#part Australian Kon

[mockingjaylad]

Would it be bad to hc different characters as Australian purely based on an au and what birds I think match the character…

[pynkhues]

Hi, for the movie asks 🍿 21 22 23 🙂

Hi! Thank you!

21. A director you think is underrated

Oh, man, so many, but I've been working my way through Peter Weir's filmography again, and I can't believe his oeuvre isn't talked about more in its entirety. Like, yeah, people will talk about Dead Poet's Society and The Truman Show, but to look at the 15 feature films he made and his evolution from formative Australian cinema like Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and The Cars that Ate Paris through to his American work like the movies I listed above plus Witness, Green Card and Master and Commander is truly pretty spectacular. There was no genre that he couldn't do, and I think he was a master of tone and atmosphere and it's a shame people will talk about his iconic films really as one offs instead of seeing them as parts of a body of work of probably one of the most influential directors in modern cinema.

22. A director you think is overrated

Also a lot, haha, but I'd say especially Christopher Nolan right now. I enjoyed Oppenheimer a lot, but I think overall his films have a lot of issues and are generally a lot shallower than people acknowledge. He also can't write or direct women at all and that always makes me a bit insane.

23. An animated movie you like

I adore animation, so I could rec so many! I watched Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress for the first time recently though, and that's just been such a standout. It's kind of a fictionalised, fantasy bio pic in some ways of the life and career of Setsuko Hara (incredible actress! Tokyo Story should be essential viewing!) but really uses her story as an entry point to create a love song to Japanese cinema and the relationship between art and escapism. It's just magic.

Ask me about movies

[kennak]

