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Boom! That's a rip-roaring start. I'd sure like to know how many Google Wallet activations there were in the first 72 days. Maybe they're still waiting to get to a million activations since 2011. Anyway, Google had NFC payments first and that's what really matters. /s I'll bet Eric Schmidt is secretly fuming over how Apple Pay is going to blow away Google Wallet. Take that, Eric. Therm-o-nuclear.

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Déjà vu Princeton Review for ASU
August 06, 2013
For the fifth consecutive year, Angelo State University has been listed by The Princeton Review (TPR) as one of the countrys best institutions for undergraduate education, an honor that goes to only about 15 percent of the nations more than 2,500 four-year colleges.
The education services company features Angelo State in the 2014 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 378 Colleges, released Tuesday (Aug. 6) by Random House. The annual college guide is The Princeton Reviews flagship publication and includes detailed profiles of the colleges with rating scores for all schools in eight areas, based on surveys of more than 126,000 students nationally.
This recurring honor, said ASU President Brian J. May, reflects the national recognition of the quality education available at Angelo State University, and it is an ongoing testament to the hard work and devotion of our faculty, staff and students who have built ASUs academic reputation.
Kent Hance, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, Angelo States governing body, said, This outstanding honor is once again a direct tribute to Angelo States commitment to academic excellence and providing a quality university experience. We are proud to have Angelo State as part of our system and truly fortunate to have such dedicated and talented faculty and staff serving our students year after year.
Robert Franek, author of The Best 378 Colleges and TPRs senior vice president and publisher, said, Angelo State offers outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book. We base our selections primarily on data we obtain in our annual institutional data surveys. We also take into account input we get from our staff, our 35-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, our personal visits to schools and the wide range of feedback we get from our surveys of students attending these schools.
ASU was one of 13 Texas universities overall to make the 2014 list. The other institutions were Austin College, Baylor University, Rice, SMU, Southwestern University, TCU, Texas A&M University, Trinity University, University of Dallas, University of Houston, University of Texas and University of Texas at Dallas. The list includes five public and eight private institutions.
The latest guide states that Angelo State offers students a very affordable education coupled with a wide range of degree programs. Importantly, a small-town feel permeates the campus, and students are quick to assert that youre not just a number at Angelo State.
In addition to making The Princeton Reviews list of The Best 378 Colleges, ASU was among the institutions in 15 western states listed in TPRs Best in the West website feature.
The 80-question TPR survey asks students to rate their own schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences. Topics range from assessments of their professors to campus activities. Based on those questions, ASU students showed up on the guides list of most conservative students at No. 16 nationally.


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The U.S. EPA will replace its much-criticized tests for fuel-economy by the end of the year. The current tests are said to dramatically overstate fuel efficiency. The new ones will take into account "faster driving, more idling in traffic, and more abrupt acceleration and braking."
I mentioned a few days ago that the scandals surrounding uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff were reaching deep into the Interior Department. Those scandals are complex and varied, and I know most people are tuning out. But a great (and darkly amusing) story in Salon today breaks it down for you. In 2000, Interior Secretary Gale Norton established a group called the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA) to advance the Bush administration's (anti-)environmental agenda. It was headed by Italia Federici, a minor Republican functionary. In private, Federici established a close relationship with Abramoff. He funneled her large contributions, in effect stolen from the Native American tribes he represented. In return, she ... well, she did all sorts of things for him:
Here's an amusing little story, though I don't know how much of it is local-news hype: Apparently, insurance fraud by SUV owners in California is on the rise. Gas prices are so high some folks are desperate to shed their gas guzzlers. So they torch 'em and report 'em stolen. It's auto-eco-terrorism! (Hat tip: reader B.T.)
So you know that massive Republican budget-cutting bill that was pulled from the floor last week for lack of votes? The one that may or may not include drilling the the Arctic Refuge and a massive giveaway of public lands? Its prospects are not looking good. The legendary Republican discipline and unity were already looking shaky last week. But earlier today, a massive Labor-HHS spending bill (with its attendant huge cuts in education and home-heating assistance) was voted down on the floor of the House. Not pulled off the floor for lack of votes, mind you, but voted down. The vote was even held open for a half hour (an odious and increasingly common tactic for R leadership) and they still couldn't wrangle the votes. The is the first floor vote the R's have flat out lost in a long, long time. It's a big deal. It demonstrates the ongoing breakdown of the Republican coalition. And it makes the prospects for an extremely contentious budget-cutting bill (later this week!) quite dim. Good news for those concerned for environmental protection. There's more on the Republican meltdown on The New Republic's new(ish) blog The Plank here and here. Update [2005-11-18 8:24:48 by David Roberts]: Well, that will teach me to prognosticate. The House passed the bill this morning. Sounds like it was a barrel of fun, too.The budget debate was marked by acrimony and personal attacks. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) mocked the deficit-minded "Blue Dog" Democrats, calling them "lap dogs." Rep. Marion Berry (D-Ark.) called the youthful, redheaded Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) a "Howdy Doody-looking nimrod."Now we'll have to see how things play out in the House-Senate committee.
Right now a massive $70 billion tax-cut bill is working its way through the Senate. (You will recall that Congressional Republicans split the budget bill in two, so the first bill would be pure spending cuts -- thus getting them coverage in the press for "courageously" cutting spending to rein in the deficit -- and the second pure tax cuts, to please all their normal constituencies. The latter being much larger than the former, the net result is a massive expansion of the deficit.) Energy prices being what they are, Congresscritters feel pressured to Do Something. Rather than any substantive changes in energy policy -- kind of blew that chance with the grotesque energy bill -- they're settling for symbolic smacks to the wrist of Big Oil. I won't get too far into the weeds of various proposals, since none of them will survive House-Senate conference committee and none would make a very big difference if it did. I'll just do the bloggy thing and extract a few absurdities from the press coverage. Here's one from The Wall Street Journal:
Assistant secretary of the interior for fish and wildlife and parks Craig Manson, whose memorable interview with Grist put our readers in full frosh, has resigned. Lord only knows how they'll be able to replace him.
According to a study by the World Health Organization appearing in this month's Nature, global warming is responsible for 150,000 deaths and 5 million illnesses a year, primarily in poor countries that contribute very little to it.
So how about this stuff with Josh Connole? For those who haven't been following: In 2003, about 125 SUVs at SoCal car dealerships were burned and vandalized. Slogans like "Fat Lazy Americans" and "ELF" were left behind. Of course, as we all know this is not mere property destruction, not mere crime, but "eco-terrorism." So the FBI was brought in and they starting looking for likely suspects. They found a vegan, commune-living, Iraq-war protesting, electric-car driving, fossil-fuel hating activist, and arrested him. Except, oops: "So they immediately started following him around and then when they arrested him they said, 'You've got some red paint on your pants and we think it matches (the paint used in the attacks)," [Connole attorney John] Burton said. "So they took his pants and flew them back to FBI headquarters for analysis, where it turned out to be catsup." In the meantime, Burton said, Connole spent four days in jail, often chained to the floor and repeatedly urged by FBI agents to confess. Meanwhile, the guy who really did it wrote a letter to the L.A. Times, mocking the feds for getting the wrong guy. Now, from the tone of the coverage, I think the idea is that we're all supposed to be upset that the feds are surveilling people based on their political activity -- and in fact, that Connole was arrested based purely on his politics. But that slightly misses the point.
