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Danes breathe new life into old craftsmanship traditions
They breathe new life into craftsmanship traditions that have long since died out, combine 3D design with saddlery and spread a feeling of indomitable intransigence. Their furniture of steel and leather shines with pride throughout the world but they themselves are most at home developing their designs in the workshop. Their name are Overgaard & Dyrman.
Way up north, in the middle of nowhere and yet in the middle of everything, one can hear the sound of steel being forged. The North Jutland hands performing the work are in demand worldwide, but are most at home in a workshop in Vestbjerg, where the whistle of the birds blends with the crackle of the welding.
One can feel the presence of history from the millennia-old ice age landscape at Hammer Bakke as it looks on in silence, while chairs, tables and benches slowly emerge. The landscape has no idea that it has more than likely inspired two young men to preserve old traditions and live out a rarely seen aesthetic intransigence. Meet Christian Dyrman and Jasper Overgaard, who consider themselves to be technology nerds and take pride in producing furniture with a healthy dosage of bare fists, old craftsmanship traditions and new computer technology.
The furniture dream is born
Behind the name Overgaard & Dyrman are the two entrepreneurs Christian Dyrman and Jasper Overgaard. Their story begins 10 years ago when they meet durin the programme for Industrial Design, which was part of their engineering education at Aalborg University. The education was group-oriented but Christian and Jasper quickly found space in the curriculum, which enabled them to work alone. Little did they know that in 10 years' time, their target-orientation would be in demand all over the world.
The engineering studies serve as a kick-start for their collaboration and teach them all about technology, but the need to dig down deeper into the design profession will only grow bigger with time. "When you design furniture, you have to touch the materials. You have to feel it," says Christian Dyrman. He points at his computer display and the chair from their Wire collection starts to turn around. "You have to plan and try out every single detail. Therefore, you have to use both drawing programmes and 1:1 scale models." he says. Christian and Jasper pursued their need for creativity, dropped out of their studies in Aalborg and graduated from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen. The workshop facilities at the school prove to be the perfect leverage for their imagination and creativity.
Alpha males, each in their own part of the country
Today, Christian Dyrman is in charge of the transition from development to production. He takes care of the day-to-day management at the workshop in North Jutland, while Jasper sits in the Copenhagen office and manages the initial part of the design process, as well as PR and media. Jasper looks up with a good deal of humour in his eyes: "We are a pair of alpha males. It could easily end up with us talking and discussing things all day if we shared the same office," he says.
Christian nods in agreement and says: "When we decided to start Overgaard and Dyrman, we were both employed in each our own parts of the country. I'm originally from Northern Jutland and Jasper is from Zealand, so it had a lot to do with what we both wanted. I didn't want to move to Copenhagen just because it's supposed to be the right thing to do. I wanted to live here. Those are the conditions and we just have to make it work. In addition, a large part of the subcontractor and production world in Denmark is here in Jutland, and a large part of the design and marketing world is situated in Copenhagen."
No thanks to outsourcing
Back to their days of studying; and one of the partner's projects leads to collaborating with a company who wants to put the furniture into production. They try unsuccessfully in India, followed by China with the same result. "A prototype was made that wasn't at all as we would have liked it to be, and that made us realise how difficult it is when you are so focused on details, and have so many opinions about how things should be done that you have to outsource it to another company as an intermediary," says Christian Dyrman and looks at his partner, who nods approvingly: "You must be prepared to compromise your work in order to adapt to that world, or do it all by yourself." The partners decided to choose the latter, quit their good jobs and put on their work clothes.
Can, will and do it yourself
Christian Dyrman brings out one of the chairs from their Wire collection. The leather is at the same time smooth, soft and firm. The shape is organic, flowing and light, even though it's made entirely of hardened steel. The result of the target-orientation, determination and uncompromising handiwork of these men is unique and one can't tell that the steady hands used to carry out this proud piece of work had almost been shaking with fear when the first buyers approached. But that's how it is when you want to do everything yourself. And the hands quickly learn how to speak the language of the merchant.
The cave of the dwarves in Northern Jutland
Just like the seven dwarves in the story of Snow White; Christian and Jasper work every single day of the year on their productions. They slave, hammer, pound and sew. And at the beginning of 2014, the diamonds appear. The buyers come from San Francisco and Switzerland.
Christian sits down on his chair and leans back. "And there we sat. We had to make distribution agreements and the buyers wanted to earn this and that much on the product. Learning about the world of sales has been a huge journey in itself. It can be both exciting and stressful," he says and Jasper continues by saying: "We're design and product nerds, and then we had to think about marketing and sales, establishing the company and increasing our production. An exhibition in Cologne proved to be the best thing we ever did. Not because of the exhibition itself but because of the material we needed to make for it." It was especially the bloggers who gave the partnership a good start. "They're the ones who say what's new and chic and our customers read these blogs," says Christian.
"Rushed design is a 'no-go'."
There's no doubt that the customers who buy Jasper and Christian's furniture know sa great deal about aesthetics and that they will pay to be fascinated by the impressive details, but they are also a demanding target group. Oil for the partnerships' fire is fortunately, in high demand. Christian and Jasper have a burning need to create products where they can vouch for every welded joint and stitch and where every detail has been tuned, tested and worked out to a level of near utopian perfectionism. But this indomitable intransigence is not always the easiest of paths to follow.
Japser explains: "The fact that we have become what we are can also be a hindrance, in that we do everything ourselves. We make our own tools to make the furniture with, control our own economy and make our own marketing material all the way from taking the photos to the construction of our homepage. But it's necessary for us to have complete control of our products and not fall into the trap of rushed design."
Suckers for slow design
Christian and Jasper have made hundreds of chairs from the very first welding joint to the very last stitch. "You make your own decisions regarding what you want to do and we have decided not to compromise on our solutions. Our products must be good and that takes time. Things should have time to rest. We learned a lot about planning and milestones during our studies and I understand that approach, but you don't get the kind of depth we like by rushing things," says Christian.
Christian already had an education as a constructional ironwork fitter-machinist and therefore had the prerequisites for working with metal, but they had to learn how to work with leather. "Our work involves more saddlery work than classic leatherwork and as far as I know, we are using techniques from a largely extinct profession, since the last saddle makers in Denmark were educated some 40-50 years ago. It's exciting but takes time. And that's just the way it is."
