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The youngest member of the Beatles, George Harrison was often considered "the shy one." In fact, his strong voice was arguably the most underrated of the four. Lennon and McCartney often passed over many of Harrison's song submissions, recording only a small selection of his masterpieces per album (including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes The Sun"). When Harrison's first solo recording, All Things Must Pass, was released, many music critics felt that the triple album's fruitfulness was a direct result of Lennon and McCartney's neglect. In his work with the Beatles and solo, Harrison blended earthy Roots tones with droning eastern influences and cascading melodies. Compared to Lennon's barbed and bluesy grit or McCartney's jaunty pop sensibilities, the sound was organic and blooming, huge yet worldly. His songs unfolded unpredictably and took the listener to unfamiliar sonic regions. Music enthusiasts credit him for integrating eastern sounds into western music -- Harrison introduced the sitar and Indian ragas to pop music. He also spearheaded the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, a music festival assembled to benefit Bengali refugees of the India-Pakistan war. Harriso... See More
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All Things Pass
Runtime: 56 minGeorge Harrison was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who initially achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, but went on to sell millions of critically acclaimed solo records.
Harrison was referred to as the quiet one of the Beatles, often in the shadow of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. However, he later acquired the respect of critics world wide and is now considered to be on the same level - if not surpassing - Lennon and McCartney as a song writer, a result of creating songs such as â€˜Here Comes the Sunâ€™ and â€˜While My Guitar Gently Weepsâ€™. Rolling Stone magazine even ranked him number 11 on their list of the ""100 Greatest Guitarists of All Timeâ€, and he is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.With interviews with George Martin and one of Harrison's school friends, this documentary will delve into his life - from his rise to fame, to his struggles with the law, and finally to his brutal stabbing and tragic struggle with cancer.
Living In The Material World
Runtime: 3 hr 29 minDirected by Martin Scorsese, George Harrison – Living in the Material World is a stunning double-feature-length film tribute to one of music’s greatest icons. Using unseen photos and footage, Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials and interviews with his family and friends including Eric Clapton, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, George Martin, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr and Jackie Stewart. As his friend John Lennon once said: “George himself is no mystery. But the mystery inside George is immense. It’s watching him uncover it all little by little that’s so damn interesting.” ‘An epic, fitting tribute to the complexity and genius of the man himself.’ MOJO ‘Spectacularly good...’ THE WORD
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Runtime: 30 minThe American musician, singer, songwriter, and poet, Lou Reed, showcases his lyrical skills in this concert from the archives. His signature deadpan voice takes center stage at Rock’n’Roll Animal, in Brussels, in 1974.
Look Through Any Window (Part 1)
Runtime: 1 hr 24 minThe Hollies were one of the most successful British groups of the sixties and early seventies and have continued to perform up to the present day. Look Through Any Window tells the story of their peak years from 1963 to 1975 when the band clocked up 27 UK Top 40 singles, 17 of which were Top 10s. They were also part of the British Invasion led by the Beatles that stormed the US charts in the sixties and scored hit singles in many other countries around the world.
A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia
Runtime: 1 hr 14 minIn 1987, after 100 shows around the world on The Bridge Tour, Billy Joel accepted the Kremlin’s invitation to the U.S.S.R. for six fully-staged rock shows in Moscow and Leningrad, fulfilling a long-time desire to perform in Russia. During their stay, Billy and his family, along with musicians, staff, and a huge press entourage spent their days interacting with the Russian people, forging true bonds of friendship wherever they went. For the first time A Matter Of Trust – The Bridge To Russia: A Documentary presents an expanded version of what fans saw and heard over a quarter-century ago. This film takes a fresh look at the groundbreaking trip, painstakingly incorporating some of the documentary material from 1988, both released and unreleased. But the heart and soul of this new film comprises up-to-date interviews with nearly 20 U.S. and Russian participants, including Billy, Christie Brinkley, band musicians, crew, and many others. There is a passion and intimacy to their interviews that underscores the historical significance of what these fellow travelers all witnessed, and the warmth that the Russian people showered on them. Billy has always considered that going to Russia was the most important thing he’d ever done as a performer.
The Concert In Central Park
Simon & Garfunkel
Runtime: 1 hr 27 minWhat started as a suggestion for Paul Simon to play a concert in New York's Central Park blossomed, on September 19, 1981, as a full-blown Simon and Garfunkel reunion after an 11-year hiatus, and now proves a priceless snapshot of two of America's greatest folk-rock performers. (It's also the rightful bookend to Simon and Garfunkel's acoustic Live from New York City, 1967.)
Performed with a who's-who of East Coast session aces before a record-setting crowd of half a million fans, The Concert in Central Park finds its stars just shy of their 40th birthdays and very much in their primes, their voices sweet and pure and their playing relaxed, perfectly in tune and in synch. The show features a mix of S&G and solo Simon tunes, including all the songs that appear on the CD, with the addition of a reprise of "Late in the Evening" and the first live performance of Simon's "The Late Great Johnny Ace." This is classic material from start to finish, 87 minutes of unmitigated beauty.
Odyssey & Oracle: 40th Anniversary Concert
Runtime: 1 hr 49 minThis film contains the complete Odessey & Oracle album, with all 12 tracks lovingly re-created by the original four members of The Zombies: Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Chris White and Hugh Grundy, during an historic 40th Anniversary reunion concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire, London, in March 2008. It also contains everything else performed the same evening by The Zombies Touring Band comprised of Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Jim Rodford (ex-Argent), Steve Rodford and Keith Airey, and augmented by a string quintet. Songs include music made famous by The Zombies and Argent, plus selections from Colin Blunstones solo albums. Dedicated to the much missed Zombies fifth member: Paul Atkinson 1946 - 2004.
Live at Soundstage
Runtime: 54 minOne of the most loved bands in rock history, as well as one of the most commercially successful-with 50 hit songs in the U.S. alone, 18 gold records, a Grammy, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Chicago have maintained the unflagging devotion of millions of devoted fans throughout their 37-year career. It began with the goal of incorporating the diverse musical range of their hometown Chicago, and incorporating the big-band aesthetic that included horns which had been virtually left behind in the world of rock and roll, Chicago went on to create a sound that remains unparalleled in rock music. Incorporating rock as only one genre among the many that they drew from, the band courageously rejected the trappings of celebrity in order for the music to stand on its own. This program documents a live show that was broadcast on PBS in June of 2003 where they play many of their hits from throughout their long career, including "25 or Six to Four," "You're the Inspiration," "Saturday in the Park," and "Beginnings," among many others.
Live at Soundstage: Part One
Runtime: 54 minPeter Frampton was one of the most successful arena rock stars of the '70s. Frampton still remains one of the most thrilling live performers around, and his two-hour Soundstage performance is no exception. In the first hour Frampton performs songs such as his classics which include: Show Me the Way and Nassau/Baby I Love Your Way.
Down The Tracks -The Music That Influenced Led Zeppelin
Runtime: 1 hr 32 minAs recent events have proven, Led Zeppelin continues to be one of the biggest bands of all time. Along with Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, they are often cited as the Godfathers of Heavy Metal. But there was more to Zeppelin than just heavy riffs. Led Zeppelin's first album serves as a blueprint for what would follow in the rest of their career. "Led Zeppelin 1" showcased an eclectic mix of styles that would set them apart from their contemporaries. There's a huge debt to the Blues music that they loved so much, which was the initial common thread for Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, with artists such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters proving particularly influential.
This fascinating program tells the story of the music and artists that have influenced the legendary British Rock pioneers, Led Zeppelin. Down The Tracks continues to examine how the group created their mighty stadium rock sound that helped define the musical backdrop of the '70s, while influencing virtually every heavy metal rock band that came after them.
Features live music clips from songs performed by: Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Bukka White, Muddy Waters, Davey Graham And many more. Watch the live music that influenced Led Zeppelin, and learn about the making of one of the best Rock and Roll bands of all time.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Runtime: 2 hr 33 minCrosby, Stills, & Nash join forces for their first live performance video in over 2 decades! Filmed during their 2012 tour, CSN 2012 includes many of the trio's classic hits, some new and unreleased songs, and a rare performance of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."
In Concert: Live at the BBC Radio Theatre
Runtime: 1 hr 16 minSir Van Morrison takes to the stage at The BBC Radio Theatre for an intimate In Concert performance. Belfast born ‘Van the man’ is among popular music's true innovators and arguably one of the most influential vocalists in the history of rock and roll. The Grammy winning Celtic soul troubadour has been fusing R&B, jazz, blues, and Celtic folk throughout his musical career and in this special, he performs a selection of tracks, old and new from his revered back catalogue of work to his new album ‘Keep Me Singing’.
History Of The Eagles
Runtime: 3 hr 53 minDirector Alison Ellwood, along with Producer (and Academy Award-winning documentarian), Alex Gibney, meticulously crafts an intimate patchwork of rare archival material, concert footage, and unseen home movies exploring the evolution and enduring popularity of one of America's truly definitive bands. Inspired by the vibrant Los Angeles music scene, Glenn Frey and Don Henley left Linda Ronstadt's backup band in 1971 to team with Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner and form the Eagles. While personal stories from band members (later including Don Felder, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit), managers, and music-industry luminaries frame the narrative, it's the unexpected moments-recording sessions, backstage interactions, and even a whimsical sequence from the Desperado cover shoot-that convey the extraordinary bond linking artists, music, and the times (an era when country-tinged rock and finely-honed harmonies spoke to a nation still reeling from unrest). But the band was not impervious to its own unrest, and its conflicts prompted several departures and ultimately led to its demise (or long vacation). Part One follows the band from its formation in 1971 through its ascendancy in the 70's to the infamous unravelling in the fall of 1980. Part Two tracks the group from its reunion in 1994 through the triumphant Hell Freezes Over tour, the 2007 release of the album, The Long Road Out of Eden (which sold over 5-1/2 million copies, worldwide, and garnered the band its 5th and 6th GrammyR Awards), and its ongoing success as an international touring act. This history of the Eagles skips neither a beat nor a hit song, and we're reminded why the band's greatest hits collection (Vol. I) remains the best-selling album of the 20th century. - John Nein, Sundance Institute
The Concert in Hyde Park
Runtime: 2 hr 13 minThe Concert in Hyde Park chronicles Paul Simon's historic concert at the 2012 Hard Rock Calling Festival with an epic career-spanning set. The concert features a Graceland reunion including Hugh Masekela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, as well as a surprise appearance from reggae legend Jimmy Cliff.
The Man Who Stole the World
Runtime: 59 minCombining footage from interviews with the late great David Bowie and contributions from those who knew him personally, this documentary celebrates the illustrious life of one of the greatest artists to ever grace the stage.
One For the Road
Runtime: 1 hr 10 minOn this 1980 live album, the first power chords of “The Hard Way” resume the full-on guitar pummel that first announced The Kinks with “You Really Got Me.” Their '70s hit “Catch Me Now I’m Falling” includes the riff from The Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.” The Pretenders covered “Stop Your Sobbing”. The Jam nailed “David Watts.” “Lola” was again becoming a minor hit. As per usual, The Kinks admit what other bands won’t. They did careful overdubs on this live album to make it sound even better. While there are greatest-hits albums that collect the group’s highlights, this live set is a great reintroduction for old fans.
Hard to Imagine
Runtime: 57 minJohn Winston Ono Lennon was the co-founder of the most successful and influential band of all time, an unrivaled song writer, a political activist and pacifist and a visionary. His songs took popular music to a new level, impacting modern music like no other before or since. This documentary will take you on a journey through his life told by those who knew him best, from his modest upbringing in Liverpool to his world-wide fame, his musical talent to his political activism, and from his struggles with the law to his tragic death.
Live at Knebworth 1990 - Volume I
Runtime: 1 hr 6 minKnebworth, Hertfordshire, June 30, 1990. 120,000 fansgathered for an historic concert event to aid the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre and the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. This incredible benefit concert was an instant success due to the high-energy, awe-inspiring performances of such rock 'n' roll legends as Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Mark Knopfler, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Status Quo, Tears For Fears and Cliff Richard & The Shadows.
Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years
Runtime: 1 hr 46 minIn 1962 four young men - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - came together to form the 20th century musical phenomenon known as 'The Beatles'. The band stormed Europe in 1963 and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However, the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame (which in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil) led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music. Master storyteller and Oscar winner, Ron Howard, explores this incredible journey in his own unique way: How did The Beatles do this? How did they cope with all the fame and pressure? How did they not only survive, but go on to revolutionise popular music? With original interviews, footage, staggering live performances, and the intimate study of character that Ron Howard is known for, he puts us right inside this extraordinary adventure, answering the question everyone always wants to know: What was it like to be there?
Legends in Concert
Runtime: 1 hr 29 minAmazing performances by 'ex-Beatle' phenomenon, Ringo Starr and his All Starr band. Live music by the talented artist including hits such as 'Yellow Submarine' and 'Act Naturally.' Also featuring are performances from Joe Walsh, Levon Helm and Dr.John and more.
Runtime: 40 minThis Procol Harum concert features hits “Bringing Home the Bacon,” “Grand Hotel,” “Fires (Which Burnt Brightly),” “A Salty Dog,” “A Rum Tale,” “Conquistador,” “For Liquorice John,” “Power Failure,” and “A Souvenir of London.”
Good Vibrations Tour
The Beach Boys
Runtime: 50 minThis concert film captures the classic line-up of The Beach Boys - Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine - performing a handful of their most beloved tunes including "God Only Knows," "California Girls," "Sloop John B," and "Good Vibrations."
Classic Albums: Disraeli Gears
Runtime: 49 minCREAM was rock's first true "super group". Combining the extraordinary talents of ERIC CLAPTON, GINGER BAKER and JACK BRUCE, this power trio became the template for many hard rock acts of the seventies. The band remains a huge influence on the genre even to this day. Powered by hits such as "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of Your Love", Cream's second album, DISRAELI GEARS, moved the band beyond the blues into hard-driving, psychedelic pop. This was the album that not only broke the group in the United States but also established Clapton as an international superstar. This addition of Disraeli Gears to the acclaimed Classic Albums series features brand new interviews with Clapton, Baker and Bruce, along with lyricist Pete Brown, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, John Mayall and Manfred Mann. Also included on this program are acoustic performances, original studio tracks and archival live footage.
Slowhand at 70: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Runtime: 1 hr 46 minEric Clapton, Live at the Royal Albert Hall captures a momentous night for one of the world's greatest rock guitarists, celebrating his 50 years at the top of the music business and more than 200 performances at the iconic London venue that holds a special place in his heart.
Wonderful Crazy Night
Runtime: 1 hr 7 minThirty-three studio albums and Elton John and his trusted copilot, Bernie Taupin, are still making the soundtrack of our lives. Rock ’n’ roll is the key motivator here. “Blue Wonderful” is wrapped in guitars and features a solo from album producer T Bone Burnett. “Guilty Pleasure” is raucous fun. Taupin’s deft lyrical touch shines on “I’ve Got 2 Wings” and “The Open Chord”, both flush with clever turns of phrase. “A Good Heart” is pure Elton balladry—heartfelt feelings framed by his timeless voice. “Looking Up” expresses gratitude with characteristic flair, like a 2016 version of “I’m Still Standing”. Wonderful Crazy Night shows that rock ‘n’ roll remains Elton John’s North Star.
From The Vault L.A. Forum 1975
The Rolling Stones
Runtime: 2 hr 39 min'From The Vault' is a new series of live concerts from The Rolling Stones archive which are getting their first official release. 'L.A. Forum Live In 1975' is the second title in this series. The Rolling Stones Tour Of The Americas '75 was the band's first tour with new guitarist Ronnie Wood. Even before the dates started there were dramatic scenes in New York City at the official tour announcement when the band unexpectedly turned up on a flatbed truck to play 'Brown Sugar'. After a couple of low key warm-up shows in Louisiana the tour took in 44 dates between the 3rd of June and the 8th of August 1975. They settled into the L.A. Forum for a five night stint from July 9th to 13th and this concert film features the show from July 12th. The footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.


