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Jun 25, 2009
Scotland's climate bill sets precedent for Europe
The bill passed by Members of the Scottish Parliament sets a target to reduce greenhouse gases by 42 percent by 2020.
BRUSSELS, 24 June 2009 - Friends of the Earth Europe has warmly welcomed the ground breaking Climate Change Bill passed in Scotland today.
Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) today voted for a target to reduce greenhouse gases by 42 percent by 2020 – the most ambitious statutory target in the world.
The vote followed an overwhelming display of support for early action to cut emissions from scientists, Scottish celebrities and campaigners who travelled to the Parliament in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, to lobby their MSPs.
Friends of the Earth Europe's climate campaign coordinator, Sonja Meister said: "With this law Scotland is leading the world in the fight to tackle dangerous climate change. The emission cuts now required by law in Scotland are the first in the world to be in line with what science tells us is needed.
"The EU should now follow Scotland's lead and set equally ambitious targets to help get the international climate negotiations on the right path."
The Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, Duncan McLaren, said: "Scotland played a leading role in the Industrial Revolution, and now we can play a leading role in the transition to a low carbon economy with new green jobs for the next generation.
"Climate justice and climate science tell us we urgently need to make emission cuts of at least 42 per cent by 2020. The technology exists to deliver them. The Scottish Government must now exercise the political will to make it so."
Scotland's Climate Change Bill comes in the same week that the Hungarian parliament took a major step towards the realisation of a climate law. On Monday evening Hungarian MPs adopted a resolution on the preparations of a climate law initiated by the Friends of the Earth Hungary and the Hungarian National Council for Sustainable Development.
Around Europe, Friends of the Earth groups are asking governments to commit to annual cuts in climate changing emissions as part of the European Big Ask. Friends of the Earth's Europe-wide climate campaign aims to get governments and the European Union to commit to legally binding annual cuts in emissions to fight climate change. The Big Ask calls on the European Union to commit to at least 40 per cent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions within Europe by 2020 and 100 per cent by 2050.
Jun 22, 2009
El Salvador: Your planet needs you!
'Your planet needs you! Together against climate change' was this year's slogan for the UN's World Environment day on June 5. In recognition of this Friends of the Earth El Salvador chose the day to begin their Second International Movement of Victims Affected by Climate Change meeting.
The meeting was held in La Canoa del Bajo Lempa community which is in a region frequently affected by floods and droughts.
More than 100 environmental and community leaders from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Chile among others, discussed issues such as the seriousness of climate change from the social and economic impacts to the political causes.
One reason for the event was also to create partnerships with the various groups that attended the meeting. There were movements against mining, dam construction, groups working for food sovereignty and indigenous leaders looking to identify and learn from each others' struggles.
The Movement of Victims Affected by Climate Change (MOVIAC) is an initiative of Friends of the Earth International and aims to give affected peoples a voice. This is of particular importance in Central American where each year the region is battered by hurricanes and floods displacing communities and resulting in many deaths and injuries.
El Salvador was on the receiving end of Hurricane Mitch in 1988 when 400 people lost their lives and more recently Hurricane Stan in 2005 when 32 people lost their lives. Tropical storms also cost many lives each year and the resulting floods can destroy whole communities.
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Friends of the Earth El Salvador believes that in the last few years their government has not assumed responsibility to face environmental problems and has no policies to fight the phenomena produced by climate change.
The group is calling on the new Government to halt the execution of mega projects that destroy ecosystems and displace communities, creating more poverty and environmental vulnerability.
The government cite the global economic crisis for their inacction on climate change, in response to this Ricardo Navarro, President of Friends of the Earth El Salvador said:
"In the scheme of things the current economic crisis is not significant and can't be compared to the environmental crisis to come."
Jun 18, 2009
Bonn climate talks
From June 1-12 2009, delegates from 182 countries were in Bonn discussing key negotiating texts which would serve as the basis for critical climate talks in Copenhagen this December.
Whilst the Friends of the Earth International delegation were stressing to delegates inside the conference centre about the world's need for a just climate agreement in Copenhagen, outside activists from Young Friends of the Earth were making plenty of undiplomatic noise.
At the end of the first week of the conference the 50 young activists from Young Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth International called for the leaders to be "kept behind after school" for their failure to take action to achieve fair solutions to the climate crisis.
Activists wearing masks with the faces of government leaders took their place in a classroom built outside the Maritim Hotel in Bonn. The leaders will be forced to write out that they must commit to reduce their carbon emission by at least 40% by 2020, to repay their climate debt and to promise not to invest in offsets, coal and nuclear.
Friends of the Earth International is critical of the role that industrialised countries are playing in the UN climate negotiations, by avoiding taking action at home, promoting carbon offsetting and other false solutions to the climate crisis.
Claire Prizeman, a Young Friends of the Earth Europe activist said: "Rich countries must do their homework and promise to radically cut their emissions and give up on false solutions like offsetting, so-called clean coal and nuclear if we are to have any hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change. Rich countries have to live up their historical responsibilities and act now for climate justice."
