Saturday, 21 August 2010
Video protects girls from the negative effects of looking at ultra-thin models
'No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted' - that's the concluding catchphrase of a one-minute video called 'evolution' made by Dove a few years ago to show how cosmetics and computer trickery are used to create the unrealistic portrayals of female models on advertising billboards. Now a team of researchers at the University of the West of England, led by Emma Halliwell, have tested whether viewing this short video can buffer young girls against the negative effects of looking at images of ultra-thin female models. Past research found such a benefit when adult women viewed a similar video but this is the first time the idea has been investigated with young girls.
One hundred and twenty-seven girls, aged ten to thirteen, from two schools in the South of England, were recruited for what they thought was an evaluation of 'attitudes to health, appearance and magazines'. In keeping with the cover story, tests of body satisfaction and esteem were embedded among other questionnaires to try to conceal the true purpose of the study.
Consistent with past research, girls who looked at thin models subsequently reported lower body satisfaction and confidence compared with girls who looked at pictures of landscapes. The key finding was that this negative effect was not seen among the girls who watched the Dove video first, before looking at the ultra-thin models. The body self-esteem and confidence of these girls was just the same as among girls who watched the video and then looked at pictures of landscapes.
'Theoretically, we assume that the intervention disrupted the upward social comparisons that many young girls make when viewing idealised media images,' the researchers concluded. 'Moreover, we propose that the comparison is avoided because the media models have been construed as artificial and, therefore, an inappropriate comparison target.' Halliwell and her team added that future research will be needed to test the truth of this reasoning and also to test whether the benefits of watching the evolution video, or others like it, can be sustained over time.
One hundred and twenty-seven girls, aged ten to thirteen, from two schools in the South of England, were recruited for what they thought was an evaluation of 'attitudes to health, appearance and magazines'. In keeping with the cover story, tests of body satisfaction and esteem were embedded among other questionnaires to try to conceal the true purpose of the study.
Consistent with past research, girls who looked at thin models subsequently reported lower body satisfaction and confidence compared with girls who looked at pictures of landscapes. The key finding was that this negative effect was not seen among the girls who watched the Dove video first, before looking at the ultra-thin models. The body self-esteem and confidence of these girls was just the same as among girls who watched the video and then looked at pictures of landscapes.
'Theoretically, we assume that the intervention disrupted the upward social comparisons that many young girls make when viewing idealised media images,' the researchers concluded. 'Moreover, we propose that the comparison is avoided because the media models have been construed as artificial and, therefore, an inappropriate comparison target.' Halliwell and her team added that future research will be needed to test the truth of this reasoning and also to test whether the benefits of watching the evolution video, or others like it, can be sustained over time.
Friday, 20 August 2010
Can an 11-year-old be a sex offender?
To tell it one way, on Wednesday, a British judge let the two accused sexual assailants of an 8-year-old girl go free. Or to put it another way, a pair of little boys have been put on trial for their innocent curiosity, and now carry the stigma of being registered sex offenders. In this story, nobody wins.
Later, under intense questioning, she said she had lied about being raped, but that she had been "naughty," and that she had been afraid to tell her mother. Attorneys in the case described it as a game of "show me yours and I will show you mine." In her testimony, the girl said she had not been penetrated, and there was no forensic evidence to suggest she had been.
The boys, who now have the distinction of being Britain's youngest registered sex offenders, received three years probation. They will be supervised, and work with social workers who will "train, guide and educate" them. In handing down the sentence, the judge said, "The jury decided that you did something very wrong which if you had been older would have very serious consequences for you. But you are very young and while I do not accept what happened was a game, I do accept that you didn’t realize how serious what you were doing was."
5 Ways To Download Torrents Anonymously
With anti-piracy outfits and dubious law-firms policing BitTorrent swarms at an increasing rate, many Bittorrent users are looking for ways to hide their identities from the outside world. To accommodate this demand we’ll give an overview of 5 widely used privacy services.
With an increasing number of BitTorrent users seeking solutions to hide their identities from the outside world, privacy services have seen a spike in customers recently. Below we’ve listed some of the most-used services that allow BitTorrent users to hide their IP-addresses from the public.
