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The team of Patent Attorneys at Wachenhausen & Kollegen has particular expertise in patent litigation. This expertise is reflected in the firm’s patent prosecution practice since the attorneys of Wachenhausen & Kollegen will take responsibility for the whole life cycle of their processed patents. In other words, the attorneys will apply their in-depth litigation knowledge during drafting, prosecuting and maintaining of your patents with the result that your patents are ready for potential litigation.
All patent attorneys are admitted to the German patent attorneys’ bar and represent clients at the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court as well as the Federal Supreme Court in nullity appeal cases. Likewise, all attorneys of Wachenhausen & Kollegen are qualified as European Patent Attorneys and represent clients before the European Patent Office. In addition, the firm has far-reaching expertise in cooperating with attorneys at law in infringement actions as well as entitlement cases.
The firm Wachenhausen & Kollegen maintains well-established and continuous cooperations with selected top notch national and international law firms in all fields of intellectual property. If legal advice outside intellectual property law is required, the firm relies on a network of known expert colleagues.
The patent attorneys of Wachenhausen & Kollegen have been involved in national and international patent disputes including nullity actions, infringement actions and entitlement actions in Germany, USA and further European countries right upon opening their doors.
All patent attorneys and members of the firm are well experienced in handling patent portfolios for Europe and Germany as well as in coordinating international patent prosecution. The lean organization of the firm according to latest standards allows for cost-efficient prosecution of patent portfolios at highest quality.
All technical fields in the area of engineering are covered by the firm’s patent attorneys, in particular, mechanical, process and electrical engineering, telecom, medical technology, computer science, software, energy technology, turbomachinery, automotive, tooling machines, printing technology, and chemical engineering.

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Al-Bayan School was established in 1983 at Marj AL-Hamam area, being the first private school at is time.
Al-Bayan School is a co-education school from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
The school offers the national stream and the international stream adopting the IGCSE which is the British higher secondary degree.
We are proud to be a green school since 2014, and for the 4th consecutive row, this has been the effort of many people at the school mainly the students. The school was granted the green flag by the International Green Schools Program.

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text: The first display I did at my new branch was quite some time ago. After a bit of a delay, I’m finally showing off my handiwork. I was asked to make a YA mystery display.

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The Asian Healthcare Leadership Summit aims to bring together leading practitioners, professionals, entrepreneurs, academia and thought leaders in the healthcare industry to network and engage in a dialogue to discuss, deliberate, share and address key challenges and opportunities in the next era of healthcare in Asia, with a global perspective.
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It is important to be ready all the time in case of possible break in or robbery. This is why the need for optimal security is highly needed for every home, business places and cars. It is always a good thing to realize that you hire the most trusted locksmith company who offer various locksmith services for automotive, commercial or residential sectors.
Our customers are residential, commercial, and car owners. Our top quality services are sensibly priced. You can also consult your lock problems with us and we'll see what we can do about it. We know that every need is emergency, therefore, we are available 24/7 including weekends and holidays. Dial out number now and experience exceptional services and customer care. We've got complete capability to help you.

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ChemIDplus - 11054-63-0 - BYWOWQCRVFUOLF-AQZAFBPESA-N - Tsushimycin - Similar structures search, synonyms, formulas, resource links, and other chemical information.
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In December, several NIS customers received prominent listings when awards were handed out to the Danish travel insurance industry. safeAway, who has only been a player in the Danish market for five years, was give both the main award as Best Travel Insurance, plus the award for Best Price. Gouda won the title of Best Customer Reviews, with Europæiske ERV following closely in second place.
The Danish travel insurance portal RejseforsikringsGuiden.dk collected information about all Danish travel insurance companies throughout 2017. Using this information, the companies were evaluated on best price, best coverage and best customer reviews (based on Trust Pilot reviews).
NIS congratulates safeAway, Gouda and Europæiske ERV. We are proud to be affiliated with such strong brands within Danish travel insurance.

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Dermatologists at the Hospital del Mar and researchers from the IMIM have found that NCoR, a protein known to regulate gene transcription, has a key role in the development of malignant melanoma. The study, published in the journal Oncotarget shows that the distribution of the NCoR protein within tumor cells is a predictive indicator of the evolution of malignant melanoma, even when analyzed in the initial stages of the disease. This is very relevant because until now there was no prognostic molecular markers that were indicative of a better or worse performance in this type of cancer.
Malignant melanoma is the most aggressive type of skin cancer and causes more than 20,000 deaths annually in Europe and more than 50,000 worldwide. It has a high cure rate when it is localized only in the skin but no cure when it has spread to lymph nodes or distant metastasis.
“Cytoplasmic accumulation of NCoR in malignant melanoma: consequences of altered gene repression and prognostic significance” Fernando Gallardo, Andreina Padrón, Ricard Garcia-Carbonell, Cristina Rius, Abel González-Perez, Montserrat Arumí-Uria, Mar Iglesias, Lara Nonell, Beatriz Bellosillo, Sonia Segura, Ramon Maria Pujol, Nuria Lopez-Bigas, Joan Bertran, Anna Bigas, Lluís Espinosa. Oncotarget 2015.


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The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept.
Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
talk,” or a frivolously conversational form of affective prayer which is sometimes cultivated in convents, but a dialogue of love and of choice. A dialogue of deep wills.
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live.
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny….To work out our identity in God.
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead.He who loves corruption rots.He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing.


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Heat oil in 12-inch non-stick skillet over high heat. When hot, add potatoes. Sear over high heat until browned, about 3 minutes, stirring almost constantly. Add onions and mushrooms. Cook until onions are tender, about 3 minutes more.
Add 1 cup broth. Simmer, covered, until potatoes are tender, about 4 to 5 minutes more. Add pork and barbecue sauce. Heat through. Add additional chicken broth as necessary for desired consistency. Adjust seasonings to taste. Can be made day ahead and gently reheated.
To serve, evenly divide rice in center of 4 warm dinner plates. Ladle pork evenly over rice. Serve hot.
Each serving contains about: 412 calories; 784 mg sodium; 102 mg cholesterol; 20 grams fat; 24 grams carbohydrates; 35 grams protein; 1.65 grams fiber.
Presented by: Abby Mandel, L.A. Times Good Cooking column, "Waiting for Leftovers", 1/19/95, page H21.

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text: Tasting Notes: Fortified wine made from Shiraz grapes. Brick red colour, mouth feel is warm, intense and round with generous fruit flavours and a lovely lingering aftertaste. Has developed well from over 5 years in oak barrels.


