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New CD compilation of DIME artists “an eclectic mix of alternative rock, folk, R&B and EDM”

The Detroit Institute for Music Education, or DIME, whose tagline is "Music education is a four letter word," just put out a compilation this week of music by their first year of students' work. The collection of the freshman work is entitled DIME Sessions Volume 1. Released on DIME's in-house label Original 1265, the album is available on iTunes, Amazon and in person at the DIME location at 1265 Griswold St., Detroit. You can buy it digitally, or get a compact disc.

 Described as “an eclectic mix of alternative rock, folk, R&B and EDM” according to a DIME press release. The record showcases the young musicianship of students like Ryan Harrison, a guitar student who says “Being a part of the DIME album was an incredible experience that gave me a glimpse of what it takes to be in the music industry.”

DIME President Kevin Nixon says that the album “is designed to be a first-hand experience for our students of what it’s like when you actually start working in the professional music industry. Dealing with mysterious things like A&R, Pre-production, high-level recording can be very daunting when it’s your first time, and it’s important to prepare for success and enjoy the experience.” For the featured students being in DIME for only a year, Nixon says, “everyone has done a great job here and this album stands up as an excellent representation of the progress that these musicians and songwriters have made.”

NOTE: The embedded YouTube clips are not from the compilation itself, but are recent performances by DIME students whose work is on the release.

Dennis Burck is an intern for Metro Times.

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No longer retarded

Q: Please stop using the word "retarded" as an insult, Dan. I know it can be hard to break a verbal habit, but please make an effort. Perhaps you should have a "retard jar" on your desk that you put a dollar in every time you use the word. When the jar is full, send the money to the Special Olympics.

Whatever you do, though, try to remember that you have lots of listeners and readers who have loved ones with mental disabilities, and we don't want to hear you misuse the word "retarded." Please don't tell me to read or listen to other people if I don't like what I hear. I want to read your column and listen to your Podcast, but without the put-downs directed at people with mental disabilities. —The Real Other Sister

A: I'm going to turn over a new leaf, TROS, and make a conscious, conscientious effort to break myself of the bad habit of using the word "retard." But I don't think the "retard jar" is for me. Instead, I'm going to use a substitution for the word. From now on, instead of saying "retard" or "that's so retarded," I'm going to say "leotard" and "that's so leotarded." I won't be mocking the mentally challenged, just the physically gifted. I will pick on the strong — and the limber — and not the weak.

Q: I've lived with my boyfriend for a little less than a year, and we have awesome, frequent sex and a loving relationship. I'm not naive, and I don't expect my boyfriend not to look at porn. However, I took the opportunity to make it as clear as possible that porn makes me uncomfortable (I have a weird, visceral distaste), and it makes me feel insecure (am I not enough for him?). All I ask is that he clear his browser history if we're going to continue sharing computers and that he keep his porno-viewing habits private.

We had a huge fight about this. He was raised in an oppressive, religious household and feels my attitude is oppressively prudish. But I don't think he should feel ashamed for looking at pornography, I just don't want to see it. Why can't he see my point of view? Is it unreasonable to expect him to keep this part of his private life private? —On The Outs

A: It's not at all unreasonable to ask him to be discreet about his porn-viewing habits, OTO, out of consideration for your feelings. And if he can't see that, well, then he's just being willfully leotarded.

But there are other solutions: Get your own personal laptops, change his settings so his browser history clears automatically, and if he makes an effort and slips up now and then — if you come across a porn-clogged browser history — clear it yourself and resist the urge to bring it up.

And for the record: It never even occurs to me to look at the browser history on the computer my boyfriend and I share. It wouldn't bother me if he was looking at porn — I'd be concerned if he wasn't looking at porn — but there's no law that requires you to check out his browser history. Scrutinizing browser histories is fourth-degree snooping, and only a leotard scrolls through her boyfriend's browser history knowing that what's she likely to find there is going to upset her.

Q: I'm a 29-year-old hetero male considering breaking up with my sweet GGG girlfriend of five years. I can't find a reason to do it, though. We never fight; she loves to do all the chores I hate and vice versa; she's accepting of all my kinks, from anal to public sex; and we love each other. We've been talking marriage and family all year.

But I miss falling in love, sex is becoming boring, and my heart aches every time I hear about a girl who wishes I were single. I told my girlfriend about these things, and she (while crying) gave me permission to sleep around so long as it's on her terms, though her terms are pretty strict. I'm not happy with the restrictions, but I can't ask for more because she gets so depressed talking about it.

Am I being self-destructive in wanting to throw away the love of my life? —Let Me Have It

A: You're being a self-destructive leotard, LMHI, and your cliché male fear-of-intimacy issues are totally leotarded. Perhaps the marriage conversation is making you jittery — as marriage, in theory at least, means that you'll never again experience the heady rush of new love. But your odds of ever finding another girl — for a long- or short-term relationship — who loves you, you enjoy living with, and is willing to give you permission to sleep around, even with conditions, are infinitesimally small. If you weren't such a leotard, you would be able to see that you're not going to do better than this girl.

And make an effort to kick your sex life with the girlfriend into gear before you sleep with someone else. If she was sobbing her eyes out when she gave you permission to sleep with other people, LMHI, that's not a good sign. Successful and healthy open relationships rarely get their start when one partner has consented under duress. Boring can be fixed, and fixing it may involve opening this relationship up, but she's not really ready to go there.