Sam Fleet, a member of the Friends of the Earth Europe communication team was at the conference with Young FoEE where he blogged about his experience. You can read his blog posts below and also watch videos and see photos of the actions that took place, including the outdoor classroom.
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Sam Fleet's post for FoEI:
- Plans are a foot
- Young FoEE, split three ways
- Like a festival without the fun
- The flood is coming...
- Have you done your homework?
- Bingo and beach parties in Bonn
- UN Secretariat 1, Greenpeace 0
- The clock is tck tck ticking
- The flood came
- Inspired, tired and on my way home
- Silence, sincerity and snacking
- Inside the Maritim bubble
- Japan - 8 percent???
- Bonn wrap up: "plugged in"
Jun 04, 2009
FoE campaigner calls for an end to offsetting
Tom Picken, a campaigner for Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland urges delegates at the UN climate talks in Bonn to abandon carbon offsetting and look for real long term solutions to combat climate change.
On June 5, 2009, at the UN climate conference in Bonn, Germany, Tom Picken, a campaigner for Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland delivered a speech on climate change. In the speech, he condemned the practice of offsetting carbon emissions for combating climate change and urged delegates to find a more effective solutions.
Here is an extract of the address he gave
What is the cost if you don't achieve your task? Is it the escalating financial cost predicted?
Is it the 300,000 deaths every year, happening right now, directly the result of climate change - according to Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum?
Is it the political cost that Annex I governments will have to pay back home if they fail to set their own targets – with no-one else to point the finger at and blame?
Or, will the cost of failure be deception? Saying you will act, announcing targets, but then offset this commitment to developing countries that have disproportionately suffered the consequences of over-consumption and currently emit but a fraction of the per capita carbon of industrialised countries?
It is possible to avoid these costs getting worse, but first, this group must finish its task.
The targets submitted by Parties before this meeting are totally unacceptable.
We have clear demands. We demand an aggregate Annex I reduction of more than 40% by 2020 on the table here in Bonn. This is a simple assessment of what science and equity demands, and of what the timetable work plan demands of you.
New commitments however will only have meaning if they are actually achieved, not watered down.
Offsetting has failed – it fails the climate and it fails the people of both developed and developing countries.
Offsetting is used as an excuse for inaction in Annex I countries that carry on polluting business as usual.
Offsetting does not ensure positive sustainable development in, or sufficient financial transfers to, even big developing countries. Offsetting is not the tool for achieving financial and technology flows.
Offsetting cannot be reformed, it must not be expanded; offsetting must be scrapped once and for all.
The ultimate objective of the Convention is to avoid dangerous climate change, not avoid responsibility.
Real targets, achieved for real, now.


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Looks at the life and opinions of the second First Lady of the United States, supplemented with excerpts from her letters to give direct examples of her thoughts.
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The ômade in Chinaö label has long dominated the lower end of the US manufacturing industry, effectively squeezing it out of existence. That's old news. What most people don't know is that China's global reach now extends much further. Chinese companies have entered higher-end marketsùtechnology, financial services, transportation, energyùand are emerging as powerhouse multinationals. In the Shadow of the Dragon is a meticulously researched exposT of the most competitive companies in China. Based on interviews with Chinese business leaders and original case studies, the book provides: ò Profiles of key players ò Insights into subtle yet powerful strategies used to gain market dominance ò An understanding of the Chinese approach to going global ò Analysis of the Chinese way of innovation ò Advice on competing head-to-head or forming alliances with Chinese partners Part primer, part survival guide, In the Shadow of the Dragon is the first book to lay bare the challenges looming ahead.
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Tuesday, May 7
Dear diary,
My heart is heavy. I feel ashamed and guilty. If the law finds out, I could go to jail as a convicted felon. A convicted felon! I wish I had someone to talk to so I could get this burden off my chest.
But gosh knows my sinning was fun.
What a weekend! It was a rainy mess, so I stayed home and brewed another batch of my own peculiar style of homemade beer. I'm not quite sure if it's a lager or an I.P.A. because it turns out different every time; I'm no master brewer heading to Boston to work for Sam Adams. I simply love to brew, just like my neighbor Steve loves to golf.
The difference is the state of Alabama says golfing is OK — but that I have committed a felony because it's illegal to brew at home. To be honest, that makes me feel like a first cousin to dudes who cook up meth in their kitchen. As if.
It's soooo Alabama, isn't it? This state is the only one in America in which home brewing is still illegal. The only stinking one. It's as if we live in some backwater place where people still think if you make a few bottles of beer at home each month that you're automatically giving some to your 15-year-old nephew. Even Mississippi says it's OK to brew a few beers at home. How embarrassing.
A few of my buddies still believe those jokers in the Legislature will finally pass this home-brewing law before they go home for the year. Yeah, right. Fool me once, fool me twice, or whatever they say. How many years has Montgomery skipped over or conveniently ignored a home-brew bill?
