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Blade Runner Has Gotten Better With Age

Blade Runner is an odd case in the history of film. Here we have a movie that was widely misunderstood by both audiences and critics upon its release. It did marginal business in theaters, but ultimately failed to live up to the studio’s expectations. Critics dismissed it as mostly fluffy eye candy, and audiences wanted something more exciting. Despite these initial challenges, the film got a second chance.

Looking back at the same film today, the perspective has changed completely. Today, Blade Runner is widely considered a classic science fiction film. It has been elevated in status to quintessential viewing, and is featured on many critic’s best films lists. For today’s audiences, it is a consistent source of discussion and has infiltrated many levels of pop culture. Most impressive is the fact that Blade Runner has influenced so many other films. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Blade Runner is highly regarded by many important filmmakers.

Simply put, it is rare for perspective on a film to change as much as it has with Blade Runner. Films that aren’t immediately recognized for their creativity or proficiency are rarely revisited later on. This is a look at some of the reasons why Blade Runner has become such an exception.

The Timeless Production

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Science fiction films aren’t known to be the most realistic. With a couple exceptions, they verge more on fantasy territory than realism. That’s part of the appeal; many of them are forms of escapist entertainment. Often times, they make wild predictions regarding the universe around us in order to be as captivating as possible. For many films, these predictions are made based on current scientific understanding (or lack thereof). Over time, these predictions may come to be dated due to scientific discoveries, or ideas that prove these predictions wrong or inaccurate. On the other hand, the world can develop slower than we thought it would, which makes these predictions feel even more fantastical.

All of these technological inaccuracies can impact the way we view the film today versus how it was viewed upon the initial release. If the film makes a prediction that science has since proven wrong, we as an audience have a difficult time suspending our disbelief for the sake of enjoying the film. If a film makes a prediction on a development too soon, it may feel more like magic than science whhich reduces perceived realism. Over time, science fiction films that rely on the audience investing in their realism can struggle as society evolves. Especiallly because they can often be defined by the predictions they make since those decisions can often move beyond themes and plot ideas to influence the story, costumes, settings, and even the characters.

Blade Runner has stood the test of time because some of its predictions have become more relevant over time. Yes, it’s true that the Blade Runner version of 2019 was ambitious, to say the least, but the central ideas it explores still ring true. We may not have flying cars and realistic-looking humanoid androids, but we still have concerns about the frailty of our species, and we still debate the logic of love. The technologies behind many of the advances and problems in the world of Blade Runner are also topics that are discussed regularly today.

And it’s not just a matter of the concept behind Blade Runner that keeps it relevant. Really, the entire production of the film is responsible for its continued relevance. First, it’s just really well-designed. Futurist Syd Mead was responsible for much of the films’ technological designs having timeless qualities. Even if some of the mechanisms for this future are fantastical, all of the details are really cool. Its evident that someone put a lot of thought into these details, and that really matters for a film to feel alive. Second, we all know that our near future won’t end up looking like a squeaky-clean utopia. Humanity is not inherently clean, welcoming, or adept at conditioning themselves for adversity. We have problems, and even in Blade Runner‘s 2019, we haven’t figured them out. If anything, the film predicts our continued failures and difficulties as a species. Today, that rings true much more convincingly than a reminder of the things we’ve gotten right.

 The Directors’ Cuts

When you hear the term “Director’s’ Cut”, it’s easy to conjure up images of DVD’s with a few extended scenes and “special edition” highlighted on the front cover. It’s a ploy that most people can see right through, an effort to unload a few more sales on avid fans who might already own the original release. However, the Blade Runner director’s cuts are not like this at all. Instead, the director’s cuts of Blade runner fundamentally change the original product, even if the actual changes aren’t that severe. They aren’t just a few minutes of unnecessary run time added back into the mix. Both Blade Runner director’s’ cuts were carefully thought out to improve the viewing experience of the original film.

The first directors’ cut of the film was released in 1992. It was developed as a result of Ridley Scott being unhappy with Warner Brother’s decision to screen a workprint version of the film in 1990. For this version of the film, Scott’s changes focused on removing some of the components of the original film that had been imposed by the studio. This included removing the voiceover narrations and restoring the ending to be ambiguous instead of happy. Ridley Scott also decided to add additional material regarding the identity of the main character, including a dreamlike sequence with a unicorn, and a climactic line by the supporting character, Gaff. These changes added fuel to the discussion on whether or not Deckard was a replicant, and in many ways created new interest in the film because people could view it from a new perspective.

The “second” director’s cut was the 2007 version, called The Final Cut. It is in this version that Ridley Scott had complete control (for the director’s cut, he only provided notes and consultation). This version of the film focused on removing errors, such as the cables for the spinner and editing actors’ faces onto stunt doubles. This version also included a number of extended scenes and sequences that were not previously included. These additional sequences are used to enhance the tone and the mood of the film by allowing more focus on the details of the setting and including more violence than before. Together, these changes may not have modified audience’s perception of the film as much as the first director’s cut, but they nonetheless brought renewed interest to the film. Furthermore, a detailed digital restoration allowed for a much better viewing experience, which we’ll discuss below.

Changing Audience Tastes

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Blade Runner was based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which is widely considered the first novel to exhibit “cyberpunk” tendencies. In 1982 when Blade Runner was released, “cyberpunk” did not exist. One of the most famous cyberpunk writers, William Gibson, was actually in the process of writing his first book, Neuromancer when Blade Runner was released. Gibson was distraught because the world of Blade Runner looked a lot like the world of Neuromancer. He feared that people would think he copied ideas from the movie. However, Neuromancer found a lot of success and its simularities to Blade Runner actually became an asset for both. Mainstream audiences misunderstood Blade Runner initially partly because it was a different type on science fiction. However, the style worked well in print and readers found much to love in Gibson’s book. Neuromancer would go on to win many prestigious science fiction novel awards, and basically started the genre of cyberpunk as we know it today.

Through the 80’s, cyberpunk as a genre grew from an underground fascination to something a bit more widespread. Other novels were released that borrowed heavily from Neuromancer and also happened to exist in worlds similar to the one seen in Blade Runner. By the 1990’s, other films such as Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity went into production to take advantage of the fascination with computers and rapidly advancing technology. The style went on to influence artists and filmmakers world-wide, including many anime series. Through it all, Blade Runner found a new attention. As fans found enjoyment in cyberpunk as a new wave of science fiction, Blade Runner now appealed to them in ways that its original audiences may have overlooked.

Impact of Current Events

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When Blade Runner was released in 1982, dystopian films had not yet caught on. Movies like Logan’s Run, Fahrenheit 451, and THX 1138 made little impact on contemporary audiences. In 1982, science fiction was defined by Star Wars, which was an adventurous space opera. It was such a phenomenon that audiences craved more. Cheap knock offs were common and every studio wanted to make their own. In many ways, Ridley Scott’s previous movie (Alien) was a response to the original Star Wars. It seemed that executives saw a futuristic setting and were hoping that Blade Runner would fit the bill. Soon enough, they realized what type of movie this really was going to be and began to intervene, to the dismay of Ridley Scott. They changed the ending of the film to be happier and utilized advertising which highlighted the action sequences. Audiences therefore were expecting something more like Star Wars, but Blade Runner was not that. It was a different type of science fiction – slower, more cerebral. A critic famously called it “Blade Crawler” because of the pace. Instead of celebrating the film for what it was, Blade Runner was criticized for what it was not.

