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Zurich has more magic to offer with the Hightime city tour. Discover the city and enjoy augmented reality (AR) art and entertainment as you do so. Six short themed walks show you the town through the eyes of different Zurich characters, with maps and tips for things to see and do as you go. Let Hightime’s animated 3D AR characters be your guides. Snap a photo of yourself with them anywhere on the walks. By viewing the city from all the characters’ different perspectives, the Hightime city tour reveals the artful essence of Zurich.
Hightime’s centrepiece is a Zurich Glockenspiel parade video in three dimensional augmented reality. On your tour, watch the Zurich characters join the parade and perform from different perspectives; get a 360 degree view of the musical drama. Choose where you want the Hightime Glockenspiel to play and set the stage for your own unique performance against the background of Zurich’s imposing old city buildings. In the Glockenspiel parade you’ll find all our typical Zurich characters appearing first at work and then at play. They are all performing together with the 'Züri Leu', the city emblem lion, in and around a landmark Zurich clocktower. At work, the characters are a luxury goods salesman (the Dandy), a financial Trader, a Swiss Cook, and a Roadworker. They're battling to overcome tricky challenges for the city – can you work out what they are? Then, they have fun and, at play, they become a Raver at the Zurich Street Parade, a Beachgirl going swimming in the lake, a Guildsman at the Sechseläuten and a competitive Rower. This is Zurich so we even have a performing Dog.
The Zurich characters in the parade and inspiring the walks are all city experts and if you follow their individual routes on Hightime’s maps, you’ll get a guide to many different aspects of Zurich: luxury goods, financial services, traditional Swiss restaurants, roadworks (a Zurich specialty), the Street Parade, summer swimming, the Zurich guilds and guild houses, walking the dog, and getting out on the lake. On the all-in-one Hightime Zurich Tour you’ll also see the traditional Zurich landmarks that decorate the Hightime Clocktower in the Glockenspiel and a selection of the most attractive Zurich lions too. The Hightime tour with We have added in some fun tips for other interesting things to do along the Hightime routes to make Hightime a must have for Zurich visitors and residents alike.
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Sunday, February 07, 2016
"Oak Shadows", 16x20 , oil on Panel, Maryanne Jacobsen art, Sarasota Florida, New College Sarasota, Ringling Museum, Ralph Caples, live oak tree
Winter can be a beautiful time to paint outdoors in Florida. Recently I bundled up and ventured out in temps that were below par for Florida- 50ish, I believe. Yup, a little cold for us Floridians, and windy, too, but the sunshine makes it all worthwhile. It was brilliantly sunny that day and the sky was that truly gorgeous blue that is the reason why Florida artists need cerulean on their palette! (Cobalt and viridian mixed are a decent substitute.)
Anyhow, I went to the Caples mansion and carriage house, which borders on the beautiful Ringling Estate. Ralph Caples had a personal and professional relationship with the wealthy Ringlings next door and if you want to learn more about the Caples history you can read about it here.
As soon as I arrived on the site, I become enamoured with the patterns and negative spaces that the immense oak tree was creating with her branches, and so I decided to paint it. The carriage house next to it seemed to figure into the composition as well, although I knew it would be a lot to do in one painting session.
I worked on the painting for about two hours before calling it a day. I packed up my car only to discover that the battery had gone dead because I kept the hatch up while I was painting, meaning that the light drained the battery. A kind man jumped my battery and all in all it was an almost perfect Florida painting day except for the battery.
Over the weekend I used my plein air sketch to recreate the scene above on a larger canvas. Those live oaks with the Spanish moss hanging from their limbs can be quite challenging to paint, as was also the complexity of the architecture of the carriage house, which was modeled after the Mediterranean Revival style. Overall, though, I was pleased with the outcome.
Be sure to visit the historic sites of the Ringling Museum, and the Caples sites, if you ever visit Sarasota. Both properties are on the waterfront of Sarasota Bay and the scenery is quite lovely and the history quite interesting.

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A one-woman exhibition by Annapolis Artist, Raleigh Schein
Just Before the Green Flash
Acrylic on Canvas
48" x 36"
This collection of paintings focuses on how light falls over, across and through surfaces in a variety of environments. It emphasizes retaining the initial sense of wonder one experiences in seeing a yellow sky at sunrise, or the white light of blazing sun glinting off a surface, or feeling the quiet surrounds from a bird’s eye view. Threading throughout this collection is the variable, often times quirky and always changeable aspects of light.
All are invited to the Opening Reception:
Sunday, September 16, 2018, 1:30 - 3:30 PM
(No Park Fee for Art Opening)
Date & Time
Weekly on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
Sep 01, 2018 through Oct 14, 2018
10:00AM - 4:00PM
Park Entrance Fee: $6.00 per vehicle

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Reveals What She’s Looking Forward to Most After Leaving the White House
Michelle Obama may be the first lady of fashion, but when it comes to her personal style, she opts for a more casual look. FLOTUS graces the cover of InStyle magazine’s October issue where she reveals that she’s really a T-shirt and jeans kind of gal. One reason for this could be that Michelle’s never been one to follow a trend, something she adheres to on social media as well. The first lady joined Snapchat back in June, with a little help from The Late Late Show host James Corden, but told the mag she shies away from selfies.
“What works for an 18-year-old selfie queen may not for a 52-year-old first lady who is a mom of teenagers she’s trying to be a good role model for,” she explained. Luckily, Mrs. Obama says she’s been “fortunate enough to have a team of young people” helping her out. Of course, she’s had a team of people helping her and her family at the White House these past eight years as well, and she says she’ll miss them dearly once her husband leaves office. But there are a few things she’s definitely looking forward to in life post-White House.
