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Review by xenodolf
"Bittersweet Reunion."
The first three games in the Splatterhouse series came along at a decent enough pace. The arcade original in 1988, followed by the Genesis sequels in '92 and '93 respectively. Then for whatever reason, Namco put the series into cryostasis and we've had to wait over 15 years for the next installment - and it almost didn't happen (remember how many development parties were changed in the making of this?). Due to the intense shift into technology at this point (and gamers' taste), the majority of Splatterhouse 2010 plays in full 3D/360 and underwent significant combat upgrades (even more extensive than those seen introduced in Splatterhouse III). How has this remake / re-imagining felt in the eyes of someone quite fond of the classic trilogy, and how does it measure up to today's brawler standards? Read on..
Story 5/10
One of Splatterhouse 2010's biggest fumbles is its shifting away from the 16-bit era of story-telling into the more cinematic methods of modern gaming. Before I start pointing fingers at all the flaws in this area of the game, I suppose I'll mention the silver lining of the cloud. Rick actually resembles a college-age student this time around, instead of grungy janitor (that his portrayal in the first two games might have you believe). Packaged into a kind of nerdy metal-head presentation, Rick somehow manages to hook up with a goth hottie (the long-suffering heroine Jennifer) we all know is way out of his physical league (what is this, a Judd Apatow movie?). The two of them wander into the West estate (as in the original game), and are violently separated by the crazy Dr. West and his legion of underworld denizens. Dying in a pool of his own blood, Rick makes the choice to rescue his girlfriend by embracing the Terror Mask (in Splatterhouse tradition) and endowing its tremendous powers of body-altering strength and regeneration. While this all sounds pretty decent and faithful to the old script - there are several grievances I have with the new version of the storyline. The Terror Mask talks to Rick.. and not in the minimalist way it did in Splatterhouse III, but rather - we have pages upon pages of largely juvenile and scenery-chewing dialogue that does to the game's atmosphere in a way best described as having Andrew Dice Clay in The Exorcist. On top of that, Dr. West is given a much larger purpose this time around - and unfortunately that means a bunch of boring back-story and romantic whining that erodes the urgent pace to stop the sacrificial role in store for Jennifer. While I wouldn't call the plot horrible, it goes to show that even with the perk of being able to cram more story-related material into a game - you've got to know how to keep things in sync with tradition and avoid cluttering up something as basic as the concept of a vengeful boyfriend and his damsel in distress.
Graphics 8/10
Splatterhouse rounds out a few notches above the industry norm in the graphics department across the board - but where it really shines is in its presentation of violence. The 360 certainly has its share of bloody and gory games (Hokuto Musou, Bayonetta, the Gears of War, Rogue Warrior, the Dead Risings, Saw I & II, and Soldier of Fortune: Payback) but few of them touch upon the sheer volume of red fluid and polygonal gibs. The screen is constantly smeared and peppered by blood, with the yanked and sliced off heads and limbs of enemies not only littering the environment.. but actually becoming weapons. Not only are the demons fodder for such punishment - Rick himself takes damage over time (skin is ripped off, exposing bone, muscle and organ) and can lose an arm if he's significantly injured. While the normal hack, bludgeon, and beating violence associated with the typical brawler game-play is brutal enough - the intensity of the finishing moves are in a category of their own. Don't look away as Rick stretches open mouths to the breaking point, strangles monsters with their own tails, or actually reaches through the anus of a creature and pulls out its intestines. Environment-wise, things look pretty much as I expected they would: a dusty mansion interior intermixed with stages that appear to be mostly or entirely organic. I've always been more fond of the latter - and while you'll see plenty of pulsating walls and sludge-covered surfaces, the potential for a Silent Hill-esque "living hell" setting doesn't quite materialize as effectively as today's technology could render. The enemy designs (when lifting from creatures found previous installments) look pretty good - you'll see an assortment of skinless things with splayed claws and bared fangs along with series favorites like the suspended fetuses, spasming bore-worms, and the bag-wearing freak with the two chainsaw arms. Some of the enemies and stages don't really appeal to me (like the dark carnival / evil clowns - which weren't in the previous games and are a cliche in themselves) and some of the bosses weren't interesting enough (like the junk-accumulating doll giant). Rick and Jennifer were given make-overs (as mentioned in the story section of the review) which come off as pretty decent updates - and Rick's "rage-form" now resembles the "rage-form" from The Suffering games instead of a bulkier version of Rick's usual muscled self.
Sound 7/10
I didn't notice the soundtrack much except for on two occasions. The first is when they inserted some generic sounding black and heavy metal songs into the various battles you fight against the hell-spawn, and the other time being the interesting 16 bit-like tunes that played during the side-scrolling levels. The former I could have done without, even if that's the kind of music that 2010 Rick would be listening to these days - as I would have preferred a traditional spooky soundtrack (something like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, or even syncopated ambient noise). The old-school style of music was greatly appreciated though, and I almost didn't want to finish the side-scrolling levels because of the retro-score. Voice acting (the first instant in the series) has its ups and downs. Rick and Jennifer sound pretty much as you'd expect college kids these days to come off as. Dr. West's voice annoyed me a bit - but it was actually the talking Terror Mask that I almost found myself wanting to mute. Aside from a couple of good lines, most of his banter spoiled the mood and was just plain diarrhea of the mouth. To be honest, rather than coming off as an ancient blood-thirsty presence or some manifestation of Rick's Id and Ego - I just imagined some swarmy taxi-cab driver running his mouth into a recording mic. The noise of combat came off pretty solid - with crisply recorded sounds of ripping flesh, crunching bone, tearing sinew, and hefty splats of slime and entrails hitting the floor.
Control 10/10
Believe it or not I couldn't find any flaws in the handling of combat or the platforming segments, with no lag present or any kind of cumbersome input issues glaring up in the least.
