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ISO50 Exclusive – Slow Hands Mix
Recently I posted a debut track by Slow Hands which is coming out on Brooklyn's Wolf+Lamb label, you may know Ryan from New York's DJ duo Worst Friends which our Tom Croose is the other half of. I asked Ryan to focus on something eclectic and something for designers and creatives to listen to while working instead of something a little more dance driven and Ryan really delivered by using everything from Slum Village to The Steve Miller Band to DFA's Woolfy.
Once you get to the Project Sandro track you'll end up in a slow and steady groove — it slays actually — I've been waiting for something like this for awhile and the ending movie sample is pretty sweet.
Look for the next couple of mixes to be non-genre specific and melodic and hopefully something that exposes the diversity in electronic/rock/etc music.
The iPhone photo was taken while Ryan was asleep and then Scott came in and made it proper.
Alice In Wonderland (Soundtrack) – The Garden & All In The Golden Afternoon
Slum Village – Fourth and Back
Sade – Sweetest Taboo (Slow Hands edit)
The Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
Soulphiction – Prison Song (Feat. Marcin Oz)
Aldo del Lago, Tolousse y Alain Junot – La Isla Bonita
Ab Orchestra – La Isla Bonita
David Bowie – Magic Dance
Project Sandro – Blazer
Woolfy vs. Projections – Isabella
Trus'me – Drilling
Wareika – Belonging (Vocal)
Tensnake – Holding Back (My Love)
Slow Hands – Fast Tongue
Chateau Flight – Instand Replay
Talking Heads – Sax And Violins
Dan Auerbac – When The Night Comes
Princess Outro
Slow Hands – "Afternoon To-Night" Mix[audio:slowhands_mix.mp3]
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blackabee says:June 23, 2009 at 12:29 am
quality. thanks!
buzzer says:June 23, 2009 at 2:22 am
is the crackling intended?
Shelby White says:June 23, 2009 at 2:48 am
I honestly never would have thought that this Alice in Wonderland was worth listening to…but I was wrong.
Love the mix so far.
joey says:June 23, 2009 at 3:10 am
that tracklist looks awesome. the new Tensnake EP is so good. and "magic dance"? David Bowie… Labyrinth… bulge… *droooool* P.S. you can't join two independent clauses with just a comma
repeatpattern says:June 23, 2009 at 4:28 am
Really excellent Mix. Loving it.
motionblur says:June 23, 2009 at 4:51 am
Amazing eclectic mix of music, loving the edit of Sade too.
ps.. FAO the grammar police…you can put any punctuatiuon you like in a title of a track or book or play or film etc etc… ;-)
JC says:June 23, 2009 at 6:47 am
Looks like ol' Ryan fell asleep at the Serato controller with that accordion & xylophone rendition of La Isla Bonita.
I mean, really? Accordion? La Isla Bonita? Then xylophones?
The rest of the mix is smokin' – too bad he had to ruin it with those 10 minutes of bad choices.
Noel says:June 23, 2009 at 9:50 am
does anybody else have this crackling all the way through? Sounds pretty bad on my end. I'm talking about the stream version (haven't downloaded it yet)
Hands says:June 23, 2009 at 11:29 am
Hey All,
I just wanted to let anyone interested know that i messed up the track listing that was sent to Jakub to be posted . . . and that there is a track between Isabella and Belonging, it's "Drilling" by Trus'me. I know, i know, it's in Croose's mix, i should have checked that beforehand, but what can i say? He has impeccable taste!
I just wanted to make sure the talents of Trus'me did not go unrecognized!
TheMem says:June 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Really awesome… made my day at work… and it also made my day flow a bit more creatively compared to other creativity-massacring, corporateness-infested days… Thanks!
Sean Zellmer says:June 23, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Amazing mix. Ryan really hit the spot with making a mix that is easy to listen to while working. Interesting song selection as well.
nathanael says:June 24, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Cute guy napping is cute.
Nano says:July 6, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Lovin' the mix! Especially the Sade edit. Did you do it?
Esteban says:July 7, 2009 at 11:36 am
Man! This totally resembles to a cover design I did last year.
Check it out:
I guess music style may be somewhat disimilar, though.
I am downloading the mixes now. Let's see…
Hands says:July 8, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Yeash, i did the Sade Edit/Cover


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I have a dream every holiday season. It's Christmas Eve, and I'm sitting in front of a roaring fire. Christmas carols are echoing through the living room. Faithful friends who are dear to me gather near to me. The scene is something out of a Hallmark card.
Now if only my fireplace would co-operate.
Unfortunately, the fireplace in my house may as well have been stamped "For Display Purposes Only." The fireplace seems to have been designed by people with only a passing familiarity with fire safety codes. It's built shallow and the hearth is practically non-existant. What I'm trying to say is, one spark from the fireplace and my Christmas tree will be lit up all right, but probably not in the manner that local fire marshals would find advisable. So like millions of apartment dwellers or people who live in fireplace-free homes, it seems that I'll be dreaming of a Yule log-free Christmas.
That is, unless I take this holiday traditional digital.
If you're a sucker for tradition but a bit trepidatious around open flame, you can still enjoy the visual delights of your very own Yule log with none of the fire hazards. All you'll need is a TV and a streaming media box and you can enjoy the figurative-though-not-literal warming glow of a digital Yule log.
The digital Yule log, of course, traces its roots back to 1966, when a mad genius by the name of Fred M. Thrower fretted about how New Yorkers without fireplaces might enjoy the cozy feel of a Yule log. Since Fred M. Thrower also happened to be CEO of WPIX-TV, he was actually in the position to do something about it. And he do something he did: he had his channel air footage of a Yule log burning on the TV screen. The idea turned out to be a smash and quickly spread to other TV stations in other cities across the country.
Taking Fred M. Thrower's innovation into this century is simple, provided you've got a cool head and a set-top box that either lets you connect to YouTube or, better yet, one of Apple's mobile devices.
The YouTube option
The easiest way to get a holiday fire roaring on your TV is to let the people uploading videos to YouTube do all the hard work for you. All you need is a streaming box with its own YouTube channel. Both the Apple TV and Chromecast let you watch YouTube on your big-screen TV, as do the latest gaming consoles from Microsoft and Sony. And last week, a YouTube channel finally arrived on Roku 3 players just in time for the holidays. Truly, it's a Christmas miracle!
So navigate your way to your device's YouTube channel and search for "Yule Log." You'll want to eyeball the videos to make sure that the picture quality, sound, and run time are up to your exacting standars, but here are a few that we found sufficiently jolly as part of our search.
- 2 Hours Logs Burning in Fireplace: It looks good on the big screen, but that promised two-hour run time is actually one hour and 49 minutes. Santa doesn't cotton to fibbers, my log-burning friend.
- Best Yule Log: "Best" is such a subjective term, but this is an hour and 53 minutes of wood-crackling goodness.
- HD Fireplace Video: "Filmed just outside Hamburg, Germany on a winter evening," the YouTube description reads. Ooooooooh—a foreign film!
- WPIX Yule Log: Just eight minutes and 33 seconds long, but why not take a moment to admire Fred M. Thrower's contribution to world culture?
There's a problem with these videos, unfortunately: The virtual fire may go out long before you're ready to stop celebrating the holiday, and getting videos to loop on your set-top box may require manual intervention, reducing your holiday cheer by at least 10 percent. You're also at the mercy of whatever audio comes with the video, whether that's a crackling fire (good!) or holiday music that sounds like it's being tapped out on a Casio keyboard (less good). If you have the time and the good sense to listen to the advice of my colleague Christopher Breen, you can find other ways to fill your home with holiday music. But let's not kid ourselves: Old St. Nick's sleigh is almost here and you've not much time to get your living room into the holiday spirit.
The AirPlay option
If relying on the vagaries of YouTube doesn't sound like a great plan for spreading holiday cheer, there's another trick you can try—provided you've got an Apple TV and an iOS device handy. Through the magic of AirPlay—the streaming technology that lets you wirelessly stream audio and video from your iOS device to your high-definition TV—you can deliver a crackling fire, Prometheus-like, to the big screen. You'll need an iPhone 4S or later, a fifth-generation iPod touch, or an iPad 2 or later to make your TV show exactly what's on your iOS device. And in this case, that's a cleansing blast of fire.