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My Boyfriend Is Addicted To Heroin. Should I Tell His Parents?
Home › Addiction Campuses Blog › My Boyfriend Is Addicted To Heroin. Should I Tell His Parents?
Ashley – not her real name – met Dean – not his real name – at a local bar where he played a gig. Ashley says it was love at first sight. After Dean finished his set, the two of them went to an after-hours club. Then Dean came back to her place. Ashley says they’ve been inseparable ever since.
Ashley describes Dean as a good-looking, talented, young man who loves playing his guitar and writing music. She describes their relationship as ‘intense.’ The two moved in together after a few short months.
Dean was not a morning person. He often slept until noon. At first, Ashley put his fatigue down to the late nights he worked. She says Dean had a hard time getting out of bed and when he did, he was irritable. To make matters worse, when Ashley asked him to do chores around the house, they didn’t get done. Ashley says Dean never picked up after himself. The two began to bicker. Then things started to go wrong, fast.
Ashley’s favorite ring, the one her grandma had given her for her sixteenth birthday, went missing. Next was money from her purse. Ashley asked Dean if he knew anything about it. Dean blew up. He slammed out of their apartment and was gone for two days. When Dean returned he was subdued. He apologized to Ashley and begged her forgiveness.
Worry continued to build in Ashley. She was suspicious of Dean and his odd behavior. She wondered if he was seeing someone else. One day, Ashley returned home from work early. She expected to find Dean in bed. Instead, she found him in the bathroom with a needle in his arm.
Too stunned to speak, Ashley backed out of the bathroom and closed the door. After a few minutes, Dean sauntered out as if nothing unusual had just taken place. When she tried to talk with him about it, he was sleepy and slurring his words. When the drugs wore off, Dean came clean. He was a heroin addict and used daily. Dean said he shot up to avoid getting sick.
Ashley felt sorry for Dean. She ran him a bath and fed him dinner. Looking after him was like caring for an infant. Ashley says Dean was helpless. Dean spent long periods of time locked in the bathroom. Using heroin became a full-time job. He missed worked too many times and got fired. Dean promised he would find another job. But it didn’t happen. Ashley assumed all the financial responsibility for their relationship. She paid the utilities, rent and bought the food.
Dean still struggled to get out of bed in the morning and claimed to be depressed. Ashley feared he would overdose and began sleeping with one hand on his chest. She woke many times during the night to check his breathing. The stress of living with Dean was catching up to her. Ashley was exhausted. To complicate matters further, Dean’s parents were coming to visit.
Dean’s parents knew nothing about his addiction. They lived in another state and didn’t see Dean often, but spoke with him once a week. They gave Dean a monthly allowance to help him get on his feet. They thought Dean was spending his money on food and rent, but what Dean was really spending their money on was dope.
Ashley says Dean lied to his parents constantly. Whenever he needed money he’d phone them up and invent a new story. A few hours later, money would be transferred into his account and he’d be high again. Ashley knew if Dean was ever to have a chance at getting off heroin, his parents would need to know the truth and stop giving him money. She also knew if she told them, Dean would be furious with her and probably leave.
Ashley was in a tough spot. On the one hand, Dean’s life was at stake. On the other, if she did the right thing she might lose him. She worried Dean would use her betrayal as an excuse to go even harder into his addiction.
Torn, Ashley contacted me for advice.
Ashley is not alone. Many family members across North America are in this predicament right now.
Those who struggle with addiction also struggle with delusion, impaired thinking, dishonest thinking, impulsive behaviors and impaired judgment. But that’s not all. Addiction is a progressive illness that is terminal in nature. Meaning it gets worse, not better, over time. Waiting for someone who has lost the ability to reason, to make a rational decision can be deadly.
Unintentionally, Ashley has become part of Dean’s problem. As long as she is willing to look after Dean, keep his secrets and clean up his mess, he will continue to deteriorate. I encouraged Ashley to tell Dean’s parents. They have a right to know their son is terminally ill.
But all is not bleak. There is good news. Dean doesn’t have to succumb to addiction. He doesn’t need to recognize he has a problem to get help for it either.
All Dean needs is for someone in his family to break the silence and reach out for help. With professional direction, recovery is possible. To get started all you have to do is call the number below.


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6. The Return. — Megaphonic.
We return to Hot Docs for The Return (Malene Choi, 2018), a hybrid documentary (i.e., one that includes fictional elements). It tells the story of two adoptees from South Korea who grew up in Denmark and who return to Korea to seek their biological parents, with complicated results.
Afterwards Chris Piuma and Lochin Brouillard had some tea and discussed the film and its resonances with Lochin’s experience as an adoptee from China who grew up in Canada.
Newer Post7. The Nightingale and Other Short Fables.

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The brutally cold surf temp has climbed in the last couple of weeks but is still lingering in the mid to upper 50s. Pray for warming. Sea surface temp chart courtesy of Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab.
The short sale process appears to be devolving. For one set of very patient buyers, seven months after writing the initial contract we finally made it to the closing table last week. And, this was with an experienced and skilled negotiator on the listing side. Even paragons of patience have their limits and another buyer withdrew a short sale offer this week after almost two years into the short sale quagmire. It's an interesting story.
I presented an offer for these prospective buyers on a short sale oceanfront condo in April of 2008. The listing agent worked with the lender, Countrywide, for eight months with no success and withdrew the listing. (We continued to look for other properties during this time.) Countrywide filed foreclosure notice on the condo in October 2008. The listing reappeared with another broker in February 2009 and I presented an offer from the same buyers in March. This time a law firm was handling the negotiations with the lender, so, we were hopeful for a better result. It was not to be and the buyers withdrew their offer this week, twenty two months after the initial offer. Meanwhile the past due assessments (over $20,000) and tax bill are mounting while the Countrywide short sale negotiators are, figuratively, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Another short sale fell apart this week when the bank returned a "must-have" net higher than their year-ago number. This particular property was first listed in the MLS as a short sale in January 2009 for $119,000. After no showings for two months the price was dropped to $99,000 and an offer of $99,000 was received and submitted to the bank. Two and a half months later the bank returned with a price of $124,000. That buyer went away and the MLS price was raised to the approved price, $124,000. Five months later a bank representative called the listing office to ask what needed to be done to move the property. The listing broker suggested a price drop to put it back in line with the comps. Price was dropped to $99,000 but it received no action and, with the bank rep's blessing, the price was dropped again to $89,000. A full asking price offer was received and submitted with expectations of fast approval. Response was faster this time with the geniuses at Wachovia responding four weeks later with a must-have net of $117,000 which would mean a selling price of over $130,000 to pay off the back taxes and condo assessments.
Both of these cases will eventually be foreclosures. The accumulated past due condo fees in foreclosures will be limited to six months, hurting the associations and the neighbors and the banks will wind up accepting less than they were offered earlier for properties likely needing expensive repairs after sitting neglected for years. These three short sale experiences are not atypical and do reflect what a buyer or a seller in a short sale may encounter. All three of these sales had experienced negotiators on the sellers' side. Many short sales do close but a larger number (based on anecdotal evidence on the ground) never make it to the closing table, often for sheer incompetence on the lenders' part. I'm not encouraged that the short sale process will improve considering that the lenders have already had three years of heavy short sale volume to get their acts together and to figure out a process for mitigating their losses. Fail.
As I've encouraged in the past, if you choose to offer on a short sale, continue your search in the meantime. If the listing agent for a short sale doesn't have experience in the process, don't waste your time. Even with experienced negotiators, be prepared for a wait and frustration. Inefficiency reigns.
If there was nothing there all along.
Short sale Magnolia Bay 3/3 for $300,000. Sold new in 2007 for $589,900.
Never lived-in Garden Bay 3/3 closed for $285,000. Was offered in 2007 for $550,000.
Short Sale Beach Club condo conversion in Cape Canaveral, a tiny 1/1 that sold newly remodeled in 2005 for $94,000. Closed this time as a short sale for $22,500.
Remodeled 2nd floor SE corner 3/2 Coral Sands in south Cocoa Beach sold for $345,000.
6th floor direct ocean Waters Edge 2/2 in south Cocoa Beach closed for $270,000.
Prices notched up slightly at Portside Villas with a 2/2 short sale closing for $88,000. This unit sold new in 2006 for $234,900.
And for some unknown reason, Rock Pointe on the river in Cocoa Beach was on fire with 4 closed sales so far in February at prices from $175,000 for a lakefront 2/2 to $300,000 for a big, direct Banana River 3/2 end unit.
The MLS is showing 113 condos as under contract with contingencies this morning with 71 of those short sales. New listings have been slower than is normal for this time of year, so, our inventory is still shrinking as sales continue to exceed new listings.
The recent prolonged cold snap appears to be over with temps back into the 70s and the snowbirds here in force and exerting their influence. Tee times are mandatory if one hopes to play a round at the Cocoa Beach Country Club and getting to the free coffee at the Publix grocery store is an even more difficult task, one I would not recommend for the weak or faint-hearted. Reports of scattered cobia south of here are starting to filter in, so, if you'd like to catch one of these very tasty fish, be ready for some of the most enjoyable fishing of the year as the water temps push up towards 70 degrees. Keep your eyes peeled for right whales which were also being spotted off our beaches last week.
Feel free to email me if you have questions or comments about Cocoa Beach or real estate.
That would be 45 degrees in a 35 MPH zone which describes my drive to the office this morning. Enough with this cold weather already.
I have written dozens of posts over the years about unrealistic sellers clinging to expectations of prices completely at odds with the state of the market at the time. While there are still plenty of LaLa Land dwellers offering properties at 2007 prices, there is an equal contingent of hopeful buyers with equally unrealistic expectations. No buyer should overpay for a property in these uncertain times but fantasy-based expectations may preclude a purchase from happening. A goal of besting the deal of the year could be an open-ended quest. Shooting for the best possible unit at the best possible price with goals based on recent comps and current market direction is a formula for success.
There are multiple buyers looking to purchase a condo in Cocoa Beach at any given moment, regardless of price direction, obviously more when prices are moving up. We began the current downtrend from the peak in prices in 2006 with well over 1000 condos available on the MLS in Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral. Buyers continued to buy as prices eroded but rather than buying anything available as was the case in previous years, they became more picky, preferring the best units and at better prices. Along the way, some sellers found themselves in trouble, underwater on their mortgages or both, and either pursued a short sale or just walked away. Those distressed properties were subsequently bought at great discounts to the earlier prices. Flash forward to 2010 and our inventory has been cut in half with a large portion of the distressed properties having been sold. Buyers still looking understandably want the same deal as the last guy but for some buildings or property types there are no distressed sellers left. With the supply dwindling many of the remaining sellers have taken an educated gamble by standing firm and waiting for a buyer willing to pay the going rate of non-distressed sales. Many of the buyers have taken a similar stance and are refusing good units at good prices, gambling on another distress sale in their target unit type. We have a standoff that could go either way but, with declining inventory, is increasingly tilting away from the deal-of-the-century buyer. I suspect that the fear of paying slightly more than someone else will keep many hopeful vacation homeowners from ever purchasing.
This post was prompted by two encounters with condo shoppers last week. One who announced at an open house that he was going to be buying oceanfront units for $60,000 and flipping them next year when the market rebounded. Never mind that there have been no sales at that price nor any listings close to that number. Good luck, Sir. The other couldn't understand why sellers weren't responding to his offers far below recent comps. Meanwhile 21 other condos buyers have reached acceptance on their offers since February 1 in Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral.
The strong sales trend of the last four months is intact as we enter the busiest time of year for real estate sales in Cocoa Beach. As of this morning, Realtors have recorded 31 condos and townhouses closed in Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral in the month of January. With that number, January 2010 was the best first month for sales since 2005. Looks good for February as you can see from the chart above. Seven of the 31 were short sales and nine were bank-owned. The short sales were in all price ranges including the two highest sales. The nine foreclosures were all in the lower price ranges with only one over $200,000.
Five single family homes closed in the month. Of note were two waterfront Cocoa Beach sales. One was a small 2/2 canalfront on Cocoa Isles Blvd. in mostly original condition that sold for $220,000. The other was an open water Danube River 3/2 with some upgrades that closed for a jaw-dropping $250,000.
Don't forget the last nighttime launch of a Space Shuttle this Sunday.
"Deals are meant to be renegotiated."