Today, dystopia is a popular draw at the box office and in print. Movies like The Hunger Games, and Wall E have brought this subgenre to the masses. With that type of proliferation, we’ve revisited older dystopian films like Blade Runner and found something to relate to. The reason that dystopian stories have become so popular these days is that the settings in which they take place seem more realistic than they did 30 years ago. Through the internet and advances in technology, people are simply more exposed to the world around them, for better and for worse. Dystopian stories are often seen of criticisms of existing conditions or perspectives in the world. As movie audiences (and readers) became more informed of the world around them, they found something to connect with in the way that dystopian stories covered topics that directly impacted them.

Because of this, we can also better appreciate the ideas of Blade Runner today than ever before. Consider the concepts of artificial intelligence and bioengineering, both of which play a major role in the creation of the film’s replicants. Since that technology is closer to being a reality today than it was back in 1982, we better understand the implications of their development. Indeed, with many famous scientists warning us of the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence, the idea of a rogue replicant seems like it has potential. This makes the film’s message an apt warning, rather than just dark fantasy.

Improvements in Technology

Cinematography is aspect of film that has benefited greatly from improvements in technology. In particular, high definition home release versions as well as remastered versions of old releases have really allowed a second perspective on the cinematography of older films. Blade Runner is one such film that has benefitted greatly with the improvement in playback visual quality over the years. This is especially true given the fact that Blade Runner found its fans more through home video than the original theatrical release.

Initially, Blade Runner’s visual tone was written off as murky and and soft. Foggy disposition was a stylistic choice that filmmakers used in the 80’s. This was due to the impact that MTV music videos and a new generation of commercial directors were having on the industry (of which, Ridley Scott was one). On VHS, the effect was even more fuzzy, and it gave the film an ambiguous quality. As you can see in the video below, it’s almost impossible to see the incredible detail and impressive design of the film while watching on VHS.

The transition from film to the digital realm has changed all that. In high definition, the film comes alive in a way that it never did before. Instead of a hinderance, the haze adds to the emotional texture of the film. It feels dense, and overwhelming. With better picture quality, we can also see subtleties in lighting that were not easily noticeable before. We can see the structure and definition of the sets and backgrounds, which gives the film a more realistic feeling. We can see background activity which makes the city come alive, and the film’s bright neon colors really stand out, instead of fade into the grey.


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Great Britain and Her Queen - by Anne E. Keeling

borders and without them, there were the signs of coming storm. The condition of Ireland was
chronically bad; the condition of England was full of danger; on the Continent a new period of

earth-shaking revolution announced itself not doubtfully.

It would be hardly possible to exaggerate the wretched state of the sister isle, where fires of recent hate
were still smouldering, and where the poor inhabitants, guilty and guiltless, were daily living on the

verge of famine, over which they were soon to be driven. Their ill condition much aggravated by the

intemperate habits to which despairing men so easily fall a prey. The expenditure of Ireland on proof

spirits alone had in the year 1829 attained the sum of L6,000,000.

In England many agricultural labourers were earning starvation wages, were living on bad and scanty
food, and were housed so wretchedly that they might envy the hounds their dry and clean kennels. A dark

symptom of their hungry discontent had shown itself in the strange crime of rick-burning, which went on

under cloud of night season after season, despite the utmost precautions which the luckless farmers could

adopt. The perpetrators were not dimly guessed to be half-famished creatures, taking a mad revenge for

their wretchedness by destroying the tantalising stores of grain, too costly for their consumption; the

price of wheat in the early years of Her Majesty's reign and for some time previously being very high,

and reaching at one moment (1847) the extraordinary figure of a hundred and two shillings per quarter.

There was threatening distress, too, in some parts of the manufacturing districts; in others a tolerably
high level of wages indicated prosperity. But even in the more favoured districts there was needless

suffering. The hours of work, unrestricted by law, were cruelly long; nor did there exist any restriction as

to the employment of operatives of very tender years. "The cry of the children" was rising up to heaven,

not from the factory only, but from the underground darkness of the mine, where a system of pitiless

infant slavery prevailed, side by side with the employment of women as beasts of burden, "in an

atmosphere of filth and profligacy." The condition of too many toilers was rendered more hopeless by the

thriftless follies born of ignorance. The educational provision made by the piety of former ages was no

longer adequate to the needs of the ever-growing nation; and all the voluntary efforts made by clergy and

laity, by Churchmen and Dissenters, did not fill up the deficiency - a fact which had only just begun to

meet with State recognition. It was in 1834 that Government first obtained from Parliament the grant of a

small sum in aid of education. Under a defective system of poor-relief, recently reformed, an immense

mass of idle pauperism had come into being; it still remained to be seen if a new Poor Law could do

away with the mischief created by the old one.

Looking at the earliest years of Her Majesty's rule, the first impulse is to exclaim:

"And all this trouble did not pass, but grew."

It seemed as if poverty became ever more direful, and dissatisfaction more importunate. A succession of
unfavourable seasons and failing crops produced extraordinary distress; and the distress in its turn was

fruitful first of deepened discontent, and then of political disturbances. The working classes had looked

for immediate relief from their burdens when the Reform Bill should be carried, and had striven hard to

insure its success: it had been carried triumphantly in 1832, but no perceptible improvement in their lot

had yet resulted; and a resentful feeling of disappointment and of being victims of deception now added

bitterness to their blind sense of misery and injury, and greatly exasperated the political agitation of the

ten stormy years that followed.

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How To Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself

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If you continue to feel sorry for yourself, your life will continue to suck.

But you know what? A good portion of people reading this will ignore what I just wrote and continue to feel sorry for themselves. They’ll tell themselves that they’re different, that they have it worse than everyone else, and that no one understands what they’re going through.

The truth is that people feel sorry for themselves because it feels good to feel sorry for yourself. Self pity is comforting, because it allows us to blame external forces for our misfortunes. It justifies not taking action when taking action would be difficult, stressful, and where it could lead to failure.

Sure, Bad Things Happen

Obviously not everything that happens to us is within our control. Accidents happen, people die, illness can strike, and fate can be cruel. But no matter what happens, you and you alone get to play the cards you’re dealt. You get to choose how you react when you lose your job, when you relapse and end up in rehab again, when your significant other cheats on you with your best friend.

Stop Focusing On What Other People Have

The more you focus on what other people have and what you don’t, the more you’re going to feel sorry for yourself. The more you feel sorry for yourself, the less you’re going to move forward in your life. Despite what you might tell yourself, I can guarantee that not everyone who has it better than you, started out with less than you.

Somewhere in this world, someone was dealt a crappier hand than you were, and still managed to turn it around. Click Here To Tweet This Quote

There are also people in this world who were born with a silver spoon. They’ve had everything handed to them without having to work for it. They might even be arrogant about it, even though they did nothing to deserve their good fortune.