Q: I'm a big fan of something called the Instead cup, which might help AFTER and her hemo-phobic boyfriend who doesn't want to have sex with her at any time during her period. You can buy them at the big drugstores like CVS here in California. When I have my period, the Instead cup sits up against my cervix. It captures all the menstrual blood and keeps it away from my loving boyfriend's enormous yet fastidious cock. He often doesn't even realize I have it in. It's a little messy to take out and dispose of, but it's totally worth it. Here's the website:

And if AFTER's boyfriend still won't fuck her with one of these handy numbers in, then she should definitely DTMFA. —Cup Up Pussy

A: I'm familiar — not intimately so — with the Instead cup. But, like a total leotard, I spaced out. Thanks for writing, CUP.

Q: Longtime fan, Dan, but I don't see you on Twitter. It would be a blast! Thanks in advance. —Need More Savage Love

A: Writing a column and doing a weekly Podcast and blogging aren't enough? Now I have to Twitter?

Sorry, NMSL, but no. The tech-savvy, at-risk youth who pull the Savage Lovecast together every week may have dragged my gay ass into the early years of the 21st century — they created a YouTube site for me and a Facebook page — but I'm going to draw the line at Twittering, at least for the time being, as it would cut into my drinking time.

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Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation

People will jam themselves into the quaint ex-porno house on Woodward and be treated to a guaranteed antidote to all the forced sweetness and light of Christmastime. Did you miss A Charlie Brown Christmas this year? Did you forget the scratchy and homely Frosty the Snowman? Spike and Mike can relieve all your holiday cartoon jonesin’ in just 70 minutes with this counterpart to their artier and much more “serious” Festival of Animation that usually plays at artier and much more serious” venues. The laid-back and liquor-stocked Bag is the perfect home for all the bloodletting, sexual depravity, and dead-on raunchiness of the more than twenty shorts presented this year. That doesn’t count the vintage sci-fi intermission clip or the hilariously sincere coming attractions for such ’70s sex-and-blaxploitation films as Sweet Sugar (“Cain wasn’t all she raised!”) and The Mack.

As in past festivals, the show opens with the sad, pathetic and existentially acute adventures of No Neck Joe. No Neck’s creator, Craig McCracken, has gone on to greater acclaim and prime-time accessibility with the Powderpuff Girls; a fate also afforded past festival contributor Mike Judge of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill fame. Joe does not have a neck, as promised, and is punished in these blink-of-an-eye vignettes by two giggling burn-outs. Joe never loses his dumb smile or his youthful gait as he continues to walk right into their sinister and humiliating traps.

Like No Neck Joe, most of the films presented are under three minutes. This is merciful in the case of the one or two clunkers like Peepshow by Debbie Bruce and Natalie Repp, a lame stop-action involving those foamy Easter candy creations (in this case, rabbits) fornicating and propagating in various locales. The shortness of the films can also be frustrating when the brilliance and originality of pieces like Here Comes Dr. Tran by Breehn Burns and Jason Johnson (an unrelenting spoof on coming attractions featuring a clever jab at the audience with the use of some 3-D glasses) and Mousochist by John Dillworth segue into the overdone “brains-getting-blown-out” motif.

It’s strangely satisfying watching sweetly rendered cartoon animals getting mowed down in a fast-food restaurant, a la Flipping Burgers by Mondo Media and white boy gangsta pretenders getting their comeuppance in Mama I’m a Thug by Jim Lujan. It’s also quite amazing how much masochist pleasure you will take in the ripping out of bloody hangnails, which is present in two of the festival’s offerings.

Take part in this freshly minted holiday tradition at the Magic Bag and cleanse your mind of all the candy-caned foofaraw you’ve had to endure for two months.

Runs at the Magic Bag (22920 Woodward, Ferndale) from Dec. 22 through Jan. 4. Call 248-544-3030 for more details.

Dan DeMaggio writes about film for Metro Times. E-mail letters@metrotimes.com.

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Keith Edwards and Afham Janil are the first gay couple to marry in the Northern Territory. Picture: Keri Megelus
Keith Edwards and Afham Janil are the first gay couple to marry in the Northern Territory. Picture: Keri Megelus

NT celebrates its first same-sex marriage

A LOW-key and intimate wedding at the registry office in Darwin yesterday has gone down in the history books.

As far as nuptials go, the union of Keith Edwards and Afham Janil was an understated event attended by a handful of close acquaintances.

But their simple celebrations will undoubtedly resonate far further than they expected, as the pair became the first to tie the knot in the Territory since the legalisation of same sex marriage.

Mr Edwards said it was a relief to be able to marry his partner legally in Australia.

"It has not made any difference in our relationship, but it is nice to be able to endorse how we feel about each other."

Mr Edwards said the couple, who met nearly three years ago, got engaged three months into the relationship.

"But we didn't think of getting married because it wasn't obvious that you would be able to do that."

He said that although they have never held back from being affectionate in public, it had been hard to shake the feeling that it could be frowned upon.

"We've been walking around Darwin, holding hands, hugging and no one has said anything negative. But you still feel like that perhaps you shouldn't do that."

However, Mr Edwards said that the introduction of marriage equality has made him feel more comfortable.

"I think it is much less challengeable now. It makes you feel normal."

His husband Afham Janil said that pair had thrown together yesterday's wedding plans in just a few days.

"We were nervous earlier," he said.

"We only organised for three or four days."

