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Mark S. Berry is chairman and CEO of Toronto-based, Attack Media Group, a privately owned media and entertainment company, which includes Attack Records, Kidz Attack Entertainment, AttackTrax Music Supervision, Attackin' Tunes Music Publishing, Attack Filmworks, Attack TV, Graffiti TV, Overdrive Xtreme Sports, Totally Useless T-Shirts and Deevel Promotion & Marketing. He also knows the object of Carly Simon's pointed lyrics in "You're So Vain," but he's sworn to secrecy.
Attack Music Group artists include Anne Morrone (hot AC), Soren Carter (AAA), Stinkaboo (urban), Merlino (urban), Lexy, Manmeadow (pop/rock) and Assyrian/Spanish Bandoleros. In Canada, artists and clients are distributed through DEP/Universal, and in the States, go through Super "D." There are various distribution deals in the major territories worldwide for its CD and DVD content.
Mark, already an international record producer, formed Attack Media Group in 1997. His production and engineering credits include David Bowie, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Burton Cummings, Carly Simon and Yes to name a few.
Already the owner of an extensive music publishing catalogue which includes Malik Yusef, MDM and Lovecandy, Attack Media Group's mission is to target potential acquisitions in the music, film and television industries ranging from independent record labels, artists, DVD acquisitions, feature length films to purchases in the music publishing sector along with acquiring children's and extreme sports content.
"I have the responsibility of developing and executing the overall strategy and vision of the company," says Mark. "We control worldwide licensing and broadcast rights to all Attack Filmworks and Overdrive X-treme visual/audio content and have licensing deals in Asia, GSA, Benelux, UK and many more international territories on our CD and DVD properties."
Originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., Mark began his music career in 1972 when he arrived on the doorsteps of AIR Studios in London, owned by Sir George Martin. Working with Martin, he started out simply recording classical records in the different cathedrals around London and soon began setting up and assisting on various George Martin and Paul McCartney sessions.
The AIR experience led to his first major assignment: Carly Simon's No Secrets, which included the worldwide smash, "You're So Vain," and would be his very first engineering credit and number one single. However, this was only the beginning.
"I'd say the most amazing session had to be Live and Let Die, performed by Paul McCartney and Wings," he enthuses. "They had a 63-piece live orchestra in there. I felt like I 'd emptied every ashtray known to man before the end of that one."
The AIR tenure included Electric Light Orchestra, Procol Harem, Climax Blues Band and Deep Purple, and worked under the tutelage of renowned British rock engineers/producers such as Bill Price, Geoff Emerick, Chris Thomas, Jeff Lynne and Tony Visconti, among others.
With some celebrated credits in hand, Mark returned to the states in the mid 70's. He began freelancing in New York City at some of the top recording facilities like Electric Lady, Record Plant and the Hit Factory. In 1977, Mark was approached with the position of staff engineer and in-house A&R/producer for Vanguard Records (Joan Baez, Buffy Saint-Marie, Country Joe & the Fish) where he worked for more than nine years. While at Vanguard, Mark continued to engineer and mix projects for several of New York's top dance producers, like Arthur Baker, Eddie O'Loughlin, John Robie and Jellybean, and became heavily involved in the early 80's New York hip-hop movement, working with Soul Sonic Force, Alisha, Man Parrish, New Edition, Cameo, Kool & The Gang, Freeze, and many others. During this time Mark felt the explosive pulse of New York City street rhythms and his A&R skills directed him to discovering and producing up-and-coming dance acts such as Alisha, selling in excess of 2 million units worldwide.
In the mid 80's Mark moved into the area of 7" & 12" dance and rock mixing and re-mixing for major multi-platinum Grammy and Juno winners such as David Bowie ("Never Let Me Down"), Duran Duran ("Meet El Presidente"), Talk Talk "Life's What You Make It"), Toto ("Talk Talk," Theme from Dune), Cameo ("She's Strange"), Billy Idol ("Flesh for Fantasy"), Boy George "Livin' My Life" soundtrack), and Kool & The Gang ("Fresh") to name a few. During this time, Mark's ahead-of-the-times engineering and mixing skills contributed significantly to the international success of these acts.
In 1991, Mark moved further towards rock production and relocated to Toronto. In that same year, he re-mixed Glass Tiger (EMI) and produced the hit album Get Off for multi-platinum Canadian act Haywire (Attic Records). Mark also discovered and produced I Mother Earth (EMI), two platinum albums for The Headstones (MCA/Universal), a live solo Burton Cummings CD Up Close & Alone for Universal, another multi-platinum awarded production as well as the critically acclaimed Outer Limits (MCA/Universal) for Voivod, arguably one of Mark's most compelling productions with the 17-minute opus "Jack Luminous."
"It's just the sheer magnitude of the production with samples and crossfades piecing six vignettes together," he reminisces. "Remember, we didn't have Pro Tools backs in the early 90's."
The mid-90's saw the advent of the Internet. This got Mark to thinking that it was control of media content that would determine the future of the entertainment industry. With start up capital from a small music publishing company controlled by Canadian media giant Alliance Atlantis, he went on to release, via his own imprint Attack, some of the very records he was hired to produce, along with securing them insertions in some of the biggest TV shows and feature length films in the entertainment business. While creating quite a buzz with his new talent -- that the majors were as usual ignoring -- Mark was putting together international licensing and insertion deals for masters that he was involved with either as a producer, co-publisher or master owner.
