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Kinky D has been a professional in the music industry
since 1994; as a DJ, promoter, and presenter she has worked with
some of the best in the business. Kinky is a DJ with a daring
and fluid style of mixing, with her music ranging from RnB, Soul,
Hip-Hop and Dancehall, to House, UK/US Garage, and Old Skool
club classics.
has continued to headlne at some of London's premier clubs venues
and special events including: Werner's Club - Kuala Lumpur 2010
Paramount - London 2009 Middle East International Film Festival-Cannes/
Abu Dhabi 2008/2009 Kinkys' Night - Century (resident) 5 hour
set, spanning over 3 decades of music, Claridges - London Blacks
- London No 5 Cavendish Square - London Bedford & Strand
- London Kinkys'' Night - Embassy Bar (resident) , Discotec -
The End (resident) DTPM - Fabric(resident) China White Flava
- Soundshaft, Lifthouse, Plan B, Teatro Smoove - Ministry of
Sound Century Club- Cannes Film Festival 2007/8(Cannes) MTV Block
Party - Gravity (Lithuania) Z Lounge - (Moscow) W Hotel -(Seoul)
La Boom - (Mexico) Jet Set- (St Petersburg) London Party- Arena
(Kiev) Kikkon -Peppermint Lounge (Australia) Ghetto Fabulous
-Q Bar (Bangkok) Your Mother - Blue (San Francisco). She
featured as Javier De Frutos ' My Favourite Londoner' in London's
Time Out: "..she has this encyclopaedic knowledge of music
it becomes almost anthropological
she can immediately smell
what the is crowd wanting." Time Out April 2008 At the Middle
East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi) held by Mohamed
Khalaf Al Mazrourei & Nashwa Al Ruwaini at Century Beach
in Cannes: "Kinky D who no doubt has the best Afro on the
Croisette played consistently rocking music
Some punters
were so exuberant it was like watching a four hour aerobic work
out with smiles." The Hollywood Reporter May 2008
her greatest accomplishments is her work with BBC Radio 1Xtra,
where she amassed over 800 hours with her own show "Xcess
With Kinky D". At 1Xtra Kinky worked alongside the cream
of the urban scene including Ras Kwame, Robbo Ranx, and Ronnie
Herel. Xcess With Kinky D" ran Tuesday to Friday,
2-6am with great success both at home and abroad. It was with
this show that Kinky did a live simultaneous broadcast on Christmas
morning 2002 with Radio 1, her energetic and gregarious manner
well suited to the slot. From there she propelled herself onto
the FM dial hosting and producing her own shows on London's Urban
Fresh, Rhythm FM and House music station Unknown FM. With London
as her base, Kinky D has ventured far and wide with her record
box, energy, and skills playing gigs in many countries including
Mexico, Dominican Republic, Thailand, Australia, Russia, Seoul,
Spain, and Greece.
Over the last 9 years, Kinky D has also promoted
at a variety of London venues, and is currently promoting at
Discotec @ The End, Slave To Rhythm @ Essence, and a collection
of under 18's events under the Firmed Up name. Her recent appearances
and Firmed Up promotions at Ministry of Sound's Smoove (including
Kelis's Tasty' album launch party, and Keisha White's single
launch party) longside
her guest appearances with the likes of Scissor Sisters,50 Cent,
Todd Terry, MOBO Award winners Steve Sutherland and Manny Norte,
Plump DJs, Krafty Kutz, and EZ (amongst others), Kinky regularly
plays at a variety high profile and prestigious corporate events
- she has played at the Cannes Film Festival for the last 3 years,where
she played for 11 consecutive nights and has been invited back
to play this year! The MTV Block Party,W Hotels and Faceparty's
exclusive 'Carnival de L'estrange' at the Atlantis Gallery. She
has worked for clients such as Selfridges, The Department of
Trade and Industry, and various charity benefits including A.I.D.S.
and Breast Cancer awareness. Kinky D kept the glitterati more
than happy mixing Luther, Lionel, and the Neptune's with flair"
(Attitude Magazine, 06/04).
Kinky D has also featured at many
of London's bigger summer festivals including Mardi Gras, Purple
in the Park, London's 2004 Pride, where she not only appeared
as a DJ but also programmed a 2,000 capacity dance tent under
the Firmed Up name. Kinky D has continued to work with Faceparty
over the years including coordinating and performing a dance
tent at a 30,000 capacity festival under the Firmed Up brand,
with PA's from Lady Sovereign and Sonique. Her appearance in
Brighton alongside MC Chickaboo gained her high praise in DJ
Magazine, "The gorgeous DJ Kinky D with her raw mix of R&B
and UK Garage monsters"
Vicky Devine
is one of the most talented female DJ/Producers within the current
UK dance scene having been involved in music in some capacity
throughout most of her life, she was enticed into the dance music
world at the age of 18 and has worked within the industry ever
has been busy wowing fans around the world for many years now,
with a reputation built on her uplifting yet driving trance sets
- although versatile Vicky is just as recognised for her funky,
house and electro sets as well. Playing at numerous
nights in the UK including Gatecrasher, The Gallery (Turnmills),
Pams House (Norwich), Slinky (Westfest Festival), Escape (Swansea),
Passion (Coalville), Tranzaction and on a worldwide level including
on the SLINKY Asia tour in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, the SMIRNOFF
EXPERIENCE tour in India and at clubs in Canada, South America,
Dubai, Australia and New Zealand to name but a few.
is also a regular guest at many top nights in Ibiza including
her weekly main room residency at the massive JUDGEMENT SUNDAYS
at Eden where she plays alonsgide the likes of Judge Jules, Eddie
Halliwell, Lisa Lashes, Christopher Laurence, Matt Hardwick and
Ferry Corston (2005, 2006, 2007), - not to mention a weekly residency
at Majorca's superclub BCM for her own night - "Angels of
Funk" (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). She is also one of the resident
DJ's at the most successful all female DJ event to date - "Charlys
Angelz". This has completed eight successful years out in
Ibiza at which Vicky has played each and every one.The
brand has also hosted nights at numerous clubs as part of the
Charlys Angelz UK and Worldwide tour, in addition to the brand
hosting rooms at other collaborating events such as the Big Reunion
in Skegness. Charlys Angelz remains an integral part of Vicky's
career and will be back in Ibiza for summer 2007 alongside a
new UK tour.
the production front Vicky has also seen success. She had early
productions as part of numerous collaborations which allowed
her to subsequently move on to work on solo productions and develop
her own sound. Her first release written back in 2001 (as part
of trance duo Sweet Asylum and also called "Sweet Asylum"),
was released through Infectious Distribution, and was licensed
to Pendragons "Power Trance and Nu NRG" album mixed
by Mark Sinclair. Her second track entitled "Angelz",
also produced under the Sweet Asylum guise was signed by UK based
record label Solar. Her third track entitled "Fearing Nothing",
co-written with Sophie Sugar, was released at the beginning of
2003 on Dutch label "F-Active Music" where the track
was produced. It is during the past year however that Vicky has
come into her own as a solo artist.
first solo production - "Entravanse" - was signed to
Drizzly at the end of 2005 and released in March 2006 on their
Illuminate sublabel along with a remix from Passion's resident
DJ Andy Bagguley. The track was licenced to four compilation
albums, received excellent reviews in IDJ, Mixmag and M8 magazines
and has also received support from some of trance's top music
jocks including Dave Pearce (plays on his Radio One Dance Anthems
Show), Paul Kershaw (plays on Galaxy FM and voted 2nd in the
Sol Selection), Adam White and Gav Mytchell (MOS Radio), Guy
Ornadel and DJ Choose. Her second track entitled "Echoed
Kisses" was also released on Drizzly's Illuminate Records
with a fantastic Paul Kershaw Remix, and achieved similar success
with plays on Dave Pearce's Dance Anthems, MOS radio, Galaxy
and Vibe FM to name but a few. Echoed Kisses was also recommended
tune of the month in IDJ and had fantastic reviews in Mixmag.
Vicky has been back working hard in the studio throughout the
winter, and her next two tracks (Silver Whispers and Eternal
Dream) will be doing the rounds very soon as well as her very
own remix of Solstice's "Edge of the Ocean".
is also a massive part of Vicky's career having provided Ibizareports and interviews for Paul Kershaw's Saturday night Galaxy
FM show (2006), Steve Smart's Saturday night Kiss 100 FM Floorfillers
Show (2004), Bournemouth's Fire 107.6FM (2002-2004), and having
also hosted her own show on Ibiza's main dance music station
Holiday FM (2005). In addition Vicky has been involved in television
work with Balearic Babes (Rapture TV 2002) and also with an Australian
production which included Vicky interviewing DJ Tiesto at Ibiza's
Cream Closing party (2005).
has also been the featured guest / mix on Eddie Halliwell's BBC
Radio One Show (Feb 2007), on Judge Jules's Global Warm Up show
(Dec 2006) and on Fergie's BBC Radio One Show for his "DJ
By The Sea" Feature (2005).
of NILE RECORDS, Madam Zu is looking forward to another
great year of amazing DJ gigs, production and vinyl releases
to consolidate her profile as purveyor of one of the most exciting
DJ sounds around
have releases on MOHAWK, NILE & AZTEC (who can forget scorchers
"The Red Pill" and "Spinback") that remix
of ANDY FARLEYS "The Warning" and a string of other
consistantly played hard house faves have pushed Julia to the
forefront of popularity, resulting in extensive club tours of
the US and Canada, as well as aking her from top UK nights such
as PENDRAGON, RIPSNORTER & CHEEKY LITTLE MONKEY to the bizarre
experiences of Japanese clubland in TOKYO and OSAKA.
