text: Born in the Miyazaki prefecture in Japan, INO's musical talent emerged at the age of five when he started playing piano. But his remarkable journey began in the year 2002, when he launched his own cafe "Tenement" in Ebisu, Tokyo, his home base for his music project. In 2004, INO launched the label "Innocent Record". It was named by Yasuharu Konishi (Pizzicato five). With his "one artist, one label" policy, it only releases and manages his own music.


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This blog post is not intended to replace the need for legal counsel and there is a lot more to CASL than what I have covered here. The purpose of this post is to raise awareness of the July 1 deadline and give a general idea of what the journey to compliance might entail.
It's a good idea to inventory the sort of communications your company sends out, study the CASL and how it may apply to your business communications, and retain legal counsel to answer your questions.
If you live in or do business in Canada you may have heard the buzz about Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), which goes into effect July 1, 2014.
Brian Curial, Miller Thomson's Alberta Privacy Officer and the firm's Prairie Province CASL Compliance Officer, shared valuable information about CASL at the May Social Media Breakfast Edmonton (SMBYEG). You can view the slides from his presentation at the SMBYEG website. Here are some key points I gleaned from his presentation:
What does CASL regulate?
CASL regulates a broad range of activities including:
- the sending of commercial electronic messages (CEMs)
- the installation of a computer program on another persons' computer system
- altering of transmission in an electronic message
The first bullet point will apply to most businesses, and individuals. A CEM is defined as, an electronic message that, having regard to:
- the content of the message,
- the hyperlinks in the message to a website, or
- the contact information contained in the message,
it would be reasonable to conclude the CEM has, as one of its purposes, to encourage participation in a commercial activity, including marketing, advertising, or promotions.
Because CASL focuses on the message, not the sender, if you are a charity that solicits for donations (non-commercial), you'd be fine but if you are a charity selling tickets (commercial) to a fundraiser, your emails would need to be CASL-compliant. It will be up to you to figure out if your electronic message is commercial or not.
CEMs could be:
- an electronic mail account,
- an instant messaging account,
- a telephone account,
- or any similar account.
This means there are also, potentially, some social media that would be regulated by CASL.
What makes a message compliant with CASL?
According to Brian, there are three key requirements:
- Consent requirements
- Information requirements
- Unsubscribe mechanism
Consent requirements puts the burden of proof on the sender of a CEM to prove they have consent to contact the recipient. You may not use an opt-out consent. Previous consents are not enough to fulfill CASL requirements. Express consent must be "sought separately* for each act contemplated under CASL which means you cannot bundle the request for consent with terms and conditions of use or sale or other types of consent.
Because the burden of proof is on the sender, the sender will need to prove they had expressed consent to contact the recipient. This may be as simple as a field on a newsletter sign-up form that saves the date and consent that was agreed to or as complicated as an unaltered recording of verbal consent that is stored on an internal server somewhere. Please take a look through CASL for more ways to gain consent and how to store it.
Information requirements stipulate that you have to include the following in your CEMs; the purpose of consent, it has to clearly identify the sender and any party it is sent on behalf of, it must have the Sender's contact information (name, company, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail), and it must clearly inform the recipient of their right to unsubscribe from receiving future messages.
The unsubscribe mechanism has to be clear and prominent in the CEM. If a recipient un-subscribes you have 10 days to comply and the un-subscription must be free of charge to the recipient who requested it. Most big newsletter/mailing list companies already have this in place thanks to our American neighbours and their anti-spam laws. However, how this looks for email/text communications is another matter.
How long do I have to comply?
The majority of CASL comes into force July 1, 2014. Check out Brian's excellent slides for all of the relevant dates.
More links:
Canada's Law on Spam and other Electronic Threats
Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation
Compliance and Enforcement Information Bulletin CRTC 2012-548


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As October approaches, all e-commerce websites are gearing up for their festive season sales. This is the time of the year when the average Indian consumer spends the maximum money on products that are heavily discounted.
Here are a few major players in the e-commerce space who are going to offer a lot of deals.
The e-commerce giant has been beating Flipkart in the past few months to gain the first spot in the Indian market, thanks to their regularly-held sales. For the festive season, it is holding the Great Indian Festival Sale from 1 to 5 October.
Apart from discounts on clothing, electronics, accessories and fashion, Amazon is offering an additional 15% discount to HDFC card holders on the app and 10% on the website.
Amazon has also tied up with companies such as OnePlus and LeEco to offer prizes and discounts on their products. Amazon Prime customers would have an access to the lightning deals 30 minutes earlier than the other consumers. The company has a chrome extension called Amazon assistant which can help the users discover more deals easily.
Flipkart's Big Billion Day sale got famous a couple of years ago when the company offered a lot of discounts but there were a lot of price goof ups and technical errors. But after that, the company has redeemed itself with better deals and a reliable shopping experience.
This year Big Billion Day 2016 sale will be held from 2 to 6 October. The Indian e-commerce portal's emphasis this year is on electronics. As the sale on 2 October is on Lifestyle, TV, appliances, on 3 October the focus in on Mobile and accessories, on 4 October on electronics and then the rest of the two days on a general sale.
Flipkart has tied up with SBI to offer its cardholders a special discount. It also has items such as Motorola Bluetooth speakers and Thailand holiday trips to give away. Also, when products are added to the 'wishlist' several times, they will garner more discount.
Snapdeal recently went through a major brand overhaul with a new logo. Now it means to make a bigger mark in the market with its Unbox Diwali sale. The company has spent over ₹200 crore for rebranding and launching their premium Snapdeal gold service in competition to Amazon Prime and Flipkart First.
The e-commerce portal is offering straight up 5% to 10% additional discounts on all deals with all Credit or Debit cards. But the catch is that the purchase should of above ₹1000. It is offering hourly deals and 14-day return policy as well.
Although Shopclues is not as big as Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal it offers a lot of deals on items of daily use. And to lure more customers it is going to hold its festive sale for 10 days from 1 October to 10 October. Apart from offering the deals on most of the major categories, it is also offering EMI on purchases above ₹5000 and a cashback of ₹500 on the first payment of EMI.
Tata's new e-commerce portal Tata CliQ is also holding a shopping fest called Festober for a whole month where it is offering a free Vistara Air ticket every day for the first week along with the deals.
Other players such as PayTM are not holding special festivals it will be offering discounts. According to a report by Economic Times, the sales last year in the festive season were around $500-600 million. But this year merchants won't be pushing high discount on the items. Some of the analysts are suggesting that the sales won't be more than ₹10000 crore this year.


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I'm enquiring for a friend, who has lived in a Church of England property for over 22 years. Her husband was a vicar, and they raised their family there. The husband left many years ago. A tenancy agreement was signed at the very start, with a zero rental amount, but nothing since. The local Diocese would now like her to pay the market rent - over £4000 as it is London - or vacate within six months. Does she have any rights?
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Put simply the V90 HPA is clean and clear conduit that allows the listener to fully enjoy every detail of an artist's creation. It is just pure, unadulterated, state-of-the-art performance.
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The design aim of the V90 HPA was to offer neutrality and faithfulness to the original signal, delivered as the artist intended it to be right to your ears. Every aspect of the design was conceived to achieve this end.