Now all you need to do is find a half-decent fireplace simulator in the iOS App Store, and here, I'm afraid, the pickings thin out just a tad. While in the early days of the App Store, any developer with a rudimentary knowledge of coding could whip up an app that simulated a roaring fire, many of those apps have gone years without an update. In my testing, only two apps pass muster, and both come with significant caveats.
Fireplace HD+ has the benefit of having gotten an update this calendar year. It gives you a choice of five different fireplaces, though a few are cheesier than others. (Seriously, there's an animated flames option that wouldn't look out of place in A Heavy Metal Holiday Christmas special from the 1980s.) The app offers a selection of radio channels, and you can even search for channels by artist or song title to help slightly personalize the musical accompaniment for your holiday fire. The app supports AirPlay streaming to your Apple TV, and while I had better performance without enabling the radio music, the $1 Fireplace HD+ gave me a nice fire on my TV with a minimum of fuss.
But you know what? I like to pick my own music to play alongside my digital Yule log. That's why the app of choice for Michaels family holiday gatherings has been A Very Cozy Fireplace HD. Like Fireplace HD+, it costs $1, runs on both an iPad or an iPhone, and beams a burning log to your Apple TV-connected monitor as if by magic. And it also give you the option to have musical accompaniment, including Playlists from your device's Music library. It's pretty glorious.
Or at least, it was. The jump to iOS 7 hasn't been kind to A Very Cozy Fireplace HD. As the developer acknowledges on the app's App Store page, "playing your own iPod music along with the fire video over AirPlay to an Apple TV can have mixed results" for iOS 7-powered devices. In my case, "mixed results" means "wouldn't work at all." I can stream the crackling fire just fine, but adding my own music causes the app and my Apple TV to stop speaking to one another. While that may be a nice recreation of many family gatherings over the holidays, it's not what I'm looking for in a festive app.
Ah, but before you cancel Christmas—or hope for a last-minute update to A Very Cozy Fireplace—I found a workaround that just might save the holiday. If you've got an old iOS device lying around that you've not yet updated to iOS 7, AirPlay streaming on A Very Cozy Fireplace works as intended. I dug into my personal Isle of Misfit Toys for an aging iPhone with a cracked screen; it's not much on looks, but it's still running iOS 6, so I'm able to enjoy a roaring fire and my own music on my Apple TV courtesy of A Very Cozy Fireplace, just like Fred M. Thrower would have wanted.
This article updates a previous post with the most recent information as of December 23, 2013.

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I Don't Like Lyrics
Girls that don't do girls,
Dick in her mouth, bitch eatin' her out,
That's that shit my girl like
I'm layin' back with my feet up, bad bitch D cups
All I had was one molly, she took half: prenup
I just licked my thumb and thumbed through that pussy like a catalog
All my niggas wanna fuck, and she gon let us like a salad bar
Yeah that's right, real shit, murderer, I kill kill
Cash Money, cash cow that never cry over spilled milk
I'm way high on the highway, my girl call to get my lies straight
That machine gun go "brrrrr" like I got that bitch on vibrate
Niggas think they hot, I cut off the hand they fan with
Call me DMX, cause I keep me a bad bitch
T called some of them hoes up, Marley G roll up
I'm gettin' bread like cold cuts, she suck dick till her nose run, yeah
A rich nigga that that shit they don't like
All you niggas pussies, none of you pussies tight
Gettin' head while I drive make me run lights
These hoes wanna ride my dick you gotta hitchhike
No lie, I'm fuckin' bitches and gettin' paid
She suck my dick for 60 seconds and swallow all my Minute Maid
No lie, I'm gettin' paid and fuckin' bitches
The Feds on me, gotta switch plates:
In the streets we call that washin' dishes
Left hand on that steering wheel, right hand on the nine-milly
T-roll my blunt long as a lifespan then I kill it
Eatin' pussy, tongue kissin' and all that
She ridin' a nigga so fast, my dick feel like it's been carjacked
Two guns drawn, art class, what that is that's y'all ass
Mo money, mo money, we gettin' mo like tall grass
We are not one and the same
Blood is the game, it run in my veins
I bagged your bitch then fuck her
Now come get your bitch from baggage claim, nigga!
Dr. Carter, fuck her harder
All my homies bald, nigga
And guess what? I'm the barber
I'm too high; if I come down my fat pocket's my shock absorber
Like Hank Gathers I'm a diaballer,
You flamin' faggots put him out with water
Ugh! See that's that shit I don't like
Knock off your whole left side, now you all right
Yeah white diamonds, Vanilla Ice
My nigga Tunechi, yeah that nigga nice
Dedication 4, ho (My nigga Tunechi, yeah that nigga nice)
CB fuck with
Singer(s): Lil Wayne
Movie/Album: Dedication 4
Year: 2012


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New needle guidance solution helps make central venous catheter procedures "point-and-shoot" simple to improve care quality and reduce healthcare costs
BOTHELL, WA (September 13, 2012) – Sonosite, Inc., a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation and the world leader and specialist in bedside and point-of-care ultrasound, today announced a partnership with Soma Access Systems LLC to bring AxoTrack™ needle visualization technology to market on Sonosite ultrasound systems. This innovative technology combines traditional ultrasound imaging with advanced magnetics to provide clinicians with a real-time update of the needle position that can be visualized as it travels through tissue to its intended target. This capability is ideal for placing central venous catheters (CVC) as clinicians try to quickly gain vascular access while avoiding critical structures.1
The AxoTrack Solution
"The integration of AxoTrack technology into Sonosite's product portfolio will help to address the 'multi-tasking' challenges faced by many clinicians during the performance of CVCs," said Kevin M. Goodwin, Sonosite's President and CEO. "Avoiding the lung while coordinating the needle and ultrasound probe during these procedures can be difficult. Pre-existing health conditions, like low blood pressure, create a greater patient risk. AxoTrack's proprietary needle guidance capabilities coupled with its 'point-and-shoot' simplicity help clinicians follow the needle position and make confident decisions to successfully complete these procedures. Based on the overwhelmingly positive response already from physicians across the globe, we believe that AxoTrack will advance the practice of ultrasound-guided CVCs, improving patient outcomes, and will ultimately reduce costs from complications like pneumothorax."
This revolutionary technology engineered by Soma is intended to improve the safety and accuracy of central venous access by providing clinicians with specific, real-time knowledge of the needle location throughout an entire procedure. An in vitro study using AxoTrack resulted in vascular access procedures that were successful on the first pass and first stick 99.3% of the time versus just 37.1% of the time when compared to the standard freehand method for ultrasound-guided central venous access.2
"AxoTrack represents a major advance in needle guidance for medical procedures. Our patented technology, engineered during eight years of research and development, is designed to improve the safety of CVCs. We also believe that it will enhance the quality of care for a broad range of other needle-guided procedures, like biopsy, nerve block, cyst aspiration, arthrocentesis, thoracentesis and paracentesis," said M. Dexter Hagy, President and CEO of Soma Management LLC. "We are proud to partner with Sonosite to bring AxoTrack to market as we work together to help make healthcare safer, simpler and more cost effective." Sonosite will be featuring the AxoTrack technology this fall in its booth at the American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP) Scientific Assembly in Denver, October 8-11, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual conference in Washington, D.C., October 13-17, and the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) annual conference in Atlanta, October 20-25.
For more information regarding AxoTrack technology, including videos and images, visit https://www.sonosite.com/announcements/soma-access-systems.
About Sonosite
Sonosite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com), a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation, is the innovator and world leader in bedside and point-of-care ultrasound and an industry leader in ultra high-frequency micro-ultrasound technology and impedance cardiography equipment. Headquartered near Seattle, the company is represented by ten subsidiaries and a global distribution network in over 100 countries. Sonosite's small, lightweight systems are expanding the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high-performance ultrasound to the point of patient care.