You''ll also
find Madam Zu an welcome addition to our urban section having
widened her style selection in recent years from her well-known
hard trance/danc/house rockers to include awesome Breakbeat and
Drum 'n' Bass sets which have a whole new set of dance fans going
nuts to her performances and rightly so - check the mixes to
hear why
When you look
at the list of achievements of BeXta Australia's No1 female DJ
and possibly the most successful dance music producer in the
countries history, you wonder how she has done it all. And when
you ask BeXta that question, this quietly spoken talent admits
she feels she hasn't even started. Which makes it all the more
has had 8 single releases to date, including a 5-star international
anthem (quoted by Radio One, BBC London, and DJ Mag UK), called
'One For The Road. She's release one EP - the Skirmish LIVE EP,
which entered the ARIA singles charts in 1999, and an album,
Conversations with ones and zeroes. The album reached number
8 on the ARIA independent album charts, which was released on
her own label in Australia - a notable achievement for a dance
music producer in this country achieving all of that?
top of her own releases BeXta began the DJ compilation series,
'Mixology', in 2000, and we are just about to be hit with number
9 in the series, which she is introducing her first international
DJ to accompany her on the comps - Brooklyn Bounce. This
collaboration will surely propel and Bexta's production career
to a much wider international stage - a long running objective
of this personable and determined DJ.
well as the release of 'Mixology 9' , BeXta has embarked on a
project to introduce new talent into the industry, with the development
of her label, now called Mixology Digital Records. This will
feature new artists, as well as her own material, that will also
be remixed by internationals and also herself. The label will
feature collaborations BeXta has done with international artists,
including Public Domain, Dave Joy and Vandertraxx. MDR will be
entering the online download domain www.mixologydigitalrecords.com/
But vinyl junkies rest assured there will a be a vinyl release
to launch the label, which will be available internationally,
and will feature a new BeXta track, and will introduce 2 of her
new artists - Steve Black and TyDi.
Keri majored
in Vocal Music Education and Performance, performing with bands,
choirs, and in operas, and served in the US Air Force. This multi-faceted
lady got her DJ break when DJ Carlos needed a break at a house
party and she took to it like a duck to water. After years of
perfecting her skill, she incorporated her live vocals and rarely
spins a set without singing over it.
Keris unique style
as a DJ/ vocalist has secured her multiple residences over the
years including The Masquerade & The Velvet Room in Atlanta,
GA, Havana Beach Club Discotheque in Aruba, The Kastle in St.
Louis and the most recent, The Ride in Atlanta. It is a club
that literally caters to the stars. Keri has also been the target
of many endorsement deals in the USA for an array of products
ranging from clothing lines, cosmetics, as well as DJ equipment
not foget Keri's good looks too, which won her the title of Ms.
Louisiana and a chance to represent her state at national level
beauty pageants - in fact so glam is this talented DJ/Vocalist
that she was voted 7th 'Hottest DJ on the Planet' in the 50th
Anniversary edition of Playboy Magazine, and thereafter graced
Playboy magazine twice (October 2003 and April 2004) and subsequently
FHM (Malaysia, Chona and Portugal) and various similar magazines
has been signed to many creative and collaborative projects -
with one original folk-pop album Dreams, released
in 1999 by HTC, Keris newest album Dream Keeper
was releases in early 2003 on Peace Continuum /MDI Distribution.
With the success of her first US hit No Tears on
Funkwax Records behind her Keri attracted a stream of willing
endorsees - DJ Supplies, clothing and cosmetic brands all keen
to share the stardust . Her fame skyrocketed and Keri is now
a well known name on premier club bills across the globe.
a heavy live workload Keri has recently finished her third album
"BEAUTIFUL GIRL", and is building up expectation for
the release by droping the content into her DJ sets in 2010.
Keri also owns her own label GPR established in 2003, which has
carried her vocal mix compilations, original productions, and
promo mixes. Keri's musaic has been licensed many times over
including to MTV, HBO, international movies, anas well as US
record labels, along with appearances on compilations. Keti has
also sung on TV in Indonesiia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Canada,
Souht America and of course her native USAAlong
with media coverage and endorsements have come the sponsor tours
and Keri has toured over 103 cities workwidewith well known alchohol
and tobacco brands, as well as Playboy TV/Magazine. Keri continues
to perform with other headliners such as Sandra Collins, DJ Dan,
DJ Rap, Chris Lawrence, DJ Sammy and Hybrid, however Keri is
still a peoles DJ - well known in the industry for her desire
to 'put something back' and has committed much time and energy
to fund-raising from Indonesia Tsumai relief to U2's Bonoo (R)Ed
Aid event for Africa, and Breast Cancer Society Benefits in the
true renaissance woman, Keri has just about done everything -
singer, songwriter, promoter, beauty queen, model, air force
medical/surgical tech, fund-raiser, wife/mother & all around
sweetheart Keris powerful vocals & refined mixing skills
continue to expand her already impressive list of achievements.
London born singer/songwriter and DJ Maxine Hardcastle
is not restrained by genre, having written soulful/ funky house
tracks for Hed Kandi and The Ministry of Sound as well as a number
of smooth jazz releases, reaching #1 on the US Billboard chart.
It would be difficult not to claim that
music runs thought her veins - her father, the legendary 80s
popster Paul Hardcastle, made his mark revolutionising the sound
of pop with the record '19', with subsequently Simon Fuller named
the company '19 Management'. Mr. Hardcastle continues to dominate
the American charts with countless hit albums. If that wasn't
enough to claim artistic heritage, Maxine's brother Paul Jr.
is a saxophonist and songwriter who is currently jamming to the
loyal dance music crowds of Ibiza. Louis Hardcastle, her grandfather,
was a credible jazz / soul musician performing his way around
the world until the fine age of 80.
it's no surprise that Maxine has
spent her youth immersed in all things musical, finding time
also to . train in classical, ballroom and Latin dancing and
gaining a diploma in theater arts at the famed 'Italia Conti
Academy'. She sang in the Spice Girls Movie, danced on
S-Club television, appearing in the series I-Dream, and sang
live at the Royal Albert Hall as well as co-writing and performing
on 'Hardcastle 4' - and all that before the age of 18!
has concentrated on writing and producing her own solo material,
teaching herself digital music production and setting up her
own studio, and teaching herself a professional music program.
From an early age she was determined to become musically
self-sufficient and be able to be involved involved in each step
of making music.
Maxine wrote her first house track 'It's
Gonna Happen' in 2007, which was snapped up by global label/club
brand Hed Kandi, released on the 'Summer Sampler' and 'Beach
House 2007', following up with 'Another Chance' to Wez Clarke's
instrumental on which she also played keyboards. The track smashed
dancefloors everywhere and Hed Kandi obliged again for her second
signing, releasing the track on several albums including 'A Winters
Taste', 'Kandi Lounge', 'Beach House 2008', 'Live Verbier' and
'American' Ministry of Sound Album. Established producer Richard
Earnshaw provided a remix on further albums. Two further tracks
were signed with Hed Kandi proving very successful - 'Walking
With A Smile', originally written by Maxine is a soul/funk number,
was remixed by Wez Clarke into the catchy house track that now
features on several albums. 'Bringing Me Back', was released
on the 'Beach House 2009' album and several albums Stateside.
The 'Mr. Vasovski Mix' was released on Discopolis records and
featured on 'Born To Dance Presents Essential House Miami Twenty
Ten'. Maxine performs her tracks live in venues all over
the world, including Pacha London, Pacha Lithuania, Russia and
The Maldives.
As Miss Hardcastle breezed through the
audition for dance/pop sensation 'Alice DJ' her work with other
producers at Violent Music sparked a fascination with Ableton
Live throwing her headlong into the world of digital DJing. Composing
her own remixes/bootlegs she showcased her favourite house and
electro tracks to audiences weaving her live vocal talents into
her set. Maxine may be relatively new blood on the DJ scene but
she has already sparked a lot of industry interest - not many
DJs we know leave the decks looping and get down onto the floor
to sing in the crowd.
