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The index page for this archieve has a PR of 5 (main index is PR6). All the newsletters for 2001 and 2002 have a PR of 2 but all pages for 2003 have a PR of 0.
2003 newsletter have been indexed by Google, infact the May 2003 one has our highest rank!
So why no PR?
- Could it be too many links (30ish) on our PR5 index page?
PR is just not showing on more recent pages at this point in time - yet some of those pages are still ranking nicely. We don't really know what's up, but we have to work around it best we can. We got kind of spoiled with being able to see.
If you want to know if a site is penalised, why not search for it in google. If it's truely penalised, it's not going to be there.
It shows as 10 for me, but what's really funny is that if I click the "Google Home Page" option from the toolbar, it is PR 1, no joke. The url is actually [google.com...] though.
[edited by: tombot at 1:14 pm (utc) on Aug. 7, 2003]
This is my point. Google wants to build its algo on the back of a linking culture/structure that it brought about with the release of the toolbar. now that very act has brought linking to halt.
I think that may be because it is now redirecting to a subdomain of another site which I think is a recent development?
I'm having this problem too. I was amazed when I got my first rejection citing this as the reason.
I would love to see a thread dedicated to other ways you can see if a site would be bad to link to, then i can point people that say no to it and they will hopefully have a change of heart...
I even offered to show my stats to them to see that I really do get traffic form google, but they didnt take me up on that.
Instead of giving PR0 to new pages until who knows when, why don't you assign those pages default PR of 7 till you do something with that toolbar?
I promise, I won't complain then. ;)
Taking five months? How can my site get #6/850000 with no real pr and poor seo?
Actually, perversely, i have seen this to be the case with some small sites - maybe it's only psychological, but i swear a teensy completely unoptimized no fluff site will come up bettere than a teensy all-out optimized one.
At present we have a PR6 site, with some sub-sections with the same PR. New pages within that sub-sections get a PR from 2 to 5 depending upon their sub-level (5 for first level, 4 for second, 2 for products pages). Last April we started a new sub-section and although pages within it have been indexed and are well ranked in searches, the toolbar says that they have not been ranked by Google. I mean, when I make a search, they rank where they should be according the rank I've manually calculated, but the toolbar still says they're not ranked.
This don't worry us, but If we were a new site, reliying in our page rank to make reciprocal links, we would be in a problem. I think this problem should be corrected in brief, or else disable the PR in the toolbar.
All have a white PR bar which showed up approx. 2-3 weeks after they were launched. This is the time that I estimated it would take to get SOME sign of PR...but alas, nothing as of yet.
Backlink indexing has also been attrocious since about May/June.
I am hopeful that Google is just in a stage of transition, as all long-time SEO folk have experienced - having to wait around for several months in the past until certain SEs "pull their pants up". I really would like to believe that this is one of those phases for Google.
They have alot of work ahead of them if they're planning to break away from the presence that Yahoo! gives them. That's a ton of exposure and brand recognition lost.
Keep in mind that AskJeeves couldn't create a decent presence even with ADS ON CHICITA BANANNAS AND VARIOUS BEEF JERKY PRODUCTS (They had an entire campaign based on co-branding with major food distrubutors and as soon as it stopped, so did the traffic level they gained.)
It never ceases to surprise me of how LITTLE the general public knows of Google when it comes to a stand-alone service (searching via www.google.com), and I hope they're not biting off their nose to spite their face.
Hey, just wanted to step in and say that's not correct.. PR doesn't automatically grow with time.
If you are a webmaster struggling to get links to your new site, sticky mail me with your links. :-)
Googleguy, how are we supposed to resolve this tidbit with the bad neighborhood issue? There is nothing to distinguish a new site from a penalized site.
It is nearly two years old but in April it was redesigned and new pages were added.
Pre dominic - some pages were still holding some PR.
I am done waiting - is this normal? - is anyone else still waiting for internal PR to come back?
BTW - this has in no way affected the website rankings - each internal page receives traffic from google. In fact, it has remained more stable than many other websites I watch over the last few months.
I have a similar problem with getting links as my links page is also a PR0 nobody will recip link with me :(
The only thing that may be wrong with this website is the fact that two or three pages are very similar so a duplicate penalty on a few pages I could accept.
Google is not only penalizing by removing sites from their index (which they have full right to), but also penalizing by making it next to impossible for sites to get good links from well respected sites.
Considering the most common way of checking whether someone is a 'web spammer' is by checking their toolbar PR, this means to play it safe, no one should link to a PR0 site.
soapystar and gus_R, you make a good point asking how you are meant to get any links. I certainly wouldn't give you any.
Googleguy, just telling us that people need to know that sites start with a PR0 is simply not enough. These guidelines you have put in place are hindering people's websites in areas that should have nothing to do with Google. Because people are scared to link to PR0 sites, those sites can't get links, even if they don't give a flying ** about where they rank in Google. I for one will NOT be linking to another PR0 site until that guideline gets taken down or the PR bar clearly indicates a difference between penalized sites and PR0 sites. This is the effect that these rules are having.
Essentially, the only way to get any LINKS now is by first paying for one from somewhere like Yahoo!. Google has (unintentionally perhaps) turned the internet into a PFI phenomena.
If google keeps up this guideline that people may get penalized for linking to penalized sites, it can surely only be a matter of time before they have to deal with the consequences in court.
This toolbar NEEDS to be fixed. It is far from an unimportant issue as many here claim.


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This Gold Coast Jewel has been completely renovated and divided into two separate living quarters (2bd/2ba upstairs; 2bd/1ba downstairs). Downstairs currently rented long term. Our renovated home provides shellstone counters and floors, (bamboo floors upstairs), A/C, spacious master bedrooms, both upstairs and down, with king-size beds in both.
The view of Diamond Head from the large second floor patio is dramatic. Relax in the yard on a love seat swing while you enjoy the tradewinds and lush gardens. Perfectly situated, 1/2 block from the ocean, a walk of 5 minutes will take you to Diamond Head/Waikiki Beaches which stretch for miles. A walk of just a few more minutes takes you to the heart of Waikiki where the entertainment/amenities are endless.
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My wife Kathy was born in Hawaii and I lived there from 1982 to 1994. We moved to Phoenix for a business opportunity but returned often to enjoy Paradise, Hawaiian style.
Harvey Migdal purchased this house in 2002
As we had always loved this area, we jumped at the opportunity to buy our Coconut Ave. home in 2002. In our opinion the location is absolutely unbeatable; a short walk to beaches and the wonderful Kapiolani Park and unusually isolated for being so close to the happenings in Waikiki. Being so conveniently located, a car isn't necessary; just an added convenience.
As a family, we frequently visit. As soon as we arrive, our children and guests are anxious to change into swimwear and walk to one of the best beaches for a bit of sunshine and water activities. The trades blow the fresh, clean air; the sound of the surf is captivating. The hike up Diamond Head and the regular activities at Kapiolani Park keeps you active and holds your interest each and every day. The Park has an incredible menu of weekend activities. It's always a sad day when we depart and count the days until we can return. There is a reason why people call Hawaii 'paradise'. Our home and its' location would best sum it up!