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Plasterboard ceilings in the hall: photo. Features of installing a plasterboard ceiling with your own hands. Single-level and multi-level ceilings: photo and video.
Design of a kitchen combined with a living room: photos of interesting solutions. Interiors of apartments: photos of living rooms combined with a kitchen. Kitchen-living room design 18 squares: finishing options.
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A coalition of Sunnyvale residents concerned with the rate of development occurring in the city recently filed a ballot initiative that would require voter approval before public land is sold.
The Sunnyvale Public Lands for Public Use Act would give voters the final say on the sale, lease, land swap or transfer of any city-owned or -leased land used as a public parks and amenities including libraries, swimming pools, community centers and golf courses.
It would not, however, take away the city council”s ability to sell commercial properties or utilities.
The proposed changes to the city code arose from the sale of the Raynor Activity Center to a private school in 2013. Many members of the public were unhappy with the idea of limited access to public park space when the joint use agreement came out.
The city has hired a consultant to explore options to modernize its 50-year-old civic center. One of those options is selling off portions in a public-private partnership with developers to help cover costs. Possible moves like this have residents concerned that access to public space will be limited if not completely lost.
“For all public land in Sunnyvale, once the land is gone the city will not be able to buy it back with the way prices are now,” said Deborah Marks, a public space advocate with Citizens for Sunnyvale Parks and Green Spaces. “We want to hang on to it at the civic center, especially when it”s such a beautiful piece of land that so many enjoy going to.”
According to Tim Dietrich of Save Sunnyvale Parks and Schools, despite speaking before the council and writing letters to the editor to voice their opinions, he and other residents felt like they were not being heard.
“We don”t want to stop growth, but we have seen a lot things going on that a lot of people don”t agree with,” Dietrich said. “We asked ourselves, how do we ensure that we have our say when it comes to these community assets that are for everyone?”
It is the Sunnyvale City Council”s policy when selling city-owned land to declare it as surplus during a public hearing. After determining the value of the land, the city then may put the property up for auction, a negotiated sale, exchange, lease or request a proposal.
Over the past several months, both Dietrich”s and Marks” groups joined forces with several other advocacy groups in Sunnyvale and agreed on a ballot initiative. They found legal counsel and drafted the ballot language.
The group needs to collect valid signatures of 10,000 Sunnyvale registered voters to qualify this initiative for the ballot by mid-June. Once qualified, a majority of voters will need to pass the measure in a citywide election.
The group was hoping to have a special election late this year, but if they do not meet requirements for a special election, the initiative could instead qualify for a general election in 2016.
A walk-in location to sign the petition is at 170 N. Wolfe Road in Sunnyvale. Hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Appointments are not needed. Residents can also visit the website at sunnyvalepubliclandsact.com.

