Make it easy : central boom, wing pods.
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Its seems as far as my observations that the Boom+basket has two issues. 1. the collision model of the basket is slightly off. and 2. More grave of an issue is how once connected the behavior of the boom is seems erratic just after connection and tracks too slowly the plane.
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More grave of an issue is how once connected the behavior of the boom is seems erratic just after connection and tracks too slowly the plane.
looking forward to fill up the F/A-18C properly with a KC-135BDA.


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Data Becker was een  oorspronkelijk Duitse uitgever van computerboeken, die in de beginperiode van de thuiscomputer - eind 1980 begin 1990 - veel basic listings deed verschijnen. In een gebonden vorm met courier font en rode slappe kaftjes hebben grote groepen enthousiastelingen de programmatuur in basic of machine code met checksum overgehaald of 'gepoked', al dan niet met eigen aanpassingen en/of uitbreidingen. Je kunt spreken van de 1e generatie home computer ondersteuning (= support). In het begin betrof het vooral programmatuur voor Commodore 64 en ZX Spectrum + Sinclair/QL home computers, later ook voor
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Retail Features
CSI: NY is a video game based on the CSI: NY television series. This is the sixth CSI game released, including CSI: Miami.
As with the previous CSI games, there are five cases to work on. However, the game has taken a drastic graphical change, opting for a stylised 2D cartoon look, instead of the rendered 3D graphics of previous games in the CSI franchise. The game will allow you to control a CSI (Mac or Stella) and solve cases, collect evidence and solve puzzles. You will also be able to interrogate suspects, similar to the Law and Order video games with branching dialogue options, and depending on your tone or line of questioning you may find the suspects refuse to co-operate, or tell you everything you need to know.
This is Legacy Interactive's first CSI game, with them previously having experience creating Law and Order video games for PC.
As of April 2009, Ubisoft, released the final case ("Derailed"). This case requires game patch 1.01 (it will be installed if PC has an active internet connection). Mac Taylor becomes the prime suspect on the case when his DNA is discovered all over the body of a dead man.
1 The Cases
1.1 Case 1 - Downward Spiral
1.2 Case 2 - Just Desserts
1.3 Case 3 - Off The Mark
1.4 Case 4 - Hillridge Confidential
1.5 Case 5 - Derailed
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Case 1 - Downward Spiral[edit | edit source]
A man has fallen from the top of a building - was it homicide or was it suicide? Suspects include his boss, a tattoo parlor girl and a doctor who gave him surgery. You work with Mac on this case.
Case 2 - Just Desserts[edit | edit source]
An infamous food critic is found dead in a restaurant. Suspects include the general manager who had an affair with the victim, a chef who was criticized for a bad review from the victim and another chef who made him meet with a mobster. You work with Stella on this case.
Case 3 - Off The Mark[edit | edit source]
A woman is found dead in a theater used for magic and another at a construction site. Suspects include the two acts that were performing, a construction worker and an amusement park worker. Is this the work of a serial killer? You work with Danny in this case.
Case 4 - Hillridge Confidential[edit | edit source]
A young girl was killed during her live session on the Internet. The killer wanted to stop the threats going around the school and stop her from telling the killer's secret. Suspects include the doorman, brother and sister and the headmaster. You work with Lindsay, Angell, and Flack on this case.
Case 5 - Derailed[edit | edit source]
Mac works on a frozen body recovered in a metro station. Unfortunately for him, the clues brings him as a suspect, as the victim was a rapist Mac couldn't throw in jail many years ago. Suspects include a mother who wanted Mac to stay away from her daughter, the daughter who the victim attacked, and a homeless man who lives in the subway. You work with Hawkes on this case.
Official Website of CSI: NY, The Game
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Robești – wieś w Rumunii, w okręgu Vâlcea, w gminie Câineni. W 2011 roku liczyła 210 mieszkańców.

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I love James Bond and I love indie-pop, so when I was sent a copy of the new compilation album Songs, Bond Songs – a 26-track collection of Bond songs covered by contemporary US indie-pop acts, I had a licence to be thrilled…
The brainchild of criminal mastermind and executive producer, Andrew Curry, it's an exciting journey into the world of soundtrack songs from both official and unofficial 007 films.
Things get off to an explosive start with Lannie Flowers' rip-roaring, '60s-style garage rock-style version of the James Bond Theme; there's an outrageous pop-punk take on Thunderball by Jaret Reddick; a gorgeous acoustic rendition of For Your Eyes Only by Freedy Johnston that's better than Sheena Easton's version; a funky, yacht rock Never Say Never Again by Minky Starshine and a cool, loungey The World Is Not Enough by Fountains of Wayne side-project Look Park.
I tracked down Andrew Curry to his secret underground lair and got the intel on his latest devious plan for world domination…
How did the project come about? Why did you decide to put together a Bond songs tribute album?
Andrew Curry: I had done two compilations prior to Songs, Bond Songs. The first one – Drink A Toast To Innocence: A Tribute To Lite Rock – paid tribute to the soft hits that were so prominent on America's AM radio stations in the late '70s.
The second – Here Comes The Reign Again: The Second British Invasion – focused on the early years of MTV, specifically the British bands that came to dominate the American charts for the first few years of the '80s.
For this compilation, I wanted to expand things a bit. Rather than focus on a brief period of pop music history, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find a concept that could cover a much wider time period. And so Bond music seemed to fit the bill perfectly. I can look at five or six decades of music rather than five or six years.
Are you a huge Bond fan? Which are your favourite Bond films and songs? And which are you least favourites?
AC: I am a Bond fan, though perhaps not quite as enthusiastic about it as I was in my youth. I grew up with Roger Moore as my Bond, and while I know it's far cooler to choose the movies of Connery or Craig as one's favourites, I've always had a soft spot for the Moore era. Not to mention that I think the songs from the Moore years are, as a group, the best of the franchise.
So while I'll concede that some of Moore's films haven't aged well, I'll sit down and watch Moonraker or For Your Eyes Only any time they come on. But as it happens, my least favourite Bond film also stars Roger Moore. In A View To A Kill, he just seems so completely disinterested.
As for the music, I've been so inundated with it while working on this project that I'm not sure I can pick favourites anymore. But as I said, the Moore years were formative for me, so songs like Live and Let Die, Nobody Does It Better, and For Your Eyes Only were biggies for me growing up. Of the more recent songs, I think Adele did a nice job recalling the Shirley Bassey era with Skyfall. My least favourites? Well, the less said about Madonna's Die Another Day, the better.
Andrew Curry
'My least favourite Bond song? Well, the less said about Madonna's Die Another Day, the better'
How did you choose which acts to work with and how did you get them involved?
AC: As with my previous projects, I made a list of musicians I wanted to work with, and went about contacting them. Social media makes things far easier than it might have been a decade or so ago.
As for the song assignments, I went to some musicians with definite ideas for which track I wanted them to do.
My wife insisted to me that Freedy Johnston had to do For Your Eyes Only. I loved the idea of hearing Jaret Reddick take a stab at Tom Jones. Having Lisa Mychols do a Lulu song seemed too perfect to pass up. But for the most part, once the musicians had signed on, I'd give them a list of available songs, and let them choose the ones they wanted. People who chose early got a far longer list of songs to choose from!
Do you have a favourite song on the album?
AC: I know I'll sound dodgy saying this, but I really do like all the songs on the record. But I will say that there were songs that I wondered about when the assignments were being carried out.
Could someone take a song that I didn't have much use for and turn it into something interesting? And I'm delighted to say that the answer is a resounding yes. A few examples (among many) – the original Moonraker is the least of Shirley Bassey's three Bond songs, but Gary Frenay has turned it into a terrific Travelling Wilburys-esque number, complete with Orbison-styled vocals.
