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Be Wary When Partnering
Partnering with large companies is often the most effective way to grow your business. You gain a new sales channel, learn from those with more experience and knowledge than you, and add credibility to your business. Yet the path can be risky. Selling a potential partner on the merits of your business can require you to disclose intellectual property with no guarantee that you will close a deal. You can reduce your risks by taking several steps to protect yourself (see BusinessWeek.com, 4/3/07, "Tip Sheet: Negotiating a Partnership Agreement").
While not indicative of most partnership negotiations, this column follows the ongoing story of one potential match that went sour. I offer it as a cautionary tale for any business considering a partnership that involves intellectual property.
A Bright Idea
In 2003, Kivin Varghese, then a brand manager at Gillette, had a business idea: A Web site that would pay subscribers to view targeted ads. Advertisers could be sure that their messages were really reaching their audiences because the site would prompt subscribers to answer a simple question about each ad. And his fees would beat traditional advertising fees.
So Varghese quit his job at Gillette and spent the next two years building software and perfecting the business model (see BusinessWeek.com, 5/12/06, "Countdown to Product Launch (Part II)") for his startup, which he named BrandPort. He set out to design ways to prevent fraud, make the user experience fun and rewarding, and ensure the subscriber payment system worked effectively. He also filed several patents to protect his technology (see BusinessWeek.com, 2/5/07, "To Patent or Not to Patent?").
Shortly after his site's launch in the spring of 2004, Varghese was running advertising campaigns for companies like Procter & Gamble (PG), Coca-Cola (KO), and L'Oréal. By paying 25¢ for every 30-second commercial watched, BrandPort was able to sign up more than 20,000 subscribers.
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Buoyed by his success, Varghese decided to approach Virgin Mobile USA as a potential advertiser in September, 2005. According to a complaint that Varghese filed, this is what happened: Instead of simply wanting to advertise through BrandPort, Varghese says that Virgin Mobile's tests of his platform proved so successful that representatives asked BrandPort to develop a service that would offer cell-phone minutes for watching ads. Varghese says this meant he would have to disclose proprietary information, so he asked Virgin Mobile to sign an agreement not to disclose new information it gained for any purpose other than evaluating his offering. Both parties signed a nondisclosure agreement in late 2005.
Varghese says that he had several meetings with the Virgin Mobile marketing team and other executives at their offices in New Jersey during which he shared his experience and plans. And then in February, 2006, he says Virgin Mobile requested that he send more detailed technical information and a proposal to build a platform along the lines they had discussed.
After submitting his proposal and making a formal presentation to Virgin Mobile management, Varghese says they stopped returning his calls and e-mails. Three months later, he was shocked to see a press release titled "Earn Airtime in Your Spare Time - Virgin Mobile USA Customers 'Ad' Airtime in Breakthrough New Incentive Service: Innovative SugarMama Program Offers Airtime in Exchange for Viewing Web-based or Mobile Advertisements from Top Brands…" that announced Virgin Mobile would be launching a program Varghese found overwhelmingly similar to his business.
Varghese alleges that Virgin Mobile breached contracts, acted in bad faith, and misappropriated his company's trade secrets. On June 13, 2006, he filed a complaint seeking an injunction in New Jersey State Court asking for a delay in the rollout of the SugarMama Program until Virgin Mobile could prove that concepts and methods were independently created. Virgin Mobile denied Varghese's allegations and claimed that the user interface and advertising methods they employed were already in the public domain and that some of their core technologies were developed long before BrandPort came into existence.
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The judge denied the preliminary injunction on the grounds that BrandPort could not prove it would suffer irreparable harm, and a monetary award could compensate for any wrongdoing if it was later proven to have occurred. The judge's decision stated hardships would actually fall on Virgin Mobile "who would lose millions of dollars in advertising revenue and suffer irreparable damage to its goodwill in the eyes of its customers and advertisers if an injunction was issued." She cited Virgin Mobile CEO Daniel Schulman's certification that he conceived their advertising program prior to any meetings with BrandPort.
I contacted Virgin Mobile for this column. After promising that its CEO would speak to me, the company's spokesperson e-mailed me a statement saying, "Brandport's speculation that any confidential information was misused or that a non-disclosure agreement was breached are unfounded. Last year, Brandport's requests for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction were denied by the courts. From the court order [p. 15 footnote], "This Court notes that Plaintiff has not yet demonstrated that it has any valid trade secrets that warrant protection. You will also note that:
* "many of the similarities between [Virgin Mobile's] Sugar Mama and Brandport's proposal are in the public domain…[and] cannot qualify as trade secrets… [p. 10]
* "[Brandport] has been unable to successfully rebut these certifications or show that it has any likelihood of succeeding on a misappropriation of a trade secret claim." [p. 13]
The spokesperson's e-mail continued: "For more than a year, Brandport has been unable to identify, for us or the courts, any trade secrets which it alleges were misappropriated. In fact, Virgin Mobile USA recently filed a motion to compel disclosure of Brandport's alleged trade secrets. The Virgin companies were founded on, and celebrate, the entrepreneurial spirit. Successful companies, regardless of size, are often the target of unbased litigation. We trust the courts will continue to uphold our position."
Just the Beginning
But I think the Virgin Mobile spokesperson misses the point. The preliminary injunction is only the first step in the process. In my experience, most of the facts are uncovered in the next phase, the discovery process. And although the judge denied the preliminary injunction, the case is now in this fact-finding process. This means both sides are now required to produce requested documents and notes and to provide sworn testimony while they search for facts to prove their position to the judge. It is hard to know what will happen. At this point, the ongoing case provides a look at the downsides of seeking partnerships.
Still, this is not how most partnership negotiation efforts end. I have founded two technology companies and have negotiated dozens of successful partnerships and attribute my greatest successes to these. Most businesses that achieve success do so through win-win partnerships with others. But bottom line: My advice is to always be wary when negotiating a partnership agreement that involves intellectual property.


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I am reading, with much admiration, the blog recounting the efforts of the members of the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, a Soto Zen monastery in California, to cope with the wildfires currently ravaging the countryside. The blog is aptly called 'Sitting with Fire', and I am much struck by how calm and circumspect the reporting is by the team on the front line. We can all hope to be so serene in the face of our own, often far less life-threatening, crises.
Nevertheless, such calm in the face of adversity sometimes causes Zen practice to be stereotyped as cool and unfeeling, always still, dreamlike and lacking passion. In contradistinction, I'd like to draw a little attention to the Buddha's Fire Sermon* (Aditta-pariyaya Sutta), which for all its emphasis on temperance is, ironically, rather … fiery:
Monks, the All is aflame. What All is aflame? The eye is aflame. Forms are aflame. Consciousness at the eye is aflame. Contact at the eye is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye — experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain — that too is aflame. Aflame with what? Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I tell you, with birth, aging and death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs.
Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is depleted, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'
Does the Buddha say 'quench the flame'? No, he says, 'fully release'. The flames that burn give way to flames that liberate — practice is to learn to tell which is which?
The San Francisco Chronicle writes this of the 'fire monks' of Tassajara:
Zen practitioners here have long understood that fire is not only a part of the region's landscape, but also an integral part of their spiritual experience. The reason they're out there – to be in closer contact with the harmonious balance of nature – includes the fire.
"Fire is not a stranger," said Stücky. "It's telling us to be here in accord with the reality of fire … we're not really fighting the fire. We're meeting the fire, letting the fire come to us – make friends with it and tame it as it reaches our boundaries."
Schommer said the fire had strengthened his spiritual practice. Clearing the brush meant creating places where fire could not burn. He called it a parable to the mental practice of Zen meditation, where you clear the mind from external thoughts burning through.
"Before this, I was floundering," he said. "This has been an awakening for me."
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Agenda for a New Economy launched in New York City the week of January 18, 2009 at a national theological conference on Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability sponsored by the historic Trinity Wall Street Church located in the very heart of Wall Street. There were some 300 ministers, theologians, and lay leaders participating at the church, in addition to several thousand who participated in the more than 80 satellite video conferencing sites around the United States and the world.
My presentation made the case that the Wall Street financial crisis is at its core a spiritual crisis born of a violation of the biblical injunction against the worship of Mammon, the false god of money. I called on religious institutions to join in an effort to shut down the Wall Street Temple of Mammon and replace it with an honest financial system designed to serve the god of life.
Go to the home page of this site of view the video of my preentation. A print version of the talk appeared in the March-April 2009 issue of Tikkun magazine as "Spiritual Awakening: A New Economy and the End of Empire."
The opportunity to deliver this message to a global audience from the grand church looking directly down Wall Street just a block from the New York Stock Exchange, the global temple of Mammon, was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life.
My troubadour friend and colleague Raffi recorded a new song No Wall Too Tall especially for the occasion. It has since become my standard practice to break in the middle of my presentations to get everyone singing and dancing along with Raffi to No Wall Too Tall to get inspired and energized for the work ahead. Raffi wrote this song years before I wrote the book, but it turned out to be a perfect fit.
The visit to New York for the launch included a number of high profile media interviews that are available for viewing on the web. An interview on the conclusions of Agenda for a New Economy with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez aired January 26, 2009 and is available on the Democracy Now website. It was YES! magazine day on Democracy Now, as this show also featured an interview with my wife, Fran Korten, on her relationship with Ann Soetoro, Barack Obama's mother, when we lived in Indonesia.
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Three years ago, when Dave Rice unexpectedly landed his dream job, he announced an exciting plan that made a lot of sense. But this was not in his plans.
Somewhere along the way, some details were overlooked and a wrong turn or two were taken. On Monday night, Rice was in a hotel in Wichita, Kan., preparing to scout a junior college tournament.
After a 20-13 season, and with the NCAA Tournament beginning today, it's not the trip the UNLV basketball coach had planned.
"It was a very challenging year," Rice said. "I'm very disappointed that we didn't reach our goals. It has to start with me because I'm the boss. It starts by looking in the mirror."
It was a season that in some ways mirrored the movie, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," although with less comedy and similar misadventures. There was no shower curtain ring salesman, and there was no blizzard in Chicago to divert a flight.
Still, there was a player who was suspended for bad behavior, another star who was punched in the head in a fight with a football player, and a few other starters who were benched for being late to the team bus.
So, as Rice spent the night in a hotel room in a remote town, he could relate to the words of Steve Martin's character in the movie: "Are you saying I could be stuck in Wichita?"
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The beginning of a failed journey was Nov. 1, when Division II Dixie State dealt UNLV an exhibition defeat in a sign of things to come. The season concluded with a heated argument between junior guards Bryce Dejean-Jones and Jelan Kendrick in the locker room after the loss to the Aztecs.
"I was back in the bowels in the arena, and I heard some of the shouting and some of the shenanigans going on in the locker room," said Doug Gottlieb, a CBS analyst who called several of the Rebels' games. "I think Bryce was toxic. He was really hard to play with, but he needs a really strong personality as a coach, and Dave has to show that."
It was announced Sunday that Dejean-Jones, the team's leading scorer, will not return. He was suspended after a postgame blowup March 5 and sat out the regular season finale at UNR, a game which UNLV lost after blowing a 17-point second-half lead. Dejean-Jones is on schedule to graduate this summer and will try to play professionally or spend his final year of eligibility at another college.
"We mutually agreed that Bryce would not be on the team next year," said Rice, adding that he met with Dejean-Jones and his parents and did not dismiss the player for disciplinary reasons.
Dejean-Jones transferred from Southern California, leaving the Trojans in January 2011 amid reports that he threw a punch that broke a teammate's nose in a locker room feud. The dispute between Dejean-Jones and Kendrick, a junior college transfer with a checkered history, was rumored to involve the players throwing punches. Rice disputed that it was a physical altercation.
"It was frustrations that boiled over from losing the game," Rice said. "It was a verbal exchange."
UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy, who temporarily blocked a Review-Journal reporter from entering the locker room after the San Diego State game, has pledged her support for Rice.
The Rebels' top six scorers, including Dejean-Jones and Kendrick, were transfers. That turned into a problem, Gottlieb asserted, because it contributed to faltering chemistry on a team with no strong leader or true point guard.
"Transfers can really help you. On the other hand, if you take someone else's problem child or problem children, they can ruin your program," Gottlieb said. "I don't think Dave had a particularly smart team, and smart is not about GPA. There's a reason you find ways to lose games instead of finding ways to win games.
"I like Dave a great deal, but you've got to get tougher as a coach. You can be tough as long as you're fair. I think he has to be stronger and more demanding. He might also need some help and a change on the sideline. You need a hard-core X's and O's guy."
That could be Max Good, the Rebels' interim coach for 22 games during the 2000-01 season. Good, recently fired as the coach at Loyola Marymount, attended the Mountain West tournament. Rice is hoping to create a position for a special assistant to the head coach, and he might have another opening on his staff.
Heath Schroyer, Rice's top assistant, is a leading candidate for the head coaching job at Tennessee-Martin.
Rice recognizes the need for changes within the program. His roster is about to get a makeover. It started with Dejean-Jones' departure.
