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NPL's Elite Gainer will help you gain muscle weight fast. It is perfect for the "hard gainers,"- those who find it hard, or next to impossible, to gain weight. NPL's Elite Gainer is a high-calorie shake supplying high biological value proteins, Whey Concentrate, Isolate and Whey Hydrolysate, the most advanced muscle building proteins. NPL's Elite Gainer has been fortified with a scientifically formulated, specialized Amino-, Anabolic and Performance Stack, together with a complete vitamin profile. This vital stack ensures your body stays in an anabolic environment, supporting strenuous workouts, optimizing recovery and enhancing muscle gain. NPL's Elite Gainer makes a delicious shake containing 1100 calories per serving when mixed with water.
The needs of those trying to gain weight are often overlooked in a world obsessed with losing weight. Welcome to NPL's Elite Gainer, a healthy, delicious and effective supplement designed for the purpose of gaining weight and promoting muscle mass and strength.
Elite Gainer is ideal for individuals looking to gain muscle weight fast. As it contains no Creatine, this is ideal for young sportsmen on the athletic field and those looking to increase size and strength.
NPL follows a non-proprietary blend policy, whereby we disclose all ingredients on our labels. Our products are independently tested at random to ensure customer peace of mind.
Consumer satisfaction and ensuring that we provide products of the highest quality, is extremely important to us at NPL and we will never compromise on this. We refuse to cut corners when providing the best supplements; supplements and nutrition that set the standard and most importantly, produce results.
As a nutritional supplement, add 2-6 rounded scoops (107-320g) to 250-600ml of cold water or full cream milk and consume 2-4 times daily. It is recommended that you use one full serving daily (6 scoops) in divided dosages. Use as a recovery post-training drink and/or supplement with or between meals or as directed by your healthcare practitioner / fitness advisor. Serving size and mixing ratios may be adjusted to meet individual requirements and taste preferences.
Ingredients: CARB BLEND: Lower GI Maltodextrin, Maltodextrin, Fructose. HEPTA PROTEIN SYSTEM: Whey Concentrate, Soy Protein Isolate, Milk Protein, Whey Hydrolysate, Whey Protein Isolate, Calcium, Caseinate, Egg Albumen. AMINO STACK: L-Glutamine, Taurine. Cocoa Powder (in chocolate only), Flavouring, Inulin, Stabilizers, Salt, MCT Oil, Non-Nutritive Sweetener Blend (Sucralose, Acesulfame-K), Colourant (in Strawberry Only: Ponceau), VITAMIN MIX (Vitamin C, Nicotinic Acid/-Amide/Niacin, Vitamin E, Pantothenic Acid, Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine), Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B1 (Thiamine), Vitamin A, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12), Tolerase® L.
Storage: Store at or below 25°C. Protect from light and moisture. Keep out of reach of children.
Note/Warning: Consult your doctor prior to use. Not intended for use by persons under the age of 18. Do not use if you are pregnant or nursing unless prescribed by a sports physician/dietitian. Maintain an adequate state of hydration while using this product.
Allergens: Milk derivatives, Soy, Egg. This product is manufactured in a facility that uses materials containing milk, soy, wheat, barley, oats, gluten, eggs, fish, peanuts, shellfish and tree nuts.
Bought this for my 17 year old son as it's the only gainer I could find with no creatine. He is so happy and has seen very good results. Very good product.
Love the chocolate flavour. Very good product.
Order this for the second time as I got one for free from a mate and now NPL is the only product I will use.
This is just a solid well rounded shake. Gotta love NPL supplements, keep up the good quality!
Excellent mass gainer. It's difficult to find a good mass gainer that doesn't contain creatine. Thanks NPL – loyal customer.
Very nice Mass Gainer and works very well, tastes very nice though I prefer the vanilla. Good price for a good quality shake.
Value for money. Seen very good results in just a few weeks, especially as there is no creatine in it.
Love the mass im getting. Clean muscle.
currently using it as a pre workout meal. 6 scoops is way too much so i only use around 3 scoops 60min before training. More than enough for me to get what i need in my workout session.
Product works wonders. Used hyper gain then went onto this. As a ectomorph i gained quite a bit and this mixes very well with no lumps. Npl is my standard now.
Best Mass gainer I ever used!
Moved over to Elite from Hyper and so far I am liking it. Time will tell with results however, but lets see what it brings to the table.
Really liking the glutamine and vitmain stack which is included in Elite.
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John Batdorf | Redmond, OR | USA
John Batdorf is a singer-songwriter solo artist and one half of Las Vegas Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers folk-rock duo Batdorf & Rodney. He's also a successful film and TV composer, session vocalist, and inspirational musician in the substance recovery community.
In his four-decade career, he's worked with icons such as Ahmet Ertegun, David Geffen, Clive Davis, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, Dwight Yoakum, David Lee Roth, and Mötley Crüe, plus many others. In the realm of film and TV incidental music, he's lent his voice and compositional skills to beloved shows such as Tom and Jerry Kids, Garfield and Friends, Touched By An Angel, Promised Land, and Doctor, Doctor, and Book of Days. With legendary Utah-based singer, composer, and filmmaker, Michael McLean, under, Batdorf & McLean, he's launched a unique substance abuse survival platform, and released the CD Soundtrax2Recovery. Batdorf has also released new music collaboratively with his old partner Mark Rodney and James Lee Stanley. Since 2004, he's released five solo albums on his own imprint, BATMAC MUSIC. His latest, Beep Beep, is a joyous and uplifting album that harkens back to his early inspiration of discovering music via The Beatles.
JL: What is the story behind your song "Beep Beep"?
"Beep Beep" was the first completed song for my new CD. My wife and I were visiting Bend, Oregon in June of 2014. We were staying in a hotel and I woke up very early and didn't want to wake her so I put on headphones and turned on my computer. A few days earlier I had been working on a new idea starting off like most of my songs, with a guitar figure and then the rest just kind of came. I recorded the guitar and added a melody that came to me as I listened. Luckily, I saved it and added it to my music so I could access it while we were away from my studio in Los Angeles. As I listened to the music for some reason I thought about the Beatles and the first line came, "I got the fever back in 64, ain't felt nothin' like it since, nothin' like it before" and the song just poured out. The whole reason I took such an interest in music at all was because I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and freaked out! I left for California three years later and three years after that, signed with Atlantic Records at age 18. They set the bar higher than it ever was before when it came to talent, songwriting, singing, recording techniques and just about everything else they did. To this day, I use their double time percussion technique to change a song section's feel and learned all about writing a bridge from listening to their awesome records. "They changed the worlds 'cos we were all listening!!" I was so lucky to have grown up listening to this incredible band that launched so many other great bands and did indeed change the world forever.
JL: Why do you write music?
I write music because I have to. Music creates a balance in my life that keeps me sane. I believe in the power and magic of music so much that I created a project with Michael McLean, "Soundtrax2Recovery" and a website 2recovery.org It's all about the healing and recover powers of the song.
JL: How do you write a song?
I haven't quite figured out exactly how I come to write songs but I am so happy I was born with the ability to "hear" songs first and use my craft to write and record the music and share it with the world.
JL: What inspires you?
Everything inspires me. It's a beautiful world we live in and inspiration is everywhere.
JL: What are your fondest musical memories?
Several events come to mind. I was overwhelmed as a teenager the first time I heard my band play an original of mine. Auditioning for Ahmet Ertergun at age 18 and having him sign and produce the first Batdorf and Rodney on Atlantic. Hearing my record on the radio was a rush like no other and it still affects me 45 years later. Watching and hearing my first completed score on "Promised Land" was exhilarating after all the hours of working under difficult conditions, it made the prime time CBS show and my work continued for 7 more years. Hearing XM Radio play my new and old music was so cool and last but not least, my Oscar night performance with Adele was something I could never have imagined ever doing.
JL: If you could open a set for anyone, who would it be?
Paul McCartney because without the Beatles, I would have never gone into music.
JL: Why is independent music important to you?
Being independent gives me the freedom to produce records the way I want without answering to corporate suits!
JL: What is your advice to fellow independent artists?
