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Young, Neil
Neil Young 1945–
Canadian songwriter and musician.
Neil Young has been a major force in rock and roll since the debut of the Buffalo Springfield in 1966. Before that he had toured small clubs in Canada as a folk singer. With Springfield, Young emerged as an imaginative lyricist and guitar player. After the break up of the Buffalo Springfield, Young began preparing for a solo career. In 1969, he released Neil Young, which disappointed those who knew his work from the Buffalo Springfield days. Young then met a group of musicians known as the Rockets. Renamed Crazy Horse, they played with Young on his next album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Although better than the first album, it was not very successful commercially. Young then joined Crosby, Stills & Nash, at Stephen Stills's request. Young's music, basically a different style from CS&N's, added a new dimension to their sound.
After the Goldrush was released in 1970, and is generally conceded to be Young's finest work. Suggested by many reviewers for album of the year, After the Goldrush was rock and roll with a touch of folk music and poetic lyrics. With the works after this album, however, Young's popularity and commercial success suffered a definite drop. Young ventured into filmmaking with his retrospective Journey through the Past. The sound-track, released under the same title, was somewhat more successful than the film. Tonight's the Night is a starkly depressing album, expressing Young's bitterness over the drug-induced deaths of two friends and coworkers.
Yet there were still many strong Young followers. As Young expressed it: "Somehow, by doing what I wanted to do, I manage to give people what they don't want to hear and they still come back." Young's music is influenced by his own experiences, and because his lyrics often mirror his life and career, many of his followers picture him as a melancholy loner. Young feels the phrase, "rust never sleeps," the title of his latest movie effort, reflects his whole career—always being beyond the latest release, trying to keep a good thing from going bad. For Neil Young, constant change and keeping one step ahead of his public is the essence of his work.
- Paul Williams
- Bruce Miroff
- Richard Williams
- Alan Lewis
- Ellen Sander
- Richard Williams
- Bruce Harris
- Alan Lewis
- John Mendelsohn
- Alan Lewis
- Jim Miller
- Michael Watts
- Bob Sarlin
- Bud Scoppa
- Stephen Holden
- Dennis Fine
- Janet Maslin
- Dave Marsh
- Wayne Robins
- Bud Scoppa
- Kris Nicholson
- Michael Watts
- Ken Tucker
- Allan Jones
- Fred Schruers
- Paul Nelson
- Allan Jones
- Paul Williams
- Mitch Cohen
- Steve Simels
- Stephen Demorest
- DAISANN McLANE
- Ken Tucker
- Patrick Carr
- Simon Frith
- Allan Jones
- Paul Nelson
- Kit Rachlis
- Tom Carson
- Noel Coppage
Paul Williams
Buffalo Springfield … is a lovely, moving experience. You have to be into it, however; chances are you won't even like it on first hearing. All the songs seem to sound alike…. There are certain samenesses in the Springfield's material, and if you hear them on one of their rare off nights, you'll be quite bored. But what the Springfield does is rise above these samenesses, employing beautiful changes and continually fresh approaches within their particular framework. The more you listen to this album and become familiar with it, the more you'll see in each song. (pp. 47-8)
But the album, despite it all, is beautiful. Every track on it will entrance you, at one time or another. "Clancy" will probably be first—both melody and lyric hit very hard, and once the rhythm changes and the phrasing sink in, you're done for. The objectivity of the song is heartbreaking: "Who should be sleeping that's writing this song/Wishin' and a-hopin' he weren't so damn wrong?" Straightforwardness—with a sort of implied understatement—is characteristic of the Springfield. (p. 48)
"Flying on the Ground" is the song that knocks me out the most just now. It's an unassuming little love song that walks all around the edges of rock's oldest clichés and comes away quietly fresh. (p. 49)
[Neil is a talented songwriter] quite apart from writing for a specific group—[his] songs would surely be recorded, though not the same way, if there were no Buffalo S…. [Neil is] capable of unusually clever lyrics, song structures and changes that work well, and light, effective melodies. (p. 50)
Paul Williams, "Bleshing: Buffalo Springfield" (originally published under a different title, in Crawdaddy, March, 1967), in his Outlaw Blues (copyright © 1969 by Paul Williams; reprinted here by permission of the author), E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1969, pp. 41-57.
Neil Young is fresh in the biz as a folk soloist…. His style marks a new Canadian approach also employed by Ontarian David Rea and others. Mannerisms show influence from Bob Dylan's surrealistic period, circa "Highway 61 Revisited." However, the strong feel for the country remains a binding factor between the "new" and "old" schools.
"Another Wave of Pop Style Setters Begins Streaming Down from Canada," in Variety (copyright 1969, by Variety, Inc.), May 28, 1969, p. 59.
Bruce Miroff
In several respects [Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere] falls short of [Neil Young]. Young's new material is a little disappointing…. [The] lyricism of the first album can only be found in faint traces here. But despite its shortcomings, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere offers ample rewards.
The most interesting tracks on the album are "Running Dry" and "Cowgirl in the Sand."… The lyrics [of "Running Dry"] are a bit over-dramatic, but the music and vocal manage to transcend them, creating the feeling of a dimly understood tragedy.
On "Cowgirl in the Sand" everything works. The lyrics are quietly accusative.
Bruce Miroff, "Records: 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'," in Rolling Stone (by Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. © 1969; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Issue 39, August 9, 1969, p. 36.
Richard Williams
Neil Young's "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" was far and away the standout of the otherwise undistinguished first album from the late Buffalo Springfield, and through "Broken Arrow" to "The Old Laughing Lady" one has watched the growth of a very individual talent….
I'm certain that Neil Young will continue to knock more and more people out with his unique songs of despair and alienation—and, once in every while, happiness.
Richard Williams, "Stills and Young," in Melody Maker (© IPC Business Press Ltd.), January 10, 1970, p. 5.∗
Alan Lewis
[Buffalo Springfield] produced some of the most distinctive and thoroughly enjoyable sounds to come out of [the West Coast rock revolution of 1966/7]….
[The] Springfield used subtlety, understatement and clean, tight playing as their stock in trade….
Perhaps they were ahead of their time….
Starting with their name, with its echoes of the Old West, they retained a simple, down-home flavour throughout their work—even in songs using unusual structures, time signatures and orchestral arrangements, like their epics "Broken Arrow," "Expecting To Fly" and "The Hour Of Not Quite Rain."…
Neil Young was the voice of the loner. His songs tell of love, loneliness, regret and despair….
The group also managed to tell a few truths about America in songs like "Mr. Soul" and "Broken Arrow." But the message is firmly in their music—not strung around their necks like a millstone like so many groups….
Alan Lewis, "Personal Opinion," in Melody Maker (© IPC Business Press Ltd.), January 17. 1970, p. 7.
Ellen Sander
Neil Young … joined Crosby, Stills and Nash just about the time when their first album was completed…. Young has added a dark side to the group's sound, which partially accounts for the dramatic transition of their music from the first to the second album, Déjà Vu…. (pp. 71, 79)
Déjà Vu … varies a great deal in texture as compared with the first album, and there is an undercurrent of conflict which runs sporadically through the songs, breaking them apart, hurling them against one another, giving the album a sense of being jarred, startled, and, in parts, unsettled….
Neil Young's songs are alone and disturbing, fascinatingly introverted, and more imposing...
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Richard Williams
["After the Gold Rush"] stands up to listening better than it does to criticism….
Certainly, "After The Gold Rush" has its faults … the album is too much a collection of separate and distinct songs to make it acceptable to those who demand some kind of linking thread to run through a record.
Stylistically it lies somewhere between the first and second albums: the arranged tightness of the first is mingled with part of the jamming spirit of the second, and in some cases the result is an ideal blend…. There are … two remarkable beautiful pop songs, a stately minuet called "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "When You Dance I Can Really Love," which is a really happy...
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Bruce Harris
If [After the Goldrush] had been anybody's album but Neil Young's, it would have been an achievement. Indeed, it may seem to be an achievement to that unfortunate majority who know Neil Young only from his work with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and not from the Buffalo Springfield or from his two previous solo albums. After The Goldrush is pleasant enough, but it lacks intensity and genius….