You know what? Be happy for them. Why not? How does their good fortune affect your life in anyway? You only get to play the hand you’re dealt, and the more energy you spend obsessing over someone else’s lot in life, the less energy you’ll have to work towards improving your own.

How Can I Move Beyond Self Pity?

Ok, that’s enough tough love. If you’ve read this far, you are probably ready to let go of your self-pity, but you don’t know how to do it.

As I mentioned earlier, one of the reasons its so hard to get rid of self pity is because its such a comforting emotion. It doesn’t take any effort to feel sorry for yourself, but it takes tremendous effort to overcome life’s challenges and become a better person for it.

To make things worse, once self pity sets in, it becomes an ingrained pattern in our mind that’s hard to get rid of. We get trained to think negatively, to start the pity party when things don’t go well for us. So what can you do the next time you start feeling sorry for yourself?

1. Implement a Zero tolerance policy

Start by telling yourself that you are no longer going to feel sorry for yourself. Right now, stop reading and take a moment to make this commitment to yourself.

It’s not going to be easy; you have ingrained patterns in your brain that encourage self-pity. But the next two steps should help you slowly but surely create new patterns.

2. Build Self Esteem

Self-esteem can be a wonderful tool for fighting off self-pity. When you feel strong and confident in yourself, you have little need to feel sorry for yourself. Of course, building self-esteem is not an easy thing to do, especially if you’re used to self-loathing and pity.

Building true self-esteem is a process that you work on bit by bit, day by day. Here are some things you can do to improve your sense of self-worth:

  • Exercise regularly and get into great shape
  • Learn about nutrition and start eating healthy
  • Do charity work
  • Meditate.
  • Form new hobbies that requires socializing
  • Do new things that are out of your comfort zone
  • Set small goals for yourself. Use these stepping stones to work towards achieving bigger goals.
  • Learn solid financial management. Learn that you don’t need to spend money to be happy, and that the things you own don’t define your worth

Don’t expect overnight changes, because they won’t happen. But if you keep striving for a tiny bit of personal improvement each day, one day you’ll look back at your old self and marvel at how much you’ve changed.

3. Be grateful for what you have

Is the glass half full or half empty? Even if the glass is only 1/100 full, the way we choose to perceive it is the thing that counts.

No matter how little you have, there’s no doubt you have things to be grateful for. The fact that you’re on the internet right now, connected to the world’s information superhighway and reading the thoughts of another human being thousands of miles away is a miracle in itself.

Choosing to be grateful for what you have is a direct attack on self pity. You can’t be grateful and feel sorry for yourself at the same time. Of course, if you’re used to choosing self-pity, it might be difficult to get into a grateful mindset.

To retrain your negative thought patterns, I want you to try this exercise. Every single day for the next month, write down 5 things you’re grateful for every morning. Do it without fail.

It can be as simple as being thankful for the fresh morning air, that first sip of hot coffee in the morning, the smell of fresh bacon in the frying pan, or even the fact that you’re alive. You can repeat the same 5 things everyday if you want, as long as you take the time to come up with 5 reasons to be grateful and write them down.

Self-pity is a habit and a choice. Take actions to unlearn this negative habit, and choose to bring some positivity into your life.

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Nick Wayne Sees His New Video as Soulful, Different … and Hysterical

"'Til the Wine's All Gone" Draws from '80s/'90s R&B Music Videos

Nick Wayne likes to blend the blues with country and soul, yet there’s another unexpected musical element at play in his newest video, “’Til the Wine’s All Gone.” Take a look at the brand new video, then read our exclusive Q&A below the player.

CMT: What do you remember most about shooting this video?

NW: Just having fun really… not being too serious and laughing at what we’re doing. It’s easy to do when you have Preston Leatherman directing.

How does the video bring your song to life?

The song really has a life of its own with how soulful and different it is. So we just wanted to do something funny with it to shed new life on it. So we went with just straight ’80s and ’90s R&B corny music video shots.

What message do you hope your fans take away from the video?

I’m looked at as a very serious person and a very serious artist which is not a wrong observation. But after you get to know me you realize I don’t take myself too seriously and that’s what we wanted to convey in this video.

How did it feel to see the finished product for the first time?

Hysterical. My girlfriend Hannah Ellis and I laughed out loud when we saw the first cut. I thought Preston captured what it felt like on set.

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2745 Adamsville Road

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TransUnion Finds a Link Between Minimum Credit Card Payments and Mortgage Delinquencies

It's hard to be surprised by the results of the newest study from TransUnion, which reports a link between minimum credit card payments and mortgage delinquencies.

According to the study, consumers who paid the minimum on their credit cards each month were more likely to default on their mortgage. On the flip side, consumers that paid their credit card balance back each month had much lower rates of delinquency on their mortgage.

The study - which we found via nationmortgageprofessional.com - essentially confirms what we all assumed: paying the minimum on your credit card balance is a legitimate sign of financial distress.

There were some interesting statistics that came out of the study. For instance, TransUnion reports that 40 percent of consumers will pay off their full balance each month. Of the 60 percent that carry a balance, 20 percent will pay the minimum.

For further information on the study, you can find the full article here.

Meanwhile, Fox Business today broke down what exactly the "average credit card debt" was for American consumers. Their conclusion? There are a lot of averages out there, each of which is calculated in its own way and takes various different factors into consideration.

For example, the average debt calculation we lean on most around these parts come from the Federal Reserve. But as Fox Business points out, the Federal Reserve average is calculated by taking the total amount of revolving debt and dividing it by the U.S. adult population. That returns a pretty crude number, and really doesn't do much to separate individual consumer groups. (Families, business, etc.)

That said, some of the numbers Fox Business pointed to were pretty staggering. Using numbers from the credit bureau Experian, the average amount of debt on cards that carried a balance was $8,220. That's more than the average household debt carried according to the Federal Reserve ($7,149).

Again, there are lots of ways to wrap our heads around what the "average" credit card debt is, but no matter which result we go with it's hard not to be shocked by the outcome...

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Employees coping with cancer need the support of everyone around them, including their employer.

MacMillan Cancer Support have produced a helpful leaflet giving tips to employers on how to support employees through diagnosis, treatment and living with cancer.

To access the leaflet with more information and contact details for further support, please visit the Macmillan website

Macmillan have provided seven tips that employers can use to support staff with cancer:
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  • Maintain appropriate contact with the employee so they don’t feel out of touch
  • Support them with their return-to-work options
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Occult Burial – Hideous Obscure (2016)

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Overall satisfying (but not quite inspiring) straightforward songs with equal parts thrash and proto-death metal present. I don’t quite hear the “occult” sound these guys are evidently going for; their music sounds too immediate and, weirdly, fun. The band members clearly enjoy creating this music and therefore their work is free of pretense; no revivalist coat-tail riding here. Expect to hear fairly similar-sounding riffs throughout, without much in the way of dynamics. Compared to their contemporaries in bands like Nifelheim and Aura Noir, Occult Burial are competent and maybe even a step ahead of the more popular bands that mix thrash with modern metal because they aren’t impeded by gimmickry. Their lack of theatrics may work against them because they will probably continue to be overlooked until they learn to cut loose and let their imaginations run a little more wild with their songs. Compared to the more aggressive speed metal classics from Coroner and Razor, parts of Hideous Obscure are downright boring. Even playing a bit faster and cleaning up the recording could do wonders for the effectiveness of these songs. Some parts sound truly terrible. For instance, the snare drum sounds  in the words of my favorite robot puppet “like a bag of sardines thrown up against the side of a pole barn.” Nevertheless there is promise here and I would reserve more judgment until Occult Burial release a proper-sounding album or I can catch them live.