Find out who you are and be the best at it.
JL: When is your next release coming out?
Who knows. I released my latest CD "Beep Beep" last winter and I am working on some new songs but there is no timetable.
JL: Have anything else you want to say?
Nothing other than I have been blessed with talent, luck and opportunity my whole life and I am forever grateful. I have a great wife of 43 years, 31 year old twin sons and now two grandsons. All are healthy and a joy. Thanks to all that have supported me on this continuing magnificent ride.
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Cement is about to get lit.
Unlike other phosphorescent materials, which are usually made out of plastic, the glow-in-the-dark cement doesn't degrade when exposed to ultraviolet rays. Glow-in-the-dark plastics last about three years, but the new light-emitting cement can stick around for up to 100, according to Rubio.
Correction: A previous version of this article described the cement as a "fluorescent" material. It is in fact a phosphorescent material, since it absorbs solar radiation during the day and emits light at night.


With a jackpot worth millions and some fabulous secondary prizes up for each draw, the South Africa Lotto is one game you simply cannot miss. It is South Africa's favorite 6/49 game because it only takes matching those six main numbers from 1 to 49 to scoop the biggest prize in the game.
The game offers players two chances each week to win the jackpot and the secondary prizes. The official draws for the South Africa Lotto are held Wednesdays and Saturdays at 21:00 SAST and you can even watch them live on TV on SABC2. You can also check the SA Lotto results online right here!
In case you haven't tuned in to see the South Africa Lotto draw live on SABC2, you can always check your results on megamillions.co.za. After each draw, we make sure to post the winning numbers on our SA Lotto Results page. Here, you will also find the South Africa Lotto winning numbers for the previous draws in the game.
Guessing the six main numbers from 1 to 49 will earn you the South Africa Lotto jackpot, which is worth 60.1% of the game's prize pool. But there is also an additional number (also from 1 to 49) that is drawn for the South Africa Lotto. This number will determine the winners of the 2nd, 4th, and 6th prize divisions.
The SA Lotto offers seven prize divisions, which makes it one game you simply cannot afford to miss. With each draw, the officials randomly select six main numbers from 1 to 49 and a bonus number. As we have mentioned above, players are required to guess all six of the main numbers to win the jackpot.
Players who match five of the main numbers and the bonus number are eligible for the second prize, which is worth 6.5% of the South African National Lottery prize pool. The seventh-tier prize is the only one that has a fixed amount and it is worth R50.00. This goes to players who guess three of the main numbers.


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Bosnian Army Guard Convicted of War Crimes Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent 2002 U.S. Citizenship
August 24, 2016 By domani spero in Court Cases, EUR|Europe, Federal Agencies, War Tags: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Conflict, DHS/ICE, Slobo Maric, U.S. citizenship, war crimes
Posted: 12:03 am ET
Via USDOJ: Former Bosnian Army Prison Guard Pleads Guilty to Fraudulently Procuring U.S. Citizenship
A Jacksonville, Florida, man pleaded guilty today for unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose during his naturalization process his membership in the Bosnian Army and crimes that he committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian Conflict in the 1990s, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of Florida.
Slobo Maric, 56, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge James R. Klindt of the Middle District of Florida. Sentencing has not yet been scheduled.
According to the plea agreement, in 1993, Maric served as a shift leader, the second in command to the warden, of a detention facility in Bosnia that housed captured Bosnian-Croat soldiers. Many of the guards in the facility routinely subjected detainees to serious physical abuse and humiliation, including by referring to them with ethnic slurs and spitting on them. According to the plea agreement, Maric selected detainees for other guards to abuse; directly participated in abusing several prisoners; and sent prisoners on dangerous and deadly work details on the front line of the conflict. The Bosnian government charged Maric for his criminal conduct and, after Maric immigrated to the United States, Bosnia indicted and convicted Maric in absentia for war crimes against prisoners. According to the plea agreement, Maric knew about the Bosnian court proceedings, yet he failed to disclose the proceedings and lied about his conduct on his application for U.S. citizenship. Maric became a naturalized U.S. citizen on Oct. 31, 2002.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Jacksonville Field Office investigated the case under the supervision of the HSI Tampa Field Office with support from ICE's Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center.
Trial Attorneys Clayton O'Connor, Sasha Rutizer and Christina Giffin and Historian David Rich of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Dale Campion of the Middle District of Florida are prosecuting the case.
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Hilton HHonors, the loyalty program for Hilton Worldwide's 12 distinct hotel brands, today announced the return of Triple Your Trip.
Chicago knows how to rock the summer. In fact, 71 percent of Chicagoans included concerts on their Chicago summer bucket list, according to a study by Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT). To help Windy City music fans in their quest for fun, Hilton is hosting an exclusive concert, featuring a GRAMMY®-nominated artist at Palmer House Hilton on Friday, July 10, as part of its Hilton@PLAY concert series.
Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) is inviting racing fans to book a pit stop at their new motor racing-themed room at Hilton Heathrow Terminal 4 inspired by McLaren-Honda racing drivers Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.
It's time to play! Tonight, fans are invited to have a virtual front row seat as Hilton streams Nick Jonas' performance, part of the Hilton@PLAY concert series, exclusively on Periscope, Twitter's live streaming video service. Fans can tune-in at 8:15 p.m. CST (9:15 EST) by following @HiltonHHonors on Twitter and downloading the Periscope app. This marks the first time an entire live concert will be broadcasted via Twitter and Periscope.
Overworked and underplayed. As the world pushes playtime farther away from its priorities, Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) continues to inspire travelers to reclaim fun with its recently launched Hilton@PLAY campaign. And today, superstar Nick Jonas announces he will join in the movement as the next artist to perform as part of the Hilton@PLAY concerts. The show is set for April 22, 2015, at Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas.
Hilton HHonors, the loyalty program for Hilton Worldwide's 12 distinct hotel brands, today announced the return of Double Your HHonors, one of the program's most popular global bonus promotions among its 44 million members worldwide. With Double Your HHonors promotion, members may choose between earning either Double HHonors Points or Double Airline Miles for eligible hotel stays completed between March 1 and May 31, 2015.
Your wedding day is one of the biggest moments of your life and every bride and groom wants to look and feel fantastic as they walk down the aisle. Today, Hilton unveils its new 'Wedding Workout' promotion' set to help couples achieve just that.
Unused vacation time. Extended workdays. Forgotten holidays. Year after year and in headline after headline, it's becoming more apparent: the world has lost its passion to play. Today Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) embarks on a mission to excite and inspire the world to play again with the announcement of a five-year strategic marketing partnership with Live Nation, the world's leading live entertainment provider.
New research by Hilton Worldwide today reveals that Brits are wasting their weekends, with nearly one quarter (23 per cent) admitting they feel unsatisfied with how they've spent those days off.


I really enjoyed experimenting with this summer capsule wardrobe.
Taking photos of all the outfits inadvertently helped me see what items go better with my shape than others. I'll be making some changes for July.
1. Don't have too many similar pieces.
I quickly found that even though my black blouse has a pattern, it's not obvious enough to look different from my black t-shirt. That meant that some of my outfits ended up looking too similar. There was also a black cardigan that didn't get much use because I had so much black already in my wardrobe. Not sure why I chose all that black in the summertime.
2. Incorporate a versatile dress.
The dress ended up being my most versatile piece in the entire set! I didn't plan on that, but wow, it was fun. I used it as a scarf, skirt, flowing shirt, and peplum top. The elastic in the middle really helped to be able to wear it creatively.
For a scarf, I wrapped the elastic waist around my neck and hid the straps inside.
For a skirt, I tucked the top inside and let the elastic be my waistband.
For the flowing shirt, I pulled the dress on but left the elastic under my armpits. This made it look like an extra ruffle at the top and open at the base. I'm not sure this would've worked as well without a ruffle already in place.
For the peplum, I simply tucked the dress into my bottoms, and then pulled it out just enough to create a peplum.
3. A neutral cardigan appears to be another top.
Most people focus on the outter layer of an outfit ~ that's what they remember. So if you're wearing the same shirt underneath that you wore earlier in the week, it doesn't appear to be the same because the cardigan is different on top.