Game-play 7/10
As with the rest of the elements of the Splatterhouse remake, game-play this time around brings back familiar staples from the original trilogy but expands on them heavily and incorporates a lot of new ideas and concepts. One of the minor issues I had with Splatterhouse III (my favorite installment of the series) was that the use of weapons was less significant and the ability to smear enemies across the walls with such objects ahd been entirely removed. Splatterhouse 2010 now has more weapons than ever - ranging from "old reliables" like blades, bats, and shotguns to newly-inserted organic items such as decapitated heads and severed limbs (that of your own and defeated enemies). Painting the environment with corpses you sling across room with a powerful swing of a weapon has also returned, and you can do this in both the 3d levels and the side-scrolling ones. Rick's "rage-mode" (introduced in Splatterhouse III) has been upgraded from simply souping up the damage of combat to turning Rick into a killing-machine that destroys cannon fodder in a single attack, makes short work of elder demons, and can even put the hurt on bosses. The majority of the game-play follows suit of the modern God of War-like 3D/360 brawling and hacking (I'd say, 65%) with the occasional giant boss thrown in that you'll need quick-time events to finish off. As a treat to the old-school Splatterhouse fans, several levels take place in a left-to-right perspective of traditional side-scrolling combat just like the first three games. While you can't perform any kind of elaborate fighting techniques in these stages, their simple but uncluttered nature of the makes you wonder how the game would have been received if entirely done like this and released as an XBLA game instead of $60 full-blown retail title. The platforming elements from Splatterhouse I and II return here, and before you brace for my usual gripes about how I hate that kind of stuff in a beat 'em up... it actually doesn't really bother me here. In addition to jumping over pits and rolling beneath crusher machines - you do a bit of puzzle solving. Of course, when I say puzzles - I mean shifting barriers by impaling demons onto spikes and such straight-forward tasks. Killing enemies this time around nets you blood (the currency of the game) that can be spent on upgrading Rick's stats and unlocking combat abilities. If things are sounding pretty good to you, like me say that from a glance.. Splatterhouse 2010 could be the best entry in the series in terms of game-play. However, on closer inspection the flaws swell up to the surface and hover over the game-play content like a whiff of spoil about a savory meal. For starters, the loading times are perhaps among the worse I've witnessed on the 360 with over 300 titles beneath my belt. When I'm playing games like Mass Effect or Fallout 3, I can understand that it takes time to load up massive environments with tons of specific items or events you have altered from the original design. Nothing in Splatterhouse 2010 even remotely approaches that scale - we're talking about 45 seconds load times even for the minimalist side-scroller levels and the largest stages in the game are nothing out of the ordinary themselves. So, I want you to imagine what I had to deal with.. falling into a spiked pit or getting killed from a powerful enemy attack, and having to repeat all that - waiting through the load times with each and every occurrence. The check-points need some work too, as the last level had me throwing my controller against the wall every time I defeated the first-half of a boss and ended up having to restart the entire previous 3 minutes of the level when the second half whips me into an instant-death chasm. Splatterhouse 2010 also makes the error of including some non-skippable cutscenes during such aforementioned segments, meaning even more time is wasted before I even get back to where I died. While I liked most of the normal combat against the regular hordes of enemies, I think that the boss battles lack the intensity and generally interesting nature of the basic beat 'em up action. Instead, have you avoid getting stomped while you wait for your rage-meter to refill - and it can't compete with similar set-pieces like those found in God of War, Prince of Persia, or Bayonetta. Lastly, the game has some issues with certain enemies running away from you while making all the other monsters on-screen invincible until you repeatedly catch up with the fleeing demon to damage him a bit before it skirts away again. With all the development tug-of-war drama Splatterhouse 2010 had prior to finally being release, I think that Namco became impatient with the release of their long-await title and didn't want to run a few months more of analysis and polish onto it before it hit the market. I think that was their biggest mistake - as a wise man once said that a good game may see months or even years of delay.. but a rushed product will sit in the shadow of its own hype forever.
Replay value 8/10
It will take several play-throughs (or a bunch of grinding in the survival mode) to unlock the full ability-tree Rick has. This allows for an evolving sense of power and the benefit of being able to mess around with newly-unlocked moves and perks before finding something that fits your style and the situation at hand. Splatterhouse has a number of collectibles - which I usually dislike having in games, but at least here finding all the pieces of a Polaroid will get you a view of Jennifer's well-rendered "goodies". The aforementioned survival mode is a half-dozen arenas that pit you through 20 waves of increasingly difficult enemies with weapon and health/power-up spawns keeping the flow of violence on-track. I like the first three or so of these arenas, but after them the battles become longer and less interesting due to more durable enemy defenses, less treats before and after each round. There are achievements tied into this mode as well, but to earn them you'll have to rush through the fight to unlock the S-class rating - and perform a bunch of mundane battle assignments for the other trophy. But let's face it - the real reason you'll be putting Splatterhouse repeatedly back into your 360 disc drive lies in the fact that the entire classic trilogy of games in included. Even people who already own the second and third installment for the Sega Genesis will be pleased that the fully uncensored original arcade game that started it all (yet was never given a proper port) is in the bundle. Having the three survivor-horror brawlers neatly packed together means that even if you hate the new game - you'd be a fool to pass up buying this anthology at some point when the price comes down.
Overall 7/10
Is Splatterhouse a worthy addition to a coveted franchise built on the principles of ultra-violence, horrifying sights, and brooding atmosphere? Yes and no. I think with another month or two of polish (and some aesthetic tweaking) Splatterhouse could be spoken in the same breath as its prequels, especially the first and third installment. As it is now, it is a serviceable return to the realm of ethereal suffering, gore-strewn mansions, and parasitic demon masks - and I think that a healthy portion of hardcore fans of the series and beat 'em up fans unfamiliar with the older games will be accepting of this new title, warts and all.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 01/03/11
Game Release: Splatterhouse (US, 11/23/10)
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Course Syllabi
The Collaborative Initiative in Environmental Health has funded the development of these courses taught at collaborating universities. The syllabi are attached as pdf files. The project collaborators also offered a variety of seminars and workshops in various university-wide, regional and national venues for several hours or day-long duration. These are listed under section 2 below.
1. Courses Developed and Conducted at Collaborating Universities
- Research Ethics with Underserved Groups; Linda Silka, UMASS-Lowell, Fall 2004 (online course). This course draws on experiences of a variety of research partnerships in African American, Latino, Native American, and refugee and immigrant communities. Students develop an in-depth knowledge of how to build research partnerships that overcome frequent ethical dilemmas. This course was first developed and taught in 2002.