Following is a letter sent to me by a recent guest, who spent the Christmas/New Year Holidays in our place. To preserve his privacy, he did not want to enter his e-mail address, so I have submitted his letter under owner comments. This is only one of many positive comments we have received about our place, but have not spent the time, until now, in pursuing pleased visitors to send a recommendation letter to this adjunct of our vrbo web site.January 15th, 2005Dear Harvey,I wish to express my appreciation for giving me, my wife, & mother-in-law the opportunity to stay at your lovely house. Your care and appreciation for every detail of the house was a great pleasure for all 3 of us. Waking up in the morning, taking a peak at Diamond Head from our bedroom while watching the morning news on TV, and following step out in the garden to enjoy a long breakfast in the wonderfully decorated garden with birds singing was a fantastic experience, neither of us had ever dreamt of. All felt so serene, quiet, and far away from the busy city life, yet we were only a 15 minute stroll away from exciting Waikiki, which made the whole experience that much greater. The days we wanted a day away from Waikiki we often headed east for Kahala Mall or the luxurious Kahala Mandarin Hotel, which both were only 15 minutes away on one of the bikes or 7 minutes by car. It was all, almost too good to be true!I would like to compliment you, Harvey, for being a very fair, comfortable, and easy going person to work with. We appreciate your 'aloha spirit'.Sincerely,Martin Anderson
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Iran: Youcef Nadarkhani's Execution Cannot be Corroborated
A rumor surfaced on the internet this afternoon that Youcef Nadarkhani had been executed, but the report appears at this time to be unsubstantiated. Nonetheless, Nadarkhani remains in grave danger. "Berlin fears imminent execution of Iranian pastor," from Agence France-Presse, March 4:
Earlier this morning we were alerted to this:
Iran: Mullah's Murder Christian Pastor for Being Christian
So far the story has not been reported by any of the major news outlets. Its only reported by a blog called Blue Star Chronicles. (seems to be a canard)
Youcef Nadarkhani has been executed in Iran. He is the Christian pastor who has been imprisoned and found guilty by the courts in Iran of being a Christian. Now he's been executed in spite of international appeals to spare his life. He was hanged today. (BlueStarChronicles)
Youcef Nadarkhani was arrested in 2009 for being a Christian in a muslim country – specifically Iran. The 34-year-old father and husband was charged with refusing to convert to Islam. He was given the opportunity to renounce his Christian religion and refused, resulting is his condemnation and sentence to death by hanging.
There is breaking news that he has been put to death by hanging because of his refusal to renounce his Christian religion and acceptance of islam.
Scaramouche: Talk about trying to insert some excitement into a foregone conclusion.
Only Words (Family Security Matters)
"This is a world in which nobody asks the Islamic Conference, a grouping of the 56 Islamic countries, to issue an apology when Christians are attacked and churches are burned in Egypt or in Pakistan."
Islamabad (AsiaNews) – Pakistani Christians, but also Muslims, Hindus and other minorities are appealing to Pope Benedict XVI to make "Shahbaz Bhatti, a martyr of the Church".
Pray for the family of Youcef Nadarkhani: Executed Christian Pastor Hanged in Iran for Being a Christian.
Youcef Nadarkhani has been executed in Iran. He is the Christian pastor who was imprisoned and found guilty by the courts in Iran of being a Christian. Now he's been executed in spite of international appeals


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Enchanting mansion and gardens, with spectacular views of Snowdonia
Set on the shores of the Menai Strait amidst breathtakingly beautiful scenery, this elegant house was redesigned by James Wyatt in the 18th century. The 1930s restyled interior is famous for its Rex Whistler association and contains his exquisite romantic mural and the largest exhibition of his works.
A military museum contains relics from the First Marquess of Anglesey's tenure, who commanded the cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo.
There's a fine spring garden and Australasian arboretum, with an understorey of shrubs and wild flowers, an italianate-style summer terrace, and massed hydrangeas which give autumn colour.
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Nestling on the edge of the Menai Strait, on the island of Anglesey sits Plas Newydd. A beautiful 18th-century mansion set amongst stunning gardens and parkland.
Once the family home of the Marquess of Anglesey, the house boasts1930s interiors and a striking mural by Rex Whistler.
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2000: Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 or, the last remains of the dodo
It's safe to say Aimee Mann never thought she'd be at risk of overexposure. When Bachelor No. 2 came out, however, that's just what happened.
Interscope Records didn't hear a single in her new record when she brought it to the label after completing it. Mann responded by touring, raising enough money to buy the record back, eventually releasing the album on her own SuperEgo Records. Mann finished the year by contributing songs (some from Bachelor No. 2) to the Paul Thomas Anderson film, Mangolia. Critics loved the record. Tom Cruise sang "Wise Up" on movie screens across the country, and Mann was nominated for an Oscar. (She lost it to Phil Fucking Collins, but beggars can't be choosers.)
It's to Mann's credit that Bachelor No. 2 transcended the media flurry that preceded and followed its arrival. These well-crafted, baroque pop songs were unlike anything Mann had ever done. Her work with '80s pop band 'Til Tuesday was more radio-friendly, and the songs on her previous records – 1993's Whatever and 1996's I'm with Stupid – were less subtle, thematically and sonically.
Just like her hero, Elvis Costello's Armed Forces is about the similarities between relationships and political warfare, much of Bachelor No. 2 is about the thin line between relationships and business. This angle, oddly, makes these songs about rejection more personal than her previous work. "It doesn't really help that you can never say what you're looking for," she sings coolly on "Nothing Is Good Enough." "But," she continues, "you'll know it when you hear it/ Know it when you see it walk through the door." Label executive or uncommunicative lover? In the end, it doesn't matter.
Although a handful of producers worked on Bachelor No. 2, the record's sound is consistent. It's so finely detailed that aspects of a song's arrangement aren't obvious until the fourth or fifth listen. Mann keeps her usual method of steadily strumming a guitar over an almost-hip-hop rhythm, but the producers – mainly Jon Brion, known for layered, pointillistic arrangements – provide tape loops, string flourishes, and soaring background vocals. The contrast between Mann's clear voice and the intricate production is striking, and the approach benefits the songs.
As for the songs, Mann's knack for melody has never been better, nor has her lyrical prowess. The opening line of "Deathly" – "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing each other again?" – was reportedly the main inspiration for the Magnolia screenplay. "Deathly" is so confident, so defiant that it wouldn't have worked as anything but the record's centerpiece. Its majestic guitar solo alone is the stuff of career-highlight reels (either that of Mann or Brion, who played the solo). Even the record's sole misstep, the plodding "It Takes All Kinds," starts with a hell of a lyric: "As we were speaking of the devil, you walked right in/ Wearing hubris like a medal you revel in/ But it's me at whom you'll level your javelin."
Aimee Mann has never matched Bachelor No. 2. She's come close, especially with 2005's organic, straight-ahead rock record The Forgotten Arm, but Mann will likely never again achieve Bachelor's combination of production, songwriting, and performance.
1966: Sun Ra - Monorails and Satellites
Musicians have been making "future music" since humankind was self-aware of existing in a modern period and correspondingly excited for what was to come. Such compositions can be considered both ahead of their time and also showcase the artist's personal vision of Tomorrowland. At times innovative, "future music" is often just overproduced, audiophile crap that will eventually end up on a free compilation album provided by Bose as a show-off CD for their new sound system. Nevertheless, it seems somewhat obvious that when a technologically advanced instrument enters the musical universe, it usually makes the more progressive artists giddy and provides a strong catalyst to make forward-looking music (Herbie Hancock, Brian Eno, Radiohead, etc.). So, given the massive acceleration in technological advancements over the past 50 years, it really comes as no surprise that musicians have become increasingly infatuated with the future. Perhaps due to the ease of allowing a computer to take on more of the creative workload, there is now a surplus of techno with themes centering on robots, mathematical ascension, oppressive totalitarian regimes, and other now-standard symbols for the future. Has it yet become clichéd that today's future is routinely envisioned as a cold place where simple synthesized melodies serve as our desperate communication over the daily grind of 4/4 house beats?
Sun Ra was always obsessed with the future. Whether he was shocking the jazz world by using unconventional electric instruments in his Arkestra or serving as Earth's official ambassador to Saturn, Mr. Ra was constantly fixated on the days beyond. Ironically, though, the self-proclaimed "afrofuturist" was constantly looking to the past for the inspiration to best depict his musical visions, particularly to those ancient Egyptian periods which borne his name. Yet for his 1966 solo album Monorails and Satellites, Sun Ra did not revert to the pyramids for inspiration, but instead decided to revisit his roots as a prodigious piano playing youth from Birmingham.