In the fall of 2020, the National Security Agency made an alarming discovery: Chinese military hackers had compromised classified defense networks of the United States’ most important strategic ally in East Asia. Cyberspies from the People’s Liberation Army had wormed their way into Japan’s most sensitive computer systems.Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics.ArrowRightThe hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on — plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.“It was bad — shockingly bad,” recalled one former U.S. military official, who was briefed on the event, which has not been previously reported.AdvertisementStory continues below advertisementTokyo has taken steps to strengthen its networks. But they are still deemed not sufficiently secure from Beijing’s prying eyes, which, officials say, could impede greater intelligence-sharing between the Pentagon and Japan’s Defense Ministry.The 2020 penetration was so disturbing that Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and Matthew Pottinger, who was White House deputy national security adviser at the time, raced to Tokyo. They briefed the defense minister, who was so concerned that he arranged for them to alert the prime minister himself.Beijing, they told the Japanese officials, had breached Tokyo’s defense networks, making it one of the most damaging hacks in that country’s modern history.The Japanese were taken aback but indicated they would look into it. Nakasone and Pottinger flew back “thinking they had really made a point,” said one former senior defense official briefed on the matter.A Chinese marine surveillance ship, bottom, is followed by a Japanese Coast Guard ship near disputed islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea in 2012. (Kyodo News/AP) Back in Washington, then-President Donald Trump was busy contesting Joe Biden’s election victory, and administration officials were preparing for a transition. Senior national security officials briefed incoming national security adviser Jake Sullivan during the handoff, but the incoming Biden administration faced a swirl of issues — including how to deal with a major Russian breach of U.S. agency networks discovered during the Trump administration — and some U.S. officials got the sense the Japanese just hoped the issue would fade away.AdvertisementStory continues below advertisementBy early 2021, the Biden administration had settled in, and cybersecurity and defense officials realized the problem had festered. The Chinese were still in Tokyo’s networks.Since then, under American scrutiny, the Japanese have announced they are ramping up network security, boosting the cybersecurity budget tenfold over the next five years and increasing their military cybersecurity force fourfold to 4,000 people.The stakes are high.Beijing, bent on projecting power across the western Pacific — an area it controversially claims as part of a historic maritime dominion, has increased confrontation in the region. It fired ballistic missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone last August after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) visited Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that China claims. It has embarked on a major nuclear weapons buildup. And it has engaged in dangerous air and naval maneuvers with U.S., Canadian and Australian ships and jets in the Pacific.Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi greets U.S. and Japanese officials at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Japan, in August 2022. (Akio Kon/Bloomberg)China, which already boasts the world’s largest legion of state-sponsored hackers, is expanding its cyber capabilities. Since mid-2021, the U.S. government and Western cybersecurity firms have documented increasing Chinese penetration of critical infrastructure in the United States, Guam and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific. The targets include communication, transportation and utility systems, Microsoft said in May.AdvertisementStory continues below advertisementChina-based hackers recently compromised the emails of the U.S. commerce secretary, the U.S. ambassador to China and other senior diplomats — even amid an effort by the Biden administration to thaw frosty relations with Beijing.“Over the years we have been concerned about its espionage program,” said a senior U.S. official. “But China is [also] developing cyberattack capabilities that could be used to disrupt critical services in the U.S. and key Asian allies and shape decision-making in a crisis or conflict.”In the face of this aggression, Japan has stepped up, moving beyond the traditional “shield and spear” arrangement in which Tokyo focuses on the country’s self-defense, while Washington provides capabilities that support regional security, including the nuclear umbrella that protects Japan and South Korea. Japan is developing a counterstrike capability that can reach targets in mainland China. It is buying U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles. And it is permitting the U.S. Marine Corps to place a new advanced regiment in remote islands southwest of Okinawa, a location that, along with the northernmost islands of the Philippines, allows the U.S. military proximity to Taiwan should a conflict with China erupt.AdvertisementStory continues below advertisement“Japan and the United States are currently facing the most challenging and complex security environment in recent history,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at a news conference with President Biden in Washington in January. He noted Japan’s new national security strategy boosting its defense budget and capabilities. “This new policy,” he said, “will be beneficial for the deterrence capabilities and response capabilities of the alliance as well.”U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has indicated to Tokyo that enhanced data-sharing to enable advanced military operations could be slowed if Japan’s networks are not better secured.“We see tremendous investment and effort from the Japanese in this area,” said a senior U.S. defense official. But work remains to be done. “The department feels strongly about the importance of cybersecurity to our ability to conduct combined military operations, which are at the core of the U.S.-Japan alliance.”President Biden arrives to deliver remarks on Russia at the East Room of the White House in 2021. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)Acknowledging the problemAs the Biden administration took office, it faced a maelstrom of cybersecurity crises.AdvertisementStory continues below advertisementThe United States was debating how to respond to the massive Russian “SolarWinds” hack, which was uncovered during the Trump administration and had sowed malicious code and enabled cyberspies to steal information from several major U.S. government agencies.Soon after, a Chinese compromise of Microsoft Exchange servers around the world — including at least 30,000 entities in the United States alone — threatened to cripple small and midsize businesses and state and local government agencies. Then, in the spring of 2021, a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline by a Russian criminal group shut down one of the nation’s largest fuel pipelines for six days.In the midst of this, Cyber Command offered Tokyo a team of cyber-sleuths to help assess the scope of the breach and begin to cleanse its networks of Chinese malware. The command’s “hunt forward” teams for several years had been helping partners in countries including Ukraine, North Macedonia and Lithuania dig for foreign intrusions.But the Japanese were wary. “They were uncomfortable having another country’s military on their networks,” said the former military official.Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, who leads U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, greets Japan's then-State Minister of Defense Yasuhide Nakayama, in Maryland in 2021. (Josef Cole/U.S. Cyber Command)The two sides came up with a compromise approach: The Japanese would use domestic commercial firms to assess vulnerabilities, and a joint NSA/Cyber Command team would review the results and provide guidance on how to seal gaps.AdvertisementStory continues below advertisementMeanwhile, White House national security staff and Tokyo’s National Security Council set up regular technical exchanges and video conference calls to keep on top of the issue. Defense officials in both capitals did the same.Share this articleShareUpon taking office, the Biden administration created a new cybersecurity position, and placed a senior NSA official in the job. Anne Neuberger had been appointed as a deputy national security adviser for cyber and knew about the Chinese breach coming in.But for much of the first year she was occupied with SolarWinds, Chinese compromises and Russian ransomware, and a presidential order to secure the federal software supply chain.Story continues below advertisementThen in fall 2021, Washington uncovered fresh information that reinforced the severity of China’s breach of Tokyo’s defense systems and that Japan was not making much progress in sealing it.A warning from WashingtonThat November, despite Japan being in pandemic lockdown, Neuberger and a handful of other U.S. officials flew to Tokyo and met with top military, intelligence and diplomatic officials, according to several people with knowledge of the trip.AdvertisementTo protect sensitive sources and methods, Neuberger could not explicitly tell the Japanese how U.S. spy agencies knew about the Chinese compromise. She tried in an oblique way to assure Tokyo that the Americans were not in their networks, but suspicions lingered. After all, the Japanese, like other allies, knew that the United States spies on partners.Story continues below advertisementIn 2015, the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks revealed that the NSA had spied on 35 targets in Japan, including cabinet members and the corporation Mitsubishi. Biden, then vice president, called then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for the trouble caused.In any case, Washington and Tokyo had no history of working together to address a sensitive intelligence threat.“We were asking for an unprecedented level of access to their systems,” said one person familiar with the matter. “We were asking them to take their trust in us to a deeper level than we had before. And naturally any sovereign country would be cautious about that.”AdvertisementIn deliberate, measured fashion, Neuberger laid out what the United States knew. She made clear that the White House felt the problem needed to be fixed.“We’re not here to wag fingers,” said a senior administration official, describing the approach. “We’re here to share hard-won lessons.”Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber, at a news conference in 2021. (Oliver Contreras for The Washington Post) Neuberger found a partner in Japan’s newly appointed national security adviser, Takeo Akiba, who zeroed in on an entrenched bureaucracy. They were helped by the fact that Kishida was keen on advancing a campaign launched by Abe to bolster Japan’s defense capabilities. Tokyo set to work on a new cyber strategy, which sought to beef up spending and personnel and align cybersecurity standards with U.S. and international benchmarks.“The first step is acknowledging that you have a problem, and then second, acknowledging the seriousness of the problem,” said the senior U.S. defense official.Japan launched a Cyber Command, which monitors networks “24/7,” said a Japanese defense official. It has introduced a program to continuously analyze risks throughout the military’s computer systems. It is enhancing cybersecurity training and is planning to spend $7 billion over five years on cybersecurity.“The government of Japan intends to strengthen its cybersecurity response capabilities to be equal to or surpass the level of leading Western countries,” Noriyuki Shikata, Kishida’s cabinet press secretary, said in an interview. That goal — along with “active cyberdefense,” or a form of offense-as-defense hacking — is enshrined in Japan’s new national security strategy.On Tuesday, after this story was published, Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said the government is responding to cyber attacks “through a variety of initiatives,” although he declined to describe any incidents in detail.“We have not confirmed that any confidential information held by the Ministry of Defense has been leaked,” Hamada said in a news conference. “There have been no incidents of cyberattacks affecting the execution of the SDF’s missions.”Chinese demonstrators walk outside the Japanese Embassy in The Hague in 2012. (Phil Nijhuis/AFP/Getty Images) ‘Spy heaven’For years before China audaciously hacked its networks, Japan was seen as a leaky vessel. During the Cold War, Soviet operatives used good old-fashioned tactics, capitalizing on people’s weaknesses for food, drink, money and gambling to cultivate Japanese journalists, politicians and intelligence officers.“They bragged to themselves that Japan was ‘spy heaven,’” said Richard Samuels, a political scientist at MIT, whose history of Japan’s intelligence community was published last year.After the Cold War ended, Japanese officials finally started waking up to the importance of tightening up access to intelligence. For one thing, the Americans were taking notice. A year before 9/11, a report produced by a Pentagon-funded think tank noted that despite the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance, intelligence-sharing with Tokyo was far less than that with NATO partners.“Both within and beyond Asia, Japan faces more diverse threats and more complex international responsibilities, which call for intelligence that provides a better understanding of its national security needs,” stated the report, written by a bipartisan study group including foreign policy experts Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye.Japan's then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, with Joseph Nye after speaking at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass., in 2015. (Michael Dwyer/AP)It urged Japanese leaders to build public and political support for a new law to protect classified information.“The Americans weren’t happy with how porous the Japanese intelligence community was,” said Samuels. “They did what you would expect, which was to share less. At a time when Japan needed more and better intelligence from its powerful ally, it wasn’t getting everything it needed, and it was told it’s because your intelligence community leaks. If you tighten it up, we can have a fuller and more robust exchange.”One of the most receptive to the message was Abe, scion of a prominent political family and twice prime minister. Abe, more than any modern political leader of Japan, paved the way for security reform in Tokyo.During his second tenure as prime minister in the early to mid-2010s, he sparked changes. The parliament passed a state secrets law that set stiff penalties for mishandling documents and for leaking information. Abe set up a National Security Council, modeled in part after the U.S. version, to advise the prime minister.Antiwar and civil-liberties activists protested the reforms, claiming they were infringing on privacy rights and voicing concerns about an expanding national security state. But by 2013, when the law was passed, the geopolitical landscape had shifted. The public had come to see that decades of a nominal commitment to self-defense had only emboldened a rising Beijing.China had aggressively responded to Japan’s nationalization of the Senkaku Islands, flooding the waters off the islands with Coast Guard vessels and maritime militia. In the South China Sea, it was turning remote atolls into military outposts seemingly overnight. President Xi Jinping had come to power, accelerating a vast military modernization. Meanwhile, North Korea continued provocative nuclear tests.Abe was assassinated in July 2022, but his legacy lives on. Over the last decade, attitudes toward China have hardened: Today, a majority of Japanese view the Chinese government unfavorably, while support for the U.S. alliance is at an all-time high.“Enhancing bilateral cooperation between Japan and the U.S. strengthens the cyber defenses of both nations,” Nakasone said in a statement to The Post. The United States is focused on helping Japan improve its cyber capabilities, he said, noting that the goal is for both nations to be able to ensure “a safe and secure Indo-Pacific region.”U.S. Army Green Berets with 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), parachute onto a drop zone alongside members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force as part an exercise in 2021. (Staff Sgt. Anthony Bryant/U.S. Army Pacific Public Affairs Office)The future fightIn December 2022, Chris Inglis, then the White House national cyber director, flew to Japan to speak with counterparts. Part of his mission was to share what the U.S. government was doing to better secure its own systems as he was in the midst of drafting a national cybersecurity strategy. A pillar of that strategy, which was issued in March, was strengthening partner capacities.“My discussions were intended to be quite positive about what we could do together, how we could frame cyber strategies and national strategies that would be complementary,” Inglis said in an interview. “But we have to make sure that each of us makes the appropriate investments in cybersecurity foundations.”Administration officials admit that U.S. networks are far from 100 percent secure. Over the last two decades, cases abound of Russian, Chinese, Iranian and North Korean hacks. Sensitive commercial and classified material has been stolen, the NSA’s own top-secret hacking tools have been released into the wild, Hollywood studios have been coerced and embarrassed, and the United States’ democracy has been assaulted.The “attack surface,” as cybersecurity experts call it, is vast.Over the last 20 years, each successive U.S. administration has sought to do more to enhance American cybersecurity. New organizations have been created at the White House, Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department to deal with the issue. More money has been allocated. Authorities have been expanded. Efforts with the private sector, which owns and runs the majority of critical infrastructure, have been enhanced.“We can’t hold the Japanese to a standard that we ourselves can’t possibly meet,” said the defense official. “At the end of the day, we’re going to share information with them,” the person added. “We just want to do our best to keep our adversaries out.”