What's the most versatile piece in your closet?
Ok, you are so cute! I love the Gap T with the belted floral skirt/dress. And your hair looks so good in all these photos. It makes me want to cut mine off.
Oh Adrienne, that means the world coming from you! :D If you would like help with choosing a capsule/creating outfits, I would LOVE helping with that!


Business storage solutions have long been outdated, with expensive and inflexible fee structures or lengthy contracts. We're Simplify Valet Storage and we were born right here in New York City. Even though the real estate market in the Big Apple is complicated and expensive, we believe managing your possessions shouldn't be. This does not just apply to your home life but extends to businesses who need square footage space and many items to keep their business running smoothly.
Our team works with businesses in many different industries, including restaurants, traditional offices, landlords, and more. The common goal of all of our clients is to achieve a tidier office or commercial space that is more functional and presentable for everyday business needs. With the clutter out of sight, employees can be more focused and productive, and businesses can thrive.
For example, if you attend trade shows and have boxes of marketing collateral or the booth assets, storing them off site can help you have peace of mind that the items are packed away and out of sight. It will also eliminate the worry that your items will get misplaced in your office, creating a panic when you need them most.
Frequently, our customers have records that need to be kept on paper for years. Some own equipment or items that are used infrequently and take up space in their office. We've even worked with restaurants who have extra catering supplies or that need to clear space for special occasions.
Our team communicates directly with property managers, administrative assistants, owners, catering managers, and much more. If you're the decision maker on how to manage inventory or organize items in your commercial space, our team has tackled a storage project just like yours!
When you think of storage, offsite units are often the first thing that comes to mind. Most business storage solutions require loading up a van, traveling to the storage unit, and dropping off or picking up the supplies. This takes time out of your day and requires a team of at least two people to pick up and unload heavy items.
However, valet storage is a unique service where the provider will come to your home or office. Valet storage companies will pick up pre-packed bins or bulky items and take them to an offsite space. Then, when you're ready to get your items back, you'll request a drop-off.
Opposed to the traditional storage unit solution, valet storage provides a great value for businesses. Who has time to take time out of the workday to go retrieve items from a storage unit? With valet storage, businesses can keep their workday rolling and let us bring the items to you on your schedule.
While there are several other companies on the market, Simplify Valet Storage stacks up against the other guys. Our roots are in New York City, and we understand the unique challenges faced by residents.
You trust us with your items and we take that responsibility seriously. Our facility is clean, secure, and climate controlled. This means there won't be any surprises when you retrieve your items. Our team carefully handles each bin or item and takes it to our facility where it's treated like we'd care for our own items.
Many businesses leave files tucked away in a back corner in unsightly plastic boxes. When you store with Simplify Valet Storage, you can take advantage of our signature blue bins, which are both durable and attractive.
The bins are great for items that are easily damaged because they are water-resistant, spacious and keep items safe from pets like mice or bugs. The bins are also durable, so heavy document won't break the bin.
With Simplify Valet Storage, you have the flexibility to get your items back when you need them. There's no annual contract to worry about, and with just a short notice, you can set up a time to have your items returned on your schedule. Plus, our service starts at just $30 per month for five spacious bins. On a tight New York budget, we understand that every dollar adds up. That's why our team is dedicated to giving you the best value and service available on the market. Additionally we have business pricing as well.
Simplify Valet Storage has an online system where you can look at your inventory at any time. When you load your bins for storage, you're encouraged to take photos of each item and assign them to the bin. This way, you can log in at any time and see what you have in storage, helping you stay more organized. When it comes time to reorder supplies, you can simply log on and track how many you need to purchase. And when it's time to get an item back, you'll only need to request the one bin back, leaving the rest safe, organized, and out of your office.
We know that not every item will fit in a bin. That's why our service can accommodate several different types of storage needs. For example, bulky furniture that requires two people to move it can be stored in our facility. From bins to full storage units, our team's pickup and drop off service is still a key piece of every experience with Simplify Valet Storage.
Learn more about our business storage solutions here.


Awards and more awards | Angela Scott – Chief Executive, Aberdeen City Council.
In the week of the Star Awards ceremony at the Beach Ballroom it seems as good a time as any to put on record my appreciation of some of the Council's most recent award winners.
Congratulations Sean Cremer from the Council's Finance team who was this year's top-scoring local government student in the Cipfa (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) final examinations and as result was presented with the Archie Gillespie Memorial Award by the Cipfa President at the recent graduation ceremony.
Congratulations too to Hayley Anderson from the Council's Estates team who has recently qualified as a chartered surveyor and is now a member of RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors).
Well done to Stephen Bly and Derek McKay from the Council's Environmental Services team who respectively won Silver and Bronze Awards in the Parks, Grounds and Streetscene category at the recent APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Scotland Rising Star Awards.
20/05/16 Angela Scott, CEO with Aberdeen city Council presented the Worldhost Plaque to members of the Aberdeen City Wardens team, receiving the plaque were city wardens- Harry Farquhar and Carolyn Bruce.


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'The temporary shutdown of car factories could benefit manufacturers and customers'
With car factories around the world closing temporarily, it may give manufacturers the chance to clear out the current backlog of unsold new cars, says Mike Rutherford
by: Mike Rutherford
Can there be any positives to come out of temporary car factory closures across the globe? For salt-of-the-earth workers struggling to earn a living from motor manufacturing and related industries, the obvious answer has to be no. Such folk ain't daft. They/we know that in these unprecedented times, concerns and worries will inevitably exist in and around car-related workplaces and beyond.
As with most others, I'm just longing to 'get back to normal'. But frankly, as I'm stuck in the US while writing this, I'm no longer sure what normal is.
Coronavirus: what's it doing to the car industry?
In the car world we love, the only certainty – the new normal, if you like – is massive change. And change is happening, and will continue to happen, like never before. And to be clear, such upheaval applies to Britain and the rest of the world. This isn't a UK thing. It's a global thing. We're in this together.
Ironically, announcements of temporary factory shutdowns during the pandemic come at a time when I've acquired figures showing that global car sales have well and truly peaked. For years they've been declining – from over 70million in 2017, to 64m in 2019. And further reductions are likely in future years.
Last year alone, the world's car makers built almost three million more cars than they could register or sell. And this excess of product was in addition to the oversupply of millions of vehicles in earlier years.
In short, the industry has been building too many cars for too few customers – resulting in some unsold products spending too long on forecourts or stored on disused airfields. March's widespread call to suspend production will at least allow volume manufacturers and their workers to redress the balance.
Then, consumers can look forward to fresh new cars – as opposed to stale examples that are technically 'new and unused' but 'old' in the sense that they may have been built many months ago and left to languish since. With leading car-producing nations desperate to outdo each other, no wonder supply outstrips demand. In China last year, 21.3 million cars – many of them less than desirable – were built. Japan did 8.3m, with Germany (4.7m), India and South Korea (3.6m apiece) making up the remainder of the global top five.
Another new norm is that the US – the 'home of the motor car' – has slumped to sixth place in the league table (2.5m in 2019). Meanwhile, unlikely Brazil (2.4m) and humble Spain (2.2m) must fancy their chances of overtaking the States. France (1.7m) and Russia (1.5m) complete the Top 10. The underdog Czech Republic (1.4m) and modest Mexico (1.4m) are now larger car producers than the UK (1.3m). Fear not, though. We're still in the premier league of car-producing nations. And we have no plans to leave any time soon.
Our prestigious home-grown car companies and the high-volume foreign makers who chose to come here are determined to keep us in the premiership. And so are their talented 'players' – the loyal employees who are among the finest and most versatile in the world. Genuinely, I have every faith in these Brit-based companies and workers – in normal and abnormal, ordinary and extraordinary, happy and sad times.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City's hopes of an unprecedented quadruple were in tatters on Sunday after holders Wigan Athletic repeated their FA Cup heroics with a stunning 2-1 victory in their quarter-final at the Etihad Stadium.
