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Di Gerolamo Sacco, Franco Battiato
Data di pubblicazione 07/11/2007
Today we rewrite in full the telephone interview between Gerolamo Sacco and Franco Battiato, which took place in April 2007 and was included in Gerolamo's thesis on the History of Modern and Contemporary Music. Gerolamo's thesis was based on a very simple discovery: the discovery that "portable" electronic music (synths such as minimoog, vcs3, etc.) not only brought the creativity of electronic music out of state research centers (such as the study of Phonology) to anyone's bedroom. But also producing revolutionary effects as a total independence from musical literacy to compose as well as, on a large scale, the passage of electronic music from noise and experimentation end in itself on timbre and language to...music "for all and for all", in just a few years. Between 1968, when the first machines for synthesizing sound in a portable version were marketed, and 1971, when Battiato, then an ordinary musician, approached instruments of the genre for the first time, creating a work like Fetus, an entire era would pass. Battiato is therefore the only Italian example of musical illiteracy that begins to write music thanks to the new electronic technology. Here is the interview that concluded this work. February 2007. Enjoy reading!
GS The first thing that came to my mind was: what do you remember about Milan in the early 70's, when you wrote Fetus?
FB I was in Milan from the previous 5 years, from 1965 and this city was like a kind of nest from the beginning, I found a great welcome, I found myself well in short. Then with the new decade, the seventies, an over-sensitive wave started, which produced a movement on the consciences... Then, as it happens, from one decade to the next everything changes: it seemed that there was really an awakening of consciences...turn your head, and discover, suddenly, that many people have regressed towards a primitive ignorance, with tribal personalities and with all the repertoire and consequences that we know well...this is man.
GS Speaking of the music of Fetus, what was the passage, "mental" I mean ... which led the game and the experiment on the synthesizer to become then a journey through time in the music of ancient civilizations?
FB I have this in mind! The rejection of a certain kind of commercial music ignited the spark in 1969, and it was really the participation in "a record for the summer" that triggered this reaction.
GS Really?
FB ...all the singers in the competition, we were waiting for the outcome of the vote, and I felt a strangeness, I'm sorry to use this expression, but I did not feel part of that kind of race. I was completely out of it, uncomfortable, even a painful situation, and I thought: "this is not my way".
I must say that at the time I didn't even have the means to analyze that world. I left Sicily at the age of 19, with those summary studies that give you the school, plus some private curiosity to read.
GS Which ones?
FB From Sigmund Freud to Norbert Wiener, whose book I think was called Cybernetics. At the time, I only thought I would be successful, like all young people or, at least, a good part of the young people. This aspect caused me a crisis of rejection of that music and its values. So I went in search of other genres of music. I found myself imagining an electronic journey, even though I didn't really know what electronics was. I had, as you can say, a prediction of what my life would be like.
Shortly afterwards I read about a new musical instrument in a newspaper, the VCS 3.
GS Your synthesizer!
FB Yes, a Londoner did it: I went to London and bought two of them. He was just born and he didn't even have a distribution yet...they taught me where they sold him: it was a monophonic keyboard connected to an electronic brain (with its envelopes, oscillators and filters), which was in a sort of portable case. I spent months with this thing in ecstasy. I couldn't get away from this instrument anymore. And it was really a journey through time...archaic sounds, Greece, Macedonia, the Balkans...sometimes I didn't sleep at night because of the excitement of this new music, you know?
GS ...I guess... Was this passage suggested to you by the medium itself or did you already have it in mind before?
FB: In the middle, in the middle. In the middle of the thing. You know, we actually have everything inside.
GS I agree
FB there is no thing that you don't have inside but, let's say, it was the means that made me invent the cause.
GS To travel with this electronic instrument the ancient sounds, the harmony in short, then discover his identity as a historical man coincided by chance with a personal growth of man in the present?
FB Absolutely. Even if apparently everything develops along parallel roads, they are always two straight lines that sooner or later meet. I must say that this allowed me to discover the nature of the experimenter. This tool gave me the opportunity to know this vice (laughs)! In '70 I recorded the astronauts of the apollo...
GS Apollo 11?
FB Yes the one on the moon, an apollo (laughs), and I put it on its own track of Fetus along with the air on the fourth rope of Johann Sebastian Bach. But I felt it in my mind very slow, not as it is usually performed: "tu tu tarara tara tira ta..." (sings) - the original was like that and I didn't know how to slow it down, then there were no means we have today. So I put weights on the turntables until I found what seemed to me to be the right metronome, then I poured all this on a tape, on a Revox, and combined it with the voices of the astronauts. A sort of experiment that was fifteen years ahead of the "samplers"! I combined all sorts of them. I had a Bauer organ, it was a valve instrument. By discovering it you could, with a screwdriver or even with your hands, tamper with the valves and correct the intonation. I made sequences in a piece of my "Clic" record that looked like choruses; the chorus effect was a slight mismatch in intonation between one tube and another. And I also worked a lot in this respect on the piano. I had bought a vertical plane that I really reduced to a minimum. You know that when you lower a key, the hammers act on the strings, which are three for each key, except for the last lower keys that have only one string. I took many strings off that poor piano...in the three strings, I took off sometimes the lateral one and sometimes the central one, and then worked with the key on the intonation of the others. On the last octave of the bass, on the other hand, I altered the intonation by lowering the string to obtain a strong drop of sound, completely removing its normal tension. When I hit the fret, the hammer hit the loose string that produced a low (descending) sound, and the note fell. Then I would record on tape, cutting (erasing) the head of the sounds, which then became pure electronic sequences. They always asked me "...but where did you get these sounds from? This can be heard, for example, in "Cantiere di un infanzia", always at Clic.
GS Ma in "Mechanics"? The choirs?
FB No, those are real. The wife of my producer (Pino Massara), Rossella Conz once made a sound: "oou" as a lyrical soprano ... so she was in the room during the recording of "Mechanics". A raw voice, not cultivated, but that enriched the song.
GS I introduce you, because we will talk about it, Mcluhan
FB I value it very much...sometimes when you see a certain face, a certain look, in short difficult to be wrong...(laughs)
GS Beautiful man! But above all he says that an incorrect use of technology leads the man to get narcotized in it... And this is a very important theme for what I'm writing. What do you think?
FB If you make a conscious use, as conscious must be a man, you have immeasurable help. Even more so now, that there have been real miracles in the field of technology, by music I mean.
GS Available
FB precisely
GS A resource then!
FB That's right, I'd say!
GS I too am convinced of this. I'm talking about it in my thesis, and that's why I asked you the question. I find it interesting that according to Mcluhan an incorrect use happens when the man does not recognize himself in these possibilities, does not notice this wonder and... you forget that such an object is an extension of itself! Or is it not?
FB This is also true, because precisely with his amazing intelligence man understands that there can be no identification between human and technological, does not recognize technology as a source ... as part of its roots.
Technology is not.... like seeing a sunset! (laughs)
GS So, the theme of Fetus...
FB A reaction to those love songs so forced...
GS I thought it was a kind of Pinocchio
FB No, the first thing I needed to do was take care of "something else". In fact, I sang about everything, mathematical formulas, chemical ... I felt a kind of freedom that forced me not to align with the "rhymes kissed" (laughs), then you can do it as a game.
I remember, by the way, that once a famous singer-songwriter said "but the songs must be love songs, if not what they are for": it's curious that a living being must say such a bestiality (laughs)! But why do I have to talk only about love? What is this dogma?
GS Who said that!
FB I'm not saying that.