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One of the digits of the foot.
The part of footwear that provides a covering for the toes.
(golf) the part of a clubhead farthest from the shaft.
walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction.
hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club.
Drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club.

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After seeing the team win the Copa del Rey for the 29th time in the club’s history, president Josep Maria Bartomeu spoke of the great work carried out by Luis Enrique in his three years in charge.
“Luis Enrique has done a very good job and we are very grateful,” said the president, adding that “the door is always open for him to return when he wants. He has been a successful manager”.
It was the ninth trophy won under the Asturian, and the Barça president said that Luis Enrique “many objectives” and said that the Copa del Rey was won “with a huge effort against a side who had a clear idea of how to play”.
On Leo Messi’s superb performance, Bartomeu said that the Argentine “stood out and once again showed us that he is the best player in the world”.
"We have to keep this good feeling and celebrate it as we have won a title against a great team and in the farewell match of this stadium,” he concluded.


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Not sure if anyone mentioned it to you, but it’s Christmas at the end of this month, and all the mobile casinos are clambering over themselves to present you with compelling reasons to spend the holiday season with them. And, in the spirit of getting involved, Kerching! casino is also pulling out all the stops to give you something to look forward to in the run up to the festivities. Running all through December, and up to Christmas day, you can take part in the Kerching! Advent Calendar promotion, and enjoy a different and unique bonus every single day you take part.
Just like any advent calendar, this promotion is all about opening the numbered doors. Each day leading up to Christmas, a new door will be available to open, and behind it will be the surprise bonus for the day, each with a fun Christmas theme. There’s no telling what’s going to be behind each door, so you need to login every day you want to claim to find out!
So far we’ve seen players cashing in on 100% deposit bonuses, 200% deposit bonuses, and huge extra spins bonuses on great games like Gonzo’s Quest and Starburst. There’s still over two weeks of bonuses up for grabs, and all you need to do to be eligible to claim them is be a depositing player at Kerching! casino. Of course, there’s no word on what kind the bonuses will be, but if the current form is anything to go on you’re not going to be disappointed.
If you haven’t yet heard of this promotion at Kerching! casino, and you’re worried that you’ve already missed a week of promotions, worry not! The generous folk over at Kerching! don’t mind that you forgot to open the first few doors on you advent calendar, and will reward you all the bonuses available over the rest of the month if you head over now and start claiming them.
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text: Gino's Pizzeria can be found at 22 W Main St . The following is offered: Pizza . In Patchogue there are 4 other Pizza. An overview can be found here.

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Severe storm and gales, several ships wrecked, flooding throughout Canterbury, Waimakariri River overflows into the Avon causing serious flooding, and water flows a metre deep in Market Square – 2016? No February 4 1868 – 150 years ago!
Originally known as Market Square or Market Place, Victoria Square was the commercial hub of early Christchurch. Just look around you and imagine a Post Office and markets as well as the Police Station, Women’s Prison, animal pound, work stores and Immigration Barracks.
Victoria Street, until 1983, cut through Victoria Square on a diagonal connecting it to Colombo Street and was an essential traffic route which provided a direct link to the Papanui Bush, essential as a timber and firewood source for the early settlers.
A traffic count in 1862 showed that in one single day 1,000 pedestrians, 58 bullocks, 316 horses and one donkey had used the old wooden bridge which was replaced in 1864. This bridge, there today, erected to cope with the traffic flow, was built in iron and stone and is one of the earliest of its kind in New Zealand. In 1989 it was renamed the Hamish Hay bridge.
In 1897 the area was cleared and developed as a park for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The name change from Market Square to Victoria Square came 115 years ago in 1903.
Radical Christchurch to the fore in 1909 when the government passed the Defence Act – this provided for compulsory military training. The Christchurch City Council systematically prosecuted people who engaged in street corner oratory against the Act, and anti-militarists staged free-speech fights. On one night in September 1912 a captured South African field gun was unbolted from its position here in Victoria Square, painted red and rolled into the river.
The Square was remodelled in 1989 and this makeover was one of the city’s most successful enhancement for the design was recognised by the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects winning its highest award. It is for this reason that public vigilance campaigners for ‘Victoria Square - No Need for Change’ launched a successful offensive to stop the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority from making radical changes to a much loved area.
However, this was not the first protest launched in living memory to protect Victoria Square.
Perhaps the most extravagant project of the 1980s was the proposal to erect a 187 metre high tower to cost $20million, at the corner of Colombo and Armagh Streets on Victoria Square land. At first the Council supported the proposal because of the potential for job opportunities and tourism. But environmental and civic groups were so outraged at the proposal their successful campaign led to the Council rescinding their decision.
There are three significant heritage items in the square as well as the six metre high Maori carving unveiled in December 1994. The carving was initiated by the Christchurch City Council in conjunction with Ngai Tahu as a 1990 project commemorating the signing of theTreaty of Waitangi. The Poupou, 6m high, was carved by master carver Riki Manuel from a totara trunk given by a West Coast farmer. The main theme of the poupou is mahinga kai or food resources and it also depicts tipuna or ancestors of the Ngai Tahu Waitaha people.
The heritage listed Queen Victoria and Captain Cook statues both have inscriptions which explain why they are there. Queen Victoria currently stands only 50 metres from its original site and was erected to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the founding of the Canterbury settlement (50 years from 1850 = 1900), a memorial to those soldiers of Canterbury, 79 of them, who were killed in the South African War (1900-1902), the foundation stone was unveiled in 1901 by the future King George V.
The Captain James Cook statue was unveiled in 1932 by the Governor General Lord Bledisloe in 1932. It was gifted to the city by M F Barnett.
And the H L Bowker fountain – the first illuminated electric fountain in Australasia was gifted by Henry Bowker, a city businessman whose office overlooked Victoria Square. The fountain is on the site of the former animal pound.
So Victoria Square has had a colourful history, pre and post European settlement. It was a favourite food gathering place for Maori, it was the centre of the city in early settlement times and it was the birthplace of radical Christchurch. Victoria Square is historically relevant for Christchurch - past present and into the future as a contemplative heart of the city – it is Christchurch at its best.


