text:
Having trouble viewing this email? Go to othermusic.com/2012april12update.html
RECORD STORE DAY: SATURDAY, APRIL 21
Record Store Day is back again and that means tons of limited, exclusive vinyl (and a few CD) releases will be available at Other Music (and other participating RSD stores) for one day only (see the full list of RSD releases here -- no guarantee of actual quantity and availability at OM) as well as lots of other giveaways, special promotions and more. Record Store Day has become our biggest day of the year, it's always a lot of fun, and we hope you can join us. We will be releasing the full details of our RSD 2012 event schedule next week, and we have a nice roster of DJs shaping up, including Four Tet, Black Dice, and Ex Cops (whose debut 7" on our new Other label will be available for purchase exclusively at OM on RSD) -- stay tuned, and we'll see you on Record Store Day!
Trembling Bells & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Maayan Nidam
Soul Cal (Various Artists)
M. Ward
Moe Tucker
Saigon Rock & Soul (Now on CD)
Vatican Shadow LP
Boy Friend
Half String
Des Jeunes Gens Modernes (Various)
Disco Jamms (Various)
X-O-Dus
The Relatives LP
The Everymen Cassette
Mr. Joe's Jambalaya & Loaded Down with the Blues (Various)
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/othermusicnyc
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/othermusic
APR Sun 15 Mon 16 Tues 17 Wed 18 Thurs 19 Fri 20 Sat 21
LE POISSON ROUGE TICKET GIVE-AWAY: GAVIN BRYARS "SINKING OF THE TITANIC" & LAMBCHOP
The West Village's Le Poisson Rouge is a premier destination for some of the city's most eclectic and adventurous performances, this ticket give away being a perfect example (not to mention the other LPR contests below). This Sunday, April 15, marks the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. That evening, Ensemble LPR along with members of the Wordless Music Orchestra will be performing Gavin Bryar's ambient elegy, The Sinking of the Titanic, at 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. We're giving away one pair of passes to each show, just email enter@othermusic.com and list the time that you'd like to enter for. Then, on Thursday, April 19, "Nashville's most fucked-up country band" Lambchop will be performing in support of their great new album, Mr. M, with Charlie Horse opening the night. We've got a pair of tickets to this concert as well, which you can enter for by emailing giveaway@othermusic.com.
LE POISSON ROUGE: 158 Bleecker St. NYC
WIN TICKETS TO THE MUSIC OF CAN: AN EVENING OF UNRELEASED MUSIC AND DISCUSSION
Mute Records is offering our Update subscribers five pairs of passes to this very special evening dedicated to this legendary band. With an upcoming 3-CD box set featuring unreleased studio and live recordings from Can slated for release in June, keyboardist and group founder Irmin Schmidt and British composer Jono Podmore (a/k/a KUMO, a frequent collaborator with Schmidt) will be on hand for a listening party and discussion of this unreleased material. To enter to win a pair of tickets, email contest@othermusic.com. We'll notify the five winners on Friday.
UNSOUND FESTIVAL TICKET GIVE AWAY
The third annual Unsound Festival New York will be taking place in various venues across the city next week, between April 18th and the 22nd. This year's groundbreaking line up is as diverse as it is spectacular (you can view the full schedule here), and the festival is offering a pair of tickets to one of these two nights below (one winner per show) at Le Poisson Rouge, featuring many Other Music favorites. To enter, email tickets@othermusic.com, and make sure to list which show you're hoping to attend.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 (11:00 P.M.)
Singularity: Actress, Hype Williams, Next Life
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 (6:00 P.M.)
True Horizons: pole, Sun Araw Band, Inner Tuber (Mark McGuire of Emeralds & Spencer Clarke of Skaters)
Marble Downs
(Honest Jon's)
"Ain't Nothing Wrong with a Little Longing"
"I Can Tell You're Leaving"
Perhaps my favorite track on this new full-length collaboration between the amazing Scottish Brit-folk outfit Trembling Bells and Will Oldham's Bonnie 'Prince' Billie persona is their guitar-heavy, speaker-rattling version of "Riding," originally from Oldham's 1993 Palace Brothers' debut; maybe I'm just nostalgic for the old days, when, lo those many years ago, Oldham's uncomfortable southern gothic country-folk-rock sounded so groundbreaking, so fresh and so positively unsettling. Oldham has continued to surprise me in the two decades that have followed, and he has released a massive pile of great songs, and worked with many great collaborators, but this pairing is surely an inspired one, and "Riding" exemplifies why. The original track, with lyrics that read like twisted traditional back-woods folk more than the indie-rock it really was, is a perfect fit for Trembling Bells, whose own music draws on ancient British and Scottish folk traditions, with a similarly raw, raucous approach, and Lavinia Blackwall's powerful, primal singing is a great match for Oldham's here. But the magic is in how the band reinvents the tune, a folk-rock group covering a country-folk song as a metallic barn burner, exemplifying why these two artists are such a great fit, and why this album, at its best moments, soars; these are traditionalists who don't give a lick about tradition, they just want to make powerful, real, emotional music. Billy and Blackwall both sing their hearts out, and their voices play off each other with power and grace, and the band, led by the wonderfully loose drummer Alex Neilson, eggs them ever higher and higher, with guitars, piano, organs and brass swirling all around. Fans of either artist should give this a listen for sure, and I'm betting you will be inspired. [JM]
Nightlong
(Powershovel)
We've carried this album for a while now, but I never quite understood how it managed to slip through the cracks without a review in the Update. Every time I play it on the store's stereo we sell copies, and I've been featuring it on my personal "staff picks" shelf in the shop for the past few weeks trying to give the record a bit of attention. Its place on that shelf is almost always empty, and as such, I felt it's time to give it a bit of a wider nod. I casually knew of Maayan Nidam via her records as Miss Fitz, but her solo debut, released at the tail end of 2009 under her own name, really blew me away. On Nightlong, she takes recordings made in Cuba of local Havana nightlife -- Latin jazz groups, bolero vocalists, and some excellent instrumentalists -- cuts them up, and reshapes them for Berlin dance floors. Her rich, warm loops blend with sharp, subtle machinery and ample amounts of negative space, making for a sound akin to OM fave Nicolas Jaar's breakout Space Is Only Noise. Imagine Jaar in a dark, sweaty Cuban nightclub after a few stiff drinks, and you'll get the idea of the magic conjured here -- only this woman did it first, and in my opinion, she does it better. She flawlessly blends field recordings, live instrumentation, and software into a humid landscape that is given ample breathing room; her tracks are subtle and spacious, but they really kick. If you flipped for Jaar's work, but perhaps wanted a bit more kineticism (I include myself in this group), check this out post-haste. I can honestly say without exaggeration that Nightlong is one of my favorite electronic albums of the past few years -- its subtleties sneak up on you, but once you catch its groove, there's no letting go. Nidam is a talent to watch; she's released a few 12"s for Perlon and Wolf + Lamb (another Jaar connection if you need one) recently, which are also highly recommended, but start here, and thank me later. What else can I say about this gem? It's fantastic, you'd be wise to buy it, and next time you're in the shop, let me know how much you dig it. I'm psyched to be spreading the love. [IQ]
$21.99 CD+BK
$31.99 LPx2+BK
(Now-Again)
"You Can Be a Star" Luther Davis
"Love Is" Leon Mitchison
"I have a theory. The greatest minds of a generation are normally drawn to the most advanced media of its time; it allows for the greatest amount of expression because, through the technology available, you can reach more people than any other media. For my generation, music was that medium."
-- John Roode, Keyboardist UPC All Stars (2002)
Noted archivist of all things funky and obscure, Eothen "Egon" Alopatt helms another compilation of little-heard funk masterpieces. This time around, Alapatt & Co. collect some great cuts previously reissued on Peanut Butter Wolf and Egon's underappreciated vinyl-only imprint, Soul-Cal. The label specialized in reissuing private-pressed funk that reflected the burgeoning sounds and influences that young musicians were soaking in during the '70s, and the tracks featured on this disc are what I would probably define as proto-disco in nature; each band represented was entrenched in the current musical landscape, and looking to the musical possibilities on the horizon.
By 1968, one could say that the hard funk of James Brown and the psychedelic guitar of Hendrix effectively wiped the slate clean so to speak, and paved the way for the first wave of "fusion" bands like Chambers Brothers, Sly & the Family Stone, War, and Blood, Sweat & Tears, radically altering the textures of soul, funk and what one would consider "black" music. By 1971, a weird, all-white jazz-funk-rock band led by four lead trumpeters (Chase) and a murky, four-sided collection of tape-edited improv (Miles' Bitches Brew) were sitting atop the R&B album charts alongside Kool & the Gang, EWF, the Temptations and the Jackson 5. By 1976, you can hear the streamlined version of this influence in the platinum grooves of Chic and in the mellow yacht rock of the Doobie Bros and Steely Dan. This spirit of soulful mixing and matching, coupled with extreme musical virtuosity, carried on for a good six years, until the boys in the Bronx took that mix-n-match concept a step further with two turntables, and you know the rest.
This collection of music is a mirror of that period of topsy-turvy progress, an undeniably rich era, and this set celebrates the unsung private press heroes who never got their due. The highlights are plenty, but tunes like the righteous "Wake Up" by Cincinnati's Essence (featuring a young LA Reid and Babyface), the nasty Boston-based breakbeat jazz-funk of Stan Davis' Ghetto Mysticism, and the uplifting brass-fueled scorcher of "Don't Get Discouraged" by Omaha's UPC All Stars is all of "WTF is this?" quality. As a bonus, Egon has compiled a book featuring interviews, photos and session annotations, allowing the players, producers and label owners to tell their own extraordinary stories. Incredible stuff!! [DH]
$14.99 LP+MP3+45
(ATO)
"I Ain't the Same"
"Rise to the Sun"
It's easy to fall for the Alabama Shakes, based on both their soulful, melancholy Muscle Shoals-influenced blues-rock sound and their inspiring back story. A quartet of low-key high school buddies, led by the goofily endearing Brittany Howard (who looks like a librarian and sings like Janis Joplin), with an anti-fashion sound (and look for that matter) and a remote Alabama hometown, the Shakes were plucked from obscurity based solely on the power of their music -- now when does that happen these days? The young group has gone from playing covers in local dive bars to headlining theaters in the course of a few months, and when they rolled through SXSW a couple of weeks back, it was as conquering heroes rather than aspiring buzz band, and this was several weeks before their debut album even dropped. On the other hand, it would be easy to hate them for the same reasons; I mean, really, could the kids be that good?
The answer to that question is probably a bit more nuanced than the hype or the backlash ever could be, and in the end, Alabama Shakes' debut full-length is a good record, but not a great one, by a good band who it's easy to root for being great, and who just might be -- some day. Recorded before all the hype and hoopla, Boys & Girls is a slow-paced groover of an album that leaves one lasting impression -- boy, that girl can sing. Howard has a natural, easygoing but rough-edged delivery, a slight 'Bama drawl and a lonely set of songs that let her whisper and belt out her heartache. The band's sound is classic all the way, with twin guitars, some nice honky-tonk piano, and a solid rhythm section, and they are all quite good, but perhaps the best thing I can say about the musicians is that they leave plenty of room for Howard to take center stage. Most of the fire here comes from Howard, not her band -- but with a singer this good, with this much presence and soul, that is enough to make things burn plenty hot. Alabama Shakes are a band who have caused a sensation by the very fact that they seem to be an opposing force to all of the flavor-of-the-minute madness that drives so much music consumption these days, and in the spirit of that noble force, I'd like to avoid picking apart their every impulse. They will spend the next year on the road, and when they make their next record they will be a very different group, and it will likely be made in a very different way, with a great producer and a well-earned confidence in their own prowess. Hopefully along the way they will not lose what makes them so special now, because that is very real, as is Boys & Girls -- real, passionate, and well worth a listen. [JM]
A Wasteland Companion
"Primitive Girl"
"The First Time I Ran Away"
M. Ward's decade-(or-so)-long ascent has been a slow and steady one, the singer/songwriter often hiding behind dark shades and a baseball cap, seemingly as introverted as the intimacy of his early recordings suggested. Perhaps it was this unpretentious mystery that made him the perfect foil for the dulcet-voiced indie starlet Zooey Deschanel in the Grammy nominated duo She & Him, and things haven't quite been the same for Mr. Ward ever since. Juggling a busy few years on the road with S&H, not to mention Monsters of Folk (a super group of sorts that he co-founded with Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Jim James from My Morning Jacket), Ward had to fit in the writing and recording of his seventh solo album during any free moment of downtime -- A Wasteland Companion coming together in eight different studios around the US and Bristol, UK, with a large rotating cast of 18 musicians that includes longtime friend and early supporter Howe Gelb of Giant Sand (piano), Bright Eyes' Mike Mogis (organ), John Parrish (percussion), Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley (percussion), Dr. Dog's Tobey Leaman (bass), Devotchka's Tom Hagerman (strings), Oakley Hall's Rachel Cox (vocals) and, of course, Deschanel.
From the close-miked recording of the Alex Chilton-dedicated opener "Clean Slate" and the hushed folk of "There's a Key," both of which could have found an easy home Ward's 2000 debut, Duet for Guitars #2, to the big rollicking sound of the piano-driven "Primitive Girl," A Wasteland Companion sees Ward traveling across a dusty road of Americana. Once again filtering country, '50s/'60s pop, Tin Pan Alley, gospel and blues through his singular faded-photograph vision, the record is surprisingly diverse in sound and scope. Ward's songwriting and lyrics hold it all together, though, always balancing light and darkness, often within one tune, a la "Me and My Shadow," a surreal, haunting romp that's buoyed by Deschanel's bright harmonies; she also handles the bubblegum refrains of the rocking "Sweetheart," the newest addition to Ward's canon of Daniel Johnston covers, which is followed by a fun rockabilly take on the standard, "I Get Ideas" -- also famously covered by Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, and Desi Arnaz Jr. The most striking moments of A Wasteland Companion, however, are its quietist; "The First Time I Ran Away" is hair-raising in its heartfelt beauty, as Ward's scruffy, soulful croon floats in a warm sea of gentle strums, slide guitar and oohs and ahhs, and like a lover's dream, is as fragile as it is vivid. [GH]
FREE SONG DOWNLOAD of M. Ward's "Primitive Girl" available for a limited time off of Other Music Digital!
Sees the Light
(Hardly Art)
"I'm Alone"
"Break My Heart"
Somewhere between recording her debut solo album and creating the follow up, Sees the Light, one gets the impression that Vivian Girls' bassist Katy Goodman went through a pretty significant break-up. The track titles of La Sera's new one hint at this concept, with names such as "Love That's Gone," "Break My Heart," and "I'm Alone," but it sounds like she's keeping her cool, and instead breezing through her emotions with a personal diary of a record; there are no ugly feelings aired here. But Goodman is not shy about sharing her story with the world (and in fact it sounds like perhaps she did the dumping), and neither is she shy about her vocal abilities, recording them with an upfront crispness, rather than smothering her singing with reverb (Vivian Girls style) as she did on the first La Sera LP. The opener "Love That's Gone" gently breaks the news to the unfortunate boy whose heart she's shattering over mellow West Coast beach-pop guitar strums, leading into the catchy fuzz-pop single track "Please Be My Third Eye," more of a love song than a lost-love song. Throughout, this record hardly is a downer, with Katy's honeyed vocals carrying it along, especially on tracks like the sugary sweet Calypso jam "Real Boy" which is a beach holiday all in itself. The music is simple and straightforward, ranging between distortion and jangle throughout the record, and eventually wrapping up with the acoustic heartbreak of "Don't Stay," insisting that the romance really is done, but taking equal part in the blame. Sometimes the best inspiration comes from a sad place, and this record finds like Katy Goodman's La Sera moniker is really coming into its own. [ACo]
I Feel So Far Away: Anthology 1974-1988
(Sundazed)
"Bo Diddley"
"Andy"
"I'm Waiting for the Man"
Here's a long overdue treat from Sundazed: a career-spanning compilation of the songs of Moe Tucker, the mighty and minimal drummer for the Velvet Underground. On the first three VU records, Tucker developed a gut-instinct playing style that complemented Lou Reed's avant-bonehead rock and roll. You can hear her influence in the hordes of bands that followed the Velvets' "less-is-more" approach: the Jesus and Mary Chain, the White Stripes, the Modern Lovers, Shop Assistants...the list could literally go on for pages. Outside of her percussive abilities, she is mostly remembered for her charming, disarmingly sweet vocal performance on the VU song "After Hours" (from the third self-titled album).
Post-Velvets, Tucker translated her primal drum impulses to her guitar playing and songwriting. The material collected across these two discs covers 25 years: there are spiky, bristling punkers, inspired by her tour of Europe with Half-Japanese ("Fired Up" and "That's B.A.D."); there's the searing, angry autobiography of her time working at a Wal-Mart distribution center ("Spam Again" and "Hey Mersh!"); there are stomping, unhinged covers of classics ("Bo Diddley," "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," a brilliant version of Chuck Berry's "Around and Around"); and cover versions of Lou Reed tunes that feel fresh and vital with Tucker's high, clear yelp on vocal detail (an amazing version of "Pale Blue Eyes," a scorching "Heroin"). Plenty of famous friends flesh out Tucker's punchy guitar work, like Reed himself, Sterling Morrison, Jonathan Richman, most of Sonic Youth, a good deal of Half Japanese, and Daniel Johnston -- the presence of whom should give the listener an idea of how Tucker's quirky personality and musicianship has trickled down since the late 1960s. This is a great portrait of an American rock and roll icon! [MS]
Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974
"Con Tim Va Nuoc Mat" Bich Loan and CBC Band
"Toc Mai Soi Van Soi Dai" Thanh Mai
I was just about fed up with Sublime Frequencies' Vietnamese and Thai excursions, primarily because of the high kitsch factor (blame my damaged Western ears), but then along came 2010's Saigon Rock & Soul LP to knock me on my ass. The vinyl edition may be long gone but it's finally back in print in CD format! The first track is an incredible garage-fuzz blaster by the CBC Band (who fled the war and relocated to Houston, where apparently they still perform and run their own nightclub!) which seriously wouldn't sound out of place on a volume of Back from the Grave and it doesn't let up from then on: killer garage with rock lots of overdriven fuzz and crazy out of place guitar solos, rough-edged tight JB's-style grooves, and off-kilter pop with high-pitched echoey vocals. Imagine Santana, Blue Cheer, Hendrix, and King Records funk run through some sort of unique Vietnamese filter, and there's not a novelty track in sight. Outside of the Group Doueh and Group Inerane, this is the best Sublime Frequencies release to date. [AK]
Transistor Rhythm
(50 Weapons)
"Rudeboy"
"Skylight"
Tony Williams established himself in the bass music scene creating headstrong dubstep under his Headhunter guise, but it's his latest alter ego that'll probably leave the biggest impact. As Addison Groove, Williams has been one of the key UK producers to fully embrace Chicago footwork's stylistic blueprint, and over the last two years he's been tightening and refining his bass-heavy house hybrid. Needless to say, the expectations have been high for this full-length and the release of Transistor Rhythm on Modeselektor's 50 Weapons label does find Williams using footwork's loopy and stuttering approach to a groove as a starting point, but slowing down the tempo a bit while still maintaining the sense of frenzied energy that's associated with the genre. With the onslaught of music coming from the UK that's embraced and absorbed the footwork phenomena, Addison Groove's tracks differ by being aimed squarely at the dance floor as opposed to a more academic and intellectual deconstruction. By also utilizing his knowledge of bass music -- incorporating elements of hip-hop, electro, and ghetto-house into his sonic mixture -- Williams proves to be more focused on making your legs and ass move more than making you think. That said, Transistor Rhythm possesses complex arrangements of beats and sounds.
A mostly instrumental record, it's party music filled with tasty programming (his sound of choice seems to be classic Roland drum machines) and even a guest appearance from fellow bass-head Mark Pritchard (Africa Hitech, Jedi Knights), who lends some production skills to "Dance of the Women," which feels like an outtake from the Shangaan Shake remix album. Williams dips, swings, and bounces his way across 50 minutes of Transistor Rhythm, utilizing a fresh and exciting fusion of many contemporary styles, and by the album's end has established a feel and sound of his own. While it's not a flawless record (the chopped and endlessly looped, raunchy vocals from Spank Rock during the second and third tracks feel to me a bit unnecessary), it's still one of the best footwork endorsements the UK has exported that's not on Planet Mu -- and it's about time. If you liked Machinedrum's Room(s), Africa Hi-Tech's 93 Millions Miles, always kinda liked Diplo, or are just looking for that secret weapon for your next dance party, then Transistor Rhythm is for you. [DG]
Kneel Before Religious Icons
There's been a sharp rise in interest lately toward the darker and noisier ends of the techno/beat spectrum -- artists like Demdike Stare and Andy Stott and labels like Sandwell District and Blackest Ever Black have been heavily tossed around with good reason, and we've seen a fair number of folks previously known for their involvement in experimental noise music turning toward techno, dance, and the power of drums for inspiration. After excellent recent long players by Pete Swanson and Cut Hands, among others, you can add Dominick Fernow's recent project Vatican Shadow to that list. On Kneel Before Religious Icons, Fernow, also of Prurient and Cold Cave, immerses himself in stark, rhythmic ritual music that nods to everything from the urban gamelan of 23 Skidoo to the cold-wave science of John Carpenter and John Bender and the industrial electronic body music of early Ministry and DAF. There's a heavy militaristic lean with the project's imagery and titling echoing Orwell and the cyberpunk of Neuromancer and even The Terminator, and if you've been digging the recent Black Rain reissue, you'll want to check this out ASAP, as it continues the bloodline with deft skill. The beats are relentless, caked under dirty synth texture and tape fog, creating camouflaged layers of latticework that pulsate and throb, resulting in pure aural hypnosis. It's definitely not for everyone, and it's less haunted (though equally haunting) and more kinetically direct than the Modern Love camp, but those who have tapped into that wavelength will find much to love here. Three cheers to Type for giving this cassette release the vinyl pressing it deserved, and be on the lookout for a forthcoming 12" on Blackest Ever Black that features none other than Regis stepping up for some remix detail. This is some serious shit... strap yourself in and enjoy the ride. [IQ]
Egyptian Wrinkle
(Hell Yes)
"Bad Dreams"
"Egyptian Wrinkle"
After splitting from the Austin-based band Sleep Over in 2010, lifelong friends Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown formed Boy Friend, and now they've hit us with an ethereal 10-song suite of lovelorn heartbreak. The stark, cavernous drum machines and ghostly female vocals will call to mind the above-the-clouds sounds of the Cocteaus, Durutti Column, et al., but the lyrical bent is all adolescent teen heartbreak. With a numb, faux-detached vocal delivery shrouded by keyboard atmospherics, there's a nice authenticity and a melodramatic bent of the album. This band's output has been linked to the sugary electronic pop frost of Neon Indian, Washed Out and the like, but the bitter overrides the sweet on Egyptian Wrinkle, and it's all the better for it. [DH]
$22.99 LPx2+Mp3
Maps for Sleep
(Captured Tracks)
"Evergreen"
"Brief As Photographs"
Captured Tracks' Shoegaze Archives have unearthed some wonderful lost gems from around the world, and their fifth installment in the series is no exception. Half String hailed from the hot deserts of Arizona; this group of friends connected over their love for obscure post-punk and British shoegaze records -- a passion likely not shared by many contemporaries in their hometown of Tempe back in the early-'90s when the group formed. Thus it became clear that the pals should collaborate through a band of their own, and during their six-year run they released a few EPs and played a major influence on the local music scene, as well as hosting shoegaze festivals with fellow 'desert jangle' bands. The double LP includes a collection of their EPs as well as a few live tracks of gigs, home recordings, and demos. The three opening songs "Eclipse," "Maps for Sleep," and "Arc-Fold" come from the first 7" before the band decided to take on a second guitarist ("Oval" is a great example of resulting sound expansion into multi-layered sophisticated pop). The live tracks give an insight of how astounding it must've been to see Half String play at a gritty basement venue or a bedroom practice -- they truly succeeded at taking various musical inspirations and creating their own sound that became unique to a particular place and time. This is essential listening for any Slowdive or Ride fan. The limited edition 2XLP comes in gorgeous hand assembled packaging, clear vinyl too! [ACo]
DES JEUNES GENS MODERNES
Des Jeunes Gens Modernes: Post-punk, Cold Wave and Culture Novo en France 1978-1983
(Bad Born Records)
Attention minimal synth-wave surfers: you want this! Born Bad Records reissues the seminal compilation Des Jeunes Gens Modernes (The Young Modern Men) on vinyl, which offers up twelve tracks by seminal bands in the French post-punk scene. This collection was originally released in 2008 as a collaboration with Agnes B to coincide with an exhibition of the same name, and at the time, it was one of the only documents of a sound and scene that was remembered only by a handful individuals across the globe, before "minimal wave" became a buzzword used to move reissues of new wave cut-out bin obscurities. If you've read this far, you've probably at least heard of this collection, and while it may not offer up deep, obscure cuts along the lines of some of the recent slew of minimal synth reissues, these songs are hugely relevant, and most importantly, they still kick serious ass. There's a heavy synth contingent, but the focus here is more on the blending of art-damaged fragmentation and futurist experimentation with a sharp pop ear, and in that regard, this collection succeeds wildly. Jagged, spindly guitars ripped from surf records glide atop pulsating machine rhythms, as beds of synthesizers both warm and cold blanket vocals that often sound like the final dispatches from overzealous youths who will stop at nothing to get their message out.
There's a heavy contingent of female-fronted acts, and honestly, they're the toughest cookies here; many of the male-fronted tracks are the ones that show the biggest influence of bubblegum pop on their sleeves, and that gender role reversal makes a distinct impact. Quite a few of these artists have seen reissues that are also now unavailable, like Lizzy Mercier Descloux (one of my all-time favorite performers), Kas Product, Ruth, Metal Boys, and Charles De Goal; others, like Mathematiques Modernes, Ice, and Henriette Coulouvrat, have been compiled here and there but have yet to see reissues of their own. This is pretty much essential listening to any fan of the cold wave/minimal synth scene, and it's an illuminating document of the extremely fertile post-punk landscape that was emerging from French-speaking Europe at the turn of the eighties. As if that weren't enough, there is also a 2CD edition of the collection that expands the tracklist to a whopping forty songs, with a much wider representation of nearly every permutation of the sound -- nearly every key French-wave band you'd want included has a track on the double-disc edition. What else can I say, people? You know what comes next: Highest Recommendation! [IQ]
Johnny D Presents: Disco Jamms
(BBE)
"Ride on the Rhythm" Mahogany
"Spank" Jimmy 'Bo' Horne
House music staple Henry Street Music's label head Johnny "D" DeMairo brings us the first installment of Disco Jamms. This mix CD seamlessly brings together tracks from a few different styles of late-'70s and early-'80s dance music, several being notable for their proto house vibes, some even having an influence on hip-hop. But the real unifying theme amongst these songs is that they have destroyed many a New York dance floor, and in the right hands, still do to this day. Take the disco anthem "Spank" by Jimmy "Bo" Horne, for instance; the original still works, but the wonderfully wonky and hard to find instrumental version that appears on this comp is simply amazing. You can hear the beginnings of house music in that relentless hi-hat. Songs like "Spank" are balanced out with straight boogie like Mahogany's "Ride on the Rhythm," featuring the beautiful vocal of Bernice Watkins and just enough slap bass to not get me upset. The essence of this mix and a lot of great house music is perfectly exemplified in the last two tracks: Klein & M.B.O.'s Italo monster "Dirty Talk" into the uplifting "We're on the Right Track" by Ultra High Frequency. The combination of the former's 4/4 drum machines and synth syncopation with the conviction and honesty of "We're on the Right Track" has been the blueprint of some of the best house music ever made, and represents more than a transition in this context. Johnny D understands that what makes a good DJ is the delicate balance of songs, styles and moods, and he puts it on proper display here with not just another disco compilation, but something obviously very special to him. You can tell when you hear it. [MCa]
English Black Boys
(LTM)
"See Them A'Come"
"Take It from Me"
Not many people know this, but there was actually a reggae release issued by Factory Records during their early years. X-O-Dus were a Manchester band who specialized in a highly political style of reggae that steered clear of religious Rastafarian dogmas; their songs dealt with the hardships of living in British Babylon, melding cutting, realist lyrics with a sharp, hard-edged refinement of spliffed-out loping menace. The group recorded their sole 12" with master producer Dennis "Blackbeard" Bovell, known for his work with the Slits, the Pop Group, and his own excellent reggae band Matumbi. English Black Boys was laid to tape in one day, but in typical Factory fashion, it took ten months to mix, and another four months for art direction. The record's stark, post-punk Peter Saville sleeve made it look more like a Joy Division or A Certain Ration release than a soulful roots reggae dispatch, but that 12", featuring only two songs yet clocking in at nearly twenty minutes, is an unheralded classic of the era.
Thank the fine folks at LTM once again for restoring its glory to the masses, bringing together the EP's two tracks with another seven tracks found from 1980 studio sessions that were meant to form the band's debut LP on Factory, which sadly have never been released until now! These tracks are simply wicked, seeing X-O-Dus evolve their heavy sound with a bit of jazzy guitar licks and even a little lovers rock soul thrown into the mix. The CD concludes with some 1992 white label bangers recorded by the band's drummer Leddy as Subsonique + Rico, which shows how they were able to hold their own with Manchester's underground club culture, and would have been able to fit the Factory ethos even then, with a bit of rave-inspired ragga soul. This whole package is, quite simply, one of the best reissues I've heard all year -- that 12" is one of my favorite Factory releases, with Bovell's dark dub mixology giving these tunes an added bite, showing that X-O-Dus could have easily ranked right up there amongst the heavy hitters of UK reggae like Matumbi and Steel Pulse. The unreleased album tracks, though, have been kicking my ass; they're so soulful, lightly psychedelic, and massively catchy. This CD will hopefully help to relegate X-O-Dus out of footnote status; for now, it's holding a firm place near the top of my list of best reissues of the year in any genre. Reggae heads, Factory completists, and anyone who wants some good, solid, soulful tunes to jam this summer need this in their collection. This is the definition of a highest recommendation, but please -- Mr. James Nice, LTM mastermind, I beg you, now that you're pressing wax... issue this collection on vinyl!! [IQ]
THE RELATIVES
(No Label)
We are very excited to have a precious few copies of the self-titled debut LP from New York's the Relatives. The neo-folk outfit recorded the album in 2010; since then, the principal songwriters and composers Ian Davis and Gabriel Gall have helped launch Mason Jar Music, a creative production team that places artists in intimate, unorthodox settings and captures the performance (they were responsible for the concert with Feist last October that took place in the crypt of the Church of the Intercession on 155th Street).
Intimate and unorthodox describe this record perfectly. The core of the record is comprised of joyfully forlorn folk songs, which delicately blend the three main voices -- Davis, Gall, and singer Katie Vogel -- into gorgeous close harmony. Skipping around the edges of that trio are a myriad of dazzlingly arranged instruments, such as bassoons, banjos, French horns, saxophones, clarinets, violins, violas and cellos. The result is carefully constructed cacophony, a tribute to Americana music of all varieties. The Relatives salute Tin Pan Alley ("Soldier's Desert"), swampy bayou jazz ("New Orleans"), and gospel music ("Shepherd and the Sheep" and the fragile, powerful "Busted Lip"). The arrangements are wistful and cinematic, sometimes nodding toward Morricone (as on "Soldier's Desert) or Rota ("Holiday Song"). The Relatives will tickle the ears of anybody who fell for Grizzly Bear's vocal interplay, Beirut's uplifting energy, or Neutral Milk Hotel's soulful hollering. [MS]
$5.99 CS
THE EVERYMEN
Seconds As an English Language: Live from Asbury Park
(Baldy Longhair)
The mystery behind these enigmatic, beer-loving Jersey punks has slowly unraveled with every missive (they're at least listing their real names on the J-card here) -- now if they could only play on a night that I could catch them. Yeah, I'm old and so are their influences, which only makes the fact that I've been wearing out this cassette in my tape player all the more appropriate. A pretty raw, live recording -- I don't even think this is a board mix -- of an Everymen show at some dive in Asbury Park just days after Hurricane Irene pounded the Jersey Shore, Seconds As an English Language finds the band delivering a no-frills, 13-song set of rock-n-roll that owes a nice debt to the best era of the Replacements, Husker-Du, and, of course, the Boss, right down to the saxophone solos. The group tears through originals like "Zeppole Ben" complete with a wailing sax and new female singer taking the choruses, and a drunken punked-up version of their "Ballad of Sarin" (here called "Ballad of Barnaby Barstool"), as well as throwing in a woozy cover of Bobby Vinton's "I Love How You Love Me" and Reigning Sound's "As Long," turning Cartwright and Co.'s twangy jangle into a garage-glam rave-up. Seriously guys, can we get a full-length together? If you book yourselves some studio time, I'll be happy to trek it out to Jersey with a case of Bud. [GH]
Mr. Joe's Jambalaya & Loaded Down with the Blues
(Charly / Snapper)
This is the second installment of the Charly label's recent updating of seminal reissues from their early years. Charly Records founder Jean-Luc Young hit pay dirt once again with this pair of reissues he originally put together in '87 and '88; both of these releases focused on the rich catalogue of Joe Banashak's New Orleans-based R&B stable of labels which consisted of Minit, Instant, Alon and 7-B. Banashak was an East Coast-bred record promotions man who settled in the south in the early-'60s hoping to tap into the rich regional Southern soul sound emanating of New Orleans. The legendary Allen Toussaint served as his in-house producer, and he was responsible for bringing legends such as Irma Thomas, Aaron Neville, Ernie K-Doe and Eddie Bo to Banashak's offices. The Toussaint string of hits started here and this collection contains some of his most brilliant songwriting and piano work ever. Included are some of Toussaint's handpicked faves of this era, like the lovely "Ruler of My Heart" by Irma Thomas, the funky backbreaker "Lover and a Friend" by Eddie Bo and Inez Cheatham, and the Toussaint-led band the Stokes' "Whipped Cream," an instrumental groove that was a huge hit for Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass a few years later. It's another historic collection that served as an introduction for many people to the early genius of Toussaint and his band of cohorts. For those who were blown away by the Southern Soul Shake set from a few weeks back, this double-CD is an excellent addition if you're still craving that vintage Crescent City sound. Great to see this back in print! [DH]
[MCa] Matt Cash
[ACo] Anastasia Cohen
[DH] Duane Harriott
[IQ] Mikey IQ Jones
[JM] Josh Madell
[MS] Michael Stasiak