Jordi Gomez's first-half penalty and a tap-in by James Perch gave Wigan, who beat City 1-0 in the FA Cup final at Wembley last May, a place in this year's semi-finals against Arsenal.
City, who won the League Cup last Sunday and need to overturn a two-goal deficit to Barcelona in the second leg of their Champions League tie next week, looked jaded against their second-tier opponents until they staged a thrilling late fightback.
Frenchman Samir Nasri made City's breakthrough in the 68th minute with a sweet 20-metre left-foot strike.
Substitute Edin Dzeko came within inches of forcing a replay, but Emmerson Boyce produced a remarkable last-ditch block and Wigan, managed by former City favourite Uwe Rosler, held on.
In the other quarter-finals played on Sunday, Sheffield United beat Charlton Athletic 2-0 and Hull City defeated Sunderland 3-0 to set up the second semi-final.
Arsenal beat Everton 4-1 on Saturday.


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Would Better Marketing Help the Coral Reefs?
A whopping 75% of the world's coral reefs are in danger. Is this a job for Ashley Judd?
By Jenara Nerenberg 2 minute Read
The world's coral reefs are dying and this week a powerhouse group of environmentalists released a report indicating that despite their efforts, the situation is getting worse. Seventy-five percent of the world's coral reefs are in danger of further decay.
Plenty of pressing causes, of course, see their awareness levels spike thanks to celebrity spokespeople and smart PR. In this instance, that's not happening. Does coral reef conservation just need better marketing?
Reefs at Risk Revisited, released by the D.C.-based World Resources Institute, along with the UN, Conservation International, and a host of other partners, is an update from a 1998 report. The main new addition is a finding that human actions–overfishing, coastal development, and pollution–are the most direct and immediate threats to coral reefs.
"This report serves as a wake-up call for policy-makers, business leaders, ocean managers, and others about the urgent need for greater protection for coral reefs," said Dr. Jane Lubchenco, under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.
But it's also a wake-up call to environmental NGO's themselves: Perhaps they need to change their tactics. "Managing oceans" doesn't quite have the same bite as "save a life with a malaria-fighting bed net"–and the malaria cause has attracted the likes of Ashley Judd, Mandy Moore, and Alicia Keys.
But who's speaking out for the reefs? With their beautiful schools of fish and eye-popping colors, coral reefs are a tangible face for the climate change cause, which, like malaria, will also cause mass human casualties–in the form of food shortage-induced hunger and forced migration.
For now, the Nature Conservancy is on the right track, doing its part to give the environmental problem a human face, but it's got a long way to go before making a global impression.
"At their core, reefs are about people as well as nature: ensuring stable food supplies, promoting recovery from coral bleaching, and acting as a magnet for tourist dollars," said Mark Spalding, senior marine scientist at the Nature Conservancy and a lead author of the report.
"We need apply the knowledge we have to shore up existing protected areas, as well as to designate new sites where threats are highest, such as the populous hearts of the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, East Africa and the Middle East."
The report also details the nine countries most at risk–Haiti, Grenada, Philippines, Comoros, Vanuatu, Tanzania, Kiribati, Fiji, and Indonesia–which for the most part are heavily frequented by international tourists. So there's an angle that could be employed by activists and campaigners. But in the end what the report's findings point to is that awareness and education are not enough–it might be time for a tactical change.
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Jenara is an overseas reporter for Fast Company and a freelance writer/producer in Asia, regularly on CNNGo, and a graduate of Harvard and UC Berkeley.
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Hastings and Landry Lead Crowd of 60,000 in 2014 AJCPRR
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On one of the coolest days in the 45-year history of the AJC Peachtree Road Race, Christo Landry kept his hot streak alive, winning his third-consecutive title on the roads this year when he took the lead with 400 meters to go to win the race and the men's USA 10 km...
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Meb Keflezighi knows that starting last in Friday's AJC Peachtree Road Race and trying to pass 22,500 runners to raise funds for the Kilometer Kids is going to be a challenge. But winning an ElliptiGO race on Thursday against corporate executives and Atlanta community...
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Spectators and runners in the 45th annual AJC Peachtree Road Race have come to expect a lot of things on July 4: the vast sea of 60,000 bobbing runners, the challenge of Cardiac Hill, the dramatic unveiling of the winning T-shirt design. On Friday, they can expect this,...
The Rundown on Juliet Bottorff
During Juliet Bottorff's warm-up run about 30 minutes before her NCAA Indoor Championships 5000-meter race this winter, she got hit by a car. She went back inside and finished fifth. That tells you a lot about this 23-year-old Duke University graduate, the surprise 2011...
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Coming out of Villanova University in 1996 as a five-time NCAA Champion, Jen Rhines had a dream. She wanted to make an Olympic team. Her dream came true in 2000, when she became an Olympian at 10,000 meters. It came true again in 2004, when she earned a spot on the U.S....
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U.S. Olympians Ryan Hall, Abdi Abdirahman, Desiree Linden, Amy Hastings, Julie Culley, Blake Russell, and Jen Rhines are among the first athletes confirmed for the AJC Peachtree Road Race on July 4, Atlanta Track Club announced today. For the second consecutive year, the...
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Top pick Griffin finished for season
Blake Griffin's first season with the Clippers is over before it even began. He'll have surgery on his broken left kneecap, keeping the No. 1 draft pick out for at least more four months.
Griffin hasn't played a regular-season game for the Clippers after injuring his kneecap in their final exhibition Oct. 23, wincing in pain as he landed after a dunk. After resting the stress fracture for weeks, the former Oklahoma star recently increased his workload, running on an anti-gravity treadmill.
He developed pain in his knee, and an examination Tuesday revealed his recovery wasn't progressing properly. He's the second top selection in the last three years to miss his entire first season with an injury. The Blazers' Greg Oden, chosen No. 1 by the Blazers in 2007, had microfracture surgery on his right knee three months after the draft. Last month, Oden also broke his left kneecap and was lost for the rest of this season.
Griffin, a power forward, averaged 13.7 points and 8.1 rebounds during the preseason.
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Royal Teeth
Minneapolis: April 22 to April 23, 2016
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from April 22 to April 23, 2016.
The Summer Set
Vans Warped Tour 7.21.13 in Shakopee, MN The Summer Set's latest album Legendary (Fearless Records). …
Handsome Ghost
Handsome Ghost to open the show. Suspiciously dates around SXSW are left blank at the moment... but we suspect they'll be down in Austin after March 12th. …
New Orleans' own Royal Teeth returns to town with their own version of happy, jumping dance pop, as evidenced on their full-length debut, Glow (Dangerbird Records)and brings the Mardi Gras party atmosphere, to their ...
at the Garage
Friday, 04/22/16, 6pm ($17/$20)
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Scottsdale's The Summer Set will be headlining the Garage in Burnsville this Friday night (April 22nd). The band's latest Stories for Monday came out April 1st via Fearless Records.
Sure, we just caught Handsome Ghost in March 2016, but it would seem the band is back in town! The band recently released their new single "Graduate", which you can hear on Soundcloud.com.
Also on the bill: Royal Teeth and Call Me Karizma.