I'll believe it when I see it.
In the meantime, I'm not sure what to do. Do I quit my hobby? I'm hurting no one. Do I stop making beer in my kitchen? I'm no criminal, and I do feel bad for doing something "illegal." What if someone rats me out? I've watched those prison shows on TV, and I wouldn't fare well there, if you know what I mean.
Until the Legislature brings Alabama into the 21st century, I suppose I have two choices — keep brewing illegally or stop brewing.
Guess which one I'll pick.
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Joey DeFrancesco: Wonderful! Wonderful! (2012)
B-3 specialist Joey DeFrancesco has enjoyed a long and successful Career; so long, that Wonderful! Wonderful! is DeFrancesco's tenth HighNote release. With Tony Monaco his only real "traditional" jazz organ peer, DeFrancesco pretty well has the market cornered for greasy chitlin' circuit funk jazz cum Italian-American savoir faire. Joined by legends, guitarist Larry Coryell and drummer Jimmy Cobb, DeFrancesco assembles a more than competent organ guitar trio, where the three's empathic understanding makes for a satisfying recital of original and standard material.
DeFrancesco resurrects DeRose and Hill's "Wagon Wheels," from the 1934 Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies. Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins illustrated the jazz potential of the song on his critically noted Way Out West (Contemporary, 1957). DeFrancesco extends this treatment with a building slow burn introduced by Coryell. The organist goes orchestral over Cobbs triplets, while the solo space is Vast, as Coryell begins linearly with moderate single-note flourishes before flexing his chops and approaching Joe Pass velocity, all without missing a beat.
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text: Disney's Live-Action "Sorcerer's Apprentice" Hits Blu-Ray And DVD. Nicolas Cage followed-up this year's "Kick-Ass" with something a lot more family friendly, but just as action-packed. Disney's "Fantasia"-inspired "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is hitting DVD and Blu-ray next week. It'll be released day-and-date with "Fantasia" and "Fantasia 2000" on DVD and Blu-ray, which will make an ideal stocking stuffer for the wannabe sorcerers and superheroes, which star Nicolas Cage said he used to be. "This is the role I've been waiting to do my whole life," Cage said about "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." In the film, Cage plays Balthazar Blake, a master sorcerer trying to defend the Manhattan from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina). Balthazar recruits nerdy Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), as his protégé, giving him a crash course in magic to work together to stop evil forces. The live-action "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is inspired by the Mickey Mouse-starring short of the same name featured in the original 1940 "Fantasia." The 10-minute sequence was expanded with the help of Nic's "National Treasure" collaborators producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Jon Turtletaub. "There are elements of the animation in the movie, but we fleshed out the idea into a two-hour action adventure," Cage said. "We have expanded the idea to present a thrilling magical world to audiences and I'm especially happy because it's a family movie. I liked the idea of entertaining a family without having to rely on murder and guns. We've kept it very positive." The DVD and Blu-ray features outtakes, deleted scenes, and featurettes, including "Fantasia: Reinventing a Classic," which chronicles the development of the film's sequences inspired by the animated short, "Magic in the City," about shooting the big-budget fantasy in New York, and "Making Magic Real," a look at the film's special effects. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" will be available in a Blu-ray and DVD combo pack on November 30th. It can also be picked up with "Fantasia/Fantasia 2000" Blu-ray and DVD combo pack at some stores at even lower price.


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Swimmers set a previously unimaginable 43 world records at the World Championships last month in Rome.
No one is accusing them of using performance-enhancing drugs. Everyone knows why they were going so fast—their new high-tech, full-body swimsuits, which have made kayaks of everyone wearing them.
Or, as past Olympic champion Janet Evens told a stunned swim media during the record onslaught, the new suits have "made a mockery of the sport."
"It's definitely an open wound in swimming right now," Carrie Nixon told me on the phone. When Carrie was growing up in Ouray in the 1990s she won 10 Colorado state championships and set numerous state records. "All of which have been broken," she said with a smile in her voice.
Now Nixon is assistant coach for the men's and women's swimming and diving at the University of Wisconsin. Last year her swimmers put on the new neoprene suits, and they got noticeably faster. "At first you didn't know," Carrie said, "if you were setting a personal best because you worked hard or because of the suit."
Now we know, the suits were a big part of it. In calendar year 2008, when the super-slick, extra-buoyant suits from Arena and Jaked became available, 200 world records were broken. Over the previous 30 years (1978-2008) 190 records fell, an average of just over six per year.
The suits themselves don't float, Carrie told me. But because they are impermeable ("They feel like a very thin wetsuit."), they trap a layer of air next to the skin, making the swimmer ride higher in the water, reducing drag, so that "your motor powers you faster."
