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Dates: December 8-11th 2014
Place: LLB, France
Website: http://www-llb.cea.fr/fan
Watch our Fan du LLB video where participants tell about their experience.
The next French neutron scattering training, the "FAN du LLB 2014" will take place on December 8-11th 2014 in the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB) at Saclay, near Paris, France. It consists in trainings devoted to young researchers interested in the use of neutron scattering for the study of condensed matter.
This school benefits from NMI3 support, which enables the organisers to take in consideration registrations coming from non-French European laboratories.
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As the founder of Aspiria, which provides Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Student Assistance Program (SAP) services, I am often surprised to learn that when people hear the words "EAP" and "SAP" the first thing they typically think of is psychological counselling services. You may be surprised to know that there is so much more that these services have to offer.
In fact, it is so important that you understand all the services that are available to you through your EAP or SAP services that I have decided to dedicate a quarterly blog series outlining what we at Aspiria call specialized solutions – additional services that are available through EAPs and SAPs.
To get us started, I have highlighted a few EAP services that greatly improve work environments by benefitting employees and their family:
Elder and Child Care
Taking care of a loved one, whether they are an aging parent or a newborn child, can sometimes feel like a full-time job, and unconditional love doesn't always make the job any easier. What employers can do to make their employees' home life easier is offer elder and child care services through their EAP.
Elder care speaks to caregivers, seniors, and everyone who is proactively planning for their future. Our EAPs offer information about Canadian systems available to the elderly as well as the essentials regarding housing options. We also educate employees on common physical and mental changes that often develop with age and what they can do to minimize these changes.
For younger employees that are considering starting a family or have already begun that chapter of their lives, Aspiria's EAPs offer many services related to child care. Here are just a few family-oriented services we can provide through an EAP at no expense to parents:
- Parenting provides information to parents of all different experience levels with kids of all different ages. This information can be anything parenting-related, from raising your child's self-esteem to keeping backseat chaos to a minimum.
- Adoption helps employees throughout the entire adoption process, including the legal and financial aspects, special parenting needs of adopted children, and information on how to find their child's birth parents.
- Kids' Well-Being offers tips to keep children safe and sound from infancy through to young adulthood, with an emphasis on health, safety, and a positive interaction with the world around them.
To ensure your employees find a better work-life balance, direct them to their EAP, which will encourage them to live a healthy, happy life well into old age and help them reduce stresses that come from taking care of an aging family member or raising children.
Studies have found that 40% of people diagnosed with cancer experience symptoms of psychological distress. This is why many EAPs provide organizations with much-needed mental health support for employees affected by cancer, but Aspiria goes even further. We partnered with Gilda's Club – a leader in an international network of cancer support organizations that has over 20,000 interactions per year with individuals living with cancer – to develop our OnCallogic service.
OnCallogic includes a series of counselling sessions with Cancer Coaching Specialists for employees who have been touched by cancer, whether directly (they have cancer) or indirectly (a loved one has cancer), to ensure that no one has to face a cancer diagnosis alone. The OnCallogic mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community and professional support.
It is estimated that nearly 1 in 2 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life. With the disease being so commonplace in today's workplace, it has become all the more essential to offer employees expert cancer support services. Not only will OnCallogic ease their difficult circumstances, but it also helps guide them towards living with cancer, whatever the outcome.
WorkLife Web Portal
Of today's youth, the employees of tomorrow, 68% say they would use the Internet to search for mental health information if they needed to, making online access to resources more important than ever. It is for this reason that Aspiria connects employees to the work-life balance information they need at the click of a button and allows them to communicate with Work-Life Consultants 24/7 over instant messaging.
Our WorkLife Web Portal, accessible through the Aspiria website, provides access to the following seven life modules:
- Aging
- Balancing
- Living
- Working
- Thriving
- Parenting
- International
Each of these modules offer "digital kits" on a large number of topics that employees and their family members can relate to, no matter what stage of life they're in. These kits include informative articles, assessments, and audio files.
By offering an EAP that includes online accessibility to important tools and resources, you allow your employees more ease than ever before to achieve a proper work-life balance.
For more details on these work-life services and everything else your EAP has to offer, contact your provider today. And keep an eye out for our next instalment of Getting More Out of Your Assistance Program next quarter!


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I went to a mothers group meeting once. I was quite new to the group, and I felt a bit nervous. I can't remember how the subject came up, but one of the other mothers asked me how the Dumpling, then four months old, napped during the day. I explained that we'd moved a mattress into the lounge, so I could lay down with him and feed him to sleep there; and the moment he stirred I'd lay back down beside him quickly to feed him fully to sleep again. I was a little bit apologetic I think as I said, "It's just easier that way."
She just smiled at me and said, "Hey, whatever works."
I remember feeling very relieved at her attitude. It's something which has stuck in my mind, though, and I refer back to it often. You see, I frequently find myself in a position where I need to go with the "whatever works" option, rather than doing what I think I "should" do as a mother.
You see, I have a mental illness. I have bipolar disorder – Type II Bipolar Affective Disorder, if we want to get fancy about it. Actually, like Stephen Fry, I prefer the term 'manic depression', but that name has largely fallen out of use and it seems a bit pedantic to swim against the tide.
People don't often talk frankly about mental illness, particularly not as it relates to parenting, so I thought I'd share some thoughts from my perspective. Heck, I don't even talk about it much, mainly because mental illness is largely stigmatised still. If you watch a soap opera and a character has a mental illness, almost without fail they're dangerous to other characters in some way. Schizophrenia is a convenient excuse for criminal insanity on television and in books. Actually, criminal insanity is a convenient excuse for just about anything, or so it seems sometimes on the 6 o'clock news. It's not hard to see why people are often uncomfortable with the concept of mental illness.
Even setting aside the all pervasive media for a moment, in reality mental illness carries with it a number of slightly unsettling ramifications. There are several professions which are basically off-limits to people with certain mental illnesses – positions of critical responsibility, like the police, or ambulance service. There are some good reasons for this, and I don't dispute that even if I sometimes think these policies could be a little more flexible. But the message we receive from these kinds of limits are that people with mental illness can't be responsible people – they could go nuts at any time.
And have you spent much time with a person who's having a psychotic episode? It's disturbing, to say the least. By definition, a mental illness screws with the way a person thinks and behaves. This is way outside many people's comfort zone.
So if societal attitudes carry an undercurrent (and sometimes a tidal wave) of fear: that people with mental illness are dangerous, crazy, incapable of shouldering responsibility, and just plain weird; it's no wonder we don't talk much about people with mental illness becoming parents. Parents are supposed to be stable, and responsible, and people to emulate.
According to SANE Australia, approximately 20% of adults are affected by some sort of mental disorder every year. (SANE factsheet: "Facts and Figures") Twenty percent. That's one in five. It stands to reason that there are awful lot of parents out there who suffer some kind of mental illness. I assume most of them are doing a relatively good job, given that civilisation isn't crumbling around us.
Basically, people with mental illnesses are just like everyone else. Well, as similar to everyone else as everyone else is, anyway. We've all got our idiosyncrasies, we've all got our peculiar set of problems, and we've all got interesting families. Mental illness presents its own particular set of problems, especially where parenting is involved.
It's not always simple. I have a particular responsibility to balance my health needs with my child's. I need to pay close attention to my mental health and be compliant with treatment plans, because my son's wellbeing is directly affected by my own. But there's room for flexibility, which is good because even when my condition is well managed, episodes are still inevitable.