I've already mentioned that Die Another Day, with its lame overuse of Auto-Tune, is my least favourite Bond song, but in the hands of Big-Box Store (aka Joe Seiders of The New Pornographers), it's terrific.
Some of the acts have been pretty faithful to the original versions, but there are also some very different interpretations, aren't there? It's a very varied album….
AC: It is, and that's always what I strive for. People ask how much input I have in the direction a musician takes with a song. I'm always emphatic that once musicians sign on, how they approach their songs is entirely up to them. And almost without fail, that has meant that I'll get a handful of songs that stick closely to the original and another handful that completely re-invent the source material.
I prefer the Freedy Johnston acoustic version of For Your Eyes Only and Zach Jones' dramatic take on All Time High to the original versions by Sheena Easton and Rita Coolidge. Do you agree? I think they've managed to reinvent some dull, MOR ballads into something that's much more interesting…
AC: I really love those two versions. And you're right about the originals. They were released at a time when softer ballads were more in fashion. Freedy's For Your Eyes Only is stripped-down, just an acoustic guitar and his vocals, and the world-weary way he approaches the song just works. It sounds like a track that would fit comfortably on some of Freedy's early records. Zach went in a different direction than Freedy, in that his version has a full band. He hasn't really altered the melody all that much, but he's given it a soulful quality that Rita Coolidge's original version couldn't possibly approach.
I think that in recent years, the quality of Bond songwriting has gone downhill. As the films have improved, the theme songs have got worse. Would you agree?
AC: I think some of the recent songs are decent. I already mentioned Adele's Skyfall as one example. I always thought of that song as a conscious effort to return to the lush, orchestral Bond songs of the Connery years.
I will say that I was pretty surprised that Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall from Spectre actually won an Oscar. But I'll also concede that nostalgia will always play a role in which tracks are my favourites. So it's unlikely that any of the newer ones will ever hold the same place in my mind as, say, Live and Let Die. But if my kids decide to make the follow up to this record 30 years from now, they might just say, "You know, these new songs can't hold a candle to Sam Smith."
'I was pretty surprised that Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall from Spectre actually won an Oscar'
Any plans to do a live show with some of the acts doing the Bond songs?
AC: It's a far-flung group, so there are no plans at the moment. It would be terrific fun, though.
With the recent death of Roger Moore, it's rather timely – and poignant – to be talking about Bond….
AC: Moore was always my Bond, and he's who I always think of when I picture the character. He added a bit of camp to the part, which I know some people can't stand, but which I always appreciated. The opening helicopter sequence in For Your Eyes Only has always been a favourite. It's silly and over the top, but also completely entertaining. Just like Roger Moore.
Which contemporary artist – UK or US – do you think should write and record the next official Bond song?
AC: This is always a fun game to play. I have a dear friend who is a bigger Bond fan than I am – he even designed the album art.
As I started putting this together, we talked about all the musicians we were surprised never did a Bond song. Sade seems like she was built in a lab with the express purpose of recording a James Bond theme song. Seal had to have written Kiss From A Rose with hopes that it would be in a Bond film, don't you think? It's all I hear when I listen to that song.
'Does Harry Styles have the gravitas to pull off a Bond song? Doubtful'
As for contemporary musicians, I'm pretty ignorant of the most popular acts these days, but I hope they'll stay away from guys like Ed Sheeran. Does Harry Styles have the gravitas to pull it off? Doubtful. It's a shame we'll never hear what Amy Winehouse might have done with a Bond song. Good or bad, it probably would have been pretty interesting.
Any plans for another project?
AC: I'm in the very early stages of planning for the next one. It's merely a concept at the moment. I can't reveal it here just yet, but I will say that it won't be nearly as many songs as my previous compilations, each of which had more than two dozen songs. A nice album of 10-12 tracks sounds like heaven right about now.
Andrew Curry will return…
To stream, download and buy Songs, Bond Songs, please visit https://currycuts.bandcamp.com/ .
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As we approach the end of the year and overindulge in festive celebrations, hangovers are a daily occurrence.
They also played a major part in the making of Say It With Garage Flowers' favourite album of 2015 – Minesweeping by O'Connell & Love.
One of the most eclectic and richly rewarding albums of recent times, it's a collaboration between Larry Love, the lead singer of South London country-blues-gospel-electronica outlaws Alabama 3 and songwriting partner Brendan O'Connell.
As Larry told me when I interviewed him about the making of the record: "What was interesting with Minesweeping was the use of hangovers in the recording process. Brendan was financing the project and, basically, at the end of the night, we'd chuck some drunken ideas down, but the most important stuff was done in the morning after. I knew that unless I did some songs in the morning, Brendan wouldn't buy me a pint in the afternoon."
Reviewing it earlier this year, I described it as, 'a hung-over road trip through the badlands, stopping to pick up some hitchhikers on the way – namely guest vocalists Rumer, Buffy Sainte-Marie, June Miles-Kingston, Tenor Fly and Pete Doherty.'
The record opens with the moody, Cash-like, acoustic death row ballad, Like A Wave Breaks On A Rock, visits Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood territory for the drunken, playful duet Hangover Me (feat. Rumer), travels across Europe for the sublime, blissed-out, Stonesy country-soul of It Was The Sweetest Thing,hangs out by the riverside for the gorgeous pastoral folk of Shake Off Your Shoes (feat.Rumer) and heads out to the ocean for the Celtic sea shanty-inspired Where Silence Meets The Sea.
Larry Love and Brendan O'Connell
It's an album that wears its influences on the sleeve of its beer-stained shirt – it's like rifling through a record collection of classic rock and roll, folk, blues, country and soul.
There are nods to late '70s Dylan (The Man Inside The Mask), Motown (Love Is Like A Rolling Stone – feat.Tenor Fly ), Leonard Cohen (Come On, Boy – feat. Junes Miles-Kingston) and The Band (If It's Not Broken).
I'm really looking forward to seeing O'Connell & Love play this record live in 2016 – according to Larry, there are plans for a UK tour.
In the meantime, I'm going to pour myself a large glass of something dark and strong and lose myself in Minesweeping.
One for the road, anyone?
As albums of the year go, singer-songwriters, alt.country, power-pop and Americana dominate my list.
Richard Hawley turned in a classic with Hollow Meadows, which was less psychedelic than its predecessor, Standing At The Sky's Edge, and largely rooted in country, folk and the lush, late-night, '50s-tinged melancholy ballads that dominated his earlier albums. Although there was still room for some bluesy-garage rock (Which Way) and anthemic, widescreen guitar pop (Heart of Oak).
I was lucky enough to meet Richard after one of his gigs this year and when I told him that I preferred his new album to the one before, he simply said, 'Well – you can't please everyone, Sean…'
Other singer-songwriters who released great albums this year included Manchester's Nev Cottee – Strange News From The Sun sounded like Lee Hazlewood on a spacewalk – and Vinny Peculiar, whose Down The Bright Stream was a witty, funny and moving collection of brilliantly observed pop songs, steeped in childhood nostalgia, teenage memories and wry social commentary.
Nev Cottee
John Howard's new project – John Howard & The Night Mail – was a wonderful record, full of quirky, witty, intelligent, theatrical and nostalgic songs, from Zombies-like psych-pop to slinky retro mod-soul, glam-rock and observational Ray Davies-style tales of people's everyday lives.
Detroit's Nick Piunti – a Say It With Garage Flowers favourite – returned in a blaze of glory with Beyond The Static, which was the follow-up to his critically acclaimed power-pop record 13 In My Head, while Dublin-born singer-songwriter Marc Carroll's latest album, Love Is All or Love Is Not At All, was his most political record yet.