GS No! In a general sense, I meant "who said that love..."
FB (laughs) I thought you wanted to ask me who.
GS Oh no, so many people say, he had to make a list for me. But...Frankestein?
FB Frankestein! There was collaboration in some texts by Gianni Emilio Simonetti, of the Gianni Sassi clan. Sassi started as a graphic designer, then began to produce records, until he invented Cramps: a very smart man.
GS He's the one who designed the cover of Fetus...
FB Yes! He did the label some time later, around 1974, or 1975 I don't remember, but first he started as a graphic designer and external collaborator. Little by little he got excited and so he also became a record producer. He had young intellectuals, so-called situationists, Gianni Emilio Simonetti among them. Although most of the lyrics were mine.
GS I didn't know! So basically the lyrics were his anyway.
FB Yes, yes.
GS Some say it's important that "Fetus" is one of the first electronic music albums in Italy. I'm more interested in the fact that it's one of the first albums, maybe the first, of the electronic albums produced in a popular, non-academic field.
FB Io I found myself buying the first VCS 3 for a pure coincidence. Just the first instrument. So the first electronic sequence that was used in the "pop world", let's say, was that of Juri Camisasca's record produced by me. I performed that electronic sequence in a track of that album: the "electronic sequence" had never really existed. I can't say, however, that this is a merit, the credit goes to the manufacturer of this machine, not to me! Saying "the first record of electronic music"? Who cares, it depends on the results you get then
GS Vedi, what interests me, is that your VCS3 was the "mini" version of more complex devices that before 1968/70 used only the avant-garde learned, for example Berio, who had his own study of phonology and had the means to synthesize sound.
FB The study of phonology, exactly. But they were also called "those of the toilet flush". When you entered that place you always felt "sccc sccc sccc scccc"
GS Hahah. What lessons did you learn from this avant-garde?
FB These gentlemen brought us very interesting young signs of change, so a piece of Berio was worth all the pop music to me. Newcomers are always like that. So when you were naming avant-garde composers like Japanese, you didn't even know what music they were doing. Then we found out about the years... There was someone who said that he made a piece for matches and stiletto heels: exceptional (laughs)! This, in fact, could have been really sound nonsense, but it was adhered to for pure ideology. Because in reality the music itself produced by those gentlemen I do not think has left anything interesting.
GS What about the relationship with Stockhausen? Musically?
FB I would put him aside. Stockhausen, but not only...
GS I read in an interview that paradoxically Stockhausen approached him to traditional scholarly music, or rather "to writing, but not to electronic music.
FB It was like that. When I was producing my first records, there was always someone who was at my house studying at the Conservatory. I had a lot of friends, including great pianists. I used to play my works, and one day one of them said to me "do the same thing as Stockhausen! I had never heard it before and so I looked into it.
In 1972 there was a coincidence: Stockhausen came to Milan to do a concert, I went and gave him Pollution. As always happens to fathers, their children were fans: he was forced to lend more ear. After a couple of years, in a magazine called "Melody Maker", it was very famous, they did an interview with Stockhausen that, at the time, was an impressive name (not like today because everything changes ... the Buddhists are right! Well).
Stimulated by this interviewer who asked him "you who esteem as a musician..." Stockhausen replied "the Italian, Battiato and the German..." I don't remember the name, however it was one of the Kraftwerk.
GS Coincidence, even Kraftwerk had set to music the same themes as Fetus...
FB For me it was a moment of glory: "Stockhausen quoted me! A year after this interview, in 1975, he called me, because he had to offer me a part in one of his works, so I left for Germany. He lived in Kürten, I think he still lives there, in a house he had built from one of his projects, I was a guest at his house a week. He took this score, it took two little valleys to turn it around, it was rectangular, huge, more than a meter wide. He said to me, "This is your part. The opera was called Inori. But I said to him, "I can't read. It took him a few minutes to figure out what "I can't read" meant. I repeated to him, "I can't read, I don't know traditional notation! At that point he closed the score and said, "Ein moment".
And he's been dedicating hours to me all evening! With a German-like determination. He said "now you're 25..." I already had some more...
GS I read this in another interview! She told you "when you're forty you won't be able to make pop music anymore".
FB That's right! As of today I am sixty-two, and that hasn't changed. But it stimulated me so much that as soon as I got home I started to study theory and solfeggio by myself and then harmony and composition by the great master Dionisi. I did almost 3 years with him, plus a few months of conducting, so in those three years I gathered a little of all the knowledge, because always with Dionisi I also studied reading the score and orchestration.
GS What about the dances, the structure of "Sulle corde di Aries"?
FB An album, if I must say right, therapeutic. I came from Pollution, and from a triumphant tour in Italy. Pollution's live was very violent: the frequencies of the synthesizers with oscillators from four to nine thousand hertz and behind an obsessive rock music. Little by little I realized that it was a sort of sabbath, something negative, that left traces of psychic disorders. I stopped, I said once again "enough", in the middle of what, for the entrepreneur, would have been an exceptional success. In 1973 we took part in a pop festival that was held in Venice... there were several foreign groups including Tempest (an English group that was in vogue at the time). In short, the audience screamed so loudly claiming my performance that the impresario forced me to go on stage first. They expected Pollution, and I wanted to ignore them. So I did. I started with a single note, wrapped in a filter. When they realized that there was no hope for me to play anything else, it was hell. That's how admiration can be turned into disapproval in a matter of minutes... the whistles were on the ground.
GS I've always imagined the opposite...How, just "on the strings of Aries"...
FB In fact I didn't play "on Aries' strings" I played an improvisation that was provocative. When I did the concerts alone, however, not in pop festivals, it was often like an initiation ritual. Instead in Venice they expected live those electronic-rock sounds they had heard about or listened to on their records. "Sulle corde di Aries" was for me a journey of purification.
GS Was there any confidence in technology in the 70's?
FB Absolutely, then there was an audience that risked with the artist.
GS How?
FB I did hundreds of concerts improvising completely, no one complained. Today, however, if I did a live concert without proposing even a successful piece, I would be considered a fraud...
GS Everything has changed.
FB There was a wonderful audience in the seventies, who risked.
GS In the thesis that I'm doing I put into play several times This Nietzsche, because he had glimpsed, at the end of '800, a scientific predominance on art that can only be solved with an approach to art of a metaphysical nature, and when I read this I was reminded of the relationship with technology today.
FB True, it was Zarathustra who spoke through him...
GS Do you see analogies?
FB No. But my next film begins with a quote from "So I spoke Zarathustra", a voice from a fake radio that says, "You have walked the path from worm to man, but there is still a lot of the worm in you. In the past you were monkeys, but still today man is more of a monkey than any monkey".
GS What about oriental music? Does it have something to do with the metaphysical approach?
FB Bravo! I hardly used the scales of oriental music, but I used the oriental attitude to write western music! An example is a work I did in 1976 - 1977: "Egypt before the Sands". It's a western work pervaded by an eastern centrality, by an eastern immobility.
GS Because I live the eastern approach, but the basic culture is absolutely western.
FB That's right, it is.
GS So that's why the piece "from east to west" seems on the contrary ...
FB It's true.
GS On the contrary because in spite of the title it starts with a melody, then ends with an oriental dance. Yet to me it seems consistent with the title, because looking at the album as a whole...
FB It's true I agree very much.