Mark is presently at the helm of the Attack Media Group. Literally starting alone in his bedroom 10 years ago to a present staff of four, Attack's rock and urban record division has more than 50 masters that are distributed worldwide along with his film and DVD content. He has a long standing worldwide co-publishing arrangement with Cherry Lane Music in New York and has had music insertions in projects such as The Matrix Reloaded, Dawson's Creek and Coach Carter.
Currently, Mark has amassed 36 international gold and platinum record awards for projects he has either produced, engineered or mixed for Burton Cummings, The Headstones, Duran Duran, Pseudo Echo and David Bowie.
Experience & Advice
I've learned to use my gut and not listen to other people. There's no gray area when making records and picking songs. It's either black or white as far as I'm concerned. I've too often listened to other professionals in the business only to be misled. Only trust people that you know and love and above all, never believe the hype.
With regards to my business growing from my bedroom to downtown offices with staff, there have been plenty. The biggest is trusting people with administration duties when they aren't competent. Basically getting great staff that understands the vision has been hard to find. At present, we've a great staff that has the same international vision that I have.
What kind of artists do you want to sign to Attack Media Group?
Attack Media Group is a multi-genre company and we continue to search for artists delivering five-star performances and great songwriting. We want to sign unique talent who can produce results on the world stage. One of our clients, Bandoleros, has been securing license deals all over the world as a result of their unique blend of Assyrian and Spanish elements.
How do you feel about free downloads off the Internet?
At this point, downloads are a necessary evil that we must all deal with. Technology always wins in the end, and this has been proven over and over. My 11-year-old daughter does not ask me to buy a CD of an artist she likes anymore; she simply downloads the track. It's a singles business, and there's an entire generation that's growing up thinking that they don't have to pay for music. So, we must figure out a way to go to bed with these providers of music via the Internet so that we all can get paid.
What kind of tour support do you offer Attack artists?
Attack's focus has and always will be international. Canada is a territory that's less than 1/5% of the world record market, so it's essential that we go out and pound on doors to let the international community know who our artists are. Attack works with major managers and agencies worldwide. In Canada, we have the FACTOR system that contributes funds towards Canadian acts applying for tour support. Internationally, we get our licensees to contribute funds that will help in getting the acts overseas.
Are you still doing non-Attack projects?
Yes, I still produce three to four records a year with outside production clients and international labels. I just completed the Swedish act Manmeadow, and I'm off to Australia producing an act for SONY/BMG in April.
As one of the premiere re mixers of the 80's, is there a record or records you wished you had remixed since then?
Wish I could get another crack at Animotions' "Obsession" because it was all mixed so quickly while I was working on another album project in London, England, and Talk Talk's "Life's What You Make It" because Mark Hollis hated that I used electronic instruments on t he mix. He just wanted acoustic instrumentation.
What was your favorite remix back then?
"Sexomatic" by the Barkays and Stephanie Mills' "Medicine Song" because they worked so well on the dance floor with creative and innovative sample ideas. The Barkays didn't like "Sexomatic" when they first heard it and didn't want PolyGram to put it out. Jerome Gasper, urban A&R, took a copy to the U.K. and white-labeled it to the clubs, and it exploded underground.
How effective is MySpace as a marketing tool?
For me as a producer and mixer it's been a tremendous asset. It gets the company name out there worldwide and allows artists to approach me very quickly regarding production. I've received many producer-for-hires from MySpace. The only problem with MySpace is weeding out the talent.
First concert attended
Led Zeppelin, Chambers Brothers and Tribe at the New York State Pavilion at the old Expo grounds in Queens in 1967.
First industry job
I started with Sir George Martin and worked for him at AIR studios in London, England for two years. I graduated from high school and The Institute of Audio Research in NYC at the same time. Just basically up and left with a letter of recommendation in my hand from Irv Diehl, an instructor at the Institute, and walked the streets of London for two weeks until I stumbled into AIR. I asked an assistant engineer if I could sit in on an Alan Clarke session, who was the lead singer of the Hollies and was just coming off a number one single in the States with "Long Cool Woman." Every time someone needed a coffee, tea or cigarettes, I was their guy.
After coming to the sessions everyday like I was going to work, they finally hired me after an American record label had booked the studio. They figured stick the kid from Brooklyn with the American clients, producer Richard Perry and Carly Simon.
Career highlights
Definitely one of the most exciting moments was working with Carly Simon on the No Secrets album with producer Richard Perry and engineer Robin Geoffrey Cable. That album contained "You're So Vain." And yes, I do know who it's about but am sworn to secrecy! This album would become my very first engineering credit, and I would parlay that credit into a career in the music business. Working with Mick Jagger on the background vocals of "Your So Vain" was a high point. After that session ended at 5 am, we all went over to Olympic Studios where they were mixing the live 1972 tour tapes and doing horn overdubs with Jim Price and Bobby Keyes. I was in awe and 18.