About Soma Access Systems
Soma Access Systems LLC was co-founded by Stephen F. Ridley, MD and M. Dexter Hagy in 2004 as a medical technology company that develops innovative devices to solve real-world medical problems while making healthcare safer, simpler and more cost effective. Visit www.SomaAccessSystems.com for more information about Soma Access Systems LLC and AxoTrack.
1AxoTrack™, AxoTrack™ Needle Guidance Solution, and AxoTrack™ Needle Guidance Technology are trademarks of Soma Access Systems LLC. The AxoTrack™ Needle Guidance Technology has been cleared under FDAi 510(k) K113680 and K112953. Sonosite AxoTrack-equipped ultrasound probes require 510(k) clearance and are not commercially available in the U.S.A.
2Ferre, R.M., et al. The Use of a Novel Device Improves Real‐Time Ultrasound Guided IV Access. Supplement to Annals of Emergency Medicine, Sept. 2010; 56:3:S74.
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For more information contact:
Lisa Fritzky, Sonosite, Inc., a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation
Valerie Pascoe, Soma Access Systems
Hughes Agency


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Marguerite Bay and Mount Liotard under the midnight sun, Antarctica
Wandering around at night when I should probably have been sleeping...
Young elephant seal on Adelaide Island, Antarctica
Kelp Gull and Jenny Island at midnight. Marguerite Bay, Antarctica
Dufek Massif, Antarctica
Adelie Penguins, Adelaide Island, Antactica
Carl Alvey and Emma Kelty on the way to South Pole, Antarctica
Still working under the midnight sun. Hot water ice drilling at 'Tango' site, Filcher Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Mike Bertrand dislodging frozen skis, Theils Depot, 85º, Antarctica
Ice cliffs by Rothera, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
Icebergs in twilight, Marguerite Bay, Antarctica
Ice ripples in the Rambo Nunataks, Pensacola Mountains, S85º, Antarctica
Shot from 8000ft in a Twin Otter... hanging the camera out the co-pilot window...!
Icebergs under the midnight sun, Marguerite Bay, Antarctica
Adelie Penguin, Adelaide Island, Antactica
Elephant seals on Adelaide Island, Antarctica
Iceberg under the midnight sun, Marguerite Bay, Antarctica
Refuelling at Theils Depot, S85º, Antarctica
Juvenile Skua on Adelaide Island, Antarctica
DeWitt Nunatak, Pensacola Mountains, S85º, Antarctica
Rothera station at sunset, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
DC-3 at Theils Depot, S85º, Antarctica
Aerial view of camp at Theils Depot, 85º, Antarctica
Mike Bertrand servicing a Twin Otter at Theils Depot, S85º, Antarctica


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BEM Coordination Office – Operational Integration Management at RWTH Aachen
in accordance with Section 167, Paragraph 2, Social Code IX
BEM Coordination Officer Susanne Brütting-Behrens is happy to provide you with information about BEM opportunities during an initial appointment.
Operational Integration Management – BEM
- work
- +49 241 80 90436
- Send Email
Operational integration management, which is part of an employer's duty of care for employees who have fallen ill, is a service for all employees, who were either ill and unable to work for six weeks without interruption or repeatedly within the last 12 months.
The focus of BEM is mutual clarification of:
- how the inability to work can be overcome,
- and avoided in the future, and
- how the ability to work can be maintained long term.
The goal is to maintain and protect the workplace!
In order to present the BEM procedure and to answer questions, we would also like to visit the chairs or departments.


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June 2022
The sites recently ran out of disk storage at the hosting tier we were using, so had to upgrade to the next more-expensive level. Sigh.
I've been trying to figure out how to arrange things so a bit of how I make a living could reliably come from these sites. There is a lot to do to make things shipshape. I am considering starting a Patreon to try and solicit more donations, but I don't have a clear idea of what benefits would accrue to patrons. Perhaps detailed searching becomes a perk, or the ability to see more than a certain number of photos in a particular time period...
In any case, many thanks to those who have donate--and if you can consider doing so, it really does help!
January 2022
Hosting bills and domain bills are coming due, so anything you can spare would help a lot.
Noting much to report, my recovery (physical, not financial!) from my stroke has gone as well as could be hoped. Wishing all of you a prosperous and healthy 2022!
I would be amiss if I didn't thank Paul S. here for all of the work he has put in on these sites over the years. Many thanks, Paul, the sites would be shadows of themselves without your stewardship.
May 2021
A few things have been happening, not all good. I had a stroke in April and am now facing daunting medical bills, so donations very gratefully received! Thank you to all who donate!
We had a site outage on May 11 which hopefully will be resolved by the time you read this. If not, I'm busy trying to apply band-aids!
January 2020
Welp, 2019 came and went without a ton of progress on the codebase. Part of that is that donations are essentially non-existant, I think there were three or four total in 2019 (!). If you enjoy these sites and use them frequently, considering throwing a few dollars my way, or even set up a recurring payment of a few dollars per period of your choice. It really helps, both in the pocketbook and motivationally.
You can use the donate button in the left nav bar--thank you!
October 2018
If you're reading this, I've swapped the sites over to an interim code-base, which at least won't die in the middle of the night like the previous version did. (Unless--until?--I make a typo somewhere, of course).
If you're seeing "collectordata" in your browser bar, using that domain allowed me to build this interim version, without taking the sites offline for weeks.
Even if you are "stuck" on "collectordata" (for example, "xk.collectordata.com"), the various "bespoke" domains ("xkdata.com", to continue the example) will still bring you here when typed into your browser, and any links you have bookmarked should still work just fine.
In other words, "xkdata.com" is exactly the same site as "xk.collectordata.com".
So What Happened?
I originally coded these sites in the early 2000s, and life has kept me from updating them much in the past 15 years--a lifetime in the world of web-servers. Well, that finally caught up to me. (Just to give you an idea of how time-intensive this process is, I have well over 100 hours invested just in updating the sites from that "oh crud!" moment to this "it pretty much looks the same" version--a version which assuredly has bugs lurking in the corners...)
To put that in perspective, I write code similar to this for a living (such as it is), and my professional rate is about that of your favorite mechanic or painter. So it's a significant investment. (Thanks to those who clicked the "make a donation" button after the recent outage! You can find it in the left nav-bar.)
Small Improvements
- Searches should work accurately again.
- The photo uploader should be a lot easier to use.
- You can view more than one week's worth of updates on the "This Week" page.
- The comments form now has a small editor, allowing some formatting without using codes.
- Nearly everything should be a bit more readable.
- There are a lot of improvements in the code, so site might be a bit faster
That said, there are undoubtedly still bugs lurking, let me know what you stumble across.
Future Plans
I will probably need to put in another similar chunk of time to convert these sites to a thoroughly modern base, taking advantage of the tools I work with "for reals" every day. I hope to accomplish that...soon?
That should bring some nice new features for you, faithful site users, which will be most-evident in a mobile-friendly format finally being available, but there will be additional improvements, some visible, some not. I have a long list of "cool" stuff I've wanted to build and maybe a bit of that can come to pass...but I absolutely need to get the sites to pay for themselves a bit more. I would love for this to be a "job", but despite what they promised us in the 1990s, that is unlikely to happen.
(Even if I don't spend any "quality time" working on the sites in any given month, they cost a chunk of change just to pay for space and hosting.)*
So I think we will be moving to some sort of membership/subscription model for the sites. I don't plan on hiding anything, per se, but if you are not a subscriber you may only be able to do a certain number of things per [fill in unit of time] or have restricted search parameters or...as I'm noodling this idea, my aim will be to keep the sites usable for the folks visiting for free, but try to provide an incentive to pitch in a bit to help keep the sites going.
Subscriptions, if and when they arrive, will be modest in cost, though there may be some tiers (mainly to offer a show of support). I may also pursue some advertising; if I do it will be topical. My tentative advances in the past, to various well-known businesses in our hobby, made it pretty clear that there was not a rich vein to be mined there. Maybe that has changed, but...
If and when these changes approach, I'll throw another missive up here explaining how I think it's going to work.