- Community-Based Environmental Health Methods for Research Intervention and Evaluation; Doug Brugge, Tufts University. This intensive five-week course focused on community-based research, the formation of partnerships and the ethical considerations that arise in this field. The course was developed in 2002 and is now being offered on a regular basis.
- Community-Driven Epidemiology and Environmental Justice; Steven Wing, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Spring 2002. This semester-long graduate course presented topics on research ethics in the field of public health and epidemiology; particualry for research ethics with African-American and other environmental justice affected communities.
- Community and Environmental Health Research Ethics; Dianne Quigley, Syracuse University. New ethical research practices with community populations stress partnership and participatory models with community members. Working in partnership and sharing control over the research process can lead to significant new challenges in the scientific practice of community and environmental health research. Such challenges include community rights and "community informed consent". This course will explore how bio-medical research protections for individuals can be extended to groups and communities by reviewing case studies in participatory research and ethical theories of virtue ethics, communitarian, liberalism and post-modern ethics.
2. Recent Short Courses and Seminar Presentations:
- Phil Brown at Brown University offered four monthly seminar series for faculty/students, Spring 2005. Sample Topics included: The Nature of Community, Researcher Bias.
- Three sessions from project collaborators on "Community research protections" at American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., November, 2004 (D. Quigley, L. Silka, D. Taylor). These included "Community Research Ethics" (project team) and "Lessons on Community-Inspired Ethics" (D. Taylor) in the APHA Ethics Forum, 2 presentations; Community Ethics and Biomonitoring in the Breast Cancer Forum.
- One presentation at Breast Cancer Biomonitoring Conference, San Francisco, CA in Oct. 2004 for "community research ethics" (D. Quigley).
- Oct. 2005, CA State Health Dept (public health/environmental epidemiology researchers). "Understanding Communal Ethical Frameworks" for improving community research protections (D. Quigley).
- One presentation on "Postmodern Contributions to Ethics" for dealing with Native American tribes at "Genetics and Group Rights" Conference at Arizona State University, October 2004 ( E. Wallwork).
- "Health Disparities" (S.Wing), AMA, Duke U., March 2005.
- Genes, justice, racial inequalities, Minority Health Leadership Summit (S Wing) January 2005, U. of Pittsburgh
- Linda Silka offered a one-day national on-line short course on "Research Ethics with Underserved Groups," January 2005
- D. Quigley, "Combining Indigenous Knowledge Systems with Western Science Research Practices: Understanding the Ethical Nature of Matter," European Society for the Study of Science and Religion" (ESSSAT), April 5, 2004, Barcelona, Spain
- D. Quigley, "Embedded Knowledge", American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2004.
- S. Wing, "Community-based Research Ethics", EPA, Boston, May 25, 2004.
- Silka, L. "Transforming Experiences: When Host Communities become Home Communities," Memory, Identity and the Cambodian Spirit in Diapora, Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, May 2004.
- Niem Kret, Jessica Henry, D. Quigley, "Improving Dialogues for Research Ethics in Environmental and Public Health" Report on Conference Outcomes," Crossroads Conference, Institute of Community Research, June 2004.

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In an interview with The Australian Financial Review at the miner's Melbourne headquarters yesterday, Mr Kloppers also raised BHP's concerns with Labor's carbon tax, saying it was not a clear or simple price signal.
Mr Kloppers has been reluctant to comment publicly on the industrial relations debate despite six months of industrial action at BHP's Queensland coking coalmines.
But with days lost from industrial disputes now at a seven-year high, the head of Australia's biggest company said he was concerned the changes to the law had made it easier for workers to take protected strike action.
"At the same time, it has broadened the range of issues that can be put on the table because the regulations around prohibited content are not the same," he said. "That means negotiations are more complex. In a tight labour environment like we've seen, that leads to fairly protracted discussions."
Corporate Australia's dissatisfaction with aspects of the Fair Work Act has intensified since the union action and grounding of the Qantas fleet in late October.
The Queensland dispute between the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance and workers centres in part on issues such as the company's rostering decisions and its use of contractors.
It has also been complicated by broader opposition by unions and some local communities to the spread of fly in, fly out mining operations that can create family problems and lead to a dispersed, less unionised workforce than those concentrated in regional towns.
Despite the industrial dispute, which has caused rolling stoppages at six of BHP's Queensland coalmines, Mr Kloppers said the state was still a good place to invest even with the federal government's recent imposition of a carbon tax.
Although BHP supports action on climate change, Mr Kloppers said the carbon tax did not meet all of the company-preferred six principles of a simple system with a broad-based approach that involved clear price signalling, revenue neutrality, trade friendliness, and a clear and gradual transition that he outlined in a speech in Sydney last year.
"Trade friendliness, simplicity, a number of those things, if we test where we ended up, we felt purely from a parochial point of view taking our principles, we haven't got full alignment," Mr Kloppers said.
Asked whether he thought regulatory and environmental risk was increasing for BHP's new Australian projects, Mr Kloppers said that in Queensland, business had become easier under the Labor government. "If I look at what the present Queensland government has done, historically it was very difficult to create new infrastructure in Queensland, because the ownership structure of the mines versus the ports versus the rail made it very difficult to co-ordinate things," he said.
"Under the current Treasurer,
BHP is the preferred developer of a new coal terminal at Abbot Point capable of exporting up to 60 million tonnes a year and has plans to build a dedicated railway from its Goonyella mining hub to the port in a state where QR National has traditionally owned the railways for coal haulage.
In its results briefing in August, BHP indicated its Queensland rail and port project would cost more than $US5 billion.
Mr Kloppers has said that having an integrated mining, rail and port operation would make operations more comparable to its more efficient iron ore operations in WA's Pilbara region. BHP recently approved a $US4.2 billion project to build a new Caval Ridge mine and expand its Peak Downs mine.
Mr Kloppers said BHP's expansion projects in coal would be focused on the northern end of the Bowen Basin – near its planned railway line – because the quality of the resources there was higher than in the southern part of the Bowen Basin.
"In the past, each mine had its own development sequence," he said. "What we are now doing is just like in iron ore, we take the whole basin, we look at the highest margin product and we do that first and so on."
