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Sezin Koehler is the author of Crime Rave, a supernatural noir featuring feminist zombies, as well as American Monsters, a postmodern feminist horror novel. Crime Rave reviews run the gamut:
"A wildly entertaining fantasy take on LA film noir."
"A powerful allegory of PTSD and trauma featuring feminist zombies."
"An amazing work of fiction you can't possibly pin down to one genre."
"American Gods meets Dexter."
"This book takes genres, gives them a good shake and sculpts them into something new. Jaded detectives, hybrid human/aliens, vampires, a corrupt mayor, and a DJ of Death are just a few of the performers in this swirling carnivale."
"In this dark, gritty follow-up novel to American Monsters, cutting-edge visionary Sezín Koehler brings readers back into an iconoclastic world of murder, mayhem, and revenge, where being a victim is merely a prelude to being an avenger."
Signed Crime Rave paperbacks are available here, and you can also buy the digital and print book through Amazon.com, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Nook, Kobo, iBooks, and you can also request a paperback through your favorite independent bookstore. Sezin is currently at work on her third novel, a zombie faerie tale set in her old stomping ground of Prague.
She's been an eclectic blogger since 2003 whose cultural commentary, reviews, and other essays have been featured on Huffington Post, Sociological Images, The Displaced Nation, and more.
Sezin is the one wrote that Sociological Images article comparing the lyrics of Blurred Lines to what rapists say to their victims that went viral in late 2013, and in the process was picked up by such media outlets as Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, Feministing, xoJane, Jezebel, Buzzfeed, and Think Progress.
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Makes 4 to 6 Servings- 1 1/2 lemons
- 12 baby artichokes
- 6 cups water
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour plus additional for dredging
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 chicken thighs
- 4 chicken drumsticks
- 4 ounces fresh morel mushrooms
- 2 medium carrots, peeled, thinly sliced
- 2 large shallots, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme, divided
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 cup low-salt chicken broth
- 1/4 cup crème fraîche
Fill large bowl with water. Squeeze juice from 1 lemon into water; add lemon halves. Tear outer leaves from 1 artichoke until only pale green leaves remain. Cut top 3/4 inch from top; trim end of stem. Cut in half lengthwise. Rub cut sides of artichoke with lemon half; transfer to bowl with lemon water. Repeat with remaining artichokes.
Bring 6 cups water, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 teaspoons salt, and bay leaf to boil in large saucepan. Add artichoke halves and cook until just tender, about 5 minutes. Drain.
Melt butter with oil in heavy large deep skillet over medium heat. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Dredge chicken in flour, shaking off excess. Cook chicken until golden brown, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to plate. Add mushrooms, carrots, and shallots to skillet. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sauté until vegetables begin to soften, about 4 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon thyme and garlic; sauté 1 minute. Add wine; bring to boil. Add broth and artichokes; bring to boil.
Return chicken to skillet, reduce heat to medium low, cover, and simmer 20 minutes. Turn chicken, cover, and simmer until cooked through, about 15 minutes longer. Transfer chicken and vegetables to platter. Whisk crème fraîche into sauce in skillet; bring to boil. Season with salt and pepper. Pour sauce over chicken, sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon thyme, and serve.
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The poor sales of Vivus's (NASDAQ:VVUS) anti-obesity pill Qsymia in the last quarter were somewhat surprising. After all, the company introduced its weight-loss drug in late September, ahead of Arena Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ:ARNA) Belviq and Orexigen Therapeutics' (NASDAQ:OREX) Contrave, into a market that had seen no new drugs in more than a decade. Bloomberg healthcare analyst Andrew Berens even predicted that the drug could generate as much as $1 billion per year by 2016.
Qsymia sales only generated $41,000 in the company's third quarter, representing 656 filled prescriptions. But on Monday, Vivus reported that sales of its main product rose close to 68 percent in the month ended December 21, which was well above analysts' expectations. As a result of this announcement, shares rose 9 percent, to $15.10, as of 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Monday.
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Initial sales had been so disappointing that in November one of Vivus's top shareholders, QVT Financial, proposed that the company be sold. Initially, the company blamed the lack of insurance reimbursements for its low sales. But as insurers have increasingly offered coverage for the drug, Vivus's position has stabilized.
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Analysis of Observations
This course gives an introduction to probability and statistical inference. This is applied to the least squares adjustment of survey and levelling networks as well as to the estimation of the precision of the computed coordinates or heights. In addition, the application of least squares modelling to various areas of relevance to Surveyors is dealt with.
- Semester 1 - 2017
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. To translate a stated problem in adjustment of field data to an analytical form
2. To apply appropriate solution techniques to the problem
3. To be able to actually solve the problem
4. To decide if the outcome is sensible, and
5. To be aware of the precision of the outcome.
6. To have an understanding of concepts of statistics applied to surveying.
- Statistics applied to surveying.
- Sampling distributions, confidence intervals, statistical tests.
- Least squares adjustment by the condition and parametric methods.
- Applications of least squares to simple problems.
- Propagation of variance.
- Absolute and relative error ellipses.
- Pre-analysis of surveys, industrial applications of least squares, computer packages
Assumed Knowledge
Content covered in courses MATH1110, MATH1120.
Assessment Items
Written Assignment: Assignment 1
Written Assignment: Assignment 2 and 3
Formal Examination: Formal Examination
Contact Hours
Computer Lab
Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per Week for 11 Weeks
Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per Week for 12 Weeks
NOTE: The above distribution of contact hours may alter on a weekly basis and will be confirmed in the course outline handed to students in Week 1.
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Scientists are predicting some intense solar storms this year, particularly in the summer, as the sun will reach its most active period of its 11 year cycle. To prepare for this event, which could possibly affect radio communications and GPS tracking and navigation, scientists are currently creating a chain of monitoring stations around the world to study the 'solar maximum.' But what, exactly, is that?
The solar maximum is the peak of solar activity, which goes through an 11 year cycle. It is predicted there will be more sunspots than ever before, and the increase in the number of sunspots has an effect on the ionosphere, which in turn could interfere with radio transmissions from satellites in space. Scientists aren't sure the current satellite navigation technology can withstand a solar max, especially as it has never experienced one in the past, and the ionospheric changes could pose a big problem for those trying to use their GPS devices to get to where they need to go.