Caveat Emptor
So there we have it. I am a terrible correspondent--but I do read all of my email, so if you want to share your thoughts, please drop me a line--it will be read and appreciated. Unless you call me an arse...I mean, I already know that.
P.S. I set a "cookie" when you bopped in here, so the bright red notification in the top bar should be quieted...for now!
* To forestall suggestions about hosting: I know there may be cheaper hosting out there, but the thought of the headache--let alone time--involved in moving this site to save a few dollars per month, with all its gigabytes of data and files...I'm going to go have a lie-down


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Nevada has already started licensing driverless cars. California is right behind them, albeit with a few more caveats (big off switches, etc). This is just the beginning, of course. Driverless cars are absolutely coming, and in many ways this is the biggest advancement in motoring since the cupholder and 8-track combined.
For many people, a driverless car will be the first real robot they'll ever own and a return to having self-aware transportation like we've had for a big chunk of human existence.
I actually think this is such a big deal to us as gearheads that I'll be exploring what this means in a series of posts — I don't think one is going to do this justice. It has the potential to radically change how we interact with our cars, the way cars are viewed in our society, and the entire culture of automotive enthusiasts.
I'm not an alarmist, and, despite my personal choice of cars, no luddite. Change isn't always bad, but it is change. Right now, we're at the very beginning of this new era for cars, and now is the time to define a place and ethos for those of us who truly love cars, and love driving them.
Lets get this started by really thinking about what it will mean to have an autonomous self-driving car. For the sake of our thought-experiments, let's assume it's, oh, 2025, when most companies seem to agree we'll definately have self-driving cars being sold regularly. If it helps, you can also imagine you're wearing a silver jumpsuit and eating pizzas-in-pills, too.
Here's the strange thing to realize: in many ways, having a self-driving car will represent a sort of step backwards. See, pretty much since Dr. (posthumously granted) Ulngh the caveman invented the wheel, every means of personal conveyance have been powered by a reasonably self-aware being. Maybe not capable of writing poetry or helping you pick out drapes, but certainly what we'd call "autonomous." Horses, yaks, donkeys, llamas, camels, tigers, all those. The bicycle is sort of an exception, since, being human-powered, it's more of an extension/enhancement to our own locomotive abilities.
This period of relying on an aware being to get us around ends with the dawn of the automobile. I'm not counting trains because I'm talking about personal transport here, and, really, if we begin cars with the late 1700s/ early 1800 steam-powered experiments, it's essentially the same time. So if we go back to autonomous vehicles, cars as we know them may end up being a curious blip in the continuum of human transportation.
We already anthropomorphize our cars, we give them names, and I don't know a car person who doesn't feel that their car has moods, of sorts. How are we going to react to our cars when they make their own decisions? The sufficiently complex software and systems are likely to, at least occasionally, produce minor unexpected results that we won't help but try and interpret as a personality. Different companies may program slightly different throttle mapping behaviors, or levels of speed deemed comfortable for a given turn, etc. That means car companies will have a particular character for how their cars act, much like how different companies have particular traits about how their cars drive today.
Personally, I think the average person's relationship with their car will get more complex, and, in some ways, dependent. Present day driving is the act of piloting a machine — in the best cars, it can feel like an extention of your own body. It amplifies and enhances your actions, your choices, good or bad. An autonomous car necessarily makes you a passenger. You're giving up control to the machine, and as a result will be forced to be more dependent on the car. Will our relationship resemble a wealthy dowager and her chauffeur, or a man and his trusted horse?
The key is there's now another being in the equation. Current cars are yours in the sense that you, the driver, control it. A car you don't control you may own, but it'll never be an extension of you.
And here's something else exciting to consider: autonomous cars will likely be the first actual, genuine robot people will own. I mean beyond the little electronic trilobites that half-assedly vacuum some of our homes. A real robot, a computer that process the real world and affects it physically back. We're calling them "cars" but make no mistake: those Google Prii are robots, zipping up and down Lombard street.
And that realization, that cars are becoming robots we ride in, is sort of the crux of all this. While I'm sure (at least at first, and perhaps for a long while) a human will be required to sit in the drivers' seat as a failsafe, I can foresee the day when even that precaution is deemed unnecessary, and cars really become little mobile robot transport rooms. At that point, owning a car is a very different thing than what it is now, and driving for the sheer joy of it will become something more like what horseback riding is today.
The physical act of driving itself may become something solely for enthusiasts or classic-car eccentrics. Perhaps people will still learn how to drive in case of emergencies, though perhaps not. Will companies still produce human-driven cars? Will there be a split in the market, with companies producing autonomous cars and others producing cars for driving enthusiasts? Without the burden of general practicality, this could user in a golden age for sporting drivers' cars.
If autonomous cars are expensive, as the first generations of them likely will be, it's possible human-driving may become a skill only retained by lower-income people and enthusiasts. Further down the road, as technology develops and economies of scale come into play, the situation could reverse, with cheap robot cars available and a premium placed on human-driven cars. In some ways, this mirrors horse ownership: in the early days of the automobile, only the wealthy had cars. As time went on and cars became cheaper and eventually ubiquitous, horse riding became a pastime of the rich. Is driving doomed to the same fate?
When most cars are autonomous, what happens to driving for, you know, the hell of it? Even people not interested in the dynamics of driving often just go for a drive, with no destination in mind. Could you tell an autonomous car to just "drive around?" What if you don't know where you're going, exactly, and you're just exploring? I suppose with voice control, you could bark orders to go left or right or slow down, but then I think we'd all feel more and more like wealthy old bitties mistreating the help.
And, while we're wondering, what about sending a pet to the vet in a driverless car? Or a kid to school? Can your car run errands for you while you're at work? Will new types of commercial spaces develop with fully automated drive-through systems? Should autonomous cars be designed with a standard for automated cargo loading and unloading? Could you send you car to get you lunch, and have it pay with your credit card data stored on it, transmitted wirelessly? The more you think about it, the more it becomes clear that moving people from place to place is only one part of what driverless cars can do.
Our relationship with cars is about to change. Not tomorrow, but sooner than we think. I'm generally the sort of guy that sees the tank as half full of gas, so I think, as a whole, the advent of the robo-car will be a good thing for lovers of driving. There will always be a place for those of us that love to drive, and love vintage cars. I'm never giving up my Bug or Scimitar, but the idea of a robot car sharing the driveway is a very engaging thought.
I'd love to hear what everyone thinks in the comments; I know I brought up a lot of questions, and that's kind of the point. Coming up, I'd like to explore what robot cars mean for the tuner market, and how car hacking and DIY work will have lots of new weird outlets. But for now, I just want to hear what everyone thinks about our new robotic car overlords.
And let's all agree not to get them angry.


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13 May 1997 EPA's New Standards Will Likely Do More Harm Than Good
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The Reason Public Policy Institute released a major report on Monday May 12, 1997 which showed that the high costs and economic impact of EPA's ozone and particulate matter standards will likely do more harm than good:
- The true costs range between $90 and $150 billion dollars as compared to the EPA's estimates of $6.5 – $8.5 billion. This would result in the average reductions in the real income per capita of $250 per year.
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- The EPA has vastly inflated the health risk from particulate matter. In November 1996 they estimated 40,000 premature deaths. In December 1996 they estimated 20,000 deaths. They recently "refined" their numbers based on reanalysis by Dr. Kay Jones to 15,000 deaths. Dr. Jones announced Monday May 12th that the EPA made additional mistakes and the number is actually less than 1,000 deaths per year.
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LONDON – The world has a new "Loudest Cat" champion!
The award for the loudest purr by a domestic cat goes to – Smokey!
Guinness says the gray-and-white tabby earned her place with record-setting 67.7 decibels. In a video on the cat's website, the 12-year-old, ordinary-size feline purrs with a sound akin to the cooing of an angry dove.
Smokey first rose to prominence in February, when her owner, Ruth Adams, ran a local competition for the most powerful purr. A community college recorded the purr and submitted it to Guinness.