To bear a heavy legacy
Denmark is well known for its furniture craft with designers like Kaare Klint, Hans Wegner and Finn Juhl. Overgaard & Dyrman look up to these designers and are inspired by their approach.
"Much of the approach to the carpentry profession is about seeing what a material can do and the type of technical solutions it can offer. This approach is interesting but for us, the materials can be many things. In the Wire collection, we work with steel and leather but in the future, it could be all sorts of other types of material. The exciting thing for us is to find out what the materials can do and explore how we can push the limits while showing respect for the aesthetic," says Jasper.
"We don't think that plastic for example, is particularly interesting because you can do almost anything with it, whereas with materials like steel, leather, wood and stone, there are things that you can and can't do. You therefore have to talk to the material you work with. For example, the steel we use in our chairs makes it possible for us to make lightweight constructions but it's not very comfortable to sit on. We therefore use leather that is usually used for making saddles. Exploring the best use of individual materials down to the tiniest detail was also the approach used by, among others, Wegner and Klint," says Christian.
Combination of human and machine
"If you focus on craftsmanship only, you'll soon produce something that's very unique. Modern techniques on the other hand, can easily become too much and the furniture only a product of what the machine can do. We try to draw on the best of the new techniques and the best of the old craftsmanship traditions and combine the two," continues Jasper.
Christian points at the thin threads of steel that create the shapes of their furniture, and says: "These were made on CNC machines. It would be totally impossible for us to make them ourselves. The first prototypes we made didn't turn out as we would have liked, as we tried to bend the material by hand, but by using machines you can make some really advanced curves. When we talk about welding however, many people ask why we don't just use a welding robot but the tolerances provided by such a thing simply wouldn't work. This kind of work requires the skill of a craftsman to do the welding. A welding robot is stupid and unable to correct inaccuracies. A human hand can."
Workshop and nursery
Ten years after two men met at university, people from Sydney to Singapore are sitting in their furniture. The success meant increased production and the company now has four employees consisting of two smiths and two leather workers, in addition to the partnership couple themselves. This has allowed more room for family life and both Christian and Jasper will now pass by the nursery on their way home from the workshop.
"In a way, it's a little taboo for someone who's been an entrepreneur to take time to have children. We know that this will have an influence on our time and focus. But we've nevertheless been a little in sync, as we were able to announce that we were to become fathers two months apart from each other," says Jasper.
New collection in 2018
The dream of the future is a production where the dream of totality exists; this is a place where people from various branches, both craftsmen and academics, come and go but all have a shared interest in exploring things in depth and a curiosity for what different materials can do.
"The dream of totality is where everything has been thoroughly prepared," says Christian Dyrman and reveals that their new collection will hopefully arrive in the spring of 2018 and that they are currently slaving away on details for braiding leather according to a specific method.
Only the future will tell if Overgaard and Dyrman can bear the legacy of the great Danish designers like Wegner and Klint, but the fascination of what can be done by making a little extra effort hangs impressively heavy in the storytelling workshop.
By: Sara Sohl Rasmussen
Photo: Overgaard & Dyrman
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Paleontological Museum of Elche
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Culture | 15 feb 2016
Welcome to the Paleontological Museum of Elche. If you visit the ´MUPE´ you emerge in the era of the dinosaurs. More than 1200 fossils and reconstructions are exhibited in three rooms through the period of the Peleozoic, the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. You'll see reconstructions of life-size dinosaurs, original remains of dinosaurs, the lower jar of a Mastodon, a marine lizard of five meters, the remains of the oldest porcupine and prehistoric human remains among others. Also you can dive in the seabed of more than 500 million years ago through a video in 3D in which you can interact with the animals.
Paleontological Museum of Elche. By cidarismpe_org
This virtual ecosystem shows us the sea in the Cambrian period through the fossils that are found in the museum with movement and artificial intelligence. The animals react to stimuli of the public and are approaching the people in a natural way.
MUPE. By elchesemueve.com
The museum has more than 60.000 pieces, but only 1200 of those are permanently displayed in the three exhibition rooms. The halls are classified in three periods: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.
Museum. By comunicacion.umh.es
In the first room you can see fossils of the marine vertebrates and –invertebrates, such as corals, sponges, molluscs, trilobites and one of the first amphibians. The Mesozoic period room is the most impressive where you can see remains of the Dinosaur era like reproductions of dinosaur skeletons.
Paleontological Museum of Elche. By elchecibernetico.com
In the room of the Cenozoic period you can see skulls of the prehistoric humans and animal remains like armadillo and a jawbone of a mastodon. At last you can visit the temporary exposition hall and the upper floor where you can see the fossil remains found in the province of Alicante.
T-Rex. By visitelcheblog.com
The entrance on Sundays is free. You can also make guided tours in a group of minimum 10 people. Prior reservation is necessary. Educational workshops for the little ones are also organised. Opening hours from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm. Sundays and Bank holidays we only open from 10 am to 2 pm.

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No big story behind this one. Just an acoustic guitar based song this week to hopefully help lift us out of the lull we may be feeling at this point in the Weekly Beats grind (or life in general for that matter).
Beautiful track... thank you for you!
Good good music. Thank you sir.
I feel lifted by this track :-) I think I can hear the sunshine.
I feel lifted by this track :-) I think I can hear the sunshine. Thank you!
I'm getting the WB burnout a little bit! This is a nice uplifting piece. Love your vocals on this, and the reverb that kind of shows up at moments.
Just what I needed. Well played and sung. Nice harmonies and layering.
Thanks! It's always nice when you can work in some halfway decent harmonies. Sometimes I find it difficult, but it seemed to come pretty easily with this one.
You're very welcome. And thank you!
[quote=Podling]Beautiful track... thank you for you![/quote] And thank you for listening! [quote=demonzor]Mmm great track, lovey harmonies [/quote] Thanks! It's always nice when you can work in some halfway decent harmonies. Sometimes I find it difficult, but it seemed to come pretty easily with this one. [quote=Jim Wood]Thanks. We can certainly use a lift from the morass of contemporary life. ::)[/quote] That's for sure. [quote=Q-Rosh]Good good music. Thank you sir.[/quote] You're very welcome. And thank you!
Thanks! A little bit of sunshine is always nice.
Thanks! Just thought it would be fun to throw in a couple spots of extra reverb. And yes, don't stop now!
Aw, thanks! Glad it was a fitting soundtrack for your day!
Thank you. Harmonies are some of my favorite parts of music when I can actually pull them off!