This is why I return, time and time again, to that mother's words: "Whatever works." The truth is that I can't always be the parent I want to be. When I'm having a depressive episode, my toddler watches a lot more TV than I'd like. I read fewer books to him. We don't walk to the park, because it's too hard to get off the couch.
So what do I do? I call in my in laws, and he spends some more time than usual with Grandma and Grandpa. I leave the dishes in the sink, and I remember that he doesn't care if he eats baked beans on toast for dinner. To be honest, he kind of likes it. Even if he has it three days in a row.
On the flip side, if I'm hypomanic, we have a great time. We dance a lot, and we run around in the playground together. I'm sure that other parents watching us in the park think I'm a little strange: my toddler just thinks I'm awesome. We draw and paint and cut and paste and make cars out of boxes and I run with him in the shopping trolley through the supermarket making "broom, broom!" noises. We sing and dance in public and I don't care. So I suppose it all balances out.
I worry, frequently, that I'm not a good enough parent. I'm not stable enough, I'm not consistent enough. But the thing is, if I put aside my worries and just look at my child, I see a happy, healthy, confident child who's developmentally well on track. So my 'up' days and 'down' days don't seem to be having a negative effect on him.
Hey, whatever works, right?
Further info and some useful resources:
SANE Australia
COPMI – Children Of Parents with Mental Illness
Beyond Blue
Black Dog Institute


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Hello Friends and Enemies,
THANK YOU to Hipster Racist and Oogenhand for reblogging me, although I'm not LOOKING for a lot of attention right now. Keep having Productive Conversations at Mindweapons!
No, I haven't been arrested by the NSA for my dissident racist views, but certainly they're WATCHING me. Heh. or at least keeping a copy of Muh Blog on file. Just "kind of assuming" that Google as well as my Internet Provider know exactly where I am, where I live, my real name, etc, have been assuming that for a long time, but been bretty naive and ignorant and head in the sand until I am actually arrested by Political Police! And since I'm not actually planning any Terrorism, I'm not too worried. Damn I WISH I was making 200k a year like Snowden! He didn't even go to MIT or get Top Internships!
Anyway this is "actually" interesting news, can't say I'm surprised one bit, other than it's actually getting reported on. Heh. I watched the MSLSD special a few months ago about the Huge Data Center the size of 10 Football Fields that NSA was building in the deserts of Utah!
So I say Hate and Anger are GOOD things, but I must reiterate that this is just to an EXTENT. After that extent You can really get Bogged Down, then you gotta cut back on the Hate and Anger until you get back to that healthy mark.
So in other words, I might do a 90 day experiment where I stop saying "KIKE" so much, hahahaha.
All of this has been weighing heavily on my mind for quite a while, with no easy answers. Because it's not just the "kikes", but Plutocrat Pigs of Every Race. International Banksters. Lobbyists. Media. Of COURSE there's a Highly DISPROPORTIONATE amount of J's in there, beyond their 2.5% of the US population.
But I might be getting on a Class Kick again whereas I have recently been on a Race Kick. Now it's hard to talk about Class and Plutocrats and Banksters and The 1% vs The 99% without sounding like a Occupy Wall Street Socialist Communist FAGGOT, but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
However I have said time and time again that In Real Life I am a Very Friendly Guy, very easygoing, easy to get along with, niceguy etc. However I do not live in a Brown Jungle or Ghetto or Barrio, and I am very thankful for that!
Well let's put it this way, lately I have been listening to tons of ROBERT STARK, in a total Robert Stark phase. And though Robert often talks to White Nationalists, he often talks to Anarchists and Social Creditists and Third Way people and just general Truthseekers. But you're never quite sure what Robert Stark Himself "IS" other than "A Journalist" who likes talking to real interesting people. And his skill is in getting the interesting people to say really interesting things.
Heh. I apologize to Robert, when I first started listening to him I thought he sounded "Spergy" and that his voice sounded funny and awkward and that he had no personality. Well I was dead wrong about that! Plus he has come a long way in sounding less awkward! But he makes people feel comfortable talking to him, and he's real good at probing them. A lot of times he isn't even asking direct questions, but he still gets the people to respond to him as if he was.
Plus he is obviously Sympathetic to a lot these people's causes to actively seek them out and have huge interviews with them like this. But he is never obnoxious or arrogant or pushy towards them. I get the sense he is excited to have A Learning Experience by talking to them.
Bottom line, listen to Robert's show, go back and listen to his old shows on Reason Radio, If you talk sh1t about Robert Stark you're just an asshole and that's that.
So I will continue watching Robert closely, talk about a kid with a lot of potential. Heh. Not sure how old he is, he looks about 16 in that photo, hahaha but I would guess he's more like late twenties or early thirties. Young, in other words, hahaha.
Also been listening to Greg Johnson a lot, esp his podcasts on Socrates and Plato. And his interviews with Robert Stark of course. Some people think Greg is too nice or too faggy or too effeminate or too neurotic or too soft and he has some kind of feud with Hunter Wallace and all that is just stupid as hell. Just try to APPRECIATE what Greg is doing!
Heh. take a BREAK from BLOGGING and COMMENTING for a few weeks and come back with a clear, cool head, hahaha.
so Horus/White Rabbit talks alot about Practical Politics and Mindweapon, IMHO, talks alot about the Practical. I enjoy the practical. Sometimes it's stupid to be some big Purist dealing exclusively in the Theoretical and never in the Real World. And anything you can do to help yourself WIN is probably more productive than Blogging or even Commenting.
So what do I do, I started a BLOG about Helping People Win, haha. Very Practical Bullet points. It might not be perfect but it's better than nothing. It is intended to get NEET Neckbeards off their fat asses and start making something of themselves. And also to help myself become more a Winner, to be honest, because my Career has been………stagnating.
So right now this blog will take a backseat while THAT blog takes the Front Seat. And I don't even exclude Nonwhites!
I also can't seem to make up my mind about race-mixing. I don't like when White Women mate with the Worst Of Blacks (Mud Sharks), having broods of Mulatto Future Felons, but say two decent, moral, hard-working people of different races fall in True Luv and want to have children that they would raise up to be decent, moral, hard-working, etc. And also say their families get along and the families are not Ethnic Crazies.
But now I'm doing Theoretical Hypotheticals again, see. I guess it can sometimes be good to say "If I Were Supreme Leader Of MY Own Country, here's what I would do"….but you also have to think practically as well. So hypothetically say I practically meet a cute 18 year old Nonwhite girl who comes from a good family.
Anyway I am generally thankful for the Racialist writers I have read, I don't think you're as hateful as everyone says! Racialists def get a really bad rap, a very raw deal, that is unfair, that should not be.
been watching more movies lately
KATYN by ANDRZEJ WAJDA
love them Poles. Poles really got a raw deal from Germany on one side and Russia on the other. And though I try to appreciate NatSoc on its own merits and to study The Good Things about Hitler, I'm not sure how he REALLY felt about Poles and Slavs. Of course Mainstream Media makes you think Hitler wanted to EXTERMINATE the Slavs like RATS because they were "the wrong kind of Europeans." So how true is that statement? I personally LOVE the Poles, I AM a Pole for gods sakes. Poles are MY PEOPLE and I will ALWAYS stand up for them.
Never saw a Wadja film believe it or not, it was bretty good. 3.7/5 hahaha. For some reason I found the brown-haired, man-jawed woman who played the main guy's wife very attractive. My Type. So say the actress was Half Jewish, should that keep me from pursuing her? Because I have a chance at Dating The Actress from this movie, hahaha.