China hacked Japan’s classified defense cyber networks, officials say - The Washington Post

[ao3feed-timkon]

Oh Brother!

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by Overanalyzer

Kon was hoping for a nice, quiet night out. Some weird magic and little brothers have other ideas.

  For TimKon Week 2022, Day Five: Lil Bros || Idiots/Pining || One Bed

Words: 1056, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 5 of TimKon Week 2022

Fandoms: Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Superboy (Comics), Super Sons (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Kon-El | Conner Kent, Tim Drake, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Damian Wayne

Relationships: Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Jonathan Samuel Kent & Damian Wayne

Additional Tags: Jonathan Samuel Kent is Superboy, Damian Wayne is Robin, Conner Kent is supernova, Tim Drake is Cardinal, Murder as an Act Of Love, Australian wildlife, Interrupted Date, Intoxication

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[nestaboardimmigration]

Hire the best immigration lawyers or consultants- Nestabroad Immigration

CIf someone is looking for best immigration lawyers or consultants he or she must go through this list of the finest canada immigration lawyer in Punjab if you're seeking for someone to help you apply for an immigration or student visa at a foreign embassy. We have ranked each consultant according to the comments we have received from clients who have used their services in an effort to provide you more information about each consultant. In addition to customer reviews, these Punjab immigration consultants have been evaluated based on their facilities, the countries they are aware about, the cost of the visa, general conduct, the number of counsellors and filing officers who work with them, as well as their experience.

Who are Immigration Lawyers?

Immigration lawyer specialises in criminal and marital law. An excellent communicator with remarkable relationship management abilities, efficient at maintaining cordial commercial relationships with legal counsels as well as other external agencies. Their  fundamental values: ambition, commitment, excellence, and integration guarantee the highest professional standards and aid in the development of supportive and strong connections with their clients.

Here is the list of top 10 immigration consultants in Punjab.