Dead Flowers – who topped Say It With Garage Flowers' album of the year list back in 2013 with their debut, Midnight At The Wheel Club, didn't disappoint with their new record – Minor & Grand, which was often louder and much more electrified than their first album.
Manchester band Last Harbour made Caul – a brooding, cinematic masterpiece that recalled Bowie's Berlin period, the industrial, electronic atmosphere of Joy Division and the gothic splendour of Scott Walker and Nick Cave.
Instrumental duo Steelism, with their spy film guitar licks and surf-rock riffs, came up with a record (615 To FAME) that harked back to the glory days of '60s instrumental rock & roll, but also threw in country, soul and blues – and even a touch of krautrock – to create their own dramatic soundtracks.
UK Americana label Clubhouse Records had a great year in 2015, releasing superb albums by alt.country band Case Hardin (Colours Simple), whose singer-songwriter Pete Gow played a solo show that I promoted back in October, and The Dreaming Spires (Searching For The Supertruth)– Oxford's prime exponents of '60s-style jangle-pop.
I must declare a vested interest in one of my favourite records of 2015 – The Other Half, a collaboration between top UK crime writer Mark Billingham and country duo My Darling Clementine.
Mark discovered My Darling Clementine by first reading about them on my blog, so, I'd like to think that I set the wheels in motion that led them to record their story of love, loss and murder that's told in words and music and set in a rundown Memphis bar.
Sadly, not everyone who released superb albums in 2015 lived to tell the tale. Gifted, but troubled, singer-songwriter Gavin Clark (Sunhouse, Clayhill) died in February, but he left behind Evangelist – a project that was completed by James Griffith and Pablo Clements, members of UNKLE/Toydrum and the owners of the Toy Room Studios in Brighton.
Loosely based on Gavin's life, it was a dark, edgy, atmospheric and psychedelic-tinged trip that made for uneasy – yet essential – listening.
And finally, here are some nods to acts who didn't release studio albums this year, but put out some records that I loved.
I'm not normally a huge fan of live albums, but Johnny Marr's Adrenalin Baby was brilliant and really captured the feel and atmosphere of his gigs – it's worth it just to hear his outstanding, europhic version of Electronic's Getting Away With It.
And talking of live shows, UK folk duo The Rails gave away a seven-track acoustic EP called Australia at their gigs this year.
It served as a good stopgap until their next album and featured a killer, stripped-down cover of Edwyn Collins' Low Expectations.
Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Steve Roberts followed up his 2013 concept record Cold Wars Part 1 EP with the five-track sequel – What Would You Die For? [Cold Wars Part Two].
The standout track This Is A Cold War was a stately, Beatlesesque piano-led ballad. Lennon and McCarthy?
And while we're on the subject of spies, being a huge James Bond fan, I really enjoyed A Girl And A Gun – a 34-track tribute album of 007 songs and soundtracks by artists including Darren Hayman, Robert Rotifer, Ralegh Long and Papernut Cambridge.
Say It With Garage Flowers will return in 2016…
Here's a list of my favourite albums of 2015 and a Spotify playlist to accompany it:
O'Connell & Love – Minesweeping
Richard Hawley – Hollow Meadows
Vinny Peculiar – Down The Bright Stream
John Howard & The Night Mail – John Howard & The Night Mail
Nev Cottee – Strange News From The Sun
The Dreaming Spires – Searching For The Supertruth
Dead Flowers – Minor & Grand
Evangelist [Gavin Clark & Toydrum] – Evangelist
Duke Garwood – Heavy Love
Mark Billingham & My Darling Clementine – The Other Half
Nick Piunti – Beyond The Static
Case Hardin – Colours Simple
Last Harbour – Caul
Steelism – 615 To FAME
Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free
Marc Carroll – Love Is All or Not At All
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
Gaz Coombes – Matador
Wilco – Star Wars
The Sopranistas – Cutting Down The Bird Hotel
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Angels & Ghosts
New Order – Music Complete
GospelBeacH – Pacific Surf Line
Sarah Cracknell – Red Kite
Kontiki Suite – The Greatest Show On Earth
Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
Hurricane #1 – Find What You Love And Let It Kill You
Jacob Golden – The Invisible Record
Ian Webber – Year of the Horse
Albums of the Year, altcountry, americana, country music, indiepop, James Bond, John Howard & The Night Mail, Johnny Marr, Marc Carroll, Mark Billingham, My Darling Clementine, Nev Cottee, Nick Piunti, power pop, singer/songwriter, vinny peculiar
'I don't even know if I've seen any of the Bond films all the way through'
With the new Bond blockbuster Spectre around the corner, indie label Where It's At Is Where You Are (wiaiwya) is releasing a James Bond tribute album called A Girl And A Gun, featuring covers of 007 songs and soundtracks by contemporary acts including Papernut Cambridge, Darren Hayman, Robert Rotifer and Ralegh Long.
I asked Ian Button from Papernut Cambridge about his groovy garage-rock take on Lulu's The Man With The Golden Gun…
How did you get involved with the A Girl And A Gun project?
Ian Button: I can't quite remember when I first heard Jerv (wiaiwya) mention the idea – I think it might have been when we were all at The Union Chapel when Papernut Cambridge played a Daylight Music show at the end of 2014.
I probably muscled in just as much as I was invited. The idea fitted in really well with our 'lost year of cover versions' – the Nutlets album and our soon to be released EP of John Sullivan theme songs – so I just said yes without thinking.
Jerv is a great friend, and was also a great advisor to us when we started the Gare Du Nord label – the links between all the bands and players on the labels in our little circle are too complex to go into – but suffice to say I'm involved on a couple of other tracks on the album too – drumming, recording etc on Ralegh's and Darren's tracks…..and the Papernuts are going to be a sort of 'house band' for some of the show on November 7th at The Union Chapel.
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Why did you choose to cover The Man With The Golden Gun? What were you trying to achieve with your version?
IB: I went for it because I thought I knew no one else would. It's one of the real underdog themes. But of course Mark Williamson (Crock Oss) went and chose it as well, and did a brilliant electronic/location recordings version of it too. At the show on Nov 7th we're going to do a kind of amalgamation of both our versions, which is going to be great fun.
(Crock Oss)
I remember Lulu doing The Man Who Sold The World and being in a sort of Bowie phase in the early/mid '70s, and The Man With The Golden Gun was definitely the same kind of thing/look/era.
When I got to grips with the music I realised how cool it is – not really any chords, just dark monophonic lines and dischords etc…it took me a while to work out those really Bond machine gun cluster notes at the start. They are very clever!
Like all our covers, I wanted to try and make it sound sort of like the original – not an oblique post-ironic re-work – but I also liked the idea of a bloke singing it instead of Lulu.
It was recorded the way pretty much all of the Papernut Cambridge tracks are formed – I start at home with a basic structure, in this case a sort of synth bass line, a couple of guitar lines and a drum machine.
I used Mellotron sounds (M-Tron Pro) to layer up the brass/strings/harp etc. Then I went to a little rehearsal room to do the vocals and real drums. The drums were recorded with just one mic, but there are three takes all playing at once.
The next step normally is to send the track to the rest of the Nuts so they can add bits – but in this case it didn't quite happen as usual.
Robert Halcrow was the only one who sent anything back by Jerv's deadline (bass, real horns, and backing vocals) – everyone else just said they couldn't add anything – even though I meant for them to replace the programmed parts with real guitars/keys etc. So it's really ended up just me and Rob Halcrow on this one. But Ralegh Long came up with something maybe better than any music – the video, which is taken from a spoof Bond movie that he and his mates made when they were at school – Blackeye. It's genius.