Check out this video to find out what Michelle can’t wait to do when her first lady duties are officially over, and tune in to The Insider With Yahoo on TV tonight for the latest in entertainment news.


As part of the Hackspace Manchester door control system, we have a raspberry pi running a little script that checks scanned cards against a database of members and opens the door if the card is known. This has been humming along happily for around 3 years now, until recently it stopped updating card IDs when […]
We like to do occasional workshops at the Hackspace, so when MadLab asked us to make something ‘bug themed’ for a workshop, we jumped on it. The first thought we had was to make up some bug-shaped PCBs with a circuit to flash LEDs, and run a soldering workshop. When we found out the workshop was a […]
I’m a big fan of XBMC, and have an Ouya running XBMC set up in my lounge, streaming from my NAS. I normally use XBMC remote on my phone for controlling it, but this gets annoying when the phone is on charge, or I’m using it for something else. I noticed that the majority of […]
Over the weekend I ordered the mainboard for the new robot. It contains an arduino, battery voltage monitoring, battery regulation and a pair of motor driver chips. It is designed to sit on top of a hardcase 5Ah LIPO, with short leads going into the battery power output.
Last night I retrieved the first chassis printout and did a test assembly with the parts that have arrived. It looks good! The axle distance is perfect, the chunks I carved out for the pi are all the right sizes, and it looks bitchin. The only negative was that the mount for the raspberry pi […]
Before leaving the hackspace on saturday, I set the wheels and motor mounts for my robot printing, as I figured these parts probably wont change while I finish the rest of the design. Tonight, I cleaned up the printed parts, and did a test assembly of the track sets: They looked about right, so I […]
Here is a teaser shot for my new rover robot, based around a raspberry pi and a massive lithium battery. Fairly heavily inspired by Wlll’s ball collecting robot.
I spent some time earlier in the week getting the bandsaw at Hackspace Manchester working, so now its cutting again! The main problem with the bandsaw is cutting straight, as it was an ebay purchase it diddnt come with a fence, so there was nothing to run the cut material against. This model of bandsaw hasnt […]
Ok, bit of explanation first. We have an iMac set up as a ‘democratic jukebox’ at HAC:Manchester. The idea being that anyone can put music on it, and it plays the entire library on shuffle during our hack sessions for a bit of background music. The problem is, of course, some people have an… odd […]
Found these the other day, may be handy for anyone doing something they want GPS assisted. I’m considering the em-411 for the quadcopter’s GPS assist (as its the only self contained unit). ET-318 EB-3531 EB-365 ET-314 EB-3631 ET-662 EM-411 Datasheets http://www.globalsat.com.tw/manual.php?menu=3 Hints for buying from DX: The prices are including shipping! If you’re getting lots […]


Spanish Firm Takes over Marketing for Hotel Dario
Spanish hotel marketing giant Keytel has signed on to market Granada’s luxurious colonial-style Hotel Dario as its first client in Nicaragua.
Keytel will market the four-star hotel in Canada, Europe and the United States, according to Dario’s marketing manager Daysi Pilarte. She said the firm will also focus on marketing Nicaragua as a destination.
“It’s a marketing strategy to increase the influx of tourists here,” said Pilarte.- The 2-year-old Hotel Dario, located on Calle Calzada – the bustling aorta of Granada’s nightlife scene –- can accommodate 30 guests.
It’s colonial-style splendor, complete with its two open-air patios that house a fountain and swimming pool, the chic café Chocolate and the elegant restaurant El Tranvia, sets Dario apart as one of Granada’s most luxurious hotels.
A member of the Hotusa group, Keytel was founded in 1973 and today offers marketing strategies to nearly 1,400 hotels.
Catering mainly to the corporate market, Keytel has cooperation agreements with tourism chains around the world, from Travel Advisors to Barceló to Gesta. Keytel’s tour operator Restel plays a key role in marketing that seeks to counter tourism lows when it’s not vacation season.
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5 Tips to Optimize Your Metal Spinning Design
Metal spinning is a highly beneficial metal forming process for applications requiring seamless parts or strong structural components. During the metal spinning process, metal is spun manually or on a CNC lathe to create a wide range of parts and components, including:
1. Define Object Function
Not knowing the exact part you’re designing leads to wasted time and materials during the metal spinning process. Metal can be spun on both circular and semi-circular shapes, meaning the metal spinning process works for designs requiring sharp corners.
Once the goal of your part is defined, you can create a design that leverages metal spinning’s customizability and precision.
2. Pick Your Material
Metal spinning accommodates a wide range of materials, including titanium, stainless steel, carbon steel, aluminum, and more. Choosing the proper materials for your project will minimize waste and ensure optimal results. Considering factors such as desired part thickness will help you narrow down which metal is best.
3. Consider Material Thickness
During the metal spinning process, the sidewalls of your component will thin and could vary as much as 25% depending on the sidewall height and the type of metal used. This makes it important to carefully consider the amount of pressure to apply from the mandrel to the workpiece.
For best results, avoid sharp corners in your finished part and ensure the formed radius of the end object is at least 2-3 times the material thickness.
The bottom of the finished part will be equally as thick as the original metal blank.
4. Specify Your Tolerances
Parts and components made using the metal spinning process don’t always require consistent thicknesses throughout. It’s also important to note that the diameter of a part can be affected by flatness and roundness.