Analysts have been surprised this year by the high capital cost of adding extra production at BHP's Queensland mines, leading many to conclude the company is expecting a higher long-term coking coal price than the market forecasts.
Mr Kloppers said it was vital to recognise that not all coking coals were of the same quality and the product from new mines would fetch the highest prices in the industry.
He added that the long-term price of coking coal could depend heavily on forecasts for the strength of the Australian dollar because the nation was by far the largest exporter of the product to the global seaborne market. Analysts issue commodity price forecasts in US dollars.
"Certain categories of metallurgical coal are almost an Australian-dollar denominated produce in that the inducement price of met coal in Australia will set to a very significant extent the long-run prices," Mr Kloppers said. "And clearly if the Australian dollar is lower, that long-run price will be lower. If the Australian dollar is higher, the long-run price will be higher."
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Finding the lost good object: The poetry in psychoanalysis
What's happened to good, old-fashioned psychoanalysis? No one talks about being "on the couch" anymore. Instead, they talk about SSRIs, CBT, EMDT or DBT. The couch has taken a back seat to more modern therapies — a development driven as much by managed-care dictates as by truly dramatic advances in the fields of neuropsychology, biopsychology and psychopharmacology.
But a visiting poet on a recent wintry night reminded his audience of at least one marvelous way in which psychoanalytic theory of yore is still doing its good work in the world.
Poet and writer Kim Stafford, the son of poet and writer William Stafford, was in town Jan. 27 to mark the 100th anniversary of his late, great father's birth during an event at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis. About 150 well-bundled people arrived to hear Stafford read his father's poems — and perhaps to catch an echo of the elder Stafford's austerity, wittiness, and deeply transcendent vibe.
In coming to understand his father's work, and even his own, Kim had taken a page from the work of Stuart C. Averill, M.D. (1924-1996), a Menninger Clinic psychiatrist who had applied "object relations theory" in the treatment of his severely traumatized patients. To put it simply, Dr. Averill had found success with patients through "recovery of the lost good object" – that is, through "recovering a preverbal experience of the 'good mother.' " This meant helping patients reclaim a forgotten or lost positive experience, so that they could reinvest in the world through new "objects," which could be anything from a particular person, a particular place or a meaningful relationship.
Kim saw that the act of writing (for himself and for his father) held the same promise.
"Writing a poem ... is a way of distilling the best we have from the past and from present thought," he said after the event. "Many things are taken from us, debased, destroyed. But by writing, by seeking to describe, evoke, bring to life the best we have, we find a way to survive loss by cherishing what remains."
Robert Burns and bagpipes
Dr. Averill was a World War II veteran and the son of a World War I veteran. His father's war trauma and post-war treatment for testicular cancer precipitated and/or exacerbated mental health issues, triggering episodes of violence, "dementia praecox," depression and psychosis.
The family was shattered, and Averill's mother, who once sang and recited Robert Burns' poetry in celebration of her Scottish heritage, became silent and joyless. Averill was just 7 years old.
As he matured, he gravitated to the field of psychiatry to "fix the world as he wished he could fix his father," said his son, Thomas Fox Averill, a writer and teacher at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan.
Dr. Averill's family trauma and his own unexpressed war trauma might have truncated that dream but for the fact that, in order to become a psychoanalyst, he had to undergo psychoanalysis himself. It was through this process that he discovered an even more compelling motive to heal himself and others.
"He realized he had lost his 'good mother,' " Thomas Averill said. "And he had to go back and find her if he was ever going to work out his relationship with her or be happy."
The "good mother" sang and played "Tam o'Shanter" at the piano and spoke in the Scottish dialect of her parents, who were both from Burns' country near Dumfries and Ayr. The "good mother" had been loving, present, generous and loyal. As he reclaimed these memories of her, Averill took up bagpipes and began reading Burns' poems out loud in the Scots dialect to his wife and four children. "This was all very surprising to us kids," Thomas Averill said. "We didn't even realize we were Scottish."
In an essay for the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, published posthumously in 1997, Stuart Averill wrote: "I could be in touch with my own warmth and good cheer once again, and I could mourn what I now know had been lost but not gone forever."
Spaceship and a moo-cow
To illustrate the efficacy of "recovering the lost good object," Stuart Averill tells of several patients in his 1997 essay. Perhaps the most compelling is the story of Sam, a 4½-year-old boy who "terrorized his mother, ate dirt, was encropetic at times, and appeared to be antisocial toward all his peers."
Averill describes long hours of tornadic play, in which Sam literally climbed the walls, "with my standing by or catching him as he climbed from chair to doorknob or windowsill." Little was known about the etiology of Sam's behaviors, but Averill operated on a hunch: "I began by telling him that I thought he once had something good but had lost it, and [that] it made him so mad that he wanted to make everyone, including me and his mom, suffer for it."
Over time, Sam and Averill began to engage in more imaginative play, constructing a spaceship with office furniture and available toys. "We took a journey to a planet far away and he was very hungry. I was to play moo-cow and he was able to get all the milk he wanted to drink. We played this game for several days. I said that maybe he had found what he was looking for."
Sam's play shifted, he became "more loving and polite," and ultimately "able to feel loved again."
The account is very touching, not only because of Sam's apparent recovery but also because of the time and patience Averill invested (by today's standards, not exactly "cost-effective"). Not to mention Averill's intuitive sense that Sam had lost something good and that he needed to get it back.
"And that's what my dad was writing about, really," said Thomas Averill. "You have to rebuild from a strong point. Rather than seeing yourself as a set of problems, you see yourself as someone who once was connected and once was loved. And you can love other people again. And you can love yourself again."
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In 1997, Kim Stafford and Thomas Averill met in Oregon, where Stafford lives and where Averill was giving a reading. They shared stories about their deceased and renowned fathers. They spoke of the challenges of being fathers themselves.
They spoke of their fathers' lost good objects, and their own lost good objects. And how important it is to recover one's own story.
