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You Transformers fans know what I'm talking about when you see the name "Unicron."
That's right. If you thought Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was a massive convoluted mess of nonsense and wasted... well, everything, coated in a big pile of explosions and sometimes-awkward visuals, then you've seen nothing yet. How can you introduce and misuse even bigger characters for Transformers 3 after what happened with Devastator and many others in Revenge of the Fallen?
Well, you introduce the Death Star Transformer!
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, Unicron was the antagonist character introduced in the 1986 animated Transformers: The Movie. He's so big that he transforms into a mechanical planet, or as Obi-Wan Kenobi would describe, "that's no moon."
I'll try to be as brief as possible in describing Unicron's role in that movie and how it could tie into Michael Bay's film series. In the 1986 cartoon movie, Unicron made a deal with the dying and betrayed Megatron (betrayed by Starscream) and offered to give him a new body (becoming Galvatron) in exchange for his efforts in destroying the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Sound familiar? That Matrix was in Revenge of the Fallen and was the device that The Fallen sought out and sent Megatron after to destroy humanity with that big-ass machine.
In Transformers lore, The Fallen worked for Unicron so perhaps that's the pattern of the movies: We think Megatron is the leader, we then find out The Fallen is his leader. We think The Fallen is the leader, we then find out Unicron is the leader?
The reason I bring this up is that videos have been popping up online for bonus features that were included on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on October 20th, one of which (Thanks to Cinema Blend for the find) was a hidden Easter Egg featuring Michael Bay joking around about Transformers 3 with pictures of Unicron in the background.
Note the cliches and Bay making fun of himself: doesn't have to be all "action action action," could be more emotional, darker?
The video is meant as a joke and a tease for the hardcore fans. It is also already dated as Bay refers to making a slower and smaller movie first then come back to the Transformers franchise? That's what was originally the plan with Bay seemingly set to work on his personal passion project "Pain & Gain" but then he met with Steven Spielberg to discuss the project in September and shortly thereafter, it was announced that Transformers 3 would be over-rushed into production like its predecessor and that it would be out in 2011.
This Unicron thing could probably happen. Hasbro needs more toys and what better way to do it (in addition to having 100 no-named random background characters) is to kill off the majority of the Cybertronian cast and bring them back with new bodies! Don't expect them to talk or even be introduced though. They just need to be shown once or twice.
What do you want from Transformers 3? Do you think Michael Bay will go bigger and bring out Unicron the next time around?
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The Mean Season: Negativity in Election 2012
In the America viewed through the lens of a presidential campaign commercial, coal miners hear that their jobs are "in danger," voters are warned that "China is stealing American ideas," and the middle class, it's been said time and again, is "falling further behind." President Barack Obama has failed to "stop cheaters" while Republican challenger Mitt Romney simply won't "level with us about his tax plan" -- or, for that matter, his own taxes. And, let us not forget: Big Bird may well be an endangered species.
Need a shower to cleanse away the residue of negativity coating Election 2012? You're not alone.
This campaign season is awash in the stuff -- meaning so, too, is the commonwealth. Blame technology for the endless candidate-bashing e-mails, or YouTube for at-your-fingertips access to advertisements typically seen in only a handful of states, or the 24/7 media environment. Blame, even, the Supreme Court for its 2010 decision that loosened campaign finance restrictions, giving rise to the super PACs responsible for so many of the contentious ads of today.
And blame the campaigns themselves, whose strategists recognize "going negative" as an approach that, while distasteful to voters, can and does work.
"The fact of the matter is negative ads ... are more effective than positive ads. They're more likely to be remembered. They're more likely to get attention through the news media and therefore get repetition," says Shanto Iyengar, who directs the Political Communication Lab at Stanford University and co-authored the book, "Going Negative," a study of the effects of negative advertising on the electorate.
Voters, too, must accept some blame for the unpleasantness. After all, what exchanges are your friends -- or you -- engaging in on Facebook and Internet comment boards these days? We Americans like to think of ourselves as positive, productive, forward-thinking and looking. And yet we are not only susceptible to this ugliness, we oftentimes help to spread it.
Negativity, says Iyengar, gets voters' "juices flowing. You've heard Republicans saying, 'I wish Romney would do more of this,' because it tends to energize them. That's what they want. They want some red meat out there. In the final analysis everyone complains, but that doesn't mean that they don't listen."
Nor does it mean that this thing that can feel so alienating isn't, in some ways, actually good for a democracy. Just ask John Geer, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University whose own book on negative campaigning offers a defense of the tactic.
"I have a positive campaign for negative campaigning," he likes to quip, and it goes something like this:
--, Negative advertisements and statements tend to be more substantive than positive ones.
-- Negative advertisements and statements help to highlight differences between candidates.
-- Negative advertisements and statements can help engage the public because, well, conflict can do that.
"A positive ad tells you that the candidate favors educated children, more jobs and a clean environment. Wow," says Geer, with more than a hint of sarcasm, "we've learned that somebody favors more jobs and a stronger economy.
"If you ask the American public: Do you want to know about whether the other side will raise taxes or whether a candidate flip-flops or whether a candidate has enough experience -- all the stuff that makes up most negative ads -- they say, 'Yeah. We want to know that information.' But if you say: Do you want more negative ads? They say no."
Emmett Buell, another expert in all-things-antagonistic in politics, agrees that the tit-for-tat tactics can "contribute invaluably to the American electoral process." He notes: "Once in a while we get candidates who are exaggerators. Those people need to be found out. If candidates were restricted from criticizing each other ... there'd be no challenge to that."
In the sheer quantity of negative advertising and amount of dollars being spent, this year may mark the birth of an unprecedented era of negative campaigning, according to political scientists and campaign watchers. Contributing to the atmosphere is our extended campaign cycle of today, in which the barbs start flying long before the post-convention, fall campaign.
The standard formula of old -- in which a candidate sought to first introduce himself to voters with positive messages before taking on, or down, his opponent -- has also become a thing of the past. Says Iyengar: "Today you go negative from Day 1."
But are modern-day presidential contests -- and, in particular, this super PAC-dominated race of 2012 -- actually nastier? Not necessarily.
Sure, this year has brought us the so-called "Understands" ad, paid for by a pro-Obama super PAC, in which a man talks about losing his health insurance, and his wife's subsequent death from cancer, in connection with Romney's Bain Capital closing the steel plant where he worked. "I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone," says the former steel worker, Joe Soptic, "and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned."
On the other side, there's the much-analyzed pro-Romney ad that accuses Obama of "gutting welfare reform" by stripping the work requirement from the nation's welfare law. After independent fact-checkers found the premise to be false, a Romney pollster countered that the campaign would not be "dictated by fact-checkers."
Beyond the airwaves, smears show up in stump speeches by the candidates, their running mates or surrogates. Think: Vice President Joe Biden warning that Romney and Republicans would put Americans "back in chains" in order to curb regulations on big banks. Or Romney referring to Obama's presidency as "angry and desperate."