GS Mc Luhan says that the alphabet, and therefore the learning to read and write, creates that dissociation between thought and action, which then becomes the difference between a tribal man and a literate man. In the sense that the word is the content of phonetic writing, but phonetic writing has no auditory redundancy, and therefore the world of literati is "cold" and visual, the world of Africans is hyperaesthetic and auditory. Then McLuhan concludes by saying that electromagnetic technology will bring us back into a hearing condition, in which our senses will lead us to organize thought differently, reasoning as we could reason in the archaic, pre-literate era.
FB But a serious problem of our time is precisely the return to a dangerous tribalism: today people, most of the people, go towards an ignorance that has precedents in primitive times. A 'total ignorance, there is even the danger of the spread of what some psychiatrists have called the "straight brain", so it all comes down to three main functions: externalize their violence, have a space and get food and their satisfaction. And when one is no longer a being endowed with "higher centres", then certain facts such as what I have called tribalism, but which have little to do with the enlightening sociality and intuition of many Australian or African tribes, manifest themselves.
Prevention, which is an attitude produced by the spread of a certain personality, has a certain kind of priority needs, so the individual no longer understands that there are others to whom you have to give way, to whom you have to give priority. They manifest their ridiculous personality, devoid of any sensitivity, and this is not good.
GS Try, however, to see this hypothesis of McLuhan looking at how you seek these positive and magical aspects.
FB In magic, tribes are governed by a knowledge of others. In reality it is difficult that in a real tribe there is no compassion and justice! It's impossible for a leader to be an asshole like us.
GS Applying all this to technology, for example the fact that the sound comes from the light. This is related to an auditory field, let's say electromagnetic technology, "no time no space" for instance.
FB I think we'll see some good ones in the future.
GS "In electromagnetic reality the efficient causes fall and everything becomes linear". Making such a speech now may seem clear... but because these facts are happening now. You can even think of the internet... it's a huge theme.
FB Today there is a very strong dissociation between the sensational discoveries made by a small number of people and, on the other hand, an increasingly stupid mass of people who follow other people believing to have fun ...
Today there is really...
GS The void?
FB They tell me about a radio where listeners phone and insult: but I say, what is it? And they are happy, they let off steam.
GS Do you think you can make a comparison between the relationship between book and oral word and what there is between score and record?
FB You have to know how to read the score, and very few people who read a score know perfectly the sound it produces. But if you think about the distance between the score and the played work, sometimes there is an embarrassing difference. Take any Beethoven sonata listened to by five different pianists... The music is always that, the performance changes completely, just change the metronome to a song and...
GS Change everything
FB Everything! "Sol sol sol sol mi, fa fa fa re" or "tatata, tatata" (sings the opening words of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony)
The notes are those but the aggressiveness, the spirit, the strength change, we enter the field of what is called interpretation. Interpretation can even change a piece. I've heard adaguses (the same word should be a metronomic indication) that, performed by brilliant and bizarre pianists (Glenn Gould etc...), become something else.
GS A music can have an incredible complexity on the score, but it is not proportional to the redundancy it has. To the ear it could be arid, unlike a simple song, which instead can produce certain sensations...
FB There emotional systems also come into play...
In a song, the personality of the singer, his timbre, the vocal suggestions of his interpretation are not considered.
To say, "Azzurro" sung by Celentano was a summer success. Without taking anything away from Paolo Conte, if he had made that song he wouldn't have reached that blatant popularity that he then reached.
GS A lot of things written on the score... who knows how the "original" interpretation was!
I, personally, get excited when in "Giubbe Rosse" he sings "the cathedral windows of the gazebo"...
FB I like that of the lizards
GS Feel a bit. Pierre Schaeffer says that in electroacoustic music between listener and disc there is a Pythagorean veil, the sheet that in the school of Pythagoras was used to prevent students from seeing the teachers and improve learning.
FB It's not as bad as what...
I have to say that Sergiu Cielibidache, who is one of the greatest conductors of all time, never recorded a record because he considered the music reproduced an indecency. Then, luckily, he died, his son, gave the permission...so we admirers could listen to his masterful interpretations, of Bruckner, for example.
GS Coldly tells me a difference between making music and making films.
FB Absolutely none.
GS You adapted immediately
FB Immediately
GS I asked you because in the ancient Greek conception of mousikè, mousikè was an art of the time that involved (besides the language that today we call purely musical) dance, poetry, mime, tragedy and so on.
FB It should be like that!
GS Today everything is separate. Maybe we forgot something?
FB It's separate, yes. It's clear that a person can be more predisposed to one art or another, but dance needs a domination of the body, so no one can really dance without having studied at least ten years, while in my opinion all this does not exist for painting or cinema. These are arts in which a stylistic maturity is certainly necessary, the technique is learned quickly.
GS In music?
FB In music today something has happened. Once the academy, private or public, needed to respect the rules so that, who did not know how to implement them, was considered an amateur. Today, however, it happens that a guy who starts screaming something against society, injustice, or just outside his paturnias, can achieve success and be acclaimed by an audience. I don't think Eminem can play even an instrument, hahah!
GS probably not :)
FB That's right. I have nothing against it but... the more man knows, the more he is worth.
GS I imagine an ancient Greek with a time machine: if he came to the cinema, on his return he would talk about music.
FB In ancient Greece there were brains so fine and extraordinary that if they arrived in some way today would not even make a turn, others instead could burst!
GS You've done both popular and learned music, both live and on record. For listeners this is always strange, almost a breakup. For film lovers, it seems normal that a director can change the form of communication, indeed, they consider it a prerogative. Making both films and songs...any clarification?
FB I deal with my need and my character.
For example, if I had stayed within a certain type of communication, I would have retired by now.
There are limits that cannot be accepted, and remaining there bores me terribly: I need to broaden my boundaries. It's not possible to do the same thing all the time, to sing the same song all the time. At least I try to attend other gardens...!
GS In your personal experience, changing genre has changed the audience?
FB I have to say that a certain audience has remained in all changes. A lot of people had fun.
GS A great audience!
FB Yes! The white boar was a scandal to many people. For seven/eight years I've been making extreme avant-garde music: "What's this doing here" - they said - "does it make songs?
GS The idea comes with the scores and then comes the recording, or with the record and then the score to adapt it live?
FB If we can use the coarseness of the axe I would say that there are two moments. The programming of a record at the table, because you have to do it because it is your job and instead something that comes from an inspiration that is like falling in love. It's not that one says "now I'm in love", it comes suddenly and when you least expect it.
GS I don't question that, I'm convinced of that too. But I was interested in the method, write first on a piece of paper or...
FB Sometimes I start from a lyric, sometimes from a music, exceptionally the two together. I'm a fanatic and I'm for research.
One day I heard that Modugno said to someone about me: "it's a shame, he has a popular streak that he tries to hide".
He had seen it right, but he was very wrong, because an artist has the duty to raise the shot, you can not always follow and satisfy the popular taste. I remember a singer-songwriter, during a television interview, after performing a song, said: "this song I did in two minutes" ... from my sofa I replied ... "you can hear it!".
GS Is there any song whose writing completely changes the approach?
FB Sure, I can think of a song from "Like a camel in a gutter" called "The shadow of light".
I wrote it in about six months. I have, here where I live, a gazebo. I got tired of going there because the Sicilian lands on Mount Etna are stairways, terraces, and every time I arrived up with my tongue hanging. I had a harmonium in there, and I did six months of this wonderful life. From the beginning it was an improvisation: "defend me..." (sings). Every day I would write a sentence and stop, as if to lengthen as much as possible the sacred climate in which I had entered. It took me months: "It was very beautiful".
GS Why aren't the works you do "lyrical", or at least melodic, like the songs? Think of Gilgamesh compared to "The shadow of light", for example.
