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Nostalgia is a powerful device in the art and writing of Nyanna Johnson and Alex Zhang. Both students received Gold Medals for their portfolios which focused on revisiting the past and evoking emotions with their words and images. Nyanna and Alex take us back in time to give new meaning to the present in this next installment of Eyes on the Prize.
Nyanna Johnson is from Dayton, Ohio and attends Stivers School for the Arts.
"My photography tells a story. Through my series of work, you take a fictional journey with a young dancer, who returns home to see her house burned down. The photos provoke emotion through contrast and the separation of the pictures. You are able to travel through the whole scene of the house with the composite layout. The lighting creates shadows that reveal the girl emotion of sadness as she revisits each room.
"There has been debate on whether photography is a true art form, and I believe it is. Although it appears we are only regurgitating images we see before our eyes, it is actually much more than that. We artfully and skillfully create images, through cropping, lighting, and focus, to make mundane things you may pass every day, meaningful. While it may sound simple, it is very difficult and takes a lot of practice, but the outcome is something astonishing."
Alex Zhang is from Exeter, New Hampshire and attends Phillips Exeter Academy.
"Writing provides me with a sense of understanding, it allows me to reflect and acknowledge where I am now and where I want to be. Writing is my sanctuary. When I read my pieces, I return to those days spent in the schoolyard and with my father, a time when things were both difficult and easy. I recognize the many fragments of my life that piece together my identity. My portfolio is a reflection of me."
"Father Tea"
Personal Essay & Memoir by Alex Zhang, Grade 12, Age 18, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
My father drinks only darkness.
I am five. On winter nights, we sit together in the screened porch and watch the stars with mugs clenched between palms. His breath forces steam from the cup's edge and into the bitter air. I bring my face close to my tea and inhale the scent—sharp and acrid. Beside me, I hear my father slug gulp after gulp; I fence the full cup between my fingers until it's cold.
I remember the sensation of coarse leaves splintering against my tongue.
On my first trip to China at the age of six, we attend an all-family dinner; tea arrives with the meal in place of water. Thirsty, I tug my mother's gray sweater and gesture to my throat. She reaches across the table and grasps the handle of the communal pot. I peer through the open lid, asking where the teabags are. She chuckles, lifts my porcelain cup, and fills it to the brim. The leaves float like miniature boats in a steaming pool of algae.
By the time I am eight, I have developed an addiction for bing hong cha, which translates to "iced red tea." It's the Lipton of China, so drenched in sugar that my mouth floods with cavities by the time I am nine. On the way back from the dentist, my father yells at me in Chinese: "How are you this stupid? You only have one set of teeth."
The entire time, his tea-stained incisors—off yellow—dip with each word.
People might think this is "authentic" tea, but it's only something you sip in the Japanese section of Epcot at Disney World. My family visits the theme park to celebrate my tenth birthday. The trip ends early. We leave after my father argues with the waiter and demands we go to another restaurant, one with real tea—Chinese tea. The lights of the park vanish in the rearview mirror while tears run down my cheeks. My mother holds my hand, softly sings Happy Birthday. My father frowns into the windshield at the black pavement rushing past. He turns up the radio. I taste only salt.
It might as well be water; you might as well not drink tea at all.
My grandfather consumes only yellow tea. We visit him in Shanghai when I'm thirteen; I recall my parents arguing the night before.
"You have to see him, he's your father," my mother reasons.
"He was no father to me." I hear the slam of his fist as it lands firm on a tabletop.
The next day, we lurch through traffic until we reach my grandfather's yellowing stone apartment. Inside, I sit on the living room carpet and play with a blue toy truck he gives me. In the kitchen, a kettle screams and my father rushes to turn the burner down. He drops the pot; I hear the crash of the metal against tile. "How are you still this stupid?" my grandfather hollers in Chinese from his rocking chair. My father mutters as he wipes with towels that stain piss-yellow. We don't visit again until years later.
I develop an obsession for mint tea in high school after the purchase of a shiny, chrome Keurig.
In October, my father calls me to complain about my Amazon purchases. "Why the hell would you order mint tea? I don't understand." I struggle to comprehend his rushed Chinese. "Remember your roots," he spits before hanging up.
The next week, an aged gray teakettle arrives along with three packs of foreign green leaves wrapped in Mandarin labels I cannot read.
Every day, I visit a local coffee shop and order a twelve-ounce cup of Jasmine tea. The smiling barista hands me a delicate white timer set for three minutes, though most days I leave the bag steeped long after the beeps, the way father likes it. I will never tell him though.
My mother is a fan of delicate teas, a category that encompasses everything bearing the names of flowers.
On her birthday in March, I boil a fresh pot of Lavender tea. But walking to the dining room table, my feet stumble and the clay pot shatters on the wooden floor. The liquid seeps into the cracks and the room fills with the scent of summer. My father stomps across the room; he chucks paper towels at me, yells into my ear. My mother pulls him away gently by the arm and I sop up the mess in silence.
Real black tea—it's fermented, bitter, aged, and the color of winter midnights.