[It is] the first Neil Young album to be anything less than brilliant….
Neil Young could be the most underrated, overlooked, and unjustly ignored record in rock and roll. It is overproduced, overarranged, and grossly overdone, yet for all its excesses, it nevertheless...
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Alan Lewis
The Mona Lisa has nothing on Neil Young. Enigmatic is probably too precise a word for a man whose songs defy any attempt to pin him down.
He is all things to all men….
He is also one of Rock's greatest songwriters, wrapping up small nuggets of truth and pain and beauty in melodies which have the haunting simplicity of songs half-remembered from childhood and lyrics which, like the best songs of Dylan and Lennon, can be interpreted on many different levels.
It is the elusiveness, the mysteriousness, of many of Young's songs which makes them so precious. Because they are not explicit, each listener can interpret them in a way which is meaningful to him or her....
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John Mendelsohn
On the basis of the vast inferiority relative to his altogether spectacular Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere of the two albums he's made since teaming up with Crosby, Etc. (and thus insuring that he'd never again want for an audience), it can only be concluded that Neil Young is not one of those folks whom superstardom becomes artistically.
Harvest … finds Neil Young invoking most of the L.A. variety of superstardom's weariest cliches in an attempt to obscure his inability to do a good imitation of his earlier self….
[On Harvest] Neil's lyrics dominate the listener's attention far more than befit them. Neil's verbal resources have always been limited, but...
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Alan Lewis
Let the buyer beware: "Journey Through The Past" is not The New Neil Young Album in any meaningful sense.
It's a ragbag collection of old Buffalo Springfield and CSNY 'live' cuts, and tapes from the "Harvest" session, seemingly salvaged from the cutting-room floor, all stitched together with snatches of conversation, a bit of community singing, a few sound effects, and a speech, courtesy of President Nixon. There's only one new song.
The justification for all this is that it forms the soundtrack of Young's autobiographical film of the same name. As a souvenir of the film, maybe the album stands up…. But taken on its own merits, this album is messy and frustrating, and...
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Jim Miller
The title of Young's newest record, Journey Through the Past, suggests a selection of tracks from the various phases of Young's career. Unfortunately, the album instead pawns itself off as a film soundtrack, although whether the existence of any film could justify the existence of this record is questionable….
It's sad but true that the best stuff on Journey is by the Buffalo Springfield….
[Some] six minutes of Buffalo Springfield songs and the approximately three minutes of "Soldier" are all that might conceivably edify the purchaser of Journey Through the Past. It is outrageous that this album was ever released. It is frankly exploitive of a faithful...
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Michael Watts
[The title track which opens "Time Fades Away" is Young's] own approximation of Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues."…
It's interested more with the sound of the lyrics and their rhythm than the content, and is taken at a fast clip.
The first two lines will give you an idea: "Thirteen junkies too weak to work; One sells diamonds for what they're worth." Glib, but it's got heat. "Journey Through The Past" is another title song, but from his movie.
It catches him in one of his more lachrymose writing moods, when the combination of his plaintive voice and funeral atmosphere becomes too much….
"Don't you wish that I could be here too?" he sings...
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Bob Sarlin
[Of] all the talents that came together … to form [the Buffalo Springfield], Neil Young is the only one who I believe has come close to artistry in his subsequent writing and performances….
Young's music is simple, and many of his lyrics share this simplicity…. [He] is capable of turning out songs that are ice-clear reflections of the times we're living in and the way young people see them. Most of the songs are very personal affairs, but when Young does attempt a political song, he is likely to come up strong, with a number like "Ohio," on the killing of four students at Kent State University. "Ohio," with its anger and powerful musical stance, is one of the best of the political songs of...
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Bud Scoppa
Time Fades Away has its virtues when taken on its own terms and not as the latest major work of a major artist. Here, Young seems to have consciously avoided the sober sense of importance that accompanied After the Gold Rush and Harvest…. For whatever reason, he's made a startlingly unorthodox album….
More than any of his earlier works, this record shows Young's reticence about being a public figure.
Young's privateness has always been at the heart of his writing and performing, right alongside his staunch moral sense. These two elements have been both his prime virtues and his main flaws. Both elements are evident in this new material, with uneven but...
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Stephen Holden
Since his days with Buffalo Springfield, the shifts in Neil Young's preoccupations have presented a barometer of a generation's attitudes toward itself, reflecting the dissolution of political idealism and, beyond that, the end of the romance of youth itself. Even in such early ballads as "Sugar Mountain" and "I Am a Child," Young gently warned against living with the illusion of perpetual youth, while his childlike vocals tantalized us with the possibility. The pain of facing adult reality at an age and in an era that encouraged prolonged adolescent fantasy comprised the underlying theme of Young's first three solo albums, a trilogy that culminated in After the Gold Rush, perhaps the quintessential...
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Dennis Fine
On the Beach is so uneven in both concept and delivery that it is more than just disappointing, it is, in many ways, disgraceful. For an artist as stimulating as Young to have lost his way musically for so long is enough reason to believe that he may just not "have it" anymore.
To be sure, there are a few moments of brilliance, even on such a sorry recording. When Young launches into "See the Sky About to Rain," visions of the old talent are readily in evidence. (p. 76)
But a song such as "Walk On" easily upsets this fluid feel. An indictment against those who criticize Young for his lifestyle, "Walk On" is its own tomb-builder. Vaguely disguised in a commercial, uptempo...
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Janet Maslin
Tonight's the Night is Neil Young's third washout album in a row…. (p. 62)
[Tonight's the Night was conceived] as one long dirge in memory of Bruce Berry, a member of his road crew, and Danny Whitten, a musician with Young's original backing band, Crazy Horse (both of whom apparently died of drug overdoses)….
[In] the realm of thematic coherence, consider this wail from "Borrowed Tune" …: "I'm singing this borrowed tune/I took from the Rolling Stones/Alone in this empty room/Too wasted to write my own…." Young recently told Cameron Crowe of Rolling Stone that Tonight's the Night was "the most liquid album I've ever made…. You almost need a life...
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Dave Marsh
The successes [on Tonight's the Night]—the ironic "Tired Eyes," the deceptively sweet "Albuquerque," the thunderous "Lookout Joe" and the two versions of the title song—are Young's best music since Gold Rush. Lofgren's guitar and piano are forceful and direct, Ralph Molina's drumming apt on both the rockers and the weepers (the latter driven by Ben Keith's steel guitar). Young's playing, on piano, harp and guitar, is simple but constantly charged.
Still, the album shares with On the Beach a fully developed sense of despair: The stargazer of "Helpless" finds no solace here. The music has a feeling of offhand, first-take crudity matched recently only by Blood on the...
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Wayne Robins
[Tonight's the Night] is an album of resolute drugginess and obsession with death…. But mostly, it is about Neil Young and his nightride into devastation.
The atmosphere Young creates is that of a solitary figure riding through this album like a bad luck John Wesley Harding: a rootless, drug saturated hippie, cruising the west in search of the ultimate burnout….
This is not the work of a detached, millionaire pop star. Young has assimilated the collective unconscious of the knife wielding, gun toting, dope burning street people who populate western towns like Boulder or Santa Fe, the acid casualties of the counter-culture who'll call you brother but kill you for some...
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Bud Scoppa
Neil Young's ninth solo album, Zuma, is by far the best album he's made; it's the most cohesive (but not the most obvious) concept album I've ever encountered; and despite its depths, Zuma is so listenable that it should become Young's first hit album since Harvest….
If Tonight's The Night was bleakly, spookily black, Zuma—Young's "morning" album—is hardly suffused with sunlight and flowers. Apparently, tempered gloom is the brightest this love- and death-haunted epileptic genius can manage these days. But if, as a stubbornly solitary Young proclaims in "Drive Back," he wants to "wake up with no one around," in "Lookin' for a Love" he's still holding on to...
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Kris Nicholson
Ever since Time Fades Away, Neil Young has been expressing himself with a personally spontaneous and haphazard simplicity. He abandoned structure and perfection for a looseness induced by senses that were dulled in order to ease the pain.