Nevertheless, a lot of this pales in comparison with some of the negative tactics of campaigns past, says Buell, who studied almost five decades' worth of campaign statements to pen the book, "Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns Since 1960."
In the 13 presidential races from 1960 to 2008, Buell's research team concluded, the most negative was the 1988 contest between then-Vice President George H.W. Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, featuring the infamous "Willie Horton" commercial about a murder convict who committed rape and assault during a weekend furlough program that Dukakis had at one time supported. Bush also referenced the program in campaign appearances.
Also up there: The 1964 race between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater, with its jarring "Daisy Girl" ad. Probably the most famous of all campaign commercials, the ad juxtaposed a little girl plucking the petals off of a flower with a countdown to a nuclear explosion in an attempt to characterize Goldwater as an extremist who couldn't be trusted with America's national security. It aired only once as a paid advertisement, but received far more attention in subsequent news reports.
That doesn't mean campaigns have become more hostile because of the advent of television and, thus, the TV ad, Buell says.
Consider the 1864 race in the midst of the Civil War, in which George McClellan derided President Abraham Lincoln as an "idiot" and a "baboon." Or the 1884 contest between Grover Cleveland (chided by his opponents over allegations that he'd fathered a son out-of-wedlock with the mantra, "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?") and James G. Blaine (accused of using political influence for favors with the slogan: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine. The continental liar from the state of Maine.") Or the 1928 campaign featuring Herbert Hoover and Al Smith, who as the first Catholic to run for president was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and others with seething propaganda.
Geer, for one, doesn't happen to find this year's campaign all that negative at all. Most of the advertisements he's analyzed are "very matter-of-fact: He's going to raise your taxes and not create jobs; he doesn't have the experience to do this or that.
"Thomas Jefferson was attacked as the Anti-Christ in 1800. Andrew Jackson's mother was attacked as being a prostitute. And the country survived and even prospered," he says. "I think we'll weather these storms. I'm not even sure they are storms. It may be just a light rain shower at best or maybe even a little bit of sunshine."
Of course try telling that to American voters, especially those in the swing states seeing more than their fair share of this "sunshine." Listen to four who have grown so annoyed by the negativity in campaign 2012 they've each written (at least) one letter to the editor or newspaper column about the subject.
Their worries extend beyond Election Day, as they wonder what lasting effects the doom and gloom of yet another campaign season might have on an already divided America.
"I'm not an online kind of guy, but you post a couple of things and it spreads like wildfire," says Mark Cann, 64, a retired businessman and Romney supporter who lives just outside of Cincinnati. "It's so easy now to spread negative thoughts or inaccuracies or innuendoes ... that has a lot to do with driving people's thoughts and behaviors and actions.
And then there's the take of George Corneliussen in Montgomery, Ohio. The 62-year-old piano tuner, leaning toward Obama, finds the negativity in this year's campaign not only unpalatable, but downright insulting. "They must have such little faith in the American public understanding what they're saying that they don't even attempt to take an educated route toward winning an election. They go directly to the lowest-common denominator.
"The person who is going to get my vote," he says, "is the person who can show me that they respect Americans in general."
The good news is not one of these voters was so turned off that they actually won't vote. Another half-glass-full way of looking at it: They'll get that chance in only a matter of weeks and then they can, at least until the next election, turn on their TVs without feeling filthy.


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After all the build-up, Ford s Black Monday had a distinctly grayish tinge to it. The Blue Oval Boys bad news bash was pretty much what everyone expected: 30k factory jobs, 4k managerial position and 14 factories scythed from Henry s North American operations. The fine print was, of course, exceedingly fine. To wit: no mention was made of the United Auto Workers (UAW) contract, which guarantees that not one Ford assembly worker will find themselves on the street without a significant payoff. If you thought that this iron-clad income protection program would stimulate the union to show a little magnanimity towards Ford s recovery effort, think again.
The restructuring plan announced this morning by Ford is extremely disappointing and devastating news for the many thousands of hardworking men and women who have devoted their working lives to Ford. The impacted hourly and salaried workers find themselves facing uncertain futures because of senior management's failure to halt Ford's sliding market share.
Union boss Big Ron Gettelfinger s opening gambit makes the UAW sound like a WASPy father contemplating his son s pregnancy-inducing dalliance with the maid s daughter — or worse ( I m disappointed in you Fredo ). His condescending tone also implies that Ford s cost-cutting is a betrayal of the UAW workers selfless dedication to the company s corporate welfare. Obviously, the union missed the whole Wall Street thing, where the average American learned that greed is good, employers don t really give a shit about their employees and it s every man for himself.
Less surprising: Big Ron s decision to immediately and unequivocally blame Ford s senior management for the workers uncertain future (as opposed to the future guaranteed by your friendly neighborhood labor union). I guess there s no UAW in team.
The announcement has further left a cloud hanging over the entire work force because of pending future announcements of additional facilities to be closed at some point in the future. Unfortunately, analyst and media speculation during the last month has made these events even more wrenching for Ford workers, their families and communities.
If the UAW builds cars like its officers write sentences, it s no wonder Ford s behind the proverbial eight ball. I haven t encountered a sentence that clunky since I stopped reading badly translated in-flight articles.
Although we get the union s overarching desire to paint their members as victims, why did the UAW take such a cheap shot at the media and analysts? Surely the union s us vs. them, circle the wagons philosophy shouldn t extend to the two groups whose support could help further their cause.
The announced plant closings and future announcements are the subject of ongoing discussions with Ford. Certainly, today's announcement will only make the 2007 negotiations all the more difficult and all the more important.
Just in case you haven t picked-up on his the fat lady isn t even in the house yet tone, Big Ron spells it out: have your fun now Mr. Baby Face Mark Fields; we ll see what s what and who s who in 07. There s also a clear implication that Ford had no business changing anything about the size of its business without the union s say-so — and will pay dearly for their presumption.
Like the 2002 plan, Ford's new 'Way Forward' is based on cutting jobs and closing facilities to 'align' Ford's production capacity with shrinking demand for Ford's vehicles. Then, as now, the focus should instead be on striving to gain market share in this competitive market by offering consumers innovative and appealing products.
Note the quotation marks around the word align; sarcasm is alive and well within organized labor. In his own special way, Big Ron is twisting the knife in Ford s wound, telling the world that Mr. Blue Oval screwed-up before, he s screwing-up again, and we re taking the fall for HIS lack of innovation (ouch!) and marketing savvy. Again. It s not fair! More to the point, it s got nothing to do with us, mate.
The UAW-represented workers affected by today's action are covered by the job security program and all other provisions and protections of the UAW-Ford National Agreement. Our union will rigorously enforce those programs.
Ford s new go-go management team might have an aversion to telling the truth about their rescue plan s fine print, but the UAW does not. On the crucial point of who s going to suffer financially in this restructuring thing, Big Ron s got a message for Ford: don t even THINK about fucking with us. In fact, if the statement s last paragraph was its only paragraph, the message would have been sufficient. Make that more than sufficient
[Jalopnik s Between the Lines column parses the rhetoric of the automotive industry, from the point of view of that kid at the back of the class with ADD, a genius IQ and a thirst for mayhem.]