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Sunscreen should be a non-negotiable in your skincare routine, especially during the summer months when the sun is stronger. Sunlight is the cause of at least 80 percent of the signs of visible aging like skin thinning, wrinkles, and facial lines. Not only does sunscreen help minimize the damage, but it also prevents you from more serious diseases like skin cancer.
We asked moms from our Facebook group, Smart Parenting (SP) Village, for their favorite sunscreens, and they shared the brands that worked for them. If you’re planning your summer vacation with the family, make sure one of these is in your bag!
Sunscreens that are marketed as broad spectrum will protect your skin from both ultraviolet A and B (UVA and UVB) rays. UVB causes sunburn, while UVA penetrates deeply into the skin and can cause wrinkles, according to WebMD. Both increase your risk for skin cancer.
SPF stands for sun protection factor, and experts generally recommend using sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30, which blocks out 97% of UVB radiation. Of course, there are sunscreens with higher SPF, but a high number can also give a false sense of security. SPF can resist water and sweat, but only for a certain amount of time, according to Good Housekeeping. What’s most important is that you reapply your sunscreen at least every two hours.
This brand came highly recommended by the moms. Try their UV Face SPF50, which is a broad spectrum sunscreen for the face that does not leave a white cast and dries into a matte finish. It also promises to prevent visible signs of skin aging!
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) Finally healthy after a three-year battle with injuries, right-hander Gavin Floyd turned in a solid start for the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday in a 10-8 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Justin Smoak hit a towering solo home run for the Blue Jays. The ball rode a light breeze and cleared the concourse in right-center field.
Floyd worked two innings and gave up one run on two hits. He walked one and struck out two.
The 33-year-old Floyd had Tommy John surgery in 2013. While working his way back, he twice snapped a bone in his elbow.
Floyd has pitched a total of 21 games in the majors over the last three seasons with the White Sox, Braves and Indians. He has a shot to make Toronto's rotation, but could end up in the bullpen.
Mike Morse's RBI double gave the Pirates a 1-0 lead in the first inning.
The Blue Jays put six straight runners on base with two outs in the second and scored four runs off Pirates newcomer Jon Niese. Michael Saunders hit a two-run single.
Niese worked two innings and gave up four runs on five hits. He was acquired in December in a trade that sent 2B Neil Walker to the New York Mets.
RHP Ryan Vogelsong, who will fill either the No. 4 or 5 spot in the rotation, tossed two scoreless innings. He struck out two.
Blue Jays reliever Pat Venditte, a switch-pitcher, faced two switch-hitters in a perfect sixth inning.
Venditte uses a six-fingered glove that allows him to switch arms on the fly without getting a different mitt. In 2008, MLB passed the ''Venditte rule,'' which mandates switch-pitchers must first visually signal which arm their use against a switch-hitter, who then can choose which way to bat.
Venditte indicated he'd throw lefty against Josh Bell and Pedro Florimon, who both chose to hit from the right side. Bell flied out to center and Florimon grounded out. The inning ended when Venditte got Reese McGuire, a lefty hitter, to roll out.
The Blue Jays picked up Venditte, 30, off waivers from Oakland in the offseason. He had a 4.40 ERA and 23 strikeouts in 26 outings (28 2/3 innings) for the A's.
The Pirates are exploring their options in case third baseman Jung Ho Kang (leg surgery) is not ready by opening day. Jason Rogers started at third against the Blue Jays.
In the first inning, Rogers was slow to react to Matt Dominguez's slow roller and it went for an infield single.
Rogers, who was traded to Pittsburgh in December, played outfield and first base with the Milwaukee Brewers. He's appeared in only three games in the majors at third.
The Pirates are intrigued by Rogers' bat - he hit .286 with four homers in 94 games with the Brewers - which could make him a valuable bench player.
Blue Jays: LHP J.A. Happ, who signed a three-year, $36 million deal in the offseason, will start on Friday against Baltimore. The Orioles will start RHP Vance Worley, who was Happ's teammate last season in Pittsburgh.
Pirates: LHP Francisco Liriano, who went 12-7 with a 3.28 ERA last season, will make his first spring start on Friday against the Minnesota Twins. Closer Mark Melancon and free-agent pickup Neftali Feliz also are scheduled to pitch.


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I was inspired to public service by my mother’s efforts at the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor. EPA provided an opportunity to have a positive impact of people lives, and to serve the communities who could not fend for themselves.
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I have a Master of Science degree in public management and policy from Carnegie Mellon University with concentrations in policy analysis, and urban planning and economic development.
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My main message is to include environmental and scientific course work in whatever academic area you are pursuing. Additionally, I would encourage them to have an evolving career development plan that includes a range of mentors and coaches. I also recommend that they conduct informational interviews with practitioners to gain insights and to sharpen their career focus.