A good rule of thumb is to manufacturer your metal-spun parts with tolerances of +/- 0 .02’’, +/- 0.03” or higher.
5. Cost Factors
Compared to many other metal forming methods, metal spinning offers a cost-effective way to create your custom parts.
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It 2018 and everybody loves a new year greetings, and here comes new years greetings from Tecno, the launch of a brand new smartphone in the Camon series. I’m talking about the Tecno Camon CM (also known as Tecno Camon CMore). The Tecno CM is the first device from Tecno to pack a full screen display with 18:9 aspect ratio, with 720 x 1440 display resolutions.
Most Chinese OEMs already adopts the 18:9 aspect ratio, and it is nice seeing Tecno following suit. But more interesting is the fact that this is coming in the Tecno Camon series. While would have loved to see a more frugal Camon variant with better specs and features, the Camon CM is a welcome either pending the arrival of the Tecno Camon C11 or the C12.
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The Tecno Camon CM has been launched in Indian since December 2017 as Tecno. The device is currently available in Africa via Jumai. As for pricing, the device will set you back around $129. If you want to know more about the Tecno Camon CM, Please read my full review of the smartphone here.


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This review looked at the many biomarkers for MS that have been investigated. Biomarkers can be used in diagnostic tests and as measures of response to treatment or of progression. The review shows that biomarkers have huge potential but much work is still required before reliable tests will be available.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple test to diagnose MS? And another one to measure how well someone is responding to their treatment? Perhaps even a third, that could measure the stability or progression of the condition? This is where biomarkers come in.
A biomarker is a measurable biological feature that can be used to monitor the presence or progress of a disease or the effects of treatment.
Tests using biomarkers can be easy to carry out or more high tech. An example of a biomarker is measuring someone's pulse as this tells you about the functioning of their heart. The level of electrolytes in the blood are measured and used to monitor the functioning of organs including the kidney. Other examples include using x-rays to visualise structures in the body or measuring levels of PSA (prostate specific antigen) when screening for prostate cancer
In MS, there is a great deal of interest in finding biomarkers that could be used in simple reliable tests.
How this study was carried out
This research paper is a review of a large amount of research on biomarkers in MS. It lists the most important characteristics of a biomarker and gives an up to date summary of the most promising ones along with a critique of their potential.
What was found
Characterising the biomarkers identified so far
The pathophysiology of MS is extremely complex and includes all the outward signs and symptoms of the condition. These correspond to the underlying biological and physical changes caused directly by MS. This complexity gives scope for a wide range of biomarkers with the potential to measure many different things.
To deal with the large amount of information already published, the authors sub-grouped all the potential biomarkers for MS into six categories:
- diagnostic biomarkers
- biomarkers of phenotypical expression
- biomarkers of demyelination, neuroinflammation, relapse
- biomarkers of axonal loss, neurodegeneration
- prognostic biomarkers, biomarkers of disability progression
- biomarkers of therapeutical response
The biomarkers were further sub-categorised into three:
- genetic/immunogenetic: biomarkers specified via genomics and immunogenetic techniques
- laboratorial: all other biomarkers that can be measured in body fluids
- imaging: biomarkers provided by imaging techniques.
The authors also graded each biomarker and commented on how well each biomarker reflected the category it had been placed in (for example, if it was categorised as a diagnostic biomarker, was it likely to be a good marker for diagnosis?). The applicability of a biomarker for MS was judged using the following criteria:
- biological rationale: how well did the biomarker correspond with the particular pathogenic mechanism?
- clinical rationale: how accurately did the biomarker match clinical status?
- predictability of initiation, reactivation, or progression of MS, or ability to differentiate MS from other demyelinating diseases, like neuroMyelitis optica (NMO): how well did the marker reflect the phases of MS and distinguish MS from other related conditions?
- sensitivity and specificity: did the test work on a small amount of material and how often did false negative or false positive results occur?
- reproducibility of a result: was the test reliable?
- practicality of the method: was it an easy or complex and/or time consuming test to carry out?
- correlation with therapeutic outcome: did the test accurately reflect the negative and positive effects of a therapy?
- correlation with prognosis and disability - the latter being objectively measured by instruments such as the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS): how well did the marker predict the way that someone's MS was going to develop?
You can see the table of results that was generated using the above approach, with a huge array of possible biomarkers here.
The research paper is very detailed and the full text is available online. Below is a summary of some of the key points.
Biomarkers might be measured in the following:
- cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
- MRI scans
Details are available in section 2 of the full text of the paper
Possible measuring techniques include:
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)
- Flow cytometry
- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- Western blotting
- Isoelectric focusing
- "-Omics" technologies including genomics and proteomics.
Detailed descriptions of these techniques are available in section 3 of the full text of the paper
Some of the biomarkers with potential include:
HLA: Recent research has suggested that many genes play a part in MS, with polymorphisms of HLA playing the primary role. HLA (the human leukocyte antigen system) is a group of genes that allows the immune system to distinguish between foreign invaders and the body's own tissue. Certain variants of HLA seem to increase susceptibility to MS, including allowing early onset and possibly also earlier progression.
Oligoclonal bands in CSF: in MS, the level of antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is higher than normal and they can be seen as bands in laboratory tests. Oligoclonal bands show significant potential as markers of immune activation. Their diagnostic sensitivity is high but they are not good at differentiating MS from other inflammatory disorders of the CNS.
Vitamin D: this may be a biomarker of neuroprotection. The possible role of low vitamin D in susceptibility to MS has been shown in many epidemiological studies where higher latitude and lack of sun exposure correlates with increased risk for developing MS.
