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Added to site: Tuesday 31st July 2018

Thelonious Monk

Don’t confuse this one with Thelonious Monk’s 1964 studio LP of the same name. This version of Monk is a previously-unreleased live recording taped a year earlier, in Copenhagen, for Danish radio. Along with a stellar band made up of Frankie Dunlop, Charlie Rouse and ...view item »
Added to site: Monday 30th July 2018

Second Direction
Four Corners & Steps Ahead

Great archival pressing from German jazz label Sonorama (Helmut Brandt Orchestra, Inge Brandenburg) here. Despite only releasing one record until n...view item »

C’est La Vie

The ‘Song For Zula’ singer (you’ll know it when you hear it) comes back with his first LP in a half-decade. Now that Justin Vernon is fully lost in the Kid A sauce, Matthew Houck’s guise positions him well to assume the mantle as the king of folkish indie. Judging by positive stu...view item »

Dakota Suite & Dag Rosenqvist
What Matters Most

A slow, haunting new LP from Dakota Suite here. What Matters Most sees DS auteur Chris Hooson join forces with Dag Rosenqvist (Jasper TX) and former collaborator Emanuele Errante (Elem). With Hooson taking up the singer-songwriter's archetypal comp...view item »

Only Now Forever

While Invada have generally focused on soundtrack releases in the past couple of years they do still find time to plug new band fare every now and then. Their latest drop sees Berlin duo The KVB return to the label with new LP Only Now Forever. Mind you, the group’s mixture of Motorik grooves, psy...view item »

Through Broken Summer

It's only a new record from Epic45, my favourite Staffordshire-based post-indie rock band. I can only imagine how beautiful Through Broken Summer will be if their other albums are to go by. You can already hear the calming, yet oddly satisfying sound permeating through your brain, melting your very core. Available on vi...view item »
Added to site: Friday 27th July 2018

Rue Royale
In Parallel

Rue Royale are a Nottingham based duo from both the UK and the USA and In Parallel is their latest release from their 10 year history of shows in dozens of countries and tracks released all over the world. With both the UK and USA experiencing some. . . urm. . . alt-right political issues, this record is a reflection of...view item »
Added to site: Thursday 26th July 2018

Mary Lou Lord
Got No Shadow

Mary Lou Lord gave the world her debut LP Got No Shadow in 1998, issued via a since defunct sub-label of Sony. Two decades later this remarkable blend of indie-rock and folk gets a wider, remastered release on Fire. A collection of a baker's dozen of songs drawn from sets that Mary Lou performed for weary commuters pass...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 25th July 2018

William Elliott Whitmore

Chicago’s Bloodshot Records (The Mekons, Murder By Death) release an LP of covers by seasoned troubador WIlliam Elliott Whitmore. Whitmore COVERS (geddit?) a lot of ground on Kilonova. Some of the tunes here were written relatively recently - he opens with a versi...view item »

The latest envelope-pushing visionary to join the Pan roster is Queens-based artist Eartheater. With a name like that one comes to IRISIRI expecting a metal band, and though Eartheater’s music tends more towards the turbulent electronics of Aisha Devi and Alice Glass ...view item »

David August

David August has always felt an affinity to the parts of him that came from Palestrina in Italy. On D'Angelo he takes his first steps in exploring this feeling in public. Recorded in Italy (by necessity), the album is a muscular mixture of Balearic pop and darker sounds of the noir soundtrack...view item »

Jon Spencer
Spencer Sings The Hits

Jon... what did you do Jon? What did you do? What did you do to them? Where are they Jon? Jon! Where are the Blues Explosion?!  Despite my suspicions, it is my job to inform you Jon Spencer is back, and this time, he's singing the hits. On it the New York's garage rock legend offers his heart in excha...view item »

You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough

Searing rock music from Welsh rock band Estrons. And I'm not just saying that because they've put a volcano on their album cover, this is proper pulse-quickening exciting stuff. Fast and catchy guitar riffs pair with vocalist Tali's visceral singing to make something with genuine weight. You Say I'm Too Much, I...view item »

Fucked Up
Dose Your Dreams

Fucked Up have pulled out all the stops to make, arguably, the album of their career with Dose Your Dreams. Whilst it kicks off in a familiar punk fashion, they then take unexpected turns into psychedelia, groove work-outs and even doo-wop before is brought to a close with a Krautrock epic. LP and CD on Merge....view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 24th July 2018

Yoko Ono

Warzone by 85 year-old Yoko Ono sees the avant-garde artist stripping back thirteen songs from her career between 1970-2009. The songs carried messages in their lyrics that seem all too relevant now. By stripping the instrumentation back, the lyrics come to the fore and her messages, sometime encouraging, sometimes cautious, are...view item »

Invisible Minds
Make Up Your Own Stories

No-one's sure who the person behind Invisible Minds is, but that hasn’t stopped them spiking in popularity since the release of debut single ‘Yo Mae Leh’ at the back-end of 2017. Now Moshi Moshi have gone and snapped up their debut LP. Make Up Your Own Stories is a varied listen - some...view item »

Kristin Hersh
Possible Dust Clouds

Possible Dust Clouds is the tenth solo studio album from Throwing Muses leader Kristin Hersh. It’s an album of contrasts, dark and light, loud and quiet, chaos and calm. It’s her first for Fire Records and is being ‘bigged up’ as return to form, and we know the heights that form has ...view item »

Nathan Bowles
Plainly Mistaken

Banjo player, Nathan Bowles, who has played with Steve Gunn, The Black Twig Pickers and Pelt has assembled a band for the first time for his new album, Plainly Mistaken. Casey Toll of Mt. Moriah plays double bass whilst CAVE drummer Rex McMurry ...view item »
Added to site: Monday 23rd July 2018

Open Mind - The Best Of Blackfield

Long-serving rockers Blackfield issue a Best Of collection via Kscope. The band draw from a five-album discography for Open Mind, and the fifteen tunes here serve as a neat overview to the body of work Aviv Geffen and former Porcupine Tree member Steven Wil...view item »

Matt Berry
Television Themes

The Voice himself aka Matt Berry comes through with a typically zany collection. Along with his band The Maypoles, Berry has reinterpreted several of his favourite television themes - hence the LP being called ... Television Themes - from days of yore. ‘Blankety Blank’, ‘Doctor Wh...view item »
Added to site: Sunday 22nd July 2018

Wild Cat Strike
Rhubarb Nostalgia

Essentially Mumford & Sons but from Brighton, Rhubarb Nostalgia is the debut record from Wild Cat Strike. Thus, you can expect some British-style pop-folk on this record and it even brings together vocalists from other bands such as Delta Sleep and Tall Ships...view item »
Added to site: Friday 20th July 2018

Minus The Bear
Fair Enough

Minus The Bear bring their 17-year career to an end with the release of Fair Enough EP. Their career has seen them build up a cult following with six albums and at least two handfuls of singles and EPs. Their sound marries dark subject matter with a brand of indie rock that will get you up on your feet. LP and CD on Suicide Sque...view item »

The Prodigy
No Tourists

It appears that The Prodigy are still going. Liam Howlett’s scary dance project have been doing their thing for twenty-eight years now, and they’re showing no sign of letting up, so why not get on the bus an join ‘em. Hold on, the new album is called No Tourists, if they want to be pedantic the bus thing may ca...view item »
Added to site: Thursday 19th July 2018

Politics Of Living

Aha! B-Unique Records, is it? Wondered when we’d see you again. The London ‘indie’ label may never scale the dizzying heights of the time when it had The Kaiser Chiefs, The Ordinary Boys and The Twang on its roster, but at least now it can call on the ...view item »

Small Faces
Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (50th Anniversary Edition)

They’re back. After fifty long years, they’re back. Those tiny men with the Small Faces. Their 1968 LP ‘Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake doesn’t need an introduction. The Record With The Title That Is Bad sold truckloads on release and topped the charts for over a month. It contains the extremely pop...view item »

David Bowie
Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988)

The '80s was a notoriously hard period for David Bowie. His critical and commercial status waned as fans grew tired of his endless shape-shifting. It seems that not many people were, in fact, Loving The Alien. However, that’s not stopped Parlophone releasing these deluxe box-sets of his mid-80's o...view item »

Tashi Wada With Yoshi Wada & Friends
FRKWYS Vol. 14 – Nue

Yoshi Wada opened up experimental music to entire new ways of approaching structure and timbre; a player of bagpipes, band leader and sound designer, his work has been commanding and uncompromising. His son, Tashi Wada, is a composer in his own right, and the two have here collaborated on a record of explor...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 18th July 2018

Cat Power

Cat Power celebrates the great blues tradition of transience on her first album in six years Wanderer. It was written over the course of a couple years during which she toured, and travelled, and played. Folk and blues are fundamentally collaborative genres and Wanderer is no different, featuring ...view item »

Jerry Paper
Like A Baby

Of course it's not his real name. Jerry Paper is the alter ego of LA based songwriter and multi instrumentalist Lucas Nathan. This is his first record for Stones Trow following on from previous records on smaller imprints. It's lo-fi soul pop was co-produced by Matty Tavares (BadBadNotGood) and guest stars ...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 17th July 2018

Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregor's Autobiography)

