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Andy Sutton: bass, loops, programming, vocals.
Al Sutton: loops, programming, editing, keyboards, vocals, percussion.
Eric Hoegemeyer: drums, percussion, programming, editing, keyboards.
Philip Durr: guitars, bass, keyboards, melodica
Guest Musicians:
Damon Che: drums on 'Asian Love Song, What?' and 'Space Mannequin'
Sue Lott: vocals on 'Empyrian'
Recorded @ Rustbelt Studios by Al and Eric.
Mastered by Chris Goosman @ Baseline Audio Labs.
Artwork by Mark Dancey.
I am a huge fan of Small Stone Records, some of the music to come my way over the last 3-6 months has been nothing short of intense (Tia Carrera excepted!!) and then this album came through the door from Über Röck HQ and totally threw me.
From a schizophrenic viewpoint I can't even come up with an opinion on it which doesn't vary from day to day. God knows what an audience will make of it? But is there anything wrong with music pushing my boundaries or anyone else's for that matter? Isn't that what music is for? So what have we got then? Giant Brain provoked some very strange thoughts I can tell you, Klaus Wunderlich for the new generation being one and stoner 'lounge music' as another. The bulk of the album is instrumental - there were some vocals in 'Empyrian', various samples at other points, but overall lots of bass driven keyboard style with some "nasty" at times guitar overlaid, lots of sampled drums, but also live drumming; confusing to my non-muso brain (no wonder I'm all over the place).
Where do you go for influences? There's a bit of space rock, a bit of driving techno, some nice stoner guitar so the bands I tend to veer towards trying to pin it down are all over the place, from the Orb (remember 'Little Fluffy Clouds'?) to Hawkwind, elements of Steve Hillage and Gong (nod towards Mr Edwards for re-introducing me to them, actually buying me a ticket after a drunken Friday night Facebook conversation). But looking deeper and darker there's a bit of not so chaotic Can about them.
Ultimately though I still can't decide what to make of this offering. I have played it numerous times and no individual song sticks, I listen and then have to re-listen in order to get something to sink in hence the lounge music quote earlier. You have to take the album as a whole and let it play in the background, and finally drift off with the lapping waves in 'Drowner' before air sea rescue picks you up as the album plays out (listen you'll see what I mean).
On a final point the album has one of the greatest song titles ever, 'This Is Where The Robot Escapes His Evil Captors, Finds Ray Gun And Plans Revenge' - Nuff said. I would recommend giving this album a go - make your own mind up....but be prepared.
- Nev Brooks
The cover artwork of GIANT BRAIN's second album reminds me of the days when customized mix tapes made the perfect personal gift for someone else. I can't remember how many tapes I've recorded between 1982 and 2000, but it was always a pleasure. Maybe the guys of GIANT BRIAN have felt the same way and this is their visual tribute to that time. The music is not as vintage as the artwork, although 'Thorn Of Thrones' includes musical quotations from the early 1970's and mid 1980's. GIANT BRAIN is still deeply ingrained in electronic sounds, but in contrast to their first album 'Plume' that was also released by Small Stone Records, 'Thorn Of Thrones' offers more guitars and more sonic experiments. The more I listen to this album the more I'm getting conviced that this is not only a deep bow to bands like Neu!, Hawkwind, Can or Kraftwerk.
Obviously these guys are aware of the fact that Detroit was not only the birthplace for high energy rock and soul, but also for groundbreaking techno music, and that they've a close-knit feel to the varied musical history of Detroit. One of the highlights is 'This Is Where the Robot Escapes His Evil Captor, Finds Raygun, Plots Revenge', a song that combines compelling grooves with loud outbursts of percussion, while Phil Dürr's guitar is responsible for rockier moments. All nine songs are instrumental with exception of 'Empyrian' featuring Sue Lott on vocals as well as the Sutton brothers. Although the music on the album is very varied it forms a really interesting and strong whole, so that it's possible to detect new sounds and elements with each listening sessions. This is very good music, and even if you hate words like techno or electronic music just give GIANT BRAIN a chance...
The U.S. car industry may be spinning down the drain, but that isn't stopping Detroit's Giant Brain from producing an album of heavy rock just waiting for zipping down the open highway - or should that be Autobahn.
The men of Giant Brain were the minds behind one of formidable stoner rock label Small Stone's best offerings of 2007, 'Plume', and on their sophomore outing they've kicked things into even higher gear.
Starting with the Kraftwerk-loving opener 'Relentful Resentless', 'Thorn of Thrones' speeds along on the spiralling leads and hammering riffs of guitarist Phillip Durr, Andyl Sutton's motorik bass and the loops of his brother Al.
It's mostly an instrumental effort – barring mid-album track 'Empyrian' and a few soundtrack snippets - with the band keeping things fresh by altering the sound on various tracks. For example, 'This Is Where the Robot Escapes His Evil Captor, Finds Raygun, Plots Revenge' a blown out sound to accompany its kooky title, while 'Asian Love Song What?' gets Asiatic strings and a dubby percussive background.
It's not all an attempt to break the speed limit: 'Phones' takes a side road, with echoing percussion trailing behind distant guitar, while 'Water-Bored' blends the sound of water with a sinister drone and minimalist piano.
For fans of experimental rock, space rock, or Small Stone's usual crowd of rockers, 'Thorn of Thrones' is a trip well worth taking.
- Andrew Carver
Thorn of Thrones is the second album from Detroit collective GIANT BRAIN. Like the band's debut Plume, Thorn crossbreeds Germanic space rock with the muscular power rock for which the Motor City is so well-known, and the results are just as impressive and engrossing. The formula remains the same: former BIG CHIEF guitarist PHIL DÜRR applies his acid guitar expertise over a variety of grooves and settings prepared by the brotherly studio duo of AL and ANDY SUTTON. The founding trio is joined on this album by drummer/keyboardist ERIC HOEGEMEYER, late of the tragically unlamented GOLD CASH GOLD, and, on two tracks, drummer DAMON CHE of DON CABALLERO. The group excels on the usual epics – check out "Gooser," "Relentful Resentless" and the brilliantly titled "This is Where the Robot Escapes His Evil Captor, Finds Raygun, Plots Revenge." The band also adds a couple of ambient tracks in "Phones" and "Water-Bored," and "Empyrian" boasts a Giant Brain first: lyrics and vocals, provided by the Sutton brothers and SLOT singer SUE LOTT. Everything fits together like pieces of a puzzle, with the music taking you on a journey through inner and outer dimensions. Spinning through space, Thorn of Thrones soothes the soul.
