian is a long-time entrepreneur. Born in Tehran, his family moved to Britain in 1975, four years before the Iranian Revolution, intending to just stay for an education. After graduating from London University's Queens Mary College with a degree in electronic engineering and computer science, he got a job at IBM, then set up his own IT wholesale business which he sold to a venture capital firm in 1999. He then established an online pharmaceutical company to sell prescription medicines–he bet correctly that the government would legalize online sales of prescription drugs and sold that business to IMS Health. He used the windfall to set up a private equity firm, before Niki, who'd been working with an aircraft consultancy firm, got him in brokering private jets. "I blame all this on her," he says.
Ocean Sky is expanding its business outside Russia and planning to open three airport handling agents in Western Europe this year-probably by acquisition. Earlier this year the firm took over a handling agent space in Luton that was left vacant by Harrods, giving them access to England's wealthy South East region and offering charter clients a 40-minute drive to Park Lane, London. Last year Niki ramped up the firm's marketing efforts and secured a product placement gig with the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, which featured eight of Ocean Sky's managed or own jets, along with the logo and actor Daniel Craig booking a flight with one of its handling agents.
Now, to stay airborne amid the turbulence. A month ago the Tehranchians and their investors put another 32 million pounds ($50.9 million) into the business. "We wanted to send a signal that we don't need to raise [more capital]," says Kurosh. He also wants the market to know he has a war chest to make acquisitions, and is forecasting a swing back to profit of 3.6 million pounds ($5.7 million), on turnover of $119 million. If the connections don't provide the thrust they once did, at least the new funds should keep the wind at his back.


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Stop Feeling Guilty about Every Mistake
Don't Let Toxic Guilt Wipe Out Your Willpower-- By Dean Anderson, Behavioral Psychology Expert
Does this story sound familiar to you? You're doing pretty well sticking within your calorie range until that box of candy shows up in the office, or all heck breaks loose and the only way to squeeze in lunch is at the local fast food joint. You give in to the candy or the double cheeseburger with fries and after that, things really go downhill. You start off feeling a little guilty, and the next thing you know, you're eating everything in sight and telling yourself you'll start over tomorrow, or next week, or…
So, what's really going on here? Were you just standing in the wrong line when they were handing out will power? Not too likely. Do you have some deep, subconscious desire to not lose weight that compels you to sabotage yourself? Possibly, but probably not. Most likely, the problem is that you went on a toxic guilt trip.
The Difference Between Healthy Guilt & Toxic Guilt
Don't get me wrong here. I'm all for an appropriate level of guilt. It lets you know when you're letting yourself (or someone else) down, and reminds you that your impulses are not the most important things in the universe. But there's guilt, and then there's GUILT.
The main difference between healthy guilt and its toxic cousin is a matter of when you feel it. Appropriate guilt is the kind you feel before you do something you don't want to do, while things are still in the thinking-about-it stage and there is still a chance you can choose not to do the thing that makes you feel guilty.
We psychologists refer to this as having a conscience, and it is a very helpful thing. It's so helpful that it always amazes me that you hear so little about it in discussions about weight loss.
Most of us have a good conscience when it comes to treating other people decently—we routinely expect it of ourselves and others. But when it comes to treating ourselves decently by eating well and exercising and refusing to verbally abuse ourselves when we aren't perfect…POOF! The most powerful weapon you have in your arsenal for getting yourself to act the way you want to suddenly becomes off-limits.
This might not be such a bad thing, if it meant you could get rid of the disabling, toxic guilt that comes with having an overactive, perfectionistic conscience. But that's not what happens. In fact, just the opposite happens.
When you routinely push aside the little voice in your head that tells you, for your own sake, that you may want to think twice about eating that candy or double cheeseburger, it doesn't go away. It just moves a couple of steps further down the chain of events and gets even louder. Now, instead of hearing that voice before you act, you don't hear it until after you've already done the thing you might not really have wanted to do. Instead of a gentle voice reminding you to think before you act, it's screaming at you about what you already did wrong and what a jerk you are. This compels you to spend way too much time worrying about why you keep doing this sort of thing, and getting down on yourself to the point that you become your own worst enemy. This is toxic guilt, and it is not your friend.
Fortunately, the solution to the problem of toxic guilt is really quite simple, at least in theory. All you have to do are three simple things:
When that quiet, nagging voice in your head starts saying that you are about to do something it doesn't approve of, listen to it. Stop what you're doing for a few moments to ask yourself, "Is this what I really want to do?"
If you agree with the voice, decide not do the thing in question. If you disagree, decide to do it. And if you're not sure (or if you halfway want to and halfway don't), try to postpone your decision (and action) until you've had a chance to sort things out a little more.
- After you've made your decision, act! Then take a few more seconds to notice how you feel about what you just did. Nothing fancy here, no psychoanalyzing yourself, no reading yourself the riot act if you didn't do what you wanted. Just note what you decided, what you actually did, and how you felt afterwards. File this in the memory banks for future reference.
This is NOT true. The little voice is there, you just aren't hearing it because you're more accustomed to your louder toxic guilt.
To train yourself to hear the little voice before it's too late, just keep practicing the three steps above until it becomes second nature to STOP and ASK yourself what you really want to do before you act. Once your conscience knows you are making the effort to listen again, it will move back up to its proper place in the chain of events.
If you find this very hard to do, you may also need to work on staying grounded in the moment and managing the particular situations that trigger mindless eating for you. Here are a few articles that might help:
De-Stress in 3 Minutes or Less
3 Ways to Stop Negative Thinking
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ah, and I just looked carefully at the scan you linked (from darkplataform). The stuff about Sheryl and Ranka was pretty much copied word for word to 2ch, and you can see the heading for "Whether Alto lives or not" in the bottom right corner. So it should be genuine - the only question being which magazine it was in, and if you don't mind checking... m(_ _ )m
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Is this offtopic? XD; It pertains the second movie...
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Is the scan anywhere yet? I thought I'd look at my usual magazine news source/blather for information on the official book and she didn't have anything interesting to say. But then again she's a bigger Gundam fan than a Macross fan so she might have just not cared...
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Still, it doesn't really make sense to me why they'd work so hard on making the ending relatively ambiguous, only to crush that ambiguity in an anime magazine interview. Although the interview is still rather ambiguous... EDIT: I'll join the others in not understanding why CrowKenobi declares this off-topic. |
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^ Probably for the same reason why they left the triangle "open" to the movies (even if the "winner" was kind of obvious?): buy more merchandise.
It seems to me everything got progressively less and less grim. The OST (with May'n claims), Kawamori's interview, Sheryl manga and the Sheryl Visual collection FINAL. That way there's a more sweet than bitter ending without reducing the impact of the movie ending.