The services discussed in this post range from totally free to costing several dollars a month. The general rule is that free services are generally slower or have other restrictions, while paid ones can get you the same speeds as your regular connection would.
VPN (paid / free)
Hundreds and thousands of BitTorrent users have already discovered that a VPN is a good way to ensure privacy while using BitTorrent. For a few dollars a month VPNs route all your traffic through their servers, hiding your IP address from the public. Some VPNs also offer a free plan, but these are significantly slower and not really suited for more demanding BitTorrent users.
Unlike the other services listed in this article, VPNs are not limited to just BitTorrent traffic, they will also conceal the source of all the other traffic on your connection too. Ipredator, Itshidden and StrongVPN are popular among BitTorrent users, but a Google search should find dozens more. It is recommended to ask beforehand if BitTorrent traffic is permitted on the service of your choice.
BTGuard (paid)
BTGuard is a proxy service that hides the IP-addresses of its users from the public. The service works on Windows, Mac, Linux and as the name already suggests, it is set up specifically with BitTorrent users in mind. Besides using the pre-configured client, users can also set up their own client to work with BTGuard. It works with all clients that support “Socks V5″ proxies including uTorrent and Vuze. In addition, BTGuard also includes encryption tunnel software for the real security purists.
After these words of praise we’re obligated to disclose that BTGuard is operated by friends of TorrentFreak, but we think that should be interpreted as a recommendation.
TorrentPrivacy (paid)
Torrentprivacy is another proxy service for BitTorrent users, very similar to that of BTGuard. It offers a modified uTorrent client that has all the necessary settings pre-configured. The downside to this approach is that it is limited to users on Windows platforms. TorrentPrivacy is operated by the TorrentReactor.net team and has been in business for more than two years.
Anomos (free)
“Anomos is a pseudonymous, encrypted multi-peer-to-peer file distribution protocol. It is based on the peer/tracker concept of BitTorrent in combination with an onion routing anonymization layer, with the added benefit of end-to-end encryption,” is how the Anomos team describes its project.
Anomos is one of the few free multi-platform solutions for BitTorrent users to hide their IP-addresses. The downside is that it’s not fully compatible with regular torrent files as Anomos uses its own atorrent format. Another drawback is that the download speeds are generally lower than regular BitTorrent transfers.
On the uTorrent Idea Bank, more than 1,600 people have asked for the Anomos protocol to be built in to a future uTorrent build, making it the second most-popular suggestion overall.
Seedbox (paid)
A seedbox is BitTorrent jargon for a dedicated high-speed server, used exclusively for torrent transfers. With a seedbox users generally get very high download speeds while their IP-addresses are not shared with the public. Once a download is finished users can download the files to their PC through a fast http connection. FileShareFreak periodically reviews several good seedbox providers.
Ernesto @'Torrent Freak'
Richmond Fontaine's Willy Vlautin on RN's 'The Book Show' 13-08-10
Illustration: Nate Beaty
Music has been a strong creative influence in Willy Vlautin's life. He's a singer songer-writer in the alternative-country music band Richmond Fontaine. It was music that made him start writing fiction and he's written three novels: Motel Life, Northline and Lean on Pete.
For Off the Shelf though, Willy Vlautin tells what books have shaped him:
Ironweed by William Kennedy
The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Pick-up by Charles Willeford
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Get it
exilestreet Sound advice from son#2 To all those voting Greens: I fully support them but vote ALP just so the Libs don't get in. #ausvotes
Don't Drink The Water
Illustration by Emmanuel Romeuf
Andy Roberts’s feature on LSD in the water supply (‘Reservoir Drugs’) described the CIA’s obsession with this type of threat in the 1950s and the scare stories about hippies dumping drugs in reservoirs and similar media reports. I’d like to go back a bit and fill in the gap on the CIA’s own interests. The huge quantities of LSD needed might have meant that spiking water supplies was absurdly impractical… but a little thing like that didn’t stop the world’s favourite spy agency.