- Michael Toland
After the debut called PLUME the band is back with a perfect mix of Space Rock, Stoner Rock and Kraut Rock. First I have to mention that the cover artwork is awesome! Like some old C-90 CHROME Tape, awesome! I study every detail on that artwork. Andy Sutton (bass, programming, keyboards), Philip Durr (guitars, effects, drums, vocals), and Al Sutton (loops, programming) stand behind that band and have their classic Stoner backgrounds with Five Horse Johnson, Don Caballero, and Big Chief. The opener RELENTFUL RESENTLESS shows some techno influences, with some programmed beats, which got spared with some Space Rock music. And that programmed beats are the backdrop for some jams. Not easy to listen to it. THIS IS WHRE THE ROBOT ESCAPES HIS EVIL CAPTOR, FINDS RAYGUN, PLOTS REVENGE and ASIAN LOVE SONG WHAT? went the same direction. It is very interesting to listen, but I prefer straight forward kick ass heavy groove Rock music. But again, it is very interesting, these long jam-sessions on that computer sounds. EMPYRIAN features some smooth vocals and a cool beat and excellent acoustic guitars! PHONES is like a soundtrack and fits perfect into that record before GOOSER features a good riff and bounding drums. This beat and song is the highlight on that record. SPACE MANNEQUIN is again a song with a good drive and WATER-BORED is again only a sound of flooding water. DROWNER end this record with a great jam! Techno, programming, jams, improvisations … this is THORN OF THRONES. Read this review as a compliment.
- jochen
Thorn of Thrones, Giant Brain (Small Stone) - Classic Detroit boogie echoes through a soundscape of processed beats, live drums, Deep Purple keyboards, and acoustic guitars. Mostly instrumental, it wanders purposefully and, when it does get lost, a torrent of electric guitar savagely enters to act as a compass. Highlights include the pounding "Relentful Relentless" and the delicately lovely "Asian Love Song What?".
- Lee Ballinger
After glancing over the personnel involved in the project known as Giant Brain, expectations were high when pushing "play." Phil Durr (Big Chief) plays guitar; Eric Hoegemeyer (Deep See Sound System, Rustbelt Studios) takes drum and percussion duties. And Al Sutton (Rust Belt Studios) is in charge of the loops, programming and keyboards. Al's brother Andy Sutton, however, is the main Brain. It's the bassist's vision here; his extraordinary way of dismantling the very idea of a song and reconstructing it in a manner that only he could have foreseen is exactly makes this band (and I use that word loosely) so exciting.
Giant Brain is largely an instrumental project - "Empyrion" being a very obvious exception - and that's an approach that undeniably works for the group. Thorn of Thrones isn't a conventional rock 'n' roll album by any stretch of the imagination. It's even at least partially inaccurate to define it as "rock 'n' roll. Instead, it serves as the ambient-stoner soundtrack to a yet-to-be filmed (and probably not filmable in the first place) movie that Andy Sutton has flickering in the back of his mind.
So, is this record self-indulgent? You betcha. But its biggest plus is that the musicians behind the project seem to care little about whether anybody likes their music beyond themselves. Still, as was so often the case with Zappa, a little bit of effort heaps great rewards. Like an onion, Thorn of Thrones has a multitude of layers that peel off one by one with every listen. Songs like "Gooser" grow in stature the more you hear them until, by the seventh or eighth spin, they sound simply epic.
This certainly isn't an "instant" record. It features no obvious singles and it will likely receive zero radio play. But it is brave, unique and extremely personal. And in today's homogenized music world, that's very rare indeed.
- Brett Callwood
I have no idea what Thorn of Thrones means, and I seriously doubt even the band does, but giant Brain really seems to be bringing a lot of cool new goofy things to the table, yet they're the same old good stuff at the end of the day.
Let me explain: Imagine Jeff Beck back in the day joining a kraut rock band instead of heading towards a more fusion oriented style. Dirty, distorted and tasty blues rock solos sprinkled on top of these electronic, synth-driven and psychedelic old school kraut rock gems. Think it sounds good? Wait till Jeff suddenly realises his friends Tony and Ritchie are doing this new thing called riffing and gets hip to some smashing fuzzed out, at times industrial sounding, big guitar rhythms.
This band of four has everyone doing a good deal of fucking around with an assortment of instruments, noises and samples to give shape to this baby. I mean, if the first few songs fit the earlier description perfectly, one guy pulls out his damn acoustic guitar for 'Asian Love Song What?' and another adds layers of eclectic string sounds to do something completely different. Empyrian too, takes an arpeggiated acoustic riff and adds a lot of psychedelic soul to it, and an upbeat vocal chorus over strummed chords, followed by another truly Jeff Beck moment during the solo, all resulting in a splendid vibe around the middle of this album.
Coming after a couple of softer songs, Gooser might take a while to build-up, but when it's on, it's the most driving and pure display of 70s anthemic riffs during the chorus, perfectly interspersed otherwise with the band's influences drawn from Can, Faust and the likes. This is the kind of throwback that you hardly get to hear - a cool blend of fuzzy hard rock, psychedelia and kraut rock. It's a bit unexpected coming from Small Stone, but after the initial surprise wears off and you let the album grow on you, you can really hear why this such a cool addition to this fantastic label. Well played.
- Srikanth Panaman
Small Stone is my favorite record label, ergo I get dumb for the raft-load of rock they float down the river every year. That's fan boy gurgle, but this one has got that outside/inside appeal that generally doesn't get tagged as "rock" standard. Whirring, circular rhythms soundin' local in Germany in the early '70s at a Faust or Can show, and guitar warmth/groove with "classic rock" stroll roots, abstracting the best tones and chords to make really great "Rollin' down the Autobahn/ I-94" road music. They dip up to classic tremoloed chill-out tunes like "Sleepwalk" and burble noise interludes too. I dunno how much the ass-end is programmed, but this stuff has pan genre appeal: Their bong can be hit loaded with stoner, indie, space, and psych weed, and the highness shall provide a positively wiggley cruising in yer space buggy ride.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, which is graciously spread before you. You'd be a real stupe not lay on the couch eating grapes, watching Discovery Channel's Flying an' Diving special on slo-mo. Really: Watch an egret hit the water at 25 mph (slowed to one-tenth speed), sink 15 feet, reappear in a corona of bubbles with a glittering fish in the beak and let the "ohh-ah!" wonder slide over yer mind. Just be cool and tell these guys how great it is they laid out the perfect soundtrack. Ya know, it can't cost much more than a couple weeks salary to get'm to set up in yer living room for five hours (hey, it's yer house), set the TiVo to the animal stuff, and lay on the floor and soak it all in.