Kendrick, a former McDonald's All-American who attended three colleges prior to UNLV, also is on schedule to graduate in the summer and might leave the team.
Junior forwards Khem Birch and Roscoe Smith, two of the Rebels' most productive players, are debating their futures. Birch, a transfer from Pittsburgh, is a potential second-round pick in the NBA Draft. Smith, a transfer from Connecticut, is not an NBA prospect but might opt to attempt to play as a pro.
Smith suffered a concussion late in the season. It seemed to happen in the second half of a win at Air Force on March 1, when he chased a loose ball and took a hit to the head. But the collision was unclear, and athletic trainer Dave Tomchek said after the game that Smith was not hit in the head. The next day, Smith was ruled out with a concussion, and he missed two games.
Multiple sources stated that seven to 10 days prior to the game at Air Force, Smith was punched in the head at least once by a UNLV football player, though Smith did not instigate the altercation, which could have contributed to his concussion.
A rift between some Rebels basketball and football players was addressed and settled privately by Rice and football coach Bobby Hauck, sources said.
Rice said some player personnel questions could be answered when he holds a team meeting next week. He has one of the nation's top recruiting classes coming in, highlighted by Findlay Prep guard Rashad Vaughn.
A year after losing stars Mike Moser and Katin Reinhardt, who transferred to Oregon and USC, respectively, and watching top assistant Justin Hutson return to rival San Diego State, Rice is headed into another soap opera summer following a season that did not go as planned.
"I'm going to fix it," Rice said. "It starts in the recruiting process. We need to make sure that we recruit high-character players. Our recruiting has been very good. With any assessment of a season, I always start by evaluating myself and the things I've done well and things I didn't do well. But I also have to hold others accountable.
"It's very important that I establish a much stronger culture of discipline, and that has to be something we work on every single day. That's my job to establish that. We're going to put a team on the floor that people will be proud of and enjoy watching."
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Stagecoach developer Ji-ang Song left the courthouse with a small victory Tuesday after Routt County commissioners agreed in concept to award him a zone change needed to develop 432 dwelling units just east of Stagecoach Reservoir.
Commissioners Nancy Stahoviak and Doug Monger agreed that Song and his development consultants had modified their original plan enough to meet the criteria for a zone change from agriculture and forestry to zoning that allows a master-planned, increased-density community.
Commissioner Diane Mitsch Bush dissented.
"I would have to say, it's not consistent with the goals and policies of the Routt County Master Plan," Mitsch Bush said at the Routt County Courthouse.
She said the up-zoning of the agricultural land within the overall 896-acre development parcel is contrary with county goals of preventing sprawl and preserving productive agriculture lands.
The Song Mountain development would be developed on an elevated bench on the shoulders of Woodchuck Mountain overlooking the reservoir, which hosts a state park. Song and his wife, Young Song, paid $5.5 million for the property, which includes land not included in the development application.
The Routt County Planning Commission voted, 5-2, on May 21 to recommend denial of the project, which county commissioners tabled after a four-hour hearing July 23.
The Songs, with consultants Peter Patten, of Patten Associates, and Doug Bradfield, of Civil Design Consultants, still face multiple layers of public hearings and approvals before the first phase of the residential development could be built.
The commissioners asked the developers to come back with more details and a written commitment confirming exactly how the Morrison Creek Metropolitan Water and Sanitation District would meet the needs of homeowners at Song Mountain.
"There's no need to rush. I would like the details of how this is going to work totally nailed down," Steamboat resident Paul Stettner agreed.
The Water District's Steve Colby confirmed that his agency has adequate reserves to meet all the needs of Song Mountain.
"We have sufficient supply available, mostly through ground water rights," Colby said. "Where it's most available is a big question. Our conceptual plan, which hasn't been approved, points to groundwater as most economically feasible."
Song will have to answer water supply questions and more before his requested zone change is made official.
The developers responded to constructive criticism from the July 23 meeting by eliminating 15 home sites representing 28 acres, in order to widen three broad wildlife corridors that would separate the four major pods of development at Song Mountain.
Bradfield said that at the request of the commissioners, his staff re-routed internal roads to eliminate significant stretches where the grade ranged from 9 to 10 percent. There remain a couple of shorter stretches that exceed county guidelines of 7 percent grade but never by more than a percentage point, he said.
Neighbors of Song Mountain elsewhere in Stagecoach continue to have concerns, as well. They say that with more than 200 building lots and homes already on the market, there is no need to alter the character of the open space on the flanks of Woodchuck Mountain by approving such a large subdivision.
Song countered that his development would provide a different product, with elevated views, than home sites on the floor of the valley south of Stagecoach Reservoir.


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Picture it: Los Angeles, 2002, a television-obsessed dork (yes, me) visits Hollywood for the first time, and thanks to a well-connected friend — whom you will find groping Judy Reyes in a photo below — spends her inaugural day in LaLa Land on the set of the freshman series Scrubs. She gets to watch them shoot scenes, she hangs out in the writers room, she eats lunch at the same table as Sarah Chalke and she can hardly believe how nice Zach Braff is being to her. Fully enamored by the experience, she moves to L.A. just months later… Cut to 2004, she gets her first job writing about television when she sees executive producer Bill Lawrence at an NBC event and he gives her the scoop on upcoming guest star, Colin Farrell…
Needless to say, Scrubs holds a very special place in my TV geek heart. Given the opportunity to travel to the Bahamas with cast and crew for their big season eight episode last week, my stalker-fan adventure with the show has now come full circle. As promised, I've posted a few pictures of the working vacation below for your peeping pleasure. We've also put together a full photo gallery. Please enjoy…
Ken Jenkins, Sam Lloyd, Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley, Sarah Chalke, Zach Braff and Christa Miller get cozy on a Hope Town dock with the men in charge, Bill Lawrence and producer Randall Winston. Somehow, the cast (and producers) managed to stay pretty in the blazing hot Bahamian sun. No small feat. Though entranced by all the surrounding natural beauty, I was still a sweaty mess. Not cute, no.
After a long day's work, cast and crew gathered at Hope Town's Harbour's Edge, where they had actually shot several scenes that morning (the food, by the way, fantastic). I spotted Zach across the bar from me and just had to get this shot of him and his beer. He gamely obliged. Thank you, Mr. Braff. Truth be told, I was nervous to ask him and made my buddy take it.
Never one to disappoint an adoring fan, Rob Maschio embraces his alter-ego, giving me "The Todd" treatment. His girlfriend Amanda tells me that he often puts on The Todd persona when recognized, and she's all, "What're you doing?! You're not like that!" Indeed, Rob Maschio is a sweet man. Sorry to blow your cover, dude.