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Plato and the England Riots
Plato argues in the Republic that the human psyche consists of three 'parts' or motivational sets, which exist - or should exist - in a definite hierarchy. First, there is the rational part which desires truth and reality and which should rule the psyche as a whole (and note how the rational part has its own specific, rational desires; it is not just a means/ends calculator, a Humean 'slave of the passions'). Secondly, there is the thumos, the spirited part which is concerned with the individual's position in the world and which desires honour, status and success; though it involves self-respect, this self-respect depends in part on the respect that others show us. Its role is to support the decrees of reason concerning what things and actions are truly honourable and constitute true success. Lastly, there is the appetitive part which desires food, drink, sex, material goods and the money that may be needed to acquire them; its role is to do what reason (supported by the thumos) tells it to do: Plato makes a distinction between 'necessary' appetites needed for the survival of self and species, and 'unnecessary' appetites, which are simply self-indulgence.
When all three 'parts' are performing their proper roles, the psyche will be in a harmonious state which Plato identifies both with moral excellence and with flourishing (eudaimonia is often tranlated as 'happiness', but 'flourishing' is more accurate). The good life is the rational life, in the fullest and richest sense of 'reason'.
But this internal psychic harmony is almost impossible to achieve in a degenerate society. This is for two linked reasons. Firstly, the individual will not receive the quality of education needed for reason to develop and be able to take control in the individual's psyche. And in the absence of rational guidance, either the thumos or the appetites will take control. Furthermore, the absence of rational guidance means that, whether the thumos rules the appetites or is ruled by them, it will seek to gain honour and success and status simply by doing and acquiring the things that the degenerate society values. And if the corrupt society values electronic goods and designer trainers, such items will be sought not merely to satisfy the unchecked unnecessary appetites, but the unguided thumos and its yearning for status as well. We all wish to count for something.
Nor is this all. Plato would point out that strong appetites for material goods, and such a strong belief that they bestow status and self-worth, are unlikely to be confined to particular pockets of society, to particular postcodes or socio-economic groups. These strong appetites and beliefs arise precisely because people can see that this is the way status is acquired throughout that society as a whole. Plato would point out that there is, in respect of basic motivation (though not the law), little difference between the looting in London and Birmingham and Manchester and elsewhere, and the greed recently (and in some cases still) manifested by some bankers and politicians - greed which has also caused huge harm to the country as a whole. The bankers and politicians who behaved irresponsibly, and in some cases illegally (and of course that is a minority, just as only a minority of those in Tottenham and elsewhere were involved in the riots and looting), came from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. But whatever their origins, their jobs had put them, as adults, in a privileged position. A venal desire for short-term gratification is demonstrably not confined to any particular class, colour or religion.
Plato's response was to argue for a two-fold approach. There must, of course, be individual responsibilty and individuals must be held to account: one cannot use one's background as an excuse. But there must also be a willingness on the part of the whole of society to consider its values and the attitudes, actions and possessions to which it gives status. Each of us needs to consider whether we have, even unwittingly, helped foster the warped conceptions of value and status that currently obtain. We need to consider what we write, read and buy, the music and lyrics which we create and to which we listen, the programmes that we make and watch. Plato's proposals in the Republic (or at least the proposals he puts into the mouth of the character of Socrates) for the radical reformation of society are far too totalitarian and authoritarian for most of us to stomach, including me. Nor do most of us believe in the Form of the Good, on which he wants the reformatiopn to be based. But that does not detract from the brilliance of Plato's analysis of society's ills, and his clear recognition that, if we want to diminish looting and the abuse of our banks and taxes, we have to pay far less attention, and accord far less status, to the supposed 'goods' that such activities seek (I suspect it is unlikely that anyone stole a copy of the Republic). Our current predicament is not just a case of the unnecessary appetites run amok; it is a case of the unguided thumos run amok as well. Our society needs to scrutinize itself without flinching from some unpalatable truths, and then seek to renew itself, including its educational institutions, in ways which will allow for true psychic harmony to be achieved and maintained. As long as rewards and status are given, and can so clearly be seen to be given, to selfishness and greed, we cannot pretend that the riots are nothing to do with us.


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sept. 8, 2015) - Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC)(BOTSWANA:LUC)(NASDAQ OMX Stockholm:LUC) ("Lucara" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the dates of its second exceptional stone tender of 2015. Viewing will take place in Gaborone from November 2 through November 11, 2015 with the tender closing at 4.00 p.m. CAT. The tender will feature up to twelve diamonds including the recently recovered 336 carat Type IIa diamond as well as an 8 carat fancy pink diamond.
William Lamb, President and CEO, commented, "The Karowe Mine continues to deliver as expected allowing us to have a second exceptional stone tender in 2015. The increase in bottom cut-off value to $1.0 million for qualifying diamonds for the exceptional stone tenders has resulted in less stones being available for these tenders but has increased the value for Lucara by allowing us to offer higher quality at our regular tenders. The recovery of coloured stones from the south lobe is very encouraging as no coloured stones have previously been identified from this lobe."
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Anyone for Red's barbecued raccoon or some grilled rattlesnake?
Monday, July 2
Recipe: Easy All Natural Homemade Barbecue Sauce and a Delicious Book for Barbecue Lovers
Anyone for Red's barbecued raccoon or some grilled rattlesnake?
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And a happy, healthy safe Fourth to you and Joe, Susan, thanks for all the smiles and calories you provide on a daily basis.ReplyDelete
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Your BBQ Sauce looks delicious. I'm making BBQ Brisket, Homemade Ice Cream, and a Peach Cobbler for the 4th. I hope you have a safe and great holiday weekend.ReplyDelete
Yum! We are having bar-b-Q later in the week. Can't wait.ReplyDelete
Yummy! Hope ya'll and the critters had a happy 4th.ReplyDelete
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That photo is especially enticing! I just might have to check out this cook book.ReplyDelete
I love to grill and to use local BBQ sauce on it. We buy at the Farmers' Market, and we recently found a local meat market that also carries our favorite.ReplyDelete
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BC Greens leader Sonia Furstenau said her party would restore BC Ferries to the status of a Crown corporation if elected to government on Oct. 24.
She denounced the current for-profit motive while speaking in the Brentwood Bay neighbourhood of Central Saanich on Oct. 19 with the Mill Bay ferry as a backdrop and incumbent Saanich North and the Islands MLA Adam Olsen at her side. Furstenau said a non-profit approach toward the ferry service under a Crown corporation governance model would place the needs of residents ahead of profits.
In 2003, the BC Liberals converted the BC Ferries from a Crown corporation created in 1960 into a half-public, half-private company with the provincial government as the sole shareholder.
The provincial ferry system is an "essential" part of the provincial transportation network like roads and bridges that connects communities and generates "significant" part of the provincial economy, she said, adding later that the provincial ferry system needs to put a greater emphasis on multi-modality to help reduce the provincial carbon footprint.
"If we are focused on BC Ferries being a Crown corporation, then the goal is not to generate profit, the goal is to generate service," she said. "Our transporation is part of a service that government provides to every citizen in B.C. and every citizen should count on that service being as efficient, reliant, and affordable as possible."
Furstenau later denounced the general erosion of service levels, but could not give concrete answers to the question of how a change in governance would improve service.
"People are feeling less and less served by the ferry system, so what we need to get to is a place where people feel that this service is actually meeting their needs and serving first and foremost, and then we measure our outcomes, based on how well we are getting to that place where people's needs are being served," she said. "It's a shift in how we approach the question of our ferry system."
When asked again for specifics, Furstenau said the change would improve passenger-ferry service, reliability, accessibility and customer services in areas such as reservations. "We have to make sure that residents in all coastal communities can count on their ferries to serve them," she said.
Furstenau's call unfolded against the backdrop of BC Ferries suffering massive financial losses, which executives have blamed on COVID-19. Net earnings for the fiscal year of 2020 ending March 31 fell to $28.8 million from $52.2 million in 2019, losses that will likely see taxpayers help pick up the tab through emergency relief support. BC Ferries also carries debt worth $1.4 billion.
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Boehner buys Florida condo
Speaker John Boehner and his wife have bought a condominium in Marco Island, Fla., a tony vacation town in southern Florida.