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Psychoanalysis old and current
Psychoanalysis continues, but rarely in the "classical" form practiced by early disciples of Freud. It has continued to develop in various ways, and in full-blown form: for example by Winnicott, Fairbairn and Sinclair in Britain (the "Object Relations" school) and by Heinz Kohut in America ("Self Psychology"). As Sarah Williams indicates, the development of various medications, behaviorist therapies, HMO's, etc., and the reluctance of medical insurance plans to pay for extensive "talk therapy" (not cheap) has both broadened the field of treatment and restricted it. Psychiatry has become largely diagnostic and medicative, with talk therapy mostly conducted by clinical psychologists and social workers.
Various studies have shown the value of psycho-dynamic talk therapy, however, including when used along with medication, and the influence and tradition of psychoanalysis continues throughout much talk therapy. Brain research has tended to support a model of mental structure derived from Freud (though not about "Eros", "Thanatos," etc.), and Freud, himself a physician, would not have argued against a physical basis ("predisposition") for patients' ailments. It should be noted, however, that times have changed in another way: classical "neuroses" are a relative rarity now, and "personality disorders" are the rule of the day.
And for those who wish to change through understanding of personality, psychoanalysis remains the gold standard.
Psychotherapy worked for me right from the beginning
In 1991 I had a tumor removed from my right frontal lobe. This caused me to develop bi-polar illness. Within a week of my hospital release I developed severe depression. I ended up having 3 suicide attempts. The doctors couldn't figure it out. They put me in the psych ward for 30 days and tried me on numerous medications. It wasn't until they introduced lithium into my system that I snapped out of it. They immediately declared that I had developed bi-polar illness. I still felt depressed though. They introduced me to a great psychiatrist who saw me on a weekly basis. After a few months of not snapping out of my depression she said to me, "Mike, unless you stop treating yourself as a victim and see yourself as a victor there is nothing I can do or say to you that will help you." From that point forward my depression lifted. I changed my outlook on my life and I haven't suffered from depression since. In fact I later found out that I was allergic to anti-depressants. They made me manic to the point of being delusional. In fact, one morning I woke up & I could feel the ground shaking below my feet. I ended up phoning everyone in the family to announce that it was the end of the world and that we should all get together. My father brought me to the emergency ward of the hospital where I had been treated. They quickly gave me a shot of an anti-psychotic in the rear. The shaking stopped within minutes. They told me to tell my psychiatrist to put me on a regular dose of anti-psychotic medication. She then put two & two together and realized what the anti-depressants were doing to my system. I haven't touched anti-depressants since. Instead I'm on Tegretol, a mood stabilizer as well as valproic acid, another mood stabilizer. BUT... I still suffer from the mania. I often stay up all night long on the computer. It ruins my next day's activities. No solution to the mania yet! I'm very tempted to go off of medications slowly but surely and rely on some good old fashioned psychotherapy. I did say slowly. I'm looking for a good psychiatrist who will help me in that regard.
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A series of archive photographs illustrate the life of Jews in the region from 1935-38
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Oregon candidates for governor John Kitzhaber and Chris Dudley met September 30 in what may well be their only debate before Election Day. They were asked about their different takes on economic issues, tax policy and the environment as well as the experience they each bring to the table. Some of the questions were submitted by the public.
Republican Chris Dudley is an investment adviser, and a former center for the Portland Trail Blazers. He currently heads a foundation for children with diabetes. Democrat John Kitzhaber is a medical doctor, who served two previous terms as Oregon's governor from 1995-2003 and currently leads a healthcare advocacy organization. A poll over the summer showed the two candidates neck and neck. A recent poll still reflects a close race, with Dudley pulling ahead by a few points.
The Dudley (pdf) and Kitzhaber campaigns announced different debate schedules, which only overlap on two dates. One was the KGW debate Thursday night; the other was their September 25 joint appearance at the League of Oregon Cities conference in Eugene. The two candidates did not directly respond to one another's remarks at that forum and the questions were provided to the candidates in advance. That leaves one formal debate between these two candidates on the calendar. Some members of the media contend that that is simply not enough.
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If you could ask the gubernatorial candidates anything, what would it be?
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Chiefs quarterback Aaron Murray fell to round five in large part because of a torn ACL suffered last year at Georgia. So are there any physical limitations with Murray because of the knee?
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Like all rookies, though, Murray needs the work.
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The stock for Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) has plummeted to below 2 cents per share. About a year ago, the company stock was hanging on to about $3.19 per share and dropped rapidly. Mel Karmazin the current CEO of the combined satellite companies said he was planning on cutting costs for Americans to acess the service for $0.43 per day. ?Forty-three cents a day ? it?s not even vending machine coffee,?stated Karmazin at the time.
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If Sirius goes bankrupt, it would be the second largest Chapter 11 of the year. The company has $5 billion in assets including the satellite technologies. That is shortly behind Smurfit-Stone, a company with $7 billion in assets. Sirius XM has never seen a profit even when both companies were independent of each other. Now they have $3.25 billion in debt.
The automotive industry taking a hit has a direct correlation with Sirius' failure. Many of the new cars on the market are Sirius XM-ready. If consumers aren't buying them, they won't have access to the satellite radio unless buying the peripheral device.
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EchoStar, a TV company may end up pushing the takeover Sirius as they already have bought some of the satellite radio company's debt at $400 million worth. Once Pulse 2.0 finds out more, we'll report it in the coming weeks.
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Restaurateur Marika Hayek and The Grand Budapest
Restaurateur Marika Hayek has been delighting patrons with her hospitality, humour and dependable Hungarian cooking at the Budapest Dining Room and Tavern, in one incarnation or another for 60 years. Recently, Hungarian Consul-General Dr. Stefania Szabo celebrated Hayek's landmark achievements as a successful business owner and pillar of the London community. Hayek is no stranger to such fanfare. She is greatly admired and well-loved by her many friends and customers.
Hayek arrived in Canada in March of 1957. She was part of a wave of Hungarian immigration to Canada that occurred after the 1956 Hungarian revolution against communist rule. Between 1956 and 1958, an estimated 200,000 fled to the west to avoid Soviet reprisals, leaving their possessions behind. Around 38,000 Hungarian refugees arrived in Canada. About 6,000 of these refugees arrived in Ontario. Hayek was among them. All were admitted and accepted into Canadian society within a two-year period. The impact of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the mass of emigration of Hungarians who consequently arrived in Canada forms a watershed moment in Canadian History, which helps to put Hayek's formidable achievements into perspective.