Mr Edwards said they had put in the required forms 30 days ago but hadn't planned an actual wedding.

"We thought we'd just have ourselves and two witnesses, we were even going to drag two people off the street," he said.

"But then we thought it is a bit silly not having a party so we just organised that in the last few days."

Wedding guest Rob Tait said it had been a pleasure to witness his colleague Mr Edwards, someone he called "one of the true legends of Darwin", get married to someone he loved.

"He has given so many years of clinical service not only to patients in the public hospital but also has done so much community outreach work."

"To see him happy and so content and to be the first person to celebrate this milestone not only for himself but also for the NT as a whole is just an absolute pleasure."


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Music » The Setlist

A New Holiday

I have been getting a lot of pushback for some of my opinions lately. This is good, people should talk. And if I'm right, I don't need to worry too hard about defending myself, assuming that there is such a thing as objective reality and the spin cycle of post-modernism hasn't melted us into insanity and solipsism. So I'd like to address something I should have said in last week's column and that I hope we can all agree on: Nov. 27 is the birthday of both Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee, two of the greatest Americans who ever lived, and should absolutely be a national holiday. Now go watch Enter the Dragon and listen to Are You Experienced?

And be thankful. Thursday (Thanksgiving)

No music today because of Turkey Day but if you want to do something good, may I suggest joining Centro del Pueblo's vigil in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka at 10 a.m. It is for those in our community who are unable to be at the table with their loved ones today because of the escalating government-sponsored xenophobia against immigrants in America. Love your neighbor and welcome them, for they are more like us and much finer beings than those who seek to divide us. Friday

Portland comic Adam Pasi swings through the Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 9 p.m. Also on the tour is Alex Rios, while Jessica Grant opens and hosting duties are handled by Melo Rhae. How does one summarize the style of a comic for a (mostly) music-centered column? I can't answer that, so here's the second half of a highly stylized joke instead: "As the booking agent stared in numb horror at the finale of the act, which had contained the most hideous and morally obscene crimes against humanity from all history, unfathomable to decent and good people everywhere, he heard himself, as though from a distance, stammering out a whisper of a question. "What ... what do you call your act?" Prince Andrew, his voice bearing the full redolence of the horrific stench of monarchy, replied, 'The Aristocracy!'" Saturday

Mad River Alliance is having a Barn Boogie Birthday Bash to celebrate its ninth year as a clean water advocacy group for the Mad River watershed. The 7 p.m. event at the Arcata Veteran's Hall is free and music will be provided by The Striped Pig String Band. Expect dancing, raffles and other frivolities. If you have any more dancing fuel left in your tank, you can burn it all down to the "E" mark at Humbrews tonight starting at 9 p.m. with another round of Soul Party curated by DJs Red, JayMorg and Funky T-Rex ($5). Sunday

It's the first day of December, roughly 30 days into the soulless celebration of the commercialization of Christmas. How about a metal show to distract from the evil, smothering crush of late-era American capitalism? RampArt Skatepark has the goods for you tonight: San Jose's Exhumed links up with Oakland champs Necrot and the West Texas hardcore act Judiciary — now there's a scary word these days — to deliver a bone-chipping show worthy of any half pipe at 8 p.m. ($15). Monday

Pink Martini is a 12-piece pop orchestra returning to the 707 to fill the Van Duzer Theatre with the wild cocktail-ized sounds of world at 7 p.m. Imagine a soundtrack to the best mid-century cinema slideshow that finds a way to turn a disparate array of global sounds from "cacophony" to "consonantly sublime" on the aural graphics fader. Sounds good to me ($66). Tuesday

Word Humboldt is having an open mic and feature performance at Northtown Coffee at 6 p.m. Featured local writer Greg Bee is celebrating the release of his new book Goodbye to Toxic Boys. As a caustic man, I should maybe sit this one out, but I encourage those of you with less foul characteristics to enjoy or participate. It's free but donations are always appreciated. Wednesday

I recently went down an internet rabbit hole investigating the history of Peking duck. I did not expect its history to go as far back as that of imperial China and the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the first millenium (according to western calendars). Turns out the history of Chinese variety shows and musical balancing acts goes back even further, to the age that the occidental world refers to as "B.C." The tradition that survived the brutality of Mao's cultural revolution is now perhaps best performed by the The Peking Acrobats. It's an exhilarating mix of movement and live sound, and nothing quite like it exists in our cultural sphere, so if you can snag a ticket, you ought to treat yourself to the 7 p.m. show at the Van Duzer Theatre ($25-$39).

Full show listings in the Journal's Music and More grid, the Calendar and online. Bands and promoters, send your gig info, preferably with a high-res photo or two, to

Collin Yeo knows that the corporate news is full of distractions that help the ruling class, and that if the working classes had the same solidarity as the ruling class, then there would be no ruling class. He prefers he/him pronouns and lives in Arcata.

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Letters + Opinion » Mailbox

Sneakers, Ropes

I read with interest Heidi Walters' article on sneaker waves ("Sneaker Savvy," March 10). Over a year ago and soon after the State Parks issued a rogue wave warning, they were informed in writing that the rope fence they have erected on Clam Beach poses a significant and unnecessary hazard to beach users. In the event of a sneaker or rogue wave, a child, adult or a person on horseback could be seriously injured if caught up in the fence. Simple signs without the rope would certainly suffice.