I am seventeen. Some breaks, I return home to find my father has unearthed the faded pu'er tin from the upper cabinets and left it open on the counter. In the confines of the screened porch, he peers out into the darkness with a scalding cup firm in his hand. There is no son at his side. I glance back one last time before proceeding up the stairs to my mother calling welcome.
Sometimes I imagine my relationship with my father as a cup of tea—a cup of sun tea. It's prepared by steeping tea leaves in a jar of tap water and leaving the mixture to bask in the sun. In most cases, however, the rays are not enough to kill the bacteria. The concoction festers until no longer identifiable—the surface rankled with off-white globs, the color decayed to septic brown. This is our father-son drink. I don't want to think about the taste.
I am trying to find the words to say he was too bitter.
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PRESIDENT Mugabe has described as "sellouts" those African countries that recognized Libya's transitional government. Libya's new government led by the National Transitional Council was given full membership of the United Nations at the just ended General Assembly. The African Union also voted to recognize the NTC. Adressing reporters Sunday on his return from the New […]Read More


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A soon-to-begin vote recount in Wisconsin could threaten the 10 electoral votes that President-elect Donald Trump picked up earlier this month in the Badger State. Based on his response to the recount's announcement, the president-elect is not happy about it. Since Saturday, Trump's vote recount tweets have become a never-ending stream of consciousness that has targeted both the Green Party and Democrats.
The recount became official on Friday, when the Wisconsin Elections Commission acknowledged recount requests from Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and another candidate, Rocky Roque De La Fuente. In the commission's statement, administrator Michael Haas said that the recount could begin as early as this week. It will likely last at least until the federal government's deadline of Dec. 13. If Wisconsin's original election results are overturned, or if the state misses the mid-December deadline, Trump could stand to lose 10 electoral votes. While that's not a major windfall from the grand total of 538 available votes, it could dish a sturdy blow to his reputation, weakening his victory in November's general election.
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In his tweets from Sunday, Trump seems to argue that Clinton and other Democrats wanted Republicans and Trump voters to accept the election results in November no matter what, but now, it's Democrats and other non-Trump voters who won't accept the results without a recount. He's not entirely wrong, but neither Clinton nor her campaign called for the recount, despite loud calls for them to do so. Not to mention, his stream-of-consciousness delivery of that message demonstrates a tendency that has become worrisome to many over the course of his campaign. It seems that tendency may not end when his presidency starts.


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As soon as he graduated from high school, Vincent Miranda set out to make his dream of creating music a reality. He had already been practicing since he was 13, but he decided it was finally time to let his art out into the world.
The end of his time in high school marked the beginning of his career as he donned the name My Cousin Vinny and started playing house parties and shows in Sacramento.
A decade after he got his start in the business, he has developed his own style that incorporates the stylings of traditional Latin music into his electronic beats.
"What I've been really inspired by lately is a ton of global bass and Latin bass," said Miranda. "It's a lot like electronic meets cumbia meets Latin. It's this crazy fusion that I've really been into over the past few years, so it sort of became my main inspiration."
His particular style has resulted in a loyal local following, and he has also had the opportunity to play in multiple nationwide tours and to play at SXSW twice.
"Right now, I'm working on some projects with artists I got to meet at SXSW this year, so the main focus is getting those done and ready to release over the summer," said Miranda. "I'm trying to coordinate some more events around town so I can bring out the artists that I was able to connect with."
Despite opportunities elsewhere, Miranda decided that his home city of Sacramento was the best place for both him and his music to grow.
"Sacramento has contributed so much to me," Miranda said. "I've been doing this for about 10 years and have received nothing but love and support form my city, so to still be here to get to do all the things I do — I'm forever grateful to Sacramento."
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The final report of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on "Assisted Dying" set up by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews late in 2016, handed down its final report and recommendations on July 22.
The media messaging by the Government and panel chairman Dr Brian Owler focused almost exclusively on selling their work to the Victorian people. A sugar-coated bitter pill.
The Health Minister, Jill Hennessy, described the model put forward for the new law as "the safest in the world". Dr Owler told The Guardian that the panel's final report outlined 66 recommendations and safeguards, and that the model was "the most conservative model for voluntary assisted dying in the world".
I guess it just wouldn't have been the same to claim that the model was, perhaps, the "second best" or, maybe "in the top ten". But to call legislation that allows a doctor to kill a patient or to help them to suicide "conservative" really is a bit much. Will it mean that fewer people will die than in, say, Belgium or Canada?
Various reports have numbered 66 and 68 safeguards and I guess that might simply come down to a definition of what actually constitutes a safeguard. One suggestion is that, in terms of assisted suicide, the dispensed medication would need to be kept in a locked tin. But whether that's safe or not would likely depend on who held the key.
But it does raise the question: how many safeguards are needed to make such a law safe? We're not talking safer; which the "conservative" comment tends to allude to, but safe. No possible problems; no adverse outcomes; no one made dead who did not really want to be or who was not as ill as expected; no one suffering suicidal depression at any point in the process, no bracket creep. In other words, totally safe.
There are always winners and losers in any legislation. But this is not like any other type of law. The finality and tragedy of "unsafe" law cannot be dismissed. The law must be totally safe. The reality is that there is no safe way to kill people or to help them to their suicide.