FB The operas were a very strong experience for me. Usually for the song you have two, three, four, five, six minutes when it's long, even if Dylan has made of docs or thirteen minutes. But it's always a song, so it revolves around a secure structure: verse and recording, at most you make two verse plus recording, a small bridge, it's always the same thing. My first experience with opera, that is in 1985 / 1986, was to deal with what the Germans call "great form". In that case you have to have the ability to cover an hour and a half, unless you do, like some composers of the pop world, who write works but then in fact are songs. You also have to deal with style, which does not trace things from other centuries.
It's a very interesting work of penetration, beyond the results you achieve. It's a serious, severe job.
For the first six months I was totally out of control, then I started to get some skills.
GS Eh yes, there we are right in the field of classical composition!
FB Eh yes!
GS Two words about the musical situation today.
FB Worldwide?
GS In general
FB Let's start from that American music that unfortunately has a strong influence on the rest of the world. I read an interview in La Repubblica di ieri, by Winton Marsalis, a great trumpeter. He's black. It's nice when the critics come from someone of the same race, if not there's always the suspicion that someone has some resentment. Marsalis attacked, said all kinds of things to these American rappers. I had already foreseen this in 1970 when I was filming for N.Y... But let's analyze the videos superficially...there's always one who gets caught by the backside by moving the backside, some male who touches his genitals, others who give or take drugs etc... On the other hand, there are some signs at this time that give me a bit of optimism. Pollini has entered the pop chart, he has sold almost fifty thousand copies with a record of classical music. Allevi is also on the 50,000 copies. Once upon a time classical music, when it was good, could make ten thousand copies, apart from exceptional cases like Herbert Von Karajan, which involved the whole world.
GS Do you think that music criticism has some task that it doesn't perform?
FB The question would require a long and serious analysis, and this is not the right site ... I can say, however, that music criticism, such as film, or literature, when it is dogmatic, in my opinion, is ridiculous ... and when it enhances commercial success also.
GS I don't like the continuous labeling, especially in electronic music that, by its nature, lends itself... The labeling serves to allow producers to make continuous "clones". They clone following a trend: there is the original record, particular, creative, but then a musical genre name is invented, which serves precisely to propose the same thing in perpetuity.
FB Actually, here the critics in themselves count for little, it's the whole system that wants the boxes. Pop - jazz, pop - funky, that's not the problem, you have to see if you are interested or not in the music that the guy does, whether it's "electro-rock" or "classical".
GS Da Fetus and on the strings of Aries has resumed "aria di rivoluzione", "sequenze e frequenze", "no u turn"... and has proposed them again with some changes. Also timbres, for example when he replaced the string mandola...
FB The mandola was very important for that piece, but then everything can be changed. I haven't done many remakes of songs, but it happens that you realize that that particular song could be "not bad" in some other way, and you try.
GS In Giubbe Rosse, and live in general (I heard them in Mantua, at Palazzo Te) "Aria di rivoluzione" and "Sequenze e frequenze" were amazing! But have you ever thought about doing it again From East to West?
FB Actually not
GS I'll suggest it then!
FB (laughs) Ah I'll think about it.
GS Do you think the popular and intellectual world musically speaking what they can share?
FB I've heard intellectuals with really chip music tastes and the opposite, so you have to see what it means to be intellectuals. For me it's not strange that someone who has spent a lifetime on books, and has done it seriously, can appreciate a certain kind of frivolous or sentimental music, so for nostalgia, or for fun, and then tastes can't be discussed.
GS Some people think today in 2007 that the computer with a MIDI system marks the death of the performer. I wrote that I am against it. What do you think about it?
FB I am also against it. I love isochrony and the correction of "human" errors is a duty for me.
GS As I asked you on Friday about your first intentions in front of the VCS3 synthesizer, what was the first thing you thought about in front of the MIDI system?
FB Mirabilie. Actually it was all natural. When you enter in a certain order of ideas, already as an individual you expect something that then comes along. Except for a new program in circulation that through sampled choirs (phonemes) gives you the opportunity to have a lyrical choir sing the text you want... something absolutely surprising.
GS What is its name?
FB I don't remember, but I'm going to buy it.


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Why design an app? Abdullah Sattar shares, "Our cell phone app is focused on disaster relief situations where training manuals for CGR volunteers are needed in and outside of Canada. Our app will help recall information from disaster relief training on the field when they're volunteering." Abdullah is a third-year in the Bachelor of Engineering program, with a focus on software engineering. It's his vision with the programming team to not only put out a basic and free version of the app, but added functionalities of a newsfeed, GPS location tracker, login system for volunteers, and more! Abdullah is a third-year in the Bachelor of Engineering program, with a focus on software engineering.
Project90 is a, "Students Union Sanctioned Club at the University of Calgary, looking to makes changes in the world through applying our engineering skills. Project90 partners with existing Non-Governmental Organizations and undertakes student-capable design projects through these NGOs." The group explains that their name came out of the idea that 90% of today's engineering benefits only 10% of the world's population, whereas their engineering initiatives focuses on the 90%. Canadian Global Response has partnered with the student group to produce the app, and is hopeful other NGOs and disaster relief agencies will be able to use this tool on the field.
The team would like to thank Appery.io, a cloud-based, rapid development environment for building mobile and responsive apps. The platform has generously offered a free, standard plan for CGR and Project90 to use—the partnership has enabled the app to move from an idea to reality, and also offers room for a second app to be created in the future.

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The women's basketball team came home for a two-game home stretch against Texas State and Texas-Arlington this past week. ULM lost to Texas State, 62-51, on Thursday and lost to Texas-Arlington, 60-56, on Saturday. ULM now has three consecutive losses.
The Warhawks have to work together if they want any more success on the season. ULM has a 5:30 p.m. showdown on Thursday against Appalachian State in Boone, North Carolina.
ULM is now 8-17 on the season and 2-12 in the Sun Belt Conference.
"Today I feel like we fell down in defense," said junior Lauren Fitch. "For offense, we did try to break down the zone more and I feel like I got in the zone more and made them work hard to stop me. If we would have made more shots from the 3-point line, we would have had better scoring and won the game."
On Thursday's game, the Warhawks kept up with Texas State and took a lead before halftime. Fitch was the highest scoring player for the Warhawks and scored in the double digits with 14 points.
Freshman Jamie Means was also another player for the Warhawks scoring in the double with 11 points.
The Warhawks had a field goal average of 32 percent against Texas State. ULM only made 15 percent of their shots on 3-pointers and went 0-for-10 in the second half.
Unfortunately, ULM fell short in defense on Thursday, which cost them the game.
Going head-to-head throughout the entirety of the game on Saturday against Texas-Arlington, the game was tied at 51 at the end of regulation and forced overtime.
Sophomore Arsula Clark took the lead for the Warhawks and scored in the double digits with 16 points. Sophomore Whitney Goins and Fitch trailed right behind, each scoring 14 points. Though the Warhawks fought hard, they also lost hard and gave the game away in overtime.
Head coach Jeff Dow blames the losses on lack of team support and not taking charge.
"A lot of turnovers that didn't need to happen, some great looks at three that didn't drop, some 50-50 balls that we needed to come up with that we didn't come up with them, opportunities to take charges that we didn't. That's two games in a row we haven't taken a charge," Dow said.
ULM will go on the road for two games against Appalachian State and Coastal Carolina before coming home to finish the season against Arkansas State and Little Rock on March 9. The Little Rock game will serve as Senior Day.