On the 9th of February, Lol Morgan (86) lfrom Broom Lane and Roy Silman (83) from the Cedars both were given a special VIP tour of Rotherham United's New York Stadium.
Lol made 291 appearances for the Millers from 1954-64 including Rotherham's first ever League cup final.
Roy played for the club from 1952-60 and made over 100 appearances.
Both former football stars had a great day at the club and we thank Rotherham United for giving them a warm welcome and VIP tour.


text:
Differences in presentation and clinical outcomes between left or right bundle branch block and ST segment elevation in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Journal Paper/Review - Feb 7, 2020
Meyer Matthias R, Radovanovic Dragana, Pedrazzini Giovanni, Rickli Hans, Roffi Marco, Rosemann Thomas, Eberli Franz R, Kurz David J
Meyer M, Radovanovic D, Pedrazzini G, Rickli H, Roffi M, Rosemann T, Eberli F, Kurz D. Differences in presentation and clinical outcomes between left or right bundle branch block and ST segment elevation in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care 2020:2048872620905101.
Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care 2020
In patients with acute myocardial infarction, the presence of a left bundle branch block or right bundle branch block may be associated with worse prognosis compared to isolated ST segment elevation. However, specificities in clinical presentation and outcomes of acute myocardial infarction patients with left bundle branch block or right bundle branch block are poorly characterized.
We analysed acute myocardial infarction patients with left bundle branch block (=880), right bundle branch block (=732) or ST segment elevation without bundle branch block (=15,852) included in the Acute Myocardial Infarction in Switzerland-Plus registry between 2008-2019.
Acute myocardial infarction patients with bundle branch block were older and had more pre-existing cardiovascular conditions compared to ST segment elevation. Pulmonary oedema and cardiogenic shock were most frequent in patients with left bundle branch block (18.8% vs 12.0% for right bundle branch block and 7.9% for ST segment elevation, <0.001). Acute myocardial infarction patients with bundle branch block had more three-vessel (40.6% vs 25.3%, <0.001 vs ST segment elevation) and left main disease (5.6% vs 2.0%, <0.001 vs ST segment elevation). Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events, a composite of reinfarction, stroke/transient ischaemic attack, and death during hospitalization, were highest in acute myocardial infarction patients with left bundle branch block (13.9% vs 9.9% for right bundle branch block and 6.7% for ST segment elevation, <0.05), which was driven by hospital mortality. After multivariate adjustment, however, mortality was similar in patients with left bundle branch block and lower in patients with right bundle branch block, respectively, when compared to ST segment elevation. Mortality was only increased when a right bundle branch block with concomitant STE was present (odds ratio 1.77, 95% confidence interval 1.19-2.64, <0.01 vs ST segment elevation).
Compared to ST segment elevation, an isolated bundle branch block reflects high-risk clinical characteristics but does not independently determine increased hospital mortality in acute myocardial infarction.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Tara Reid Calls The Show!
Tara Reid calls the show to talk about the final Sharknado! Is it really the final movie? And what celebs should we expect to see in it?
"The Last Sharknado: It's About Time" airs this Sunday! Listen to the interview and watch the trailer below.