The V90 HPA offers a high input impedance and low output impedance and will easily drive the vast majority of headphones (from 10 ohms to 600 ohms).
It has very low distortion typically less than 0.005% across the audio band. It also delivers an outstanding signal to noise ratio of better than 109 dB ('A' weighted). The frequency response is 20 Hz to 80 kHz (-1dB).
The V90 HPA's combination of very low distortion, extremely low noise, flat frequency response and low output impedance gives a smooth effortless sound quality that belies its modest price.
The 24 bit 96 kHz asynchronous reclocking USB input has excellent technical performance. It accepts 16 to 24 bits with any standard sample rate up to 96 kHz.
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Police Law Equality Matters Spring 2014
In this edition we take a detailed look at the compulsory Early Conciliation process which is now in force. Its requirements are important to all members contemplating an employment tribunal claim as an Early Conciliation Certificate must now be obtained before an employment tribunal claim can be brought.
We also take a look at alternative ways to obtain information in discrimination cases, now that statutory questionnaires have been repealed. We also consider the latest developments in financial penalties and employment tribunal fees.


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We just did a big switch-a-roo of dining chairs! Yes, I loved our Bertoias but they aren't really comfortable for kids. Gemma (5 months) will be sitting at the dining table in the next two months. Annika (4.5 years) is ready to sit in a regular dining chair. So in the near future we'll be playing musical chairs. The Bertoias are a bit painful to get into for a child Annika's age. Kids use their knees as leverage to get into a chair and the wire hurts. Since Annika is letting go of her Stokke and passing it onto Gemma I want her to be comfortable in her new chair. I was on the lookout for an inexpensive alternative.
Ikea in Burbank had a sale on the Nordmyra chairs, $19.99 from $39.99! I thought they were perfect! Inexpensive, flat surface, clean lines, and they reminded me of something I had seen in Remodelista.
I set time aside the first day they went on sale and drove across the valley to pick up 6. Burbank was sold out and wasn't getting more but Carson had them. The following day I drove to Carson. When I went to pay it totaled $180 instead of $120! Turns out Ikea has different prices at different locations and they won't honor another location's price. A lesson learned and good to know. Next time I'll be calling ahead to verify price and stock. I felt it was so sneaky of Ikea to list a chair on sale at a location that had none. Well, at least they were $29.99. The price of all 6 chairs is half the price of just one of the chairs I really want.
We all love the chairs. Annika can get into it no problem. It's a little harder for her to get out of it, but I like that. It's making her sit still longer at dinner. If you've eaten with kids you know how hard it is to have a child just sit and eat without getting up all the time. My only complaint was the noise they make on the tile floor. I ended up gluing felt to the feet to quiet them down a bit. We'll see how long they last.
These chairs will hold us over for a while. Before spending $350 on a chair I'd like to get to the years when I won't have to worry about artistic designs magically flying off the paper and onto the furniture.
We still have the Bertoias. It was always intended for them to eventually go outside. I'd like to create a seating area that looks like this picture below. I love the hard, modern lines of the chairs mixed with the more organic, softer wood table. And I'd love to have an official dining area outside. We do live in Southern California afterall!


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Dan Decker, Executive Vice President, Sea World San Antonio
President and CEO, Charles Martin Wender, Inc.
Charles Martin Wender (known to most as "Marty") is well known for his achievements and vision. Marty Wender, a Fort Worth native, began his San Antonio business career in 1969, upon graduating from the Business Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin and marrying San Antonio native Rene Lynn Mandel.
Charles Martin Wender's business real estate development projects in San Antonio include Westover Hills in the northwest area, Fawn Meadow in the Medical Center, Crownridge at IH 10 West and Camp Bullis Road, and Oak Run in New Braunfels.
Marty Wender's visions of a revitalization of the City's west side have come to fruition in his Westover Hills development. Marty Wender was selected as one of five "Visionaries" by the San Antonio Business Journal special section entitled "A Century of Business" for his vision and accomplishments in West San Antonio and his Westover Hills Development. Westover Hills has become home to Sea World of Texas, the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort Hotel and Arthur Hill Championship Golf Course, QVC Network, Inc., Philips Semiconductors (formerly VLSI Technology, Inc.), World Savings National Operations Center, the Alamo Community College District's new Northwest Vista Campus, which opened Phase I in October of 1998, Oberthur Gaming Technologies, Rudy's Country Store & Bar-B-Q, and the 88.5 acre Office Campus for The American Funds Group/Capital Group Companies, which opened in the fall of 1998.
Marty's efforts contributed greatly in securing approval, in only 90 days, for the Stotzer Freeway (State Highway 151), which runs through the Westover Hills development. These efforts have ushered in a new era of public/private cooperation that has served as a model for other projects in the state and nation.
Marty developed the concept, arranged financing, and put together the team to build the Hyatt Hill Country Resort and 18 hole Championship Golf Course in the heart of his Westover Hills Development, Texas's first true Destination Resort Hotel.
Marty Wender is active in numerous civic and charitable organizations in the community and is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and was the 1998 Chairman of the Chamber's Northwest Business Area Council. He has also served on the Boards of the Greater San Antonio and North San Antonio Chambers, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, Texas Research Park, San Antonio Medical Foundation, and the Jewish Federation of San Antonio. He is also on the University of Texas at San Antonio and The University of Texas Health Science Center Development Boards and served as Chairman of the Corporate Circle Council of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research.
Marty Wender has been the recipient of many awards and recognition because of his achievements and his devotion and service to the community, including his selection by Real Estate Times magazine as one of the "Top 100 Developers" in the nation for 1988 and his appointment by Governor Mark White to serve on the Texas Economic Development Commission. Marty's energy and dedication to excellence extend to all of his activities. His willingness to try the untried and his insistence on quality are his hallmarks.
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The Unite trade union has condemned the arrest of some 30 Thomas Cook workers peacefully protesting at the company's Grafton Street premises in Dublin, Ireland.
A spokesperson said the development was "a dark stain on the history of industrial relations in Ireland" and lobbying group LabourStart said it was akin to the kind of thing one would expect in a dictatorship, not a democracy.
The workers had been engaged in a protest sit-in at the premises. They were forcibly removed by the Gardaí (police) following a ruling by the High Court ordering them to leave the premises.
"These are ordinary working people standing up for their rights," said Unite regional secretary Jimmy Kelly.
"These workers have a right to be treated with respect and for their employer to hold to a standard of engagement that, in this case, has merely been cast aside."
Thomas Cook is to close its two stores in Dublin, with the loss of more than 70 jobs.
Workers at the Grafton Street premises are arguing for a better redundancy deal from the travel agency.


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At Headley Park Church the main church building and a separate on-site Hall are both available for hire. We also have a car park on site which may be used. We are located at the bottom of St Peters Rise, Headley Park.
Community Hall
The Church Hall consists of two large rooms, a kitchen and toilet facilities (including baby changing table and disabled toilet). There are chairs and tables available for use within the building and we also have a projector screen in one room. The hall includes central heating and a brand new kitchen.
The hall has previously been used for activities such as a toddler group, children's birthday parties, a police community surgery and even flu vaccinations by a local doctor's surgery.
Each room can hold around 50 people.
Main Building
The main building consists of a large hall on the first floor which can seat approximately 150 -200 people and has an AV/PA system in place, including a hearing loop. We also have a well-equipped hospitality point within the hall. Under the front stage is a baptistry pool.