Are you a Bond fan?
IB: Not really, I must confess. I kind of liked the '60s and '70s ones because they were a bit light hearted. Christmas afternoon fodder.
I haven't seen the Daniel Craig films, but I hear about torture scenes and I kind of don't really like the idea of them being dark or too scary.
What's your favourite Bond film and song – and why?
IB: I couldn't name a movie that's my favourite, unfortunately. I actually don't even know if I've seen any all the way through – but my favourite song is You Only Live Twice. That strings riff is the cold suburban sunshine of the 1960s, bottled. I also especially like the reggae bit in Live and Let Die.
Who is your favourite actor to have played Bond?
IB: Roger Moore – not least because he and Dorothy Squires used to live near me in Bexley…
What do you think of Sam Smith's song for Spectre – Writing's On The Wall?
IB:I had a listen and it didn't really grab me. But then neither did the Spectres one [Bristol band] that got a lot of attention in that stupid mix up of reviews. I usually don't like music that tries to be all dramatic, minor key and portentous, although I do make exceptions!
I'm going to use Sam Smith's lyrics in a university lecture next week, to see if people recognise them by reading a verse in isolation. They sort of don't say anything about the movie really do they? Not like Lulu, who actually said what's in the film, totally!
A Girl And A Gun is released digitally on October 23 (wiaiwya).
https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/a-girl-and-a-gun
http://www.wiaiwya.com
For more on A Girl And A Gun, read my interviews with wiawya founder John Jervis and musician Robert Rotifer.
James Bond, John Howard, John Jervis, Papernut Cambridge, Robert Rotifer
'There's too much fighting and shooting and not enough casino scenes'
Indie label Where It's At Is Where You Are (wiaiwya) is releasing a new James Bond tribute album called A Girl And A Gun, featuring covers of 007 songs and soundtracks by contemporary acts including Papernut Cambridge, Darren Hayman and Ralegh Long.
I asked Robert Rotifer, whose version of Goldeneye is on the record, how he tackled Tina Turner's Bond belter…
(pic by Pam Berry)
Robert Rotifer: John Jervis [who runs wiaiwya] asked, and I would never say no to him, because he is generally speaking one of the best people on the planet.
I think he was already quite far down the list, but at some point the idea came up – it may have been Darren Hayman's – that all core members of Papernut Cambridge should do a song.
I seem to remember that they all had to have "gold" in the title as part of the concept as well.
Why did you choose to cover Goldeneye?
Well, I didn't choose it – the choice was made for me. But I was happy to do it because it's not one of the dauntingly cool John Barry ones, but U2 writing for an ageing Tina Turner, and it has dodgy 1990s production all over it (sorry Nellee Hooper) – so I didn't feel too worried about ruining a classic.
Actually, I feel a bit of a fraud, Sean, because you are a real Bond connoisseur and I'm just a Bond tourist.
I didn't even watch that film [Goldeneye] at the time, mostly because I disapproved of the BMW Z3 roadster. Where I'm from, in Austria, driving that car is akin to a public diagnosis of erectile dysfunction. Not a good look for Bond.
What were you trying to achieve with your version? Can you talk us through how you went about approaching the song and recording it?
I wanted it to have a dusty home studio vibe, but in a thoughtfully arranged way. As I was working out the chords, I found myself retracing the steps of Bono and The Edge, trying to go by the Bond handbook and be original at the same time.
That classic rising and falling chromatic sequence was there, but hidden deep down in Hooper's arrangement. And then there's a ludicrously anti-climactic, incongruous key change into the chorus that surely would never have happened to John Barry.
Bono and The Edge don't do key changes, but they probably wanted to show a bit of sophistication there. Imagine those two in a tux, and that's exactly what it sounds like. You can hear Tina Turner wonder where the hell this thing is going every time that change comes around because it's just so unmusical. But then I tried to make it work by introducing a melancholy harmony part, and all of a sudden I started to really enjoy it.
By that time I had decided to replace Nellee Hooper's quasi-trip hop beat with one of the beats on my old seventies Elgam Carousel groove box, embellished with some tambourine and egg shaker. I recorded the bassline next with my Höfner violin bass, then some double-tracked acoustic fingerpicking, at which point the chords started to sound quite beautiful.
Then I added some swells on the Telecaster with my volume pedal, some almost inaudible organ pads and some "harpsichord" using my Clavinova run through a Vox amp and one of Ian Button's self-made spring reverbs.
Obviously, putting on the lead guitar part was the most fun. There's this bit at the end, which offered itself for a solo, and I had a great time channelling Marc Ribot through Vic Flick. That was the idea at least.
The biggest problem was the main vocal, because Tina Turner is such a belter, so at first I was going for the opposite approach, really soft and quiet, but that was rubbish. I played it to my wife and the kids as we were about to go out for lunch, and they told me as much.
So I said "Five minutes!", quickly ran up to the bedroom, perched the laptop on the dresser, put in some crappy earphones and sang it right into my little Zoom recorder without thinking. That was the best I could do to keep myself from getting too self-conscious.
RR: That's a very difficult question. The little boy in me was a huge Bond fan. I coveted that Aston Martin Corgi car with the ejector seat and changeable number plates so badly. Friends of mine had it – it was one of the best toys ever produced. Then when I got into the Mod thing as a teenager, I rediscovered Bond as part of the subculture and the influence he had on Jamaican Rude Boys. Desmond Dekker's 007 Shanty Town alone justifies the existence of Bond in my book.
I really like the idea of loucheness among the civil service – the glamour, good shoes and well-cut suits, even though it's always two- or one- rather than three-button jackets, which I still prefer.
But there's never quite enough of that in the films for my liking. There's too much fighting and shooting and not enough casino scenes. And I'm not even going to mention misogyny or casual racism here – that's just too much of an open goal.
But then I'm speaking to a proper Bond fan here, so I'm way out of my depth.
RR: It has to be On Her Majesty's Secret Service and We Have All The Time In The World – a clean two in one.
The film because, while still being a cartoon figure (a good thing), Bond is just that little bit more fallible and credible in this one, and it's actually emotionally engaging.
The song because the writing is just fantastic. Musically, it's John Barry at his relaxed best. That's what chord and key changes should be like. And the arrangement is brilliantly restrained, the acoustic guitar is gorgeous, the strings just the right side of dramatic, that beat is funky in an ever so subtle way, the bass keeps pushing it forward all the time, and then there's Louis Armstrong's wonderful stoner's voice on top of it all that sounds aloof and will still bring a tear to your eye.
He already knew he was going to die, so he makes Hal David's lyrics sound both consoling and existentially meaningful.
"Nothing more / Nothing less / Only love." You have to be very confident to write that for a Bond song. It was 1969 after all, so people were expected to take chances.
RR: George Lazenby – not because I'm an indie snob or trying to be contrarian, but because he was in the best film with the best song.
He was very good looking, too. I read he was a car salesman before he started modelling and acting. That's exactly the sort of person who should play Bond.
RR:I think it's very good. I just wish he didn't do that self-pitying, tore-my-skinny-jeans falsetto. Transpose it down and sing it with your proper voice, and it would be a fine tune.
Arrangement-wise, I like the way it never really gets going and resists the temptation to drift into rock territory. I suppose that's brave in a way.
For more on A Girl And A Gun, click here and here.
James Bond, John Jervis, Robert Rotifer
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With the UK in the grip of Bondmania, indie record label Where It's At Is Where You Are (wiaiwya) is set to release A Girl And A Gun – a new 34-track tribute album of 007 songs and soundtracks by artists including Darren Hayman, Robert Rotifer, Ralegh Long and Papernut Cambridge.