Wading through the massive report replete with a sprinkling of undefended assertions and motherhood statements feels a bit like watching an old B-grade horror movie. You can't remember if you've seen it before and, while great swathes of it seem familiar, you watch it to the end – just to make sure – only to find that, yes, it's just another re-run.
What does stand out, for me, is the amount of detail the report writers have gone into to try to defend every dot and tittle. This you don't see very often. But there's very little that is at all convincing once you get to all that detail.
Sure, there are a few novelties – like the locked tin – to point to the fact that they did try very hard, in some places, to negate some of the more obvious flaws pointed out in some U.S. models, but in doing so, they seem only to have achieved a shift in the concerns. There are still many questions.
One obvious question that points directly to the reality that this model is not the best thing since sliced bread is the "extension" of eligibility to 12 months from the earlier recommended "is at the end of their life (final weeks or months of life)". Accuracy in prognostication at even six months to live is notoriously difficult as the data from Oregon shows. In 2016 one Oregonian ingested lethal medication 539 days (nearly 18 months) after the initial request for the lethal prescription was made.
The longest duration between initial request and ingestion recorded is 1009 days (that is two years and nine months). So, what can we expect at 12 months?
"The panel is of the view that clear and precise eligibility criteria set out in legislation will prevent any expansion of voluntary assisted dying or any unintended 'scope creep'," Says the report.
Really? You don't expect that some people will press so hard for access that some doctors won't simply fudge on their behalf, knowing full well that no one could gainsay their assertions? And, if a few eyebrows are raised?
The panel has thought of that: "The panel acknowledges that there may be rare instances where a person eligible for voluntary assisted dying does survive beyond the 12-month time frame. When this occurs the panel considers that neither the person nor the medical practitioners who assessed the person's eligibility for voluntary assisted dying in good faith and reasonably under the legislation should be penalised."
There you go: "good faith", "reasonably" – phrases we've seen before that really mean very little.
And, as in Oregon, there is no requirement that the person's mental state or consent be tested at the time that they commit suicide; nor is there any requirement that a doctor be in attendance. There may have been coercion; there may have been a forced ingestion. No one will ever know.
Throughout the panel's report, as in most of the pro-assisted suicide banter, what stands out most is the total absence of any understanding of the human person and what it is like to be given a bad diagnosis or prognosis. It's a roller-coaster. Life is turned upside down, shaken hard and returned with a thud to the compounding reality that life for the person and their family will never be the same again. Conversations change. There are no right answers to the difficult questions about treatment options and whether or not to fight to the last or simply to let nature take its course.
As British comedian and disability activist Liz Carr told Victorian Parliament earlier this year, she simply doesn't want this option because "I'm afraid I might use it". Life tells us not to make important decisions under pressure or stress; but when is that a reality for someone who is facing their death?
Even under the tick of all of the qualifications and all of the processes, there will still be people who choose to suicide at a darker moment that, absent the option, might be a little brighter the next day.
There is no safe way to do this and no way of protecting vulnerable people – and that could mean any one of us.
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Today we were able to record all of the gold routines with music, except Paso which we did just with the counts. There were a couple of mix ups here and there that we had to do again, or which Boss had to make a note of clarification but I was pretty impressed to get through them all.
Quickstep seem the one most likely to spell disaster, but even it when ok with a need for a restart only because we ran out of room (which was number one reason to restart in standard).
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Beautiful! I grew up mostly in Illinois, so it looks very familiar to me!ReplyDelete
I've never visited Illinois...will have to someday, to take some more photos of those great "old barns". Thanks for stopping by.ReplyDelete
beautiful ...what is that gogenerous is that the name written in front or does it mean something to you,Hilda this is simply gorgeous....:)ReplyDelete
Thank you Anu. The sign says Go General. I'm not sure what that means but I decided to paint it in anyway.ReplyDelete
Quite a lot of details have been attended to Hilda, your effort to bring them on canvas is fabulous!ReplyDelete
I've been watching your blog and your portraits on pastel. You are very daring, people always protest with them. I prefer painting trees, nobody get angry if a branch is longer than other one. It's a joke.ReplyDelete
I like your barn, and portraits are very realistic.
thank you both for your kind comments...ReplyDelete
This turned out wonderfully.ReplyDelete
Wonderfu job on this barn!!ReplyDelete
thank you ladies..a little change from portraits. Once in awhile I'd like to paint barns..so many interesting ones to do.ReplyDelete
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Your barn just puts me in the peaceful countryside. I do hope you do a few more, because there's something about the serenity and history of old barns that really draws us in. We all want to know their stories perhaps. Thanks also for you kind comments, greatly appreciated.
Claire, I'm doing another painting of a barn right now. I have so many photos from Tennessee and W.Virginia. One is nicer than the other..I guess I'm a Country girl at heart.ReplyDelete
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I very much enjoyed viewing your beautiful paintings! Keep up your wonderful work and most of all have fun!!
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Workers from each city come together to assemble lasagna trays for nonprofits in area.
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The early 80's was a very exciting time for music in general, and especially so in Scotland. The assertive 70's philosophy of punk gave many music fans the confidence to go off and form their own bands.