text:
Watch Meridian: Kiss of the Beast
"Seduced by something else than human... In love with something more."
The film entitled Meridian: Kiss of the Beast is centered on the life and challenges of a lady known as Catherine Bomarzini. Catherine is a young lady who is still in grief over the death of her father. After her father's death she then decides to go back home and join the rest of her family in Italy. When she arrives in Italy she is very happy to be home once more and decides to invite her closest friend called Gina to come and spend the weekend with her at her family citadel.
When Gina comes over he and Catherine go out to make some discoveries. They find a carnival just outside the citadel. Out of curiosity the two friends go over to the carnival to delight themselves with all the displays and performances. Gina enjoys the shows so much so that he asks the lead magician to come over to the family citadel and all his crew at night for diner.
Catherine on the other hand gets drugged and enticed by someone and as time goes on she gets mysteriously attracted to the head magician. Catherine becomes confused about her feelings for the magician and wonders if it is real or just imaginary. The ghost of one of Catherine's dead forefathers known as Martha who was murdered appears to her and starts giving her advice on how to go about her relationship with the magician. Martha reveals to Catherine an old time generational curse that envelopes the family citadel and tells her she alone can dissipate it.
The film was written by Charles Band and Dennis Paoli, directed by Charles Band. It was produced by the joint efforts of Charles Band and Debra Dion. The film was distributed by Full Moon.
The main characters in the film include Sherilyn Fenn featuring as Catherine, Hilary Mason featuring as Martha, Charlie Spradling featuring as Gina.
Meridian: Kiss of the Beast is an Horror, Mystery, Romance movie that was released in 1990 and has a run time of 1 hr 25 min. It has received poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 5.1.
Where do I stream Meridian: Kiss of the Beast online? Meridian: Kiss of the Beast is available to watch free on Tubi TV and stream, download, buy on demand at Amazon online. Some platforms allow you to rent Meridian: Kiss of the Beast for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device.
Horror, Mystery, Romance
| 1990 | 1 hr 25 min | 5.1/10
Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamieson, Charlie Spradling, Hilary Mason
Charles Band, Debra Dion
More Like Meridian: Kiss of the Beast
Twice-Told Tales
Last Kind Words
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Also directed by Charles Band
The Dead Want Women
Puppet Master: The Legacy
Evil Bong
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
Doll Graveyard
Hideous!
Robot Wars
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
The Gingerdead Man
Also starring Sherilyn Fenn
Presumed Dead
Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story
Two Moon Junction
Shooting Heroin
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel


text:
Opening times today: 9:30am - 5pm (Last entry at 4pm)
Melbourne SEA to SKY Ticket
Annual Pass Hub
Sensory Session
Penguin Passport
Virtual Reality Experience
Shark Dive Xtreme
Glass Bottom Boat
Meet amazing local species in Seahorse Pier
Pinjarra The Mega Croc
Seahorse and Cuttlefish
Rays and Sawfish
Rainforest Creatures
See all Animals
Penguin Playground
Coral Atoll
Ocean Invaders
Interactive Wonder Wall
Dive Into The Deep
See all Exhibits
Virtual Aquarium
SEA LIFE Live
Marine Mindfulness
Be A Keeper At Home
Descend into the mysteriously fascinating world of jellyfish, with three interactive zones pulsing with multiple species of stunning jellyfish.
Food, Drinks and Gifts
Feeding Times
Aquarium Map
Merlins Magic Wand
Plan your day to SEA LIFE Melbourne with our opening hours, directions and more.
Saving the Macquarie Perch
Feeds and Talks
Tickets & Passes Opening Hours Getting Here Contact Us Feeds and Talks Health & Safety Info
For information regarding our operations, click here.
Why are we choosing to #SwitchOff?
Here at SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium we have a vision of a world where our oceans are healthy, properly protected and full of diverse life. We want all our visitors to the aquarium to love the oceans and the creatures that live in them as much as we do. By sharing their beauty, we want to inspire you to help us protect them for generations to come.
One of the biggest threats to the ocean and the creatures that live there is climate change, the process of our planet heating up. Earth Hour, an Australian grown initiative, will bring people together for one hour to #SwitchOff lights in a symbolic call for more action on climate change.
According to National Geographic Kids; "Climate Change (or Global Warming) is the process of our planet heating up. Scientists estimate that since the industrial Revolution, human activity has caused the Earth to warm by approximately 1 degree Celsius." Most of this heat is absorbed by the planet's Oceans.
"As temperatures rise, some areas will get warmer and lots of animals (and humans!) could find they're not able to adapt to their changing climate. "Many marine creatures live in the upper section of the ocean, where the temperatures are increasing quickest and cannot adapt fast enough to deal with this.
How does it impact the ocean?
Warming seas impact many animals, including corals. A one degree Celsius change in temperature can cause them to "bleach" where they lose their symbiotic algae that provide them with energy. Warming seas also create stronger storms, hurricanes and tropical cyclones, drive higher seas levels due to melting ice and thermal expansion
Scientists agree with a high degree of certainty, that humans are altering the chemical makeup of our atmosphere by releasing excess Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHGs). These emissions include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and other gases. CO2 is a naturally occurring gas. However the excess CO2 driving climate changes are a result of burning fossil fuels (such as coal) for electricity and transport. Excess methane is released from coal seam gas extraction and 'farting' cows. Methane is longer lasting and more toxic in the atmosphere than CO2.
The Ocean absorbs carbon dioxide which causes a chemical reaction result in carbonic acid, changing the pH of the ocean and making it more acidic.
Changes in temperatures and weather patterns have caused the Polar ice caps to melt. What happens when the ice in your drink melts? The level goes up as the ice turns to liquid., Around the world many people live along the coasts, meaning sea level rise poses a significant risk to a huge proportion of the planet's human population.
The ocean's vastness has meant the temperature has been relatively stable for a very long time. But as the planet heats up, excess heat is absorbed by the ocean, slowly increasing its temperature.
5 things you can do to help
Although it seems like a huge problem, it is not doomsday and we can all do something to help:
Unplug for Oceans. Turn off your electrical appliances when you're not using them.
Ride your bike or walk.
Choose to reuse. Making a bottle takes an enormous amount of resources. By using reusable water bottles, coffee cups, bag, straws, etc. and remembering to 'Bring your own' we are reducing the amount of energy used to make single use products.
Support solar energy. Get your family, school, or local shop to invest in solar energy.
Meat Free Monday. By reducing the amount of meat you eat, even for just one meal a week, you make an enormous difference to the amount of methane emitted by cows.
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/join/
https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/topic/494588/climate-change/all
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772266241/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-climate-change
http://www.whatifworldpodcast.com/episodes
https://www.publish.csiro.au/ebook/notes/6558
https://australianmuseum.net.au/blog/amri-news/nemo-wont-find-home-in-an-acidified-ocean/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/oceans/critical-issues-sea-temperature-rise/
https://www.natgeokids.com/au/discover/geography/general-geography/what-is-climate-change/
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/ResourcePackage/LandingPage?ObjectId=8c574b82-6031-4529-b7a2-d230b29a8c83&SearchScope=Teacher
Sign up to our Newsletter here!
Standard Tickets
© Merlin Entertainments 2023