The Ionosphere and GPS
The layer of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere is made up of electrically charged particles which are heavily influenced by the activity of the sun, and was discovered by 20th century radio pioneers, the first to bounce long-wave radio signals off it. The Space Age arrived, and radio signals began traveling through the ionosphere in order to reach satellites in orbit. Today, you'd be hard pressed to find a person in the world who does not rely on these satellites at some point in their daily life.
When solar maximum occurs, a vast number of sunspots appear on the surface of the sun, and its irradiance output grows by roughly 0.1 percent. It is believed even this seemingly insignificant percentage of growth has a huge impact on the Earth's climate and weather patterns. During this time the ionosphere becomes turbulent, being thickened by the warmer Sun, and again when it is cooled in the evening, producing plasma bubbles. These plasma bubbles, indicators of plasma instability which occur when the air cools, actually lead to GPS trouble. More specifically, the GPS device is unable to lock on to the satellites to determine location.
Working Towards a Solution
The European Space Agency plans to monitor the effects the solar maximum will have on the ionosphere, as well as the impact it will have on the for satellite communications and GPS location, by setting up a network of monitoring stations around the world. "The current Monitor network is still being developed but has already been detecting mild ionospheric storms," said the scientist heading the project, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira.
The monitoring stations measure variations in GPS signals more precisely than existing systems. "We are placing sensor stations around the globe, but the vicinity of the equator is a particular focus of interest," said Dr. Prieto-Cerdeira. "It exhibits much more dynamic behavior than the mid-latitudes so we have established stations at Cape Verde off West Afrrica and Malindi, Kenya, on the other side of the continent. In addition, through a deal with French space agency CNES, we will have access to stations hosted by existing tracking sites at Libreville, Gabon and Ascension Island in the mid-Atlantic, the latter site being where the magnetic equator diverts from the geographic equator."
Hopefully the data collected by this project will pinpoint a solution before the solar maximum, avoiding the chaos that could come along with non-functioning GPS devices and related equipment.


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Genre/Form: | Oral histories Interviews |
Named Person: | Page Ackerman; James R Cox; Louise Darling; Andrew H Horn; Paul M Miles; Everett T Moore; Franklin D Murphy; Lawrence Clark Powell; Russell Shank; Gloria Werner; Gordon R Williams; Charles E Young |
Material Type: | Biography, Manuscript |
Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
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Page Ackerman; Dale E Treleven; University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program. |
OCLC Number: | 36745246 |
Notes: | Transcript of a 19.45-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program. |
Description: | 2 volumes (xi, 253, vii, 254-552 pages), bound : portraits ; 28 cm |
Responsibility: | interviewed by Dale E. Treleven. |
The interview follows a general chronological format, beginning with Ackerman's childhood in Evanston, Ill., and Santa Monica, Calif., then continues with her library studies in Georgia and North Carolina, ending with her 28-yr. career as a librarian at UCLA, including her teaching experience and subsequent retirement. Major topics covered include the evolution of modern library science, library personnel and administrative issues, UCLA librarians and administrative figures, the growth of UCLA's library system, and maintaining a university library in the face of fiscal challenges.
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Hey, I'm running ISP Config on Ubuntu, and it seems that the CRON that runs every minute, never ends, but it DOES start again every minute, so eventually I have 1000 instances in 1000 minutes of this cron task and it crashes my server after it fills the swap up... anyone know how to resolve this issue?
Can you disable that cron job, kill all running instances of it and then run it manually? Do you get any errors?
There is a bug in maildirmake that may cause this. Instead of throwing an error message the maildirmake command can freeze under certian circumstances. We added a workaround for this in SVN.
So what do I do to be able to use ISPConfig again? and this does make sense, because before the server started crashing, i was unable to add another email account, and it was all downhill from there.
Before you update from svn, make a backup of your ispconfig database. Then: Update ISPConfig from SVN: 1) Install subsversion client, for Ubuntu and debian it is: apt-get install subversion 2) Run the script: ispconfig_update.sh and select SVN as update method. Warning: It is normally not recommended to update to svn on a production system!! In this case, todays svn revision is identical to what we plan to release as 220.127.116.11 beta 2, so its ok. Tomorrow it might not be ok anymore. So the above solution is just for this special case today and not a general recommendation. 3) kill all ispconfig cron processes and then run the command: rm -f /usr/local/ispconfig/temp/.ispconfig_lock to remove the lock file.
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If you read newspapers or listen to talking heads that light up cable TV news—or if you get your news from the likes of Leno, Letterman or Jon Stewart—you no doubt know that the 17-day government shutdown is over and that the country isn't going to stiff its creditors. Congress and the president bought three more months to figure out what to do about the budget and debt ceiling, so if you're a rational person, you should expect more capital shenanigans in early 2014.
John Elway in Denver, and Brett Favre in Green Bay, conditioned Broncos and Packers fans to expect that they would always pull off the win with a scoring drive in the last two minutes. In similar fashion, our honorable elected officials went down to the wire before striking a deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
It's been a rather recurrent modus operandi in Washington. Going back to the summer of 2011, there have been almost as many of these deadlines for doom and government-created crises as there have been movies in the Rocky (six) or Jaws (four) series.
Don't lose sleep, though. Shutdowns and the ensuing rebound have been decent for stocks, and this time was no different. According to Sam Stovall at S&P Capital IQ, the S&P 500 slipped 4% during the 1995-1996 shutdown, but it then rose almost 11% in the month after resolution. Even after the U.S. debt downgrade in August 2011, when the market took a 20% dive, it was hitting new highs six months later.
This time around, every major U.S. stock index, with the conspicuous absence of the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the week at a new high. The Dow was weighed down by big weakness in IBM and Goldman Sachs after disappointing earnings reports, and rose 1.07% for the week.