While working at AIR I assisted on "Live and Let Die" with Paul and Linda McCartney and Wings, which was recorded live, off the floor with a 63-piece orchestra: Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton, who no one will ever hear due to contractual problems between the individual record companies, T-Rex; ELO; Deep Purple (Live in Osaka); and the list goes on -- an incredible experience at AIR. Sir George Martin was a class act, never raised his voice and taught me more about music in two years than any teacher did in 10 years.
Career disappointment
Didn't get my assistant engineer credit on Live and Let Die because I was just simply starting out at that time as a teaboy, and teaboys didn't get credits.
Greatest challenge
Overcoming the haters: people in the business who don't want you to succeed and relish in other people's failures.
Best business decision
Starting the Attack Media Group in 1997 in Toronto. It's been a phenomenal success for my production clients, publishing clients and the DVD side, which we started a few years ago. The companies worldwide that have supported our vision like DEP/Universal, Cherry Lane Music Publishing, MTV and countless others has been tremendous in the growth of the company.
Best advice you received
From Frank Sinatra while at the old Westchester Premier Theatre: "Success is the greatest revenge."
Best advice to offer
Never, ever give up.
Most memorable industry experience
Working with Mick Jagger on "Your So Vain" and then hanging out with the Stones helping Andy Johns mix the live 1972 tour tapes.
Favorite team/athlete
Payton Manning, Indianapolis Colts because he showed all the nay sayers.
Favorite restaurants
Ki in Toronto and the China Grill in New York.
Favorite hotel
The Carlton in Cannes, France, which is where I stay for every MIDEM music conference and Cannes Film Festival I attend.
What friends would be surprised to learn about you
That as a producer I'm always on budget and am totally approachable from indie acts to major label acts, and I cater every budget to every situation.
Industry pet peeve
The constant whining from the majors about the loss of market share. If I can figure out how to gross a million a year with a business model that has many avenues of income generation, then certainly the majors can figure out how to expand their business model. It's all about adapting and the majors can't seem to figure it out.
Office paraphernalia
My Hip-Top phone which keeps me in touch with my office and clients when traveling worldwide.
If I wasn't doing this, I would be…
...a lawyer.
Industry mentors
Sir George Martin for his patience and stewardship in my career; Maynard and Seymour Soloman, owners of Vanguard Records, who gave me my first break as a producer; Eddie "O" Loughlin for showing me how to mix a dance record; and Paul Schindler, my attorney and friend for the past 24 years.
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Bahama Buck's, a Texas chain that serves shaved ice, smoothies and others sweets, opened earlier this week.
It joins Habit Burger, which opened last week. This Santa Barbara chain serves "chars" and other grilled sandwiches. Distinctive menu items include teriyaki burgers and tempura green beans.
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Reports: Miami Dolphins and Mike Wallace have agreed in principle to megadeal
It had long been speculated that former Pittsburgh Steelers speed receiver Mike Wallace was on his way to Miami, and according to several sources, the Dolphins have indeed agreed to terms with the man they hope will greatly improve their passing game. Jeff Darlington of the NFL Network has been hanging out at the Dolphins' facility all day, and reports that pending a physical, the deal is done, and will include about $30 million in guaranteed money. Omar Kelly of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that the deal, believed to be of the five-year variety, will approach $13 million per year.
UPDATE: The NFL Network reports that Wallace will sign his contract at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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This adds to a Dolphins offense that was already buttressed in the long term by the five-year, $30.775 million contract with $12.5 million guaranteed. given to receiver Brian Hartline. With Wallace, Hartline, and slot man Davone Bess on board, second-year quarterback Ryan Tannehill should have all the weapons he needs to make a bigger splash in his sophomore NFL season.
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Selected in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft out of Mississippi, Wallace has developed into perhaps the best downfield target in the NFL, averaging 17.2 yards per catch over four seasons, 235 catches, and 48 starts.
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The team at Applewood Our House makes a conscious effort to fulfill the life of each resident, whether that means sitting with residents and listening to their stories, or encouraging them to set the table and participate in the various inner-workings of the home. At Applewood Our House, we also take residents on weekly and seasonal outings to promote independence, happiness, and fulfillment.
Applewood Our House is proud to offer a wide variety of activities, outings and events for all of our residents. Some of our past and most popular events are:
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Residents use this day trip as the perfect opportunity to get outside, experience the beautiful Colorado weather, interact with a wide variety of animals, and participate in various activities.
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The Applewood Our House Harvest Festival is an annual celebration to honor food grown and harvested on our land. We decorate our homes and yards and assemble baskets full of local vegetables and fruits. Residents and their families help harvest crops and enjoy the last days of fall together.
Every year, each home hosts their own Thanksgiving feast. Residents enjoy a great, traditional meal prepared by our wonderful team members.
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Train Museum
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This week sees the first release of my back catalogue: Doris Day, who depending on which source one heeds, turns 90 or even 92 in a couple of months time.
I anticipate the usual "Wet Hen"--the screaming loopity-loop who leaves little messages like seagulls with the squits, urging people, "Don't buy this one--buy the other one!"
Legitimate authors NEVER do this, of course. Doris Day UK and a very good biography by a very good US writer not only came out in the same month, by some strange quirk of fate they ended up having the same cover. Neither of us complained--we left that to the fruit-loops, and both books hit the six-figure mark because normal, rational, authentic authors do not attack each other, for whatever reason.