[quote=Plantrain]I feel lifted by this track :-) I think I can hear the sunshine. Thank you! [/quote] Thanks! A little bit of sunshine is always nice. [quote=orangedrink]I'm getting the WB burnout a little bit! This is a nice uplifting piece. Love your vocals on this, and the reverb that kind of shows up at moments. "Don't stop now!" :heart:[/quote] Thanks! Just thought it would be fun to throw in a couple spots of extra reverb. And yes, don't stop now! [quote=theGuen]Thanks man! Perfect Soundtrack for the sunny weather today. Dancing Fred Astaire like to the train ;)[/quote] Aw, thanks! Glad it was a fitting soundtrack for your day! [quote=NWSPR]Just what I needed. Well played and sung. Nice harmonies and layering.[/quote] Thank you. Harmonies are some of my favorite parts of music when I can actually pull them off!
I'm not feeling the grind at all, but I am feeling this song.
That's excellent that you're not feeling the grind. I've managed to not let it get to me too much so far, but there's still a lot of year left to go! Thanks for listening.
Very glad if I can help even in some small way. Thanks!
[quote=Devieus]I'm not feeling the grind at all, but I am feeling this song.[/quote] That's excellent that you're not feeling the grind. I've managed to not let it get to me too much so far, but there's still a lot of year left to go! Thanks for listening. [quote=miraclemiles]I am feeling all the grinds, and this lovely tune helps. Conjured some good images .. floating indeed. Can't stop now. Great vocals as usual :)[/quote] Very glad if I can help even in some small way. Thanks!
We've both been doing this for almost two full years (me a little longer) so I can definitely imagine what you're going through. I also believe you've been making the same style of music for the better part of it all, which definitely doesn't help a lot with the grind.
[quote=CosmicCairns][quote=Devieus]I'm not feeling the grind at all, but I am feeling this song.[/quote] That's excellent that you're not feeling the grind. I've managed to not let it get to me too much so far, but there's still a lot of year left to go! Thanks for listening.[/quote]We've both been doing this for almost two full years (me a little longer) so I can definitely imagine what you're going through. I also believe you've been making the same style of music for the better part of it all, which definitely doesn't help a lot with the grind.
Oh thanks! I appreciate it.
Such wonderful sentiment. In my head this is playing during the closing scenes of a film where two friends are driving on the open road after enduring some kind of life-affirming ordeal (in a good way).
Thanks! It's always cool to hear what sort of imagery is evoked in people's minds.
[quote=Ryan]Such wonderful sentiment. In my head this is playing during the closing scenes of a film where two friends are driving on the open road after enduring some kind of life-affirming ordeal (in a good way).[/quote] Thanks! It's always cool to hear what sort of imagery is evoked in people's minds.


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Demolition of Facilities and Storage Lot by National Rent-a-Car at Harbor Island
San Diego Unified Port District
Project Applicant
San Diego Unified Port District (SDUPD)
The proposed project would involve the demolition and clean-up of two areas on Harbor Island formerly used for a rental car operation by National-Rent-a-Car (Applicant) in the city of San Diego, California. The two areas include the 4. 05-acre National Quick TurnAround (OTA) Facility located at 3280 Harbor Drive, San Diego, California 92106 and the 2.96-acre triangular Vehicular Storage Lot located immediately west of Convair Lagoon.
3280 Harbor Drive
S: 15301, 15304, 15330
The proposed project is determined to be Categorically Exempt pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Sections 15301 (Existing Facilities), 15304 (Minor Alterations to Land), and/or 15330 (Minor Actions to Prevent, Minimize, Stabilize, Mitigate or Eliminate the Release or Threat of Release of Hazardous Waste or Hazardous Substances) and Sections 3,a, and/or 3,d, (4) of the District's Guidelines for Compliance with CEQA because it would involve demolition of existing rental car facilities that would not involve expansion of use beyond that previously existing or the removal of mature, scenic trees, and would involve minor actions to prevent, minimize, stabilize, mitigate or eliminate the release or threat of release of hazardous waste or hazardous substances, Sections 3,a, and 3,d, (4) of the District's CEQA Guidelines and Section 15330 of the CEQA Guidelines Note: See NOE for details
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The Battery Device Adapter is a switch interface for battery-operated toys and appliances. It can only be used to provide simple on/off.
These Battery Device Adapters convert a battery-operated toy or appliance into a switch-accessible toy.
The small copper paddle end of Battery Device Adapter (or battery interrupter) sits between a contact in the battery housing and the pole of one of the batteries, which creates a "circuit breaker". The other end hangs out of the battery housing as best as you can manage, often some notching is required to close the battery housing door or lid.
Once connected and the toy or appliance is turned to ON, a switch is plugged into the standard mono-plug end of the Battery Device Adapter; a press of the switch closes the circuit and the toy operates.
Operation is momentary and is for the duration of the switch press - i.e press and hold the switch and the toy works, release the switch and the toy stops.
These Battery Device Adapters work best with simple, ON/OFF type toys or appliances where you can set then to ON or OFF by a selector in the toy. These adapters are not suitable for toys or appliances with more complicated operation.
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Lophaster quadrispinus is een zeester uit de familie Solasteridae.

De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1923 gepubliceerd door Hubert Lyman Clark.

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I don't focus much on media bias because journalists generally aren't dishonest. Instead, they choose which stories to highlight or downplay based on what advances their political agenda. Though every so often I'll highlight an example of where bias leads to an egregious (maybe even deliberately dishonest) mistake.
Like the time a column in the New York Times argued that "austerity" kills people, but the examples cited were countries where the burden of government spending was higher.
Or the time that the Washington Post said that a $71 billion increase in Medicaid spending was a 25 percent cut?
And how about when the New York Times published a story about schools being "starved of funding" when even a cursory look at the data would confirm outlays have climbed substantially.
Now we have an addition to that collection from a WonkBlog column in the Washington Post. The piece starts with an accurate observation that the tax plan on Capitol Hill isn't a long-run tax cut.
Senate rules require the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act not to add to the federal deficit after 10 years. …The bill aims to cut corporate taxes in perpetuity…but they actually need to raise money to offset the permanent corporate tax reduction.
Yes, as I wrote two weeks ago, the long-run tax cuts have to be offset by long-run revenue increases. So that part of the column is fine.
We then get this rather dubious assertion.
Republicans are paying for a permanent cut for corporations with an under-the-radar tax increase on individuals.