Jlin continues her ascension into the pantheon of all-time greats with her score for Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography. It’s typically fervid work from the Gary, Indiana producer. The poise of her high-art, post-footwork style is even sharper than usual here. One can only imagine how riveting t...view item »
Added to site: Monday 16th July 2018

You're No Fun

Illingsworth AKA Dr. Illingsworth is an MC and hip-hop producer from Detroit, Michigan. You’re No Fun is his latest album. He is very prolific and his vast back catalogue has been released on Fat Beats Records, Low Key Source, 616800 Records and Illingsworks among others. This, however, comes courtesy of M...view item »

The Alty-Jays release an album that is set to be the best of their career to date, largely because it doesn’t feature all that much of their own music. Rather than being a new record from Image Of A Triangle, Reduxer is actually a collection of eleven ‘reinterpretations’ of tracks from...view item »
Added to site: Saturday 14th July 2018

Lee Hazlewood's Woodchucks
Cruisin' For Surf Bunnies

Light In The Attic have been digging around in Lee Hazlewood's loft again. This time they found a tape with Woodchucks written on it. It contained a bunch of surf instrumentals Hazlewood recorded at the beginning of the ‘60s. These tracks have since been recorded by the likes of Dick Dale,...view item »
Added to site: Thursday 12th July 2018

Rick and Morty
The Rick and Morty Soundtrack

Aww geez. Wubba lubba dub dub. Eek barba durkle. And so on. This Rick And Morty tie-in album was only a matter of time, given the popularity of the show and the general high quality of the soundtrack. Whatever format you buy the Rick And Morty Soundtrack on, you’ll be getting twenty-six tracks, eighteen of which are ...view item »

Exploded View

It's the Sacred Bones! Live from Brooklyn this time we've Exploded View, a band formed of members based in Mexico City and Berlin. On Obey they investigate the role of authority not just in our lives, but within the band itself. They do so with a rock'n'...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 11th July 2018

Aretha Franklin
The Atlantic Singles Collection 1967-1970

These double-editions from Atlantic/Rhino showcase some iconic tracks from an iconic performer. All bar one of these 34 singles (25 on the vinyl edition) are drawn from the first six LPs Aretha Franklin cut for Atlantic between 1967 and 1970 (the exception being her version of Elton John...view item »

Mac-Talla Nan Creag
The Sorrow Of Derdriu

We were a massive fan of Firecracker's first Mac-Talla Nan Craeg release, a record that curve-balled our expectations on the label to release good house bangers via an archaeological dig of Scotland's ancient landscape. One can only assume that participating artists Hoch Ma Toch, Other Lands and Lord Of The Isles have ...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 10th July 2018

John Grant
Love Is Magic

John Grant feels that album-by-album his music is becoming a truer reflection of who he is. Judging by the cover of his 4th solo album, Love Is Magic, he’s really coming out of his shell. The former Czars frontman debuted with Queen Of Denmark, an album of sublime soft rock with unflinching and, at times, ...view item »

Digital Garbage

Apparently, Mark Arm wanted to write an album with lyrics akin to early Beach Boys records - a more holiday-ish vibe. The leader of Seattle grunge….can we still use the word grunge?....okay, garage rock legends, Mudhoney has instead decided that powerful social commentary suits their music better for new album Digital Gar...view item »

Youth Killed It
What's so Great, Britain?

It’s easy to be cynical about bands like Youth Killed It. Yes their lyrics are a bit naff, and yes their Jack Penate/The Metros/The Holloways/Jamie T-Under-18s-Sunday-matinee-at-ULU vibe is somewhat behind the curve in 2018. But you know what? At least the...view item »
Added to site: Monday 9th July 2018

The House Of Love
The House Of Love

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, it's time once again to delve back into the House of Love's self titled debut which remains a high water mark of their career. In 2012 we got a 3CD set but now Cherry Red have managed to swell it out to a 5CD set with even more non album, session and live tracks. But it's the original album you ...view item »

Melody As Truth (Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft)
Framed Space: Selected works 2014-2017

Melody As Truth AKA Amsterdam based producers Jonny Nash (not the I Can See Clearly Now guy!) and Suzanne Kraft (AKA Diego Herrera) have had their first three years work on the Melody As Truth label collected together as Framed Space: Selected Works 2014-2017. Disc one features Nash, disc two fe...view item »
Added to site: Friday 6th July 2018

There’s Something Wrong With Everything

There’s Something Wrong With Everything by Birdpen is perhaps not the doom-laden title it initially appears to be. Whilst they do lament the state of the world that is piped into our living rooms via the TV, they suggest that you do something to find the positives and get out of the endless cycle of negativity because noth...view item »
Added to site: Thursday 5th July 2018

Kiran Leonard
Western Culture

The prolific Kiran Leonard returns to Moshi Moshi with a new LP. Western Culture sees him striking a balance between the home-taped maximalism of Bowler Hat Soup and Grapefruit and the emotive chamber-pop that characterised the more recent Derevaun Seraun. The record is given ...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 3rd July 2018

The Staple Singers
Coming Home: The Early Classics

It’s coming home! It’s coming home! It’s coming! Staples’ coming home! Probably unwise of The Staple Singers to release Coming Home: The Early Classics during the 2018 Fifa World Cup™, but as they’re American they might not have b...view item »
Added to site: Monday 2nd July 2018

Haruomi Hosono
Cochin Moon

Cochin Moon is Haruomi Hosono’s 5th solo album, inspired by a trip to India and set as the soundtrack to a non-existent Bollywood film. The record was originally released in 1978 and as such was massively ahead of its time with its manic electronic instrumentation. FFO Cluster, Aphex ...view item »

Haruomi Hosono
Hosono House

The Haruomi Hosono reissue train rolls on with a new pressing of his 1973 debut solo LP courtesy of Light In The Attic. For Hosono House the Yellow Magic Orchestra...view item »

Marissa Nadler
For My Crimes

The eighth LP from Marissa Nadler arrives courtesy of Sacred Bones. While this record may feature contributions from Angel Olsen, Ma...view item »
Added to site: Saturday 30th June 2018

Novo Amor

Welsh singer-songwriter Ali Meredith-Lacey aka Novo Amor came up in the post-’Skinny Love’ boom of the early 2010s. While his voice has plenty of the Bon Iver’s about it, his music has ...view item »
Added to site: Friday 29th June 2018

Imagori II

The second collaborative LP between Christoph H. Müller (Gotan Project) and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Harmonia, Cluster) drops via Grönland. Much like 2015’s Imagori, Imagori II is a collection of deep, patient do...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 26th June 2018

Despite their name Hater are quite the romantics at heart. The Scandinavian four piece play heart-on-sleeve indie rock with memorable melodies, chiming guitars and just a bit of synth haze.  A perfect summer soundtrack that has led them to be compared to the Chills, Snail Mail and t...view item »

Holger Czukay

Holger Czukay's classic solo LP Movies from 1979 gets a timely reissue from Grönland and it's a lovely, crisp re-press of the remastered edition the label graced us with two years ago. A future-jazz masterpiece, the record includes the wonderful 'Cool In The Pool' (very welcome!) and the exper...view item »

Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit
Full Circle

Originally dropped in 1982, this meeting of minds now gets a reissue courtesy of Grönland. The minds behind Full Circle would have been quite the super-group at the time of the initial release - Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit were on hiatus from Can, and ...view item »

Technical Space Composer's Crew
Canaxis 5

Back in the early days of Can, Holger Czukay was involved in a some other groups while also playing in the band. One was the Technical Space Composer’s Crew, a project with Rolf Dammers that was inspired by Czukay’s studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen...view item »

The Joy Formidable

Welsh power-trio The Joy Formidable follow-up 2016’s Hitch with their fourth LP. AAARTH is arguably the band's most full-blooded release to date. Songs such as 'Dance Of The Locust' and 'The Wrong Side' are full of bombastic guitar lines, cinematic strings and some show-stopping loud-quiet-low moments. Ge...view item »
Added to site: Monday 25th June 2018

Tom Odell
Jubilee Road

Crooning posho Tom Odell limbers up for another chart-dominating year with his third LP Jubilee Road. The title track sounds nothing like Nick Cave’s late-period masterpiece ‘Jubilee Street’. In fact it’s more like closing-time Elton John. The rest of the album i...view item »
Added to site: Thursday 21st June 2018

Amusement Parks On Fire
All The New Ends

After plenty of time away - their last LP was released way back in 2010 - Nottingham art-grungers Amusement Parks On Fire have returned to the fray recently. All The New Ends...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 20th June 2018

Claudio Simonetti's Goblin
Dawn Of The Dead

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin is a resurrection of Goblin by founding member Simonetti who composed many soundtracks to cult horror films including Deep Red, Suspiria, and George A. Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead. Here is a 40 year anniversary re-release, with the ...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 13th June 2018

System Of Hate
There Is No Madness Here

Some fun dad-punk from System Of Hate on their second LP. There Is No Madness Here has a sort of Killing Joke thing going on, granted, but also a Motorhead thing and a Motley Crue thing. Imagine if Towers Of London had mellowed a little with age and you...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 12th June 2018