Most importantly, Doris Day herself liked BOTH books!
My loves, the customer is ALWAYS right! He or she buys exactly what they want, from where they want, and for how much they want. They don't need some ninkampoop ORDERING them what to buy just because THEY might not like what their so-called rival has written. When someone is told not to do a thing, in my experience they do the exact opposite. As is happening now. The customer and fan is never wrong, neither are sales figures. And for the critic who said recently that they would rather see a "good" book selling no copies than a "bad" book selling thousands--Sir, you are talking out of your posterior! Who in their right mind wants to write and publish a book that no-one wants to read or buy?
Normal customers, in tradition with normal writers, always welcome differences of opinion. The only person who knows/knew the star in question is/was the star. We all make mistakes. Fans have never seen me publicly criticise another author in the media, on radio or television, and certainly not within the book itself. This represents the unsavoury stench of amateurism. Fans never will. Neither will they see my boasting about my "wonderful work and wonderful life". Self-praise without exception leads to abject failure, and there are no exceptions. I leave it to the fans to decide whether I am good or not, as an author or as a person. When one author publicly condemns another author for his writing style and personal life, that author only reveals their ignorance, insecurity, and of course their lack of genuine talent and authenticity because desperation has caused them to attempt, but fail, to draw attention to themselves at the expense of someone else.
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Celebrating NYE and NYD in South Africa
New Year's is an event celebrated around the world. South Africans celebrate New Year's Eve and New Year's Day similar to Australians. Both countries celebrate the last day of the year with parties and fireworks and New Year's Day is generally spent outdoors.
If you're spending New Year's Eve in Cape Town you can ring in the New Year on top of Table Mountain. Pack a picnic and grab some friends and you can party until 12:30 a.m. This vantage point gives an unobstructed view of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront fireworks. The party continues on January 1, with thousands heading to local beaches.
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There are many popular nightclubs and areas to watch fireworks in Durban, Johannesburg and Victoria Falls to bring in the New Year.
South Africans love a good 'jol' and New Year's Day is a public holiday in South Africa, making it the perfect opportunity to celebrate the beginning of 2015 and recover from the festivities the night before.
New Year's Day occurs during the balmy African summer and is often enjoyed outdoors. The many beaches of the Eastern Cape and Western Cape are buzzing with locals and international visitors who want to start the year off with a dip in the ocean and relaxing with friends and family on the sand. This can lead to delays in finding a parking spot or getting a bite to eat along the coast.
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Many South Africans spend New Year's Day having a braai (barbecuing) with friends and families in the gardens, parks and beaches of the country (where permitted). The warm, sunny summers of the country make it a perfect way to celebrate the first day of the New Year.
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Lynn rider (+1) looking to tag along with some locals for a Sunday jaunt.
I'm on the Cape helping out my family at the Cape home show. Usually ride Hyannis Ponds to Willow St. & back plus behind the town farm, or ToT when I'm down here. I'd love to finally get a tour of Otis.
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Removing pulseaudio from your system:
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apt-get install gstreamer-propertiesStart gstreamer-properties and change the settings to ALSA.
So far so good. But the Adobe Flash Player will still be silent for using OSS instead of ALSA.
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Thanks to wishie for this great config!#Define the soundcard to use pcm.snd_card { type hw card 0 device 3 } # 6 channel dmix - output whatever audio, to all 6 speakers pcm.dmix6 { type dmix ipc_key 1024 ipc_key_add_uid false ipc_perm 0660 slave { pcm "snd_card" rate 48000 channels 6 period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_time 0 buffer_size 5120 } # Some cards, like the "nforce" variants require the following to be uncommented. It routes the audio to the correct speakers. bindings { 0 0 1 1 2 4 3 5 4 2 5 3 } } # upmixing - duplicate stereo data to all 6 channels pcm.ch51dup { type route slave.pcm dmix6 slave.channels 6 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 ttable.0.2 1 ttable.1.3 1 ttable.0.4 0.5 ttable.1.4 0.5 ttable.0.5 0.5 ttable.1.5 0.5 } # rate conversion, needed i.e. for wine pcm.2chplug { type plug slave.pcm "ch51dup" } pcm.a2chplug { type plug slave.pcm "dmix6" } # 'full-duplex' device for use with aoss pcm.duplex { type asym playback.pcm "2chplug" capture.pcm "microphone" } # for aoss pcm.dsp0 "duplex" ctl.mixer0 "duplex" # softvol manages volume in alsa # i.e. wine likes this pcm.mainvol { type softvol slave.pcm "duplex" control { name "2ch-Upmix Master" card 0 } } #pcm.!default "mainvol" # set the default device according to the environment # variable ALSA_DEFAULT_PCM and default to mainvol pcm.!default { @func refer name { @func concat strings [ "pcm." { @func getenv vars [ ALSA_DEFAULT_PCM ] default "mainvol" } ] } }
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NAGASAKI 1945 — Decision time had come. Do we invade the main islands of Japan or do we drop atomic bombs? There were strong feelings on both sides.
But most of our political and military leaders came down on the side of the bomb. America was heavily committed to the Manhattan Project.