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There are few artists as iconic as Crystal Waters. She’s been a trailblazer since 1991, landing thirteen Billboard No. 1s, while continuing to be one of the most sampled and covered artists (see Coldplay cover here). She has her own radio show, I Am House, syndicated to SiriusXM, and every new song she releases finds its way into the sets of today’s biggest DJs.
Considering her success, you can only imagine that anyone she would ask to remix her music would be artists of immense talent. Well, we got a nice gift just in time for Valentine’s Day, in the form of some mesmerizing remixes from legendary DJs Todd Terry, David Morales and David Anthony (who also produced the original) for his recent single, ” 2B Luv”.
It’s impossible to pick a favorite, as each offers their own signature style that is utterly irresistible. Morales offers an elegant disco house interpretation. Todd Terry arrives with a deep, deep bass line and an infectious digital arrangement. Coming full circle, David Anthony throws his hat on the dance floor and delivers a club throwback for the heads that brings a bit of old school flair to this modern classic.
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✦ A poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the deepening economic crisis has made some patients struggle to afford their prescription medication, among other essentials. According to the poll, 8% of Americans have had difficulty paying for medicine since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, while 13% reported problems paying for food, 11% struggled to pay medical bills, and 9% had trouble affording health coverage. Read the poll results at https://bit.ly/2AdXWjI.
✦ There will be heavy demand for influenza vaccines this fall, according to a Reuters poll, and the news service reports that retail pharmacies are stocking up on flu vaccine doses to meet it. The poll, which was taken over the course of May 13 to 19, indicates that 60% of Americans intend to get the flu vaccine in the fall. According to Reuters, Rite Aid Corp. has increased its annual order of flu vaccine by 40%. “We’re in for a double-barreled assault this fall and winter with flu and COVID. Flu is the one you can do something about,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center infectious disease expert William Schaffner, M.D., told Reuters. Read more at https://reut.rs/2ZHadrC.
CVS Health Corp.’s 2019 drug trend report shows a 1.4% overall trend, the lowest in five years, and said 41% of its commercial clients saw negative trend. Specialty drugs accounted for almost half of all spending and remained the fastest growing spending category in the pharmacy benefit. Autoimmune treatments, including some of the highest volume medications — Humira, Enbrel, Rituxan and Remicade — comprised a third of specialty pharmacy spending. CVS’s Advanced Control Specialty Formulary (ACSF) helped its clients reach -9.4% price growth in the category. As 20 biosimilars are expected to come to the specialty marketplace by 2023, payers may see significant savings, according to CVS.
Navitus Health Solutions, a PBM that touts a 100% rebate pass-through model and a lowest-net-cost formulary, says it is seeing success in moderating total net cost per-member per-month (PMPM), particularly for new clients.
The company’s 2019 Drug Trend report, released in May, said Navitus achieved an “industry-leading” total net cost PMPM of $78.12 across its commercial business, 16% lower than the forecasted industry average of $93.11 PMPM.
The Trump administration on May 26 shared new details about a program that offers diabetic seniors access to a variety of insulin products for a maximum $35-per-month copay.
More than 88 health insurers offering about 1,750 standalone Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs) and Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage (MA-PDs) have now applied to participate in the Part D Senior Savings Model, which CMS unveiled in mid-March (RDB 3/26/20, p. 5). Medicare beneficiaries in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will be able to enroll in a participating plan during the Medicare open enrollment period that lasts from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, 2020, for Part D coverage that begins on Jan. 1, 2021.
The rollout of a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is an unprecedented logistical challenge. So will be deciding who gets it: experts say that the initial vaccine supply will not be large enough to dose everyone who wants it — and payers and PBMs will have a large role to play in distributing the medicine to the right people quickly.
David Simchi-Levi, Ph.D., a systems engineer who studies manufacturing and supply chain at MIT, tells AIS Health that it’s inevitable that vaccine supply will not meet demand when it is available.
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January is here, and with it, a diverse bunch of delicious fruit and veg is coming out of the ground and ripening on trees. You might think of winter as a time when nothing grows, but actually, it’s the time to celebrate hearty root vegetables, dark green winter leaves, crisp apples and zesty citrus. Here’s our pick of the best in season.
Jerusalem artichokes are mildly sweet, nutty, earthy, and the perfect winter root. Try roasting them with rosemary and hazelnuts (pictured), mashing them or turning them into a silky, rich soup. This Jerusalem artichoke soup recipe is a firm Farmdrop favourite, as is this twist on the classic fish pie topped with a mixture of mashed Jerusalem artichokes and potatoes. Farmdrop’s Jerusalem artichokes are grown by Fred over at Home Farm Highgrove. He grows over 100 different organic crops, particularly roots, brassicas and squashes. He runs a truly incredible operation, all the more impressive given he operates solo for most of the year!
Gorgeous kale – along with lots of other winter greens – is bang in season now. Kale is the perfect accompaniment to a family Sunday roast, tossed through pasta (try this lazy, healthy one-pot pasta recipe), or blanched and blitzed into pesto. Farmdrop’s kale is grown by Purton House Organics, headed up by Rowie Meers who is dedicated to organic, small-scale farming. Here she is harvesting her field of winter leaves, ready to be boxed up and sent out.
Slow-roasted, this humble root vegetable becomes sweet and complex, and a great potato-alternative for your Sunday roast. Alternatively, celeriac works wonderfully mashed (try this dairy-free celeriac mash recipe) or paired with apple and blitzed into soup. Farmdrop’s organic celeriac hails from Westmill Farm in Wiltshire. These guys grow lots of different crops. You can expect more celeriac from them, as well as squashes, parsnips, carrots, cabbages, beetroot and swede throughout the winter season.
Did you know the UK is home to hundreds of varieties of apples? Well, autumn and winter is the time to eat them. From Braeburn to Gala, Russet to Jazz, Baretilt Farm is home to several different types, all grown on Chris Levett’s 100 acres in Kent.
Three cornered garlic
There’s no need to wait until spring for your next batch of foraged pesto. Three cornered garlic, the long grass-like stems pictured, is autumn and winter’s answer to the ever-popular wild garlic. Sometimes known as wild leeks, these are milder than wild garlic, juicy and sweet and our preferred choice for throwing into salads, a Cheddar cheese sandwich or a good omelette. You can also use them instead of chives or spring onions in mash. Thanks to the Forager for our supply of three cornered garlic direct from Kent.
It’s hard to resist the appeal of these jewel-coloured stalks. Try rainbow chard in lieu of potatoes in a chard gratin, include them in a lasagne or frittata, or cook them up simply with lemon and garlic.
Seasonal food is local food and while the majority of Farmdrop’s produce is grown in the UK, we also want to support the farmers growing fruit that we can’t grow here. We believe it’s better to get our clementines and oranges from Spain or Italy than it is from much further afield, like Africa, America or Australia. Right now, Europe’s lovely leafy clementines taste at their best. Try them straight up or in this stunning Hasselback Parsnip recipe.
Potatoes needn’t be boring. There are so many different varieties, each offering something different. From Maris Piper’s (perfect for roasties) and King Edwards to lesser-known varieties, such as good all-rounder Milva or sweet, earthy Athlete.