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Sadistic Metal Reviews: Monday Mastications

Oh here she comes. Watch out boy she’ll chew you up. She’s a maneater. – Darryl Hall and John Oates, 1982.

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Black Tusk – Pillars of Ash (2016)
A fusion of party rock, screamo, and hardcore punk, Pillars of Ash brings a risible contribution to the rock/punk spectrum that many a beginner is prone to confuse with metal. The relevant question here is whether or not Black Tusk have anything worthwhile to offer to the listener that may not be found in higher quality elsewhere. The answer is a resounding NO. The album plays like a tenuous stream of echoes of 1980s hardcore bands rearranged with Mario Paint.

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Tombs – All Empires Fall (2016)
Tombs is described in some places as black or post metal, and while there is some borrowing from black metal techniques in the use of some blast beats and an imitation of traditional black metal vocals, Tombs isn’t isn’t black metal. The post-metal is correctly applied in that this isn’t much more than a poor excuse for pseudo-ambient experiments with haphazardly connected sections being paraded as composition. There are strong references to doom metal, cheap and stompy heavy rock, with post rock being added as the way to get away with 3rd rate writing. All in all, boring, generic, unfocused, and unoriginal background music. Tombs is lounge music.

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Howls of Ebb – Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows (2016)
Entirely random pastiche of metal clichés loosely held together by psychedelic interludes and a drunk vocalist feigning faux lunacy. If a blend of Voivod, galloping heavy metal, canned black metal and fuzz drenched noise rock wah wah soloing wasn’t pointless enough, the band commands and impressively dissociated catalog of occult vocabulary to match.

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Nucleus – Sentient (2016)
Nucleus have fun in the studio and they want you, dear listener, to have fun at home with them. If you like Demilich but thought it was too strange, too serious, or too weird to play around your sister then Sentience is the record that delivers all the thrills of Finnish extradimensional insectoid death without danger of unthrashability. All the more perfect for fucking your sister behind the dumpster at the skatepark.

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Candelabrum – Necrotelepathy (2016)
Two twenty minute tracks of spooky landscapes, sad vampire vocals, and canned drum patterns. If the goal was to stride the line between hysterical and uncomfortable, this record is a resounding success. Necrotelepathy is more Vampire Diaries metal.

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Abyssus – Once Entombed (2016)
Another pizza thrash band with a veneer of death metal fronted by a Greek John Tardy fan. The album art and song titles make adequate use of Death Metal Band Generator. Perfect comedy for those Saturday mornings when you are drunk with fellow “scene veterans.”

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Clawhammer Abortion – Slaughter Campaign (2016)
This band took every criticism levied against death metal and wrote an album of it. In order to get through, I turned it into a drinking game: Hear a cliché, drink. The only problem is I passed out drunk after three songs and the Editor took over. He heard so many Sodom breakdowns and generic grindcore riffs that he kicked my ghetto blaster into the campfire. Only the most calcified kidneys and fattiest livers prevail in the Eternal War.

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Anthrax sets release date for For All Kings

Anthrax has always been vaguely relevant at best – selling not quite enough albums to be huge, but never really going away and always drawing some amount of media attention. Perhaps it’s lower expectations, but they seem to have aged more gracefully than most of their famous speed metal counterparts in recent years. 2011’s Worship Music must’ve paid the bills for a while, since the delay between that and the upcoming For All Kings is quite lengthy (albeit not as lengthy as the wait between WM and its own predecessor). So far, Anthrax has released the track “Evil Twin” as a single, which makes for an accurate if unnecessary imitation of the band’s past work. Anthrax has also promised that For All Kings will be “heavier” than its predecessor, perhaps due to the presence of Jon Donais from the metalcore band Shadows Fall. I wouldn’t stake any important bets on it, though.

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Melbourne Cricket Ground

Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG - Early History

The Melbourne Cricket Club was first established in November of 1838, and played its first match against a military team at a location that was then on the outskirts of the city of Melbourne. After moving their facilities to many different locations throughout the year, the Melbourne Cricket Club currently holds games at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds, a stadium located in Melbourne near Yarra Park. The stadium holds about 100,000 people, and is no longer home to just cricket games. Australian Rules football, as well as boxing matches and rugby also take place within the impressive stadium. The Melbourne Cricket Ground is often referred to simply as the "G" and currently holds the world record for the highest light poles in a stadium.

Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG - Cricket Ground Melbourne Night

With its towering lights, the Cricket Ground Melbourne Night makes a great place to catch some after-hours entertainment. Despite the fact that it holds the word cricket in its name, the current stadium is most often used for Australian Rules football, as well as a host of other events. Quite often, football games, also called, "footy" by the locals, are played at night. Cricket Ground Melbourne night time activities make for a fun, relaxing way to enjoy a beer and take in a game after a long day spent sightseeing in Melbourne.

Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG - Transportation

Getting to the MCG is generally convenient, as the city of Melbourne offers a wide array of travel options. Near the stadium, you'll find two handily located train stations, the Jollimont and the Richmond, neither more then a fifteen minute walk to the stadium itself. There is also an array of inner city trams that makes stops near the MCG, as well as a bus stop right near the front entrance. Buses generally offer the least expensive way to get to the stadium, depending on where you are traveling from. Along the way, you can even do some sightseeing in Melbourne.

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Interestingly, the Melbourne Cricket Ground is located right near the heart of downtown Melbourne. In addition to making transportation convenient and generally hassle free, the location also gives stadium goers a chance to dine downtown. Restaurant options around the cricket grounds are plentiful, offering everything from a quick bite to a sit down meal. Less then fifteen minutes away is Melbourne Central, one of the premier shopping and dining areas in the city of Melbourne.

If you're interested in taking home a souvenir, you'll also want to check out the MCG gift shop. Nearby stores offer a wide array of shirts and sporting paraphernalia. Even if you don't choose to attend and event at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds, it's general location makes it a great historical stop when sightseeing in Melbourne.

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Costa Rica Events

Planning your Costa Rica holiday is half the fun of visiting. Whether you want to go flying through the mists of the jungle canopy or experience surfing at its wildest, taking a holiday in Costa Rica gives you so much variety that you won"t know where to start your adventure.

The dry season sees the most tourists enjoying their Holidays in Costa Rica while the off-season has the best rates on Costa Rica flights and hotels. This country has developed in popularity in the past 20 years for having some of the most pristine jungles of Central and South America.

Costa Rica holidays can consist of a simple 4x4 rental as you set out with a good map to explore this country"s ecological wonders. Monteverde Cloud Forest, the country"s many rivers, Arenal Volcano, the Nicoya Peninsula, and Tabacon are some of the places that has the most visitors on holiday. Costa Rica also has cultural artifacts as well - the many sizes of perfectly shaped granite bolas near the western coasts are remnants of a culture, which still has an influence on the natives in the area near the Caribbean.