Well goodness, there's lots of news afoot today. Unfortunately, this blogger is a) only working half-time, and b) deathly ill, recalling fondly when breathing through the nose was an option. So I doubt I'll get to all of it. But let's start with the oil-exec/energy-task-force mini-scandal. The revelation here is not that Cheney's task force included oil execs -- did anyone ever doubt that? -- or that Bush administration energy policy is grossly skewed in favor of fossil fuels. The proof is in the pudding on that score. The notable things here are three: 1. As Adam wisely notes: Why would they lie? It wasn't illegal to meet with Cheney's task force, or even improper -- they were invited, after all. Cheney has battled for the executive branch's right not to reveal who was there, but there's no reason the participants themselves can't reveal they were there. Why lie about it? Unless, of course, you feel guilty. Unless you feel like you rigged national energy policy in your favor, and don't want the nation to find out about it. 2. As both Sam and Matt wonder, why is lying to Congress such a casual thing these days? It used to be kind of a big deal. Now oil execs apparently think nothing of it. It's unlikely this will even rise above the current din of scandal. 3. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) made a point of not swearing in the executives (although it's still a crime to lie to Congress, under 18 USC 1001). Did he know beforehand they were planning on lying about this? His stated rationale -- not embarrassing them -- is pretty flimsy. Apparently Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) -- into whose face the execs lied -- aren't going to let this die quietly: U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) will lead Senate Democrats TODAY in demanding that oil company executives return to Congress and testify under oath in light of ongoing concerns of gas price-gouging by oil companies at the expense of hard-working American families. They will also call on the Justice Department to investigate into the alleged false statements made at a joint Senate Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing last week. Stay tuned. (See also this post from Carl Pope, about his surreal Potemkin visit to the White House in 2001.)
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Our Daily Bread 155: Fotheringay
April 1, 2015
Fotheringay 'Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay' (Universal)
Though shining for only the briefest of moments in the early 70s, the venerated, and rightly so, cult folk rock band Fotheringay managed to record an enviable collection of earnest, toiled and perfectly pitched songs. Due to the tragic circumstances of the band's leading lady and ethereal siren Sandy Denny and her untimely death in 1978 at the age of 31, the group's songbook has been attached with certain poignancy and resonates deeply amongst those fans that still hold a candle to the band's bright but all-too-soon extinguished flame. Despite leaving an indelible mark in the folk rock and acid country community and winning the Melody Maker awards in the same year for best vocalist, Denny's ennui ambitions to break free just before each project took off – both artistically and in some cases commercially too –made it difficult for the band to continue, as she left just before their second album Fotheringay 2 was finished – performing a farewell concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the end of January 1971. Denny had form of course, leaving British folk institution Fairport Convention on the eve of their landmark album, Liege & Lief, to form Fotheringay – the name borrowed from the 1968 Fairport song; itself a reference lament to the castle Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned – with her then partner/band mate and future husband Trevor Lucas. Citing ambitions to go solo, Denny would carve out a celebrated, but cultish, career releasing a series of iconic, diaphanous and atavistically roots-y folk albums (her last, Rendezvous, selling so poorly she was dropped by the label) before once again returning to the Fairport fold in 1974 – leaving again the following year.
Such were Denny's and Lucas' standing, anticipation for their post Fairport project was so overwhelming that they were booked up for live performances and requests before they'd even recorded a single note. However, concomitantly continuing to plow a similar rich musical furrow, taking in ancestral traditional "fayre" and Dylan covers with liberal servings of their own compositions they didn't waste anytime in recording the debut album (produced over seven sessions between 18th February and 18th April 1970) and setting off on a tour (March 1970). An unequivocal success, with modest sales, that debut, with its depiction of a minstrel troupe lifted straight from a Tudor tapestry artwork, would be enough to cement the band's legacy. So much in fact, that the abandoned follow-up LP, succinctly entitled 2, was eventually finished three decades by the surviving members and released in 2008 around a hive of renowned adulation: a number of tracks penned by Denny would appear on her first solo LP, The North Star Grassman And The Ravens in 1971, whilst the odd nugget would make it onto later samplers and compilations.
Though of course there was far more to the Forthingay sound than just – as stirring and eloquently masterful as they were; delivered straight from parchment – Denny and Lucas' impressive vocals, the rest of the band were every bit as integral: reflected in the balance of instruments, sounds and musicianship of drummer Gerry Conway, bassist Pat Donaldson and guitarist Jerry Donahue, with every member of the band both the sum of their individually adroit parts and as a whole.
For those either in admiration for such a fleeting existence and for those new to the cause, the new Nothing More complete collection attempts to piece together the most comprehensive story of the band yet; told over a triumvirate of CDs, a special DVD live performance and accompanying hardcover book – which features a new essay from Denny biographer Mick Houghton. Beginning with their stunning debut oeuvre, the first of the CD trio, features the original running order and a number of both demos and alternative takes. The opening grand piano gushing, burnished drums and expressive guitar, Tudor intrigue through contemporary eyes imbued lament Nothing More alone proves the band's worth, without the castaways in the middle of a most sublime unsteady tide of emotions, The Sea. Or indeed the Dylan epochs of John Wesley Harding crossed with Pat Garrett and Billy The Kidd style, Lucas-penned outback-western goer The Ballad Of Ned Kelly; a moiety to the actual Dylan Too Much Of Nothing cover the band perform later on, led by a soothing Lucas on vocals and a backing that evokes the great bards most important sparring partners and backing group, The Band. Subtly stripped down versions of that album's pinning Canterbury tale, Winter Winds, The Pond And The Stream are accompanied by a gentler, more lilting alternative version (far less lumbering and exhaustive) of the traditional soldier's lament Banks Of The Nile.
The second disc runs through the, left dormant and unfinished until more recent times, follow-up 2. Much the same stylistically but with a more pastoral feel, and dash of Celtic and Gypsy folk rock; closer to Pentangle and Fleetwood Mac than Dylan, even though an obligatory cover of his is included, the intoxicated love hang-over I Don't Believe You, and the Lucas/Pete Roach Knights Of The Road rolls on down the great juggernaut travelling highway in a fairly free and laid-back country rock manner. A bonus selection of treats await, with a number of mixes by the American producer/writer and man-on-the-scene at a litany of iconic developments and moments in folk rock – notably when Dylan went "electric" – history, Joe Boyd – nuanced and delicately subtle, Boyd adds a certain trebly warmth to the Arcadian Denny anthem Late November.
There's an alternative version from 2004 of the Jack Rhodes/Dick Reynolds original Silver Threads And Golden Needles – first recorded by Wanda Jackson in 1956 – and two versions of the wayfarers folk tale Burton Town that never made either album – one a rehearsal take that despite the sometimes gargling wear and tear on the tapes vocals and scratches sounds breathtaking, and a 2015 version that feature the original Denny vocals but with a new lighter backing.