A trained cook in Budapest, Hayek was drawn to the hospitality business when she arrived in London. Initially, she was employed by Mosky's Delicatessen on Dundas Street at Waterloo. Always thinking ahead, Hayek bought the building that housed Mosky's even before she purchased the delicatessen from its owners. That transaction included the Giant ice cream shop next door. In 1968, she and her husband merged the two storefronts into one premises. Ripping out the interior they refurbished the basement and main floor areas to build the present-day Budapest Restaurant.
A formidable hostess with an aptitude for the business and exacting standards, the fledgling restaurateur embodied the height of Eastern European elegance and sophistication. By the early 1970's, the Budapest had become one of London's most popular dining destinations
Photographs and mementos line the walls and the bar.
Over the years the Budapest has evolved but its interior remains virtually unchanged by time. The Gypsy-style aesthetic has become both an anomaly and anachronism. But the décor is classic Hungarian. The restaurant with its plush red velvet valances and curtained alcoves, red and gold wallpaper, comfortable arm chair seating, and quality furnishings evoke old-world tavern charm.
For decades Hayek's routine has been to rise before dawn, have breakfast, exercise, and until just recently, swim laps in her indoor pool. She has always liked to arrive at the restaurant early in the morning to begin her workday. Hayek says, that everything on the menu is made in-house, and she still has to oversee and help prepare a wide variety of authentic Hungarian foods for which she has built her reputation.
Always on hand, with a gracious "please come in, my lovely peoples" or "my lovely ladies and gentlemen" she charms her patrons effortlessly, engaging them with her well-rehearsed repartee. Dispensing risqué banter and a devilish sense of humour she attracts a long list of local luminaries and a loyal clientele of long-time regulars, whom she knows by name.
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Sequim bonds for City Hall project on the market
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Sequim officials were set to meet with financial advisers and bond underwriters today about issuing bonds for the new municipal building's construction after the City Council unanimously approved the issuance of up to $11 million in bonds Monday night.
"By Thursday morning, we should be in the market," Alice Ostdiek, the city's bond counsel from the Seattle firm of Foster Pepper, told the council Monday.
The city plans to build, beginning next year, a new 34,000-square-foot City Hall and police station.
The bonds will be the first general obligation bonds ever issued by the city. They will be marketed by D.A. Davidson's Port Angeles office.
After a July 12 presentation to ratings firm Standard & Poor's in San Francisco, the city received a AA- bond rating.
"That is remarkable for a city this size," Ostdiek said.
The resolution passed by the council to issue the bonds set a cap of $660,000 on the annual payment the city will make to repay the construction loan.
Costs of City Hall
The new City Hall is expected to cost $15 million in total.
The city has spent $1.6 million in buying property and for consultants. Another $3.4 million will be taken from the city's cash reserves.
Utility funds will be tapped to pay for portions of the building that will be used to house their departments.
The bonds will be repaid from several sources: $225,000 from a public safety tax approved by voters in 2012, which raised the city sales tax by 0.1 percent; $200,000 from elimination of current rent for city office space, including the police station inside the Sequim Village Shopping Center at 609 W. Washington St.; $75,000 from the real estate excise tax; and $160,000 from current excess budget capacity.
Architecture firms are now working on designs for the building. Those designs are expected to be finished late this fall.
City Hall zoning
The council also unanimously passed changes to downtown zoning regulations aimed at loosening restrictions on the new City Hall's design.
Those included restrictions on roof style and metal facades.
Chris Hugo, director of community development, said the regulations were impediments to building an "exciting, iconic downtown civic building."
Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Joe Smillie can be reached at 360-681-2390, ext. 5052, or at email@example.com.
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Change in political landscape realigns Mena hospitality sector
Dubai: The city emerged as the only one in the Middle East last year to achieve an increase in hotel occupancy and RevPAR (revenue per available room — an industry benchmark for performance), according to Ernst & Young's (E&Y) Middle East Hotel Benchmark Survey for November 2011.
While Dubai's hotels recorded a four per cent increase in occupancy (at 79 per cent), revenue notched up 4.5 per cent growth in the period from January to November over the same period in 2010 to Dh632 million. The average room rate (ARR) in the hotels, however, dropped by a slight 0.2 per cent to Dh797 from Dh799, according to the E&Y estimates.
"Dubai is the sole tourist destination in the region that has shown a rise in both occupancy and RevPar, with a very slight decline in room rates. Dubai has been successful in attracting a larger share of the GCC tourism market as well as penetrating the US and China markets more effectively as it is considered a stable and open market, boosting overall performance figures," Yousuf Wahbah, Partner and Head of Mena (Middle East and North Africa) Transaction Real Estate at Ernst & Young, told Gulf News in an emailed statement.
He added that despite the large increase in the number of rooms in 2011, overall RevPar has not been affected, which proves Dubai's "magnetic attraction" as a tourist destination.
Political instability
Elsewhere in the region, Cairo and Bahrain hotels led the year-to-date declines last year in room occupancies, with drops of 36 per cent and 29 per cent respectively, negatively affecting hotel RevPar in these markets considerably, according to the E&Y survey.
"This was primarily due to the political instability," Wahbah said.
Further, the year-to-date decline of 11 per cent in Beirut hotel occupancy can be attributed to multiple factors, including political upheaval in neighbouring countries and better rates and values in the EU due to the softening of the euro currency, Wahbah said.
"Despite average room rates in Beirut falling an average of 14.1 per cent, occupancy and tourist arrivals have lagged behind, pointing to the fact that Beirut needs to provide more security to tourists and attract visitors from new and more diverse markets," he said.
In Abu Dhabi, hotels saw revenues dropping by 6.2 per cent to Dh161 in the 11-month period from Dh172 in the same period of 2010, E&Y said in the report.
Occupancy in the UAE capital's hotels, however, inched up two per cent to 76 per cent. And, average nightly room rates declined 8.6 per cent from Dh232 in 2010 to Dh212 last year.
Owing to the political tensions in Egypt, Cairo hotels were the worst sufferers in the region, having witnessed the biggest falls of 39 per cent in occupancy levels and 52.4 per cent in room revenues, while Dubai's hotel apartments saw the region's biggest increase in occupancy at 83 per cent.