The early 80's introduced Scottish bands such as the Fire Engines, Orange Juice, Josef K, the Associates, and Altered Images. The mid 80's then saw groups such as the Jesus & Mary Chain, Primal Scream, and Teenage Fanclub all also forming.
All these bands would never have been be heard on a larger scale if it hadn't been for the little independent record labels that grew up naturally alongside the bands.Glasgow's Postcard was one of the most popular and influential Scottish labels and had on its roster Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera , whilst Edinburgh's Fast Product had the Fire Engines.
As much as punk influenced the 80's, the 80's then influenced the 90's. And that is when the Scottish label Creeping Bent was first established by Douglas MacIntyre.
Douglas MacIntyre played guitar with various 80's bands (Article 58/Jazzateers). He was a session musician/producer for Marina Records' and worked with the Bathers, Sugartown and Cowboy Mouth. He has been involved too with the Secret Goldfish and many other bands.He first decided to establish Creeping Bent. in 1994. Very early on the label met with support from people such as John Peel, and Alan Vega of Suicide. who has also released music through Creeping Bent. The Nectarine No. 9, which is lead by Davy Henderson of the Fire Engines, has also found at home on Creeping Bent. Since then MacIntyre has also become their manager.
The much acclaimed Vic Godard , who with his band the Subway Sect, debuted live on the same bill as the Clash and the Buzzcocks, has also released music on Creeping Bent.
This year, Creeping Bent is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Pennyblackmusic talked to MacIntyre about his music influences and his label's history.
PB: Before you set up Creeping Bent you were playing with other bands like The Bathers, Sugartown or Cowboy Mouth. Is that right?
DM: I was more like a session musician. I did session stuff for a few people but it wasn't very enjoyable. The first time I actually was in a band was a long time ago. The band was called Arctic 58. I was about 16 and we released a single that was produced by Malcolm Ross and Alan Horne from Postcard Records. We also toured with Josef K who were on Postcard. After that, the only group I was in that I thought were any good were the Jazzateers, who were universally loathed!
PB: What inspired you that much that you wanted to be involved in making music in the first place?
DM: I think, like other people, punk rock. It was such a big thing. I was still at school when punk was happening and you suddenly felt you could be in a band.
PB: It must have been a very exciting time for music and new bands.
DM: Yeah, the early 80's were great. Postcard, which was based in Glasgow, was very exciting. And then sort of immediately after that you got the next wave of bands like the Pastels and Primal Scream who were influenced by Postcard as well.
PB: I love Primal Scream. What did you think of them at the time? They are very different now.
DM: I thought they were good because they reminded me of the Byrds and I was a big fan of Byrds. I liked the Scream's ambition. You could tell they were real fans of music.
PB: It was also the time when the Jesus and Mary Chain broke through.
DM: I thought their first single 'Upside Down' was amazing (released through Creation Records-Ed). The early records were really good but after Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream singer and original Jesus and Mary Chain drummer-Ed) stopped playing with them and they started using a drum machine the sound didn't work so well in my opinion.
PB: Would you say that Postcard influenced you when you decided to set up Creeping Bent? Had you always also wanted to run a label?
DM: The label was something that I always wanted to do. I had been influenced by all those labels in 80's. There seemed to be a lot of regional independent labels after punk. There was Postcard in Glasgow and Fast Product in Edinburgh, Zoo in Liverpool and Factory Records in Manchester. That whole period I found very creative.
PB: How did you first set up Creeping Bent?
DM: I was really fed up with music and bored with myself. I didn't like what I was doing and was very negative about everything. With Creeping Bent it was the first time I actually started feeling positive about something.
The label started up in 1994 but we didn't put any records out in 1994. We did this big event in a arts venue called the Tramway in Glasgow. The event was called "A Leap Into The Void BENT 001" It was like a mixture of film and live bands and stuff like that, a homage to Yves Klein.
PB: That sounds great. Was it a similar sort of thing to Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground ?
DM: Yeah, everyone was influenced by the Velvet Underground. So it was complete rip of Andy Warhol basically. (Laughs)
PB: What were your first releases on Creeping Bent?
DM: The first releases were 7" singles. In fact, the very first release was a 10" single. I think we released about 3 or 4 7". Our 4th release was a 12" single which was kind of a remix of a Suicide song .'Frankie Teardrop'. That was probably what put us in a map because it was a NME single of the week and suddenly from being in a position in which we were struggling to sell music we started selling a lot of records.
PB: How did you get in touch with Alan Vega from Suicide? They are a worldwide respected band and it must have been a very big success for
DM: We put out the 12" remix of Suicide and then Suicide's old manager, a guy called Marty Thau, who once managed the New York Dolls, then got in touch with us. He had a record company called Red Star. He said he loved the track and wanted to help us and wanted to represent Creeping Bent in America which was such a great step. And so that way we got in touch with Alan Vega. Alan was very supportive and very into what we were doing.
We were just lucky. I totally loved Suicide when I was young and the Fire Engines,the Pop Group and Vic Godard and the Subway Sect.
It is strange how things worked out. We have worked with Vic and Alan Vega on many occasions now. We are putting out a record by Gareth Sager from the Pop Group. Davy Henderson, the singer and guitarist from the Fire Engines, is with the Nectarine No. 9 who we put out and I also manage.