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But you don't get the point. The audience doesn't have to leave happy, but they have the right to leave sure what the hell happened! In the end, all loose strings must be pulled and the story concluded. The series DID it, with everything, except the triangle: Grace died, Howard Glass died. Grace died. Sheryl lived, Alto lived. Michel died. Klan lived. THAT'S what normal ending means, and it wouldn't be less normal if Sheryl died (I wrote about it earlier). More tragic, but just as normal. But the movie has NO CONCLUSION! We don't know what happens to Alto, don't know what happens to Sheryl. We aren't even sure what happened to Brera. And, the living room elephant, we don't know what happeden to MACROSS GALAXY and what it will do. Nothing is resolved, everything is dangling. This usually only happengin a sequel hook (like, say, Episode 24 of the series) and never in the end that is worth its name. Bu putting this in the end, Kawamori basically broke everything - like a cook that can make most delicious meals but feels compelled to add a opiece of shit to each. And this cannot be resolved by us writing something... Quote:
See, IF he had stated "Series is the highest canon, what really happened. Everything else is just in-universe reimagining." - like most productions do ("Primary canon is main canon"), everbody would be happy. Or if he had stated "Movie is just as canon as series, but other stuff (like 'Kiss In the Galaxy' manga and this fighter spec) are canon too", everbody would be also happy. But what DOES he do? He promotes movies - the one source with most ending uncertainities and unresolved doubts - as equal canon to series (and implicitly as higher canon than series: it came late and other materials are centered around it, rather than series), while simultaneously giving many almost-clear-but-never-clear-enough hints about how the story ended (see interview - couldn't he just say whether Sheryl awoke or not? ), AND decanonifying everything that would give us answer (like this fighter spec and aforementioned manga, which I recall he declared lower than movies). And since he is doing that repeatedly, people get mad and want to yell at him: "Stop this bloody game of unclear hints! Tell us how the story ended already! Or, if you cannot do that, at least stand back and don't decanonify (= declare nonexistent) those sources who do!" THAT'S what is so EVIL about his ending: he produces movie that, according to all dramatic laws is unfinished, doesn't finishes it himself in his interviews and prevents everybody else from finishing it by putting those non-canon disclaimers in their works. He is like somebody who builds a pretty and strong castle but never builds one of the walls, even though all the plans for it are there, AND uses explosives of "non-canon" to blast everything other people try to build to finish the wall. And that's why it doesn't matter how many endings WE create (FFNet has quite a lot). As long as Kawamiri stands guard and never allows any decisive info to become canon, the story is unfinished and thus butchered. And this AFTER it was basically finished in the series. With almost any western productiom, I'm sure executives would pick an ending (a REAL ending I mean) to be canon, but... Quote:
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In fact wouldn't Ranka be more likely than Sheryl to lose her affection towards Alto due to it happening when she was sixteen, and being turned down, then with Sheryl in a coma and Alto not around. I imagine that Ranka would have met someone in that time period and fallen in love with them. Wouldn't that be more in character for movie Ranka? *critiquing your fic ideas* |
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And considering that Sheryl does in fact wake up and Alto returns your point is once again moot. |
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So.. This thread is a little bit scary...
I don't know if it's been answered yet, but any ideas on when the Blu Ray or the DVD comes out? Sorry if it's been answered but judging by some of the above... I don't want to read some of these conversations.... I'll have to wait to see the actual thing first. Then I'll pass final judgement. Last edited by Foreshadow; 2011-05-04 at 16:12. |
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But after deliberating Thursday afternoon and this morning, the panel of eight women and four men also found both men guilty of recklessly endangering another person.
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Mr. Howze was additionally found guilty of aggravated assault and Mr. Peterson was found guilty of illegally possessing a firearm.
Both defendants testified in their own defense Thursday and said what happened that afternoon started out as a fistfight.
Mr. Peterson said that when he saw Jamel Terry walking down the street, he felt rage. Mr. Peterson claimed Mr. Terry attacked him several weeks earlier and broke his jaw.
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There was a tussle over the weapon, and police said Mr. Howze fired at Mr. Terry.
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FHOSTER has joined a consortium leaded by BOC GmbH and ATOS Spain SA, to file a proposal to the European Commission, answering call H2020-ICT-2014-1 (Industrial Leadership) of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme.
The proposal is focused on topic ICT-07-2014 (Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services) and it aims at creating a platform, named "Cloud-Socket", to fill the gap between business needs (defined as business process models) and the cloud services publicly available. In fact, despite the increasing number of "digital natives" now entering the workforce, there is still a huge gap between the business and ICT domains in terms of awareness, common understanding and expertise.
The Cloud-Socket platform basically includes a business-process-modeling environment, a marketplace of public cloud services, and a match-making algorithm using ontology mappings and other techniques to select the best compatible implementations for any given business process.
In this context, our concept of Cloudlet (i.e. autonomous & reusable piece of cloud service generated automatically from a high-level, conceptual and semantically-rich model) has been embraced by the consortium and has been used in the proposal as a key element of the overall Cloud-Socket concept.
Within the consortium, FHOSTER will provide the model-driven environment allowing developers to easily create semantically-annotated cloud services (i.e. extended cloudlets). The idea is to simplify and democratize the creation of robust and interoperable cloud services that the Cloud-Socket platform could natively evaluate and match with business process models.
During the project, should the proposal be accepted, we will extend the Livebase modeling environment and code generator to explicitly (and visually) support business-process-modeling. We will also extend the cloudlet framework to support the OASIS CAMP standard.
Today we'll be in Padua, at the VSIX annual convention. The VSIX is the Neutral Access Point (NAP) of North-East Italy, promoting the usage of the Internet and of cloud services in the region. We'll be at the convention with ICOA, one of the System Integrators we are partnering with, to deliver ad-hoc, agile solutions based on our Livebase cloud platform. We will have a small demo area, so come visit us. The convention is held at the NH Hotel Mantegna, via N, Tommaseo 61, Padua.
There is little doubt that we are at the beginning of an industrial revolution, where software development (and even some "hardware" development, if you consider the quick growth of "makers" and 3D printing technologies) is going to be more and more accessible to people who do not have a professional expertise in the field.
VentureBeat recently posted a very interesting article on cloud-based application development tools. We are not (yet) listed as one of the top 10 worldwide, but one thing is sure: the industry is growing fast, and platforms like Livebase really have a huge potential.
With 60 hospitals involved, over 11.000 patients tracked and 10+ years of data on each patient (blood/urine analysis, vital parameters, genetic markers, therapies, life style, environmental factors, etc.) Livebase is getting, year after year, a reference platform for cloud-based clinical research.