If you missed the pilot for DC's Legends of Tomorrow this week you can still catch it now. Bringing together nine characters from the CW's Arrow and The Flash, plus the new time traveler Rip Hunter, the CW has provided a venue for a very comic book concept–the weekly team-up. And other than the Arrow and The Flash themselves, this new series has pulled together probably the best of the secondary characters from those shows.
Doctor Who's other last companion Arthur Darville leads up this new team. It's as if we get to see Darville portray the Doctor himself, at least an American view of the British series. The Comic Con crowd audience is provided plenty of familiar encounters and situations that reflect classic tropes and scenes. Seattle's Space Needle aka Star City is the launch point for this new team composed of Brandon Routh's Atom, Caity Lotz's ex-Black Canary now the White Canary, the one-two punch of Victor Garber and Franz Drameh as Firestorm, Falk Hentschel as Hawkman and Ciara Renee as Hawkgirl. And bad guys Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) and Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell) play the good side with Arrow and The Flash's Vandal Savage (Casper Crump) as the series villain.
After about 20 minutes of world building, recruiting and meeting all the players, the show kicks in when the team finds itself in 1975. Captain Cold, Heat Wave, and White Canary end up in a bar where Canary goes on her own punching spree. It's a great play to see the bad guys team-up with a good guy against… anyone else.
With the above photo released Tuesday by Arrow executive producer Mark Guggenheim, DC Entertainment is finally filling in the stray gaps of the Justice League. Who would you rather watch? Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman in one two-hour flick, or most of the Justice League every week on three TV series? Both Stephen Amell and Grant Gustin have now established themselves as the real thing with their Arrow and The Flash series. We already know Henry Cavill was a bust as Superman and early looks at Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot aren't too exciting. The answer should be easy.
If you haven't been keeping track, along with Amell's Green Arrow and The Flash (Gustin's Barry Allen, Teddy Sears' Jay Garrick, and Keiynan Lonsdale's Wally West on the way), we've seen two versions of Black Canary (played by Caity Lotz and Katie Cassidy), two versions of Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy/Red Arrow/Arsenal (played by Colton Haynes and Willa Holland), The Atom (played by Brandon Routh), Firestorm (played by three actors: Robbie Amell, Victor Garber, and Franz Drameh), Huntress (Jessica de Gouw), classic Justice League staple Jean Loring (Teryl Rothery), Vibe (Carlos Valdes), and an Earth-2 version of Doctor Light (Malese Jow). Each of these were featured in at least one version of the League over the years.
And now we have a first look at Hawkman (Falk Hentschel) and Hawkgirl (Ciara Renee), coming in three weeks as part of an Arrow/The Flash crossover event and lead-in to the next DC Entertainment/CW Network series Legends of Tomorrow. Still no view of the hawk wings yet. The other guy in the mask above is CW creation John Diggle (David Ramsey).
So who is still AWOL from the League?
With a few spoilers, (said in the voice of River Song).
Well, huh. I'm not sure where to start with a review of "Let's Kill Hitler" and "Night Terrors," the two new Doctor Who episodes delivered to U.S. viewers this week. Perhaps it would be easier to start with "Terrors" and work our way backward.
"Night Terrors" is a classic one-off episode of the "monster of the week" type, featuring the fears of a little boy made terrifyingly manifest, as his creepy toys, neighbors, and worrisome apartment-complex noises nearly kill off Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill). Although we (and The Doctor) are drawn in by young George's plight and plea ("Please come save me from the monsters!"), the real pathos of this episode was provided by Daniel Mays (Ashes to Ashes), in a convincing turn as the boy's desperate and frustrated father, unable to comfort his pantophobic son (pantophobia being, as we know from A Charlie Brown Christmas, the fear of everything… not just pants). It's always fun to watch Amy and Rory tackle danger together–whether facing down interstellar child abductors or fleeing oversized dollhouse denizens come to life (or cracking elevator jokes that nod to Mays's Ashes to Ashes past)–but this story as a whole feels familiar: We've seen Matt Smith's Doctor comfort children terrified by the monsters under (or behind) their beds before, and "Night Terrors" is nothing new. And the child in this case has none of young Amelia Pond's charisma, nor even the chance to develop any, upstaged as he is by his father's role in the story. All in all, an entertaining if lightweight entry into the Smith/Moffat catalogue.
"Let's Kill Hitler," however… wow. Where to begin? Capturing much of the frenetic energy from "A Good Man Goes to War," the episode starts off breathlessly and doesn't let up, firing a dizzying barrage of revelations at the viewer. We learn, finally, Everything about River Song. After the years of teasing and the season of setup, Now We Know.
But do we care? That's another question altogether. I don't feel satisfied by this episode, the way I did after "A Good Man." There's something faintly baffling about the resolution of all the mysteries surrounding River's past, and something definitely missing from Amy and Rory's emotional arc. They've lost their child! I don't care if they hardly had time to get used to the idea of being parents–let alone River Song's parents–they've still had part of their hearts ripped out, and we should see that. Everyone in this cast is capable of the emotions the events of "Good Man" should naturally have engendered, and as a viewer, I feel cheated that we didn't get to see any of that. There were no consequences to anything we saw last spring, and that depresses me.
To be sure, as a vehicle for Kingston, it was a success–her performance is stellar and delightful, and she proves she's absolutely up for whatever Moffat throws at her. But, again, I'm left unsettled by the development of a character we've come to love. Yes, we've been prepared to see her criminal past since her second appearance ("Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone"), but this still didn't feel like the River we know. And as a viewer now invested in the drama of young Melody/River's mysterious upbringing in the Gamma Forest, seeing her instead as a childhood mate of Amy and Rory was a weird letdown. It was over too soon. All that marvelous setup and worldbuilding was so full of fantastic potential, and it all just fell flat. Even the title felt like a cheat–the blithe declaration, "Let's Kill Hitler!" becomes nothing more than a comedic red herring to a rush job to finish off the River Song storyline.
It's too bad, really. It wasn't necessary to give this sort of ammunition to the Smith/Moffat naysayers. The show has proven it can do so much more–deeper, farther-reaching storylines that play all the right emotional notes while constantly surprising and delighting the viewers. To seemingly wash their hands of such a promising storyline–one we've been primed to anticipate for three and a half years–makes me wonder if the show's creators are getting bored with their own creations. And that bodes ill for all of us.