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): this is a noninvasive technique which uses infrared light through the pupil of the eye and detection of its reflection from the retina. Retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness can then be estimated and thinning of this layer can be used as a reliable biomarker of axonal loss which correlates adequately with brain atrophy.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): MRI is already used as a biomarker for neuroinflammation but is much less useful as a marker of neurodegeneration or disability progression.
What does it mean?
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the research so far into biomarkers for MS. The list of candidates is extremely long and some biomarkers, like oligoclonal bands and MRI, are already in clinical use.
However, there is a great need for much better biomarkers. For example, it would make a huge difference to people with symptoms suggesting MS if they could have a quick and simple diagnostic test that reliably gave a positive or negative answer rather than the often long process of diagnosis that occurs at the moment. Similarly, it would help if there was a good test to show that a DMT (disease modifying treatment) was working rather than waiting to see if the number of relapses went down. If the test showed that treatment was not effective, then someone could switch to another form of treatment much sooner.
In conclusion, biomarkers have huge potential and there is a wealth of research taking place, but much work is still required before reliable tests will be available for people with MS and for those who have symptoms that suggest that they may have MS.
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How to Find Capital Using Inventory Procedures
What Would You Do with $1,000,000?
With $1 Million saved in your business would you:
- Pay off debt?
- Purchase new equipment?
- Invest/save for the future?
- Give yourself a bonus?
- Buy a new car, boat or plane?
$1 Million Waiting in Your Wings
What do you and your business need that you have been putting off because you don’t have the money today? $1,000,000 certainly would fill those needs. But where do you find $1 Million just lying around your business right now? Well, you probably have $250,000 in each of four areas in your everyday business, and you don’t even realize it.
Money in Your Business Procedures
So let’s look at four places in your business where we will find $250,000 each and see how we can help you find it:
- Part 1: Inventory – $250,000.00
- Part 2: Accounts Receivable – $250,000.00
- Part 3: Sales – $250,000.00
- Part 4: Accounts Payable – $250,000.00
- Part 5: How-to Procedures – $1,000,000.00
Turn Time into Cash with a Better Inventory Policy
But just what exactly is this source for cash? It’s time. If you are looking for $250,000 then it costs you $4,808 every week that you delay. So what you do with your time quite literally amounts to either costs of delaying, or it can amount to savings when you take action and control of your time. To correct this cost of delay, an increase in velocity must follow – which will set the difference between ‘good’ and ‘great’. The consequences of this shift in system velocity increases discipline and competency: the ability to maintain the increased velocity and the ability to make the adjustments to achieve the ‘great’. So how do you realize the difference?
Eliminate Inventory and Increase Cash
Let’s start with the biggest, most obvious source – your balance sheet, specifically inventory. If you are a manufacturer with $300,000 or more of inventory (raw materials, work in process or finished goods) then STOP! We found it. Why? Because inventory is an unproductive asset. Inventory is money, and having it lying around your factory is not where your money belongs. So if we reduce inventory to Just-In-Time (JIT) levels, then we can eliminate 85% or more of your inventory, which translates into $250,000 in cash. But that’s not all. You will also save another $50,000 or more in annual inventory carrying costs. With less inventory, there are lower costs of holding inventory. Let’s look at an example of what we’re talking about.
A manufacturing organization with $2 Million in average inventory balances needed assistance. We examined their inventory consisting of raw materials, work in process and finished goods to understand and quantify the workflow, workload, and demand forecasting issues. Then we designed and implemented a process to improve their inventory cycle and tie it closer to their actual sales.
The metrics we developed reduced their inventories by 85% and increased their manufacturing cycle efficiency from 60% to 90% within 120 days of implementing the new procedures. With these new processes and reports, the company now tracks manufacturing cycle efficiency and delivery time variance rather than just units produced, as the measure of their manufacturing effectiveness. The result: extra capital plus a 50% increase in process capability (capacity).
Methods to Design a New Inventory Process
By becoming more efficient in the process, we can use time not as a detriment but as a significant benefit to our business. Step by step, let’s take a further look at how time and efficiency plays a great role in your business.
Increase Demand Forecasting Accuracy. We only need enough inventory to satisfy demand, and that is where part of the problem exists. If demand can not be accurately forecasted, then we end up compensating for this unknown with inventory.
Increase Manufacturing Cycle Efficiency. How well manufacturing resources are used to produce a product determines the cycle efficiency. Defective product, product rework, and long lags between manufacturing cells cause inefficiency, which can be easily calculated. Raw materials should be converted into finished goods as quickly as possible. The speed at which this occurs defines your manufacturing cycle efficiency.
Increase Supply Chain Turns. Increasing the number of times purchases are made may increase acquisition costs and unit costs because of smaller order quantities. But you will benefit by increasing your cash flow and eliminating the carrying cost of the inventory (warehousing, material handling, taxes, insurance, depreciation, interest and obsolescence totaling 25% to 35%).
Eliminate safety stock. Safety stock is really just a buffer for forecasting variance and supplier delivery time. While many levels are set arbitrarily in automated MRP systems, your safety stock levels will need to be reduced due to improvements in demand forecasting accuracy, manufacturing cycle efficiency and supply chain turns.
Reduce purchasing errors. This can reduce overstocking and, more importantly, minimize stock outs that result in expensive expedited purchases. Sell excess and obsolete inventory or return it to your vendor.