They responded by saying that the public should know wave conditions before going to the beach. Heidi's article pointed out one cannot really know when a sneaker wave will strike. Increasing risk to the public is strictly against the w10c-approved permit on file with the Coastal Commission for its restoration project.

Uri Driscoll, Arcata

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Aquarius Horoscope: December 2014

The company you keep

Matters of the heart will be your focus for most of the month, starting with a Full Moon in your 5th House of Romance on December 6. If you recently started to date someone, now you'll have complete awareness about how you really feel about this person. If you're falling head-over-heels in love, this will be the time you let your sweetheart know. If, on the other hand, you realize that this is merely a casual affair with no lasting potential, you'll make a decision about how comfortable you are with the situation.

In some cases, you might find yourself in the midst of a secret love affair, or you might struggle with feelings for someone you know you can't be with. Venus moves into your private 12th House of Seclusion on December 10, and remains there until January 3. If you're in a situation of loving a person only from afar, ask yourself why you're not open to dating someone with whom you can have a true, physical relationship with. Of course, if you're in a relationship and things are going well, this phase might simply be a time you and your love want extra privacy together. In that case, enjoy it!

Saturn moves into your 11th House of Groups and Friendships on December 23. From then until December 2017, you'll be more discerning about the company you keep. You'd rather have fewer friends and know that they are the real deal than many acquaintances you have no true bond with.


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Me, God and the Atheists

A Catholic and an Atheist walk into a bar. Ok, no, scratch that. A Catholic and an Atheist walk into a party. The Catholic is dressed as a clown, the Atheist as a French Onion Seller. By the end of the night, the Atheist has the Catholic’s phone number, and few years later they’re married.

There’s no joke here, though all the elements are pretty much there. The Catholic and the Atheist come to know each other Biblically, or, Biologically if you prefer. Over the course of two years, two children pop out. Cute little half-breeds – Atheist/Catholic, Atholics-Catheists, a veritable yin-yang of contradictions and belief, existing harmoniously. The Atheist agrees the children will be raised Catholic. The Catholic agrees that the children will be given the choice of whether to stick to the faith.

The Atholic-Catheists grow up. They experiment with their beliefs. They question. They exist in a pleasant between that constantly shifts.

And then, the Catholic gets sick and dies.

And that’s where we are now.

Incase any of you aren’t very good at guessing, I was one such Atholic-Catheist, my father the devout Athiest, and my mother the sceptical Catholic. And this post is about my very personal relationship with God and the Atheists. (There’s a band-name in there)

When people ask me now a-days how I would define my belief, I am usually quite unwilling to respond. My reasoning for this is that I have a deep-seated fear of fundamentalists on either side of the spectrum. Perhaps the advantage of being raised by a lukewarm Catholic and an Atheist who enjoys Church music, is that I never had to pick a side, because there was always a middle ground.

I am suspicious of anyone who is 100% certain of anything because, as Obi-Wan put it, only Siths deal in absolutes. And because I’m a John Mill girl, personally, and I believe that we should be willing to question everything. Blind faith, in whatever form, is utterly abhorrent to me, and it makes my flesh crawl.

Until recently however, it wasn’t something I paid much mind too. Depending on the company, I defined myself differently, willing to play Devil’s Advocate and challenge conceptions. Since the loss of my mother however, I have learnt to keep a tight lid on my spiritual beliefs. And this is because of the ugly habit fundamentals have of attempting to use my grief and bereavement as a recruitment tool. I don’t know, maybe they get a ‘Faith-Miles’ for every person they convert.

I remember the moment it became clear to me why I was so uneasy with people telling me my mother’s death was part of God’s plan. You see, nothing could endear me less to a God than the idea that the entity of whom I should rely and pay homage to was actually directly responsible for the loss of my mother. Why on earth should that make me feel better? I’ve just been told I have to worship an invisible asshole, who sits on his ass, picking off people by the millions and leaving us to suffer and guess as to why.

I was always more comforted by the idea that God did exist, but that he had no control over us in our earthly lives. He was just there to listen, to understand, and to welcome us when we died. Like a benevolent pen-friend we’ve spoken to for years, coming to pick us up at the airport. Except there’s no return ticket. The pen-friend kidnaps you, gives you a harp and puts you on a cloud to chill for eternity. Awkward.

Atheists, as it turns out, aren’t much better at the comforting thing. I can’t talk to them about my uncertainty of the whole “God’s Plan Malarkey” without incurring a torrent of cynical, self-satisfied mockery about the baseness of the belief and its ludicrousness. (Because sure, comfort me about my dead mother by insulting her, and what she believed: that’s smart). For all their criticism of religion, I’ve never met a fundamental atheist who hasn’t acted like he’s an elite member of a ‘Chosen people’, going out into the world and leaving debasing comments on religious posts like an inverse-missionary, spreading the word of science.

“You’re right, of course Madeleine,” they say, “There is no plan. There is no God. When we die, that’s it. We are extinguished from this earth. Worms eat us. Or crazy grandchildren keep us in a pot on their mantelpiece. End of.”

Thanks guys. Great. Fucking. Comfort.

I know what you’re thinking at this point – Madeleine, you can’t live as a contradiction for the rest of your life, becoming more Atheist in the company of Christians, and more Christian in the company of Atheists, but currently I don’t see a way around it. I want the comfort of Catholicism without having to associate with a misogynistic, militant pedo-ring and their Machiavellian God, and I want the empirical nature of atheism without having to join the smug-club and their ‘hope you enjoyed the last few months with your mother, cus you’re never going to see her again’ attitude.