At times, Giant Brain touch the airier Monster Magnet psych-pop, then go swirling through the '90s Too Pure label stuff (Th' Faithhealers and Moonshake piss in the same pot), and yep, Kraut rock of various strains (Guru Guru, fer sure), plus whatever electronica a Sabbath fan might dig. When not acting up, Giant Brain's post-ambient/trance swell washes up on the shores of the "hearts of space" with enough twirl for our favorite Siamese twins to dance to a bunch of it. And then, here comes the guitar: I'll bet this guy likes Foghat! The warmth and the general "Hey, c'mere. Have a beer to wash down that LSD/Xanax thingie yer girl just gave you" feel of the whole thing makes me hope there's a couple hundred thousand "free yer mind and yer ass will wallow" groovers out there. Fuck, why not? Fun matters, getting out of yer head matters, feeling human matters. If not, get outta the gene pool, yer holdin' us back. Smoosh it into the iPod with Cul-de-Sac, Kinski, Neu, Fuzzhead, Farflung, Miles Davis, Perplexa , Mogwai, The Orb, Can, O-rang, Syd's Pink Floyd, Vocokesh, and Queens of the Stone Age.
- Craig Regala
Don't be fooled by its oddly "black metal" title; Thorn of Thrones doesn't see Giant Brain swapping the predominant Kraut rock influences found on their fine 2007 debut, Plume, for cacophonous Satan worship on this, their second long-player for Small Stone. Not even close, actually, and, if anything, charter bandmembers Andy Sutton (bass, programming, keyboards), Philip Durr (guitars, effects, drums, vocals), and Al Sutton (loops, programming), sound even more committed to their novel musical experiments than before -- just retaining enough of their classic rock backgrounds (with Five Horse Johnson, Don Caballero, and Big Chief) to produce notably un-robotic Kraut rock. Take opening number "Resentful Relentless," for example: its name may smack of Kraftwerk's "Europe Endless," but its driving analog drumbeat, stinging guitar leads, and warm Hammond organs have more in common with Deep Purple's "Highway Star." So too does the ensuing hypno-rocker "Gooser," but other songs engage in more ethereal and atmospheric pursuits, including the dreamy sway of "Empyrian" (featuring rare vocals) and "Drowner," the immersive electronics of "Asian Love Song What?" and "Space Mannequin," or the Cinemascope soundtrack snippets of "Phoner," "Water-Bored," and the self-explanatory "This is Where the Robot Escapes His Evil Captor, Finds Raygun, Plots Revenge." Because of their compositional variety and exploratory daring, it's fair to assert that these tracks represent Giant Brain's true coming of age as a proper band, instead of some glorified side project, while proving that one need not ride on the actual Autobahn to feel the rhythm of its curves (and living in the Motor City probably helps).
- Eduardo Rivadavia
When I say it's hard to classify Detroit experimentalists Giant Brain's new album, Thorn of Thrones (Small Stone), understand it is a compliment, because the band's obvious intention is to be more than one thing at one time. Complexity is a virtue, and if their electronically-influenced stoner/Kraut groove is anything, it is that; drawing on classic '70s prog as much as heavily distorted modern power riffing (you can hear it on the charmingly and cumbersomely titled "This is Where the Robot Escapes His Evil Captor, Finds Raygun, Plots Revenge"), their sound could put off a lot of heads who either can't get past the inorganic sound of programmed beats (there are natural drums as well) or who are just unwilling to dig through the band's sonic puzzle and identify the familiarities beneath, but if we all didn't have to work once in a while, boundaries would never get pushed.
The mostly instrumental outfit could easily be put off as a vanity project from Al Sutton, producer for the likes of avant-mathematicians Don Caballero and Small Stone mainstays Five Horse Johnson, but together with his brother Andy (who handles the programming and bass), former Big Chief guitarist Phil Dürr and drummer, etc., Eric Hoegemeyer (Deep See Sound System), Sutton taps into a level of versatility that goes beyond mere showing off. The Porcupine Tree-esque acoustic/electric interplay of "Empyrian" — think In Absentia-era — and the straightforward driving riff that propels the eight-minute-long "Gooser" gives the impression that rather than jam out parts and see what happens, Giant Brain pieces begin with specific sound ideas and are fleshed out from there. Little wonder Andy is also listed as responsible for "concepts."
Thorn of Thrones is unlikely to leave anyone who hears it without an opinion one way or the other, since even if one can't find something in the dancey "Space Mannequin" that you can't relate to, it's undeniable that the song and indeed the rest of the album boasts enough personality to warrant a reaction positive or negative. Though the tracks at times feel more like part collections or maybe science experiments that got out of hand than actual songs, Giant Brain are nonetheless fostering a unique approach to classic prog and Kraut rock. Considering all the bands out there content to retrofy and rehash what's been done a thousand times before, any respect they get is well earned.
That doesn't mean, however, that I'll be listening to Thorn of Thrones while driving around the valley with the windows open and the stereo turned up. More of an intellectual experience, Giant Brain's music demands a careful ear and at very least several listens before a decisive verdict is rendered. I might like to see them focus more on cohesive songcraft next time, and if they were to congeal around a particular sound, to do so around that of closer "Drowner" — led by acoustics with subtle keys in the background - but, with improvisation a big part of their sound, they're likelier to thrust themselves further into their own sonic multi-directionalism. So be it.
- H.P. Taskmaster
Thorn of Thrones? Up until about five minutes ago, I could've sworn the second album by Giant Brain was called Throne of Thorns. It makes more sense, albeit in a black metal sort of way.
But hell, this could've been called Diaper of Thorns and I still would've gotten a kick out of it. Like debut Plume, this nine track album is a damn near note-perfect mixture of Kraut rock and stoner rock, a record that thumps along with a consistent, machine-like rhythm but still manages to keep an earthy feel. Tracks like opener "Relentful Relentless," "Gooser," and "Space Mannequin" border on techno, with their surplus of programmed beats and assorted audio effects, but the interesting thing is how the band manages to use this seemingly restrictive style as the backdrop for improvisational jams. If anything, being shoehorned into a lockstep groove opens the band up.
What's most appealing about Thorn of Thrones is how Giant Brain tweaks the conventional but never so much as to lose its immediate appeal. Strip away all the computer-driven layering and you still have a band that knows the ins and outs of a good song or two. Recommended.
- John Pegoraro


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Elk viewing volunteers needed in Smokies
The Smokies needs volunteers to guide visitors who want to see the elk.
The herd is in Cataloochee, a remote mountain valley on the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Those volunteers selected will aid rangers in directing traffic and briefing visitors on responsible elk viewing.