On November 20th, in Milan, we'll present our recent achievements and future perspectives at the Filarete Healthy Startups Week. We'll also talk about a major study on HIV run on Livebase by ICONA Foundation since 2011, and a clinical trial on a special combination of drugs run by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
Fondazione Filarete promotes and integrates itself with a network of companies, researchers and institutions operating in the fields of life sciences and health in order to support the innovation processes of SMEs through value-added services and technology and knowledge transfer.
A very interesting article from CARY LANDIS.
"History is full of vastly underestimated technologies that unexpectedly transformed industries. […] Is it possible that platform-as-a-service is one of those underestimated technologies? It's more than possible – it's probable, and here are a few good reasons why".
Chiara Feriotto, from the University of Ferrara, will present an information system developed with our Livebase platform at the Digital Heritage International Congress 2013 (Oct 28 – Nov 01, Marseille). The system is the result of a collaboration between Fhoster and TekneHub (one of the four Laboratories of the Tecnopole of Ferrara), which also involved Michela Biancardi, Ursula Thun Hohenstein and Marzia Breda.
In Italy, the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD) rules the cataloguing of the rich and articulated Italian Cultural Heritage through a complex system of shared methodology and formats.
ICCD established different catalogue datasheets for each typology of Cultural Good, providing also detailed instructions to fill them. However, the computer assisted process necessary to the management of these complex datasheets (in some cases up to nearly 500 fields) is inadequate.
TekneHub carried out a survey to analyse problems and needs through all the steps of the cataloging activity, thus drawing a precise picture of the issues to be addressed. As a result of this study, Fhoster has been selected as the reference technological partner to start a pilot project trying to address the issues.
The unique model-driven approach of the Livebase platform allowed Fhoster and TekneHub to quickly test many alternative designs to match the ICCD datasheet chosen as a test (Naturalistic Palaeontological Goods – form BNP 3.01), and to implement specific functions to facilitate the cataloguing activity.
As a test bed, the Geological Museum "Capellini" offered all the paper entry catalogue of its collection of fossil fish from the Middle Eocene of Bolca (Vicenza, Italy). The application interface has been shaped taking into account consistency and intuitiveness.
The application created on the Livebase platform strongly improves the efficiency of the cataloguing activity and, at the same time, allows a quick and effective query of the catalogue through basic and advanced filters, and it's still compliant with the complex Italian cataloguing standards.


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I just received my M2tech Evo from TweekGeek. Ships w a regular 9V wall wart. (I'll upgrade that asap).
Comparing it to my HiFace - the Evo is a significant step up in SQ. I run it straight into my PS Audio PW Dac. With the Hiface, there was no contest - my PWT Transport had way more depth, wider soundstage and more bass. With the EVO (Illuminati D60, XLR), the difference between the Transport (running I2S) into the PWD becomes MUCH smaller. (So much that my Transport is up for sale -lol). This is without "break in" and the standard wall wart.
If you have a fairly resolving system and running a HiFace, I would recommend giving the EVO a try.
Have you had a chance to try a battery based supply? Battery supplies have been known to improve the output signal quality of such devices.
You notice a major upgrade from the Hiface to the Evo?


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Public Psychiatry Fellowship Goals and Objectives
The Public Psychiatry Fellowship Program offers advanced training for you to develop the knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, and attitudes essential to the practice of public psychiatry.
Clinical experience, along with managerial, administrative, and research experiences, will prepare you to:
- Establish strong therapeutic alliances with consumers of services.
- Formulate systems-based analyses of a variety of clinical problems.
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Ticket #11157 (closed defect: obsolete)
Page fusion cause Guru Meditation on Windows 7 x64
Reported by: | noteirak | Owned by: | |
Priority: | major | Component: | other |
Version: | VirtualBox 4.2.4 | Keywords: | page fusion guru windows |
Cc: | Guest type: | Windows | |
Host type: | Linux |
When creating at least two VMs with Windows 7/2008 x64 and having them running at some point together, they always end up in Guru Meditation after doing random things (logoff the user, lanch applications, crash others). There is obviously some memory sharing/corruption issues.
The guests have the 4.2.4 additions installed and I can reproduce this crash at will on a Windows 7 x64 and Linux Debian based x64 aswell.
I have tried with and without large pages on. This bug was already in previous versions (at least from 4.1.x).
I will post a minidump & coredump ASAP.
Change History
comment:1 in reply to: ↑ description Changed 4 years ago by noteirak
To make it clear : this bug happens on linux & windows x64 hosts with a windows 7 & 2008 x64 guests.
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by noteirak
Some update on this :
I cannot recreate this bug under Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome3.
I cannot recreate this bug under Debian Wheezy with testing packages.
I can recreate the behaviour (but not a guru meditation) under Windows 7 64 bits SP1 host with two Windows 7 64 bits SP1 guests.
What I did in order :
- Created 2 VMs
- Installed Windows 7 (rebooted several times)
- Installed the 4.2.4 additions
- Rebooted after additions install
- Shutdown of the VMs.
- Take a snapshot (this bug caused my VDI to get corrupted several times which stopped windows to boot)
- Enabled page fusion on both VMs.
I have then started both VMs and simply waited for them to boot.
The first one was extremely slow to boot, the second rebooted.
Once both VMs were booted, they frooze from time to time for while, programs like IE, Notepad and Explorer got display artfacts (not displaying a part of the window was always happening) until they both crashed with a BSOD.
Finally, the VM 02 gave up, explorer crashed with a memory read/write error and went berzek by constantly sending garbadge on the vNIC.
You will find two zips (VM01.zip & VM02.zip) both with the vbox.log aswell as the minidumps from the BSOD. You will also find a screenshot of VM 02 with the memory error.
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by noteirak
Update : the same behaviour also happens with only one VM with page fusion ON and both VMs running.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by noteirak
Added another run, zip is above. The scenario and behaviour :
- Start VM01, login to desktop, wait until disk is "idle".
- Start VM02, login to desktop, wait until disk is "idle".
- With VM01, go with IE on google, search for youtube, go on it take any video, start playing.
- With VM02, go with Chrome on google, search for youtube, go on it take any video, start playing.
- VM01 guest froze and rebooted.
- VM02 guest froze but never came back alive anymore, process was stuck at 17% CPU, had to poweroff the VM.
comment:5 Changed 8 months ago by aeichner
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to obsolete
Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.


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Any thought about life jackets that double as fishing vests?
Any thought about life jackets that double as fishing vests?
Last edited by scotthen; 09-13-2012 at 10:15 AM.
I think they're a great idea if you're fishing dangerous water.