Recent highlights include touring for
'Pink Poison' in Lithuania, as well as appearances at Egg London,
Kuredu Island Maldives, Dreamers Marbella, Dance Crusade festival,
Mac Store Regent Street, The National Polo Championships 'Sandbanks
Rocks' alongside Dane Bowers and Brandon Block, and has played
beside Kiss 100 DJs and Ibiza Residents and has billed at highly
respected club nights Dance Aid, Blow, Miss Moneypennies, Wired,
Be Sombody, Femme Fatale, DiscoTech, MotherFunkers, Pukka Up,
Undetected, Dirtbox, Tutti-Frutti, and the Thursday Night Project
from the decks and dance scene Maxine
finds relaxation from the hard beats and hectic life of a DJ
by writing accoustic, easy listening music. She has co-written
and performed on several of her fathers #1 smooth jazz albums
and recently co-wrote and sang the track 'A Different Kind Of
Love' with American artist Nate Harasim, voted 'Up and Coming
Smooth Jazz artist of the Year. The track features on his album
which is due to be released shortly.
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Miss Kelly Marie is a DJ, Producer and creator of the unique female music
collective High On Heels. Hailing from the UK and possessing over 15
incredible years of global experience, Miss Kelly Marie's credentials include
an eye-watering list of worldwide tours, residencies and headline
appearances all over the world.
Emerging from a background of House & Garage, Miss Kelly Marie has
since featured on a mammoth list of DJ line-ups, radio shows, flyers and
music releases. Heavily influenced by an upbringing of Latin, Funk, Disco
and Soul, Miss Kelly Marie's diverse sound and distinctive image ensures a
dedicated following wherever she plays.
Recent highlights of Miss Kelly Marie's DJ career include residencies and
sets for Nikki Beach Marbella, Thailand, Mexico, St Tropez and Mallorca,
and headline sets in Japan, Vietnam and India. As pioneer and key
member of High On Heels, significant performances include Chelsea FC
Player of the Year Awards, Heineken Live Access in Vietnam and
Hennessy's Beach Party in Sri Lanka.
Miss Kelly Marie's extensive history also includes a three-year run with
global brand Hed Kandi, residences at Floridita London, Trade at Turnmills
and Seven Apples Italy, and a weekly Stereo Sushi Radio Show on Ministry
of Sound Radio. Festival appearances include the Baltic Soul Weekender
(2008-2014), Creamfields and London's famous Notting Hill Carnival.
Following five extremely successful tours of Brazil, regular events in Dubai,
Australia and Asia, and a full summer-long headline slot for Hed Kandi at
Ibiza's famous El Divino, it's easy to see why Miss Kelly Marie is considered
as one of the most successful female DJs in the UK.
In the world of corporate entertainment, Miss Kelly Marie has been booked
by Mini Cooper, Nike, Cartier, Sony, Ford, Swarovski, Smirnoff Ice, Red Bull
and Virgin, for the Staff Parties in Australia, invited by Branson himself.
Miss Kelly Marie is also the artistic director, manager and member of High
On Heels, a stunning live event act featuring London's most talented
female DJs, vocalists and musicians.Since launching, High On Heels have
performed at a plethora of stellar events,including a residency at The Arts
Club London, appearances at The Dubai Boat Show and as a headlineact
for an untold list of clubs worldwide.
High On Heels have now released a series of stunning singles produced
andpresented by Miss Kelly Marie. 'Gypsy Woman' and 'Are You Ready?'
are available now on iTunes. Further solo productions include Marcus
Binapfl & Miss Kelly Marie feat Alexandra Prince 'Disco' and the
'SurePlayaz' Funky Disco House album, which Miss Kelly Marie compiled.
DJ/Producer Miss
Behavin is one of the UKs most successful Female House
DJs - not just by industry reputation (IDJ "Top 50 DJs To
Watch") but by popularity too demonstrated by her continued
presence in the "Worlds Top 100 Female DJs" poll and
recently featured in FHM as one of the 'Worlds Sexiest DJs',
Miss Behavin' continues to make a lasting impression on fans
worldwide with her talents taking her many times around the globe
and touring major cities across UK, Ireland, Asia, USA, South
Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and all over Europe, including
the highest profile promotions, superclubs and festivals such
as Ministry of Sound, Es Paradis (Ibiza), Hed Kandi, Charlys
Behavin' has also worked with some of the biggest names in fashion
and media such as Armani, Stella McCartney, Fashion TV, Miss
Selfridge, FHM and MTV. Over the last 8 years Miss Behavin' has worked
alongside many other top DJs including Judge Jules, Bob Sinclar
& Axwell. A lover of Ibiza she spent 5 summer seasons DJ'ingthere,
one of which she was followed by camera crews filming her DJ
sets and Ibiza antics for various television documentaries for
SKY ONE, Channel 4 and VH1 Music Channel including the cult "Ibiza
Uncovered" series!
impressive success as a producer as well as a DJ, her first track
'Such a Good Feelin' was a major success, shooting straight to
number 6 in the UK dance charts & into the national charts.
The track is featured on over 10 dance compilations, was re-released
last year & was even voted for the BRIT Awards nominations!
This year look out for her new track 'Closer' featuring the beautiful
vocals of Bianca Lindgren.
Behavin' is resident on the glamorous Charlys Angelz International
Previously sponsored by Sennheiser as the 'face' of their
advertising campaign for their HD25 Headphones. Heavily featured
in the press.. music, lifestyle and industry magazines including
FHM, IDJ, Night, DJ, Maxim, M8 and Mixmag who described her recently
as "A fantastic DJ and producer" - we couldn't agree
DJ Eve Carey
is considered to be one of the worlds top female DJs, She his
sponsored by UMM records & clothes label, and features on
their worldwide tours.
her 14 year professional DJ career to date, Eve Carey has played
in clubs all over the UK, continental Europe and the world.
Eve first got into clubbing back in the late 80s, sneaking into
raves, and dancing all night to the likes of Top Buzz and Mickey
Finn. At the tender age of 17 she got a job in a recording studio
in her native Birmingham. There she learnt the core DJ skills
and her career exploded from there! Known for her energy and
passion behind the decks, Eve describes her musical style as
a mix of house, electro and chunky beats all mixed in a style
of her own and a technical ability that rivals any DJ in her
DJ CV can boast a veitable whos who of global club brands including
Hed Kandi ,Godskitchen, Miss Moneypennys, Ministry of Sound,
Fantazia, Perfecto, Ultra Vegas, Fuel, and the Decadence UK Tour
and for the Warehouse Autumn/Winter 2002 Collection press launch.
She is also one of the Resident DJ's for COCOLOCO playing the
back room of Ministry of Sound & is on the regular line up
for PUKKA UP parties.
is rarely on home soil these days - her youa re more likley globe
trotting rarely in the UK you can find her in Russia, China,
Australia, India and all over the Middle East & Europe most
weekends! She is one of the 3 official Charlys Angelz appearing
on tours & in Ibiza for them. She toured with the "Underdog
Project" with there smash hit Summer Jam&
presented an award to Club Fabrique voted best club in Russia
where she also plays. She had a residency at Papas Beach Club
Egypt on 2005, and was the first female DJ to play at
Cream-Beirut in 2000.
Eve has impressed crowds alongside
DJ's such as Frankie Knuckles, LisaLoud, Brandon Block, Alex
P, Jeremy Healy, Public Domain, Ray Roc, Farley JackmasterFunk
and Anne Savage.
has taught DJ courses in her hometown Birmingham and workedalongside
Pato Banton as a studio engineer & works sound engineering
bands at Barfly a live venue hosting bands such as Juliette Lewis
& the Licks, Jet, The Riffles, MTV andKerrang nights.
released a compilation CD in Europe with excellent records and
is now working on her own productions with engineers such as
Timmy Vegas (Soul Central), Gabi Newman (Vendetta Records) &
Jeremy Sylvester (Azuli Records).
the looks of a cover girl and the skills to rock any dance floor,
this girl is an asset to any party!
Versatile, sassy
and smooth are just a few words to describe Jolie - one of the
original residents at Ladies night @ Storm in London. Running
since 1999 with fellow female DJ Lady Spirit, Jolie has played
a huge part in keeping it as one of London's longest running
and most successful female DJ night's.
from DJ' ing, she writes for the House music section of the very
successful monthly urban music magazine 'RWD' and has been voted
"BEST UNDERGROUND DJ OF 2003" by her many fans!
is a busy lady with various London residencies - Storm Leicester
Square, Dirty Cash @ Various Venues, Thank Funk It's Friday @
The Waterfront, London plus regular guest slots for (London unless
stated) Electric Ballroom, One night stand @ Gass Club, Smoove
@ Ministry of Sound, Girl Garage @ Storm, Dirty Cash @ Aquarium,
Dolly Mixture @ The Gardening Club, H2O, Big Fish @ Pacific Edge
Romford, Opium Lounge Ipswich, Freedom & Slinky @ Bagley's,
Cracker's - Gloucestershire,.Animal House / Numb Nums @ Club
Coliseum, Sensual @ Vivid & Elite, Essex, Masquerade @ The
Opera House, Abduction @ The Chunnel Club, Club Fusion - Woolwich,
Mass - Brixton, and product launches including the launch of
the BMW Mini car for BMW UK Ltd andn Covent Garden clothing store
Liu Jo.