But that's only part of the problem. As you can see from this next excerpt, he cites a former Democrat staffer and doubles down on the allegation that individual taxpayers will be coughing up more money to Uncle Sam because of the legislation.
This chart, playing off what the Senate's former top tax aide and New York University professor Lily Batchelder pointed out on Twitter on Friday evening, makes vividly clear where Republicans ultimately raise that money. …we know it's individual taxpayers who ultimately bear the cost of the tax bill.
And here's the chart that ostensibly shows that you and me are going to pay more money so evil corporations can enjoy a tax cut.
Notice, however, the part I circled in green. It shows that Republicans are repealing Obamacare's individual mandate as part of their tax reform plan, and it also shows that repeal has budgetary effects.
So how is this a tax increase (the pink portion of the bar chart), as the Washington Post wants us to believe?
Needless to say, the honest answer is that it isn't a tax hike. Getting rid of the mandate means people won't get "fined" by the IRS if they choose not to buy health insurance. If anything, that should count as a tax cut.
But that's not what's represented by the pink part of the bar chart. Instead, it shows that when you get rid of the mandate and consumers choose not to get Obamacare policies, that automatically means that insurance companies will get fewer subsidies from Uncle Sam (getting access to that cash was one of the reasons the big insurance companies lobbied for Obamacare).
In other words, the chart actually is showing that corporate rate reduction is partially financed by a reduction in spending, which is a win-win from my perspective.
By the way, you don't have to believe me. On page 9 of the Joint Committee on Taxation's revenue estimate (which presumably will be posted on the JCT website at some point), you find this footnote about the "outlay effect" of repealing the mandate.
At the risk of stating the obvious, an "outlay effect" is when a change in law causes a shift in government spending. That's what's happening, not a tax increase on individuals.
By the way, the author sort of admits this is true in a passage buried near the bottom of the column.
…a number of analysts argue that it's wrong to consider the loss of insurance related to the end of the ACA mandate a tax increase, because it reflects individuals' choice not to get insurance.
That's a pathetic attempt at justifying a dishonest article.
Individuals will be paying less money to the IRS because of this provision, not more.
The fiscal impact of the provision is less spending, not more tax revenue.
Sadly, most readers will have no idea that they were deliberately misled.
P.S. The "alternative inflation measure" in the bill (the red portion of the bar chart) arguably is a tax increase. Or, for those who persuasively argue that it's a more accurate measure, it's a provision that will result in individual taxpayers sending more money to Uncle Sam compared to current law since the new measure (chained CPI) will result in smaller inflation adjustments to tax brackets and the standard deduction.
P.P.S. If repealing just one small piece of Obamacare will save about $300 billion over the next decade, imagine how much money we could save if the entire law was repealed.
P.P.P.S. Since I've previously explained how politicians use alchemy to turn spending increases into tax cuts, I guess it's not surprising that some folks are using the same magic to turn spending cuts into tax increases.
While it's quite clear that the establishment media leans to the left, I don't get too agitated about bias. Though every so often I can't resist the temptation to comment when I come across egregious examples on issues such as poverty, guns, Greece, jobs, taxes, and education.
The bias extends to politics, of course, though the only time I felt compelled to comment was when ABC News rushed to imply that the Tea Party somehow was connected to a mass shooting in Colorado.
Well, I now feel compelled to comment again. But this example goes beyond bias and should be characterized as blatant and disgusting dishonesty. The hacks at Time took a quote from Charles Koch and then used selective editing to completely misrepresent what he actually said.
In a just world, the person who engaged in this bit of mendacity would lose his or her job and never again work in journalism. But I would hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
But let's set aside the issue of media bias and dishonesty.
I want to highlight what Mr. Koch said about GDP. He expressed skepticism of that measure because it doesn't distinguish between good expenditures and bad expenditures.
That's one of the reasons why I prefer gross domestic income instead of gross domestic product. In simple terms, GDI measures how our national income is generated and GDP measures how it is allocated.
As the Bureau of Economic Analysis explains, the two numbers are basically different sides of the same coin.
In national economic accounting, GDP and GDI are conceptually equal. GDP measures overall economic activity by final expenditures, and GDI measures it by the incomes generated from producing GDP. In practice, GDP and GDI differ because they are constructed using different sources of information. …when one looks at annual data – where the timing differences are less important, the correlation between GDP and GDI is 0.97.
That correlation shouldn't be a surprise. Indeed, over a longer period of time, the two numbers should be identical.
Both go up when the economy is doing well, and both go down when there is a recession.
But I want to make a more subtle point.
The reason I like GDI over GDP is because one the former is more likely to lead people to support good policy while the latter is more likely to lead people in the direction of bad policy.
Here's some of what I wrote on the topic back in 2013.
GDP numbers only measure how we spend or allocate our national income. It's a very indirect way of measuring economic health. Sort of like assessing the status of your household finances by adding together how much you spend on everything from mortgage and groceries to your cable bill and your tab at the local pub. Wouldn't it make much more sense to directly measure income? Isn't the amount of money going into our bank accounts the key variable? The same principle is true – or should be true – for a country. That's why the better variable is gross domestic income (GDI). It measures things such as employee compensation, corporate profits, and small business income. …We should be focusing on how to increase national income, not what share of it is being redistributed by politicians.
And, on a related note, you can back to 2009 for a column I wrote explaining that consumer spending is a reflection of a strong economy, not the cause of a strong economy.
And this video ties everything together by debunking the Keynesian argument that politicians should focus on goosing consumer spending.
As I pointed out in this interview, Trump did nothing wrong based on the information we now have. Nothing morally wrong. Nothing legally wrong. Nothing economically wrong.
All that people really need to know is that NOLs exist in the tax code because businesses sometimes lose money (the worst thing that happens to individuals, by contrast, is that we get laid off and have zero income). With NOLs, companies basically get a version of "income averaging" so that they're taxed on their long-run net income (i.e., total profits minus total losses).
In other words, this is not a controversy. Or it shouldn't be.
But if you don't believe me, let's peruse the pages of The Flat Tax, which was written by Alvin Rabushka and Robert Hall at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and is considered the Bible for tax reformers.
Here's what it says about business losses in Chapter 5.