At this year's NCAA championships in Seattle, Nixon witnessed an interesting experiment. "All of the IM (individual medley) guys showed up in little tiny Lycra briefs, Speedos. They had a hard time finding any. But they wanted to see what would happen if they all swam the finals in briefs rather than their body suits. The world record for the event is something like 1 minute, 52 seconds. The guy expected to win had a personal best of 1:54. We all stood around the pool deck and guessed that in briefs he'd do 1:56.
"The announcers got into it. They said it was going to be the world's best time this year 'in briefs!' He won in 2:01. Take the suit off, you're seven seconds slower than your personal best."
The difference is so huge, it's thrown the sport and its governing body, FINA, for a loop. "The major thing," according to Carrie, "is it happened too quickly. FINA wasn't ready for all the record breaking, or the media reaction." Others say FINA botched or hurried (maybe even corrupted) the approval process for the new materials.
And so now the suits will be banned. High school and college competitions will not allow them as of Oct. 1. FINA first said it would ban the suits starting Jan. 1, 2010, but it is waffling—ostensibly to give its committees time to define a "legal fabric," but also to give the manufacturers, who funnel tons of money into the sport, time to retool.
It's a fairness issue, Carrie says. If everyone had on the same suit "you'd be back to square one—the swimmers and their training." But everyone doesn't, in part because the new suits cost up to $900 each. And they're fragile; you can tear one just pulling it on. "Schools, colleges, that can't afford the $100,000 you need for competition suits would face the decision of shutting the program down. Because without the suits you won't be competitive."
Lots of people aren't happy with the emergency decision to ban the technology. Markus Rogan, an Austrian breaststroker at the World Championships said, "I'm really in favor of the suits, because we're the most popular boring sport in the world, and so we need and only survive on records. So we're going to need whatever we can do to keep doing records."
A part of Carrie Nixon agrees. "We've gained so much momentum in the U.S. in the last couple of years. To lose that will be hard. [Without the suits] some of these records won't be touched for 20 years. How do we motivate the kids coming up?" She also worries about the likelihood of increased doping in a future where "all of a sudden you're eight seconds off world-record time instead of one second."
So, what should swimming do? Put asterisks on the recent records as Major League Baseball threatens to do with home run records set during "the steroid era?"
Are the new suits the ethical equivalent of doping to improve performance? Or are they closer in nature to the ongoing development of faster skis and lighter bicycles? Technology marches on. There's no stopping it. "It's a shame," Carrie sighed. "This was really the first major advance in swimwear since they took the skirt off women's suits 60 years ago."
Couldn't somebody figure out a way, "socialist" as it sounds, to put a fast suit on everybody?


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Get On Your Boots
|"Get On Your Boots"
|Single by U2
|from the album No Line on the Horizon
|"No Line on the Horizon 2"
|23 January 2009
|Alternative rock
|Interscope, Mercury
|U2 (music), Bono (lyrics)
|Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, with additional production by Declan Gaffney
|U2 singles chronology
"Get On Your Boots" is a song by Irish rock band U2 and the sixth track from their 2009 album No Line on the Horizon.1 The song was released as the album's first single on 23 January 2009. The physical format was released on 16 February.2 The video received its premiere on 6 February 2009.
The lyrical delivery of the song's verses has been said to resemble Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues",34 while the song has also been compared to "Pump It Up" by Elvis Costello.5
Composition and recording
Originally known as "Four Letter Word" and later as "Sexy Boots", "Get On Your Boots" originated as a demo that guitarist The Edge recorded at his home with the software GarageBand.67 The song went through many iterations, and at one point the main guitar riff was dropped, leading producer Steve Lillywhite to describe it as "a Beck B side" that could have been cut from the album.6 Throughout the documentary It Might Get Loud, The Edge is shown working on the song's guitar riffs, while experimenting with their sounds and effects.
"Get On Your Boots" was one of several songs recorded by a fan outside of Bono's house during the No Line on the Horizon sessions.8 The clip was subsequently uploaded to YouTube, but removed at the request of Universal Music.9
Thematically, the song is about Bono taking his family on vacation to France and witnessing warplanes flying overhead at the start of the Iraq War; some of the lyrics are from the perspective of a man writing a letter to his first love as he relates witnessing the same event.1011 The "let me in the sound" chant was developed comparatively late in the recording sessions. It was also used in the opening section of "Fez – Being Born".7 "Get On Your Boots" was one of three songs that the band were considering to open the album with, along with "Fez – Being Born" and "No Line on the Horizon".12 "No Line on the Horizon" was eventually chosen.