It had cost $2 billion and had been run on a breakneck, two year schedule to be ready prior to the Japanese invasion.
We'd done it. The bombs were ready. As Robert Oppenheimer, the project's scientific director, put it "The decision (to use the bombs) was implicit in the project."
Japan also helped make our decision by assuring that an invasion would be overwhelmingly costly in terms of American casualties. Iwo Jima and Okinawa had been nightmares. Based on projections from those two battles, it was estimated that we would suffer a million casualties in the two years it would take to finish the job.
It didn't matter that Japan was already beaten. We had cut off her fuel and food supplies. We had wiped out her Navy.
All that was left of her once-proud air power were the kamikaze planes.
The kamikazes, however, couldn't win the war, but they could inflict heavy enemy losses. Estimates put kamikaze planes and pilots at 10,000.
In addition, Japan had developed a manned bomb, with a rocket engine and a pilot.
And thousands of kamikaze motor boats had been armed with explosives to further harass the enemy.
The Japanese again would fight from tunnels, as they had so successfully at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
And civilians would be used. Japan lived by the samurai code that would not allow surrender.
They believed that their bushido fighting spirit could triumph over any odds.
The odds were staggering. U.S. and Allied incendiary bombs flattened cities, killing 100,000 in a night and leaving a million homeless.
We'd already obliterated 65 Japanese cities.
Part of our million casualties from an invasion were an estimated 100,000 U.S. prisoners of war we knew the Japanese would kill before we could get to them.
They had done it elsewhere and they'd already begun forcing American POW's in Japan to prepare the means for their mass exterminations.
Some 900 surviving members of the New Mexico National Guard would have been among the 100,000 killed.
The invasion was scheduled for October. By August, U.S. troops already were headed for Japan.
Among them was a young recruit named Bruce King, who later would become New Mexico's longest-serving governor.
King admits to the relief he felt when he learned he would be on our occupational force instead.
Something else was needed to jolt Japan's military leaders to their senses.
Even though the atomic bombs would kill fewer than our nightly saturation bombings, the realization that we had perfected a super-weapon might work.
One bomb still didn't produce an unconditional surrender, so three days after Hiroshima, a second bomb was dropped.
The United States had a list of possible targets for the two atomic bombs. Those target cities were spared the incendiary bombing that other major Japanese cities received. Hiroshima made its way to the top of the list.
Kyoto was removed because it was Japan's major religious and cultural center.
Nagasaki wasn't the primary target for the second bomb, but weather and other factors made it the alternate target.
My feeling, upon sailing into Nagasaki harbor was that maybe it should have been removed from the list, too.
I've never seen a more beautiful city. San Francisco comes the closest. Nagasaki is even more hilly.
For 200 years, it also was the only port that the Japanese would allow visitors to enter, making it Japan's most European city.
But Nagasaki also was Japan's major shipbuilding center and was home to the Mitsubishi munitions complex, which was the epicenter of the bomb.
Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was the type bomb that was first tested at Trinity site in New Mexico.
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The Culver School Board has decided to take action similar to neighboring school corporations.
During last night's Board of Education meeting, members agreed to adopt a balanced calendar. The balanced calendar allows for shorter summers, but often requires more frequent breaks during the school year.
Culver Superintendent Vicki McGuire says the balanced calendar will also help with neighboring school corporations.
"It'll help with all the other corporations around here," says McGuire. "All the neighboring corporations, we can share services. It'll help with our vocational schools, it'll help with our special education, and it'll help with remediation."
Implementing a balanced calendar also puts Culver Schools more in line with cooperative and other vocational schools. The changes allow for more ease when comparing the two schedules.
The change adopted last night applies to the 2015-2016 school year calendar. McGuire says the school corporation shares students – and this helps with that process.
"We have students here that will go to Knox for some vocational program, or some students come here for our building and trades program, so if we can all be on the same schedule as much as possible, it's going to help our students," says McGuire.
The Culver Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the balanced calendar proposal.


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Music In 2510: How Will It Sound?
The other day, Bob and I were gazing out the window by our desks, watching layers of winter clouds glide silently by. (These are billable hours under the "inspiration" budget line.) Things got heavy pretty quickly when we began to ponder where all of this would be in 500 years.
The view from our office. (credit: Bob Boilen)
I figure it'll all be buried under a vast, turbulent sea, and that the only remaining life will be the gruesomely mutated aquatic creatures that slither beneath its oil-black surface. But Bob was more interested in imagining what music will sound like in 500 years. Here's what he offered:
"In 2510, music becomes the ultimate wallpaper. Every store and every building uses music as an identifier. Musicians write music for locations, venues, office buildings. It's Muzak's Muzak.
"Like so many awful things, this inspires a revolution in music. People get together underground with instruments made of string and wood, and voices altered by drugs, to make music much like the sonatas of the early 17th century. There is no audience for this music. Everyone is a participant."
When you think about it, music today isn't that much different from music 500 years ago, during, say, the Elizabethan era. It's still played on stringed instruments, with vocal harmonies and familiar melodies and chord structures. That said, I imagine that music in the next 500 years will become more and more amorphous and dissonant. We'll likely have machines that can produce the music for us, automatically mashing elements together so that everyone can have their own customized "songs." Musicians who compose actual songs with words and melody, and play those songs on vintage instruments such as the "guitar" and "bass," will be a novelty.