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When I was at primary school, the boys who were a couple of years ahead of me seemed way bigger, taller and older. I thought, that’s what I’ll be like in a couple of years. I wasn’t.
I got to secondary school and thought, by the time I’ll done here I’ll feel like a proper, responsible, mature adult ready to go off to university. I didn’t.
Throughout these childhood and teen years, I thought, by the time I’m in my 20s, BOY will I be well on my way to being a fully-functioning adult. Settled in a job that I really like (just like dad), earning good money (just like dad), living in my own place with a lovely wife and thinking about having kids – maybe even having had one already. That’s hasn’t happened.
I haven’t done any of those things, and I’m 28, just about to come out of a career break (hopefully), and I’m sat in bed writing this. I worry that, in living at home, – though I know it’s not so uncommon these days (thank you, ridiculous property/rental prices and low salaries) – I’m getting too comfortable and not going through the adulting and independence that I otherwise would. I mean, it didn’t happen to me at university (that was a difficult time, another story there).
To this day, I can get very wrapped up in my thoughts and/or absorbed in what I am doing. Sometimes, I even forget to eat. If I spend too much time on my own, I can get low. My family also know this, and my already-anxious mother is constantly thinking about this in the back of her mind. My dad and my brother, too, though they don’t show it as obviously. I can cook basic meals, I’m lazy when it comes to household stuff. I suppose weekly vacuuming can be therapeutic, depending on my mood – though certainly not a task I look forward too (whacking music or a podcast on can help). Shamefully, it is only recently that I have been conscious of the money I am spending, rather than spending what I want and when I want.
Part of all of this is a comparison thing. My parents got married in their early-mid 20s, soon had a mortgage, and I think my dad was 27 (mum 24?) when I was born. My mum is a trojan and seems to be able to juggle a million things all at once. I’m not like that.
Most of the people of my kinda age seem to be living in a flat with other housemates or other-halves. Most, though not all – and it’s still more common for Asian (at least, Indian) families to live together for longer. I think the parent-child to adult-adult transition can be a lot trickier, especially when you have lived at home almost your whole life – and have a dominant mother!
A lot of this comes down to societal and cultural expectations, and the pressure we put on ourselves based on what we see in the world around us. Whether it’s ‘in real life’ or online. And, of course, the online world means we see all sorts of amazing, shiny lives aka apparently fully-grown adults who seem to have it all. The ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ effect is, in the digital age, more profound than ever.
I try not to dwell too much on this feeling of inadequacy and, instead, am trying to focus on myself and acknowledge even the smallest of steps. Slow growth in my own time. I think it’s been easy for me to be complacent whilst living at home and, if I want to be the man I want to be, there’s more development to come. I suppose that’ll always be the case, though.
“Run your own race” a friend once told me. That’s exactly what I’m trying to do. Run my own race.
PS. After a busy end-of-working-week, and a course all-day Saturday and Sunday, I missed Friday’s post last week. I still try to post on Tuesday and Friday each week, with a poem on Sunday.
I love my family. It feels like I’ve been thinking a lot about family lately – e.g. this post. My mother, father, brother and I have lived together for most of my life, with the exception of a couple of years when I was at university (-ies; I dropped out, twice).
We all know and understand each other pretty well by now. On the whole. Our personalities, traits and habits. Though we can drive each other mad on occasion (e.g. mum can be quick chatty at times – aka all the time – and inevitably at times when I wanna chill, bless her), I am fortunate (spoiled) in that our house has plenty of spaces to retreat to. Home is my safe space, and these 3 people are the ones I trust more than anyone in the world.
Though we live together, it’s all too easy to get complacent and not really spend quality time with each other (like we did the other night, when we did a cinema trip + meal). As I am getting older, whilst putting myself first and trying to get my own sh*t together, I am gradually beginning to appreciate my family more. After all, I won’t be living with them forever, and I just want to make the most of this time that we have together in our household.
My mother and her side of the family are very family-orientated folks. Whilst I’ve always been pleasant and friendly when we get-together, there are times of late when I feel I haven’t made enough of an effort. Especially whilst I’ve been working on myself and my mental health the last couple of years, it hasn’t always been easy juggling/prioritisation relationships. I mean I struggle with managing friendships/relationships at the best of times (most of the time!).
I have an uncle, my mum’s brother, who is only a couple of years older than I am, and he is very much a busy-body and extrovert-type (like mum); he is very family-orientated, and is always trying to organise activities, general get-togethers and trips away. I’ll be honest, he’s a good guy with his heart in the right place, but we are also very different people. He’s quite blunt and judgemental, as well as money-driven and materially-focused. This is just not me. (If it wasn’t for mum forcing me onto the property-ladders whilst I was earning, and the luxury of living at home, I would not have been able to afford/survive the last 3 years of no income). With the small age-gap between us, and considering that I’m the eldest of the cousins on my mum’s side (the next-oldest is 5 years younger), I reckon we may have had a closer relationship if we were more similar in personality.
That said, now and again, it’s nice to spend time with my uncle and cousins, especially as we are all getting older (seriously, time flies so fast) and are able to have more mature conversations, and connect more “on a level”.
It’s a balancing act between managing my energy and spending time with my family. I’ll be honest, the last couple of years haven’t been easy when it comes to family – especially whilst I’ve been managing my mental health and general life struggles, e.g. dealing with the perceived judgement from family (and the rest) about my work situation; whilst I’ve taken time off and experimented, it’s been tough being asked “what are you doing at the moment?” – and even going into situations/interactions having the fear that this question, or similar ones, will come up!
I feel so judged and unworthy, as if I have no identity. Also, I feel that there’s an undertone of inter-family competition, and I not only feel paranoid about my self-perceiving low-achievements compared to others in the family, but also that I’m letting my parents down, as well as worrying both them and my grandparents immensely. I think I know where my mum gets her anxious ways from, and I don’t think it’s any coincidence that her 3 sisters are all panic-pots to varying extents, too. People mean well but, bless them, are anxious to the point that it can be stifling – especially for someone who is very sensitive / soaks up the energy around him.
About an hour ago, my bro and uncle returned from a long weekend away for a stag-do. We’re having a ‘de-brief’ tonight at GBK which should be fun. As I write this, my uncle just sent this message to our little family (uncle/cousins) Whatsapp group – “Basically ___ (my bro) and I have decided – booking a MAD club Saturday in Cannes for ____’s (my cousin’s) 18th. Freshers for his upcoming freshers”.
LOL. Whilst I may have been excited by such fun around 1- years ago, I’m not really sure that’s my scene. Though we’re all going to be away as a family in September anyway (in nearby Nice), so I guess it’s the sort of opportunity we should jump at and won’t get when we’re all older, married and settled with families and such.
They say you only live once, right? (I’m sure someone said YOLO before Drake did…). And, staying close to my family is one of my priorities for the year ahead.