But we also release lots of young bands who are doing interesting things with guitar and all kinds of electronic stuff, for example Colditz & Transelement. So it's very eclectic. I think if we stuck to one particular genre we might have got more attention but because we have a non-genre specific approach it's difficult to predict what we are doing.
A few of our bands also played the Meltdown festival. It's always created by someone different each year and one year John Peel created it. It was at the Royal Festival Hall in London and he asked a few of our bands like Nectarine No. 9, the Secret Goldfish, Adventures In The Stereo and the Leopards to play. So we had all those bands on one bill! They are all completely different styles. It was sold out.
PB: Adventures In The Stereo are another well known band. They feature Jim Beattie who used to played in Primal Scream. How did you get involved with them?
DM: Someone introduced me to Jim Beattie and Judith Boyle (Beattie's co-partner in Adventures in Stereo-Ed) and we just started working with them and did 5 singles and 2 albums. Jim Beattie is incredibly talented. It's a shame because I think he doesn't get enough respect and wide enough audience for how talented he is.
PB: What is actually happening with Adventures In The Stereo at the moment?
DM: They have been signed to an American label and toured America about 3 or 4 years ago. They are just working on new songs and recordings at the moment.
PB: There is connection between Creeping Bent and the German record label Marina Records. Several of the bands you have done session work for such as the Bathers, Sugartown and Cowboy Mouth have all released their music on Marina records. How did that collaboration first come together?
DM: I was doing some session work for the Bathers and they were signed to Marina records. I got to know them then and they asked me to get involved with them writing and producing. So we did an album with Sugartown which I produced and wrote the material for. I have done a few things for Marina over the years. They are a good label.
PB: Is it true that you have actually never released anything on Creeping Bent by any of the bands that you have played with?
DM: I have been involved with some of them doing things like producing. I have been involved as usual, for example, in the new Secret Goldfish album. I have been heavily involved with them over the years. Also when Vic Godard was doing some Creeping Bent gigs I played with his band. I also play guitar on the new album by Future Pilot AKA, which is released on Domino/Geographic. So yeah, I've done some bits and pieces.
It's good to play with bands as a session musician. I don't want to be paid and just really enjoy doing it. It's good fun. If I wanted to make money out of music I would become a lawyer (Laughs).
With Creeping Bent we have been completely independent for the whole 10 years of our existence. I'm very proud of that. We are not like a huge record company. We are definitely an underground label. We are not trying to be that careerist. I suppose we should maybe be more
ambitious but we just put stuff out when we feel like it.
PB: Running an independent record company nowadays must be very tough especially with major record labels leading the market. I imagine it must be quite hard for you financially.
DM: We have always made money and always sold enough records to survive. I think if we were trying to be more successful we would have to start signing bands that we don't like that much and compromise ourselves. To me, bands like The Nectarine No. 9 are just amazing. It has been an absolute honour and privilege to be involved with them and to put their music out on Creeping Bent. They are now signed to Beggars Banquet but it works like a co-release between Beggars Banquet and Creeping Bent.
PB: Vic Godard is another very important act How did you first meet him?
MD: I met Vic at a Secret Goldfish gig in London. He just came up and introduced himself to me which was a massive thrill. I have released some stuff by Vic since then and have put on about 4 gigs for him in Scotland and every single one was just amazing. To me he is a genius. He is the king of skewed pop. (Laughs)
PB: Another of your artists that has quite a long and respectful reputation is Monica Queen. Could you tell me more about how you first started working with her?
DM: We became aware of Monica Queen through her work with Belle and Sebastian. We did an album with her and it was just great. It sounded a bit like Emmylou Harris and a bit like an old skool country and western record.
The other good thing about Creeping Bent is that we put out an album by a band and then they can just go and record another album with other label. We don't tie people down like most big record labels do. I think it makes more sense for a band to sign with another label if they get a good offer. We are a small label and can only put out a certain number of records out.
PB: How many people are actually involved in running Creeping Bent?
DM: It's really just me. I have people helping me but not very many. It's definitely a cottage industry (Laughs)
PB: When you were first starting up did you think you would be here 10 years later?
DM: No! I didn't think that. It's been interesting because we started as 7" label. It seemed to be more obvious way for us to get started. And then we became a CD label. We are going to start putting things out digitally as well and that will give us freedom to put out more things and people can just download it. There is so much great music out there I would like to release but, financially, we can't afford it.
I definitely embrace digital technology as much as I liked 7" vinyl and I think it will open up lot opportunities for small labels.
PB: Perhaps, if people hear the music and like it they will be happier to invest money into buying a CD or vinyl.
DM: Yeah, that's it. We have always placed a lot of emphasis on the artwork and if there was enough of a demand we would probably manufacture some as well.
PB: Also there are a lot of people out there who collect CDs and vinyl.
DM: It's funny because I've got every single that was ever released on Postcard but at the time I was just buying them because I liked them. I know a lot of people that have everything that has ever been released on Creeping Bent which is strange because I don't have everything that has ever been released on Creeping Bent (laughs). I understand people's interest in collecting.
It makes us proud that people recognize that if something is released on Creeping Bent that they are going to get something quite special.