At least we can thank him for offering insights into emotionally vulnerable times. The mournful moments were allowed to sound as painful as they were, undisguised by musical perfection—which never really sooths the pain (viz. Joni Mitchell) but merely represses or identifies with it. The bumps, the wrong turns and the loosely recorded music of the last three albums captured the feeling of moments before they passed. Songs were raw because messages...
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Michael Watts
If "Long May You Run" is about anything at all, it is the concern of friendship.
Appropriately, therefore, the tenor of this record is mellow and reflective, especially on the first side, although there is nothing beyond the title song that is actually nostalgic. The mood is that of old pals, long since gone different ways but still mutually respectful, winding down in each other's congenial company…. For Young,… "Long May You Run" will surely not be credited with the "significance" of his last four scabrous, if often melodramatic, albums, and I confess I'm not altogether sorry about that. Since "Time Fades Away," his records, particularly "Tonight's The Night," have included remarkable, if...
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Ken Tucker
Long May You Run is like an old World's Finest comic book: the team-up of Superman and Batman always drained each of his most interesting characteristics. Like Superman, Stephen Stills is a rather muscular lunkhead of a personality; Neil Young's Batman is less heroic—shadowy and darkly mortal. The music on Long May You Run is a collection of each man's puffier and less autobiographical new material….
For both, this is a less personal project, and the straightforwardness such objectivity provokes makes the album very accessible. Less a series of inner explorations than of California observations, Long May You Run includes a diatribe about a hotel, "Fountainebleau,"...
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Allan Jones
["American Stars 'N' Bars"] might not entirely reflect Young's present state of mind, but the emotional polaroids, so distinctively developed here, offer a fascinating series of portraits that capture various aspects of the author's complex personality and his contradictory attitudes to women, love and its defeats and cruel disappointments.
These are the predominant concerns of the songs included here, nearly all of which are marked by a melancholic despair and resignation, made tolerable by the weary humour and stubborn resilience that Young invariably introduces.
Allan Jones, "Young Man of Melancholia," in Melody Maker (© IPC Business Press Ltd.),...
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Fred Schruers
Neil Young's category has often been "painful-listening," but most of American Stars 'n Bars has the kind of easy-beat accessibility that could readily roll across this summer's Mellow Sounds radio. If nasty Neil sounds a trifle lobotomized compared to his dirges on Zuma and On The Beach, at least the relaxation shows up as gracefulness rather than torpor….
Following the simplistic, Buffalo-Springfieldy "Hey Babe" is this record's tour de force: "Hold Back The Tears." The song is Neil's answer to Karla Bonoff's kind of despair…. The feel is almost Norteño—mournful South Texas honkytonk—and the cut encapsulates the droning passion the whole side partakes of: "Two lyin'...
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Paul Nelson
Unless one understands the "On the Beach"/"Motion Pictures"/"Ambulance Blues" trilogy from On the Beach (and "Don't Be Denied" from Time Fades Away), one simply cannot write intelligently about Neil Young. But when one understands these songs, one begins to perceive the exciting possibility that perhaps Young is rock & roll's first (and only?) postromantic. That he knows something that we don't, but should….
For Young, being a postromantic probably means he still loves the war, but knows exactly how and where to invest his combat pay—he may lose it, but never hopelessly….
[American Stars 'n Bars] can almost be taken as a sampler, but not a summation,...
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Allan Jones
Let's make one thing immediately clear, amigo: "Decade" is certainly no mercenary enterprise intended to exploit the dedication of Neil Young's audience. The apparently indulgent and extravagant design of this triple album retrospective is powerfully justified by the impressive authority and diversity of its contents, and the invaluably comprehensive account of Young's artistic development and maturity into one of rock's most individual and arresting performers that it so generously and lucidly offers.
The compilation follows a vaguely chronological course through Young's career, from the precocious adventures of his work with Buffalo Springfield—"Mr. Soul," "Broken Arrow" and, especially, the...
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Paul Williams
That heart of gold he's searching for—that heart of gold I'm searching for—that h. of g. you're looking for—it's not some other person. It's me—it's you—it's Neil Young—it's the heart of gold inside. The untapped vein. I know it's here somewhere.
For me to like a record it has to scratch the back of my brain (never mind the front, I can reach that myself)—it has to touch my heart—and it has to move my blood. That's all.
I like this record….
For me to like a record it has to speak to me, personally, from inside, in such a way as no mere hunk of plastic can, sweat of human brow is not enough, you got to speak for me, you got to speak for me...
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Mitch Cohen
A 1988 undergraduate seminar—American Rock Romanticism 202. The midterm exam question: "Music historian Antoine Ferrand describes the music of Neil Young as 'a body of work that tells us more than we'd like to know about the feelings of despair, betrayal and helplessness that characterized a segment of America during the 1970's.' Using Decade as your primary source, discuss how Young's music over his first ten year period supports or refutes Ferrand's assertion. Be specific (quotes, titles)."
It's that kind of album. Like a Faulkner anthology. And it turns out that Neil Young is a figure to be seriously reckoned with (how else?; he is the most humorless of major rock artists). Decade...
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Steve Simels
Neil remains the only Sixties artist nobody calls burnt-out or irrelevant.
"Decade," his remarkably comprehensive new greatest-hits collection, demonstrates that what many of us mistook for profound change over time was nothing of the sort, but simply a case of our inability to see the total artist, rather than just the facets, as the years went by. There's something here for almost everybody…. If you missed it on "Zuma," "Decade" contains what is in my opinion Neil's masterpiece, Cortez the Killer, a mysterious, almost epic song that evokes visions of ancient empires and raises startling questions about male/female relationships.
All in all, this is a superb...
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Stephen Demorest
Neil Young [is] the thirty-one-year-old loner who for more than 10 years has danced unflinchingly along the edge of that greatest of all precipices, Romance. Young is a romantic whose narcissistic mortification cuts so deep that his music—as evidenced by his latest release, the triple-disc retrospective, Decade—is among the most passionate in rock….
He's a committed malcontent approaching middle age, as indeed the whole rock form is, pressured to abandon the obsessions he has struggled with for so long.
Clearly, Young is a haunted dreamer who finds the world disappointing. In the early Seventies, he was given to overtly political statements …, but his most consuming...
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DAISANN McLANE
Comes a Time is Neil Young's gentlest record since After the Gold Rush….
At first listening, the simplicity of the music makes Comes a Time seem wimped-out. It's not. Usually, Neil Young is most compelling for his musical excess…. Comes a Time, though, stands on its songs, not on the sound; Young has substituted a lyrical chaos for the musical one. What keeps you listening is not so much what's here, but what's left out of the half-realized sentences and shifting imagery.
Comes a Time was originally called Human Highway—a much better title for an album so concerned with passages of life and the ties that bind. Young seems to be a...
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Ken Tucker
Unlike all of Young's work since "Tonight's the Night," "Comes a Time" has a consistent theme that is stated, mused over, and partially resolved over the course of its two sides. The theme concerns his dealings with women and considers the ways relationships can be worked out, nourished, or abandoned. In song after song, Young, oftburned in the romantic fires, considers whether he ought to entrust his love to the woman in question, and every tune comes up with a different wrinkle.
The surprise of this album, given the relentless self-absorption Young has shown on recent records, is how generous he is with all his partners. (p. 136)
Certainly, while this record is as quiet as...
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Patrick Carr
Decade, while being eventful in that it did once and for all establish [Neil Young] as a Major Artist of impressive proportions, also illustrated the fact that his is a vision as consistent as it is clear; he will sing about how it feels to live in this strange and risky world, where friends still die and politics of oppression still operate and love is always hard to live with, and he will do it with none of rock's usual obfuscation or frivolity until they come to take him away.
New-album-wise (Comes a Time), this translates into serious songs about love, a theme with which he was so obviously occupied as one part of a couple at the time the album was made…. It's a smooth job, one of...