Not entirely exclusive but nonetheless gathered together for the first time in one place, the third disc features nine live tracks from their 1970 Rotterdam concert. Of these, there is the previously unreleased Gordon Lightfoot cover The Way I Feel from their debut LP, performed with a real intensity and energy, Too Much Of Anything and The Ballad Of Ned Kelly. Even if you have managed to acquire a copy, the concert is an intimate window on a band at their peak; emerging from the omnipresent shadow of their previous band, Fairport Convention. Denny herself sounds in fine fettle, surreptitiously moving across the stage from leading or harmonizing on vocals to tentatively playing the piano – of which she references as she makes herself comfortable before launching into Nothing More. It shouldn't sound too surprisingly but the concert material ends on a swinging, chugging version of Chuck Berry's Memphis, Tennessee, Denny proving she has the rock'n'roll chops. The rest of the live oeuvre is taken from various appearances on the Beeb; a previously unreleased collection of performances that includes The Lowlands Of Holland from BBC Folk On One, Bold Jack Donahue from BBC Sounds Of The 70s and a brief interview with a upbeat Denny followed by a rousing version of The Sea, from BBC Top Gear. But for the true "holy grail", as it's billed in the PR notes, is the previously unreleased footage from the German – equivalent to our very own Ready Steady Go! – 60/70s music show, the Beat Club. Originally held back from broadcast, versions of Nothing More and John The Gun now join Gypsy Davey and Too Much Of Nothing for the first time: a nice little complete set.
Grounding to an abrupt end, the breakup of Fotheringay was sad but it hardly hurt the careers of everyone who was apart of it. Lucas would produce some of Denny's best solo work, before the pair once again joined the ranks of Fairport along with Jerry Donahue. For such a brief, almost passing fancy, the band leaves an incredible, enduring legacy and receives an honorable tribute with this, most comprehensive of collections.
Words: Dominic Valvona
Choice tracks from the first three months of 2015.
Django Django 'First Light'
Panda Bear 'Mr Noah'
Cantaloupe 'Ambition' <Review>
The Charlatans 'So Oh'
Susanne Sundør 'Fade Away'
The Unthanks 'Flutter' <Review>
Ghostpoet 'Off Peak Dreams'
Nubiyan Twist 'Work House' <Review>
Ghostface Killah/ Badbadnotgood 'Gunshowers (feat. Elzhi)' <Feature>
Mello Music Group/ Apollo Brown & Masta Ace 'Trouble' <Feature>
Oliver Sudden 'Cold Capital' <Feature>
Fashawn 'To Be Young (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid)' <Feature>
Ginger Johnson 'I Jool Omo' <Review>
Samba Touré 'Su Wililé' <Review>
Os Brazoes 'Pega A Voga Cabeludo' <Review>
Aphex Twin 'diskhat ALL prepared1mixed 13′
Vision Fortune 'Habitat' <Review>
Sonnymoon 'Pop Music' <Review>
Psycho & Plastic 'Cell' <Review>
Ettuspadix & Sean Bw Parker 'The Dervish Whirls On' <Review>
Populäre Mechanik 'An die Hoffnung' <Review>
White Noise Sound 'Heavy Echo' <Review>
Kim Halliday 'Fabric, Torn, Time, Slips' <Review>
The Four Owls 'Think Twice' <Feature>
Cannibal Ox 'Opposite of Desolate (feat. Double A.B.)' <Feature>
Francine Thirteen 'Queen Mary' <Review>
Cloud 'Melting Cassatt' <Review>
David Lawrie 'Dorothea's Boat' <Review>
Our Daily Bread 154: Sillyboy
March 26, 2015
Ayfer Simms casts her poetically rich gaze over the most recent retro-pop, contemporary electronica, offering from Greek "crooner" Sillyboy.
Sillyboy 'Stalker' (Klik Records)
Silly boy is a crooner, with a half husky, half sizzling soft vocal cords pushed to a raw state of "peach(ness)", in a field of well-designed mantra, melodies that rest on the listener's shoulder, bouncing back and forth, up and down handsomely. The world of Sillyboy is a subtly light Zen dance music with occasional guitar riffs and synth, evocative of the 80s. The man takes with him an imaginary gang, a toned down version of Michael Jackson's doomed creatures, absolutely trimmed, leading them through his steps, creating a choreography-like buzz, on the spot, in the mind of the listener at least. Some tracks like "cry like a girl" are pounding and carry on an edge of the dirty bad boy, but rather Silly boy is perfectly squeezable even in his nostalgic moody attitude. The tune Stalker, "Whenever I feel sad, I stalk her", is an appealing sympathetic pop, grabbing, and friendly one despite the potentially chilling connotation of the title.
Throughout the album, the music is solitary and celebratory at the same time. Leads you to a seemingly obscure path, at night, but then throws clean looking dancers at you, the asphalt becomes the stage of the malleability of their limbs. And then you are one of them, shaking, sultry and confident out in the street, letting go, feeling good, forgetful, and tranquil. If there is a single word to describe the album, it would be unassumingly-cool-and-cadenced-electronic-vintage-pop.
Words: Ayfer Simms
Rapture & Verse 004: March Edition
March 24, 2015
Matt Olivers returns with another bonanza of the best moves, shakes and anticipated releases from the Hip Hop world. Bursting at the seams and chomping at the bit, Matt crams in the biggest selection yet with mix tapes, singles, albums, videos and gig news from Mobb Deep, Flying Lotus, Apollo The Great, The Mouse Outfit, Rewd Adams, Action Bronson, The Milkmakerz and many more.
Amidst news of Record Store Day specials stumped up by Jurassic 5, Cypress Hill and DOOM (a pop-up book of KMD's controversial Black Bastards), two very important issues resonated this month. Kendrick Lamar's gregariously funky, lyrically shatterproof, conceptually aware To Pimp a Butterfly showing the Comptonite as still the man to beat; and Erick Sermon waxing lyrical about getting into the carpet industry (no metaphor) and bigging up his new Def Rugs enterprise that's surely coming to an Argos catalogue near you.
Got a blank diary? Good – go see the coup of Marley Marl taking to the decks at the Trapeze Basement on April 3rd. The Beatnuts and Jeru the Damaja seize the Jazz Cafe on April 7th, where you can also catch Your Old Droog in June, and DJ Premier and Royce da 5'9" as Phryme will be as live as it gets at Islington's Assembly Hall on the 20th.
For the first fortnight in May, Mobb Deep treats the UK to a 20th Anniversary tour of the ever supreme 'The Infamous.' Flying Lotus and DOOM fire Brixton Academy's Soundcrash on May 1st, and the Shabazz Palaces world tour features a precious couple of UK dates also featuring FlyLo. The Four Owls are giving a hoot at venues up and down the country until the end of June. And for all future tent pitchers, July's Iceland ATP festival has Public Enemy and Run the Jewels at the forefront, and the Wu-Tang Clan topping the bill at July's Nozstock.
Playlist plumping this month begins with Hg's 'starLOG', an instrumental drift across space terrain that becomes paranoid as the surroundings dawn on the Oakland producer. Further sobriety from TSK; 'Bottle in the Bath' circles the drain with isolated rhymes set to Marlon C's piano-teetering dirge. A mixed bag from the always articulate Essa includes two live contrasts, a Tall Black Guy remix and a slightly muted banger making up 'Evade & Seek'.
Rhyming to the day's dying embers before walking towards the flames, Lego's 'Jazzmatic'/'Get That' flips between enigmatically sullen to cold and calculating in a heartbeat. Goldlink wades into BMB Spacekid's 'FBGM': choppy, twangy trap with a surreal lull thrown in for good measure. The frankness of Apollo the Great on the funk-soaked 'Frames' tells the truth less told, and New Yorker Nutso holds a flush hand of street raids on 'Divided Soul', even if it's more in regulation than his name lets on.