International highlights include Volksgarten Club, Piper's
Ballroom - Vienna, Cafe Savannah, Kremlins - Ibiza, Club Hollywood
- Milan, Upstairs - Kongsberg Norway, Sweet - Munich, The Bunker
- Hamburg, Planet Rouge @ Kemp Fort Terrace, Bangalore, Storm
@ club Soho, Alte Feurwache, MS Connexion - Mannheim, Princeton
University, Dream Lab Records Party - New Jersey USA, Bubble
Club - Amsterdam
is part of the female duo, '2nd Nature', with MC Shelley Dee.
They create good vibes with their Sassy style and propitious
talent. Together they have made a huge impact with the listeners
of AmmoCity.com and clubs around the UK, and abroad fave shows
for Bubble Club in Amsterdam, Sweet in Munich, Germany and Planet
Rouge in Bangalore, India.In
the fiercely competitve world of DJing, Jolie's originality and
upfront rolling music selection has kept her at the forefront
of the London club scene. Expressing music on her resident radio
show on the original Centreforce 88.4 fm weekly on Mondays 9-11pm
GMT, this gives her the chance to reach people who wouldn't normally
have heard her DJ and also educate people into the importance
of new and ever changing House music.
Joyce Mercedes
star has been rising fast the last few years. After successful
performances at Dance Valley & Impulz festivals her musical
career has lifted in the Netherlands evolving into a DJ of great
stature with a busy agenda speaks for itself, regularly visiting
several continents in one month and each weekend traveling from
her hometown of Amsterdam to the cornes of the globe, racking
up more than 20 different countries just in the first 6 months
of 2005.
is exceptionally talented and is considered possibly the best
female progressive house DJ in the world - we can't argue with
that, her mixing and selection is some of the very finest in
the style we have heard here at Sparkle and she has righly shared
centre stage with the big guns; Sasha, Anthony Pappa, James Holden,
Paul van Dyk, Chris Fortier & Derrick May. Her flawless choice
of records shows a nose for a quality tune and her exceptional
mix technique takes the dance floor from easy and accessible
vocal harmonies through deep and funky foot food to deep, trippy
and hypnotic beats, soaring to stunning prog trance monsters
- a spectacular set that evidences a diverse musical vocabulary
her birthplace in Nijmegen Joyce began work as a dancer for leading
organizations Pantera and Extension, later moving to Amsterdam
and performing with her dance colleagueon the Strycker &
Holmes World Tour a sparkling dance show in some of the most
famous clubs in the World. Her passion for music lies in her
dancing as well as her singing. In the not to distant past Joyce
was part of Centerfold, the group that sang in 1998
to a sold out Amsterdam Arena during half time of the classic
football game Ajax-PSV Eindhoven . Centerfold also
added lustre to the 15th year anniversary of Playboy and Joyce
worked regularly as a model, featuring in campaigns for Heineken,
Campari, Gap-Star and Playboy.
being content with success in two fields Joyces passion for music
drove her to invest in truntables and master the art of mixing.
Her first performance before an audience took place in sunny
Miami at a private party and very soon word spread and the bookings
started to roll in, culminating in a DJ residency at the well
known Amsterdam Superclub and a 2-year tour with Ibiza's Space
World Tour to crown it all off. At this moment Joyce has
performed in almost every major club in mainland Europe, North
and South America as well as many in the Far EasHer
striving for success has naturally led her into the recording
studio to produce her own music, which will finally bear fruit
this year with a 12" erelease imminent, though Joyce admits
that she struggles to fit in production time around her busy
live schedule. If it's anywhere near as good as her
live sets it will be worth the wait!
DJ Philly is Londons hottest female DJ, with
residencies at ChinaWhite, Fabric, The End, Heaven, Queer Nation,
Raffles, plus regular appearances at Pacha, Ministry of Sound,
and Café de Paris plus regular international gigs around
the world. This year alone Philly has played at private parties
for the Sweeney Todd Premiere, P Diddy, Hugo Boss, and Gucci.
She is truly a master-musician in her approach and regularly
plays RnB, Hip-Hop, Old Skool, 80s Soul, fused with
the finest Electro, Funky, and Deep House.
This sophisticated
combination has secured her regular international gigs in Russia,
Australia, Thailand, Greece, France, Spain, and the Ukraine.DJ Philly is a regular feature at celebrity
events at home and abroad such as Kelis Tasty
Album release party, Smooves 3rd Birthday Party at Ministry
Of Sound, the launch of Supermodels for Chilli TV
in Cannes, Attitude magazines 10th Birthday Party, and
recently the opening of Moscow's exclusive Z Lounge,
and a launch party for Oakley Sunglasses.
She also appears at
major festivals and Pride events, playing to over 2,000 people
at the Purple In The Park Festival in 2002, at Wild Fruits
events at the Brighton Dome 2002/3, and most recently at Facepartys
exclusive Carnivale de lEtrange at the Atlantis
Gallery.Philly regularly plays for celebrity
crowds, including Paris Hilton, Johnny Depp, the Black Eyed Peas,
Alexander McQueen, Ludacris, Julian Macdonald, Jermaine Dupri,
Timbaland, Orlando Bloom, and George Michael to name but a few.
She also regularly plays alongside some of the industrys
biggest talents, including: Kelis, The Scissor Sisters, Danny
Rampling, DJ Disciple, Barbara Tucker, Kurtis Mantronix, Norman
Jay (MBE), Jazzy Jeff, Lisa Lashes, Sonique, Shortee Blitz, Semtex,
Masterstepz, Boy George, Lisa Pin Up, Krafty Kutz, Deep Dish,
The Freestylers, and Angie Brown. Alongside this, Philly has
an impressive and varied client list including Hugo Boss, Gucci,
LeviStrauss, W Hotels, Oakley, Volvo, Quintessentially, Faceparty,
Diageo, Attitude Magazine, and Martini.
Alongside her DJ and promotion career,
Philly has also worked and written for Rolling Stone magazine
in New York, as well as taking her talents on air as both a producer
and presenter. She pioneered Purple radios first, and immensely
successful URBAN DNA show, from there she moved on
to present the Funk Sessions on Unknown 97.1FM, and
then on to co-hosting the Firmed Up show with Kinky
D every Saturday on Urban Fresh 96.1FM. Philly is now moving
onward and upwards to more radio, voice-over, and TV work in
a variety of genres.
Magazine "A serious presence on the decks - her sheer
talent and finess are guaranteed to fill every dance floor she
comes near"
With talent and
determination Emma Feline has achieved international status and
recognition as a leading urban DJ. She began mixing UK Garage
in 1997 and has been playing Hip Hop and R&B since 2000, adding Funky House to her repertoire in recent years.
Her precise mixing, formidable selection and versatile style
works any crowd into a frenzy, and her record box has been a
passport to jet set around the world. From India to America,
Estonia to Barbados, Dubai to Ibiza, the list goes on.
career literally began overnight when DJ Funky Smith asked if
she wanted to stand in for him at Bar Code in London. Even though
Emma had only been shown the ropes a week before, she went for
it and was immediately offered a weekly residency. She
quickly joined forces with Lynda Phoenix, another female DJ who
shared her passion for music. The duo made their radio debut
a few weeks later after blagging the Sunday 6am- 8am slot on
pirate radio London Underground. Within a year they were
promoted to Sunday afternoon and set up London's Most Wanted,
an all girl DJ collective that became of great interest to the
media. Guest appearances with Steve Jackson, The Dreem Teem,
and Woman's hour on Radio 4, newspaper and magazine features
in The Guardian, Time Out, Evening Standard, DJ Magazine and
Touch along with T.V interviews and documentaries on Channel
4 and MTV gave the exposure needed to secure bookings at many
high profile UK events including a residency with Twice As Nice
at The End.
1999 Upfront FM was the pirate du jour, and Emma was one of their
flagship DJ's.n 2002 she joined London's No 1 for Hip Hop and
R&B Choice FM (owned by Capital) to host the Wednesday night
'Raw Selection', and in January 2004 her musical knowledge and
presenting skills were rewarded with promotion to a Sunday daytime
London Most Wanted split Emma began touring the USA three times
a year, building up a faithful following in New York, Baltimore,
North Carolina, Washington DC, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Miami, Gainesville,
Seattle, LA and Dallas, where she is hailed as a major pioneer
of UK Garage and 2 Step. During these trips she would hunt down
the latest Hip Hop and R&B records before their UK release.
just a talented DJ, Emma Feline turned her skills to the studio,
producing and remixing tracks under the alias of London's Most
Wanted, Fierce and Funky and Tombraider and setting up her own
label 'Stereotherapy' - The gold selling compilation 'Twice as
Nice, Urban Flava's was one of the largest selling urban compilation's
ever - being expertly mixed mixed by Emma and Steve Sutherland,
and featuring her own productions 'Indian Summer'.
her fingure on the pulse of a vibrant UK Emma was also approached
by Tense Magazine in 2003 to write her own column. The aptly
named 'Decks in the City' is bursting with candid stories, collected
on her DJ travels, and she took the concept with her when she
was asked to join Touch Magazine in 2005.