The Russell 2000 Small Cap Index jumped 2.81% on the week, and the S&P 500 was up 2.42% to 1744. It's a bullish signal to see small caps outperforming large caps as they continue to do.
Nasdaq was the big winner, up 3.23%, and fueled by a 15% weekly gain in shares of Google, which released blowout earnings late Thursday and closed above $1,000 per share on Friday. Nasdaq is up an impressive 38% since last November. Google itself is up 56% in the same period. Social media stocks are full of momentum, too. Facebook is a triple from its post-IPO bottom last year.
Several stocks from the technology sector—Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Corning (GLW) and Cisco Systems (CSCO)–remain on this week's Top 25 list of buy recommendations.
Another tech name among our recommendations is Apple (AAPL). Apple was up 3.26% last week, and it closed decisively above its rising 50-day moving average. Technicians will bullishly note that AAPL's 50-day average crossed above the 200-day on September 9. In price only, Apple is up 18.8% since the March 13 buy recommendation at $428.35.
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Role Of Hse Management Construction Essay
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Every company has to follow certain HSE principles to in order to understand the level risk is various situations. It helps the clients to select the contractors who are capable. It enables to develop improvements during the process and adopt new techniques.
HSE principles help to obtain permission from state and local authorities to perform the operations in the company successfully. It help to to reduce risk as much as practicable possible .Due to these risks people, environment, equipment, and income of the company are majorly affected in the duration of time.
The various principles that are practised should be able to ensure that the operation is done with zero loss to people, environment, contractors who are involved.
Role of HSE management
HSE management should be able to ensure that people and environment are safe during the process.
Leadership and responsibility
The leaders of the management help the people to understand the need for the HSE principles. HSE management makes people to aware of their responsibilities and makes people to work with their HSE goals. It helps the people with defined rules to each of the individuals.
HSE principles provides frame to obtain zero level of injuries to the people in the working environment. It helps to reduce the discrimination to the people and reduces the forced and stressful works to the employees.
Training is a base for the HSE management to run effectively and to improve the understanding of new techniques to the people.
Newly assigned people mainly in HSE field should be given proper training, however training programs varies from managers to employers, supervisors and workers.
The training gives the knowledge related to the health, safety and controls factors during various situations. Managing wells, preventing of blowouts are considered in a wide range in offshore and onshore well.
People in the local community should be made aware of the HSE training courses given to employees so that they can extent the support during any extreme situation. Training improves the range of protection to the environment. The verification, understanding and the capability of individual should be done after the training has been done.
Supervising plans are enabled for HSE principles to get implemented in qualitative manner.
It plays a vital role in
Observing the working nature of each individual (worker) with keen observation.
Verification of queries or the workers and giving an effective guidelines
Directing the people towards the safety procedures.
Suggesting proper direction and methods for the workers by acting the role as a guide.
Understanding the capability, health conditions of the workers at regular intervals.
Checking the unsafe behaviour of workers and other misunderstanding with each other.
Communication and team work
Communication is one of the important role which helps to improve the level of HSE that is being implemented.
Communication helps to improve the implementation and understandings of various plans. It helps to share the knowledge and experience with each of the ,
It also helps to take effective decisions at the times of emergence
Team work is an important role by which help to develop communication between employees.
Team works lets people to mitigate various problems and improves the quality of work.
Health and safety
Health is the person factor and safety is the job factor the company.
Various measures are taken to improve the health conditions are
Arrangement of various medical check-ups based on level of exposure to the contaminants. Using advance techniques and emergency system are to be developed to reduce the health risk.
Safety is the earlier precaution to be taken to avoid risk to a certain level. Safety principles and standards are executed by the management based on type of risk that is involved. Usage of various safety tools at all circumstances should be made compulsory to improve the level of damage.
People are guided with safety principles while dealing with the hazardous substances. Every HSE management tries to obtain zero harm and zero error in the system they are performing. Health and safety together minimises the occurrence of risk to the individual, environment and company.
Effective management
Effective management should do its various roles.
Management should focus on the amount to time, resource and the expenses made during the process.
Should perform various actions like planning, work, analysis in order to improve the quality of the process.
Management should gather the problems faced by the people and provide solutions to a quick interval of time.
Efficient care to prevent any accident and damage by implementing various safety procedures.
Analysing the performance on the basis of hse principles at various stages.
Ensuring the best practise, thereby by developing confidence among the employees.
Updating the guidelines, principle and implementing new techniques.
Incident management
Analysis and prevention
Investigations of various incidents are done to understand the root cause for the failure. Prevention of any further incident can be made from the technical analysis of the failure. It helps to take effective decisions at occurrences of similar circumstances.
Incident analyse help to understand various the condition, process during the last last successful completion. It gives sequential occurrences of failure and human impact that leaded to the disaster.
Root cause
The major contributors or occurrence of the incident is being investigated to develop the sequence for the event.
Involvement by the people, equipment and environmental change which leaded to the event is being estimated.
The various factors that leaded to occurrence of accident due to damages, leaks and failure operation are analysed.
Relative analysis
Relative analysis is the estimation of complication of an incident in indirect analysis. The result of indirect failure of good quality equipment's leaded to a disaster are analysed in this phase. The leading, supporting factors for incident to occur at a large scale are also considered in relative analysis.
Change factor
In the change factor analysis various possible changes that can be brought up to prevent the event are estimated. Change factors illustrate the various mistakes which leaded to the incident. It gives various information to be altered based on design, parameter and functions.
Work with contractors
Contractors are the whole responsible for the operation, activity that is undertaken. Reporting of events should be the prime responsibility of the contractors. Employees of the Contractor should follow the client safety principles.
Contractors should proceed the work after the possessing the authority to progress. Contractors should point the obstruction or hazardous that is being observed to client. Various confident data's should be maintained safely by contractors
Contractors who are involved should be capable to support on HSE standards that are to be implemented during the process. Even contractors should be trained so that they should be able to co relate the risk in involve. The activities of the contractors are monitored by the management to ensure the safe practise.
The sub-contractors are the designees, who frame the outline for the construction of the services that are operated.