For visitors who want to enjoy the sights but want to take the work out of sightseeing, taking Costa Rica tours offers them an opportunity to see all the top spots without having to do a lot of extra research before their Costa Rica holiday. Whatever type of activity you enjoy, there is a part of the country that will suit your needs. The Pacific side of the country has protected coves and inlet and waterside Costa Rica Biological Reserves, while to the north the Tabacon Hot Springs is an incredible place to see the red glow of mount Arenal.

Surfing and Scuba diving are popular water activities at Tamarindo Beach. The excitement of possibly catching a swordfish entices travelers to try the deep-sea fishing while they"re on holidays in Costa Rica. The pacific coast has warm steady temperatures and does not get the strong winds and torrential downpours of the Atlantic side.

If you don"t know how to swim and surfing, diving and Costa Rica fishing does not entice you, both the west and the east coast have warm, beautiful beaches and bustling waterfronts to explore on your Costa Rica holidays. Costa Rica is a relatively safe and extremely affordable country with dozens of airports. Once you plan your itinerary, you can choose to begin your adventure in whatever part of the country most interests you.

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Rare today, gone tomorrow: 13 tree species in India may become extinct because of deforestation

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By Badri Chatterjee

The Botanical Survey of India classified theses species as ‘endangered’ and ‘critically endangered’ between 2013 and 2017

Mumbai: Rampant deforestation has threatened the survival of 13 native trees, found the Botanical Survey of India (BSI).

BSI, which is under the ministry of environment, classified theses species as ‘endangered’ and ‘critically endangered’ between 2013 and 2017.

The details were revealed after BSI responded to a Mumbai-based activist’s RTI queries. A copy of the response is available with Hindustan Times.

The survey identified nine ‘endangered’ and four ‘critically endangered’ tree species. The list of tree species includes Assam catkin yew, Indian bdellium tree, white cedar and minangmose (see box). They are spread across northeast, central and southern parts of India. Based on information from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), BSI collated the reasons for the protected status.

According to the RTI response by BSI scientist Dr PM Padhye from Kolkata, major threats to these plant species included infrastructure development (roads and hydroelectric schemes), harvest for timber, loss of habitat and habitat fragmentation from agriculture, over-exploitation and unsustainable collection of tree parts for medicines. “Our mandate was to identify these threatened and rare species through various surveys. It is now the responsibility of the social forestry division and state forest departments to ensure conservation of these species before they become extinct,” Padhye told HT.

The Indian bdellium tree, found along the western parts of the country, was put under the ‘critically endangered’ status was facing an extinction risk, the survey found. “The gum from the bark has been extracted at unsustainable rates with faulty methods,” read the RTI response.

Similarly, the number of the endangered White Cedar found along the Western Ghats reduced considerable between considerably owing to man-made fragmentation of tropical forests. The RTI response identified a 40% decline in natural vegetation of the Western Ghats between 1920 and 1990 and an 83% reduction in size of surviving forest patches. In the southern parts of the Western Ghats, a 25.6% loss in forest cover was detected between 1973 and 1995. “The Western Ghats is under severe threats because of anthropogenic disturbances due to deforestation, developmental activities, conversion of forests to plantations and habitat fragmentation,” read the RTI response.

Three tree species of the Magnolia family (evergreen and deciduous tree species bearing flowers), endemic to Assam, is under threat and has seen a substantial decline in their population. Some of the other tree species had declined owing to damage of seeds by arboreal animals (squirrels, field mice etc) and grazing animals.

“It is very important to generate this knowledge to understand that we are losing our rare tree species. We now need conscious afforestation strategies. If we make right interventions at the right time, it is possible to save these species,” said Anumita Roy Chowdhury, executive director (research and advocacy), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

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Monday, June 30, 2008

Hot, Hot, Hot

We just got back from the park. My friend Jovy came with her two children and they played together for over 3 hours. I get to crochet and catch-up with my friend too. The first thing my two youngest sons said upon waking up was: "I want to go out" and "I want to go to the park".

We've been there since 830. I finally insisted on going home when the heat started to eat at my skin. At least, it feels that way. Also, Yossi has a karate class in 10 minutes, which means, I had better dressed him or we'll be late. Again.

My friend, Acey, had this tarot test on her blog, and I decided to take the test. I have no idea what tarot is, but here's my test result. Uh, mental illness? What kind of card is that? Ugh! But there you have it. No wonder I don't do tarot. I only like happy and bright things in life. I think I had picked the wrong card. I'm pretty logical for a girl.

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Photo Hunt: Bright

The setting sun was bright on our eyes as we walk towards our car after taking a walk around the water gardens near our house. It was so bright, I still squint my eyes when I look at this picture.

Or maybe it's just late. It's after 2, and I'm still awake. I had about 4 hours of sleep last night. In the morning, I'll be driving my daughter downtown. That's less than 4 hours away. Are you seeing a pattern here? Sleeping 4 hours only with a birthday party to do the next day is probably not one of my brightest idea ever.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Sky Watch: My Son's 4th Birthday

My husband took this picture while he was at work early in the day. Nothing paints like the sky. It's always a new canvas every day, and almost always, no two sky views are the same.

We just came home from watching Wanted with James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie. What an entertaining movie. Love it. I just love it. I want more of the same. I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching good action movies. I'll probably try to take my kids to see Wall.e tomorrow before 12, before piano lessons, and before hurricane harbor trip.

I must son, Yossi is going to be 4 years old today, Friday. This is Yossi. Happy birthday sweetie!

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Someone to Love by Jude Deveraux

Before the Black Dagger brotherhood, and the Dark Hunters, there was the Montgomerys by Jude Deveraux. I pounced at every book written about them. I started this series over 20 years ago. There's something very appealing to this series. If you haven't tried it, then it's about time.

This is a story about Jace Montgomery, and the mystery of his fiancee's death. I'm still currently reading the book, and I want to enjoy it. I'll give an update later to see if I am 'entertained' by my newest Montgomery. I actually find myself re-reading The Invitation, the story of William Montgomery and Jackie O'Neill. It's a fun story to read.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

On The Way Out

This is Yossi and I on the way out from Fairmont hotel. We took our pictures by the entry mirrors. Why post this picture? Well, I don't look such a tabby here.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Weekend Snapshots

First of all, my blog never looked so lovely! Thanks to Carlota for fixing the total make-over. I'm just so in-love with this new look.

My daughter was at a workshop from 8AM to 7PM on Saturday. This picture below was after we picked her up. My 2 and 4 years old went with me. On the way to our car, we stopped by a water garden. My two youngest boys loveed it there and complained loudly about leaving.

After being there for 11 hours, my daughter's ready for food and bed!

These are what my boys thought about leaving too soon...

Speechless! This is Super Great!

Do you see my new blog design? The incomparable Carlotta designed my blog for me! This is awesome! There are no words adequate enough to explain. I am in ecstasy....and very happy. I'm grinning like a loon. I'm tearing up at the poetry of it all.