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Simon Frith
[For] all Young's Californian convolutions, "Comes A Time" has the romantic innocence of those Sixties folk clubs where I used to sigh over the cool young men who, like Bob Dylan, rooted their personal anguish in the Human Condition, and suggested a life in which, instead of having to go back to school the next day, you could just travel on forever—breaking a heart here, having a heart broken there. Hitching down the highway, lonely city streets, distant mountains, rough seas—all Young's images merging in smoke.
Simon Frith, "Only a Folkie Can Break Your Heart," in Melody Maker (© IPC Business Press Ltd.), October 14, 1978, p. 19.
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Allan Jones
Young is always trying to catch up with himself, to keep pace with his own prolific, quixotic imagination. His albums are often attempts to document his changing moods and perspectives, to offer his latest idea of himself to the world. Thus the fractured chronology of his output, as he constantly reassesses his stocks of material and revises the content of scheduled releases….
["Rust Never Sleeps"] deals most blatantly with Young's obsessive restlessness, the constant need to change, to remain mobile. "It's better to burn out than it is to rust"….
The general mood is reflective; the songs, however, are not all especially memorable. "Sail Away" is only vaguely realised. Young...
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Paul Nelson
For anyone still passionately in love with rock & roll, Neil Young has made a record that defines the territory. Defines it, expands it, explodes it. Burns it to the ground.
Rust Never Sleeps tells me more about my life, my country and rock & roll than any music I've heard in years. Like a newfound friend or lover pledging honesty and eager to share whatever might be important, it's both a sampler and a synopsis—of everything: the rocks and the trees, and the shadows between the rocks and the trees. If Young's lyrics provide strength and hope, they issue warnings and offer condolences, too. "Rust never sleeps" is probably the perfect epitaph for most of us, but it can also serve as a...
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Kit Rachlis
Young's songs often come down to a single moment, a gesture that crystallizes and then breaks the tension, because they depend so much on the vagaries of mood. This undoubtedly is one of the things that Young has found so attractive about folk—the sense it often conveys of being a found music, with tone and atmosphere almost everything. A song could be whipped up on the spot, like a talking blues, and what mattered was not the proper convergence of theme and metaphor, but comic timing. If you were good, the process of making up the song—how long you paused to fit the right word into the rhyme—was as important as the completed song itself. A half-finished verse, a redundant refrain, was valued if it hit the...
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Tom Carson
History is evidently much on Young's mind—the fact that it's the tenth anniversary of Woodstock matters a great deal to him. He first made his legend as an elegist for the Sixties, and one reason why his oeuvre during the long period of willful obscurantism that followed Harvest (1972) didn't loom as large as it should have was that he hadn't found another theme of commensurate scope. For Young, 1979 represents the end of another epoch, and this seems to have spurred him into action. What he's trying to do on Live Rust is to set himself up as a rock & roll Tiresias, sounding warnings for the future, and to somehow tie his songs of the last ten years into a vast and singular history of the...
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Noel Coppage
It's awfully hard to improve on what Steve Simels once said about Neil Young: he may be a bozo, but he's a great bozo. Young has come to mean so much more to many of us than the sum of his talents. Most of the negative stuff said about him is said affectionately…. He's not a great singer or a great guitarist, and he probably isn't even a great songwriter—although he does have a good, strong, healthy, dependable voice as a writer—but there's an extra ingredient that can transcend this technical-prowess stuff, and Young has it. Nobody can quite describe this quality—one can circle around it by saying Young has style and soul, which is true but not the whole truth—but it is easy to recognize. It...
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From the same article. Doesn't make up for what he said right before, but definitely softens the blow, imo.
Phillipss voice trails off as he shakes his head again. Its not in his nature to be serious for this long. But how can someone slap you in the face with all that money? he finally says, the smile returning to its rightful location. Its a nice slap in the face.
In the end, Phillips got more money than is stolen in most heist films and he got to stay in the city hes made his home.
Number one, the fans love me here. I love it here. Its a blessing. It shows that [the team] invested a lot of money in me to go out there and do my job, and to keep representing the Reds in a positive way, he says. I feel like thats the only reason I got that dealif they didnt feel I was important to the city, then I wouldnt still be here.

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With the Major League Baseball draft now in the rear-view mirror, it is as good a time as any to take a look at the state of the farm system of all 30 teams. The minor league season is nearly half over and All-Star games will be starting, so we have a decent-sized sample size to judge players by.
Of course, as prospect fiends know all too well, the stat lines for a player doesn't tell the whole story. Even though a star prospect might not have the best stat line, perhaps he has been dealing with a nagging injury or was pushed too aggressively by his team.
Regardless, thanks to the infusion of talent through the draft, graduations to the big leagues, injuries and performances, the rankings have changed a bit from what my colleague Mike Rosenbaum published prior to the start of spring training.
Here is our post-draft farm system rankings, in ascending order, for each team in baseball.


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jgkojak wrote:1) It contains one of the 10 best Macca tunes of all time, Listen To What the Man Said.
2) It contains one the 5 great Macca vocal performances, Call Me Back Again
3) Everything else on here is 4 star material- You Gave Me the Answer, Letting Go, Love in Song, the title track/Rock Show
4) Even the worst track, Spirits..., would be celebrated if it were part of MAF or this record-- I'd say Spirits is on par with "Get Me Out of Here"
5) I see it as the "last gasp" of Beatle McCartney - after VM, the songs and production seems more modern, some of the detail put into the production of every song (not just the singles) is lost.
Dim the lights and listen to the 5.1 version that came out a few years back (really just a tweaked Quad mix) - it will blow your mind.
See, listening to it when Rockshow came back out in the summer, it just came across as hugely lazy, pot-addled and unfocused. Apart from the opener (which is spoiled on the LP by the weedy production on Rockshow), Call me back and Listen... it just is almost insultingly tossed-off. For me, the fact that all the live versions (bar Listen...) are superior speaks volumes. It's exhibit A for the Lazy Paul prosecution


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New Year's Eve fireworks big plus for Esky
You may have thought it was over, but it appears Escanaba's Sesquicentennial celebration will continue to the end of the year – literally.
Thursday, the Escanaba City Council approved holding a fireworks display at the Municipal Dock on New Year's Eve. The funding for the event – $5,000 – comes from the Esky150 Committee.
Hats off to the committee and anyone else who was involved in this event. If there is anything Escanaba has been lacking it is wintertime community events. We believe a fireworks display on New Year's Eve will be a great way to bring in the new year and mark the end of the city's sesquicentennial year.
Marquette has had a successful downtown-based New Year's Eve event – a ball drop – for many years. It serves as a draw to the downtown area and gives residents one more way to celebrate the new year.
Escanaba's fireworks show will feature a display of 191 fireworks. Fireworks will begin at 8 p.m. According to the city council, this will give people of all ages a chance to enjoy the display. We believe this is the right strategy and makes the display a family-oriented event. Not everyone celebrates New Year's Eve at the bars or with alcohol. This will give many people an alternative way to mark the holiday with family and friends.
Perhaps, as the event draws closer, other activities might be planned around the fireworks to enhance the event and make it more of a draw. Everyone would benefit.
Whether the fireworks display is a one time event or becomes something more enduring, it is a good idea that will no doubt be enjoyed by the community.
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wannalift wrote:Practiced again with the Hornets.
Frostfire wrote:Hey, seems like things are on the up and up all around for you with training lately!
Frostfire wrote:wannalift wrote:Practiced again with the Hornets.
That just sounds fun!
Frostfire wrote:Good stuff, so diverse!
Frostfire wrote: I love that you are working out at work, too
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Drinking right now some Huoshan Huangya from Anhui, China.
Medium body and strong vegetal/sweet aftertaste, pretty good.
The flavor is a middle way between chinese green and white tea, hard to describe.
The method of harvest is one leaf and one bud, do not know if mechanically or hand picked.


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Just about everyone born before 1985 has a Polaroid memory. There was the bulky camera design with its flip-top flash and the little square pictures you shook and shook as the image gradually appeared, ethereal at first, then coming to light—a bit yellowed, but instant. The Polaroid was digital before there was digital, giving photographers instant access to their images. Even Millennials, born in the heart of digital revolution, have a fondness for the old Polaroid, as hipsters tote vintage cameras like a badge of conversation-piece honor.