Lower Hall
There is also a lower hall with a fully-equipped catering standard kitchen. The building has a lift for the use of people with mobility problems and a disabled toilet. Both halls have projectors and screens installed and are suitable for recording audio feeds.


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On October 1, 2019, the 5th edition of the Photonic Integration Conference will take place at High Tech Campus Eindhoven, The Netherlands, during the Photonics Applications Week [Sep 30 – Oct 04, 2019, https://phappsweek.com/]. The following topics will be approached during the conference… Download pdf.
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This is a repost of my original "Genesis" build. Over time a few things have changed. Mostly the CPU cooler, motherboard, graphics cards, added another HDD, etc.
Let me start by saying that I use this computer to game, compile, render, use as a server, and whatever else I may want it to do. That is why I went with 32gb of RAM, and an i7. I appreciate constructive criticism, but please take this description into account before you say things like "i5 for gaming!" or "32gb is overkill" etc, etc.
Most of the parts I picked were just down to research, and what I thought was going to suit me best. I decided to go from one GTX 680 to two Radeon R9 280x's since the price hasn't been coming down on the 680 enough to justify an SLI setup, especially since it is a discontinued item and is getting harder to find.
CPU: Originally my plan was to get a 3930k, but I decided to settle for this. My primary role in mind for this rig was gaming and office work, but I like to have the horsepower when needed for applications like photo/video editing, among other things. I felt like the 3770k was a perfect balance between performance and value.
COOLER: I love the look of this cooler, and the fact that it is a 280mm radiator. I know performance is roughly the same of a H100i, but so was the price, at the time of purchase. I thought it was cool to stick with NZXT for a cooler, since I have their case. Best of all, the software is simple, and works flawlessly. You can even change set a "danger zone" color, once the CPU (or CPU WATER) temp reached a certain temperature. I set mine to RED, but you have a whole selection of colors.
PASTE: I love Arctic Silver. That is my "go to" paste when it comes to general purpose things. But I swear by TX-4 for high performance applications. It may be expensive, but it has never let me down. It also doen't require a "burn-in" time like some other pastes, and it is also electrically non-conductive... which means you don't have to worry about it wreaking havoc on your system if you ooze some out over your CPU.
MOBO: I originally had a Gigabyte Z77X UD5H, but decided to get this board since I thought I had a faulty board. Needless to say, this board is a solid performer, and nothing was wrong with the other one at all. I will either sell the UD5H, or re-purpose it for an office build... Haven't decided yet.
RAM: 32GB of fast RAM for under $200? Count me in! I also thought that these were pretty sexy looking, so it was a no-brainer, since I am also going for aesthetics in my build.
SSD: One of the best ones on the market. Perfect price/performance IMHO. 256 is good enough for me.
STORAGE: 4TB. Enough for all of your "adult needs". In all seriousness though, my Steam library is huge, and add my Origin and uPlay in there and we are talking about 600-700gb. All the games are stored on my Black. Photos, music, movies, programs, etc, are all on the Green. I also have another 1tb Green laying around which I use for removable storage via the Kingwin HS Bay.
GPU: Probably one of the best cards out there for the money. This thing honestly goes toe to toe with my old 680. Two of them are just BEAST! Cards get to about 59-60 under stress, and run BF4 and my other games beautifully. I was running Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army at about 250FPS, which is completely unnecessary, but still pretty damn funny nonetheless.
CASE: I absolutely love my Phantom. If I ever decided to switch cases, it will probably be a newer Phantom. Every time somebody asks for a good case, I usually just blurt out NZXT. I have talked a few of my buddies into Phantom 410's, one of which I got to build and it is in my completed builds. I know there are others out there, but this one suits my fancy nicely.
FANS: In an attempt to keept the entire chassis NZXT, I stuck with NZXY fans. I love them. They give off a nice color, aren't very loud - even at full tilt, and they have very good airflow.
I wanted something that would DEFINITELY last me the lifetime of this computer, as well as (possibly) live on to serve the next computer. I wanted something at least 1k watts. My build under full load probably takes 800 from the wall, considering the overclock, etc. I love the fact that my PSU is a tier one PSU, that is 80+ GOLD, and is powerful enough to take anything that I can throw at it. I have also seen power drop in PSU's when the ambient temperature starts getting higher.
DISC: I wanted a Blu-ray burner. More of an impulse buy, but I have no regrets. I like the fact that I can watch Blu-ray's on my PC (which is also hooked up to my plasma TV, just to watch movies while in bed, lol). I also like the fact that I can now back my data up on blu-ray discs. They are a lot more durable than DVD's, and hold a butt-ton more.
OS: I actually really like it. Did a few tweaks to make it feel and look like 7. The metro interface isn't intrusive at all.
MOUSE AND KEYBOARD: They are both great, and I highly recommend them.
One thing that really pissed me off was the heatsink shrouds on the MPOWER MOBO. I hated the yellow stripes, so I decided to paint them to better suit my taste. I am still messing around with some of the overclocking settings, but I don't think I have "quite" gotten to that sweet spot yet, but I feel I am close. Anyways, here is what it scored on 3DMark: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1720958
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How much MAX do you need to run it? Looks like MAX runtime is free…
C-C-Combine is a corpus-based audio mosaicking application, built in Max, based on concatenative synthesis. Concatenative synthesis is a technique for synthesizing sounds by concatenating short samples of recorded sound. It is essentially a type of granular synthesis that, instead of playing back grains based on position/window parameters, plays back grains based on descriptor-based navigation, in this case happening through real-time audio analysis. In order to do this you must have a corpus (the pre-analyzed body of sounds) and an input sound source (either incoming audio or file playback).
Here is a video of it in action.
Back when I started programming what would eventually become The Party Van, I envisioned building something like C-C-Combine. It was very much out of my programming reach/understanding at the time. C-C-Combine is my first exploration into "full on" concatenative synthesis: one that uses a pre-analyzed corpus of samples. I was originally inspired to do this by collaborator Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, having heard his Sandbox #3 in action, which is based on CataRT, an open source concatentative synthesis application written by Diemo Schwarz. (You can read more about PA Tremblay's concat setup/exploration in this paper.)
A central concern for Tremblay is the recycling of virtuosity, which in the case of Sandbox #3 comes in the form of the translation of instrumental gesture (on a fretless bass guitar) to a granular synthesis playback engine. For C-C-Combine, I wanted to build something that could map arbitrary input to arbitrary output. The video above shows C-C-Combine being used with a wide variety of input sources and corpora.
At the core of C-C-Combine is granular synthesis, which is well suited as a playback method for unusual corpora as it can emphasize the transients in the body of samples. When using sound sources such as circuit-bent toys or glitching CD players, there are many transient artifacts that are part of the short-circuiting process. In a circuit-bent toy this could be through faulty logic causing random access to memory or a laser 'jumping the grooves' in the case of a CD player. There is a sound to these glitches/transients and the granular synthesis can highlight them.
