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The Adventures of an Undercover Underwear Buyer
by Kelsey Timmerman, author of Where Am I Wearing?
In my global quest to answer the question "Where Am I Wearing?" I picked my favorite items out of my wardrobe and traced them back to where they were assembled. I went to Honduras for my favorite T-shirt, Cambodia for my all-American blue jeans, and China for my flip-flops.
In Bangladesh, I tracked down the factory that made my Jingle These Christmas boxers. Here are a few glimpses from my experience, including one case where I almost lost it.
1. It can be hard to keep it together
"So, I hear you are interested in women's panties."
Salehin magically whips out a pair of sea-foam green granny panties and splashes them down across the desk between us. They're see-through. I've just taken a swig from the skinny can of Coca-Cola that was given to me when I arrived at the office. I fight hard not to spit it all over Salehin and his granny panties.
I experience a mix of emotions: nervousness-- that I'll be caught in the fib; exhiliaration-- because he's actually buying the fib; and guilt-- again, because he's actually buying the fib.
"We can make those," Salehin says. "We can make anything."
2. The factories aren't as bad as you think
Asad leads us past a high table with neat stacks of cloth. The factory is clean, exits are marked, and fans maintain a nice breeze. The conditions seem fine. They are much better than I had expected, and I'm relieved.
Today they are making T-shirts, but I'm assured, they can produce almost anything, including underwear. There are eight production lines, and each consists of 40 people-- none of whom seem to be children or "malnourished Bangladeshis whose growth has been stunted." There is no chatter, just thimping needles and quick hands. I wonder if their hands move that fast when their boss and some foreigner aren't looking over their shoulder.
As with Asad's lazy eye, I try to pretend the workers aren't there. I'm a garment buyer. I'm not interested in workers. I'm interested in the products they produce.
3. Kids don't make your clothes (but they do work)
In 1994, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, under pressure of the boycott and the damaged image of the Made in Bangladesh label, required the factories under their power to fire all children under the age of 14. The widespread use of child labor in the Bangladeshi apparel industry ended. But it's of little consolation because heart wrenching levels of child labor continue. According to the 2002/2003 National Child Labor Survey, 93% of working children work in the informal sector in Bangladesh. While there are a small number of kids making our clothese there, there are 4.9 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 holding other jobs down.
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Go out and buy Kelsey's fascinating new book today at Amazon.com. (Seriously, it's great!) And if you want to see what Kelsey's been up to today, check out his website whereamiwearing.com.


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In January 2012 Untombed was purchased by Pittsburgh, PA based XNilo Records. With new ownership, Untombed has been revived with a new vision and a new staff of people that work hard and freely give of their time to bring you the best in Christian metal and rock. There is no affiliations with prior affiliate companies or owners.
Untombed Webzine is a free premium webzine-resource for fans of Christian Metal and Hard Rock! We offer News, Interviews, Reviews and 24/7 Online Radio.
-Our goal is to offer a high quality website for both bands and supporters of Christian rock and metal.
-Our visitors will find that we support the indie scene as much as the national scene. Both types of artists are on equal footing at Untombed.
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Position: Co-Owner, Editor, PR, Webmaster
Bio: David has been part of the Christian Indie music scene for many years both as a musician and entrepreneur. When he's not working at his label, XNilo Records, you can find him recording with his Christian symphonic-metal band, Promise Land or many of his other solo projects. Ministry is Dave's passion in everything he gets involved in and desires nothing more than to see God use these outlets to reach people for the kingdom. Dave resides in Pennsylvania happily married to Janette, his wife of 13 years.
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The mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus hemionus, is a beautiful animal that many of us come into contact with any time we are out of doors. It doesn't matter if we are in the mountains, foothills, or our own yard. Usually we marvel at their speed and agility, but their appetite for our flowers can lead to conflict for both deer and gardener. While there isn't a perfect solution, there are many efforts, that when combined, can keep you gardening and deer deterred.
Mule deer are migratory, depending on the season and food supply. They spend much of the summer in higher mountainous areas and move to lower elevations in the winter to avoid deep snow. This means that they will be most active in your yard from December to April, depending on where you live. Homes located in foothills, inside these natural migratory ranges, can expect more damage. Winter/spring, therefore is the prime time of year to apply repellents.