PB: If you look back on the 10 years you have been running Creeping Bent what do you feel proud of the most?
DM: I'm proud of everything really. It was really exciting to be chosen by John Peel to do the Meltdown festival. He is such a lovely man. I'm proud of being involved with The Nectarine No. 9. I think in 10 or 20 years they will be viewed as the Velvet Underground are now viewed. They are really special.
PB: What are your future plans with Creeping Bent as regards forthcoming releases?
DM: We have just put out Gareth Segar 's album. We are, as I said, going to release a lot of stuff digitally It will be interesting to see how it works.
I would much rather we just sell music directly to people that like it but the music industry is just horrible if you are an independent label. Nowadays, if we wanted our music to be played on radio, we would have to pay a plugger. If we wanted press we would have to pay for a press agent and so on. You can end up spending all this money and you don't get played and don't get reviews anyway, but like I said we are not ambitious. We don't want to be in the NME. We exist as an island of groovy in a sea of shit!
It's much harder now then it used to be back when we started. People and media are so corporate. NME is now like the advertising wing of the music industry (laughs) you know…
PB: Here in London, media and people are always chasing after next thing that can be big.
DM: I think that's exactly it. London is always trying to think of the next big thing whereas up in Scotland there are so many different artistes/labels, with differing aesthetic values, and
they all coexist.
PB: Nectarine No. 9 will be playing a few gigs around UK in April. Have you got any other dates confirmed yet?
DM: The Nectarine No. 9, Future Pilot AKA, and Gareth Sager will be playing up in Aberdeen (Saturday May 1st at Drummonds) and Glasgow. These gigs are part of the Triptych Festival, the Glasgow show is at the Tron Theatre and the event is dubbed, "PARANOIC CRITICAL The Creeping Bent Organisation 1994-2004".
PB: Thank you very much and good luck.
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The cold storage and industrial refrigeration sectors can be richly rewarded by the implementation of just a few simple energy-saving technologies. Shaun Evers, managing director of Stonegate Instruments, one of the UK's leaders in refrigeration and temperature control systems, explains how cost efficient devices can save companies substantial amounts of money and help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Efficient refrigeration is crucial to the food industry which is worth £96.1bn to the UK economy and is responsible for at least 12% of the country's energy use. Changing trends in food consumption and the way that we shop has driven forward growth. Over 4,000 supermarkets and most larger food retail outlets have an average of five cold rooms each, all with their own cooling and lighting facilities, and smaller food stores, butchers and food storage also, of course, use refrigeration.
This goes some way to explaining why energy consumption in the refrigeration sector costs British industry approximately £300m each year with the average site energy bill for a cold store totalling £0.5m. Between 1,500 and 2,000 food and drink manufacturing sites in the UK are major users of refrigeration and cold storage facilities, many using inefficient cold stores designed and built over 20 years ago, and refrigeration costs represent over 50% of the energy bill for some organisations.
A study by the Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre (FRPERC) found that significant energy savings of at least 30% can be achieved by implementing low cost technologies that address the four key areas where energy is wasted; running equipment at the incorrect temperature, leaving doors open too long, through gas leaks, and due to raised moisture levels.
Temperature control
Keeping food at exactly the right temperature is, of course, not only fundamental to hygiene and the longevity of foodstuffs, but also to keeping energy bills down and cutting carbon emissions. Overcooling by just 1˚C can lead to a significant increase in energy consumption of up to 3%, with temperature differences of 5˚C proven to increase electricity consumption by 10-20%.
Efficient thermometers linked to audio and visual alarms that warn staff of variants are essential to both monitor the temperature of the cold store and the temperature of its contents. At its most basic this could be a compact digital thermometer designed to be used with a thermistor probe across a range of plus or minus 50˚C which will constantly display the temperature. Probes can be wall mounted or hand-held and chosen for their suitability in washdown areas.
A significant amount of energy wastage is caused purely by the incorrect operation of equipment and poor use of controls – simply leaving the cold storage door open makes the system work harder to maintain low temperatures. Research carried out by Stonegate indicates that an average of 32 visits per day are made to frozen food cold rooms, with the door open for, on average, more than 30 minutes five times a week.
Open doors can also lead to moisture control problems. Each time the door is open, moist air is drawn in as a result of the difference in air density between the outside and inside of the cold store. The water vapour forms ice which, over time, reduces the efficiency of the store and requires it to use more energy. Eventually the store will have to be defrosted, leading to more wasted energy.
To address these issues Stonegate Instruments has developed its Door Open Alarm system for food industry refrigerators, the Cold Room Logger for temperature monitoring and the Transducer Trip Module to measure moisture content. The Door Open Alarm system is a large and loud warning device using a flashing Xenon Beacon and up to two 100dB sounders which, when fitted to a cold room door, provides both audible and visual warnings that it has been left open for an extended amount of time. Data loggers have inputs for measuring temperature, door contacts and the amount of current used. Data is stored at regular intervals for access by USB connection to computers to ensure that systems are working to maximum efficiency.