At a speed of 150 beats per minute, "Get On Your Boots" is one of the fastest songs the band have ever recorded.13 It was described by Q magazine as "demented electro grunge employs a proto-rock n'roll riff, but propelled into the future, before taking a sudden hip-hop twist midway through." Rolling Stone magazine has called it a "blazing, fuzzed-out rocker that picks up where 'Vertigo' left off."14 Hot Press described the song as "[...] a thoroughly contemporary, intense electro grunge exercise, with Adam Clayton's powerful bass to the fore, which mixes hip hop influences with shades of the Rolling Stones, Queen, Bob Dylan and The Beatles."15
The song was remixed by the French duo Justice16 and Italian duo Crookers.171819
A bootlegged, early version of the song was partly released to YouTube during the band's recording sessions at the French resort of Èze. The poor quality version was subsequently removed from the site at the behest of the band's record label, Universal Records.20 Media reports in August 2008 originally referred to the song by the title "Sexy Boots", and later as "Get Your Boots On". It was later revised to "Get on Your Boots".21
"Get On Your Boots" was scheduled to receive its world radio premiere on The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show on the Irish radio station RTÉ 2fm at 8:10 on 19 January 2009 by the band's long-time friend and favoured disc-jockey Dave Fanning.22 However, after a nearly 30 second sample of the song was leaked onto the Internet, the song was made available in the iTunes Store for purchase an hour before its first play by Fanning, and the band decided to begin streaming the song on U2.com later that day.23 The single received a physical release on 16 February.2 The b-side, "No Line on the Horizon 2", is an altered version of the album's title track.
The track was later included on the British compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 72.
Music video
The music video was directed by Alex Courtes,15 who previously co-directed the music videos for "Vertigo" and "City of Blinding Lights". The video features footage of the band performing the song in front of a background consisting of collages of military, astronomy, and female imagery. The video footage of the band was shot in London. The Edge stated that the video is about letting women take over because "men have fucked things up so badly, politically, economically, and socially".15
The video was scheduled to premiere on the Irish Independent website on 30 January 2009, but this was later delayed. Universal Music issued a statement saying that the video had not been completed in time for its scheduled airing.24 Images from a leaked version of the video had Getty Images watermarks on them, indicating unresolved copyright issues.25 The finished version of the video premiered at 17:00 UTC on Friday, 6 February on the newspaper's website.26
Live performance history
U2 played "Get On Your Boots" to open the 2009 Grammy Awards and the 2009 BRIT Awards.2728 It was performed at every show of the U2 360° Tour, with the song usually being placed near the start of the show.
On the TV show Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..., Bono, The Edge and Elvis Costello performed a medley of "Pump It Up" and "Get on Your Boots", alternating between the two songs.
Reception and chart performance
"Get On Your Boots" received mixed response. It was favourably received by Billboard, which stated that "the song is upbeat and energetic, and its instantaneous chart success (the first No. 1 Triple A debut in Nielsen BDS history and a top 10 debut at Modern Rock) shows that U2's popularity hasn't waned one iota".29 Blender said "'Get On Your Boots' is a manic low-end rocker a la 'Vertigo,' with phased '70s-style synths, buzzing guitar and a breathless vocal from Bono that brings back fond memories of the days when the Edge tried to rap".30 Allmusic wasn't happy with the song, saying "Contrary to the suggestion of the clanking, sputtering first single 'Get On Your Boots' — its riffs and 'Pump It Up' chant sounding like a cheap mashup stitched together in GarageBand — No Line on the Horizon isn't a garish, gaudy electro-dalliance in the vein of Pop".31 In an interview with Rolling Stone, Adam Clayton stated his thoughts as to why "Get On Your Boots" had such a mixed response: "Interestingly, it's going off live. I think probably what happened was it's a common U2 problem. I think we probably worked on it and worked on it and worked on it, and instead of executing one idea well, I think we had probably five ideas in the song, and it just confused people. They weren't sure what they were hearing."32
The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 in its debut week, fell to #96 the following week, then off the chart.33 However, it did become their sixteenth top-five Modern Rock Tracks hit, debuting in the Top 10, and peaking at #5. It also became their first Top 10 single on this chart since "All Because of You" in 2005. In the UK, "Get On Your Boots" marked the band's 40th UK Top 40 single and their 39th single to enter the UK Top 20. However, it underperformed in comparison with earlier lead singles from U2's studio albums, peaking at #12 in the UK Singles Chart and making it the first lead traditional format single by the band prior to its parent album release to fail to reach #1 since "With or Without You" in 1987,34 the first lead single to miss the Top 10 since "Gloria" in 1981,35 and the worst debut for a U2 single since "If God Will Send His Angels" in 1997.36 It also broke a string of 14 consecutive UK Top 5 singles for U2. On its second week, the single dropped to #20 on the UK Singles Chart, then #30 before leaving the chart; it remained in the UK Top 100 only for 5 weeks. "Get On Your Boots" made a "Hot Shot Debut" at #3 on the Canadian Hot 100 for the week of 7 February based on the large number of downloads, making it the band's 12th top five hit in the country.37
Track listing
|7" single (#1798673)38
CD single (#1798676)39
|"Get On Your Boots"
|"No Line on the Horizon 2"
|CD single with video link (#1798675)40
|"Get On Your Boots"
|"No Line on the Horizon 2"
|"Get On Your Boots" (Video)
Year-end charts
|Chart (2009)
|Hungarian Singles Chart53
|Italian Singles Chart54
|Preceded by
"Just Dance" by Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis
|Irish Singles Chart number-one single
19 February 2009
|Succeeded by
"Poker Face" by Lady Gaga
See also
- ^ "U2 to perform new single at Brits". BBC Online. 2009-01-12. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
- ^ a b "First Single, Album Tracklisting". U2.com. 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ^ U2 – Get On Your Boots – Single Review @ Unreality Music
- ^ U2's new single: Is 'Get on Your Boots' any good? | PopWatch Blog | EW.com
- ^ "Pop & Hiss". The Los Angeles Times. 2009-01-19.