(1999) Fierce & Funky - 'Everybody'(Stereotherapy), (1999)Fierce & Funky - 'Pump Up' (Stereotherapy), (2000)
Fierce Funky Remix - 'Come Together' (Dance Off Records), (2000)
London's Most Wanted Remix - Ft. Valerie M 'Positive In Motion'
(Nice 'n' Ripe), (2000) London's Most Wanted Remix
- Mykila 'Who's Stalking Me?' (Dance Off Records), (2001)
Tombraider - '911' (All Good Records), (2001) Tombraider
- 'Get Crunked Up' (All Good Records), (2001) Feline v
Davie G Remix - Nu Future 'I Can't Wait' (Radar), (2002) Feline
v Paleface - 'Indian Summer' (Stereotherapy), (2002) Twice As
Nice Urban Flava's Compilation (Warner Music)
Ms Pink - the ultimate Mix Mistress has got everyone in a spin with her mash-up mixes and superhot DJ sets. By no means just a pretty face, this li'l lady proved the big performing hit of the last two years - a serious star quality DJ with a surefire tune selection that blows up dancefloors worldwide.
Ms Pink started mixing in Summer 2000 under the moniker L'il Miss Pink and got her first set of decks shortly after, While cutting her teeth on a staple diet of vinyl she now expertly combines both CDJs with her beloved 12" collection and Serato Scratch Live – the best of all worlds – who says you can't have your cake and eat it!
Expect a bouncy concoction of dirty, chunky electro house, mashed and scratched up with big anthem vocals and filthy basslines, concocting an electrifying, bubbling atmosphere to ance floors across the Globe! The performance is all about entertainment – her excitement and passion on the decks is like no other. Her medley of mixing techniques and selections keeps her sets creatively unpredictable and lively, working the crowd up a storm – a performance style which has been described as "making magic on the decks"!
Ms Pink is based in Brighton, England - that beachfront musical melting pot made famous by Fatboy Slim and the preferred base for all things cool and funky in the UK – a perfect DJ playground to hone her skills and mix alongside the very best in star quality and underground credibility in various bars and clubs across the South Coast. Breakthrough residencies included urban night 'Switch' at the Ocean Rooms in Brighton, Empire/ Mud Club in Bognor Regis, Obsession at the Beach Club and Funkylicious at the Zap Club (now Digital).
It was only a matter of time before the radio waves washed over Miss Pink, and she was offered a prime time slot on Brighton's only pirate radio station, Future FM.
In summer 2006 Pink came 1st in the Brighton heat of the Movida Corona World DJ competition and went on to represent Brighton at the Opera House in Bournemouth in September of that year. being snapped up by the UKs leading agents. The rest as they say is history with this sassy Ms bringing the Pink to many countries, including tours of China, India, Finland Germany, Macedonia Jersey, France Belgium and Spain and is now a regular guest at parties all over Asia, going down a storm with her energetic DJ sets – oh yes, this girl can really pump!
However Miss Pink never misses an opportunity to pay back her roots and and she found time to return to a a very welcome home crowd as regular guest DJ appearances at Brighton based breaks night Beat Circus. Theres nothing Pink likes better than having a capacity crowd to demonstrate her flexibility to, DJing alongside freestyling musicians and adding a live dimension to her trademark sets.
Ms Pink, secured a residency supporting the world famous Fuel Girls production tour in association with Hot Import Nights, accompanying them on their European Tour, playing to huge festival crowds as well being selected for their world renowned booty shaking competitions. 2009 carried on in the same vein playing out to wild crowds in Madrid, Perpignan and the Ultimate Street Car Festival at the world famous Santa Pod Raceway,
Pink widened her music style portfolio which saw her becoming popular for cool corporate events, and in 2010 saw Ms Pink join Vital Music's female DJ collective "Headphones and Heels", working alongside some of the UKs pioneer female DJs such as Lisa Unique, Femme Fatale, and more recent glamour DJ Lauren Pope, a further boost to her industry profile.
2011 started off with a spicey NYE event in Mumbai, followed on by the a female DJ event for Carlsberg at the Palms Resort Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, opening and closing parties in Pag Croatia and the start of a new residency with the Ministry of Sound Tours around the UK. Ms Pink headlined the 2nd Clubbers Guide tour, subsequently billing for their World Tour, with a perfect debut for the tour in Moldova on NYE 2011.
2012 looks to be just as busy with re-bookings in Mumbai alongsideAlexandra Stan and Akcent in Mumbai in Feb and in Kolkata a few days later, closely followed by Pacha in Egypt for Hed Kandi. Between her UK and international tour engagements Ms Pink is a regular feature of the Hotcakes Boat Parties alongside DJ Deekline, Ed Solo, JFB and the Stanton Warriors.
As our latest female DJ signing at Sparkle Ms Pink looks set to continue her rise during 2012 - with her massive tunes and buzzing attitude, her passion for music, enchanting good looks, and outstanding stage presence the future looks rosy, or perhaps we should say......Pink!


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text: Architecture + DesignGreat American LighthousesA portfolio of some of the country's boldest—and most beautiful—lighthouses.By Kate Jerde June 1, 2012FacebookPinterestTwitterPinterestPhoto: © Frank Tozier/Alamy1/14Jeffrey's Hook LighthouseOriginally built in 1880 in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, in 1921 Jeffrey's Hook Lighthouse was moved to its current location in upper Manhattan to improve navigation along the Hudson River. Nicknamed the Little Red Lighthouse, it served as an essential guide for the next decade, until the lights on the George Washington Bridge, completed in 1931, overwhelmed the 40-foot tower and eventually led to its removal from service in 1947. The Coast Guard later planned to auction it off, but that effort was halted, thanks in part to a public outcry prompted by a 1942 children's book, The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde Swift, that captured the hearts of many. In 1979 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and today it is one of the few remaining lighthouses in New York City.PinterestPhoto: John Blanding/The Boston Globe via Getty Images2/14Thacher Island Twin LightsIn the early 1700s a dangerous reef off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts, was the site of hundreds of shipwrecks, earning it the nickname Londoner Ledge, because many of the sunken vessels had been en route to Boston from London. As a result, John Hancock petitioned for lighthouses to be constructed on nearby Thacher Island. The original 45-foot-tall wood-and-stone structures, erected in 1771, were the last to be built under British rule. They were replaced in 1861 by a pair of identical 124-foot granite towers, which appear on the town of Rockport's official seal. Today they are the only active twin lighthouses in the United States.PinterestPhoto: Doug Lemke/shutterstock.com3/14Cape Hatteras LightAn iconic symbol of North Carolina's Outer Banks, the 208-foot Cape Hatteras Light is the tallest lighthouse in the United States and one of the tallest in the world. The original 1803 tower was erected to warn ships of the Diamond Shoals, deemed one of the most perilous stretches of shallow sandbars along the Atlantic coast. Over the years, the light underwent improvements and was eventually reconstructed in 1870. Its famous daymark pattern of black-and-white spiral striping (hence its nickname the Big Barber Pole) was added three years later so that mariners could distinguish it from other lighthouses in the area. Due to massive beach erosion, in 1999 the light and its accompanying quarters were moved and now sit 1,500 feet inland.PinterestPhoto: Nagel Photography/shutterstock.com4/14Pigeon Point LighthousePerched on a picturesque cliff 50 miles south of San Francisco, Pigeon Point Lighthouse was first lit in November 1872. Named after the Carrier Pigeon vessel that wrecked nearby in 1853, it stands 115 feet tall, matching Point Arena Lighthouse in Mendocino County as the tallest along the Pacific coast. It serves as the original logo for American media conglomerate E. W. Scripps Company, whose motto is "Give light and the people will find their own way." Pigeon Point Lighthouse is currently closed for restoration, a project that was initiated after large sections of the cornice came tumbling down in December 2001. Visitors can still explore the grounds and stay in the lighthouse keeper's quarters, which have been converted into a hostel.PinterestPhoto: Nancy Thibodaux5/14Southwest Reef LightThe square pyramidal Southwest Reef Light has rested on the banks of the Berwick Bay in Berwick, Louisiana, since 1987. However, it spent most of its life 25 miles downstream in the Atchafalaya Bay, where it began operations in 1858. Three years after it was erected, Confederate soldiers removed the light from service, and it remained dark throughout the Civil War, until Union forces reinstated it, six years to the day of when it was first lit. It was permanently deactivated in 1916, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.PinterestPhoto: © W. Cody/Corbis6/14West Quoddy Head LightThe site of West Quoddy Head Light, on the Bay of Fundy in Lubec, Maine, is famously the easternmost point in the United States. 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Although the Coast Guard deactivated the light in 1969, it is relit each year on November 10 to commemorate the 29 crew members who lost their lives when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sank on that date in 1975.PinterestPhoto: Kazela/shutterstock.com8/14Montauk Point LighthouseThe Montauk Point Lighthouse at the eastern tip of Long Island has a significant place in maritime history as the oldest lighthouse in New York and the United States' first public works project sanctioned by President George Washington and the Second Congress in 1792. When the tower, designed by architect John McComb, was completed in 1796, it stood 300 feet from the Turtle Hill bluff, but due to erosion, it is now less than 100 feet from the edge. Distinguished by a single brown stripe, the 110-foot sandstone tower now serves as a striking backdrop to many weddings and events. Earlier this year it was designated a National Historic Landmark.PinterestPhoto: John Brueske/shutterstock.com9/14Heceta Head LighthouseNamed after Spanish Royal Navy Commander Don Bruno de Heceta, who surveyed the Pacific Northwest during an expedition in the late 1700s, Heceta Head Lighthouse is situated on a spectacular 205-foot bluff, one of the most frequently photographed points on the Oregon coast. The assistant lightkeeper's house, which was constructed in 1893, at the same time as the 56-foot-tall lighthouse, is now a popular six-room bed and breakfast. The lighthouse is currently undergoing a $1.3 million renovation, a project that is slated for completion in August 2013.PinterestPhoto: Henryk Sadura/shutterstock.com10/14Big Sable Point LighthouseCommerce was the driving force behind the Big Sable Point Lighthouse in Mason County, Michigan, which guided vessels carrying lumber along the hazardous eastern shore of Lake Michigan. 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The tower remains a starting point for many Newport regattas and is an ideal viewing point for the races.PinterestPhoto: © Richard T. Nowitz/Corbis13/14Point Bolivar LighthouseBuilt in 1872 in Port Bolivar, Texas, and in operation until 1933, the Point Bolivar Lighthouse was actually the second light to be constructed on the site, after the first was completely disassembled during the Civil War by Confederate troops, who supposedly used its iron parts to produce artillery. The current structure made headlines in 1900, and again in 1915, when it withstood two of the worst storms ever recorded on the Gulf Coast and provided refuge for local residents. 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1. Obama's Rationale for Adding $9.4 Trillion to the National Debt
2. Details on Adding Almost $9.4 Trillion to the National Debt
3. New Tax Increases in Obama's 10-Year Budget Forecast
4. Conclusions – We Can't Just Kick the Can Down the Road
On Monday, February 14, President Obama unveiled his proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2012 which begins on October 1 of this year, along with projections for the next decade. It is the largest 10-year spending proposal ever! You would think that after the Democrats' blowout in the mid-term elections and poll after poll showing that the American people want government to cut its runaway spending and deficits, Obama would have gotten the memo. Obviously, he didn't.