Trevor Powers
Mulberry Violence

Not to harp on about it because he's clearly moved on but Trevor Power used to make beautifully emotive dream-pop under the name Youth Lagoon. Throughout those years Power was learning more and more about different styles of music and art, and on Mulberry Violence brings...view item »
Added to site: Thursday 7th June 2018

Sunstack Jones
Sunstack Jones

The third LP from Merseysiders Sunstack Jones sees light of day via that most Liverpudlian of labels Deltasonic (The Zutons, pretty much everything by The Coral). This eponymous record is full of lovely psychedelic skiffles that have no agenda other than to soundtrack a British ...view item »
Added to site: Monday 4th June 2018

Mutant Beat Dance
Mutant Beat Dance

This self-titled record from Mutant Beat Dance is more of a debut opus than a debut LP. Featuring 25 tracks spread out over six (!) records/two CDs, and with the box-set including a booklet, Mutant Beat Dance is a lavish piece. With so much time to play with the music here is unsurprisingly varied. Founding members ...view item »
Added to site: Friday 1st June 2018

Alexandra Stréliski

Alexandra Streliski is a composer and a pianist fully immersed into the structures and melancholy of the world of neoclassical music, delivering stately pieces of tender but powerfully affecting piano in both film soundtrack contexts and in her own original material. Inscape, her latest full-length, is a real journey. O...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 16th May 2018

Disques Debs International Volume 1

Disques Debs is a Guadeloupean label that has run from the 1950’s to the present day: this new Strut compilation, volume one in a proposed series, focuses its attentions on the period 1960 to 1972 and is brimming over with beautiful Carribean big bands, bolero ...view item »
Added to site: Monday 14th May 2018

Doomy rock is just what you need to . . . cheer you up? I don't know. SVVAMP2 is the, you guessed it, second released from the Swedish trio SVVAMP. Again the three friends all share vocal duties and all the instruments are treated equally. Even Swedish music is equal and fair. This one is available on vinyl LP and CD an...view item »
Added to site: Thursday 10th May 2018

Sun Ra
God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be

A Sun Ra treasure trove exists in God Is More than Love Can Ever Be, a lesser known release from deep within the cosmic jazzer's discog. Rather than shift through the sound mirages the Arkestra built its renown on, this is a set of simple jazz material, offering a snapshot of the instinctive understanding...view item »
Added to site: Monday 7th May 2018

Susheela Raman
Ghost Gamelan

British-Tamil Susheela Raman’s seventh album Ghost Gamelan finds her and regular collaborator Sam Mills among Javanese gamelan composer Gondrong Gunarto and his ensemble of players. Raman is known for her adventurous projects and this one is a really bewitching collection of leftf...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 1st May 2018

Somewhere In Time

Suction Records have been combing the archives of Roman braindance legends D’Arcangelo recently, reissuing their eponymous 1996 EP as well as putting out a record of contemporaneous, largely unreleased material entitled II. Somewhere In Time collects those two vinyl on one CD as well as o...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 24th April 2018

Camila Fuchs
Heart Pressed Between Stones

...I guess ATP isn't completely dead? Camila Fuchs releases her second album Heart Pressed Between Two Stones, on the label arm of the Arsene Wenger of music festivals. Triumphant electronics and pained vocals make for a very intense listening experience as informed by pop music as it is experimentalis...view item »
Added to site: Monday 23rd April 2018

Amber Arcades
European Heartbreak

Dutch native Annelotte de Graaf (aka Amber Arcades) is a bastion of dreamy psych-pop, her sweet vocals floating peacefully over '60s-inspired twanging guitars, driving beats and jazzy horns ('Simple Song'). It's as contemplative as it is exciting, with light-footed synths peppering a deeply cinematic record. ...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 10th April 2018

Uneven Paths (Deviant Pop From Europe 1980 - 1991)

Even by the standards of Music From Memory, this is an oddball. Label founder Jamie Tiller gets together with Parisian crate-digger Raphael Top-Secret to comb the annals of 80s/early 90s European music and find the weirdest stuff they can that still has a hint of a pop sensibility about it. Unsu...view item »
Added to site: Sunday 8th April 2018 Added to site: Friday 23rd March 2018

Kräuter der Provinz

In 2003 eight musicians started playing together and somehow have managed to stay in touch for one and a half decades to produce this, Kräuter der Provinz. This collectivist krautrock congregation comes from Datashock, and is being released by reliable psychedelic label Bureau B...view item »
Added to site: Monday 19th March 2018

MC Paul Barman
(((echo chamber)))

MC Paul Barman has kept a relatively low profile since the release of 2009’s Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud LP, offering only a mixtape and a handful of guest verses in the intervening years. A near-decade on and the wordsmith’s wordsmith drops (((echo chamber))). The LP’s lengthy track list a...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 13th March 2018

Thiago Nassif

After co-producing Arto Lindsay’s 2017 LP Cuidado Madame, Lindsay returns the favour for Brazilian bandleader Thiago Nassif’s latest album. While Tres is an album that works with many of the best-known Brazilian musical styles - samba, funk and tropicalia to name but three - it is t...view item »
Added to site: Monday 26th February 2018

Le Millipede
The Sun Has No Money

Alien Ensemble member Matthias Goetz drops the second LP of his Le Millipede project. Though his work in AE sees him sticking to the trombone, there’s a far wider range of instruments being employed across The Sun Has No Money. As well as some Peter Zummo-indebted...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 21st February 2018

Black Salvation
Uncertainty Is Bliss

Black Salvation are a German psych/hard rock band formed from the ashes of In Solitude. Uncertainty Is Bliss uses the full depth of psychedelia, doom, blues and hard rock, together with mystical narratives to transport the listener to somewhere else entirely. A bewitching debut. LP and CD on Relapse....view item »
Added to site: Monday 19th February 2018

Liza Anne
Fine But Dying

This album contains the lyrics "maybe I'm fine, maybe I'm dying", and whether or not you can relate to that will tell you more that I'll ever be able to about whether you'll enjoy Liza Anne's debut album. Catchy and introspective indie rock for anyone who is, has been, or will be, an unmotivated 20-something year old. ...view item »
Added to site: Monday 12th February 2018

Kaori Suzuki

Two track album from Seattle based experimental-electronic composer Kaori Suzuki. Working with synthesized and acoustic sources she experiments with how these signals interplay, adjusting attacks and decays, capturing the natural feedbacks that occur and the bizarre stereo effects that create rhythms and oscillations....view item »
Added to site: Saturday 10th February 2018 Added to site: Friday 9th February 2018

50th Erection I ‐ Collected Works 1967‐1970

This would appear to be (part one of) the comprehensive Sperm experience, comprising multiple albums, EPs and previously-unreleased selections from the earliest years of these Finnish avant-nonsensers. 50th Erection ...view item »

Sula Bassana
Dark Days

Sula Bassana is the recording moniker of multi-instrumentalist Dave Schmidt. Schmidt is mostly known for Electric Moon but has also been involved with Zone Six, Krautzone, Liquid Visions, ...view item »
Added to site: Saturday 27th January 2018

The Skull Defekts
The Skull Defekts

This is the final album from experimental Swedes the Skull Defekts. They are known for somehow melding raucous punk with ritualistic psychedelic folk creating an overwhelming barrage of sound. Someone from, Wildbirds and Peacedrums has joined for this swansong which should see them go out with a bang. ...view item »
Added to site: Tuesday 23rd January 2018

The Times
This Is London

The Times were an ‘80s post-punk/indie band formed from the ashes of Teenage Filmstars by Ed Ball (Also previously of Television Personalities). This Is London was their 2nd album, originally released in 1983 and had a sound influenced by &l...view item »

Matt Edible & The Obtuse Angels

Matt Edible & The Obtuse Angels play a sort of swirling psychedelic rock balladry, guitars and organ tones jostling with leaping vocals to occupy the forefront of the mix. Rhythms trundle on like obedient old dogs and chords drift lazily into one another, each song seeming never to touch the floor....view item »
Added to site: Sunday 21st January 2018

A Heartbeat From Eternity

Swedish rockers Easy are coming up to three decades since their debut album Magic Seed dropped. A lot has changed in the musical landscape since, but you wouldn’t know if from listening to A Heartbeat From Eternity. This is whimsical, well-crafted indie-pop in the same mould as Ride, ...view item »
Added to site: Friday 12th January 2018

Seven That Spells
The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: OMEGA

From the prog-vintage style sleeve art to the band and album titles, it's fair to say that Seven That Spells new album The Death And Resurrection of Krautrock: OMEGA (the f...view item »

Insect Ark
Marrow Hymns

'Marrow Hymns' represents a band who have reached a new level of maturity. Following a selection of singles and EPs and the recruitment of Spungin on drums, it's fitting for Profound Lore to be issuing this full length. Swampy, ethereal cathedral darkness for fans of Menace Ruine, SunnO))) and any blackened dark...view item »
Added to site: Wednesday 20th December 2017

Sonny Smith
Rod For Your Love

He deserves to recline on his sofa-shaped car, does Sonny Smith: this is his tenth studio album, and if that's not cause for celebration, what is? Rod For Your Love draws on old-school country rock and employs big, communally yelled melodies to share its portion of sunshine with you. Rockin' and rollin' a...view item »
Added to site: Friday 24th November 2017

Echo & The Bunnymen
The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon

Ian McCulloch and co. have never been timid or averse to grand gestures, so this album of “improved” studio re-recordings of past highlights is well within character. The track list hasn’t been disclosed at the time of writing, but is said to include some new songs alongside the reworked hits. It seems safe to ...view item »
Added to site: Friday 17th November 2017

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What Does EMV Chip Card Technology Mean for Your Business?