Remember that self-employed persons fill out the business tax form just as a large corporation does. Business losses can be carried forward without limit to offset future profits (assuming your bank or rich relatives will keep lending you money). There is no such thing as a tax loss under the individual wage tax. You can't reduce your compensation tax by generating business losses. Well-paid individuals who farm as a hobby or engage in other dubious sidelines to shelter their wages from the IRS had better enjoy their costly hobbies; the IRS will not give them any break under the flat tax.
And here's the business postcard for the flat tax. As you can see, it's a very simple system based on the common-sense notion that profits equal total receipts minus total expenses.
And it allows "carry-forward" of losses, which is just another term for a company being able to use NOLs in one year to offset profits in a subsequent year.
But it's not just advocates of the flat tax how hold this view.
A news report for the Wall Street Journal notes that NOLs are very normal in the business world for the simple reason that companies sometimes lose money.
The tax treatment of losses, bound to become a subject of national debate, is a typically uncontroversial feature of the income-tax system. The government doesn't pay net refunds when business owners lose money, but it lets taxpayers use those losses to smooth their tax payments as they make money. That reflects the fact that "the natural business cycle of a taxpayer may exceed 12 months," according to a congressional report.
Megan McArdle of Bloomberg also comments on this make-believe controversy.
At issue is the "net operating loss," an accounting term that means basically what it sounds like: When you net out your expenses against the money you took in, it turns out that you lost a bunch of money. However, in tax law, this has a special meaning, because these NOLs can be offset against money earned in other years. …this struck many people as a nefarious bit of chicanery. And to be fair, they were probably helped along in this belief by the New York Times description of it, which made it sound like some arcane loophole wedged into our tax code at the behest of the United Association of Rich People and Their Lobbyists. …Every tax or financial professional I have heard from about the New York Times piece found this characterization rather bizarre. The Times could have just as truthfully written that the provision was "particularly prized by America's small businesses, farmers and authors," many of whom depend on the NOL to ensure that they do not end up paying extraordinary marginal tax rates — possibly exceeding 100 percent — on income that may not fit itself neatly into the regular rotation of the earth around the sun.
I like how she zings the NYT for its biased treatment of the issue.
She also explains why the law allows NOLs and why businesses (including, presumably, Trump's companies) would prefer to never be in a position to utilize them.
"If someone has a $20 million gain in one year and a $10 million loss in the second year, that person should be treated the same as someone who had $5 million in each of the two years," says Alan Viard, a tax specialist at the American Enterprise Institute, who like all the other experts, seemed somewhat surprised that this was not obvious. "There are definitely tax provisions narrowly targeted to various industries that you could take issue with," says Ron Kovacev, a tax partner at Steptoe and Johnson. "The NOL is not one of them." …Losing $900 million dollars may save you $315 million or so on future or past taxes. But astute readers will have noticed that it is not actually smart financial strategy to lose $900 million in order to get out of paying $315 million to the IRS. Most of us would rather have the other $585 million than a tax bill of $0. …If Trump managed to pay no taxes for years, the most likely way he did this was by losing sums much vaster than the unpaid taxes. This is fair, it is right, it is good tax policy.
In other words, Trump used NOLs, but he would have greatly preferred to avoid the big $916 million loss in the first place.
Ryan Ellis, writing for Forbes, doesn't suffer fools gladly on this issue.
…political reporters don't know a damned thing about taxes. …That ignorance was on display in vivid colors over the weekend. We were told that this tricky NOL was some sort of "loophole" that only super-rich bad guys like Donald Trump got to use. We were told that this relieved him of having to pay taxes for 18 years, a laughably arbitrary, made up number that is the tautological output of simple arithmetic and wild assumptions. …It's not difficult to see how political reporters got played like a fiddle here. Most of them have never actually run a business, much less learned about the tax rules surrounding them.
I especially like that Ryan also nails the NYT for bias, in this case because the reporters used made-up number to imply that he didn't pay tax for almost two decades.
And Ryan also notes that NOLs are very common (and were even used in 2015 by Trump's opponent).
…a net operating loss is very common in businesses. As Alan Cole of the Tax Foundation pointed out this morning, about 1 million taxpayers had an NOL in 1995. It results from business deductions exceeding business income in a particular year. …Trump's not the only presidential candidate this year who once had a big loss on his taxes. In 2015, the Clintons realized a capital loss of nearly $700,000. That will be available in perpetuity to offset capital gains they might incur. Unlike an NOL, a capital loss can slowly be used to offset other income, albeit at a slow $3000 per year net of any other gains offset.
Now that we've established that there's nothing remotely scandalous about NOLs, let's see whether there are any lessons we can from this kerfuffle.
Let's return to the Wall Street Journal story cited earlier in this column.
This doesn't tell us whether Trump actually did use his NOLs to offset other income, though I'm guessing the answer is yes. And as I speculated in the above interview, I wonder whether the losses were real losses or paper losses.
And others have suggested that Trump actually lost other people's money and he was able to use their losses to offset some of his income.
I have no idea if that's even possible, just as I have no idea whether his losses were real.
But I do know that a flat tax would put an end to any possible gamesmanship since it is a cash-flow system (which means it is based on actual transactions that take place, not whether companies use currency).
In a world with a flat tax, Trump would be allowed to "carry forward" losses, but only if they are real. And as explained above, he wouldn't be able to use those losses to offset income that gets reported on the individual postcard.
So as I argued in the interview, let's rip up the corrupt and destructive internal revenue code and copy the simple and fair flat tax that is used by Hong Kong.


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För skivbolaget, se Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet är ett musikalbum av The Rolling Stones som släpptes i december 1968 på skivbolaget Decca. Det var deras elfte album och släpptes efter äventyret med psykedelisk musik på det förra albumet Their Satanic Majesties Request. Med Beggars Banquet återvände gruppen musikaliskt till sitt ursprung och låtarna är återigen R&B- och bluesinspirerade.

Låten"Sympathy for the Devil" öppnar albumet och är troligtvis den mest kända från detta album. I låten tar Mick Jagger rollen som djävulen själv och framför en bild från hans sida att se saker och ting ur ett världshistoriskt perspektiv. På albumet finns också en av gruppens mest politiska låtar, "Street Fighting Man". Låten var albumets enda singel, och nådde plats 48 på Billboard Hot 100-listan. Att den inte nådde högre berodde på att den smått bojkottades av amerikansk radio på grund av texten. Dessa två låtar och "Stray Cat Blues" är rak rockmusik,  resten av albumet är mer bluesbaserat med rockinslag. Albumet kom att bli det sista där Brian Jones medverkade i större utsträckning. Han spelar bland annat slidegitarr på "No Expectations", munspel på "Dear Doctor", och mellotron på "Jigsaw Puzzle".