- ^ a b Hiatt, Brian (2009-04-05). "Taking care of business". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ a b Frenette, Brad (2009-03-10). "U2's No Line On The Horizon: A track-by-track exclusive with producer/co-writer Daniel Lanois". National Post. Archived from the original on 2009-10-20. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "U2 unconcerned about YouTube furor". Hot Press. 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- ^ Burns, John (2008-08-24). "Eavesdropping fan posts new U2 songs on web". The Sunday Times (London). Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- ^ Pareles, Jon (2009-03-02). "U2, the biggest of veterans, wants to be the next new thing". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
- ^ Owens, Catherine (2009-02-27). "No Line on the Horizon". No Line on the Horizon magazine (included with some versions of the album). p. 23.
- ^ Horan, Niamh (2009-12-28). "Is Bono nervous about the new U2 album? You bet" (reprint). Irish Independent. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ Hiatt, Brian (2009-01-22). "Inside U2's Bold New Horizon". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
- ^ Hiatt, Brian (2009-01-07). "U2 Break Down "No Line on the Horizon"". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
- ^ a b c "Ireland leads the way with new U2 album". Hot Press. 26 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
- ^ New U2 - "Get On Your Boots (Justice Remix)" (Stereogum Premiere) - Stereogum
- ^ http://www.stoneyroads.com/crookers-and-u2-unkle-and-fake-blood/2009/02/25/
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- ^ Young, Alex (2008-08-17). "U2 does little to downplay new album's title, sound, or release date". Consequence of Sound.net. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ^ Carr, Eamon (2008-08-11). "Blood on the Dance Floor". Evening Herald. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
- ^ "World premiere for new U2 on RTÉ 2fm". RTÉ. 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ^ Kreps, Daniel (2009-01-20). "U2's New Single "Get On Your Boots" Hits iTunes Early". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-01-20.
- ^ "Get On Your Boots: U2 video exclusive on Independent.ie - Music - Independent.ie". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ Kreps, Daniel (2009-02-09). "Early Version of U2's "Get on Your Boots" Video Snatched From Web". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ^ Get On Your Boots: U2 video exclusive on Independent.ie
- ^ "2009-02-08: Staples Center - Los Angeles, California, USA". U2gigs.com. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ "2009-02-18: Earl's Court Arena - London, England". U2gigs.com. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ Teitelman, Bram (2009-02-07). "Get on Your Boots". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-02-12.dead link
- ^ No Line on the Horizon - Blender
- ^ allmusic ((( No Line on the Horizon > Overview )))
- ^ "U2 overworked 'Get on Your Boots'". The List. 12 April 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Billboard Hot 100". Billboard. 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-23.dead link
- ^ "With or without you". 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
- ^ "Charts Stats U2". 2009-02-23. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- ^ Laurac, Emile (2009-02-23). "First time since 1997, a U2 single fails to hit UK top 10". Irish Independent. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
- ^ a b "Canadian Hot 100 - Get on Your Boots". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-03-01.dead link
- ^ Get on Your Boots (7" single). U2. Universal Music Group. 2009. 1798673.
- ^ Get on Your Boots (CD single). U2. Universal Music Group. 2009. 1798676.
- ^ Get on Your Boots (CD single). U2. Universal Music Group. 2009. 1798675.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "U2 – Get on Your Boots". Hung Median. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
- ^ a b "U2 - Get on Your Boots". Acharts.us. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ "Irish Singles Chart". The Irish Charts. Retrieved 2009-11-21. Note: U2 must be searched manually.
- ^ "FIMI Archive". Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ "EveryHit.com search results: U2". Everyhit.com. Retrieved 2009-11-17. Note: U2 must be searched manually.
- ^ "European Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
- ^ "The Billboard Hot 100: 11-50". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-01-29.dead link
- ^ "Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-05-20.dead link
- ^ "Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-01-29.dead link
- ^ "Pop 100". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-02-28.dead link
- ^ "Hot Digital Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
- ^ "Pop Rock" (in Spanish). Record Report. 2009-02-21. Archived from the original on 2009-01-19.
- ^ "Éves összesített listák - MAHASZ Rádiós TOP 100 (súlyozott)". Mahasz. Mahasz.