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A couple of years ago, i was sat at work one Friday morning listening to the radio 1 Dj competition. I remember it so well, because there was a Blackpool lad on. It's not often we get on the news or radio, unless it's a bad news!
Danny Howard was the Dj and he wiped the floor with his competition. His prize ended up being the prize that just keeps giving. Warmup slot at Ushuaia for the radio 1 weekend, followed by an invite to play at space the same night, if i remember rightly, he ended up doing a 6 hour set in there. The following year offered more gigs, a Radio show and more of a season in Ibiza.
In 2013, Danny has decent summer schedule for his Ibiza gigs.
I feel a bit guilty starting this blog post off talking about him as though he is a competition winner because he is now far from that. It's a fairy tale with an amazing ending though, i don't know Danny personally (though there is probably a connection through mates, Blackpool inst that big!) though it seems like the boy next door has done good!
Enough of the sentimental guff, Go and check Danny out this summer if you're in Ibiza. He has already played Pacha this season and the pre party on Mambos for which he appeared on Mambo TV.
So far i have the following dates for Danny
- Friday 5th July – Judgement, Ibiza
- Friday 12th July – Judgement, Ibiza
- Friday 19th July – Judgement, Ibiza
- Monday 22nd July – Pacha, Ibiza
- Friday 2nd August – Judgement, Ibiza
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We are a group of business professionals, who participate in various transactions, such as real estate, commodities, and paper (buying and selling loans), and also in the education of individuals in these areas. We've been in business for 30+ years and are in the process of developing a new website to facilitate a new business idea.
The website will allow our various clients to browse "deals" that are currently available and commit to participate in those deals, with the benefit of being educated throughout and about the transactional process. Several clients may participate in a single deal, making the concept of cooperation and synergy an important part of what we are trying to accomplish and convey.
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Jumping your car seems like an awesome idea at the time, but it can go easily, hilariously wrong.
We already know the greatest car jump videos ever made and Hollywood's best car jumps, but today we saw a dude crunch the crap out of his Ford Raptor (pictured above). Just a few weeks back we saw a guy nose-dive a Ford Mustang.
Now we're wondering what's the most humorously unfortunate car jump video you've ever seen? Post your favorite YouTube link in Kinja below.
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I recently stumbled across an awesome website called Entrepreneur.com and I was particularly interested in one article and want to start sharing these thoughts and giving my own personal and visual interpretations of these "50 Thoughts That Can Motivate You To Do Anything"
#26 – Many good ideas seem crazy or impossible at first.
"Yours is no different."
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Muscle Cars and Teddy Bears bring joy to kids of all ages
Photos (left): NBC Tonight Show host and car enthusiast Jay Leno poses with Barry Walker after a taping of Jay Leno's Garage. Walker's 1967 Ford Shelby GT-500 is featured on millions of Muscle Car Stamps. (Right): Divide, CO, Postmaster Monica Deluca along with Teller County Sheriff Mike Emsinger with some of the postal bears that were purchased by the public to help emergency personnel gain children's trust in stressful situations.
In this episode, learn how the Postal Service's Muscle Cars Forever stamps and "In the Mailbox" Teddy Bears bring smiles to young and old alike. You'll hear from the California owner of one 1960s-era hot rod featured on the Postal Service's popular set of Muscle Car Forever stamps.
You'll also hear the heartwarming story of a Colorado community putting postal teddy bears to work as children's ambassadors for local sheriff's deputies. A roundup of postal headlines concludes the program -- along with a chance to win a free collectible folder featuring a sheet of 2011's Indianapolis 500 Forever stamps.
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"Nature is the first ethical teacher of humanity."— Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer.
Sometimes, while advocating for ecology and peace, I spend too much time with books and computer screens and not enough time with the real teacher.
My home is on the west coast of Canada, and - like communities worldwide - here we're struggling against an incessant assault on our remaining wilderness. Recently I visited one of our endangered wild landscapes, Bute Inlet, where General Electric and its local partner want to convert 17 creeks and rivers into electrical power plants. They call this 'green energy'.
The plan would see river beds bulldozed, water diverted through massive pipes, and turbines installed to generate about 1,000 megawatts of power capacity. To export the electricity, GE would clear-cut hundreds of kilometres of forest for transmission lines. This massive destruction of nature is only the beginning. The power companies have their eyes on 700 western Canadian watersheds. We have groups – such as the B.C. Citizens for Public Power, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Greenpeace, Watershed Watch, and the B.C. Rivers Alliance – working to save these watersheds. We're up against a lot of money, influence peddling and corruption. Like other communities throughout the world, we're working every day to preserve our wilderness, and sometimes the struggle feels overwhelming. It helps, however, to actually spend time inside the wilderness one is attempting to preserve. Wild places can still teach us essential lessons about why we're doing this work, why Greenpeace exists, and why we all get up every day and go back to the struggle to save what is left of wild nature. Watershed values Forty years ago, during the early Greenpeace campaigns, we were all volunteers. We had very little money and were usually in debt. Nevertheless, by staging the campaigns at sea and on land, we received a priceless education from nature. Today, Greenpeace campaigns provide volunteers and crews with this same extraordinary gift. I learned the best and most important ecology lessons by spending time with harp seals on the ice floes; with whales in the ocean; with dolphins and flying fish, sea turtles and sharks; with rivers, trees, mountain goats and caribou. In wild, undisturbed forests I discovered what ecology really means. In nature, we witness the strengths and weaknesses of every creature, the power and vulnerability of nature's ecosystems, the micro-habitats that support unique species, the symbiosis within each ecological community, and the tireless service of moths, bugs, worms and wolves. As I kayaked into the Bute wilderness, I recalled that feeling of living within the embrace of wild nature. I felt a great relief in the comfort of nature's care - the ocean and forest appear to possess an intelligence and magnificence beyond anything that humans could ever reproduce. As we walked up the rocky beach and hiked through a thick valley, I witnessed the river as a living system. A bush pilot once told me that he could identify good salmon streams from the air by the dark green ribbons weaving through the forest. He didn't have to be a biologist to notice the effect of nutrient circulation by a river. Falling, splashing, churning rivers create moist, productive riparian zones, cradles of life that link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The rivers circulate nutrients and provide transportation highways for wildlife. When a salmon or trout swims upstream, it carries nutrients with it. Bears and racoons carry fish carcasses into the forests, leaving a trail of nutrients. When a single leaf falls into a stream, micro-organisms break it down and distribute the organic wealth downstream, providing food for insect larvae. Crayfish and amphibians eat the larvae and insects. These, in turn, are eaten by fish, birds and mammals. The nutrients are deposited and absorbed into the forest soil and taken back up by the trees to fall and cycle again. This cycle of nutrients produces the ribbons of life that the bush pilot could see from the air. The moist riparian soils provide critical habitat for rushes, sedges, cattails, lilies and certain trees. In our region, willow, dogwood, red cedar and black cottonwood flourish in these moist, northern rainforests. Salmonberry and thimbleberry thrive. Trees and shrubs overhang the rivers and streams, cooling water, soil and air, benefiting fish and invertebrates while limiting algae growth. Tree roots provide structure, collect sediment and strengthen river banks. Fallen trees create pools and special habitats for