Good movie, well worth watching, started dragging at around 1 hour but the ending was real "good". Real intense and unforgettable and moving, worth the price of admission.
Anyway basic story is, Poland was occupied by Germany in the west and Russia to the East and 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals were taken away and found in a mass grave in Katyn near Smolensk in Russia/Ukraine, and the Russians blamed it on the Nazis and the Nazis blamed it on the Russians. I guess it was the Nazis who originally found the bodies, and pretty well-known that it was the Russian Communists who committed the Genocide. No, the movie does not go into the Jewish Connection with Russian Bolshevism Communism. Yes, there is a scene where Nazis brutally shut down the University in Krakow and force all the professors off to Camps.
So it's common knowledge amongst Polish civilians and the families that the Russians did this, but of course you can't SAY that because you'll get put into Political Prison, and the truth was not allowed to come out until the fall of communism in Poland in 1989. or 1990.
So yeah, some of You will not like it because it does not put an appropriate spotlight on the JEWS who were behind this genocide (I like how in the interview with Wajda in the extras he uses the term GENOCIDE many times to describe the atrocity, which is right and just IMHO!), but is it not safe to say there were many White Collaborators Enforcing Communist Law? Just following orders because they did not want to be executed themselves?
So yeah there's a good 50 minute interview with Wajda. Right now as of 2013 he is approx 85 years old and making a movie about Lech Walesa I would like to see. I have a ton of older Wajda movies in the queue. I don't think he's a SHILL, he seems to have some integrity. Till now most of my Polish movie experience has been with Kryztof Kieslowski and not really Wajda, plan to right that wrong.
Roman Polanski is a Degenerate Child-Molesting Jew, but I still enjoyed "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby!"
Speaking of Degenerate Filth, there's this movie out called "A SERBIAN FILM" which is apparently the biggest piece of depraved, degenerate trash ever made, even Netflix refuses to carry it. Tons of rape and murder and torture and incest and a BABY getting raped. I have been trying not to poison my mind with filth lately so I don't think I'll be watching this one, but the guy says he's trying to be Politically Incorrect against the Politically Correct, Sappy, Sentimental, Feelgood movies that are usually made in Today's Serbia. I have no doubt the political climate in Serbia is and has been corrupt and violent but I can't help but think there's a better way to show it and comment on it than to make such a PERVERTED film as "A Serbian Film" sounds. I mean it REALLY sounds like the work of YOU KNOW WHO, hahaha.
So Racialists, feel free to watch that one and comment on what a piece of sh1t it is.
So while I refuse to poison my mind and soul with poison like that, I DO gladly watch the comedy show "Arrested Development" by Mitchell HURWITZ. How is THAT any less filthy and godawful? And I particularly find the Jew David CROSS hilarious, as I've found him hilarious in "Mr Show with Bob and David." (Note: I do NOT enjoy his stand-up comedy where he lets his annoying leftist come out!!) So I say it's less filthy and awful because they don't RAPE BABIES, they don't have some weird incestuous necrophilia orgy where a man is forced to suck off his dead son or some sh1t, and i'm not sure the show is TELLING people to go out and Be Awful, and its main agenda is just to make you laugh and entertain you with clever writing.
And so David Cross is a Jew and his character here is VERY unmasculine. I would not want my children EMULATING that behavior, however I think I as a grownass man can find the character hilarious without become any less masculine myself. And I don't think even the Jewish writer/creator is saying, Hey, BE LIKE THIS GUY. Dr. Tobias Funke is Intended to be Ridiculous.
Heh. It is like what Greg said about Socrates and the Eudaimonia. Once you achieve wisdom and internal well-being, no-one can take that away from you except for yourself. Once you achieve that state, you're bulletproof. Golden. And all the A Serbian Films in the world will not poison you. The only way you can be poisoned is essentially poisoning yourself, by losing faith in yourself.
heh. and this is starting to sound like my other blog.
all right. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES AND YOUR FAMILIES AND FIND A WAY TO WIN. AND LISTEN TO ROBERT STARK.


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We host about 30 websites using typical shared hosting plans using ASP.NET and SQL 2000/2005/2008. I am now wondering about hosting all of these websites using our own virtual private server.
This is clearly cheaper but comes with a lot of questions I need answers to:
Is the risk of having to keep this VPS server up and running worth it? Until now, the host provider has managed the server and we have not had to worry about crashes, downtime, software patches etc. We are not server administrators, we are programmers, so this is not really our expertise. On the other hand, it may not be hard to learn.
When we make a website live, we log in to a domain management control panel and change the primary and secondary name servers to point to our shared web host:
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These name servers are going to have to change when we have a VPS. I don't understand anything about how to set this up. Is there some useful info anyone could direct me to? Or is there software we need to install to make the primary and secondary name servers work on our VPS?
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The 45th Academy Awards were marred by multiple controversies – The Godfather having it's nomination for Best Score removed, Brando boycotting the whole thing, and Cabaret getting the most nominations without winning Best Picture. It was another year where lessons from past years were seemingly forgotten, with strange nominations in the face more obvious and deserving choices. There were even some strange choices for the wins. Both of the two aforementioned led the way for wins and nominations meaning other films were unrepresented, especially in the wins category. Edward G Robinson and Charles S Boren received Honorary Awards.
Carol Burnett, Charlton Heston, Michael Caine, and Rock Hudson hosted the show, which also saw James Coburn, Billy Dee Williams, Julie Andrew, John Wayne and other presenting. Meanwhile, Michael Jackson, John Williams, and a host of Disney Characters all performed music.
At least one of the two big winners will also be a big winner in my picks while the other may be sorely disappointed. There will be plenty of surprise nominations in some of the major categories and the usual mix of personal favourites popping up. Join us in the next few weeks to see what makes the cut!


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MUMBAI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's famous slogan of 'acche din' had originally been coined by his predecessor Manmohan Singh but has now become the "millstone" around the NDA government's neck, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today.
"Acche din maanne se hota hai (Good days depends on one's belief). It was at an NRI meet in Delhi that Manmohan Singh had said that 'Acche din ayenge' (good days will come).
"When asked when 'acche din' will come, Singh had replied, 'in the future'. Modi-ji said the same thing somewhere and it has now become the millstone around our neck," Gadkari said at an event here.
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Yesterday we found out that reality stars Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler called off their engagement. Well another reality star is following suite and ditched their wedding plans. Kat Von D has decided not to marry Jesse James. They are saying that living in different cities just became too much for them, since Kat resides in LA and Jesse has a home in Austin, Texas. Jesse already released a statement saying, "I'm so sad because I really love her. The distance between us was just too much." Kat confirmed their break up on Twitter saying, "I am no longer with Jesse and out of respect for him, his family and myself, that's all the info I'd like to share. Thanks for respecting that."
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"The abandoned motorway ran off into the haze, silver firs growing through its sections. Shivering in the cold air, Talbot looked out over the landscape of broken overpasses and crushed underpasses. The pilot walked down the slope to a rusting grader surrounded by tyres and fuel drums." JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition[1]
"People pigeonhole you as if you are having orgies everyday and eating sheep's heads and all this kind of stuff. Like some kind of overacted goth deviant. And, yeah, OK, we do all sorts of stuff like that, but… whatever takes your fancy. And on top of that there's other things going on. The sun is shining and there's lots to enjoy." Cosey Fanni Tutti[2]
Harnessing the creative force of urban brutalism and playing freely with taboo themes: subverting popular and political culture, and all the while pushing self-modified synths in strange and violent ways, the pioneers of industrial motored through the musical landscape of the late 1970s with a blank eyed intent. In the popular imagination long associated with nihilistic decadence — sexual adventure, literary subversion and narcotic indulgence — that was only ever a part of the story. Self-deprecating humor, astute social commentary and a willingness to corrupt audience expectations were never far behind.