Since the corpora is made up of very short audio segments (definable between 20-100ms at the time of analysis) this means that when using a corpus containing circuit-bent or glitching sources a high density of glitch is present in the samples. This glitch-ness is something that can really come across, sometimes, with certain types of input audio, even more so than the non-glitch contents of the samples. Depending on the input source this can push the glitch into the territory of Microtemporal Fusion where "human perception reaches attentional limits where microevents occur too quickly in succession to be heard as discrete events", as described by Curtis Roads in this book. This means that one can literally articulate and perform with the sound of glitch.
Aside from the desire to learn to code something that did exactly what I wanted, the impetus for creating C-C-Combine was that this type of synthesis and sound production is difficult to get into. CataRT is freely available, but it requires installing a large framework/extension on top of Max/MSP (FTM&Co). Mogees, another system for concatenative synthesis by Bruno Zamborlin, seemed easy to use, but the code was not openly available. C-C-Combine is freely available to download (link below) as a Max/MSP patch, so that you can edit/view the code (or use it as is). It only uses a few externals by Alex Harker, which come included with the download. Harker's externals handle the audio analysis (both real-time and offline) as well as data storage/lookup.
I made every effort to make the application as user-friendly as possible with a thorough "quick start" guide in the 'info' window and 'hints' when you hover over anything. Corpus analysis/storage/loading is no trivial task, but it doesn't have to be difficult either. The program is primarily made for real-time audio mosaicking, so most of the features are built towards that end, but I do plan on expanding the program, as well as building an adaptation of it into The Party Van.
Here are my own personal corpora (multiple corpuses) that you can download and use with the patch right away. Just drag the audio file onto the main window of C-C-Combine, then select the analysis file when it prompts you for it.
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great !
it's great ! thanks a lot for sharing this.
I've been on the beta list of mogees, and all that I can say is that it's far from being "user friendly" at all.
you seem to play the piano really well too
Great work, thanks for sharing Rodrigo, bests.
Wow, amazing work! Love the glitch-painting segment. Thanks for sharing!!!
WHOA! This slays. I got it set up to play ruined metal percussion based on the noise of my computer's keyboard. I could type forever. Very, very nice work – thanks!!!
i would like to stream combine to ableton but when i start it up with max 6 runtime, it immediately kills ableton's connection with my usb to midi interface which is handling something else. is it just my setup (os x 10.6, live 8.3.4)? tried turning off overdrive but no use, have to restart ableton or macbook pro.
great work!
Hi, I'm trying to get this to work as it looks and sounds very interesting. I can't seem to find any information on how to get an analysis corpus out of an audio file though and what kind of data C-C-Combine expects within the corpus.
Is there a max patch/external that makes this process simple?
Aha, thanks very much Rodrigo for the quick response. I must have missed that button on the GUI.
I'm now getting the error message in the max window: "entrymatcher: entry does not exist" after being prompted to save the generated corpus.
It works! I still get lots of the same error message though, even with audio interrupt enabled.
Sounds great though!
Working great, and is pretty easy to use. Thanks for sharing!
Max 5 or Max 6…?
The C-C-Combine is very clever.
Thankyou for letting me view your patch I am sure it will be very instructive.
I'm trying to analysis an input .wav but it goes straight to save but doesn't load up the audio into the progress window. Is there anything obvious I should be doing?
Brilliant! I've been looking for something like this for ages. Thanks Rodrigo!
cheers, Dan
hi! how can i use the cccombine with midi input?
If I did want to run this through Ableton how would I? I chose the ad_rewire driver like i read online should work but then c-c-combine stops working. I want to be able to route it to live to record it and further manipulate it. Thaks.
I got it to work with soundflower, what a cool application. But now for some reason cccombine won't work when the input is a file. I can hear the file if i put up the dry signal but concat isn't doing anything.
I am trying to use CCCombine with MaxRuntime 6.1.7 on my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.87.5)
When I drag the corpus file to be analyzed (a 8:46 min stereo Wav file) I don't see any progress – it shows 0% and there is no prompt for analyzed text file to rename.
Any ideas?
This is great – just what I've been looking for. I was looking into CataRT and maybe Rich Contacts to start a new project, but here 'right out of the box' I was making music (clarinet + your glitchy drum corpus) within 30 minutes.
Very robust and very clear GUI. I'm going to keep playing with it: next up, get some of my samples up on there and play around with input (piezo/contact mics).
Thanks very much!
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Hi Rodrigo,
Thanks so much for posting this! Looks like a terrific tool.
I'm having a problem:
When dropping a file in the "drag corpus here" field, it makes the analysis of the file but it doesn't prompt me to save the analysis, it just freezes at 100%.
I am running on OSX 10.9.5 and have Max 7.
I tried the following:
– updating to latest Max version (7.0.6)
– different type of audio files (mp3, wav)
– opening Max in both 32 and 64 bit
– double checked that the external had been copied to Documents/Max 7/Packages/ (which I believe is the right location in Max 7)
Any ideas?
Help would be most welcome.
Hi Rodrigo,
Thanks for you reply! That one didn't work either.
I thought I'd take a look at the Console messages and so I have updates:
Short version: it looks like I'm missing the descriptors~ object.
Long version:
1) When I open create corpus.maxpat, this comes up in the Console:
newobj: descriptors~: No such object
newobj: descriptors~: No such object
newobj: descriptorsrt~: No such object
newobj: entrymatcher: No such object
If I click in "Show object", indeed, the descriptors~ object is grayed (actually "browned") showing it doesn't exists as object.
I still dragged an audio file for analysis, but this time the analysis didn't even start, it was frozen in 0%.
2) I went back and thought I'd look at the _Combine.maxpat. All of these came up in the Console:
newobj: descriptors~: No such object
newobj: descriptors~: No such object
newobj: descriptorsrt~: No such object
newobj: entrymatcher: No such object
newobj: descriptorsrt~: No such object
newobj: entrymatcher: No such object
waveform~: waveform~: unknown message tickmarkcolor
waveform~: waveform~: unknown message tickmarkcolor
and again, many of these would point to the same instances of descriptors~
I tried again to drop a file in the "drag a corpus" to see if something came up in the Console. Again, the percentage bar did go to 100% but no window popped up to save the result, and nothing was printed in the Console.
PS: is it possible to get notification of replies to this thread, I think I didn't receive one for your last reply.
Update: it worked!
Looks like the search paths had to be edited. I thought Documents/Max 7/Packages/ was default but I had to add it using Options/File Preferences… (I discovered this by first copying the files to Documents/Max 7/Library/ and realizing it worked).
Once that was on, the Max Console put different kind of messages containing "wrong architecture" so I switched to 32-bit by pressing Cmd-I on the app icon and checking "Open in 32 bit mode".
This means it is 32 bit only I guess?
Now to start using it!
I'm getting the same error messages as Federico, but changing file preferences doesn't provide a fix for me. In fact, looking at the path list I can see that all the relevant subfolders are being searched, but it STILL doesn't find the descriptors~ object, etc.
I'm running Windows 8 64-bit and Max 7.0.6
I wonder if it's a Windows issue? The folder for Windows externals does mention that they're beta…
I can't wait to get playing with this. Got some bowed cymbal sounds I would like to play by whistling.
I have the same error as Nikita, is there a solution? I use Windows 10 64-bit
thank you
I got it make work with max 5, wonderful patch :)
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Hello Rodrigo! I am trying to make this patch work on Max 7, but the analysis of Audio file doesn't start… it shows the waveform of the file but stays at 0% of analyzing process. Do you have any advice how to fix this?