L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae's 'Taken by the Night', a tumbledown, out-of-town dawdle, sets up an LP sure to be cloaked in intriguing dust. Definitely not caring for neighbourhood strangers are Alchemist, Oh No and Earl Sweatshirt, asserting mob rule on 'Play It Cool' when running for leadership of GTA's Los Santos. The rose-tinted 'Push It Along' is snug cipher business between Slum Village and Phife Dawg: warm fuzziness may result.
The jazz-brushed, ragga-flecked Step Steadier is sound advice handed out by The Mouse Outfit; generals of the live stage, their close crew control bags an uncomplicatedly fine album both warm and crisp, with a slew of invites and extended family upholding their ethos. Once Life MC gets started he's virtually impossible to stop; with producer Badhabitz tending to an "MPC making love to an SP1200", Split Prophets don't do half measures on the greatly satisfying Deep in the Trenches.
Another Duracell bunny on the mic is Rewd Adams, exhibiting all of his punchy, ravenous, tale-telling qualities in noticeably compact bursts on Hunger Pains 2, taking everything from trap to mournful crackles in his stride. Jman's generosity of wild spraying, ragga vibes and beat riding make Free Dank an offer you shouldn't refuse. As is the promise of 1 Hour Bangers, a second electrified UK clash between Illaman and Dee Scott reporting live from a hot tin roof. Leaving the turntable tricks at home, DJ Yoda and his sensible head (well, almost), lead a newly formed, UK-spanning live outfit, with Breakfast of Champions strictly dealing in jams and performance to toast – no corn or flakiness. Classic UK crash bang wallop from Big Toast is all in the name of The Wedding Fund – Mrs Toast is a lucky lady, especially if she likes full-bellied head nodders and sweary, pint-downing rhymes.
Tell your headphones how much you love them with Drew Dave's SynthBASED, expressing an obedience of easygoing neo-soul fuzz from behind his keyboard; and The Doppelgangaz, who turn the mics off, the lights down low, and bring out the ice bucket for the open-ended tact of Rhyme Over Beats.
Vursatyl strikes out on his own; with the Lifesavas emcee and Blackalicious affiliate tackling Crooked Straights. Slick, engaging, grown hip-hop and supple soul in a funky/drowsy sauce, Vurs comes from the school of faith restoration when you think the scene is sagging. Constant Deviants are still plugging way, with the laconic delivery of M.I. dragging the beats of DJ Cutt under his control; Avant Garde isn't exactly that, but never lets slip the standards the pair have set for themselves for two decades. The pair also contributes to Sparrow the Movement's The Jacob Theology, a crew and album fully ingrained in beats and rhymes philosophy that can't be doing with time wasters and the faddish.
Cannibal Ox's Blade of the Ronin comes 14 years after the fabled The Cold Vein; the return of Vast Aire and Vordul Mega is full of faithful underground weaponry twisting their rap galactica street-wards. If it seems to be trudging and dragging its heels down a black hole within a firmly set template, intensity is high all the way through and the lyrical contrasts are still a unique threat.
Big Shug has bluntly been calling it as he sees it for a while; Triple OGzus is the Gang Starr sparring partner gathering his thoughts and barking out orders over hard-knocking street clean-ups.
Your one-man-monthly free-for-all (told you there's always one) comes from the worldly Flip, who serves a Bavarian boom-bap buffet for the visiting AG, Phat Kat, Guilty Simpson and Killah Priest: 'Reflection' knows its oomph from its oompah. Rediculus is another telling a bunch of mic seekers to go nuts, casting a wide net for In Response: Dee-Fi, and coming with a consistent balance of ups and downs in pressure.
Make sure you scoop up Persona; the label compilation of Mello Music Group, whose roster clears its throat and fights the good fight for a set of hip-hop purring into the realms of the purist. You'll be hard pressed to defeat a team calling on the hard soul and hardened souls of Oddisee, Apollo Brown, Open Mike Eagle, Quelle Chris, Gift of Gab and Masta Ace. Hood up, head down for CRASHprez' gloomily woozy More Perfect, an intriguing, sometimes indulgent opus that knows how to keep a quick-silvered tongue in cheek when needed.
Mixtapes & VT
The Milkmakerz' up-and-at-'em synth struts, soul tweaks and chest puffers are all about 'The Anthems' and the Fleetwood Mac-sampling swag of DJ Milktray and Jon Phonics. PS4080's 'Back of the Bus' showcases "some of the greatest artists you probably don't know about" – and as you can get 22 tracks of durable independent hustle for free, you're happy with such a guarantee. Spring has sprung, and then darkens again within 'Twenty(4)Seven', due to Afromaniac's set of tight instrumental skimmers. Claiming to have welded together 200 bruisers, Get Cryphy's 'Last Action Heroes' is a megamix to get your house party started – and trashed – inside 40 minutes.
Watch Doomtree's appearance on 'Come Dine With Me', Clipping's version of 'They Live', and Action Bronson revealing the magic of TV.
Words: Matt Oliver
Our Daily Bread 153: Cloud
March 20, 2015
Cloud 'Zen Summer' (Paper Trail Records) April 7th 2015
If Tyler Taormina's last album Comfort Songs was a nod in the direction of The Beach Boys during their sobering pinning Surf's Up period, than his diaphanous follow up Zen Summer is a meditative, transient stab at the Ashram years.
Reviewing his debut anxiety strewn Comfort Songs suite for God Is In The TV, back in the summer of 2013, I called it a "surf noir" collection of "communal psychedelic" laments – pitched somewhere between Noah Lennox's Panda Bear and The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt. A self-confessed shoulder to lean on for those tormented by heartbreak and sadness, that debut was nevertheless seeking out hope: a break in the "clouds". Suffering from his own personal anxiety and tribulations in light of that album's release, Tyler has since moved out west to L.A. and broken the "dark spell" he was under. Though he has kept those old connections, once again recording with his Long Island Practice Room collaborative group in New York, Tyler has since signed to a relative new start-up, the Irish label Paper Trail Records.
With a Zen like optimism his summer requiem improves on the richly textured efflux of buzzing static, reverb soaked slackened (but anguished and mature) vocals and majestic Pacific Ocean breezy atmospherics with even more shimmering dappled reflections on the coral seabed candescence and beautiful shimmering tunes. These highly sophisticated and "organically" rich improvements are filtered once again through Californi-a's most celebrated sons The Beach Boys as well as Panda Bear and Galaxie 500.
Suffused with an undercurrent of busy, rotating and tidal sounds each song features a lilting and beautifully palatial melody. A melting feeling of psychedelic yumminess, transcribed through a tunnel of love boat trip on the South Seas, the standout track from the album is without a doubt is the angelical caressed harp and Mike Love transcendental lamenting sung Melting Cassatt. This halcyon daydream reflects both lyrically and musically the state of its author who is looking for reassurance and a calming presence in a metaphorical sea of anxious flux; this is alluded to by the track that follows it, Elemental Smile. Changing the flow and plunging into no less opulently administered lush backing, only deeper and more lolloping, Tyler surfaces from a churning headiness to breath.
Notable highlights can be found everywhere throughout this near faultless collection of concatenate songs – and one vaporising photographic memories instrumental title track vignette. But the opening, Fly Into The Mystery, shows us what The Beach Boys working with Neu! might have sounded like; the motorik driving drums and Rother style nuanced guitar tweaks laying down a cosmic kaleidoscopic sunbeam for the surf pop vocal trepidations, Tyler reliving his concerns and arrival in L.A. And the parting shot, Rainbow Road is an upbeat LCD Soundsytem meets Merriweather Post Pavilion era Animal Collective, complete with a warm female harmonious chorus, triumph. It ends a most stunning, hazy and opulently languid album on a high; easily a contender in the end of year "choice" albums list, with Melting Cassatt one of 2015's best singles. This year's "dreamboat".