Indeed, industrial was a music with an iconography and culture all its own and this article will examine its evolution and impact. It's a big history, so rather than attempting a comprehensive guide, the emphasis will instead focus on originators Throbbing Gristle, power electronics innovators Whitehouse, and multi-media propagandists Cabaret Voltaire. Sitting comfortably?
"Industrial Music for Industrial People" — Throbbing Gristle
"There's an irony in the word industrial because there's the music industry. And then there's the joke we often used to make in interviews about churning out records like motorcars — that sense of industrial… and "industrial" has a very cynical ring to it. It's not like that kind of romance of "paying your dues, man" of being "on the road" — rock n roll as a career being worthwhile in itself, and all that shit. So it was cynical and ironic and also accurate."[3]
Throbbing Gristle were the originals. They founded Industrial Records and set about making music that brought the shock of the new into sharp focus. Together they evoked an alien and disquieting counter balance to the prevailing musical vista, which punk rock was in the process of revolutionizing. Formed in 1976, the four band members comprised Genesis P-Orridge, artist and founder of the radical COUM Transmissions performance art collective; Chris Carter, mild mannered Abba fanatic and virtuoso synth programmer; Cosey Fanni Tutti, professional artist and stripper who also worked with COUM; and lastly Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson who, by day, worked for a design agency illustrating mainstream album covers.
Throbbing Gristle were as likely to name check William S. Burroughs or Edwardian occultist Aleister Crowley as the Velvet Underground — lines were quickly drawn between music, literature, and art. As industrial was music often occupied with the tactics of subversion, so the visual aesthetic was nearly as significant as the music, grounding the sound to a unique optical identity. Grainy black and white photographs of tower blocks and disused factories therefore took on sinister, behind the corner significance — bleak and disquieting, the dehumanizing aspects of 20th century architecture re-appropriated and given a sickly new half-life. The Industrial Records logo, an innocuous looking chimney stack, turned out to be the incinerator at Auschwitz.
So, bricks and mortar — the physical "industrial" influence — were a vital piece of the puzzle. Chris and Cosey recalled the psychological impact of their rehearsal space, the Death Factory, in a recent BBC interview:
"It was grim, really grim, in a very rundown part of London. The "factory" was an old trouser factory near London Fields and in the basement it was on level with the plague pits, which was why it got called the Death Factory. We were trying to reflect the sounds around us in some weird way. Our studio was in an industrial area and there were lots of different noises going on all the time and we were trying to reflect the way the noises come together in this weird mishmash of electronic experimental textures. We had these home made synths, not Rolands and Korgs — they sounded quite unique, they didn't sound like regular synths — and then we started building these effects units that you could put guitars or voices through or anything, and we called those Gristelisers. We were never punk — we're not punk. We're industrial. An industrial experimental music band'[4]
Debut LP, The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle, was, to put it mildly, a challenging listen. Fragmented vocals, heavily processed synths, "found" sound and abrasive factory noise, unremittingly lo–fi and often submerged in filthy layers of static and hisses were employed to create a nightmarish acoustic effect. Menacing disembodied voices and strange echo effects. Guitars, drums and vocals were put through the Gristelisers — acoustically, it was all there for the tweaking. Made up of a combination of live and studio recordings, the vibe of the record was heavy, curiously devoid of color and imbued with a threatening physicality that hummed with pallid dread. Tracks like "Maggot Death" suggested some affinity with early electronic experiments conducted by Stockhausen or John Cage, but were far more barren affairs:
The subject matter was as bleak as the music. "Zyklon B Zombie" was named after the murderous gas used during the Holocaust. The notorious "Very Friendly" (recorded during 1976 but only released in 2001) recounted the crimes of 1960s English serial killers The Moors Murderers (Myra Hindley and Ian Brady) in excruciatingly matter of fact detail, P-Orridge eking out the syllables in the killers' names in rhythmic meter by way of chorus, and recounting bland everyday details from court transcripts ("drinking German wine…").
As such, evil, in TG terms, was not some abstract concept perpetrated by monsters and judged from on high. Rather like a David Lynch movie, it seemed to exist very much in the present — behind the curtains, perpetrated by sentient human beings. Arguably an altogether more disquieting comment than garish tabloid news coverage, they presented dark themes unflinchingly — the full horror — a grey scale subversion of "sexed up" media sensationalism. "Art has to deal with issues of human behavior, and why we behave in ways that are counterproductive, cruel, destructive, aggressive. That's what I wanted to find out: why? Why are people titillated and stimulated by second hand descriptions of other people's aberrant behavior? If we can find out what that story is, that has stopped us from evolving with our technology, then maybe we can finally let go of our prehistoric behavior."[5]
Sensible knitwear and perfect smiles — 20 Jazz Funk Greats
It would be disingenuous to suggest that Throbbing Gristle were all about darkness, however. Third LP, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, was a dynamic and occasionally disarmingly sprightly affair. Largely misunderstood on its initial 1978 release, the record has since become an iconic classic — the closest TG ever got to canonized respectability. Its mischievously ironic title and the cover, which featured all four-band members standing — resplendent in chunky knitware — on a cliff top (which turned out to be English seaside suicide hot spot, Beachey Head) actively goaded any assumption that may have been made about the group. The cover itself was a tongue in cheek answer to a comment made by P-Orridge's mother, Muriel:
"In passing I mentioned that we were making a new album and she slightly aggressively, and a little sadly asked me, 'Why can't you make a nice record for once, and use a nice picture for a change?' I asked her, 'Like what, for example?' 'Something nice, like flowers,' she said, 'and why can't you smile for a change?' For some reason, for all the wrong, contrary reasons, this idea stuck in my head. Why not seem to please mum and the general public's ideas of good taste and pleasantness and yet still, secretly, maintain our perversity?"[6]
Those expecting the brittle assault of Second Annual Report were shocked. Melody, pop, disco, irreverent humor — all were present and correct. Drew Daniel, author of the excellent "33 1/3" guide to the record, recalled his own teenage reaction:
"What I heard sounded to me like pop music. Puzzling and perverted pop, yes, but pop all the same. Given the TG I thought I knew, 20 Jazz Funk Greats was all wrong… what happened to the darkness and evil? This sounded like the work of people who liked to dance, people who listened to disco… people who might be growing up and feeling a bit bored by serial killer trivia'."[7]
Indeed tracks such as "Hot on the Heels of Love" betrayed Chris Carter's Abba obsession and synth programming prowess, as well as TG's mischievous humor. It's mildly warped but genuinely effective disco track that could almost be taken at face value.
"Wreckers of Civilisation" — Throbbing Gristle Live
It was in the live arena that Throbbing Gristle was at their most visceral. Often eschewing traditional concert venues in favor of unconventional spaces, they attracted infamy after a performance at the COUM organised "Pornography" show at London's ICA in 1976. The show featured collages of rusted syringes, bloodied hair and tampons while transvestites and prostitutes were hired to intermingle with the public. Conservative MP Nicholas Fairburn publicly — and wonderfully pompously — denounced the group as the "wreckers of civilization" in the House of Commons, helping to galvanize curiosity.