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Byron Speaks Up for the Luddites
by Lord Byron
Introduction by Ralph Lloyd-Jones
Format: Paperback, 24 pages,
Available (Published: December 2018)
Book details
This pamphlet includes the full text of Lord Byron's maiden speech in the House of Lords, alongside his Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill and Song for the Luddites.
Lord Byron gave his maiden speech in the House of Lords in 1812 during a debate on the Frame Work Bill. His impassioned defence of the working class labourers who had been protesting against their employers' work practices helped result in the Bill being watered down so that those who damaged machinery could not be hanged for their crime.
In the Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill, published anonymously in 1812, we have a foretaste of the biting satire that would reach perfection in Don Juan.
Song for the Luddites was written in 1816, and suggests that Byron was never averse to the idea of direct political action, overthrowing corrupt regimes by any means necessary.
About the Author
Lord Byron (1788–1822) was one of the foremost English Romantic poets. A close friend of Shelley, he was radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views. Ralph Lloyd-Jones is the editor of the Journal of the International Byron Society and works in Nottinghamshire as a local history librarian. He is the author of many articles and reviews on Byron.
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The US gained control over Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Since that time, the island has been an American territory–an ambiguous relationship. It was not a colony and the people of Puerto Rico have since gained American citizenship. But is was not a state in the United States and the people do not have the right to vote in a national election, nor do they have a vote in Congress. For the fifth time since 1898, the people will have a chance to vote on their preferences. There will be a referendum tomorrow that offers three choices: the status quo, independence, or statehood. The last vote in 2012 favored statehood, but because of a poorly worded referendum, the US Congress ignored the vote. The odds are that the Puerto Ricans will favor statehood because the island is facing a crippling budget crisis that it cannot address on its own. It is, however, unlikely that the Republican Congress will honor the vote since the island leans Democratic.
In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008-09 the US Congress passed what came to be known as the "Volcker Rule". Named after a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the rule did two things: "The first limits banks' ability to buy and sell exotic financial instruments, and the second limits the ability of banks to operate and invest in hedge funds and private-equity funds." The risky investments of the banks leading up to the crisis led to a widespread financial collapse, one that, according to the Globe and Mail cost the US trillions of dollars:
"In a paper for the Dallas Federal Reserve, economists David Luttrell, Tyler Atkinson and Harvey Rosenblum calculate that the total cost to the U.S. of the financial crisis was something in the order of $6-trillion (U.S.) to $14-trillion. The top end of this range represents one full year of U.S. economic output. If they were to add in what they call "broader" measures that reflect the lingering trauma of the recession, they figure that the actual cost could be twice as high."
The US House of Representatives has just passed legislation that repeals the Volcker Rule. It appears as if we never learn.
The US is sending troops to help the Philippines fight an armed insurgency in the southern island of Mindanao. The Philippines has a law preventing foreign forces from fighting within its territory, so the US troops are there just as advisors. Under President Duterte, the Philippine had adopted a rather hostile attitude toward the US, but that stance appears to have changed since the election of President Trump. The Philippines is mostly Christian, but the southern islands have primarily Muslim populations and the US regards the insurgency as part of the campaign against Daesh (the Islamic State). The US is no stranger to armed conflict on Mindanao. In the second part of the Spanish-American War, the US fought against Filipino insurgents led by the leader, Aguinaldo. It was a brutal war: "An estimated 20,000 Filipino troops were killed, and more than 200,000 civilians perished as a result of combat, hunger, or disease. Of the 4,300 Americans lost, some 1,500 were killed in action, while nearly twice that number succumbed to disease." US General Smedley Butler fought in the war, and at the end of his military career, he wrote:
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."
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As an industry, we are working hard to ensure all the measures we need to put in place so you can be confident businesses are secure. Keep you eyes open for the new industry standard mark 'Good to Go'. Take a look at our tips on planning ahead and supporting local businesses whereever possible. If you are looking for that little extra reassurance this interactive map showcases all of the businesses within the UK that have been awarded the charter mark.
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Majestic horses running freely through shallow water, elegant acrobats dancing on a magical carousel and graceful riders standing and riding on top of horses—all witnessed by you in less than 2 hours! What else could this be? Cavalia's Odysseo show is a prodigious experience that is sure to stupefy you. The show had great reviews running in Toronto two years ago. It's back to Mississauga this year and it's originally scheduled to run from June 21st to July 16th. They have just extended two weeks of performance due to the show's popularity! You can catch the show before July 30th!
On June 24, 2017, we were able to attend the Odyssey show with the Rendez-Vous VIP tickets, representing Voice K. We were dropped off at the majestic and tall white tent. We arrived about an hour early to have a special VIP lunch. We had a large variety of dishes to choose from such as couscous and steak. We were also provided with unlimited drinks. The lunch was very good and we were ready to watch the show with a satisfied stomach and a bag of buttery popcorn.
We had front row seats that gave us a stunning view of the show on the massive stage. The show started off with some trivia about the show. For example, some of the questions included "How many seats are there in Cavalia's White Top?" and "How many mares do Cavalia own?" The questions got everyone really excited and ready for the show. As soon as the show started, everyone went silent. The translucent curtains showed us a dim image of gorgeous horses waiting for their owners. In the first scene, the riders played with and walked beside their horses. It created a playful environment. Live music was provided by very talented musicians. A singer with a beautiful voice came onto the stage and started singing an energetic song to create a welcoming atmosphere.
There were several different scenes in the show such as Fête du Village, Les Voyageurs, and Carosello. My favorite scene was the one called "Les Anges" which featured four acrobats with silky dresses hanging down from the top. The pulchritudinous acrobats performed beautiful moves while white horses trotted in a circle underneath them. The strikes of soft white and blue lights made the acrobats look even more beautiful. The lighting of the scene created a sense of winter. There were pictures of icicles in the background and all the outfits and horses were a sparkling white. The whole scene was very angelic and splendid.
How should I describe the whole performance? Sumptuous and gorgeous!. Everything in this show blends in really well with one another. The scenes transitioned smoothly from one to the next. Make sure to book your tickets while Cavalia Is still in Mississauga! It's a decision you won't regret!
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Supported transport
Information about subsidised buses
Subsidised buses
In November 2015, we made the decision to withdraw bus subsidies to 118 bus routes in Oxfordshire. Subsidies ended on 20 July 2016.
Any discontinuation of services or amendments made to timetables of previously subsidised bus services have now been made by their operators. You can find updated timetables for these services, together with contact details, on the bus operators' websites as listed below.
External links to bus operators
The following operators have more information about service changes on their websites:
- Stagecoach Oxfordshire
- Thames Travel
- Pulhams Coaches
- Whites Coaches
- Johnsons Excelbus
- Heyfordian
- Faringdon Community Bus
- Vale Travel
- Red Rose Travel
- Arriva the Shires
Community transport
There are more than 60 local schemes in Oxfordshire with 1,300 volunteers providing 25,000 journeys each year. They provide safe, accessible, cost-effective, flexible transport for people who need support
There is more information about community transport schemes in your area.
Pilot scheme to support residents without suitable access to transport
The Oxfordshire Comet uses our 16-seater minibus fleet during off-peak times to offer journeys to any Oxfordshire resident without suitable access to transport.
The pilot provides a flexible and affordable service for Oxfordshire residents to use (individuals of all ages, groups, schools, parish councils, etc.) and we are able to run both one-off journeys and regular, scheduled routes.
Read more information on this service on our bookable transport page.