04/18/16 Austin, TX Sidewinder
04/19/16 Dallas, TX The Door
04/21/16 St. Louis, MO The Ready Room
04/22/16 Burnsville, MN The Garage
04/23/16 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
04/24/16 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
04/27/16 Des Moines, IA Wooly's
04/29/16 Denver, CO Marquis Theater
04/30/16 Salt Lake City, UT Club Sound
05/03/16 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
05/06/16 Orangevale, CA Boardwalk
05/07/16 West Hollywood, CA Roxy Theatre
05/10/16 Bristol Thekla
05/12/16 London Scala
05/13/16 Birmingham The Asylum
05/14/16 Leeds The Key Club
05/15/16 Glasgow G2
05/17/16 Manchester Manchester Academy
05/18/16 Nottingham The Rescue Rooms
05/19/16 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
05/21/16 Orlando, FL The Social
05/22/16 Atlanta, GA Hell At The Masquerade
05/24/16 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall
05/25/16 Philadelphia, PA Theatre Of Living Arts
05/26/16 New York, NY The Gramercy Theatre
05/28/16 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
05/29/16 Pittsburgh, PA The Altar Bar
05/31/16 Toronto, ON Mod Club
06/01/16 Pontiac, MI Crofoot Ballroom
07/30/16 Vans Warped Tour
07/31/16 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
08/01/16 Albuquerque, NM Balloon Fiesta Park
08/02/16 Scottsdale, AZ Salt River Fields At Talking Stick
08/05/16 San Diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium
08/06/16 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
08/07/16 Pomona, CA Fairplex
08/09/16 Las Vegas, NV Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
08/11/16 Nampa, ID Ford Idaho Center
08/12/16 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
08/13/16 Portland, OR Portland Expo Center
Not to be confused with the two brothers from Bleach, Bleached are basically two sisters, Jennifer and Jessie, who has a thing for 70s porn. I saw Bleached last year and I went on record to say that I really like their music. ...
at the 7th Street Entry
Saturday, 04/23/16, 8pm ($12)
All-girls punk trio Bleached is touring in support of their latest Welcome The Worms. You may recall that we caught the band in 2012 and said that "the two sisters, Jennifer and Jessie, seem to have a thing for trash porn."
Los Angeles' No Parents and local Royal Brat to open.
Bleached Tour Dates:
Apr. 16 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz POB
Apr. 17 - Toronto, ON @ Garrison
April 18 - Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
Apr. 20 - Columbus, OH @ Double Happiness
Apr. 21 - Ferndale, MI @ Loving Touch
Apr. 22 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Apr. 23 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
Apr. 25 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Apr. 26 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Apr. 28 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
Apr. 29 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Apr. 30 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
May 2 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
May 4 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
May 5 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
May 12 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah
The comparisons are already in place for rock/folk/blues singer Lissie (nee Elisabeth Maurus) – looks like Jewel, sounds like Stevie Nicks with the raspy twinge of Janis Joplin; but the truth.…
at Pantages Theatre
Saturday, 04/23/16, 8pm ($22.50/$35)
Lissie (Elisabeth Maurus) is back on tour, this time in support of her third album My Wild West (Lionboy Records and Thirty Tigers).
We previously caught Lissie in 2013 and wrote, "Although she is Midwest born, her music is a melting pot of an Appalachian-meets-Laurel Canyon sound that tips its hat to the past- more 70's sounding on her debut release and a bigger 80's-influenced sound on her follow-up, Back to Forever (Fat Possom/Columbia), courtesy of Irish super producer, Jacknife Lee."
Originally scheduled for the Varsity Theater, the event was moved to the Pantages Theatre. Tickets sold for the Varsity Theater event will be honored at the door at the Pantages Theatre. Ticket holders for the Premium seats (sold as Mezzanine seats at the Varsity) will be directed to the Premium seating section on the main floor in the front rows.
Seating is not reserved, so show up early and grab a close-up seat.
Apr 14 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Apr 15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
Apr 16 - Boston, MA @ The Royale
Apr 18 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Apr 19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Apr 21 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
Apr 22 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Apr 23 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
Manchester all-female four-piece PINS (Faith Vern, Anna Donigan, Lois Macdonald and Sophie Galpin) will be in town at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis …
THE SUBWAYS
with Pins
Saturday, 04/23/16, 8pm ($16/$18)
Welwyn Garden City's rock/punk band The Subways will be in town next Saturday, April 23rd, in support of the self-titled album (their fourth album). For the US tour, the trio (Billy Lunn – guitar, vocals; Charlotte Cooper – bass, vocals; Josh Morgan – drums) will be selling specially numbered LP edition of their record.
They're quite proud of their new record, Lunn explained, "100% The Subways, it's all us, we wrote, produced, and mixed the album ourselves."
Opening will be Manchester's five-piece Pins. We previously saw the all-girls band and wrote that they "lived up to their moniker, playing a sharp, diamond-in-the-rough hour-long set at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis."
April 15: Boston (Brighton Music Hall)
April 16: New York (The Studio at Webster Hall)
April 18: Montreal (Théâtre Fairmount)
April 19: Toronto (Mod Club)
April 21: Cleveland (Grog Shop)
April 22: Chicago (Schubas Tavern)
April 23: Minneapolis (Triple Rock Social Club)
April 26: Vancouver (Media Club)
April 27: Seattle (Tractor Tavern)
April 28: Portland (Doug Fir Lounge)
April 30: San Francisco (The Chapel)
May 2: San Diego (The Casbah)
May 3: Los Angeles (Troubadour)
Support from PINS (all dates)
We Are The Willows
Black Diet and We Are The Willows to open the show. The latter may have been just recently added to the show, as they're not listed on the show poster. …
at Icehouse
Saturday, 04/23/16, 11pm ($8/$10)
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Local orchestral indie rock band We Are The Willows is having a CD release show for the conclusion of Picture (Portrait) with part II, an introspective, and more sonically diverse response to Picture (Portrait) Pt. I.
Both Picture (Portrait) Parts 1 and 2, came out March 25th, via The Homestead Records/Amble Down Records.
Please note start time: 11pm. Earlier in the day Tim Sparks at 11am, Michael Hauser ("The Father of Flamenco in the Midwest") at 6:30pm, and We are the Willows at 11pm. There are no cover charges prior to 11pm.
Phox's Monica Martin to open.
04/15 - La Crosse, WI - The Root Note
04/16 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
04/23 - Minneapolis, MN - Icehouse
05/13 - Winoa, MN Ed's No Name
05/20 - Minneapolis, MN Fair State Brewing
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Royal Teeth and CHAPPO w/ Parade of Lights - Triple Rock, Minneapolis (26 Feb 2014) concert review
Royal Teeth/CHAPPO Tour Poster
Something in the Night (new song)
Heart Beats (The Knife cover)
Rich (new song)
Mais La
03/03 Pontiac, MI - Pike Room*^
03/04 Columbus, OH - The Basement*^
03/05 Cincinnati, OH - 20th Century Theater*^
03/06 St. Louis, MO - Demo*^
03/07 Stillwater, OK - Tumbleweed Ballroom*
03/11-03/13 Austin, TX - SXSW
04/25 Lafayette, LA - NiteTown
04/27 New Orleans, LA - Jazz + Heritage Festival
06/19-06/22 Dover, DE - Firefly Music Festival
07/11-07/13 Cincinnati, OH - Bunbury Music Festival
* w/ CHAPPO
^ w/ Parade of Lights
Brooklyn based psych-rock band CHAPPO (vocalist/multi-instrumentalists Alex Chappo and Chris Olson, drummer Zac Colwell, guitarist Dave Feddock) promise to bring the party to you! …
Mardi Gras came a little early for Minneapolis.
Two bands with Louisiana connections, Royal Teeth and CHAPPO, rounded out a high-energy lineup at the Triple Rock Social Club, warming the crowd inside as yet another sub-zero winter's night lay outside.
Los Angeles/Las Vegas alt-electro band Parade of Lights got the evening started with a buoyant set of fresh songs, culled from their two EPs the latest called Golden, was just released on Astralwerks. The songs from the quartet (Ryan Daly, Anthony Improgo, Michelle Ashley, Randy Schulte) are nicely polished, incredibly catchy, and very radio-friendly, buoyed by solid electronic and traditional percussion.
The EP's title track was appropriately just featured in NBC's Winter Olympics campaign, and despite their somewhat forgettable name, expect bigger things from this band as they work toward their first full-length album.
Alex Chappo
The evening then took a spaceship detour for a trippy performance from Brooklyn psych-rock band, CHAPPO (vocalist/multi-instrumentalists Alex Chappo and Chris Olson, drummer Zac Colwell, guitarist Dave Feddock) debuting songs from their upcoming second album, Future Former Self, which follows their debut, Moonwater (Major Domo Records).
Though now based in Brooklyn, the band is originally from Baton Rouge, LA, which reflects in an underlying southern charm in the roots of their music. Their first single, 'Come Home' was an attention-getter, having been featured as a soundtrack for an Apple commercial, and the evening got started in high-tempo, with singer Alex Chappo crooning similar to The Darkness' Justin Hawkins falsetto with a rock growl.