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Bunga Ta’ang is the local name of an aromatic herbaceous plant traditionally used by the Bidayuh community in Sarawak to ward off ticks in domestic animals. The essential oil from this plant was screened and shows anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties against a wide range of pathogenic pathogen with varying effectiveness. Ganoderma boninense is a causal agent of basal stem rot (BSR) and upper stem rot (USR), an economic threat to the palm oil industries. The aim of this study is to determine the antifungal activity of the vapour from the essential oil of Bunga Ta’ang on G. boninense.
This study indicates that the volatile vapour from Bunga Ta'ang essential oil showed strong inhibitory activity on G. boninensis suggesting that the volatile vapour can be used as an effective biological control agent. Further studies are necessary to investigate the specific compound in the essential oil that limit the growth of G. boninense. Whereas, future work on formulation design and field experiments need to be carried out in order to improve the efficacy and stability of the volatile compound as well as to reduce the production cost of compound as fungicides.
Figure 1: Effect of the volatile vapour from Bunga Ta'ang essential oil on radial mycelial growth of Ganoderma boninense evaluated using vapour-agar contact method. Results shown are average values of mycelium diameter from three replicates.
Figure 2: Antifungal activity of the volatile vapour from Bunga Ta’ang essential oils on Ganoderma boninense (7 days exposure).
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The fungistatic activity observed from the volatile vapour suggested that the volatility of the oil’s chemical composition might influence the potency of the antifungal activity.
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‘Songbird’ is lifted from Sampson’s stunning new EP Songs of Delay which is available now as a free download via BandCamp. The EP is also available for streaming on Spotify and purchase on iTunes, Amazon and the other usual suspects.
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- Liminal Drifter “Connected” Out Now!
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woW yes lots of info in your answer that's great!
yes I guess I had digested all this info.
from it I extract that there is no problem to use a statci sessionId (hard
coded) if what I need is a single chat room where people can connect to one
And that's my intention in the beginning.
later on though I would like to reproduce this chat room for diferent events
that could run at the same time.
One way could be to store some valid sesionIds and use them for each chat
room I guess. But it would be probably better if the sessionId was
generated. A diferent one for each diferent URL address so diferent
In this case I still have the same problem. Each connection asks to create a
new sessionId and instead of being returned the one created for each page
it returns one new for each connection. Wouldn't it be easy to show me one
example that uses the php libraries and the basic.html
I just don't understand because I use the exact same code download and it
gives me this problem. I wonder if there's something to modify...
The simple case I'm trying to do is to connect several people to one single
sessionId in one single webpage. To be extending it to multiple webpages
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Skype Patch for AMD Users
Unleashing 10-User Conferencing in Skype 2.0 for Windows
Recently, Skype and Intel have announced a deal that would limit Skype's functionality on all but specific Intel processors. Currently, Skype 2.0 offers 10-way conference calls only on Intel's latest dual-core CPUs, while other chips, including all AMD chips, will only allow for 5-way conference calls. It is argued that only those Intel dual-core CPUs meet the requirements - which would imply that no AMD CPU is fast enough.
Now, what are these requirements? Is there some kind of micro-benchmark built into Skype which measures the processing speed? Or does Skype look for a specific hidden CPU feature? As the details on the patch reveal, the code logic behind the limitation is quite simple:
If it's a CPU with "GenuineIntel" branding and has at least two cores, then allow 10 users; else limit to 5 users.
Simple is also the patch. Actually, only three bytes have to be modified to cancel the limitation. (But since the code for this check is encrypted and thus hidden, the patch does a little bit more.)
The patch is the result of two phases: code analysis and design of the patch. The code analysis, or reverse engineering, reveals the relevant code block, which overrides Skype's limitation for Intel's dual-core CPUs. The patch design isolates the minimal set of instructions that need to be modified to cancel this limitation.


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The act of suffering isn’t joyful or pleasant, but it helps us maintain our dependence upon God.
Thank God that he is patient with me when I am impatient with myself!
We don’t have to solve every problem today, we just have to take one step forward.
Our entire world is working through a collective trauma, and yet, I believe that we can find opportunities to be grateful.
While I still know nothing about gardening and have nothing short of a black thumb, I see the value in the gardening metaphor.
When we’re not rooted in the truths of God, things begin to go haywire as our hearts begin reaching out, grasping for that one thing that will make us feel whole.
I am here to give you hope.
Something is placed in front of me, I think “I can’t do it” and just stare at it, soaking in my failure and ineptitude. But the beautiful thing is that God’s right there, whispering in my ear, “You can do it, just trust me.”

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Hardware news tagged OpenGL
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Intel to Discuss Haswell at Forthcoming Intel Developer Forum.
Intel to Disclose Details About Next-Gen Haswell CPUs Next Month
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Khronos Updates OpenGL Specification to Version 4.3 to Boost Security, Support Compute Shaders.
OpenGL 4.3 Brings In Compute Shaders, Enhanced Flexibility, Improved Security, Other New Features
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Khronos Brings Mobile 3D Graphics to the Next Level with OpenGL ES 3.0 Specification.
OpenGL ES 3.0 Brings OpenGL 3.3 and 4.2 Features to Smartphones and Tablets ?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Intel Readies Single-Chip Haswell Platform for Ultrabooks.
Intel Haswell Ultrabook System-on-Chip to Consume 15W
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
First Details About Intel Haswell Emerge: 2-4 Cores, New Graphics Core, DDR3, Low Power.
Intel Set to Continue Aggressively Lowering Processor Power Consumption with Haswell
Monday, August 8, 2011
Khronos Expands OpenGL Functionality with New Features and New Spec.
Khronos Group Releases OpenGL 4.2 Specification
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Intel Haswell Processor to Support DirectX 11.1 Graphics Capabilities - Document.
Intel to Continue Addressing Professional Graphics Market with Integrated Graphics Cores