Wondered about this myself. Getting older and a bit worried about fishing alone. What about the inflatable ones?
The inflatable pfd's are very comfortable but you are going to have to find the ripcord and be able to pull it. With an automatic actuator you are going to get actuation if you slip and get it wet. A local friend had one stored in his garage that actuated from ambient humidity. I had an incident last year where I reached for my cord and did not find it immediately and went back to kicking and clawing until I encountered land. I ahve since added a much large and I hope easier to find, fob on the end of the actuator cord. THe version I have has 4 nice sized pockets each large enough to hold a flybox but it is not really a vest.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Mark Twain
There are some auto-inflatable pfd's that don't inflate when they just get wet. They require a change in pressure from a few inches of water. They are supposed to be a lot more reliable than those that activate from just being wet. They are a lot more expensive and I don't think they are made in a fishing vest model.
When I was a lot younger there were a couple of fellows that were supposed to be "top paddlers" in the coutry that drowned on easy rivers. Looking at stats on easy rivers most of the drownings are people that were drinking with out life jackets. If the canoe flips self rescue is SO much easier with a life jacket. Finally if I'm in the water I would like to hang on to my rod/reel which is difficult if swiming with hands
Last year I flipped my Fishcat float tube, a very stable platform, I can assure you my fishing rods were not thought of untils sometime down stream. I lost two in a very few seconds. I have since learned a very small amount of white water can have a very large force behind it.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Mark Twain
If you are in fairly good shape, and can swim ... then I'd recommend one of the inflatable "life belts". They aren't considered adequate fro boating, but they will float you long enough to reach shore from a slip in the river. When I am wade fishing, I also have a floating key fob attached to my rod/reel. They are available at any marine store like West Marine or Boats USA. They will float a fishing rod, although they can get drug under in snag thick water.
"Give advice when asked. Give praise when appropriate. Give discipline when needed. Give respect always."
Not really a fan. All that crap jutting out can catch and hinder your re-entry or snag on strainers. Keep your pfd streamlined. Even my whistle is on a very short piece of line on my shoulder strap. No knives or any crap on the outside. I'll put a small box inside my shirt pocket under my pfd or toss it on the floor of the ham if not in my milk crate.


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- Anonymous8:39 PM, July 21, 2009
Err what? The aortic valve supplies blood to the heart? When did they change that? I didn't get the memo...and praytell how would he hit the aortic valve while doing a chole? Do these people have fact checkers?
ReplyDelete I'm not sure if cutting the aorta is something that's a result of carelessness or negligence or within the reaml of possibility. To me the travesty was that they waited to get the man to a vascular surgeon.
Was it a clipboard problem? Had to dot all the I's and cross the T's so it took over 5 hours. Or more like they couldn't get anyone to come in because he was Tricare?
If they had transported him right away couldn't they have had a good chance of saving his legs?"DOH!!!!!!!" Jeez I know the Military's hard up for Surgeons, but who let Homer Simpson in the OR??? Anyway, Uncle Sugar's covered, if you check the fine print on the Consent Form you'll see they don't guarantee you won't suffer loss of LIMBS or life... Poor Guy'll even have to pay for his uniforms to be altered....
ReplyDeleteThis young man's grand parents are in my Sunday School class. Needless to say, the family has been devastated by this event.
Clearly, the Air Force surgeon waited too long to transfer the young man to an appropriate treating facility.
When first heard the story a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't help but wonder how much the red-tape associated with EMTALA (calling the accepting hospital, waiting to get through the transfer center, waiting for the accepting doc to "approve" the transfer, waiting for return phone calls, making copies of the records to accompany the patient, waiting on appropriate transport, etc) added to the delay.
Anyone who has ever tried to transfer a patient knows of what delays I speak. I have personally had two patients bleed to death waiting for receiving hospitals to quit jerking me around.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the Air Force, I'm just wondering if EMTALA regulations added to the problem.- Anonymous1:44 AM, July 22, 2009
I've taken care of pts who recieved care at David Grant. Have not been too impressed with the care they've provided. They had a recently minted vascular surgeon, not sure where he is now...might have been activated and sent to the mid-east.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous7:28 PM, July 22, 2009
I assumed they meant the aorta, obviously. However, the aorta does not supply the heart either (again, obviously). Strike two!
ReplyDelete - Anonymous8:35 PM, July 23, 2009
That should have read aortic valve...a valve does not literally supply the heart, the aorta does yes. It was a typo. Clearly the aorta in question supplied the patients legs and was therefore nowhere near the aortic valve.
It is simple anatomy that could have been verified by someone prior to publication of the article.
And I won't "five up" my day job...I quit primary care years ago.


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What is this page?
This is a collection guide. It is a description of archival material held in the Special Collections Division, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. The materials described here are physically available in our reading room. To see what's been digitized in this collection, click on the thumbnail at the top right of this page or look for hyperlinks in the container list and/or the preliminary inventory.
The earliest letters (1829-1857) are directed to John Herritage Bryan and primarily concern legal matters. Topics discussed include land boundary disputes, a suit relating to the ownership of slaves, stock in the Bank of New Bern (1833), trespass cases, assault indictments, estate settlements, a guardianship trial (May 1839), and a power of attorney (1863). The strength of the Whig candidate in the upcoming election (August 1854) is also noted.
Letter abstracts (1836-1838) concerning the firm of Tannahill & Lavender near Washington, N.C., document arrangements with John Myer of Washington for shipping large quantities of turpentine and tar. The abstracts likely are related to a deed (April 1837) between Tannahill & Lavender and Bryan Grimes and others in which Tannahill & Lavender relinquished control of its turpentine distillery and other properties.