I love how the producers of the film Children of Men took the time to imagine what music might sound like in the year 2027:
What do you think? Look to the future and tell us what you hear.


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I had high hopes for Nocturne, the famous show-length monologue by Adam Rapp that begins with the famously chilling opening:
Fifteen years ago I killed my sister. There. I said it.
Schmader reviewed it last weekend. He didn't like it:
"Fifteen years ago I killed my sister." So goes the famous opening line of Adam Rapp's Nocturne, laying out the central fact of this acclaimed solo play and leading into a characteristically Rappian flourish: "I can change the order of the words. My sister I killed 15 years ago. I, 15 years ago, killed my sister. Sister my killed I years ago 15. I can cite various definitions. To deprive of life: The farmer killed the rabid dog. To put an end to: The umpire killed the tennis match. To mark for omission: He killed the paragraph… To slay. To murder. To assassinate. To dispatch. To execute. You can play with tenses. Will kill. Did kill…."
Thanks to Rapp's relentless thesaurian pirouettesthe linguistic equivalent of treading water, prettilyhis efforts are too often in vain. Saddled with a script so dense and flowery it makes Tennessee Williams look like a minimalist, Doescher is a winning actor in a no-win situation.
The thing is, I like Rapp's "thesaurian pirouettes"not everyone's, just Rapp's. I became a Rapp fan four years ago, after seeing WET's production of Finer Noble Gasses (reviewed here), a disturbing, funny play about a small group of strung-out, vacant-eyed friends living in a trashy apartment.
One of the actors (Lathrop Walker, maybe?) had to take an extremely long onstage piss. Marya Sea Kaminski Finer Noble Gasses and told me at the time that it wasn't a trickthe actor was actually pissing in an actual bucket:
"I think he drinks like a liter and a half of water before the show," Kaminski said. "He's got it pretty well timed, but tech week was hilarious—stopping and starting the play, his bladder was in passionate confusion."
(I'm not sure I believe her, but I will always love her for saying "his bladder was in passionate confusion.")
Nocturne was supposed to run for three more weekends but, after Schmader's review came out, actor Craig Doescher emailed to say he was canceling the rest of the shows, but didn't blame Dave:
… in SUCH an intimate space (25 seats), it is a REALLY hard show to give/receive, no matter how much finessing, and in executionno matter how well-intendedit just wasnt achieving what the show could and should achieve. A darn shame, but I see it crystal-clearly, and feel responsible for people who come to my shows, so I made the difficult but necessary decision.
I don't know exactly what that means, except no more Nocturne. And that Craig Doescher has a rare, valuable sense of responsibility for his audience.


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I spent a bit of my weekend at the PNE Forum, walking in what felt like a meadow of yarn and fabric. Each year brings bigger and better things for Knit Social, and Knit City 2017 was as awesome as I expected!
Part of what really gets me excited about Knit City is seeing everyone's projects shown off. Every person at Knit City was wearing a piece that they had made, from shawls to vests to sweaters to full on dresses. It's an amazing collection of talent and time and devotion.
I loved how normal it is for everyone to just set up their shit and go to town. There were tons of people just sitting down, eating hotdogs while they knitted. That level of mastery is something I would like to achieve one day. People who didn't know each other were openly talking about their projects and giving each other advice.
Another one of my favourite discoveries is sashiko stitching, from A Threaded Needle. It pretty much addresses my penchant for small, obsessive and repetitive movement. I was beside a gaggle of ladies who were all melting down from how cool the technique was.
One of the many patterns that caught my eye was this one called Hamilton by Josée Paquin. Of course, I bought the book.
And Heidi Kirrmaier, the other 50% of this book? She's a fucking engineer. All these amazing women with these backgrounds that totally break impressions of old women with teapots and aprons always make me so happy and proud.
And another stop I made was at the Pip & Pin booth, where I really got into this super nice short shirt called Mount Pleasant. I tried to purchase their lookbook, but apparently it wasn't for sale. I was forwarded to their Ravelry page, which had more amazing stuff.
Highlights also included me running into my high school Math teacher, Mrs. Robertson. Glad to report that she had retired ten years ago, and is happily weaving and collecting looms as part of the Greater Vancouver Weavers' and Spinners' Guild.
Lastly, here is the obligatory (but partial) photo of my haul. It was difficult to hold back, friends. And yes, I have more than one of each of those skeins.
On my way out, I said goodbye to Amanda at the Knit Social booth.
Amanda: "You're leaving already?"
Me: "I don't want to, but…"
I touched my bag lightly, which was already barfing yarn and merch.
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Over the course of three days, the Tarleton State University group built anti-erosion stairs into a hiking trail using local materials such as bamboo, constructed three wooden "Adirondack" chairs and a small table as part of a growing outdoor learning area at the environmental school, removed invasive species alongside Dominican women from the ecotourism association, planted trees, prepared tree-saplings for reforestation efforts across the DR, and helped the local environmental youth club build raised vegetable beds for their garden. During the entirety of these projects, the visiting students and local community participants both had to work on cross-cultural communication. Some improved their foreign language immersion skills; others relied on body language, humor and patience. Visiting and local participants alike gained a new appreciation for the people they were working alongside. The American students praised the local participants' ingenuity with local materials and tenacity despite lack of access to better resources. The Dominican participants were impressed with how friendly the American students were, and how they were willing to get their hands dirty.