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“Conversion of Russia” Update:
Putin Returning to Khrushchev’s Model
by Christopher A. Ferrara
Well, the “conversion of Russia” just keeps rolling on. According to a report by Zenit.org on March 25, 2001, recent changes to Russia’s Presidential Commission for Religion ordered by Vladimir Putin indicate that §Russia is moving toward greater secularization, a move that could spell trouble for the Catholic Church …” In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, “surprise, surprise, surprise.”
Zenit reports that Putin has put Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop Mefodi of Voronezh and Lipetsk on the commission. There is a small problem with Mefodi: it seems he is a KGB agent and (not to put too fine a point on it) an atheist. This is according to “a 1992 report in the Russian emigrant newspaper Russkaya Mysl [which] Mefodi neither confirmed nor denied.” The result, in the assessment of the reputable Keston religious news service, is that Putin “has entrusted a secular body to draw up a religious policy, whose principal features will be a strong emphasis on the secular nature of the Russian state …”
Keston further notes that “Putin has made few clear pronouncements on religious policy” and that “Religion is evidently not among his highest priorities.” This is because Putin comes from a state security background, and for him religion “usually becomes a priority only when it seems to impinge upon security issues.” Ah, but according to the Fatima revisionists, Putin is a “Christian” and his ascendancy is a “miracle”.
Zenit’s report goes on to note that according to Keston’s assessment, “President Putin’s religious policy seems to be in line with the last phase of Boris Yeltsin’s. It encourages the formation of a coalition among the ‘traditional confessions’, which in turn are expected to support the consolidation of the state. Those that fail to do so, risk serious difficulties with the authorities.” Sound familiar? This is also the post-Stalinist Khrushchev model, under which the Russian Orthodox Church was allowed to exist so long as it served the KGB and offered no opposition whatsoever to the Soviet regime.
What does this mean for the barely-alive Catholic Church in Russia? Not good. The Keston agency believes it likely that “the Roman Catholic Church will in practice be increasingly dealt with as a nontraditional confession, even if it is formally considered a traditional one. In recent years, two Catholic bishops were denied Russian citizenship and were told by the authorities that the only way they would be accepted would be if they married a Russian.”
This means, in effect, that the Catholic Church will not be allowed to have any bishops who can reside permanently in Russia, and therefore “the bishops cannot take legal responsibility for their apostolic administrations, and the Catholic Church is unable to register the latter.” This development, notes Keston, is combined with the Church’s difficulty in recovering any of the Church properties confiscated during the Stalin era and the increasing hostility of state authorities toward Catholic clergy, resulting in “refusal and curtailment of visas for visiting clergy” — which is to say nearly all the Catholic clergy in Russia. In short, the Catholic Church is dead in the water in Russia, and the situation is only going to get worse.
Father Fox, please admit you are wrong. EWTN, please do the same. Stop peddling a lie to the faithful and open your eyes to the reality in Russia today. There is no conversion going on there. Quite the contrary, the Catholic Church was more robust under Khrushchev, the overt communist, than it is under Putin the “Christian”. Instead of the conversion of Russia we are witnessing the Fatima Curse: Heaven’s answer to the failure to consecrate Russia in the manner Our Lady of Fatima requested. And those who call the curse a miracle are going to have to answer for the continued suffering of the Mystical Body in Russia.

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Aultmore is one of those Speyside distilleries that were mainly seen through the independent bottling prism. If we now know a stocked official alternative (12, 18, 21 and 25 years old), we here get the occasion to try out a cask strength itemization…
Nose : We immediately feel that the fruits will be coated in a good dose of sugar. We have apples, but also cherries and flowers (pansies). We then find some vanilla, a bit of chestnut cream and malt. It doesn’t lack finesse, but the sugar tends to cover up the frank smells. We’re pretty convinced by the profile and by the (creamy) presence at nose though. Some vegetal notes then come little by little (spinach sprout, cut grass) and offers a bit of change. It remains too sweet, but it’s fairly interesting. Water doesn’t grant more freedom to the aromas, except for a few pop-corn fragrances.
Mouth : We have a nice power and a beautiful amplitude with a bit too much alcohol (but adding water should fix that). We still have a sugar overbid but the apple becomes pretty precise (between juice and stew) with some malt, while a hint of bitterness appears (grass). We also find some black pepper and clementine zests in the second part of the mouth. The apple remains on the foreground but it lacks bareness to fully put the fruit at the heart of the tasting. Indeed, the sugar neutralizes the subtlety.
Water surely calms the alcohol strength, but we stay on a sweet formula with some apple, some malt and some vanilla. We lose a bit of bitterness which still makes it easily drinkable.
Finish : The finish is long and well carried on bitter herbs whereas the apple and the sugar compensate a bit for the bitterness. The apple and the mandarine zest are still in the game. The aftertaste oscillates between apple and malt.


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Nike is developing a global brand marque for its basketball division in conjunction with Made Thought. The division is set to launch at the end of this year. The London multidisciplinary consultancy won the business without a pitch, after Nike Basketball approached it directly to develop the marque and a set of brand guidelines in September.
The consultancy has previously carried out work for Nike in the US. The basketball division is the last within the Nike group to be splintered off as a separate company, which is a key reason for it now needing to create a marque of its own, according to Ben Parker, director at Made Thought.
A key challenge of the project, explains Parker, is that Nike Basketball, unlike other sports categories such as Nike Golf or Nike Tennis, sits between street culture, fashion and performance sport. ‘The marque has to have a young, dynamic street edge, while reflecting a premium and technological status,’ he says. ‘Our task is to develop a single marque that will appeal to both sets of audiences.
Nike Basketball has been around for 25 years, so there is a rich heritage and history that also needs to be communicated,’ Parker adds. Made Thought hints that the logo will be pared back to accommodate the long word form of Nike Basketball. ‘We are developing a marque that has a level of restraint and modesty,’ Parker continues. ‘The Nike swoosh has so much value and emotive baggage, that to have both as fully expressive [logos] would be way too much,’ comments Parker. An undisclosed Swiss type foundry is creating a ‘whole new character set’ to support the logo, as part of the project.