Hey –
When will the MAX 7 update of this be ready!? Seems like such a ridiculously fun / inspiring tool!
Thanks for the heard work –
Hello Rodrigo, thanks a lot for sharing this and generally for your generosity. i've been reading some of your posts, it's inspiring. Is this patch meant to work on max 8? I don't get prompted to save a text file after analysis unfortunately…
Hello, Rodrigo. I'm chiming in to express my admiration for your work and C-C-Combine. It's only taken me six years (!) to get around to committing to make it work, now in Max 8. I'm looking forward to your revamped version.
Hi there! This looks like superlative work. Thank you for sharing this.
I'm now working with Max 8 and I'm trying to make it work. Any one of you have already achieved this? Maybe Eric? In that case, could you share the patch?
Any news for 64-bit compatibility? Thanks!
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In all, 11 serving prime ministers and dignitaries representing 170 countries accepted invitations to the solemn event, Downing Street said.
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Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip
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A just published study looking at the cost of child health inequities in New Zealand – led by Northland public health physician Dr Clair Mills with University of Auckland Business School economist Dr Rhema Vaithianathan and Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences academic Dr Papaarangi Reid – shows that Māori children face an unequal burden of avoidable illnesses and deaths compared with their non-Māori peers.
It says Māori children are nearly 30% more likely to be admitted to hospital and twice as likely to die from 'avoidable conditions' – illnesses or deaths that could be prevented by good primary care or other measures such as immunisation or injury prevention approaches. These health problems include Sudden Unexplained Death in Infants (commonly known as 'cot death), respiratory illnesses and injuries.
And if Māori rates of avoidable death, illness and healthcare utilisation equalled non-Māori, the researchers say each year there would be nearly 70 fewer deaths of Māori children and 3075 fewer admissions to hospital annually.
But researchers say that perversely, if only annual costs are considered, the health sector actually 'saves' nearly $25 million through maintaining health services that do not equitably serve Māori children's health needs.
"In other words," Dr Mills says, "annual health sector spending on hospital admissions for severely ill children is less than it would cost to reduce inequities in access to GPs, laboratories, pharmacies, ACC and outpatient services.
"However, maintaining the status quo – that is, not addressing the problems of greater ill health and more deaths of Māori children – results in large societal costs for all of us, as well as longterm health and other costs to whanau, like missed education, unemployment, grief and suffering."
The study, which aims to estimate how much this issue costs New Zealand society, showed that if Māori children accessed healthcare services at the rate of non-Māori children, each year there would be:
• 23,000 more outpatient consultations;
• 26,400 more ACC claims;
• More than 40,000 more GP consultations;
• Nearly 200,000 more pharmaceutical claims, and;
• 102,000 more lab claims for Māori children.
"We know that inequities are not inevitable or unchangeable, and that these avoidable hospitalisations and deaths can be reduced," Dr Mills says. "This study suggests greater investment in interventions which have been shown to improve equity in child health outcomes, including housing improvements and primary care access, makes economic sense as well as being 'the right thing to do'.
"Inequity in this area has a lifelong effect, and contributes significantly to adult disparities. Although health inequities are recognised as unfair and amenable to policy intervention by some, this study suggests there are also strong economic arguments for addressing them."
The study, which has been published in an international public health journal, shows that more than half "excess" avoidable deaths in Māori children occur in the age group between 28 days and one year. Sudden infant death, respiratory, skin, ENT, circulatory diseases and injuries feature prominently as causes of the excess burden of illness and deaths borne by Māori children.
The research shows:
• 15,376 'excess' avoidable hospital admissions for Māori children during the period 2003 to 2007;
• 36% of hospitalisations classified as 'potentially avoidable';
• Tamariki Māori accessed GP consultations at a lower rate than non-Māori;
• Pharmaceutical claims for non-Māori children were 15 % higher, with non-Māori laboratory claims 55% higher than Māori;
• ACC claims for Māori children 32% lower than non-Māori, and median cost lower;
• Specialist outpatient visits by Māori children 86% lower than those of non-Māori children.
"The trouble is that decisions such as who benefits, future and current values, and applying monetary values to life and illness/disability, require ethical judgements…and children are rarely the focus," Dr Vaithianathan says.
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We at the FWA are heartbroken to hear the news that our dear friend Ralph Ellis passed away this weekend.
Ralph, who was a hardworking member of the FWA's National Committee, was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year at the age of 60. In typical style, Ralph battled the illness with determination, optimism and good humour, and only three months ago he cycled to Amsterdam to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK.
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St Mary's report, July 2011The Football Writers' Association national committee is pleased report that following discussions with John Nagle at the Football League, Southampton have agreed to resume holding post-match conferences upstairs in their excellent former press room rather than in the players' tunnel, which had become customary but unsatisfactory in the past few seasons. The club have also agreed to an FWA request that opposing managers are brought up separately rather than at the same time.
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Falmer Stadium Report, July 2011Since leaving their beloved Goldstone Ground in 1997, Brighton and Hove Albion endured a nomadic existence, lodging first in Kent at Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium until 1999 before calling the cramped Withdean "home" until this year.
For supporters and press alike, the wait for a purpose-built stadium has been interminable.
That wait ends on Saturday, August 6 when the Albion kick off the 2011-2012 campaign against Doncaster in their stunning £93 million new home at Falmer. The 22,376 capacity Amex Stadium boasts state of the art press facilities, as FWA national commitee members Brian Scovell and Tony Hudd discovered on a ...
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Carrow Road report, July 2011Attended by Joe Ferrari, Head of Media, and his assistant Gemma Gifford and FWA's Brian Scovell, Tony Hudd and Jim Van Wijk.
We were assured that the club will meet the minimum requirements of the PL and if it stays up, there are plans to either knock down the main stand and build another one or extend it adding 3,000 plus seats including a topgrade press facility.
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Loftus Road report, June 2011Brian Scovell and Christopher Davies were the Football Writers' Association national committee representatives who visited Queens Park Rangers to see media officer Ian Taylor about their new press facilities. If all goes to plan the press box/press room/mixed zone will be excellent. As you will know, Loftus Road does not have too much space but they seem to be making the most of it.
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Brian Scovell Writes…Over the years chairmen and committee members of the FWA have given advice to the 92 clubs about their press facilities. Around a third of them benefited, the last being Colchester which has proved to be a great success story. Three years ago we set up a Facilities sub Committee made up of myself, Tony Hudd and Jim Van Wijk and arising from an incident at Southend's Roots Hall - when a steward declined to give some our members a programme and a team sheet - I wrote to Lord Brian Mawhinney, the President of the Football League, and asked ...
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Mayor Alan Beach soundly defeated Deputy Mayor Hilary Becker in Tuesday's mayoral election, 3,330 votes to 974.
Trustees Ann Marie Reardon (2,971 votes) and Robert Boccio (3,045) were also re-elected to their seats as part of the New Vision Party with Beach. The incumbents defeated challengers Steve Ligouri (1,031) and Antoniella Tavella (881) — who were part of the Preserve Lynbrook Party along with Becker — and independent candidate David O'Neill (626).
Becker was in the middle of a trustee term and will remain on the board after a highly contentious race against Beach.
In a Facebook post, the New Vision Party's page thanked voters for their support.