delicate aquatic species. In most regions of the world, up to 80 per cent of the wildlife depends on rivers and riparian habitats for at least part of their life cycle. The rich animal life starts with the flies, nymphs and beetles, and moves up through the food chain to copepods, amphipods and fish. The rivers provide spawning and nursery habitat for salmon, trout and other anadromous fish, for rare frogs and salamanders, each playing a vital role in stitching together an ecosystem. People and riversOn this day, we saw great blue herons, mallard ducks, pileated woodpeckers and a belted kingfisher diving into pools. In the canopy, we could hear the varied thrushes, song sparrows and the warblers that come north for the summer. These miracles of life represent something more precious than anything that one could buy with money or design with the world's best engineering. Historically, humanity grew up in the lap of nature in such river valleys. Our ancestors were born in the watersheds and spent their entire lives living from the bounty of watersheds. I feel fortunate to have met indigenous communities who still today live from the bounty of their watersheds. It remains a particular illusion of our industrial age that we will gain 'sustainability' by converting our last wild watersheds into power plants to fuel more human consumption. Human settlements traditionally flourished along rivers for very good reasons: abundant food, clean water, material resources and transportation corridors. Even in our modern world, rivers provide ecosystem services that may not appear obvious. Rivers purify water for human use. The soils filter and store water during high rainfall and prevent floods. Riparian vegetation controls erosion and sequesters carbon, while soil micro-organisms break down contaminants and release nutrients.Wild watersheds still provide services, education, pleasure and inspiration to our communities. Even in settled regions, rivers provide parks and greenways, enhancing community value.Human environments can obscure our connection to nature. Many of us live in environments entirely dominated by human design, paved, built up or trampled underfoot. Whenever we are fortunate enough to find ourselves in non-human environments, something inside us comes alive. We remember something that we cannot define or control, something beyond us that provides for us. A great weight lifts from our busy minds. This feeling is the genetic memory of living inside nature's care.
Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
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were all connected. Another exemple of this is how wolfs disapearence in yellow stone ended up resulting in tree that stoped growing !
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were all connected. Another exemple of this is how wolfs disapearence in yellow stone ended up resulting in tree that stoped growing !
But in our century, and with individualism and reason we have cut ourselves from nature, from our primary dependance on it.
turning it only into resources.
But there is to be happy to see all these people , that feel this urge to reconnect to the earth.
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Absolutely right! Unfortunately, every bit of mother nature in most places (like my locality) are becoming like Disneyland, largely commercialized. Bu...
Absolutely right! Unfortunately, every bit of mother nature in most places (like my locality) are becoming like Disneyland, largely commercialized. Business interests has stolen her from us. Only rich people can enjoy it's rejuvenating beauty.
Profiteers makes life for us (poor people) more miserable by taking away our only relief, our last "sanctuary".
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When I think Green Living, my first thought is not about what the World Bank is doing. But because they are behind so many international infrastructure, lending and development projects, how they view green development protocols and initiatives is important. When you live off the grid, it becomes part of your persona. It is part of your identity; one way you might describe yourself to strangers. Off-gridders take personal pride in their ability to make their own power, be energy efficient, and live without the gadgets many Americans take for granted as part of life.
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WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he will appoint Julia Pierson to become the first woman to head up the U.S. Secret Service.
Pierson will succeed Mark Sullivan, who has been director since 2006. Sullivan announced his retirement last month.
"Over her 30 years of experience with the Secret Service, Julia has consistently exemplified the spirit and dedication the men and women of the service demonstrate every day," Obama said in announcing his intention to appoint Pierson director.
"Julia is eminently qualified to lead the agency that not only safeguards Americans at major events and secures our financial system but also protects our leaders and our first families, including my own."
Pierson began her career in the Secret Service, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, in its Miami and Orlando, Fla., field offices. She also has served as deputy assistant director of the Office of Protective Operations, assistant director of Human Resources and Training and most recently as the director's chief of staff.
"Julia has had an exemplary career and I know these experiences will guide her as she takes on this new challenge to lead the impressive men and women of this important agency," the president said.
Sullivan's tenure was marred last year by allegations that about a dozen agents, along with military personnel, had been involved with prostitutes while on assignment in Colombia ahead of a presidential visit.


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Jeep Trail Ride - Below The RadarPosted in Events on January 1, 2008
New Mexico is full of great adventure trails and rockcrawling destinations. Most everyone knows about Farmington and Las Cruces and the huge events that take place in those towns, but what about the rest of the state? The Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico covers 1.5 million acres, and it is only one of five national forests in the state. This area is located two hours north of Albuquerque and is best known as the home of Georgia O'Keefe's Ghost Ranch. O'Keefe was a famous Southwestern artist who drew much of her inspiration from the dramatic cliffs and red rocks of northern New Mexico.
This past summer, we joined the Creeper Jeepers Gang to explore part of the Carson National Forest near the town of Abiquiu (pronounced ah-bee-cue). Like Georgia O'Keefe, the Creeper Jeepers Gang was looking for inspiration. Instead of canvas or clay, the Creeper Jeepers work in CJs, YJs, and TJs. During our March visit, the temperatures hovered in the 70s during the day and stayed warm enough at night that primitive camping was still comfortable.
We began on a sunny Saturday morning by unloading Jeeps from trailers and heading out to Area 155 just east of town. As the name implies, this was more of a play area than an actual trail. The terrain was made up of the eroded Cubero Member, which is a soft, white sandstone containing many gullies and ledges. This area, like most of the trails around Abiquiu, was developed by the Sandia Jeep Club in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service. After testing suspensions and locking differentials, the group stopped for lunch under the sparse shade offered by the native pinion trees. From there, we caravanned north on an unmarked dirt two-track. No one knew where the trail led, but we took the opportunity to explore until waning daylight and fuel forced us back the way we came. After a full day on the trail, part of the group headed back to set up camp for the night while others stayed at the nearby Las Parras de Abiquiu Bed & Breakfast.
Sunday morning, the boldest Jeepers gathered to attempt The Webb. In contrast to the soft sandstone Cubero Member of Saturday, this trail winds through an arroyo filled with fractured, iron-rich boulders and ledges. Although our group of vehicles had been reduced from twelve to five, the pace was still slow due to the difficulty of the terrain. The rocks shifted under the rigs as they crawled forward, making the "line" different for each vehicle in the group. As the day carried on, egos were put aside and the straps and winch cables came out. Amazingly, no breakage had occurred up until this point. That was before we saw the exit from The Webb, which consisted of a steep, loose climb from the arroyo to the power-line road along the ridge. To successfully ascend the hill, transfer cases were shifted into High range and the tires began to spin. Although some vehicles were able to make the climb unassisted, most needed the help of the cable and one stub shaft was sacrificed in the process.