Did Sam Lloyd forget his sunscreen or is this simply a product of the stellar Scrubs' makeup team? Either way, he puts an excruciating frown on for me as I snap his pic. The guitar? It's his, but he brought it to the Bahamas to be featured in one of his hilarious scenes.
Easily one of the finest comedic actresses on television today, Sarah Chalke also happens to be one of the sweetest, most genuine people in the business. Ask anyone who's had the pleasure of an encounter with the Canadian-born lady, she's friendly (and accommodating to reporters) without fail… I was so bewitched by her smile that I forgot to ask her if she's Ted Mosby's baby mama or not! Damn.
Neil Flynn and Kit Pongetti (the Janitor's Lady) make a handsome couple, no? I had the pleasure of sharing a ride from the airport to the ferry dock with these two. Couldn't have been more excited when I ran into Kit at the bar the following night and she greeted me by name! By the way, if you're a fan of My Boys, you may have spotted Ms. Pongetti in this Summer's second episode, which is currently re-airing on TBS.
Sam Lloyd gets some after-hours love from Writer's Assistant, Melody Derloshon, and Scrubs' personal courier, Brian Davison. Brian's daily task? To wake up at the crack of dawn, get dropped off at the ferry (by golf cart, no cars in Hope Town), take the ferry to a nearby island, catch a cab to the airport, hop on a flight to Fort Lauderdale where he would then rent a car and drive to a post house in Miami to drop of the previous day's film. Mhmmm. He would then repeat the trek in reverse order, arriving back in Hope Town just in time for a night of conch and beer.
A bikini-clad Judy Reyes basks in the adoration of her biggest fan, assistant production coordinator, Jared Weisfelner. If you're wondering whether or not you'll see the Scrubs' ladies in sexy swimming attire for this Bahamian ep, the answer is yes. Although Carla does sport a frumpy mom suit, much to Turk's chagrin, before switching into this barely-there number.
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To achieve the 50,000-fold reduction in size necessary to squeeze eukaryotic DNA into the confines of the nucleus, cells rely on DNA-binding proteins. The product of these interactions is, of course, chromatin. Histones are the major players, but there are a surprising number of other proteins, too. Overseeing the many components of the chromosomal game of life—as well as the proteins of RNA interference—is ChromDB (The Chromatin Database), hosted at the University of Arizona. Employing comparative analysis to enhance understanding of the chromatin plant proteome, ChromDB's collection of useful online tools includes BLAST, a Pfam domain viewer, RNAi vector information, and sequence extractors. There's also an informative, educational segment entitled Chromatin for Beginners.
Reception and ChannelsRegulating the movement of materials and, in multicellular organisms, playing important communication roles, membrane proteins are essential cellular conduits between the environment of the cytoplasm and everything outside of the plasma membrane. An impressive collection of these membrane protein types, and their structures and functions, are on view at the International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) site where two databases (G protein–coupled receptors and ion channels) cut a wide swath through the playing field. A very useful page called Latest Pairings provides literature references for the most recently identified ligand-receptor interactions.
Deeply RootedAlthough it may be mixing metaphors to describe PlantGDB as having a lot of horsepower, it's the easiest way to describe in a single word the scope and utility of this National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded site of resources for comparative plant genomics. These roots run deep, with a list of available content that includes sequence data on over 70,000 plants, expressed sequence tag (EST) assemblies for over 150 species, and more tools and genome browsers than you can shake a stem at. Funded by the NSF "to develop plant species-specific EST and genome survey sequence (GSS) databases, to provide web-accessible tools, and inter-species query capabilities, genome browsing and annotation," PlantGDB is expansive, up-to-date (sequence updates coincide with Genbank), easy to navigate, and growing rapidly.
Viru-lensResearch objects too small to be viewed in a light microscope pose special challenges for scientists hoping to bring them to life. Grayscale electron micro-graphic depictions once held sway, but they can be rather blurry and their resolution is limited, so they are increasingly being replaced by images made using a clearer set of "lenses"—3-D renderings from X-ray crystallography data. The beauty of this approach is apparent in the accompanying image from Jean-Yves Sgro's Virusworld web pages, hosted at the University of Wisconsin. Unlike the colorization of classic black and white movies, in which purists argue the "ambience" of the original is lost, virtually no one complains about the accuracy or the altered feel of virus depictions. In fact, the reverse is true, with most viewers responding favorably to the illustrations.
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Enzyme-assisted SuicideWhen wayward eukaryotic cells receive "death sentences," the role of the primary executioners is played by a family of enzymes residing inside them, known as caspases. Caspases act by cleaving polypeptide substrates adjacent to aspartate residues with tetrapeptide motifs, and these unique proteases get activated and take their cues from apoptotic signaling cascades. They also play roles in the immune system in the activation of cytokines. Casbase (The Caspases Database) contains data that the curators at the National University of Singapore extract from primary databases and published literature. Information for the substrates acted upon by the enzymes is included also.
Bioblogging for DollarsAre we poised for a boom in the biotechnology sector? Will the enhanced focus on high technology in the Obama administration usher in a new biotech renaissance? Some think that the retooling of the American economy is pointing to these scenarios, but others aren't so sure. One thing you can depend on, though, is Biojobblog; it has all the insights. Coverage includes tips for job hunters (salary negotiations, professions in demand, ask-the-recruiter, dressing for success, alternative career paths), job cuts, market analysis, and perspectives on fields ranging from social media to interesting web sites. The homepage has up-to-the-minute news and insightful analysis, too. Biojobblog is an easy way to stay on top of the rapidly changing biotechnology landscape.


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FOR fans of electronica, Holmes is where the heart is.
Over the past 20 years, when the Northern Irish DJ hasn't been soundtracking feature films, running hugely influential club nights or helping rock bands produce their albums, he's been churning out endless tunes that are cooler than a frozen cucumber.
The Dogs Are Parading is a best-of collection, 29-tracks strong, which is a perfect snapshot of Holmes work - strutting through the chaotic early work such as My Mate Paul to the atmospheric likes of 69 Police and on to the slicker new material like You're On Fire (Too Fat), as well as a glut of remixes.
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The Egyptian military's recent violent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood makes clear that, despite their claims to the contrary, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his armed forces have no intention of supporting Egypt's democratic process. It is time that Washington call the military's actions what they are: a coup. As I write in an article on USA Today online:
Calls for a return to a democratic process have gone unheeded. Yet that remains the only way out of Egypt's crisis. The military's crackdown will inevitably lead to more violence and instability, putting at risk broader US strategic interests. The Obama administration must now make the long overdue move to suspend American assistance until Egypt's government demonstrates a return to a political process.


