#john breeden

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Art from UFOs The Greatest Mystery by Hilary Evans (Albany, 1979). One of the many UFO themed books cashing in at the tail end of the UFO craze.

Artists in order: Terry Hadler, Terry Hadler, Angus McKie, Terry Hadler, Kevin Tweddell, Stephen Crisp, Peter Knifton, Neil Breeden, John Gosler

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John Breeden

Smith Rock, Oregon

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Madame Racketeer (1932) Alexander Hall & Harry Wagstaff Gribble

August 7th 2021

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Metal heads with lights

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Detrás de escena de la portada de The Division Bell.     El diseño de la portada del álbum The Division Bell (1994) fue creado por el socio de Pink Floyd, el británico Storm Thorgerson. Ha levantado dos grandes cabezas de metal, cada una con una altura de un autobús de dos pisos, en un campo cerca del pueblo de Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire: la catedral de Ely es visible en el horizonte. Las esculturas se colocaron juntas y se fotografiaron de perfil y se pueden ver como dos lados charlando entre sí o como el único tercer lado.   Thorgerson dijo que la "tercera cara ausente" era una referencia a Syd Barrett.  Las esculturas fueron diseñadas por Keith Breeden y construidas por John Robertson y las fotos fueron tomadas en febrero de 1994, durante el invierno, para condiciones óptimas de iluminación.

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Regarding Charlottesville Music: An Oral History by Rich Tarbell

CHRISTIAN BREEDEN (American Dumpster): There was Charlottesville before the Dave Matthews Band, and there was Charlottesville after the Dave Matthews Band. I don’t know what kind of music the Dave Matthews Band is, but it’s pretty progressive music. It’s also got a lot of pop sensibilities. Non-confrontational music. It’s college rock and jam band kind of music, but I think the reason they went so far is the personalities involved and the way it looked. It was an interracial band, and for white college kids there is something in that which feels very progressive. But it’s safe. We’re still in the South. We are learning faster and faster how segregated we still are, and how many different stories there are here. I think it is kind of weird and sad to say, but I think a lot of that band’s success came because they were able to epitomize integration. (pp. 14-15)

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ANDY DEANE (Bella Morte): I don’t believe regional music exists the way it once did. It can’t. The last big scene I remember was when grunge hit in the 90s, and you had the Seattle sound. There is no Seattle or Chicago or anything sound anymore, because the minute somebody does something and does it well, it is on the internet and that sound gets adopted everywhere. Back then there were still regional scenes. For example, our metal scene had this melodic sort of Charlottesville sound to it that we could travel with. You could hear it, you could hear the town in the music, because it did not spread so quickly. It spread as you started touring. (p. 15)

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BOB GIRARD (The Casuals):  The Mineshaft was open seven nights a week. Maybe on a Monday night you’d have an acoustic guy or some duo in there. Nobody saw them; there were maybe twelve people there. But the thing was, they were fucking open. They had rent to pay. They said they’d be open. It was open every day. On a winter night, before cable TV, before multiplexes, before the internet and watching movies in your living room, you would go out. People would say, “Let’s meet at the Mineshaft, and get a pitcher of beer, make a plan.” If the music was good, maybe you’d stay. Maybe you’d take a chance at another spot. It was always in the context of “Let’s go by there and see what’s going on,” because it was always open. That’s not completely true anymore. The Southern doesn’t always have music, the Jefferson certainly doesn’t always have music, the Paramount rarely has music. (pp. 17-18)

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CHARLIE PASTORFIELD (Skip Castro): In the early 80s in this town, there was a band called The Deal that came so freakin’ close to stardom. They were signed by Albert Grossman, who discovered Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin and a million other people. The Deal had recorded an album. Grossman was on a plane flying to Europe to arrange the release of the record in Europe, and on the plane on the way over he had a fatal heart attack. Todd Rundgren took over the label, Bearsville. Rundgren did not like The Deal, and ultimately dropped them from the label. You don’t get closer than that. (p. 45)

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JOHN BEERS (Musician) [Happy Flowers]: We decided we would play live with The Landlords at Muldowney’s Pub. We used to do sets that would last from five to ten minutes. It was basically “Mom I Gave the Cat Some Acid”, and whatever requests the audience would want to hear. They’d yell out a song title, and if we knew the song, we would maybe halfway approximate it with just a bass and a guitar and tons of distortion and screaming. If we didn’t know the song, we would do it anyway. We would do Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Bring on the Dancing Horses”, which I had never heard before. In fact I did not hear it until about a year ago. We played that live at CBGB’s and recorded it probably in about 1987. I finally heard the song in 2017. (p. 72)