In addition to the breathtaking views, another appeal of the trails around Abiquiu is their proximity to paved roads. The broken Jeep was simply driven in 2WD from the power-line road to the tow rig and loaded on the trailer. As we said our goodbyes, it was obvious that the Creeper Jeepers Gang was inspired by this area and will return soon. Now that we know what Abiquiu has to offer, we plan to do the same.


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School bus and truck collide -- no drivers present
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- Police don't plan to cite the drivers of a truck and school bus which crashed in western Pennsylvania.
But only because neither vehicle had a driver when they wrecked.
Police in Patterson Township tell the Beaver County Times (http://bit.ly/UBPOwQ) the incident happened just before 10 a.m. Tuesday when the parked bus began to roll down a hill. Police aren't sure why that happened, because the driver had engaged the parking brake.
The bus rear-ended a parked truck, which also began rolling down the hill alongside the bus, until the truck flipped onto its side. The bus continued on, shearing off one utility pole and hitting another before rolling to a stop a few feet from the porch of a home.
Nobody was hurt.
Patterson Township is about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.


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When I asked readers for "neglected topics" that journalists should cover more in 2014, one of the suggestions was a delicate but vital topic: family breakdown and the rise of single-parent households.
This is an issue that, frustratingly, the right has hijacked and the left has been reluctant to confront. Yet it's intimately related to poverty in our country.
"It isn't politically correct to call attention to the effects of the increase in single women giving birth," wrote Colton, one reader who suggested the topic. "Three important effects are the greatly increased incidence of long-term poverty, poor development outcomes and poor educational achievement among the children."
"Our hesitancy to face the problem may result from fear of accusations of being moralists, racists, anti-woman, anti-freedom, supporting government decisions into personal decisions," Lucinda noted.
Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else. Children raised by a single parent are more than three times as likely to live in poverty as those raised by two parents, according to census data.
After Daniel Patrick Moynihan raised the issue in 1965 in the context of black families, he was condemned in liberal circles as intolerant if not racist. Over time, though, there has been a growing appreciation that he was ahead of his time, and as the Urban Institute notes, the percentage of white babies born to unwed mothers is now the same as it was for black babies when he sounded his alarm.
Yet if the issue is critical, it often emerges as part of a narrative that hectors the poor for their poverty. Republicans focus on "personal irresponsibility" or suggest that there's nothing to be done about poverty until "those people" stop having kids outside of marriage.
As I see it, conservatives are right in their diagnosis that the issue is critical in addressing poverty, but they are wrong in their prescriptions, while liberals are often too politically correct to address the issue at all.
First, the backdrop. At last count in the United States, almost 36 percent of births were to unmarried women, according to census data. The birthrate for unmarried women is up 80 percent since 1980.
Furthermore, census data show that a majority of high school dropouts having babies are unmarried; only 9 percent of college graduates are. Two-thirds of black women giving birth are unmarried; just over a quarter of white women are.
Of course, what matters isn't whether the parents have a marriage certificate but whether they are partners who are both committed to raising children they want and love. An Australian study found gay parenting had better outcomes on average, apparently because gay couples don't have kids by accident.
Conservatives blame war-on-poverty welfare programs for undermining marriage. Academic studies indicate that this effect, while real, is small. The percentage of births to single mothers has been rising steadily in the United States (and other countries) since the 1940s.
Republicans tried "marriage promotion" initiatives during the administration of George W. Bush, and these are worth testing, but, so far, they have failed the litmus test. They didn't work. However, there are several steps that we could take:
■ First is to expand family planning so that teenagers and young adults don't have babies they don't want and are ill-prepared to care for. Four out of five teenage pregnancies are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute. It's promising that a randomized trial found that the Carrera pregnancy prevention curriculum in low-income schools reduced teen births by half. Family-planning initiatives save taxpayer money now spent on health care and the safety net, yet, after inflation, America's investment in Title X family planning has fallen some 70 percent since 1980. That's crazy.
■ Second is to end America's disastrous experiment in mass incarceration. We quintupled incarceration rates since the 1970s, according to the Pew Center on the States, and, thus condemned millions of men — often men of color or with low incomes — to life at the margins and made them much less attractive as husbands. If the family has broken down, we helped break it.
■ Third is to back outreach efforts and job programs that give young people a lift and a stake in the future. Programs like Nurse-Family Partnership that work with low-income mothers have a proven track record of keeping families together. Likewise, an evaluation found that of young mothers in an Illinois outreach effort called Options for Youth, 97 percent delayed a subsequent pregnancy.
Talk about personal responsibility! It's irresponsible on our part to fail to take these steps.
So, readers, thanks for raising this issue. And let's address it not with platitudes but with proven policies that don't just hail the family but also strengthen it.


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New research commissioned by Greenpeace International shows that residues of the hazardous chemicals nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) - used in textile manufacturing - remain in many clothing items sold by major international clothing brands and, when washed, a significant percentage of the chemicals in these clothes is released and subsequently discharged into rivers, lakes and seas, where they turn into the even more toxic and hormone-disrupting chemical nonylphenol (NP).
This can happen wherever in the world clothing items are sold and washed, and means that brands are making their consumers unwitting accomplices in the release of these hazardous substances into public water supplies.
This is the first ever study to investigate differences in the amounts of NPEs in fabric products before and after washing, as far as we are aware, and the results have major implications for brands and governments - demonstrating that the direct pollution impacts of the textile sector extend far beyond the country of manufacture and are creating a global cycle of toxic pollution.
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The Twin Cities Lightroom User Group will meet Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from 7-9PM.
Topics and speakers include:
Rick Spaulding will talk about the latest in digital SLR equipment – everything from camera bodies, to lenses and flashes.
Rikk Flohr, professional photographer and trainer, will discuss his Lightroom HDR worklow and using external editors in Lightroom – including Enfuse and the Photomatix LR Plugin.
Craig Marble, Senior Lightroom QE Lead, will give out some insider tips about presets in Lightroom.
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Researcher finds a new role for the benefits of oxygen
In a study published in published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, a Dartmouth researcher found that dying heart cells are kept alive with spikes of oxygen.
During a heart attack when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of the heart is interrupted, and not quickly restored, heart muscle begins dying. Deprived of oxygen and other essential nutrients, cell death continues occurring over a period of time leading to progressive loss of heart function and congestive heart failure.
Current therapies are not effective at limiting cell loss—they only slow down the progression of congestive heart failure.
Periannan Kuppusamy, PhD, professor of radiology at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, found that dying heart cells still contain enough oxygen for metabolism, and additional short-term spikes of oxygen keep the cells alive and active.
His research team used an animal model of acute myocardial infarction and discovered that daily administration of a higher concentration of oxygen for a short period of time each day induced spikes in myocardial oxygenation, which prevented myocardial injury.
"We all know that oxygen is crucial for survival, but it is intriguing to know that the same oxygen can be used like a drug to treat disease," Kuppusamy says.
Curious about the molecular mechanism of oxygen in treating myocardial injury, he began examining the effect of oxygen on p53, a transcription factor that regulates cell cycle and triggers programmed cell death. To his surprise he saw the 'oxygen spikes' altering the function of p53 from a death-inducing protein, to promoting transcription of genes that help dying cardiac cells survive.