Lift sharing
There is a county-wide lift share scheme which offers a matching service for people who live, work and travel in and around Oxfordshire. The site matches people up with potential partners as either a driver or a passenger. Once matched, people can choose to lift share as little or as often as they like.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Detectives with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department seized fentanyl, heroin, and thousands of dollars in cash after serving a warrant on the city's south side Wednesday night.
Police say they were conducting surveillance on a home where narcotics activity was observed in the 2100 block of Redfern Drive.
IMPD said Marlon Baker, 44, was dealing narcotics from that residence. They obtained a warrant for the residence, and officers conducted a traffic stop when Baker returned home. Carley Woodward, 35, was also in the vehicle with Baker.
During a search of the residence, detectives seized the following:
- Approximately 4 ounces of fentanyl
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- Over $5,000 in cash
- Narcotic paraphernalia
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DART's new three-year contract with Dallas County Community College District means students in your community can continue to make their higher education dreams a reality.
The DART board approved to continue offering transportation to more than 100,000 students for $2.7 million in annual revenue.
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Usain Bolt nutmegs Borussia Dortmund player during intense training session
USAIN BOLT has made a big impression during a training session with Dortmund.
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Dortmund players had to raise their game as Usain Bolt starred in a training session at the club's facilities today.
The 31-year-old sprinter showed no mercy as he nutmegged one of the Dortmund players during a training drill.
He appeared to be losing control of the ball, but Bolt quickly regained his composure to knock the ball through his opponents legs.
Bolt delighted fans who attended the session and was centre of attention after the session – with each of the players asking for a photograph with the sporting icon.
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Cell C deal is off the table, Telkom gains
JOHANNESBURG – Telkom shares jumped almost 4 percent in the course of Friday after the company informed the market that its proposed takeover of debt-laden Cell C was off the table.
Telkom, the partially state-owned telecom firm, closed at R46.89 a share on Friday, after it said that it had received written notice from the Cell C board of directors rejecting its non-binding proposal.
"The Telkom board continues to believe the offer is a compelling proposition that would have created significant value for all stakeholders including Telkom's shareholders," the company said.
Ofentse Dazela, a director of pricing research at Johannesburg-based Africa Analysis, said the biggest issue was that Telkom approached Cell C with an onerous condition that it needed to reduce its R9 billion debt to acceptable levels.
"This is rather peculiar, given that Cell C's financial challenges have been well documented in recent months.
"Telkom most probably sought to take over Cell C for a pittance if it failed to meet this condition, something that Cell C's board, and in particular BLT (Blue Label Telecoms) likely vehemently opposed," Dazela said.
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JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms and is South Africa's third-biggest mobile operator.
Last month, Telkom confirmed that it was in talks to take over Cell C subject to conditions, including that it finalised its restructuring plan that addressed its debt burden.
Dazela said the rejection had been expected given that Telkom made its bid at the time Cell C had already announced and made significant changes to its operations to steady the ship somewhat.
"Notably, Cell C has already concluded a new cost-saving roaming agreement with MTN that will lessen capex burden on the company, while also extending its 4G population coverage to an impressive 95 percent," Dazela said.
Dazela believed if Cell C still had an appetite to continue with its plan to run the country's biggest mobile virtual network operator, there was a pretty good chance that they opted to partner with MTN.
"This roaming deal likely came with favourable terms for Cell C, which is also planning to discontinue the cash-burning content service Black by the end of this year as part of its broader turnaround strategy," said Dazela.
Peter Takaendesa, a portfolio manager at Cape Town-based Mergence Investment Managers, said the positive share price reaction on Friday probably signalled that Telkom investors were concerned about the company potentially raising balance sheet risk or diluting existing investors by issuing equity-linked instruments to fund the Cell C acquisition.
Takaendesa agreed with Dazela, saying that it was very likely that both parties had failed to agree on the pricing of the proposed deal and some of the restructuring conditions that Telkom had put on the table.
"Telkom is also not in a position to pay up more for Cell C, as that would increase risk on their balance sheet and they have another option to apply for new low-band spectrum to keep growing their mobile business organically."


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It was at Preity Zinta's reception Salman Khan chose to make his relationship with Iulia Vantur unofficially official. Almost close to midnight, Salman arrived in his white Mercedes that was tailed by another white Audi carrying his rumoured girlfriend Iulia. The superstar was the first one to step out of his car and bumped into Yuvraj Singh who was on his way out after attending the reception.
While Salman was exchanging quick pleasantries with Yuvraj, Iulia emerged out of her car with Alvira and Atul Agnihotri in tow sending all those present into a tizzy. The Romanian beauty was quickly introduced to the cricketer by Salman before entering the venue.


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Blog Audit Challenge 2020
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The January challenges will be posted this Friday!
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We'll be working on a variety of other stuff during the challenge too, not just updating older posts. I've put in a bit of everything from media kits and collaborations to keywords and SEO. Even if you don't have much content yet you can still use some of the tactics and tips to improve your blog. I hope you'll join us.Delete
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This challenge is perfect for you then Yari. Guidance, some tips, and plenty of inspiration. Plus we'll all be cheering each other along as we go 😉Delete
I started auditing my blog last year, starting with reviews working backwards from Feb 2015, my god there are a lot of books, I managed to get to mid 2017 by the end of the year. Hoping to get at least another years worth of posts done this year.ReplyDelete
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Folks, for long years, we've been hearing about Monsanto's criminal actions against farmers.
We've heard of Monsanto shutting down farmers by throwing patented GMO seeds into their fields and then suing them for patent infringement.
In the attached video, one farmer tells how his father was sued around the re-use of soybeans when he wasn't even sowing soy beans.
A seed cleaner, he feared Monsanto throwing some seed into his grain stock and then closing him down by "proving" patent infringement.
This farmer was threatened with death. When he reported the death threat to court officials, Monsanto offered to drop litigation and go to mediation.
Farmers in the Far East (many in India) have committed suicide in large numbers because they cannot afford to buy seed every year.
Mata Amritanandamayi pays pensions to widows of farmers who suicided because they could not afford the annual cost of GMO seed grain.
Now Monsanto is suing Avaaz to try to shut them down.
Avaaz recently received a 168-page court subpoena. Their email is reproduced below. (1)
Avaaz does good work. They're at the forefront of lightworker/activist efforts. In my view, we lightworkers need to assist Avaaz.
It's time for us either to shut Monsanto down or to oblige it to act as a decent corporate citizen.
Where all corporations hurt is in their pocketbooks. They need to sell their goods and services. We need to buy them for all to work out.
We need to stop buying Monsanto products.
This is a primary boycott, not a secondary boycott (yet). That means boycotting only Monsanto products and those of its subsidiaries.
It does not mean boycotting products that simply have Monsanto inputs (secondary boycott). That could prove injurious to small businesses, etc., and it isn't our desire to do so.
In 2013, I asked the Divine Mother on An Hour with an Angel how we were to stop gender persecution, such as a local tribal council ordering the "judicial" rape of a woman, and she recommended targeted boycotts. See below the video for that conversation.
I now invoke the authority of the Divine Mother in calling for a total boycott of all Monsanto products.
If video does not show, here is a link:
Here's my conversation with the Divine Mother:
Divine Mother: You have need to shift attention from the glory of war to the glory of peace. And that is by having people who will speak up and take appropriate action where such persecution [of women] is present. …
It is very practical, but it begins spiritually, with the clarion call of "no."
Steve Beckow: Are you suggesting an economic or financial boycott in certain areas of the world in which evidence of persecution is there?
DM: That is exactly what I am saying.