Join me in admiring my template. I can't possible concentrate on P is for Peril by Sue Grafton, my head is on cloud 9! Wait, didn't Kinsey Milhone just found a body in a car under a water? I think she found her body, but I have to listen to this story again. I'm lost. I'm just going to go and admire my blog template again.

Thank you so much Carlotta! If you visit her sites, you'll know that she's so talented at design, and I, I am very fortunate indeed that she designed this.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
32 sound disc

This is my very first Ken Follett book. It's huge, it's exciting, and sad and triumphant! Never have I read a book with so much hatred and suffering, yet with an overwhelming triumph too. This is a story about Tom Builder whose passion is to build a cathedral. He passed this passion to his apprentice, Jack Jackson. This urge to build a beautiful monument for God and man drove these people to extraordinary length.

I like the mixture of women in this story. There's Agnes who died in childbirth, and whose death change the course of her baby's life. There's Aliena, daughter or an earl who refused William Hamleigh's offer of marriage. This refusal would drive William to all depth of evil.

They all end up in Kingsbridge, the priory of Father Philip. Their journey in life is something not to be missed. I would recommend this book to every one. This book will make it to my list of "Books to Read before you die" if I were to make one.

I must say that John Lee, the reader, is an engaging reader. I like his voice very much.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Weekend Snapshot: Walk-Jog with Daughter

This picture is taken in front of a sprinkling yard in our neighbor. My daughter's trying out some poses she learned.

I feel asleep a little early on Saturday night. It was about 12AM when I lay down with my baby, and woke up at 530. 12AM is early for me. :) I took a nice was so nice. No one was screaming or beating on my shower door. It's almost like a vacation. Weird! Then I thought I might as well jog. I woke up my daughter and have her jog with me. In another year, her strides are going to be longer than mine. She's ten, and she's only half and inch shorter than my 5'2". We made it to our neighborhood 7-11. She bought Slurpee, and I bought citrus propel water. And a bag of Teriyaki beef jerky.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

DDP: Canon at Six Flags

This is the canon at Six Flags over Texas. If you're bored, you can just head over to Texas and ride the canon to pass the boredom away. This was taken one hot summer afternoon, we went and just had fun.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

DDP: Signs

This was taken with my husband's 2MP cell phone camera at night. I just love the wisdom of the signs, don't you? I need to sleep now because I have to get my daughter to her workshop someplace half and hour away at 8AM. At 9AM, my 3 years old need to be at his karate class for belt testing. I can't sleep though. I've always been insomniac. I think the sign I should be reading now is:
Can't sleep? Sleep anyway.

Briliant huh? What do you expect? It's 2AM my time.

Photo Hunt: Emotion(s)

There can be no doubt what this baby's emotion is. Clear as day huh? This is my youngest child at less than two weeks old. Click on that link to see him today. He didn't sleep early today. I hope he won't be cranky all day tomorrow. It wouldn't be fun as I have to be places for the other kids in the morning, and he gets to hang out with me.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

DDP: Sky Watch

You have to click on the picture to look closer to the light. Come on, take a look. What do you think? My husband took this picture of me last week from a 2MP phone camera. This is also my entry for Tom's Sky Watch.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

DDP: Under a Bridge

This is what you would see if you're driving along highway 30, in Downtown Dallas. It's that part of the highway where they have a movable barrier. It makes HOV lane twice a day. I think it's a most expensive way to make extra lane. I was going to take a picture of the 'zipper', but my camera wasn't fast enough. My pictures are straight from camera because I don't know how to photoshop it, and I have no idea what a photoshop is.

The Days of Summer by Jill Barnett

The Days of Summer
by Jill Barnett
Mass Market Paperback
Published in 2007
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I've always been a Jill Barnett fan. Ever since I read the first one called Bewitching, I want to read everything she wrote. This one though, it took me a year to read it. It's on my TBR pile, but I just couldn't find the right time to read this. Until now.

What can you say about a girl who meets the wrong brother first? It makes for a nice story to be sure, but I wouldn't want to live that life. I have enough stress already without adding love-live stress to it. But this story is about the Peytons women and the Banning men, and how their lives are closely entwined. Actually, it's a great story, much better than I can ever say or describe. I'm really not done reading, I have about 100 pages left, but I'm giving away my copy when I'm through. Watch out for it at button provided by

DDP: New Things

My husband took this picture while driving today. It's amazing how much new houses are cropping up daily. This metroplex is certainly growing in leaps. Contructions like this always reminds me of my late Lolo(grandpa). He's a builder, and a great one.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Sparkle Friends

Thanks to Cathy at Me and My World for this tag. I meet Cathy this year and she's a fabulous friend. I'm so glad I got to know her.

I found this poem online. Isn't this a great description of frienship and friends?

Tagging: Gen at Wonderful Life, Ghee at Creative Mind, Bernadeth at Isaac Story, Nancy at Just The Way It Is, Hailey at Hailey's Beats and Bits, and Lolli at SO-cute.

Captive of My Desires (Malory Family) by Johanna Lindsey

Captive of My Desires (Malory Family)
by Johanna Lindsey
Mass Market Paperback
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I haven't read Lindsey in a long time, but picked this one up because I want something familiar and good. I've always enjoyed the Mallory series. I used to stay up all nights reading them.

Since I have five children, and a few more other businesses, I can't stay up all night reading anymore. This Mallory is about Drew Anderson (James Mallory's brother-in-law) and Gabrielle, the Pirates daughter. It starts out a little slow, then picks up. It has great moments, then it has silly moments, but overall, it's worth the read. This is not the greatest of Mallory series, but it's certainly still a good read.

Monday, June 9, 2008

When I was little, my father would never take a picture of us sleeping. It makes him uncomfortable. We weren't allowed to wear black either. That's reserve for when someone died. The sleeping picture...well. it reminds him too much of the practice of when they used to take picture of dead people. What was the term for that practice?

I like taking pictures of my children at any stage. I'm not superstitious. Much.
Currently reading Omega Sol by Scott McKay and Captive of My Desires by Johanna Lindsey, and over a dozen books more. I'm enjoying these books. What are you reading lately?

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Wordless & Two-Word Meme

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Got this meme from Booshay. It seems fun, so I'm doing it.

I'm tagging:
Cathy, Liza, Lolli, Carlota, Ghee, Vhiel, Witchy, Hailey, Loloy, Myende, and Steve and Emz

What to do?
Copy and answer the question using only two words. Link back to me and be sure to let me know when you've done the tag so I can visit you.

1. Where is your cell phone? in bag
2. Where is your significant other? right here
3. Your hair? very straight
4. Your mother? always there
5. Your father? fun, fair
6. Your favorite thing? reading books
7. Your dream last night? chocolate cake
8. Your favorite drink? Mr. Pibbs
9. Your dream/goal? everyone here
11. Your hobby? reading, baking
12. Your fear? snakes, cockroach
13. Where you want to be in 6 years? slim, travelling
14. Where were you last night? right here
15. What you're not? mountain climber
16. Muffins? not now
17. One of your wish list items? European tour
18. Where you grew up? Mindanao, Philippines
20. What are you wearing? gi, shirt
21. Your TV? off now
22. Your pets? 4 dogs
23. Your computer? fast desktop
24. Your life? never boring
25. Your mood? satisfied, relaxed
26. Missing someone? whoever's away
27. Your car? Chevy Astro
28. Something you're not wearing? thong bikini
29. Favorite store? Barnes bookstore
30. Your summer? planned trips
31. Like someone? for sure
32. Your favorite color? red, black
33. When is the last time you laughed? just now
34. Last time you cried? two days
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Currently reading: Omega Sol by Scott Mackay. Military personnel made it to the moon now. There's some suspicious activity with this shinny sphere. I think I love sci-fi now.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Wordless: Fans

My daughter getting a signed picture from Hermoine of Harry Potter series.