I don’t want to call myself an Atheist, but the day my mother died, I was no longer a Catholic. And it wasn’t because I was angry at God. It was because she was my link, my connection to the crazy bastard, and when she went, there was nothing in me any more to believe in him. Maybe I stopped believing in him a long time ago.

So where do I stand? Agnostic? Pagan? Spiritual? Where do you go after living 22 years as an Atholic-Catheist, only to lose the Catheist?

I think the worse problem is that there’s no answer to these questions which isn’t religious, and apparently I’m thoroughly allergic to those. It’s no good telling me that she’s with God, because I won’t believe you and it’ll just be uncomfortable, and it’s no good telling me that she lives on inside of me and my recollections of her, because that’s not good enough.

At the end of the day, I keep my religious belief to myself because I am un-swayed. I live in perpetual flux. I am a rambler of religions, a tourist of spirituality, and if anyone tries to – however kindly – impose any one ‘right’ answer onto me, I will run a mile, screaming the other way.

“But then Madeleine, what do we say when you’re upset? What do we do to comfort you when you come to us, desperate for answers?” they ask.

I don’t know. How about shut up, and give me a hug?


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[robocup-nao] GameController 2011 (update)

Thomas Röfer Thomas.Roefer at dfki.de
Wed Mar 9 06:23:54 EST 2011

Dear teams,

the previous update of the GameController introduced a bug in handling the penalty shootout. It was an unfortunate side effect of changes made for the Humanoid League after the final SPL release of the GameController2010.

I uploaded a new version to the SPL website that is identical to the version the SPL used last year plus the increase of the number of players to four (and the new logos of course).

- Thomas

Am 14.02.2011 um 11:37 schrieb Thomas Röfer:

> Dear teams,
> a new version of the GameController has been uploaded to the SPL website.
> It appeared that the previous version could not be configured to work with four robots per team, because the option "-n" had no effect.
> The new version also comes with the logos of the teams that participate in RoboCup 2011. The team numbers specified in the config/spl/teams.cfg have the same sequence as the teams on the SPL website.
> Have fun!
> - Thomas
> (B-Human)

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DNSSEC and ISPs faking DNS responses

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Sat Nov 14 17:26:40 UTC 2015

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 01:36:06AM -0500,
 Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca> wrote
 a message of 71 lines which said:

> Loto Québec is supposed to be testing for compliance, and I am not
> sure how they will do that short of having a subscription to every
> ISP that sells services in Québec.

They will simply use RIPE Atlas probes, as we all do to test our
networks from the outside.

Here, Bulgaria, where the mandatory blocking of gambling Web sites is
far from perfect (the right IP address is

% python resolve-name.py --requested=500 --country=BG www.bet365.com
Measurement #2930308 for www.bet365.com/A uses 94 probes

[] : 1 occurrences
[] : 1 occurrences
[] : 1 occurrences
[] : 1 occurrences
[] : 3 occurrences
[ERROR: SERVFAIL] : 1 occurrences
[] : 75 occurrences
[] : 4 occurrences
Test done at 2015-11-14T17:14:20Z

A few lying DNS resolvers but not much.

> (Maybe they think they only have to test 3 ISPs, (telcos and
> cablecos) and don't realise they have over 100 ISPs to test for
> compliance).

My experience with these sort of organisations is that they don't care
about 100 % compliance. They're only interested in "good enough" (the
three largest ISPs...)

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Caricom Cricket Review Panel lays down the law for WICB reform

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A map of the former West Indies Federation. Map of CARICOM member States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) consists of 15 Caribbean nations and their dependencies.

Caricom’s main purpose is to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. It is also a regional single market for most of its members.

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The West Indies Cricket Board has six member associations:

Barbados Cricket Association (BCA)

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)

Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA)

Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB)

Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA), itself composed of:

Anguilla Cricket Association

Antigua and Barbuda Cricket Association

British Virgin Islands Cricket Association

Montserrat Cricket Association

Nevis Cricket Association (for the island of Nevis alone)

St. Kitts Cricket Association (for the island of St. Kitts alone)

St. Maarten Cricket Association

United States Virgin Islands Cricket Association

Windward Islands Cricket Board of Control (WICBC), itself composed of:

Dominica Cricket Association
Grenada Cricket Association
St. Lucia Cricket Association
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Cricket Association

The Caricom Cricket Review Panel was constituted by the Prime Ministerial Committee on the Governance of West Indies Cricket.

The members were:

Prof. Eudine Barriteau, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal, The University of the West Indies.

(Cricket Studies is an academic discipline internationally and in the Caribbean, at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.)

Rt. Hon. Sir Dennis Byron, President, Caribbean Court of Justice.
Dr. Warren Smith, President, Caribbean Development Bank.

Mr. Deryck Murray, West Indies Cricket Legend.

Mr. Dwain Gill, President, Grenada Cricket Association.

The West Indian Cricket Board (WICB) publishes its Vision as:

To establish and sustain West Indies cricket as the sporting symbol of the West Indies, and the West Indies team as the dominant team in international cricket.

and its Mission is:

To develop and promote West Indies cricket for the benefit and enjoyment of the West Indian people, its clients and other stakeholders by procuring a consistently high-quality, successful and international West Indian product.

The Caricom Cricket Review panel criticises the existing governance structure of the WICB which focuses solely on the shareholders in the body namely the six territorial boards and the WICB itself.