Sometimes it can be difficult to tell exactly what is causing plant damage, so here are some tips; Mule deer are browsers, which means they nibble on a variety of plants; they primarily graze on shrubs and twigs and occasionally grasses. Deer have no upper teeth, so they rip food rather than cut it in clean lines, leaving a jagged edge or torn surface on twigs and stems. Whole plants will generally not be consumed as the deer graze on tips of plants while wandering from one plant to another. Young plants may be uprooted as deer attempt to tear off their tips. They can be surprisingly adept at eating off the sweet flowers and leaving the rest of the plant alone.
Just like us, deer have a preferred palate of plants they like to eat; by leaving these plants out of our gardens we can minimize much of the conflict. There are also many plants that actually prefer a nibble from a deer now and then and can save you the work of pruning.
Because of their nimble legs, it can be difficult to keep deer out completely, however even a small fence can slow them down. A realistic fence height for the home garden would be 6-8 feet; for a more complete exclusion 10-12 feet is a better range. The material of the fence seems to make little difference as long as it is easily maintained.
Bird netting, laid over the top flowerbeds and pinned down, is very effective. Spring pansies and tulips can really benefit from being covered. While sometimes unsightly, it protects all the blossoms underneath and is relatively inexpensive. Care must be taken in the springtime to cut holes in the net allowing new flowers to push through without being hindered.
Wrapping your soft evergreens with burlap sheets in the wintertime can offer very good protection. While it may look a little whimsical, it works very well, and also prevents limb breakage from snow. Comparing wrapped and unwrapped trees here at Red Butte Garden were like night and day by springtime; the wrapped tree was not consumed at all while the other was completely eaten.
Deer are easily startled, but they are not easily fooled. Motion activated sprinklers, lights, or noises are all great at getting the deer's attention, but they usually don't scare them off completely.
There are a number of products on the market that claim to stop deer from eating plants. Their ingredients range from garlic and eggs to chemicals like thiram. Recently, several studies have clarified some of the better ones. All repellents show better protection than using nothing at all. The largest factor for effectiveness was how hungry the deer were and how often the repellent was applied. Here are a few of the better products:
The use of predator urines as a deterrent have recently gained a lot of attention. They work, are easily applied, and are reasonably priced. Small amounts are poured into a dispenser jar and hung near the plant. Each dispenser covers approximately 12 feet. Place the dispensers in the fall and put out a fresh dose 2 months later.
Ammonium soaps are sold under many names, but essentially are all the same. Some brand names include Big Game Repellant or BGR, Rockland Hinder, Fertilome Rabbit & Deer Repellant. They work by taste and odor and can be easily washed off. Because of this, they are good to use on edible plants, but must be re-applied more often. While the scent is offensive to deer, most people aren't bothered.
Garlic oils work by odor and are recommended by several studies. The brand name Bobbex® seems to do particularly well. Although it is very good for food crops, it doesn't last in snowy and wet weather because the scent is suppressed.
Egg solids are the most popular ingredient in repellents. The scent isn't very offensive to us, but the sensitive noses of deer can pick it out. It is a quite safe to use and lasts a few months because of its stickiness.
Denatonium benzoate or bitrex, or thiram-based products are both highly recommended. They are liquids that are applied to the leaves and stems of plants. The advantage of these products is that they stay on the plant longer lessening re-application time.
Products containing Benzyldiethyl ammonium saccharide .065% and thymol .35% provided little protection and are not recommended. Methods such as hanging bars of soap and spreading human hair are not recommended>/u>. Both require a significant amount of time and material. Human hair usually works for only a few days and can be very unsightly. Mints and blood, bone, or meat meals are also very poor protectors. Pepper or capsaicin has shown some effectiveness, but performed better for squirrels and rabbits than deer.
Deer are the most influential non-domesticated grazer in our area, because they eat grasses down to the ground in some areas but not others. This creates more diversity in the plant community by providing opportunities for other grass, flowers or tree seedlings to take root in bare spaces. Their tip grazing also provides a natural pruning keeping plants compact.
