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Airport railway line, Brisbane
|Airport line
|5 May 2001[1]
|Track length
|15.9 km (9.9 mi)
|Track gauge
|3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
|Operating speed
|0 km/h (0 mph)
Airtrain is the privately owned commuter railway line that extends 13.0 km (8.1 mi) northeast from Brisbane (15.9 km from Central station by rail), the state capital of Queensland, Australia, to the Brisbane Airport at both its separate International and Domestic terminals.
The line is carried on an elevated prestressed concrete viaduct for its entire 8.5 km (5.3 mi) length after leaving the QR Citytrain network beyond Eagle Junction railway station at Clayfield.
Ownership and business[edit]
The Airtrain service is a private enterprise. The line is owned and operated by Airtrain Citylink Limited, with financial backing from Transfield Services, Macquarie Bank, Colonial First State and ABN AMRO. The first service ran on 5 May 2001.[1] Airtrain Citylink has a licence from Queensland Transport under a BOOT scheme – build, own, operate and transfer – to build the rail line, to own and operate it, and hand entire infrastructure over to the Queensland Government after 35 years when the company will then cease to exist.
The line connects seamlessly with the Citytrain network and services use Citytrain rolling stock in a commercial agreement with QR. While Citytrain rolling stock is used, Airtrain does not form part of the TransLink integrated public transport scheme, and therefore fares are not subsidised by the government. As a result, travel between the airport and Citytrain stations in the Brisbane central business district costs $17.00 one way and $32.00 return (as of November 2014).[2] Travel on Airtrain services between ordinary Citytrain stations, not involving airport travel, is charged at the normal Citytrain rate, including concession rates.
In 2008, Brisbane's Airtrain ran an operating profit of $4.8 million, allowing Airtrain to pay dividends of $1.95 to its shareholders.[3] Airtain is not subsidised by the Queensland Government, and its $220 million construction cost was entirely privately financed.[4] This makes it one of a few known profitable public transport systems.
In late 2012, U.K. pension fund Universities Superannuation Scheme bought over Airtrain for A$110 million.[5]
Initial passenger numbers on the service were well below expectations[6] and the company nearly faced voluntary administration in 2003. However in May 2005, Airtrain operated at a profit for the first time due to significant passenger growth – 1.12 million passengers in the 2004-2005 financial year, an increase of 40% – and a complex company restructure that cut costs by nearly half.
Passenger numbers on the service have also steadily increased, approaching two million passengers each year using the private rail link. In 2008, 6% of visitors to the airport used an Airtrain service.[7] This figure rose to 8% in 2011.
Line guide and services[edit]
Commencing at the Domestic Terminal, all services stop at the International Terminal and Eagle Junction railway station, then express to Bowen Hills, then all stations though the Brisbane CBD to at least Roma Street. The typical travel time between Domestic Terminal and Brisbane City is approximately 22 minutes (to Central). This travel time results in an average train speed of 43 km/h.
Airport line services run every fifteen minutes during the morning and afternoon weekday peak hours, and every half hour during the off-peak. Most services continue as Gold Coast line services.
Passengers for/from the Doomben, Caboolture and Shorncliffe lines change at Eagle Junction, Ferny Grove and Nambour and Gympie North lines at Bowen Hills, and all other lines at Central.
|Airport railway line, Brisbane
showing distance from Central and ticket zone
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Debritz, Brett (6 May 2001). "Airtrain off to a flying start". The Sunday Mail. p. 50.
- ^ Airtrain Citylink Limited (2014). Brisbane's Airtrain - Brisbane CBD Fares. Retrieved 09 November 2014.
- ^ McCulloch, James. (22 September 2008).Brisbane Airtrain lifts operating profit to $4.8 million. The Courier Mail.
- ^ Brisbane Airtrain- About Us.
- ^ Tan, Gillian (21 December 2012). "U.K. Pension Fund Buys Brisbane's Airport Rail Link". Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company, Inc.). Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ^ "Airport rail passenger numbers increase". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 19 July 2003. Retrieved 8 December 2007.
- ^ Tony Moore (26 October 2012). "Off the rails: Uncertainty over Airtrain monopoly". Brisbane Times (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 26 October 2012.
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Rick Braziel says he is interested in becoming Seattle's next police chief ... again.
Three-and-a-half years after he pulled out of Seattle's last search, Braziel says he believes the city's new mayor is committed to change, something he said was not the case before.
Braziel, who served as chief of the Sacramento Police Department from 2008 until the end of 2012, was one of three finalists in Seattle's 2010 search and was considered by many to be the leading contender. He was endorsed by the Seattle Police Officer s Guild and the Seattle Police Management Association, and got high marks from city council members. But Braziel pulled his name from consideration at the last minute, and the job ultimately went to SPD insider John Diaz.