I spoke to wiaiwya's founder, John Jervis, the mastermind behind this fiendish scheme, to find out more…
Just like a James Bond blockbuster, A Girl And A Gun – the new 007 tribute album from indie label wiaiwya – is exciting, exotic, weird and wonderful.
An eclectic array of artists have all come up with their own takes on songs and soundtracks from Bond's cinematic legacy – both well-known and obscure.
Papernut Cambridge reinvent Lulu's saucy The Man With The Golden Gun as a groovy,'60s-style garage-rock riot, while World of Fox's version of All Time High (from Octopussy) is better than the original – they turn Rita Coolidge's dreary MOR ballad into a hauntingly beautiful, twangy guitar instrumental.
Things get really strange when Picturebox make full use of Q Branch's gadgets for their spooky Surrender (from Tomorrow Never Dies) – the vocals are sung through an electronic voice box.
I tracked down John Jervis, the head of the mysterious organisation known as wiaiwya, and asked him how he put his sinister plan into operation…
So what's the story behind A Girl And A Gun? How did the project come about?
John Jervis: I've been doing a 7" singles club where people sign up and get seven 7" singles in the post over a 12-month period – one record comes out on every day of the week, and always on the 7th of the month. It has ended up being a bit of a numerical obsession really. I know – it's tragic.
I'd been thinking of exclusive, seven-based extras to send out to subscribers – something a little special that you only get as a member of the club. You can tell where this is going, can't you? The plan became getting seven bands to record seven 007 covers to send to subscribers.
Over the last few years I've released a few project records; a tribute to Springsteen for his 60th birthday, an Olympics LP for 2012, and a couple of Christmas albums. The core of each is a handful of incredibly talented, exciting artists who are always good to work with – a bit like a cast of returning characters that hold the whole thing together.
So, the bat signal went up, and seven said 'yes' – crucially not all of them were Bond fans. Some I suggested a theme to, while others I asked which themes they'd like to do, and they got working on it.
It then became a much bigger project, didn't it?
JJ: As we all know, a Bond theme is not always the most understated recording, so friends were roped in to adorn the cover versions, and those friends soon realised that they too would love to have a stab at their favourite themes.
Well, I had to say yes, and the whole idea changed – this would no longer be a seven-track download, but a seven-month project, releasing a free cover every Friday from the release of the first Spectre trailer to the release of the film. Every Bond film – EON and non-EON – would be represented and, if possible, no song would be duplicated.
Chats were had at gigs and in pubs, songs were offered and claimed, and within a couple of months we had the full line-up – circumstances change, of course, so a few people dropped out and a few people stepped in, to bring something new to each incredibly well-known theme.
(Ralegh Long and Friends)
We now have a 34-track album, including two tunes from Dr No, The Man With The Golden Gun and Thunderball, and three from Tomorrow Never Dies (!), with a couple of other tracks promised, and the potential to add every future Bond theme!
Are you pleased with the record?
JJ: Overjoyed. Songs were recorded in Texan bedrooms, on Khao Phing Kan (James Bond Island in Thailand); in a Moscow airport, and outside Pinewood Studios – as well of plenty of more traditional studios – by people who have never seen a Bond film or read a Bond book, people that were members of the Bond fan club, people that despise the idea of Bond, John Barry fans, Paul McCartney fans, and a free jazz fan!
Some of the songs were played on church organs, lap steels and ukuleles. We had professional musicians who've been releasing records for two decades, as well as debut recordings from bands formed especially to record a Bond theme.
There were also tracks that arrived a couple of months after deadline, and one that was turned around in under 13 hours. There are covers of obscure unused themes, as well as the most recognisable piece of music in cinema, and we've even included a Bond film made by one of the acts when he was at school.
What are your favourite tracks on the album?
Now, that's impossible to choose. Much like the original themes, my favourites change from day to day.
My favourite Bond cover version that's not on the album is easy, though – Live And Let Die by Geri Halliwell. It's immense and preposterous!
So, are you a Bond fan?
JJ: I'm a big fan of the music, and love the massive cultural event of a new film release. Although, I never enjoy a Bond film as much as the first time, when you see how all those well-loved components are dropped in – the quips, the locations, the cars, the gun barrel, Moneypenny, M, Q, the gadgets, the girls, the henchmen, the explosions, and of course the theme, oh, the theme. Through the cinema speakers, it always sounds amazing.
If we can momentarily step back to 1982, when I was given a Walkman – although it wasn't an actual Walkman – for Christmas, along with some record tokens to buy tapes to play… After much pained deliberation in Boots, Woolworths, WH Smiths and Our Price – and with a sizeable amount of advice from my mum – I decided my life would be most improved with the soundtrack of Cats, The Kids from Fame, Complete Madness and James Bond's Greatest Hits.
I played all of them to death, transcribed lyrics, and memorised sleeve notes. I was a fan of the music of 007 long before I saw any of the films.
Do you have a favourite Bond film?
It's Live and Let Die. I also have a soft spot for Licence to Kill, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Theme-wise, today, it's For Your Eyes Only. Last week it was The Death of Fiona [from Thunderball] and the week before it was Adele's Skyfall. Why? Because they're Bond themes. Surely that's enough!
(Ms Goodnight)
Who's your favourite actor to have played Bond?
JJ: It's always the current one and I like a chat over a drink about who should be the next one.
You're holding a gig to launch the album, aren't you?
JJ: Yes. Daylight Music is an amazing, free Saturday afternoon residency, putting on three bands between midday and 2pm at the Union Chapel, in Highbury, London – they've put on over 200 shows so far. They have been kind enough to host the A Girl And A Gun launch party on the 007th November.
The plan is to get as many of the bands from the compilation to play their tunes, and there'll be a few surprises – evening dress is requested too. I hope you can make it.
The album has been a blast to put together and it's all here for everyone to download: https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/a-girl-and-a-gun
John Jervis will return…
A Girl And A Gun is officially released digitally on October 23 (wiaiwya).
For more on A Girl And A Gun, read my interviews with Robert Rotifer & Ian Button.
Ian Button, James Bond, Robert Rotifer


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Weekly Roundup, 23rd June 2015
by Mike Rawson · Published June 23, 2015 · Updated July 11, 2015
We begin today's Weekly Roundup with John Authers in the FT.
Market complacency
P2P goes business
The O-ring theory
Get fracking
Alternative Venture Capital
True contrarian investing
John was worried about market complacency in the face of Grexit and the Fed raising interest rates.
Markets appear to be pricing in a deal on Greece, or are convinced that Grexit would have little impact. John agrees that the former is likely1 but is not so convinced of the second.
There are two possible issues – contagion from the Greek default itself and the precedent set by a country leaving what was envisaged as a permanent currency union.
I think the risk of the first is low – Greece is a small country and the EU has had seven years since the collapse of Lehmans to tidy up the debt – but the second is an unknown quantity. If Spain or Italy decided to leave, all bets are off.
As for the Fed, their June meeting had long been seen as the first one at which base rates might be raised. Of course it did not happen, following a first quarter slowdown in the US.
Janet Yellen said that rates will start to rise between September and March, and that the rise would be gradual. The futures markets have ruled September out, and think December or January is more likely.
There are four risks associated with the rate rises, whenever they begin:
money returns to the US from foreign markets, as per the "taper tantrum" in 2013
money is attracted to the US by rising rates, pushing up the dollar, making things difficult for US exporters
rising rates (even gradually rising ones) create a new recession, as per the Depression in 1937
long-term interest rates don't react, and remain low (10-yr rates are 2.5%), making credit attractive and another credit bubble possible
So plenty for the markets to worry about, if they wanted to.