"Thank you to all of the voters who put your trust and faith in good government," the post read. "We look forward to serving the Lynbrook residents."
In East Rockaway, Mayor Bruno Romano and Trustees Rich Bilello and Gordon Fox ran uncontested, but it didn't stop voters from turning out to show their support. Romano garnered 232 votes, while Bilello received 224, and Fox finished with 223.


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The Hampton holiday season is once again upon us, and we'd like to remind all of our far-flung and not-so-flung friends about our great new website, bookhampton.com, where your gift-shopping couldn't be easier! You'll feel like you're standing in one of our cozy stores: the same great selection, the same passionate recommendations, even the same gift-wrapping if you need it. And don't forget: you can get all of your eBooks on our site as well! Happy Shopping!
New novels from some of our best writers will make great gifts: Stephen King's masterful new novel 11/22/63 was reviewed here earlier this month.
Julian Barnes has just won the Man/Booker Prize this year for his insightful new novel, The Sense of an Ending (Knopf). Again, time is an essential character in this tale of a man looking back on his youth, examining his loves and friendships, and trying to justify the actions of his younger self. Barnes deftly examines our tendency to remember ourselves in the very best light, and how emotionally dangerous this self-denial can be. Time, it turns out, can re-open old wounds instead of healing them.
Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years (beginning with Wicked in 1995) have thrilled and challenged readers, and Out of Oz (HarperCollins) is his enthralling finale in the series. Any reader who has followed the adventures of Dorothy, Elphaba, Glinda, Lirr, and Brr, will eagerly absorb the story of Rain, Elphaba's granddaughter, as she takes up her grandmother's broom to try and save a war-torn Oz from complete upheaval. Full of Maguire's unyielding wit and crackerjack characters, Out of Oz is a heartfelt denouement.
Next up: The season's nonfiction highlights. Stay tuned!
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While Dominic West has been acting for two decades, I'll admit that he only got on my radar when I started watching HBO's amazing series, The Wire. Over the course of the series, West did an amazing job portraying the complicated life of detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty. While the show was never a ratings bonanza for HBO, it will go down as one of the best TV shows ever produced, and it provided a launching pad for its excellent cast to take bigger projects. For West, that bigger project is John Carter. In Andrew Stanton's film, West plays the leader of an alien race who is obsessed with taking over Barsoom (Mars).
The other week, Disney held a big press junket in Arizona, and I landed an exclusive video interview with West. During our extended conversation we talked about how he got involved in John Carter, the challenges of the production and working with green screen, his reaction to the finished film, the reshoots, how he might do an upcoming HBO series, and more. In addition, as a huge fan of The Wire, I made sure to ask about his work on the show and how it opened the door to other things. Finally, we talked about West's little-known but crucial part in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Hit the jump to watch the interview.
As usual, I've time indexed the interview so you can watch the parts that interest you. For more on John Carter, here is a ten minute clip, the latest trailer, clips, featurettes, 13 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film, and 95 images. Or you can click here for all of our coverage.
NOTE: At the 10:20 mark, West gives away a spoiler about his character. You've been warned.
- 0:45 – Dominic West talks about which of his projects people like to ask him about the most: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, 300 or The Wire.
- 1:05 – West comments on his experience filming his small part in Star Wars: Episode I.
- 2:10 – West reflects on his work on The Wire.
- 3:00 – He comments that while The Wire may not have had a huge fan following, his work on it has helped opened other doors.
- 3:45 – West talks about how he got involved with John Carter and meeting director Andrew Stanton.
- 5:00 – West comments on his reaction to seeing the finished film of John Carter after working on it.
- 6:25 – Regarding reshoots, West talks about how involved his own particular scenes were and how much they were reworked.
- 7:05 – West talks about his initial expectations based on the script versus the actual implementation of the script during filming.
- 8:05 – West reflects on Stanton's directorial style and the difficulty of acting in response to green screens. He makes a great comment about Patrick Swayze's performance in Ghost.
- 9:35 – Regarding the number of takes for a scene, West reveals whether he's from the Clint Eastwood school of minimal takes or the David Fincher method of shooting until it's right.
- 10:20 – SPOILER: West talks about one particular scene where he did around 12 or 13 takes.
- 11:00 – West reveals his favorite actor, movie and director.
- 13:20 – West comments on Fincher's style of numerous takes and compares it to a scene from Al Pacino's work in Dog Day Afternoon.
- 15:00 – SPOILER: For his work in John Carter, West reveals his craziest (and most embarrassing) moments on set.
- 16:55 – West discusses his upcoming projects, including a possible production of Othello in New York and an unrelated HBO series.


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Dramaturgie im zeitgenössischen Tanz ist ? positiv gemeint ? ein heißes Eisen. Idealerweise sind Dramaturginnen und Dramaturgen während der Erarbeitung eines Stücks die besten Freunde der Choreografen. more
Outrageous, devilish, heinous, and highly explosive in its historical analysis, "Über Deutschland" (on Germany) tracks E.M. Cioran's consistent erring towards fascism. The book makes us witnesses to intellectual suicide. It is therefore seductively compelling - a verbal Hitchcock; you read on and on with growing horror (as you would watch the films of the king of thrills), swept along by the atmosphere at first, with only an inkling of the approaching disaster. Then, with the realisation that this is a skilled swimmer heading straight for the vortex in powerful strokes, you want to shout: "Stop, watch out, you'll be sucked under." But there is no stopping the deadly consequences.
In the beginning you still sense the lust of scepticism, which the later Cioran (who lived in Paris from 1940 on) celebrated as the philosophy of decay - in coquettish apercus and sinister, visionary prophecies by turn; a laughing sphinx of Montparnasse, contemptuous of the joys of sexus and the elegant restaurants he enjoyed. An apocalyptic taxi driver. His scorn sensual and his end-time visions intoned with a mischievous twinkle of the eye. His credo was the irratio. How soon this emerged and how strong it was - is shown by these early texts.
In the beginning you want to disagree but disgust has yet to set in; especially because of the way certain apodictic sentences sound like a self-definition: "A metaphysical masochism blends lust with the phenomenon of decay and finds joy in cosmic chaos." His mistrust of purely rationalist solutions to world historical problems is worth bearing in mind. There are plenty of warning signs here which could just as easily have been authored by the herald of fairytale Marxism, Ernst Bloch, who described the failures of communism in the face of oncoming National Socialism by pointing to the very same deficiency: the failure to take the human psyche into consideration.
This Cioran decree is pure Bloch: "Rationalism has no power of its own, it has a purely formative function; it wants to offer mankind a closed view of the world, it wants to establish a set of values, it wants to offer mankind a direction in life." So far, so good - for now. Even his analysis of Dürer's "Melencolia" as entirely lacking in gaiety, i.e. typical German gloom, is an interpretation you might accept as a fresh reading of traditional signs; especially when he compares it with the Italianate. "The restless gothic soul has never found atonement and equilibrium. (...) And then one understands why in Italy melancholy is tempered with a smile and in the north, is exacerbated by painful tension. Dürer's Melencolia is devoid of any expression of irony."