SB: Now, would that be a very specific boycott? For instance, I'll give you an example. A jirga [local council] in Afghanistan or Pakistan sentences a woman to judicial rape or condones an honor killing. Are you suggesting a financial boycott of that region of the country?
DM: It has to also be clearly expressed that that is the reason you choose not to support that economy.
SB: Okay. I think I get where you're going. (2)
Monsanto has proven itself to be a rapacious global citizen. Nothing short of our rejection of their products and services – until they forsake their predatory practices – will stop them from their apparent mission to control agriculture globally.
I ask everyone to stop buying any of Monsanto's products or services and those of its subsidiaries.
Sign our petition: Consumers of Monsanto products: Boycott Monsanto at httpss://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Consumers_of_Monsanto_products_Boycott_Monsanto/?cvLEPmb
(2) "The Divine Mother: Your Lifotff to Creation is Underway – Part 2/2," February 5, 2013, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/02/05/the-divine-mother-your-litfoff-to-creation-is-underway-part-22/.
(1) Avaaz's letter follows:
From: "Ricken Patel – Avaaz" <[email protected]>
Date: February 16, 2018 at 9:25:20 AM PST
Subject: Red alert: Court Subpoena from Monsanto!
We just told Monsanto's lawyers we're going to fight this — let's show them how hard we're going to do it! Here's the email —
Dear Avaazers,
We've just been hit with a 168-page court subpoena from Monsanto.
We have only days to respond, and it "commands" us to hand over every private email, note, or record we have regarding Monsanto, including the names and email addresses of Avaazers who have signed Monsanto campaigns!!
This is big. They're a $50 billion mega-corporation, infamous for legal strong-arm tactics like this. They have unlimited resources. If they get their hands on all our private information, there's no telling what they'll use it for.
So we're going to fight this. Because Monsanto may have unlimited resources to intimidate, but Avaaz has unlimited people power, and our members just aren't afraid.
Our deadline to respond to the subpoena is just days away — donate with one click to help defend our movement, and let's send Monsanto a message: every time they come at us, they'll only make us stronger —
We urgently need to hire outstanding lawyers to go up against Monsanto's best. Just fighting this subpoena (read it here) will be costly, and it could be just the beginning.
We don't know Monsanto's plan, but we know one reason why this is coming — Avaaz has repeatedly beaten Monsanto in huge regulatory battles, including blocking the long-term relicensing of glyphosate, the herbicide that is the cornerstone of their chemical empire. We're winning. So they're changing the game.
The subpoena indicates that Monsanto needs all our private information to fight class-action lawsuits against them claiming that their glyphosate caused people's cancer. If that seems absurd to you, you're not alone. But they've gotten the authority of a US court behind them, and we urgently need the best lawyers behind us. Donate to help defend Avaaz, and let's send a message of defiance to Monsanto:
There aren't many corporations in the world that are more powerful than Monsanto. The fact that we really can defeat them, shows just how real our movement's people power has become. If we stick together, with hope and determination, we really CAN change the world!
With hope and determination,
Ricken, Emma, Fatima, Danny, Hui-Ting, Spyro, Marigona and the entire Avaaz team
More information:
Glyphosate — Crushed it!! (Avaaz)
Campaign group Avaaz calls on EU to block Bayer's Monsanto deal (Reuters)
article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer- eu/campaign-group-avaaz-calls- on-eu-to-block-bayers- monsanto-deal-idUSKBN1A922S
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear (Vanity Fair)
Patients: Roundup gave us cancer as EPA official helped the company (CNN)
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Protecting Your Doors from Winter Weather
Whether it be rain, snow, wind or just brisk days, winter months come with weather changes that play a role in every part of daily life in Jackson. And while we might be quick to make adjustments to our wardrobe or home comfort setting to deal with the challenges brought by Mother Nature, one of the sturdiest defenses against the elements often goes ignored: our doors.
Your front door is more than just a appealing entrance to your home or reflection of style for your visitors. It's also a significant barrier protecting you from blustery weather that awaits outside. Just like any other aspect of our homes, it's important to make sure your door is not only operating properly, but also keeping your home protected from the cold during the winter months.
A door that doesn't keep out the cold can mean more expensive energy bills and a generally chilly home. Left forgotten, some problems might lead to the need for a new replacement door. Don't let things go that far! Winter is a great time to review the signs of a door that might be failing, as well as the steps you can take to make sure your door is in top working condition.
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When the air gets chillier, wooden doors, or those created with wood fibers, begin to contract. When temps get warmer, they expand.
Over a number of seasons, this expansion and contraction can start to show, causing doors to change their size and shape. Since the majority of doors are crafted to measured door frame sizes, any amount of warping can lead to a door catching on the frame. This can be observed in a door that seems more difficult to open and close. Usually this can first be seen at the bottom of the door—thanks to gravity.
Left unrepaired, this warping can cause gaps between the door and the frame that allow in outside air. While these gaps often go unseen, the effect on your home temperature can be significant, even with a small gap. Without repair, warping can result in larger gaps, increased sticking and eventual problems with loosened hinges that could create severe door damage.
CrackingJust as the cycle of changing temperatures can damage doors, changes in humidity can also have an impact on doors over the years. These humidity changes frequently come from indoors. Colder weather presents a seasonal challenge as home heating systems can cause a drop in indoor air humidity.
Over the seasons, this humidity drop can result in cracking in doors. Dry air will take in moisture from any nearby source – including the moisture stored within your wood door – and this can create undesirable warping and cracking.
Cracking won't have the long-term structural effects that can come with warping, but it can play a serious role in your door's look. It will be especially obvious in the inner paneling and door frame. As paint drains moisture due to decreased humidity, it also loses its flexibility. If the wood below the surface also begins to expand and contract, the paint will move as well. Notably at joining sections of the door panel and frame, this could result in not only paint cracking but, if left alone, paint chipping from the door.
Keeping doors healthy in winter
Colder weather can have a significant impact on your entry doors. But knowing what causes the damage makes it easy to find ways to make sure your doors don't suffer the full force of the elements.
Just like a person might take vitamin C to battle against a winter illness, an dose of prevention can go a long way toward keeping your doors healthy during the most intense winter weather. Here are some common, and easy, ways to brace your doors for colder temperatures.
SealingDoors start to settle into a house as soon as they're installed, and weather takes its toll just as quickly. So even if your door was added in the prior year, it's a good time to be on the lookout for gaps around the sides of your doors.
Keeping gaps properly sealed is an important key to protecting your doors. Sealing strips can sit around the edges of the door. They are a good way to protect against gaps between your door and frame—helping stop cold air from leaking. These soft adhesive strips collapse slightly whenever the door is closed, squeezing to fill any gaps. Strips provide support while also protecting the look of the door. As a bonus, they also help to boost soundproofing.
InsulatingSealing helps prevent cold air from seeping through gaps in the doorway, but it's also important to make sure warm air isn't escaping. Particularly with sliding doors that take up more wall space than other doors, it's important to make sure that warmth isn't being lost through convection.
Placing a draft-excluding strip along the bottom of sliding doors or at the base of entryway doors provides a barrier against warm air escaping through the lower track or bottom of the door.
TighteningLoose hinges may seem like a problem only for homes with older doors. But if you feel cold air is getting into your room, it's worth investigating the connections of doors of any age to make sure they're as firmly attached to the frame as they're able to be. Over time, hinges can loosen from the frame due to warping. Taking a moment to fix the hinges is a great preventative measure to take before the temperatures change with each season.