Obama's new federal budget for 2012 calls for massive spending of another $3.73 trillion with a projected budget deficit of $1.1 trillion next year. Obama's annual budget proposal for the next 10 years would add another $9.4 trillion to the national debt, and even that may be optimistic. [Note: you may hear or read estimates of $7.2 trillion, instead of $9.4 trillion, but $9.4 trillion is the "adjusted baseline" number from President Obama's own website. See link below.]
If Obama's economic projections are too optimistic, and I believe they are (ie – 4% GDP growth and no recessions in the next 10 years), then his budgets could add much more than $9.4 trillion to the national debt in the next decade. They could conceivably almost double the national debt, which now stands at just over $14 trillion.
Now before you liberals in our audience start howling, you should note that I have criticized every annual federal budget proposal going back to Reagan's second term, Bush 4I, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama the last two years. Why? They were all too big at the time they were proposed! Given that, my comments today are not partisan in nature.
What I will do today is examine President Obama's budget request for fiscal 2012 and the next decade, as well as the latest budget proposal the Republicans have offered. Unfortunately, no one on either side wants to tackle the really critical issue of entitlements. Until and unless we get to that point, our national debt will continue to spiral out of control. An even greater financial crisis is looming. The only question is when it arrives.
Obama's Rationale for Adding $9.4 Trillion to the National Debt
As noted above, I have routinely criticized these annual budget forecasts for decades in my newsletter and E-Letters. Normally, I start out by giving you the details of the budget forecasts, and then I tell you why we should oppose them, and then I usually offer some opinions on why the presidents proposed them in the first place.
Today, I'm going to go in reverse order. I begin with some thoughts on what President Obama's thinking may have been as he constructed a 10-year budget plan that would increase our $14.1 trillion national debt by at least another $9.4 trillion over the next decade, even though the public is screaming to cut federal spending and balance the budget.
To say that most everyone was negatively surprised by Obama's latest budget proposal is an understatement. Liberals didn't like it because Obama actually cut the budgets for some of their pet programs. Just about everyone else worries that adding $9.4 trillion or more to the national debt will bankrupt the country and send us into a new, more severe financial crisis.
The mainstream media seemed a little surprised that Obama didn't propose more spending cuts, but they quickly concluded that this budget forecast was just a "trial balloon," just a starting point, and that Obama knew that the Congress would change it significantly. Obama has a record of leaving the tough decisions to Congress, much as he did with ObamaCare and financial reform. So the mainstream media quickly concluded that Obama's latest budget proposal was not a problem. No surprise there.
Most conservatives had a very different take: Oh, I see, Obama cuts very little spending, increases other spending, and he leaves it up to the Republicans to do the serious budget cutting – and he will use that to beat them up next year in the presidential campaign. I do believe that this line of thinking had some role in Obama's budget strategy.
But I also think there was more to it than merely pushing the Republicans into a tough spot. By now, it should be clear to most everyone that Obama is a big government, big spending liberal. In his heart, he believes (like Paul Krugman of the New York Times) that increasing spending and government debt is a good thing. But follow me as I take it one step further.
A Gallup poll taken the week before Obama announced his 10-year budget proposal found that 68% of Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of federal deficits, the highest disapproval rating ever recorded on this particular question. Put differently, over two-thirds of Americans say they want federal spending cut, not increased.
So, why then would Obama knowingly do this? Why would he propose to further ratchet up the national debt and run the risk of an anti-Obama backlash in the presidential election of 2012? I have a theory: I think that Obama believes that there are a lot of Americans who say they want federal spending cuts, but only if it does not negatively affect them directly. He may well believe that if significant budget cuts were to affect them personally, they would quickly change their minds (think Greece).
Put differently, according to my theory, President Obama was willing to gamble that a lot of conservatives and independents are not really serious about cutting federal spending and debt significantly, especially if it negatively affects them. In his view, cutting spending significantly is just a cliché among conservatives that could be quickly abandoned.
Obama also knows that there are tens of millions of Americans that are already on the government dole, so they won't oppose any spending increases, no matter how large, as long as the checks keep coming.
If Obama is right that many of those calling for budget cuts are not really serious, and his base will support him no matter how big the national debt gets, his latest monster budget proposal must have seemed like a winning strategy. Plus, he gets the added bonus of making the Republicans look like the bad guys if they force some major spending cuts this year and next year.
My theory thus hinges on the assumption that President Obama is arrogant enough to believe that he knows more about how we think than we do. Specifically, that most Americans would buckle and change their positions if federal spending cuts would negatively affect them personally. If so, that explains why he would believe that his plan to add $9.4 trillion to the national debt won't backfire on him next year.
Whether my theory is correct or not, something made Obama and his advisors feel confident that he could persuade Congress and the American people that adding $9.4 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years is a good idea – even though 68% of Americans disapprove of his handling of federal deficits.
Given that, I wonder what President Obama must have thought when the public reaction to his budget was so overwhelmingly negative that he had to hastily schedule a press conference the very next day to defend his new budget. "Irritated" might be the operative word!
In any event, the showdown will come in November 2012. It remains to be seen who will win. Obama has made his bet: much more government spending and deficits. Likewise, it remains to be seen how the voters and taxpayers will bet. Unfortunately, the GOP bench is weak, and voters' memories are short.
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Details on Adding $9.4 Trillion to the National Debt
You may agree or disagree with my theory about President Obama's decision to add $9.4 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, and that is well and good. After all, I could be wrong. But the numbers in Obama's budget forecast are crystal clear and eye-popping to say the least, despite what you may have read in the mainstream media.
But before we get into the details, I must tell you that the White House dropped another bombshell last week when it released its long-term deficit forecasts. The White House Office of Budget & Management (OMB) announced that it now projects the federal budget deficit for fiscal 2011 will hit a record $1.65 trillion this year, up from the $1.41 trillion estimate just a few months ago.
We are still over seven months away from the end of FY2011 which concludes at the end of September. At the rate these Obama Administration estimates of the deficit for this year keep going up, we could be approaching a deficit of nearly $2 trillion for this year alone. At that level, the bond markets could one day just collapse, but that is a topic for another day.
Here are the 10-year budget deficit projections in Obama's forecast last week:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/tables.pdf Scroll down to Table S-2 on Page 172 for the "adjusted baseline" deficits which provide a more realistic view of upcoming deficits.
Every president submits a budget forecast like the above every year, and I have criticized them for years. But recognize that the deficit numbers above are all 2-3 times the average size during the George W. Bush Administration, which I also criticized roundly. Bush's largest annual budget deficit was $458.6 billion in his last year in office.
By comparison, President Obama ran a budget deficit of apprx. $1.3 trillion in FY2010 and according to the latest estimate, it will be $1.65 trillion for FY2011. And Obama's smallest annual budget deficit in the 10-year forecast above is a whopping $770 billion in FY2014. And it goes back above $1 trillion in the last two years.
This is insane to most of us, but if my theory outlined above is correct, President Obama thinks this is the correct course to take for our country, based on the assumption that he believes he knows more about what we think than we do.