Designs the nature of work and specifies the conditions to proceed the work. Sub-contractors are sole responsible for the work undergone in the contract. To estimate the level of HSE training and plans required for the project.
Advices about the issues in HSE procedures are being prompted. And help to estimate the incident analysis. Monitoring the training given to the employees based on the HSE principles.
Emergence management systems
Functions of safety management
Emergency plans are maintain to meet the requirements of any incident that could occur. Safety procedures and equipment's are being tested and updated periodically.
Arrangements of first aid procedures and alarm system of any event are made in an effective manner. Communication plays a key role at any instant in the process.
Management of change
Management of change is the system to manage the changes in the procedures, technology, materials, and organization. The change is made in an effective to avoid any effects on the quality, safety.
Change are made in
operating process,
The main aim is to avoid distraction to HSE principles. These changes has vivid impact in the quality, environment, facilities an business. All the change and approval in the process should be are recorded in effective manner
Environment challenges
Various activities are undertaken to reduce major impact on the environment .In order to reduce the impact, efficient use of technology should be made to monitor the areas of impact .The regions of very sensitive zones should be analysed and rectified to prevent further risks.
Reducing the level of oil spill and managing the emergency systems to improve and to restore the available restore in an efficient manner. New recycling techniques to reduce wastages and disposes should be practised. The material that is compatible to the Environmental should be used at all kinds of circumstances. Low CO2 emission gases should be implemented. The main consideration is to reduce the emission of hazardous products to the environment.
Emission of various waste from company are considered as have a major impact of environment. It includes the gases and other waste to the atmosphere, soil and water.
The waste gases and the combusted gases are major impact to the atmosphere
Steps to reduce the impact are
Reducing the flare and other reactive gases that are expelled out the environment Regular maintenance of the engines and machines used to reduce the level of emission
Spreading of lighter component or chemicals in a wide range should be minimized. Use of toxic or harmful chemical (inert gases) to the environment should be eliminated.
Soil waste
Solid wastes and other chemicals should be treated before they are disposed to the environment.
Controlling the spill and clearing them from the environment should be made at regular interval.
Top soil that is disturbed must be restored after the completion of the work according to the regulation of the government.
The usage of the ground water should be made at permissible amount. Liquid and solid waste form the major contribution for the contamination of water
The various waste which contribute mostly are
Inhibitors and salt water
Empty vessels and containers
Clays and cement materials
Inert and drilling fluids
Salt water
Formation cuttings (such as shale, lime, salt or dolomite)
Empty containers, bags and filters.
Maintenance of noise level to the ambient level should be made relatively equal. Improve the condition of the engines to avoid the increase in the rate noise. Construction of barrier walls to reduce the sound level. Ear plugs should be used by the workers at those areas of frequent and loud noises.
Security and Barricades
Security system includes the protection to the company and the data of various operations. The secure entry system and checks should be made enable to avoid external risk from exploiters. To avoid misleading in the system and operation Protection of the data of the contract and business information is essential.
Barricades acts as a defence and prevent entry of any external disturbances. They are used to make local people to ensure the progress of work around the zone. Barricades give awareness to public about the presence of hazardous substance present beyond the zone.


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The Hammerhead is at the center of this picture taken from the Royal Arch. Behind the Hammerhead is the Third Flatiron and, further back, the top of the First Flatiron can be seen. Left of the Third is the eastern Ironing Board. In the lower left corner is Tangen Tower, and, to its right, the first slab of the Fourth Flatiron. Boulder, Colorado, May 2007. | Image Data
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ASUS slides unknown tablet through the FCC, what could it be?
Mystery ASUS slate arrives at the FCC, is this the next-gen Transformer Pad?
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ASUS has been quite busy on the tablet front this year, especially in the last couple of months, but now the Taiwanese giant has just sent the FCC yet another tablet.
We don't know what it is, but we have the TF502T model, which gives credit to it being another Transformer tablet. It could be the upcoming Transformer Pad, but we don't know much yet. We do know that it features 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC, but so do virtually all mobile devices these days. We'll have more information on this mystery ASUS slate soon enough.
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Senate Leaders Drop Assault-Weapon From Gun-Safety Bill
James Rowley and Heidi PrzybylaThree months after the shootings of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school outraged the nation, Senate Democratic leaders are dropping an assault-weapons ban from gun legislation.
While public opinion polls show most Americans support such a ban, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday the proposal has fewer than 40 votes in the 100-member chamber. Its sponsor, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, will be given a chance to offer the measure as an amendment to gun legislation that Democrats will introduce, second-ranking Democrat Dick Durbin told reporters.
The assault-weapon ban is "the toughest one and the hottest politically" of the gun-safety measures passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Durbin said today at a breakfast sponsored by the Wall Street Journal. He said Reid's decision to exclude it from gun-safety legislation "is reflecting the reality" that "you need 60 votes to open the debate."
Allowing Feinstein to introduce the proposal as an amendment "is the best way we can do to make sure it comes to the floor," Durbin said.
Advocates for stricter gun laws had counted on public anger over the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, to end a two-decade drought in major U.S. gun legislation. A 1994 ban on assault weapons expired in 2004. An ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted March 7-10 found 57 percent supporting such a ban and 41 percent opposing it.
Obama Proposal
President Barack Obama urged Congress last month to enact measures including restoring the ban on the sale of military-style assault weapons. "Weapons of war have no place on our streets or in our schools or threatening our law enforcement officers," he said in a speech in Minneapolis.
Still, backers of gun restrictions have said it will be difficult to pass any measure limiting weapon ownership in the House or Senate.
The National Rifle Association, a Fairfax, Virginia-based gun-ownership-rights advocacy group that claims 4 million members, opposes curbs on owning firearms. Many Republicans say they prefer to improve enforcement of existing laws, and that criminals will be able to obtain guns regardless of any ban.
Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said he's trying to craft legislation that would ensure votes on banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, expanding background checks for gun purchases, bolstering federal aid for school safety and toughening penalties for illegal firearms trafficking.