Other stakeholders such as “several Caribbean governments who finance the construction and maintenance of the stadia where the game is played; several important industries such as tourism, aviation and food and beverages; former players, some of whom constitute an elite group of exemplary ambassadors of the game known as the Legends and the current players, both women and men, and their representative organization, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) constitute another key group of stakeholders and finally, the Caribbean public” have been either side-lined or completely ignored.

West Indies cricket is a public good.

Interestingly, the panel states that “it has no issues with the individuals who occupy the leadership and composition of the WICB or the territorial Boards” and then commences an unbridled assault on the current Board and its state of affairs. The above statement appears redundant. Why make such a statement? The Cricket Review Panel was formed to investigate the current workings of the existing system and recommend reforms that would help better the state of Windies cricket. Why even bother to try and mollify the current incumbents?

The panel also terms the current governance structure “obsolete”.

It  then recommends the dissolution of the WICB and the appointment of an interim board.

Panel members  cite the precedent of an interim board appointed by the Sri Lankan government to run matters. What has been conveniently omitted is the fact that Sri Lankan cricket has often been run by government-appointed interim committees one of which left the Board financially crippled after the co-hosting of the 2011 ODI World Cup.

The antecedent, one hopes, only pertains to the feasibility of such an imposition and not mismanagement by the interim board.

The panel then points out the lowly ranking of men’s and women’s cricket teams to justify their indictment of the WICB’s bad governance.

The men’s team failed to qualify for the 2017 Champions’ Trophy, the first time in West Indian cricketing history that the side will not be participating in a World tournament.  Other reasons listed are the team’s Test ranking—sliding to number eight, recent abandoning of the Indian tour, suspension of coach Phil Simmons following his stated despair about not being able to field the best eleven for the tour of Sri Lanka, West Indies Players Association (WIPA) not being fully representative of players and reduction of home Test series to just two-or-three games.

Other concerns expressed are the unhappy state of women’s cricket, whether a private company structure can deliver a public good, universal concern in the traditional and online media about the state of governance, absence of vision and lack of accountability.

The panel draws upon recommendations from past governance reports specifically the Wilkins and Patterson ones to propose a new structure.

The new structure will comprise five board/management committee/directors handling the following functional areas:

  • Cricket
  • Human Resources
  • Governance
  • Audit
  • Nominations

The emphasis is to be on professional competencies over territorial considerations.

The number of Board members is to be reduced to just nine.

One Board Member will specifically represent Women’s Cricket.

A head-hunting firm will oversee the selection process which will review candidates chosen by the Nominations Council.

The Caribbean Development Bank must be asked to fund “a team of consultants to define the process and regulatory framework for a transformed Board’s management structure, governance arrangements and shareholding in a new dispensation.”

The six territorial boards must be incorporated under similar rules or criteria.

The Change Management expert will ensure the Board members are distinct from executive management personnel while forming the Interim Board.

Women’s cricket should be addressed in the vision statement of the Board.

The Board must develop “specific marketing and sponsorship strategies to popularize the game, especially with families and young girls and to promote the star female players as mentors and role models, as well as to enhance their commercial value to sponsors.”

Appendix III lists the names of interviewed persons as:

  • Dr. the Rt. Honorable Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada and Chairman of the Cricket Governance Committee
  • Dr. the Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves, Prime Minister of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  •  Mr. Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron, President, West Indies Cricket Board
  •  Mr. James Sutherland, Chief Executive Officer, Cricket Australia
  •  Mr. Tom Harrison, Chief Executive Officer, England and Wales Cricket Board
  •  Mr. Michael Muirhead, Chief Executive Officer, West Indies Cricket Board
  •  Mr. Roland Holder, Manager, Cricket Operations, West Indies Cricket Board
  •  West Indies Cricket Legends:
    – Sir Wesley Hall
    – Mr. Lancelot Gibbs
    – Mr. Michael Holding
    – Mr. Alvin Kallicharran
  •  Mr. Wavell Hinds, President and CEO, West Indies Players Association
  •  Ms. Ann Browne-John, Cricket Administrator and Former West Indies Women’s Cricketer
  •  Mr. Winfield Griffith, Director of Research and Information Technology, Caribbean Tourism Organisation

West Indian cricketers flourish while administration languishes

While the Supreme Court continues to flay the BCCI and its associate members for dragging their feet on the Lodha Panel reforms, it has gone quiet on the Western front specifically the CARICOM coast.

It’s been a time of jubilation and turmoil for West Indian cricket.

The Calypso swingers under Darren Sammy uncorked an unprecedented second T20 World Cup win in astounding fashion with Carlos Brathwaite proving an unlikely hero. Their women’s team had the very same afternoon clinched their first ever World Cup in any form of the game.

Sammy , ever the team champion, utilized the occasion to roundly castigate the West Indian Cricket Board (WICB) for its step-motherly treatment of the players.

He said:

“We started this journey … we all know we had … people were wondering whether we would play this tournament. We had a lot of issues, we felt disrespected by our board, Mark Nicholas described our team as a team with no brains. All these things before the tournament just brought this team together.”

The WICB President David Cameron was quick to respond.

In a statement purportedly praising the World T20 organisers India and Bangladesh, Cameron said:

“The President would like to however apologise for what could be deemed inappropriate comments made by the West Indies’ male captain, Darren Sammy, in a post-match interview and would like to apologise on behalf of the WICB to the millions of fans who witnessed. The President has pledged to enquire the reason and will have the matter addressed.”