The republic of Belarus is a small beautiful country with heroic past and difficult present. It is situated in Central Europe. The republic of Belarus borders on Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. It has an area of 207,600 square kilometers and population of more than 10 million. 77% of the population constitutes Belarussians. 64% live in cities, the largest of which is Minsk, which is the capital, Gomel, Mogilev, Brest, Grodno and Vitebsk. The original Belarussian tribes were Eastern Slavic tribes. Kryvichy, Drigovichi, Radzimichi, Lucichy and Sievieranie were related to the Baltic nations and grouped independent principalities, of which the most powerful was Polotsk, a port and a fortress on the river Dvina, which flows into the Baltic Sea. At the beginning of the 20th century Belarus was a backward province of the Russian Empire, called the North-Western Region. About 80% of its population was illiterate. The Belarussians weren't even regarded as a nation at that time. After the revolution in 1917 Belarus was proclaimed the Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic and soon became the member of the USSR. Most of Belarus is a flat country. More than a quarter of its area is covered with forests and bushes. Large forests are called "puschas". The greatestof them is Beloviezskaya Puscha, which is a state preserve. It is well known by its rare animals - aurochs. There are nearly 10000 lakes and 20000 rivers in Belarus. The largest lake is Naroch also called the Belarussian Sea. The great part of the country lies in the Dnieper basin and the rest is watered by the Western Bug, the Neman and the Western Dvina. The Belarussian rivers are slow with almost no rapids. The climate in Belarus is moderately continental. The breathing of the Baltic Sea is constantly felt here. The beauty of the Belarussian nature, the past and the present of the Belarussian people have been celebrated in songs and verses by the Yanka Kupala and Yakub Kolas - the classics of Belarussian poetry and by many present-day poets and writers, artists and composers of Belarus. Belarus has long been famous for its industries and skilful craftsmen: engravers and wavers, specialists in ceramic and craftsmen enjoy wide popularity at internal fairs and exhibitions. Unique souvenirs made by Belarussian craftsmen are known all over the world. Our Republic is rather rich in mineral resources: potash salts, coal, phosphates oil and iron. That's why Belarus has a highly-developed industry. There are thousands of enterprises in the Republic which produce tractors and automobiles, motor-cycles, TV-sets and many other goods. Our Belarussian tractors and MAZ trucks enjoy a high reputation both in our country and abroad. Agriculture specializes in milk and meat production. The main crops cultivated here are potatoes, flor, grain, herbs and vegetables. Belarus is a republic of well developed science and culture. There is an Academy of Sciences, 37 higher educational establishments, about 400 professional schools, Secondary education in compulsory here.


It is national internet safety week S.I.D. this week and it was launched with an assembly about using the internet safely, especially when talking to one another online. We discussed the age groups for sites such as What'sApp and Skype etc. and that it is the children's right to feel and keep safe. We also talked about getting consent and permission, with Mr Geiregger telling us about how easy it is to find out about poor messages and abusive texts. The children clearly knew their ways to keep safe but it is up to everyone to ensure they and us are kept safe at all times. We have included a copy of the presentation given to the children from the S.I.D. site and there are links on our website to help keep them all safe.


text:
package reverse_proxy

import (
	"github.com/farmer-project/farmer/dispatcher"
	"github.com/farmer-project/farmer/farmer"
)

func init() {
	dispatcher.On("new_release", func(payload interface{}) {
		if box, ok := payload.(*farmer.Box); ok {
			ConfigureDomains(box)
			Restart()
		}
	})
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


we have the following problem. We are using hierarchical instanced static meshes for hundreds of objects which can have different scales. Our problem is that it looks as if individual LOD was calculated from the actor itself (or component) and not from individual instance transforms, because if I scale an instance 10 times, it still behaves as if it was 1 (it doesn't take screen space into consideration).
I could in theory create multiple meshes, but in our case the whole reason to use hierarchical instanced meshes would disappear.
Is there any way this could be fixed?
I'm on 4.21 and I can confirm this issue still exists.
status unresolved( may be there is a some workaround?


text:
Lovable weirdo downgraded to just
https://depositphotos.com/28853097/stock-photo-serious-man-with-two-gifts.html
Lovable weirdo downgraded to just weirdo
1 month ago by Martha Stortz ( @ )
KITCHENER, ON – Well, it's official: Wade Thomas has been downgraded from the status of Lovable Weirdo to just plain Weirdo, sources say.
The 32-year-old Kitchener man loves lizards, potato salad, and gerontology, and has been a Laurier student for the last seven years. The self-described freegan was notified late Thursday evening when he logged on to Google Maps Street View just to browse for what was apparently one too many times.
"Some people like racy websites or e-commerce or Facebook, but I like to see what people look like in small towns when they're not expecting it," said Thomas. "But as I scrolled and screenshotted on Thursday, I got this weird email informing me of… the change."
According to official documents obtained from Strange and Peculiar (S&P) Global Ratings, one may fluctuate in Weirdness throughout their life. "Sure, you might start out as a Main Character," said grizzled ratings agent Franzowitz. "But do enough odd things about you'll drop to a Best Friend or Lovable Weirdo. You keep crackin', you could end up Full Pariah. Don't believe me? Whaddya think happened to Danny Bonaduce?"
Over the weekend, the change in Thomas' status was noticed by his family, friends, and fellow bowlers. "He usually censors himself so he's not going on and on about like, saints and martyrdom for hours," said Thomas' friend Craig. "This time, he kept going. You do NOT want to know how St Lucy died, trust me."
As for Thomas, he feels disappointed but committed to his new status. "I could try to upgrade myself or try to change into a more likeable person but weirdos seem to be ruling the world," said Thomas. "Just wait until I get my G1!"
See More: creep, Kitchener, Laurier, weird man, weirdo


text:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>org.rpwf</groupId>
	<artifactId>bytecode-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>bytecode-maven-plugin Maven Mojo</name>
	<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
	<properties>
    	<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  	</properties>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.rpwf</groupId>
			<artifactId>core</artifactId>
			<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
			<scope>compile</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.javassist</groupId>
			<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
			<version>3.18.2-GA</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
			<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.1-api</artifactId>
			<version>1.0.0.Final</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
			<artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
			<version>2.0</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>junit</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
			<version>4.11</version>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	<build>
		<finalName>RPWF</finalName>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>3.2</version>
				<configuration>
					<source>1.8</source>
					<target>1.8</target>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
			<plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <goalPrefix>bytecode</goalPrefix>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>
</project>


text:
cask "syncplay" do
  version "1.6.7"
  sha256 "616e6213b8d67cf2ed7a65b40afa27ff8e128a06f31bc687fe54634a8810fc2d"

  url "https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/releases/download/v#{version}/Syncplay_#{version}.dmg",
      verified: "github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/"
  appcast "https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/releases.atom"
  name "Syncplay"
  homepage "https://syncplay.pl/"

  depends_on macos: ">= :sierra"

  app "Syncplay.app"

  zap trash: [
    "~/.syncplay",
    "~/Library/Saved Application State/pl.syncplay.Syncplay.savedState",
    "~/Library/Preferences/com.syncplay.MoreSettings.plist",
    "~/Library/Preferences/com.syncplay.Interface.plist",
    "~/Library/Preferences/com.syncplay.MainWindow.plist",
    "~/Library/Preferences/pl.syncplay.Syncplay.plist",
    "~/Library/Preferences/com.syncplay.PlayerList.plist",
  ]
end


text:
Family Offices and Private Wealth
Adeline Chong
Gerard Ng
Kim Kit Ow
Teck Chai Yap
Tee Lin
Vincent Ooi
Kang Ren Lam
Specialist Counsel (Locum Solicitor)
vincent@legalinkllc.com
Vincent's practice focuses on tax and trusts, subjects which he teaches in his full-time role as a Lecturer at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. His publications include Singapore Trusts Law and both tax law volumes of Halsbury's Laws of Singapore. Prior to his current role, Vincent was Deputy Head of Tax at a Singapore law firm.
Vincent's tax practice spans the full range of contentious and advisory tax matters, covering Income Tax (Personal and Corporate), Goods and Services Tax, Stamp Duties, International Tax, Property Tax, and Tax Offences. His private wealth practice focuses on bespoke wealth and succession planning, utilising tools such as trusts, will trusts, family offices, insurance, and companies (including VCCs), as appropriate for the particular needs of each client.
Vincent seamlessly blends perspectives from these two practice areas in his structuring and legal advice. His experience with tax dispute resolution informs his advisory work and he is able to stand by his legal opinions, advocating for his clients before the Revenue and all levels of courts in Singapore.
Vincent's Full Professional CV
Vincent's Full Academic CV
Trinity College, University of Oxford, MA (Jurisprudence)
Downing College, University of Cambridge, PhD Candidate (Tax Law)
Advocate and Solicitor, Singapore Supreme Court
Legal Ink LLC