Judith Evans noted that P2P lending to business is about to surpass that to individuals.
The higher rates on offer (6% upwards, compared to around 5% for consumer loans) appear to be outweighing the increased risk on the loans.
Lending to consumers totalled 1.583bn as at the middle of June, with the faster-growing lending to SMEs just behind at £1.581bn. Property-backed lending to businesses has now passed £600M.
The growth has been reflected in the number of platforms – there are now 16 business platforms in the AltFi index, compare to only five dealing with loans to consumers.
The rapid growth is partly driven by institutional lenders joining the party. They have more to lend and the larger deal sizes with business are attractive. It's also the case that since the financial crisis, bank lending to SMEs has shrunk.
The FT also published its Private Client Wealth Management supplement.
The first point to note was that the price of entry has gone up by 50% since last year. Higher compliance costs mean that firms are avoiding less profitable clients.
The FT's 2015 survey found that the average minimum amount of liquid assets need to access advisory services is £806K, a 48% increase from last year's £542K. For discretionary services, £650K was needed, a 27% increase on £517K.
Not surprisingly, client satisfaction fell from 62% to 54%. There is some hope for improvement however:
client to staff ratios fell from 175:1 to 161:1
annual fees on portfolios over £1M fell by 5 basis points (0.05%)
The second finding was that wealth managers have been pushed up the risk spectrum in search of alpha. Even so, over the past three years, less that 20% of managers added alpha, whereas more than 50% generated negative alpha.
Equity allocations are at record highs. This partly reflects the equalisation of bond and equity volatility under QE. Corporate bond allocations have fallen, with short-dated government bons (included index-liked ones) now preferred.
Alternative asset classes like hedge funds and private equity are up slightly. Many managers are also adding P2P debt through investment trusts. Property and infrastructure are less favoured as property yields fall and infrastructure trusts' premia to NAV increase.
See also: Weekly Roundup, 11th April 2022
A third finding was the (slow) advance of "robo-advisers" or online discretionary services.
The biggest names in the UK are Nutmeg and Money on Toast, but their reluctance to reveal their level of assets under management suggests that progress has been slow.
Hargreaves Lansdown, the biggest direct-to-consumer platform launched its Portfolio+ service this month (we compared it to Nutmeg last week).2
Investec, Brewin Dolphin and Barclays each plan similar launches this year.
In the US, the leading online services (Betterment and WealthFront) both use passive portfolios of ETFs. This is the Nutmeg approach, but Hargreaves Lansdown and Fidelity both offer portfolios of mutual funds.
Life, and in particular, science and technology, is getting more complicated. Ben Jones has found that researchers and inventors are getting older and have narrower specialisations. As the body of knowledge increases, it takes longer to master what is already known before you can add to it.
Tim Harford looked at Why Information Grows, a new book by César Hidalgo, a physicist at MIT.
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Hidalgo uses the term "personbyte" to describe the amount of knowledge that one person can know. More and more of the personbyte is being filled up with what we already know. The answer to this is teamwork, and research teams are now bigger than they were.
A second approach is modularity. A laptop is built from simpler standalone modules, such as CPU, the keyboard, the OS and the data drive. Smaller teams can work on these sub-products.
But some knowledge is hard to shift. It is easier to move copper from mines in Chile to factories in Korea than to move the manufacturing know-how from Korea to Chile. The most complex products require elaborate networks of teamwork, and can be made in only a few places.
Over 20 years ago, Michael Kremer came up with the "The O-ring Theory of Economic Development". The title refers to the seal that failed in the Challenger space shuttle tragedy. Lots of things (meals, music groups) are only as good as their weakest link.
The consequence is that the most skilled workers collaborate with each other, and have access to the best equipment. Consequential errors are reduced and inequality increases. This is a trend that is unlikely to be reversed.
The Economist reported that fracking has finally been given the go-ahead in the UK. Lancashire County Council have given Cuadrilla permission to drill at a single site near Blackpool.3
An American-style shale boom will still have to clear a few more fences however:
while in theory the shale in the north could produce 50 years worth of gas, UK geography is less favourable than in the US
much of the shale is beneath densely populated areas, valuable agricultural land, or in national parks
perhaps as little as 1-2% is extractable (which is only one year's supply, and no bonanza)
mineral rights belong to the Crown, so local landowners can't be bribed to give fracking the go-ahead
public opposition is easy to organise near towns, or areas of natural beauty, and the public as a whole is lukewarm to neutral on the subject
the planning process through local councils and government departments can take up to two years
Amber Rudd, the new energy secretary, is trying to cut the red tape. Local councils can now keep all of the business rates from fracking, up from half last year, which may make planning permission easier to obtain. But it won't remove any of the other obstacles.
The Economist also reported on the competition that the current US venture capital (VC) boom – the biggest since the dot com bubble – has attracted.
VC is almost unchanged since its emergence in the 1950s. The industry is dominated by partnerships which provide three things:
experienced board members
access to industry connections
This makes the sector not "scalable" – firms can't grow quickly (indeed, adding more partners tends to reduce returns, as investment by committee becomes more risk-averse).
There are four other factors affecting the VC market:
the falling cost of creating a startup – cloud computing means that firms come looking for $50K, not $5M. This is not enough for VCs to be interested.
perversely, at stage two – going global, startups now need lots of money, and quickly.
startups are also more reluctant to go public at an early stage, so more private capital is needed.
low returns on other investments makes VC look attractive
See also: Weekly Roundup, 22nd June 2020
There are four main rivals to traditional VC partnerships at the early stage:
"angels" – rich individuals who put money directly into startups. The US now has more than 300,000.
crowdfunding websites
"accelerators" such as Y Combinator and Techstars, which invest small sums startups before taking them to VCs later
some VC firms have taken on the characteristics of accelerators by limiting the size and number of their investments; these are known as "micro funds"
At the "late stage", big institutional investors like Fidelity and TPG, a private-equity firm, are providing money directly, like a one-stop IPO.
In between, online media is increasing competition between VC firms by offering more transparency on deals. Startups are also more connected to each other and seek out the best VC brands.
As more and more money chases the best deals at ever-higher valuations, casualties will be inevitable.
Over in MoneyWeek, Andrew Van Sickle took a look at what it takes to be a true contrarian investor.
Most people like to describe themselves as contrarian. It sounds heroic, and indeed many of the world most famous investors (Buffett, Soros etc.) are often described in this way. But in practice, most people are influenced by the herd.
Jeff Macke says that apart from the mental strain, contrarian investing doesn't work. Macke looked at a CNN poll that dates back to 1974. respondents are asked how well things are going in the US, on a four point scale.
Macke's experiment involved buying at each decades low point, then closing the position after 12 months. Similarly, the high point of sentiment would be shorted, and the position closed after a year. The results were bad: $1000 became $929 over 40 years, whereas the S&P 500 grew by a factor of 26.
Barry Ritholz says that market sentiment is self-reinforcing. In a football ground, the fans cheer when the team does well, and the cheering helps the team to do well. Betting against the crowd would not work most of the time.
A true contrarian needs to be able to identify the extremes of sentiment that might indicate turning points. As we noted last week, Greenspan identified "irrational exuberance" in 1996, but the market went up for another 39 months.
The aim is to go against the herd to capture value that the herd is ignoring. This may sound familiar – the common name for it is value investing. Buying shares when they are cheap has always been the best long-term strategy.