Understanding and appreciating the role of deer in nature can soften the blow of losing your favorite daylily flower. With these tips and a little luck, hopefully we can all get along.Article by Michelle Cook


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Sequels are hard when the preceding games are good. It's tough to think of what to improve and changing too much because might ruin what made the first game(s) good.
Lucky for you, Skate 3 developer Black Box is aware of this challenge and dealt with it once before in Skate 2.
What Is It?
Skate 3 is the follow up to last year's non-Tony Hawk skater sim, Skate 2. The setting is new, the modes are somewhat familiar and the emphasis is on team gameplay this time instead of the solo experience.
What We Saw
EA sat games journalists down in groups for a quick rundown of all the new features plus a multi-round multiplayer face off in several different gameplay modes. The modes (as I frantically wrote them down between loading screens) were: Race, Domination, One-Up, Contest and Own-the-Lot.
How Far Along Is It?
Very early days. Skate 3 is built on Skate 2's engine, so everything looks farther along than it is and probably will move along quickly — but it was still what you'd call "alpha."
What Needs Improvement?
Race: It is so hard to get back on the right track once you've hosed yourself in a race. I was doing damn fine at the beginning, but when I messed up a jump by trying to flick my trick stick (read: right stick), I wound up facing the wrong way and the game reset me on the race track right back where I'd failed the trick with zero momentum to get up the vertical wall from which I was trying to do a trick jump. It ruined the pace of the race and of course put me in last place. (And no, I didn't mean for that to rhyme, it just came out that way.)
Skate.School: Sadly, EA wasn't ready to show off Skate.School — their tutorial mode. I put it here because it's really, really important that the developer nail the tutorials in Skate 3. So much of the gameplay rides on a team experience and there doesn't seem to be a space that's really all about solo skating except for the tutorial. Without a solid tutorial experience to catch everyone up, newcomers are going to be left in the dust (and totally demoralized when they realize they're the weak link) by their teammates.
Not Fundamentally Different: Some people griped that Skate 2 was really Skate 1.5. Those same people might be tempted to say that Skate 3 is really Skate 2 because when you get down to it, new tricks and new modes doesn't necessarily make a new game. The might even call Skate 3 Skate 1.75, if they're being particularly harsh.
What Should Stay The Same?
One-Up: Easily the most nerve-wracking mode of them all, One-Up also turned out to be the most fun. You and your posse start out at the beginning of a track while a rival posse watches from nearby. When the timer goes off, you have something like 60 seconds to rack up as many points as you can by doing tricks. If any one of you falls of his or her board, your time automatically expires and the other team gets to try and one-up your score on the course. It was really fun — especially when I realized that on one track, it was the experienced developer who fell down and cost us the match, not me. I was being smart and just doing kickflips in a corner.
Hall of Meat Defaults to Off: I loved Hall of Meat because I'm a bad skater so it feels good to see some kind of rewards system for totally wiping out on even the easiest jumps. But the developer told me that people (particularly people who didn't realize you could turn Hall of Meat slow-mo displays off) weren't too fond of it. So Black Box has separated Hall of Meat from the main gameplay and given players the option to pursue it or ignore it completely. I didn't get to see this because the revamped Hall of Meat isn't ready yet, but more details forthcoming.
Not Fundamentally Different: The first two games were really good and mostly accessible games. Skate 3 seems to meet those same benchmarks, so what's not to like?
Final Thoughts
Customization from the community was a huge part of Skate 2, but it's the absolute life blood of Skate 3. From dedicated posses who take on the entire community online to niche artists who get off on designing team logos for other players to use and even on to would-be filmmakers who capture some of the craziest stunts or recreate true machinima, Skate 3 is all about a multiplayer, community-driven experience. So if you want solo skating, I have a feeling you're going to be disappointed. But if you're still thrilled with Skate 2 and ready for more multiplayer, this is your game right here.