In his sprawling memoir of the early Sheffield industrial scene, Industrial Evolution Mick Fish describes his own shock:
"There was already a palpable violent tension in the air… the whole turgid morass of sound started to pummel the stomach and turn the head into a stodgy muddle. There was something deeply disturbing about the whole event. For me TG had evolved from being a decadent type of art/punk joke into something ugly and tainted."[8]
Perhaps one of the more bizarre moments in the group's live history came when they were invited to perform at prestigious English public school Oundle in 1980. The mind fairly boggles at the behind the scenes mechanizations that must have gone into arranging such a show — surely one of the most fascinating juxtapositions in the history of underground music. Chris and Cosey spoke about the gig in a 2011 interview with The Quietus:
"Chris: A whole entourage of industrial people was there, we made it a big event, and they just got carried away with the sound. The kids couldn't work out whether they liked it or not. They were only kids, I think the oldest was 15 or 16, and you could see the teachers in the balcony frowning and thinking, 'What's all this about?' and then Gen just whipped them into this frenzy, they were shouting at you, 'Show us your tits.'"
Cosey: I said, no you take your shirt off, and one did, he took his little rugby shirt off and gave it to me. And the pressure I had from Sleazy, he wanted it so bad! When they all broke out into "Jerusalem" we were all [expression of draw-dropping incredulity], it's as if the instinct kicked in. And in those days! They all started singing. We were all onstage thinking 'YES!'"[9]
"The Cut Up" — Throbbing Gristle and William S. Burroughs
If the Oundle School show perfectly encapsulated the situationist aesthetic that TG had so expertly cultivated, then the specter of William S. Burroughs represented their most important literary influence — a pivotal part of the industrial story.
Notorious for the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959 — the subject of an obscenity trial — Burroughs (alongside Brion Gysin) pioneered the "cut up," a literary collage technique involving the splicing and random reassembly of words. As a revolutionary modernist, his work often eschewed anything approaching traditional narrative (although not always — see Junky for a rare example of his linear writing); he extended a vital influence on many aspects of 1960s counter culture. Writing extensively on homosexuality, drugs and the hidden mechanizations of control, he saw humanity — and more importantly language itself — as a living virus. The best of his writing has a lucid quality that presents nightmarish dystopic scenes as grotesque theatrical set pieces. Characters, themes, and even whole passages reappear throughout his books, as does the "Interzone" — a space that bore more than a passing resemblance to the seedier outposts of Tangier, the notorious Moroccan port city in which Burroughs lived and wrote in for much of the 1950s. Throbbing Gristle were big fans.
"When I started to read Burroughs books I just innately started to grasp what he was suggesting: the idea that if you take writing or music and chop it up and reassemble it in a random order you often hear things or understand things that you wouldn't if you just looked at things in a linear way. And that basic technique of cutting up and reassembling is something I've used ever since. I think of Burroughs and Brion Gysin as my two most influential mentors in terms of art and music. Throbbing Gristle was very much set up to incorporate the idea of tape recordings and field recordings and cuts ups — the lessons of the beatniks, and Stockhausen and John Cage — into the music itself."[10]
The relationship between Burroughs and TG extended beyond mutual appreciation. In 1981, Burroughs released a spoken word LP on Industrial Records, Nothing Here Now But The Recordings. The LP compiled 15 spoken word pieces; each delivered in Burroughs' laconic Kansas drawl.
The LP was to be the last on Industrial Records for many years. Throbbing Gristle were finished by 1981, a typically terse message informing that "the mission has been terminated."
The aftermath: Psychic TV, Coil, and Chris & Cosey
Industrial had gained traction as a fully-fledged movement by the early 80s. Bands such as Einstürzende Neubauten in Germany took the "industrial" influence at literal face value, making extraordinary music using home made instruments and liberal quantities of scrap metal, even going so far as to record their first album, Stahlmusic, inside a pillar of West Berlin's Stadtautobahn Bridge. Around the same time, bands like the Sheffield based Clock DVA were also making waves with a brittle post punk based take on the sound, while SPK followed similarly disturbing ground to early TG, records like Information Overload Unit and Leichenschrie being harsh early examples. The story for the former members of TG was far from over, though.
Psychic TV
Genesis P-Orridge formed Psychic TV, an astonishingly prolific musical collective who collaborated with artists, filmmakers and bands of all persuasions. Musically, Psychic TV generally utilized a cleaner production value than TG, bearing little relation to industrial. They experimented with everything from punk to dance, and jumped headfirst into the nascent rave explosion in late 80s England with a series of raw acid tracks.
Further to this, P-Orridge controversially formed Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, a loose organisation devoted to making various strands of esoteric philosophy and majick easily accessible to all. But that's another story.
Formed by Jhonn Balance in 1982 and joined a year later by "Sleazy" Christopherson, Coil were an enigma among the electronic underground. Hugely influential, their music spanned the gauntlet from abrasive industrial textures to haunting operatic arrangements. Seldom playing live, they instead focused on a rich bounty of studio LPs and released a body of work that was by turns transcendentally beautiful and dread inducingly dark.
Like TG before them, Coil was highly vocal in their interest in both majick and pagan philosophy, with both Christopherson and Balance often discussing occultists Alistair Crowley and Austin Spare during interviews. However, this was no kitsch dalliance. They were highly knowledgeable about the subject — with the library to back it up — and their exploration in the field informed pretty much all of their work. By way of example, first LP How to Destroy Angels was described in the liner notes as "ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy."
Christopherson was a formidable engineer; much of the music he worked on with Coil inhabited a completely idiosyncratic sphere. The world of Coil — and make no mistake, their output exists very much in its own space — is a bountiful place to explore.
"Certain tracks on certain Coil records are designed to trigger altered states, whether this happens or not is to some extent up to the listener. without wishing to sound pompous, we want to make sacred music. I don't mean something that assumes Messianic proportions or delusions, but I think all good music should be an attempt to change people's mind-sets."[11]
An acknowledged influence on Autechre, Surgeon, Aphex Twin and a whole host of other electronic producers, Coil were a seminal band. Sadly, both Balance and Christopherson have now passed on; the former suffering a fatal fall in 2004, the latter a heart attack in 2010. A formidable body of work survives them.
Chris & Cosey/Carter Tutti
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti have been underground instigators since the early 80s. Exploring synth pop, dark industrial, electro, ambient and all points in between, their output has been as eclectic as it has prolific, spanning some 14 studio LPs as well as numerous other projects.
Early LPs were released on long-standing indie label Rough Trade, primarily exploring a dark synth pastoral sound — "Heartbeat" and "Songs of Love and Lust" are acknowledged classics of the genre. Much of their work is imbued with electric sexual energy. Often eminently danceable — perhaps betraying the pairs knowledge and appreciation of proper disco — Chris and Cosey tracks have also been long highly appreciated amongst the dance community with Carl Craig, Andy Weatherall and Daniel Miller all remixing tracks over the years. On that note, techno enthusiasts should also be sure to check Chris Carter's excellent but obscure 1981 solo LP, The Space Between. See "ElectroDub 2" for a stunning early evocation of dub techno, predating Basic Channel et al. by over a decade:
"In the studio in Martello Street before TG split up, Chris and Sleazy used to work on their own. I used to come down to the studio sometimes, so we were used to there just being two or three people in the studio working, so it wasn't a huge leap to be honest. Also because when we did tracks like "Adrenalin" and "Hot on the Heels of Love," we'd already started enjoying the construction of that kind of music and we wanted to take it a bit further. We'd not exhausted our interest in doing the TG hard-edged stuff but it had become second nature to us and it wasn't as much of a challenge to us. We were ready to break loose and try something new."[12]
At the turn of the millennium Chris and Cosey became Carter Tutti. Earlier this year they also released a compelling LP in collaboration with Void (of Factory Floor) under the name Carter Tutti Void. Sexy and driving, the record shows off a new-found brisk functionality, to devastating effect:
Steel City Blues: Cabaret Voltaire
Throbbing Gristle considered Cabaret Voltaire kindred spirits. Indeed, Chris and Cosey released some of their very first singles on Cabaret Voltaire's DoubleVision label. Formed in the fertile 70s Sheffield scene that also gave birth to the Human League and Heaven 17, they perhaps explored the fractured pop aesthetic more blatantly than any of their industrial peers. Cabaret Voltaire used synths to enhance regular instrumentation but — where Gristle often sounded completely alien in their use of electronics — CV's sonic markers were more guitar-based.