Kuppusamy sees a link between the results of the present study to the age-old practice of breathing exercises for human well-being. He says, "Controlled breathing can increase tissue oxygenation, and if practiced on a daily basis, can lead to suppression of disease progression."
His research at Dartmouth also focusses on the effect of oxygen in cancer therapy.
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Replication of the SQL database is a core function of Cisco CallManager clusters. The server with the master copy of the database is called the publisher, while the servers that replicate the database are called subscribers.
In the event that your subscriber stops the replication of data from the publisher, you need to rebuild the publisher/subscriber relationship(s). In order to do this, go into the SQL Server database and manually rebuild the subscription.
This is a list of possible symptoms if the subscriber stops replicating from the publisher:
Changes that are made on the publisher are not reflected on phones that are registered with the subscriber.
Outbound calls fail on phones registered with the subscriber. As soon as you dial 9, you hear a re-order tone.
Call Forward All (CFwdALL) does not work.
IP phone displays Error Database.
Note: Refer to Using DBLHelper to Reestablish a Broken Cisco CallManager Cluster SQL Subscription for more information.
This document assumes that the SQL Administrator (sa) account password is available for both the publisher and subscriber.
The information in this document is based on these software versions:
Cisco CallManager 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2
Note: If you have Cisco CallManager version 3.3, refer to Reestablishing a Broken CallManager Cluster SQL Subscription with Cisco CallManager 3.3.
The information presented in this document was created from devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If you work in a live network, ensure that you understand the potential impact of any command before you use it.
Refer to the Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.
Complete these steps in order to reestablish the relationship between the two systems. First, the subscription of the subscriber needs to be recreated on the publisher. Then, the subscription needs to be deleted and recreated on the subscriber system.
Complete these steps:
On the publisher, select Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 > Enterprise Manager in order to start the SQL Enterprise Manager.
The subscription can be recreated from the publisher. Under Microsoft SQL Server, select New SQL Server Registration...
The Register SQL Server Wizard appears.
Make sure that the From now on I want to perform the task without using a wizard is not checked. Click Next.
The other SQL servers that reside on the Cisco CallManagers need to appear in the Additional Servers box.
Select all servers and Add them to the Added servers box. Click Next.
Select The SQL Server login information that was assigned to me by the system administrator and click Next.
Use the "sa" account and password for the subscriber system on the next window.
Note: This is the sa account and password from the SUBSCRIBER system. The password is selected when the subscriber system is installed.
Choose the option to Add the SQL server(s) to the existing SQL Server group in the Select SQL Server Group window. The Group name chosen here is SQL Server Group.
Click Finish.
The status of the addition of the added server(s) displays.
The message states "Registered successfully". Click Close.
Something like this window appears.
If you see the two servers listed, it means that they are recognized by the publisher. Data can be shared with these servers.
Complete these steps:
Under the Enterprise Manager, navigate to the SQL Server tree and locate the Publication for the CCM0301 database (Microsoft SQL Servers > SQL Server Group > Machine_name > Databases > CCM0301 > Publications). Select the Cisco CallManager subscription that fails and delete the entry.
Caution: Select the area as shown by the arrow in this graphic. Do not delete the book icon on the left.
There is a warning that indicates that the subscription is removed at the publisher, but not the subscriber. Click Yes if you want to connect to the subscriber and delete the subscription.
The next message indicates that the subscription is deleted but the data is not deleted. Click OK.
Complete these steps:
The subscription must be added back into the subscriber SQL server. Select the SQL server name of the subscriber that you just deleted from the publisher. In this configuration, the publisher is AVVID_LAB_PUB and the subscriber is AVVID_LAB_SUB1. You have just deleted the AVVID_LAB_SUB1 subscription from the AVVID_LAB_PUB publication. In order to resubscribe to the publication, choose the AVVID_LAB_SUB1 SQL server and select the CCM0301 database. Right-click to get the menu. Then select New > Pull Subscription from the menu.
Note: Always choose the latest version of the database, not the earlier (CCM0301 in this example) version.
Click Next when the Pull Subscription Wizard appears.
On the Choose Publication window, expand the publisher (which needs to be listed) and select the CCM0301 database. Click Next.
Select Using SQL Server Authentication of this account on the Specify Synchronization Agent Login window
. The login name is sa and the password is the same password as the publishers 'sa' account.
Select Yes, make this an immediate-updating subscription(s) on the Specify Immediate-Updating Subscription(s) window. Then click Next.
Select Yes, initialize the schema and data at the Subscriber on the Initialize Subscription window and click Next.
Select Continuously on the Set Distribution Agent Schedule window and click Next.
The next step verifies that both the SQL server agent and the Microsoft DTC services run. Click Next.
Click Finish on the Completing the Pull Subscription Wizard window.
The Wizard sets up the subscription and displays a success when completed.
The Wizard sets up the subscription.
A display that indicates success appears when the process completes.
Now that the subscription is created, the snapshot agent must be run in order to get the data out to the subscriber for synchronization. Select the publisher SQL server and navigate to Replication Monitor > Publishers > Machine_name >CCM0301 subscription. Select the Snapshot entry and choose Start. The snapshot agent runs at this point. It takes about three to five minutes to complete the task. Once the snapshot agent completes, the pull agent starts to apply the snapshot to the subscriber. This takes another three to five minutes.
Once the pull subscription completes, on the publisher, select the subscriber SQL server and open the pull subscriptions for the CCM0301 database. The subscription needs to be in an active state and it needs to wait for updates.
Note: If the last action still reads "Waiting for snapshot agent to become available", press F5 in order to refresh the screen.
At this time, the subscriber is now resynchronized with the publisher and updates are recorded in the local subscriber SQL database.
Complete the steps:
Create a device on the publishing server that is easily recognizable to test the propagation of data. Click Insert.
The device does not need to be functional. Click Update and Close.
Go into the SQL Enterprise Manager, expand the SQL subscriber in question and look in the database table to see if the new device is present.
The more recognizable the device is, the easier it is to find.


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Ever stopped to notice pretty handwritten signs at a butcher shop, faded needlepoint words at an antique store, or bold lettering at a drycleaner? In conjunction with our Favorite Hangouts theme, show us detail shots of type in the signs, streets, and storefronts in your community.
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One of the first records of the name was Guillaume Longue-Épée (c. 893-942), also known as William Longsword. He was the second ruler of Normandy, from 927 until his assassination in 942 when he was ambushed and killed by followers of Arnulf while at a peace conference to settle their differences. He was son of the Viking Rollo (c.846-930), the first ruler of Normandy.
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The flood of formaldehyde litigation against travel trailer manufacturers who provided emergency housing after hurricanes struck the Gulf Coast in 2005 rose noticeably higher this month in Baton Rouge, La., federal court as 16 new suits were filed in a two-week period by hundreds of former or current trailer occupants, according to The Advocate, Baton Rouge.