Each volunteer is asked to work at least two scheduled, four-hour shifts per month starting the second week in May and continuing through November. For more information, call Park Ranger Pete Walker at (828) 506-1739.
Elk were reintroduced in Cataloochee in 2001 as part of an experimental release to determine if an elk herd could sustain itself in the park after a 200-year absence. Approximately 140 elk now live in the self-sustaining herd.
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In the year
2010 if you step into a train in Slovakia, it is likely a train
built 30 years ago. A train that squeaks and is so noisy that the
gentle rocking won't work you to sleep. Each window opens, or is
at least supposed to open. The seats often stick to your skin on
hot days and chill your clothed skin with a hard vinyl on cold days.
Still upholstered with the original materials of 30 years ago and
mended with duct tape-like material here and there. If the lights
work they are harsh, but can be switched off in each six- or eight-passenger
compartment, each coupé, as the Europeans are fond of calling
them. The toilets have ages of wear on them that are indecipherable
from filthiness. When you flush, a trap door in the toilet opens
to reveal the sound, sight, and draft of the tracks below. There
is no pretense of there being a storage tank on this train.
This train
is the superior train in Slovakia, a train you are lucky to be on
if you have the opportunity. Every passenger on that train can control
the temperature, the level of draft that reaches him or her, the
amount of light, out of politeness by first asking the six other
people in the coupé if they wouldn't mind and then opening
or closing a window, door, drapes, hanging a head or arm out into
the breeze, switching on the heat or air-conditioning, turning the
lights on or off. This is the communist built train that surprisingly
exemplifies and recognizes the freedom of the individual, a responsibility
to people immediately around him, the ability to change things immediately
around him.
When walking
out on the street or on the sidewalk, you can never be certain of
who sees you. In a coupé, you can make it more private. You
can actually close a curtain if you don't want passengers walking
by to be able to look into your coupé. You can close other
curtains if you don't want to be stared at by people standing on
the platform as your train sits at a station. You can even lock
the door. Yes, you can lock the door to your coupé built
during the days of the intrusive seemingly omnipresent communist
government. Sometimes the conductor will use his key to open it
when coming for tickets. Sometimes he or she will just knock and
wait patiently for you to open it.
Some trains
are crowded, others are not. On some lines, at certain times of
the day, even when just riding second class, you can quite literally
read a book in peace and quiet, entirely on your own, not a person
in sight or earshot. Even on pretty full trains if you're travelling
with a bigger group of friends, you can get a coupé or two
to yourselves. If you are with family, travelling four or five in
a group, often other passengers will allow you a coupé to
yourselves, especially with little kids in tow.
And in contrast,
we have another type of train in Slovakia — new and shiny. It sometimes
even smells new, fresh out of the factories of the Western democracies.
It's at times a hand-me-down from a country of the West, fallen
below Western standards, but of high standards for a post-communist
country, so it's often a welcome hand-me-down. This is the inferior
type of train that you can step onto in Slovakia.
It's created
with a love for sameness and for identical behavior and wants throughout
a community. A train created in one of the Western democracies.
A train that doesn't let you open a window. If everything's working
properly, a train where every room, every car, every seat has the
identical temperature, the identical amount of fresh air.
Of course,
everyone is able to put on a sweater or take one off, but beyond
that very limited option you have on this train no greater control
over yourself and your surroundings. Nor does any other passenger.
In that respect it is equal. Nor, would it seem, does anyone else
on board have that ability, as you would learn from an attempt to
change the atmosphere on the train on those 43 degree days in late
September when someone left the air-conditioning on or those 87
degree days in April when someone forgot to turn down the heat.
You can always
ask the conductor to turn down the air-conditioning in September.
He might even do that for you. Or there's a list of surprisingly
familiar options to anyone who's gone to an overseer (aka public
servant, aka government employee) and begged for something.
He might tells
you "yes," and not do it. He might tell you "no"
and walk away. He might tell you he can't because he's not allowed
to. It's "the rules" that it must be at that temperature
and the person/people who make/s the rules is/are not even on the
train, nor do/es he/she/they have a phone number, but "will
get in touch with you promptly if you send him/her/them a letter
to an address that I can provide for you."
Or he just
doesn't know how to turn down the A.C. It's outside of his pay grade
and in a need-to-know world, it's not his business. In the end,
in order to ensure some modicum of comfort, and to stop your travelling
partners from shivering, you are likely to have to open a window
on that chilly September day in order to warm up the air conditioned
train. Or in April to cool down that superheated train. Except the
windows simply don't open. They're all bolted shut.
On these trains
there are no barriers separating compartments. There are no compartments.
Entire trains composed of entirely undivided train cars. Everyone
can see and hear everyone else. Sure, there are plush seats, big
windows, the things around you feel new and a little cleaner. It's
well-lit, consistently well-lit regardless of how light or dark
it is outside.
If you happen
to find a car that has a coupé, it will be a coupé
with entirely glass walls. No hiding behind curtains or locked doors
in there. No momentary privacy. No small groups. No isolated family
units. This is the train of the Western democracies.
On this "up
to Western standards" train, you can't even do one of the most
beautiful things there is to do in Slovakia: to open the window
any of the four seasons and to take in the fresh air as you run
through the countryside, along rivers, past mountains dotted with
castles, at 90 miles an hour, allowing Slovakia to whip through
your hair.
No, on this
up-to-Western-standards train you can't do that, but you can view
your country through tinted windows, to see a green-hued or maybe
a blued-hued or brown-hued or gray-hued Slovakia.
Perhaps a color
of window designed in a country that does not have its own colors.
For here, in a country like this, with such a rich palate of rural
colors, clear is the preferable color of the glass manufactured.
And why is the glass tinted? Because the designer/design committee1
didn't trust you to look away when the sun shone, to cover your
eyes from the UV rays. It might be dangerous for you if you act
irresponsibly, so all people get the same tinted view.
It's one of
the paradoxes one encounters in skirting the border between East
and West. In repressive regimes you find these surprising ways that
individual freedom pokes out. It seems there will always be people
with a desire to not have every aspect of life centrally controlled.
The design of the communist-era Slovak train being but one small
example in a constant flood of them, a constant flood of them that
are apparent to the keen observer. A constant flood of ways that
people (most often quietly) allowed for the individual, himself,
herself, or another, to be the boss of oneself in some aspect of
And that same
paradox is true as you move West of that border. You see things
you would never see East (especially pre-EU-acquisition of the central
European post-communist nations aka "Eastern Europe");
the train being but one small example. In nations that are, relatively-speaking,
considered to be some of the freest countries in the world, you
can find a virtually endless supply, really virtually endless to
the keen observer, of ways of controlling other people. It's fascinating
how it always seems to be there, this underlying idea of "I
know what's good for you, better than you know what's good for you."