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On the 2d one episode of the SBS weekend drama "The MomentUltimate Love", Kang Min-joo (Kim Hee-ae) and Park Joon-woo (Kwak Si-yang) reunited.
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Caithness Coso Funding Corp. Announces Pricing of Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation for its Outstanding 6.263% Subordinated Secured Notes Due 2014 and its 5.489% Senior Secured Bonds Due 2019
Dec 03, 2007, 00:00 ET from Caithness Coso Funding Corp.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Caithness Coso Funding Corp. (the "Company") announced the pricing terms of its previously announced tender offers and consent solicitations for any and all of its outstanding $90,000,000 original principal amount of 6.263% Subordinated Secured Notes due 2014 (CUSIP Nos. 128017AK6 and U12295AD0) (the "2014 Notes") and its $375,000,000 original principal amount of 5.489% Senior Secured Bonds due 2019 (CUSIP Nos. 128017AG5 and U12295AC2) (the "2019 Bonds" and, together with the 2014 Notes, the "Notes"). The tender offers and the related consent solicitations are subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Company's Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated September 18, 2007, and the accompanying Consent and Letter of Transmittal (together, the "Offer Documents"). The tender offers and related consent solicitations are being conducted in connection with the previously announced agreements (the "Purchase Agreements") between Caithness Energy, L.L.C. ("Caithness Energy"), certain owners of Caithness Energy, certain subsidiaries of Caithness Energy and ArcLight Renewco Holdings, LLC ("Renewco"), each dated July 9, 2007, pursuant to which Renewco has agreed to acquire a one hundred percent (100%) direct ownership interest in certain affiliates of the Company (the "Acquisitions") as described in the Offer Documents. As described in the Offer Documents, provided that the conditions of the tender offers and consent solicitations are satisfied, the Company may, in its sole discretion, accept for payment and pay for Notes tendered on an initial settlement date prior to the Expiration Time. The total consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes (the "Total Consideration"), which will be payable in respect of Notes that are validly tendered and accepted for payment and consents validly delivered at or prior to 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on December 7, 2007, will be $ $1,084.17 per $1,000 original principal amount with respect to the 2014 Notes and $ 1,073.03 per $1,000 principal amount with respect to the 2019 Bonds, which includes $20.00 per $1,000 original principal amount of Notes (the "Consent Payment"). As described in the Offer Documents, the total consideration will be multiplied by a scaling factor that reflects the fact that the Notes are subject to principal amortization. In addition, holders will be paid accrued and unpaid interest on the tendered Notes up to, but not including, the settlement date, which the Company expects will occur on December 7, 2007. The Total Consideration with respect to the 2014 Notes and the 2019 Bonds, were determined using a yield equal to the bid price on the 4.75% U.S. Treasury Note due March 31, 2011, and a yield equal to the bid price on the 3.875% U.S. Treasury Note due February 15, 2013, respectively, which was 2.988% and 3.327%, respectively, as of 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on December 3, 2007, plus a fixed spread of 50 basis points with respect to the Notes. All holders who validly tender their Notes before 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on December 7, 2007 (the "Expiration Time") will be eligible to receive the Total Consideration, which includes the Consent Payment. Subject to the terms and conditions of the tender offers and consent solicitations, payment for tendered Notes will be made promptly after the Expiration Time. The Company has retained Citi to act as sole Dealer Manager for the tender offers and as the Solicitation Agent for the consent solicitations. 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The tender offers and consent solicitations are not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. No recommendation is made as to whether holders of Notes should tender their notes or give their consent. Caithness Coso Funding Corp. Caithness Coso Funding Corp. is a single-purpose Delaware corporation formed to finance the business and operations of Coso Finance Partners, a California general partnership ("Navy I Partnership"), Coso Energy Developers, a California General Partnership ("BLM Partnership"), and Coso Power Developers, a California General Partnership ("Navy II Partnership, and together with Navy I Partnership and BLM Partnership, the "Partnerships"). The Company has no material assets, other than the loans it has made and will make to the Partnerships and certain accounts created in connection with the offering of the Notes, and does not conduct any business, other than issuing the Notes and making the loans to the Partnerships, and activities directly related thereto. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current Company management expectations. Those forward-looking statements include all statements other than those made solely with respect to historical fact. Numerous risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. 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When a new troublemaker, Trout, arrives at school, Ben is soon diagnosed with ADD–just like Trout.Ever since first grade, Ben's been in trouble, even though he's really not a bad kid. He just can't seem to stop doing things that get him sent to the principal's office. His parents and wise older sister, Meg, swear he'll be fine in his own time, but when a new kid shows up in Ben's fifth-grade class, he's not so sure. Trout sticks to him like glue, and it's clear from the start that Trout is a much bigger troublemaker than Ben ever was. So when Ben gets diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), just like Trout, and then has to take Ritalin, just like Trout, he's not sure what to make of his friendship–especially when he starts to get a bad reputation. Is Trout's badness rubbing off on him? Can Ben make people understand it's the ADD, not Trout, causing the problems before it's too late?From the Hardcover edition.
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Sweet Krissy was wearing red, sporty dress when her partner came to her place, because she knew that it turns him on and wanted to make him excited from the moment he enters her apartment, so he would fuck her right away.
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Sweet Krissy
Sweet Krissy wants to get a good job in a huge company, so knowing that no one can resist her because of her massive tits, she decided to use them while having a job interview, to get what she wants more than anything else.
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Sweet Krissy was wearing her new lingerie set when her boyfriend came to her place to make love with her, and he was pleasantly surprised with her gesture, which turned him on even more, especially because she was posing, too.
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Need a new go-to comfort food? Hash browns will fit the bill. This gooey combo of tender potatoes and broccoli pairs well with a wide variety of entrees.
21 Dishes with an Egg on Top
- 1 package (30 ounces) frozen shredded hash brown potatoes
- 2 cups frozen broccoli florets
- 1-1/4 cups (5 ounces) shredded sharp cheddar cheese, divided
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of broccoli soup, undiluted
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- In a greased 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the hash browns, broccoli, 3/4 cup cheese and onions.
- In a small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in flour until smooth; gradually add milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1 minute or until thickened. Stir in the soup, salt and mustard. Pour over potato mixture; stir to combine.
- Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until potatoes are tender. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Cover and cook 30 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Broccoli-Cheddar Hash Browns in Taste of Home Everyday Slow Cooker & One Dish Recipes
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The Carl Nielsen Trio performs arrangements of Nielsen's songs by contemporary composers for their ensemble of tenor, flute and guitar.
American Record Guide, July/August 2013
Flutist Karen Skriver Zarganis, guitarist Michael Norman, and tenor Jan Lund formed the Carl Nielsen Trio to present "Carl Nielsen in new clothes" by asking seven contemporary Danish composers to arrange for them the 19 songs selected for this album. The songs are settings of texts by Danish poets about nature, love, and Christian faith. Accompaniment was originally by piano. The fine performances make them worth hearing, and will have special appeal to people of Danish heritage.
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6th Royal Tank Regiment
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The 6th Royal Tank Regiment (6 RTR) was a regiment of the Royal Tank Regiment, of the British Army, until 1959. It originally saw action as 6th Battalion Tank Corps in 1917.
First World War[edit]
When tanks were first used in action in 1916, they were operated by the Heavy Branch of the Machine Gun Corps. This constituted six companies, A through F. With the rapid growth of the tank forces, these companies were used as the cadre of new battalions, which were quickly transferred to the newly formed Tank Corps, and then changed from letters to numbers. F Company thus became F Battalion of the Heavy Branch in November 1916, then F Battalion of the Tank Corps, then redesignated as 6th Battalion of the Tank Corps in January 1918.
During this time, the unit saw heavy action; it fought at the Battle of Messines, Passchendaele, Cambrai, Amiens (using Whippet Mk A light tanks), Bapaume, 2nd Arras and Cambrai-St Quentin.
During this time, a Victoria Cross was awarded to Captain Richard Annesley West of the North Irish Horse, at the time an acting Lieutenant-Colonel commanding 6th Battalion Tank Corps. This was one of only four VCs awarded to the Corps during the Great War.
Inter-war period[edit]
After the Armistice, the Tank Corps was severely cut down; from twenty-six battalions in 1919 to four by the early 1920s. The 6th Battalion was one of those disbanded, with its remaining personnel being transferred to the 3rd Battalion in November 1919.
In the 1930s, the decision was taken to expand the Royal Tank Corps ("Royal" had been added to the regimental title in 1923). Two Royal Tank Corps armoured car companies in Egypt, the 3rd and 5th, were brought together and reformed as 6th Battalion, Royal Tank Corps.[1] However, this unit was understrength - it only consisted of two companies - and was not brought up to full strength with a third company until early 1939, by which time it had been renamed the 6th Royal Tank Regiment.
Second World War[edit]
When the war broke out in 1939, 6 RTR was based in Egypt with the Heavy Armoured Brigade (Egypt), part of the Armoured Division (Egypt). It was equipped with a mixture of Mk VIb light tanks, Mark II medium tanks, and Mk I Cruiser tanks.
6 RTR saw action during the Suez crisis in 1956, where HQ, B and C Squadrons were landed to support Operation Musketeer. In 1948, the Regiment was located at Scofton aerodrome, Notts, training TA's from 45 Leeds Rifles. In 1959 it was amalgamated with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment
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- Lineage of 6th battalion Tank Corps ( 2009-10-22)
- regiments.org page on 6 RTR
- 6th RTR war diaries
- Merseyside RTR (Brian Gills website)


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Race Ramps Wheel Stands are very light and strong. The base has a huge and stable footprint. Using our Patented Race Ramps Technology, these stands are 100% solid core with zero cavities. Every race Ramps products carries this quality, as well. Solid. Though we do not advise it, they can be used on sand.


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Who is this person?
Leslie's music is a blend of retro folk rock, blues, global sounds, and Americana. Her poetical street-wise lyrics explore themes of human courage, spiritual enlightenment, timeless love, and just plain doing whatever it takes.
A multi-instrumentalist, she accompanies herself on guitar and occasionally salts her show with fiddle and mandolin tunes. Her clear, expressive, soulful voice can cast a spell on an entire room. Leslie has performed professionally since 1972 and as a solo artist since 1990. She produced an hosted the original unplugged cable series "Northwest Tunesmith" in the 1980s.
Scheduled for a July 2016 release, Leslie's 3rd song collection "Your Belief Is Not Required" offers a unique and often humorous perspective on our spiritual evolution as humans in this time and space.
Leslie's first album "When You're Ready" tramples through love, loss and coming of age. Her 2013 release "This End Up" is a tribute to the choices that change our lives. |
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- Alice Stuart "Her music has an ethereal retro 1960s folk sound and her voice is like a cross between the early Grace Slick and Loreena McKennit." -Marty Reimer, DJ at the Mountain FM "Kind of a retro-rock, folk and something else. A talent that's well worth watching." - Nick Ehrlich, Victory Music Review "The first time I heard her at the Victory Open Mic, I new I wanted her on my radio show." -Marianne Bundren, KBCS 91.3 FM |
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Effect Of An Integrase Inhibitor On The Latency And Reservoir Of HIV-1
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The presence of a pool of cells latently infected by HIV-1 in patients taking HAART and with a viral load below 50 copies/mL is the main limitation to eradication of the virus from the body. This viral reservoir prevents antiretroviral therapy from being interrupted; therefore, patients are obliged to continue with treatment for a period calculated to be greater than 60 years.
Despite the important advances in knowledge of the biology of this reservoir, we still have no real knowledge about its dynamics. The opportunity to carry out a clinical trial for the first time with an integrase inhibitor is exceptional, since the results could provide important information on the nature of this reservoir.
If maintenance of the reservoir is a dynamic process, inclusion of an integrase inhibitor is expected to lead to a reduction in the size of this reservoir. This effect could be critical when including IAT (viral reactivation), since, in theory, it would be necessary to act on a smaller reservoir. Current consensus is that it would be necessary to act on almost 100% of the viral reservoir (approximately 1,000,000 cells).
The study has also been designed to enable us to understand the biochemical and molecular mechanisms by which certain drugs can induce viral reactivation in vitro as a previous step to a clinical trial aimed at reactivating viral latency and eradicating HIV-1 from the body.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
HIV-1 HIV Infections |
Drug: Raltegravir |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Basic Science |
Official Title: | Pilot Study Of The Effect Of An Integrase Inhibitor On The Latency And Reservoir Of HIV-1 In Patients Taking Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy |
- To evaluate, by means of a clinical trial, the effect of therapy with an integrase inhibitor (Raltegravir) on the cell reservoir of HIV-1 on patients taking HAART [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
Enrollment: | 10 |
Study Start Date: | September 2009 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2011 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Raltegravir |
Drug: Raltegravir
Raltegravir (INN), 400 mg tablets, developed and supplied by Merck Sharp & Dohme. A dose of 400 mg will be administered every 12 hours
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- After receiving information on the design and objectives of the study, the possible risks involved, and the fact that they can refuse to collaborate at any time, patients will give their informed consent to participate in the study and agree to provide material for the cellular and molecular studies.