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As part of our Machine Music series, 12 artists look back on a handful of drum machines that changed music forever.
Inventors and engineers have been designing and building drum machines since the 1930s, but it’s only since the ’80s that we’ve seen an exponential rise in the number of machines on offer. Previously thought of as toys or too avant-garde, the post-Kraftwerk world saw all kinds of artists embrace the technology. What started as a simple beat emulator has transformed into a driver of creativity.
To get a sense of the history of the drum machine, browse through this timeline charting iconic machines of the past.
In view of exploring the impact of these machines, we’ve invited a broad selection of musicians and artists to talk us through 5 of the most significant drum machines ever made.
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A classic piece of equipment that’s been used to produce more music than any other drum machine.
When it launched it was widely considered a failure. Viewed as inferior to the incumbent American competitor Linn LM-1, it only sold around 10,000 units and was discontinued after just 3 years. Over the years, the commercial failure led to cheap and abundant supply which coupled with its rather unique character has led to a very successful second life. The 808 has blossomed into the cornerstone of production for countless artists, racking up something of a cult following.
It’s not really a surprise that Roland revived the machine this year with an updated version. To find out everything you ever need to know about the 808, check out this super detailed feature by FACT magazine.
Who better to talk to about the 808 than 808 State? Formed in 1988 by Martin Price and Graham Massey, their debut release Newbuild featured Gerald Simpson who subsequently left to pursue a solo career as A Guy Called Gerald. Back then the 808 was the centre of their sound, as Graham explains below.
The 808 must be important to 808 State. How exactly does the machine fit into your music?
In the pre-Atari early days of 808 State, when Gerald was in the group, we used the TR-808 as the main engine to drive the sequencers on these little synthesizers called SH101s. This sometimes dictated the drum patterns; if you wanted 16th note sequences you would have to use one of the trigger voices like Cowbell, Rimshot or Accent to clock the synth note. Hence when you get a silly amount of cowbells suddenly coming through the mix like Morse code. You can hear a lot of auto drum fills thrown in, which is a programming feature of the 808. This would break up a straight rhythm every so often.
TR-808 brings a harmonious palette of sounds, almost enough music in its self.
Tell us about an unusual 808 track you made.
Named after Manchester’s rubbish skyscraper, ‘C.I.S.’ (from Prebuild) is taken from a live jam on a local radio program, so it’s mixed in an odd way. Normally the 808 kick drum would dominate but here all those other 808 textures come to the fore – dry biscuit texture, rims, hats and snares, jelly like toms and congas. The weird stutter echo is a spare reel-to-reel tape recorder used as an echo box… no chance of it being in time.
Probably better described as 808 Lover, Egyptian Lover is one of its most vocal advocates. He provided us with the best Kraftwerk story ever when we last spoke to him, so we were eager to hear what he had to say about the 808.
What is it about the 808 that you love?
The Roland TR-808 is my choice of drum machine since day one because of it’s unique sound and analogue breathing soul. I remember when I first was introduced to the 808. I was at this club called Radio and I met Afrika Islam and he told me he knew Afrika Bambaataa and I was like: “Whoa, really? How did they get that sound for ‘Planet Rock’? What kind of drum was that?” At that time ‘Planet Rock’ was my favorite record and I knew I just had to find out how they made it.
He then told me it was a drum machine called the 808 by Roland. We went to the music store the next day. I saw it and it was so beautiful. One of the workers helped me program it and I made ‘Planet Rock’ on it. I was in awe. It sounded like a new record. I had to have it. I got half the money from my mom and and bought this thing right away. I programmed it to the max and brought it to my next gig. This was a big gig. Uncle Jam’s Army at the L.A. Sports Arena with 10,000 party people. We had about 100 Cerwin Vega speakers and that 808 sounded so good. People were running up to the stage asking what record was I playing? I kept changing the pattern and breaking it down and everyone was in full freak mode dancing like crazy to the new beats I had programmed thinking it was some new records. I knew right then I had to make a record. That week I filmed a documentary called Breakin’ & Entering with my 808 and we pressed 25 copies of the soundtrack.
I played it at an Uncle Jam’s Army party and then Uncle Jam and I went into the studio and recorded ‘Yes,Yes, Yes’ and ‘Dial a Freak’. I could not get enough of this incredible drum machine so I went back into the studio and recorded ‘Egypt Egypt’ and today that record is still being played all around the world.
And are you and your 808 still going strong?
I’m recording a new album entitled 1984 and I’m using my Roland TR-808 on every song. And if you get a chance to catch one of my shows you will see me and my 808 – still making the crowd dance, scream and shout!
His achievements in music go way beyond ‘Gabriele’. Initially a member of acid house pioneers Phuture, Roy went on to work in A&R for Strictly Rhythm while also running his Chicago-based label Undaground Therapy Muzik. Have a root around his lesser known releases and you’ll find a rich supply of what he describes as ‘soul electrica’.
Tell us about your 808.
I can remember the first time that I got a hold of my Roland 808. Armando Gallop brought one over to my house with Steve Poindexter back in the ’80s, he was kind enough to let me borrow it for a month. The first track I made on it was a track named ‘N.Y. Sax’ – it actually came out on Saber Records, a division of Traxx Records, years later. I was really inspired by the 808 sound when Italo disco records were using it all of the time, so I couldn’t wait to get a hold of one. I used to play with one as a kid in DJ Pierre’s basement along with a Roland Juno 106. Those were the days! I always loved the kick drum and the clave. I could just bang out a beat in 2 minutes and just zone out for days.
What’s special about the 808?
There’s nothing that compares to the original warmth of the 808. I would sample it a million times and still couldn’t get it to sound the way I wanted to hear it the way it came out of its original Roland shell.
Is there an 808 record that you’re especially proud of?
I used the 808 on so much of my music throughout time, but I really loved how my Basement Traxx EP originally came out using the that piece on Kumba Records back in the day just raw and warm. Now we’re releasing it soon on Clone Records, I’m really happy that record gets to surface again.
Also known as Headhunter, Addison Groove turned heads with the monster track ‘Footcrab’. Known for marrying footwork with a bass-heavy UK style, he’s also developed a reputation for his finesse with the 808.
What motivated you to get an 808?
The main reason for buying one was to go and play the machine live in clubs. I had agreed to do 2 live gigs with it even before I had bought one, so I had to go and find the real thing. It took me a few days to learn and get it dialled down. I can honestly say, an 808 sounds better in the club than a dubplate and miles better than any digital file. It will blow your balls off.
Tell us about one of your 808 tracks.
‘Work It’ is one of the first tunes I made with my hardware 808, anything previous to this was all sampled. Of course as soon as you get one you can’t help but try and sound like Bambaataa, so here is my take on the old electro sound from the ’80s.
Like the 808, the 909 is being revived this year. Again, not a shocker given how important the 909 has become to electronic dance music.
Launched three years after the 808, the 909 was a game changer because it was the first drum machine to incorporate MIDI, creating a partly analogue, partly sample-based hybrid. Second hand prices for the 909 experienced a free-fall following the release of the 707, putting the machine in the hands of early house and techno producers and paving the way for a generation of 909 tracks.
Kerri Chandler’s releases on King Street, Strictly Rhythm, Large, Nervous and his own Madhouse Records have established him as an icon in the house scene. His back catalogue of classic club slammers and jazz-influenced cuts are indebted to his modified 909, as he explains below.
What was your first experience of a 909?
I remember going into Red Zone with David Morales back around ’89 and Tony Humphries was playing. I was standing there and Tony had this crazy heavy track come in – I think it was a Tyree Cooper production. It blew my mind. I knew there was some kind of new drum machine behind it but I had no idea what it was. Little did I know the Chicago guys had been all over this for years.
When you eventually got one, how did it fit into your production?
I’ve always been into modifying my gear so when I got my 909 the first thing I did was open it up. I’ve extended the range on pitch and velocity on all the analogue pots to give me a whole new scope on my options which I think gives the track a different tone in the end. The beauty here is having sounds that are immediately familiar but different enough to matter. The 909 is my go-to machine when I start to map out anything new.
Is there a 909 record that springs to mind?
The 909 features heavily on a lot of my productions but I suppose what comes to mind is ‘Track 1’ from the Atmosphere EP.
The 909 has appeared on virtually every release I have ever done in one way or another. From my early electronic days, 20 years ago, until now. I love this machine so much that I had mine modified for decay and tuning extension of the kick… all tucked away nicely in the cartridge slot, mind you, as to not destroy the original look. I also did this to the ride and hihats. (Hint: listen to ‘Hey Hey’ for those rides). This simple mod has allowed for my 909’s kick et al. to appear on virtually every record I’ve done for all these years. It has extended its life and usefulness.
From Son of Raw to Sinfonia Della Note to the current crop of releases, that 909 is there in one shape or another and it is why I have requested that they bury me with it!
It is to me the one machine that maybe not created the genre we call house but it is the one in my honest opinion the machine that solidified it. I’m not too sure that what we have today would still be here without the invention of this machine. I still believe Tadao Kikumoto, the inventor and wizard, deserves a Nobel prize in science for inventing it and defining a musical genre that would go on to bring joy and happiness to the world by proxy or at the very least a lifetime achievement award from NARAS (The Grammy’s). A hero with no equal in the culture/genre we define as dance music.
Part of the new school of house but Santé is no stranger to classic gear. Below he explains why the 909 has become his machine of choice.
Tell us about the 909 and your music.
My first experience of the 909 was in ’98 at a friend’s house. I had an MPC but after I tried his 909 it became my favourite drum machine. I loved being able to reproduce the sounds I could hear in my favourite records.
I used many of the 909’s features prominently in ‘Talking House’ from the Talking House EP I just played with the machine until I found a loop I loved, then built from there!
The machine itself is actually very limited but tuning the presets is what allows you to use the 909 in very creative ways. You start jamming around on a pattern, add some swing or play around with the tune or delay. I tend to use the 909 in every track. It just might be the kick drum or the cymbals, but mostly it’s the hi hats. I like to add them to the right tunes to give my tracks a groovy feeling!
Taking inspiration from the LM-1, the DMX was made using digital samples of real drums. It was released in 1981 and features 24 individual drum sounds (created from 11 raw samples), 8-voice polyphony and a number of humanising elements.
An expensive drum machine but its punchy and realistic drum sound made it the machine of choice for many established artists in the ’80s. It was especially popular with early hip hop producers like Run D.M.C. and Slick Rick but was also widely used on new wave and synth pop records. Today it’s mostly used to make dancehall and reggae music.
Inspired by natural beauty, space and time, ambient composer Steve Roach uses a mixture of analogue and digital equipment to paint beautiful soundscapes. He was an early user of the DMX but later parted ways with the machine.
When did you first encounter the DMX?
I was living in West L.A. during the peak years of Oberheim, lots of friends worked there and I was in an electronic group with Danny Sofer who wrote the manuals and helped develop the machine. I would see prototypes at various stages of the DMX and entire Oberheim System which I would eventually own. That time was so exciting – to be at the birthing ground of those instruments and close to flame as it was happening.
Tell us about a record you made using the DMX.
For the tracks ‘The Breathing Stone’ and ‘In the Heat of Venus’ on Western Spaces, The DMX was the heart of the system. In this case with these pieces it was clocking everything you hear, The Oberheim System, Arp 2600, Ensoniq ESQ 1 Sequencer. A large number of synths and sequencers would all fire off in perfect sync when hitting play or record. These pieces I mentioned were created at the tempo you hear with each piece.
On some pieces at that time I would create patterns and eventually use them much faster that the orginal tempo they were built at. Here I would create the beat structure and then evolve the sequence patterns on the synced up synths at the same time, in a back and forth process, as well as tuning the drums as its evolving. Again the volume sliders on the DMX were key to the instant feedback and shaping of the piece. This approach is still at the center of how I work today in many respects.
What are some of the machine’s finer details?
I am not so aware of the tech details of the machine, as a user if I remember correctly the MIDI options came later. I met and worked for a guy called Scott Morgan who had a booming business at the time making custom eproms for the DMX. Through him and later the Oberheim Prommer Eprom Burner sampler, I had some hand made sounds that were undefined in terms of the source but were very emotional and hard hitting.
I would say the constant technique I would use never belting shut the lid of the DMX. I was always lifting the hood you could say and changing the pitch on each voice card with that small rotary wheel I can still feel on my finger tips. I would trade out voice cards all the time as well.
I almost always tuned every thing down and low, even a crisp snare would sound wicked combined with a custom sound and deep tuned conga. Even in the the middle of a show I would have the lid up tuning sounds on the fly as it was running.
And more generally how does the machine fit into the music you make?
At that time it was the heart beat of the system. Even if a piece would eventually evolve away from the DMX, it was a big part of starting a creative fire in the studio. Another few tracks to reference would would be disk one of Dreamtime Return. Slow motion and the deep tuned –verbed DMX set was vital for that entire project.
Well, sad to say I don’t have one now but this makes me want one back. I moved to a Akai -Linn MPC 60 back in the ’90s, I still have that here but there is something special about the DMX the sound, the interface, the limitations, all added up to a great hands-on, creative tool. Don’t know what led to me moving away from it other than perhaps I felt like after maybe 10 years of working with it I need to move into some other places. Might have to find one now!
After thinking about my process it got me to thinking about how I could use the DMX now and I might give it a go. All my custom DMX sounds were sampled into my MPC 60 so it lives on there, but it’s not the same.
So thanks to your interview-wakeup call, I’m heading in the direction of a friend in Baltimore who has one with a MIDI. I’m working out the details as we speak!
Kicked out of school at 16, he went on to become one of the premier names in jungle and drum and bass. His debut New Forms won the Mercury Prize in 1997 beating Radiohead, The Prodigy and even The Spice Girls to the award. For him the appeal of the DMX is its heritage.
When did you first get a DMX?
The first time I actually held a DMX drum machine was around 1995. I was working with a lovers rock singer called Richie Davies and when he used to come down to Bristol he would bring his DMX with him.
It was the version where you had to burn the chip to change the snare sound and had the pitch control so you could transpose the snare sound up and down. A universal reggae sound for the studio .
Due to my obsession with drum machines a very close friend of mine Lilly, who lives in Los Angles, bought me a DMX as a present and it still has a special place in my studio. I think I used the kick and snare on pretty much every record throughout the ’90s .
One of the downfalls of the model I had was that I had to keep lifting up the lid to change the pitch of the sounds. So I probably dodged a bullet a few times when touching wires. Also it was an American voltage so I had to make sure the right leads were in otherwise it would be bonfire night early .
Why is the DMX special to you?
It’s not just about the music I make but more about the era I was inspired by. I remember hearing a story about the early relationship between the hip hop artist and the rock engineers in New York’s famous Factory Studios and the way they would treat the DMX as a live drum kit. The snare and kit and hi hat would be mic’d up as if it was a drum kit and that’s how those early funk jams got it so fat. Deep down I love my old school hip hop, soul, funk and reggae and it was all about the drum machine. All my favourite records featured the DMX.
When I was making New Forms there was one track called ‘Watching Windows’ which was one part SP12 and the rest was the DMX. I used the snare from my DMX in pretty much all of my tracks but the track I remember the most is ‘Watching Windows’ because of the tempo change from 120 to 170.
A very basic machine compared to the others but when Roland launched it in 1978 it was their first programmable drum machine. This ability to program and store patterns lit the passage for the development of the LM-1, DMX, 808 and 909. The CR-78 features 34 in-built preset rhythms which use analogue voices that are unrealistic sounding but gives the machine a distinctive character.
The machine found its way on to many ’70s and ’80s classics like Phil Collins’ ‘In The Air Tonight’, OMD’s ‘Enola Gay’, Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’ and Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’. Rarely used today, we managed to track down an intriguing artist who is still incorporating it into his music.
Foxx’s career has comprised of a series of unusual and fascinating paths. Originally frontman of Ultravox, he left to follow a solo career dabbling in everything from ambient to glam rock to video game music while also pursuing ambitions in graphic design and film making. His most recent project sees him collaborate with Steve D’Agostino to release an LP entitled Evidence Of Time Travel.
When did you buy a CR-78?
In 1978 when they first came out. I jumped at it. It was the first programmable drum machine, even though it consisted mainly of variable preset rhythms. I’d used a previous cocktail-lounge machine with Brian Eno, when we recorded the first Ultravox album in 1976. He’d used it on Another Green World and I loved the strange sound. It was really new and original at that time.
To introduce the CR78, Roland really must have had their ear close to the ground to know what only a few key musicians wanted then, because it was a truly avant-garde idea to use a drum machine at all in those days – until that moment, they’d been the territory of lounge bar musicians – hence the leftover bossa-nova, cha-cha- cha and waltz presets.
What are the technical details of the machine?
In reality, it was a non-dancing Japanese programmer’s idea of strange Western generic rhythm patterns, so inevitably eccentric and electronic sounding – which endeared it to me immediately. You could also press in more than one preset button at a time and so combine rhythms, take elements in and out – and also you could buy an extra – a programmer button, to inject new bass drums and snares. Miracle.
Plus you could synchronise to a sequencer and plug everything up through effects and echoes to mutate things even more – even get the machine internally modified, so you could separate the instrument sounds, since it was all in mono and everything came out to a single jack.
Of course, conventional recording engineers despised all this because they were trained to handle real drums, but that was all so elaborate and time wasting. They literally took days to set up mics and EQ etc. A real pain. The CR78 was an instant liberation.Only a very few truly perceptive engineers- like Gareth Jones who I worked with on ‘Metamatic’ – realized that here was something new and a significant departure.
How did discovering the machine affect the way you made music?
It totally changed my working methods. I loved the fact that you could plug it in at home and you had a ready-made atmosphere and a strange rhythm – immediately. Absolutely perfect for writing.
Some of the patterns were really original and good – gave me strong ideas for songs as soon as I turned the little devil on. Of course, I realized that the CR78 was only the beginning of the road toward truly flexible rhythm devices, from it you could immediately see what else was needed for their evolution – sure enough, the 808 and 909 came a few years later, then the LinnDrum.
But I still found I liked the CR78’s primitivism, and found I kept on going back to it. I came to understand that its rigidity forces you to work in certain ways and I like that. Its very limitations would give me ideas. It also gave me a good part of my distinctive sound – and that’s absolutely essential for any artist. You have to differentiate yourself from everyone else somehow.
As soon as you hear that wonky, clattering metal beat, you’re right into an alternative sonic universe. And it was all mine – no-one else had ever used it so prominently, or in quite the same way. Always felt very gleeful whenever I switched it on. Off you went into another place. It was a true transportation device.I only ever wanted to use well-considered, simple machines that give immediate results. Complexity is not the same as complication. Anything unnecessarily complicated is therefore badly designed and would immediately hit the bin. I didn’t have time to mess around – there was so much else to do.
I like a machine that, when you switch it on, you light up. The CR78 certainly did that. Still does.
We hear your new album features the CR-78.
On Evidence of Time Travel, the CR-78 determines all the basic tracks and sounds – it really becomes a sort of a lead instrument, at least equal to the Arp. Steve D’Agostino – who worked on the production and arrangement as well as much of the composition – really loves those sounds and understands that sort of instrumentation better than anyone I know. He did it all so beautifully.
Last but not least is the Linn-LM1. Introduced to the world in 1980 for a whopping $4,995, it was a landmark machine. Prior to the LM-1, machines synthesised drum sounds from white noise or sine waves. The LM-1 changed that by using digital samples, resulting in an extremely realistic sound and inspiring a wave of similar drum machines. Another key feature is its programmability which combined with the credible sound made it a highly desirable piece of equipment at the time.
Best known for producing seminal work from Suicide, The Ramones and Blondie, Craig Leon’s own career has been bubbling away quietly for years. The reissue of his seminal synthesizer album Nommos last year became FACT’s number one reissue of 2013. It’s also one of two of his records that make heavy use of the Linn LM-1.
When did you first encounter the LM-1?
I first came across the LM-1 through a friend of mine who was a close friend of Roger Linn. The machine that I had access to was one that was done up before they were generally on sale.
And did you use it on many of your records?
There were only two recordings that I used the Linn LM1 on heavily. One was Nommos.
And the other was an experimental collaboration with Arthur Brown called The Complete Tapes Of Atoya. That came about when I was learning how to use the machine in a studio down in Texas when Arthur dropped by unannounced and asked if he could sing over the sounds he was hearing through the open window of the studio control room.
I think that the rather unconventional way that I used it leant itself to creating the sonic environment of those recording, especially with Nommos where the LM-1 was an important element.
What was unusual about the way you used it?
Well I didn’t know the technical details for the machine as I didn’t have a user’s manual for the one that I was loaned. So I just played around with it and played in loops of what I had sketched out on paper and sent them to strips of analog tape. I didn’t use the ‘natural’ internal sounds of the machine in the recording but processed the outputs heavily. I was trying for sounds that were not immediately recognisable and I hope that I achieved that.
Loops are a common place part of modern recording but it was quite a kick to use them back in the pre computer DAW /dawning of the digital era. Cheers to Roger Linn for starting it off.
Formed in London 1979 by Neil Arthur & Stephen Luscombe, the synth pop duo were successful through the early 1980s with hits like “Living On The Ceiling”, “Waves”, “Blind Vision” and “Don’t Tell Me”. They split in 1986 and following a 20 year hiatus they reformed and began releasing new material in 2011.
When did the Linn-LM1 feature in your music?
We used it working with Mike Howlett on songs from Blancmange’s first album Happy Families.
As ‘non musicians’ it was the first drum unit that we’d actually played. You’d select the tempo, hit record and start hitting the buttons, roughly in time hopefully. The quantising snapped your efforts to the nearest 1/8 1/16 or what ever you’d preselected. Then we’d overdub ’til we got bored. Prior to that we’d used units with preprogrammed drums or step time input units.
What do memories do you have of the machine?
A new thing to use on it was the copy track function. This enabled us to copy say a verse pattern (pattern 1 to pattern 2) then add a snare fill and so on.
I think you could use “song” mode to enter the sequence and bob as they say is your uncle.
On the first album the Linn-LM1 was the start or backbone of almost every track. As I remember we’d sync the Linn, a sequencer and say a Korg MS-20, get the bass pulse running from the trigger work out the arrangement and be off (to the pub).