So what's changed that Braziel is now openly talking about the Seattle job again?
Braziel said the biggest red flag during the 2010 process was a lack of enthusiasm for police reform by the city's then-new mayor, Mike McGinn.
My impression was that I would not be able to hit the ground running, he said. I d have to slow down quite a bit. Braziel said he felt a sense of urgency to create some change, to try new things.
Just as Braziel was named a finalist for the Seattle job in May 2012, the Mexican piss scandal was first reported by local media -- video of an SPD gang officer kicking a suspect and threatening to beat the Mexican piss out of him.
Braziel found the video appalling. At a news conference in Sacramento, he told the media, There's no one in the country who has watched that video that isn't shocked by it. And you need to deal with it. Be up front, candid. Talk about it. I'm very prepared for that.
That video was one of several examples of problematic SPD actions that the federal government seized upon. In 2012, the city and the Justice Department entered into a legal agreement requiring major changes at SPD -- ones aimed at improving officers' treatment of minorities, reforming use-of-force policies, and beefing up citizen oversight and internal controls.
But under Mayor McGinn and Chief Diaz, many in the community -- from elected officials to watchdog groups -- faulted SPD's commitment to carrying out the changes. McGinn and Diaz were seen as resisting the reforms, and their disagreements with U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes spilled out into media reports.
And on Diaz's watch, SPD was criticized for several incidents: In August 2010, a Seattle officer shot and killed a First Nations woodcarver who was walking through a crosswalk carrying a carving knife. The department ruled the officer s use of force unjustified, but the incident raised questions about how well SPD trained its officers in the use of deadly force.
A few months later, veteran Seattle officer James Lee was captured on surveillance video repeatedly kicking a teenage suspect inside a Belltown convenience store. The teen appeared to be trying to surrender at the time. Lee was charged with fourth degree assault, but the city attorney later dropped the charge after an independent expert determined that Lee s use of force was reasonable and within the teachings of the Criminal Justice Training Commission, although not the best tactic he could have been used.
As McGinn prepared for a tough 2013 reelection campaign, Diaz announced his retirement last April. McGinn tapped another longtime SPD insider -- Jim Pugel -- to serve as interim chief.
With McGinn's loss to Ed Murray in the November election, the scene was set for major changes at SPD. The new mayor appointed a new interim chief and promised to conduct a nationwide search to find a permanent chief who would move quickly to reform the police department and comply with the terms of the settlement agreement.
The 2010 'circus'
Braziel was one of three finalists for the SPD job in 2010, and he's quick to criticize the process he endured, including a rush to make his name public along with all the other candidates.
I was rushed to notify my organization. I thought maybe when you became a finalist your name came out, I did not expect it that soon, he said.
Braziel said he knew that the new chief would need strong political backing from Mayor McGinn to implement changes quickly and efficiently. But Braziel said McGinn told him that that he (Braziel) would not be reporting directly to him, but to one of his staffers.
McGinn denies saying that. Of course he would have reported directly to me, McGinn said during a telephone interview.
I'm not speaking ill of the former mayor, Braziel said, but a lot of what a police chief does is deal with [city government]staff, and the staff was in my impression was inexperienced with government and understanding the nuances between unions and management and police management and the private sector and the community. A police chief's job is very very political.
The public vetting of the chief candidates left Braziel unsettled, a process he now compares to a circus. There was a frantic pace to the interview process, with numerous appearances -- at public forums, city council meetings, in private panels, and at news conferences.
Braziel recalled aggressive questioning during a televised interview on the Seattle Channel.
It went from very pleasant to very much in your face trying to embarass people, he said.
Braziel withdrew his name.
McGinn said Wednesday that he was disappointed when Braziel backed out. I wanted three choices, he said. I think Braziel came to the Emerald City, clicked his heels three times and said, there s no place like home, McGinn said.
A popular chief
Braziel stayed in California and continued leading Sacramento's police force. Under his leadership, the department became a national model for community policing, a topic Braziel wrote a book about. He gained a reputation as an innovator, and was beloved by the rank-and-file officers, even when budget cuts required him to lay off 150 officers.
I would highly recommend him, one Sacramento PD officer said last week when KING 5 joined Braziel for a visit with some of his former colleagues. If you're looking for someone to turn things around, I think he'd be a great candidate.
Another Sacramento officer said, Chief Braziel is a great leader, even in times of budget turmoil he would come speak to us, very encouraging.
I'm proud of what we did. I love the Sacramento Police Department, Braziel said.
Since leaving the Sacramento post, Braziel has been working for a national police foundation ... and keeping his eye on Seattle.
After Diaz announced his retirement last year, Braziel said he started getting calls from citizens and community groups in Seattle.
You need to consider it, consider coming back and applying for the job, Braziel said, describing the message he got from Seattle contacts.