The Ohio Republican purchased the condo in February 2014 for $835,000, according to public records filed in Florida. He put down $185,000 and took out a mortgage for the rest, according to public records.
"This area of Florida has been the Boehners' family vacation spot for many years, and rather than continue to put money into vacation rentals year after year, they decided to buy a condo," said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel. "Their home is in West Chester, Ohio, and will continue to be."
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Indeed, Boehner does spend a lot of time in Florida and has raised money there recently for the National Republican Congressional Committee. It's not rare for congressional leaders to buy vacation homes — many members of Congress are wealthy.
Boehner bought a unit in Marco Island's Tampico Condominium, which is described as "Cape Marco's luxury residence."
The building "rises 14 stories over the sugar-white shores of the Gulf of Mexico, offering spectacular gulf and island views from gracious terraces," according to a description on a local real estate website.
News that Boehner bought the condo was first reported by the conservative Breitbart News.


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Sophia Momodu Throws Simple Birthday Party For Daughter, Imade, Days After Rant About "Financial Abuse" (Video)
A video from Nigerian singer and DMW Boss, Davido's first daughter, Imade's 8th birthday party has been shared on social media.
Imade Adeleke, who Davido shares with Nigerian businesswoman, Sophia Momodu, turned eight on Sunday, May 14th.
To celebrate her daughter's 8th birthday, Sophia organized a simple get-together for Imade Adeleke on the beach. The very simple party brought together Imade's friends, including her best friend, Tiwa Savage's son, Jamil Balogun.
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She questioned why a man would force a woman to take on his responsibilities because she chooses to move on and never look back. (Continue reading)
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"Asking A M0urning Wid0w To Submit Her Son For DNA Is Pure Evi.l"- Actress Mary Remmy Njoku Speaks On Mohbad's Wife
Nollywood actress, Mary Remmy Njoku has responded to calls for a DNA test on late singer Mohbad's five-year-old son to confirm his paternity.
Keep in mind that after the singer's death on Tuesday (September 12), his long-time partner, Wunmi revealed that they were married and had a child before his death.
This revelation surprised many social media users as the singer had maintained a private life and kept his personal matters off the internet until his sudden death.
Amid the controversy over the cause of his death, some internet users, led by controversial social media commentator, Very Dark Man, have called for a DNA test to be conducted after the singer's body was exhumed to determine the paternity of his son.
According to Very Dark Man, his wife is also a suspect until proven otherwise, therefore, a DNA test should be conducted to prove that she had no reason to harm the singer.
In response, Mary Njoku took to her Instagram page to criticize those advocating for DNA testing, calling their demand "evil."
She said that the late singer's wife is still grieving the death of her husband, who was her provider and protector, and she should be allowed to mourn in peace.
The mother of three added that the singer never questioned his son's paternity during his lifetime and therefore doesn't understand why people think differently today.
Her post reads,
"Asking a mourning widow to submit her son for a DNA test is pure
Evil. Haba!
She just lost a husband!
Lost a father to her child! Lost her Helper and Protector of over 10yrs! Let her mourn in peace!
if you can't support her, don't add to her misery!
Small money don enter now and we are asking for DNA test. Just because she isn't rich.
If her husband didn't doubt the paternity of his child, who are we to think otherwise?
Abeg make una no let the dead para for una o!
Don't frustrated his family!!!!
Let's focus on getting #justiceformohbad"
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"If I Diɘ Now, You Killɘd Me" – Alleged Audio Conversation Between Late Mohbad And His Wife Surfaces Online
An audio conversation has surfaced online that allegedly took place between singer Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, better known as Mohbad, and his wife, Wunmi.
There is no time stamp on when exactly the conversation took place, but the singer was heard complaining bitterly as he accused his wife of trying to kill him.
He accused her of acting and pretending to be sick while planning to use his WhatsApp information after she killed him.
Mohbad revealed that there was a particular article of clothing that he said he no longer wanted to wear for reasons best known to him, but she still put it on him in an attempt to end his life and he wouldn't tolerate it.
Screenshots were also shared during the conversation in which he continued to accuse her of killing him but did not reveal any details of their argument.
He wrote,
"If I die today you killed me, My life is fucked up, I'm saying this in advance, My life is fucked up, Ever since the NDLEA shii, My Health is bad, My Tommy is funded up, I do complain all the time
I will tell the whole world 0o, You should leave me alone when you stopped feeling me, Why did you fuck me, Now you pretending gO, You will pay for this, Only if there's no GOD, You put me to shame, You acting smart! You said you never loved me, But why did you stay in my life for 8 years Don't worry, Don't reply to me 000, If you k me you sha can't k my whole generation, My God will judge you, The whole world will know about all these, You don't know who you are fucking with I swear…Your whole family will pay for it, If not now later. Go ask your people again what to reply me with"
Listen to the conversation below,
"If She Comes Here, We Will Collect Everything" – Mohbad's Family Plots How To Collect His Properties From His Wife At His Gravesite (Video)
Relatives of late Nigerian singer, Mohbad, were filmed at his gravesite discussing how to get his belongings back from his wife, Wunmi.
Keep in mind that the singer died on Tuesday, September 12th, and was buried according to Islamic rites barely 24 hours later in Ikorodu, Lagos State. (Read Here)
While his grave was being dug, some of his relatives were caught planning on how to claim his properties from his 24-year-old widow.
During their discussion, one of the men asked where Mohbad's wife was and said she must "Drop Everything." In response, a man claimed that she shouldn't come to the funeral because they would collect everything the singer had in her possession.
An elderly man who was also captured at the scene added that there are children who earn millions of naira but cannot send money back home. He also warned the men gathered at the gravesite not to trust women.
Another man was heard complaining about where the singer was buried and said that the singer who owns villas is getting buried in a village.
It should be noted that Mohbad's marriage to his wife was made public only after his untimely death. The musician was apparently married to his partner of ten years, with whom he has a five-month-old son.
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Meanwhile, this video has caused a massive stir on social media, with many internet users condemning the family for discussing about the singer's properties just 24 hours after his death.
Read some comments as you scroll,
@biodun_OG wrote: "The family will make sure the wife doesn't gain possession of any of Mohbad's properties. I feel men should start preparing their will even at the early stages of marriage just in case something goes wrong."
@lacevine wrote: "They said they'll take everything from the wife. They were already talking about his wealth and properties and they've not even buried him yet. I feel so bad for the wife."
@akunwa_ wrote: "Going on a widowhood journey at that young age. I hope his wife has a strong support system cos widowhood brings out the beasts in everyone including those once who've been calling you "Iyawo" with all smiles."
@critiquecrib wrote: "Marrying into a civilized family, with educated people that have the fear of God and respect for humanity is key!"
@views09 wrote: "And the thing is even after collecting it from the wife, you won't still see the impact in their lives, cos they will squander the entire asset on nonsense, Not even the 5-month-old baby is a concern for them, not how to get justice for the person that died, just greed"
Meanwhile, an audio conversation has surfaced online that allegedly took place between singer Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, better known as Mohbad, and his wife, Wunmi.