To ensure damage isn't created by overdoing it, it's important to tighten hinges slowly and manually. Use a screwdriver rather than a drill to protect your door. Twisting the screw further than necessary can strip the socket, damage the screw and lead to worse problems with hinges in the future.
Increasing humidityYou may not be disturbed by the dehydrated indoor air that comes with the cold season, but your doors certainly can be impacted by it. Using a humidifier is a good way to keep an ideal moisture level in your space's air. Choose a humidifier that allows you to adjust and maintain a preferred humidity level for best results. This will defend against creating too much moisture in the air, which can cause a different set of problems.
A constant humidity level in your home isn't just helpful for your doors, but any other wooden furnishings you may have. And maintaining indoor humidity can also add to the overall quality of your indoor air—which means less possibility of health problems, like coming down with that dreaded winter cold.
While isn't a vitamin C supplement to maintain your door's health, these simple steps are nearly as good when it comes to making sure your home's doors stay in peak condition for the forseeable future. Is it time to give your home an updated look in your doorway? Are you planning for a door that can better stand up to years of elements? Contact the professionals at Pella of Jackson to find the perfect fit for your home.


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The overall objective of this study is to analyse the use of CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics) over the next years (more precisely over the next 5 years and a view fir following years) by
5 German carmakers: AUDI, BMW, MERCEDES, PORSCHE, VOLKSWAGEN.
To reduce CO2 emissions in the road transport sector, European bodies have set targets of CO2/km to apply to the entire fleet of vehicles: 95g from 2021 for passenger cars and of 147 g from 2020 for light commercial vehicles.
The modalities for compliance with these targets were agreed by the European Parliament and the Council in 2014 with Regulation (EU) No 333/2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 443/2009 and Regulation (EU)253/2014 amending Regulation (EU) No 510/2011.
Each carmaker has its individual annual target calculated on the "mass in running order" of the registered passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
Not all the carmakers have the same positioning versus these targets.
While generalists tend to get easily close to the targets, premium cars will have to deploy more efforts.
One of the ways enabling CO2 decrease is the decrease of weight.
However the weight of vehicles has continuously increased (at the exception of the 2009 crisis) from 1990 to 2012.
The automotive industry has deployed many efforts during the same period to decrease the weight of cars.
These efforts have been successful as lighter and lighter systems have been developed and mounted on cars.
But they could not offset increase of weight driven by the needs of new functionalities: increase of safety, better protection of the environment, improvement of comfort, more convenience for the driver and the passengers.
Consequently all carmakers have increased their efforts to decrease the weight of the cars.
The use of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics is a very efficient but expensive way to reduce the weight of the cars.
Two different approaches can be observed:
- Start as soon as possible in production and, at the same time, decrease the cost of the manufacturing process.
This is the path followed by the German Premium carmakers.
- Develop R&D cooperative programs to develop much less expensive carbon fibers.
This is the path followed by the French industry.
The objective of this study is to analyse the ways followed by 5 German carmakers:
Brief presentation
Objectives of the study:
Support automotive industry in the HP-GFRP - identifications of the bbest parts and technologies to target.
Schedule: start: 1st December 2017 - End: 30th April 2018
a) a database relating to existing applications and development projects (R&D, industrial development).
b) a comprehensive report analysing the present and future of GFRP
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Access: upon order
Pricing: according to the subscription date: the sooner the less expensive
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– Study organised into 8 topics:
1. Executive Summary (5 pages)
2. Potential Future Systems and Parts (20 pages)
3. Market size of Carbon Fibres: Current and Future (22 pages)
4. Key Supplier and Supply Chain (10 pages)
5. Light Weight and Carbon Fibre Strategy (26 pages)
6. CFRP R&D Partners (16 pages)
7. Pilot projects and Concept cars (66 pages)
8. CFRP Processes (15 pages)
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Vigilance has been urged after confirmation of the first case of Avian flu in Northern Ireland.
A wild swan, found in County Londonderry, near Lough Beg, has tested positive for H5N8 avian influenza.
The swan was reported to the Department of Agriculture by a member of the public as part of the department's Avian dead wild bird surveillance programme, and was submitted for testing at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, where initial testing has indicated the prescence of Avian influenza, sub-type H5N8.
This finding follows the extension of a Prevention Zone in Northern Ireland until March, 16 2017, which requires all keepers of poultry and other captive birds to keep their birds indoors, or take appropriate steps to keep them separate and protect them from wild birds
Chief Veterinary Officer, Robert Huey, said it is possible that more cases will be confirmed and urged vigilance.
Members of the public are encouraged to report dead waterfowl (swans, geese or ducks) or gulls, or five or more dead wild birds of other species in the same location, to the DAERA helpline on 0300 200 7840, Mon-Fri 9am to 5pm).
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Imgur's Native Ads Get Between 1% and 4% Engagment Rate
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Native content doesn't just have to come in the form of written stories: Digital image platform Imgur says it knows how to get audiences to pay attention with pictures and GIFs. It believes if it can get people excited about a branded image, that will make users think highly of a marketer—and the more time people spend clicking through those sponsored images, the more positive association will build.
Imgur has been quietly doing branded campaigns over the last few years, but didn't have a direct sales staff until Imgur's head of special initiatives Tim Hwang joined in March 2014. Even with its limited launch into native ad territory, it claims to achieve average engagement rates between 1 percent and 4 percent, with content occasionally getting up to 12 percent. ("Engagement" refers to the sum of likes, comments and shares, similar to Facebook.) For comparison, Socialbakers reports Facebook pages with 1 million-plus fans get an average engagement rate of roughly 0.3 percent.
"The cultural currency of communication online is now more and more visual," Hwang explained.
For those who aren't familiar with the image repository time suck—and we mean that in the best way possible—the company claims it gets 130 million unique monthly visitors and 1 billion views per month. Each user spends almost an average of 10 minutes on its Web site, and more than 1.5 million images are uploaded daily.
"The big thing that we've been able to do is…search through all the continuous activity across the platform to design experiences and content that are a win for both sides—brands and the community," Hwang said.
Recently, Imgur ran a campaign for Fox's Let's Be Cops, in which it asked users to create an original image to illustrate what they would do if they were a member of the police force. The best submission would earn an all-expenses-paid weekend trip to Los Angeles, where the winner would enter a real training facility. While only 63 submissions qualified for the competition (mainly because the other ones weren't unique content), hundreds of people interacted with and commented on the contest page or suggested other pictorial content. The company has also run campaigns for Anchorman 2, hosted sponsored images for General Electric and worked with textbook company Text.com.
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Chikungunya fever is an overwhelming, but non-fatal viral illness that has been reported in many parts of the country. The E1 domain of Q1El92_CHIKV virus that helps in binding with the host has been determined by using comparative homology modeling program MODELLER based on crystal structure of the homotrimer of fusion glycoprotein E1 from Semliki Forest virus as a template protein and it had 63% sequence identity. The modeled structure's energy was minimized and validated using structure validation server in which 82.8% of the residues were present in the most favored regions of the Ramachandran plot. Disulphide bonds which help in protein folding of the proteins were analyzed and it was found to be conserved for both the homologous and the modeled structures. The ion pairs which contribute to fusion of viral membranes and that help in solvent protein interactions were analyzed. Docking studies was carried out with various phytochemicals and it was found that osltamivir had the most stable interaction with the E1 domain of the Q1El92_CHIKV virus. Thus from the complex scoring and binding ability it was interpreted that Osltamivir could be a promising inhibitor for E1 domain of Q1El92_CHIKV virus as the drug target yet pharmacological studies have to confirm it.
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