President Obama's new 2012 budget would actually add $8 billion to the projected deficit for next year because the bulk of the savings he will achieve through a freeze in many domestic programs would be devoted to increased spending in areas Obama considers priorities, such as education, clean energy and high-speed rail. Obama's deficit commission last year made a host of painful recommendations including raising the Social Security retirement age and curbing benefit increases, eliminating or sharply scaling back popular tax breaks, reforming a financially unsound Medicare program and almost doubling the federal tax on gasoline. The deficit commission's recommendations were estimated to save $4 trillion over the next decade.
Yet Obama included none of these proposals in his new 10-year budget. For the record, I never thought the deficit commission was anything more than a political sham, because I believed that President Obama would never take its recommendations seriously. His latest 10-year budget proposal is evidence of that. My theory above is sounding more and more correct. Think about it.
New Tax Increases in Obama's 10-Year Budget Forecast
As noted above, Obama's new budget forecast boasts of some spending cuts, but as I have outlined, they are minimal. What we don't hear much about are the new tax increases that are included in the proposal. Here is an overview of the tax and fee increases that the Obama Administration is referring to as "Other Revenue Changes and [Tax] Loophole Closers" that his new budget will create starting next year, if approved:
* Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee on banks - $30 billion * Reinstate Superfund taxes - $20.8 billion * Make Unemployment Insurance surtax permanent - $15 billion * Repeal LIFO method of accounting - $52.8 billion * Reform US international tax system - $129.2 billion * Reform treatment of insurance companies/products - $7.6 billion * Eliminate tax breaks for coal industry - $2.6 billion * Eliminate oil and gas industry breaks - $43 billion * Tax carried profits as ordinary income - $14.8 billion * Improve business tax compliance - $8.7 billion
The total of what the White House calls "revenue changes and loophole closers" is actually only $356.4 billion over 10 years. That number does not include raising the personal income tax rates for the top two brackets back to the level before the Bush tax cuts – to 35% and 39.6%, respectively, beginning in 2013, which is also part of Obama's long-range budget proposal.
And I will make the following prediction as well: If anything like Obama's latest 10-year budget projection is adopted, all of the Bush tax cuts will have to disappear. Obama promises he will not raise taxes on the "middle class," but he will have to in the end. All of the Clinton-era tax rates will have to go back into place at some point. This will mean that the Bush tax rates of 10% on the lowest income earners will go to 15%. That's a 50% tax increase on the lowest income earners.
As noted above, Obama's new budget would also raise almost $46 billion over 10 years by eliminating various tax breaks to oil, gas and coal companies. Let me ask you a question: if tax breaks for oil, gas and coal companies go away, do you think for a moment that they will just live with lower profits? No, those cost increases will be passed on to all of us through higher energy prices.
Obama knows this, and he is banking on it resulting in lower energy consumption which is good for the environment in his view. But here again, he fails to consider (or doesn't care) that higher energy costs disproportionately hurt the poor versus the "rich."
And finally, some of you may be thinking I forgot to mention that Obama also proposed a five-year spending freeze on federal spending. Yes, he did. But you have to keep in mind that federal spending skyrocketed in the first two years of Obama's presidency, all in the name of heading off another Great Depression. And he promised at the time that those spending increases were only temporary. Now he wants to freeze spending at those outrageous levels.
As an update, House Republicans passed a $1.2 trillion budget resolution last week aimed at avoiding a government shutdown on March 4 and funding the government through the end of this fiscal year on September 30. The latest resolution includes $61 billion in budget cuts, defunds ObamaCare and prevents the EPA from regulating greenhouse gasses, among other things. President Obama has vowed to veto it in the unlikely event that it passes the Democrat-controlled Senate. The latest budget resolution once again failed to address entitlements. Conclusions – We Can't Just Kick the Can Down the Road
I could go on and on with examples of how the latest Obama 10-year budget proposal is a big spending farce, but you get the picture by now. You may agree or disagree with my theory that President Obama does not believe Americans are serious about cutting federal spending and balancing the budget. I think that is exactly what he believes, but he will never admit it.
At the end of the day, one important question is: how will this affect the economic recovery and the investment markets? Some can argue accurately that the US economy has come back fairly well from the financial crisis of 2008 and the worst recession since the Great Depression. No doubt the stock markets have skyrocketed since March of 2009. And the yields on Treasury securities remain near historical lows, despite the blip up late last year.
So are we to conclude that President Obama's latest huge spending initiatives are benign? Or that more big spending and higher deficits are needed to fuel the anemic economic recovery? I don't think so, and I'll bet you don't either. In fact, I don't think anyone but the far-left liberals sincerely believe that boosting the national debt by $9.4 trillion or more over the next 10 years is a good idea.
Today, US Treasury securities are still the most trusted asset around the world, thankfully. But the day is coming, especially if Obama adds $9.4 trillion to the US national debt, when US debt may be shunned by the current Treasury debt holders, especially foreign governments that buy much of our debt.
When that happens, interest rates will move higher, most likely significantly, and that will spell doom for the US equity markets. When will it happen? I don't presume to know, but I have to believe that the foreigners who buy our debt will be outraged if Congress gives Obama the authority to add $9.4 trillion, or even more, to our national debt over the next 10 years.
Finally, as noted above, President Obama's latest 10-year budget forecast avoided any cuts in entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, etc., even though he was willing to cut national defense by $78 billion in reductions to Pentagon spending over five years. I think it is safe to assume that the Republicans in Congress will not cut entitlements either.
Yet the reality is that there is NO WAY to balance the federal budget without cutting entitlements. Someone has to have the political guts to not only address this problem, but to do something about it. But if Congress passes Obama's 10-year budget, or anything remotely like it, that will merely be kicking the can down the road for another decade.
Frankly, I don't believe the bond market is going to give us another decade of trillion-dollar deficits. I'll have more to say on this subject in the weeks and months to come.
Very best regards,
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Well, things are certainly moving along at a brisk pace here in the Pleasure Dome (my office). As you may recall from my previous blog on this topic, my chum Duane Benson and I decided to create our own prototyping shield for the Arduino.
Originally, we dubbed this the Bodacious Bensonfruit Arduino Uno/Mega Proto Screwshield, but we now refer to it as the Universal Screw-Block Proto-Shield System for Arduino. Why the name change? There are a number of reasons. For example, we originally thought of our proto-shields only in terms of Arduino Unos and Megas, because these were the only types of Arduino we own. But then we realized that our system would also work with Arduino Dues and Leonardos, along with any chipKIT equiavlents, hence the universal part of our new moniker.
The really exciting news is that we've decided to make this into a Kickstarter project. We started to research the use of the Arduino name on Kickstarter. It turns out that you aren't allowed to say things like "Arduino xxxxxx." Instead, you have to say "xxxxxx for Arduino," which explains this portion of our name change. I'll be talking about our Kickstarter project in the not so distant future, but first I wanted to bring you up to date on the state of play.
The first boards are back from the manufacturer and shown below. We've since respun a couple of items (such as the silkscreens), but the fundamental design is unchanged.
Of course, I immediately soldered all the headers, screw terminal blocks, and other components on to my Screw-Block Proto-Shields, and then I started to integrate them into my Inamorata Prognostication Engine project.
My first task was to use the Screw-Block Proto-Shields to make it easier for me to connect my Adafruit RGB LCD Shield Kit to my Arduino Mega. Let me walk you through this step by step, so you can see just how cunning this is. Consider the following images, which show my Arduino Uno and my LCD Shield. First we see them laying side by side, and then we see the LCD shield plugged into the Arduino Uno.
Now consider the following image of my Arduino Mega with the same LCD shield. This is the Arduino I'm using to control my Inamorata Prognostication Engine.
Many shields designed for the Arduino Uno will work with Arduino Leonardos, Dues, and Megas — without any modification or messing around . Unfortunately, this is not the case with my LCD Shield, which is controlled via a two-wire I2C interface. One advantage of the interface is that we need only two pins to control the LCD display. Another advantage is that we can control a whole bunch of shields using the same two pins, because each entity on the I2C bus has a unique I2C address.
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I'd assumed it would delete on the next check based on what's in the Junk folder.
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President Obama has recently renewed his plans to try to close our military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, and has also promulgated new guidelines for our government's use of drones to assassinate people in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Good. It's about time!
Not only is our prison at Guantanamo a huge and festering sore upon the soul of our country, it is also ridiculously expensive.
Throughout my lifetime, America has professed to hold the moral high ground. We may not always have lived up to that promise, but I believe that mostly we have tried.
Until now.
In many places around the world, Guantanamo has become a symbol for injustice. Men have been held without trials, or even charges being brought against them, for more than 11 years. Most people have seen pictures of these men in shackles, and have heard stories about how they have been waterboarded and otherwise tortured while in custody.
During those 11 years, some of the prisoners have been sent back to their native lands, including England, where they have promptly been released without causing any harm to anyone. Of course, others who have been released have subsequently engaged in terrorist acts against our country.
But if hearings had been provided to them, maybe we could have determined who the actual terrorists were and were not. And besides, it should offend us as Americans that we are holding anyone off the battlefield for years without affording them the due process of law.