There is no time stamp on when exactly the conversation took place, but the singer was heard complaining bitterly as he accused his wife of trying to kill him. (Listen To The Conversation Here)
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text: July 20, 2011 – Even beyond the recent news generated as a result of proposed iron mining development in Northern Wisconsin, mining is a hot topic in the state. Increased commodity prices for metals, which drive demand for metallic resources, as well as high petroleum prices driving demand for "frac sand" found in the north central part of the state, have propelled unprecedented interest in mining in the state. In fact, a mining company is poised to construct an open-pit iron mine in the Penokee Range, which stretches approximately 80 miles across northern Wisconsin and into Michigan and holds rich levels of iron-bearing taconite covered by thick granite. But the company has stated publicly that it won't proceed unless the Legislature rewrites mining laws that would delay construction. That could mean changes to the state's mining laws in the near future, and increased mining in Wisconsin. Dennis Grzezinski, an attorney with Midwest Environmental Advocates, Inc., said recent proposals to change mining laws "need lawyers involved to ensure that proposals are weighed carefully, in light of the long-term impact mines have on communities." Mining Law Symposium State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE will host a mining law symposium on Aug. 25 in Wausau to address the multitude of issues likely to impact Wisconsin lawyers in the near future. Click here for more information or to register. State Bar President Jim Brennan said lawyers who are already engaged in mining issues on behalf of big interests in mining and Indian rights, and general practitioners in the communities in which these mines are being proposed, "will need to be engaged in the issues as well." Each one of the effected and nearby communities has a lot at stake in the debate over mining in the state, "and it's not just about adding jobs," Brennan added. "The development of mining in Wisconsin offers a lot of opportunities for legal services that have not been available to Wisconsin lawyers in recent history," Brennan said. "Lawyers will play an important role in dealing with all the complex relationships and transactions that surround any proposed mining project, and need to be well prepared." Current laws and lawyer engagement Current mining laws developed in response to serious environmental problems left in the wake of mines in other parts of the country, and "the desire to avoid the residents and taxpayers of Wisconsin being left with the burden of those kinds of problems," Grzezinski said. But the issues surrounding mining are not exclusive to environmental concerns. Arthur Harrington, attorney with Godfrey & Kahn S.C. in Milwaukee, says mining "brings issues of real estate law, municipal law, environmental law, Indian law and governmental relations." "This is a tough economy for lawyers, and we need to get out in front of the issues and ensure that we're providing training for lawyers on the areas of law that are issues now," he added. According to Harrington, opportunities for Wisconsin lawyers related to mining issues include: Knowledgeable municipal attorneys are needed to address the permitting required from the town and county where mining is proposed. Real estate attorneys are needed to assist property owners of the land and mineral rights involved extract maximum value for the rights sought by developers. Adjoining landowners and other area residents who raise concerns about adverse impacts from the mining projects need skilled lawyers to provide effective advocacy for the complex permitting process required for these projects. Mine developers need lawyers well-versed in the state, federal, and local zoning requirements. Business interests that want to modify legislation need lawyers skilled in government relations to craft rule and legislative changes to accomplish their goals. Environmental advocacy groups need skilled lawyers to assist them in protecting and reducing any impact from mining on the environment. To help Wisconsin lawyers prepare for the work ahead on the various mining proposals, State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE™ is hosting a one-day Mining Law Symposium Aug. 25 in Wausau. Deborah Spanic is a legal writer for the State Bar of Wisconsin.


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Arizona Muse maintains that there are "plenty" of models who juggle baby-birthing and having a job, but, when pressed by the Telegraph, admits that her pregnancy might have been a little different because she had a kid first and then made it big. "I think the others were established before they had children. I had a child and then became established, which I would not recommend doing! I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children." Muse, 23, is the single mother of a 3-year-old son named Nikko (who has already starred in a few fashion shoots). She started working as a model in her teens, but her career was not so successful that her old agency had any qualms about dropping her when she became pregnant in 2007. It took her over a year to get back to work. And Muse doesn't pretend that she lost the pregnancy weight in six luxurious weeks of newborn bonding, painless breastfeeding, and sipping on green juice.
"At first I was like, 'I'm going to be fat for ever!' I think we all feel that way after we have a baby. I threw away so many clothes thinking that it would be so depressing having them sitting in my drawer when they're never going to fit me. I got rid of my favourite pair of jeans, which of course would fit me now. You just have to give your body time. You can't have a three-month-old baby and think, 'That's it for me.' I tell mothers that you have to wait a whole year before you start judging your body, before you start working on it."
She eventually lost weight and got back to work, she says, because she needed to support herself and her son. Then Miuccia Prada cast her to open the Prada show, Anna Wintour dedicated an editor's letter to her, Freja Beha Erichsen started dating her, and the rest is history. [Telegraph]
Anne Vyalitsyna and that dude from that shitty band broke up. [Us]
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- Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani says, "I'm ready to do any kind of cosmetic surgery on my body. But for the face I'm much more scared. I have a lot of wrinkles around my eyes, but I'm scared that after I wouldn't have the same look. If I had to do something, I would do plastic surgery instead of injections, that's for sure, because you don't know what happens." She also hates purses, because that's what pockets are for. [WSJ]
- Dries van Noten says that as a designer, "Accessories are important, but not too important for me. I don't want to become a designer [whose] main business is in bags and shoes." He also famously doesn't advertise. "People will buy the clothes for the clothes and not for the label." [WWD]
- Van Noten spoke at a public event where he was introduced by Iris Apfel. "His clothes are artistic, architectural and completely ageless — thank God," said Apfel. "He's not plagued by trend-itis. He's fiercely independent and appears to be in complete control of everything he does — the design, the creation, and the distribution. Free from all of the hazards of the money-grubbing, trendsetting-plagued boardrooms, he has carved out his freedom to be his own man. Quite a feat in these days of sell outs and media freaks." [The Cut]
- At fashion school at the Antwerp Academy in the 1970s, van Noten's instructors would impart annoying wisdom like, "Jeans are for poor people." [Fashionologie]


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Catholic hospital reverses stance in case of Lori Stodghill, who died there
Her husband sued the hospital on behalf of his wife and their unborn twins
Attorneys for the hospital argued in court that a fetus is not a person
A Catholic hospital in hot water for claiming in a Colorado court that a fetus is not a person backtracked on Monday, saying it was "morally wrong" to make the argument while defending itself in a wrongful death lawsuit.
The flip-flop concerns the case of Lori Stodghill. She was 28 weeks pregnant with twins when she went to the emergency room of St. Thomas More Hospital in Canon City, Colorado, vomiting and short of breath.
She went into cardiac arrest in the lobby and died. That was New Year's Day 2006.
Her husband, Jeremy Stodghill, sued the hospital and its owner, Catholic Health Initiatives, for the wrongful deaths of his wife and their unborn sons.
Given the Catholic Church's belief that life begins at conception, defense attorneys for the hospital and doctors then entered an unusual argument.
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They said that under state law, an embryo is not person until it is born alive.
The claim attracted widespread attention and criticism, which apparently forced the about-face.
"In the discussion with the Church leaders, CHI representatives acknowledged that it was morally wrong for attorneys representing St. Thomas More Hospital to cite the state's Wrongful Death Act in defense of this lawsuit. That law does not consider fetuses to be persons, which directly contradicts the moral teachings of the Church," Catholic Health Initiatives said in a statement.
It promised that attorneys for the hospital would not cite the Wrongful Death Act in any future hearings.
Stodghill has petitioned the Colorado Supreme Court to hear his case.
The state's bishops similarly released a statement, expressing support for CHI and for the Stodghill family.
"We join CHI in affirming the fundamental truth that human life, human dignity and human rights begin at conception. No law can ever mitigate God-given human rights," they said. "Each human life is a sacred gift, created as a unique and unrepeatable expression of God's love. Life is given by God, and the right to life is a fundamental good, without which no other rights can be enjoyed."
CNN's Dana Ford, Ben Brumfield and Kyung Lah contributed to this report.


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|Danica Patrick, left, stands with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, right, before the NASCAR Daytona 500 Cup series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. (Terry Renna/Associated Press)
Patrick's final NASCAR race at the Daytona 500 captured her career to perfection. She had photojournalists embedded with her, a hunky celebrity NFL QB boyfriend by her side, social media buzzing — and a crumpled Chevy towed to the garage that put a premature end to her race.
Patrick smooched her boyfriend and then kissed her NASCAR career goodbye when she was caught up in a wreck in Sunday's race.
Her final win-loss record was a dud: 0 for 191 in the Cup series.
"I hope they remember me as a great driver and that I was a woman and it was really cool to watch and be there for," Patrick said.
Her NASCAR farewell fittingly came on the sport's biggest stage — in front of 101,000 fans at Daytona.
Patrick was in good spirits as she approached her car that had been swallowed by mobs of onlookers and security guards barking orders that made it futile to find a spot near the scrum. She posed for pictures with her family and Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, who was all smiles in a tight blue T-shirt and jeans before the race and watched from the pits.