A major topic of correspondence in the Grimes-Bryan Papers concerns the Civil War. Among Martha Conrad's frequent correspondents were her two brothers, Leander Gwinn Hunt and William "Bud" Hunt, and another relative, P. L. Hunt. William died in the fighting around Richmond (June 1864). P. L. Hunt, a private in the 42nd Regiment, North Carolina Troops, tells of guard duty, attempts to find deserters and an attempt to raise a company of boys under eighteen years of age for the defense of N.C. (March 1864). L. G. Hunt, a graduate of medical school in Philadelphia, was assistant surgeon for the 27th Regiment N.C. Troops. War news is his principal topic and he mentions a stabbing at Fort Macon and the readiness for war of the soldiers there (May 1861). The movement of government stores from Richmond by train and withdrawal of the civilian population from the area was noted by several relatives (May 1862). Other topics discussed are fighting around Richmond and provisions for treating the wounded (June 1862, June 1864); the Burnside Expedition in Beaufort Co. and the defense of Washington, N.C. (1862); the Army of the Potomac falling back from Manassas (March 1862); the battle of New Bern (April 1862); the Union capture of New Orleans (April1862); camp life of the 21st N.C. Infantry Regiment at Camp Hill including betting on horse races in Danville, Va. (July 1861); typhoid fever at Camp Lee, Va. (August 1862); victory at Fredericksburg (December 1862); a battle at Goldsboro (January 1863); duty in eastern North Carolina and Virginia (1861-1864); the anticipated attack on Richmond (June 1863); and A. P. Hill's responsibility for Confederate losses at Bristol Station, Va. (November 1863). The death of William Hunt in the battle of Richmond (June 1864); the number of Yankee prisoners and wagons taken at Decatur, Ga., and hopes of Gen. Hood winning over Sherman in Atlanta (July 1864); the necessity of Gen. Early's falling back from Fisher's Hill to New Market, Va. (September 1864); the scarcity of food in the Confederacy and the high prices of local goods (1862-1864); speeches given to the troops by N.C. Gov. Vance (April 1862); the troops not being paid for six months (July 1864); and a request to have a Confederate flag made for Co. A of Martin Co. Volunteers by the ladies of Williamston (May 1861) are also mentioned.
Annie Sparrow Lewis, daughter of Captain Thomas Sparrow of Washington, N.C., discusses in her "Recollections of the Civil War" Captain Sparrow's service and capture at Fort Hatteras, his imprisonment at Fort Warren, Massachusetts, and his service in North Carolina after his release from prison. Mrs. Lewis also describes life in Union-held Washington, N.C., Confederate attempts to regain the town, and her family's eventual flight to the Confederate lines.
Slavery- and Civil War-related topics discussed in the correspondence include the purchase of land and slaves (July 1853); the easiness of slave labor compared to the workload of "hired girls" (November 1853); a Guilford Co., N.C., Negro who sold himself into slavery (March 1861); a northern schoolteacher living in Stokes Co. who married a slave owner and detested abolitionists (September 1860); the whipping of a slave (November 1863); Congressman Wood's (NY) peace plan (December 1863); the scarcity of cloth (June, July 1861, November 1864), prices for bunch cotton and having wool spun (October 1862), and the acquisition of leather for shoes (October 1862); and John Wheeler Moore's preparation of the Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States (February, July 1880).
Education is a recurrent topic throughout the collection. L. G. Hunt, while a student at Wake Forest College (1856-1857), wrote home about the cold weather, the need to purchase wood for a fire in the room, preaching, and ice-skating. The following year, Hunt moved to Philadelphia to begin the study of medicine and describes both his boarding house and Christmas parties (1858). Finishing his studies in New Orleans, La., he describes prices there (1859). Other correspondence mentions a Bethel, Ga., schoolteacher's salary and amount of vacation (1858), and student life and behavioral problems at Salem Female Academy in Forsyth Co., N.C. (1863, 1868, 1870). A letter (1906) written to Hon. John Humphrey Small of Washington, N.C., concerns Small's interest in improving the local public school system and lists publications related to public education in the South. The nature of the Washington Public Schools is reflected in the system's annual reports (1897-1898 through 1923-1924) that had been in the possession of John Humphrey Small at one time.
A series of letters from Marlin, Texas (1873), describes the settlement of the state, the price of improved land, planting, the heat and the dry season, labor and wages, and the necessity of shipping building lumber from east Texas. In later correspondence he discusses a campaign in Marlin (1876). Joel Hill describes his stay in Washington, D.C., and its environs (1876, 1878) including his boarding arrangements, the meeting room of the Committee on Indian Affairs and various government buildings, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Botanical Gardens. He also mentions the cost of living there in terms of salary and expenses. In 1877 he elaborates on corrupt politics and a dispute over the election of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Much of the correspondence of General Bryan Grimes (1867-1880, undated) reflects the nature of his farming enterprises. Letters to and from Robinson, McLeod & Co. and Dancy, Hyman and Co. of New York City, concern the cotton market (1871, May 1880) and Grimes's sales of cotton. Other letters concern the peanut market (November-December 1871), Grimes's order of lumber from Martinique (February 1879), insurance coverage for cotton destroyed by fire (April 1879), a North Carolina Supreme Court case affecting Grimes, which involved a bridge and a free ferry (1879), the need for a mail route in the vicinity of Gardners Crossroads in Pitt Co. (February 1880), and the whereabouts and work of artist William Garl Browne (February, July 1880). The contest between Daniel G. Fowle and Thomas J. Jarvis for the Democratic N.C. gubernatorial nomination is described in some detail (1879-1880), and a letter from Henry R. Bryan to Grimes concerns Grimes's wife Charlotte's portion of her father's legacy (August 1871).
Social activities and events are noted throughout the correspondence including invitations to a July Fourth party (1843); a marriage proposal (1851); a trip to White Sulpher Springs resort (1855); holiday parties and preparations (1859, 1873-1874); fashions in Jefferson Springs, Tennessee (1867), Philadelphia (1853), and New Orleans (1860); weddings and births; candy pulling (1863); and picnics (1866, 1874).
Illnesses noted in the correspondence include cholera and bilious colic (1855), yellow fever (1855, 1859), typhoic fever (1859, 1861-1862), alcoholism (1861), cancer (1861, 1873), diphtheria (1862), asthma (1873), whooping cough and measles (undated), and a yellow fever quarantine between Galveston, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana (1873).
Other Conrad correspondence concerns Greenwood Cemetery, omnibus travel, wickedness, filth, and the theatre in New York City (November 1853); the application process for officers in a new cavalry unit (December 1853); the Company Shops community of the North Carolina Railroad (February 1859); theaters, wickedness, yellow fever, and women in New Orleans (December 1859-January 1860); instances of babies being found dead in Haw River and in a gold mine (April 1862); poor tobacco prices, scarcity of corn, bad roads, and friendly people in Burnsville, N.C. (July 1876); building a bridge in Washington, N.C., and eliminating a free ferry (1866); Reconstruction effects on the economy (1866, 1868); Negro voting preferences and the prevalence of Radicalism in Davidson Co. (May 1868); complaints of oppressive taxation in the South (1868); and flower gardening practices at Oakville, N.C. (April 1889, November 1899).
Papers relating to the legal career of John H. Bryan (1823-1861) include legal briefs, notes, bills of complaint, Beaufort County trial dockets (1832), receipts for Craven County court cases, testimony of witnesses, and reports. Cases pertain to a variety of civil and criminal proceedings in Onslow, Craven and Beaufort counties and include divorce proceedings, settlements of estates, land disputes, slave ownership disputes, and trespass, assault and murder cases.