But Polaroid was a victim of its own making. By giving people a taste for this instant picture-taking gratification, the digital age was sure to come out with something sleeker, faster, crisper and cleaner. And by George, did digital photography change the shape of contemporary life. With pocket-sized point-and-shoots, camera phones that enable just about anyone to become a food blogger and Instagram letting said bloggers share their half-eaten sandwiches with the world—simply put, digital imaging has taken on a life of its own. What's more, Polaroid slept on the digital-imaging market, attempting to get in the game too late. What resulted was bankruptcy, a resurrection followed by another bankruptcy.
Now, Polaroid is on the brink of reinventing itself, again, this time in our own backyard. Recently announced at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Polaroid has partnered with Fotobar to create an "experiential" retail store for photo processing.
"There are currently around 1.5 billion pictures taken every single day, and that number continues to grow in tandem with the popularity and quality of camera phones," says Warren Struhl, founder and CEO of Fotobar. But according to Struhl, most of these images stayed locked within a digital domain, shared wirelessly, but never turned into a tangible, displayable medium, mainly because the process is tedious and often expensive. That's where Fotobar comes in.
What Polaroid Fotobar is doing is nothing new: taking digital imaging stored on a computer, a tablet, a phone or social media platforms like Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and Instagram, and then converting them into something tangible without pixels and a need for electricity. Novel idea, right?
Actually, sort of. Polaroid Fotobar takes a more artisanal approach than established photo labs like CVS or Walgreen. Simply head to a Polaroid Fotobar and wirelessly transmit the photo to a workstation, which acts not only as an ordering platform but also a retouch station, equipped with filters, contrast and brightness control, and other options. Once ordered, printing options run from standards like glossy photo paper and can be framed and matted for professional quality through and through. For the more artistic, options like metal, Lucite, wood, bamboo and canvas make for a unique touch to the image while adding a depth of texture and warmth often unattainable on paper alone. Aspiring photographers can also enlarge their images, making that Instagram snap of the bumblebee on a dandelion a 20-by-20-inch masterpiece.
Polaroid Fotobar's layout vaguely resembles an Apple Store with a stylized and design-driven look. The Delray Beach location, the company's first, is set to open in February with a 2,000-square-foot storefront that will act as a model for future locations, 10 of which are slated to open this year. Additionally, the Delray Beach location will have a space dubbed "The Studio," a multipurpose room deigned to host photography classes, private parties and a studio location for portraiture.
- For more information about Polaroid Fotobar, visit polaroidfotobar.com.


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Veterans FAQ
Will Excelsior College allow me to take classes while waiting for the Post-9/11 payment from the VA?
Yes, payments for courses and fees will be waived based on the percentage of your Post-9/11 GI Bill® eligibility while you take classes. The Department of Veterans Affairs will send payment directly to Excelsior College. Please be sure you fax a copy of your Certificate of Eligibility statement to 518-464-8777 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. If you are waiting for your Certificate of Eligibility, then you can submit your unofficial DD 214 to get started.
For additional information, visit our Financial Aid Support Center.
How do I get my book stipend?
Excelsior College will certify your enrollment status with the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) as a student during the coming term. When the DVA processes your claim, they will make payment to Excelsior College for your tuition and fees and send you your book allowance. The book allowance is approximately $41 per credit with the 100% benefit and prorated for lesser benefits. Note: You must pay for your books and supplies when you order them and you will receive the book stipend from the VA at a later date.
What is the Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH)?
Active Duty Military personnel receive a monetary allowance toward their housing costs because they have to live where the military assigns them. Each area's allowance is determined by the specific cost of living in that area.
Similarly, the Post 9/11 GI Bill will pay veterans a Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) if they attend school more than half time. Veterans receive the same as an E-5 with dependents. Use the BAH Calculator to make example calculations.
Is the monthly housing allowance (MHA) available to students taking classes solely on-line?
Veteran students using the Post 9/11 and pursuing classes through distance learning may now receive the monthly housing allowance (MHA). The housing allowance is half the national average BAH for an E-5 with dependents.
Veteran students who want to receive the full monthly housing stipend must attend college full time. Attendance less than full time but, greater than half time will provide veteran students with a prorated rate housing stipend, rounded to the nearest tenth.
Can I take Excelsior College® Exams (ECEs) and still get the solely on-line MHA?
Yes, but in order to receive the prorated or full time MHA when taking ECEs, you must register for and take exams following the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) mandated conditions below.
It is your responsibility to be sure that the dates you register for and schedule/take your exam properly reflect your rate of pursuit so you can qualify for a prorated (greater than half time) or full time MHA.
The term date reported to the DVA will be the total numbers of days beginning with the date of exam registration, and ending with the date the exam was scheduled and attempted. The "start date" of the semester/term is the day you register for an exam, and the "end date" of the semester/term is the day you schedule/take an exam.
How this affects Chapter 33/Post 9-11 students seeking the Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA)
You must study at a rate, "greater than half-time to full-time," to be eligible for the housing allowance consideration, so it's crucial that you do not register for an exam until you are ready to test in 8 weeks or less from the registration date. If you take the exam more than 8 weeks after registering for an exam you will likely not qualify for the MHA. Active-duty students do not qualify for the MHA regardless of when they test.
- The "start date" of the semester/term is the day you register for an exam
- The "end date" of the semester/term is the day you schedule/take an exam
- For 3-credit exams, students must take the exam within 8 weeks after registering to qualify for the housing allowance
- If you take a 3-credit exam sooner than 8 weeks, you will get a higher payment, but over a shorter period
- If you take a 3-credit exam more than 8 weeks after registering you will not receive a MHA
- The VA will pay the MHA to you after the exams have been completed
For students using Chapter 30, MGIB
Using the exam registration date as the semester/term start-date and the schedule/take date as the semester/term end-date also affects students using Chapter 30 (MGIB), or any other VA educational benefits, because monthly payment rates payments are based on a student's rate of pursuit.
For example, when using Chapter 30 you will qualify for the half-time monthly rate if you test within 8 weeks of registration. However, the DVA will pay at a lesser monthly rate when you take longer to test and you will then lose you half-time status.
How do I receive the full MHA when taking both online and traditional classes?
You can receive the MHA if you take classes from Excelsior College and take a class from a local in-residence, traditional college in your area at the same time. The MHA you receive will be based on the zip code of the local traditional college. All the courses you take must apply to your Excelsior College degree and be approved by your academic advisors. Excelsior College advisors are prepared to discuss the classes you can take in your local area that will apply to your degree while you are taking classes with Excelsior College.
You must be attending college more than 50% or more than half time for the MHA. If you want to receive the full monthly housing stipend you must attend college full time. Attendance less than full time but, greater than half time will provide veteran students with a prorated rate housing stipend, rounded to the nearest tenth.
The course samples below will help you determine your enrollment status:
Taking 12 & 15 week courses:
- If you were taking 12 credits (or 4 classes each worth 3 credits) for 15 weeks, that would be considered full-time (100%).
- If you were taking 9 credits (or 3 classes each worth 3 credits) for 15 weeks, that would be considered three-quarters time (75%).
- If you were taking 6 credits (or 2 classes each worth 3 credits) for 15 weeks that would be considered half-time (50%).
Taking 8 week courses:
- If you were taking 6 credits (or 2 classes each worth 3 credits) for 8 weeks, that would be considered full-time (100%).
- If you were taking 3 credits (or 1 class worth 3 credits) for 8 weeks that would be considered half -time (50%).
Remember, each term or semester, to get the full MHA, you must take classes from Excelsior and a traditional college at the same time at the full time rate of pursuit. Also, the VA will look at every day in the month to ensure that you are carrying a course load of greater than 50%. If you are not taking 51% or more every day of that month than you will not get the prorated housing allowance rounded to the nearest tenth.
How will the VA know that I am taking classes at both Excelsior College and my local in-residence College to qualify for the MHA?
You must request a parent letter from us which we will then send to your in-residence school informing them that we will accept the credits you are taking from their institution. You will need to also provide your in-residence college with a certificate of eligibility on your VA benefit. The VA will then forward you the MHA for which you qualify.