Best known for his maximalist compositions, lingering improvisations, and silly stage costumes, Sun Ra's genius was occasionally obscured by his elaborate (and often gimmicky) image. It is on his rare solo albums where we can get a clear view of the bones of his convoluted imagination. On such instances, he proves it is not necessary to use a modern instrument that mimics satellite noises in order to conjure up images of orbiting spacecraft -- a simple piano can suffice just fine. Whereas Monorails and Satellites may be considered avant-garde in comparison to most solo jazz piano albums (especially among others released in the mid-'60s), it still serves as Sun Ra's most beautiful, most accessible, and most likeable picture of the future.
The first two songs on Monorails and Satellites, "Space Towers" and "Cogitation," with their percussive, off-rhythm driving chords, stage our future at a bustling place, concentrating more on progression than with patience for the aesthetic. However, the album then softens with Sun Ra playing more pointed, complex lines that transition the mood from a hard-hitting, drunk Duke Ellington into a less-swingy, attention-deficit Thelonious Monk. There are few recurring melodic themes throughout the album, but plenty of stylistic shifts that teeter between the effortlessly gorgeous and the complicated flurry, similar to a later-years John Fahey record. You get the feeling that this is the type of music that George Jetson would listen to when he has his mid-life crisis, eats some trippy mushrooms, and decides to go to a dive jazz bar in the slummy part of Orbit City to see a show. There is no fancy computer-driven music here, just a senile old guy who likes his piano just fine and who can still remember the days when space travel was a novel, exciting phenomenon.
It has been 41 years since the release of Monorails and Satellites, and we are still fixated to our televisions when astronauts have problems returning home from a routine space station mission. Our world has changed a great deal (but not really), and unfortunately, the future appears increasingly more grim than hopeful. Maybe that's why Sun Ra's legacy has stuck around so long (his Arkestra continues to outlive him) -- listening to his abstract-to-the-point-of-playful compositions foretell of a simpler, if not zany, life ahead.
1995: Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
"In retrospect, I knew that was the last optimism I was gonna have for a long time." - Ryan Adams
The cliché about Ryan Adams is that he always knows exactly what he's doing. That every pratfall and every "fuck you" and every bit of record company bating is just a calibrated put-on. Indeed, his five years in Whiskeytown were years well-spent; he was an insufferable little bitch right from the get-go (the band only produced three proper albums, but the lineup changes were in the teens), and by the time it all crumbled down around him, he was Paul Westerberg, he was Gram Parsons. A guy who could melt your heart with two chords and an "ooh-la-la" before belting you one in the teeth and stealing your french fries or your girlfriend.
But if Adams always had one hand on the wheel, it doesn't show on Faithless Street, Whiskeytown's 1995 debut. He sounds terrified; his voice flows against his own songwriting, which is achingly confident. On "Midway Park," a gorgeous double helix of pedal steel arpeggios continually builds and is shattered by the howling, slobbering chorus: "We'll lie/ We'll lie/ Don't tell the truth/ Just lie." On the doleful title track, Adams admits, "I started this damn country band/ 'Cause punk rock is too hard to sing."
Faithless Street was reissued by Outpost in 1998, refurbished and expanded nearly twofold. Three of the nine bonus tracks -- "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight," "16 Days," and "Yesterday's News" -- are copped from the Stranger's Almanac album, but they sound better here, especially the classic "Excuse Me" (ravaged on Almanac as a duet with Alejandro Escovedo).
The real gem, though, is "Desperate Ain't Lonely," on which Adams shares vocals with violinist Caitlin Cary. There's a definite tension there that isn't sexual (not to my knowledge, anyway) or the result of creative differences (she stuck it out until the very end). It's just their voices. He sounds wrecked, she sounds strong. She's moving on, he's not.
And some might say he never did.
1987: The House of Love - The German Album / The House of Love
Here's another set of lovingly packaged reissues from Renascent -- Britain's foremost archivists of out-of-print and often painfully overlooked guitar rock -- of The House of Love's self-titled 1988 debut and their super rare 1987 singles collection The German Album (so named due to its original release in, you guessed it, Germany). Two albums that, since their release, deserve to be recognized as touchstones for many popular trends in British pop and rock: from shoegaze to Britpop to whoever the hell NME and Q have plastered all over their covers this month.
The House of Love fit somewhere in between the tail end of The Smiths and the rise of The Stone Roses on the British rock timeline; in fact, the sounds of those two bands present a good basis from which to approach these albums. Less emotive and literate (read: less pretentious) than Morrissey, but more focused and articulate (read: smarter) than Ian Brown, Guy Chadwick's voice seems to melt between the guitars, his oblique lyrics never less than insightful, with hints of political awareness and a philosophical muse poking through the nonchalant façade. It's a side Chadwick shows on "Welt," when he proclaims, "I would like to criticize." However, the band certainly makes it difficult to critique when the results are so pristine, some 20 years on.
While The German Album was never conceived as a whole, it arguably contains a stronger set of songs, largely due to the urgent delivery of the earliest 12-inch singles. The first four tracks — "Destroy the Heart," "Shine On," "Real Animal," and "Nothing To Me" — stand up to any like-minded tracks from the era, recalling the moody anthems of predecessors The Chameleons and Echo and the Bunnymen, especially the latter's work on Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here.
The House of Love, on the other hand, is moodier and slower, just missing classic status by a few cuts. Leadoff track "Christine" is the best song that The Jesus and Mary Chain never wrote, and if you're familiar with that band's first two albums — Psychocandy and Darklands — you probably have an idea of how fucking good it might sound. "Salome" reminds me of The Psychedelic Furs, if Richard Butler's voice had been sanded down to a croon.
In spite of its occasional brilliance, the relative restraint when compared to The German Album forces me to wonder if The House of Love ever should have conceptualized an entire LP. This isn't to say it's bad — far from it, in fact. But at times the band's ambition in the studio is so grandiose it occasionally suffocates the music. The single format, however, gave the band an opportunity to reign in their sound, providing some of the rawness that suited them so well in their early days.
Regardless of its propensity for overproduction, The House of Love still comes out as a beautiful collection of distinctly British pop, a counterpoint to the spare reverb and echo of The German Album. And both — I repeat, BOTH — of these albums belong in any '80s rock collection that runs the gamut from post-punk to shoegaze. Yeah, they're expensive as all hell, and you will probably have to order them online (unless you live in the U.K.), but where's the fun in finding them easily? These are the kind of albums destined to be tracked down and located by obsessives only. They are truly diamonds in the rough, and they probably wouldn't shine as bright if they weren't so hard to come across.
1966: Malachi - Holy Music
The press release for this reissue claims that, since Holy Music was put to tape August 1966, it's "one of the earliest specifically psychedelic albums ever recorded." I beg to differ. Though the album features a pre-Red Krayola Steve Cunningham and otherworldly Tibetan Buddhist John Newbern, their only major label vanity project doesn't really fall under my definition of psychedelic. Psychedelia comes from the Greek meaning "mind-manifest" and typically pertains to heightened and altered states of awareness. In music, this typically represents the effort of translating and expressing a piece of the psychedelic experience. What you have with this fossil may just be the first non-psychedelic acid record.