"An analysis of the year-to-date and monthly performance numbers for hotels in the Mena region point to a continued realignment in the regional hospitality market caused by three key developments: changes in the political landscape, increased availability of rooms due to new builds coming onto the market and an overall shift in tourist demography," Wahbah said.


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"I'm very excited to have been appointed to lead the organization's growth," said Hoven."difm.com has an impressive depth of talent and capabilities, a strong client base, and a wide-open $250 billion global market opportunity. My goal is to build upon these strengths, drive revenue growth in our existing markets, and build commercial success in a range of new service areas and markets."
difm.com enables manufacturers, suppliers, ecommerce and traditional retailers to easily integrate the marketing and sale of in-home services into their online and in store advertising which then allows consumers to conveniently purchase services with one simple step.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome John on board at difm.com inc. His experience in this field will be a wonderful addition to our company," said Manish Madan, managing director. "We have developed a winning formula through our global teamwork which is designed to reinforce the strategies and structures that have shown to be successful in our operations. John offers the unique blend of drive and creativity, combined with executive management experience, that we are confident will take difm.com® to the next level," added Madan.
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CCTV cameras installed by Caerphilly council have monitored and helped deal with a total of 2,326 incidents in the last year.
These include thefts, the supply of drugs and anti-social behaviour, with 985 DVDS of recorded evidence provided to help with police investigations.
The local authority has also received 1,649 requests from Gwent Police to monitor specific areas, with the cameras becoming a key tool in its fight against crime.
There are now over 150 in use 24-hours a day and the council announced that two more are to be installed- at Pantside and Gelligaer because of their success.
Each camera costs between £18,000 and £30,000 to install and are monitored constantly, with two people on duty for each shift.
These keep an eye on areas including business parks, leisure centres, town centres and residential areas- with thefts of lead from roofs and tools and equipment from work areas plus the supply of drugs examples of incidents reported to the police with arrests made in the last year.
There was also an incident last year where a woman was spotted unconscious behind a Blackwood pub in very cold weather. An ambulance was called after the CCTV camera picked her up and she then spent a few days in hospital recovering from hypothermia.
The council's cabinet member for community and leisure services David Poole said the CCTV network plays a "vital role"
He said: 'In making the area safe and said he hopes the new cameras will "help increase levels of community reassurance".
Cameras also allow operators to warn people through a speaker system that their behaviour is being monitored- something that has helped diffuse potentially dangerous situations.
Help buttons have also bee installed in known trouble hotspots such as Blackwood bus station, which allow control room staff to zoom in and offer advice to anyone feeling at risk through an intercom system.


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CCU student wins Paul Rice Poetry contest
As the winning poet, Widdifield will receive a $100 gift certificate to the CCU bookstore and 25 copies of the broadside, which will be produced by the end of the semester in an edition of 100 copies.
Final judge and poet Doug Van Gundy praised Widdifield�s work as �seemingly effortless� with �clear and simple language.� Gundy also said, �As a reader, I feel that something has been shared with me and trusted to me�It is the rare poem that draws me as fully into its world as this one does.�
Gundy teaches creative writing, Appalachian literature and humanities at West Virginia Wesleyan College. His first book of poems, �A Life Above Water,� was published in 2007.
�The Art of Walking� broadside will be available in the coming weeks. To acquire a copy or obtain any previous broadsides, contact Dan Albergotti at 843-349-2420 or email@example.com. A donation of $1 per copy is requested to help support future competitions.
The Paul Rice Broadside Series was created by the CCU Department of English in memory of the late Paul Rice, a poet, CCU English professor and songwriter who died in 2004.


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Hungary in focus
In recent years, Hungary has been a constant concern for anyone interested in European politics and Eurozine has published extensively on different aspects of the Hungarian situation. Ahead of the Hungarian elections in 2014, we have collected some of those articles dealing with both recent developments and broader issues relating to Hungarian politics, history and culture.
This collection of texts puts into perspective how, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary's democratic reforms were held up as an example to the states of central eastern Europe. Twenty years later, the political process suffered a sudden reversal following the election in 2010 of the Fidesz government under Viktor Orbán. Now the dismantling of Hungary's political and constitutional system continues.
However, the focus also includes a series of responses to serious unrest on the streets of Budapest in September 2006 after the then Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted to downplaying the scale of the national debt in the run-up to elections earlier the same year.
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The dam has burst. Yasser Arafat today accused the Israeli government of an "act of war" and urged Palestinians to "prepare for battle". The Palestinian president's sabre-rattling came in an interview with Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, which quoted him as saying that "Netanyahu has declared war on us and we have to prepare for what will come. The situation is serious."
It's not as if we didn't see this coming, according to TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. Freezing up to two-thirds of the Palestinian Authority's revenue � Israel's attempt to force Arafat to crack down on Islamic militants � was bound to backfire. "What it is actually doing is antagonizing (Arafat)," says Beyer.
TIME's Jamil Hamad reports the Israeli crackdown is making the lives of those in the West Bank and Gaza hellish. "It's clear that a peaceful solution is becoming less and less popular every day because of such policies," says Hamad.


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Watercress was recently declared the healthiest vegetable, according to a recent report from the folks over at the Center for Disease Control, who tested vegetables by measuring the concentration of 17 vital nutrients in a 100 calorie serving.
Watercress won by a milestone with a perfect score of 100, with Chinese cabbage (91.99) a close runner-up. Here are ten delicious recipes that feature the leafy, green nutritional powerhouse (and none of them are a detox watercress soup à la Paltrow).
Pan Seared Sausage with Lady Apples and Watercress
Grilled Steak Sandwiches with Marinated Watercress, Onion, and Tomato Salad
Chicken and Watercress Salad with Almonds and Feta
Grilled Chorizo, Goat Cheese, and Watercress Pita Pizzas
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BODEN PARTY: Ainderby Steeple Primary School is hosting a Boden clothes party on Thursday March 13 to raise funds for computer equipment. The Friends of Ainderby Steeple School have organised the event. The school gets a percentage of all orders placed and there is a 20 per cent discount for customers plus free gifts. There will also be a raffle of a £50 Boden voucher and refreshments. The event is between 3.30pm and 9pm for more information contact Fiona on 07851 385888 .