In the early 1950s, the CIA approached the Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland, the company that had patented LSD, and requested 10 kilos of the stuff. They were politely informed that the total production only amounted to 10g, enough for some 40,000 doses, but far less than the Agency wanted. The CIA bought what it could from Sandoz, and used some of it in the notorious MK-ULTRA programme. Among other things, the programme explored the effect of LSD on unwitting subjects by spiking drinks at parties. But the idea of using gigantic quantities had not been abandoned.
Dr Jim Ketchum was involved in the US Army’s programme for testing the military effectiveness of a whole range of psychedelic chemicals. He entered his office as Department Chief one Monday morning in 1969 and found a black steel barrel, a bit like an oil drum, in the corner. [1] The military does not always explain everything, and Dr Ketchum assumed there was a good reason for this unusual addition to the furniture. However, after a couple of days he became curious. He waited until everyone else in the building had gone home one evening and opened the lid.
The barrel was filled with sealed glass canisters “like cookie jars”. He took one out to inspect it; the label indicated that the jar contained three pounds of pure EA 1729. This wouldn’t mean much to most people, but to anyone working in this field the code was instantly familiar. Substances were given EA designations from the Army’s Edgewood Arsenal; EA 1729 is the military designation for LSD. The other glass canisters were the same, perhaps 14 of them in all. This was enough acid for several hundred million doses with, Ketchum estimated, a street value of over a billion dollars.
Some wild ideas about what to do next flitted through his mind, but in the event he simply sealed the barrel up again. By the Friday morning it had vanished as mysteriously as it arrived...
Continue reading
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Inebriation
...about a man who specializes in "a very specific type of insobriety - unconscious insobriety."
Drug addict benefit withdrawal considered
People dependent on drugs and alcohol who refuse treatment could have their welfare benefits withdrawn under plans being considered by the Home Office.
The idea is in a consultation paper on the government's drug strategy for England, Wales and Scotland.
The proposals also suggest that addicts on benefits should not be required to seek work while receiving treatment.
Some experts have suggested that withdrawing benefits could lead addicts into crime and prostitution.
The Labour government intended to carry out pilot schemes this year to get drug users into work.
Under the plans, addicts who failed to attend a treatment awareness programme would lose welfare benefits.
However, in May the Social Security Advisory Committee - an independent statutory body - said withdrawing benefits from drug users would lead them into crime and prostitution.
The coalition government scrapped the pilot programme - but the Home Office has now revived the idea.
It asks for views on whether there should be some form of "financial benefit sanction" for claimants who do not take action to address their drug or alcohol dependency.
The Home Office has also confirmed plans to give ministers the power to ban new substance for a year until they have been properly assessed in a bid to combat so-called "legal highs".
Minister for Crime Prevention James Brokenshire said: "The drugs market is changing and we need to adapt current laws to allow us to act more quickly.
"The temporary ban allows us to act straight away to stop new substances gaining a foothold in the market and help us tackle unscrupulous drug dealers trying to get round the law by peddling dangerous chemicals to young people.
25 Tracks: A dubstep chronology By Eighteen
As part of Drowned In Sound's 'Subliminal Transmissions' week, 25 Tracks is an attempt to put together a mix that encompasses as many of dubstep’s myriad shifts as possible over the course of an hour. It’s never going to be comprehensive, and there are doubtless gaping holes where individual artists and sounds ought to be, but the aim is to provide a mostly chronological map of its development – all the way from the dark garage of El-B and Horsepower Productions to the many hybrid forms battling for attention today.
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Thursday, 19 August 2010
Wikileaks encryption use offers 'legal challenge'
wikileaks"All we have to do is release the password to that material and it is instantly available," | BBC http://bbc.in/9pJjAx
Thaileaks
For unknown reasons the Thai Government has closed access to the Wikileaks website. This means that Thai internauts and webizens are not allowed to take part in the current netbased movement of freedom. This is not acceptable. Therefore we make all Thai-related content from the Wikileaks website available for direct download.
You may access the entire Wikileaks site by browsing to wiki.thaileaks.info or use secure connection (you need to accept the certificate) on the https-enabled version.
This is sensitive material, all quoted from Wikileaks. Please note - This is not about disrespecting the Thai State or the Royal family. It is about making a statement for the freedom of information.