Those plaintiffs say in their suits that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided them trailers in the Baton Rouge area after the hurricanes wrecked their homes.
Scores of manufacturers are named as defendants in those suits.
The New Orleans attorney for the plaintiffs is Lawrence J. Centola Jr., who did not return repeated phone calls to his office last week seeking comment on the development.
Another attorney and an environmentalist said they believe this second surge of complaints resulted from a year-old report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
That report reveals that formaldehyde levels in some of the travel trailers were six times greater than "the level at which health effects have been described in sensitive persons."
CDC officials noted the National Institutes of Health National Toxicology Program does not list formaldehyde as a known cancer agent, but classifies the substance as "reasonably anticipated to be a carcinogen in humans."
The CDC also noted that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (AARC) concluded five years ago that formaldehyde is "carcinogenic (cancer-causing) to humans."
The IARC believes formaldehyde causes cancer of nasal and other air passages in humans, CDC officials said in their report.
Baton Rouge lawyer Winston Decuir Jr., who is not involved in the formaldehyde suits, said the public release of the CDC report could be argued to have begun the one-year deadline for trailer residents to file suits for formaldehyde damages.
Under Louisiana law, "prescription" (known as the statute of limitations in other states) begins when someone becomes aware that he or she has been injured by another person or entity, Decuir explained.
"Generally, the prescriptive period is one year from the date the person becomes aware of it or should have become aware of it," said Decuir, who has extensive experience in federal court in Baton Rouge.
"Prescription cannot run against a person who is not aware of the problem," Decuir said. "If you're unaware that formaldehyde is in the trailer, a civil suit is still possible once you know there is a problem."
Wilma Subra, a New Iberia-based environmental consultant, is not working with any of the attorneys in the formaldehyde litigation.
Subra, who holds master's degrees in microbiology and chemistry from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, said she is convinced the CDC report of July 2008 lit the fuse for this month's explosion of civil suits.
"They finally admitted that there are health problems associated with formaldehyde," Subra said.
"It's in the composite boards, the plywood and particle board," said Subra, who often works with community groups seeking information about environmental hazards. "And the glue often is the source of much of the formaldehyde."
She said the hurricane homeless felt for years that state and federal officials "ignored their complaints that they were made ill by the trailers."
The federal government is a defendant in massive, ongoing formaldehyde litigation in federal court in New Orleans.
In the merging of dozens of those suits into one case, attorneys for FEMA and the manufacturers and other contractors who worked on the trailers deny responsibility for any formaldehyde damages.
Attorneys for both sides of that litigation did not return calls made to their offices last week for comment.
Subra continues to see signs of progress, though.
"The big thing is the Environmental Protection Agency is looking at what quantities of formaldehyde are in the boards," Subra said.
She said the EPA is considering adoption of California's tougher limits on formaldehyde levels in wood products.
"In California, you know what you're buying," Subra said. "It's labeled."


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The Story Behind Michelle Obama's Oscars Appearance
(LOS ANGELES) -- While everyone knows that the spy-thriller Argo won best picture, thanks to first lady Michelle Obama's presentation of the award on Sunday, it turns out that her appearance was a bit of a secret operation itself.
Producers of the Academy Awards are revealing the lengths they went to in order to get Mrs. Obama to appear in the ceremony and to keep her appearance a surprise until the last second.
Producer Craig Zadan told The Hollywood Reporter that the idea for Mrs. Obama's appearance was first pitched by Harvey Wienstein's daughter Lily. The producers liked the idea, and flew out to the White House in secret, telling many of their colleagues that they were going to New York instead. They kept the details of the trip and their plans off of any manifests and program runs to prevent leaks.
When asked, the first lady agreed immediately, saying that it was a great idea, and noting that the first family watches movies at the White House all the time in the private theatre. Obama and the producers then surveyed various rooms of the White House to decide where she should broadcast from.
Obama was introduced by film legend Jack Nicholson on the Dolby Theatre stage in Los Angeles. Nicholson had a second envelope with the winner in it, in case a technical error with the connection upset their well-laid plans.
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As part of a new multi-part series, we're taking an in-depth look at the American drum and bass scene. Getting things started, our US correspondent Melissa chatted with Method One, an "elder statesmen of the American drum & bass scene" who's been in the game since 1992. The seasoned DJ, producer, and label front man took the chance to talk about his introduction to drum and bass, how the US and global scenes have changed over the years, as well as commenting on what's both right and wrong with the D&B of today. He also shared a few choice words about dubstep and piracy, while sharing some sage advice for those looking to break in to the scene….
TiD&B: What got you interested in music?
Method One: I didn't have any formal training; I just started experimenting. I have always been very much into art, but around high school I got tired of all the classes and rules and wanted to go in a different direction. So I decided to try my hand at music.
One thing I loved about the early days of techno was that there weren't any rules. The whole genre came out of a bunch of people with a DIY aesthetic; making music in their bedrooms with whatever gear they could scrape together. It was a kind of punk rock philosophy around the premise of not needing to follow rules or have proper music training. Now, over the years, my priorities have changed. Obviously for the type of music I do, I rely on chord progression and layers and synth elements, so I have learned over the years what works and what doesn't. These days, I like the idea of trying to write music as opposed to just sound collages, though I do miss the innocence of those early times.
I got started in music by playing keyboard for various awful high school bands, but when I was at home I was listening to electronic artists like 808 State, New Order and Depeche Mode. I tried my hand at writing terrible techno, but what really clicked for me was going to the University of Richmond in 1992. There was a British exchange student on the college radio station who had a crate of hardcore records like The Prodigy, Suburban Base and Production House – just really good underground dance music. I ended up buying some used turntables and some records and started working those sounds into my original music projects. The stuff I really liked was the classic hardcore and breakbeat stuff that eventually evolved into jungle and then drum and bass.
There was a good small scene in Richmond, but in those days, the places to go were Baltimore and Washington DC. Back in the 90s, Baltimore was one of the best scenes in the country. It had Fever on Thursdays, Scott Henry, the Ultraworld shows…so much going on!
TiD&B: Your first big break was your remix of Deee-Lite's 'Call Me' in 1994 – how did that come about?
Method One: I had given my demo cassette to Deee-Lite's DJ at an Ultraworld campout rave in Maryland, and they apparently listened to it later on the tour bus. One day out of the blue, my roommate told me Lady Miss Kier was on the phone and I thought he was joking..it was actually her.
TiD&B: Would you say as an American it was much harder to get a start in drum and bass?
Method One: It was definitely harder. Now everyone is easily connected through the internet, so it's a little different these days. But back in the early '90s, before Facebook, Myspace and Soundcloud, to push my music, I had to hand out demo tapes when DJs were in the States for gigs. Or, I had to send music to UK label addresses that may or may not have listened; I had no way to follow up.
Especially in those days, many people thought drum and bass was a uniquely British thing. In a way, it's like how some Americans have traditionally looked at rap and said, "Why would we want to listen to an English guy throwing rhymes around?" Abroad they thought, "Why are Americans trying to come up and ruin this thing [drum and bass] we created?" Things are much different now, you have producers from across the globe and it's commonly accepted.