Finishing Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran. This is a book I won at Ann Aguirre What a great book, and what a journey this has been. My son tore the back cover off, and I glued it back. If it doesn't offend people, I'll probably post it for free at this site.

Don't forget to check out other free books posted right now at ♥ available books. You'll be glad you did. *wink*

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Currently reading: Omega Sol by Scott Mackay. I'm on chapter 7 and cannot wait to find out what is this strange shinny sphere that just landed on the moon.


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Definition of anarchy:

  1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
  2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

insurrection, order, rebellion, sedition, revolt, revolution, peace, lawlessness, riot, misrule, insubordination, mutiny, outlawry.

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Bill C-32

The long computer registry and IT control

(Note: In the 41'st parliament bill C-32 became bill C-11, and Bill C-391 became bill C-19)

When meeting with some members of parliament I have used a gun control analogy to explain digital locks applied to communications technology. A minor form of gun control is being hotly debated in parliament and the media in the context of a private members Bill C-391, which has "repeal of long-gun registry" in its title. A highly controversial form of third-party control over communications technology is part of copyright Bill C-32, even though this key aspect of the bill is not yet adequately understood.

I felt it might be an interesting thought experiment to compare and contrast these two proposals and the political debate surrounding them. In my case this thinking was useful for me to better understand the opponents of the Canadian firearms registry, and thus it may be helpful in allowing others to better understand opponents to legal protection for technological measures.

Jailbreaking must be legal, but should you do it?

You will be hard pressed to find someone who find the practise of applying technology locks to someone elses property more reprehensible than I do. This is what I feel of the practise of companies like Apple and Sony who sell technology where they, not the owner, retain the keys to the technology and treat their owners as attackers of their own property. I believe that this practise should be clearly outlawed, while backward facing legislation such as the Conservative Bill C-32 seeks to legally protect it.

While this is true, I recommend against what has become the most common form of jailbreaking.

Read full article in IT World Canada's blog >>

Sending letters to your MP.

One of the features of this site is an interface to send a letter to your MP. We are in the process of drafting a new letter which focuses on Bill C-32 and TPMs. There is an existing general copyright letter which I've updated that may be more what you would like to send.

The main purpose is to ensure MPs are aware of your interest in copyright, and possibly to be willing to speak with us before or during committee hearings on C-32.
MPs return to parliament on September 20'th, and the earlier we start conversations the better.

ZeroPaid Interviews Russell McOrmond 2 – Canadian Bill C-32

Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid has posted a 3 part interview (Part 1,Part 2,Part 3)with me discussing Copyright and Bill C-32.

Why legal protection for technical measures is controversial

On August 14'th I gave a presentation on legal protection for technological measures, and why this policy doesn't fit well within Copyright law (Slides, link to audio recording)

Summary: The types of activities which copyright regulates all assume that you already have access to content. Copyright never concerned itself with concept of access, which was left to other laws.

Technical measures can restrict access, but can't in the real world directly restrict the types of activities that copyright regulates.

Copyright and technical measures are disjoint, but technical measures and other areas of law such as contract and e-commerce overlap.

Is technology useful for stopping an authorized person from doing things which Copyright regulates? Should we radically change "Copyright" to address this problem, or is this a non-Copyright issue?

Form letter from Heritage Minister James Moore.

On August 5'th I received an email that was "From:". It had no content, but two file attachments - one HTML and one GIF. Thunderbird warned that it was most likely a scam, given this is a common technique used by spammers to avoid SPAM detection software.

I extracted the file attachments, and I wasn't all that surprised to learn that it was a form letter originating from the Heritage Minister's office. This isn't the most technologically literate Minister or department in Canada, and it was unlikely that ensuring emails wouldn't be confused as SPAM or scams would be something they would know much about.

The GIF image was a scan of a form letter, which reads as follows. Having read it, I think Thunderbird was right to have automatically detected it as a scam.

A simple guide to copyright

I was thinking about the recent DMCA rulemaking in the US, which led me to this "simple guide to copyright".

You can legally do pretty much anything you like with your own property,

unless it's a "fixation" of a copyrighted work and what you want do is a right granted to the rightsholder,

unless it's covered by one of the "fair dealing" exceptions.

That's not too bad. Of course, in the US, or in Canada if C-32 passes as-is, you need to add a couple more lines:

Federal Bill C-32 tramples areas of provincial jurisdiction

2010-06-11: I sent a letter this afternoon to my Member of Provincial parliament for Ottawa South, who happens to be Premier Dalton McGuinty. I copied it to my federal MP, as well as to Andrea Horwath, Leader of Ontario’s New Democrats, and Tim Hudak, Leader of the Ontario PC Party.

Update 2010-07-29: I have sent an additional letter to Mr. McGuinty.

Thank you for your letter of July 27, 2010, in response to the letter I sent on June 11, 20101. I hope that you will reconsider the response, which was to say that it would be inappropriate for you to comment on a federal piece of legislation.

I forgot to include a link to the FAQ on why I disagree with what CMEC has been asking for.

Meeting with Justin Trudeau, MP for Papineau

I met with Justin Trudeau at his office at 625 Faillon Street in Montréal, Québec, from approximately 15:00 to 16:00 on Monday July 19'th. My wife attended as she was interested to meet Mr. Trudeau. The conversation was primarily about Copyright, and when it was nearing 16:00 it was Rina and not one of Mr. Trudeau's staffers that had to remind us that the office was closing when it seemed we might head off into other topics (Census, patenting of life, ....).

Negative effects of the DMCA in the US

Interesting statistics from Copyright and Technology Blog :

[...] academic research into DRM and other rights technologies in the United States has diminished to virtually nil.

(For example, a search of IEEE shows that of all digital rights-related research papers published from 2008 to the present, 40% were from China, 27% were from the rest of Asia, 20% were from Europe, and less than 4% were from the United States. Spain by itself had more activity than the US.)

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Macrovision Responds to Apple's "Thoughts on Music"

Today Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision, (a company that has developed and implemented DRM technologies for nearly 25 years) responded to the Apple CEO's open letter "Thoughts on Music" with an open letter himself. The response, called To Steve Jobs and the Digital Entertainment Industry takes issue with Jobs on most points and notably opines:

  • DRM increases consumer value - by allowing cutomers to buy specific content for specific purposes, instead of for a specific device;
  • DRM increases the electronic distribution of content - if content creators are asked to "enter, or stay in a digital world that is free of DRM, without protection for their content, then there will be no reason for them to enter, or to stay if they've already entered. The risk will be too great."
  • DRM interoperability is key to its spread - widespread interchangeable use of DRM like FairPlay across multiple devices will mean the promulgation of DRM (leading to the benefits given above), and mean that consumers "are not held hostage to one company's products"

Macrovision's CEO thus joins the cacophany of voices calling for Apple to license FairPlay. Not surprisingly, he tells Jobs that his company will "offer to assist Apple in the issues and problems with DRM that you state in your letter. Should you desire, we would also assume responsibility for FairPlay as a part of our evolving DRM offering and enable it to interoperate across other DRMs, thus increasing consumer choice and driving commonality across devices."