What brings me to this conclusion is the fact that, save for a few random minutes of hymnal chants, swishing water field recordings, and some kind of harpsichord and strings, each ten-odd-minute jam consists of intermittent mouth harp and intermittent acoustic guitar strumming. Aside from the few bars of Eastern mantra, every sound is intermittent at best, making the overall experience more disjointed and boring than any acid trip I've ever taken. Since Owsley cooked up his first batch of white lightning acid in March of '65 and this album was recorded the following year, the connection is obvious. Acid was legal at the time, after all, so it got around quickly and thoroughly. With that fact in hand, this is exactly the kind of album you would expect two hippies on pure '60s LSD to make if they had access to recording equipment, a small handful of random instruments, and nowhere better to be. I don't know if you could really call that psychedelic in its execution, as it is simultaneously, aggravatingly random and drearily monotonous. Granted, it may trip people out if you pop this on during a road trip, but it's sure not going to be from over-stimulation. Whatever vibrations those two guys were experiencing did not get picked up by the recording gear.
I'm sure Newbern had good intentions then and even to this day (he's still making music), but outside of pre-converted Buddhists looking for some mildly distracting meditation sounds, Holy Music isn't going to open the minds of people. Since this Fallout issue is its first ever appearance on CD, I'd imagine it hasn't done much so far. For my money, you gotta stick with the 13th Floor Elevators. Their debut, The Psychedelic Sounds Of was recorded just two months later and is a hundred times more fulfilling. Furthermore, The Holy Modal Rounders released their self-titled debut with the track "Hesitation Blues," which features the term "psychedelic" in 1964, so there really isn't anything remarkable about this album. Well, except the obvious question: how the hell did Holy Music ever get released in the first place?
2007: Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Ape-Ology
"This is my brand new song: lightning and thunder, hailstone, brimstone and fire, music, hurricane and tidal wave judgement. Mixed by earthquake, produced by flood." -- Lee Perry
If you are unfamiliar with Lee Perry, your music history class is missing a very important chapter in the lesson plan. Not knowing or understanding the importance of Perry's achievements should be a crime punishable by law, especially if you consider yourself a dub/reggae aficionado. While I admittedly didn't know of him myself until I was informally introduced via the work of Adrian Sherwood in the '80s, I felt a great retroactive shame upon my deflowering -- all those wasted years I spent in the darkness.
Lee Perry is one of the two key figures (alongside King Tubby) in the creation/cultivation of dub, hailed as the innovator of the turntable "scratch" effect and considered the creator of "reggae" due to his production of The Pioneers' "Long Shot Kick the Bucket." This track featured the first example of the reggae rhythm, which was initially so unique that no one knew what to call it, a rhythm that has been described by Perry as feeling as though you're stepping in glue. He additionally produced works for Bob Marley and The Wailers, The Heptones, Junior Byles, and Max Romeo in his self-built studio, The Black Ark. These credentials are surely worth a little more than a passing glance, and amazingly, this is just scratching the proverbial surface (excuse the pun).
This new 2-disc release, Ape-Ology, brings together 1978's Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Cornbread and Return of the Super Ape, as well as 1976's Scratch the Super Ape, with the pot being amply sweetened with seven bonus tracks, including the mixes of the dub plate "From Creation," which appears for the first time ever on vinyl or CD. What most assuredly stretches across these two discs is the sound of a maverick, the soul of an inventor, and the eccentricities of a man who creates, not detracts from, the brilliance. While I am sure by now that most of you Perry newbies are already off to your local shop or are online browsing in quest of this grail, I'll help the doubters along a little by delving into the volumes on offer here.
Disc one:
The first ten tracks of disc one comprise Scratch the Super Ape, presented how Perry had originally intended (as opposed to the Island issuing). The soul present throughout this album is so deep that one needs a life-preserver not to drown in it, most notably present on two highlights that are blessed with the warm, vibrant vocal harmonies of The Heptones: "Dread Lion," with its stumbling beat and trembling bass line (funk-driven to point of sickness), and "Zion Blood," with cooing wordless passages driven by conga. As exceptional as these songs are, no single track suffers under the weight of another; they each establish themselves as utterly essential, as the weighty toast of Prince Jazzbo on "Croaking Lizard" goes lengths in proving. What stands as the most remarkable feat of Super Ape is that each track is as vital today as in '76, refusing to age in spite of any lingering hiss that conspires against it.
The remainder of disc one, the album Roast Fish, Collie Weed and Cornbread, is yet another stunning work. Would it be too ambitious to declare it a masterpiece? Not really. It eagerly displays a broader view of Perry's unique character through stronger, experimental stylings and his unabashed vocals, all backed by The Full Experience. While his voice may not be as developed as The Heptones' or Prince Jazzbo's from Scratch the Super Ape, by utilizing it as an instrument in addition to being a vehicle for lyrics through unique phrasing and wordless noises, he creates his own atmospheric stylings. "Evil Tongue" demonstrates the greatest example of this -- lyrically damning, claustrophobic to the last beat, and thoroughly infectious and demented at every angle. Not to mention "Soul Fire" and the title track, which both feature a striking, authoritative presence. With Roast Fish, Perry delivers an uncompromising, powerful, and sometimes humorous record that observed, questioned, and challenged issues relevant to himself and the culture from which he came.
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Disc two houses Return of the Super Ape, which displays another step forward in Perry's production. Ambitiously futuristic and, judging by its initial reception, bordering on the indecipherable, Perry's effects were driving this album with a stronger hand than Scratch and Roast, and it certainly wasn't any less engaging. It was just a different beast -- more sparse and seeming to drift in a vacuum. Take for example the highly twisted vibe of "Bird in Hand," which finds him reaching into a Cab Calloway vocal play. You wonder if Perry was up a tree, his stripes disappearing like yarn unwinding, leaving nothing more than a dancing Cheshire Cat smile; 'twas Brilling and the Slithy Toves,' indeed. The wobbly effect-laden "Jah Jah A Natty Dread" is yet another example of Perry's singularity and futuristic approach that, if released today, would still leave listeners with gaping maws. He was seriously untouchable on this record, with perhaps the only low point being his interpretation of Stevie Wonder-penned, Rufus/Chaka Khan-owned "Tell Me Something Good."
The second disc is rounded out by seven bonus tracks, including four mixes of the aforementioned cult anthem dub plate "From Creation" featuring Clive Hylton, which served as a special for the Coxson International Sound System. With the faith-invested vocals of Hylton, this astonishing track is elevated to breathtaking levels, creating a truly transcendent moment on record. This is followed perfectly with its three heavy dub counterparts. There are also two versions of the "Roast Fish and Cornbread" track from the album of the same name. The "JA Single Mix" is a mere skeletal version of the completed mix, while the "Corn Dub (JA Single Mix)" presents a slightly fuller version. The final track on disc two is the wondrous bass swagger of "OK Corral," featuring U Roy. Reportedly unreleased since its creation in 1970, this track is remarkable on every level.
Admittedly, Ape-Ology does suffer from a lack of fuller liner notes, and the packaging could have been yards better -- just visualize a box set with each disc housed in its own foldout digipak with original art work, full credits, and historical essays... mmmm, delicious -- but if this review was not a convincing enough argument for this collection's essentialness, there is nothing more that I could possibly do to persuade you. Instead, closing this review out will be a list of the astonishing musicians that were present on the three main albums, as they are as equally important as the man himself in the creation of these records, and each deserve a special place in everyone's collection:
Boris Gardiner, Anthony "Benbow" Creary, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Bobby Ellis, Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall, Vin Gordon, Prince Jazzbo, Mikey Richards, Winston Wright, Keith Stirling, Sly Dunbar, Noel "Scully" Simms, Egbert Evans, Herman Marquis, Vin Gordon, The Heptones, The Full Experience, Billy Boy, Geoffrey Chung.
Now to work on getting that monument built...
1975: Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
Gram Parsons was like a musical Easter Bunny. He jumped onto the scene, and before we even realized what he left for us, he was gone. All we have now is a tiny amount of always-welcome eggs he left for anyone willing to look. From The International Submarine Band to the majority of records made by his main protégé, Emmylou Harris, we find albums and songs that spread a sense of free-wheelin' beauty and life rarely found in any musician's legacy. We find artists who walk the same line as he did -- musicians who stroll down the halls of music history, respectful of the past but determined to have their own songs fill the same jukeboxes; music that fits into his dreams of a glorious stew of past, present rock 'n' roll, country, and R&B he termed "Cosmic American Music."