Mayor Murray's comments this month on the need to press forward with SPD reform caught Braziel's attention.
I totally support the mayor, Braziel said. You've got to get out from under the consent decree. That should be the number one goal. And do it the right way. Be aggressive, use it to your advantage, don't think of the recommendations just as recommendations.
At a recent news conference, Mayor Murray acknowledged there were problems with the process of hiring a new police chief four years ago and promised a shorter more streamlined process this time, with a goal of announcing his decision in April.
Braziel said he hasn't spoken with Murray or other Seattle leaders yet. The hiring process is just getting underway, with Murray convening a series of seven public workshops to gather input from Seattle citizens. The first workshop was held in the University District Tuesday night. The goal of the workshops is to learn what people are looking for in their next chief. The information will be compiled and sent to a search committee that will eventually vet and interview candidates, sending three top selections to the mayor.
Braziel says he is definitely interested once more.
We ll see. We ll see how that goes but Seattle's a great city and whoever the mayor selects will do a good job for the city, he said.


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Baseball Hall of Fame 2013
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Hmmm, dare I enter the fray?
, I'm also of the female persuasion. She obviously has both a love and history of the game, as do I. I was a 20-year season ticket holder at a very prominent AAA ballclub, have seen many "stars" both before and "after" their careers...and damn-near followed The Game since Johnny Bench and The Big Red Machine strutted their stuff.
The BBWAA rarely votes
in on their first go-round. Less than 50 men....EVER....out of the 1000s of men who've ever played professionally, were
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and they, quite literally, are the Who's Who of Baseball. Anyone who has
followed The Game knows their names.
This year's crop, with perhaps the exception of Clemens (IMHO) were....ehhh. Bonds was a good but nothing spectacular, almost airhead, outfielder...first with the Pirates then shuffled out to SF. The 'roids clearly made a difference in his at-plate performances. Otherwise, he'd be in the same category as guys like Piazza or Biggio. Solid, even stellar...but not necessarily HOF-worthy.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about with Bonds. He was named by noted baseball writer Bill James as the best player of the 90s, and this was before PED. In the same class as Griffey, who's definitely 1st ballot. 8x Gold Glover in the 90s, 8x All Star in the 90s, 3x MVP again, in the 90s, only guy ever w/ 500 HRs & 500 steals. Most of his non-HR accomplishments were pre PED, and he was definitely a HOFer before he even touched the stuff. And you have the audacity to say he's 'ehhh'? What are you talking about?
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Aug 19, 2012 08:00 PM|young345|LINK
i have some html in a text file. i want to take the contents of this text file and display it on my webpage in a textarea.
however, it displays with all the html tags rather than applying the format and text.
does anyone know how i can display the content of the text file without the html tags and still have the format of the document?
also, when i submit the form, i need the text in the textarea to be in the format and not html because it is being sent in an email, therefore needs to include things like the line breaks.
any help on this would be much appreciated.
thank you very much
the following is the html and this is how it displays in the textarea as well. i need to remove the html tags but still have the format of the document

Hi,

this is my email

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Aug 19, 2012 08:02 PM|BrockAllen|LINK
Render with @Html.Raw(theHtmlString) to not perform HTML encoding.
Aug 19, 2012 08:25 PM|young345|LINK
please can you show me how i can apply that to the following as the html is displayed in a textarea.
thank you very much
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Aug 19, 2012 08:29 PM|BrockAllen|LINK
Sorry, i missed that you wanted all the formatting in a textarea (although you said that in the first sentence).
So let me understand -- if you have a hello in the text file you want it as bold text in the <textarea>?
Aug 19, 2012 08:36 PM|young345|LINK
thats ok.
yeah, so i have
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thank you
Aug 19, 2012 08:38 PM|BrockAllen|LINK
Well, if it's just the
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But if you want other formatting then you'll be out of luck unless you use some sort of rich text editor instead of a textarea.
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this works.
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A new paper by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, discusses the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles and their clinical application as circulating biomarkers. Microvesicles are membrane-bound sacs released by tumor cells and can be detected in the body fluids of cancer patients.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the incidence of cancer will reach approximately 9 million deaths in 2015. The rising prevalence of the disease is a major factor that drives the growth of the oncology biomarkers market. Biomarkers can be defined as any biological, chemical or physical parameter that can be utilized as an indicator of physiological or disease status. Thus, biomarkers are useful in cancer screening and detection, drug design and also to boost the effectiveness of cancer care by allowing physicians to tailor therapies for individual patientsan approach known as personalized medicine.
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Jason Heyward leaves game with strained right hamstring
Jul 11, 2013, 9:31 PM EDT
Troubling development for the first-place Braves, as David O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Jason Heyward left tonight's game against the Reds with a strained right hamstring.