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Edward Dahlberg, the writer, observed, "At 19, I was a stranger to myself. At 40, I asked, 'Who am I?' At 50, I concluded I would never know." This unexplored personal wilderness is the home of millions of people. Ninety-two percent of all Canadian university students, according to June Callwood, the Toronto sociologist, don't really know who they are. The Bible says that man is an immortal soul. When God made man in the first place, He created him and "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7). One's soul is the essence, the core, the eternal and real person. And he will be restless until he opens his life to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Prayer for the day
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text: The Federal Trade Commission on Monday released the long-awaited final version of its report on online consumer privacy, issuing a set of recommendations broadly consistent with an earlier draft, including a call for a do-not-track tool that would enable users to opt out of data collection and targeted marketing programs on the Web.\n\nWith its latest report, the FTC continues to prevail on members of the Internet and advertising industries to develop meaningful, broadly adopted codes of conduct to provide consumers with more insight about what information is being collected and how it is being used, as well as tools to limit access to that data such as the do-not-track option that the leading browser makers have endorsed.\n\nThe report presses three themes that could be described as best practices for businesses operating on the Internet: \n Privacy should be incorporated into new products and services by design.\n Businesses should provide consumers with simplified ways to control their information.\n Corporate data collection practices should be transparent to the public.\nAt a news conference announcing the new report, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz praised the efforts that industry stakeholders have made in crafting new privacy tools and policies, and reiterated his hope that a self-regulatory approach can achieve meaningful consumer safeguards.\n\n"We are demanding more and better protections for consumers and consumer privacy not because industry is ignoring the issue. In fact, the best companies already follow the privacy principles laid out in our report," Leibowitz said. "And in the last year, online advertisers, major browser companies and the World Wide Web Consortium, an Internet standards-setting group, have all made great strides toward putting in place the foundation of a do-not-track system."\n\nIn that spirit, Leibowitz said that the FTC will not initiate any independent rulemaking proceedings concerning privacy, save for the update to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act that is already underway.\n\nBut he also warned Web companies and their trade associations that the window for self-regulation may be closing. Leibowitz said that he is hopeful that do-not-track can be implemented without a government mandate, but if the industry stakeholders are unable to achieve that goal by the end of the year, they could face the prospect of broad, bipartisan support for tough privacy legislation in the next session of Congress.\n\n"I'm very hopeful that do not track can be done without legislation," Leibowitz said. "But if it can't be, I suspect it will be done with legislation. And I think in many ways companies would be -- they recognize they'd be wise to avoid that particularly when they're supportive of it."\n\nFor its part, the FTC is making a number of legislative recommendations, including support for a baseline online privacy bill, though not necessarily one that includes the do-not-track mandate. Rather, the agency is advocating for a bill that would codify basic principles about transparency and the ownership of data, specifically enshrining the precept that consumers own and should have control of their personal information.\n\n"I think that's a pretty conservative notion and I think it's one with a lot of bipartisan support," Leibowitz said. "We don't endorse a particular piece of legislation, but we endorse the notion of it."\n\nThe FTC is also calling for data security legislation and a law that would create new rules concerning transparency and choice for data brokers, a set of companies that are deeply involved in the exchange of consumer information online, but that largely operate behind the scenes. As a matter of practice, the FTC's ability to initiate legal action against a bad actor is significantly limited by its statutory mandate, and many of these companies may not be covered by areas in which the agency has explicit enforcement authority, such as its powers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.\n\nFTC officials have recently expressed concerns that data brokers, by operating out of public view, aren't subject to the consumer backlash and reputation damage that arise when a prominent company makes a privacy misstep, factors that can serve as powerful incentives to protect consumer information.\n\n"It's not like you're going on Amazon or you're going on Netflix and you have a direct interface with the company ... whose site you're on," Leibowitz said. "We're talking about data brokers who online and off collect information and consumers have no idea that the information's being collected or how it's being monetized and sold."