Ms. Harris walked this very tightrope with her major label debut, Pieces of the Sky, an album as achingly beautiful as a sunrise and as mournful as a sunset. The album feels like you're going to a log cabin home, sitting on rolling acres of land in rural California, drinking a few glasses of wine with Harris, and then sitting back to listen to her beautiful, fragile voice as she mines the playlist in her head. These are songs you can tell she loves, and you never forget it, you never doubt it. And once you feel sufficiently placed within the classics of country and western music, she attempts to pull you toward new ground by following Parsons' lead and goading country music, the large lumbering beast that it is, to a new kind of sound, a sound unafraid of change and rhythm & blues and boys with mop-top haircuts.
The rollicking rendition of Rodney Crowell's "Bluebird Wine" kicks off the album, and it's like a fountain of youth. Which is one of the most surprising and ultimately rewarding aspects of this album. No matter how many classic songs spin by, no matter how respectful everything is to the dusty LPs of yesteryear, this album always sounds fresh and alive. Like a child's first step or a pimply faced kid's first power chord, you get the desire to always keep moving, to stay alive, to keep on truckin' no matter what life throws at you.
Believe me, life got thrown at Emmylou, and this album revels in it. Since she was dealing with the recent death of her aforementioned mentor Gram Parsons, it's no surprise that these ten songs resemble therapy sessions, from the brand new start of "Bluebird Wine," to the depression of "Too Far Gone," to the drunken apathy of "Bottle Let Me Down" (which is, by the way, an awesome version of the Merle Haggard tune). By the time the fourth track of side one begins, you miss Gram yourself. Meanwhile, "Boulder to Birmingham" is such an overwhelmingly gorgeous song that it can't do anything but break your cold hipster heart at least a little.
Harris learned well from Parsons, and it shows. She does what few artists can and swiftly runs through classic songs like Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" or The Louvin Brother's "If I Could Only Win Your Love" with a loving devotion as only a person who truly needed this music can. She never tries to outdo the originals, yet these renditions are unmistakably hers, and hers alone. Her cover of The Beatles' "For No One" flows by with more sadness and longing and regret than Paul or John could ever muster. It's a cover that adds a freshness to an album that already feels like a winner from track one.
Finally Pieces of the Sky concludes with "Queen of the Silver Dollar," and Harris' crown begins to rest peacefully on her head. Whether that silver dollar is one that picks a couple of her songs on a trusty Wurlitzer or the honky-tonk she sings, she deserves her crown, and this album was the start of her rule.
1970: The Stooges - Fun House
[This review is part of our Take Your Kids to Work Day special]
by James Ubaghs (age 17), brother of [Charles Ubaghs->http://www.tinymixtapes.com/_Charles-Ubaghs_]
How do you begin a review of something as monumental as The Stooges Fun House, arguably their crowning achievement? I don't know how to start that review but I will say this: Fun House is a fucking badass rock and roll album.
In an era of spineless, hollow sentimentally, and nice serious musicians making nice serious music (that's still boring no matter how weird it's trying to be) Fun House makes my little 17 year old mind explode. It's daring, it's innovative while remaining entirely tangible. It makes a tired old genre seem rife with limitless possibilities, and simply put, it rocks.
Opener " Down on the Street" sets the tone for a consistent 37 minutes of raw rock roll. A deceptively simple but violently effective rhythm section stomps along, with Ron Asheton's brilliantly simplistic guitar lines driving it all forward. Iggy Pop gives possibly his best performance ever recorded. His irreverent lyrics "Out of my mind on Saturday night…I feel all right" are delivered with awe inspiring passion and his singing/un-hinged screaming manage to give an untold depth to what could merely be idiotic at the hands of another singer.
No single song stands out like "I Wanna Be Your Dog" on their debut but instead each song complements the album as a whole, constantly building in momentum until it explodes into the savage cacophonous wall (and attached apartment block) of sound in the album closer, " L.A bBues," that escalates the rest of the album to it's logical conclusion.
Sadly they don't make 'em as great as they used to. In fact they never did make them this good, because I have a strong suspicion that punk rock never managed to match the brilliance of this zygote.
Instead of lamenting on this predicament like a poor emo kid steadily carving nice little geometric shapes into the side of my arm I find myself filled with a new urge. Besides the urge to fuck and get wasted, I feel the urge to go out and make my own Fun House. It'll probably amount to nothing but I'm going to do it anyway.
What the hell are you going to do?
[Editor's Note: I'm so proud of my little brother]
1995: Self - Subliminal Plastic Motives
[This review is part of our Take Your Kids to Work Day special]
By Jessica Roth (age 12) and Samuel Roth (age 11), cousins of [Plastique Song->http://www.www.tinymixtapes.com/_Plastique-Song_]
SELF kicks off with "Borateen," a great head banging rave type song, all my friends can dance to it too. Sounding a lot like a young synthesizing Incubus, it plays with many different riffs, which Mike Mahaffey makes it all interesting. Dancing to "Sophomore' is way too easy, it reminds my mom of an old Boston song called "Tribe" but I think it has a little Weezer in it. Lyrics are clear, kids really like that. Something you can sing to a good deal. The layering of Mike's own brand of music is cool, makes me (and my brother) wonder how he'd actually sound in a concert. So much mixing... what would he actually play? What would he choose to bring to the stage? Just push a button.
Track three, "Stewardess" is good. Some super high soft vocals we weren't crazy about and a little too Foo Fighters repetitiveness going on. "So Low" is one of the best tracks on the CD. Got up and danced, listening to it made me feel like I was at a party. Has right amount of high vocals mixed with a crashing rock beat... loved it. This song could be longer. Two songs that didn't do it for me were "Marathon Shirt" and "Lucid Anne." These tracks should be replaced with more of the good stuff, like in "Canon." This track (7) sticks! Listen to this! Teens love this stuff. If Mike wants to sell CDs he needs to keep mixing in this genre.
"Missed the friction" and "super" are just okay, nothing to write home about. "Mother nature's fault" has some great lyrics and pauses in the song that make the track memorable. Twinge of All American Rejects infused in this song, liked it quite a bit. The voice mix sounds cool.
Jazzy swing turn in "Big Important Nothing". This track is funky... not sure what Mike is trying to show us, way out of the pop rock style that the CD is mostly comprised of. More Buble' than Mahaffey. Good tune though. Than back to what the CD is about, "Lost my Senses" rocks out. Partially sounds like my cousin Ben's band Ace and Artemis, which rocks (by the way). More of this please.
Check this CD out by SELF, then check out my favs "So Low," "Canon," "Mother Nature's Fault" and "Lost my Senses".
2007: Joe Meek - Vampire, Cowboys, Spacemen, & Spooks
Think that crack-afro sporting, B-movie actress murderer Phil Spector is crazy? Yeah, I suppose he is, but Joe Meek has him beat across the board. He was a maverick pioneer of independent music, invented way more shit in the studio, and quite probably killed more people than old Phil. After you hear his story though, you'll know he earned it the whole way. Why a major motion picture has yet to be made about him is beyond me. [Editor's note: A play about Joe Meek entitled Telstar: The Joe Meek Story ran in London's West End in 2005.]
Born under the star Robert George Meek in 1929, Joe's life long love (and hate) affair with music began when a brief stint in the Royal Air Force as a radio operator peaked his interest in outer space and the limitless possibilities of electronic sound. In his early twenties, he got a job with the Midlands Electric Board, which allowed him to gather up and begin creating gear, including a disc cutter. From there, he found work as a sound engineer for independent studios and started to make his name in the business, both as an innovative genius and as someone difficult to work with. Being forced out of a lucrative Landsdowne partnership by one Denis Preston would turn out to be something of a blessing in disguise.