Last July, the Federal Reserve and other financial regulators proposed rules on bank capital standards that have been more than a decade in the making. The rules require banks to hold more capital against loan losses, as a way of discouraging the kind of high-profit/high-risk banking practices that crashed the economy in 2008.
The rules, once finalized, will also carry out an agreement that the U.S. made with other major nations to tighten bank regulation, known as Basel III. The proposed U.S. rules go a bit beyond the minimal standards of Basel III.
Requiring banks to hold slightly more capital will depress their appetite for high-risk activities and slightly restrain exorbitant bank profits. Predictably, the big banks have mounted an all-out war against these rules, using community organizations, small businesses, and civil rights groups as fronts.
According to the banks’ dire predictions, requiring higher reserves against losses will depress not only dangerously speculative activities such as derivatives trading, but worthy activities such as lending to small businesses and low- and moderate-income homebuyers.
These claims, once examined carefully, are nonsense.
For starters, the new capital rules apply only to the 33 largest banks, which do a minuscule share of the nation’s mortgage lending. Second, according to the Fed’s own calculations, the new rules will raise the banks’ own cost of funding loans by just 0.03 percentage points.
To put that figure in perspective, as the group Better Markets has pointed out, the four largest banks have $4 trillion in loans outstanding. Against that lending, 0.03 percentage points is $1.2 billion. Since 2013, those banks have paid out $584 billion in dividends and share buybacks. $1.2 billion is a blip.
Moreover, the largest banks are barely in the mortgage business. In 2023, the six largest banks provided only 7 percent of all mortgages.
According to Americans for Financial Reform, the non-bank Rocket Mortgage, which originates home loans and then sells them in the secondary mortgage market to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, makes more home loans than Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase combined. Carter Dougherty of AFR told me, “The big banks are close to irrelevant in the mortgage market for low-income and Black and Latino families, and remember that this proposal only affects the biggest banks.”
Big banks were more implicated in mortgage markets during the housing bubble inflation and collapse of 2008. They originated more loans then, serviced a lot of loans that other lenders originated, financed the securitization of subprime loans, and served as trustee banks for securitized subprime mortgages.
The new capital rules apply only to the 33 largest banks, which do a minuscule share of the nation’s mortgage lending.
After the collapse, the big banks and their servicing arms failed to refinance mortgages, despite a provision of the emergency bailout program earmarked explicitly for foreclosure relief. The subprime collapse was especially devastating to Black homeowners. After 2008, the rate of Black homeownership fell from 49 percent in 2008 to 42 percent today.
In recent months, the biggest banks have continued their discrimination against Black mortgage applicants. In December, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched an investigation against Wells Fargo for pricing mortgages less favorably for Black homebuyers. In each of the past five years, Wells provided fewer mortgages than it did the year before.
Wells, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America made only about 3 percent of all mortgage loans to Black homeowners in the past five years. In October 2020, JPMorgan Chase pledged 40,000 new loans to Black applicants. So far, they have made 122. And this all happened long before the new regulations that will supposedly deter lending to Blacks. If the banks truly wanted to make more mortgage loans, no capital rule was stopping them.
As CNBC recently reported, Wells has repeatedly been in trouble with regulators for abuses related to mortgage lending. In 2012, it paid more than $184 million to settle federal claims that it put minorities disproportionately into subprime loans. It was fined another $250 million in 2021 for mortgage lending practices, and paid $3.7 billion for consumer abuses on products including home loans.
Meanwhile, the same banks crying that they won’t be able to serve Black homebuyers are the ones condemning the CFPB’s bid to limit bank overdraft fees, which disproportionately affect communities of color.
IN LIGHT OF THESE REALITIES, it is the height of hypocrisy for the big banks to base their attack on the new capital standards on the supposed impact on mortgage lending. But what’s even more shameful is to see civil rights and community groups fronting for the banks.
I’ve reported on a front group created by Goldman Sachs called 10,000 Small Businesses Voices, which is run out of a public relations firm. Some 3,000 small-businesspeople signed a letter created by Goldman, echoing Goldman talking points. Meanwhile, Goldman has sued the CFPB in an attempt to block that agency from enacting a rule that would require financial institutions to report demographic data on small-business lending.
The deadline for comments on the capital rules was January 16. So in mid-January, various groups sent in a flurry of letters. Many of these, even by supposedly progressive groups, mimicked the big banks’ talking points. My colleague David Dayen previously reported on some of these comment letters at the end of November.
More recently, the National Housing Conference sent a comment letter to the federal regulators warning that “the stricter credit requirements proposed in this [rule] would create a distinct disincentive for banks to participate in mortgage lending by requiring additional capital to be held unnecessarily.”
That letter was signed by 27 groups, including the NAACP and the Urban League. As the careful research by Better Markets and Americans for Financial Reform makes clear, this and other claims are bogus, but they help sustain and legitimize the propaganda campaign by Wall Street to water down the capital rule.
Meanwhile, the big banks continue to set up front groups in an effort to hide behind their supposed devotion to mortgage lending and minority communities. A group called the Black Homeownership Collaborative is touting a plan to create three million new Black homeowners by 2030. It is backed by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, among others. Good luck getting more than a trivial fraction of the needed financing from that crowd, with or without weaker capital standards.
The big banks continue to set up front groups in an effort to hide behind their supposed devotion to mortgage lending and minority communities.
One of the most instructive set of comments on the proposed rules comes from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. NCRC was created to help local groups pressure banks to do more community lending, using the leverage of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). When I was a Senate staffer to Sen. William Proxmire in the mid-1970s, I wrote the draft of CRA, and I’ve spoken at NCRC conferences.
NCRC and the banks are frenemies. NCRC pressures banks to agree to community benefit agreements that increase bank lending flows. When the banks agree to these deals, everyone looks good.
NCRC’s letter to the regulators focuses microscopically on proposed rules changes that would require slightly higher risk weighting for some categories of mortgages. These are a very small fraction of all mortgages, since mortgages insured by FHA have generous risk weights, and those that are bought by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not subject to capital rules at all.
The headlines in the NCRC letter of January 15 are nicely alarmist, giving the bank lobbyists quotable material from a bona fide community organization: “The overly aggressive capital requirements are likely to make mortgages significantly more expensive and unattainable for the lower-wealth populations that rely to a greater extent on high [loan-to-value] mortgages.”
This claim doesn’t pass the Pinocchio test, since most mortgage lending is not covered by the proposed rule at all. Drill way down and the NCRC’s comments are more nuanced, but the tone of the letter was enough for the bankers to include NCRC in press accounts of the community coalition against the rules.
The big bankers have even enlisted Democratic senators to mimic their talking points. What this is really about, of course, is bank profits, which translate into share prices and executive bonuses.
One curiosity of this whole battle is the heroic role of Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, and the lead regulator pushing for tough capital rules, in opposition to some of his fellow Fed governors. Back in 2009-2010, Barr was assistant secretary of the Treasury under Tim Geithner, and was one of the key officials who failed to demand that banks use earmarked federal bailout money to refinance mortgages.
I’m not sure whether Barr’s new toughness reflects his new role as a Biden appointee, or whether it is also in some sense penance. Whatever it is, let’s hope he and the other regulators hold the line against a bogus community coalition to water down the rules on behalf of Wall Street.