Formed by Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, Rough Trade put out early singles like the churning "Nag Nag Nag" in 1978 — an (un)comfortable meeting between punk and industrial with guitars, drums and vocals covered in a dense layer of white noise, lending a heavily obfuscated sound to an already busy mix:
However, it was the field of video — particularly homemade edits — which Cabaret Voltaire pioneered. Their shows were notorious for the incorporation of schizoid montages of news sources and cult movies, lending a bewildering and nightmarish intensity to their music.
"Richard was capable of constructing visual backdrops that were like psychedelic flashbacks. The random effect could be like witnessing the whole worlds media flashing before ones' eyes within a few seconds…. In the same way the Cabs use of snippets of found voices pre dated and predicted sampling, so Richard's splicing together of visuals predicted much of the pop video making that followed"[13]
During interviews the band were at pains to emphasize the importance of the visual aspect, going so far as to suggest it was of equal importance to the music — another pertinent example of how vital visual identity was to the evolution of industrial.
"I think in peoples senses there is a hierarchy, and the visual side is a lot more spontaneous — people react a lot more immediately to a visual image than to an audio image. Visuals tend to have a greater immediate impact — I'm not saying it's longer lasting. Audio can be a lot more subconscious, more subliminal, but audio doesn't have the immediacy of the sense of sight."[14]
However, if pioneering video experimentation was central to the band's identity, it was a distinct lack of virtuosity that was central to their acoustic character, something which tied them in neatly with the DIY aesthetic of the punk era. There was a driving functionality to much of Cabaret Voltaire's best work — put simply, it was raw amphetamine charged dance music.
"We're very interested in rhythms now. The basic inspiration or philosophy is that we're primitive, but primitive in an urban way…whether we try to make it commercial or whether we try to make it weird, the whole point is that its instinctive and in that sense I think we're primitive."[15] Fish, p.207
"What appealed to us was the idea of providing a faultless beat, a pulse behind what we were doing to link things together. We didn't really want to use a drummer because we didn't want to be a part of the 'rock music' tradition. In a lot of ways we wanted to parody that whole 'rock tradition' and integrate it into the basic idea of sound collage."[16]
Tracks like 1984's "Sensoria" were a case in point — poppy but audibly abrasive. Listen to the booming kick drums sitting right up high in the mix:
After 14 studio LPs, CV disbanded in 1996. Kirk had over the years become ever more heavily involved with electronic dance music, recording a staggering number of tracks under an equally staggering number of pseudonyms and working with labels from Soul Jazz and Mute to Warp.
"These days, everyone samples if, say, they want a northern soul feel. In our day, we'd attempt to recreate things. And because we couldn't really replicate it, what we produced [as Cabaret Voltaire] was interesting and strange. It was the same with Warp. They received demos of what people thought was house music but it was wide of the mark — and as a result, more interesting. Sometimes music works best when you don't know what you're doing."[17]
The oblique pull of "Power Electronics" — Whitehouse
Where Throbbing Gristle flirted with subverting accepted musical territory — disco, pop, synth — and Cabaret Voltaire were yet more upfront in their admiration of pure dance music, Whitehouse were about violent extremity: sonically and thematically they pushed the envelope very hard indeed. Formed in 1980 by William Bennett, they immediately set about testing the limits of electronics to palpable extremes. Bennett coined the term "power electronics" in the sleeve notes to their 1982 album Psychopathia Sexualis to describe what they committed to tape — often monstrous staccato bursts of white noise layered with barked vocals and tempered with absolutely no traditional musical signifiers. Early albums like Total Sex and Right to Kill cemented a place in underground consciousness, while later works grew ever more maximal.
Invoking extreme physical reactions, Whitehouse shows (or, in their vernacular, "live actions," meticulously numbered and documented like so many military assaults) were highly confrontational affairs in which the band goaded and verbally abused the crowd. This would sometimes boil over to audience violence, with the band dodging projectiles. Whitehouse could push people to the limits of their endurance, forcing them into very difficult and confusing mental spaces.
Philosophically — although sharing surface obsessions — they were a markedly different proposition from earlier industrial bands. Where TG was often at pains to explain the reasoning behind their most controversial works, Whitehouse found this approach anathema, a situation that drew animosity for the band given that they were taken to using graphic — and often sexually violent and fascistic — imagery in their music. Critics in certain quarters pressed that they were duty bound to explain and they were repeatedly accused of glamorizing abhorrent acts and political ideas, taking a sensual pleasure in the macabre, without backing it up with academic rigor.
The leftfield novelist and essayist Stuart Home was a particularly vocal critic of the band, writing at length in his essay, "The Sound of Sadism: Whitehouse and the new British Art."
"The problem with self-conscious extremism is its need to definite itself against a social norm. In this sense, rather than challenging liberalism, a group such as Whitehouse merely reproduce the reigning ideology… Whitehouse are 'notorious' for their track "Right To Kill," a slogan that takes liberal ideology to a 'logical' conclusion. Regardless of whether Whitehouse set out to arrive at a reductio ad absurdum, the notion of rights is very much a product of the enlightenment, and remains so no matter how ridiculous the results when applied to animals and murder."[18]
However, William Bennett himself strongly refutes the notion that an artist is obliged to rationalize. The following quote comes from a recent interview with The Wire:
"In one sense all art is about some kind of tragedy. I don't see why some things should be so taboo that they can't be tackled in some way. We've played in Germany and when we get interviewed they always bring up 'Buchenwald' and say how can you do that? It's as if your passing comment in favor of it. But when you think about it there is no content other than the thing itself. In other words what people find so unsettling is the lack of comment."[19]
The abrasive "wall of sound" aesthetic pushed by Whitehouse was heavily influential on techno — particularly the Downwards/Dynamic Tension Birmingham axis. Anybody who has seen British Murder Boys perform live will pick up a strong Whitehouse accent.
Cut Hands has the solution: an interview with William Bennett (Cut Hands/Whitehouse)
More recently William Bennett in his new Cut Hands guise has signed to Blackest Ever Black, a label with a particularly strong post punk/industrial aesthetic. The tracks he is releasing under the name are markedly different: driving, tribal rhythms that will no doubt excite anyone who was enamored with T++'s Wireless EP of 2010, or any of Regis' solo material of late. He also finds time to indulge his passion and knowledge of vintage Italo disco in his sets under the name DJ Benetti. I had the following email exchange with Bennett.
What initially drew you to seek out and make extreme sonics?
William Bennett: It's a long time ago and seen through the mists of time from a now perspective, I'd suggest it came from a combination of a typical teen disenfranchisement: the excitement that comes from embracing something you can call your own and no one else's. That combined with the emotional rush that this kind of sound had the capacity to elicit, in certain circumstances.