The collection also contains transcripts of testimony given in the case of State vs. William Parker concerning the assassination of General Bryan Grimes (December 7, 1880). A clipping (1990) contains an article on Grimes.
Biographical and genealogical sketches pertain to the Grimes and Sparrow families and the Washington, N.C., area. The sketch of Charlotte E. Grimes, widow of General Grimes, tells of her childhood in Raleigh, the Civil War years, her marriage, and life at Grimesland after the Civil War. Also included is a genealogical essay on the Shepard family of North Carolina, a speech by Dr. D. T. Tayloe of Washington containing his reflections on his life as a country doctor (1930), essays (1860s) primarily written by Albert C. Wharton perhaps while at Davidson College, and a report card (1868) from Davidson College.
A separate file of Bryan Grimes material contains correspondence (1867-1880) already described, financial accounts (1871-1880), tenant farmer indentures (1874), and miscellaneous items.
Volumes in the collection relate to finances. The account book of a Pitt Co., N.C., doctor (March-October 1860) lists persons visited and charges made. A ledger (1808-1810) belonging to W. Shaw, probably of Beaufort County, constitutes a record of sales of foodstuffs, liquor, cloth, paper, shoes, and other goods. General Grimes's cashbook (1872) lists cash transactions for various purchases through the year. An unidentified ledger contains pages pertaining to the household and farm purchases of Bryan Grimes and Bryan Grimes & Co. (1872). Included are prices paid for tar and turpentine as well as purchases and payments to employees and others. Loose financial papers (1836-1880, undated) include receipts, accounts for Washington and Clemmonsville, N.C., stores, and shipping receipts for steamers and schooners.
Legal papers in the Grimes-Bryan Papers include Georgia deeds for land owned by the Stovall and Adams families (1830, 1832); a bill of sale for Negroes in Jones County (1830); the will of Portia (Bonner) Smallwood and related Beaufort County court papers (1831); and legal records of the Wharton family of Davidson County (1868, 1874). The oversize folder contains a plat of John Herritage Bryan's Millbrook Plantation (1861), and a pamphlet (1888) by J. Bryan Grimes concerning the division of opinion about the candidacy of Judge James E. Shepherd for the state Supreme Court with allegations going back to 1882 concerning Shepherd's conduct as defense attorney in the trial of William Parker for the murder of General Grimes.
Typed transcripts are available for Civil War-era letters in the collection. For related material, see collections #54, #147, and #267 in this repository and the Bryan Grimes Papers and the John Herritage Bryan Collection at the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, N.C.
The Grimes and Bryan families were among the most prominent and respected eastern North Carolina families of the nineteenth century. John Herritage Bryan (1798-1870), an outstanding lawyer of New Bern and Raleigh, served in the United States House of Representatives from 1825-1829. His daughter, Charlotte Emily, married Confederate General Bryan Grimes in 1863; after the war, they lived at General Grimes's plantation, "Grimesland," in Pitt County. The Conrad and Wharton family papers, which center around Clemmonsville, Davidson Co., appear in this collection as a result of the marriage of Ida Wharton of Forsyth County and Junius Grimes, a son of the general. For sketches of John Herritage Bryan and General Bryan Grimes, see Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Vol. I, pp. 255-256 and Ashe's Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. VI, pp. 250-262, respectively. Limited family connections can be determined from the genealogical chart accompanying this description, and a current genealogy dating back to 1689.
September 27, 1967, 169 items; Papers (1823-1895, undated) of John H. Bryan, Miss Martha Conrad, Albert C. Wharton, and Junius D. Grimes, consisting of correspondence (1829-1895, undated); accounts, receipts, and promissory note (1825-1875, undated); legal papers (1830-1874); miscellaneous court notes and briefs belonging to John H. Bryan (1823-1860, undated); and miscellaneous material. Deposited April and July, 1966, by James Robert Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
March 19, 1968, 17 items; Correspondence and receipts (1862-1921) of Wharton and Conrad families and forty-three pages of letter abstracts (1836-1837) belonging to John H. Bryan. Loaned by Mr. James Robert Grimes and Mrs. J. D. Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
April 3, 1968, 73 items; Consisting of papers (1867-1883) of General Bryan Grimes, including correspondence, financial papers, account books, and land records. Loaned by Mr. James Robert Grimes and Mrs. J. D. Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
December 4, 1968, 28 items; Accounts and receipts (1836-1844) of Bryan Grimes. Loaned by Mr. James Robert Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
November 18, 1970, 26 items; Washington Public School annual reports (1897-1924), letter (1906), and doctor's record book (1860). Loaned by Mr. James Robert Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
May 5, 1971, 1 item; Ledger (1808-1811) of W. Shaw. Loaned by Mr. J. Robert Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
December 17, 1974, 72 items; Papers (1854-1899) of Conrad and Wharton families, including correspondence, accounts, and receipts. Loaned by Mr. James Robert Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
November 8, 1982, 226 items; Papers (1838-1902) including correspondence, financial records, essays, and miscellaneous material. Loaned by Mr. James Robert Grimes, Washington, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
April 16, 1991, 40 items; Papers (1867-1888) addressed to or pertaining to General Bryan Grimes, including correspondence, indentures, financial accounts, and printed material. Loaned by Mr. John Grimes, Williamston, N.C. Loan changed to Gift 11/7/2000.
November 3,1999, (unprocessed addition 1), 47 items; Papers (1867-1888) addressed to or pertaining to General Bryan Grimes, including correspondence, indentures, financial accounts, and printed material (these 40 items are already processed); and papers (1831-1880, undated) concerning the A.C. Wharton family, Clemmonsville, NC, including correspondence, a Davidson College grade report, and a Jones County deed (7 items). Loaned by Mr. John Wharton Grimes, Sr., and Mr. John Wharton Grimes, Jr.
June 14, 2011, (unprocessed addition 2), 0.25 cubic feet, 125 items; Papers (ca. 1820-1920) including correspondence, newspaper clippings, grade reports, and legal papers pertaining to the Grimes, Bryan and Wharton families of North Carolina. Loaned by Mr. John Wharton Grimes, Sr., and Mr. John Wharton Grimes, Jr.
September 18, 2012, (unprocessed addition 3), 0.001 cubic feet, 1 item; This addition includes an undated letter to Richard Grist of New Bern, N.C., that mentions "Bryan Grimes." Gift of Mr. David Smith.
February 10, 2013, (unprocessed addition 4), 0.25 cubic feet; Included in these documents from the Robert Grimes house in Plymouth, N.C., are the 1920 Pitt County, N.C., will of John A. Stanley; land records (1780, 1816, 1851) of the Grist (Pitt County), Galloway and Jarrels (Beaufort County) families; and accounts of (1855-1859) and correspondence (1853-1862, 1873-1914, 1943) with Conrad, Wharton, Bryan and Grimes family members of Davidson and Beaufort Counties, N.C. Loaned by Mr. John Wharton Grimes, Sr., and Mr. John Wharton Grimes, Jr.