On top of the actual projects, the visiting students and local participants had a number of other occasions to learn more about each other's culture, create bonds, overcome challenges and have fun. One evening the visiting students were invited to a live merengue concert along with the youth environmental club and staff from the environmental school. For most of the night the American students had a blast learning how to dance merengue and bachatta, two tradition Dominican dance forms. But before the night was over the Americans switched it up, passed the DJ an iPod with a few songs queued up and taught the locals how to "wiggle with it," and dance 2 step. Other notable activities were white-water rafting, horse-back riding, many games of volleyball, nightly reflection activities and snorkeling on a coral reef on a small ephemeral island on the DR's north coast. In all of these activities the American students and local participants had to come together and find each other's complementary strengths to overcome challenges and fears.
As someone who has been working intimately with the previously mentioned service learning projects for the past two years, I can say with confidence that the visiting group made a meaningful impact in the community where they served. They physically added to the ecotourism potential of the area, which will benefit both conservation efforts and local economic development. They contributed to biodiversity conservation and local environmental awareness. It's important to note that the funds that allowed the American students to learn and practice conservation measures also allowed local community members to learn and practice conservation. On top of all of these great impacts, I saw the Tarleton State University group grow together as school colleagues, open their minds – and the minds of the local participants – to a new culture, and nurture their desires to be agents of positive change in their home towns. To me these tangible and intangible impacts are equally as important. Both work towards making the world a better place for everyone.
The last morning of the Tarleton State University trip, the environmental school hosted a breakfast for the visiting students to say goodbye to the school staff and the young women of the environmental club. There were hugs, tears and lots of laughter as the group reflected on the varied landscape of the week past. Before departing, the visiting students were asked if they had any words that they wanted to share with their new found friends. The same woman who shared her aspirations of world exploration that first day in Santo Domingo walked to the front of the cafeteria. The tour director stood beside her to translate. She had come to explore the world, but her final remarks about the trip weren't about the exotic landscape or her first experiences within a new culture with new challenges. Her departing words were a re-affirmation of her own potential to make positive change in the town where she comes from. They were words of motivation, urging her fellow students to join her.


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LAHORE: Pakistan Super League chief, Najam Sethi has been elected as Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) unopposed Wednesday.
The election process of Sethi was carried out in the meeting of PCB Board of Governors at National Cricket Academy.
Sethi was elected new Chairman PCB upon completion of Shehryar Khan's duration.
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Discussion in 'TV Show Talk' started by Doug Brott, Mar 14, 2012.
Who brought it and who lost it? ...
Tough season to pick. I think I'm ready to pick my too four though.
Colton, Hollie, Joshua and Phillip
Jessica could sneak in because she's really good, but I have a feeling she's gonna falter.
I think Colton's gonna win it all ...
Why isn't there a choice of "I Don't Care"? :lol:
Yes...it's called don't respond and don't thread crap.
Phillip: Among the people I know, one complaint about PPJ is that all his stuff sounds the same. Several people I talked to last night liked that his performance show a little variety compared to his usual stuff. I agree... I liked it a lot!
Jessica: Bad song choice! Granted, this girl can sing anything and it sound great, but still... it was an off week for her! I'm really ticked at Steven for telling her not to sing an up-tempo song. If she sings nothing but ballads, she's going to get a lot of criticism for it (ala Pia).
Heejun: I'm sorry Heejun... I like you, and I like your voice, but between the breathiness and the worse than usual pronunciation, it didn't work for me last night.
Elise: AWESOME!! One of my favorite performances of hers and one of my favorite performances of the night. Add in the fact that while I didn't originally think she was that attractive, I thought she came off very pretty last night.
DeAndre: Ehh... I like DeAndra, but he's done nothing to excite me yet, and last night was no exception. I'm not sure HIS song choice was a good fit for him, but I think the judges steered him wrong with THEIR song choice.
Shannon: Not my favorite performance by her, but I thought it was good. Not great, but good... certainly a step up from last week's performance. I hated the HTC plug, and I'm disappointed in the judges for not knowing about the breathing thing will.i.am told her about.
Colton: Ehh... I think I knew the song, but it did nothing for me. I went away from his performance thinking more about how ugly/uglier his hair was this week than usual... and more so about the fact that his Mom was hot... especially when he was born (as well as the fact that Skyler, who I am a fan of, will probably look like her mom did when Colton was born in a few years...).
Erika: Sounded better in the studio. She was good, but it needed... less.
Skyler: It was decent once she got going, but not that great when she started. I'm not really a fan of hers, but it was pretty good.
Joshua: SUH-WEET!! Nothing much more to say...
Hollie: Not quite as good as Joshua, but still extremely good. Best yet... we know why she has an accent... though I still think she talks with an Australian (hey... we have something in common) accent and her parents talk with a British accent, so I'd like to understand that better, but...
MY FAVORITES: Joshua, Hollie, Elise, Phillip.