Eliminate delivery variance. Do not allow vendors to deliver early or late and make sure the delivered quantity does not vary from the order quantity. After all, delivery errors cause the need to carry more inventory. Instead, provide suppliers with forecasts of future needs.
Train purchasing personnel. Provide your purchasing and material management personnel with formal training. This will arm them with better negotiating skills that will result in better prices and terms.
Procedures Provide Time Savings
So, as we have seen, we should use each element of the process to extract the most benefit from our business. With time-saving inventory procedures set in place, you will let your efficiency work for you.
With well-defined processes and procedures in place, you will increase efficiency by increasing inventory turns. And of course an increase in inventory turns means an increase in cash on hand. It’s there – all you have to do is grab it.

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The band was assembled in 1996 with founders Riza on guitars and Simon Deguia YRellesiva on bass guitar. Wendell Bardos played the drums and Dante Jocson was the vocals when they started playing cover songs.
Tacloban City music-scene icon in the name of Jerby Santo encouraged Riza to do the vocals instead. Dandee took the guitar assignment and Wa Wie Cabelin played the drums. Together with Riza and Simon, the group played their first gig as Lost Semen Reunion on February 11, 1997.
Clash of personalities was a constant element of the band, which produced good results when Riza, Dandee, Simon, and Wa Wie played together as a group. This non-typical chemistry reached to a hiatus when all members decided to compete in a battle of the bands way back 1998. This competition was a turning point of the band’s history as it was a make or break for the group. If they win, they will continue as a band. If they had lost, it would have been the end of Lost Semen Reunion.
Lost Semen Reunion’s music is a fusion of hard rock and alternative grunge material. However, the syncopated rhythms and arrangements differentiate the band’s treatment on this genre. Performed live in this interview at the KBOX STUDIOS live room, Moodswings and All About You takes us to a unique rock n’ roll texture that defines the distinct LSR sound in the local music scene 21 years and counting.
Lost Semen Reunion achievements include; SMB Battle of the Bands Regional Champion (2000), FREEGO Jeans BOTB Grand Champion (2002-Cebu City), Global Battle of the Bands Visayas finalist (2004), Champion Muziklaban Finals (2005-Cebu City). They also released their self-titled album in 2002 under TIKI Sound, an independent label.
The highest achievement of Lost Semen Reunion was in 2002. The band was nominated for Best New Artist in the NU 107-Cebu Rock Awards. Urbandub grabbed the award but the recognition established the band’s name in a much wider audience.
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It exists. Twelve years after Swedish House Mafia released their debut single, 2010’s “One,” the archetypal EDM-era supertrio has dropped their long-awaited, hotly anticipated, much-debated debut album, Paradise Again.
Out today (April 15) via Republic Records, the album is the cornerstone of the group’s extended comeback, which launched last July with the first two new Swedish House Mafia singles in nine years. Billboard was with the group in their native Stockholm last summer while the trio — Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso — were making preparations for this return, which along with the album will deliver a one-two-punch this Sunday when the group closes out Coachella’s mainstage during a co-headlining set with The Weeknd.
Dropping Paradise Again two days ahead of their Coachella show — the group’s first U.S. set since 2018, when they launched a stop/start comeback after a five year hiatus — is certainly a comeback power move. That said, it’s one that also gives fans at the festival little time to fully familiarize themselves with Paradise Again’s 17 songs — though that number also includes the previously released singles “Redlight,” “Lifetime,” “It Gets Better” and “Moth To a Flame.” The latter, a sleek, sexed-up collaboration with The Weeknd, is currently clocking its 24th week on Dance/Electronic Songs, and is the glue that legitimizes a co-headlining show with the two acts.
Both, of course, also happen to be helmed by superstar manager Sal Slaiby, who delivered two of his biggest artists to the apex of the Coachella lineup after Ye dropped out out of the Sunday night slot last minute. While Swedish House Mafia — who headlined the fest months before announcing their breakup in 2012 — had previously been floating at the bottom of the lineup poster in large font unattached to a day or hierarchical position, theoretically festival organizers felt that pairing the group with one of the hottest pop stars in modern music as headliners would appease both SHM’s longtime fans, and younger demographics who may at this point be more familiar with The Weeknd.
This pairing also speaks to one of the essential questions Paradise Again exists to answer: Is Swedish House Mafia a nostalgia act, appealing to a now-elder(ish) generation present for the trio’s first ecstatic confetti-blasting go-round a decade ago. Or can the group — who created the mold for EDM, and served as one of the genre’s most successful acts despite breaking up at the peak of their fame — evolve along with the dance scene while also continuing to themselves evolve it?
“It was just like, ‘What the f–k do we do? How do we come back? Do we just give them another [version of] what we’ve done before?’” Ingrosso told Billboard last summer in regards to the group evolving its sound. “I was like, ‘F–k that; it’s depressing to go back. It’s disgusting to go back.’ ”
On Paradise Again, they indeed sidestep returning to the sound that made them famous, trading their signature big room, maximalist bangers for songs of a subtler, more mature, but still extremely danceable variety.
Many may find it hard to believe that more than a decade into their tenure, the group hasn’t actually yet released an album. It’s true: While 2012’s Until Now was marketed as an album, it functioned essentially a mixtape built to house SHM’s big singles, along with singles from other dance artists as padding. The dance scene in that era certainly did not demand LPs, as there was no reason (or realistically, time) to do one when you could tour the world several times over with six songs. But while Paradise Again is a gamble in the sense that it finds the group embracing an entirely new sound, well after the dance scene has moved on from the sound Swedish House Mafia pioneered, it effectively shores up and expands their artistic legacy in a way that a very of-the-era classic like the 2012’s “Greyhound” may not. While Swedish House Mafia was also famous for their live shows (and are launching a world tour in late July), Paradise Again nimbly demonstrates that the group doesn’t require pyro and lasers to justify their rightful place as dance world leaders.