Contact the Center for Military and Veterans Education Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm ET.
Not enrolled:
888-647-2388 ext. 1352
518-464-8500 ext. 1352
Enrolled students:
888-647-2388 ext. 1351
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As have been stated before, least-squares estimators assume that the noise corrupting the data is of zero mean, which yields an unbiased parameter estimate. If the noise variance is known, an minimum-variance parameter estimate can be obtained by choosing appropriate weights on the data. Furthermore, least-squares estimators implicitly assume that the entire set of data can be interpreted by only one parameter vector of a given model. Numerous studies have been conducted, which clearly show that least-squares estimators are vulnerable to the violation of these assumptions. Sometimes even when the data contains only one bad datum, least-squares estimates may be completely perturbed. During the last three decades, many robust techniques have been proposed, which are not very sensitive to departure from the assumptions on which they depend.
Hampel [6] gives some justifications to the use of robustness (quoted in [18]):
What are the reasons for using robust procedures? There are mainly two observations which combined give an answer. Often in statistics one is using a parametric model implying a very limited set of probability distributions though possible, such as the common model of normally distributed errors, or that of exponentially distributed observations. Classical (parametric) statistics derives results under the assumption that these models were strictly true. However, apart from some simple discrete models perhaps, such models are never exactly true. We may try to distinguish three main reasons for the derivations: (i) rounding and grouping and other ``local inaccuracies''; (ii) the occurrence of ``gross errors'' such as blunders in measuring, wrong decimal points, errors in copying, inadvertent measurement of a member of a different population, or just ``something went wrong''; (iii) the model may have been conceived only as an approximation anyway, e.g. by virtue of the central limit theorem.
If we have some a priori knowledge about the parameters to be estimated, techniques, e.g. Kalman filtering technique, based on the test of Mahalanobis distance can be used to yield a robust estimate [25].
In the following, we describe four major approaches to robust estimation.


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4 Overview Data Sheet (PDF, 536K)
Learn how JRun 4 helps you deploy and manage J2EE compatible applications. The new and enhanced features of JRun 4 improved developer productivity, scalability and reliability, and simplfy deployment and administration.
4 Evaluators Guide (PDF, 667K)
Introduce yourself to JRun 4 and discover all of the new and enhanced features in this release. To fully evaluate JRun 4, you'll need to download the JRun 4 Developer or Trial Version.
Technical Review of JRun 4 (PDF, 532K)
Overall, Adobe JRun 4 is a solid solution for many common application server needs. The Macromedia solution includes the essential features for building and deploying J2EE-compatible applicationsincluding load balancing, deployment, and JMX-based architectureyet does not require the complex development skills or significant financial investment inherent in other leading products.
Seybold Group ReportMacromedia Hits the Bull's-Eye
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In this research report reprinted with permission from industry analyst firm Patricia Seybold Group, Macromedia's JRun and ColdFusion MX hit the Bull's-Eye for web services deployment platforms outranking IBM, BEA and Oracle.
4 Technical White Paper (PDF, 606K)
With JRun 4, Macromedia introduces the most innovative J2EE compliant application server in the industry and the most significant release in JRun history. JRun 4 groundbreaking use of Java technologies-like JMX (Java Management eXtensions) for standard-based server management and customization, and Jini for state-of-the-art server clustering-has already been praised by leading analysts and industry experts. This white paper describes the new architecture and some of the key new features of JRun 4.
Highlights for Independent Software Vendors (PDF, 155K)
The JRun ISV data sheet gives details on the key features of JRun 4 that are most important to ISVs choosing a J2EE compatible application server for their commercial software applications.
a J2EE Application Server for
Your Commercial Software Application
This paper explains why ISVs should choose J2EE as the foundation for their application, the top challenges that ISVs face when selecting a J2EE platform, and why JRun provides an excellent platform for ISVs to implement their solution.
4 End-to-End Clustering (PDF, 992K)
JRun 4 comes with a new Jini-based end-to-end clustering architecture that provides the highest level of reliability, scalability, and performance. This white paper describes the benefits of this architecture and how to set up load balancing and failover for your applications.
Using Filters to Dynamically Output Graphics (PDF, 549K)
Learn more about JRun and serlet filters. Servlet filters are new addition to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3.
Using a JSTL in JRun 4 (PDF, 553K)
JRun 4 has full J2EE 1.3 compatibility. One advantage of this is JavaServer Pages (JSP) Standard Tag Libraries (JSTLs), which only run on J2EE-compatible applications servers.
Additional Resources
Using Web Services in Adobe JRun 4
JRun 4 makes it simple to publish and consume web services, which are business functions made universally available over the Internet. By allowing previously incompatible applications to interoperate over the web regardless of language, platform, or operating system, web services create new business opportunities and help companies adapt to changing business relationships. Read this tutorial to learn how you can publish web services and create web service clients in JRun 4.
Adobe JRun 4 Performance Overview
JRun 4 offers superior performance when measured by HTTP request throughput.This white paper describes JRun web performance compared to Tomcat andprovides a web application that you can download to compare performance withother J2EE application servers.
Migrating from JRun 3.x
JRun provides a migration tool for migrating JRun 3.x servers and configuration settings to JRun 4. Although you can deploy JRun 3.x J2EE modules in JRun 4 without using the migration tool, the tool exports many of the settings on which modules depend.
Using Online Help in the Adobe JRun 4 JMC
Adobe JRun 4 includes a browser-based application that provides the website administrator quick access to important information about the site. This application, called the JRun Management Console (JMC), runs on its own server (named admin) and is supported by an online Help system. This tutorial describes the online Help system.


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Tokyo Street Shots: The Living Gallery [TOP 14 of '14]
Editor's Note:
Tokyo Street Shots was by far our most popular gallery series of the past 12 months, and the collections combined amount to AkihabaraNews' 10th most popular content of 2014. Below is the latest installment with links to all 5 collections.
Disrupting Japan Episode 9: Masanori Hashimoto from NuLab (PODCAST)
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Also, I don't understand why the media likes to call Android, the OS for cheap mobile devices. Last time I checked, a SIM-less HTC Desire, SAMSUNG Galaxy S costs about as much as a SIM-less Apple iPhone...
Google Android operating system could become the next Windows, the major operating system for smartphones and personal computers in slate form-factor, according to an executive at a venture capital firm. While the current success of Android is indisputable, it remains to be seen whether the quality of the OS will ever match the quality of Windows.
"Android is the next Windows. […] Most of us will have one tablet and one phone, and maybe one reader. Not every child will have a PC, but every child will have a tablet. You'll have much greater reach in demographics, such as the young and the elderly," said Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, in an interview with Bloomberg.
Google Android is about to become the most popular operating system for smartphones and has all the chances to power the majority of personal computers in tablet form-factor set to be released this year. But not everything is that good about Android: a number of devices, primarily inexpensive models, do not work as advertized or glitch from time to time. By contrast, the quality of Windows is flawless.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, it has failed to develop a truly competitive operating system for mobile devices, which is why Google Android, Nokia Symbian and many others captured the market of smartphones, devices which outsell PCs these days. That said, Android indeed has chances to become the OS of choice for billions of mobile products to be released in the coming years. As a result, it makes a lot of sense to develop software with Android in mind or invest into appropriate developers.
"A significant portion of our investment dollars in the next five years will go to Android. Index may pour as much as $125 million into mobile-related businesses in that time frame," added Mr. Volpi.
Mr. Volpi previously served as the chief executive officer of Joost, a discontinued peer-to-peer TV service. Before that, he was a vice president at Cisco.
Last week Microsoft teamed up with Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones and the company, which basically invented the smartphones. With Microsoft expertise in software and services as well as Nokia's expertise in mobile devices, the two may co-develop an operating system for mobiles that will outshine Android in the next several years. But while Windows is a de-facto standard for PCs, it does not look like Windows Phone or Android will become such a thing on handheld devices due to the fact that nowadays there are too many platform providers and the quality of OS alone does not make it the "golden standard".