- Aged over 18 years.
- Chronic HIV infection
- Antiretroviral therapy with at least 3 drugs for at least 2 years and with no modifications expected during the study. Antiretroviral drugs can be switched due to intolerance as long as plasma viremia remains controlled.
- Undetectable viral load determined by ultrasensitive techniques (<50 copies HIV RNA/mL) for at least 2 years.
- CD4+ T lymphocyte count above 350 cells/mm3.
- Understand the objective of the study and be available to make frequent visits to the hospital.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous failure of antiretroviral therapy, understood as a rebound in viral load that can be detected after having reached undetectable levels. Low-grade increases (<200 copies of HIV RNA/mL) and transitory increases (blips) resolved without modifying antiretroviral therapy are excluded.
- Proven resistance against the antiretroviral drugs under study.
- Planned interruption of antiretroviral therapy.
- Taking immunosuppressive or immunostimulating medication of any type, including valproic acid.
- Taking a fusion inhibitor (enfuvirtide).
- Pregnancy or intention to become pregnant during the study.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00807443
Spain | |
Hospital Universitario Ramon Y Cajal | |
Madrid, Spain, 28034 |
Principal Investigator: | Santiago Moreno Guillen, MD,PhD | HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RAMON Y CAJAL. MADRID |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00807443 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | December 11, 2008 |
Last Updated: | January 31, 2013 |
Keywords provided by Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal:
HIV-1 integrase inhibitor (raltegravir) the cell reservoir of HIV-1 treatment experienced |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases |
Integrase Inhibitors Raltegravir Potassium Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Anti-HIV Agents Anti-Retroviral Agents Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents HIV Integrase Inhibitors |
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February Swap for Nicole
Uploaded by Sara Arell, Feb 25 2012 02:56 AM
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I used ASO_FamMatters for Nicole's cute pics - she wanted her jounaling just to say "My Loves"
Thanks for looking
The photos are lovely and I really like the collection that you used especially the word art. Great colors. Nicole will love it.
Sara this is wonderful and I just love the grungy look
Sara what a wonderful layout you have done for Nicole - I love the way you did your title, the elements you used - especially the heart AND I love the way you blended Nicole's beautiful family photos!
This is just great, Sara! So fun-loving and colorful!! I also love the way you did the title/journaling and that heart and key ... great job!!
Great layout, Sara. I love all the colors you used. Such a happy layout.
I love the colors you used -- and the beautifully affectionate look you gave to the page.
Beautiful layout, Sara! Love the colors and the alphas.
Oh My Gosh I love it!!!!! It's such a bright and colorful layout! Thank you so much!! I can't wait to add this one to my collection!!
this is so sweet, Sara, nice job!
I really like this! What great colors and textures! Beautiful family, Nicole! Thanks for joining the swap this month, Sara!


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Angel Haze photo via Consequence of Sound.
Autumn is a glut of new music and bands on tour, so it's precisely zero surprising that our new music roundup for October is our longest yet. This month, we've got the world premiere of a new video by Julia Weldon, a song by a band called Hand Job Academy, and much, much more. What are you listening to this month? Let us know in the comments!
1. Julia Weldon - "You Never Know" (WORLD PREMIERE)
Our new music round-up this month starts with the world premiere of the video for "You Never Know," from Brooklyn artist Julia Weldon's new album Light Is A Ghost. Without context, the video is a gorgeous sylvan vignette, following Weldon's body as it is prepared for burial at sea. The distortion on the track, Weldon's melancholy voice, and the sound of film spooling in the background add to the ethereal ambience. With context, however, the project takes on a powerful second story; one of Weldon's grapplings with trust and identity. Here's what she had to say about the project:
Most things about this song and video have an element of magic in them [...] A bunch of us Brooklynites drove up to the shores of Maine to film this video with director Charlotte Royer and her unbelievable creative team. The whole weekend was full of magic and amazing creative energy and Charlotte pushed me to embrace some previously uncharted terrain of my own gender. As a queer and genderqueer performer, I feel comfortable embodying my more masculine/boyish side, which is heavily represented in my music persona. Normalizing my own queerness through music and performance is actually very important to me politically. But this video was about opening up to the more vulnerable and tender side of my music. Charlotte and her crew found the most beautiful Narnia-like locations to film and I let myself go - I was soft and unguarded and open. And that's exactly what the song is about - letting go, giving up what we let drag us down.
Director Charlotte Royer added these thoughts:
We talked a lot about androgyny, more as a spiritual thing than a political thing, although it is so inherently political, this was supposed to be more of an exploration. I think of androgyny being a magical middle ground where gender doesn't create a boundary for the audience, and it's equally accessible and relatable to men and women and anybody who is someplace in between [...] just really feeling something as a human.
No matter the lens, the video is gorgeous and a perfect point of entrance into the quietly powerful album Light Is A Ghost. Weldon's voice and guitar work are beautiful without being showy, and impeccable production by Saul MacWilliams add momentum and indie pop sensibility. Check out our exclusive premiere below:
2. Anoushka Shankar - Traces of You
World music superstar Anoushka Shankar was never not going to be a big deal. She made her professional debut as a sitarist at the ripe old age of 13, and went quickly on to be the youngest (and first Indian female) nominee for a World Music Grammy. She's the level of talented where she got so good at performing that she took up composing as a side project. Genius loves company, and her sister, father, and husband are all pretty good at their jobs, too. But her talent, not her bloodline, is indisputably at the center of her celebrity. Traces of You, her seventh album, was halfway finished when her father Ravi Shankar died, and the album is marked profoundly by her grief ("Fathers" and "Traces of You" in particular). But joy bubbles up unmistakably in the video for the title track, which features her sister and was directed by aforementioned husband. Shankar is on the road this fall, and if you're lucky enough to live near a pit stop, grab the chance to watch a living legend in action.
3. Maxine Ashley - Mood Swings
20-year old singer and YouTube phenom Maxine Ashley is, as they in the biz, BLOWING THE %&# UP. Her channel has more than 9 million views at last count, and the first single from her new EP (available for free here!) was produced by professional Grammy-collectors Krucial Brothers. Basically, she's about to get rill famous, so quick, before she does, watch one of the dozens of lo-fi gems, recorded in her bedroom, that got her started. My favorite is this one, because a) this is still the best song ever, RIP Aaliyah, and b) her swagger is infectious. But they're all golden.