Alex in confetti sticks
The new album is said to chronicle a man's journey through space to a black hole and while he reflects, and their second song of set, "about drifting away into paranoia" played into that theme. Influenced by The Doors, early Pink Floyd, and The Flaming Lips, the band promotes a full a/v palette to take in—a LED-lit reflective moon that changes patterns, psychedelic swirling background projections, and confetti sticks that the band and audience were flinging into the air.
Another new song, about "drifting into the underbelly of the earth" and "discovering an underwater séance" became a musical journey of changing chords and trippy effects with the set ending with first album closer, 'M.O.O.N. Water'. The band has the weirdness elements of a MGMT or Grandaddy, but musically is more rooted in traditional melodies which are enhanced by space-born keys and anchored percussion.
Lafayette, Louisiana's Royal Teeth closed out the evening with their bubbling and buoyant positive pop sound that begs for greater radio attention. Their full-length debut, Glow (Dangerbird Records) has been out a while, so the band has been working in some newer songs into their set as well. Opening with 'Hold Me' about a moment right before the end of the world, any somberness in the lyrics is completely counter-balanced with the pure joy of their sound, with its jangling guitars, boy/girl vocals, and a throbbing collective drum sound.
Vocalists Gary Larsen and Nora Patterson trade off together perfectly, like a younger, more upbeat version of Canadian band Stars, while the rest of the band (Stevie Billeaud- guitar, Joshua Wells-bass, Andrew Poe-keys, Josh Hefner-drums) ably hold everything down musically. Their smoldering mid-tempo cover of Swedish electronic duo The Knife's 'Heart Beats' adds extra percussion and makes the song their own, while 'Mais La' (French for "I can't believe it") pays tribute to their Louisiana roots with an effective audience call-and-response chorus.
Surprised that as many people came out in the extreme cold as did, the band their 45 min. set ended nicely with 'Wild', with its catchy, wailing vocal and singer Larsen taking the drum from the stage onto the venue floor for a booming finish.
Enduring the end of a long and brutally cold winter, it was a refreshing release to come and see three positive and energetic bands bring some warmth to the night.
Royal Teeth at Triple Rock, Minneapolis (26 Feb 2014)
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Minneapolis Music Guide: February 24 - March 2, 2014
Ritual Tradition Habit
The Belle Game
Bomba de Luz
Bomba de Luz vocalist Lydia Hoglund rocked the show with her fiery voice and folk rock sound. The crowd responded well to the show, and at one point they even sang along to the chorus when prompted by Hoglund. …
The evening started with the ethereal Beach House-esque sounds of local trio Strange Relations. Not only was their sound unique and enjoyable, but lead singer Casey Shaw also rocked the drums - giving Phil Collins …
Here is a guide of some Minneapolis (and St Paul!) shows NEXT week: February 24-March 2.
FEBRUARY 24: TURF CLUB
The Belle Game w/ Bomba de Luz and Strange Relations
Vancouver's The Belle Game (Andrea Lo, Adam Nanji, Katrina Jones, Alex Andrew and Rob Chursinoff) is currently out on tour in support of their debut album Ritual Tradition Habit.
You can hear some tracks on their Soundcloud, including a few remixes from their Remix EP, and a track from their Ritual Tradition Habit album.
The tour kicks off in St Paul, with two local bands to open: Bomba de Luz and Strange Relations. Ski Lodge and Starlight Girls joins them on tour when they arrive in Brooklyn, New York.
02/24/14 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
02/25/14 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
02/26/14 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
02/28/14 Brooklyn, NY The Glasslands Gallery
03/01/14 Philadelphia, PA North Star Bar
03/03/14 Washington, DC Sixth & I Historic
03/04/14 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
03/05/14 Atlanta, GA Star Bar
03/06/14 Charlotte, NC Evening Muse
03/07/14 Savannah Stopover
03/14/14 SXSW - Maggie Mae's
03/18/14 Phoenix, AZ The Rhythm Room
03/20/14 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg Theater
03/21/14 San Francisco, CA Milk
03/23/14 Seattle, WA Vera Project
03/24/14 Portland, OR Holocene
Glasvegas US Tour 2014
Speaking of Glasvegas, I did also catch them at the same Scottish Showcase at SXSW in Austin. As you can see from their setlist, they only had a 30-minute set (as well as all the million of bands at SXSW). …
The Ceremonies
The Ceremonies opened up the show. The Los Angeles band is made up of mostly three brothers: Matthew, Mark, and Michael Cook. The Cook brothers all seem extremely excited to be on the same bill with The Fratellis …
FEBRUARY 25: 7TH STREET ENTRY
Glasvegas w/ The Ceremonies
Scottish indie quartet Glasvegas is saying 'hello' to America again with a three week coast-to-coast club tour of intimate venues that give the audience a rare chance to see the band up close and personal.
Though it marks their 8th tour of the U.S., it's been three years since we've last seen them on these shores, and they come in support of their third studio album, Later...When The TV Turns To Static (BMG), which was released late last fall.
Singer-songwriter James Allan again sets lyrics of heartbreak and melancholy against an epic wall of sound, as seen in the video for "If" from the album, which features a cheeky intro from William Shatner himself.
Freed from the pressures of any band's second album, the new third record retains the emotional core of their debut and re-affirms boldly, that they are a band still worthy of attention.
Los Angeles band The Ceremonies, which feature the three Cook brothers, open the show with their own blend of indie-rock, chiefly influenced by UK 80's bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure, with poets William Blake and writer Aldous Huxley cited as major inspirations by oldest Cook brother and lyricist, Matthew. The band is supporting their debut self-titled EP (Atom Factory/Capitol Records), which features a heartwarming cover photo of the three brothers together when they were toddlers.
Glasvegas Tour Dates:
February 19 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
February 20 Brooklyn, NY Rough Trade
February 22 Toronto, ON Mod Club
February 24 Chicago, IL Schubas
February 25 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
February 28 Seattle, WA Columbia City Theater
March 1 Vancouver, BC The Venue
March 2 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
March 4 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
March 6 San Francisco, CA Popscene / Rickshaw Stop
Royal Teeth & CHAPPO Tour
Tour dates with Royal Teeth: 06.27- Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern ∞ 06.28- Portland, OR – Star Theater …
FEBRUARY 26: TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB
CHAPPO/Royal Teeth/Parade of Lights
…You'll feel like you stepped into your own surprise party.
Brooklyn based psych-rock band CHAPPO (vocalist/multi-instrumentalists Alex Chappo and Chris Olson, drummer Zac Colwell, guitarist Dave Feddock) promise to bring the party to you!
In 2012 the band released their debut album Moonwater (Majordomo Records) and found themselves with a lot of attention after single, "Come Home", was the soundtrack for an Apple commercial.
The band returns with their follow up, Future Former Self, to be released this spring, which seems to be a concept album of sorts- "the record follows one man's journey through space to a black hole to help save mankind, while he struggles with the abstract concept of time and its fleeting nature."
In addition to any space-borne theme, expect a full-on sensory experience featuring costumes, confetti, props (including an LED moon!) and a high-energy performance (Flaming Lips fans, take note…).
New Orleans' own Royal Teeth returns to town with their own version of happy, jumping dance pop, as evidenced on their full-length debut, Glow (Dangerbird Records)and brings the Mardi Gras party atmosphere, to their own live performances.
Alt-electro Los Angeles band Parade of Lights rounds the bill out in Minneapolis, with Blondfire opening other dates. "Golden", currently featured in NBC's Sochi Olympics campaign, will be the title track off Parade of Light's forthcoming EP, out on Astralwerks later this year.