Magnet links to Wikileaks material
(Magnet links work with most new bittorrent clients, for example Vuze, Transmission.). Please help seeding these files with your clients, even if you are outside of Thailand. Save the links on your computer. Even if this page gets blocked, magnet links can be sent in e-mails, Instant messages, even printed on paper, in order to keep information flowing.
- Suppressed video of Thai Crown Prince and Princess at decadent dog party
- Thailand judicial order to block 408 new articles and videos including Harry Nicolaides imprisonment reportage, 14 Jan 2009
- Thailand blocklist for 408 new articles and videos including Harry Nicolaides imprisonment reportage, 14 Jan 2009
- Imprisoned Australian author Harry Nicolaides censored novel: Verismilitude, 2005
- Imprisoned Australian author Harry Nicolaides censored novel: Verismilitude, extract, 2005
- A Coup for the Rich: Thailand's Political Crisis, 2007
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Follow-up on project staff (AR2005-162-01), 6 Jun 2006
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Audit of Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific (AE2005-366-02), 29 Dec 2005
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Audit of Operations in Myanmar (AR2005-141-01), 26 Aug 2005
- European Commission: The Community interest test in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy proceedings, 13 Jan 2006
- Thailand interim constitution (2006)
- Mict-blocklist-13-10-06csv.txt
- Mict-blocklist-11-01-07csv.txt
- Mict-blocklist-28-05-07csv.txt
How to bypass the blocking filter of Thailand permanently
In order to avoid the oppressive blocking filter, there are several methods that you may use. Here are a few examples and links:
- To use ssh proxies and I2P darknet there are video instructions made by Telecomix here.
- You may use a free VPN service such as AIR VPN.
- Onion routing software such as Tor will allow you to bypass the firewall.
 | This is a service provided by the WikiCong. We do not approve of blocking the free flow of information. Join us! Join Telecomix! And Support Wikileaks! Please and set it up on several more servers as we are likely to be blocked very soon! |
Overdose Awareness Day - August 31st 2010
We are inviting you to participate in Overdose Awareness Day 2010. This year, on the 31st August 2010, we will be remembering those who have died from having suffered overdose as well as those who live with permanent injuries from overdose. The silver badge, which signifies the profound loss of someone cherished, will be available for anyone to wear, whether they wish to show their understanding or to offer condolences to those bearing the burden of grief, or, indeed, to signify their own grief. The badge is a symbol which puts different views and presumptions aside to commemorate the complexity of life and to remember the joy which was given by those who have been lost.
Overdose Awareness Day has a number of aims:
- It hopes to lay bare the stigma associated with drug use.
- To include overdoses that are heroin related, but also overdoses from alcohol, pills and other drugs. The inclusion of all drugs is important and more reflective of the reality of overdose, allowing us to speak more broadly about the issues.
- To provide an opportunity for people to publicly mourn for loved ones, some for the first time, without feeling guilt or shame.
- To include the greatest number of people in Overdose Awareness Day events, and as such, encourages non-denominational involvement.
- To give community members information about the issue of overdose.
- To send a strong message to current and former drug users that they are valued.
- To stimulate discussion about overdose prevention and drug policy.
- To provide basic information on the range of support services that exist in the local community.
- To remind the drug user to be careful.
It is envisaged that after an agency or individuals have obtained the silver badges and other information from The Salvation Army Crisis Services, they will be handed out free to people to maximise the spread of the message.
If you are interested in organising an event your local council, or municipal body, may be able to offer support or co-ordination for you.
If you are interested in organising an event your local council, or municipal body, may be able to offer support or co-ordination for you.
This year The Salvation Army would like to encourage people to post a tribute to someone lost from an overdose on our website. Tributes will be posted on the web site from the beginning of August 2010. The website will also offer space for particulars of events that are being conducted on the day. Details relating to tributes and community events can be forwarded to us via facsimile on (03) 9536 7778 or via email at access.health@aus.salvationarmy.org
Click on the following links to access the following material:
» Launch Invitation City of Port Phillip
For further information please do not hesitate to contact either myself on (+61 3) 9536 7703 or 0413 427 144 or Linda Connor on (+61 3) 9536 7792 or forward inquiries via email to access.health@aus.salvationarmy.org or facsimile (+61 3) 9536 7778
Kind regards,
Sally Finn
Founder
Overdose Awareness Day
Founder
Overdose Awareness Day
@'Salvation Army'
Albert Park Labor MP Martin Foley said in today's 'Age' newspaper that he saw "your stereotypical sex workers and homeless junkies, but also tradies, people in suits, partygoers and healthy looking sporty types" visiting the St Kilda Needle Exchange recently.