After reaching on an infield single with two outs in the second inning, Heyward was advancing to third base on a single by Justin Upton before he hurt himself on a slide into the bag. The 23-year-old outfielder grabbed at his hamstring while laying on the ground before eventually getting to his feet and walking off under his own power. He's scheduled to be reevaluated tomorrow, but it certainly looked like something that could require a trip to the disabled list.
Heyward has had a disappointing first half, batting .223/.321/.367 with seven home runs and 21 RBI in 67 games. He was previously sidelined from April 21-May 16 following an emergency appendectomy. Losing Heyward for any length of time hurts, but the Braves are slated to get both Evan Gattis and Jordan Schafer back from the disabled list right after the All-Star break.
- chc4 - Jul 12, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Troubling how? Heyward is so bad… having him out can only give a better player (Reed Johnson) a shot.
- tellitlikeitisty - Jul 12, 2013 at 9:42 AM
Jason…while being a real good guy,has now failed to hit over 227 in 2 of his last 3 seasons…he is beloved by baseball writers around the country and written about as if he will surely become the next Ken Griffey junior….just a quick count of my stacks of baseball magazines show Jason on 11 covers over the last 3 years…Freddie freeman made 1 (shared cover)…..GOOD KID….not very good player.
- bolweevils2 - Jul 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM
Well, in his defense he might have been a little unlucky so far based on his BABIP. And in June it sure looked like he was coming out of it (.312/.370/.495/.865) But he's been back to miserable again so far in July.
- specialkindofstupid - Jul 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Heyward is an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, smothered in secret sauce. He's capable of being so great, but hasn't as of yet. And that's been especially true this season.
So, is it bad he's likely DL bound? Sure. But Reed Johnson as a fill in, with Gattis and Schafer due back soon, will do fine.
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Marnie Stern going on tour w/ No Joy, opening for the Flaming Lips (who played 'Dark Side' in AC, didn't play Rochester)
Marnie Stern at Santos Party House (more by Andrew St. Clair)
Marnie Stern and No Joy, who coincidentally shared a bill at one of the BrooklynVegan day parties during CMJ, are heading out on a North American tour together in September. The dates haven't been announced yet but a few of them have been revealed, including September 29 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets for the NYC show are on sale now.
Marnie and No Joy both have some other upcoming dates this summer too. Though they won't be at the same show, they'll both be in Chicago on July 8, when Marnie Stern hosts a guitar clinic before she opens for the Flaming Lips at Aragon Ballroom. No Joy play the Empty Bottle that night.
Speaking of the Flaming Lips, they played multiple shows last weekend in Atlantic City
"On June 23rd and 24th The Flaming Lips played in Atlantic City - including on the latter night their new arrangement of The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety with highlights from The Wizard of Oz. The next day they were scheduled to travel seven hours northwest to play in Rochester, New York. That show however - a late addition to The Flaming Lips Peace and Punk Rock Summer Tour - was postponed. Its promoters needed more time, so Wayne flew to his home state Oklahoma - where he is shooting a role in a new movie with Melanie Griffith." [psych explorations]Some videos from AC are below. The Flaming Lips play TWO NYC area dates this month, both with Weezer and Yeasayer.
All tour dates and some other videos too, below...
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by Klaus Kinski,
As a rabid Roger Waters and Pink Floyd fan, I am in a very weird place right now with regards to that fact. Roger has been on what seems like a 200 date tour of The Wall. He did two shows at Madison Square Garden on October 5th and 6th and has a third show lined up at the same venue exactly a month later on November 6th (tickets still on sale). But before he reunites with the asbestos laden MSG, he is charged with the task of tearing down the wall at the Izod Center tonight (November 3rd) and tomorrow (November 4th). There's no way to describe how badly I want to see this show. I have friends from other states who have gone and have reported back unanimously that I absolutely have to see this show. Yet I am incapable, mentally and financially, of coughing up a whopping $277 for the experience especially when Waters himself pretentiously stated:
There is enough of everything in THE WORLD for us all to have enough to eat, to be warm and dry and to have a colour TV and a car. WE are taught to FEAR that if WE share what WE have with THEM, WE won't have anything left for US.Sure, while there MAY BE enough of everything in THE WORLD for us all to have enough to eat (me), to be warm and dry (me) and to have a colour TV (me) and a car (not me), there clearly isn't enough of everything in the world for us all to have something as simple as a ticket to see Roger Waters in concert. So while some of you New Yorkers / New Jersians have three opportunities to see the Roger Waters Wall spectacle, some of us will have to be content with our TVs and food. And hey, you never know... one of these three dates MIGHT JUST be the one where David Gilmour makes the live appearance that has been promised to happen on one night during the tour.