AEC Consultants is a reputable immigration firm situated in Punjab that specialises in Student Visas. They have over 7 branches in all major Indian cities. Trained advisers at the AEC main office in Sector 34-A, Chandigarh, provide appropriate assistance in terms of country and course selection. The best part about AEC Consultants is that they have an in-house Ex-Visa officer that assists candidates by accurately drafting their visa file.

Blue Sapphire Consultants is a top visa and Canada immigration lawyer in Punjab with a track record of success. Blue Sapphire, which is headquartered on the ground floor of a well-managed office building in Sector 34, has direct connections with various cutting-edge institutions, institutes, and universities throughout the world  and also has some contact with good immigration lawyers. Aside from student visas, the organisation is well-known for handling Canada citizenship claims under the skilled worker category and has a high success record.

Academic & Professional Studies Abroad (APSA) is an AAERI, NZIS, QEATC, and PIER-approved education agency. They provide a one-stop shop for students looking to study abroad in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, and Ireland. They offer complete assistance with student visas, as well as dependent and visiting visas and can help you out with assistance of some good immigration lawyers. The APSA staff not only focuses on admission but also assists students in obtaining scholarships from various external scholarship programmes. Councillors have been educated by ex-US embassy specialists, and students can have their files reviewed by an ex-US embassy expert.

West Highlander is an international career counselling service that serves Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. They provide free services such as counselling, admissions, and visa assistance. The staff at West Highlander in Chandigarh, Punjab is highly skilled and experienced in handling the study abroad procedure. As a result, top West Highlander staff have received official training in study visa advice from the Australian High Commission, Education NZ, and Canadian Accreditation agencies. This immigration consultant in Punjab is a signatory to the Pastoral Care for International Students Act and is accredited by the following organisations.

Sunrise Immigration consultants Punjab, also known as "Sunrise International Legal Services," provides immigration services, student visas, and business/investor visas to the following countries. They provide skilled immigration in Canada, Australia. Also, provide Business / Investment Migration in Canada, the United States, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

As a specialist in student visas and immigration to Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Education & Migration Services is one of the most sought-after immigration advisors in Punjab. They have one office in Chandigarh and two in Australia's Melbourne and Sydney. Six migration agents associated with Asia Pacific Group are registered with MARA. In addition to MARA, AAERI Member for Australia, ISANA, ICEF, Member of Migration Alliance, Migration Institute of Australia, IEAA, Licensed Immigration Advisor (NZ), ENZ Trained Agency, and Qualified Education Agent Counselor registered from PIER, they also belong to other organisations (Australia). The finest aspect of this immigration consultant in Chandigarh is that they not only assist with the visa application procedure but also offer complete support once you go to another country and help you with their contacts with immigration lawyers in case of any legality issues.

Canam Immigration Consultant mainly works with student visas, but they also give competent immigration advice. They have a solid visa track record. If you are planning a relocation to Canada and are seeking for housing, you may go through the alternatives on this page.

WWICS was founded in 1993 and is the world's largest immigration organisation. They continue to hold seminars around India to educate people about immigration rules. WWICS is the immigration business with the most offices in all major cities in India, and has the most immigration clients.

Oceanic is also regarded as one of the best immigration experts in Punjab. They generally deal with student visas, but due to their competence in this industry, they provide a wide range of services. Oceanic consultants were founded in 1996.

Unlike Sunrise and WWICS, The Chopras immigration consultants primarily deal with student visas and other student-related services. They work in a variety of locations and are well-known for their special, extended services to assist students in studying abroad. The Chopras offer some excellent nation-specific information for ambitious applicants who want to study in their chosen country.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.7

461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer. 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople. 768 – Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help. 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. 1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor. 1479 – Battle of Guinegate: French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg. 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy. 1743 – The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War. 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. 1786 – The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States. 1789 – The United States Department of War is established. 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War. 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. 1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. 1890 – Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, became the last woman to be executed in Sweden. 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California. 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. 1933 – The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). 1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis. 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. 1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). 1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France. 1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide. 1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. 1969 – Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars. 1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently. 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. 1987 – Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. 1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. 1990 – First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War. 1993 – Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1995 – The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake. 1997 – Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1997 – Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people. 1998 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan. 2007 – At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record. 2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia. 2020 – Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.

[maybe-its-5sos-masterlist]

Headcanons.

Bruce headcanons:

Kissing

Jealousy

Sex now and then

Living together

The time of the month while he’s away

Who he listens to

Protective

Plus size s/o

Hispanic s/o

Wedding

Damian Headcanons:

Jealous/ Possessive

Drunk S/o

Royalty

Sex

Kissing

Galas

Meeting the mother

Pregnant [Part 2]

Falling for a villain

A poly relationship (Feat. Jon)  [NSFW] [Proposal]

Friends

Insecure because of a friend

Sex now and then

Talia kills you

Living together

Seeing you’re hot

Plant manipulating S/o

Sexual Assault

Making out

Plus size s/o

Crushing on a friend

Older crush

Gifts

Hispanic s/o

Dating Alfred’s niece

Dating Jason’s little sister

A Crush (feat. Jon)

Dancer

Nerdy S/O

Texan S/O

First time

Jason headcanons:

Sex now and then

Living together

A poly relationship (feat. Tim)

A poly relationship (feat. Dick)

Engaged

Daughter of the enemy

Pregnant

Plus size s/o

Jealous

Pop star

A poly relationship (Feat. Roy)

Can’t have kids

Short gf

Shopping

Fighting with the S/O

Journalist S/O

Smoker S/O

Dick headcanons:

Having a baby

Sex now and then

Plus size S/O

A poly relationship (feat. Jason)

Pop star

Dating

Not great at English

Jealous

Tim Headcanons:

A poly relationship (feat. Jason)

Sex now and then

Sick

Swearing

Deaf

Dating

Nerdy s/o

Batboys headcanons:

Period cramps

S/o Turned to a kid

Boys turned into kids

S/o has amnesia

How they smell

The talk

Stripper (+ Bruce)

What they listen to

Ran off with the baby (+Bruce)