Remember -
Albert Park Labor MP Martin Foley said in today's 'Age' newspaper that he saw "your stereotypical sex workers and homeless junkies, but also tradies, people in suits, partygoers and healthy looking sporty types" visiting the St Kilda Needle Exchange recently.
Remember -
It could be your father, your daughter or your loved one...
It could be you...
or me.
or me.
DrSamuelJohnson Ground Zero Mosque (n.) disputatious Mussulman Chapel that has the Temerity to be built close to the Mid-Term HUSTINGS
Google and the Search for the Future
The Web icon's CEO on the mobile computing revolution, the future of newspapers, and privacy in the digital age.
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Wikileaks 1 VS Pentagon 0
The Pentagon is walking back initial denials that it tried to contact WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, in recent days to discuss still-unreleased secret files from the Afghanistan war. And new details divulged by defense officials suggest their middleman for contacting the website was an obscure lawyer based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Earlier today, Assange told reporters that he'd "received contact" from the military and he'd "welcome their engagement," adding: "It is always positive for parties to talk to each other." But according to Newsweek:
...spokesmen for both the US Army and the Office of the Secretary of Defense denied that any such contacts had occurred. The office of the Army's general counsel, the military service's chief lawyer, has had "no contact with Julian Assange or any representative of WikiLeaks," said Col. Thomas Collins, an Army spokeman.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman went on to say that there was no "direct contact with WikiLeaks," and the DOD's only avenue of communicating with the site was "via the media."
That now appears to be untrue. In discussions with reporters later Wednesday at the Pentagon, Whitman clarified the military's position. According to Stars & Stripes DC bureau reporter Kevin Baron: "DOD just released a letter sent on Monday to an indivudual they 'came across' who was 'purporting' to be an atty for WikiLeaks." Whitman told the assembled reporters that the DOD had scheduled a phone conversation at 10 a.m. on Sunday, "but the atty did not show."
That attorney, who was to have spoken with the Pentagon's general counsel (as Assange had claimed earlier), was Timothy J. Matusheski of Hattiesburg, whose firm owns the website MississippiWhistleblower.com. Matusheski didn't return calls from Mother Jones requesting a comment on Wednesday, but a search of public records does show that he filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the Justice Department as a representative of WikiLeaks (PDF) on March 10, 2009. The request description, which was incomplete on the public register, appears to have been for "Any comunications [sic] Ed Gillespie, White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from June 27, 2007 to Jan. 20, 2009 would have had with the Justice Department on the subject of restoring diplomatic..." The description was cut off at that point.
In further remarks, Whitman maintained that the Pentagon still had no "direct contact" with WikiLeaks, and the department "will not negotiate some 'minimized' or 'sanitized' version of a release by WikiLeaks." Still, according to Baron, the DOD refused to discuss "if investigators talked to this guy," meaning Matusheski, and "also would not explain how the Pentagon 'came across" this man."
Whether or not Matusheski or the Pentagon clarify their links to reporters, today's developments appear to vindicate Assange's most recent claims about hearing from the DOD general counsel. If the Pentagon-WikiLeaks rivalry is a battle for credibility, the upstart website appears to have won the day, at least.
Adam Weinstein @'Mother Jones'
Last Palestinian linked to 1972 Munich massacre dies
Amin al-Hindi disappeared from public life for 22 years following the Munich massacre
A funeral has been held for a Palestinian said to have been involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre in which 11 Israeli athletes died.
The ceremony for Amin al-Hindi was held in Ramallah, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and senior Palestinian leaders present. He was buried in Gaza.
Mr Hindi, who died aged 70 in Jordan on Tuesday, led the General Intelligence Service under the late Yasser Arafat.
In the 1970s, he was a security officer in the PLO's ruling Fatah movement.