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The 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-16) took place in Cancun, Mexico, from November 29 through December 10, 2010. Today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton released this statement:
"Over the last year, the United States has worked with our international partners to build on the progress achieved at the climate change conference in Copenhagen. We have pressed for substantive steps that would advance the vision of the Copenhagen Accord. This month we joined the nations of the world in Cancun for a new round of talks aimed at mobilizing common action to meet the shared global challenge of climate change.
"Today, I am pleased to announce that we secured the Cancun Agreements, a set of balanced international decisions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which represent meaningful progress in our global response to climate change.
"This outcome advances each of the core elements of the Copenhagen Accord: They anchor the Accord's mitigation pledges; build on a system of transparency, with substantial detail and content of International Consultations and Analysis which will provide confidence that a country's pledges are being carried out; launch a new Green Climate Fund; create a framework to reduce deforestation in developing countries; establish a technology mechanism; and setup a framework and committee to will promote international cooperation and action on adaptation.
"The Cancun Agreements represent a balanced and significant step forward. In the days and months ahead, the United States will work with our friends and partners to keep the world focused on this urgent challenge and to continue building on this progress."
Learn more about COP-16 here. You can also read the Secretary's statement here on state.gov.
Nicolas S. in France writes:
I do welcome as well Cancun agreement. US need to continue their efforts. Besides the key elements of this agreement, it would be fine as well not to forget research approach of the climate change issue. Some universities are doing their best already with some research program.It would be good for example if we could think about a global reserach partnership on sustainability.


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Fears and phobias can occur in animals just as in humans. Many times fear of loud noises such as thunder or fireworks can develop after just a single traumatizing experience with these loud noises, VCA Animal Hospitals reports.
Dogs that have a fear of loud noises or certain people or places tend to show how they're feeling through their body movements. VCA reports that dogs may pace, pant heavily or hide, while more severe anxiety may lead a dog to become destructive or aggressive toward its owners or others around it.
According to VCA, sometimes such behavior can be due to a lack of exposure to new things - sound sights and smells - during the important first few puppy months. Dogs who are sheltered and don't have many experiences as puppies will develop a fear of the unknown by the time they are one year old.
To curb such behavior, owners may want to try desensitizing their dogs to their fears by using positive reinforcement and rewards. Giving a dog a treat before, during and after a thunderstorm may help it start to associate the loud noise with rewards, leaving it less afraid, while continually exposing it to noises while in a safe environment may help it understand that the sounds aren't going to hurt.


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From our files: March 5, 2013
March 5, 2003
NEWS: A group of city officials and business leaders took part in a ceremonial wall smashing to signify the start of renovations at the Beh Building (now Central Place Apartments).
SPORTS: Craig Davis, Kyle Egemo and Duran Barlow brought home championships from boxing matches in Fort Calhoun, Neb.
March 5, 1988
NEWS: The Rockwell City Community School Board appointed Tom Maulsby to replace Gary Waetcher, who moved to Fort Dodge.
SPORTS: The Gaels beat Humboldt 58-54 in boys basketball
March 5, 1963
NEWS: Mrs. W.A. Claypool presented "The Sun Shines Over India," a program about life in India, at a meeting of the Up to Date Club.
SPORTS: Algona Garrigan defeated Ringsted 70-64 in a District 6 semifinal basketball game.


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Enjoy a trek in Grand Etang National Park; keep your eyes peeled for wild monkeys and exotic birds. Take a tour of the plantation houses and see their picturesque spice gardens. Lounge on the pristine white sands of Grand Anse or on the silky black volcanic sands of Black Bay. Or dive amongst the mysterious figures of Molinere Bay underwater sculpture park. Or why not indulge yourself, as Grenada is famed for its award winning chocolate.
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This treaty formalized France's financial and military support of the revolutionary government in America. As part of the alliance between "the most Christian King and the United of North America," neither party could conclude a peace "with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other." Text adapted from "Rough Journal Page Documenting Ratification and Final Page of the Treaty of Paris, 1786" in the September 2008 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) publication Social Education.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (131 votes).
In short: oh the wind and rain. Fantastic race almost last but not quite. Will be back next year!Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Awfull weather but a fantastic race with superb organisation and a nice cup of tea and bun at the end!Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Great first half marathonIn full: Good run,good organisation, weather as expected end November. Definitely do it againDate of review: November 29, 2009
In short: My first time at this event and I can't wait for next year's!In full: Thanks to all concerned for making this great event possible- especially the marshalls! Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Pain, rubbish weather, and great organisation, must be a Race New Forest event.In full: As always from the Race New Forest, a well organised friendly event. You can always count on the course being hilly, and downpours. This is sixth event I have competed in organised by RNF and I will continue to.Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Cold, wet, windy, but good funIn full: Weather was appalling, with a big rain shower just before the start, and another storm halfway round the course. Lots of standing water. Good marshalling, chip timing and a warm race HQ made it feel really well organised.Date of review: November 29, 2009
In short: Cold and wet but I think I enjoyed it!In full: This was my first half marathon and it was definitely a challenging course. Shame about the weather as I think the views would have been really motivational. Still finished 5 minutes faster than I predicted.Thought collecting numbers and chips on the day was going to be chaotic but was very impressed with how smooth the organisation was. But why does the T shirt say 2009?I wasn't affected by the headphones saga as I never wear them, but do think the information could have been in the instruction sheet sent out before the event.A big thankyou to the very friendly marshalls who could still cheer me on after standing in the cold and wet for over 2 hours. You probably deserve the medals more than us runners!Date of review: December 5, 2008
In short: Toughest conditions I have ever run in, but the scenery and friendsly faces were worth it!rIn full: The weather was bitterly cold and even two layers of clothing did not help much! Still it was enough motivation to keep going in the (vain) hope of warming up. Struggled with a painful hip and knee from mile 3 so ended up 6 minutes outside my PB. The course is challenging with a few hills but will definitely return. The scenery is beautiful and a special thanks to the marshalls who braved the cold! The New Forest ponies were a special treat, couldn't keep up with them! Travelled to Downton on my own and found everyone very friendly. Even made a few friends along the route and enjoyed a chat over a warm cup of coffee and bun after the race. Showers at the leisure centre were not great though... Other than that, hope to return next year.Date of review: December 4, 2008
In short: Still my favourite, despite one or two minor issuesIn full: This is comfortably my favourite half marathon for the simple reason that it boasts the best scenery I have ever seen in a race and the nice touches (a cup of tea and a bun at the end, and that's on top of the t-shirt and medal).I was intent on just enjoying the event as much as possible this year instead of worrying about my time, but I know people who have managed a PB here so there is some potential.I was a bit bemused by the fact that the t-shirt says 2009, does this mean I can regale my friends with stories of time travel? Will next year's have 2008 on it? I was also a tad disappointed that they had run out of the large sizes, surely there can't be that many runners needing a large?Not sure what all the fuss is about with people being disqualified for wearing headphones, the rules expressly state this is forbidden which is quite normal from my experience, not to mention dangerous if the roads are not closed to traffic.Wonderfully friendly marshals, thanks to all of you for braving the elements, especially the young lady at mile 10 who cheered me on just as I was starting to feel the chill!One small quibble would be that a loud-hailer is needed for the pre-race briefing as I couldn't hear a thing and the crowd wasn't that big.No reflection on the event, but do all the idiots decamp to Downton on the day of the race? A few drivers gave me some rude gestures, and I know some of the locals abused several of the runners last year. There are some sad people out there aren't there?That notwithstanding, I plan to return and return.Date of review: December 3, 2008
In short: Challenging!In full: I enjoyed this race and even achieved a PB! I would recommend taking it easy on the first half as it is very hilly - I went off to fast and never really felt totally comfortable. Overall a testing course but certainly one not to be missed! Date of review: December 1, 2008
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Stock futures were mostly lower Thursday as investors digested the latest Federal Reserve policy announcement and awaited a number of domestic economic releases.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 1 point, or 12.45 points below fair value, at 13,229. Futures for the S&P 500 were down 1.70 points, or 2.18 points below fair value, at 1425. Futures for the Nasdaq were flat, or 4.02 points below fair value, at 2670.