In early 1960, Meek co-founded Triumph Records and disappointingly produced his first top 10 single, "Angela Jones" by Michael Cox. The disappointment here is based on the fact that it may have been a number one if the mom & pop pressing plants of the day – to which his self-supported label was completely dependant upon – could have kept ahead of demand. That year, Meek arguably created the first concept album as the guiding force behind the "Outer Space A Music Fantasy" theme for Rod Freeman & the Blue Men's I Hear a New World, which was also remarkably ahead of its time in regards to its use of homemade electronic sound. Triumph did not last long as a label, but important lessons had been learned and new ground was constantly being broken.
It was around the time of Triumph's fizzling when Joe figured out that, since he didn't have the muscle to commercially back a hit, he could find far easier success by signing artists himself then merely leasing their material to major labels for a tidy profit. This shift was convenient since his next and by far most successful enterprise was to build a home studio above a leather-goods store and become more independent than ever while proving himself capable of scoring several UK number one hits. Hell, he basically kicked off the British Invasion by producing the Tornadoes' "Telstar," which was the first British record to hit the top of the US Hot 100, winning an Ivor Novello Award in the process. However, by the time The Beatles started experimenting with psychedelics, the hits started drying up. Meek's unique flavor of Saturday morning Cowboys & Injuns cartoon rock was starting to be viewed as camp by a maturing generation that demanded a socio-political consciousness more relevant to their lives.
Times were changing and he fell into a cycle of drugs, paranoia (believing Decca had microphones in his studio's wallpaper to steal ideas), rage, depression, and obsession with paranormal and occult activities. He believed his hero, Buddy Holly, and others who broke on through to the other side were trying to contact him from beyond the grave; he would record graveyards to try and hear the dead, but instead got a talking cat meowing for help. Having been brought up on charges of homosexuality earlier in the '60s – just being gay was illegal back then – which meant the pigs had free reign to pester and blackmail him, while his finances scattered to the wind under frail legal structures (he was unable to earn any royalties from "Telstar" in his lifetime due to an ultimately failed plagiarism suit). In January of '67, the body of a former associate of Meek was discovered in a suitcase, leaving the police to declare they'd be brutally interrogating all known homosexuals in the UK. With no foreseeable good news on the horizon, Joe shot his landlady and himself with a single-barrel shotgun borrowed from Tornados bassist Heinz Burt on February 3rd, exactly eight years to the day after Buddy Holly went down with Richie Valens in his lap.
During the 245 singles (of which 45 cracked the top 50) and assorted albums he'd put his distinctive stamp on, he basically created the modern methods of compression, echo, reverb, sampling, multiple overdubbing on a two track, and the seemingly obvious process of recording individual pieces of a song separately, then arranging them together into a single composition. This was actually a big step forward from just putting a mic in the middle of a jam and hoping for the best, as was the fashion for the first half century of recording when they had to record directly onto vinyl in one live take.
Vampire, Cowboys, Spacemen, & Spooks is one of a few Meek compilations being released at once, though this one focuses specifically on his purely emotive instrumental work. Joe had very particular views concerning the use of the human voice as a musical instrument. After all, this is the man who walked into a Rod Stewart recording session screaming with his fingers knuckle deep in his ears until Rod stopped singing and left, while refusing to work with the Beatles (whom he considered "just a bunch of noise"), David Bowie, and the Rolling Stones. Aldous Huxley said, "after silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music" and I'm sure Meek would agree. His thematic subject matter certainly clung to the realms of the ineffable, and that sphere is given supreme definition here with some 60 tracks on two CDs.
Many of his most renowned hits are here, including a rare studio mix of the previously mentioned "Telstar" and other Tornados rarities, but the focus of this collection is on creating a whole picture of the man. Half a dozen previously unreleased tracks have now fulfilled their destiny, such as the sweetly sorrowful "Moon Rocket" by Roger Lavern & The Microns – which samples a take off before smoothing out on a rollicking, adventurous beat with a disembodied piano keeping the timing out front – as well as a raucous Animals blues version of "Besame Mucho" by Dave Roland. The lone vocal track (not counting the odd "doo-doo-doo ooooh-aaaah" chorus and the forgettable Dauphine Street Six number "Shenandoah") shows Meek's vision of complimentary vocals with his self-titled orchestra's "Cry My Heart," where at least a three-part harmony hammers home a bleak tale of love lost, but that's a real rarity here. The emphasis is on ideas and themes, not mere words. Tracks like The Thunderbolts' "Lost Planet" and the Moontrekkers' "Night of the Vampire" presuppose electronica, hip-hop and their future fusions with rock in and of themselves alone, and covers like the aforementioned "Besame Mucho" and The Saints' version of "Wipeout" always add something vital and refreshing.
Granted, all 60 cuts can't be winners, but the collection paints a clear picture of a tragically undervalued genius. Being mostly without words, there's not much obstructing our emotional impression of the man and his many achievements in the early-to-mid '60s. He's the reason why these recording have aged so well and, what's more, provide an essential link in the chain for any music fan with an interest in history. Everything in the charts today owes this man a reach-around.


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Athletes generate more data than ever, and the number of ways to slice and dice the information continues to expand. There are times when information overload can do you more harm than good, and most commonly that time is right in the middle of your workout. My advice is to focus on a smaller subset of information during your ride, and save most of the analysis for your post-ride download – whether that's with a coach or on your own. When it comes to the information you want to focus on, here are a few recommendations:
This is the obvious one, but it's only relevant if you're going out for a structured workout. During an interval workout, remember that VO2 intervals (PowerIntervals on the bike, Fartlek intervals or track workouts when running) are max efforts. Rather than gauge your efforts on the numbers in real-time, you're more likely to get the most of the workout by opening up the throttle and going for it, and then looking at the data to make sure your efforts are consistent from interval to interval. If it's more of an aerobic tempo or lactate-threshold interval set where the efforts are longer and the intensities more sustainable, then you want to use your heart rate/power/pace data to stay within the appropriate range.
- CTS Spring Coaching Promotion: Ends Monday!
- Q&A with Tour de Cure: I'm the National Spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure this year and did a radio media tour and Q&A this week.
- No-Climb Climbing Workout: From a Bicycling Magazine column I wrote a while back. Good workout for those of you who want to climb faster but live somewhere without good training hills.
- Fall Ironman Races: Why Stop at one Ironman this year? Do a Fall 2012 Ironman, we have coaching/camp options that include race entries.
- Tour of Utah Race Experience: August 7-12. Our proven Race Experience program, at the Tour of Utah!
- La Ruta Race Experience: Come race across Costa Rica with CTS! Three packages to choose from.
- Brevard Climbing Camp: May 16-19. Spectacular climbs, twisty descents, and quiet roads!
- American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure: Exercise and diet have a huge impact on the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Join me in the fight against diabetes!
Kilojoules for volume:
On the bike, setting a goal for your daily or weekly kilojoules can be a good way to gain a better understanding of the work you're actually doing. If you're a person who generally looks at your average pace or average power as the marker of whether an endurance ride was "good" or not, focusing on kilojoules would be a useful exercise. Due to a metabolic and mathematical coincidence, you can generally view kilojoules of work done on the bike to be roughly equal to the calories burned to produce that work. Perhaps more important, you can use kilojoules to standardize your endurance rides. Depending on the wind conditions, the size/composition of the group you're riding with, or the amount of climbing you're doing, a 1500-kilojoule ride could take 90 minutes or nearly three hours. Fast group rides can sometimes be deceptively easy, when viewed in terms of kilojoules. If the speed is high but the group is large and you're spending most of your time in the draft, your actual workload may not be very high. In contrast, during solo ride into a headwind you may rack up kilojoules faster, despite struggling along at a low speed. How many kilojoules should you aim for? Look at your goal events, if you have power files from previous ones. To have the endurance to complete your goal event at the same or greater performance levels, you need to build up to those kilojoule levels again.