Gas leaks
Gas leaks can be a serious matter. According to the Institute of Refrigeration working with the Carbon Trust, a leak of just 1kg of refrigerant gases causes approximately the same environmental damage as driving a van 10,000 miles. They report that leaks of up to 30% of the charge during a year are not uncommon in commercial and industrial refrigeration. If a gas leak occurs, a cold store's energy consumption will increase to maintain the equipment's cooling capacity. It is estimated that £40 million per annum could be saved on energy costs in the cold storage industry if gas leaks were dealt with correctly. Leaks are expensive in terms of downtime, service costs, refrigerant, electricity and CO2 emissions. This can be counteracted by applying best practice in leak testing, servicing, maintenance and repair.
No matter how good the manufacture, given time, vibration, temperature and environmental stress, tiny flaws in joint fittings, seams or welds are likely to become leaks. These could be at the tail end of a weld fracture or a microgroove between fittings. Leaks larger than 0.5oz a year can be detrimental to the operation of any refrigeration system.
Leak detection
The most effective method of finding gas leaks is with an electronic detector able to identify a wide range of refrigerant gases including CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs and CO2. Under European legislation, detectors must have a sensitivity of 5g/year and should be checked annually. For optimum reliability, they should be checked after 25 hours' use.
Stonegate Instruments has developed a new improved gas detection system which can accommodate up to 24 remote refrigerant sensors linked to a compact central monitor unit. Both audible and visual alerts for alarm conditions and sensors can be included. The sensors are arranged in three zones of eight channels with four relay outputs for signalling an alarm, one for each zone. Each sensor contains a control for users to adjust the sensitivity according to individual requirements and the system has also been designed to accommodate a logger function that can record one week of logs for each of the 24 channels.
Refrigerant gas leaks are not only expensive but also intrinsically hazardous to the environment. Man-made fluorinated gases (F-gases) can remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years and contribute to a global greenhouse effect. They account for just 2% of the European Union's overall greenhouse gas emissions but have risen by 60% since 1990 in contrast with all other greenhouse gases, which have been reduced.
As part of its policy to combat climate change, the EU passed legislation in 2006 to control F-gases. Under these regulations there is a legal obligation to test systems for leaks once a year if the charge is between 3 and 30kg and twice a year for systems with more than 30kg. Systems containing over 300kg of HFC must have permanent fixed leak detectors. Leaks must be repaired and the system retested at the point of repair within one month.
Corporate responsibility
Reducing energy wastage saves money and helps companies to show corporate responsibility in promoting green practices. The UK is the first country to set legally binding carbon budgets which place a restriction on the total amount of greenhouse gases that the UK can emit over a five-year period, leading to the target of reducing the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050.
The government introduced a mandatory corporate reporting regulation which came into effect October 2013, requiring all quoted companies to report on their greenhouse gas emissions. Another new initiative, the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) will require all businesses with more than 250 employees or an annual turnover of more than €50 million (£41,322,450) to undertake an energy audit by 5 December 2015.
Implementing energy saving technologies in commercial refrigeration is straightforward and, with a payback of less than two years, offers long term savings which will help businesses to keep their energy costs at a minimum and meet their green targets. Putting a freeze on energy wastage couldn't be simpler.


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The announcement that Aurora will no longer be a member of the Chagrin Valley Conference as of the 2014-15 school year figures to have no effect on the future of the Portage Trail Conference, says one area athletic director.
According to the Record Publising Company's Aurora Advocate, 10 schools announced in a letter distributed at a CVC principals meeting that they will leave the conference at the end of the 2014-15 school year.
The 10 schools leaving the CVC are Chagrin Falls, Orange, Painesville Harvey, West Geauga, Perry, Wickliffe, Beachwood, Hawken, Independence and Kirtland.
Schools which have not committed to leaving yet are Aurora and Kenston, the two biggest schools, along with Berkshire, Cardinal, Cuyahoga Heights, Richmond Heights, Newbury and Fairport Harding.
Rootstown athletic director Keith Waesch said Wednesday that the PTC has not discussed the subject of extending an offer to Aurora.
"I can tell you that there has been no discussion about Aurora joining the PTC at this time," Waesch said.
According to an unnamed source Thursday, Middlefield Cardinal and Burton Berkshire have called PTC officials to inquire about entry into the conference.
The topic of expansion has been associated with the PTC following the announcement by Windham and East Canton to leave the league after the close of the 2012-13 school year.
Windham and East Canton both announced their moves out of the PTC two years ago, following the league's policy. The Bombers are preparing to join the Trumbull County-based Northeastern Athletic Conference, while East Canton will depart for the Stark County-based Inter-Valley Conference.
In the wake of the departure of two County Division schools, four area schools filed for application into the PTC.
Barberton, Lake Center Christian, St. Thomas Aquinas and Northwest all made a pitch to join the league, but Waesch said that a decision was made to remain as a 14-team league for the time being.
The only changes for the 2013-14 season will be the return of Streetsboro to the County Division, after a pair of athletic seasons in the Metro Division.
"We would really have to add two smaller schools to replace Windham and East Canton," Waesch said.
"Adding a big program (like Barberton or Northwest) would force us to bump down a school to the County Division, and that would create a real size problem."
With regards to Lake Center Christian and St. Thomas Aquinas — two schools that historically fit into lower divisions in all sports — Waesch said that there were other factors prohibiting their possible entrance into the league.