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"But I cannot do that until I get a bill on the floor," Reid told reporters in Washington. He said he wants to have legislation ready next month after the Senate returns from a 2 1/2-week recess set to begin March 23.
Feinstein's proposed assault-weapon ban, "using the most optimistic numbers, has less than 40 votes," Reid said. "That's not 60."
Durbin said it's his understanding that Reid will offer legislation containing three main elements: expanding background checks for gun buyers, boosting school safety and imposing tougher penalties for gun trafficking.
Legislation to toughen penalties for "straw purchases" of guns is the most likely bill to pass the Senate, Durbin, a co-sponsor said today.
'It's Significant'
"It's significant" because beat cops in Chicago's most violent neighborhoods say the prospect of a 15-year sentence for illegal gun trafficking "scares the hell out of" people who would buy guns for friends, Durbin said.
At least six senators in the 55-member Senate Democratic caucus have expressed skepticism or outright opposition to an assault-weapon ban. That includes senators representing pro-gun states such as Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.
Their opposition would doom chances for the measure to gain a 51-vote majority, much less attain the 60-vote supermajority needed for major legislation to advance in the Senate.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on March 14 approved a measure to ban assault weapons and place limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines. The vote was 10-8, with only Democrats in support.
Feinstein's proposal to limit the size of high-capacity ammunition magazines has a better chance of passing the Senate, "maybe over 50" percent, than the assault-weapons ban, Durbin said.
'A Bazooka'
Feinstein said March 14 that the ban would exempt current and retired law-enforcement officials, and it wouldn't require anyone to surrender a weapon they legally own. It would exempt more than 2,000 firearms by make and model, she said.
"Isn't that enough for the people of the United States? Do they need a bazooka?" Feinstein said March 14.
The gun lobby opposes any restrictions on ownership of firearms and ammunition, and wants to thwart an expansion of background checks.
The NRA spent $16.6 million on television advertising in the 2012 election cycle, including $12 million against Obama, according to the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics.


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How to choose and use abrasives for welding and fabricating applications
The article divides grinding equipment into three application categories: welding/heavy metal removal; metal fabrication and construction; and light metal removal, finishing, and sharpening. It also discusses grits and grains and operator safety.
The design and production of abrasives have kept pace with other advances in the welding industry, making grinding and finishing products more effective than ever in helping fabricators to lower costs and improve productivity.
Grinding equipment and accessories for this industry are available in many grains, shapes, and product designs and can be divided into three broad application categories: welding/ heavy metal removal; metal fabrication and construction; and light metal removal, finishing, and sharpening.
Choosing the most suitable abrasive product and following the manufacturer's recommendations should help you to achieve productivity goals. The following information, when combined with the abrasive selection guide, provides a good foundation for choosing the best product for an application.
Grits and Grains
The most important step in specifying a grinding product is identifying the correct abrasive, grit size, and bond. An ideal grinding abrasive stays sharp with minimal point dulling. When dulling begins, the abrasive should fracture, creating new, sharp cutting edges.Each abrasive has its own unique properties for hardness, strength, fracture toughness, and resistance to impact, making it suitable for a specific grinding application and material. Aluminum oxide is an extremely tough, wedge-shaped abrasive for high-speed penetration of tough materials without excessive fracturing. It traditionally has been chosen for grinding high-tensile materials, such as carbon and alloy steels.
Zirconia alumina has a self-sharpening characteristic that gives it long life on rugged stock removal operations. It is well-suited for heavy grinding of metals such as cast irons and nonferrous metals because the controlled fracturing of the grain continuously exposes sharp, new abrading points.
Ceramic aluminum oxide is produced by chemical and ceramic processes that result in a dense, hard, tough abrasive. The seeded-gel process produces a sharp, microcrystalline abrasive of exceptionally high purity that performs well on high-nickel-base and stainless steels, as well as carbon steel.
The latest abrasive development in this area combines zirconia and ceramic aluminum oxide. In actual applications, this combination abrasive product demonstrated a 650 percent better wheel life compared with standard aluminum oxide and a relative wheel cut rate of 165 percent compared with a standard aluminum oxide wheel.
An abrasive grain's grit size represents the number of openings per linear inch in the final screen used to size the grain. Coarse-grit products (for example, 24 grit) are used for rapid stock removal in which finish is not important. Fine-grit products (for example, a 120-grit wheel) are used for finer finishes or for small areas of contact.
The grains in the grinding wheel are held together by a bond that is chosen based on the grinding application, the tolerances required, the work material, and other quality objectives. Most wheels used in fabrication shops feature resin bonds, which excel in rapid stock removal applications.
With this as background, let's consider the products available for each grinding category.
Welding/Heavy Metal Removal
Weld grinding and other applications requiring heavy stock removal demand a tough, durable, and long-lasting abrasive product. Grinding products for these applications are available in a variety of shapes and property combinations to satisfy specific performance and cost criteria.
Depressed-center wheels are used on right-angle and vertical-shaft portable grinders for such applications as weld grinding, pipe notching, beveling, and storage tank building and maintenance. They are used to grind many metals, including gray iron, stainless steel, and exotic alloys. Premium abrasives, such as the zirconia alumina/seeded-gel blend, excel on stainless and ferrous metals. Aluminum oxide is a good choice for aluminum and other soft metals.
Product shapes available include disks, notchers, and saucers. The application dictates which shape to select. For example, notchers are the product of choice for cutoff in pipeline or fabrication work, while saucers might be the best selection when both quick metal removal and blending are needed or for hard-to-maneuver grinding areas.
Each shape can be used on the same grinder, but each requires a different approach to the workpiece — a 30-degree angle with grinding disks, a 90-degree angle with notchers, and a 15-degree angle with saucers.
Other product shapes in this category include:
Snagging wheels for heavy stock removal in aggressive applications.
Flaring cup wheels for quick metal removal in tight grinding areas.
Cones and plugs, when the job calls for grinding and smoothing fillets and corners, grinding internal dimensions, finishing cavities, blending contours, and working in confined areas.
Grinders should be run at the highest possible speed marked on the wheel but never should exceed that speed.