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If your business accepts debit and credit cards, you know that the world of payment transactions is constantly changing. You’re probably concerned with the safety of your customers’ personal information, as well as the financial stability of your business.

For a more in-depth look at EMV chip cards and why you should make sure your business can accept EMV cards, read on.

With EMV chip card technology, new standards make payment processing more secure, for both consumers and your business.

What Exactly is EMV Chip Card Technology?

EMV stands for Europay, Mastercard, and Visa. It’s the technical standard for smart payment cards, ATMs, and payment terminals that enhance transaction security. Compared to other cards that use a magnetic data stripe during a payment, EMV chip cards rely on dynamic digital data.

This means, when a customer inserts an EMV chip card into a point-of-sale machine, a unique transaction-specific encryption occurs. Because account data is carried in the embedded electronic chip in the card, the information is less likely to be stolen, from the card itself or from the machine that is reading it.

EMV chip cards are also harder to counterfeit. With magnetic stripe cards, thieves could steal a card from the mail or from a person, or even scan magnetic stripe data through wallets and purses. While magnetic stripe card data can be scanned and applied to multiple new credit cards for thieves to use, this isn’t possible with EMV cards.

EMV Helps Prevent Fraud

It’s true that the actual payment process may take a few seconds longer with EMV cards, but the decrease of card fraud is worth it. Also, many chip cards use near field communication technology, allowing customers to pay in a contact-less way that doesn’t require dipping a card in a machine. The card is read through radio-frequency identification technology, allowing consumers to tap and go.

The EMV chip standard on debit and credit cards has been adopted by more than 80 countries. In some countries outside the United States, all credit and debit cards and card readers must be powered by EMV chip card technology.

In the United States, banks are now issuing only EMV chip cards, though these cards are “backwards compatible.” Meaning, if a customer goes to a business that does not yet accept EMV payments, they’ll still have a stripe on their card that can be used for purchasing.

EMV Liability Shift

If you’re a merchant who is still hesitant to update EMV chip card technology, know that if your customers have EMV chip cards but you’re still swiping their stripes, any fraud liability falls on you.

Conversely, if you have updated your equipment to accept EMV chip card payments, the liability is lifted. If the consumer doesn’t have a new card, or if your business is updated, the card issuer is liable. The Small Business Administration recommends all vendors use EMV card chip readers to provide protection against fraud and liability.

While EMV chip cards protect your business during in-person transactions, if you have an e-commerce store, there are still some dangers. “Card not present” transactions can still result in fraud, if a thief uses an EMV chip card to make purchases online. The good news is, any data that is stolen from an online transaction cannot be used to reproduce an EMV chip card.

To stay fully protected, it’s so important for your business to use online payment processing that is secure and encrypted. Partnering with a merchant services provider like North American Bancard safeguards your business.

EMV Not Yet Required, But Still Integral for Businesses

Adopting EMV chip card readers in your business is not currently a requirement, but you can only benefit from the protection they offer. For every fraud case, if a customer has an EMV chip card but you don’t have an EMV chip reader, your business loses money and risks unhappy customers. This will lead to a negative view of your company, hurting your reputation.

Even before fraud occurs, not accepting EMV transactions can negatively impact your business. A 2017 survey by Visa found 35 percent of consumers believe using chip cards is the safest way to pay.

With more than 50 percent of merchants enabled for EMV chip card technology as of July 2017, merchants and EMV chip card technology developers are now working on increasing the overall speed of payment processing.

Ensure Your Business Is Protected With North American Bancard

At North American Bancard, we’re excited about the evolution of payment processing technologies, like EMV chip card acceptance. We make sure our products satisfy the needs of merchants who want to improve payment processing for their customers, their sales associates, and their stakeholders. Learn more about the merchant services we offer here.

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St Andrew’s Healthcare in Northampton raise £25,000 for Cynthia Spencer Hospice

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From cake-making to cycling, swimming to parachute jumping, staff and patients at St Andrew’s Healthcare in Northampton have left no fundraising stone unturned in their efforts to support their 2014 Charity of the Year, Cynthia Spencer Hospice.

And thanks to their 12 months of pedalling and pantos, splashing and singing, the Hospice has just received a cheque for £25,000 which will be used to fund its vital work in providing skilled and compassionate care for patients with life-limiting illness and their families.

Among those to contribute to the amazing total was St Andrew’s staff member Patty Hill who raised £300 by swimming eight miles in memory of her father Stan Thornton. Stan passed away at the hospice 13 years ago after receiving two weeks of what Patty could only describe as “amazing care”.

Meanwhile Dr Louise Brink added £1700 as one of a team of 15 to take a tandem parachute jump, while Sarah Goode’s £550 contribution to the pot came as a result of completing the 25-mile route of Cycle 4 Cynthia, the hospice’s annual bike ride.

With others organising such events as ‘It’s a Knockout’ to a talent show, no-one is more proud of the firm’s fundraising achievements than St Andrews’ chief operating oOfficer, Warren Irving, who himself raised £1,800 thanks to a rather painful solo effort.

““I decided to do a lone canal walk and ended up completing 101km in 24 hours alongside the Grand Union,” he said.

“Doing it on my own was quite a challenge but it certainly concentrated my mind on the Hospice and what a truly deserving charity it is. It just about made losing a few toenails in the process worthwhile!” he added.

Receiving the cheque on behalf of Cynthia Spencer, community fundraiser Sue Bownass thanked the whole team for their efforts.

“I know that hundreds of patients and staff have worked really hard in raising this fabulous figure and hopefully had a lot of fun along the way!” she said.

“This money will help us to make such a difference, not only in caring for those nearing the end of their lives but also in supporting their loved ones and for that, we are so very grateful” she added.

Although St Andrew’s Healthcare has now begun its fund-raising efforts for its 2015 beneficiary, the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, it will still be showing its continuing support for the hospice by entering a team into this year’s Cycle 4 Cynthia, taking place on Sunday September 13 at Althorp.

One patient said they were looking forward to being back in the saddle.
“I had a great time taking part in Cycle for Cynthia. It felt good to be a part of the event and to raise money for such a worthwhile cause. I can’t wait to do it all again this year.”

More information about the ride can be found at Meanwhile, if you would like to support the Hospice, please contact Sue in the fundraising office on 01604 678088.


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Action/Adventure, Drama, Suspense/Thriller

Phantom is a political thriller set in the volatile climate that exists in South Asia. Constant terror attacks against India have left the Indian people feeling vulnerable and angry. The Indian government and security agencies are helpless as the masterminds of the attacks are out of reach. When an infiltrator with plans to attack India is caught, the Head of India's security agency and his team take matters into their own hands. The film follows the protagonist Daniyal, whose journey to seek justice takes him to India, Europe, America and the volatile Middle East.

Director: Kabir Khan
Writer: Kabir Khan and Parveez Shaikh
Producer: Sajid Nadiadwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur
Cast: Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif

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Parent Conversation Starters - September 28

Life happens outside of Youth Group

We know that we can't possibly have more hours or quality time with your children than you do. While that doesn't mean we aren't working hard to create life-changing environments for them, it does mean we anticipate that you'll have chances to lead your kids spiritually outside of the 2 hours of Sunday Night, and we want to help you maximize those moments.

Especially when it comes to what we're teaching in Youth Group, we desire for you to be able to ask significant follow up questions so that you're optimally partnering with our ministry for your child's spiritual growth. We'll post questions like this each week to keep you in the loop.

We're continuing in our series, The Journey: Part 2 in both Nitro and Fusion.

The Bottom Line:

We'll be challenging each student who is a Christ-Follower to consider Going Official with Northridge Church by starting the Membership process.

Questions to Ask:

  1. What was something that stuck out to you during the talk tonight? Anything?
  2. What would you say the purpose of membership is? Why does it exist?
  3. Have you ever thought about becoming a Member of Northridge Church?
  4. Maybe you can join with your student in Going Official together! To start that journey (for both students and adults), click HERE


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Chex Finer Foods Partners with Big Y Markets

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Chex Finer Foods has been signed to distribute natural and local food products to all Big Y World Class Markets stores.

bigychex970Chex will offer more than 300 items, consisting of Chex private label and other brands that they carry, across several product categories to the company’s more than 80 locations throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut..The distribution will include 73 Big Y supermarkets, Fresh Acres Specialty Food Market and Table & Vine Fine Wines and Liquors.

“We share many common values and goals that will help Big Y drive enhanced assortment and incremental sales in the specialty and natural food categories,” Jeremy Isenberg, president of Chex Finer Foods, said in a statement. “We believe together we will have a strong foundation to build from for many years to come.”

Big Y is one of the largest independently owned supermarket chains in New England, and both Big Y and Chex are family-owned, Massachusetts-based companies.