"Aquinas is a parochial school and it might not be a great fit as the only one in a public school league," Waesch said. "With Lake Center Christian, they do not participate in football, which would really create a scheduling problem."
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Eyes on Walls will drop a time limited edition print of Hikari's painting "Empty Innocence" this Friday! The original painting has been faithfully reproduced as a beautiful giclee limited edition, signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.
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About the original painting, which is sold out, Hikari shares, "There seems to be 'something undescribable' about the pure innocence, or what I call a 'transparent existence', of children. This work reflects those ambivalent implications." Check out these pics of the original in progress!
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Recently, I wrote a post on my own blog about what Dave taught me about photography. I realized that Dave not only taught how to be a better photographer but a better person as well. Talking to so many people since Dave passed made me see that he was such a solid person and was there to help so many people.
I used to joke that Dave was an old man trapped in a young man's body. Really, he was just wiser than me. What took me years to understand, Dave seemingly understood it all, even way back in university.
I will alway remember Dave giving me "the look" when I would get up to leave halfway through a particularly boring night class. Dave was the type of guy that would sit through it all and then ace the exam. Idiots like myself would leave early and then complain later about the "unfair marking" or whatever excuse would come to mind.
Those of us who knew Dave when he lived at the house on Darwin, will remember Dave always sitting at his desk with the door open. Most of the time I would come over and goof off but Dave had the dedication to finish studying and then come up for a few games of Crazy Taxi.
The same dedication came out when he was running the Ulsan Pear. I would stop by and distract him for a while but he always got the job done. I can't imagine how many hours he spent at his desk in the pool house but it showed in each issue.
Later on when Bennett and I visited Dave and Erin in Japan, I saw his dedication to his new love of Japanese drift racing. He knew all the races, the drivers, and the teams. He had done his research. Not to mention that their place was filled with the memorabilia from each the races.
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Having someone that solid in your life meant that you had someone to count on when times got tough. My time in Vancouver was hard on me. I could barely scrape together enough money each month to pay for rent, I worked in a high-pressure environment that I was ultimately responsible for and was buckling under the stress of trying (and failing) at maintaining a long-distance relationship. Dave and Erin were always there to help sort me out and get my head straight.
From stopping by the cafe to say hello when I had to work on the weekends to always coming up with some place to go where they needed me to come along. They really looked out for me. When I was telling my wife about all of our adventures in Vancouver, I realized that I had forgotten about most of the bad times. I only remembered the hockey games, the greasy hamburgers, the ski trips and his smirk when I finally gave in and bought a lulu lemon hoodie.
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I have made friends all over the world but, few have been as true as Dave. This is what makes his passing the hardest for me. I have not just lost a good or dear friend, I have lost my best friend.
Dave was there through thick and thin. He was never selfish or an asshole. The fact was that so many took him for granted, possibly even myself at times. Yet, he was still there to help so many people.
Of all the people that I met Dave was really the best of them. I say this with no ill will towards others, but few have been as awesome as Dave. This was why I relocated to Vancouver when I returned to Canada. I felt like an outsider to my family and there was a distance between my hometown friends and I. Meeting up with Dave and Erin in Vancouver felt like I was at home. Together with Eileen, Bennett and Jihyun, it felt a lot more comfortable that Brandon.
During the "Golden Years" of Ulsan, Dave was the one person who would ride 40 minutes across town to hang out at my place in Cheonsang. Nobody else came out that way despite it being about 5 minutes from mugeodong. He stood by and waited for me when my scooter broke down while others in the group took off. He didn't have to do any of those things but he did because he knew that I would appreciate it. It was that kind of friend Dave was and one that I will miss forever.
There can be only one Dave.


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In a bid to cash-in on the boom in the smartphone market and frugal data packs, Bihar Skill Development Mission (BSDM) held a Mobile Manufacturers Conclave in New Delhi. The aim was to bring together stakeholders across various sectors of IT, telecommunication and electronics to create synergy between BSDM, Bihar Government, the youths of Bihar and leading mobile manufacturers of India. The focus of the meet was on securing support for industry – government partnerships to create new avenues for skilled youths of the state.
The conclave, presided over by Dipak Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, Labour-cum-CEO, BSDM brainstormed different ideas to establish a centre of excellence in Bihar, create opportunities for youths of the state in mobile manufacturing units under "On the Job Training (OJT)" and "Apprenticeship" model, adopt ITI and other available institutions to impart trainings on industry standards, facilitate establishment of incubation and entrepreneurship centres, build capacity linkages, explore possibilities of CSR interventions and create industry alliance for Bihar on emerging concepts like IoT, robotics, machine learning, AI and big data analytics.
Speaking at the conclave, Singh acknowledged the growth in mobile industry and its ripple effect on various sectors of the economy and workforce. He said, "Such transformation has a wider impact on overall market and has led to opportunities not only manufacturing space but also in spaces connected to mobile industry viz. mobile phone carriers, applications, content creation and so on. Bihar, being the supplier state of workforce to many industries, needs to deliver quality skill training and professional knowledge to its youths to enhance their employability and bridge the skill deficit to meet the growing demand for skilled manpower."
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