Whitehouse gathered controversy. What drew you to relentlessly explore the darker side of humanity?
It's the exploration into dark — or unknown — territories where I find the most potential for genuine artistic beauty (and I won't bore you with my thesis on that): you'll hear many claims to being adventuresome and edgy and risky and so forth, yet in truth rare are those prepared to confront danger and do something with it, and fewer still resisting the temptation for rationalization. I'm passionate about permissiveness, allowing for the freedom of an unfiltered artistic response.
Does "shocking" mean much to you? Was this ever a creative drive in Whitehouse?
Not beyond what I've just pointed out. "Shocking" I see as just an emotional response. As with anything else it's entirely neutral in and of itself, and is only perceived as good or bad in the light of context; the literalist response to the music always amazed me since there was always a pretty big kind of clue with Whitehouse being the name of the band.[20]
What record are you most proud of from the Whitehouse years?
I don't really have any favorites, I'm proud of most of them. Racket might be the most intimately poignant.
It must have been intense trying to produce a Whitehouse record. What effect did you tend to have on engineers after weeks in the studio?
Most of the time in studios is spent with people you already know really well which makes things a lot easier. Before I started making electronic music it was much more challenging going into studios and working with people we didn't know, who were also unfamiliar with our music: I'm sure a lot of people will echo that — just like with sound engineers at live shows.
Could you tell me a little bit about Cut Hands? What provided the impetus to start the project? How did the hook up with Blackest Ever Black come about?
Cut Hands developed fairly organically as soon as the experiments with djembes began — along with learning 15 years or so ago how much our addiction to technology was a major distraction to what I wanted to achieve through music — a Cuban santería priest I knew deserves my thanks for that important lesson. The hook-up with Blackest Ever Black began a while back, we knew a lot of people in common, and the label's exquisite aesthetic identity was of irresistible appeal.
[1]J.G Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition, Flamingo, 1993 p.70
[2]Drew Daniel, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, Continuum, 2008, p.23
[3]V.Vale and Andrea Juno (editors), Industrial Culture Handbook, Research, 1983, p.11
[4]BBC Four Documentary, Synth Britannia, originally aired 10/16/2009
[5]Daniel, p. 127
[6]Daniel, p.30
[7]Daniel, p.20
[8]Mick Fish, Industrial Evolution: through the eighties with Cabaret Voltaire, Pop Tomes Publishing, 2002
[8]The Quietus, Chris and Cosey interviewed: from the death factory to the Norfolk fens, Luke Turner, 5/5/11
[9]The Quietus, Chris and Cosey interviewed: from the death factory to the Norfolk fens, Luke Turner, 5/5/11
[10]Genesis P-Orridge, Metalkult Interview part 3: Artistic Influences
[11]The Wire, Coil: Obscure Mechanics, John Everall, issue 134, April 1995
[12]Self Titled Magazine, Chris and Cosey interview, John Doran, April 2012
[13]Fish, p.40
[14]V.Vale and Andrea Juno (editors), Industrial Culture Handbook, Research, 1983, p.45
[15]Fish, p.207
[16]Fish, p.207
[17]The Guardian, Warp Records: Richard H Kirk interview, November 5 2011, David Stubbs
[18]Stuart Home, Whitehouse: the sound of Sadism, http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/white.htm
[19]The Wire, Invisible Jukebox: William Bennett, issue 322, December 2010
[20]Non UK readers should note that "Whitehouse" is the name of both a UK pornographic publication and also the surname of Mary Whitehouse, a notoriously straight-laced 1970s "family values" campaigner.


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Calvary has a long tradition of excellent choral and instrumental music. We have both an adult and a youth choir as well as a handbell choir, all under the direction of Music Director Ed Hanson. We provide music for the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship service and for special services throughout the year.
If you are interested in joining one of our music groups, please contact Ed Hanson.
Canterbury Choir
The youth choir is open to young people in the third grade or older. Beginning choristers are provided with a training program each fall to acquaint them with the liturgy and service music of the church. Canterbury Choir rehearses on Wednesday afternoons, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., September through May.
Cambridge Choir
The adult choir of Calvary parish is open to all senior-high age or older members of the congregation who are reasonably acquainted with music. Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., September through May.
Handbell Choir
The handbell choir plays at services about once a month throughout the year. The handbell choir rehearses on Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m., September through May.


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Cleaning and Preventing Damage to Your SMART BoardTM
V280 Interactive Whiteboard's Writing Surface
Applies to: The SMART BoardTM V280 interactive whiteboard
With proper care, your SMART Board interactive whiteboard will provide years of trouble-free service.
This document describes how to clean and prevent damage to your SMART Board V280 interactive whiteboard's
writing surface.
Preventing Damage to the Writing Surface
Your SMART Board interactive whiteboard is durable. However, take care to prevent damaging the interactive
screen and other parts of the product.
Do not touch the screen with sharp or pointed objects.
Do not leave adhesive tape on the writing surface for extended periods of time.
Avoid setting up and using your interactive whiteboard in an area with excessive dust, humidity or smoke.
Cleaning Your SMART Board V280 Interactive Whiteboard
Follow these tips to keep your interactive whiteboard clean.
To clean dust, dirt and finger grease, wipe the writing surface with a damp cloth or sponge. Use mild soap,
if required.
If dry-erase markers are used on the interactive whiteboard, remove the ink as soon as possible.
Dry-erase ink becomes more difficult to remove the longer it stays on the display surface.
Cover ink stains with Sanford® Expo® Whiteboard Cleaner (not low-odor whiteboard cleaner), and then rub
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isn't usually visible when the projector is on.
Remove persistent stains by rubbing a paste of baking soda and water on the screen surface.
The digital cameras located in each screen corner under the valance are protected from dust and dirt
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Christie on Sandy rebuilding – coverage on NewsWorks Tonight
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Property owners and towns in New Jersey will soon learn what the road to recovery will look like after Superstorm Sandy.
Gov. Chris Christie is expected to offer state guidelines on rebuilding standards Thursday.
The guidelines would include where and how high to rebuild.
Christie will announce the "Hurricane Sandy Flood Map Regulations" in Seaside Heights. The town, which was featured in the MTV reality show "Jersey Shore" sustained substantial damage to its boardwalk during Sandy.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency last month released advisory flood maps covering 194 municipalities in coastal areas. Based on data gathered before Sandy, the maps show the risk of flooding is worse than believed when the current maps came out in the 1980s.


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New Complementary Qualifications Scheme Benefits MurkyThe Complementary Qualifications Scheme does open up the ITIL qualification playing field but can make the your ITIL Expert award a bit suspect.
Elizabeth Harrin
As long as the certificates meet the criteria of relevance and supplementary content, anything could be fair game. More options for qualifications should make it easier to work your way up the ITIL hierarchy and rack up the credits.
More choice for ITIL candidates
Richard Pharro, CEO, The APM Group, doesnt think so. Qualifications which help further promote specialised knowledge from within ITIL practices are a welcome addition to the overall certification scheme, he said. We are pleased that the professionalization of service management continues to expand and we can offer more choices for ITIL certification.
Jeff Payne, director of Best Practice at QA, agrees. He believes that the new qualifications demonstrate how ITIL v3 is maturing and also how organisations are embracing it, but looking for more practical application of its guidance related to their staff roles.