In the big picture, Paradise Again accomplishes two key feats: With its 17 tracks, it nearly quadruples the number of songs in the Swedish House Mafia catalog, which previously held just six tracks. The new LP also entirely sloughs off the bombastic, hooky, drop-heavy EDM sound that these previous six singles so powerfully embodied, trading the walls of synth and singalong power choruses of hits like “Don’t You Worry Child” for music delving deeper into and farther across both sounds and sub-genres like ambient, house, hip-hop and disco. The exploration parallels the album’s foray deeper into the internal realities of three guys who — like all of us — are older and wiser now than when they started.
Of course, main stage artists consciously evolving beyond EDM isn’t a new phenomenon. Calvin Harris did it effectively on Funk Wav Bounce Vol. 1. The posthumous Avicii album, 2019’s Tim, featured smaller, tighter productions than mega-hits like “Levels” or “Wake Me Up.” Hardwell debuted his new sound, a sort of supercharged mainstage techno, last month at Ultra Music Festival in Miami. As house and techno have become the pre-eminent sounds in mainstream dance music during the last half-decade, going back not only would have been indeed been “depressing” and “disgusting,” but out of sync with current trends.
Not to say that Paradise Again is particularly trendy: The album contains none of the milquetoast house or paint-by-numbers techno currently prevalent in the scene. Instead, the album feels like Axwell, Ingrosso and Angello are fully flexing into their interests and influences — house (and especially gospel house), hip-hop, ambient, techno, IDM — and getting as weird and experimental as they want to be, and perhaps weirder and more experimental than the structures of EDM allowed during their initial foray. If there’s a unifying ethos on the album, it’s one of meticulousness. Swedish House Mafia are famously perfectionistic, which Ingrosso noted “kills us also sometimes. But for us, it needs to be a certain way. And that’s why it takes time.”
More than a decade after their takeover of the dance scene, the depth and subtlety of Paradise Again reflects that the time taken was worth it. Here are our picks for seven of the most essential tracks on Paradise Again.
“Time” (feat. Mapei)
The first voice heard on the album is that of Swedish vocalist Mapei, who — perhaps in a nod to how long this album took to make — declares in rich baritone that it “takes time to heal, takes time to know where your heart is at, takes time to be real.” The production here is alternatingly spare and lush IDM, not so far from some of the Four Tet/Jamie xx oeuvre. And the drop here actually works in reverse, with the song shrinking in size in the same place where previous SHM tracks exploded into total frenzies.
The album’s most ominous track is composed primarily of a buzzsaw synth and a horn played at ominous pitch before a kickdrum enters, and the track then pivots into a hip-hop production — a nod to Angello’s longstanding love of the genre — before ending in doomy cacophony. “You always want people to like your music, otherwise you wouldn’t play it to them,” Ingrosso told Billboard last summer. “But the vision of the album, for me, it’s not really important if it sells 400 million [copies] or 10.” Certainly Paradise Again will move units well above this base number, but Ingrosso’s sentiment — speaking to them just doing whatever suits their vision and makes them happy — is emphasized with “Mafia” and a few of the other more experimental album tracks like it.
“Frankenstein” (feat. A$AP Rocky)
It’s alive! This long-buzzed-about collaboration between SHM and A$AP Rocky — which was road-tested during SHM’s 2019 tour and is the subject of long and speculative Reddit threads — comes into complete existence via plodding bass, high hats, a persistent whistle and thunder clashes. An-out-of nowhere BPM spike launches an especially animated second half, during which A$AP Rocky’s flows about being “in the mosh pit, fitting to f–k up s–t” hit with particularly raw power.
“Don’t Go Mad” Feat. Seinabo Sey
SHM’s take on disco also delivers serious Daft Punk, via sinewy chrome synths and lush vocals from Swedish singer Seinabo Sey. Again, this song shrinks in the spot where the drop would formally be, making space for vocals and then a darkly pulsing synth, which gets progressively faster as it motors the peak-time anthem to its hypnotic apex.
This album’s deep embrace of gospel house shows up again with “Calling On” a darkly euphoric swirl built around a rich vocal sample from late gospel great Cassietta George’s 1967 recording of “In the Garden.” “I come to the garden alone,” George sings while sirens rise dramatically around her in a peak that will likely become a standard singalong moment as fans get more acquainted with these songs.
Finally, a Swedish House Mafia track for the after hours. This pulsing downtempo “Home” bumps along with one piano chord, low-key scintillating percussion and a wailing vocal sample that aches with emotion. Like “Mafia,” this one isn’t the most obvious or hooky song on the album, but it’s one of its most subtle and sophisticated, and overall best.
While SHM previously orchestrated emotional oomph with big fist-pump melodies about heaven’s plan for you, Paradise Again‘s closing track tear-jerks with greater nuance, via spare piano chords paired with solo voices, an exultant gospel choir chanting “for you!” and increasingly effervescent productions that altogether swell, a lot like the lump in your throat as this one hits that sentimental sweet spot. The group says it wrote this one for the fans — and while the lyrics don’t say it outright, there’s a message about the passage of time here. Bright, loud and often relentlessly optimistic, there was a naïveté to EDM in its insistence on everyone putting their f–king hands up to have a good time, while rarely acknowledging the often more painful realities of daily existence that the EDM scene served as an escape from. That attitude is jettisoned on this one, with peak emotions here also tinged with melancholy in a nod to the dichotomy of life, the maturity of the group, their sound, their fans and of the dance scene itself.