4. Lady - "Good Lovin'"
There's not much to improve on when it comes to soul singers (and Missy Elliot/Def Jam protegees) Lady, as we discovered when they stole the show at Pickathon this summer. So instead of making "Good Lovin'" better, think of the new DJ Spinna remix, released this month, as a new carat in the Lady diamond. The original's sexy lyrics and delivery are perfectly suited to the dirty house mix Spinna came up with. Imagine doing a soul train in the basement of a house party, and you've got this remix.
LADY - Good Lovin (Dj Spinna Old School Acid Vocal) by Lady the Band
5. Hand Job Academy/ Peelander Z
Real quick, though, here is a video about menstruation called "Shark Week", by a band called Hand Job Academy, and a song by a Japanese "Action Comic Punk/Metal" band who dress like Power Rangers (BUT BETTER) and made a tribute album to Hair Metal. YOU'RE WELCOME.
Peelander-Z - Ride On The Shooting Star by FanaticPromotion
6. CocoRosie - "Gravediggress"
Perennial provocateurs CocoRosie released a new album, Tales of a GrassWidow, earlier this year—their first since 2010. The video for the first single, "Gravediggress," was explained this way by lead singer Bianca "Coco" Sierra:
Shot in Southern France, spanning several different seasons, The Gravediggress emerges from the imagination of the clown, played and danced by Biño Sauitzvy... Our mother plays the masked Gravediggress who's stuffed hands struggle at menial tasks such as picking wheat and taking laundry from the line. The narrative is a loose journey through the psyche of a lonely outcast who finds ecstasy and company in nature.
Labeled "freak folk" in 2007, CocoRosie exist solidly on the other side of the edge to polite society, which makes them divisive, musically, but also gives them the freedom to explode any and all pesky genre labels or sound comparisons music reviewers might try to peg them with. The sisters are on tour this fall in support of Tales of a GrassWidow, and, if the live footage is any indication, the show is as strange and wondrous as the video below. Including creepy clowns? WHO KNOWS.
7. Lucius - Wildewoman
Remember how much I love Lucius? I do. I remember. I've spent the last year keeping them to myself, sneaking their irrepressible, harmony-laden pop songs onto mix CDs. This month, the jig is up. With the release of the band's first full-length album, Wildewoman (pronounced like wildebeest, not Oscar Wilde), it's safe to say they belong to the world now. Seeing the always-matching lead singers Jess Wolf and Holly Laesig sing a cappella to the crowd from the aisles of a cathedral very late at night was not a dream, as it turns out. It was the beginning of what will surely be an illustrious career for the group, no matter which wigs they're wearing. Find a free sampler of their music here, and get a taste of what all the fuss is about with the video to "Turn It Around" below.
8. Tangerine - "Mars"
Led by sisters Mariko and Miro Justad, Seattle quartet Tangerine have only been together for a year and a half, but they're built to last. Many is the new band who have a great singer, but whose musicians were clearly thrown together before learning how to play their instruments. Tangerine flies valiantly in the face of that trend; Mariko's vocals are smooth and affecting, young but not juvenile, Miro's drumming is perfectly controlled, and the guitar work by Tony Kuhn and Ryan Baker is excellent -- just far-out enough to give funky angles to an otherwise round, smooth soul-pop sound.
9. Super Wild Horses - "Alligator"
Ezra Pound might have loved Australian garage-rock duo Super Wild Horses. Amy Franz and Hayley McKee use instruments we know and chords we recognize, but, as the best punk does, they make it new. "Alligator," off their brand-new album Crossroads, is gritty and pretty, dark and bright. It also must be said, after watching the stark, mod video below: Holler at whatever makeup they're using that stays put after getting whipped cream smeared all over it. Nevermind Cindy Crawford kissing a bald guy, where's THIS commercial for color-stay??
10. Morcheeba - "Gimme Your Love"
This month's Head Up High is British trip-hop band Morcheeba's eighth studio album, but settling into a sound is clearly the furthest thing from vocalist Skye Edwards and multi-instrumentalists Paul and Ross Godfrey's minds. Head Up High is more uptempo, more radio-friendly, and more extraterrestrial than any of their previous work, and "Gimme Your Love" is downright sexy. Feast eyes and ears on the video below.
11. TECLA- "Wake Up"
New York singer, producer, and DJ TECLA released a video for "Wake Up," the latest single from her spring album We Are The Lucky Ones at the end of September. Alongside TECLA's fun vocals and bouncy, summer-splosion Tropicalia-indebted beats, you'll notice she has what looks like the coolest parties on the planet, and also a pet duck. Everything about this is the best thing. (P.S. Note to Miley: This is how ass-tapping as dance move is supposed to look.)
12. Angel Haze - "Same Love"
Last March at SXSW music festival in Austin, I called rapper Angel Haze a game-changer. The performance I watched her give was heart-stopping, and I've been refreshing the internet ever since, waiting for any and everything else she has to offer. Last week, the world and I were rewarded for our patience, AND HOW. Haze, who exploded onto the scene with her cover of Eminem's "Cleaning Out My Closet," has released another cover that blows the original out of the water. This time, the openly queer 21-year-old has covered Macklemore's "Same Love." Haze goes for the jugular, no matter the subject matter, and her discussion of her sexual identity ("No, I'm not gay/ No, I'm not straight/ And I sure as hell am not bisexual/ Damn it, I am who I am when I am it") is no different. Angel for all major leadership positions.
Same Love - Angel Haze by alaskayxxng
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Shira E.!
Jessica Atcheson replied on
Great to have awesome suggestions for my playlists. I'd love to add the feminist, queer bundle of amazingness that is Shira E. to this list! Her latest video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryqR1O79VYE. You can check her out on FB at https://www.facebook.com/shiraEEEE.
Angel Haze!
Veronica Dress replied on
I love this Angel Haze song, but I have to say I think she's taking some Andrea Gibson poetry and using it in her rap... "No, I'm not gay/ No, I'm not straight/ And I sure as hell am not bisexual/ Damn it, I am who I am when I am it" is from Andrea's poem "Andrew." Regardless, beautiful poetry! Give credit where it's due, Mz. Angel!
Hand Job Academy
Anonymous replied on
That isn't the official video for Hand Job Academy's 'Shark Week'. The real link is here:
Alika ....Kenny Arkana
Good day replied on
This month I'm loving Alika....here is one video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Ynym7J78I
and Keny Arkana is another muse, having a new very nice album.