I'm not talking about your pace on a particular climb, or even how many vertical feet you ascended during your ride. I'm talking about how much time you spent going uphill. This is particularly important for athletes who will be competing or participating in long events that feature a ton of climbing; like the events on the Endurance Bucket List (Leadville 100, La Ruta, Tour of California, etc.). For instance, I know that at roughly 9-hour pace at Leadville, I'll spend more than 2.5 hours on extended climbs (not including small rollers). So in training I plan some routes that pack 2.5 hours of climbing into a 4- to 5-hour ride. The pace and power outputs don't correlate all that well between these workouts and race-day performances because of variations in recovery and riding time between climbs, but it's important to understand how your body – and brain – will act after 2-plus hours of grinding uphill.
A word of warning:
We like to try out a lot of different training technologies here so we can help athletes understand how to use them. We've been busy putting the new MOTOACTV from Motorola through its paces (the GPS is great and syncing to multiple ANT+ and Bluetooth devices is ridiculously easy), and we've been having a lot of discussions with athletes about their constant urge for 'personal bests'. There are plenty of ways to track your pace or performance markers over known terrain. The trouble comes when athletes let their egos get the better of them. It is not wise to attempt to set a new PR on your favorite local hill every time you go up it. And if you know that you simply can't bear the thought of posting a slow time because today's a recovery ride or an endurance ride, then do yourself – and your coach – a favor and don't track that information for those training sessions!
Have a Great Weekend,
Chris Carmichael
CEO/Head Coach
Carmichael Training Systems


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Welcome to Sri Lanka! Upon arrival the group will be picked up and transferred to the hotel. This afternoon enjoy a Colombo city tour. Drive through the Commercial area and also drive past Pettah; a noisy Oriental bazaar with a hotchpotch of humanity, ancient vehicles, bargains, mosques & temples. Visit Hindu temple and drive pass Jumi-UL Alfar Jumma Mosque, continue to the Wolvendaal Dutch Church, Hultsdorf Law courts, to the residential area of Cinnamon Gardens and on to the Independence Square and Bandaranayke Memorial International Conference Hall. We also visit Gangaramaya Temple. Tonight enjoy a Welcome Dinner at the hotel.
Today we visit a Children's Orphanage before we continue onto our eco-friendly resort at Waikkal.
This morning we leave for Anuradhapura via Puttalam. The history of Puttalam dates back to the arrival of Prince Vijaya, nearly 2500 years ago, when his vessel washed ashore. The name "Puttalam" may be a modification of the Tamil word Uppuththalam. Ibn Batuta, a famous traveling Moroccan traveller described Puttalam as an amazing town which had Arab and South Indian cultures mixed in it. Many places of historical and archaeological interest could be visited at Anuradhapura; Sri Maha Bodhi (Sacred Bo-Tree), Brazen Palace, Ruwanweliseya, Samadhi' Buddha statue, Kuttam Pokuna – twin ponds and Thuparama Dagoba which is the oldest Dagoba in the island.
Touring the remainder of Anuradhapura and we thereafter visit Aukana - it is undoubtedly the most magnificent preserved image on the island. The 5th century statue, ascribed to King Datusena, is 13 metres high, which is home to the most perfectly preserved ancient statue in Sri Lanka. We will then proceed onto our hotel in Harbarana for the evening.
Enjoy a guided tour of Polonnaruwa. Here you can see the ruins of the Royal Palace, the Gal Viharaya – where 4 splendid statues of the Buddha in 'Upright', 'Sedentary' and 'Recumbent' postures are carved out of rock, the Audience Hall, the Lotus Bath, King Parakramabahu's statue, and the Parakrama Samudraya lake built by King Parakramabahu the great. There are also monuments of famous places of worship such as the Shiva Temple, the Lankathilake, the Watadage, the Galpotha, the Kiri Vehera and the remains of a former Temple of the Tooth Relic.
Early this morning proceed to Sigiriya to climb the 5th century Sigiriya rock fortress which is a world heritage site, built by King Kashyapa (477-495 AD). The 'Lion Rock' is a citadel of unusual beauty rising 200 metres from the scrub jungle. The rock was the innermost stronghold of the 70 hectare fortified town. A moat, rampart, and extensive gardens including the renowned water gardens ring the base of the rock. Visit the world-renowned frescoes of the 'Heavenly Maidens' of Sigiriya, which are in a sheltered pocket of the rock approached by a spiral stairway. These frescoes are painted in earth pigments on plaster.
Enroute to Kandy we visit the Dambulla Cave Temple. Climb up to the temple, which was donated by king Walagambahu in the 1st century BC to Buddhist monks. Thereafter proceed to a spice garden in Matale to see the different spices, which Sri Lanka is famous for. You will be introduced to different spices and shown how some of these spices are grown and processed. Also take part in a cooking lesson at the Spice Garden where you will experience a variety of Sri Lankan food and thereafter enjoy your own cooked lunch in Sri Lankan style. We then continue onto Kandy for the evening.
This morning we proceed to visit the Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawela. This orphanage is the home for about 89 elephants, out of which some are baby elephants found abandoned or orphaned in the wild. They are being cared, fed and trained by the wild life authorities. Thereafter we visit the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya before enjoying a sightseeing tour of Kandy including a drive around the Kandy Lake, Kandy town and Bazaar, the arts & crafts centre and a gem museum and a lapidary. This evening we also visit the Temple of the Tooth.
Today you will be transferred to Peradeniya railway station to board the Expo Rail and take a joy ride from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya. On arrival at the Nanu Oya railway station, meet up and proceed to Nuwara Eliya, en-route we visit a tea plantation and a tea factory, where the best tea in the world is produced. You will be told all about the process of manufacturing tea and also see how tea is graded.
This morning we leave for Yala to the Chaaya Wild. This afternoon enjoy a jeep safari. You are also sure to see elephants – grumpy lone males during the dry months and large herds in the wet season. Sloth bears are also a big draw. You will also see mammal such as wild boars, several species of deer and wild buffalo. There is a plethora of reptilian species and platoons of crocodiles.
This park is famous for its high density of leopards, perhaps the highest in the world. This morning proceed on another Jeep Safari specially to see Leopards (sighting cannot be guaranteed). On completion you will return back to the hotel with the remainder of the day free.
This morning we visit the Bundala Bird Sanctuary. This park falls within the southeastern arid zone of Sri Lanka, with a general climate that can be classified as hot and dry. The terrain is generally flat with sand dunes bordering the coastline, and vegetation consists mainly of dry thorny scrublands and lagoons. Leaving for Bentota enroute we visit Galle Dutch Fort - The Galle fort was built first by the Portuguese, and then modified by the Dutch during the 17th century.
Visiting a Turtle Farm in Kosgoda this morning we continue onto Balapitiya to enjoy a scenic cruise along the Madhu River, a relaxing trip with plenty of interesting stops. You pass dozens of islets forested with mangroves and can appreciate the timeless natural rhythms of rural life. A special Sea Food Lunch will be arranged at the local restaurant on your return before going to the Bentota hotel.
A free day for you to relax. Tonight enjoy a farewell dinner and reminisce with your new friends on your time in Sri Lanka.
Your last day to make the most of - either relax or explore the area independently. Your room is booked for a late check-out before we transfer the group to the airport for your early morning departure on 03rd March.