On a somewhat related note, it seems that seeing a cover band has become a pretty accepted means of seeing your favorite band without actually seeing your favorite band or paying what you'd have to pay to see your favorite band. I am not talking about bar bands; I am talking about cover bands as BIG BUSINESS (not the band). Last night The Australian Pink Floyd Show hit the Gramercy Theater in NYC. The place was PACKED with people who paid $45 to see a band play songs they didn't write. And they were good. Remember how at the beginning of this post I said that I was in a very weird place right now with regards to Pink Floyd and Roger Waters? The APF show contributed to this. The devil on one shoulder was cursing the fact that these dudes are making a living playing music they didn't write. The angel on the other shoulder kept whispering into my ear "Dag yo, this is kind of awesome."
The pictures in this post were taken at various stops on the current Roger Waters Wall tour, and they continue below...
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So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation' a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss.That apparently means that one show on the Roger Waters "Wall" tour will get the golden David Gilmour ticket. Six of those shows are in the NYC-area.
In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is) were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C. Numb', but that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me.
Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb' on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How fucking cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was fucking great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.
PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he wants to do, it will be a surprise!
Flaming Lips played Dark Side of the Moon @ Bonnaroo (pics, video, setlist, download, stream), NYC show on sale today
Flaming Lips @ Bonnaroo 2010 (The J Train)
"It's not a Bonnaroo set without a wild-card cover version. The Flaming Lips and an allied group, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, played the entirety of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" with no deference at all. With fuzztone bass and wah-wah guitars, a garage-rock kick and non-portentous vocals, it went lurching toward Flaming Lips' disheveled version of madness rather than Pink Floyd's majestic one.You can listen to the Flaming Lips' 2-set performance in NPR's archive. People have also posted it for download.
Wayne Coyne, to stir up the crowd, claimed there was actual money inside some of the balloons released during "Money." Who knows?"
[NY Times]
Tickets are on sale at 11am for the upcoming Flaming Lips show at Terminal 5.
More pictures, various videos, and the setlist from Bonnaroo, below...
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Tickets are on sale for all Roger Waters dates including two shows at MSG, two shows at Nassau Coliseum, and two shows at the Izod Center (it was one at each of them).
photos by Chris La Putt
"Holy shit. If I had only one band to choose to see in concert it would be The Flaming Lips. Best concert I've ever been to, no contest. Friendly people, which makes sense: Flaming Lips fans are some of the friendliest people I know.In other words, just your average Flaming Lips show at Wellmont Theater in NJ last night. More pictures, the setlist of video of the band performing a Pink Floyd cover with opener Stardeath and White Dwarfs during the encore (they'll play Dark Side of the Moon in full again at Bonnaroo), below...
Words cannot do this concert justice. The music, the atmosphere, the smoke, the GIANT balloons filled with confetti that would POP in an explosion of rectangular colored shreds of paper, the dense cloud of pot - so thick you couldn't even smell the person next to you sparking up. And oh, the visuals, the fantastical videos they had, drippy gooey egg yolks, and naked dancing ladies, and naked drum-hitting ladies, and naked ladies dancing on the beach, and laughter, and love, and everything all around. I'm still glowing from the show." [Hilary]
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I recently came across this quote of mine from 22 years ago:As promised, tour dates below...
"What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?"
I believe this is still a supremely relevant question and the jury is out. There is a lot of commercial clutter on the net, and a lot of propaganda, but I have a sense that just beneath the surface understanding is gaining ground. We just have to keep blogging, keep twittering, keep communicating, keep sharing ideas.
30 Years ago when I wrote The Wall I was a frightened young man. Well not that young, I was 36 years old.
It took me a long time to get over my fears. Anyway, in the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with it's concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns.: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever! All these issues and 'isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life.
This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years.
In some quarters, among the chattering classes, there exists a cynical view that human beings as a collective are incapable of developing more 'humane' ie, kinder, more generous, more cooperative, more empathetic relationships with one another.
I disagree.
In my view it is too early in our story to leap to such a conclusion, we are after all a very young species.
I believe we have at least a chance to aspire to something better than the dog eat dog ritual slaughter that is our current response to our institutionalized fear of each other.
I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to express my, albeit guarded, optimism, and encourage others to do the same. To quote the great man, " You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
- Roger Waters, 2010
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by Klaus Kinski
To say I have an eclectic taste in music would be a gross understatement, and I think that sentiment applies to most people these days. But the one band that has remained at the top of my musical heap has been Pink Floyd. Starting in about 1990, I would buy any Pink Floyd related item I could get my hands on. I would spend entire weekends going to every record store in Boston and Cambridge, buying anything and everything I could find. Then eBay opened up a global Pink Floyd market to me and I spiraled out of control. Financial necessity forced me to liquidate a large portion of my collection a few years back and I don't buy any more stuff, but I've still got many prized Floyd items as well as all kinds of CDs, bootlegs, and other rare recorded material. I also still avidly follow anything pertaining to Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Syd Barrett, Rick Wright and, more than anything, Roger Waters.