- ^ "FIMI - Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana - Ricerche e dati di mercato". Fimi.it. 2010-01-19. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
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The American marketplace is experiencing constant changes in the ways that companies conduct business and communicate with customers. Like other businesses, the Postal Service must also innovate to stay relevant. The Office of Inspector General plans to examine innovation processes currently used by major U.S. corporations to learn about best practices/processes. The essence of innovation is to identify a problem and develop solutions. For example, Google and Facebook are successful because their websites meet needs of people to manage and organize vast amounts of information and social relationships available on the Internet. The Postal Service has enjoyed some success with innovative products. Its Priority Mail Flat Rate products have become popular, shipping 350 million boxes over the last 6 years, with revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal year 2010. This product met the need to simplify the shipping process and was relevant to both consumers and business. What should the Postal Service do to identify business opportunities and customer needs in order to create solutions that lead to financial success and customer satisfaction? Also, what experience(s) have you had with Postal Service innovation? This topic is hosted by the OIG's Planning and Strategic Studies Directorate.
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In response to a Government Accountability Office report and a Congressional request, the Postal Service introduced its Transformation Plan in 2002. Since then, the Postal Service has seen many changes, including a new postmaster general (PMG) and senior management team. Mail volume has declined due to electronic diversion and the recession. In addition, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 changed how the Postal Service operates and conducts business. The Postal Service released its plan, Ensuring a Viable Postal Service for America: An Action Plan for the Future, in March 2010. The plan outlined cost-cutting, increased productivity, and legislative and regulatory changes necessary to maintain a viable Postal Service. In December 2010, the new PMG announced his four core strategies for the Postal Service: 1.Strengthening the business-to-consumer channel. 2.Improving the customer experience. 3.Competing for package business. 4.Becoming a leaner, faster, and smarter organization. It is a daunting task for any organization to implement new strategies. We have established an Audit Project Page to provide another opportunity for our stakeholders to comment on this issue. Click here to review – Postal Service Core Strategy Linkage. We are interested in hearing your views on the four core strategies. What is needed to ensure the success of these strategies and what outcomes do you believe the core strategies are intended to achieve? This topic is hosted by the OIG's Planning and Strategic Studies Directorate.
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Globalization is not a new phenomenon. Throughout history, people sought better ways to correspond and trade over great distances. In recent times, a number of key forces emerged to fuel globalization. Perhaps most important, technological advancement like the internet, personal computers, mobile devices, and global positioning systems (GPS) energized globalization at an unprecedented pace by facilitating instant information transmission, regardless of distance, at a decreasing cost. The result was a dramatically changed business environment. Businesses and governments, capitalizing on new technologies to improve efficiency, trade, and financial performance, spurred international policy integration, operations standardization, and deregulation and privatization of many public monopolies like power companies. The postal services were no exception. The competitive pressures resulting from an increasingly interconnected marketplace such as the rise of integrators and electronic substitution created profound changes in the postal service ecosystem, which both threatened traditional mail segments and created new opportunities. As a result, the postal sector entered a new era that stimulated many foreign posts to adapt their business model to enter novel markets, diversify product offerings, and develop opportunities in non-traditional sectors to stem the posts' declining mail businesses. Here are some options that foreign posts are already exploring:
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Ladies, this Puff Sleeve full zip hoodie jacket is like a breath of fresh air that'll trace you back to your roots of fashionable PSU wear! With its distressed school name, team name and logo graphic printed across the chest, "Chic" lettering embroidered at the left waist, a tarnished gold-tone button and loop closure at the neck, and trendy ruching details at the shoulders for a poofy feminine flair, this mega-comfy, fleece-lined hoodie will keep your Nittany Lions game day garb up to par for sure.
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Bettering your golf game is what's at the center of the fun at Bumble Bee Hollow— and it all comes back to director of golf Lorraine Klippel, an LPGA Master and Hall of Famer. Starting with the facility's driving range, golfers come to launch practice shots from more than 50 upper and lower hitting stalls. That's a lot of space dedicated to the long game, yet Lorraine still made sure to carve out areas where players can work on their softer swings. You can encounter that action in Bumble Bee's pitching and putting areas, or on the 18-hole mini-golf course, where the putting tracts were designed to mimic the gentle contours of real greens.
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Space of Suspense #2by Mark Khaisman, 2005, packaging tape on clear plastic, 36" x 48"
In an earlier MadSilence post (The art of tape, 10/31/07), we learned of American street artist Mark Jenkins and his artwork made of packing tape. Now, thanks to weblog REUBENMILLER, we learn of tape artist Mark Khaisman. Interestingly, while Jenkins uses packing tape to create three-dimensional sculptures, Khaisman applies multiple layers of packing tape to a Plexiglas canvas. When suffused with light from behind the affect can be dramatic.
When considering the works of Jenkins and Khaisman it becomes difficult to dismiss tape as a "punk medium." Khaisman, an experienced mid-career artist, discussed in a 2006 interview his preference for packing tape as artistic medium:
Q: Why are you using this technique?