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text: The Disney Store FINALLY has Disney Dollars back in stock! They introduced the new series for The Happiest Celebration yesterday! Had to go and pick some up for my Son and our June trip! The $1 has Dumbo on it, the $5 has Donald Duck and the $10 has Stitch on it. They used more color on them this time and they look really nice. The back of them all have Sleeping Beauty's castle on it with "The Happiest Celebration". The store didn't have the $50 bill with Mickey on it that I had heard was being released. They actually didn't know anything about it!


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I got this seed in a round robin last winter. Got good germination, but they are not roses. Some kind of shrub, hibiscus maybe? Leaves are light green, heart shaped with a serated edge. Sound familiar to anyone? |
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- Posted by sherrih 8La (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Jul 10, 11 at 1:06
clc70, confederate rose is hibiscus family. It does grow like a tree/shrub. Very pretty when blooming. Hope this helps. you can google it and get more info on it. |
- Posted by poisondartfrog 7a (My Page) on Sun, Jul 10, 11 at 6:29
It's Hibiscus mutabilis. Common names alone on seed packets can be very confusing, but your new shrub should be hardy in your zone and very pretty. |
Thanks all. I got 16 plants germinated. |
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Hey Guys........ LPN here taking classes for RN...... Have to write a speech about issues in health care..... Can be any issue.. So as a fellow LTC nurse, I would like to take a poll from here... Read More
0Sep 4, '12 by CapeCodMermaid, RNQuote from JZ_RNI do not hate new grads. I feel bad for them that their school didn't prepare them for the real world of nursing.Why so much hate against new grads? I knew how to take care of people as a new grad. And if it was something totally off the wall that I couldn't deal with myself totally I'd seek help.
I am soooooo SICK of the hate towards new grads. Get over it. You were new once too! Why so bitter?
The OP asked for my issues and I gave them. I am not bitter and hire more new grads than any facility around. That does not change the fact that for the most part, they are clueless about patient care. -
1Sep 4, '12 by ktwlpnQuote from FinallydiditThe best topics will be the ones YOU feel strongly about. My top 3 are issues regarding death and end of life care and under utilization of hospice care, dementia care and staffing.Hey Guys........ LPN here taking classes for RN...... Have to write a speech about issues in health care..... Can be any issue.. So as a fellow LTC nurse, I would like to take a poll from here and the top 3 answers will be what I cover in my speech. So please respond with your honest opinions & concerns

Thanks so much for your input
I can go on all day about residents who are flogged with futile and uncomfortable care for months because the kids can't let Momma go and the doctor goes along with them which often results in poor pain control.argh.Educate these pople-use THE WORDS that they need to hear.
More and more of us are living longer with relatively healthy bodies but sick brains.I hate how many LTC's just warehouse the dementia residents in locked units.They need a unit with specially trained staff,an environment tailored to their needs and staff that believe in helping them maintain their dignity.
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0Sep 4, '12 by JZ_RNThe problem most new grads have I feel is that they are thrown into the floor with no help, not enough guidance, not enough orientation, and without knowing the routine of the floor, policy and procedure, etc. I never had any problem with patient care as a new nurse, just the "floor policies" and other non-patient care busywork that bogged me down and stressed me out. I just am so freaking sick of people always saying new grads suck and we are all horrible and can't even take care of patients. We were all new once and I guarantee that no one new today is any worse than a new person 20 years ago was. I did so many hours of clinical, I was showing some of the experienced nurses tricks I learned for certain procedures and such that I'd learned!
0Sep 4, '12 by crazytsQuote from BrandonLPNAs a LPN who just came off orientation in a LTC facility I whole heartedly agree. It is a way to get to know the pt's and their routines. I volunteered to do CNA work at CNA pay just so I could get to know the residents. I was a cna for 3 years before lpn school and I am not above cna work. The facility wouldn't agree to let me work as a cna. But I really wished I could've it may have saved the med error that I made today D/T the having same name an me not knowing the patient.
*some* new grads do indeed graduate without knowing how to care for people. But that's not the new grad's fault. That's why jobs have orientation periods. I don't think the schools spend enough time on good, old fashioned hands on care. I think employers should have the or new nurses spend a week doing nothing but aide work as part of their orientation. Of course, this may not be economically feasible. But it would be nice. -
1Sep 4, '12 by SarcasticLVNI am a new grad and got 4 weeks orientation, 1 week with policies and procedure, 1 week following/assisting the nurse, and a couple weeks being supervised but doing all Meds and treatments. I got the basics down but still ask for help 6 months in. I'd rather ask a dumb question then make a huge mistake. Stalfing is a important issue to be addressed.. And I like the psychotropic Meds one too ESP with Alzheimer's patients, we are lowering a lot of our pts doses and it's hard with behaviors and such but it's good for them.JZ_RN likes this.
0Sep 5, '12 by FinallydiditThanks everyone!
You have helped me narrow it down pretty much!.... Like many of you, I feel there are so MANY issues to choose from that it is really difficult to just pick a few, when I know I could write a freaking book!
Some of my biggest issues are staffing, and the treatment/abuse of staff members, Pt./family education... I too am usually able to make the family understand that Mom's time has come and its time to let her go.... But as a nurse, I feel that families should be educated, informed, and made aware long before I am in spending my "limited" time on why its not a good idea to go with a feeding tube.
But I honestly think my biggest issue that I really noticed starting to increase about a yr ago, is the FIGHT that a nurse has to go through to get a Resident sent to the ER..... I am not talking about the hospice residents.. I am talking about the one that you have been taking care of for months and months that you know like the back of your hand and you know something is not right, and they need to be sent to the ER and the Management wants you to wait 4 days until the NP comes in to evaluate them. It takes me contacting family to come in and insist they be sent and then they are admitted. Then have a supervisor tell you, well if they are not here we are not getting paid for them! #*%&# It really shouldn't take 8 hours to send a sick Res. to the ER!
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0Sep 5, '12 by serenidad2004Staffing, public perception of nursing homes, pt /family education
Staff education!! Not all LTC nurses are this way but quite a few i worked with had the "well the dr knows so im not pursuing it anymorw" attitude! Just bc u work in LTC doesnt mean u are any less of a nurse or pt advocate


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March 28, 2012 | Metro Health Will Again Host Farmers' Market | Now in its seventh year, the weekly open-air market will host an array of vendors selling fresh fruits, vegetables, breads, flowers and other locally grown and produced foods, as well as handcrafted artisan items such as jewelry, soap and candles. The market will also hold free community health screenings. |
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Nashville Teens
- Little is known of the founding musicians, except that Arthur Sharp began his career in music as the manager of Aerco Records in Woking, Surrey, but the 'Mark II' line-up comprised original singers Arthur Sharp and Ray Phillips, with former Cruisers Rock Combo members John Hawken (piano), Mick Dunford (guitar), Pete Harris (bass) and Dave Maine (drums). Additional guitarist Pete Shannon completed the band. Roger Groome replaced Maine shortly afterwards.
- In 1963, third vocalist Terry Crowe joined briefly; but later that same year Dunford and Groome left and were replaced by John Allen and Barry Jenkins. (Crowe and Dunford later formed 'The Plebs' with Danny McCulloch, and were re-united with Hawken in Renaissance in 1970).
- Whilst playing in Hamburg (as most British bands of the era did), the Teens backed Jerry Lee Lewis for his Live at the Star Club, Hamburg album. It is widely considered one of the greatest live rock and roll albums ever.Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes, "Live at the Star Club is extraordinary, the purest, hardest rock & roll ever committed to record." They later backed Carl Perkins on his hit single "Big Bad Blues", and also played with Bo Diddley. At one such gig, they were spotted by Mickie Most who subsequently produced their June 1964 debut single, an interpretation of the John D. Loudermilk penned song, "Tobacco Road", which reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart and number 14 in the U.S.Billboard Hot 100 chart. Jimmy Page played guitar on the studio cut of "Tobacco Road". The follow-up, another Loudermilk song, "Google Eye", reached number 10 in the UK in October 1964.
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