“Being able to connect with another family-owned locally based company is important to all of us at Big Y and our customers and employees appreciate the difference,” Big Y President and COO Charles D’Amour said in a statement. “We look forward to working together for many years.”

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"How slick you are! Today I will let you taste the result for defying Tianyang Peak."

Wei Yang stepped on his soles.

Soon, a trace of icy white vital energy spread circling around Wei Yang's feet promptly and every inch of the Wind and Cloud Podium froze at a fast speed.

"Icy vital energy." Ye Chen was a little surprised to see this.

"Boy, you know a lot!" Wei Yang smiled mockingly.

"I have seen it before." Ye Chen laughed grimly secretively.

He had seen this kind of cold-natured spiritual energy in Zhengyang Sect.

Someone was born with the icy vital energy, and some developed it during cultivation, bearing great pains as if ice piercing bones. Not everyone could put up with this chill and sharp pain.

Ye Chen was astounded to find that Wei Yang possessed this icy vital energy in nature.

The innate icy vital energy and developed one differentiated tremendously. The talents like Wei Yang were always instructed by their sects particularly.

The icy vital energy arrived at Ye Chen's feet instantly in an instant.

Instead of holding back, Ye Chen allowed the vital energy to intrude into his body and freeze his organs and meridians.

Ye Chen stood still, which the onlookers under the podium cried out for.

"Is Ye Chen courting death? The icy vital energy will harm him once it rushes into his body."

"I suppose he is aghast."

Most of the disciples watching this fight were defeated by Wei Yang.

It was hard for ordinary people to defend against it once the unusual icy vital energy invaded their bodies. They always shunned those who were capable of running the icy vital energy, fearing the energy's harmful effect.

Ye Chen neither escaped nor did anything to prevent the icy vital energy from freezing his body.

Ye Chen screeched after a short time.

No doubt, he feigned. Although Ye Chen could not exert all the energy of his true flame, he still shielded the icy energy and pretended to perplex Wei Yang.

That was his combating style, distracting the enemy and ambushing him.

The ice extended from Ye Chen's feet to his upper body and his entire body would be frozen in a short time at this pace.

Wei Yang smiled coldly.

He thought it would take him some efforts to defeat Ye Chen, but the fight nearly finished.

Wei Yang was confident for his icy vital energy. Disciples with a low cultivation base had no chance to win once they were frozen by it. The view that Ye Chen lost came across his mind.

"Well, I suppose I overestimate you." Sneering again, Wei Yang walked slowly to Ye Chen, who was nearly frozen up, and even disdained to applying Xuan skills.

The audiences all sighed helplessly.

In everyone's gaze, Wei Yang approached Ye Chen, looked him up and down jokingly, "How do you feel?"

Ye Chen feigned struggle, but did not get rid of the ice.

The icy vital energy was renowned for its ability to constrain people. It was hard to move with a frozen body.

But Ye Chen was not a commoner. With the true fire to protect him, he could ignore the harm brought by the icy vital energy.

Moreover, he firmly believed that his enormous vital energy enabled him to break the fetters of the icy vital energy even without the true fire. Leaving an impression of weakness to Wei Yang, he prepared to counterattack later after Wei Yang relaxed his vigilance.

"Combating with you wastes my time." Wei Yang lifted his palm as he grinned sarcastically.

When he was going to strike, an eerie smile flashed around the corner of Ye Chen's mouth.

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The new "Detroit Media School Closings Alliance" consists of WJBK-TV, WDIV-TV, WXYZ-TV, WWJ-TV, WKBD-TV, WWJ Newsradio 950 and News/Talk WJR-AM 760.

These major local news outlets have joined forces to form a new school closings partnership to better serve our schools and our communities. Closing announcements from this combined system will be broadcast on all key local TV and radio news stations within minutes.

Additionally, the district's website and the School District Television Access Channel (NCSD TV) will display the closing (Bright House Cable Channel 10 and ATT U-Verse Channel 99). We will also share the information on Facebook and through Twitter. We encourage you to subscribe to your school's listserv, and other social media options


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text mining utilities for node.js

The text-miner package can be easily installed via npm:

npm install text-miner

To require the module in a project, we can use the expression

var tm = require( 'text-miner' );

The fundamental data type in the text-miner module is the Corpus. An instance of this class wraps a collection of documents and provides several methods to interact with this collection and perform post-processing tasks such as stemming, stopword removal etc.

A new corpus is created by calling the constructor

var my_corpus = new tm.Corpus([]);

where [] is an array of text documents which form the data of the corpus. The class supports method chaining, such that mutliple methods can be invoked after each other, e.g.

The following methods and properties are part of the Corpus class:

Add a single document to the corpus. Has to be a string.

Adds a collection of documents (in form of an array of strings) to the corpus.

Strips extra whitespace from all documents, leaving only at most one whitespace between any two other characters.

Applies the function supplied to fun to each document in the corpus and maps each document to the result of its respective function call.

Removes interpunctuation characters (! ? . , ; -) from all documents.

Removes newline characters (\n) from all documents.

.removeWords(words[, case_insensitive])

Removes all words in the supplied words array from all documents. This function is usually invoked to remove stopwords. For convenience, the text-miner package ships with a list of stopwords for different languages. These are stored in the STOPWORDS object of the module.

Currently, stopwords for the following languages are included:

As a concrete example, we could remove all english stopwords from corpus my_corpus as follows:

my_corpus.removeWords( tm.STOPWORDS.EN )

The second (optional) parameter of the function case_insensitive expects a Boolean indicating whether to ignore cases or not. The default value is false.

Removes any digits occuring in the texts.

Removes all characters which are unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode.

Performs stemming of the words in each document. Two stemmers are supported: Porter and Lancaster. The former is the default option. Passing "Lancaster" to the type parameter of the function ensured that the latter one is used.

Converts all characters in the documents to lower-case.

Converts all characters in the documents to upper-case.

Strips off whitespace at the beginning and end of each document.

DocumentTermMatrix / TermDocumentMatrix

We can pass a corpus to the constructor DocumentTermMatrix in order to create a document-term-matrix or a term-document matrix. Objects derived from either share the same methods, but differ in how the underlying matrix is represented: A DocumentTermMatrix has documents on its rows and columns corresponding to words, whereas a TermDocumentMatrix has rows corresponding to words and columns to documents.

var terms = new tm.DocumentTermMatrix( my_corpus );

An instance of either DocumentTermMatrix or TermDocumentMatrix has the following properties:

An array holding all the words occuring in the corpus, in order corresponding to the column entries of the document-term matrix.

The document-term or term-document matrix, implemented as a nested array in JavaScript. Rows correspond to individual documents, while each column index corresponds to the respective word in vocabulary. Each entry of data holds the number of counts the word appears in the respective documents. The array is sparse, such that each entry which is undefined corresponds to a value of zero.

The number of documents in the term matrix

The number of distinct words appearing in the documents

.findFreqTerms( n )

Returns all terms in alphabetical ordering which appear n or more times in the corpus. The return value is an array of objects of the form {word: "<word>", count: <number>}.

.removeSparseTerms( percent )

Remove all words from the document-term matrix which appear in less than percent of the documents.

.weighting( fun )

Apply a weighting scheme to the entries of the document-term matrix. The weighting method expects a function as its argument, which is then applied to each entry of the document-term matrix. Currently, the function weightTfIdf, which calculates the term-frequency inverse-document-frequency (TfIdf) for each word, is the only built-in weighting function.

Turn the document-term matrix dtm into a non-sparse matrix by replacing each value which is undefined by zero and save the result.

The module exports several other utility functions.

.expandContractions( str )

Replaces all occuring English contractions by their expanded equivalents, e.g. "don't" is changed to "do not". The resulting string is returned.

.weightTfIdf( terms )

Weights document-term or term-document matrix terms by term frequency - inverse document frequency. Mutates the input DocumentTermMatrix or TermDocumentMatrix object.

An object with four keys: DE, EN, ES and IT, each of which is an array of stopwords for the German, English, Spanish and Italian language, respectively.

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        // (...)
    "DE": [
        // (...)
    // (...)

The keys of the CONTRACTIONS object are the contracted expressions and the corresponding values are arrays of the possible expansions.

    "ain't": ["am not", "are not", "is not", "has not","have not"],
    "aren't": ["are no", "am not"],
    "can't": ["cannot"],
    // (...)

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Bark Scorpion

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Bark Scorpions glow white under a black light.  Ask a ranger about at Phantom Ranch or Indian Gardens about looking for scorpions with a black light.

NPS Eric Hope

Scientific Name

Centruroides sculpturatus

  • Bark scorpions are relatively small, and have a maximum length of about 2.5 inches (6.4cm).
  • Their bodies are tan, and their backs are slightly darker in color.
  • Under UV light, these scorpions will glow a bright bluish color making them easy to spot.
  • They are nocturnal and are generally only seen at night.

  • Bark scorpions are most frequently found inside the Grand Canyon, but they can be found on the Rims.
  • While they are well adapted for the desert and can be found in all parts of the Grand Canyon, bark scorpions prefer riparian (streamside) habitats.
  • Because they are nocturnal, and hard to see when they are still, bark scorpions are most commonly seen crossing trails at night.