ITIL has been rapidly adopted, he said, and there has been continuous demand to extend the core offerings to broaden the value of ITIL V3 to the business. QA has always been a key driving force behind ITIL training and adoption, and we're proud to be here again, right at the launch of an exciting new range of ITIL training.
QA is one of the first providers to offer new certifications in conjunction with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. They have launched Complementary Qualifications in Service Desk and Incident Management, and Change Management, with Service Level Management, Problem Management, Supplier Management and Business Relationship Management in the pipeline.
Michiel van der Voort, director, International and Professional Development at the Institute, said that the new exams are a reflection of the fact that service management is growing.
In response to the growth in IT service management we have worked closely with our accredited training partners and examiners to develop a set of qualifications that directly support the skills development of service management professionals worldwide, he said. They provide industry recognition of specialist skills and knowledge and will help individuals and organisations gain the credit they deserve.
Will the path to ITIL Expert be too narrow?
This approach does make some paths to ITIL Expert rather narrow. Each of the complementary qualifications launched by BCS are worth 1.5 credits towards the ITIL Expert award. The ICT Infrastructure Management certificate awarded by ISEB/BCS is worth 3.5 credits. As more qualifications are launched, candidates could pick and choose the ones that offer them the easiest route to ITIL Intermediate or ITIL Expert, and not the ones that would give them a broad grounding in service management.
And as the providers can develop their own certification, we have to rely on the IQCC to ensure there is no overlap between the certificates offered by multiple training companies. If there is no oversight, candidates could hop from one provider to another, taking the Service Desk Management qualification for example, at each one, and never learning anything new. Equally, providers could offer courses that are considered "complementary" but dont actually add any technical service delivery knowledge, like "Managing a Team," or other general management topics.
There is no indication that either of these scenarios will happen. We have to have confidence that the IQCC will assess each proposed qualification against the existing portfolio of certificates from every vendor to avoid overlap. We also have to assume that they will provide guidance to candidates to ensure that they select the most relevant qualifications. The new qualification scheme should allow candidates to focus much more on creating a role-based profile from their selection of ITIL modules, and to tailor their experience of ITIL to their current or dream job. Another limiting factor is that only 6 credits awarded from Complementary Qualifications can count towards ITIL Expert.
Make your ITIL experience role-based
The qualifications allow for different flavours of ITIL that provide a focus specific to a particular job. So, if you are an expert in Service Levels, there is one for you. The idea behind it, the providers said, is to allow people to build on or develop a specialism. The core qualifications provide a limited choice for those people who are qualified to ITIL Foundation level and wish to specialise in a particular area of service management. The new qualifications are supposed to be able to fill in the gaps and provide a more comprehensive range of role-based training.
You could, for example, build your experience in Service Catalogue. Our experience and client feedback confirms that the Service Catalogue is the cornerstone of any ITIL initiative, said Troy DuMoulin, AVP of Product Strategy at Pink Elephant, who have initiated the qualification along with newScale and APMG. Were encouraged by this exciting development in the professionalism of Service Management.
The Service Catalogue qualification looks at new ways to control demand, publish and track service pricing and cost, and automate service request management and fulfilment, as well as reducing cycle time. Better management in this area can save a lot of time, and that means team members can spend their time on more strategic initiatives.
The idea of being able to draw on a range of qualifications that make most sense for the job you do sounds good in practice. This might, however, not be so useful or appropriate if you change jobs. It will make it difficult to assess one ITIL Expert against another if they have taken wildly different paths to get there.
More options also makes it more difficult to recruit and to understand the value that ITIL qualifications can potentially bring an organisation.
The CQS is still in its early days. Well have to wait and see how it develops and how candidates, employers and recruiters respond to the concept of making ITIL more role-based.
Payne believes that the success of ITIL and the role-based range of qualifications is driven by the simple desire to understand and learn from the experience of others, adopting best practice through the ITIL framework. This saves money by doing things right the first time which is critical to cost effective, service orientated, efficient operations.
Elizabeth Harrin is Computer Weekly's IT Blogger of the Year 2010. She is also director of The Otobos Group The Otobos Group, a business writing consultancy specializing in IT and project management. She's the author of "Social Media for Project Managers " and "Project Management in the Real World". She has a decade of experience in IT and business change functions in healthcare and financial services, and is ITIL v3 Foundation certified.
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1. We all die
Our first Beta named Vishnu, lived with us for over a year. He was the lord of his little bowl kingdom. He swam with a purpose and flashed his royal blue fins at us whenever we dared enter his field of vision without his permission. He ate heartily and pooped earnestly. One day we found his highness floating like a common dead fish stripped of his glory. We gave him a royal flush and said our good byes humbled.
Life is short and we realise the value of important things often only when they are taken away from us. We resolved to take stock of people and things that make us really happy and spend time with them.
2. The world is oddly misshapen
Ill and confined to the couch, I found myself wondering one day, how does little Fawkes experience the world. Now Fawkes is our current betta. Bright red and feisty, he lacks the regal air (or water) around him, but makes up for it by being cheery and active.
We had washed his bowl and set it out to dry. So I dragged by feet to the balcony, picked up the bowl and angled it so I could see what Fawkes saw. It felt like I was in the house of mirrors – strange shapes and colours with no semblance of order.
Life is like that in many ways. People and things may not be clear or make sense but that doesn't mean life is as lopsided as we sometimes think it is. Things might look stretched beyond our field of vision and overwhelming in reality it might just be a trivial thing if you break it down. So yeah I learnt to live with the quirks and that made my days much more productive.
3. You don't need a lot to be happy
Vishnu seemed infinitely happy in the little bowl. He swam round and round. He surveyed the land and took stock of the jokers outside. He picked a spot to rest his sapphire head for a while and
then resumed lording over his land.
Fawkes on the other had is always exploring. He puts his head between the stones and tries to move them around. You could hear him click clicking away. I felt that maybe he wasn't being fed enough, but well he just was content rearranging stones and making himself a nice bed to curl over and snooze.
Learning to live with what we got has become more of a challenge to our generation than it has ever been in the history of evolution. Social Media is full of people trying to prove how their life is flashier than others, threatening non 'likers' with dire consequences and others decide that we need to offer opinion on their bowel movements updated on the status. Credit culture has turned households into little sweat shops. We're not the epitome of perfection.
But when I hear click click click I tell myself – We have everything we need and more 🙂 Eventually it should help!
4. Don't poop where you feed
Well when you come home tired and see the bowl decorated with party streamers, you know someone's been in a feeding frenzy.
While Vishnu used to merrily swim around in filth, Fawkes tries to shimmy away in embarrassment perhaps.
Whether it is work or family, leave the bullshit elsewhere. I can't stress this enough don't hang your dirty diapers all over social media for everyone to shake their heads at.
5. The glass is cleaner on the other side
Unequivocally true. The glass is cleaner on the inside or so it seems… and the glass looks cleaner on the outside, so it must seem to the betta.
Cell phones, gadgets, cars, spouses, ice cream, in-laws, cocktails, hairstyles, shoes… there are always things we wish we had, the could've beens and should've beens. It's tough but possible to live without coveting and being happy for others and their success. If it gets too tough, I should learn to shut my gob and move on.
Fishes are fishy in their own way. They seem stupid and unassuming; rolling their eyes around in chlorine induced vacant haze, much like I do during Trigonometry finals. However, they are silently teaching you, sending out their message, a silent presence in your living room, swimming around when you are asleep, watching your convex movements with practised ease… you know what I'm a little creeped out.
To sum it up:
Learn from betta
Fishes can be creepy


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