Dating Kon-El/Superboy, having Batbrothers

Grandfathers

Baby girl

Freckles

Spicy

No sex for you

Losing their S/o at childbirth

Murder

Mixed

Rebellious daughter

Artistic s/o (feat. Bruce)

Spy (Feat. Bruce)

English(British) Accent (Feat. Bruce)

Your birthday

Student killer

Secret Stash

Overprescription

Australian accent

Self conscious (Feat. Bruce)

Losing their child in a crowd

Irish accent

Russian accent

Insecure violinist

Scientist

Shield agent (Feat. Bruce)

Childhood sweethearts (Feat. Bruce)

Dead and gone

Depressed and Anxious

Writer

Twerking

Tattooed SO

Skin condition

Singer

Kidnaped, being Damians S/o

Depression and self-harm

Anger issues

Graduating

Black belt

Male s/o

Sneaking out

Miscarriage

Waking up (Feat. Bruce)

S/o falls asleep anywhere

Afraid of the dark

Snacks

Cape thief

Ticklish

Sister s/o’s

Hacker

[bringinbackpod]

Interview with The Rubens

Together with American Songwriter, we had the pleasure of interviewing The Rubens over Zoom video! 

Ivy League Records are thrilled to release 0202 – the exceptional fourth album by local legends, The Rubens! Loaded with effortless jams like ‘Live In Life’ (double Platinum, ARIA Song of the Year nominee & the fourth biggest Australian song of 2020 (ARIA)), ‘Time Of My Life’, ‘Heavy Weather’ & current single ‘Masterpiece’, with 0202 the band have fully transformed into an alt-rock/pop powerhouse and, for the first time, have self-produced an album that will have people re-evaluating what they thought they knew about The Rubens.

By the time album opener and absolute belter ‘Masterpiece’ comes to an end, it becomes very clear that The Rubens have emerged inspired from all the twists and turns thrown at them in 2020 and injected a new energy into this incredible record. 0202, a forward thinking album for a backward year, sees The Rubens creating a sound that effortlessly dances across genres – alt-rock, rnb, pop and hip hop all collide into something uniquely their own.

The band unexpectedly found themselves self-producing what would become their most “pop” sounding album so far, recording everything together in their friend’s Camden-based studio, a converted WWII communications building, simply known as The Bunker, with bass player Will Zeglis taking on the role of engineer. Together they built each track up, starting with drummer Scott Baldwin’s beats, piecing the whole thing together part by part. When they felt like they’d taken a song as far as they could on their own, they would send it on to one of three producers – Kon Kersting, Rob Amoruso or Eric J – depending on what the song needed and who they thought would be best suited to the track, to add extra production and mix the track.

0202 follows third album LO LA RU, which featured hits ‘Never Ever (feat Sarah)’ (Double Platinum), ‘Million Man’ (Certified Gold), ‘God Forgot’ (Certified Gold) and lead to sold out shows and a 42-date Arena tour supporting megastar P!NK. Their second album Hoops saw the band sell out headline shows at" Pavilion and Margaret Court Arena and included hits ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Cut Me Loose’ and of course the 4 x Platinum the hit title track, which topped the 2015 triple j Hottest 100, while their debut self-titled LP was home to ‘My Gun’ (Certified Platinum), ‘Lay It Down’ (Certified Gold), ‘The Best We Got’ and more fan-favourites.

The Rubens are currently half way through their regional NSW album launch shows, and will kick off their official 0202 album tour from April – July, playing metro cities as well as regional venues across their biggest headline tour to date.

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[return2theroad]

Goodbye Vientiane, hello Kong Lor Cave.

I said goodbye to Mike and his wife and Mike was nice enough to drop me at the bus station in Vientiane so I could catch the morning bus to Kong Lor. Like every bus ride in Laos, it is hard to predicate when you are going to arrive. Between the roads, which suck and the numerous random stops that the bus makes to drop off and pick up passengers there is no knowing when you will arrive.

I left at 10 in the morning and it turned out when all was said and done I arrived at my lodgings at 6:30 and was the last one dropped off. The ride was uneventful but quite scenic until the last 40 miles. Because of the condition of the road and the fact that the “Big bus” could not go over the bridge, all of us that were headed to Kong Lor were transferred to a Sŏrngtăaou, which is essentially a covered pickup with two benches facing each other down the side. Not the most comfortable way to go, especially when there appears to be more potholes than road and not just any potholes but truck swallowing ones.

I had booked myself into the Spring River Resort which sounds exotic and was a great place and if you can believe this only 20 bucks for my own cabin which was spotless. My resort was a little out of town and about 2km from town. The drive said if I could wait he would continue onto Kon Lor, drop everyone off and than take me right to the resort and I am glad I took him up on the offer.

Spring River was a sight for sore eyes after 9 hours or so on dusty bumpy roads. Upon my arrival, Thomas the host greeted me with a warm welcome and a much-needed cold refreshing lemonade. The resort itself was beautiful, It is located right on the river with soaring mountains on the other side. There is a raised wooden walkway throughout the lush grounds. There are 6 riverside cabins with their own washrooms and a number of other cabins with shared washrooms which is what I had. My cabin was clean as a whistle and quite comfy. The washrooms and showers equally so and Thomas was sure to point out that they were cleaned three times per day.

Spring River was such a wonderful place I ended up extended my stay to 3 nights on my first night. The restaurant was great, and I ended up meeting two Australian families one with kids and the other with no kids. The ones with no kids worked here in Laos. Super nice people and James, the one living in Australia and I ended up having some great conversations about politics and economic development in places like Laos.