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In 1966 the first double album in Rock 'N' Roll which was also the first Concept Album in Rock 'N' Roll and the first album in Rock 'N' Roll in which the music revealed disciplines and constructs far more familiar in the world of classical music, made it's way into the hearts, minds and consciousness of just enough of those people under the age of 30 to cause them to Freak Out! beyond their wildest expectations, even in Kansas! It did happen here, there and everywhere. And we are pleased to present the Sessions, the Man and the Music that made it all possible. (And impossible!) Frank Zappa's Official Album #78 is the lovely & talented 2 Disc MOFO with the wild abandon of a 30 page booklet included. Freak Out! now - before it is illegal.
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Personnel: Frank Zappa (percussion); Ray Collins (vocals, harmonica, finger cymbals, tambourine); Jim Black (vocals, drums, percussion); Roy Estrada (soprano, guitarron); Elliot Ingber (guitar); Ken Watson, Gene Estes (percussion).
Audio Remasterers: Sanwook "Sunny" Nam; Doug Sax.
Audio Remixers: Frank Zappa; Stan Agol; Bob Stone.
Liner Note Authors: Chris Riess; David Fricke.
Authors: Edgard Varèse ; Frank Zappa.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Arthur Maebe; Roy Caton; Benjamin Barrett; David Anderle; John "Snakehips" Johnson; Raymond Kelley; Joseph Saxon; Emmet Sargeant ; Paul Bergstrom; Mothers Auxiliary; Eugene Dinovi; Carl Franzoni; George Price; John Rotella; Kim Fowley; Plas Johnson ; Ray Collins ; Terry Gilliam; Virgil Evans; Kurt Reher; Dave Wells ; Neil Levang; Carol Kaye.
Arranger: Frank Zappa.
In late 1965, record producer Tom Wilson, who had been behind the board when Bob Dylan went electric on songs such as "Like a Rolling Stone," moved from Columbia Records to the Verve division of MGM, where he looked for new acts. In Los Angeles, he saw a band called the Mothers at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go performing a song called "Trouble Every Day," a wordy folk-rock tune in the style of "Like a Rolling Stone" that the group's leader, Frank Zappa, had written in the wake of the recent race riot in the Watts ghetto of L.A. Wilson signed the Mothers for an advance of $2,500. When the band assembled to record its debut album at T.T.G. Studios the following March, he found that he had a lot more on his hands than just another Dylan imitator. In fact, the Mothers (who were forced to change their name to the Mothers of Invention by the record company) were a combination of a doo wop group with Mexican antecedents and a rock & roll band, with a leader whose appreciation for contemporary classical music included the percussion experimentalist Edgard Varèse as a major influence. Not only was Wilson unfazed, he helped persuade the record company to let the band make a double-LP for its debut recording. That is some of the story of Freak Out! told in The MOFO Project/Object, aka "The Making of Freak Out! An FZ Audio Documentary", which is in effect a deluxe edition reissue of the album. Maybe "super deluxe" would be a better way to put it. The four-CD set quadruples the running time of the original album, which lasted about an hour. Producers Gail Zappa (Zappa's widow) and Joe Travers have gone into the vaults and come out with the usual goods: alternate takes, unreleased tracks, remixes, live performances, and interviews in which Zappa discusses Freak Out!
One of the most valuable aspects of the package is that it brings into the digital realm the original stereo mix of Freak Out!, which takes up the first disc. In 1987, when Zappa, who had acquired his masters from Verve/MGM, embarked on a CD reissue program, he extensively remixed the material and in some cases replaced original performances with new instrumental tracks. Anyone wishing to compare the original Freak Out! to the later CD can do so by turning to Tracks 15, 16, and 17 on the fourth disc, which present three of those altered versions, which were all that was available of Freak Out! on CD until now. Much of the second disc is taken up by basic tracks without vocals, and these selections accentuate the studio performances by the Mothers accompanied by a host of mostly unnamed session musicians (annotator David Fricke mentions guitarist Carol Kaye, for one). The third disc is, if anything, even more basic, presenting percussion tracks and audience sounds that were edited into the sidelong closing track, "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet." Interestingly, Zappa later reveals that that track, considered a Varèse-like sonic experiment, was never completed; he says Verve pulled the plug after he'd only gotten the rhythm track done.
A five-song live performance from the Fillmore Auditorium in 1966, introduced by Bill Graham, is a highlight, even if it cuts off suddenly, and the extensive interviews with Zappa are illuminating, even if he becomes increasingly negative and dismissive as those interviews extend into the 1980s and '90s. (Asked about how Freak Out! was received, he curtly answers, "Flop"; asked how critics responded, he replies, "They hated it.") Despite his protestations that Freak Out! was only intended to entertain and that it isn't likely to be of interest in the future, the existence of The MOFO Project/Object demonstrates that the album and its composer's career as a whole continue to fascinate later generations, and it more than justifies that fascination. [A two-CD version was originally released.] ~ William Ruhlmann


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Last week in Election 2012, we went back in time and looked at the history of marriage in the United States. In order to fully understand the debate of legalizing gay marriage, we had to go all the way back to 1705.
A key trend was noticed throughout history; whether it is women's rights, Native American marriage, interracial marriage, or gay marriage, it is the same argument used over and over again: God made the world this way, and that is how it must remain.
Before the Supreme Court case of Loving vs. Virginia, trial judges had ruled God had put different races on different continents for a reason and that a black woman was forbidden to wed a white man. Today, the argument is God separated the sexes for a reason, so gay men or women are forbidden to marry each other.
The key idea to take away from lecture this week is that marriage in this nation's history has always been a state-created and state-run business. Having power over who can marry and who cannot is a method by which a government can control its people.
If black women were to have mixed-race children, they would then be able to inherit their father's property. This was, under no circumstances, allowed to happen. Therefore, interracial marriage was deemed unnatural and unlawful. History disagrees with what is and isn't natural.
Part of "civilizing" Native Americans involved persuading them to embrace a new concept of marriage. In different tribes, there are records of men marrying men and women marrying women, and when it came to divorce, women could simply move their tipi elsewhere while their husband was away.
Our country is supposed to be a symbol of freedom, but if we deny citizens the right to love, we are denying life's greatest joy.


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Mississippi's public school trustees have unanimously nominated Carey Wright, a longtime Maryland educator and consultant, to become the next state superintendent of education, the first woman named to the top leadership position.