Major U.S. stock averages reversed gains in the final hour of trading on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke answered reporters' questions.
The drop came despite an earlier spike in the major indices after the central bank fulfilled the wishes of the markets for a fresh round of stimulus.
"Monetary policy will remain as much as science and the benchmarks outlined
Stage three, said Green, still looks set to be the second half of 2015.
On the U.S. "fiscal cliff" front, tensions are once again rising as Republicans criticize President Barack Obama's most recent budget plans as unbalanced and said they concentrate too heavily on tax increases on wealthy Americans and not enough on spending reductions.
A spate of U.S. economic releases occur at 8:30 a.m. EST Thursday.
The Labor Department is anticipated by economists to report that initial jobless claims for the week ended Dec. 8 remained at 370,000 and that continuing claims for the week ended Dec. 1 rose to 3.21 million from 3.205 million.
The Census Bureau is predicted to say that retail sales increased 0.5% in November after falling 0.3% in October.. Excluding the auto components, sales remained flat last month, like in October.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to say that producer prices fell 0.5% in November after declining 0.2% in October and that the core data rose 0.2% after being down 0.2%.
At 10 a.m., the Census Bureau is anticipated to say that total business inventories rose 0.4% in October after increasing 0.7% in September.
The FTSE 100 in London was down 0.13% and the DAX in Germany was behind by 0.4% as the European markets assessed the latest comments from the Fed.
On Thursday, European Union finance ministers reached a banking union agreement.
Japan's Nikkei average finished ahead by 1.68% on Thursday thanks to a sharp decline in the yen currency. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index settled off by 0.26% as "fiscal cliff" uncertainties were offset by the persistent outperformance of Hong Kong-listed Chinese shares driven by foreign investment interest.


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Forget About 1999 and Buy Facebook Stock
If you're an investor, you'll hurt yourself more hanging on to bad memories of the dot.com era than you will letting them go. I swear every bear who talks down a company such as Facebook (FB) suffers from post-traumatic stress.
Case in point: The nonsensical Barrons hit piece from September that set a $15 price target for FB. Now we've got at a $30 stock -- up roughly 49% since then -- and visioning Facebook at $100 no longer seems so absurd .
It's not like I didn't live through 1999 to 2000. I was there, in the thick of things, on the ground. I lived and worked in San Francisco for a company that sells sports hospitality packages. I did inside sales. Think of the fantastic Ben Affleck/Vin Diesel movie "Boiler Room." Picture me pitching presidents and VPs of sales while trying to avoid their gatekeepers.
On page two, one of the best movie scenes of all-time from "Boiler Room."
It was a crazy time. I was closing deals left and right because companies, large and small, were spending money like rock stars. That said, we tend to downplay all of the "good" that happened during those days while upselling the "bad."
Lots of people got rich. I'll never forget two of my favorite clients -- former VPs of Sales Woody Shackleton at Foundry Networks (purchased by Brocade Communications (BRCD) ) and Harry Silverglide from the still-independent Extreme Networks (EXTR) .
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Guys like Shackleton and Silverglide became instant IPO millionaires. Plenty of retail investors (like me) chased stocks such as FDRY and EXTR losing money in the process.
You're going to blame a so-called "bubble" because you broke Investing 101 rule number 9, Never chase an IPO ?
An era that saw Webvan and Pets.com go bust also spawned Amazon.com (AMZN) , a company that pioneered an entirely new category and will be around forever. The late 1990s/early 2000s period also fueled other game-changing spaces such as search and social media. I look back on those days with a nostalgic fondness and very little pain, remorse or regret.
No doubt, investors and more than a few entrepreneurs learned some hard -- though incredibly worthy -- lessons, but we needed to go through that chaotic cycle to get to where we are today. And we're in a good place.
Facebook is one of the companies that defines this place, yet the snark people direct at Mark Zuckerberg will not abate. It's another symptom of our sucky society .


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In short: Great race again, and better organised than last yearIn full: This was my second Hellrunner and I'm glad I came back for more! Much better idea having the races on separate days, it meant the course was longer so I felt that I got my money's worth! Parking was well organised this year too. It's a fun race with a great atmosphere, I wouldn't dare tackle it as a beginner because it is very tough and I regularly train on hills but there is a good mix of abilities so if you're brave enough I would highly recommend it. I intend to do it again next year!Date of review: September 12, 2011
In short: Great PB potential - does attract fast runners but looked to be beginners there too. Great for setting a good 10K time.Date of review: November 23, 2010
In short: Great fun but the organisation let it down, and the distance was shorter than advertisedIn full: This was my first time doing Hellrunner and I loved it, would definitely do it again. However, the following areas could be improved: - The race pack lacked information. Maps and a more detailed explanation of the parking arrangements would have helped. - The organisation was poor. Race started late due to parking problems which I suspect was due to overcrowding (perhaps they let too many people into the race), and it was announced that there were two waves - none of this information was in the race pack. I didn't know which wave I was in, or how to get into the first one (which I should have been in based on my times). - The race was overcrowded and bottlenecked so much that I felt like I walked half the way! You don't want to start a race and be walking in the first 100 metres. If they want more people in the race, why not have more waves (and actually inform people about the wave system beforehand!)? - It seems like the distance was shorter than advertised. There is talk on the forums of it falling short of 9 miles, which makes sense looking at my time. With the amount of walking I had to do due to the crowding, I'd be surprised if I got round a 10 mile course in that time.Still worthwhile and one of the best races I've done - it's really different. Just feel that the organisation needs to be stepped up a lot if it is to continue to be a success.Date of review: November 9, 2010
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (63 votes).
In short: Nice and friendly. Well organised. Potentially fast.Date of review: April 30, 2005
In short: Well worth getting out of bed for - even in freezing conditions!Date of review: February 22, 2005
In short: smooth, efficient, fast and a 7 minute PB....yeep-haa!!Date of review: February 21, 2005
In short: Good fun - and I was delighted to smash 15 mins off my PB!!Date of review: February 21, 2005
In short: Very good preparation for London, everything going to planDate of review: February 21, 2005
In short: Excellent first race for a beginner; fantastic atmosphere kept me going; good facilities and organisationDate of review: February 21, 2005
In short: Glorious weather. Great route. Very friendly crowd. Extremely well organised.Date of review: February 21, 2005
In short: Nice course, nice marshalls and nice organisation..In full: Worth running. Starts from an industrial estate, uses back lanes and is flat.Was a bit of a headwind, and can be cold this time of year, but not too bad. Never congested (starts on a wide road), and two lap course (get to see the missus twice)...Will be back next year.Date of review: February 20, 2005
In short: An excellent race.In full: Very, very flat; loads of nice marshalls; no cars to speak of; a T shirt and a fruit loaf for all finishers; lovely sunshine; a great mix of people running. Honestly, what more could anyone want out of a race?Date of review: February 20, 2005
In short: First half for a while, well worth it. I'm glad I dragged myself out of my pit and drove the hour to Wrexham!Date of review: February 20, 2005
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MNMP Presents: Noveller and Zemi17Posted by sequenza21 in Concert Announcement, tags: Manhattan new music project, mnmp, MNMP presents: Noveller and Zemi17, noveller, x-initiative, zemi17
Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP) partners with X initiative to present two extraordinary artists who use technology and media for a multisensory rooftop performance.
Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate, who uses a double-neck guitar with various electronics, and will premiere a new 16mm hand-painted film to accompany her set.
Zemi17 is composer, musician and media artist Aaron Taylor Kuffner, and the co-designer of the 'GamelaTron', the first and only fully robotic Gamelan orchestra. Kuffner controls the Gameltron's 117 robotic striking mechanisms to recreate Gamelan, the ancient tradition of Indonesian gong-chime percussion.
This performance is part of Manhattan New Music Project's Interactive Music Series, which showcases emerging artists who incorporate new technologies and new media. Funding is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Thursday, October 8th
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Attack dogs outside, betrayal inside. Akise plays a dangerous game, gambling Yukiteru's diary and his life. Hinata gambles both her future and the Tenth's. And Yuno would rather just be rid of them all, forcing Yukiteru to make a dangerous choice.
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