By far, my favorite member of Pink Floyd is Roger Waters. As far as I'm concerned, when Roger Waters left Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd ceased to legitimately exist as Pink Floyd. Of course, I bought Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell when they were released. And how could any self-respecting pothead Masshole miss The Division Bell tour when it came to Foxboro Stadium? But those albums didn't FEEL like Pink Floyd, and I think Roger was being too polite when he called Momentary Lapse of Reason "a pretty fair forgery." In addition, while David Gilmour and Rick Wright solo records are just plain cheesy and self-indulgent (and don't get me started on Nick Mason's wtf-inducing record Fictitious Sports), Roger was always trying to create a larger musical narrative. As a matter of fact, the political and social commentary of Amused To Death is probably more relevant now than it was in 1992.
I saw Roger in 1999, twice in 2000, and twice in 2007 when he was touring Dark Side of the Moon. What's his next move? On Monday April 12th, 2010 at 2:00pm EST [editor's note: which is less than an hour from the time this is being posted, though Klaus actually wrote this last week], Roger Waters will be formally announcing a 2010 tour (update: NOW ANNOUNCED) of his epic masterpiece The Wall on his newly designed official website roger-waters.com. For years there has been speculation that this tour would happen eventually, and then a few months ago Roger's official website went from having Roger Waters content to simply having a Sony Logo on it. I had a feeling then that a redesign was in the works, and that the redesign would no doubt unveil some pretty awesome news.
In the meantime, if you DO want to see a pretty decent forgery of Pink Floyd, check out The Machine on Saturday June 19th on their Rocks Off Boat Cruise. I mean, they're no Australian Pink Floyd, but they're still good!
UPDATE: Dates announced.
Klaus hopes he doesn't sound like this guy....
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"Struggling music group EMI faces being taken over by its bankers after failing to clinch a deal to sell the North American distribution rights for its artists to Universal Music Group or Sony Music... The collapse of talks leaves EMI battling to raise 120 million pounds by mid-June to meet its commitments on loans from U.S. bank Citigroup... Adding to the company's woes, Pink Floyd successfully sued the company for selling individual tracks digitally and Chief Executive Elio Leoni-Sceti quit the group last month after just 18 months in the job." [AP]
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New Year's Eve options in NYC include Fischerspooner ++ Flaming Lips performing 'Dark Side of the Moon' in Oklahoma
Fischerspooner @ MoMA in November (more by Ryan Muir)
Fischerspooner will be playing a live show at Irving Plaza in NYC on New Year's Eve. Tickets are on sale. They also have a pair of DJ dates scheduled in Europe.
Speaking of New Year's Eve, shows for the night are coming together. Some NYC NYE events we've mentioned before include Patti Smith's multi-night run at Bowery Ballroom (sold out), Dean & Britta then The Felice Brothers at Southpaw, Antibalas at Knitting Factory, The Obits & Eli "Paperboy" Reed at The Bell House, Roky Erikson at Maxwell's, Clutch at Starland Ballroom, and The Detroit Cobras & The A-Bones then Titus Andronicus at Mercury Lounge.
Some we haven't mentioned include Lee Burridge at Santos Party House (tickets), Trouble & Bass at Europa (flyer below), Alice Smith at Joe's Pub (tickets), and Chuck Berry (who replaced the Dan Band) at BB King's (tickets - early and late). Tons of jam-friendly options this year: Soulive at Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Word at Terminal 5, Gov't Mule at the Beacon, The Disco Biscuits at Nokia Theatre, and most importantly, Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden.
Phish have a four-night run in Miami.
For other out of town shows, The Black Keys and Kurt Vile play Chicago, where Jesus Lizard are also doing multiple nights and Jens Lekman is at the Empty Bottle (for three nights in a row actually). Girl Talk also plays Chicago that night- a sold out show at The Congress Theater. Crystal Castles are at Logan Square Auditorium. (Chicago wins)
Guns n Roses cover band Mr. Brownstone are playing Boston.
Pink Floyd cover band The Flaming Lips will be in Oklahama City's Cox Center, where they'll perform Dark Side of the Moon in full at midnight. They'll be assisted by OK's Stardeath and White Dwarfs. Flaming Lips are also reportedly planning an iTunes-only release of their own version of the album.
What else?
The Flaming Lips flyer, other flyers, and all Fischerspooner tour dates, below...