Words: Dominic Valvona
Our Daily Bread 152: The David M Allen Interview
March 18, 2015
David M. Allen was the producer behind some of the most important records of the 1980s and beyond, from The Cure to Depeche Mode, The Human League to Neneh Cherry. With his new band The Magic Sponge about to release the new track 'That's Just What Girls Do' on Seraglio Point Productions forthcoming Chi-Signs II compilation, Allen spoke to Sean Bw Parker about London, his distrust of 'vision' and stumbling drunk around YouTube.
SBwP: The Magic Sponge are about to release their second album. For listeners new to the band, how would you describe your sound, influences and how you arrived at where you are now?
DMA: I'm not the leader of the Sponge or the main writer but one of the main influences is "Brian Pern" with a hefty dose of punky jangle.
There are very few producers in the UK who can claim to have had more influence over the sound of the alternative music scene since 1980 as you. If you do, how do you differentiate your producer and musician hats?
I don't own a musician's hat. I don't really know what I do. I say that I am like a blind man walking up a mountain, as long as I keep going up, I'll get there. I distrust 'Vision'.
How do you see the Internet revolution's affect on the music industry? Democratic saviour, valueless sea of dross or something else?
Too early to tell. It does look increasingly like impoverished leisure and digital slavery for the many, wealth and splendour for a few. Plus ça change (that's to wrap the French connection).
You were the producer of The Cure's 'purple patch' of albums throughout the mid-eighties. Do you think they should have packed it in after Wish in 1992, when many claimed they lost their edge?
No. I admire them for the tenacity and stamina to keep creating and playing shows that give their fans great pleasure. What's wrong with that?
What did you think of the recent Guardian article that accused their sets of being too long, and Robert Smith's furious response?
Journo [Caroline Sullivan – Ed] didn't pay for her ticket. I haven't read Roberts' response.
Looking back over the last three or so decades, what would be your fondest musical memories, and least? And who were your favourites and least favourites to work with?
I'm a pain in the arse, it's been great to find some fellow travellers.
Still being a resident of London, how do you see the apparent massive expense of living in the city, and the exodus of creative types to the south coast?
I love this whole country, even Rotherham. Realisation of equity is a big part of moving from the city to the coast. I don't have any and I am lucky enough to have a great landlord. Dunno, London does chew you up.
Any plans to play live in support of the new album?
We've had a lot of chats about doing something but no one can actually fit their schedules together to have a meeting about it, weird.
I'll let you know…
Any new musical recommendations for us?
Not really, I'm like everyone else, I just get drunk and stumble around Youtube…I was big into witch house last week.
Finally, what are you drinking?
Hobgoblin and whisky.
Thanks, Dave
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Our Daily Bread 151: Cantaloupe
March 16, 2015
Cantaloupe 'Zoetrope' (Hello Thor Records) 16th March 2015
Attuned to the same frequencies as previous Kosmiche music appreciation club members Stereolab and Broadcast, the Nottingham-based Cantaloupe follow a linage of UK groups who've paid homage and assimilated the transmissions that emanated from the visionary German scene of the 70s. That original source is transmogrified however, the quartet filtering the Cluster/Kraftwerk/Sky Records sound through the 80s synthesizer suffused Sheffield landscape of The Human League and the proto-progressive workouts of Holy Fuck and Adam's Castle. The result is something both spritely and at times voguishly crystalline; turning either towards the Italo House meets Moroder neon candescent dancefloor or orchestrating a Theremin like quivered orbit.
Though in no doubt a contemporary record, Cantaloupe rely on appropriating and playing with a litany of influences from the past. The Zoetrope of their debut title is even a reference to the centuries old cylinder device that was used to display a sequence of drawings or photographs – the title track itself mirroring the cylindrical flickering motion of this pre-animation jalopy. Arguably each song takes a cue from one era or another, the fun early 90s post-rave nod to "chatback numbers" ads 0891 505050 being just one example. Apart from the obvious Broadcast/Stereolab leanings, especially when the group's synth/vocalist Eleanor Lee woos and swoons on the sophisticated neon-tube lit Ambition, they lyrically hint towards Heaven 17, and when at their most buoyant, even make reference to the legendary Ghanaian highlife doyen K. Frimpong.
A most enjoyable pop-lit excursion through the kosmiche, taking in the industrial North's steely resonation from the electric 80s, whilst popping off to take-in the post-rock locations that spawned such interesting, off-kilter explorers as Tortoise, Holy Fuck and Battles, and flirting with Afrobeat vibes, Zoetrope wear their inspirations well.
Featured on the Monolith Cocktail last year, in an outburst of Apollonian and Dionysian lyrical praise by Ayfer Simms, the Greek rockers Cyanna Mercury garnered a favourable review for their western tinged, sacrosanct organ Ode To An Absent Father. But it is the, similarly hewn from classic psych rock, flip side to that single Dirty Things that now merges from the underworld to feel the singeing pains of the post-crash overground, with both an original and acoustic version packaged alongside a live homage to (arguably) Greece's favourite sons Aphrodite's Child, on the group's new EP. The group, with a nod in tribune to the recent death of the prog/psych/pop seers inimitable and ethereal singer Demis Roussous, make a decent and robust effort of their most loved and critically acclaimed epic, The Four Horsemen. The original centrepiece of Aphrodite's Child's 1972 book of Revelations concept album 666, The Four Horsemen could in the face of more recent austerity driven events be seen as an apocalyptic metaphor for the uncertainty still to come.
Released as a limited edition cassette, the Dirty Things EP is due out on the 20th March 2015, ahead of their debut LP Archetypes in the fall. If you happen to be in the Greek capital on that same date, you can catch the band performing their first headline show at the Trianon Cinema.
Aphrodite's Child 666 feature….
Words: Dominic Valvona
Our Daily Bread 149: Jon Kennedy
March 11, 2015
Jon Kennedy 'Corporeal Remixed Part 2' Released 6th April 2015
Continuing to extend the thumping, often moody and prowling hip hop and techno explorations of such electronic sonic "turntablists" pioneers as Shadow and Howie B; and following in the wake of a closer to home Chemical Brothers; and yet just as influenced by the string sectioned pop requiems of ELO and conceptual rock-operatic's of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, international DJ extraordinaire and musician Jon Kennedy injects a wry humored and clinical, sophisticated skill to dance music. Bending genres, including the most commercial (usually the preserve of faux-phantom (k)nob twiddlers and beat-matched laptop celebs and superstar DJs), to his will Kennedy has more or less mixed, remixed and incorporated every style, from D'n'B to hard house, into his work.