\n\nThe FTC is asking data brokers to develop an industry-wide Web portal that would identify the companies and explain what information they collect and how they use it.\n\nThe new report puts the finishing touches on a staff-level draft of consumer privacy recommendations that the agency issued in December 2010, updating that document with legislative proposals and the imprimatur of the commission's leadership. As it looks ahead, the FTC plans to continue its work with industry stakeholders in the hopes of advancing work on do-not-track and other privacy practices. The agency is planning to convene a privacy workshop May 30.\n\nThe commission also continues to collaborate with the White House and Commerce Department, which earlier this year released a policy document endorsing a consumer bill of rights, a framework that drew on input from the FTC and other agencies.\n\nIn the meantime, the FTC will continue to exercise the authorities it has under existing statutes, which, while limited in the online privacy sector, empower the agency to target specific companies for unfair or deceptive practices. \n\nLast year, for instance, the FTC took actions against two leading Web companies that have been at the forefront of the online privacy debate, reaching settlements with Google and Facebook under which the firms agreed to long-term monitoring and independent auditing of their data-collection and usage practices, among other conditions.\n\nEven as the agency has been implementing the settlement and oversight agreements with Google and Facebook, consumer advocates continue to sound alarms about how those companies and others treat their users' data, which in turn enables them and their advertising partners to serve more precisely targeted, relevant ads. Most recently, Google caused a stir when it announced that it would consolidate the privacy policies of its disparate Web properties into a single system, a move the company defended for simplifying the privacy landscape, but one that critics blasted for seeming to limit users' control of their information.\n\nKenneth Corbin is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who covers government and regulatory issues for CIO.com.


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Perpetual Pro Bowl Jets center Nick Mangold weighs 307 pounds. He has to block the Vince Wilforks and Haloti Ngatas of the world. But he's probably not as strong as his younger sister, Holley, who qualified for the 2012 Olympics last night.
Reports the Dayton Daily News:
The 22-year-old Mangold was one of 15 competitors vying for just two spots at the U.S. Olympic Women's Weightlifting Team Trials that were part of the Arnold Sports Festival held at the Columbus Convention Center.
Competing as a super heavyweight, she won the clean and jerk competition with a lift of 145 kilos (319 pounds) and was second in the two-hand snatch with a 110-kilo hoist (242 pounds) that was topped by Sarah Robles of Mesa, Ariz., who lifted 114 kilos. Robles finished first overall with a 258 kilo total for both lifts, and Mangold was second at 255.
Many of the other competitors were at smaller weights, but the Olympic berths were given to those whose scores were closest to the last five Olympic bronze medal totals in their respective divisions.
It was a big story back in 2006 when Holley played some offensive line in high school, but this is even bigger. The Olympics!
Plus, patriarch Vern Mangold explains, people actually care about women's weightlifting, unlike American football:
"As I travel around the world and talk to people who know about athletics, nobody knows about American football outside of the main countries," Vern said. "But they know weightlifting all over the world.
"Holley was a rock star in Colombia. She had Russian guys following her all around Romania. And if you do well in the Olympics, well, that (acclaim) is international."
Or at least sufficient to appear The Biggest Loser in, like, 2019.
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Andrew Cogliano (born June 14, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He formerly played for the Edmonton Oilers.
Cogliano spent two seasons with the St. Michael's Buzzers, a Tier 2 Junior "A" Team in Toronto. In his final season he represented Canada at the Junior World Cup in the summer of 2004 and lead the team in scoring. He was also the league's leading scorer and was the only player from the OJHL to be drafted in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
Cogliano then moved to the NCAA and played 2 years for the University of Michigan Wolverines. In 2005-06, he represented Canada in the 2006 World Juniors in Vancouver, winning a gold medal. In 2006-07, he finished third on the Wolverines in scoring with 50 points in 38 games and again won gold with Canada at the World Juniors in Sweden. He signed a pro contract on May 2, 2007, with the Edmonton Oilers, the team who drafted him 25th overall in 2005.


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This is a list of applications that have MusicBrainz support built in:
Media players and centers
- Kodi
- Kodi is a cross-platform software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. It uses MusicBrainz to improve its music experience.
- SonicStreamer
- Media streaming software that allows you to access you music from anywhere else. Supports MusicBrainz for getting an showing additional data about the music in the library (since version 2.4).
- VLC media player
- A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Uses MusicBrainz data for looking up information/metadata as well as cover art from Cover Art Archive.