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SUMMIT COUNTY – Forget El Nino. Who needs La Nina?
Without any obvious large-scale patterns influencing the weather, Colorado seems to have returned to a normal winter storm pattern, with wave after wave of Pacific moisture rolling onshore and delivering a steady series of dumps across the Northern Rockies.
“The westerlies across the Pacific are strong now and are driving repeated storms into the western mountains. It has not, however, been far enough south to produce snow and rain for the southwest USA, including southwest Colorado,” said state climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke.
Thursday’s storm snarled holiday traffic but also delivered a fresh blast of new snow at all local areas, with 6 inches at Copper Mountain, five at A-Basin, 3 at Breckenridge and 2 inches at Keystone, as of the 2 p.m. Colorado Ski Country USA snow report.
Just across the Divide, Loveland picked up 9 inches for the highest storm total of the day.
Although Breckenridge weather watcher Rick Bly hasn’t compiled the month-end totals for Breckenridge, December is sure to wind up as the third month in a row with above-average precipitation, the first time that’s happened in quite some time. As of Thursday morning, snowfall for the month was about 40 percent above average, Bly said.
And there’s more snow on the way, with the forecast calling for waves of moisture to roll in every few days, at least through early next week.
“It’s a very progressive, active Pacific Ocean,” said Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster Scott Toepfer, indicating that another storm is due Saturday night, with another system ringing in the New Year with fresh powder Monday night into Tuesday.
Toepfer said it looks like the jet stream could drop a little further south with that system, bringing heavier snows to the Northern Mountains along with a good blast for the San Juans, where precipitation has been lagging a little bit. The snowpack at Red Mountain Pass is at about 84 percent of normal, Toepfer said.
In general, the southern mountains have been drier than average this season, especially compared with the past few years.
“It’s just the luck of the draw where the storm track decided to stroll this year,” Toepfer said, explaining that the jet stream has just stayed that tad to the north, which means the San Juans haven’t seen those juicy southwest flows coming in from Southern California.
The recent series of storms has been originating in the central Pacific rather than the Gulf of Alaska, which means the temperatures have been slightly warmer than average for this time of year. Looking at large-scale satellite images, Toepfer said there’s a zonal flow beginning in China and Russia and extending all the way across the Pacific before ridging and troughing as it hits the West Coast.
“In that kind of flow, the storms move in fast and move out fast, and there’s not a lot of time for dry slots to form in between,” he said. The current weather pattern comes close, but doesn’t quite meet the definition of a Pineapple Express, when copious subtropical moisture from near Hawaii hooks up with the Polar jet stream for what can be exceptionally heavy snows.
But should the present pattern shift just a little, with storms coming in slightly colder, conditions could resemble the winter of 1983, “when we were tunneling down Main Street (in Breckenridge) to get our mail,” Toepfer said.
The outlook for the rest of the winter is uncertain.
“There is very little forecast skill with a non-El Nino/non-La Nina such as we are in now. There is a tendency for weather patterns to repeat, which suggests we might see more very cold weather in the eastern USA,” said Pielke. “A repeat of the very cold weather Colorado had earlier in December is not likely in the near term, however, since large arctic air masses are not building yet in northern Canada,” he added.
While the snow is always welcome in the High Country, it makes for tricky driving conditions. Vail Pass eastbound was closed for a time Thursday morning, as was Loveland Pass, and heavy traffic stacked up on Interstate 70 east of the Eisenhower Tunnel, as skiers and snowboarders thronged their way toward the powder. Chain restrictions were in effect on many mountain roads throughout the day.
Avalanche forecasters stepped up the hazard rating for the northern and central mountains after observers reported shallow slab avalanches releasing easily in response to ski cuts, especially on steeper convex slopes, according to a CAIC hotline update. The danger near and above treeline on north to east to south-facing slopes is “considerable” with pockets of “high” on steeper slopes.
Triggered avalanches are possible to probable on many backcountry slopes.
Check in with the avalanche center at (970) 668-0600 or on the web (http://geosurvey.state.co.us/avalanche) before heading to the backcountry.