On my first day I walked the 2.5 km to the Kong Lor Caves, the main attraction in the area. The Kong Lor Cave and was formed by the Hinboun river which still flows through the cave. This means you can hire a boat and transverse the whole 7.5 of cave from one opening to another by boat. At times the cave soars to nearly 100 metres in height. I hired my own boat and off we went. Because it was the low season there were one or two times that I had to get out of the boat and walk while the guide dragged the boat over the shallow water. Parts of the cave are totally unlit, and the only light comes from yours and the guides headlamps. I found interesting to watch how the guides was scanning from side to side looking for markers to let him know where he was. There were several sections of the cave that were fully lite which was cool to see. Once you come out the far side, you drive a short distance up the river and stop for a local bowl of soup for lunch and than head back. I do have to say it was a GREAT bowl of soup. Day two at Kong Lor consisted mostly of exploring by foot and a bit of paddling up the river near the resort to a small lagoon. I was on my own for this and was not worried as the water was less than waste deep in most places. I was doing great until I ran aground in a shallow area and while trying to push myself off I ended up losing my paddle. At this point I had to jump in, push the boat off and jump in and grab my paddle. So much for staying dry. LOL

The next I was headed to Paske.

[joshuajacksonlyblog]

EBay Ads Tell World It Will (Finally) Accept ‘Virtual Currency’

Cryptocurrency users were celebrating fresh rumors about a major adoption push this week after hints suggested eBay might accept Bitcoin and altcoins.

eBay: ‘Virtual Currency Is Happening’

According to photographs of marketing material from the ongoing Consensus 2019 conference in New York, eBay, which has 180 million users, is actively pursuing crypto payments.

One of the annual event’s major sponsors this year, it would appear the giant online marketplace is deliberately targeting attendees’ imagination.

“Virtual Currency. It’s happening on eBay,” one placard reads, without giving any further information.

"Leaked from Consensus, eBay possibly announcing the support of cryptocurrencies on their website." – @PatronsOfTheMoon Telegram. #share #bitcoin #cryptocurrency pic.twitter.com/xqbpdysUic

— wolf (@ImNotTheWolf) May 12, 2019

The choice of slogan worked; after the photographs went online, social media and mainstream media alike ignited a debate which continues to engulf the cryptocurrency community.

Theories range from Bitcoin acceptance to even an exclusive deal with Binance Coin, the native token of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

‘Just’ A Third Party Deal?

As Australian news magazine Micky notes, however, the reality could be somewhat more sober: eBay, it suggested, may be partnering with a payments platform that accepts various cryptocurrencies on behalf of merchants and pays them in fiat.

That platform is UTRUST, a company which last September gained former eBay and PayPal executive Sanja Kon to front its global partnership expansion.

“It’s not hard to imagine that one of the first partnership Kon would attempt to make would be at the company she was a senior executive at for five years,” the publication wrote, likewise linking to social media.

UTRUST supports Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ripple among various other coins, while also spawning its own native token, which would likely feature in any form of acceptance deal.

Executives have yet to comment on the latest rumors, which follow a period of rapid expansion for the startup, the user wallet for which remains in beta testing.

“I’m constantly fascinated by how technological innovation impacts our daily lives, and in particular, the rapid evolution of crypto payments,” Kon said at the time she joined UTRUST.

No Joy From PayPal

Kon’s enthusiasm for crypto meanwhile appears increasingly at odds with her old employer. As Bitcoinist reported last week, PayPal remains decidedly pro-Blockchain but hands-off on Bitcoin.

“We have teams working on blockchain and cryptocurrency as well, and we want to take part in that in whatever form that takes in the future – I just think it’s a little early on right now,” CFO John Rainey told Yahoo! Finance in an interview.

EBay has nonetheless hinted about its interest for a long time, with rumors of Bitcoin acceptance likewise coming in December 2017, when the cryptocurrency hit its peak of $20,000.

What do you think about eBay potentially accepting cryptocurrency? Let us know in the comments below!

Images via Shutterstock

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[cryptswahili]

EBay Ads Tell World It Will (Finally) Accept ‘Virtual Currency’

Cryptocurrency users were celebrating fresh rumors about a major adoption push this week after hints suggested eBay might accept Bitcoin and altcoins.

eBay: ‘Virtual Currency Is Happening’

According to photographs of marketing material from the ongoing Consensus 2019 conference in New York, eBay, which has 180 million users, is actively pursuing crypto payments.

One of the annual event’s major sponsors this year, it would appear the giant online marketplace is deliberately targeting attendees’ imagination.

“Virtual Currency. It’s happening on eBay,” one placard reads, without giving any further information.

"Leaked from Consensus, eBay possibly announcing the support of cryptocurrencies on their website." – @PatronsOfTheMoon Telegram. #share #bitcoin #cryptocurrency pic.twitter.com/xqbpdysUic

— wolf (@ImNotTheWolf) May 12, 2019

The choice of slogan worked; after the photographs went online, social media and mainstream media alike ignited a debate which continues to engulf the cryptocurrency community.

Theories range from Bitcoin acceptance to even an exclusive deal with Binance Coin, the native token of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

‘Just’ A Third Party Deal?

As Australian news magazine Micky notes, however, the reality could be somewhat more sober: eBay, it suggested, may be partnering with a payments platform that accepts various cryptocurrencies on behalf of merchants and pays them in fiat.

That platform is UTRUST, a company which last September gained former eBay and PayPal executive Sanja Kon to front its global partnership expansion.

“It’s not hard to imagine that one of the first partnership Kon would attempt to make would be at the company she was a senior executive at for five years,” the publication wrote, likewise linking to social media.

UTRUST supports Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ripple among various other coins, while also spawning its own native token, which would likely feature in any form of acceptance deal.

Executives have yet to comment on the latest rumors, which follow a period of rapid expansion for the startup, the user wallet for which remains in beta testing.

“I’m constantly fascinated by how technological innovation impacts our daily lives, and in particular, the rapid evolution of crypto payments,” Kon said at the time she joined UTRUST.

No Joy From PayPal

Kon’s enthusiasm for crypto meanwhile appears increasingly at odds with her old employer. As Bitcoinist reported last week, PayPal remains decidedly pro-Blockchain but hands-off on Bitcoin.