02/24/14 Lincoln, NE Vega
02/25/14 Kansas City, MO Czar Bar
02/26/14 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club
02/27/14 Milwaukee, WI Mad Planet
03/03/14 Pontiac, MI Pike Room
03/04/14 Columbus, OH The Basement
03/05/14 Cincinnati, OH 20th Century Theatre
03/06/14 St. Louis, MO The Demo
03/07/14 Stillwater, OK Tumbleweed Dance Hall
03/15/14 SXSW	The Parish Downstairs
Sargent House
Set within a 15th century Germanic corridor, where gothic murals depicting Sirens of old swirl ... The Parish at The House of Blues in New Orleans is host for one of my favorite instrumental acts, Russian Circles. …
Russian Circles w/ KEN Mode, Inter Arma
We recently covered Russian Circles in New Orleans and writer Kyle described the stage as "minimalist light show, and an unbelievable clarity in sound which I've yet to find comparison, they delivered in waves..."
Russian Circles is currently touring in support of Memorial, the new album from Sargent House. Touring mates KEN Mode and Inter Arma makes up the 'triple rock' at the Triple Rock next Thursday in Minneapolis.
02/19 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts #
02/20 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom #
02/21 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East #
02/22 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus #
02/23 Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar #
02/24 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop #
02/25 Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig #
02/27 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock#
02/28 Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room #
03/01 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre #
03/02 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge #
03/03 Boise, ID @ Neurolux #
03/04 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's *
03/05 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
03/07 San Francisco, CA @ Great American*
03/09 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *
03/10 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre *
03/12 Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom *
03/13 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad *
03/14 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory *
03/15 Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar *
03/16 Chicago, IL @ Metro *
# w/ KEN Mode, Inter Arma
* w/ Helms Alee, KEN Mode
We Were Promised Jetpacks Poster
We Were Promised Jetpacks
We Were Promised Jetpacks will be returning with E Rey - Live in Philadelphia, an album that was recorded at Philadelphia's Union Transfer. The live album will be out February 25th via FatCat …
We Were Promised Jetpacks w/ Honeyblood
Friday, we see We Were Promised Jetpacks will be playing at the Triple Rock Social Club.
Like many bands currently on tour at the moment, their goal is to end up near or around Austin, Texas, where they are scheduled to appear at some SXSW showcase. And yes, incidentally, I caught the band when they played SXSW a few years ago, at the Scottish Showcase.
Glasgow's Honeyblood (Shona McVicar on drums and Stina Marie Claire Tweeddale) will be opening.
02.21 - Los Angeles, CA @ The El Rey
02.22 - San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo's 365 Club
02.24 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
02.25 - Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
02.28 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social
03.01 - Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall
03.02 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
03.03 - Cleveland, OH @ the Grog Shop
03.05 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
03.06 - Wilmington, DE @ Arden Gild Hall
03.07 - Washington, DC @ The Black Cat
03.08 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
03.09 - Richmond, VA @ The Camel
03.11 - Chattanooga, TN @ Rhythm And Brews
03.14 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
03.16 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Pasajero
Aaron & The Sea
Aaron and the Sea performed in virtual darkness with lights momentarily lighting the stage now and then, illuminating the smoke-filled stage. …
MARCH 1: TURF CLUB
Aaron & The Sea/The Kickback/The Noise FM/Fort Wilson Riot
Aaron & The Sea is listed as headliner for this March 1st show.
Also on the bill are Minneapolis' Fort Wilson Riot, Chicago's The Noise FM and The Kickback.
The Kickback is prepping for a new Summer album called Sorry All Over The Place, so I think they will be testing out the new songs on this tour (which 'kicks' off next week).
The Kickback Tour Dates
02/27 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
02/28 - Milwaukee, WI - Club Garibaldi
03/01 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club
03/02 - Sioux Falls, SD - Bigs Sports Bar
03/03 - Sioux Falls, SD - White Wall Session
03/04 - Omaha, NE - O'Leaver's
03/05 - Lincoln, NE - Vega
03/06 - Columbia, MO - The Bridge
03/07 - Ames, IA - M Shop
03/08 - Lawrence, KS - Replay
03/09 - Topeka - Boobie Trap
03/10 - Wichita, KS - Barleycorns
03/11 - Dallas, TX - Prophet Bar
03/12 - Austin, TX - Amped
03/13 - Austin, TX - TBD
03/14 - Austin, TX - Papi Tino's
03/15 - Kansas City, MO - TBD
04/05 - Kansas City, MO - Middle of the Map Fest
Gardens & Villa
Starting off was Gardens & Villa, a band that we previously mentioned here. They did a brief forty minute set and surprisingly did a few songs with flutes. …
MARCH 2: 7TH STREET ENTRY
Gardens & Villa w/ Waterstrider
Gardens & Villa are back with Dunes, their second LP, which came out two weeks ago on Secretly Canadian.
Gardens & Villa tour dates:
02.19.14 Cat's Cradle Carrboro, NC
02.20.14 DC9 Washington, DC
02.21.14 Boot & Saddle Philadelphia, PA
02.22.14 Middle East Club Cambridge, MA
02.25.14 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
02.26.14 Il Motore Montreal, QC
02.27.14 The Drake Hotel Toronto, ON
02.28.14 Hope College: Park Theater Holland, MI
03.01.14 Schubas Tavern Chicago, IL
03.02.14 7th St. Entry Minneapolis, MN
03.04.14. Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
03.05.14 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
03.07.14 The Independent San Francisco, CA
03.08.14 El Rey Theater Los Angeles, CA
03.09.14 U31Club San Diego, CA
03.11.14 03.15.14 SXSW Austin, TX
03.24.14 Shepherds Bush Empire London, UK *
03.25.14 Birthdays London, UK
03.27.14 La Cigale Paris, FR *
03.30.14 Postbahnhof Berlin, DE *
03.31.14 AB Flex Brussels *
04.01.14 Melkweg Amsterdam, NL *
04.03.14 La Fleche D'Or Paris, FR
04.04.14 Motel Mozaique Festival
04.05.14 Let's Get Lost Festival Zwolle, NL
04.07.14 Ideal Bar at VEGA Copenhagen, DK
04.08.14 Haus III & 70 Hamburg, DE
04.09.14 Kantine am Berghain Berlin, DE
04.10.14 Karstorbahnhof Heidelberg, DE
05.11.14 The Holland Project Reno, NV
05.13.14 Barboza Seattle, WA
05.14.14 Fortune Sound Club Vancouver, BC
05.15.14 Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR
* w/ Broken Bells
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Texas zoo cancels controversial deal to buy African Lion Safari elephants for $2M
2021-03-05 - Fort Worth, United States.
A spokesperson for the Fort Worth Zoo said this week that the permit to import Emily and Nellie from Canada was withdrawn last year "following an internal decision" from management, and "those two elephants" would not be imported. According to the Fort Worth Zoo permit for application, the planned sale price was $2 million, plus a $200,000 bonus if Emily produced a calf, as long as it lived for more than 60 days.
Elephant born at Fort Worth Zoo
The Fort Worth Zoo is asking the public to help find a name for its newest bundle of joy - a 330-pound baby elephant The female Asian elephant was born Sunday. The calf´s mother is 40-year-old Rasha. The father is Groucho, the zoo´s 43-year-old bull, who is on loan to the Denver Zoo. Her sister, Bluebonnet, is 14.
Fort Worth Zoo: ELEPHANT KEEPER
The Fort Worth Zoo has an open keeper position working with Asian elephants, Asian rhino, and Nile hippopotamus. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing animal care, monitoring animal health, maintaining cleanliness of animal areas, providing enrichment and training, and making minor exhibit modification. The position requires a high school diploma or equivalent, one-year experience working with elephants preferably in a zoo setting, good communication/organizational skills, a...
5-ton Christmas gift arrives early Ringling Bros. bull elephant Casey arrives at Fort Worth Zoo for breeding purposes
Christmas arrived early for the Fort Worth Zoo when a 5-ton gift arrived not by sleigh and nine tiny reindeer, but by an 18-wheeler featuring a 40-foot, semi-trailer specially designed to safely and comfortably transport elephants. An expert staff from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC) delivered the gift of a 33-year-old bull elephant
Pachyderm Specialists Gather for International Elephant Foundation Research Symposium
2004-11-29 - Fort Worth, United States. U.S. Newswire
The fate of elephants is the focus of an intensive weeklong international elephant conservation workshop December 1-5 hosted by the Fort Worth Zoo and attended by more than 100 participants from around the globe. Leading elephant biologists and experts gather during the conference to accomplish one heroic goal, saving elephants from extinction.