Metal Fabrication and Construction
Current cutoff wheel products are versatile enough for all metal fabrication applications, including:
Cutting solids and thin-wall shapes.
Cutting sheet metal.
Removing foundry gates and risers.
Performing offhand, hand-held cutting.
Cutting pipe.
Abrasive choice depends on the material being cut. A zirconia alumina/ceramic aluminum oxide blend is the highest-performing abrasive for carbon steel, cast iron, stainless steel, and exotic metals. Choose a standard zirconia alumina as a medium-priced abrasive for carbon steel, stainless steel, and nonferrous metals. Aluminum oxide also works well for carbon steel.
Small-diameter (2- to 4-inch) cutoff wheels are mounted on horizontal and straight-shaft portable grinders and on portable circular saws, which are carried to the workpiece. Large-diameter (6- to 24-inch) wheels are used on stationary chop stroke machines.
Chop saw wheels are specially constructed with side reinforcement for use on chop saw machines. For best results in these applications, you should make sure that the workpiece is secured and that cuts are made as quickly as possible.
Light Metal Removal, Finishing, and Sharpening
For blending welds, deburring, and medium to light stock removal, we turn from grinding wheels, in which the abrasive is bonded together into the desired shape, to a coated abrasive product that features abrasive grain coated onto a backing.
Flap disks consist of a series of coated abrasive pieces that are overlaid into the shape of a disk. Flap disks are mounted on right-angle or vertical-shaft portable grinders and used at a 15- to 25-degree angle for maximum surface contact and high working pressure. In these applications, a ceramic aluminum oxide abrasive provides the best performance on stainless and other ferrous metals. Zirconia alumina and aluminum oxide also are strong performers.
One recent development in grinding for these applications is see-through fiber-backed disks. These disks feature a triangular profile and holes in the disks and backup pads. This provides a clear view of the cutting surface, resulting in more controlled stock removal and a better surface finish. The holes also serve to disperse heat and loose grinding material, resulting in a cooler finish and less power draw.
Operator Safety Is Foremost
While advanced grinding and finishing products make work easier for operators, safety always is a prime concern. If it were possible, abrasives manufacturers would supply customers with a breakproof wheel. Unfortunately, there is no such product.
Grinding wheels are made of thousands of small abrasive grains that have been bonded together using an organic resin compound. The bond must be strong enough to hold the abrasive grains in place, yet friable enough to release dull grain and expose fresh cutting points. (Friable refers to the property that makes the abrasive capable of breaking down during the grinding process.) An unbreakable wheel simply would not grind.
Therefore, following industry-approved safety procedures is recommended. Grinding wheel suppliers should provide information on using their products safely. The literature should be read carefully.
Wear safety glasses or other appropriate eye protection when using abrasive products. And, because grinding applications are conducted in harsh environments, safety gloves also are recommended.
Improper use of a grinding wheel or machine is a leading cause of accidents involving abrasives. Safe practices can reduce these problems significantly. Always check your machine speeds against the safe maximum operating speed marked on the grinding wheel. Use the wheel guard as supplied by the manufacturer. When mounting cutoff or bench and pedestal wheels, use flanges of equal diameter only.
Finally, observe these safety tips as a matter of course:
1. Check all wheels for cracks or damage before use.
2. Run the wheel in a protected area for one minute before grinding.
3. Don't use wheels that have been dropped or otherwise damaged.
4. Don't use heavy side pressure on any Type 01 straight wheel or Type 27 thin wheel.
5. Don't use a grinding wheel with a rated speed less than that of the grinder.
Your abrasives supplier has the technical expertise and applications experience to help you to select and use the best product for your grinding and finishing processes. Working in partnership with your supplier will enable you to choose and use today's abrasive products to their greatest advantage in your shop.
Jeff Kompare
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The FABRICATOR is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The FABRICATOR has served the industry since 1971.


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MBC | Airing dates : 2008/08/30~2009/03/08Also known as "My Life's Golden Years"
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19 years ago, two previously divorced people got married and raised their children together. But the three children grew up to adopt different lifestyles and values from their parents.
Hwangs divorce sets off a series of unfortunate events that take her family on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs...
This TV series is about the relationships between parents and children, and brothers and sisters. It touches upon subjects such as romance, marriage, divorce, unemployment, illnesses, dreams, disappointment, hope, courage and so on. The story follows the tumultuous events surrounding one family as the deal with the tribulations of life.
Lee Hwang, eldest daughter (actress Moon So-ri)
Married for five years. A designer of book covers.
Having sophisticated looks and a firm, supple body, she is an egoist who is self-absorbed and cares more about herself than her own daughter. She has a fiery temper and acts impulsively, displaying erratic behavior. She gets involved in an affair in the very first episode of the TV series. The affair takes place when she participates at the Tokyo Book Fair and meets an old flame.
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Lee Hwangs husband. He was smitten in love with Lee Hwang when he first laid his eyes on her in college and asked her out on a date. After he married her, Lee Hwang gave birth to a baby girl and they lived happily together as one family. He is well educated and has a competitive streak. He thinks things through without letting his emotions cloud his judgment. He never experienced a failure in his life before but after getting married, he faces a huge setback that takes an emotional and personal toll on him.
Lee Geum, second daughter (actress Lee So-yeon)
Daughter of Bok Mi-ja. When she was 11, her mother married her current stepfather.
She gets along with Ki, who is younger than her, but she has a strained relationship with her sister, Hwang.
Though she was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia, she keeps working as a high school track coach to pay the medical bill of her biological father. She dates Koh Gyeong-woo, the son of the school director.
Koh Gyeong-woo (actor Sin Seong-rok)
With handsome looks, he wears the latest fashion trends. He is a smart guy who has a promising career producing TV shows at a major network. His early success has made him into a conceited person who thinks he is better than everyone else. Because he has no compassion nor hardly cares about the well-being of other people, he doesnt treat Geum, who is stricken with a disease, any different from a healthy person even though he is aware that she is seriously ill. Somehow this endears him to Geum.