“We have teams working on blockchain and cryptocurrency as well, and we want to take part in that in whatever form that takes in the future – I just think it’s a little early on right now,” CFO John Rainey told Yahoo! Finance in an interview.

EBay has nonetheless hinted about its interest for a long time, with rumors of Bitcoin acceptance likewise coming in December 2017, when the cryptocurrency hit its peak of $20,000.

What do you think about eBay potentially accepting cryptocurrency? Let us know in the comments below!

Images via Shutterstock

The post EBay Ads Tell World It Will (Finally) Accept ‘Virtual Currency’ appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.

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[cryptobrief]

Cryptocurrency users were celebrating fresh rumors about a major adoption push this week after hints suggested eBay might accept Bitcoin and altcoins.

eBay: ‘Virtual Currency Is Happening’

According to photographs of marketing material from the ongoing Consensus 2019 conference in New York, eBay, which has 180 million users, is actively pursuing crypto payments.

One of the annual event’s major sponsors this year, it would appear the giant online marketplace is deliberately targeting attendees’ imagination.

“Virtual Currency. It’s happening on eBay,” one placard reads, without giving any further information.

"Leaked from Consensus, eBay possibly announcing the support of cryptocurrencies on their website." – @PatronsOfTheMoon Telegram. #share #bitcoin #cryptocurrency pic.twitter.com/xqbpdysUic

— wolf (@ImNotTheWolf) May 12, 2019

The choice of slogan worked; after the photographs went online, social media and mainstream media alike ignited a debate which continues to engulf the cryptocurrency community.

Theories range from Bitcoin acceptance to even an exclusive deal with Binance Coin, the native token of cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

‘Just’ A Third Party Deal?

As Australian news magazine Micky notes, however, the reality could be somewhat more sober: eBay, it suggested, may be partnering with a payments platform that accepts various cryptocurrencies on behalf of merchants and pays them in fiat.

That platform is UTRUST, a company which last September gained former eBay and PayPal executive Sanja Kon to front its global partnership expansion.

“It’s not hard to imagine that one of the first partnership Kon would attempt to make would be at the company she was a senior executive at for five years,” the publication wrote, likewise linking to social media.

UTRUST supports Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ripple among various other coins, while also spawning its own native token, which would likely feature in any form of acceptance deal.

Executives have yet to comment on the latest rumors, which follow a period of rapid expansion for the startup, the user wallet for which remains in beta testing.

“I’m constantly fascinated by how technological innovation impacts our daily lives, and in particular, the rapid evolution of crypto payments,” Kon said at the time she joined UTRUST.

No Joy From PayPal

Kon’s enthusiasm for crypto meanwhile appears increasingly at odds with her old employer. As Bitcoinist reported last week, PayPal remains decidedly pro-Blockchain but hands-off on Bitcoin.

“We have teams working on blockchain and cryptocurrency as well, and we want to take part in that in whatever form that takes in the future – I just think it’s a little early on right now,” CFO John Rainey told Yahoo! Finance in an interview.

EBay has nonetheless hinted about its interest for a long time, with rumors of Bitcoin acceptance likewise coming in December 2017, when the cryptocurrency hit its peak of $20,000.

What do you think about eBay potentially accepting cryptocurrency? Let us know in the comments below!

Images via Shutterstock

The post EBay Ads Tell World It Will (Finally) Accept ‘Virtual Currency’ appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.7

322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia. 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer. 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople. 768 - Stephen III begins his reign as Catholic Pope. 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence. 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River. 1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor. 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy. 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. 1789 – The United States Department of War is established. 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War. 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. 1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. 1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England. 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder. 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California. 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. 1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. 1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins. 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). 1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis. 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. 1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. 1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008. 1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France. 1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide. 1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars. 1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently. 1979 – Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities. 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. 1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union 1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. 1990 – First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War. 1998 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan. 2000 – DeviantArt is launched. 2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.

[airadam]

Episode 109 : Sunny Days, Dark Times

"If you mad, take it up with God, it's how he designed me"

- Havoc

My goodness, it was tough to get this episode completed - but here we are, celebrating the ninth birthday of the podcast! Thank you all for your continued support; it's knowing that you're waiting for the show every month that keeps it going :)

As mentioned on the show; RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) could make very good use of donations right now.

Beatnuts show, September 19th, Whiskey Jar, Manchester - catch me on the wheels in the early going!

Twitter: @airadam13

Playlist/Notes

Nas ft. The-Dream & Kanye West : everything

It seems that seven-track albums are the style right now. I still need to give "NASIR" some more listens, but this song stood out by a mile to me on the first hearing. I'm not here for Kanye West right now but he and his team do nail the production on this one, and he and The-Dream knock the sung vocals out of the park. Nas' mostly solid rhymes, with some gems in there (especially the third verse), are somehow my third favourite thing on this song, which is at least partially due to the seeming anti-vaccine sentiment in the second verse. He's either wrong, or just dropped some clumsy lines - you be the judge.

Power Glove : E-240

Power Glove are an Australian who the gamers amongst you may know their work from the soundtrack of "Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon". They're mostly known for 80s-style synthwave, but this has more of a chilled 90s vibe, which I think they execute really well. You can get this on their "EP II". 

Agallah : Don't Wanna Be The Last

I think this was the track that made me go back and check the catalogue of the group who were sampled by Agallah for this beat! This is taken from his "Doomsday" mixtape and has been a favourite of mine ever since I was bumping it in a red Corolla like the Puerto Rican driver in Masta Ace's "Born To Roll" and the "J.A.N" re-record :)

Rapsody : Special Way

Going with another repurposed 80s ballad on this one, with Khrysis on production. A song of love, delivered in Rapsody's flawless style, this is yet another great track from "She Got Game". Have you got yourself a copy yet?