Media libraries
The following music library managers can tag your files with MusicBrainz data:
- Amarok
- Amarok is a music player for KDE. It supports many multimedia frameworks (like GStreamer, XINE, and aRts) to play music media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library. Amarok versions 1.1 through 1.4.x supported lookups via MusicBrainz [1], and versions starting from 2.4 support it again [2].
- Banshee
- Banshee is an audio management and playback application for the GNOME Desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods, and burn selections to a CD.
- beets
- beets is a flexible command-line music library manager written in Python. It includes a tag corrector and album art downloader that use MusicBrainz as their backend.
- Clementine
- Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.
- foobar2000
- foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of its features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Support for MusicBrainz has been added with foo_musicbrainz and it can use MusicBrainz data to tag media files and audio CDs.
- Mixxx
- Mixxx is free DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It currently supports getting information from MusicBrainz.
- MusicBee
- MusicBee is a MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library [3].
- Rhythmbox
- Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.
- AudioExpert
- AudioExpert is a Music Organizer Software to tidy, manage, clean up, align, sort, join/merge, and organize music archives resp. music libraries. Supported formats are MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, OGG, FLAC, MPC, WAV and AAC.
The following taggers will tag your music files with MusicBrainz data:
- MusicBrainz Picard
- MusicBrainz Picard is a cross platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) album oriented MusicBrainz tagger with support for acoustic fingerprinting of MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 and WMA formats.
Affiliated taggers
- Magic MP3 Tagger
- Magic MP3 Tagger was designed to enable easy and effective renaming of audio files. This is done by
- checking the available tag,
- automatically interpreting the file and folder names,
- selecting the most reliable data from the tags, file and folder names,
- validating and completing the tags by cross-checking the songs with an internal music database.
- Magic Mp3 Tagger uses MusicBrainz to find its data, has many different options, recursive processing of folders, and a clear and easy to use interface. Further information is available at http://www.magic-tagger.com/. Magic MP3 Tagger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.
- Yate Music Tagger
- Yate Music Tagger is a Mac OS X based tagger for mp3, m4a, FLAC and AIFF files. Supports MusicBrainz, Discogs and integration with iTunes. Actions providing scripting can be run interactively or in a batch mode. Yate Music Tagger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.
Other taggers
- Flactag
- Flactag is a linux console based tagger for single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. The tags are downloaded from the MusicBrainz service and can be written to the FLAC file as Vorbis comments. Once tagged, the file can be renamed based on a 'template' naming scheme.
- Kitsune
- kitsune is a free player/tagger for Japanese and Russian music. It supports MusicBrainz lookup for artists and recordings, and will only scrobble to last.fm if a correct name was found in MusicBrainz. It will use chromaprint to identify music from a Japanese web radio station or anime related music.
- Mp3tag
- Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.
- Jaikoz
- Jaikoz is a powerful tagger available for macOS, Windows and Linux making use of MusicBrainz, Discogs and AcoustId.
CD rippers
The following programs will rip your CDs and use MusicBrainz to tag the new files:
- abcde
- "A better CD encoder", a command line ripper for *nix, can be configured to use MusicBrainz.
- CUERipper
- CUERipper is an open-source CD Ripper for Windows. It supports MusicBrainz.
- dBpoweramp CD Ripper
- dBpoweramp CD Ripper is a secure CD ripper for Windows and OS X. It supports MusicBrainz.
- Exact Audio Copy
- Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is a secure CD ripper for Windows. It comes bundled with CueTools DB Metadata Plugin which can fetch album metadata from MusicBrainz.
- EZ CD Audio Converter
- EZ CD Audio Converter is a multi-language CD ripper, audio converter, metadata editor and disc burner. It supports MusicBrainz.
- morituri
- morituri is a powerful command line ripper for *nix that aims at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases.
- Note: The author has gone more or less AWOL, so others have continued the project in the fork whipper (see below).
- RipIt
- RipIt is a command line ripper that can rip to a number of formats. It can be set to use MusicBrainz for looking up release information.
- Note: The author has officially retired (from) the project.