Lee Ki, last child (actor Jin I-han)
Last son of Lee Man-ae. After graduating from medical school, he quits his internship and starts taking acting classes to become a musical actor. He is a high achiever who always wants to be the best at whatever he does. Hes smart, athletic and has a well-rounded personality with a bright outlook on life.
Episode guide
Episode 1
Lee Geum (actress Lee So-yeon) is a track coach and when her track team loses a meet because the referee was in cahoots with the rival teams coach, she get furious and accosts the referee. While she is quarreling with the referee, she gets in the way of the camera crew that is supervised by producer Gyeong-woo (actor Shin Seong-rok). Lee Hwang (actress Moon So-ri) is on a business trip in Bangkok and she meets an old flame, Dong-hwan (cameo appearance), and shares a passionate kiss with him. Jung Yoon (actress Ha Joo-hee) has a crush on Yoo Tae-il (actor Lee Jong-won), who happens to be Lee Hwangs husband, and she witnesses the kiss between Lee Hwang and her ex-boyfriend and promptly videotapes the act...
Episode 2
Hwang (actress Moon So-ri) brings Tae-young (actress Lee Tae-im) home when she gets drunk and doesnt go to her rehearsals. Geum (actress Lee So-yeon) goes on a blind date in Soo-gyeongs place and her blind date turns out to be Gyeong-woo (actor Shin Seong-rok). After blacking out from drinking too much, Gyeong-woo (actor Shin Seong-rok) wakes up the next morning and asks people to get Lee Geums (actress Lee So-yeon) phone number. He then calls her up and proposes that they meet once more. Gyeong-woo (actor Shin Seong-rok) proposes marriage to Geum all of a sudden...
Episode 3
Hwang discovers her fathers hospital bill in Geums desk and gets into a quarrel with Geum about it. In-shik, Hwangs father-in-law, pressures Hwang to quit her job but Hwang deflects the request by saying that she is not comfortable with being a stay-at-home mom. When Geum is unable to pay off her fathers hospital bills, the hospitals billing department calls her to tell her that they are discharging him.
Episode 4
Geum reluctantly seeks help from her sister Hwang by asking her to lend her some money to pay off their fathers hospital bill but she flatly refuses to help her. Three women knock on the door of In-shiks home and they angrily demand to see Tae-young because they have reasons to believe that she is seeing their brother-in-law. Gyeong-woo buys an expensive dress for Geum after she borrows money from him.
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Beyonce is certainly not the timid type, and this 'Grown Woman' definitely does not scare easily in the fashion department. In the black and white shot above, taken prior to her press rounds for the upcoming animated flick 'Epic,' you'll see Bey getting playing with patterns courtesy of those tropical paradise pants… but what you're missing from this gray scale photo (you can see a color version below) is that Mrs. Carter is also rocking this look in seriously bright hues.
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Allowing the user of your oh-so-fancy GUI to customize the experience by the use of settings is a very nice feature for any program. However, the user expects all settings to take effect immediately, which means that you have to listen to multiple events (or, alternatively, use data binding). The user also expects all settings to be there the next time he or she opens the program, which means that you also have to store settings in the registry or to an XML-file.
If you feel like I do - that the solutions using data binding and settings are awkward to use - then you might already have found the excellent code by circumpunct. This is a rather large extension of circumpunct's work, in that it allows you to connect a control, a property and an entry in an XML-file. Any change to the value of a control or of a property is immediately mirrored in the bound entities.
(If you are familiar with WPF, you can view AutoSettings as a way of binding the DataContext and BindingPath of a control to a property in .NET 2.0.)
Using the code is very straight-forward. There are several public methods, but the only one that you need to worry about is ConnectSetting:
public bool ConnectSetting (Control control, string xPath, object propertyContainer, string propertyName)
You specify the control to bind to, the XML-path to store the value under, the object that contains the property, and the name of the property that should hold the value:
// Create a new settings class, using the default filename settings.xml mySettings = new AutoSettings.AutoSettings(); // Create a new property container myProperties = new PropertyContainer(); // Connect controls to settings file and property class // Note that property names are case sensitive! // Connect a check box to the corresponding property. mySettings.ConnectSetting(cbBlack, "isBlack", myProperties, "IsBlack"); // Text from textboxes works the same way: mySettings.ConnectSetting(tbText, "text", myProperties, "Text"); // Comboboxes are slightly more complicated (examine the settings file!): mySettings.ConnectSetting(cbOptions, "optionText", myProperties, "OptionText"); // Numeric up-downs are also supported: mySettings.ConnectSetting(nudA, "numberA", myProperties, "NumberA");
ConnectSetting checks if the XML-path exists in the settings file. If it does, that value will be read and written to the control and the property. If the path does not exist, it will be created. It is important to realize that control, xPath and the propertyContainer/propertyName combo can all be null. Thus, if you do not need to reflect the values of a control into a property, set propertyContainer and propertyName to null:
// In some cases, you are not interested in mirroring the control into a separate // property (perhaps because you can retrieve the value directly anyway): mySettings.ConnectSetting(rbRed, "isRed", null, null);
If you do not have a control, but still wish to bind a property to a setting, set control to null:
// It is also possible to ignore the control input, and just store the property // in the settings file (useful if you want to design your own control): mySettings.ConnectSetting(null, "numberB", myProperties, "NumberB");
Finally, if you do not want to store the setting to file, but nevertheless wish to bind a control to a property, set xPath to null:
// You can also explicitly make sure that the value is not saved to a file, although // you want it mirrored into a property. Useful for passwords, or similar. mySettings.ConnectSetting(rbYellow, null, myProperties, "IsYellow");
The choice is yours.
ConnectSetting checks if the propertyContainer implements INotifyPropertyChanged. If it does, it listens to this event and updates the control and settings file whenever the property changes. This allows you to programmatically change a value of a property, without having to worry about explicitly updating the control and settings file. Thus, if PropertyContainer looks like this:
public partial class PropertyContainer : INotifyPropertyChanged { private decimal myNumberA; public decimal NumberA { get { return myNumberA; } set { myNumberA = value; if (PropertyChanged != null) PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("NumberA")); } } public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; }
You can simply do:
This will update the property NumberA, the control bound to this property (nudA) and the contents of the settings file ("numberA").