Making his mark in the eclectic Noughties, the Stockport drummer turn electronic artist first came to the attention of Mr.Scruff via his Brighton radio show on Juice FM, before signing with the city's Tru Thoughts label. Relocating in more recent years from Bristol – though his constant global hotfooting tours and DJ appearances mean he's more likely to be living out of his suitcase – to the cultural/historical Czech capitol of Prague, Kennedy has been busy with both his own imprint, the Jon Kennedy Federation (which has signed a number of acts), and producing new material. The home of Kafka; a capitol occupied by a host of barbarous ideologies and repressive regimes over the years, liberated to some degree and part of the EU; Prague's strategic position in central Europe may offer Kennedy a hub, closer to the east and growing "EDM" obsessed fans of former Iron curtain satellites, previously deprived of western dance music. Whatever the reasons, he's been very productive. Though on this occasion with the work done and reception positive on his last original album of tracks, Corporeal, Kennedy takes a backseat, as the "remixer of choice" is himself remixed once again by an esteemed roll call of producers and artists. Corporeal Part 2 hands the reins over, so to speak, taking the originals in, mostly, different directions for the second time around; sometimes floating and at other times amplified with more gristle and growl, starting with the eased off on the treble, steely reworked version of the opening Shadow-stalking prowler Boom Clack by 2011 DMC Word DJ champion Chris Karns. Congruously following on from each other Flow and Tonto Rides The Gain sound even more harmoniously entwined, the former's satellite probing spy soundtrack caressed and given an Indian-esque mystique by the London trio Sparkle Darkly, whilst the latter's vocal riff is given an Ibiza style air-y flavour and Daft Punk bass pump by Kapibara.
Other notable transformations include the original Jurassic 5 swinging Pronounce Your Shit, featuring the New York rap partnership of Q-Ball & Cazal, which is given a far moodier, heavy hitting bass and drums mix by the Belfast funk, soul and hip hop producer Covershocks; the Blend Mishkin pirate radio rub-a-dub styled take of Live My Life; and the skipping drum'n'bass remodeling of the carefree Brasilia saunter, Bossa No Va by renowned original 'rude boy' Spikey Tee.
A few remixes prove to be subtler affairs; the former Beck meets Alabama 3 feel Rock The Boat, featuring Ashley Slater of Freak Power on vocals, spruced and brightened with an Arrested Development style down-home swing by Innereyeful, and the G.I. at the hop vocals of Amie J on the original You Are The Fire now sound far more soulful on the lush Dopedemand version. That final haunted swan song The Parade is heightened by the darker touch of dbridge, who takes it on a 90s imbued sophisticated minimal techno journey into the ether.
In many cases these remixes prove a complimentary extension, others an inventive alternative. Though Kennedy is fluent in most of the styles offered up and used to bend the source material into new shapes, it's interesting to hear the numerous interpretations. Whether you're familiar with the original material or not, you can't go wrong with this second selection of remixes.
Pre-orders of the album are bolstered with a further eight remixes from Markey Funk, Nate Connelly and DJ Detweller which can currently be sampled on the Bandcamp page.
Words: Dominic Valvona
As intimate as it gets, we premiere a stripped-down set, in what looks to all intents and purposes like someones living room/office, from Monolith Cocktail favourite Lukas Creswell-Rost. Performing his live songbook before the release of his rapturously received Go Dreams LP in 2014 – which made our 'choice' albums of the year revue – in sedate surroundings, his only buffer between the audience and himself an over-zealous smoke machine,it has taken a while for the troubadour's most adroit set to finally surface. Filmed by Bruno Derksen in 2013, the infra-red mixed with hazy filtered videoed performance is a cosy stripped-back tentative version of the original's Rolling Stone, Creem and The Village Voice tuned-in 70s and 80s melodically rich and subtle balladry. Enjoy.
Full Review can be found here…
'A loosely themed road map of misanthropic tragedy, Creswell-Rost cruises Rocks back pages to produce one of the most melodically sonorous albums of 2014. A Pacific Ocean Blues that continued into the 80s, this ambitious songbook soundtracks the misadventures of such egotistical miscreant rock stars as Yngwie Malmsteen, and charts the sad demise of 70s fallen balladeers Bad Finger, to a Steely Dan, Young Americans, Wings imbued backing. One of the sorely under-rated, if undiscovered, majestical albums of the year.'
Words: Dominic Valvona


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Cool. This should work good for me. I like to stir the wort alot, and the stupid spider i made would get twisted around my spoon. And it would get in the way all the time. Thanks
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"I'm still alive," was the first thought that came to Hinesville resident Steven Carter Tuesday evening after he crashed his small plane in a field about two mile off Pate Rogers Road in the Fleming community.
A Florida man allegedly responsible for a multi-jurisdictional chase through Liberty County and Jasper County, S.C. Monday was arrested early Wednesday morning in Laurens County.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet has honored U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston with its "People's Choice Award for Online Politician of the Year" during a ceremony here.
A daylong standoff between the Long County Sheriff's Department and a local man in the Sand Hill Area of the county, ended in an apparent suicide on Sunday.
Sixty-watt bulbs, used in place of 40-watt bulbs, have been determined to be the cause of a blaze that heavily damaged a church annex Friday, according to authorities.
A Long County man, Dudley Epling, 70, who lived in the Sand Hill area, held police at bay for several hours Sunday and then took his own life instead of surrendering to law enforcement authorities.
Hinesville lies on the cusp of progression as redevelopment efforts are expected to unfold this summer.
By Joe Parker Jr.
The Coastal Georgia Regional Development Center met with the Long County Land Development Code Committee for a workshop Thursday - the first meeting between the two entities aimed at establishing a zoning and regulation land code ordinance for the county.
A number of contentious bills did not make it to the Georgia Senate floor last week, signaling the end of their run in this year's legislative session.
The Liberty County Development Authority is close to completing its delinquent report of finances for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2006, and has awarded a contract to help with yet-to-file historic preservation annual monitoring reports, the first of which was due in March 2006.
U.S. Army Capt. Bryan Ash acted decisively as he rescued a man from the fiery wreckage of an overturned vehicle last fall.
A Ludowici woman died in a fatal one-car accident in Walthourville on Saturday.
Family and friends came out Wednesday night to say goodbye and remember a teen killed in a train accident earlier this week.
By John Deike
It took a jury of eight women and four men just one hour to find Carl Evan Swain guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder for money in the 2013 killing of his brother-in-law, Army Spc. John Eubank.
The Ludowici pastor at the center of a storm after his facilities were raided Wednesday night by agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Agency defended his school Thursday and acknowledged there were defects in the students' living quarters.
Former Walthourville Police Chief Terry Harget has been arrested for theft of government funds and violation of oath of office in metro Atlanta, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Federal and state authorities apparently removed students from housing at a private school in Ludowici Wednesday afternoon.
A two-vehicle accident on Highway 84 in Hinesville sent one woman to a hospital Wednesday. According to Hinesville Police Patrol Officer Jimmel Hargrove, the accident occurred around 12:15 pm.
Hinesville Rotarians were given an up-close look at the new fundraising campaign for Savannah Technical College at their meeting Tuesday at the college's Liberty Campus.
A man who ran from Ludowici police officers trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant bit one of those officers, leaving an impression on her forearm, police said.
A jury was selected and the trial started this week in federal court in Savannah in the death of a Fort Stewart soldier.
Bryan County Emergency Services could be the next public-safety agency to seek compensation from insurance companies for the cost of responding to vehicle crashes.
The 11 Black Men of Liberty County will host the 21st Annual Scholarship Banquet at the Club Stewart Ballroom on Saturday. A reception will be held from 6:15-6:45 p.m., and dinner will begin at 7 p.m.
The Lewis & Clark Circus will take place at Bryant Commons Park Saturday and Sunday.
The Dorchester Village Civic Center will host a dedication of the Dennis Christiansen Pavilion at 3 p.m. Sunday.
A probation revocation hearing for the man accused of injuring a former Liberty County deputy at the Port of Savannah was continued until May 5.