"Who's that girl with Aaron Rodgers?!" one fan cracked.
Funny, but all eyes at Daytona were on Danica.
She finished 35th on Sunday in the first leg of the ballyhooed "Danica Double" at Daytona International Speedway. She'll make a return in May to IndyCar and race the Indianapolis 500 before Patrick calls it quits on her racing career.
"When she first started at 10, I knew about two months into it, I told my wife she's going to change racing. I could see it," said Patrick's father, T.J.
Patrick was a driver at peace with her decision and ready to transition into the next chapter of her life.
She tweeted , "Ready to go!!!!!!" with a green heart emoji hours before the race. On Instagram , it was a photo of her eyes peering through her race helmet with the caption, "Going to have to keep my eyes wide open today in the race. These cars and guys are going to do crazy things."
Sure enough, Patrick was collected in a multi-car accident.
"I'm just sad that it ended that way," she said.
Patrick has moved on from both NASCAR and longtime boyfriend and fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Patrick and Stenhouse, once NASCAR's it couple, used to sit next to each other at the pre-race meeting. This week, the exes were kept separated on media availability schedules.
Patrick posted a photo on Instagram on Saturday of her and Rodgers with her family at the beach. She wrote "Doing Daytona with all the people that mean the most to me." The fitness fanatic and author of a workout book also posted a pic of rows of Krispy Kreme doughnuts with the caption, "pre Daytona 500 prep."
Her role as a female trailblazer will serve as her true lasting impact in racing.
"I want a storybook. I love to fulfill the storybook," Patrick said. "We didn't get to do that in the end, today. Hopefully, the whole career will stand for itself a little bit more than just the way it ended at Daytona."
Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron , the honorary starter for the Daytona 500, said she was cheering for Patrick . The 35-year-old Patrick is the only woman to start the Daytona 500 from the pole, lead laps in the race and is the highest-finishing female in the 60 years of the race.
"As a woman, that just seems pretty incredible," Theron said Sunday. "For me to be able to witness her last race, that feels very special. The girl in me is secretly obviously cheering for her. I just love that even my kids were just really impressed that a girl was racing cars today, too. I think that's such a good thing and we need more of that. Hopefully, we'll have more of that enter this culture."
NASCAR recognized Patrick in the pre-race meeting in honor of her accomplishments in motorsports.
Patrick never had a top-five finish for Stewart-Hass Racing. She never won another pole after her breakthrough at the 2013 Daytona 500. She never had much success but carried the flag as one of NASCAR's only true mainstream stars. But as results sank, so did interest in funding her ride. Sponsors bailed, cash dried up and she was out of a job.
The former GoDaddy girl took a final ride in a bright-green No. 7 Chevrolet, fielded by Premium Motorsports.
Patrick is as much a brand these days as she is an athlete. Her love life, Super Bowl ads and racy photo shoots all generated more press than her actual career accomplishments. She launched the clothing line "Warrior by Danica Patrick" after participating in the design process. She developed the workouts and meal plans for her book. Patrick is still a bankable celebrity and should have her pick of any future projects.
She accidentally revealed this week she'll drive for Ed Carpenter Racing in her final Indy 500.
Then she rides off for good.
At Daytona, dad had some final words of advice.
"I tell her every week go out there, I love you, have fun," T.J. Patrick said. "Once it stops being fun, then you need to get out. I think that's what it got to be."
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Inside The New Cold War: Washington Sets Its Sights On Ukraine
Meet the new (cold) war, same as the old (cold) war. Same same, but different. One day, it's the myriad implications of Washington's "pivoting" to Asia - as in the containment of China. The next day, it's the perennial attempt to box Russia in. Never a dull moment in the New Great Game in Eurasia.
On Russia, the denigration of all things Sochi - attributable to the inherent stupidity of Western corporate media "standards" - was just a subplot of the main show, which always gets personal; the relentless demonization of Russian President Vladimir Putin. [1]
Yet Nulandgate - as in US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria "neo-con" Nuland uttering her famous "F**k the EU" - was way more serious. Not because of the "profanity" (praise the Lord!), but for providing what US Think Tankland hailed as "an indicator of American strategic thinking".
Here's the game in a nutshell. Germany remote controls one of the leaders of the Ukrainian protests, heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko. [2]
"F**k the EU" is essentially directed towards Berlin and Klitschko, its key protege. Washington sees this going nowhere, as Germany, after all, has been slowly building a complex energy-investment partnership with Russia.
The Obama administration wants results - fast. Nuland herself stressed (check it out, starting at 7:26) that Washington, over the past two decades, has "invested" over US$5 billion for the "democratization" of Ukraine. So yes: this is "our" game and the EU is at best a nuisance while Russia remains the major spoiler. Welcome to Washington's Ukrainian "strategy".
The Ukrainian chessboard
US Think Tankland now also peddles the notion that the Obama administration is expertly adept at a balance of power strategy. To include Libya as part of this "strategy" is a sick joke; Libya post-Gaddafi is a failed state, courtesy of humanitarian bombing by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Meanwhile, in Syria, the US "strategy" boils down to let Arabs kill Arabs in droves.
Iran is way more complex. Arguably, the Obama administration calculates that through talks between Iran and the P5+1 - the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany - it will be able to outmaneuver the Russians, who are close to Tehran. This assuming the Obama administration really wants a nuclear deal with Iran that would later release the floodgates of Western business.
On Syria, it's the Russian positions that have kept the upper hand; not to mention that Putin saved Obama from yet another Middle East war. As Syria was a Russian win, no wonder Washington dreams of a win in Ukraine.
We can interpret what's goin' on now as a remix of the 2004 Orange Revolution. But The Big Picture goes way back - from NATO's expansion in the 1990s to American NGOs trying to destabilize Russia, NATO's flirt with Georgia, and those missile defense schemes so close to Russian borders.
In already trademark Obama administration style, the State Department's support for anti-Russia, pro-EU protests in Ukraine qualifies as "leading from behind" (remember Libya?)
It comes complete with "humanitarian" appeal, calls for "reconciliation" and good against evil dichotomy masking a drive towards regime change. Abandon all hope to find voices of sanity on US corporate media such as NYU and Princeton's Stephen Cohen, who cut to the chase in this piece, stressing that the essential revelation of Nulandgate "was that high-level US officials were plotting to 'midwife' a new, anti-Russian Ukrainian government by ousting or neutralizing its democratically elected president - that is, a coup".
Here the "strategy" clearly reveals itself as a US puppet now - coup or no coup - instead of an EU puppet later. No one in the Beltway gives a damn that Viktor Yanukovich was legally elected president of Ukraine, and that he had full authority to reject a dodgy deal with the EU.
And no one in the Beltway cares that the protests are now being led by Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) - a nasty collection of fascists, football hooligans, ultra-nationalists and all sorts of unsavory neo-Nazi elements; the Ukrainian equivalents of Bandar Bush's jihadis in Syria.
Yet the US "strategy" rules that street protests should lead to regime change. It applies to the Ukraine, but it does not apply to Thailand.
Washington wants regime change in the Ukraine for one reason only; in the wider New Great Game in Eurasia context, that would be the rough equivalent of Texas defecting from the US and becoming a Russian ally.
Still, this gambit is bound to fail. Moscow has myriad ways to deploy economic leverage in Ukraine; it has access to much better intel than the Americans; and the protesters/gangs/neo-Nazis are just a noisy minority.
Washington, tough, won't give up, as it sees both the political crisis in Ukraine as the emerging financial crisis in Kazakhstan as "opportunities" (Obama lingo) to threaten Moscow's economic/strategic interests. It's as if the Beltway was praying for a widespread financial crisis in the Russia-led Customs Union (Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus).
Pray in fact is all they've got, while the EU, for all the grandiose, rhetorical wishful thinking, remains a divided mess. After Sochi, Vlad the Hammer will be back in business with a vengeance. Nuland and co, watch your back.
1. Journalistic malpractice & the dangers of Russia-bashing, RT, February 9, 2014.
2. EU Grooming Klitschko to Lead Ukraine, Der Spiegel Online, December 10, 2013.