Now there are 166 prisoners left at Guantanamo, of whom 100 are on a hunger strike based upon this situation. The world has also noticed this strike, adding to our country's self-inflicted public relations nightmare.
As if that isn't enough, the Pentagon is requesting $450 million in next year's budget to maintain and upgrade Guantanamo. That means that it is costing the taxpayers more than $2.8 million per prisoner peryear! In this time of deficits, this certainly is not money well spent.
During his initial campaign for the presidency, Obama said he would try to close Guantanamo immediately. In fairness, I believe he tried, but was outflanked by Congress' refusal to spend any money for prisoner relocation. But now in his second term, Mr. Obama is talking about trying again. Better late than never. Even though Congress recently voted once again to keep Guantanamo open, he should maintain his resolve.
Obama could start by announcing that all prisoners for whom Congress does not allow relocation expenses will simply be released. By following this course, he will be placing the responsibility for the possible release of dangerous people exactly where it belongs. In fact, that is what he should have done from the beginning.
The second national moral failing and self-inflicted public relations nightmare is our drones program. As you know, Obama recently acknowledged that drones are not a "cure-all for terrorism," and that they are not always "wise and moral." As such, he has now elevated the standard to be employed for our drone attacks from against a person who is a "significant threat to U.S. interests," to a person who is a "continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons."
If that policy is followed, it would be a big improvement, but once again, in the eyes of most of the world, these drone strikes are acts of terrorism.
For a moment, just project how you would feel if one of your family members or friends were to be killed by an unseen missile fired from the sky by a foreign government inside your country. If you are like me, you would be outraged. And you would want revenge! And that is not even discussing the large number of occasions in which other people who just happened to be close to a targeted person were also killed as "collateral damage."
It is not at all an exaggeration to say that we have recruited more terrorists by these drone strikes than we have killed. The hatred we have engendered against us, primarily from Muslim countries, is strong and deep.
Even more basic, Obama was also recently quoted as saying that "All wars must end." But are we at war with Pakistan or Yemen? Fundamentally, one cannot effectively declare war upon a tactic or an idea like terrorism, any more than one can successfully fight a war upon a thing like drugs, or a condition like poverty. In addition, under Article I Section 8 of our Constitution, we can be "at war" only after Congress has issued a formal Declaration of War.
It certainly is true that Obama did not initiate the drone program, although he greatly expanded the program started by President George W. Bush. But, actually, I do not fault any president for actions like these. The pressure upon presidents to keep us safe during their terms in office is crushing. Instead, the fault lies directly with Congress and the courts. In these matters, those venerable institutions have failed in their responsibilities to keep us being a nation of laws.
In summary, the best way to lead the world in fighting terrorism, in addition to relying upon intelligence, is to be who we naturally are: world leaders in moral standing and integrity. This is our history, and we should all encourage our elected officials to return us to that station.
JAMES P. GRAY is a retired Orange County Superior Court judge. He lives in Newport Beach. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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XScreenSaver is a screen saver and locker for the X Window System. zh-CN:Xscreensaver
- 1 Installing XScreenSaver
- 2 Configuring XScreenSaver
- 3 Starting XScreenSaver
- 4 Lock Screen
- 5 Disabling XScreenSaver for Media Applications
- 6 Using XScreenSaver as animated wallpaper
- 7 Theming
- 8 User switching from the lock screen
- 9 See Also
Installing XScreenSaver
Install the xscreensaver package found in the official repositories.
Alternatively, there is a patched version with the Arch Linux logo in the AUR named xscreensaver-arch-logoAUR. Running this package instead of the one available in the official repositories is advantageous for several reasons:
- Since makepkg is compiling it from source code, the resulting package will contain processor-specific optimizations unique to your specific system -- assuming you set up your
/etc/makepkg.confwith the appropriate CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS.
- This package is Arch-branded (screensavers, lock screen, etc.)
- If running GNOME, this package will provide an icon to enter the XScreenSaver preferences under System>Preferences>Screensaver whereas the package in the official repositories does not.
Configuring XScreenSaver
Global options are defined in
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver. Under a standard setup, there is likely no need to edit this file. Instead most options are configured on a user-by-user basis simply by running xscreensaver-demo
$ xscreensaver-demo
xscreensaver-demo writes the chosen configuration in
~/.xscreensaver, discarding any manual modification to the file.
Fortunately, since at least XScreenSaver 5.22, there is another way to edit XScreenSaver's user configuration, using
~/.Xresources; see here for some examples.
DPMS settings
XScreenSaver manages display energy saving (DPMS) independently of X itself and overrides it. To configure the timings for standby, display poweroff and such, use xscreensaver-demo or edit the configuration file manually, e.g.
timeout: 1:00:00 cycle: 0:05:00 lock: False lockTimeout: 0:00:00 passwdTimeout: 0:00:30 fade: True unfade: False fadeSeconds: 0:00:03 fadeTicks: 20 dpmsEnabled: True dpmsStandby: 2:00:00 dpmsSuspend: 2:00:00 dpmsOff: 4:00:00
Starting XScreenSaver
Single-User Systems
Simply installing the xscreensaver package is not enough to have it run automatically. The
xscreensaver program has to be started, which is commonly done by the desktop environment via a line in
~/.xinitrc as follows:
/usr/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash &
The ampersand
& argument makes the
xscreensaver program run in the background and is required.
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc, to ensure it gets executed use
startxfce4 and not
exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch
Multi-User Systems
If operating with multiple users with a display manager (e.g. SLiM, GDM, KDM) it is best to start XScreenSaver via the desktop manager's native screensaver interface. This allows full management of user switching. For example, if using GNOME, install gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver but only have
gnome-screensaver active. This allows for all the screensavers to be selected, and keep the ability for user switching in the event that one user has the screen locked, and another user wants to "switch users" to he/she can access to the box.
Another option to retain multi-user support, without having to install a second screensaver, is to modify either
~/.xscreensaver for per-user settings, or
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver for global settings, and add the following line.
newLoginCommand: /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver
Lock Screen
You may immediately trigger
xscreensaver, if it is running, and lock the screen with the following command:
$ xscreensaver-command --lock
Automatically lock when suspending/sleeping/hibernating
Install xuserrun-gitAUR from AUR, and create the following file:
[Unit] Description=Lock X session using xscreensaver Before=sleep.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/bin/xuserrun /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -lock [Install] WantedBy=sleep.target
and enable it with
# systemctl enable xscreensaver
You may want to set XScreenSaver's fade out time to 0.
Other service configuration without xuserrun and for one user from this thread, replace the previous [Service] section by this one :
[Service] User=yourusername Type=oneshot Environment=DISPLAY=:0 ExecStart=/usr/bin/screensaver-command -lock
Another option, is to install xss-lockAUR from AUR, and run this command at your system startup:
# xss-lock -- xscreensaver-command -lock &
You can also add it to your autostart script.
Disabling XScreenSaver for Media Applications
Add the following to
heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate >&- 2>&- &"
There is no native support within XBMC to disable XScreenSaver (although XBMC does come with its own screensaver). The AUR contains a tiny app called xbmc_prevent_xscreensaverAUR does just this.
Adobe Flash/MPlayer/VLC
There is no native way to disable XScreenSaver for flash, but there is script named lightsOn that works great and has support for Firefox's Flash plugin, Chromium's Flash plugin, MPlayer, and VLC.
Using XScreenSaver as animated wallpaper
You can run
xscreensaver in the background, just like a wallpaper.
First, kill any process that is controlling the background (the root window).
Locate the desired XScreenSaver executable (they are usually on
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/) and run it with the
-root flag, like this
$ /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glslideshow -root &
XScreenSaver as wallpaper under xcompmgr
xcompmgr may cause problems, so you need to use xwinwrap to run it in order to use it as wallpaper. You can find it as shantz-xwinwrap-bzrAUR in the AUR.
Run it with the following command:
$ xwinwrap -b -fs -sp -fs -nf -ov -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glslideshow -root -window-id WID &
XScreenSaver's unlock screen can be themed with X resources (see: XScreenSaver resources).
User switching from the lock screen
By default, xscreensaver's "New Login" button in the lock screen will call
/usr/bin/gdmflexiserver to allow for user switching. This is fine if using gdm or kdm. Other display managers such as lightdm and lxdm support this functionality as well.
~/.xscreensaver are discarded by xscreensaver-demo, therefore you should probably use instead
~/.Xresources. For example, for LXDM, add in
xscreensaver.newLoginCommand: lxdm -c USER_SWITCH
Simply paste the following into
~/.xscreensaver to use LXDM's switching mode:
newLoginCommand: lxdm -c USER_SWITCH
Simply paste the following into
~/.xscreensaver to use lightdm's switching mode:
newLoginCommand: dm-tool switch-to-greeter
Simply paste the following into
~/.xscreensaver /
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver to use kdm's switching mode:
newLoginCommand: kdmctl reserve
See Also
- PanicLock -- Lock your screen and close any selected programs in background.
- Homepage for XScreenSaver
- Display Power Management Signaling
- xinitrc