Behind political faades of freedom, you always find this in places
you don't expect to find it. Not the idea of "individuals choose
for themselves," but the idea of "I will choose for myself,
and for you as well."
Just as a sense
of decreased political freedom in the US has brought out a sense
of rebelliousness in me, I wonder if a guise of increased political
freedom brings a willingness to tolerate less freedom, a willingness
to tolerate more central planning where one worker, or more often
a committee decides for all with limited avenues of recourse.
years without a king makes the heart free" reads a Slovak t-shirt.
But I wonder if it's really years of those failed (usually foreign)
repressive regimes that made so many Slovaks so beautifully apolitical.
So apolitical that not once, but twice they had the worst voter
turnout in EU elections for any EU member state. Politicians simply
don't have the fertile soil here for widespread voluntary political
hero worship.
In 2004, W.
visited the Slovak capital of Bratislava to give a well-attended
public speech. In an image captured by many cameras, a group of
approximately 10 Slovak thirty-somethings were engaging in the uncharacteristically
Slovak act of holding placards with George and Laura Bush's photos
on them and showing fervent vocal support. Cheering, jumping, clapping,
chanting. They weren't in the easy-to-enter VIP section, but were
suspiciously in the "everyone else" section. Shocked by
what I was seeing I asked a few of them which of Bush's policies
they liked most. The answer was something like "WE LOVE GEORGE
BUSH!!!" I tried again, to which I received a substanceless
answer. So the third time, I pulled one person off to the side,
tried again, and she said to me "Don't tell anyone, but we
work for the Prime Minister. We have to be here today doing this."
The lack of
widespread voluntary hero worship seems to allow for this tremendous
distrust of government. Seldom can individual politicians be mentioned
at a table full of people without someone at the table laughing
aloud about the politician. Frequently what follows is the latest
joke going around about that politician.
In a country
where government has so consistently failed the people, it's an
attitude one should expect. (After all, if failure is marked by
instability, the last century saw six different officially acknowledged
currency changes with four different officially acknowledged implosions
of government in Slovakia. Any person on the street of a certain
age can tell you that.) Freedom might be more precious to a Slovak
who knows his government failed him than to an Austrian who believes
in his government. To a Czech more than a Frenchman.
It seems we
notice our freedom most when that precious freedom feels most keenly
threatened. But what is it that brings out the central planner in
men, that moves one to force his will on others, and more importantly
that allows us to acquiesce to the planning of the minutia of our
lives by fiat? Is it the veil of political freedom? If we believe
we are free, will we consent to anything? If we simply feel
free, will we consent to even more?
- Footnote
to designer/design committee: While a designer and design
committee are vastly different entities in that one is a collection
and the other an individual, in all likelihood, any one person
allowed to make decisions for a government funded train is so
infused with some form of groupthink, some type of orthodoxy2,
that the above distinction is rendered moot. The individual designer
is certain to act with the same fears and lack of originality
of the design committee.
- Footnote
to orthodoxy: According to Webster's
Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, the English word "orthodoxy"
comes to the English through Latin from the original Greek orthodoxos
composed of "orth" meaning "correct" and "doxa"
meaning "opinion." Even the origins of the word are
paradoxically inline with orthodoxy in that it describes an opinion,
which is usually something that is subjective, as objective truth.
The root after all, uses the word "correct," a word
that indicates objective truth. Orthodoxy — the correct opinion.
Stevo [send him mail]
is the author of Somewhere
between Bratislava and DC.
He is working on his next book.


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American flag flying on Zakim Bridge falls on vehicle
Updated On: Jul 13 2013 05:41:28 AM EDT
Massachusetts State Police say a large flag that flies over the Zakim Bridge apparently fell onto a vehicle, causing a crash.
State Police say the incident on the southbound side of Interstate 93 caused the driver to spin out and strike the median.
There was minor damage to the car. Police say the driver does not appear to have been injured.
State Police picked up the flag and the roadway is back open.
Prior to the Fourth of July, officials placed the massive American flag at the center of the bridge.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - San Francisco Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro is out indefinitely with an injury to the pinkie finger on his left hand.
The finger took a direct hit from a fastball by Pittsburgh's Tony Watson while batting in the seventh inning of an 8-2 loss on Tuesday night. X-rays were negative. Scutaro said Wednesday he has some ligament damage near the tip of the finger. He was replaced in the lineup by Tony Abreu.
Manager Bruce Bochy said the team will wait a few days to see if Scutaro's injury responds to rest and treatment. There is a chance Scutaro could attempt to play this weekend when the Giants are in Atlanta.
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Chris Hyde & Jamie Le Hardy
International polo players Chris Hyde and Jamie Le Hardy have confirmed they'll be playing in this years Polo on the Beach making it the highest handicapped beach polo match this season! Chris Hyde Handicap: Nine goals Chris is Europe's highest ever handicapped arena player at 9 goals. He captained the successful England team beating America in February 2013 at […]Read the full article
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Benefits of the U.S.-South Korea Trade Agreement to the Processed Food and Wine/Spirits/Beers Industries
The U.S.- Korea trade agreement provides important new market access for U.S. processed food products, including baby foods, sauces and condiments, soups, breads, cakes, pastries, cookies, chocolate, breakfast cereals, pet foods and peanut butter. The agreement will also further open South Korea's market for U.S. wine, spirits and beer.
The United States already exports $800 million of processed food products (excluding meat and dairy products) and $27 million of wine, spirits and beer annually. Under the U.S.- Korea trade agreement, as South Korea's tariffs go down on these products, U.S. exports are expected to reach even higher numbers.
In addition, the U.S.- Korea trade agreement will help the United States compete against South Korea's other major suppliers of processed food products and wine, spirits and beer. South Korea's trade agreement with the European Union, a major competitor in the market for products such as pastries, wine and spirits, went into effect in July 2011. South Korea is also in negotiations with Australia, another major competitor for U.S. processed foods exporters and their workers.
Processed Food
Baby foods: South Korea's tariff of up to 40 percet will be phased out in 5-10 years.
Frozen french fries: South Korea's 18 percet tariff will go to zero immediately.
Breads, cakes, pastries and cookies: South Korea's 8 percent tariff will be phased out in 5 or 10 years. The European Union is U.S. exporters' main competitor in the South Korean market.