Finally, following last week's article on Bitcoin, I came across a useful infographic on Twitter.4
Here are a few highlights. We'll start with the 10 biggest companies that accept Bitcoin:
Here are the 5 countries which use Bitcoin the most:
The rate of transactions is rising steadily:
The network is still dwarfed by the credit cards, but it is catching up with more widely known online systems, such as PayPal:
But when you look at what the transactions are, it's not too impressive (mostly gift cards and IT kit):
Offline, it looks like there isn't much you can do except buy a coffee:
So in conclusion, we're still some way from mainstream, real-world acceptance.
It looks even more likely as I write this [↩]
We didn't include Money on Toast in the comparison, but MoT seems to be an even more expensive option than Nutmeg, with annual fees of 1.49% [↩]
Planning permission has been given, but the councillors still have to approve the decision [↩]
There are many such infographics – Google them – but the one I found doesn't appear to be searchable, so I can't credit the author; if anyone can find me a link I would be grateful [↩]
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Stefan Hecht at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin outlines how light-based technologies will spark innovation in material science and nanotechnology The emergence of life and our existence is inevitably bound to the sun as the prime energy source for our planet. Photosynthesis provides the basis for the continuous production of biomass, which...
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American Chilena? This is about as close as it gets.
You've heard me mention the Cobin scale for Chilean Spanish in the past. If not, here's an entry I posted on it – The Cobin Scale of Spanish Proficiency.
For most of us, level 10 will be forever elusive. Unless we started studying Spanish at a young age, the learning curve can be long and challenging. But even those who are proficient in Spanish can find Chilean Spanish difficult.
passably bilingual and "fluent;" can communicate with some difficulty, understand about 80%+ in social or church settings where the context is known, can give an intelligible lecture; basic writing can be done; can fill out government, job application and insurance or other forms; one regularly utters sentences in English unintentionally laced with Spanish words; Spanglish becomes more the norma and intelligible; one encounters about 20 new vocabulary words per week; books and newspapers can be read by looking up fewer than 5 words per page; little problem ordering food in restaurants.
Some families think they want to wait a few years before moving abroad, so that their children can mature before taking them to another culture. If that's your plan, then let me offer you a challenge. There's no better time in life to learn a new culture and language than when we're children. Before twelve years of age, the child's mind can intuitively pick up nuances and accents far better than an adult's. This is even more pronounced with children immersed at younger ages.
I ran across an example of this recently and wanted to share it with you. Here's a young American lady who married a Chilean (Chileno). I don't know how young she was when she started learning Chilean Spanish, but I'd guess under ten years old. Her accent is all but absent. And her use of slang is excellent. In fact, she's incredibly close to a 10 on the Cobin Scale of Spanish Proficiency.
She talks about the 10 things she loves about Chile: cazuela, ferias, peruvian food, good character of Chileans–"buena onda," 6 months of post natal time off, carabineros (police), teletón, french bread–marraqueta, asados, natural beauty, and Chile's many holidays.
I don't know if there's such a thing as an American Chilena. If not, this is probably as close as one can get.
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Surgical resection, the treatment of choice for cholangiocarcinoma, may not be feasible because of tumour extension, parenchymal liver disease or tumour location. Liver transplantation is an alternative to palliative treatment in these patients but results in the past have been disappointing. In this article, we review the current and emerging treatments for cholangiocarcinomas, focusing particularly on the role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and/ or radiotherapy in the setting of liver transplantation.
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Students will venture out into a time in human history when barbarians plague the Roman Empire. Vikings raid coasts in northern seas, lawless marauders roam through Europe, and thieves lie in wait along the Silk Road, the land route to the Far East. But they'll also discover the stories behind the Renaissance — a new dawn of knowledge and a time of invention and creativity. They'll have great times learning about life in castles and on fiefs, the culture of knights and ladies, cathedrals and Crusades. Along the way, they'll follow the exploits of villains and victors, kings and conquerors. It's a fantastic plunder quest! Why not come along?
It's time to get acquainted with the knights and kings, rascals and ruffians who were the movers and shakers of the medieval age. Meander through Rome and early Britain, stand with the Jews at Masada, and travel to the Far East. Watch as the Vikings head out to raid villages; see the Crusaders head for faraway lands; and witness the unfolding of the Renaissance. You'll get to meet some of the larger than life characters that are a part of world history: the Apostle Paul, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, Marco Polo, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, William Wallace, Johannes Gutenberg, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and John Hus.
As always, you'll receive a number of wonderful titles and kits that will accent your study with activities and learning projects. You can devise a da Vinci-type invention, illustrate an illuminated book, make a sundial, play the Viking pastime Hnefatafl , and create your own coat of arms. You can even learn how medieval carpenters used 13-knot ropes to create beautiful arches and other forms as they built. Plus, you'll go up-close to advances made by Renaissance painters as they found new ways to interpret perspective and draw the human figure. The journey is a fantastic experience!
Quest for the Middle Ages is available in two different sets. Middle grade students will be off on a highly engaging "Plunder Quest," while Senior High students will dig into an "Gothic Quest." There are resources that are common to both sets, and some that are designed for midller students or high school students. Your family can choose to do one set or another, or use a combined set for a range of ages! Find out more below on the "Materials" tab.
Are you up for a quest of your own?
You'll Wander to Times of Castles, Knights & Chivalry!
It's a pilgrimage that starts with Rome and continues through Viking raids, the Crusades, and on to the unfolding of the Renaissance. Along the way, you'll experience aspects of medieval life through simple activities, experiments, re-creations and notebooking. Playing games along with the Vikings, determining the destiny of a medieval town, and re-creating da Vinci inventions are just a sampling! Amazing books and interactive resources will make memories for your family that will last a lifetime!
Middlers will love joining this medieval quest, going A-Viking with Nordic warriors, riding amongst Mongol hordes, or fighting alongside English longbowmen. They'll discover medieval life in books like "Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed!" Middlers will find themselves going inside castles, trying out a trebuchet, painting with Michelangelo, or making their own buckler for medieval battles.
Amazing books in this program usher students into Gothic nooks and crannies, encountering medieval trades and working alongside medieval craftsmen, or encountering the painting, sculpture, and architectural treasures of the Renaissance. Resources like "Investigate the Middle Ages" have students trying experiences for themselves, while "Illuminated Lettering" and "Gothic Geometry" get them working on Middle Ages art and architecture using medieval methods!
Students will study medieval times from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance and the Reformation.
What's in the Medieval Guide?
Your Ancient guide will lead you across desert sands and Mediterranean waters as you travel throughout the Ancient World. The guide is designed to be easy to follow, with each week's assignments laid out on just one page! The introduction to the guide offers you oodles of teaching helps that may feel like Charlotte Mason just "friended" you — like advice she'd give you on how to grade student work! It's all here!
This program is designed for students from 4th to 12th grades. This theme offers two sets of resources: one for 4th to 8th grade, and one for Senior High (9th to 12th). There are resources that are common to both sets, and some that are designed for younger or older students. Your family can choose to do one set or another, or use a combined set for a range of ages!
Archers, Alchemists & 98 Other Medieval Jobs You May Have Loved or Loathed!
Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed!
This fun and lighthearted resource will really tickle your middle-grade learner. The jobs range from the expected — peasant or king — to the unbelievable, like the unfortunate gong farmer who cleaned out latrines. All along the way, students will find fantastically detailed and fun illustrations to support what they learn about each job. There's so much information about daily medieval life here. And look at just a sampling of the jobs they'll discover!