Rakim : Remember That

I really didn't appreciate "The 18th Letter" enough when it first came out, but I keep going back to it and finding tracks I unjustly overlooked. This particular one finds Rakim reminiscing over his early experiences of Hip-Hop and the NYC club scene of his youth, with DJ Clark Kent supplying the beat.

Devin The Dude : Gotta Be Me

I can't say I can relate to the smoking experience, but this is a tune I enjoy nonetheless! This is the title track of his seventh album, with Cozmo basing the instrumental on a classic soul number, and Devin's lyrics making the whole thing a great summertime tune.

The Mouse Outfit : Children Of The Stars (Instrumental)

Just the beat from one of my favourite tracks on the "Escape Music" album - gorgeous production work. Do pick up that album if you don't already have it, along with their latest release "Jagged Tooth Crook".

Jasiri X : The Whitest House

You can always rely on Jasiri X to be the man with the take on current events, and this is a heavy one. It opens with a sample of the author and educator Ta-Nehisi Coates before the beat drops in and Jasiri tackles the evils of the Trump regime. As usual, the best place to get his singles is on his Bandcamp page.

The Alchemist ft. Mobb Deep : Carved In Stone

A longtime favourite of mine from the excellent "Insomnia" compilation, with raw Mobb rhymes (including this month's epigraph), and Alchemist killing it on the beat - I don't know where he got the sample, but it's a great one. Listen closely and you'll hear it's an example of a no hi-hit drum part, with kicks and handclaps along with some low tom-type rolls making up the entirety of the drum programming. Rhyme-wise, the late great Prodigy opens things up but I think Havoc absolutely shines here!

Smoke DZA & Pete Rock : Last Name

Given the names of the two artists who created the album, "Don't Smoke Rock" is just the best possible name. Apparently a new album is on the way, but for now have a sample of the first collaboration. The beat isn't one that immediately makes you think of Pete Rock but obviously has the quality, and it suits the MCing perfectly. Smoke DZA does have a kind of smoked-out vibe, but is right on top of things at the same time here.

Blu & Nottz ft. Exile : The Man

I don't know if it's just me, but the first verse sounds very different to the other two - and is clearly the best! Blu & Nottz' "Gods In The Spirit, Titans In The Flesh" is a new release but essentially a merge of two separate EPs that the pair had previously released, with this track originally being on "Titans In The Flesh". Nottz, though mostly known as a producer, gets on the mic here to close the track and definitely shows he belongs, but Blu just kills that first verse.

A Kid Called Roots : Hip-Hop

He may not be a household name, but A Kid Called Roots (I presume it's like A Tribe Called Quest or A Pimp Named Slickback, you say the whole thing) has quietly produced for quite an array of artists, from Canibus to Xzibit. This beat is from the 1997 "Hydra Beats Volume XIII" collection, with ten tracks from this producer - all named after a producer or executive, except this one, it seems!

DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. The Trinity: Wide Awake

The third instalment of the "Magnificent" series seems to have quietly snuck out, but it's an album well worth checking out! Rhymefest, Dayne Jordan, and Uhmeer make up the on-mic crew for this track, with crystal-clear rhymes over lush production. A nice extra touch is Jeff's scratching with a famous sound much beloved by the turntablists of the world!

The Foreign Exchange : June

It's somehow unfair that Phonte is such an amazing MC and got that singing voice, but we're the beneficiaries when he gives us stuff like this! Phonte and Nicolay's joint project has gone from strength to strength, with this new single being another gem in their catalogue. The low notes give us the high point of the production, with Nicolay killing it on the synth bass!

Children of Zeus : All Night

Last month we had the A-side of this single, but I just couldn't resist that "You're A Customer" sample after all! Konny Kon and Tyler Daly each shine at what they're best known for on this cut, with the overall result feeling like (in my opinion) a super-upgraded version of what some of the R&B/rap combination tracks were trying to do in the late 90s/early 00s. Big tune, and one which sets the table for the release of the long-awaited debut album "Travel Light" in July!

Smith Brothers : Real Live

Nothing conscious or pretty here, just pure gangster business from Smoothe Da Hustler and Trigger Da Gambler as The Smith Brothers (they actually are the Smith brothers in real life) on this 2000 single. I thought the beat here was a good one to blend to from the CoZ track, with the staccato synth line and tough drums. I only have this as a promo 12", which unfortunately doesn't have a production credit printed, but DR Period might be a reasonable guess.

DJ Spinna : Let It Speak

It's always a good time to play some Spinna, and with him being under the weather recently, right now it's doubly so. Dope beat from the "Unpicked Treats Vol 1" compilation.

Mobb Deep : Play

This may be one of the only ever completely radio-friendly Mobb Deep tracks! I don't think this is a well-known one, but I originally heard about it on the Juan Epstein podcast. From the soundtrack of the Keanu Reeves film "Hardball", this one sees Prodigy and Havoc doing it for the kids but absolutely maintaining their own rugged style. If you ever stumble upon the original sample, I think you'll enjoy that track too.

Please remember to support the artists you like! The purpose of putting the podcast out and providing the full tracklist is to try and give some light, so do use the songs on each episode as a starting point to search out more material. If you have Spotify in your country it's a great way to explore, but otherwise there's always Youtube and the like. Seeing your favourite artists live is the best way to put money in their pockets, and buy the vinyl/CDs/downloads of the stuff you like the most!

Check out this episode!

[jwilliamsi]

Tweeted

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— Kon Karapanagiotidis (@Kon__K) August 16, 2017

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.7

461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer. 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople. 768 – Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help. 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. 1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor. 1479 – Battle of Guinegate, French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg. 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy. 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. 1786 – The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States. 1789 – The United States Department of War is established. 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War. 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. 1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. 1890 – Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder. 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California. 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. 1933 – The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). 1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis. 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. 1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). 1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France. 1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide. 1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. 1969 – Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars. 1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently. 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. 1987 – Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. 1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. 1990 – First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War. 1993 – Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1997 – Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1997 – Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people. 1998 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan. 2007 – At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record. 2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.