Breakfast cereals: South Korea's 5.4 percent tariff on most breakfast cereals will go to zero immediately. South Korea was the sixth largest market for U.S. breakfast cereals in 2010.
Pet food: South Korea's 5 percent tariff will go to zero immediately.
Chocolate bars: South Korea's 8 percent tariff will be phased out in 5 years.
Wine, Spirits and Beer
Wine: South Korea's 15 percent tariff will go to zero immediately.
Distilled spirits: South Korea's tariffs of 15, 20 and 30 percent will be phased out in 5-10 years. Bourbon whisky, currently subject to 20% tariff, will receive an immediate duty-free treatment.
Beer: South Korea's 30 percent tariff will be phased out in 7 years.


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Lee Whitnum is a perpetual candidate known for her vitriol (likening primary opponent U.S. Rep. Jim Himes to a "Nazi" and calling U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy a "whore") and her frequent (and frequently dismissed) lawsuits. Her personal life is apparently also colorful. Whitnum briefly worked as an aide hired by a resident of Atria, a Darien retirement home. There she struck up a romance with a man 32 years her senior. In a press release meant to draw attention to her plight, she claims Atria and the man's son tried to prevent their wedding (often calling her "Anna Nicole Smith"). The man apparently slipped out with his tux hidden under a raincoat and the two wed at Darien Town Hall. He returned to Atria to pack and move out, alleges Whitnum-Baker (as she now calls herself), but has since seemingly cut off all contact with her. Five months later, he filed for divorce. Whitnum-Baker says he was under "undue influence" when he filed. In April, she was arrested for allegedly trying to trespass into Atria and is now suing the facility, its director and the Darien PD. Whitnum-Baker says he's distraught. "After 35 years of miserable dating and always being on the go, I finally had family life," she says. How miserable was her past dating life? For a few months in the '90s, she was linked to John Kerry. (We're not kidding.)
William Stewart, a 39-year-old tutor, apparently found himself bargaining with them for the tiniest inappropriate gesture. Police told the Connecticut Post that, in separate incidents, Stewart paid two 11-year-old girls to kiss him. He reportedly used candy to lure them into his office at Chapel Street Elementary School in Stratford and then spun a piece of paper, saying that if it "landed" on her name on an attendance sheet, she would have to kiss him. The tweens were apparently not content to obey a middle-aged weirdo and his magic sheet of printer paper, so Stewart reportedly offered each $50. Neither accepted, so he upped his bid to an iPod in one case and $200 and then $250 in the other, according to police. He was charged with risk of injury to minors and disorderly conduct.
Some Hamden residents were shocked when they called a customer service number listed in a power company mailer and reached a phone sex hotline. The New Haven Register reports that the letter reached 2,500 homes and was sent by United Illuminating to tout some new green energy initiative but swapped a "I-877" with an "1-800," a typo that connected callers not to clean power but to dirty talk. Even more embarrassingly, the town allowed UI to use its seal and the electronic signature of Mayor Scott Jackson on the letter.
Retired businessman Anthony Cymerys has been giving free haircuts to the homeless in Hartford's Bushnell Park each Wednesday for the last 25 years (asking for only a hug in return). Last week, city health officials shut the old man down because Cymerys, 82, is not a licensed barber, reports the Associated Press. They say they received concerns about the cleanliness of his operation. Mayor Pedro Segarra granted him special permission to continue and vowed to help Cymerys get a license.
One of the largest drug busts in state history resulted from a routine traffic stop. Twenty-three-year-old Traci Basta was apparently not wearing a seatbelt and failed to signal a turn while driving through Waterbury with 34,500 bags of heroin in her trunk, reports WFSB. Police (who expect additional arrests in the case) estimate the street value of the stash at $350,000.
Two women reportedly went on a rampage after a New Haven convenience store clerk refused to accept one's food stamps to pay for a sandwich. Arnish Aldridge, 21, began "screaming that she didn't want to pay for the sandwich" and then restrained the clerk, while Briana Smith, 19, bit his finger, police told the New Haven Register. Before fleeing, the two also allegedly toppled the cash register, took eight rolls of pennies and tried to splash the clerk with bottle of bleach but hit a customer.
To celebrate the end of the school year, Tolland High School students planned a tailgate pizza party in the school's parking lot. One student told the Hartford Courant that staffers tried to shut it down and the teens became "upset that the administration was treating them like children" — so they ran through the halls en masse, leaving behind a trail of Silly String, eggs, shampoo, puzzle pieces, shaving cream, condoms and underwear in what administrators called a "riot."
Two Stamford police officers were apparently exchanging "inappropriate" text messages with the same 17-year-old girl, reports the Stamford Advocate. Though a state's attorney found no grounds for an arrest, 43-year-old Robert Macari is on a 30-day unpaid suspension and 28-year-old William Garay is out for 10 days.
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Foire de Paris 2014 - Porte de Versailles
Thanks to Tram T3 go on a trip : Around the world to the Porte de Versailles
And discover in the middle of Paris an invitation the wealths of the world.
Paris International Agricultural Show 2014, Bella is waiting for you !
1300 exhibitors of 22 country and more than 4000 animals and BELLA, the star of this edition, wait for you for this international agriculture show 2014 from February 22nd to March 2nd.
Since the creation of the Agricultural Open Competition in Paris in 1870 with the first edition of the agricultural show in its modern form in 1963, the success of the event never ceased growing.
Nautical Fair Paris 2014
The Nautic is... at Porte de Versailles from November 8th to 15th 2014
- The annual event to discover the nautical novelties of the coming season.
- A real showcase of close to 810 exhibitors and 1,400 brands
- Professionnal advice
- A friendly atmosphere, a gathering of friend and fans of water sports
- 3 areas of exposure : Sailing and Tourism – Motorboating – Equipments
The Hotel Tolbiac is at 20min from Porte de Versailles via tramway T2 (link page porte de Versailles)
Salon de la Moto (Motorcycle Fair), porte de Versailles from December 2nd to 8th 2014
Touring-, sport-motorcycles, dirtbiking, scooter, quad bikes ; every motorcycle is at the Salon de la Moto, du Scooter et du Quad (Motorcycle-scooter-quad Fair).
The Salon de la Moto, in Porte de Versailles has become a reference. The largest manufacturers, as well as OEM, accesories and service companies gather at this biggest meeting.
The many broached topics, like security, environment, society and youth allow a complete information.
Come to la Foire de Paris (Paris' Fair) in 2013, a cheap hotel in Paris. The Hotel Tolbiac welcomes you !
Discoveries, innovations, exhibitions, events, concerts...