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JONNY FRITZ (Musician): [Erik “Red” Knierim] lives on the James River, on the Buckingham side. He has a cabin that he built with his dad. It is the most incredible place, like stepping back in time. It feels like a moonshiner’s cabin, but a Dwell Magazine version of a moonshiner’s cabin. It’s extraordinary, a phenomenal place. When I first met him, he would get in his canoe and float down to Scottsville to busk at some bar there. I didn’t even know there was a bar in Scottsville. He’d play for drinks, and then he’d get in his canoe and paddle upstream back home. That’s like Civil War era. Who the hell does that? He’s incredible. Salt of the earth. (p. 152)

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MICHAEL BISHOP (GWAR): Anything that was cool that was happening here, a lot of it didn’t come from the kids, from the UVA students. It was coming from people who just lived here. The kids never did, and they don’t do, shit. It is the people who live here. Richmond is totally different, their college being VCU. The art department at VCU produced all of the Richmond rock bands for years. It was supported by urban decay being filled in, creating spaces for art to happen, and by a college to supply an audience for that shit. In Charlottesville, it was different. It felt more precarious to me here. I don’t know where these people come from. Like how do you fill a room at The Jefferson? Where do they come from. There’s not enough fucking people. Not in the town, not in Crozet, not in Albemarle County. Where are they coming from? It seems to me like there almost isn’t enough of a base here. But at the same time, The Jefferson will be packed for shows. You go there, and you can’t move. The people here really do come out and watch shows, and in a way that people in Richmond don’t. Charlottesville is an impressive town for its size. (pp. 166-67)

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Bestprofit - Tersandung Korupsi di Malaysia, Presiden Alibaba Group Dipenjara?

Bestprofit (13/08) - Presiden Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Michael Evans tersandung kasus korupsi, 1Malaysia Development Berhard (1MDB). Maka dari itu, ia didakwa dengan hukuman maksimum 10 tahun penjara dan denda minimal 100 ribu pondsterling (sekitar Rp1,7 miliar) di Malaysia.

Tuduhan itu dilayangkan pada Jumat pekan lalu (9/8/2019) kepada pria yang pernah menjabat sebagai Direktur Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Asia LLC tersebut.

Dalam tuntutan itu disebutkan, Goldman dan sejulah bankirnya memperdaya investor tentang penjualan obligasi 1MDB.

"Hukuman dan denda pidana akan dijatuhkan kepada terdakwa, mengingat beratnya skema penipuan dan penyelewengan miliaran dari hasil obligasi," kata Jaksa Agung Tommy Thomas, dilansir dari The Independent (12/8/2019).

Goldman Sachs menghimpun US$6,5 miliar melalui penjualan obligasi. Namun, sekitar US$2,7 miliar dari jumlah itu diselewengkan oleh Evans dan dua terdakwa lain, yakni Kepala Eksekutif Goldman Sachs International dan Mantan Wakil Ketua Goldman Sachs Group , Michael Sherwood.

Merespon tuntutan itu, perusahaan menyampaikan kepada Reuters, "Kami percaya tuduhan yang diajukan bersama dengan tuduhan terhadap tiga entitas Goldman Sachs pada Desember lalu, salah arah dan kami akan ajukan banding."

Secara total, Malaysia telah mengajukan tuntutan pidana terhadap 17 direktur dan mantan direktur di anak perusahaan Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Lima di antaranya bagian dari Goldman Sachs International, yaki: Richard John Gnodde, Griffiths Brian, Michael Sydney Sherwood, Robin Antony Vince, dan Claes Ake Gustaf Dahlback.

Sementara yang berasal dari Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC terdiri atas: Oliver Robert Morgan Bolitho, Thatthew Thayer Freemont-Smith, Patriot Towfigh, Archie William Parnell, Ronald Suk Bae Lee, Richard Mark Campbell-Breeden, Keith Leslie Hayes, Amol Sagun Naik, John Michael Evans, dan Dimitrios Kavvathas.

Dua orang lainnya merupakan jajaran direksi Goldman Sachs Singapura Pte, yakni Goh Boon Leng dan Liow Chang Lee.

PT Bestprofit Futures Sumber : Investing

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I would like to thank all the artists that work I used in this SIGGRAPH Presentation that I did! William Vaughan and Jennie and Obby Breeden at The Devil's Panties (go buy there stuff) and to John Richerson that hosted the event. To SIGGRAPH Staff that was wise enough to spend the extra money to rent us a screen and a projector this year. To anyone else that I left out and finally to all the people that showed up and stuck around for my presentation. Here is my thankyou pic.

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The False Madonna (The False Idol) (1931) Stuart Walker

March 21st 2020

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Metal Heads with Waves

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Flavor of Louisiana will feature seafood samplings and more

NATCHITOCHES – Chefs, restaurants and several beverage companies have announced their participation in Flavor of Louisiana, Northwestern State University’s spring fund raiser for student scholarships and academic programs.