It's clear that the big labels would like Apple to start licensing FairPlay; this would give Apple less control over the scheme (and eventually less influence over the labels) and maybe down the road FairPlay could be strengthened into something the labels are more comfortable with. For business reasons Macrovision and many hardware makers are of the same opinion and add to the pressure on Apple. It's also probable that in exchange for this loss of control, if Apple licensed FairPlay it could potentially become gatekeeper of an industry standard (much the same way that many Microsoft technologies are standard today), and as history shows us being gatekeeper of industry standards can be hugely profitable. So why does Apple resist these market forces?

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Multi-vendor DRM doesn't solve interoperability problems...

While Jobs didn't list the 4'rd option (Using a multi-vendor format), this format only passes the buck for interoperability choices to those encoding the content -- it does not solve any of the underlying problems with interoperability that exist in any DRM system.

Those who control the keys, control the platform. With something like AACS (Advanced Access Content System), there is going to be no way prior to purchasing content to know whether the content has been encoded in keys which "your" devices (those you have bought, but don't control) have. Your keys could have been revoked, or your device brand may never have made the necessary back-room deal with the content company in the first place.

While having 2 Microsoft, an Apple, and a Sony DRM for music may seem annoying, you can at least know ahead of time whether your purchase will work in your device. While I support AACS for political reasons (It puts all the blame on the content industry for interoperability problems), it will turn out to be far worse for compatibility than the status-quo. The expected failure of AACS is one of the reasons I prefer it, given my goal is to eradicate DRM entirely.

Full disclosure with AACS would require every package to list which models of devices (possibly even serial number ranges) are compatible. The more this multi-vendor DRM is deployed, the more people will realize the harm caused by all DRM systems. Contrary to the letter from Macrovision, there is (and can never be) an "Interoperable DRM" given one of the key components of any DRM system is a method to reduce interoperability to only "authorized" access devices. The entire concept of an Interoperable DRM is an oxymoron, and anyone who tries to claim otherwise is only trying to mislead their intended audience.

Macrovision, a company that gets a royalty cut on every VCR shipped and any "copy controlled" VHS movie, is spreading "humour" (OK, lies) by even being involved in a conversation about consumers being upset that they "are held hostage to one company's products". It was the content industries extremely bad experience with Macrovision that has made them very worried about vendor-specific content control in the first place. When the discussions about technology mandates through a "broadcast flag" broke down, it was largely because the industry didn't want to duplicate the mistakes they felt they made by adopting Macrovision. This turned some of the tech companies, like Microsoft, who had been supporters of the mandate to switch their opinion because they realized that they would be locked out. The content industry have the same mistrust of Microsoft that they do Macrovision.

Vcr's as RF Modulators

A lot of people when DVD player came out discovered Macrovision.

When it kicked in when useing there old VCR as a RF Modulator for there old TV's with no line in so they hooked the DVD to Line in to the VCR and the VCR to the Cable in on there TV.

When they tryed to play a DVD the Macrovision would kick in and they were disaponted. The worst part is it wasn't a tape they were trying to copy from one to the other. They just wanted to play a DVD in the kids room that they leagaly bought.

I am sure that this was unintended in the begining but it was a most hated sideffect for most people.
People that I know were not very happy.
There are a handfull of VCR's that worked very well for this.

There are RF modulators for this but most had a old VCR so why not use it.

I think this is the same thing that will happen when people try to use other products as gateways/Interfaces to use new products in the future. To make them hopefully work with there older hardware.

The worst thing is with any and all DRM systems there is no consumer/customer protaction against it going over the top like Sonys root kit. I am sure it will happen again with some company.

Also what happens if a product to be used has to go on line so you can watch or listen to the media that you leagly baught.

When the company selling it goes out of bussness and you can not listen or watch you media that you bought.

There should be a law or act that says when said company goes belly up the key should be released to the public or if a company gets sold the keys are still up or released to the public.

But we all know that TPM's and DRM's are just plain wrong

The Macrovision and the VCR for DVD watching on a old TV. Is a good example for most people that Copy control is wrong.

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"I am sure that this was unintended"

Whether the technology was adequately understood by the content industry, these types of so-called "unintended consequences" are inherent in all forms of DRM. The first part of any DRM system is to reduce the interoperability of the content. With Macrovision the NTSC signal standard is deliberately violated in order to reduce interoperability with recording devices. The fact is that this is impossible to target exactly: there will always be false positives (IE: it will cause equipment like TVs to not work) and false negatives (IE: Some recording devices will still work fine).

In the case of this NTSC standard violation (IE: deliberate manufacturing defect), a simple device called Time Base Correctors will eliminate the errors in the signal, and allow all equipment (including recording devices) to work property. In the last 1980's I worked at an Amiga store as a hardware tech, and since we sold video editing hardware and software we had TBCs which I used more than once to fix defects in VHS tapes.

Like all so-called "copy control" or "DRM", Macrovision's VCR scheme is trivial to circumvent for those with the technical knowledge, can not stop mass copyright infringement, and discourages legal purchases by making the media less valuable.

Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) consultant.

I thought Macrovision messed up the AGC in a VCR.

Thats what I have always been told that it plays with the automatic gain control when recording.

But your right any DRM will have side effects that will spill over and create a interoperable nightmare or lock in users

My 2 Watts

automatic gain control

You are correct, but the part of the signal that is being corrupted that causes VCR's to do this when recording (IE: it is not the playing VCR doing this, but the recording one) is in the vertical blank signal, with these defects being corrected by a TBC. There are a lot of signal quality issues that are corrected by a TBC.

There was previously more detail on the Wikipedia Macrovision page, but I suspect that Macrovision lawyers spend their entire lives sending out letters stating that the emperor is not naked, and that saying so will result in a lawsuit.

Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) consultant.

Re: Macrovision Translation From PR-Speak to English

Hilarious! And mostly true, too. If only Macrovision's CEO had come out and directly "said it like it is" like this Daring Fireball translation shows, we all would understand Macrovision's real intentions. And Amoroso would have been out of a job :-)

Macrovision's real intentions

They are a company that offers "copy control" schemes. Any suggestion that these schemes can't work (laws of physics) or are harmful to the interests of their content industry customers (economics, etc) will obviously be sent a big dose of FUD. Since most people don't understand the underlying technology, it is easy for Macrovision to confuse people into thinking that their business has any legitimacy.

Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) consultant.

Macrovision, DRM and Patent's cheating

There are rumours that Fred Amoroso and his highly ethical company are involved in a Patent infringement lawsuit for willfully cheating against a small Californian software company... Is the White Knight of DRM so clean???


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