While easy to use, there is a lot going on behind the scenes. For example, how is the XML-string converted into a proper value? For every value stored in the settings file, there is also a type. This allows the XML-reader to find a proper converter and convert the value into a type, like this:
private T ConvertFromString<t>(string value) where T : IConvertible { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value)) return default(T); return (T)TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(T)).ConvertFromString(value); }
As has already been hinted at, the properties are read and updated by using Reflection. For example:
PropertyInfo propertyInfo = propertyContainer.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName); if (propertyInfo != null) { propertyInfo.SetValue(propertyContainer, GetSetting(xPath), null); }
For further details, see the code or ask a question in the message area below.
The code is light-weight, and does little or no error checking for corrupt settings files.
The code supports five types of controls: CheckBox, RadioButton, TextBox, NumericUpDown and ComboBox. It should be fairly clear how to do the extensions to other types of controls. Let me know if you have a specific control that you want to see support for.
The "binding" is used only for the default use of the control, i.e. for a CheckBox, the value stored is the Checked property. There might be other properties of the controls that might be of interest to store as well, but this is not implemented. It should also be noted that AutoSettings does not use Invoke to update the control, which means that you (in most cases) cannot update a property from a thread other than the GUI thread. This will be fixed in a future version.
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Blink and you'll miss them: black actors remain an anomaly on the French stage, with practically no prominent role models for aspiring performers. This state of affairs raises few eyebrows in the country, but two directors have gone against the grain this season with productions featuring nearly all-black casts. Christian Schiaretti was the first with the excellent Une saison au Congo, and Jean-Louis Martinelli follows this month at Nanterre's Les Amandiers.
Created last June at the Napoli Teatro Festival in Italy, Une nuit à la présidence is another milestone in Martinelli's long-standing relationship with Burkina Faso, a former French colony, and local company Traces-Théâtre. The production evolved from improvisation sessions with the 11-strong cast, but the text is credited to Martinelli, with a helping hand from Malian author and activist Aminata Traoré.
Martinelli is adept at exploring complex, controversial issues on stage, but Une nuit is less nuanced than other recent productions of his. It is set in the palace of an imaginary African president (Moussa Sanou), who welcomes a ruthless French emissary. The country may be a "democratic people's republic", but Realpolitik is the only game in town. "I need means to deceive my people," explains Sanou, while the envoy demands "structural adjustments" to satisfy international institutions.
More characters are introduced in broad, crude strokes when five "artists" are called upon to provide entertainment. Between songs, they tell stories of rape, domestic slavery, prostitution and villages demolished to make way for foreign investors. The president's response is to blame the victims; meanwhile his guest cynically argues that his money will help the prostitute he intends to hire.
Martinelli casts his political net wide, too wide for the play to sustain it. In a comical video interlude, the locals are given Chinese lessons, following a Chinese takeover of the electricity supply. The songs, composed by Ray Léma, lay out a vision of Africa as savaged by neo-colonialism and the strings attached to international aid, yet ultimately fighting a common enemy with Europe: financial institutions. "Refuse the help that doesn't help you do without help," the five singers tell us, before moving on to another chorus: "The debt is foreign to us, so we can't pay it." It's a stirring invitation to rebel against the world order, but one laden with oversimplification.
The production is Martinelli's swan song in Nanterre: against the city's advice, the government declined to renew his contract last season as part of a larger review of appointments to the helm of publicly funded theatres, with an eye to nurturing a new generation of directors. This season has been one of transition with his successors, Philippe Quesne and Nathalie Vimeux. Despite its shortcomings, Une nuit points to the legacy of inclusiveness and provocative debate they're inheriting; let's hope they will build on it.


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Barry Gibb bringing first solo tour to the Bowl
January 28th, 2014, 8:00 am by BEN WENER, POP MUSIC CRITICIt's been more than a decade since legendary pop trio the Bee Gees gave their last proper performance in Southern California, closing out KIIS-FM's Wango Tango with a crowd-thrilling set at Dodger Stadium in 2001.
Two years later, Maurice Gibb died unexpectedly of a heart attack while awaiting surgery for a twisted intestine. A little more than nine years after that, his fraternal twin Robin passed away after a battle with liver cancer.
By that point, Robin and eldest brother Barry Gibb had decided to revive the band name for "Britain's first family of harmony," as they were described during their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. The pair had ramped up interest by turning up on Dancing with the Stars and American Idol, but plans for a tour never materialized.
So it wasn't too surprising that the leader of the Gibbs went forward with a new production last year, the Mythology Tour, designed "in honor of his brothers and a lifetime of music," as the outing's announcement noted. Now, after garnering rave reviews for shows in Australia (where the family was raised) and throughout England (including the Gibbs' birthplace, Manchester), the songwriting giant with the silvery mane – who stunned viewers by turning up at the end of "The Barry Gibb Talk Show" sketch during Jimmy Fallon's Christmas stint on Saturday Night Live – will finally sing on the West Coast again.
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I went to my local Media Markt store on my lunch break today. They have about 200 headphones on display. They have the AKG 701 and also the Sennheiser HD 650 to start comparisons.
Today I auditioned the Fidelio X1 and the Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro. In that environment you cannot test if you can hear a fly one the other side of a COD map behind you, but you can kind of tell if the sound signature is for you or not.
When I tested the X1 first about two month ago, they where more or less meh to me, not good, not bad, just not interesting. But now they have hundreds of hour on their drivers and are fully broken in. They are really nice sounding, especially the bass. It is a night and day difference. to me they have a very big and warm bass, that is just about perfect. Very tempting. And it is running from a demo setup that drives 200 cans parallel. Only that they are all running at the same level.
Then came the Beyer Custom One Pro.
This is also a reasonable bass head can. The bass is even more power full when you put the switches to full bass. And they are comfortable. The have vinyl pads which might be an off for some. But you can probably replace them with any Beyer velour or leather pad that is currently available. The stage seemed quite big to me though.
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