He is alleged to have then also been a member of Black September, a militant offshoot of Fatah behind the Munich attacks.
Two Israelis were killed by the group at the athletes' village, and nine more died in a botched rescue attempt by the German police. A German policeman and five Palestinian gunmen were also killed.
Peace talks
The Palestinian envoy to Jordan, Ata Khairy, said Mr Hindi died of cancer of the liver and pancreas at the King Hussein Medical Centre in Amman.
Mahmoud Abbas was among the Palestinian leaders who attended the funeral
He had slipped into a coma after undergoing surgery last week, Mr Khairy added.
With the death of Mr Hindi, there are not thought to be any more Palestinians linked to the Munich massacre still alive.
He disappeared for 22 years following the attacks, before emerging as the commander of the General Intelligence. He also served as an adviser to the Palestinian delegation during peace talks with Israel in the 1990s.
Last month, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Munich massacre, Mohammed Oudeh - who led Black September under his guerrilla name, Abu Daoud - died in Damascus at the age of 73.
Following the attack, Israel assassinated a number of Palestinians whom it believed were involved. Oudeh survived one attempt to kill him.
David Toop & Max Eastley - New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments
LP released on Eno's Obscure label 1975
Max Eastley: Hydrophone, Metallophone, Centriphone, Aerophone
David Toop: voice, Prepared Electric Guitar, Bowed Chordophone, flute, water
Frank Perry: percussion
Paul Burwell: Bass Drums, Lorry Hub, String Fiddle
Brian Eno: Prepared Bass Guitar, vocals
Hugh Davies: grill harp
Chris Munro: vocals
Phil Jones: vocals
In 1974, David Toop published a book titled 'New/Rediscovered Instruments', a survey of self-build instruments in the UK, including articles on the likes of Hugh Davies, Paul Burwell, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, David Toop and Max Eastley. From 1972, he ran a BBC radio show co-hosted with Eastley, mixing ethnic music with home made field recordings, a novelty at the time (information above from Toop's book Ocean Of Sound, 1995). 'The Divination Of The Bowhead Whale' is structured by Frank Perry's sparse gong reverberations, the ensemble resuming playing only after the end of a specific gong strike. Perry played percussion on the legendary 1973 Ovary Lodge LP with Keith Tippet. The track also embarks Hugh Davies' grill harp and a bowed guitar. The music sounds like a field recording from a zen garden ceremony. Toop's opening and closing tracks explore the fragility of his hushed falsetto, be it backed by sparse instruments on 'The Chairs Story', or acappela with a few chorus interjections from Eno, Munro and Jones on the finale. Using nature and natural elements as musical source and/or instruments is one of Max Eastley's most striking skills. His self-build hydrophone, for instance, produces a striking banshee-like whining sound, complete with the river stream and wind recording. The comparison with Henry Cowell's 'The Banshee' (1925) and 'The Aeolian Harp' (1923) is interesting (listen here). Besides, there's something gothic and unsettling in the sounds here, not unlike some Walter Scott ghost story. The Elastic Aerophone is a wind-propelled instrument similar to the one featured in the gorgeous video below. The whole LP is quite unique and hard to categorize.
Max Eastley: Hydrophone, Metallophone, Centriphone, Aerophone
David Toop: voice, Prepared Electric Guitar, Bowed Chordophone, flute, water
Frank Perry: percussion
Paul Burwell: Bass Drums, Lorry Hub, String Fiddle
Brian Eno: Prepared Bass Guitar, vocals
Hugh Davies: grill harp
Chris Munro: vocals
Phil Jones: vocals
In 1974, David Toop published a book titled 'New/Rediscovered Instruments', a survey of self-build instruments in the UK, including articles on the likes of Hugh Davies, Paul Burwell, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, David Toop and Max Eastley. From 1972, he ran a BBC radio show co-hosted with Eastley, mixing ethnic music with home made field recordings, a novelty at the time (information above from Toop's book Ocean Of Sound, 1995). 'The Divination Of The Bowhead Whale' is structured by Frank Perry's sparse gong reverberations, the ensemble resuming playing only after the end of a specific gong strike. Perry played percussion on the legendary 1973 Ovary Lodge LP with Keith Tippet. The track also embarks Hugh Davies' grill harp and a bowed guitar. The music sounds like a field recording from a zen garden ceremony. Toop's opening and closing tracks explore the fragility of his hushed falsetto, be it backed by sparse instruments on 'The Chairs Story', or acappela with a few chorus interjections from Eno, Munro and Jones on the finale. Using nature and natural elements as musical source and/or instruments is one of Max Eastley's most striking skills. His self-build hydrophone, for instance, produces a striking banshee-like whining sound, complete with the river stream and wind recording. The comparison with Henry Cowell's 'The Banshee' (1925) and 'The Aeolian Harp' (1923) is interesting (listen here). Besides, there's something gothic and unsettling in the sounds here, not unlike some Walter Scott ghost story. The Elastic Aerophone is a wind-propelled instrument similar to the one featured in the gorgeous video below. The whole LP is quite unique and hard to categorize.