MY VOTES: Phillip, Jessica, Elise, Shannon, Joshua, Hollie
Who's Going Home?! (My Take): If I was going off performances, I'd say Heejun, but between the fact that his personality will get him some votes, and the fact that Randy stating he was in trouble will rally his fan base, he could very well be safe. Picking a virtually unknown song can hurt people, but I expect Colton to probably be safe this early on. Shannon COULD be in trouble, but I expect it to be one of the two Wild Cards... either Erika or DeAndre... probably the latter.
Here goes, in the order listed...
1. Joshua
2. Jessica
3. Phillip
4. Skylar
Of course the order is subject to change. Joshua's "botton-three" placement last week was, IMHO, an aberration, but it brought Pia (Season 10) painfully to mind. I hope we're not in for another "teeny-bopper" season.
I agree with the judges that Jessica is much better suited to ballads because of her vibrato. If she has any more bad nights...
I also think the Joshua had the "moment" of the night.
Replace Colton with Jessica, and you have my four favorites.
Talent wise, I'd say MY four will be the top four, but I think it's too early for me to predict. I could see Colton sneaking in, as well as Elise sneaking in if she manages to pick better song choices than she did last week... since she has a similar style as Haley R.
As much as I hate to say it, with a predominantly white rural voter group, I'd see Joshua and Jessica both having an uphill battle.
Lauren Alaina made the same prediction... Some people might have assumed she'd pick Phillip Phillip, Jr. given that they're both from Georgia (heck... Lauren's tour-mate Luke Bryan went to the same high school as PPJ), but Lauren grew up in North Georgia... far closer to where Colton lives than where PPJ does, not to mention that she and Colton probably knew each other from last season. Of course, she could simply think he's better... I'm just stating that I don't see why people assumed she'd pick PPJ.
Unlike your Scotty prediction last year (which I'm still mad at you about, regardless of the fact it turned out true), I'm not as offended by Colton, because at least his performances don't make me want to cringe, but aside from one performance by him prior to live voting, I simply haven't heard anything that spoke to me personally.
Not to mention that unlike last year where I (unfortunately) knew several people that liked Scotty, I don't really know any people who like Colton that much... heck, I know more Jermaine Jones fans than Colton Dixon fans.
If vocal talent doesn't win out (Joshua, Jessica, Hollie), I still see PPJ winning over Colton. Taking the WGWG thing out of the picture, PPJ seems to have a lot of the young girls votes... though it's possible Colton might have more. I don't know...
It's still too early for me to make any prediction I feel comfortable with. It's only the third week of live voting.
My hope is that it was an aberration, but while he's my Mom's favorite so far, and one of my favorites, of the several people I've spoken to, he's not one of their favorites. Interestingly enough, I'm hearing from them similar reasons for why they didn't care that much for Pia eek2.
I think she would have been fine if she had picked a better song for her. People were criticizing Pia last year for mostly singing ballads. She needs to mix it up...
I hope Heejun gets axed. I don't like him. Decent voice but ever since the attitude he showed during the auditions, I hope he goes home sooner rather than later.
WOW!!! :eek2:
My favorites: I think Phillip is really talented, and Hollie really surprised me last night. I thought Jessica was great last week but not so good this week. I need to see them more to know for sure. Colton is my final pick for my current favorites. He's different and the show needs different.
Phillip and Hollie were excellent. To a lesser degree, so was Jessica. But I think Joshua took the prize last night.
Colton, on the other hand seems to come from the rocker-dime-a-dozen club. IMHO he doesn't appear "different" to me. I think of Daughtry and Lambert and it sorta puts Colton into perspective... and neither one of them won either.
If Daughtry had won over McPhee, or McPhee over Daughtry, I would have been happy either way. To me... Daughtry was one of the greatest contestants that AI has ever had.
Lambert was also something special...
Colton... well, I wouldn't consider him in the rocker dime-a-dozen club, but I don't consider him "special." I think he has the potential to be... I just don't think he's there yet.
Ok, I let my emotions get to me... of course Colton has the p o t e n t i a l. He just needs to work at it.
I don't think Daughtry deserves the compliment you pay him. As for me, I can't come up with a candidate for best-ever contestant until I recover from a mysterious relapse of McPheever.
I'd like to be truly impressed by him... I just haven't been.
I said "one of". I'm not going to pick a favorite.... I'm a fan of multiple ones with different styles, different strengths.
Assuming he works at it, he may very well impress you some day ... just not in time for this week's elimination.
Wow, sounds like a tag line for Marvel comic books. :lol:
Finally watched it. My "top 3" this week turned out to actually be a "top 4"
Joshua (wow!)
Phillip/Colton tied
Looks like Joshua had a week like Jessica had last week. I hope being so good so early doesn't disappoint voters who expect that from them each time out!
Wow. Can't believe they didn't save
I thought it was a great "sing for your life" performance, especially considering the pressure that must have been felt while singing it. Judges are tough this year!
Also, I thought America got the bottom 3 wrong. I personally would have put Heejun and DeAndre in there, instead of any 2 of the 3 that were there.
The person gone deserved the boot...they were bad.


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At the conclusion of Iron Reef, top scores are displayed on a leaderboard as riders descend another set of stairs leading through the arcade to a gift shop themed to the new attraction.
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