Be surprised until losing your breath
Beside shopping, let yourself go to the discovery of the laureates of the Grand Prix de l'Innovation, to astonishing works of art of the Soap Project space, and to the unique, and full of humour, Chindogu exhibition.
Thanks to its 19 exhibitions and 3400 exhibitors, you will be able to indulge yourself in the wolrd of smart shopping, impulse shopping or useful shopping ; because, with la Foire de Paris, everything is at hand.
La Foire de Paris will take place from April 30th to May 12nd 2013 in the Parc des expositions at Porte de Versailles.
A trip to the Salon de l'Agriculture (Agriculture Fair), and a cheap Paris thanks to the Hotel Tolbiac.
Things change for the 50th anniversary ! A Focus on the novelties...
For half a century, the Salon International de l'Agriculture (International Agriculture Fair) gathers each year all the stakeholders of the agricultural world. It is a reference in its sector, not only in France but even abroad. In the beginning, the Fair was created around the Concours Général Agricole des Animaux (General Agricultural Contest for Animals). Then it has grown and has followed, year after year, the evolution of the french agriculture.
It now gathers 1300 exhibitors coming from 22 countries and more than 4000 animals. This event is particularly appreciated by the public coming in numbers.
In 2012, more than 680 000 have come.
In 2013, the Fair celebrates its 50th anniversary around the concept of "The Agriculture at the heart"... at the heart of people... of cities... of Arts... and of everyone !
The Salon Nautique Paris 2012 (Paris Boat Show) easy from the Hotel Tolbiac !
The annual meeting to discover the 2012/2013 novelties of the waters sports world.
A real showcase of nearly 210 exhibitors and 1400 brands for more than 242 833 visitors*.
From 31st October to 4th November 2012, discover the world's largest event dedicated to chocolate
The Salon du Chocolat is the not-to-be-missed event for those who share a passion for this exceptional product. It is a link between those who grow cocoa and those who consume chocolate.
Come and meet cocoa growers, discover the best chocolatiers, admire unique exhibitions and attend recipes demonstrations. Every year, the Salon is also dotted with special events, celebrations and performances. Some of them have become iconic such as the famous Chocolate Dresses Fashion Show.
The Salon du Chocolat never ceases to amaze you !
Paris Docks en seine - City of Fashion & Design
Some industrial buildings of the « Magasins Généraux », located on the Rive Gauche (left bank of the Seine), between the Gare d'Austerlitz (Austerlitz railway station) and the Bibliothèque François Mitterand (François Mitterand library), have undergone an audicious architectural renovation.
The French and New Zealander architects Dominique Jakob and Brendan Macfarlane (to whom we owe the Centre Pompidou's restaurant) have been chosen to remodel them.
SIAL 2012 : un hôtel pas cher pour assister au salon international de l'agroalimentaire
L'Hôtel Tolbiac accueille chaque année de nombreux visiteurs du plus grand salon d'innovations agro-alimentaires du monde, le SIAL, se déroulant du 21 au 25 octobre 2012 au parc des expositions de Paris Nord Villepinte.
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Top 10 VFX Scenes of 2010
In 2009, District 9 proved that visual effects (VFX) could be stunning and deceptive, despite what passed for a shoestring budget in Hollywood. This year, another side of that same lesson emerged, in the unnerving digital doppelgängers that populated two of the most expensive movies of the year, Prince of Persia and Tron. The glimpses of Jake Gyllenhal's time-shifted, computer-generated clone were bad, but most of Jeff Bridges's reverse-aged death-rictus smiles were in extreme closeup and in 3D. Money can fuel world-class VFX, but cash alone can't buy suspension of disbelief. That doesn't mean our choices for the best VFX scenes of the year are an arthouse primer on substituting green screens for skylines or sticking Natalie Portman's head on a ballerina's body. VFX and big, brainless movies go together like peanut butter and light cycles.
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2. Inception: Paris is Folding
There's nothing new to be said about this movie, or its perception-shattering visual effects. Every major scene has been dissected, all the rotating sets and wire fu and fully rendered dreamscapes. For our money, the best straight VFX moment is the one that threatens your sanity just a little and induces vertigo and terror precisely because it makes no sense but is rendered in such detail. Ariadne flexes her dream-sculpting powers, and Paris folds into a cube. It took detailed lidar-mapping of real Paris streets and the painstaking insertion of CG people and cars through that upended cityscape, but, to be honest, this is one sausage factory we'd prefer to steer clear of. Leave it at this: Paris folds, and movies are never the same again.


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Book Review: Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
By Sandy Amazeen Oct 9, 2007, 6:30 GMT
First exposed to the Hells Angels as a ten-year-old, Shaylor was intrigued by the sights and sounds of those leather-clad men who seemed to radiate violence and self-confidence. It was an image the photographer never forgot as he returned to this largely misunderstood group, gaining inside access to the most difficult club in the world to enter and produced the only book focusing on Englands membership. Forwarded by Hells Angels co-founder Sonny Barger, this new compact edition of over 300 photographs includes some new images. The portraits of these typically older men share striking similarities as almost without exception, they have a penetrating stare and big guns liberally covered with tattoos, usually of the Hells Angels Deathead. Shaylor has successfully brought the mysterious inside life of the brotherhood to light through the images of their bikes, clubhouses, HAMC events, families and final farewells to the departed. Hells Angels is a neatly done, eye-opening book that actively dispels some of the many misconceptions surrounding this group who take their oaths of brotherhood seriously.
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Countries are trying different forms of treatment, but what do they mean and what do they do?
In times of recession, all activities are geared towards kick-starting our economies - stimulating the economy by trying to put money in our pockets so that we can go out and spend.
Fiscal stimulus
The first treatments is fiscal stimulus, an idea of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist.
So when times are hard, as they are now, the government reduces taxes and starts increasing government spending. It employs more people in projects building roads, schools and hospitals.
The sister strategy is all about the interest rate and the quantity of money, this is known as quantitative easing.
Quantitative easing
This financial mechanism is what you might term a trial drug.
They hope that by pushing rates close to zero, banks will take this money and use it to start lending to businesses.
But if bank managers are scared to lend to businesses and households because they think they will not get their money back, they use the central bank's cheap money to buy more secure, government-backed bonds. Bonds that also give them a yield, of say two per cent, so they also make some money.
The closer the interest rate gets to zero, the less power central bankers have over the economy.
At this stage the economic "patient" becomes resistant to the treatment. So the central bank starts to manipulate the quantity of the money – as opposed to the price of money - to get bank managers to lend again.
Central banks buy the same government bonds that banks managers have been buying.