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exilestreet@Dirk57 The alcohol figure in this story makes NO sense http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-10997721
@Dirk57 @exilestreet @Dirk57 all the figures reflect the main drug contributing to death, most if not all are poly-drug use.
@Dirk57 @exilestreet @Dirk57 usually a mix of 2 or more of heroin, benzo, alcohol & methadone.
The fatal mix-hard to pick the culprit. RT @SHM5: @Dirk57 @exilestreet usually a mix of 2 or more of heroin, benzo, alcohol & methadone.
SHM5 @Dirk57 @exilestreet the cause of death in the Scottish DRD reports are from the coroner's toxicology etc but still hard to tell.
Jeeeesus!!
Churchgoers are outraged over a crucifix in a Catholic church they say shows Jesus with exposed genitalia.
Janet Jaime is the artist who designed the crucifix hanging in St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. She was unavailable for comment, but her husband said critics are misinterpreting a common religious icon.
“This isn't just a subjective drawing. This is a historical icon of the church,” said Reggie Jaime, husband of Janet Jaime, an Oklahoma City iconographer commissioned by the church to design the crucifix. “I can't help what you see in things, or she sees in things, or anyone.”
(tulsaworld 4/14/2010)
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
REpost: The Grateful Dead with David Murray live at Madison Square Garden 22nd September 1993
David Murray live with the Grateful Dead in 1993
HERE
HERE
Tracks are: 'Estimated Prophet - Dark Star - Drums & Space'
What can I say about this?
Well by this time Jerry Garcia was just mostly noodling (and nodding) and that had an obvious adverse effect on the rest of the band.
Murray's Ayler like sax obviously works better on these more free-form Dead workouts but I would have loved to have heard him play with them 20 years earlier.
Thailand blocking WikiLeaks
File photo shows Thais using an internet cafe in Bangkok. Thai authorities have used their emergency powers to block domestic access to the WikiLeaks whistleblower website on security grounds, a government official said Wednesday.
Thai authorities have used their emergency powers to block domestic access to the WikiLeaks whistleblower website on security grounds, a government official said Wednesday.
The order came from the government unit set up to oversee the response to political unrest that rocked the nation's capital earlier this year, a spokeswoman for the Information and Communication Technology Ministry said.
"Access to this website has been temporarily suspended under the 2005 emergency decree," she said.
Thailand has removed tens of thousands of web pages from the Internet in recent years, mainly for insulting the monarchy, a serious crime punishable by up to 15 years in jail.
A special cyber crime agency has also been set up to stamp out online criticism of the royal family.
Emergency rule, enshrined in Thai law since 2005, was imposed across many parts of Thailand during two months of anti-government protests in Bangkok from mid-March that left 91 people dead, ending with a bloody army crackdown.
Authorities have used the decree, which remains in place in seven out of Thailand's 76 provinces including Bangkok, to arrest hundreds of suspects and silence anti-government media.
Wikileaks has been the focus of international attention in recent weeks after it released thousands of military documents on the conflict in Afghanistan.
These included claims of meetings between Pakistani spies and the Taliban and that civilian deaths caused by international forces were covered up.
They also included the names of some Afghan informants -- prompting US military claims that the leaks endangered lives.
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