Wright must be confirmed by the Mississippi Senate by the end of the 2014 session.
Trustees voted unanimously in executive session late Tuesday to hire her. The vote must be formally spread on the minutes of the meeting for it to be legal. Several people familiar with the process said the executive session vote protects the identities of other finalists who wanted to avoid controversy in the jobs they hold now.
Lynn House serves as interim state superintendent. She did not seek the superintendency and will retire from the department.
The selection of a woman to lead Mississippi's schools other than as an interim is arguably overdue. A strong majority of the state's public school teachers are women, and some other states and city systems long ago broke the gender barrier.
The unanimous vote she received suggests all the trustees voting found her strengths compelling – the right fit for Mississippi.
She was the only woman among five finalists, but not the only woman among the original larger pool of 62 who applied.
Wright also previously had interviewed for local superintendent positions in Omaha, Neb., and Des Moines, Iowa. In both cases she was not chosen.
Wright left the Washington school system in March. She worked for controversial former superintendent Michelle Rhee in Washington, but she said earlier that she is her own person and has a different approach to education leadership. Wright worked three more years after Rhee's forced departure.
Wright is a former associate superintendent of the Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools, a large district in metropolitan Washington. Montgomery County, which has a smaller footprint than Lee County, Miss., has more than 1 million residents as of 2012. Thirty percent are 18 or under.
Her dossier in that position lists her areas of responsibility as special education and student services, both important areas of concern statewide in Mississippi.
Her background, while not statewide at any point except in the context of the District of Columbia, dealt with large budgets, thousands of students and thousands of teachers.
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Blog for those who are interested in Czech genealogy, who have ancestors in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Czech book about genealogy
I haven't posted here for quite a long time and I owe you explanation. Well - I have spent last couple of weeks on finishing a book about Czech genealogy called "Let's create your family tree" (Sestavte si rodokmen in Czech. It was published in one of the largest publishing houses in the Czech Republic and I hope it will sell well. :)
This book doesn't have English translation - I would like to add "yet" but first of all I need to find a publisher in U.S. And I hope to find one - but I'll start the search in 2013 as there are way too many projects to be finished till Christmas.
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Well, if you want one in Czech, I can try to find some store in U.S. which would buy few pieces of the book. Or I can send it directly to you, the price would be abt 17 USD (book + postage fees).
Delete- AnonymousDecember 18, 2012 at 2:32 PM
There is a website in Canada that sells many Czech books. http://www.czech-books.com/
Perhaps they would buy a few copies and make them available.
How exciting, Blanka! I'm really happy for you, and impressed at how much you're able to get done while taking care of your little girls. I would also be a customer whenever your book becomes available in English - I'm thinking positive by saying "when" not "if". Hope you sell lots of books.
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It looks like the Clone Wars are coming to TV.
"Shorts" are supposed to be intermission timed cartoons, put in during the time commercials are normally run, and instead these adventure clips run just a little longer than your average commercial break I gather.
Subscription-package cable channels like the cartoon network don't rely on advertising so much, since they get cable-company user fees I think.
Thus there can be Star Wars shorts in between 15 minute cartoon segments of another cartoon show.
It is expected that television guides will list when the Star Wars segments will air (during what programs), but I'm not sure how many segments will air per day, and if they should be viewed in any particular order, like a serial drama, or if the same one will be repeated each day, and then the new one airs in the next 24 hours.
It sounds like a lot of trouble to go to understand all this and view these cartoons.
I'm going to see how hard it is to tape these 'toons, and if it causes an inconvenience or a pile of video tapes to start forming, I'll just ignore this material until a broadcast special, VHS, or DVD release comes out.
I would have so much more preferred a 30-minute solid SW cartoon show on its own. If successful, they could finally do Shadows of the Empire this way, since Han was frozen and they wouldn't need Harrison at his prices, but Mark and Carrie, plus James Earl Jones could lend their voice talents to it and finally make that adventure between Empire and Jedi a reality. But while we're more on the topic of the Clone Wars, I want to see so much more than just snipets!
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9/11 Truth: Now or Never at the Madison with Bob McIlvaine, YouTube VIDEO from 9.12.08 (4 parts)
betsy Tue, 09/16/2008 - 11:29pm
#1 - 9/11 Truth: Now or Never Madison Bob McIlvaine - #1/4
#2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofCL0uQnlI
#3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKl8nwDDS8
#4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xBJAJaAyY
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No puches pulled here! Bob lays down the simple truth....
Thanks Bob, you are what it is all about!
Kind regards John
John Bursill on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 8:37pm.
I've heard Bob speak live
I've heard Bob speak live maybe 4 or 5 times, and this time was particularly compelling.
Maybe there's therapy in hearing the f*** word, a lot. : )
I enjoyed it.
What Allen Iverson was to the 76'ers, Bob is to the 9/11 Truth cause - he's got heart in a big way, motivated by something 99.9% of us will never experience.
betsy on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 10:39pm.


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Oilers sign Taylor Fedun
by Edmonton Oilers Press Release / Edmonton OilersTaylor Fedun was captain of the Princeton University Tigers. (Photo courtesy of Beverly Schaefer / Princeton University) |
Fedun, 22, just completed his fourth year with the Princeton Tigers of the ECAC, and has 22 points (10G,12A) in 29 games. The captain of the Tigers has appeared in 127 games during his tenure at Princeton scoring 20 goals and adding 48 assists for 68 points. He is also +41 and has accumulated 154 penalty minutes.
The 6'1", 210-pound blueliner came to Princeton to major in Mechanical Engineering after spending a couple seasons in the Alberta Junior Hockey League where he served as an assistant captain with the Spruce Grove Saints and was named to the All-Star Team as well as the Saints' most valuable player.
Fedun is part of the Princeton Class of 2011, which graduates as the winningest class in program history with 72 wins over the last four years. He will report to the Oilers AHL affiliate, the Oklahoma City Barons.
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I am in no way suggesting you do this (because it is amoral not to mention illegal), but what I think/thought had been done to me was that someone bought an HD600 and an HD650, then swapped the drivers, then returned the HD650 immediately after, thus getting his money back for the HD650, whilst keeping the HD600 which would now have HD650 drivers in it. Then I would have bought the HD650 he returned with HD600 drivers in it.
In the UK it is now unwise to do this, because the HD600 actually costs more (off Amazon anyway) new than the HD650 costs new.
Anyway you definitely wouldn't buy HD600 and then buy HD650 drivers, because, obviously you are paying both for a headphone and the drivers of another headphone (which will not be cheap). After the swap, what are you going to do with the HD600 drivers?
I just keep switching them.. And how in any way is it illegal?