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Coast To Coast Loving You Sunday Morning Send Me An Angel Holiday Raised On Rock Tease Me Please Me Dynamite Kottak Attack Blackout Six String Sting Big City Nights Still Loving You Wind Of Chamge Rock You Like A Hurricane I Am The Master Storyteller Nailed Hide in the Fairytale The Gift of Music. Nos separamos. Flight " BOOK. Stay Clean Get Back In Line Metropolis Over the Top One Night Stand Rock Out The Thousand Names of God I Got Mine I Know How to Die In the Name of Tragedy Just 'Cos You Got the Power Going to Brazil It just brings a small element of fun to the album.
The Swedes do a good job of sticking to the theme once again with virtually every song having some mention or story about either space, mutation or death. Title track Zone of Alienation is a perfect example, with well written lyrics that is like a story. And with Riley again writing all the lyrics there is no wonder why each song feels so epic just like their previous album.
The only let downs in this otherwise excellent album is the drums which are a bit Album) and repetitive and the bass which is drowned out on most songs. Also the longest song Steelwing have done, the 11 minute Luncay Risingcould have been shorter without anyone missing anything although this song does have some of the best drumming on the album.
Ultimately this is a very solid release from a band who definitely have the stuff to make a great career in the long run. I suppose many of you are already aware of the expanding mass of Swedish traditional heavy metal bands, aside from the turbulent assault of Swedeath monsters.
The scene never seems to dwindle and with every new band it grows stronger, even more robust then before, and this overgrowing tumor of bands also boasts the quality of older bands, thus giving birth to an abundance of quality bands. Steelwing made a strong enough appearance with the release of their debut ''Lord Of The Wasteland'', and while their sophomore may not be able to surpass the mark that the debut had set for itself, the sophomore still manages to come close.
For people who have little idea of what Steelwing sound like, allow me to briefly explain. Steelwing have the obvious traits of heavy metal, and obvious influences that should bring Maiden and Priest to the mind of many. While they sound a lot like the acknowledged masters, Steelwing still bring a fair amount of melody and their own differing Album) and turns into the music, creating something that's still relatively diverse yet succinct and comprehensible by pretty much any listener.
Plus, you have to admit, this is music that just sounds better when its plain and not very complex, so I can't really deduct points from the band for sounding simple. I'll still persist on my opinion time to time, but all the positive factors of this album would easily cover up my theories.
I love how spate, harmonious guitars linger around shortly along with the soft, Album), chord driven passages. Steelwing is not a group that's up for violent, forceful music, and you should just let the gentle music ooze viscously and effortlessly, with no display of showing great force. Steelwing did a bloody decent job with their sophomore effort, damn near to their astonishing debut. I hope that the waves of bands that come after this are just as good as Steelwing, for if they are the blossoming heavy metal scene in Sweden will suddenly turn into a bountiful treasure of bands.
Steelwing LP very good at what they do bringing all the common aspects of heavy metal then offering them in the best way possible, but the good thing is, there are scores of bands that play their metal very similar to Steelwing, and unless you didn't like this, you would torturing yourself by not listening to these other groups such as Katana, Portrait, In Solitude, Trial and many more.
I'm almost ascertain that that these bands will continue to go ''Full Speed Ahead'', exhaling the enamoured sound of the 80's with ease.
Yes, "somewhere out in space" reminds of legendary Gamma Ray's album, and there's a big lyrical similarity. Steelwing abandoned post-apocalypse, and continued the journey, in the space this time. However there are some songs which are not connected with album artwork - Breathless and Tokkatoi Wind Of Fury. Breathless is classic heavy metal song with hard rock edge, and it could fit well in description known as hard 'n' heavy.
Tokkatoi Wind Of Fury is much faster and energetic song with strong all-around instrumental parts and vocals as well. First one has Manowar-ish lyrics related to sex, and the other is about Kamikazes Lyrical topic doesn't matter at all, as long as lyrics are well-written songs can be about socks, flowers, squirrels, anything.
That doesn't mean they are nerds, just guys who have some fun, and write different stuff than usual religion bashing, thrashing and smashing, etc. After such perfect debut album it was clear as a day that they will not be able to reach the same level of greatness, and unfortunately that's exactly what happened. Somehow things went down a bit, but not too much. It's Album) same fucking Steelwing, this time with new inspiration, ideas, creativity and a bit softer sound.
Lord Of The Wasteland was full of raw, aggressive, intense and kick-ass riffs, while riffs here are still great, but a bit less original in some songs, and less powerful. These songs are energetic, bombastic, with some seriously ass-kicking technical guitar solos. Robby and Alex continued their tradition with nice riffs, leads and solos. Riley still kicks major ass with his vocal performances, but it's notable that his banshee screams were much more powerful on Lord Of The Wasteland.
Oskar made sure to make more interesting drum work, with nice pedal work, and drumming in general. Weaker parts of this release appear right after Zone Of Alienation song. That part of the album is pure filler. Why they decided to make such boring, non-memorable and non-exciting instrumental song They Came From The Skies?
If they will continue doing instrumentals like this in the future it would be better to stop that silly idea on time. The Running Man had to be more energetic because it's about fucking chase, you know, some more musical action, to cover those lyrics.
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Corvette Forum C5 for Sale: Unveiling the Legacy of American Performance
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Unveiled in 1997, the C5 Corvette marked a significant departure from its predecessors. Its groundbreaking design, characterized by a sculpted body, aggressive stance, and a distinctive fastback profile, turned heads wherever it went. The C5 also introduced a host of performance enhancements, including a more aerodynamic design, a lightweight aluminum frame, and a potent LS1 V8 engine that delivered an exhilarating 345 horsepower.
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We explore legal leeway for two approaches to debt-financing European Union spending: creation of extra-budgetary, one-off and temporary EU funds to finance European public goods (similarly to NextGenerationEU), and debt-financing the EU’s regular budget, hence creating an on-budget, permanent borrowing capacity at EU level.
We find that NGEU could in principle be replicated. This would require an amendment to the Own Resources Decision (ORD) – a unanimous Council decision that designates the main sources of EU financing and requires ratification by each member state – to authorise borrowing and specify how the borrowing proceeds are to be used. However, this approach would be constrained by the legal requirement that financing EU spending through ‘other revenues’ (as opposed to ‘own resources’ designated as such in the ORD) remain exceptional. As a result, no permanent EU tasks could be financed through NGEU-like funds and NGEU-like financing could not exceed financing through ‘own resources’.
We also find that, while EU primary law does not stop the EU from debt-financing its budget, the scope for EU borrowing would remain severely limited compared to a sovereign state. The permissible amount of borrowing must be specified in the ORD and the EU must be able to meet its debt service in any year, which must be secured by a sufficient amount of (non-borrowed) own resources.
Finally, considerable flexibility exists for the spending of borrowed funds, regardless of whether this occurs through new NGEU-like extrabudgetary funds or on budget. Borrowed funds could be allocated to climate funding, cohesion policy, infrastructure or research. In the event that borrowing proceeds are established as an ‘own resource’ in an appropriately amended ORD, borrowed funds could even be used for general financing of the EU budget.
The authors thank Grégory Claeys, Lucio Pench, Nicolas Veron and Jeromin Zettelmeyer for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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The our bodies of 26 extra individuals who allegedly died of hunger have been present in graves close to the Malindi area in jap Kenya.
Kenyan authorities say a church-linked sect in jap Kenya is encouraging individuals to kill themselves, reportedly killing a whole bunch and burying them in mass graves.
Based on officers, 47 our bodies of the alleged ravenous individuals have been discovered to this point and the positioning is being excavated to seek out extra our bodies, together with these of kids.
Officers say that 58 graves have been excavated to this point and our bodies of 5 members of the identical household have additionally been present in one grave.
Based on Kenyan officers, pathologists will take DNA samples from the our bodies and check them to find out whether or not the victims died of hunger.
Based on stories, the top of the church was launched on bail after his arrest whereas six others have been arrested.
Based on Kenyan authorities, the incident is being investigated and people accountable might be severely punished.


Like everybody else, I was amazed to see Platinum Dunes’ Friday the 13th remake hack its way to a $40 million opening weekend earlier this year. Audiences were ready for the triumphant return of Jason Voorhees, and box office receipts proved as much.
It's a bumper crop of DVD releases this week, but the cream is definitely the Friday the 13th blow-out and Ghostbusters on Blu-ray. Even so, there are several other interesting sounding offerings as well, so dive in and do some shopping!
Marcus Dunstan, co-writer of the Feast trilogy and Saw IV-VI, provided Dread with the below exclusive pics from his upcoming directorial feature debut, The Collector (formerly Midnight Man), a rather nasty and suspenseful little flick he screened for us last week.
Charleston, SC - There are people in her house. She doesn't know them, but they come in droves. They eat in her living room, cook in her kitchen, and pay her no mind at all. After such a long life of lonely solitude, the air is thick with conversation and the scent of Lowcountry spices. Of course she hasn't lived here, or anywhere, for a long time, and the house is no longer her home, but she continues to walk the floors and look out the windows, remembering a time that once was.
On Friday, June 12th, USC’s School of Cinematic Arts hosted Paul Solet’s startling debut feature film Grace (review here) for a packed house. In fact, there was not an empty seat in Norris Hall, and there were even people camped out on the floor throughout the screening.
Screenwriter Josh Stolberg has got to be having the best year of his life right now. One of his projects, Sorority Row, is currently is post-production and another script of his, Piranha 3D, is currently being filmed under the helm of Alex Aja in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Sean "The Butcher" Smithson here. Sometime scribe for these here pages at Dread Central, sometime horror host, sometime jungle explorer, sometime exorcist, even sometime astronaut. But this time I'm here reporting on what it's like to help organize events and program films for a horror convention. Or at least, what it was like for me at this particular con, CryptiCon Seattle 2009.
Do you like your Canuck-produced Army of Darkness style comedies loaded with puerile sex jokes, lesbian make-out sessions, and topped off with a heaping slab of Canadian bacon by way of a hammy performance by a WWE wrestler? If so, we have good news for you: Dark Rising is coming to DVD this August.
DVR's are a wonderful thing! Especially in the hands of Halloween fans who aren't afraid to use a little ingenuity. Word came down early in the weekend that TV spots for Halloween 2 had begun running, and now through the magic of bootlegging you can see them ASAP!
If you saw The Phantom, then you've seen Billy Zane slam evil. But can he survive it? Surviving Evil casts Zane as a TV survival host whose show taping on a remote Philippine island becomes that much more dangerous when they disturb the domain of an Aswang, a hideous ghoul of Filipino lore.
Horror fans would think Hell has finally frozen over. Think about it: Lost footage from Night Breed has been found, Universal has finally decided to release Phantasm II onto DVD (in what I'm reasonably sure will be an R-rated bare-bones release, but still), and now the specs have dropped for Sony's upcoming super-stacked DVD and Blu-ray editions of Night of the Creeps! Here's the goods on what we can expect when the DVD drops on October 20th. Sixty minutes of behind-the-scenes featurettes:
We're all waiting patiently for September to roll around, which brings with it the release of Focus Features' animated fantasy, 9. In the meantime, we've got a look at the final one sheet and a host of promotional material that should tide you over until the Shane Acker directed fantasy goes into limited release on September 9, 2009.
Most notable this week was all the back and forth about Creepy's review of the "Killer Cut" of Friday the 13th 2009 (which generated more comments than we've seen around here in quite some time).
In a rare display of common sense, it seems that the powers that be behind the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer big screen remake tried extending an olive branch to creator Joss Whedon in the hopes of getting him involved in the project.
Dust off your shorts, feature films, and music videos; the Australian horror film festival A Night of Horror has announced their call for entries!