  • Bark scorpions use their pincers to grab small insects while they sting them with their highly venomous tail.
  • Their venomous sting isn't always enough to protect these animals, and bark scorpions are eaten by bats, mice, lizards, tarantulas, and birds.
  • Females give birth to live young and carry up to 30 on their back for up to three weeks- protecting the young until they have their first molt (when they shed their exoskeleton to grow larger).
  • Arizona bark scorpions hibernate throughout the winter (until evening temperatures consistently stay above 73°F/23°C) in groups of up to 40 individuals.
  • Bark scorpions can live as long as 5-7 years. Because their hard exoskeletons do not change in size, scorpions and other arthropods must shed their current exoskeleton and grow a new one as they grow larger.
  • Bark scorpions are the most venomous scorpion in North America, and the most commonly seen scorpion in the Grand Canyon. Watch these amazing animals, but do not handle them.

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Living with Scorpions in Arizona- PDF

Last updated: April 7, 2016

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PO Box 129
Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

(928) 638-7888

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Hawaiian cultural practitioners playing drums during an ancient Hawaiian ceremony, with a royal procession walking in the background towards Pu‘ukoholā Heiau.
Hawaiian cultural ceremony during Pu‘ukoholā Heiau NHS annual cultural festival.

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Pu‘ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site is located in Kawaihae on the Island of Hawai‘i. Many of the island‘s popular resorts and hotels are just minutes away from the park.

Last updated: March 6, 2016

Contact the Park

Mailing Address:

Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site
62-3601 Kawaihae Road

Kawaihae, HI 96743

(808) 882-7218 x0

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Life Force® Platform™

Life Force® Platform contains four key strains of mycorrhizal fungi. These fungi burrow into the emerging root and create a network of fine hyphal strands in the soil providing a tenfold increase in root surface area. An effective suite of beneficial bacteria, as well as the multi-function workhorse, Trichoderma, are also included in this comprehensive formulation.

For a Detailed Product Information Sheet – Click Here.

Why: Mychorrhizal fungi increase mineral uptake – especially zinc, phosphorus and calcium. This blend of biology reduces fertiliser requirements and produces beneficial biochemicals to nurture the host plant and improve plant resilience. Mycorrhizal fungi also build soil humus levels, a vital component to improving soil fertility.

How: Apply to plant roots by adding 1 teaspoon to a 9 L watering can and wetting the root zone thoroughly. 9 L covers approximately 4 m2. Agitate throughout application. Apply at bed preparation or whenever planting new seedlings.

Also effective as a Seedling Dip: Dip seedlings in a solution containing 2 teaspoons of Platform per litre. Stir solution regularly throughout process.

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What now?

  • Go collect your medals and your Global Finals packet, containing the forms you will need.
  • You should already have saved a pre-order for your Champ Pack, or have your completed Champ Pack Form in hand, and have figured out how you are going to pay for it.  Go to the Champ Pack puchase table outside the awards ceremony to pay.  You will probably be given your pins and shirts on the spot.  It is definitely better [cheaper and easier] to purchase your Champ Pack while you are still at the tournament.
  • There will be a brief but very important meeting for managers of teams which are advancing to globals after the end of the Awards Ceremony. At least one TM should attend this meeting.
  • If you can, please send an email to the Affiliate Director confirming the email address to be used for Global Finals related communications
  • Within a couple of days of the tournament your team will be enabled for enrollment at Global Finals, including housing/meal plan purchase.  You will receive a separate email with instructions on this.

Congratulations again to the advancing teams, and welcome to Team New York!

Some additional hints for teams advancing to globals:

  • Global Finals is hosted each year by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with events hosted on the university campus and at the Knoxville Convention Center.
  • There are several housing and meal plan options available – but we strongly advise teams and their managers to sign up for lodging on campus – as this provides the best Global Finals experience.
  • It is important to register for Global Finals promptly. You do not need to pay immediately, but you must register your team before a fairly close deadline.
  • All attendees, including supporters who are not lodging with the team, need to be included in your registration, so that they receive badges allowing them to attend the tournament and associated events.
  • There are lots of ways to pay for Global Finals. Some teams do a lot of fundraising. On others, parents pay the expense out of pocket.  Some have at least some funding from their school district. Many use a combination of funding sources. You can do it!
  • Team Managers are facilitators for their teams. They are NOT travel agents! Parents and other supporters should take responsibility for their own travel arrangements.
  • As a Team Manager you should be clear with your team members, parents and supporters on what they can expect from you, and what you expect from them. Set clearly defined ground rules for your team and for their supporters while they are at Global Finals.
  • Finally, remember that your team is now part of Team New York. While we wish each team individual success, we hope that you will support all of your fellow New York teams!

How do teams get to Knoxville?

  • Many teams travel in private vehicles driven by parents of team members.
  • Flying is a very expensive option that few teams select.
  • Most school districts with multiple teams charter a bus having room for team members and sometimes spectators, which also provides sufficient cargo space for props.
  • Some teams or groups of teams rent a truck to transport props.

Why should we stay in Global Finals Housing and not in other lodging that we book ourselves?

We are often asked why teams should stay in Global Finals housing, and not in a hotel elsewhere in or near Knoxville.

The majority of Team NY always stays in Global Finals housing, and we get great room assignments in top quality dorms (or occasionally hotels) that are in a great location.

There have, however, been a few teams who have not stayed in Global Finals housing with the rest of Team NY. Having attended Global Finals multiple times, and having worked with teams that did not stay in the dorms with Team NY, we can tell you that we do not advise this option, for the following reasons:

  • By the time all expenses are paid (team registration fee, lodging, meals, parking, etc.), staying in other lodging often ends up being more expensive than buying the accommodation package from Global Finals.
  • Because of the difficulty of transportation and parking, staying elsewhere can be a logistical nightmare, wasting a LOT of time at the beginning and end of each day, adding an un-needed source of exhaustion for the team.
  • The logistical difficulty is compounded farther if you do not utilize the on-campus meal plan.
  • There are great activities, etc. on campus that those who stay off-campus end up missing.
  • The likelihood of being able to reserve a hotel in Knoxville close to the Global Finals venues is minuscule. All of the nearby hotels are reserved by DI for teams, appraisers and tournament officials. More distant hotels present daunting logistical difficulties (see above).

But most importantly:

  • At Global Finals we are no longer team 134-XXXXX or Blind Brook or Croton or Orchard Park or any other district or individual team. We are TEAM NY. Part of being on a team representing a state or a country is marching in the procession at opening ceremony, or cheering your designated marchers on from the stands. It is staying together with your teammates. It is coming to see as many of your TEAM NY teams perform as possible. Staying off campus robs the team of the great experience of being part of the larger TEAM NY. The meals shared with teams from other schools / towns / affiliates, the pin-trading right outside the door running into the wee hours of the morning, the easy access to the sports complex, and especially the camaraderie with teams from around the world – are all lost or diminished when staying off campus.

The bottom line: It may seem pricey on the surface, but staying in Global Finals housing – usually dorms on campus – is almost always the best option!

What is this three-per-room policy?

Global Finals often puts three people in rooms meant for two, with one sleeping on an air mattress.

It would be better if everyone could have a regular bed and a room with two occupants. But the simple fact is that the amount of available housing in Knoxville is finite, and Global Finals already reserves all of the available space in every University of Tennessee Residence Hall, and every nearby hotel. Over 17,000 individuals – from about 1,400 teams – attend Global Finals. If we don't achieve about 3 occupants per room, there is just no way to house that many attendees. We do know that three-per-room can present some logistical challenges – but in my experience these difficulties are surmountable.

And besides, they really are VERY good, brand new, air mattresses!

But really, isn't $750 a lot of money to stay in a crowded room?

No, and here's why:

We feel that the registration fee is reasonable, even if some of your kids end up sleeping on a air mattress. According to, hotel lodging in Downtown Knoxville for 4 days (if it were available during Global Finals, which it isn't) would probably cost around $450. But your registration fee covers far more than lodging. It also includes unlimited dining, access to 4 whole days of events and entertainment, unlimited bus transportation between all of the venues, access to UT's recreation facilities, and support (hopefully unneeded) from UT's health services. Not to mention the behind-the-scenes costs, like facility fees paid to Univ. of Tennessee and Knoxville Convention Center, IT costs to manage the scheduling and scores for those 1,400 teams, lodging and food for the huge number of volunteers needed to operate the tournament, enhanced security on campus, etc.

Finally, as Team Managers who have attended Global Finals many times, we are going to ask you to trust us when we promise that at the end of Global Finals the fact that you or your child may have slept in a room with three occupants or on an air mattress will be the farthest thing from your mind. You and your kids will remember the amazing performances, the great opening ceremony, the pin trading, the costume ball, the new friends from around the world, and the experience of being at large on campus together with thousands of kids from all over the world who, like them, have solved the challenge. The experience of this event for kids is so intense, so exciting, so life changing, so supportive of their identity as a creative force, that the lodging will be a mere footnote.