- Sound Juicer
- Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME 2.14 and GStreamer 0.10. Sound Juicer is shipped with Ubuntu.
- X Lossless Decoder
- X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
- whipper
- whipper is a fork of morituri (see above), a powerful command line ripper for *nix aiming at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its sole source for release metadata.
Mobile Apps
- nusic
- nusic is an app to notify you about new releases of the artists of tagged songs on your phone. It makes periodic requests to MusicBrainz to check if new releases have been added.


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Paradoxes and Polarities
In closing her April 15 lecture at RISD's Chace Center, multidisciplinary Pakistani artist and MacArthur Award winner Shahzia Sikander MFA 95 PT/PR showed an excerpt from Parallax, her latest animated video installation. A hush fell over the audience as hundreds of birdlike illustrations swirled and dove onscreen, exploding into fragments and then coming back together again to form new shapes. The ever-changing visuals were choreographed to a gripping musical score by Chinese composer Du Yun and a turbulent sea of voices reciting contemporary Arabic poetry.
"With this piece I'm using the infinite space of the digital realm to explore themes of disorder and dissonance – paradoxes and polarities," says Sikander, whose talk was part of the spring lecture series presented by the department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design and co-sponsored by RISD's South Asian Student Association. "My process is driven by my interest in exploring and rediscovering cultural and political boundaries as a space for opening up new frameworks for dialogue and visual narrative."
As a young artist in Lahore, Pakistan in the 1980s, Sikander primarily worked to perfect the craft of Indo-Persian-style miniature painting, striving to honor the tradition while "expanding the medium from within." She further redefined the painstaking practice at RISD in the mid-1990s but has since moved on to work in a variety of mediums and formats, including murals, animation, installation and video, always pushing boundaries, playing with scale and challenging the relationships between objects. "It is the artist's duty," she maintains, "to question societal norms and reimagine the future."
Sikander has met with phenomenal, international acclaim, earning recognition in the form of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006, the US State Department's inaugural Medal of Art in 2012, the National Pride of Honor from the Pakistani Government and a Joan Mitchell award. Her work is included in the permanent collections of museums around the world and at MoMA, the Whitney and the Guggenheim in New York City, her home base.
Disparate global influences
Among Sikander's influences are fellow alumna and Pakistani native Huma Bhabha 85 PR and the late German-born sculptor and materials pioneer Eva Hesse. The recent resurgence of Turkish "graffiti poetry" by such artists as Efe Murad and Nazim Hikmet, she says—as well as recent political protests in Istanbul's Gezi Park and Taksim Square—inspired her to create Pivot, an animated video installation shown at the 13th Istanbul Biennial in 2013. "There is so much within the art world that happens by word of mouth, by engaging, by making a connection," she says.
Sikander began working with projected images during her 2012 residency at the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art in Honolulu, HI, where she found the collection to be "a study in contradictions." While in residence, she played with dislocated framing devices to create "a theater of light." The multi-armed female figure in Parallax (pictured above) was, in fact, inspired by the late Doris Duke herself.
Parallax is on view in Sweden's Bildmuseet in Umeå through May 18. This spring Sikander is also exhibiting work in group shows at the Belson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City; ArtC in Chennai, India; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea; and Exhibit320 in New Delhi, India.
This summer the Pérez Art Museum Miami will exhibit Sikander's 2010 video animation The Last Post, which focuses on 18th-century colonialism and the infamous East India Company. "The title refers to the bugle call commemorating the soldiers who die in war," she says. "It also signals a call for the end of the day. Here it refers to the collapse of the Anglo-Saxon hegemony over China."
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The Dept. of Energy has just released a "Directory of Potential Stakeholders for DoE Actions Under NEPA" (link to a PDF file). NEPA is the National Environmental Policy Act; think environmental impact assessments, and the endless lawsuits challenging their adequacy. Skip over the list of the myriad federal and state agencies that want in on the process; note the list starting on page 24 (or just check the list in the contents starting on page iv) of all the NGOs who are potential "stakeholders." There are a handful of national pro-business groups, but they are badly outnumbered by local environmental and other left-wing groups.