Today's Downtown Farmers Market has been canceled because of the rain, according to a release from Hinesville Downtown Development Authority.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold a public meeting Tuesday on proposed offshore drilling along the Georgia coast.
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Samuel Palmer, The Lonely Tower
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Date: 1879
Technique: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, 261 x 357 mm
Erik Bodom, Moonlight (Måneskinn)
Private collection
Date: 1869
Technique: Oil on canvas
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Knostrop Hall, Early Morning
Private collection
Date: 1870
Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 92.1 cm
Knostrop Hall was built in the 17th century by Adam Baynes, Member of Parliament for Leeds during the Commonwealth, whose family had lived in the district since the mid 16th century. Atkinson Grimshaw lived at the hall in the 1870s, and it was demolished in 1960.
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John Atkinson Grimshaw, Lovers in a Wood
Private collection
Date: 1873
Technique: Oil on card, 23.2 x 36 cm
Georges Jules Victor Clairin, The Distant Princess
Date: 1899
Technique: Oil on canvas
A princess lointaine or princesse lointaine, (in French, "distant princess") is a stock character from medieval romances. The romantic interest of many knights errant, she was usually a woman of much higher birth, often far distant from the knight, and usually wealthier than he was, beautiful, and of admirable character. Some knights had, indeed, fallen in love with the princess owing to hearing descriptions of her, without seeing her, as tales said Jaufré Rudel had fallen in love with Hodierna of Tripoli.
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Joseph William Turner, Alnwick Castle
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Date: c. 1829
Technique: Watercolour on paper
Hanuš Schwaiger, High, Wide, and Cleareyed (Dlouhý, Široký a Bystrozraký)
Galerie hlavního města Prahy
Date: 1896
Technique: Watercolor, ink, pen, 75.5 x 55.5 cm
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Dlouhý, Široký a Bystrozraký is a popular Czech folk tale by Karel Jaromír Erben (1811-1870), a celebrated historian, poet, and writer. The title is variously translated as: Tall, Broad, and Keen, or Mr. Long, Mr. Broad, and Mr. Sharpeye, or High, Wide, and Cleareyed.
The story opens with an aged king and his only son. Since the king is old, he requests that his son marry soon, before he dies. The prince is eager to wed and make his father happy but he doesn't have the slightest idea of who he can marry. The king hands his son a key and instructs him to climb to the top of a tower and from the portraits he finds there, he should select a bride.
In the tower the prince finds twelve magical portraits of crowned maidens, each one beckoning towards him. They are all very beautiful, but behind a white curtain the prince finds the most beautiful of them all, but she is dressed all in white and looks pale and sad. The prince chooses her as his bride and informs his father who is immediately unhappy. The king explains that that particular maiden is imprisoned by an evil wizard. Many have tried to rescue her before but none have returned (of course).
At the start of the prince's quest for his bride, he quickly gets lost in the woods. But he runs into High, who magically stretches taller than the trees and finds the quickest way out of the woods. Next High sees his friend Wide and brings him over. Wide demonstrates that he can expand to huge proportions.
Next they run into High's friend Cleareyed, who explains that he must keep his eyes covered because he can see too well, if his eyes are uncovered he can look through objects, burst them into flames, or shatter them to pieces.
The prince's three new helpers prove invaluable for overcoming obstacles and turning what would otherwise be a very long journey into a single day trip. They arrive inside the wizard's castle at nightfall, and the drawbridge is drawn-up behind them.
Inside the castle, all the courtiers have been turned to stone. They happen upon the dining room where a lavish feast is prepared, after politely waiting, they decide to dig in. Suddenly the wizard rushes in. He is dressed in a long black robe fastened with three iron clasps at the waist; he is leading the lovely pale maiden, dressed in white and pearls. The wizard explains that the prince can take the maiden only if he can prevent the wizard from stealing her back over the next three nights in the castle. High stretches across the dining room covering all the walls, wide blocks the doorway, and Cleareyed stands vigil in the center. They all fall asleep.
When the prince awakes he realizes the maiden has vanished. Cleareyed, however, spots her one hundred miles off, turned into an acorn on a tree in a forest. High stretches to her position and Cleareyed fetches her. She turns back into a woman when she is delivered to the prince. The wizard, naturally, is furious and then one of the iron clasps bursts off. The travelers are left alone again and the prince realizes that everything and everyone inside the castle is frozen in time.
Our heroes are charged with watching over the maiden for a second night, they all fall asleep like before. Again the princess is gone when they wake. Cleareyed spots her two hundred miles off, this time turned into a jewel inside a stone, inside a mountain. He and High fetch her again. The furious wizard loses a second iron clasp.
Once again the our heroes are charged with watching over the maiden for a third night, once again they all fall asleep, and once again the maiden has vanished when they awake. Cleareyed spots the princess at the bottom of the Black Sea, as a gold ring inside a shell, three hundred miles away. This time High takes Wide and Cleareyed with him. High tries to stretch his arm to the bottom of the sea, but he cannot reach. So Wide puffs himself out and then drinks up the Black Sea, and then High can reach the gold ring.
The wizard bursts into the dining room triumphantly before the prince's companions can return. But all of a sudden, the gold ring comes crashing through a window and turns into the princess (Cleareyed had seen the wizard coming and High had thrown the ring from very far away). The wizard curses, his last buckle bursts, and he turns into a crow and flies off.
The whole castle comes to life and time happily resumes. All the residents of the castle thank the prince, but he humbly insists that it is all thanks to High, Wide, and Cleareyed. The prince and princess are married and the wedding lasts three weeks. The prince tries to persuade his new friends to stay and have a comfortable life, but they choose to wander the world helping people instead.
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Jaroslav Špillar, Vodník in winter (Vodník v zimě)
Západočeská galerie v Plzni
Date: 1899
Technique: Oil on canvas, 111 x 77 cm
In Slavic mythology, vodyanoy (Russian: водяно́й; IPA: [vədʲɪˈnoj], literally "watery"), vodyanoi, Belarusian vadzianik (Belarusian: вадзянік), Ukrainian vodianyk (Ukrainian: водяник), Polish wodnik, Czech and Slovak vodník, Bulgarian and Macedonian vodnik (Bulgarian: водник), Croatian vodanoj, Slovene povodni mož or Serbian vodenjak (Cyrillic: водењак), (Chuvash: Вутăш, Vutăş, Vudaş), is a male water spirit. Vodník (or in Germanized form hastrman) in Czech fairy tales is the same creature as the Wassermann or nix of German fairy tales. In many such languages the word is also used to mean the Aquarius zodiac sign.
Vodyanoy is said to appear as a naked old man with a frog-like face, greenish beard, and long hair, with his body covered in algae and muck, usually covered in black fish scales. He has webbed paws instead of hands, a fish's tail, eyes that burn like red-hot coals. He usually rides along his river on a half-sunk log, making loud splashes. Consequently, he is often dubbed "grandfather" or "forefather" by the local people. Local drownings are said to be the work of the vodyanoy (or rusalkas).
When angered, the vodyanoy breaks dams, washes down water mills, and drowns people and animals. (Consequently, fishermen, millers, and also bee-keepers make sacrifices to appease him.) He would drag down people to his underwater dwelling to serve him as slaves.