A: It looks right
Q: Is your art all about unconventional medium?
A: No, the overlapping of the layers of tape gives me the effect that I can not achieve otherwise,
Q: Let's say you can achieve the same effect with some traditional medium, egg tempera, for instance, or thin layers of oil, what will you loose besides the light?
A: The feeling of instantaneousness
Beyond Love by Mona Superhero
Beyond packing tape there is…duct tape. Artist Mona Superhero uses relief-cut, brightly colored duct tape to sculpt images that are "dangerously sexy and thought provoking".
Pavement art by Buff Diss
Buff Diss is an Australian artist who uses masking tape to create designs on the pavements of Melbourne. Apparently the decay of the tape wearing away is part of the appeal of the piece. Take a look at this YouTube video of Diss making his masking tape art.
As transient as it may seem, a masking tape sign inside Shinjuku Station showed passengers the way around a construction site for several weeks. This is the next 'exhibition' of Shuetsu Sato's gaffer tape art, as seen currently at Nippori Station: A sign leading to the ticket booth. From PingMag.
And from PingMag we have the story of railway employee Shuetsu Sato who took matters in his own hands and started taping signage in huge Japanese characters with masking tape in clever ways, just so passengers could find their way around. His transient tape art became so popular that film artist collective TrioFour eventually made a documentary about Sato's unique guide system.
Alien. Lesson to be learned: one can not judge the intentions of aliens. From Tape Art Live
Finally, some educators and artists recognized tape's potential when applied to colaborative community-based public art projects that empower others to draw. Tape Art Live "practices and teaches a method to create temporary, large-scale murals and installations designed to interact considerately with both viewer and environment. Tape Art demonstrates a dynamic, collaborative process that invigorates not only the drawn-on space, but the viewer's perception of that space's possiblities."
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Sean Noonan Brewed By Noon: Stories To Tell (2007)
Added to this rather eclectic mix is the notion of storytelling in both the African and Irish traditions as obviously represented by the use of words, but also by most of the tunes having their own dramatic arc. The music tells a story and you do not have to know the Bambara language to hear the emotion in "Esspi," as sung by the wonderful griot Abdoulaye Diabate or Gaelic in "Noonbrews," as sung by the equally compelling Susan McKeon.
The album has been recorded as a hybrid SACD in both two and five channels, and the sound gets quite dense at times on the headphones. What is clear though is that Noonan is at the center of the music, both as the main percussionist (an electro-acoustic drum set), but more importantly as the visionary who feels it is his mission to create something new from mixing these disparate styles.
Where Noonan succeeds extremely well is as the person who supports the entire project, allowing and encouraging his band mates to express themselves. The energy and intensity levels are extremely high, as the opening tunes "Massana Cisse" and "Esspi" set the stage. However, not everyone is going to respond positively to all of the styles that appear here, and some of the rock guitar gets tiresome. "Scabies" might repulse, but then again so would a scabies infestation, so at least the music is true to life.
These ears quickly tuned into Mat Maneri's viola and how much his sound influences the proceedings. Maneri manages, with his microtonal approach and extremely loose rhythmic feel, to affect the overall sound greatly, even when he is not as exposed as in "Dr. Sleepytime" or "Connection," where he is in his element.
The worst response an album can get is no response, and Stories To Tell has much that is very attractive and/or effective with some tracks that might be called an acquired taste, but nothing that commits the sin of boredom.
Track Listing: Massana Ciss�; Esspi; Noonbrews; Connection; Urban Mbalax; No Strings Attached; NY; Pineapple; Scabies; Dr. Sleepytime.
Personnel: Sean Noonan: electro-acoustic drum set; Marc Ribot: electric guitar; Aram Bajakian: electric guitar; Jon Madof: electric guitar; Mat Maner: viola; Thierno Camara: electric bass, vocals, percussion; Abdoulaye Diabat�: vocals; Susan McKeown: vocals; Dawn Padmore: vocals; Jim Pugliese; percussion; Thiokho Diagne: percussion.
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well, i just got an iphone 3g (unlocked from fido, im with rogers, jailbroken) for my bday (today) and i already managed to screw it up.
1. was all excited, tried to sync my itunes to my iphone, it told me to update to 3.0, im a noob and went ahead (not realising its going to relock my phone) --> thus, im freaking out. i started searching online, people suggest restoring it through itunes, so i restore it.
2. now its at the emergency screen, telling me to activate my phone by inserting a valid sim
after reading all these threads, just want to confirm what i should do next:
-first reactive the phone by putting a fido sim into it? i can borrow my neighbours.
-second, i'll have to jailbrake it and unlock it again right? so i'll have to use ultasnow/cydia to then unlock it? and when i am jailbraking it, do i have to have the fido sim in it?
then it should work right? but again, i restored it (i think, so i dont even know what firmware its running on) .... what should i do?
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