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Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, & Richard Wright
today in NYC & NJ
* Les Paul @ Iridium
* Ron Sexsmith @ Maxwell's
* Glacial at (le) poisson rouge
* Andrew WK @ Santos Party House
* Tommie Sunshine @ Gramercy Theatre
* Trouble & Minsk @ Knitting Factory
* Human Highway and Becky Stark @ Cake Shop
* Laura Marling & Johnny Flynn @ Bowery Ballroom
* The Jim Campilongo Electric Trio @ Living Room
* Amazing Baby, Sian Alice Group & A Place to Bury Strangers @ MHOW
Win entry to Tuesday's Cool Kids / Matt & Kim show.
Ron Sexsmith is playing Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday.
Jay-Z has a show coming up in Jersey with Lil Wayne who sounded horrible on SNL Saturday night. Tina Fey's Sarah Palin was more of a highlight.
Q-Tip has a free show coming up.
Wellmont Theatre tickets went on sale.
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Richard Wright, a founder member of Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 65 after battling cancer, his spokesman said.
Wright played the keyboard with the legendary band and wrote music in classic albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here.
His spokesman said: "The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness, that Richard died ... after a short struggle with cancer. The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time."
Wright's spokesman did not say from what form of cancer the star had been suffering.... [The Press Association]
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Susan Stolz called The Desert Sun this morning saying she and her husband found a glob of vinyl in their driveway yesterday at the Hideaway Golf Club in La Quinta. Not sure what it was, they threw it away. This morning, they read about the missing pig in the newspaper and e-mailed the following to Coachella organizers.
"It is entirely possible that I have at least part of your pig. My husband and I live at the Hideaway. We found a large pile of plastic yesterday morning on our driveway. It has some blue, yellow and silver paint. I must warn you that it is not in good shape. Maybe the balloon exploded or something. However, if you'd like to check it out, just let me know. "
"We went and got the pig out of the trash and put him in the garage," Stolz said. "We have laughed our heads off."
[The Desert Sun] (via)
the pig, pre-escape (more by Ryan Muir)
Anonymous wasn't kidding! As you can see in the video at the end of this post, Roger Waters' pig got loose at Coachella on Sunday - it just zig zagged away, never to be seen again. Although it sounds like a practical joke, I'm pretty sure this press release I just got is real....
COACHELLA ORGANIZERS OFFER $10, 000 REWARD AND FOUR FESTIVAL TICKETS FOR LIFE IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF THE INFLATABLE PIG THAT ESCAPED DURING SUNDAY HEADLINER ROGER WATERS' SETWatch it happen in the Coachella video below...
COACHELLA organizers are offering $10,000 and four (4) festival tickets for life in exchange for the safe return of the two-story inflatable pig that broke loose during Roger Waters' set on the final night (Sunday, April 27) of the 2008 COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL. The pig escaped and floated into the desert sky just prior to the intermission between Roger Waters' back-to-back sets--marking the only back-to-back COACHELLA sets by one artist in the critically acclaimed festival's history.
Anyone with information on the lost pig, should email email@example.com.
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photos by Ryan Muir
Roger Waters headlined the main stage of Coachella on Sunday
Perfected after a week of rehearsals at the Forum arena in Los Angeles, all of it was matched with the sort of special effects and spectacular images Waters and Pink Floyd are known, like the giant inflatable pig covered in graffiti ("Don't be led to slaughter") that floated above the crowd during "Sheep" to explosive sparks of electric guitar by Dave Kilminster before being allowed to break free as spotlights crisscrossed the sky. Waters' night ended with songs from The Wall, with fiery virtuosic soloing by violinist Lili Haydn taking over Gilmour's original leads on "Comfortably Numb." During "Run Like Hell," a pair of dudes in baggy shorts responded on the grass with a lengthy interpretative dance -- falling to one knee, finger pointed in the air, stepping forward and back, bowing and swinging their hips -- a routine no doubt practiced back home between multiple bongloads. [Rolling Stoned]He played 'Dark Side of the Moon' in its entirety (as he has done many times before). More pictures below...
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The indie-rock kids of Coachella are in store for a classic-rock moment this April: Roger Waters of Pink Floyd will re-create the band's trippy 1973 masterpiece "Dark Side of the Moon" on the festival's main stage, which also will feature the Raconteurs, the Verve, Jack Johnson, Kraftwerk and a reunion of Portishead.Entire lineup and poster below....
The ninth edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will take over the Empire Polo Field outside the dusty town of Indio from April 25 through 27. The 125-act lineup was announced Monday afternoon at a press conference in Mexico City with Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Love and Rockets, and Justice among the names on the bill along with M.I.A., the Breeders, Rilo Kiley, Sasha & Digweed, Café Tacuba and Fatboy Slim. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. [LA Times]
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* Dan Deacon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Todd P appear in the NY Times
* Dan Deacon gets "Best New Music" the same day
* A whole bunch more assorted Dan Deacon MP3s
* Even more Dan Deacon MP3s & video
* David Bowie & Sting opening burlesque haven
* A look inside Tim Harrington's apartment
* Pink Floyd played at Syd Barrett tribute show, sort of
* Sinead O'Connor is playing Joe's Pub - way sold out of course
* Olivia d'ABO = Karen Arnold on the Wonder Years
* Olivia D'abo is playing the Living Room
why not....