Yet Cioran soon interrupts himself, rebuking for example "Kokoschka's new found anarchistic consciousness" which "destroys man's spiritual stability (...) in order to plunge into an absurd elan, where chaos is the norm and madness the intent. (...) Kokoschka's art is an expression of the soul's decay." He is heading for the vortex in rapid strokes. Yet for a moment you still think: alright, this is something Thomas Mann could have written (in his "Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man"). But when he vaunts German profundity - "not just ardour but also a multiplicity of layers", the waves come crashing overhead: as he celebrates "uncontrollable inner dynamism" which "breathes everything the Germans created": as he babbles - this is November 1933 - about "fateful development" and "intrinsic life forms". A poor man's Gottfried Benn. Indeed much of this fanfare is reminiscent of Benn's infamies. Not only in brusque commands to (re)think a la: "The time has come to proclaim the irrational not only in philosophy but also in politics," or: "In this world only the immoderate deserve love," but also in carefully phrased Gregorian: "You have to admire it when a regime, in order to justify its existence changes the law, transforms religions, gives art a new direction, construes a new historical perspective, brutally eliminates and furiously negates three-quarters of all accepted values, pulsating with enthusiasm all the while."
This is not some adolescent flirtation. In 1933/34 Cioran was over 20, the son of a priest, he had passed through high school and studied philosophy (with a Berlin scholarship), he was highly educated and extremely well read in the classics from Kant to Nietzsche. He had succumbed to this frenzied thinking as if under hypnosis, casting aside all intellectual standards to conjure up a phantasmic anticipation of redemption not shying from the worship of infamy. Nor from the votive bell-tinkling of the brochures of obscure sects, which babble on about "mission", "historical heights", "destiny" and "creative barbarity". This young Romanian sweats like a frustrated masturbator: "If I like anything about Hitler's followers, then it is the cult of the irrational, the adulation of the life force per se, the manly striding, without fault-finding, without reserve, without control."
A mental abuse scandal. This is not some priest groping at young boys' crotches, this is a fanatical high priest spitting into the brains of all thinking people, his own thinking having been abandoned at Hitler's belt buckle: "There is no politician in today's world who instills more sympathy in me than Hitler (...) The Führer mysticism in Germany is utterly justifiable. (...) Credit belongs to Hitler for having robbed a nation of its critical senses." This was published on 4 July 1934. A week later Erich Mühsam was murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp. Did he belong, in Cioran's thinking, to "those people whose lives should be taken, those beasts whose blood should be spilled as a matter of duty?" "What has mankind lost with the deaths of a few idiots?" he asks a few lines earlier in a "Letter from Berlin" dated 15 July 1934 and adds: "Disgust for mankind is undergoing such terrifying justification that the death of a few zeros cannot make an impression." This was his justification for the murder of Röhm, and whom else?
You really don't even want to read it or comment on it, this hair-raising torrent of abominations which, again and again, intones adorational observances in keeping with the chant "I believe - even in Germany - there are very few people who hold Hitler in greater admiration than I do." His rhapsodic ecstasy is mostly lofty and heroic - "The masses want to be given orders" - and yet there is something bloated about it; especially when Cioran, who was later to lace though the streets of Paris by night scouting for adventure, also demands clean sexual morals. His Dix-like drawings of brothels and syphilis betray the trembling hand of a pious churchgoer, who nevertheless does not sing the praises of heavenly salvation but voices the desire for dictatorship. Repugnant crowing. Cioran's praise for military music as the accompaniment for the throes of ecstasy ends with this bizarre conclusion: "Adam was a sergeant."
Compared with this, the heroic diarist Ernst Jünger was a bonehead; Celine, husky with hatred, a sweetheart, and Ezra Pound a poet of verses for friendship albums. Many a philosopheme of the Hitler-man who gibed France, his future homeland, make for lofty reading - but are merely fatuous: "Individualism leads to atomisation. ... Which is why today the only redemption is the formula of typification through dictatorship."
In these earlier outpourings Cioran has mangled Goya's Caprichos, of which the most haunting is titled "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters." I wish I had never read this book. An abominable read. And yet I have to ask myself: Does this mean Cioran's other books have to be read again, with new eyes? Are perhaps many of the much-vaunted aphorisms whose caustic qualities were so admired and whose razor sharp dissections of the soul actually seemed delectable - are these not echoes of his tub thumping against reason, ratio, thinking? I find phrases I underlined in "History and Utopia" which certainly fuel this suspicion.
At the time, when I read that it is better to act out of jealousy and greed than out of noble-mindedness and disinterest, I attributed this to a certain Oscar Wilde cockiness. Today I can no longer find this gracious, and Cioran's contempt for humankind, with which he curses "us maniacs of procreation", with which he despises everyone and everything, now strikes me as more coquettish than profound. Haughtily our homme-a-femmes decrees: "The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous." Of course we applauded. "We"? I - applauded such dancing frivolity, also because in the sixties and seventies, in the days of stuffy communes and bare-breasted lack of reserve, it felt like an amusing perceptual game. "A world without tyrants would be as boring as a zoo without hyenas" - such apodictic cheek we thought (while fighting the Shah for example) we could appreciate it in the spirit in which it was written; as expressed in what the French call "le deuxieme degre" - in other words, with a wink and a nudge. No one knew then how fervidly Cioran had actually sung the praises of a tyrant.
And his main work "Precis de decomposition" (published in English as "A Short History of Decay"), translated into German by none other than Paul Celan, was seen as a somewhat brash extension of Walter Benjamin's notion of history as catastrophe; indeed Cioran said: "History has no meaning" and "world history - a history of evil." A younger generation did not read this as an affirmation; rather the opposite: these young people, whether in San Francisco or shortly after in St. Germain felt driven to exorcise history's evils and attempt progress. While in his obviously more quoted than understood "Short History of Decay", history was denounced as a "mass manufacture of ideals" and reality as a "deadly craving for fiction", in large parts of the globe belief in the possibility of change was breaking out like a flu epidemic. The spokes in this potential wheel of change were ridiculed by our garret genius: "Yesterday, today, tomorrow - these are servants' categories." How I had it out with Cioran over these mental pirouettes, laughing over a good wine, once even offering to become his servant, which I did gladly. No one would have imagined that he was wading through the sludgy thinking of blood and soil and myth and mission, of national destiny, least of all himself.
Age is merciless - not only do the ghost battalions of deceased friends gallop past: from Hubert Fichte and Paul Wunderlich, to Thomas Brasch and Walter Kempowski. Now I have to bid a second farewell from my companion E.M. Cioran; a relationship like intellectual intimacy, no stay in Paris without evenings, sometimes whole nights with him that seemed so lucid in their gaily illuminated darkness, their zigzag flashes of lightning. I didn't know then that the SS runes had been looted. It's a bitter farewell.
This article originally appeared in Die Welt in German on 8 April, 2011.
Fritz Raddatz (born 1931) is one of Germany's most influential literary critics, he is the former editor of Die Zeit feuilleton and has published countless essays, novels and biographies.
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E. M. Cioran: "Über Deutschland. Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1931-1937". Translated from the Romanian by Ferdinand Leopold. Suhrkamp, Berlin. 17,90 euro.


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Can anybody tell me what sort of card they stamp on please, when doing there projects please would like to experiment but am on a budget at the moment I just use ordinary card at the moment. Chris over at Sketching stamper made this comment and was very helpful:
I use a coated card to stamp on which has a a very smooth surface, a friend gets it for me so I can't give you a brand I'm afraid but I believe Staples have some, my card is the type printers use to make business cards.