An NGO "stakeholder" is a euphemism for a self-appointed special interest group that wants to twist the administrative and legal process to get what they can't get directly through legislation or elections. I think the only good "stakeholder" is the vampire hunter about the plunge one in the bloodsucking government we've got today.
I wrote about this problem at some length in Reason magazine way back in 1994, in the context of the unfolding Hillarycare plan. (Those were the days, weren't they?) A couple of the worthier graphs from that piece:
Stakeholder representation refers to the growing practice of explicitly allocating positions on government boards, commissions, and advisory bodies to special-interest groups. A hybrid of quotas, Scandinavian-style corporatism, and old-fashioned interest-group liberalism, stakeholder representation holds that interests with a "stake" in a government policy or regulatory activity should be officially represented on the government agency that oversees that area of policy. While the theory posits a cut-and-dried reality, the practice is a sloppy, highly politicized affair. Self-appointed pressure groups such as environmentalists, consumer advocates, and civil-rights organizations share equal standing with parties who have traditionally represented constituent interests, such as business, organized labor, or property owners, while other interests are excluded altogether. . . .
But, in practice, stakeholder representation entails favoring certain special interests over other interests, therefore biasing the outcome of any "consensus." As with the menagerie in George Orwell's Animal Farm, some stakeholders are more equal than others. Not just anyone can be a board member of a Regional Health Alliance. The Clinton health-care plan favors certain kinds of people–employers and "consumer representatives"–while banning others: health-care providers, lawyers and other professionals working for health-care providers, and anyone connected with the pharmaceutical industry. . .
To say that certain groups have a special "stake" in a particular area of policy is to imply that ordinary citizens have no "stake," or an inferior "stake," in the actions of government. Under the traditional understanding of representative government, special-interest groups who dissent from government policy are invited to lobby and persuade and have the same right as every other citizen to vote their interest in elections. It is precisely because all special interests share the equal rights of every citizen that they should not be given a privileged position at any official councils of government.


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On-line version ISSN 2309-8309
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PIKOR, TD and KYTE, RD. Evaluation of peri-articular aggressive benign bone tumours treated with cementation and a locked plate. SA orthop. j. [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.2, pp.48-55. ISSN 2309-8309.
BACKGROUND: Treatment of aggressive benign bone lesions with curettage, burring, cementation and plate augmentation is a widely accepted treatment. We have used the above method utilising a locked plate, rather than conventional plating methods, facilitating immediate stability and early mobilisation. We hypothesised that this joint-preserving method would provide an economic alternative to megaprosthetic joint replacement without compromising good functional outcomes. METHODS: Patients with peri-articular aggressive benign bone lesions were treated with marginal excision, curettage, burring and cementation. This was augmented with a locked plate. Liquid nitrogen was used as an adjunct where feasible. Functional assessment and radiological recurrence was assessed at follow-up using the Musculoskeletal Tumour Society Score (MSTS) and routine X-rays. RESULT: The average MSTS score was 88%. Average follow-up time was 21 months. To date, no revisions have been performed for recurrence or pain and no significant complications have occurred. CONCLUSIONS: Our early results in a small series make us optimistic that this may be an alternative to immediate megaprosthetic reconstruction; furthermore, this may provide a useful intermediate step in the treatment of aggressive benign peri-articular bone tumours with some degree of associated joint deformation without significantly compromising later prosthetic reconstruction.
Keywords : aggressive benign tumours; bone cementation; locked plate.


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Wisconsin board approves Ryan extension
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin athletic board has approved a one-year extension for Bo Ryan that stretches his five-year deal with the Badgers through 2019.
Ryan guided Wisconsin to its first Final Four appearance since 2000, losing 74-73 to Kentucky in the semifinal. It was a banner year for a program that finished 30-8 and had a school record 16-game winning streak to start the season.
Ryan has a compensation package of about $2.3 million a year, and his contract calls for a $100,000 raise each June. He earned a $60,000 bonus for reaching the Final Four.
The Wisconsin Athletic Board approved the extension Friday, along with one-year extensions for other coaches, including Mike Eaves of men's hockey and Mark Johnson of women's hockey.