 Presented in partnership with the Louisiana Seafood Board, Flavor of Louisiana will feature dozens of tasting stations where guests can sample prepared seafood delicacies, craft beers, specialty cocktails and desserts.  Meat options will also be available for non-seafood eaters.  

 A few of the items that will available for sampling and their vendors are as follows.

 Maggio’s Package Liquors - Oyster Shooter Bloody Mary

 Savoie’s Catering - Marinated Crab Fingers & Boiled Shrimp

 Raising Cane’s - Sweet Tea

 Cane River Kitchenware - Desserts & Coffee

 Coca-Cola - Coke, Sprite & Water

 Sodexo - BBQ Shrimp served with Jalapeno & Cojita Cheese Grits

 Lasyone’s Meatpie Kitchen - Seafood Cornbread Dressing with Crawfish Etouffee

 Maglieaux’s - Crawfish Frittatas with Cajun Crab Balls

 Mama’s Oyster House - Catfish Creole

 “We would like to thank all of our vendors for helping us with this event.  For the previous two years, friends of NSU have raved about the variety of delicious samplings that were available at Flavor of Louisiana,” said, Erin Dupree, coordinator of Development.  “It’s exciting to see what dishes will be offered from classic favorites to the new and exotic.”  

 NSU would also like to thank sponsors who are supporting the event, which generates substantial financial support for student scholarships and academic programs. Sponsorships are available at the $5,000 (Louisiana), $2,500 (Bayou), $1,000 (Magnolia and Pelican – separate benefits) levels and include reserved seating and other perks. The $5,000 Louisiana Sponsor level is a double sponsorship with the Natchitoches Dragon Boat Races, a day-long event set for Saturday, April 13 in downtown Natchitoches. Proceeds from the Dragon Boat Races will benefit First Year Experience, programming that encourages freshmen students to be active participants in events and organizations on campus.

  Louisiana Sponsors

Tommy Wright, Jo Pease, Wes Breeden

Shawn Daily

 Bayou

           BOM

           Atmos Energy

           John Manno Jr.

Pelican

           Ted and Carmen Jones

           Crystal Stewart

           Demons Unlimited Foundation

 Magnolia

           City of Natchitoches

           Dr. and Mrs. James Holly

           NSU Demon and Lady Demon Basketball

           City Bank and Trust

 Tickets to Flavor of Louisiana are $65 per person or $125 per couple.  Tickets and more information on sponsorships are available at northwesternalumni.com or by calling (318) 357-5699.

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5 gamification perspectives

- By Phil Siarri , Nuadox -

A simple definition for gamification is: “the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game context”. You probably took part in such numerous times without realizing it. Different sectors in society have been using this concept for various reasons, and new applications are being tested everyday. Let’s explore five perspectives involving varied stakeholders.

Blockchain’s growth partially due to gamification

Tiana Laurence, the author of “Blockchain for Dummies” and co-founder of Factom explained how Ethereum-based game Cryptokitties seduced the tech world with its “cuteness” (for lack of better word).

The simplicity of Cryptokitties (both in user interaction and the way it transcended the blockchain/cryptocurrency discussion) blew me away. The incredible part is that despite its simplistic user interface, the game had users creating wallets, utilizing cryptocurrency and using a form of sovereign identity. It underscored one of the ideas for genuinely breaking through to the mainstream: the all-important fun factor.

Source: Forbes

Gamifying human resources

Yu-kai Chou, CEO and Partner at the Octalysis Group argues that gamification can lead to increased employee morale and sustainable performance.

In the workplace, when most companies rely on Extrinsic and Black Hat Motivation to motivate employees, the key is to actually make the work environment enjoyable and install a long-term White Hat type of culture to drive long-term sustainable growth.

Source: CIO Review

Gamification to encourage loss prevention in the shipping industry

The UK P&I Club, a mutual for shipowners and charterers insuring over 200 million tonnes from more than fifty countries around the world, has turned to gamification to issue loss prevention messages.

The club’s first foray into gamification is not a serious training game, rather a fun retro-arcade style game Risk Ahoy where the player has to perform tasks such as jumping from the pilot ladder to pilot vessel safely and steering away from pilots. The app based game for both Apple and Android mobile devices is designed to be a novel way of highlighting risk onboard.

Source: Seatrade Maritime News

Next-gen gamification in marketing

Australian researcher Brad Howarth recently wrote a compelling article for CMO from IDG, highlighting different ways how marketers can use gamification to engage with their audience in an efficient and cost-effective manner; though many have missed the mark.

Publicis Media for example worked with its client Heineken to create a gamified experience for its sponsorship of the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Melbourne this year, using a Facebook-based chatbot to set challenges for fans, such as talking their way past a virtual doorman. Prizes included free Heineken, discounts at G-Star RAW, GQ magazine subscriptions, and VIP passes.