He had earlier tweeted:

The ICC would later join the WICB in reprimanding Darren Sammy and his teammates for their comments that were “”inappropriate, disrespectful and [bringing] the event into disrepute.”

The ICC press release read:

“The board considered the behaviour of some of the West Indies players in the immediate aftermath of the final, and unanimously agreed that certain comments and actions were inappropriate, disrespectful and brought the event into disrepute.

This was not acceptable conduct at ICC events played out on a world stage in front of millions of people around the globe.

The board acknowledged an apology by the WICB but was disappointed to note that such behaviour had detracted from the success of what was otherwise a magnificent tournament and final.”

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The gloss of the glorious treble of the U-19 World Cup, Women and Men’s T20 triumphs was wearing off quickly.

It wasn’t all rocky ground for West Indian cricket.

The newly minted BCCI and ICC head Shashank Manohar has been in an expansive mood notwithstanding the BCCI’s travails in the Supreme Court.

The Vidarbha lawyer first stated that he’s not in agreement with the ICC revenue-sharing formula wherein the Big Three—India, England and Australia—share the spoils and the leftovers distributed among the rest of the members.

Then the BCCI announced that bilateral ties between India and the West Indies would resume later this year. The cash-rich Indian body waived a $42 million damages claim against the abandoned 2014 tour. The West Indian cricketers flew home after the WIPA and WICB failed to resolve a long-standing pay dispute.

Late last year, the CARICOM cricket review panel suggested an immediate dissolution of the WICB. The panel was constituted by the Prime Ministerial Committee on the Governance of West Indies Cricket as a response to the crisis created by the damages slapped  on the WICB following the pull-out from the India tour.

The panel recommended formation of an interim board to install a fresh governance framework with the assistance of a change management expert.

The WICB rejected the report and its findings unilaterally claiming that none of the members of the board were consulted by the panel members.

Legends of the game were not so forgiving. Coming together under the banner Cricket Legends, Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Wes Hall,  Andy Roberts and others met with Grenada premier Keith Mitchell, chairman of the Prime Ministerial Committee on the Governance of West Indies Cricket and sought the WICB’s termination.

That’s how the matter rests for now.

The following column will pore over specific recommendations from the panel and the WICB’s reasons for rejecting their proposals.

An open letter to Chris Henry Gayle

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Chris Gayle on the field at the Telstra Dome during an ICC Super Series 2005 cricket match. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dear Chris:

Say, that was some stunt you pulled the other day on Australian national television during the Big Bash.

While there’s nothing wrong with asking a lady out, there’s something inherently wrong about doing it when she’s going about her job and embarrassing her in front of millions of viewers.

If you really needed a date, you should have walked down to the nearest bar after your game, and tried to chat up someone there.

Did you know Mel McLaughlin that well, that you felt you could do something so crazy and simply laugh it off?

And if you really, really desperately needed to ask Mel out, you could simply have done it on a one-to-one basis in a more private setting.

As for all the cries about sexual harassment, I’ll leave it to the fairer sex to call you out on that.

You were one of my earliest followers on my Facebook page and we were even Facebook friends for a brief while—all this, when I was posting my blog on Bleacher Report (I believe it has some reach in the Caribbean; Mike Hussey followed me on Twitter too but then that’s another story).

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Mike Hussey at a training session at the Adelaide Oval (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So what’s the real story, Chris?

I was one of your supporters when you were having trouble with the West Indies Cricket Board. I couldn’t believe that the West Indies could leave out a player who has two triple centuries in Test cricket. It’s not as though the West Indies have been churning out Brian Lara clones since his exit from the game.

“Don’t blush, baby,” really, that’s all you had to add after your public gaffe.

And what’s this crap about “pockets empty” on Instagram, the fine of 10,000 Australian dollars is just a drop in the ocean for you. You deserve it, man.

Pockets are empty so @djbravo47 paying the dinner bill tonight … Let's roll DJ. #Champion

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There was a time when you were flirting with the idea of publishing an autobiography but then decided against it.

I agreed, then, that it was a bad idea best left until you retired from the game. After all, why rile your colleagues while you’re still playing? Besides, you still had some good years in you.

Well, Chris, you’ve irritated a lot of your fans now and can surely do better.

I’m sure that your autobiography will be much awaited when it actually hit the stands.

Your fans would all like to know what actually makes Chris Henry Gayle tick—like this.

A disappointed fan.

Voges and Chanderpaul: A matter of timing

Much has been made about Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s unceremonious ouster from the West Indian side. The veteran left-hander was left out from the Caribbean outfit for the series against Australia following a poor run of scores against England recently.

Was it the right thing to do? The southpaw is 40+ and is not getting any younger. Age should never be a criteria and rightly so. Form and class play an important role. Australia are a top side and playing an out-of-sorts Chanderpaul, however, would not have been fair to the rest of the side.

Sachin Tendulkar was given a farewell Test series by the BCCI against a weak West Indian side at Mumbai; he was able to go out on a relative high. Many would have preferred if the great had called it quits after the 2011 World Cup. The Master Blaster lingered on. It is a human failing fans have witnessed in so many wonderful sports persons. They do not know when to bid the game goodbye.

Ironically, the first Test saw the resurgence of a wonderfully talented Australian batsman Adam Voges making his Test debut at 35. Australian selectors are ruthless when cutting out-of-form or aging players to make room for younger champions.