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Just sayin'....
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off the wall thought today, carry on
Guns don't kill people; Affairs kill people
Totally stealing that! Thank you for the smile.
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Isn't at least 3 potstickers the norm??
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[This message edited by luv_lost at 1:40 PM, May 28th (Tuesday)]
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DDay 6/27/09
Wedding 3/15/12
DDay2 5/5/13
presently working towards...well i don't know anymore...
Perhaps this is a generational difference.
[This message edited by sisoon at 6:02 PM, June 3rd (Monday)]
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Hanergy, a Beijing-based, global clean energy company, is at the forefront of global solar technologies and is the largest thin-film solar panel company in the world.
Porsche put itself at the top of the timesheets during the first qualifying session.
At the 82nd edition of the world's most famous long distance race, Porsche Team Manthey will again field a pair of 911 RSR in the GTE-Pro class.
Porsche is fielding its most innovative prototypes at the 24 hours of Le Mans.
Porsche Team Manthey's two Porsche 911 RSR, which scored a double class win at their first Le Mans outing last year in the GTE Pro class, concluded a testing programme today.
The REBELLION R-One, will be making its debut in La Sarthe as the first LM P1-L to race alongside the three manufacturers entered in the LM P1-H class.
No other prototype in the WEC starting field has such an efficient and complex hybrid system as the new Porsche 919 Hybrid.
British Racing driver Archie Hamilton will partner Johnny Mowlem and Mark Patterson in the third round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Lucas di Grassi: "...everybody in the team knows that our competitors are very strong this year."
Laurent Mercier sat down with SMP Racing managing director Benjamin Durand to get an idea of the current state of affairs with the Russian outfit.
In the championship chase Toyota and Antony Davidson, Nicolas Lapierre and Sébastien Buemi will arrive in Le Mans with a certain advantage over their rivals.
FIA and ACO gave the media at Spa-Francorchamps a special briefing on the LMP1 technical regulations.
The 2014 endurance season, which has already begun in the USA with the Tudor United SportsCar Championship, will go green in Europe this coming weekend.
The new car, which features TOYOTA's ground-breaking four-wheel drive hybrid technology, has completed over 25,000km of testing.
Some important decisions concerning the technical regulations governing the LM P1 category as well as the sports regulations in the LM GTE categories.
Audi R18 e-tron quattro represents multiple optimization of light-weight design.
The Swiss driver joins the Swiss team for the WEC and Le Mans.
Toyota Racing drivers look forward to 2014.
Toyota to challenge Audi and Porsche in the FIA World Endurance Championship and at Le Mans.
Nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen drove the 2014 challenger from Place des Jacobins to the 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit for a fantastic media event.


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Originally Posted by
Ross K
A good session this AM.
99s just wasn't doing it for me with Xcite (a bit underwhelmed w/ the string TBH.) Same story as I often get with this frame - erratic and not quite sure what's happening out there generally LOL, but very nice in certain respects.
So... I just seem to find something too much to my liking with the Blades, especially re the particular solid impact feel, that I may well jettison the 99s all together. I also made a point today of really trying to allow the frame to do the work, which seemed to yield some positive results. I noted serve (and blimey, the loud pop sound was a thing of intimidating beauty today!), manoeuvrability and in general things have improved more than a bit. That said, I've a way to go still in terms of responsiveness from the b-line. Also, the ball can die on me on occasion (a spectacularly lame death as well) and can leave you puzzled and embarrassed. I am also finding the ball consistently traveling at a slightly lower trajectory than I prefer. For some peculiar reason I seem to be getting slightly more in this dept with my gold/black. All of which sounds bad, but I don't really see it like that, and as I say, I will probably be saying goodbye to 99s.
BTW, I was playing with same gut/poly set up I have in my gold/black in my 16x19 today. End of this week I'll be getting my other 16x19 back strung w/ TB @ I think it was 46/44. Let's see what that does.
Oh yeah... Rich, cheers for getting back on my query ^.
Ross...seems like to came to the same conculsion as I did, but you just needed to get the playing time in to do so. I play 3/4 times a week, so I was able to figure it out faster.
I am really loving the Blade 104. Fit's my game very well. I use a lot of droppers, lobs, slices and feel shots, along with groundstrokes and winners when they are there and the 104 seems to fit this style of play very well.
I think you would like the regular 99 though, but it's tough to beat the Blade98. If you are happy with it, I would make that your #1.
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