På de första utgåvorna av albumet stod inte Robert Wilkins med som upphovsman till låten "Prodigal Son", vilket rättades till på senare utgåvor av albumet.

Fodralet till skivan föreställde ursprungligen ett smutsigt och nerklottrat offentligt toalettutrymme. Både Decca i Europa och London Records i USA vägrade ge ut albumet med denna omslagsbild, vilket gjorde att albumet blev försenat flera månader då Rolling Stones ville ha denna bild. Gruppen gav dock med sig och skivan gavs istället ut med ett vitt omslag med en smal guldram där albumtiteln och gruppnamnet står med snirklig text på framsidan. Fodralet liknar ett inbjudningskort till en middagsbjudning. 1984 var första gången albumet officiellt gavs ut med originalomslaget, och de flesta nyutgåvor använder sedan dess det omslaget.

Kuriosa
2010 gjordes en dokumentär om inspelningen av albumet i serien Classic Albums. Albumet medtogs i magasinet Rolling Stones lista The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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Alla låtar är skrivna av Mick Jagger och Keith Richards om inget annat anges.

Sida ett
 "Sympathy for the Devil" - 6:18
 "No Expectations" - 3:56
 "Dear Doctor" - 3:22
 "Parachute Woman" - 2:20
 "Jigsaw Puzzle" - 6:06

Sida två
 "Street Fighting Man" - 3:16
 "Prodigal Son" (Robert Wilkins) - 2:52
 "Stray Cat Blues" - 4:37
 "Factory Girl" - 2:09
 "Salt of the Earth" - 4:47

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ARM Brings More Cores To The Datacenter War
October 22, 2014 by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Back in May, ARM Holdings, the chip design and licensing company behind the ARM processor collective that underpins smartphones, tablets, and other consumer devices, and that is assaulting the hegemony of the X86 processor in the datacenter, hinted that it would be coming out with a more scalable on-chip interconnect that would boost the processing capacity of devices based on its cores.
This time around, with the CoreLink Cache Coherent Network (CCN) interconnect, ARM is making another big jump, allowing companies that license its cores and interconnect technology to scale a single system-on-chip to a whopping 48 cores. This capability, which will come with the CCN-512 variant of the interconnect, puts the ARM chip core count well above that of Intel's Xeon family and getting up close to where its Xeon Phi is. (You would need a CCN-515 to get close.) At the same time, ARM will be scaling down the interconnect to with the CCN-502, allowing a very high-speed, small footprint variant that is suitable for those who want to make zippy four-core ARM chip designs.
The CCN-502 interconnect, which by its name should only support two clusters, actually supports up to four clusters of ARM cores, with each cluster having four cores and yielding a maximum of sixteen cores on a single die. That is the same as the CCN-504, and the CCN-502 has optimizations that make it take up 70 percent less area with 1 MB of share shared across the cores compared to the CCN-504 announced earlier this year. This low-end interconnect is important to pair with the Cortex-A53 core, which burns 75 milliwatts per core running at 1 GHz using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's 16 nanometer FinFET 3D transistor process, for certain workloads.
The CCN-512, as the name suggests, has a dozen of these four-core clusters for a maximum of 48 cores. Here is the block diagram for an ARM chip that uses this interconnect with all of the possible features hanging off it:
All of the recent CCN interconnects are designed to be used in conjunction with the 64-bit Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 cores. Not all 64-bit ARM chip makers use these interconnects or the ARM Holdings designs, of course. Full licensees of the ARM architecture, such as Applied Micro and AMD, can design their own cores and interconnects so long as they maintain instruction set compatibility. Applied Micro has done its own core and interconnect designs from day one with its X-Gene family of chips, while AMD is shifting from using the Cortex-A57 cores in the "Seattle" and "SkyBridge" chips to a homegrown core – and possibly on-chip interconnect and off-chip glue chips for NUMA or otherwise coherent designs – with its future "K12" chip due in 2016. Cavium, also a full ARM architecture licensee, plans to have as many as 48 custom cores on a chip using its own Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI) in its future ThunderX ARM server chips. Cavium is also doing two-socket NUMA configurations with the initial ThunderX processors.
At the moment, ARM has not created its own NUMA or other coherent extensions to the CCN interconnect, but back in May the company hinted to EnterpriseTech that it was investigating such possibilities and that it would probably entail extending the Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) bus that has part of the ARM ecosystem since 1996. The current ARM chips support the ABMA Coherent Hub Interconnect (CHI) 5 specification, and the CCN interconnects are an implementation of that spec although not the only one; it is this interconnect that allows the mixing of ARM cores and other types of accelerators, such as DSPs, FPGAs, GPUs, cryptographic engines, packet processors, with the ARM cores on a single die and, possibly at some time in the future, outside of the die.
Ian Forsythe, product marketing manager at ARM, tells EnterpriseTech that ARM is still exploring its options for interconnects that would glue multiple system-on-chip components together, including NUMA and other kinds of coherent extensions. But at the moment, it is relying on partners to do this as their own value add. If there is such a development, Forsythe says that it will be done by extending the AMBA 5 CHI off the die.
But that is the future. Right now, what ARM chip buyers want is a set of devices that can scale from wired to wireless networks to the core datacenter networks, all of which are being overloaded by data flying in and out of our various personal and work devices as we conduct business and our lives. "While companies that make devices at the edge of the network have gotten very efficient about how to do that, but this data has to transverse the whole of the network," explains Forsythe. "People are looking for a scalable solution, and a single architecture style that they can then implement at the edge of the network and into the core of the network. And we both know that the core of the network is becoming more and more like servers."
In essence, companies want competition between X86 processors, that are moving from servers down into network and storage devices, and ARM processors, which are moving up from embedded and consumer uses up to the core network and servers. As more of the servers, storage, and switching gets defined in software, companies will probably pick one architecture over the other over the long haul. At the moment, it is a toss-up which way people will go, between X86 and ARM. We need server-class, 64-bit ARM chips in the field before we can tell, but thus far, Intel has done a masterful job of taking advantage of market opportunities outside of servers with its Xeon and Atom processors.