Windows Home Server Drive Extender technology has now been discontinued, but its concept has been preserved and improved upon in the new Windows feature called Storage Spaces. With Storage Spaces, physical disks can be grouped into Pools, and these pools are then carved up into Spaces, which are formatted with a regular file-system and are used day-to-day just like regular disks. These disks can be connected either through USB, SATA, or SAS. This feature brings the safety of RAID and allows expanding space to store files – all at a lower cost.
The feature provides two basic services:
- Data redundancy: Makes sure there are at least two copies of data, each living on a different disk, helping to prevent any accidental data loss in case there is a hard disk failure. For example, you can save files to two or more drives so that your file remains safe even if the drive fails.
- Single pool of storage: Helps you pool different physical drives together into one logical drive. In short, organizes physical disks into storage pools, which can be easily expanded by simply adding disks but handled as a single entity.
Set up Storage Spaces in Windows 11/10
To create a pool and a mirrored space, go to the ‘Control Panel’. Press Win+X to bring up the power task menu and from there, choose ‘Control Panel’. Next, click ‘System and Security’, and then ‘Storage Spaces’.
When a window shows up, select the ‘Create a new pool and storage space’ option. Next, select the drives to create a storage pool. Remember, if the selected drives contain files you will lose them all and won’t be able to recover them from Recycle Bin.
Next, select a name, layout, and size for the storage space.
To add more disks to the current pool, simply select the drives to be added and hit the ‘Add drives’ option.
Shortly after that, you will observe the process of creating a pool in progress. Here, you can rename the pool if you would like too.
To create additional parity space, click ‘Create a shortage space and then choose ‘Parity’ from the layout options.
While creating a storage pool, if you run out of capacity you will see a notification like this:
If such a case, click on the notification to get some information and try to fix it.
That’s all you need to do to create storage Spaces and start using it like any other disk!
When you add new drives to an existing pool, it’s a good idea to optimize drive usage. This will move some of your data to the newly added drive to make the best use of the pool’s capacity. It’ll happen by default when you add a new drive to an upgraded pool in Windows —you’ll see a check box for Optimize to spread existing data across all drives selected when you add the drive. However, if you cleared that check box or added drives before upgrading a pool, you’ll need to manually optimize drive usage. To do so, type Storage Spaces in the search box on the taskbar, select Storage Spaces from the list of search results, and then select Optimize drive usage.
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Under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between Airbus Helicopters, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, and Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services, the companies will work to strengthen the deployment of local maintenance capabilities with the objective to optimize the availability of the NH90 helicopter.
As an initial activity, Airbus is developing and qualifying Kongsberg’s facilities to provide deep maintenance of the NH90 tail gearboxes for the Norwegian fleet and to bring business opportunities for the Nordics where a total of 52 NH90s are operated by Norway, Sweden and Finland. The move will position Kongsberg as prime contractor for this support contract and the first entity outside Airbus to be qualified for the work.
Airbus and Kongsberg have also identified further paths to exploit a range of additional cooperation opportunities with the objective of enhancing Norway’s support provision.
“This agreement is the beginning of an ambitious partnership with Kongsberg which will strengthen Norway’s autonomy and sovereign support capability in this specialized field,” said Airbus Helicopters Regional Director Industrial Cooperation, Damien Lamy.
“Kongsberg has a proven capability in production, manufacturing, repair and overhaul activity for the aerospace industry,” said EVP of Kongsberg Aerostructures & MRO, Mr Terje Bråthen. “Kongsberg is also a strategic partner to the Norwegian Armed Forces for sustainment and logistics. We are looking forward to our enhanced cooperation with Airbus with the overall goal of increased operational capability for NH90 users.”


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Any reflection on the moral character of an action would have to take the environment into consideration, particularly the dominant norms. This principle should also remain valid if one does not regard them as absolutes, or even in the case one disagreed with their legitimacy (freedom of thought).
Hence you might want to divide the question into two distinct situations according to the environment: the state of nature and the state of society (a concept that traces back at least to Hobbes, but see also the Social Contract by Rousseau). This dichotomy might be useful.
In the state of nature1 where there is no police and no justice (and supposing that could really exist, since some state could still claim jurisdiction on the location) the decision would be in principle strictly personal, by definition; in other words down to the individual's own sense of ethics (or more likely, and at a lower level, survival instinct). This would, consciously or inconsciously involve weighing chances of survival when selecting courses of action; or in the extreme it would boil down to killing with one the various techniques animals use in nature (pursuit, ambush, face-to-face duel, poisoning, stealing food, etc.).
In the state of society the functions of police and judicial have been delegated to the state. According to the social contract, it is not up to an individual to make that type of adjudication. So a citizen who reasons like this would be in breach of the social contract and would undermine the rule of law.
In a state of society, this "thin line" you are contemplating is the laws of the land, specifically the criminal code, which explicitly forbids this kind of behaviour. On top of this, this runs against the dominant moral codes of most human societies, which consider killing bad per se.
Indeed, acting by pre-emptively killing someone would qualify as assassination, which carries among the highest penalties in criminal codes. Since those law codes are consciously written by people who carefully ponder a "scale of represession" (or whatever it would be called), this is an indication of the extent to which such a behaviour is considered a dangerous transgression for a society.
Going back to a similar situation in a state of nature, let us remember that an individual would also probably want to go back to "civilization" which (still and regardless of the specific conditions) enforces its dominant set of values. If the behaviour of the individual had violated those rules, the individual would also have to live later with it privately, or else need to justify themselves to their fellows; including (because of the practice of territorial claims, or even extraterritoriality) in front of courts.
And then the "thin line" would be back to the only admitted exception, i.e. self-defense. Perhaps with some allowances due to mitigating circumstances (due to the harshness of the conditions), as well as the presumption of innocence.
- "A primitive state of existence, untouched and uninfluenced by civilization or social constraints: when people lived in a state of nature." American Heritage


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The thing about Yamanashi is that it is rich in amazing foods being sold in even better restaurants. The local restaurunst are doing a great job in keeping the culture and richness of Japanese food alive in its own unique way.
The local foods of Yamanashi that you should totally try include, Kofu Chicken Entrails Stew, Otsuki Otsukedango, Venison Curry and Fuji-mabushi. Every dish is made with care and attention along with fresh ingredients that bring out the best flavor.
Furthermore, there are many places to do and see in Yamanashi. The Maizuru Castle Park, Mt. Kachikachi Ropeway and Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum simply help you relax and recharge your mind, body and soul.
And, that’s not all, you can also take part in the cooking classes Yamanashi, that will help you learn everything about Japanese dishes.

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QUETTA: Security has been placed on a high alert on the eve of Muharram ul Haram in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan province. Over 5,000 policemen have been deployed in the city to maintain order. Besides the frontier corps, the Pak Army has also been kept on standby to tackle any untoward situation in the provincial capital. Strict security measures have been adopted by the Balochistan government on the eve of Aushra procession.
7th Muharram procession taken out in Quetta
According to the details about the 7th of Muharram, a mourning procession consisting of 6 groups of Zul-Jinah, was taken out on Wednesday from Imambargah Kalan Prince Road under the leadership of Balochistan Shia Conference President Jawad Rafiee, Central Anjuman Traders Balochistan Register, Abdul Rahim Kakar.
Passing through Arts School Road, Archer Road, Liaquat Bazar, Prince Road and ending at Imambargah Nasirul-Azza on Mekangi Road, FC and police on the roofs and entrances of markets, shops and houses on the route of the procession to monitor the procession.
5000 police personnel deployed
Over 5,000 personnel of the Police while 200 Levies personnel were deployed in the mountains, and ATF and FC personnel were patrolling the city. While monitoring the procession, the Pakistan Army was kept on standby to deal with any untoward incident on the occasion of the procession. Moreover, the Department of Interior and Tribal Affairs of Balochistan suspended the mobile phone service, including the 9th of Muharram. Mobile phone service will also be closed on the occasion of the Ashura procession.


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The leaves are ovate, slightly wavy, slightly rippled and
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The Morph Fold comprises of 2 folding chrome legs and a patented mechanism. Simply press and the legs elegantly fold flat and lock in place.
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Morph Fold can be easily stacked away when not in use, we have engineered the leg joints to have plastic stands to separate the tables from one another.
Morph Tilt can be concertinaed and packed away when not in use. Locking castors allow for easy relocation with the added benefit of being able to fix them in place when in use.