As a family, you'll enjoy learning about this ultimate Renaissance man. This intriguing book describes Leonardo's life while also providing a good deal of historical information about Italy and providing an informative background on art and the Renaissance. You'll discover how Leonardo used the artistic techniques and materials available during his lifetime — as well as his own unique ideas — to create masterpieces. You'll get to really delve into his thoughts as you look at high-quality reproductions of his artist's sketches and paintings! However, students will also gain insight into Leonardo as a scientist, inventor, and humanist. Along the way, you'll see his detailed sketches of human anatomy (the first of their kind), maps drawn from a bird's-eye view, and designs for such things as diving suits and hang gliders that weren't invented until hundreds of years later. A few projects are also included, so you can make a kite based on Leonardo's drawing of a parachute, cook up his favorite meal of minestrone soup, or grow a Renaissance herb garden. It's a great study!
WinterPromise considers itself a curriculum that embraces the "Experience Approach," offering Charlotte-Mason style learning opportunities with up-to-date materials that make the most of technology, too. In each WP program, you'll encounter a lot of our signature "Experiences." Some of them come in key resources like our exclusive "Investigate the Middle Ages" book, while others are in the guide or hidden in other resources.
Middlers will venture out into medieval times, following along with barbarians, Vikings, lawless marauders, and Mongol horsemen. The journey might include some ill-gotten gain, but it's all good fun as students experience the Middle Ages.
Avoid the Plague Like, Well, the Plague!
Senior high students will discover the treasures of the Middle Ages: the weapons, castles and cathedrals, art and royal standards of the time. They'll be on hand to see the fall of Rome and the rise of the Ottoman Empire and European kings. They'll travel to fiefs and see how peasants and royals worked the land and protected it. Students will go on to see the increase of medieval trade, the spread of the plague, the invention of the printing press, and the flowering of the Renaissance. As they do, they'll take time to explore the ideas and inspiration of the creative genius, Leonardo da Vinci and his fellow Italian artisans. It's a great way to hunt for Gothic treasure!
Master the Carpenter's 13-Knot Rope!
Take a look at the "Medieval" resources below. Discover how they function as ebooks, and the advantages to making them a part of your library, and then decide!
These resources are easy to print looseleaf, and can be printed as many times as you like for multiple students, offering you a great savings. By having access to this file, you can customize and print only those pages you'll use, which is especially handy if you have younger students, or student who would rather focus on other aspects of the program. Either way, your students are using it the same way in print or ebook. This is a resource that is in color in ebook, but it can be printed in black and white if you preferred.
Your ebook version comes in beautiful full color, showing fine detail in the illustrations and examples of illuminated works from medieval times. It also allows you to print multiple copies for your student so they can draft their own illuminated work.
What Items are Related to Middle Ages?
Below you'll find information on products related to Quest for the Middle Ages, including the consumables in the program, language arts programs you might want to consider, and what else to add to complete the learning.
And, If You Want Adventure Reading to Coordinate with Medieval Times . . .
When you've learned enough about Middle Ages resources, continue on to our store to order your set, following the steps one by one!
Why is there both an Middle Ages 4/8 and Middle Ages Sr High?
Quest for the Middle Ages is a multi-level program designed to either (a) allow you to keep multiple family members in different age groups studying the same topic, or (b) allow you to rotate through ancient history twice, both in the middle grades and in high school. If you have one student to school, simply choose the correct grade level, and this program works like any other program. But additionally, if you have students of several age groups — middle grades together with junior or senior high — you can keep your family together with this program. A family using both sets will share their history books and adventure reading, so you can complete these together as a family. Website and DVD suggestions sometimes overlap, and notebooking, mapping and timeline building also share some common material. Then, students in separate programs will break off to complete work from their respective resources and activities sets. Much of this work will be independent study. It's a great way to keep your family creating memories together!
I have several students to school, and one or more of them is younger than 4th grade — will this work for me?
This program is designed to work perfectly with multiple students. You will, though, need to plan on some adjustment if you are trying to integrate a younger student. If most of your students fit the recommended target ages for Ancient World (grades 4 and above), it should work fine for you to add a student on who is younger to simplify things for your family. You should be aware that there will be some resources that your younger might have trouble understanding. We'd recommend that you incorporate him or her into family studies that are of interest to his or her age group, and find extra resources on medieval times, Rome, the Vikings, Mongols, and Chines, or the Renaissance or Reformation that are on the easier side, as needed, perhaps from the library. However, if most of your students are younger than the targeted ages, and/or your oldest student is at the younger end of the targeted age range, you may be better suited by starting with one of our younger programs. Another option may be to purchase the Hideaways program, and have your student complete the second quarter of the program, which coordinates with medieval times. This would add some easier resources alongside those that your student enjoys from Quest for the Middle Ages.
What if I'm not a Christian — how can I use one of these packages?
You need to know that the main text — Mystery of History Volume 2 — is a Christian resource, and does include some early church history, but that is fairly minor, and quite historical. There is a majority of other history presented in this volume as well, and the author has a fairly straightforward style that would offer your family good discussion about medieval history. In short, we feel this program will easily work for you, and you always have the opportunity to add another main text to this set to tailor it to your needs.
I've already got a few of the items in the package. Can I still get the package price and leave them out? We love to offer our package prices to our parents to help them purchase a great program with a great discount. We do, however, have to sell all the items in the package in order to honor the discount. Usually the discount outweighs the value of the resources you might already have. If not, you can choose items individually to build your program, but remember — the purchase of a themed program package ensures you also get reduced shipping, another discount you'll want to take into account as you look at your total purchase. You may want to consider selling used the items you already own, reselling the new items, giving away the duplicates as gifts, or donating them to a homeschool resource center that serves other homeschool families.
Which of the resources in Ancient World are WinterPromise Exclusives?
Which of the resources in Middle Ages are used for more than four weeks, other than WP Exclusives?
Archers, Alchemists & 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed!
How do I assign high school credit for the Ancient Sr High program?
For a year, that totals about 4 3/4 credits, or more than half their yearly requirement. If you add another 1 credit for language arts, 1 credit for science, and 1 credit for math, that completes your student's year, although you may want to add additional credit for an elective of your student's choice, such as music, drama, journalism, sports, home economics, volunteerism, or trades like wood shop and so on. Remember, those ¼ and ½ credits add up during the four year high school program. If a student receives a ¼ credit in geography per year, that would be equivalent to taking 2 half-credit courses during high school.
Do You Have A Scope & Sequence for Middle Ages Senior High?
We've included information about this theme and how to credit your student in our Quest for the Middle Ages Scope & Sequence, which you can download and print to use in your student's transcript.
Have a 4th – 8th Grade Student? Just Add this resource!
Have an additional Sr. High student? Add this notebook!


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Respondents in study: Those who completed at least 10 of the 14 short surveys over the course of the week studied.
A news instance: Each two-hour window (asked about in a short survey) in which a respondent said that they got at least some news online.
Online news consumers: All respondents who said they got news in at least one mini-survey (i.e. had a news instance over the course of the week studied; 2,004 individuals). The results in this study are representative of online news consumers in a given week.
Main news topic: The subject area about which respondents got all or most of their news in a news instance. Respondents were first asked to indicate which of eight topics they got news on in the past two hours and then, if they indicated more than one topic, which one they got the most news on. The topics asked about are politics, community, sports, business, science and technology, entertainment, crime and health.
News pathway: The access point through which online news consumers got news in each news instance. Respondents were asked to indicate which of five pathway(s) led to the news on their main news topic. Respondents could indicate more than one. The five pathways asked about were: news organizations' websites and apps; social media sites; search engines; news organizations' emails, texts and alerts; and emails and texts from friends or family.
Follow-up action: Any action a respondent took after getting news on their main topic in each news instance. The actions asked about were: speaking with someone, whether in person or over the phone; sending an article to someone by email or text message; posting, sharing or commenting on an article on social media; commenting on a news organization's webpage; searching for additional stories or information about the news gotten; or bookmarking or saving the news in some way.