TiD&B: Once you got your foot in the door, how did it progress from there?
Method One: I ended up doing a lot of DJing all across the East Coast while keeping up with production on the side. I moved to the Philly area where I helped run Konkrete Jungle in the late '90s, and had a few releases here and there. I worked a lot with Kaos under the name Atlantiq and we both moved to California in 1999. From that point on, things happened pretty quickly. I signed some tunes to Nexus and some local labels like Elite and True Intent.
After the Atlantiq partnership dissolved, I focused on my solo career and had a breakthrough around 2004. From then, I've had a pretty consistent flow of releases on labels such as on 31 Records, a collaboration with Seba on Secret Operations and other releases on Vampire, Absys, Covert Operations, Red Mist, Offworld, and my own Levitated Recordings label.
Right now, I'm doing a lot of work for ASC's Auxiliary. I'm doing less D&B…well, it's at drum and bass tempo, but it's something that can't be easily categorised. It's more for listening instead of the dance floor, as I look to incorporate new influences and work in a new direction. I terms of my latest work, I recently released a 12" on Auxiliary as part of the Symbol series and have a tune on a Vampire digital compilation.
TiD&B: You're now based in San Francisco, what's the drum and bass scene like there?
Method One: San Francisco has gone through ups and downs as far as D&B goes. There's a core group that is committed to putting on quality shows and bringing in top talent, but it's not as consistent as it used to be. It's been impressive what Lukeino of Bachelors of Science has done with his Sunday (Stamina) weekly – he's been putting his heart and soul into that, and it shows. There's a great amount of talent in this city; you have the Bachelors, Gridlok, Aphonic, Jamal, Warbreaker…all working really hard to make great music.
TiD&B: You mentioned highs and lows…
Method One: Back in the early 00s, drum and bass was going off so hard in San Francisco that there would sometimes be competing shows the same night and each would get really good crowds. We had D&B headlining some of the most respected venues in the country. Then things calmed down a lot. As with other dance music genres, people moved on to other things – they grew up, got interested in other genres, etc.
It's difficult to describe the ups and downs. San Francisco has really good events but it's not as consistent as it once was in the past, and it's probably the same in a lot of cities right now. Drum and bass isn't exactly the flavor of the month as when Roni Size won the Mercury Prize and everyone was into it as the "next big thing." That said, drum and bass deserves a lot of credit for being around in some form for over 15 years. Whilst not where it was in the past, it still has a committed user base and tons of people trying to break into the music.
It will be interesting to see what happens to dubstep when the inevitable contraction happens…it happens to every genre. I want to know what will happen when the wobble kids grow up and they're not out there living life around the drop anymore. But I'm just an old moody f*ck.
TiD&B: What do you think is the big difference between the US and the rest of the world, when it comes to drum and bass?
Method One: In Europe, people are more receptive to dance music as popular music. American dance music, while still popular to certain crowds, is still a minority in the larger scale of things. For example, in Europe, people are used to Tiësto, almost as if he's a rock star, playing sold out stadiums. In America, even though he's popular, he's not going to be as popular as, say, a top country artist. He will be a popular DJ, but being a popular DJ means spmething different in the US.
Another example: almost every major city in America will have a classic rock radio station, but how many have dance music stations? In America, you're not going to turn on the radio and hear underground dance music. In England, they've been used to this for ages. Look at the Essential Mixes that came out – we never had something like Pete Tong or BBC Radio 1 pushing these sounds. It's all a bit different when it comes to where drum and bass music fits into the pantheon of popular culture.
TiD&B: Who do you think is the most influential US drum and bass artist globally?
Method One: That's a tough one. I'd have to say Gridlok, but there are dozens of US artists putting out solid music.
TiD&B: So after being in the game for 20 years, what are your thoughts about where the global drum and bass scene is today?
Method One: There are too many people chasing after the same style and the same sound, especially the whole kind of steppy, dark, minimalistic roller thing. I happen to like this style, but there's a lot of a paint-by-numbers mentality going on with certain producers, trying too hard to copy the styles of popular artists instead of developing their own voice. If you're making drum and bass and all you listen to is the same genre, then you don't really develop a lot of outside perspective. You react to trends, rather than having a wider view, and wind up making music that sounds exactly like everyone else.
There's a whole palette of music you can put into D&B aside from the obvious reggae/dub and other electronic music genres. One of my biggest influences as a producer is my background as an alternative rock kid, listening to Joy Division, The Cure, Slowdive and so on. It's amusing for me to weave those sounds and memories into my music. Straightforward dance floor tracks have a time and place, but there's a much wider palette available at this tempo.
I'm really enjoying being part of Auxiliary ― it's a very close-knit group of people and since ASC, Sam KDC and myself all bounce ideas off each other, it's easy to get inspired. When I sit down and turn on the gear, all those influences get added in.
TiD&B: What are your favorite hardware or software tools?
Method One: I have a Mac computer with Apple Logic 9 as my main platform, plus a lot of software instruments and some hardware synths as well. I've collected a lot of hardware along the years and there's something to be said about a real synth versus an approximation coming from a computer. A downside of today's technology is that you can get lost in the complexity and sheer number of sounds you can create. You can spend days going through sounds and options. In comparison, if I turn on my Juno 106 it's a much more direct, hands-on process – old gear sometimes forces you to use simple tools, and stripping away the complexities can help you look at things in a different way.
TiD&B: What advice would you give to producers just getting started?
Method One: 1. Take time to develop your own voice.
2. Make sure you listen to a wide range of music outside of D&B and allow yourself to be influenced by it.
3. Remember, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people trying to hustle in the same way you are. Be cool, be friendly. Nobody's entitled to anything so don't expect that you should be.
4. Do music because it comes from the heart. If not, why bother?
TiD&B: Anything else you would like to get off your chest?
Method One: The advent of the Internet has many advantages and disadvantages. We are much more connected, but easy access to music has devalued it in many ways. Piracy is a huge problem in drum and bass, and it goes with an attitude of entitlement that I hear all too often these days. Certain people feel that they are entitled to get music for nothing, and don't really care that such decisions have wide-ranging consequences. When people aren't buying music, the ramifications go up and down the scale ― the artists don't get paid, the labels don't get paid, and the distributors start freaking out and wind up clamping down on both artists and labels. When people refuse to buy music, labels and distributors become less willing to take a chance on unknown artists or non-mainstream sounds. They become less willing to release music on physical formats. They become scared of doing anything risky, because the margins are so razor-thin. You ultimately get a bunch of labels releasing the same stuff and living in fear that the distributor will bring down the axe. Piracy ultimately stifles innovation and strangles any numbers of industries, which is kind of an odd result from people who like to call themselves fans of this music.
As for DJing, if you can't mix live, you shouldn't be up on the stage. Technology is a wonderful thing, but pressing buttons to play a pre-recorded set is play-acting. There's something to be said for spontaneity in what you are presenting to a crowd, and the best DJs are always those who can respond in real time and let the music ― not the image ― do the talking.
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