5 Headlines about Elephants from Fort Worth 2021-03-05 - Fort Worth, United States - Texas zoo cancels controversial deal to buy African Lion Safari elephants for $2M 2013-07-13 - Fort Worth, United States - Elephant born at Fort Worth Zoo 2007-12-06 - Fort Worth, United States - Fort Worth Zoo: ELEPHANT KEEPER 2005-11-14 - Fort Worth, United States - 5-ton Christmas gift arrives early Ringling Bros. bull elephant Casey arrives at Fort Worth Zoo for breeding purposes 2004-11-29 - Fort Worth, United States - Pachyderm Specialists Gather for International Elephant Foundation Research Symposium


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Green Margins
Don't burn it, cash it
Spending US$5.5 million on a pilot, nurture.farm shows it's possible to stop burning stubble and put more money in farmers' hands. Is rapid scaling possible, too?
Climate change's impact on India's business, tech, finance, & politics. Analysed and explained every Wednesday.
Size really matters. Anything to do with India, agriculture, and sustainability requires solutions deployed at scale. It also requires a systems approach.
Take stubble burning, for instance. Harvesting machines have unleashed this deleterious practice on Indian farms—the largest exporter of rice in the world—which no amount of tinkering has managed to fix.
This year, agritech startup nurture.farm, along with a management school and an agricultural institute, attempted an intervention that seems to work. But what has worked on 420,000 acres, or less than 7-8% of the affected area in just two states, will have to be expanded multiple times over to register any wholesale impact.
While the company may claim that this is 150X the size of any such intervention till date, the beauty and the challenge lie not just in scaling the effort, but sustaining the business of stopping stubble burning.
For now, a look at what happened this year.
CRM as SaaS
The seasonal stubble burning visuals from north India are already sliding into memory. The National Capital Region's (NCR) air quality index is also improving to "poor quality". But before the annual hot-button issue diffuses into foggy December and the year-end slack, let's dwell on some good news.
It was mechanised farming that led to mass stubble burning in the first place. Large harvesting machines left stalks that were several inches tall and required much longer to decompose in the field. Lighting a match did the trick. In the process, it gutted air quality and soil health. Indian farmers burn some 92 million tonnes of stubble every year.
But last week, a crop residue management (CRM) report from agritech startup nurture.farm's pilot showed that mechanised farming, new bio-decomposers, digital data collection, app-based services, satellite monitoring, and field force training can make a significant dent.
Of the 420,000 acres worked by some 25,000 farmers that the project serviced in Punjab and Haryana, the two most affected states, the startup claims 92% of farms did not burn crop residue. In Punjab, only 3% of the farmland serviced by the project burnt stubble this year, while 68% of these farms had resorted to the practice in 2020.
In Haryana, this number came down to 14% in 2021 from 86% in 2020. In this state, says the startup, it had consciously chosen districts with the highest reported burn rates—such as Karnal, Kaithal, Sirsa, and Hisar. The agritech's data comes courtesy of European satellites.
Meanwhile, a news report on Sunday said that a separate satellite monitoring project by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), whose bio-decomposer nurture.farm has used, shows that stubble burning in the two states was down by 7.6%. However, a third such project by the New Delhi-based Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), which uses Nasa's satellite data, says it was up 8.4%.
Eventually the satellite data will reconcile, and we'll know how the farms fared overall. What is indisputable though, once again, is that Punjab and Haryana accounted for a very high number of fires.
In Punjab alone, approximately 22 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2, 0.92 Mt of CO, and 0.03 Mt of SO2 are generated from burning around 15 Mt of rice residue on an annual basis.
Dhruv Sawhney, chief operating officer (COO) of nurture.farm, says that servicing 420,000 acres is significant in terms of operational scale, but it still covers less than 7-8% of the overall farm acreage that is burned each year in the two states. Dubbing it as Phase 1, he says that in subsequent phases, they will scale up to service at least 100,000 farmers and cover 2 million acres.
That's ambitious given that this time, it was a free service to the farmers, with the barely-two-year-old nurture.farm bearing the cost at Rs 1,000 (~US$13) per acre.
Ash to cash
Several solutions to stubble burning have been proposed in the past—including using machines to plough crop residue back into the soil, or harvesting the straw for use as boiler fuel. But nothing has been tried at scale.
"A farmer has to choose between spending more than ₹6,500 per hectare for in-situ straw management or a matchstick.
The problem of paddy stubble was created by machines. And a machine-led solution to it has failed to solve the problem, said Balwinder Sidhu, member-secretary at the Punjab Farmer's Commission. "Instead, it is only benefitting manufacturers who have raised the prices (of crop management machines) to corner government subsidies.
Why stubble burning is so hard to fix, Livemint
But if economics pushed the farmers into this burning practice, better economics could likely pull them out of it.
Sawhney furnishes an attractive 20-20 finding. In this pilot, apparently, farmers saw a 20% increase in additional income via short-duration crops and yield improvements.
Earlier, the farmers had to wait. First, for the crop stubble to dry so they could be burnt; then for the soil's health to recover for the next crop. But with the bio-decomposer, which is mixed with water to make a solution, spraying happens immediately after harvest. The next crop can be sown just eight days after this, since the decomposition is already underway and the bio-enzymes only affect dead biomass. Many farmers were seen to be planting short-duration crops in the interim, says Sawhney.
These were typically the farmers who had planted medium- to short-duration paddy in late June and early July. So they had the chance to grow another round of short-duration crops like green coriander, cabbage, cauliflower, and others with a duration of 30-90 days.
Secondly, Sawhney claims there's a ~20% reduction in fertiliser usage and costs for the next cropping season.
Now, this may be a little presumptuous. Because this is the first season of large-scale bio-enzyme spraying, and one doesn't yet know how soil health will change over the coming months.
Sawhney says that previously, the farmers had to revive their farm's microbial activity and nutrient quotient by using fertilisers in the post-burning phase. But with the bio-decomposer, friendly farm flora and fauna are not killed. And the decomposed stubble pushes carbon and other nutrients back into the soil, acting as manure.
"As per our on-ground feedback from farmers, they say they are saving up to a quarter of their earlier fertiliser consumption," he says. "We will be putting up more validations based on soil samples and field surveillance over the next few months."
This is the first time that a startup has tried to address stubble burning at scale. But Indian agritech is replete with innovations that don't go beyond the pilot stage. This is especially true of recent times, when most agricultural universities have seen their field extension programmes peter out.
That Sawhney and team have roped in Indian Institute of Management-Rohtak and IARI in this pilot, and are publicly sharing their findings, is a welcome step. (Their Phase 1 impact report, slickly produced and full of in-house branding, is a good starting point for anyone wanting to dig deep or follow up.)
Adding more farms and farmers to the service platform may not be as simple as adding more sellers on an e-commerce site, or Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) to a grocery delivery business. But if the agritech startup is drilling down to the root cause of the problem, it might not be impossible either.
Sawhney says they are now in a strong position to "engage with post-harvest market linkage players to determine how to create a premium for sustainably produced crops and commodities". It appears the company is also launching a "sustainably grown rice" label for people who wish to buy rice from farms that do not burn stubble.
The company wouldn't disclose service-bundling or pricing details for the next phase, nor how it would fund the nearly 5X scale-up in acreage. However, it has surely piqued the interests of many. Because Indian agriculture and the environment need solutions at both speed and scale.
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Cyber Monday's just around the corner and online retailers in the U.S. will surely be getting excited at the prospect of a record day of sales.
What is Singles' Day and how did Xiaomi make a whopping $188 million in sales on it?
Xiaomi, China's second-largest mobile vendor, recently announced that it made $188 million in just one day. Xiaomi accomplished this feat on a day known as Singles' Day, a China-observed holiday. Held on November 11 (that's 11/11, the first hint about why it's called Singles Day) was originally started in 1993 at Nanjing University and was celebrated only by male bachelors, hence the original name "Bachelors' Day."