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The hope is that this forces the bank managers to look to the wider economy to invest in companies through regular business loans.
The central bank also pumps money directly into the banks - by buying assets, often toxic assets, from the banks. Toxic assets
Toxic assets are bad loans, dodgy securities which are often backed by mortgages.
The root problem is that these assets have been bundled together with other less risky assets, and it is difficult to differentiate the good from the bad.
This is a major problem in a capitalist society. When the economy is about how much we have - when we don't know the value of something, we call that toxic.
The IMF
If we do not deal with this toxicity, it can poison the whole economy.
And if that happens, we might have to call on the services of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - the world's bank of last resort - which has 185 members.
Countries go to it when they have tried everything and are facing bankruptcy.
In technical terms, governments go to it when they have a "balance of payment" crisis.
The loan it gives usually comes tied with a set of conditions.
Its power structure though has been a reflection of the world order of the past 60 years. While the United States has a veto, Europe has 32 per cent of the voting power and China has just 3.9 per cent.
If policy co-ordination fails between these 185 countries, they will each go it alone and protectionism will rear its ugly head.
Protectionism can take many forms: subsidies, playing around with the currency so that foreign goods become more expensive, or "in your face" old-fashioned protectionism, which involves sticking a high tariff on an import.
All in all, the prognosis for the world economy is worrying.
The patient has been over-pumped, overdosed with money, and the side effects of these treatments can be deadly.
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An appeals court in Washington on Tuesday ruled that the FCC's "net neutrality" rules, which prevent companies like Verizon from favoring some types of Internet traffic over others, are invalid. The 81-page ruling, which was decided by a 2-1 vote with one judge dissenting in part, has big implications for content providers, consumers and the future of the Internet. Bloomberg U.S. Circuit Judge David Tatel, writing for a three-judge panel, said that while the FCC has the power to regulate Verizon and other broadband companies, it chose the wrong legal framework for its open-Internet regulations. "Given that the commission has chosen to classify broadband providers in a manner that exempts them from treatment as common carriers, the Communications Act expressly prohibits the commission from nonetheless regulating them as such," Tatel wrote. NYT Internet service providers are free to make deals with services like Netflix or Amazon, allowing those companies to pay to stream their products to online viewers through a faster, express lane on the Web, the judges ruled. Federal regulators had tried to prevent those deals, saying they would give large, rich companies an unfair edge in reaching consumers. But since the Internet is not considered a utility under federal law, the court said, it is not subject to regulations banning the arrangements. BuzzFeed For years, the net neutrality nightmare scenario was as follows: Carriers, such as Comcast, could charge different amounts for access to different tiers of the Internet. The basic tier might include email and basic browsing; the next could include Facebook and Twitter; the final tier could include Netflix, YouTube or Spotify. These tiers would be divided not by bandwidth or speed requirements, but by content type. The Internet would become a club with various VIP sections, arbitrarily laid out to benefit providers. Wired / Threat Level If the decision stands, broadband providers are likely to implement pay-to-play plans like the one AT&T announced last week — plans that many said violated, at a minimum, the spirit of net neutrality.


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Mashed Potato-Meatloaf Casserole
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Meat-and-potatoes fans will flip over this flavorful home-style casserole.
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Potato Filling:
- 2 pound(s) (4 large) baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
- 1/2 cup(s) sour cream or plain yogurt
- 1 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) pepper
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup(s) fresh basil, cilantro, or parsley, chopped
- 1 tablespoon(s) sesame seeds
Meatloaf Shell:
- 1 tablespoon(s) olive or vegetable oil
- 2 onions, chopped
- 1 clove(s) garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon(s) dried oregano, crumbled
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) dried basil, crumbled
- 1 pound(s) lean ground beef or meat loaf mixture
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup(s) plain dry breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup(s) tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup(s) parsley, fresh basil, or cilantro, chopped
- 1/4 cup(s) dry white wine
- 1 tablespoon(s) cider vinegar or fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) pepper
- Place potatoes in large pot of salted water. Bring to boil over high heat; reduce heat, partially cover, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes until tender.
- Meanwhile, start meatloaf shell. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a shallow 2-quart casserole. In medium skillet, sauté onions in oil 5 minutes over medium heat. Add garlic, oregano, and dried basil; cook 1 minute. Spoon into large bowl and cool about 10 minutes.
- Crumble meat into onion mixture. Add eggs, breadcrumbs, tomato sauce, fresh basil, wine, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Mix just until thoroughly combined. Place in casserole, and press over bottom and up sides to make a shell.
- Drain potatoes well. Place in medium bowl. Beat in sour cream, butter, salt, and pepper. Add egg and beat until fluffy. Beat in basil. Fill center of shell with mashed potatoes; sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake 50 to 60 minutes until potatoes puff and are lightly browned. Let stand at least 15 minutes before serving.
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Variations: Use all ground beef or half ground chicken or turkey. If using parsley in meatloaf shell, you can add 1/2 cup pimento-stuffed chopped green olives.
To reheat: If room temperature, bake 40 minutes at 350 degrees F; if cold, 55 minutes.
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Welcome to Elegant Flooring®
Local Service, World of Selection
Welcome to the new Elegant Flooring Website! We are pleased to offer you an online product catalog—featuring our premium porcelain tile, stone and mosaics. Travel the world with Elegant Flooring as you browse through our hand-selected products from Italy, Spain, Argentina, Germany and more. Click here to visit our catalog now.
As a locally-based wholesaler, we have the ability to cater to the needs of our retailers, architects, and designers. We understand the complexities of commercial and residential projects, whether building or renovating.
At Elegant, we are dedicated to supplying you with the highest standard of products in the industry. Our onsite tile experts select the Elegant Collection based on local popular demand and strive to bring the latest trends from around the world to Atlantic Canada. This includes the most advanced installation materials, tools and techniques available. Only with the Elegant Collection can you experience a commitment to superior products backed by a customer service that will exceed your expectations.
"Our customers distinguish us as a company that takes the time to assess their needs and cater to their styles of doing business." Wout de Koe
We invite you to browse through our products in one of 70+ dealer locations in Atlantic Canada. Click here to view a map of locations.
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2014 December Holiday Hours
Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2014
2014 December Holiday Hours December 22 – Open 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM December 23 – Closed December 24 – Closed December 25 – Closed December 26 – Closed December 29 – Open 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM December 30... [read more]
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226 Bedford Highway
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Showroom hours of operation: 8am - 5pm
Order desk hours of operation: 7:30am - 5pm
Phone: 902.443.3700
Toll-Free: 800.265.3368
Fax: 902.443.7020
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