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The spring floods in the Midwest and the recent hurricane and tropical storm flooding in the South and East exacted a heavy toll on tens of thousands of families — and their pets, who often had to be abandoned by owners when disaster hit.
A recent survey commissioned by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals found that 35 percent of cat and dog owners don’t have a disaster preparedness plan in place.
Tim Rickey, senior director of ASPCA Field Investigations and Response, says that confronting an impending disaster can be stressful and confusing for people and their pets.
“Having a plan in place ahead of time can save you precious time and energy, so you can focus on quickly getting you and your pets to safety,” he says.
Should conditions warrant an evacuation, experts say the most important thing to remember: Don’t leave your animals behind. Their chances of survival are greatly diminished if they’re left on their own. (Another recent survey, from the American Pet Products Association, found that 76 percent of dog owners and 72 percent of cat owners would take their pets with them during a disaster.)
That means planning ahead. Have a friend or relative outside the evacuation area who can care for your cat or dog, or have a pet shelter, vet or boarding facility that can take the animal. Lay the groundwork in advance; don’t wait until the shingles are blowing off the roof to start making phone calls.
Here are a few other basic steps a pet owner can take:
Warning signs: Post “Pets Inside” stickers on your front and back doors. If a disaster strikes and you are not home, this sticker will let rescuers know animals are in the house. They’re available at various retail outlets, Amazon.com or petalertdecal.com.
A haven: Not all emergency evacuation shelters allow pets. The website petfriendlytravel.com suggests calling your county emergency management office (there’s a list at www.petfriendlytravel.com/pet_shelters), or check with a local animal shelter.
Identification: Make sure your cat or dog has a properly fitted collar with identification tag attached. Having your animal microchipped is a good idea as well. And make sure the information is up to date.
There are also devices such as Tagg — The Pet Tracker, a tracking system that uses GPS and lets a pet owner locate a lost pet via a tracking device in the animal’s collar (go to www.tagg.com).
Emergency kit: Just as you have one for yourself and other family members, have one for your animal.
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In mid-2024, Vancouver-based EarthDaily Analytics is set to launch EarthDaily Constellation, the world’s first superspectral Earth observation satellite array. The 10-satellite grouping will deliver imagery of every agricultural acre on the planet. Dave Gebhardt said it will give farmers and agribusinesses the most powerful “change detection tool” on the planet. Gebhardt is general manager of the EarthDaily agriculture division, EarthDaily Agro, headquartered in Maple Grove, MN. “The agriculture industry needs more and better information. Our constellation will deliver a whole new level of accuracy.”
Agricultural companies that depend on satellite imagery largely use publicly available images provided by NASA’s Landsat and the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellites. However, these systems only provide a clear, cloud-free image of each acre every week to 10 days. The EarthDaily constellation’s synchronous orbit delivers imagery of the entire planet multiple times per week. This higher frequency data collection is especially critical to artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms employed in agricultural systems.
These images will also offer significantly more data clarity by producing multiple bands, or wavelengths. Whereas current satellites produce images with between four and eight bands of information, the EarthDaily constellation will produce 22. “You get that higher resolution and detail,” said Gebhardt. “It provides the same type of information we have today plus additional, more-in-depth information we can use for looking at soil health or managing water.” Ag-related companies will analyze and synthesize the constellation’s raw data in ways unique to their needs and networks.
“Agriculture is global. Agronomy is local. This is about tracing and monitoring crops in a much more refined way to help make better, more informed, more timely decisions about crop management. We provide the information, and we leave it to local folks to use the insights and the model in the best way for their specific needs,” said Gebhardt.
Analytics will be based on comparisons made possible by the frequency and quality of the imagery. “When people think of satellite imagery, they often think of spy novels—really high-resolution images taken just moments ago,” said Gebhardt. “For us in agriculture, the value is in the quantity of imagery in order to see change.” Over time, the collected images also create a historical database that can be used to analyze the past and help predict the future.
Application of the data will vary dramatically in scale from global analysis to localized agronomics. “If you want to know what the potential wheat crop in Ukraine is going to be this year, for example, we absolutely can do that,” said Gebhardt. “But we can also double click down from the country scale to the regional to the county to the individual field.”
Gebhardt said the system is scheduled to be operational sometime in the first half of 2024. The company is fielding interest from fertilizer and pesticide suppliers, seed companies, commodity buyers, banks and insurance companies. It has finalized several major pre-launch agreements.
“We’re in talks with every significant global multinational agriculture company that uses this type of data,” said Gebhardt. “The agriculture industry is hungry for this kind of global dataset.”
The imagery will also be available beyond the agriculture sector for use in such areas as forestry, disaster prevention and recovery, as well as climate change and ESG assessment.

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Which gay movies deserve a bigger audience?
Outmagazine asked its favorite directors, entertainers, and artists – including Dustin Lance Black, Lee Daniels, John Waters, and Margaret Cho – to help compile a list of 50 Essential Gay Films.
Some of my faves like Maurice, Parting Glances, Torch Song Trilogy, Another Country, and My Beautiful Laundrette got mentions as did such classics as Midnight Cowboy, Some Like It Hot, Tootsie, Personal Best, Spartacus, Dog Day Afternoon, Cabaret, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Some of the selections I was not very familiar with (The Last of Sheila, The House of Yes, The Angelic Conversation, Outrageous!) which will make my next Netflix order very interesting!