RACE NIGHT: A race night is being held in aid of Crakehall Under 5's and the friends of the village primary school on Saturday March 8 at the Greyhound Inn, Hackforth. Tickets are £5 and include food. A tote betting system will operate with prizes for each race and a best dressed lady of the evening competition. Local businesses have sponsored the event .


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After spending the last few months juggling a full time job and going to school part-time, I am looking forward to relaxing and actually enjoying life this summer. I'm trading my textbooks for bathing suits and I already have a few things planned.
In June, I will take a weekend trip to Connecticut to visit one of my friends from college. I love visiting her because her because her suburban life is so different from the life I lead in New York City. She has a large house (I can probably fit my entire apartment into her kitchen) with a big back yard where she's going to host a cookout. I know the food and drinks will be delicious and she's planning to end the night with a movie projected onto a sheet that she will hang on the side of her house. It's called a walk-in movie which she said to think of as a drive-in movie theater without the cars. FYI, I didn't know drive-in movies actually existed until she took me to one during of my last trips to Connecticut.
I celebrated the end of my school exams by booking a trip to Mexico. In July, I will spend a week at an all-inclusive resort on the Riviera Maya. I'm going to gorge myself on the all-you-can-eat cuisine and cocktails. If and when I manage to tear myself away from the buffet table, I'll probably spend the rest of the time lounging on the private beach or at one of the nine pools. I'm sure I'll be good friends with the bartenders at the swim up bar by the end of the week. I've promised myself not spend the entire week eating and drinking – The Mayan ruins, snorkeling and windsurfing are also on my to-do list and my travel buddy will make sure I check a few things off.
Before any of those trips, I'm going to kick off my summer right here in New York City at Smirnoff's Stir Up Your Summer event. Stir Up Your Summer will take place at TENOVERTEN nail salon in TriBeCa on May 21st. The hosts promise manicures, sushi and Smirnoff Sorbet Light cocktails, oh my! I'm really looking forward to this because love getting my nails done and with the exception of the DIY-mani I gave myself a few weeks ago, they have not seen a bit of polish in a few months. Adding sorbet flavored cocktails to the manicure experience will make it absolutely fabulous. I'll post a recap of the event right here so make sure you check for it next week.
Food, friends, travel, manicures and cocktails are a recipe for a good time and the next few months will be just that. What are your plans for the Summer of 2013?
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Kendrick Lamar – The Relevant Lyrics
Reporting live, Compton California
The good kid
I'm tired of doing it
the same way, gotta flip it before I ruin it
Make it all make sense 'fore you put your two in it
Opinions get thrown out the window with Ron Browz
So turn me up loud so the world can hear
And when your favorite rapper rapping you should cover your ears
and go death, go death I said
Go death and stay dead, a shot to the forehead to kill 'em
But I ain't here for no ignorance
I'm militant as Martin Luther King and a penalty
Aiming for my dreams till a bullet bounce off
one of my deep thoughts and hit a nigga in the spleen
I've got in it my genes, you probably think I'm talking bout a pistol
but I'm talking bout the blood of a warrior
My nigga, what you worry for? I ain't tryna jock your swag
I'm tryna better my craft and stay relevant, yeah
As time flies, hope that I'm soaring
Far from the boring, I'ma
tell you why, it's important
I'm not the boring, I'ma
If I think and act like you do
the world will die from not seeing something new
And if I don't speak on how I feel
the world will lose out on what's really real
And if I should die before I wake
I pray my music could take my place
in the world… The Relevant
I'd rather you call me that
than a typical artist you call wack
on a YouTube blog holding ARs and stacks
of ones, but never could be the one
to rally communities or lead a crowd of blacks
Passion is too strong, I'm pissed off
So there's a chance you get pissed on, R. Kelly was in the wrong
But that don't make you an exempt
That don't make you a no-go from hitting the fence
You ain't a blood and damn sure you ain't a crip
The crowd yell "hoe" but I ain't a pimp
I'm me, I'm free as a five-finger discount
See you on the flip side right after I dismount
If I ever feel like I ain't pushing myself
I'll find a cliff, then push myself off the edge
like a barber at the tip of your head
That's how I settle it, life or death if I ain't relevant, nigga
So feel free to not mind me
if you're used to boosters, drug dealers and shooters on wax
Cause most of y'all niggas fabricate facts anyway
I could easily cheat and let the four-four play like a two-on-two orgy
But I've been there and it bores me
Got to the point where it did nothing for me
At forty I want to afford not to record bullshit in my story
And I'm mad young, so I'd rather do it now before my career's done
This is pain plus glory, victory is here
If I cried, you could see strength and pride in my tears
I do it for the kids
I do it for the twenty-three hour lockdowns doing time in the pen
And my pen is the only thing I got for Hip Hop to change the game
and they'll remember my name as The Relevant
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Diffuser.fm Radio: New Music This Week
At Diffuser.fm Radio, our frighteningly brilliant online station, we're hooked on new music. This week, we've pumped up our playlist with six fresh jams, and as you might expect, we've made variety our top priority. If you have ears and a heart, you'll find something you like.
First up, L.A. octet the Mowgli's make a beeline for that part of your brain where songs get stuck. If you can listen to their tune 'San Francisco' and not hum it for the rest of the day, you're a human marvel. The same goes for 'Dance All Night,' the latest from good-time Philly rockers Free Energy.
Less catchy but memorable all the same is Alt-J's 'Matilda,' which reminds us why these British rockers won the Mercury Prize. Staying in the U.K., Northern Ireland's Two Door Cinema Club give us the sweeping 'Next Year,' an appropriate pick, given the recent holiday.
And for all the aging hipsters out there, we've got two choice tunes from indie rock vets. Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, hits us with 'Silent Machine,' while the pride of Hoboken, Yo La Tengo, regale us with the best seven-minute song we've heard in at least 14 minutes: 'Ohm.'
Hear all six — as well as hundreds of other essential tracks — by clicking the link below.
(Diffuser.fm Radio is also available via the mobile app radioPup. Click here to download.)