Public Media’s head of content, Patrick Whitnall, says the gamified chatbot provided an innovative and cost-effective way of engaging with this audience.

“That enabled us to build around the infrastructure of a chatbot, so we didn’t have to build an app or something separate to it,” he says.

Ultimately, the implementation outperformed Heineken’s expectations for user interaction. “That is going to drive customer loyalty, customer engagement and repeat purchasing.” Whitnall says.

Source: CMO From IDG

Gamification in government: Is the momentum slowing down?

John Breeden II believes governments around the world are backing away from implementing gamification strategies, yet some some agencies continue to release games.

For a while, it looked like the government was starting to understand this. There was a government gaming group formed, and certain agencies that are more public-facing such as NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began creating great titles that educated and entertained. Even the National Security Agency got into the gamification push a little bit, sponsoring cryptographic quizzes that promoted both careers at the agency and the science of cryptography in general.

However, you won’t find too much news about gamification over the past two years. It’s sad, but government seems to be backing away from most gamification efforts.

Source: NextGov

As time goes by, more and more sectors are utilizing gamification with varying degrees of success. It would be interesting to document new applications in the next two years. Until then... play on, play on.

Read Also

How gamification can boost student success

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Bob Adkins Interview, Part 2 (1993)

Bob Adkins tells #JohnHartford about the #LincolnCountyFeud (1993) #HartsCreek #WV

Wow. So what about Al Brumfield, the guy who got into the feud with Milt? “Well, he was a little more tamer fellow than old Paris but he was kind of a rough character — mean as a snake,” Bob said. “All those Brumfields were, you know. They was a tough outfit, all of them was.” Al and his wife Hollena lived in a large white house at the mouth of Harts Creek, which Bob said had recently burned.…

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Florida Georgia Line Announce 2017 Tour, Feat. Nelly & Chris Lane

Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley are constantly pushing the envelope with their music and their 2017 Smooth Tour, hitting this summer, will be no exception.

FGL has invited both hip-hop artist Nelly and fellow country star Chris Lane to join them on their Summer 2017 trek. Lane is currently on the road with Florida Georgia Line for their 2017 Dig Your Roots Tour, while the duo has collaborated with Nelly on a remix of their debut single, “Cruise,” in 2013, and have appeared with the artist in concert and at awards shows. When talking about the upcoming trek, the boys couldn't be more excited. “It’s good to be back out on tour with some of our best friends, Nelly and Chris Lane,” Kelley says in a press release. “This should be the party of the year! We are excited to see and connect with all of our fans, and make as many memories as we can.”

Florida Georgia Line’s 2017 Smooth Tour is set to begin on June 2 in Austin, Texas, and wrap up with two shows in Alpharetta, Georgia, on October 20 and 21. Tickets for select dates are on sale now as part of Live Nation’s Megaticket, while remaining shows will go on sale on February 24. Visit FloridaGeorgiaLine.com for more details.

Artist: Florida Georgia Line. Photo: John Shearer, Getty Images

Florida Georgia Line, Smooth Tour 2017 Tour Dates:

6/2 – Austin, TX @ Austin360 Amphitheater 6/3 – Dallas, TX @ Starplex Pavilion 6/15 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater 6/16 – Darien Center, NY @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center 6/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ BB&T Pavilion 6/24 – Indianapolis, IN @ Klipsch Music Center 6/25 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre 7/21 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek 7/22 – Hershey, PA @ Hershey Park Stadium 7/23 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center 7/27 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center 8/3 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion 8/4 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach 8/5 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live 8/10 – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 8/11 – Cleveland, OH @ Blossom Music Center 8/17 – Holmdel, NJ @ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center 8/18 – Hartford, CN @ Xfinity Theater 8/19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ KeyBank Pavilion 9/7 – Anaheim, CA @ Honda Center 9/8 – San Bernardino, CA @ Glen Helen Amphitheater (formerly San Manuel Amphitheater) 9/9 – San Diego, CA @ Mattress Firm Amphitheatre 9/10 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion 9/14 – Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre 9/15 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion 9/16 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre 9/21 – Kennewick, WA @ Toyota Center 9/22 – Missoula, MO @ Adams Center 9/23 – Bozeman, MO @ Brick Breeden Fieldhouse 9/29 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre 9/30 – Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center 10/1 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater 10/6 – Seattle, WA @ White River Amphitheatre 10/7 – Portland, OR @ Sunlight Supply Amphitheater 10/12 – Jacksonville, FL @ Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena 10/13 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre 10/14 – West Palm Beach, FL @ Perfect Vodka Amphitheater 10/19 – Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre 10/20-21 – Alpharetta, GA @ Verizon Amphitheater