The ARM collective is bringing its own resources to bear, however, with a flexible architecture that allows the mixing and matching of different kinds of ARM cores and kinds of accelerators and coprocessors. This mixing and matching is key to supporting a diverse set of workloads. Control plane processing in network devices need efficient, brawny cores, and so does MAC scheduling, which also has the added requirement of low latency. On the data plane of network devices, chips with many smaller cores that deliver lots of I/O, more deterministic performance, and bigtime throughput at higher efficiency is the key. The same is true for various storage and serving devices.
The high-end of the ARM architecture is interesting for EnterpriseTech readers because this is where ARM will take on the Xeon E5 chips, which are the workhorses of the datacenter these days. (Although for some distributed workloads, the Xeon E3s are finding uses when it comes to software that is priced based on core counts, that craves high clock speeds, and that is very parallel in nature.)
The CCN-512 allows for some truly brawny processors by any measure, sporting up to 48 cores, up to 100 GB/sec of memory bandwidth using DDR4 memory clocking at 3.2 GHz, and up to 32 MB of L3 cache spread across those cores. This setup has four DCM-520 memory controllers, which also support DDR3 memory if system makers want the older and cheaper stuff that is a little less efficient and zippy. The ARM designs have parity data on data moving around the interconnect and ECC error scrubbing on RAMs.
The maximum sustained – and measured – on-chip bandwidth is up to 1.8 Tb/sec for the I/O subsystems; the aggregate bandwidth of all of the ports on the chip using the CCN-512 interconnect is higher than this, but Forsythe did not have the numbers handy at press time. The point is, ARM measures it with workloads rather than just multiplying out everything. The SoC designs using the CCN family of interconnects also have dynamic voltage and frequency scaling and CPU shutdown down to a core, with partial and full L3 cache shutdown. The chip design also includes retention modes so that data in the cache is preserved when the cores are all turned off.
The new CCN interconnects will be available in products sometime next year, and it will be interesting to see if they get used to brawny ARM server chips. The capability is there, now someone has to use it.
Categories: Systems
Tags: 64-bit,ARM,ARM64v8,coherent,interconnect
2 Responses to ARM Brings More Cores To The Datacenter War
ancientarcher says:
It seems ARM should now focus its attention on building a very heavy core to target Intel because it is impossible to get around low per core performance in certain usage scenarios in servers.
The coretex A57 have barely got into production and it was released exactly 2 years ago. However, at the clock speeds it is being used means that it will be good only for low power usage scenarios. ARM can theoretically design a beefier core with the corresponding higher power usage, but with much higher performance, something that can challenge Intel on per core performance metrics. And maybes a big(ger) ARM core is already in the works and we will see it soon.
Mark Sandstrom says:
The critical factors going forward should involve maximizing operations (incl. user program instructions and I/O operations) per cycle for each core on the manycore chips, when assignment of the cores is dynamically optimized among multiple internally parallelized applications, incl. according to incoming processing load variations among the apps.
Clock rates or core counts as such are not critical for scalability; it is about efficiency (minimized system overhead and idling) in dynamically shared scenarios.


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Ong Ka Ting, as usual, evades the issue of local elections
by Ronnie Liu Tian Khiew
(Petaling Jaya, Thursday): The minister of housing and local government Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting sees no urgency in discussing the issue of local government elections. He was quoted as saying " that's not my decision. It's up to the government. My ministry alone cannot make a statement on the government's position".
When he was asked why he has not raised the issue, he told the reporters that he would discuss it at the right time and right forum.
No one expects Ong Ka Ting alone can lift the ban on local elections after it was suspended during the Indonesian Confrontation in 1965. But as a minister, who's holding the portfolio for local government, he should be the one in the government to respond to the call for the restoration of local elections. Or unless he gives up his position as a minister of housing and local government.
The call for local elections becomes louder these days, as local councils in general are inefficient, unprofessional and always fail to provide good service to the locals.
Recent incidents such as the approval of expensive new attire (RM4, 000 a set of Baju Melayu/ Baju Kurung and songkok) for Klang Municipal Council councillors and heads of departments, the repeating flash floods of Kuala Lumpur, the Kajang Municipal Council's ban on sale of pork in open-air markets, harassment of young couples for holding hands by the Ipoh City Hall and KL City Hall, and the Abdul Kudus scandal of Ampang Jaya Municipal Council, the compulsory dustbins imposed by the Selayang Municipal Council have all led to criticism of the appointment system in local governments.
There are practically no accountability, transparency and checks and balances in the current appointment system. Even Ong Ka Ting has no power to check on the performance of local council heads and councillors, as the menteri besars and chief ministers of the respective states appointed all these positions.
DAP Selangor had presented a memorandum on the restoration of local elections to Ong Ka Ting 16 June this year. We were expecting Ong to display some leadership quality in dealing with the issue, instead of running away from his duty and responsibility.
But this is not the first time Ong was playing evasive game on issues concerning his ministry or his position as an MCA leader. He has been evading issues such as the Broga incinerator, the closure of SJKC Damansara, the stoppage of Shah Alam Catholic church, the questionable Chang Min Thien Foundation and MCA JE Humanitarian Fund, the shortage of Chinese schools and teachers, and the triad politics in MCA, just to mention a few.
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Post by JonS » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:06 pm
anyone wanna talk japanese music?
I'm not the biggest connosieur but i like Yoko Kanno, The Pillows, and Dreams Come True.....
any other good bands out there you can recommend? soundtrack music, rock bands, J-pop, or otherwise....?
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Post by Kean » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:22 pm
Mono: For my money, the best Japanese band out there. An electric guitar / ambient band, they frequently draw comparisons to Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky and Do Make Say Think, but I honestly think they've reached the next level with their latest album, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky.... Insound has "Halcyon Days" available for download. Also, other samples are available here.
Shakka Zombie: Crazy, crazy, crazy hip hop (J-Hop?). Harmonicas, bongos, kazoos, cow bells... I don't understand a bloody thing that they're rhyming (not that I understand Japanese to begin with), but it sure is catchy.
Hotei Tomoyasu: Arguably the best rock guitarist in Japan. Got a lot of exposure Stateside for some of his riffs being used in a recent Tarantino (who?) flick.
I find it extremely odd that the majority of westerners are only introduced to Japanese music through anime.
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Kean wrote: I find it extremely odd that the majority of westerners are only introduced to Japanese music through anime.
It's those soundtracks. I remember when I was a kid I used to listen to my Ranma 1/2 ost collection alot. And i'd imagine pop music is even more omnipresent there than it is in the US....