Little credit is given to them for their bravery in choosing older players who would be considered journeymen in countries in India or Pakistan.

Thus, Matthew Hayden made a comeback at 32. Look where he finished!

Michael Hussey made the best of the chances that came his way the second time around.  Adam Voges is probably another of this breed. Team coach Darren Lehmann himself was a beneficiary of the selectors’ long memories.

Should Chanderpaul have played and contributed a ton à la Voges, he would have been lauded by one and all. But, alas, that is wishful thinking reflected upon by the mawkish.

Sports, like business, has no room for sentiment. Winning is serious business; so is modern sport.

Dwayne Bravo: What he said, really meant and definitely didn’t

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English: Dwayne Bravo at KFC Twenty20 BigBash – WA v VIC, 10 January 2010, WACA Ground (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dwayne Bravo states his case to the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).

What he said:

“We believe we are being hoodwinked and are being treated like little school boys, yet we are being asked perform and play against professionals.”

Current Windies team skipper, Dwayne Bravo, makes no bones about his displeasure with the new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) whereby Test/ODI/T20 fees have reduced by 75%.

The West Indians are in India to take part in a five match ODI series. The players are considering striking in protest against the agreement signed by WIPA President Wavell Hinds with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) without player inputs.

In a letter addressed to Hinds on his squad’s behalf, Bravo outlined the disputed items as follows:

1) Our Test/ODI/T20 fees have been decreased by 75%.
2) No compensation for the use of our rights. That has been decreased by 100%.
3) Our ICC fees have been decreased by close to 100%.

He further requested Hinds to question the WICB on the following points:

1) Have the WICB Board members and staff taken a pay cut as we are being asked to do or at all. Our information is that staff have been increased both in numbers and their salaries.
2) Have the WICB declared their million dollar television deal
3) Have the WICB declared how much they are being paid extra for the matches outside of the FTP like this India tour.
4) Have the WICB declared what they are getting from the sale of CPL to Digicel our most lucrative tournament.
5) Have the WICB declared what they are getting from Digicel as the team sponsor.
6) Have they declared their financial arrangements with Governments for the international and regional home series.

What Dwayne Bravo really meant:

“The players draw in the crowds and the WICB profits from their efforts. Why are we being treated like errant schoolboys without any say or input into how West Indian cricket is  to be run or administered? Are we clueless or numbskulls or simply freaks who entertain?”

What he definitely didn’t:

“Let’s discuss this over drinks during the first ODI at Kochi on the 8th.”

Random thoughts on the IPL, Chris Gayle and Saurav Ganguly

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Random thoughts on cricketing happenings last week:

The Sri Lanka Premier League, in my opinion, has a couple of advantages over the IPL.

  • It will have just seven teams.
  • It will last only 18 days.

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Cricket Diary : Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Hashan Tillakaratne and ‘Dada’ Saurav Ganguly

2nd May, 2011

Shivnarine Chanderpaul continues to raise a ruckus about his axing from the West Indian side.

In a second letter to West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Ernest Hilaire, the batsman questions his dropping for the Pakistan tour of West Indies.

Hilaire had squarely blamed the West Indies Player Association (WIPA) for Chanderpaul’s outburst in his response to his earlier missive.

The Guyanese was quick to respond saying:

“I may not be Dr. Chanderpaul, but I have been a top-ranked international batsman and we have to be able to think critically under the most intense and stressful situations.

It is therefore distressing that you blame WIPA by implication, if not overtly, for my letter saying that WIPA was offering me "ill advice". You may not be aware but I have faced the best bowlers in the world in my career and I know how to counter-attack. Furthermore, I am my own man and would ask that you respect that!"

The West Indian bat raised issues on the mishandling of injuries by the administrative body.

Coming on the back of a controversial decision by Chris Gayle to play the IPL rather than represent the band of nations that is the West Indies, the episode paints a sorry picture of the state of Caribbean  cricket.

Chanderpaul may no longer  be a sprightly young man but he should be allowed to decided when to quit the game.

Chanderpaul rarely courted scandal in his distinguished career but the lackadaisical attitude of the powers-that-be raised his hackles.

This man will not go quietly into the night.

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Weekend Cricket Diary: Chanderpaul,Pataudi and the IPL

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29th April, 2011:

WICB chief Ernest Hilaire’s comments about the West Indian team hit a raw nerve—Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s.

When he termed the West Indian cricketers of the past 15 years as lacking application and discipline, he overlooked the chip on Chanderpaul’s shoulder.

The Guyanese bat of Indian origin who uncomplainingly carried Windies hopes, oft receiving less than his share of glory—overshadowed first by Brian Lara and later Chris Gayle—, came out strongly in a letter addressed to Hilaire .

Questioning the use of ‘we’ in his interview, the Guyanese asked him, “Are you speaking for yourself, albeit as CEO of the West Indies Cricket Board or are you speaking for and on behalf of the West Indies Cricket Board itself?”

Chanderpaul threatened to take whatever action necessary to safeguard his reputation.

The boot is truly on the other foot.

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IPL Pay Packets May Get Thinner and the IPL Leaner and Meaner

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Pay packets in IPL4 will be much leaner than in the past three editions.

The simple reason is that supply now exceeds demand.

With the reduction in the no. of IPL teams to eight and Kochi showing no signs of having their house in order for the 6 pm deadline on  Wednesday, 20th October 2010, IPL4 will be a much leaner, much meaner tournament.

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