In Czech, Slovene and Slovak folklore the features of the vodník are markedly different to the East-Slavic conception; he has a completely human constitution and habits, except for few differences – vodníci (plural of vodník) have gills, webbed membrane between their fingers and their skin is algae-green in colour (as well as their hair, which is typically of pale green tone). Their overall dress and appearance is weird, sometimes even resembling a vagrant; patchy shirts and (by modern standards) odd hats - often boaters with long speckled ribbons - are commonplace. They can withstand lingering for hours outside their ponds. When they do so, one can tell them unequivocally by their wet coat-tails from which water is dripping under all circumstances. The vodník's face is usually unshaven and it is not uncommon for a vodník to have a large, wet, tangled beard.
Czech,Slovenian and Slovak tales have both evil and good vodníci (relative to human beings) who do (or don't, respectively) try to drown people when they happen to swim in their territory. Vodníci would store the souls of the drowned in porcelain lid-covered cups. They consider their cups as the most valuable heritage and display their "work", and number these cups they see as proportional to their wealth and/or status among other vodníci. When the lid of such a cup is removed, the soul within (in a form of a bubble) will escape and be liberated. Except for fish (or perhaps fish spirits), they do not have servants. Otherwise, vodníci spend their time by running their territory or – in their spare time – playing cards, smoking pipes or just sitting at the water surface (on rocks, willows nearby) and loitering. Fishermen ask the vodník for help by placing a pinch of tobacco in the water and saying, "Here's your tobacco, Lord Vodník, now give me a fish." In Czech, Slovak and Slovene tales vodníci live in ponds or rivers; there is no mention of a particular dwelling and the "half-sunken log" is unapparent. There are almost no references to vodníci in connection with sea water, which it is supposed would be dangerous, even deadly for them.
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Emona Bled Apartment 3
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Emona Bled Apartments offer a high standard of accommodation in a central but quiet location in Bled town just two minutes walk to the lake and famous Grand Hotel Toplice. There are a wide range of restaurants, bars and other amenities in easy walking distance of the apartment. Lake Bled itself is a stunning alpine lake, surrounded by mountains, famous for its impossibly picturesque 17th century church on an island overlooked by a medieval castle.
The apartment itself contains a double bedroom, one double sofabed (sleeps 2) and balcony, plus bathroom & large open plan living room / kitchen / dining room and air conditioning. Other amenities in this self-catering apartment include, a cooker, fridge, freezer, microwave, and Satellite TV. Bed and bath linen is provided for your convenience. There is an extra fold out bed in the apartment which can be provided on request for groups with younger kids.
|Sleeps up to 4, 1 bedrooms
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|Lake Bled 1 km
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|Nearest airport: Ljubljana Brnik 30 km, Nearest railway: Bled Lesce 5 km
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|Some pets are welcome - please contact the owner, No smoking at this property
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|Kettle, Toaster, Hair dryer
|Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer
|1 bedroom, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|1 Sofa beds, Double beds (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Balcony or terrace
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There are three spaces behind the house - available on a first come first served basis. Otherwise there are a couple of car parking areas within a couple of hundred metres of the apartment and free parking a 5-10 minute walk away.
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The Upper Carniola Region
The Gorenjska region is home to Slovenia's most beautiful scenery, the stunning Julian Alps and the Triglav National Park. Lake Bled is the most famous attraction in this wonderful region which offers a wealth of things to see, outdoor activities and water sports all year round.
Bled is a wonderful location for a family holiday, romantic break or active holiday. It is one of the most beautiful lakes in the Alps, surrounded by picturesque mountains, overlooked by a medieval castle with a charming seventeenth century church on an island. The Lake itself offers scope for swimming an boating and the area offers a wealth of outdoor activities all year round - outstanding walking & biking, flyfishing, kayaking, canyoning & paragliding in Summer months and skiing in Winter months either at the small resort in Bled itself or at 4 larger resorts all within half an hour's drive. Lots of sightseeing within easy day trip distance including the beautiful capital Ljubljana, wonderful lake Bohinj and the medieval towns of Skofja Loka and Radovljica. Plenty of facilities in the town including restaurants, bars, spas, pools & shops.
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Help PLEASE with lighting craft/sewing area (pic)
I have track rails, as pictured, originally with halogen which caused two problems: heat and glare. I changed over to CFL floods which solved the heat situation however the larger and longer bulbs hang even lower which seems to cause even MORE eye strain.
I can somewhat see the face of the bulbs at top of my line of sight. If I'm looking downward it's not bad, but looking forward or slightly upward these lights are a headache creator. I'd rather not wear a baseball hat while working. ):
I don't want to drill the ceiling full of holes for recessed cans since this won't be a sewing room forever.
Any ideas? Would a fluorescent long-tube fixture be any better?
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Would a lower wattage CFL bulb work? So long as the wattage was sufficient for you to do your work properly, the lower wattage (non-flood) bulb probably won't stick out as much, or even at all and this might eliminate your eye strain as well. Great looking room, by the way!
I put in 15 watt CFL R30s, and using three provides okay, but not great light at the work surface. They hang down lower than the halogens in the pic. I was planning to order full-spectrum cfl bulbs if these worked out, but I'm not so sure now. At this point, I don't really care what the fixture looks like, I just want to work in great light that doesn't bring the room to 90 degrees or glare into my eyes.
Thanks on the room compliment! (:
maybe a halogen PAR reflector bulb with a narrower beam spread (spot instead of flood) if you aim them carefully, although it may yield an unevenly lit room. I have a few Cree CR6 (a.k.a. Ecosmart ECO-575L if you're at Home Depot) modules in a similar setup as yours, which are intended to be used for recessed lighting in ceilings but I've found work great in track lights and such as well because the built-in trim kit bezel helps shield the light and they wind up looking like this:
For $10 you can add one of three colors of anodyzed trim pieces for the baffle if you don't like white, like the bronze one here, to further reduce glare:
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RoaringSilence 5 years
I'm in the mood for some Megan, hardy har.
5 years
Anything that doesn't have Matt Damon in it. I never did like him in anything. Maybe Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. I loved the book as a child.
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I'll save my $13.50 and wait for all on video.
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why not all 3 or 2 out of three. See just one of the movies sounds to restricting.
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i just saw love happens and it was amazing. wasnt expecting d movie to be that good bt it was. if u hv lost someone just go c this movie u will learn somtin. great performance by aaron and jA. i also saw cloudy it was also gud.
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Bright Star
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Bright Star
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I can't stand Jennifer Aniston. She's the same in every movie. Give me some Matt Damon any day! Sunday, I'm taking my teenager to see Jennifer's Body.
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Other-I'm taking my son to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs :D
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The Informant -- I LOVE Matt!
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The Informant -- I LOVE Matt!
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cloudy with a chance of meatballs!!!!!!! loookkksss sooo good!
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Why isn't Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs on the list? Almost everyone I know is seeing it with (or even some without) their kids this weekend.
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The September Issue, and maybe Love Happens next weekend?
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I'm not going to the movies this weekend. But if I was I'd want to see Cloudy w/ A Chance of Meatballs.
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September Issue!!
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September Issue!!
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I'm lame, I'm just getting around to going to see Inglorious Basterds tonight.
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The Informant! I like Matt Damon
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After finally coming down out of the mountains, and leaving the high alpine road, we went through a small town that was having a tractor festival. ...
Back to the Roots--German Style!
... bright green hillsides and perfect chalets, all lined with colorful flower boxes. The only downside is how pricey everything is! For example, when we decided to end our hike, instead of walking back down on small roads, we thought it might be nice to take a bus back ...