Post by Kean » Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:46 am
I forgot to mention Hy. Indie J-pop. The Japanese sure like their labels, but these kids sure wear this one well. Their album Street Story might be to your taste -- there are some similarities to The Pillows, minus the heavy Pixies influence.
Gackt might also be worth checking out. I think they're pretty big in Japan (I've heard their name thrown around a few times), but I honestly haven't heard all that much from them.
I'd recommend keeping an eye on Fruits of Chaos, an MP3 blog specializing in Asian music. They haven't been updating for a few months, but here's hoping they start up again soon.
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Post by Sweet_Baboo » Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:46 pm
Hey if you like tha Pillows, you might like "Asian Kung-Fu Generation" (or "Aji-kan") i like some of their songs a lot. like "kimi to yuu hana"
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Gackt is FUNNY AS HELL. I've seen him talk on shows like Hey Hey Hey, and he's so ridiculously COOL. (not the way Americans use that word, but how the Japanese use that word) But thenm he'd talk about the most outrageous things with a straight face - He talked about how he got a waterfall installed in his bedroom, and ended up constantly having dreams that he was drowning. He also has a large room with a trampoline where he bounces for hours a day, flipping and meditating. He also talked about how his bed is on a loft with a ramp or something (?) and the bathrooms are in the other side of the house, and one time he got food poisoning and got really sick, and he has to roll down the incline and crawl back and forth between the bed and bathroom with with an horribly upset stomach.
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Post by peng8noodles » Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:44 am
ooo yes asian kung-fu generation is very good. think japanese version of weezer. you should check out loop & loop, very good song.
Post by Sweet_Baboo » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:08 pm
hmm, infact, your avatar (P8Noodles) looks like cover art for Aji-kan CD, no?
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Post by agremar » Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:42 pm
The Brilliant Green are very excellent, and they've sometimes been called the "Beatles" of Japan for their popularity...some of their songs are in English too. The lead singer also has another band that sounds like 80's bubblegum pop, which is pretty good, called Tommy February 6.
If you want hyper-happy-pop try out Folder 5's first album
Should you want some R&B/Hip-Hop try Boa, who's actually Korean, but sings in Japanese.
I don't like Brilliant Green, but I like Tommy February6, the earlier stuff, very good 80's type synthy pop. It seems more recently they've decided to add the "Tommy Angels" a group of cheerleader/dancers/back-up-vox to the project and it sounds hella dumb.
If you're going to mention Boa, i think Utada Hikaru needs to be mentioned as well...
I like Shiina Ringo, and some songs from Nakashima Mika, who's kinda standard ballad singer, but did some interesting jazz-y songs on the last album.
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Post by yuria » Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:24 am
Ayumi Hamasaki, L'arc-en-ciel, Glay, Judy and Mary, Two-Mix, Spitz, Nanase Aikawa, B'z, Bonnie Pink, Globe, Do As Infinity, Janne da Arc, Hysteric Blue, Luna Sea, X-Japan, Dir en Grey, Hide, Aucifer ... so many to mention. Talking about soundtracks, I can recommend OST to "Noir" - it's beautifull, also "Fullmetal Alchemist" is good and "Gravitation" has some nice beats
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Post by Dek » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:52 pm
peng8noodles wrote: Hey if you like tha Pillows, you might like "Asian Kung-Fu Generation" (or "Aji-kan") i like some of their songs a lot. like "kimi to yuu hana"
Wow - I just checked them out, and they are awesome! Thanks for that one!
Post by Sweet_Baboo » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:12 pm
Boa's totally Britney Spears-y. I feel like I don't like a lot of Japanese music, but that's because it's hard to get exposed to the non-top40 stuff when you're in a different country. I hear some aweful stuff coming out of there sometimes - I really don't like Hamasaki Ayumi and the like, I don't like girl groups like Morning Musume, I don't like trying-really-hard-to-sound-American hip hop.
American music influences Japanese music very strongly, which i think causes them to sometimes make songs that don't suit the Japanese language very well, and it's standard for half the song to be sung in english (or Engrish)
One thing I like about Japanese music, i feel like it's more expressive and has more variety in content than American music. I think the Japanese language just has a larger vocabulary and expressions to capture very specific ideas. In terms of content, i feel like besides Love Songs there's a lot of "be confident" type songswhere the songs tell you an inspiring message about "your dreams will come true" or something.
I also notice some artists who are trying to break away from the main stream and make "Japanese influenced Japanese music" using traditional singing techniques or singing about things that are specific to Japanese culture, like Hajime Chitose and Moriyama Naotaro.
I like Spitz a lot, Mr. Children, some B'z... I like some Puffy ("Puffy Ami/Yumi") and Okuda Tamio stuff, some High-Lows. I remember there was an awesome hip hop group in the early 90's called Schada-rapper (sp?) that was totally original and funny, but i can't find anything of theirs...
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Post by monochromanic » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:50 am
Sweet_Baboo wrote: I think the Japanese language just has a larger vocabulary and expressions to capture very specific ideas. In terms of content, i feel like besides Love Songs there's a lot of "be confident" type songswhere the songs tell you an inspiring message about "your dreams will come true" or something.
Totally agreed. But then again, I think the Japanese language is just beautiful altogether.
And some recs:
m-flo has some tight beats. You may not always understand what they're saying, but it sure is nice to dance to. Or bob your head to while you're driving.
For more ballad-type songs Chemistry is pretty good. The Gospellers are also great w/harmonies and have some really good songs out there.
Crystal Kay and Gackt are a couple singers that I just love their voice. Ck is more pop-ballad and Gackt is kind of alternative/rock/ballad. He's a very well-rounded performer, and really great musician. I love his instrumental piano piece called "Freesia".
And as mentioned before, AKFG is really awesome.
>> Grace
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Post by Joe Shig » Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:38 am
The only Japanese music I know is from the Kill Bill soundtrack... and I'm not even sure if it's Japanese.
--Joe.
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Post by WillRyan » Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:04 pm
I picked up the American version of Hikaru Utada's english album, Exodus, for my girlfriend after her entire collection of import cd's got swiped at work. (She probably had over $2000 worth of cd's in that case!)
Utada's voice is pretty strong, even if her songwriting is kinda weak. The production is all shimmery plastic hip-hop, but it's damn catchy. I ended up with a copy for myself: now it's the first dance album I own.
Anybody who listens to her earlier cd's, are they worth picking up?
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