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The Imperial German Government began, not long ago, to complain that it was altogether in the dark about the condition of public opinion in the United States. All the means of transatlantic cable communication were in the hands of the enemy, and although many messages were allowed to reach Berlin from outside, the British censor could let, hinder, and edit.View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A COUPLE of years ago, a photographer named Adrienne Salinger began studying the faces of teen-agers in shopping malls, movie lines and fast-food restaurants around Syracuse. "I'd approach interesting-looking kids and ask if I could photograph them in their bedrooms," she said. "But they had to promise not to clean the rooms."

Funny, said the teen-agers, we were just about to clean our rooms. Oh well, anything for art.

"Of course, their parents were appalled," said the photographer. "Not only was I telling the kids to leave the rooms as they were, I was telling them how terrific they looked."

With an occasional mother hovering in the doorway, Ms. Salinger managed to set up her tripod and 1,000 watts of light in the modest bedrooms of 61 teen-agers. In an earlier West Coast project, she photographed 75 young people.

The rooms, like their occupants, are studies in contradiction: a girlie magazine say, juxtaposed with a shelf of model airplanes; heavy metal posters and Snoopy lamps; baby dolls and birth control pills. "When you're coming of age," Ms. Salinger said, "you feel a lot of things at once and most of them conflict and all are represented in your room."

Her subjects were all roughly 16 years old. Many would soon be moving out of their rooms, at least for a time. "Once you go away to school for the first time, you start to edit yourself," she said. "You have a sense of your public and private personnas. But you don't at that age. So, it's all there -- everything you have ever felt anything about -- crammed into that little room."

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An exhibition, "Teen-agers in Their Bedrooms," opens today and runs through Feb. 9 at the Elsa Mott Ives Gallery of the YWCA, 610 Lexington Avenue at 53d Street (Monday through Friday, 11 A.M. to 7 P.M.; Saturday, 11 A.M. to 4 P.M.; admission is free). Besides a dozen huge color portraits by Ms. Salinger, a professor at Syracuse University, the show includes 18 smaller color photographs on the same theme by Denise Marcotte of Cambridge, Mass. Another exhibition of the Salinger bedroom series opens today at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco.

In personalizing their spaces, teen-agers in the photos have plastered their walls in a changing display of pop cultural images. Fred's room is a montage of faces from magazine covers -- models, singers and sports heroes -- with snapshots of Fred popping up, Zelig-like, every so often. Aime, a bit of a Valley Girl, has hung an enormous "SHOP" sign on one wall, along with a photo of a Seventh Avenue street sign and Cosmopolitan magazine headlines.

Donna's room is almost a live-in beauty shop with cosmetics labels pasted to the shiny aqua walls and 30 shades of nail polish lined up on dresser tops. In David's room, a blowup of Superman covers the ceiling as David, who shaved his head for the photo, sits cross-legged on the bed eating a box of Fannie Farmer chocolates.

While the teen-agers' walls proclaim allegiance to rock groups and ecological causes, their hearts hold secrets. Diaries must be hidden from parents, and treasures kept out of the hands of brothers and sisters.

In one evocative image by Ms. Marcotte, a sullen-looking boy stands with his back to the window. A padlock dangles from a beer barrel, which has been split and fitted with shelves for his music tapes. The cabinet below bears an even heavier lock. Nobody messes with his stuff.

The subjects in the show come mostly from lower-income and middle-income families. While some of the girls have not given up slumber parties and stuffed animals, three of them are cuddling their own babies.

"Some kids were streetwise and hooked into stuff that wasn't healthy," said Ms. Salinger, adding that one youth, a drug dealer, flashed a gun for the camera.

In a common pattern, several teens have moved out of their original bedrooms and into the attic or the basement. In this way, they assert their independence. They have the illusion of being in their own apartments while still under their parents' roofs.

Ms. Salinger, 35, spoke of feeling like a mother figure to her subjects. Her father had a juvenile furniture company near Berkeley, Calif., and as a child she was given new bedroom set every year or so. Sitting in on photo sessions for furniture catalogs, she remembers "the totally phoney kids' rooms they created."

In a way, the real rooms were phoney, too. "The rooms of kids raised before the 60's were a product of parental control," she said. Many of the rooms she photographed had piles of dirty clothes and some had stacks of dirty dishes. "Parents won't venture into these rooms," she said.

The photographs by Ms. Marcotte, who is currently on a trip to Tibet, are more tightly framed, focusing less on the rooms than on the teen-agers. In one, a gaunt youth, with bleached hair, is seated in profile, like Whistler's mother. On the wall behind him is a Munch-like self-portrait.

Less concerned with impressing others than with expressing themselves, these teen-agers are interior decorators in the purest sense.

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But parents are not predators. They are simply trying to provide their children with what they are legally due, often after exhausting struggles with their school districts.

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Ellen Pao, center, angered many when she dismissed a popular employee. Users shut down message boards in protest.CreditCreditEric Risberg/Associated Press

Ellen Pao became a hero to many when she took on the entrenched male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley. But sentiment is a fickle thing. Late Friday she fell victim to a crowd demanding her ouster as chief executive of the popular social media site Reddit.

Ms. Pao’s abrupt downfall in the face of a torrent of sexist and racist comments, many of them on Reddit itself, is quite likely to renew charges that bullying, harassment and cruel behavior are out of control on the web — and that Silicon Valley’s well-publicized problem with gender and ethnic diversity in its work force persists.

The debates over diversity in technology and invective on the Internet have been simmering for a long time, but they’ve boiled over in the last year. One reason is Ms. Pao’s lawsuit against her former employer, the venerable venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Her gender discrimination case, years in the making, failed to sway a jury, but did reveal a community that casually tolerated an atmosphere where machismo was prized and women often seemed to be relegated to secondary roles.

The dispute at Reddit, which arose from the dismissal of a well-liked employee earlier this month, drew much of its intensity from Ms. Pao’s lawsuit — and her gender.

“The attacks were worse on Ellen because she is a woman,” said Sam Altman, a member of the Reddit board. “And that’s just a shame against humanity.”

More than 213,000 people signed a petition demanding Ms. Pao’s resignation. After her departure was announced, Reddit users celebrated in an over-the-top fashion. “Rejoice internet brethren,” wrote one. “The great evil has been slain.”

Ms. Pao wrote in a Reddit post on Friday that in her eight months as chief executive, “I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly.” She added that “the good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.”

“It was definitely a hard week,” Ms. Pao said in an interview, characterizing her exit as a mutual agreement with the board after having differing views about the company’s future. She began working at Reddit two years ago. Reddit is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, drawing more than 160 million regular monthly visitors.

Mitch Kapor, a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, noted that Reddit users were predominantly male and 18 to 29 years old.

Reddit, based in San Francisco, is usually one of the most trafficked sites on the Internet, and most visitors are young men.CreditJason Henry for The New York Times

“In my view, her job was made more difficult because as a woman, she was particularly subject to the abuse stemming from the pockets of toxic misogyny in the Reddit ecosystem,” said Mr. Kapor, now a partner at Kapor Capital.

Ms. Pao’s departure from Reddit was prompted after the online message board’s tight-knit community broke into upheaval when news broke that Victoria Taylor, a prominent and well-liked Reddit employee, had been suddenly dismissed from the company this month with no public explanation. In protest, Reddit users shut down hundreds of sections of the message board.

Ms. Pao apologized to the site’s members for the episode earlier this week. Reddit’s management made errors, “not just on July 2, but also over the past several years,” she said in a post on one of the site’s forums on Monday. “The mods” — moderators — “and the community have lost trust in me and in us, the administrators of Reddit.”

The ouster was another setback for Ms. Pao, who rejected a seven-figure settlement offer from Kleiner last fall to end her claims that she had been discriminated against at the venture firm because she was a woman.

Kleiner maintained that Ms. Pao, who joined the firm in 2005 as chief of staff to its best-known partner, John Doerr, was simply not very good as an investor. The case drew attention around the world, in part for its salacious details.

In the wake of the trial, Kleiner said Ms. Pao owed the firm nearly $1 million in court fees but offered to waive the bill if there was no appeal. Ms. Pao countered that the sum was excessive. Judge Harold Kahn agreed and reduced Kleiner’s costs to $276,000. He noted in his ruling that “Ms. Pao has significant economic resources.”

In interviews, Ms. Pao has declined to detail what her next move is, but an appeal in the Kleiner case is quietly moving forward. The court reporter has been ordered to prepare transcripts, which is the next stage of the process. Ms. Pao does not need to give her basis for appeal for many months.

If she eventually succeeds in convincing a three-judge panel that the trial was unfair, Kleiner (and Silicon Valley, symbolically) would be on trial again. Ms. Pao’s lawyers did not return calls for comment on Friday. A lawyer for Kleiner declined to comment.

At Reddit, Ms. Pao will be replaced by Steve Huffman, the chief technology officer at Hipmunk, a travel search site. Adam Goldstein, chief executive of Hipmunk, said that Mr. Huffman would continue to oversee product and engineering at the site on a part-time basis. Mr. Huffman will also remain on Hipmunk’s board.

Mr. Huffman and Alexis Ohanian started Reddit in a two-bedroom apartment in a Boston suburb a decade ago. Users go to the site to discuss a wide range of topics, including current events and viral memes and gifs. The company, based in San Francisco, has 70 to 80 employees and relies largely upon its thousands of dedicated power users to govern the site.