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Related Story: Can your phone keep a secret?
Security agencies will gain greater access to encrypted messages after a Labor backdown allowed the Federal Government to pass its legislation on Parliament's final sitting day.
Labor had planned to amend the legislation, which it has repeatedly described as flawed.
But late on Thursday Opposition Leader Bill Shorten announced Labor would pass the laws provided the Coalition agreed to make certain changes in the new year.
Labor then pulled its amendments in the Senate and the bill was passed before Prime Minister Scott Morrison had even responded to Mr Shorten's request.
Attorney-General Christian Porter later announced the Government had agreed to "consider" Labor's amendments "if any genuinely reflect the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security".
The arrangement ended a day-long stand-off between the Government and Labor.
Labor and the crossbench had the numbers in the House of Representatives to force a vote that would have meant more refugees coming to Australia from Nauru and Manus Island.
However, delays in the Senate dealing with that meant the Upper House was not able to change the encryption bill if it wanted it to become law this year.
"Do I go home and say 'well I hope nothing happens and I hope that the Government's politics don't backfire on the safety of Australians'? I'm not prepared to do it," Mr Shorten said.
Labor's backdown came two hours after Mr Porter accused Labor of putting national security at risk.
"It became a pawn and a hostage to a larger game trying to embarrass the Government, and it's very, very unfortunate for the Australian people," Mr Porter said.
"Ultimately Bill Shorten and Labor put a tactical political ploy ahead of legislation that would have enhanced Australian safety."
The Law Council of Australia slammed the major parties for creating a law that both sides of politics concede needs changes.
"The half-amended encryption access laws rammed through the Senate are better than the original, but serious concerns remain," Law Council president Morry Bailes said.
"We now have a situation where unprecedented powers to access encrypted communications are now law, even though the Parliament knows serious problems exist."
Vanessa Teague, an expert in cryptography at the University of Melbourne, said the debate over what constituted a "systemic weakness" had been central to criticisms of the bill.
The laws mean police can request technology companies to build in features that would give access to encrypted communications.
The Government's new laws force technology companies to let police access encrypted messages. Technology companies, human rights groups, lawyers and others aren't happy.
But companies will not have to introduce such features if they are considered "systemic weaknesses" — that is, they are likely to result in weakened security for others.
Earlier drafts of the bill failed to define the term at all, but even the definition introduced at the last minute is contested.
Dr Teague said the new laws also failed to address the concerns of technical experts.
"The whole question all along has been, whether by targeting an individual user, they are accidently jeopardising everybody else's security," she said.

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