To see the complete list and trailers/clips, go to Out.com.
Margaret Cho’s pick is Velvet Goldmine. Here’s why: An amazingly beautiful film all about the ’70s versus the ’80s, glam versus new wave, Bowie versus Iggy, gay versus straight versus in between, loving your rock idols and then sleeping with them. It has incredible fashion, a killer soundtrack, romantic love scenes between Christian Bale, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Ewan McGregor, and the legendary and gorgeous Toni Colette fag-hagging it up as a faux Angela Bowie. Truly one of the finest films ever made.
Novelist Dale Peck chose the superb Parting Glances which I love so much. Dale writes: A quiet but unsettling story of a Manhattan gay couple at a crossroads in their relationship. Janet Maslin at The New York Times, as perceptive then as she is today, dismissed the film as “a parade of homosexual stereotypes,” but gay viewers knew better, seeing not stereotypes but human beings who have fallen into social roles not always comfortable, let alone ennobling, that best suit their personalities. Domesticity weighs differently on the two men: Michael, slight and bookish, spends much of his time caring for his ex-lover Nick (Steve Buscemi in his first feature turn). Sloe-eyed Robert, by contrast, has maneuvered a two-year transfer to Africa, to escape both his relationship jitters as well as the epidemic. The irony of running to Africa to get away from AIDS is one that history has made only more pointed.
The movie takes place on Robert’s last day in the city: a morning run, a morning fuck; a visit to Nick by Michael; a goodbye dinner with Robert’s boss; an evening fuck; a going-away party thrown by Michael’s friend Joan; a visit to a nightclub that lasts until the wee hours of the morning. As the movie progresses, its world and, as a consequence, its themes expand with startling rapidly. Michael is pursued by an adorable Columbia freshman; Robert’s boss turns out to be closeted and something of a pedophile; a German performance artist speaks to Nick of the profound aesthetic possibilities of AIDS. There are bodies, lisps, beats, operatic hallucinations, covert coupling (heterosexual as it turns out), and drugs (but only of the recreational variety: this was 1986, after all). Through it all there is New York: glamorous and dirty, erudite and slutty, in sickness and in health.
Tim Gunn of Project Runway fame chose 1984′s Another Country: “I’m an Anglophile at heart, so give me an English period piece and, by definition, I’m all aswoon. Set in an English public school (think Eton or Harrow) in the 1930s, Another Country stars Rupert Everett as Guy Burgess, a gay teen coming to terms with his sexuality. The object of his affection is Cary Elwes, whose initial oblivion and subtle wandering eye drive Burgess to distraction. And there is a profound and relevant correlation to today’s tumultuous times: We see two other classmates engaged in a passionate kiss and stumbled upon by a professor. For one of the two young men, humiliation and fear of retribution drive him to suicide by hanging. Burgess, too, suffers: In a formal ceremony, he’s flogged by his peers for his homosexual dalliances. The societal perception of homosexuality is one of two parallel themes in the film, the other being Burgess’s eventual betrayal of his country as a spy for the U.S.S.R. This evolution in his character is at least in part propelled by his friendship with a Marxist classmate played by Colin Firth, but also fueled by his rejection by the elite class with whom he wants so desperately to belong.”
Dustin Lance Black, Oscar-winning screenwriter for Milk selected 1971′s Pink Narcissus: “Some call this film “overappreciated,” but I fell under its spell shortly after starting pre-production on Milk. Gus Van Sant popped it in his DVD player and asked what I thought—I believe, with regard to how we might shoot Milk.
Although the production date says 1971, the film was actually shot between 1963 and 1970 on 8-millimeter, with a vivid, psychedelic color palette, and staged almost entirely inside Bidgood’s own tiny New York apartment on intricate, handcrafted sets.
For me, the film is as important a work of art as it is a historical signpost of the pre-Stonewall, pre–gay lib, cine-homo state of mind. It’s a picture of what Milk himself might have been searching for during his late night strolls through the West Village in the late ’60s.
As for plot or structure, don’t hold your breath. This film was about style, tone, and the poetry of once forbidden sexual fantasies. Where there is story, we have a beautiful young prostitute (played by real-life teen runaway Bobby Kendall) who, alone in his apartment, plays out phallus-filled fantasies of himself as a Roman slave, an emperor, and the master of a harem of striking, sometimes belly-dancing men. There’s also a urinal and a leather queen, but I’ll save those details for the cinephiles dogged enough to track the film down.


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SOMERSET COUNTY, NJ – A Somerset County cardiologist was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for unlawfully prescribing thousands of oxycodone pills, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Wednesday.
Raymond Catania, 60, of Warren Township previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp to dispensing oxycodone outside of the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose, Sellinger said.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Catania was a New Jersey physician specializing in cardiology and practicing in Watchung Borough.
From January 2016 through March 2017, Catania issued prescriptions for thousands of Oxycodone pills to one of his patients, and Catania did so without a legitimate medical purpose and outside of the usual course of professional practice. Catania also issued prescriptions for thousands of Oxycodone pills to that patient’s wife even though the wife was not Catania’s patient.
Oxycodone – a Schedule II controlled substance – has a high potential for abuse that can lead to severe psychological and physical dependence and can result in fatal overdoses. Catania prescribed more than 8,600 Oxycodone 30 mg pills.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Shipp fined Catania $25,000 and sentenced him to three years of supervised release, Sellinger said.