Reddit is a private company, a majority of which is owned by Advance Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast. Last October, Reddit raised $50 million in venture capital from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Mr. Altman and the rapper Snoop Dogg.

Ms. Pao said she would remain as an adviser to Reddit’s board for the remainder of the year. As for her immediate future, she said, “I plan to get a lot of sleep.”

Vindu Goel contributed reporting from San Francisco.

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Dr. Joy Jia Liu, the daughter of Huijia Dong and Dr. Chen Liu of Edison, N.J., was married June 4 to Dr. Jovian Yu, a son of Weijie Yang and Bin Yu of East Greenwich, R.I. Darlene Shlesinger, who was ordained by Rose Ministries, officiated at the Kay Chapel in Newport, R.I.

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Senator Bob Corker Takes On Trump

Bob Corker at a press conference on Capitol Hill in September.CreditCreditAl Drago for The New York Times

To the Editor:

G.O.P. Senator Rebukes Trump Over ‘Reality Show’ Behavior” (front page, Oct. 9):

Senate Republicans, where is your moral courage? Where is your commitment to your constituents to keep us safe from harm — this time inflicted by an erratic, lying, threatening, incompetent Donald Trump? When will your voices be heard?

Senator Bob Corker, under attack from the president and fellow Republicans because he dared to voice his alarm at Mr. Trump’s childish, petulant, destructive instincts and behavior, stated that the vast majority of Senate Republicans understand the dangerous situation triggered by Mr. Trump’s volatility. The Senate Republicans know full well the daily efforts made inside the Trump White House to “contain him,” Mr. Corker claimed.

What is needed for a Senate Republican to speak courageously: lame-duck status like Mr. Corker, grave illness like Senator John McCain, womanhood like Senator Susan Collins? Have you acquiesced and accepted the status of a puppet like Vice President Mike Pence, who, on the boss’s orders, exited a football game on Sunday? Are there no “Profiles in Courage” among you?

To the Editor:

It’s long past time that Republicans in Congress wake up, develop some courage and take action. Senator Bob Corker, a respected Republican and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has now plainly stated what many have known but refused to acknowledge — that Donald Trump continues to lie, and is temperamentally unfit and unqualified to be president. Mr. Corker doesn’t mince words: He makes clear that Mr. Trump is unstable and is on a path to bring about World War III.

Trump supporters surely understand that Mr. Corker is not “Crooked Hillary” or a member of the opposition. My question for Republican leaders is: How long are you going to wait to prevent a real catastrophe? Is your concern about being challenged in a primary or not being re-elected more important than averting a nuclear war, the erosion of our system of government and loss of American credibility abroad?

To the Editor:

Re “Bitter Feud Threatens Slim Edge in Senate” (news article, Oct. 10): Kellyanne Conway calls Bob Corker’s tweets “irresponsible”? And she argues that a year later he still can’t accept the results of last year’s election? Is she confusing Mr. Corker with President Trump?

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When one sees refugees through the eyes of faith, we see something very different from common social stereotypes like “queue jumpers” and “illegal aliens”.

Refugees and migrants from Iraq and Syria wait for permission to leave a registration and transit camp near Gevgelija, Macedonia, on February 24.
Refugees and migrants from Iraq and Syria wait for permission to leave a registration and transit camp near Gevgelija, Macedonia, on February 24.

That was a message driven home time and again by immigration lawyer Richard McLeod at a Catholic Young Professionals gathering in Auckland on February 24.
The founder of McLeod and Associates, Mr McLeod has won thousands of immigration and asylum cases at departmental, appellate and court levels.
He was involved with the high profile Ahmed Zaoui case.
The talk he gave to the young professionals group was entitled “Individuals versus the state, and the work of a Catholic refugee lawyer”.
At one point he showed images of a Palestinian woman with her young son struggling at an Egyptian border post. “Look at the photo through Catholic eyes, and tell me what you see?”
After some prompting, the answer came: “The Holy Family.”
Mr McLeod told the young people that Pope Pius XII had written in his apostolic constitution Exsul Familia Nazarethana that “the émigré Holy Family of Nazareth, fleeing into Egypt, is the archetype of every refugee family”.
“When you start looking at the world and the refugee crisis, it is amazing how often you see Our Lady the refugee, not to mention St Joseph,” he said.
Mr McLeod presented a list of biblical refugees, including such notables as Adam and Eve, Cain, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Joseph, Moses, the entire nation of Israel (more than once). “The Bible is full of refugees,” Mr McLeod said.
In biblical terms, being a refugee is “almost a badge of honour” and it seems characteristic of God to cherish refugees. Mr McLeod set out some historic contexts to today’s refugee crises, noting that at the start of last year there were almost 60 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide, up by nearly 50 per cent from 2011. Then he spelled out three basic principles in Catholic teaching on this issue.
First, people have the right to migrate to sustain their lives and the lives of their families; second, a country has the right to regulate its borders and to control immigration; third, a country must regulate its borders with justice and mercy.
Commenting on those principles, Mr McLeod said a nation can’t just decide to provide for its own people and no other.
“I truly believe that the answers to our global refugee problems are found in these three principles,” he added. He then set out the codification of refugee and migrant rights in international laws, treaties and conventions. Citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he said “everyone has a right to asylum from persecution”.
He noted that New Zealand is bound by international law and accepts and settles 750 refugees each year. Over and above this, New Zealand has allocated 750 places for Syrian refugees over three years — 600 of which are on top of the annual quota.
Mr McLeod said the annual quota are “the ones we like, they are the ones we control”.
He said it is not surprising that many refugees arrive in New Zealand with false passports, as they are fleeing persecution from the very authorities which issue passports.


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There are now 3 main head and neck cancer tumor types in relation to HPV16 genome status—integrated only, viral episomal only, and viral-human hybrid episomes—according to a report published in Oncotarget. The results suggest that the viral-human hybrid episomes have been previously miscategorized.

Additionally, 73% of HPV16-positive head and neck tumors have episomal versions of the viral genome that are replicating in an E1- and E2-dependent manor, possibly making the direct targeting of E1 and E2 an advantage.

In an interview with OncLive, co-lead author Iain Morgan, PhD, a member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center, discusses research that redefines HPV-positive head and neck cancer and may also identify new therapeutic targets.

OncLive: Can you please discuss the rationale behind conducting this research?

Morgan: In cervical cancer, it’s been quite clear that the integration of the lateral genome into the host results in a worse outcome for the patient. In head and neck cancer, there was very little research done on this. For example, if you look at the literature, there’s been an acceleration of research and interest in this field over the last 5 years. Prior to that, there was only a low number of publications but in the last 5 to 10 years, that has increased.

We conducted this research because we realized that HPV-related tumors weren’t well characterized. We received permission from The Cancer Genome Atlas to download the tumor data. One thing we were interested in was what the differences are in a host gene expression with HPV-positive and -negative to determine pathways that might be significantly changed in positive versus negative. That's something that other people are in the process of doing, as well.

Also, it did offer the unique opportunity to look at the viral genomes in a different way. There are several ways clinicians would look at this in the past without full sequencing data. You can look at the presence of viral-human hybrid fragments with a variety of techniques. It was previously concluded that the viral genome was integrated if you could detect this but in a large percentage of these tumors, the virus replicates as a circle with human DNA attached. For example, the technique that looked for virus-human hybrids would have classified that tumor as being integrated when, in fact, as far as we can see, it's not.

Looking at the data, we can separate the tumors into 3 categories. The first, where we think it's integrated; the second, where we think it remains as a circle; and the third, where we think it remains as a circle with human DNA. Looking at the outcomes, the patients who are truly integrated do die earlier.

The reason this has been missed in the past is because people have mixed up the tumors that have a virus in the human sequence replicating it as an episomal circle.

However, more work needs to be done to prove this research.

What are the next steps planned for this research?

One of the questions that we're asking ourselves as we look at the literature is what is a simple test that we can do to tell us what is an integrated tumor since they have worse outcomes.

For the other 2 tumor categories, the outcomes for these patients tend to be the same, which needs to be investigated further.

To determine if a virus integrates, it’s important to look for E2 or RNA. Usually when the virus integrates, it loses its target of downstream viral genes, meaning E2, E4, and E5, are not expressed in a truly integrated tumor. The RNA should not be there, even if the DNA is there.

What we've developed in the lab is a fluorescent RNA probe against E2 to detect E2 RNAs in that approach. At VCU, we’re going to go back retrospectively in tumors and do that RNA probe to look for the ones that don’t give us a signal. You can check with one of the viral oncogenes, like E6 and E7, to make sure that the virus is being expressed.

We’re looking for tumors that are E6-positive or E7-positive. We are predicting that patients with E2-negative at an RNA level are going to have worse outcomes.

This research is important because there is a huge number of clinical trials now focused on de-escalation therapy. Patients who have HPV-positive tumors have better outcomes with chemoradiation therapy but it tends to be in the younger patients. The radiation is damaging, leaving patients with no saliva glands and dental problems. This is leading clinicians to want to give these patients a lower dose of chemoradiation if they respond well, which seems to work for most patients

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