Would like to know what ink people use as well heres another comment Chris said:
For stamping, at the moment I'm using versafine ink it picks up the detail really well and gives a nice crisp image. I don't get on with stazon, I can never get a good image with it. I do sometimes get bleed with the versafine and am going try Memento as I've read this is the best for using with markers.
Thanks Tracy xxx
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Sunday, 25 January 2009
birthday card
Just finished a card for a lady at work who has asked me to do her nephew a birthday card, he is mad on tractors, seemed to have lost my mojo this week, feeling a little bit better now the funeral is over is just so sad, still can't believe he is gone.
Thanks for everyone's comments and keeping me going.
Tracy x
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
my awards
I have finally got round to uploading some more awards from my sister that has given them to me for helping her out so much with her blogging and for me having lots of patience whilst she learns lol the basics it is my fault she is hooked on blogging now, but it has certainly give her something to look forward to as she learns a little bit everyday and thanks to all the other crafting bloggers out there that have also helped us with both mine and my sisters blogs. xxxx
I would like to give the opportunity to other bloggers out there to pick up these awards as so many of you seem to have these already so for those of you i have missed please help yourself.
my 5 favourite things
1. Internet shopping for craft things
2.blogging and hopping
4.entering challenges now have a bit more confidence
5.spending time with my family
Tracy x
Saturday, 17 January 2009
Friday sketchers challenge 35
Here is my entry for Friday sketchers challenge 35 the layout is gorgeous, and so are the teams cards absolutely yummy scrummy.
Really enjoyed the layout for this one have used my new stamp by pink gem designs and have coloured in the knitting cow with my wonderful promarkers for my MIL's birthday who loves knitting.
Tracy X
Whiff of joy green and purple theme challenge 14
I have finally got round to using my whiff of joy new stamps this weekend, My sister came round for our weekly card making night and we always have a good chin wag etc it's great to catch up.
Anyway for this weeks challenge I have used melinda reading a book from the guardian angel collection. Love this stamp I have made the card for my nieces birthday who is currently studying at university in Ireland, and she is passionate about books.
Hope you like my card
Tracy x
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
My second award
I have just recieved this from the crafting diva thank you so much, I have just arrived home from work to find this what lovely surprise. It's just what I need I work as a teaching assistant at my local school and all the staff had a telephone call on sunday to say that our head had passed away we are all in shock at the moment. He has been poorly since october but this was totally unexpected, thank you to all my blogging friends out there that keep me going.
Tracy x
Tracy x
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Friday sketchers challenge
Here is my entry for the Friday Sketchers challenge I enjoyed doing this card which ties in nicely for my brother in law's birthday tomorrow, coloured with my precious promarkers, and his team colours.
Happy Birthday
I love these, I have used another one of these images for a friends birthday a work there are a lot of 50th's this year at school.
Love the colours my favourite! used my new paisley cuttlebug embossing folder that my daughter has bought me for my birthday which will be coming up shortly so she has given it me early :)
back with more cards over the weekend I would like to join a few challenges this week so I will be making cards later after the normal shopping, housework etc.
Tracy x
Sunday, 4 January 2009
No 1 suspect
Here is the card I have made for Dotties world using some of the digital downloads that I have purchased over the last couple of weeks with my sister.
I have spent all day wondering what to do, this card is meant to be humourous and not intended to offend anybody. The caption I have put is 'Susie was new in town, and George was a respectable constable,it wasn't long before people started putting two and two together
& George became no.1 suspect.
& George became no.1 suspect.
Hope you like
Tracy x
Birthday wishes for a special friend
Here is a birthday card that I have just finished for a very special friend.
I enjoyed doing this card this is glitter on the lady but the image isn't very clear at showing this love how all the green went together this picture doesn't do it any justice as it's not natural light.
Tracy x
Pink Gem Candy
Wow Janet over at Pink Gem is offering some gorgeous candy what wonderful way to start the new year.
check out her new releases just in time for valentines day can't decide which one to have though, they are irrestible.http://pinkgemdesigns.blogspot.com/
Tracy x
check out her new releases just in time for valentines day can't decide which one to have though, they are irrestible.http://pinkgemdesigns.blogspot.com/
Tracy x
Saturday, 3 January 2009
Scruff over at Dotties World
Say hello to Scruff the dog isn't he adorable! go and check him out at http://dotties-wonderful-world.blogspot.com/ and as if that wasn't enough they have chosed a new guest designer for January.
She was some beautiful work on her blog, welcome Nicky I can't wait to see what creations she will make during her time with Dotties world.
Tracy x
She was some beautiful work on her blog, welcome Nicky I can't wait to see what creations she will make during her time with Dotties world.
Tracy x
Friday, 2 January 2009
This is one of the christmas cards that I designed for christmas using one of the lovely whiff of joy stamps.
Thursday, 1 January 2009
Mojo Weekly Challenge
Well I don't know whether I have done right, as I have never entered any of my cards before, but I found this blog by accident as you do whilst reading someone elses blog and bought some of these lovely digital images well I just couldn't resist then I had to also get some basic grey papers and them I felt great from doing a little retail shopping.mmmmmmmm bliss.
Anyway I really enjoyed doing this card and I think I am eligable to enter thier little competition they have we will have to wait and see I have used one of there images and painstakingly cut it out with my craft knife.
One of my resolutions is to use some my craft stuff that I bought a long time ago and haven't actually got round to using yet, I just like to collect some things lol, this is where the background stamp came in I knew it would have a use one day!
Sorry to waffle I am sure someone out there will read this and have a good laugh.
I have used my lovely promarkers again, I so love these pens, the background stamp is from stamp addicts that I bought two years ago and this is the first time I have used it!
I have sponged the sky with a new distressing ink that I picked up while doing a little bit of retail shopping after reading so many of you out there colour with them, spray and lots of other little things well this is another product I like and will be getting a few more of thanks girls.
A few brads that I coloured with my peel off pens as they were gold, cuttlebug embossed dots and denim background paper, nestabilities and peel off letters and a computer generated sentiment, and of course the digital image that I cut out is from http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/ please check it out they have some fantastic stuff on their and they are doing great deals at the moment where you can buy a black and white images and also get the coloured set of the same images free only for a limited time though.
I decoupaged his trousers because I'm not very good at taking photos it looks like the rider has two belts on, oh well it must be the way I hold the camera I am just a beginner!
Then I went and put a few stitched crosses on the top and bottom to add more detail with a gelly roll pen but I don't actually like them as I think I went a little bit OTT but never mind.
Pleased with how the card fell into place though.
Pleased with how the card fell into place though.
What do you think!
Thanks for listening
Tracy xxx
Happy New Year
Happy New Year everybody, thank you for taking the time to make me feel welcome and comment on my blog and give me handy tips and rewards! wasn't expecting that.
Anyway here is a New Year card that I have just finished for my inlaws who go over to malta nov-feb every year so I will be sending them this, hope they like it.
I have used my new promarkers that I got for christmas will definetly be ordering some more I love these pens! Craftwork cards backing papers, matching bazzill, organza ribbon,gem stones, my new nestabilities I so love these and a computer generated sentiment.
Tracy x
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