text:
Visit our COVID-19 resource hub
+44 (0)117 3144 661 [email protected]
Beyond Conservation Blog
Advisors & Trustees
Our Commitment to Safeguarding
Careers – Work With Us
Explore Photo Stories
Catalysing Conservation
Working Holistically
Promoting Gender Equality
Rebuilding Fisheries
Blue Forests
Sponsor an education
Blue Ventures backs a new UK Climate and Ecological Emergency bill to meet the dual crises of climate breakdown and the destruction of nature
Home / Latest News / Blue Ventures backs a new UK Climate and Ecological Emergency bill to meet the dual crises of climate breakdown and the destruction of nature
in Latest News
tagged: CEE Bill, climate, climate policy, UK
Blue Ventures has joined an alliance of businesses and organisations to throw its support behind ambitious new legislation to respond to the climate and ecological emergency. The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE Bill) has been developed by leading environmental scientists and policy experts and aims to fill the gaps in existing legislation to meet the urgency of the crisis. The UK Government was the first in the world to declare a climate emergency in 2019.
The proposed legislation asks the UK Government to take action on the country's greenhouse gas footprint, both domestically and internationally to help limit average global temperature rises to 1.5°C.
The draft legislation has been brought to Parliament as a private members' bill by Caroline Lucas, Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion for the Green Party, and has been co-sponsored by MPs from six parties.
The CEE Bill so far has the backing of 77 MPs but further support is needed from MPs to enable the bill to become law. Members of the UK public are urged to lobby their MPs to ask them to back the bill when it comes before the House of Commons in early 2021.
The UK government's own report by its Climate Change Committee (CCC) suggests that the world should prepare for a 2-4 degree temperature increase. Global heating at this scale would be catastrophic for nature and people worldwide.
Globally, the impacts of climate breakdown fall disproportionately on those vulnerable communities who have done the least to cause it. High levels of consumption within industrialised economies like the UK play a huge role in driving carbon emissions and biodiversity loss − for example through deforestation and overfishing − in the Global South. The CEE bill would ensure that the UK acts decisively to be accountable for the impacts of its use of natural resources on an interconnected planet; closing legislative loopholes that currently enable the UK to turn a blind eye to the offshoring of domestic emissions and destruction of nature.
The bill also demands that the government conserve and restore ecosystems and soils in the UK.
The bill also stipulates that a temporary, emergency Citizens' Assembly is created to help Parliament decide on how to meet the bill's objectives. Citizens' assemblies are a form of deliberative, participatory democracy and has been used successfully in Ireland, France and elsewhere. The Assembly will empower MPs to take the necessary decisions, while also empowering people to have a real say in the pathway of a fair and just transition to a zero carbon society, enriched by a thriving, natural world.
This animation explains the CEE Bill.
If you live in the UK and want to join the campaign to support the CEE Bill by lobbying your MP find out more here.
YOU ARE HERE: NEWSROOM | LATEST NEWS
In the Blue Ventures Archive
In the Blue Ventures Archive Select Month January 2021 (4) December 2020 (9) November 2020 (12) October 2020 (8) September 2020 (12) August 2020 (6) July 2020 (9) June 2020 (7) May 2020 (6) April 2020 (5) March 2020 (13) February 2020 (4) January 2020 (2) December 2019 (4) November 2019 (7) October 2019 (4) September 2019 (3) August 2019 (7) July 2019 (10) June 2019 (7) May 2019 (8) April 2019 (7) March 2019 (9) February 2019 (4) January 2019 (6) December 2018 (4) November 2018 (10) October 2018 (7) September 2018 (5) August 2018 (6) July 2018 (9) June 2018 (8) May 2018 (6) April 2018 (6) March 2018 (9) February 2018 (4) January 2018 (6) December 2017 (6) November 2017 (7) October 2017 (10) September 2017 (9) August 2017 (10) July 2017 (7) June 2017 (10) May 2017 (6) April 2017 (6) March 2017 (12) February 2017 (6) January 2017 (6) December 2016 (8) November 2016 (9) October 2016 (6) September 2016 (8) August 2016 (10) July 2016 (10) June 2016 (14) May 2016 (6) April 2016 (3) March 2016 (5) February 2016 (4) January 2016 (6) December 2015 (5) November 2015 (5) October 2015 (6) September 2015 (4) August 2015 (5) July 2015 (1) June 2015 (5) May 2015 (4) April 2015 (9) March 2015 (2) February 2015 (2) January 2015 (2) December 2014 (4) November 2014 (1) September 2014 (1) August 2014 (1) July 2014 (5) June 2014 (1) May 2014 (2) April 2014 (1) March 2014 (1) February 2014 (4) January 2014 (1) December 2013 (2) November 2013 (1) September 2013 (7) August 2013 (1) July 2013 (4) June 2013 (5) May 2013 (3) March 2013 (1) June 2012 (1) April 2012 (1) March 2012 (1) February 2012 (1) December 2011 (3) November 2011 (2) October 2011 (4) August 2011 (1) July 2011 (5) June 2011 (6) May 2011 (3) April 2011 (2) March 2011 (1) February 2011 (1) January 2011 (1) December 2010 (2) November 2010 (6) September 2010 (2) August 2010 (5) July 2010 (5) May 2010 (1) April 2010 (1) March 2010 (5) February 2010 (3) January 2010 (1) November 2009 (1) October 2009 (1) September 2009 (1) August 2009 (2) June 2009 (2) May 2009 (2) April 2009 (1) March 2009 (3) February 2009 (2) January 2009 (1) December 2008 (13) November 2008 (3) October 2008 (2) August 2008 (7) July 2008 (4) June 2008 (3) May 2008 (2) April 2008 (1) March 2008 (1) February 2008 (3) December 2007 (1) November 2007 (3) August 2007 (1) June 2007 (1) May 2007 (2) March 2007 (2) December 2006 (2) November 2006 (4) October 2006 (1) September 2006 (2) July 2006 (1) May 2006 (1) March 2006 (1) December 2005 (1) November 2005 (1) August 2005 (2) June 2005 (2) April 2005 (1) January 2005 (1) November 2004 (2)
Choose your newsletters:
Conservation News (approx every 3 months)
Our Latest Blogs (approx weekly)
Mezzanine, The Old Library, Trinity Road,
St Jude's, Bristol BS2 0NW, UK
About Blue Ventures
The Conversation: New mangrove forest mapping tool puts conservation in reach of coastal communities
Blog: Building community governance: adapting lessons learned in northwest Madagascar (part 1)
WIOMSA: Supporting conservation leaders to accelerate community-led marine conservation in the Western Indian Ocean
Beautiful News: Fishing for the future: How to empower coastal communities and save marine life
Blog: Staff perspectives: reflecting on 2020 and looking towards a new year for marine conservation
Blue Ventures Conservation is a registered charity in England & Wales number 1098893


text:
Mamm(ifer)a Mia!
"Of course I'm nursing my baby, I'm a mammal", became the standard reply of Carrie, a Rome-based American mother, to the umpteenth local who marvelled that she was nursing her 4-month old.
Ah, breastfeeding. By no means a red-hot conversation topic in Roman circles, it appears to be snubbed by Italian mothers. Also a rather controversial issue in central and southern parts of the country, where hardly any woman nurses until six months, for one or more of the following reasons:
a) not enough milk
b) far too painful for her
c) milk consistency not nourishing enough
d) child didn't gain enough weight after feeding
e) artificial milk was easier
Why oh why in a land famous for its family values, for its child-friendly waiters, and for blessing the world with expressions like 'Mamma Mia!' and 'Ciao Ciao Bambina' is something as natural as breastfeeding often judged difficult, uncomfortable or simply unnecessary?
In most Western countries, the trend toward breastfeeding for at least the first six months of a baby's life has been growing since the 70s. Nudged on by the Nestle scandals (babies dying in poor countries because mothers mixed artificial milk with contaminated water) and the acknowledgement by the medical world that nothing is comparable to the perfection of mother's milk – it's pretty widely accepted by now that a mother provides baby with the best possible start in life.
But my Sicilian paediatrician says Italian mothers are a generation behind. Many still cling to the hackneyed belief that what comes from a factory is as good as what comes from a human gland.
According to a Roman midwife I was talking to recently, young mothers in Italy are also more likely than in other countries to live at close-quarters with their mothers or mothers-in-law. That means that rather than reading child-rearing books or researching information online, they are bombarded with information from their relatives – and often the artillery is out-of-date.
I personally blame the paediatricians for not making enough of an effort to convince mothers to nurse. Alina, a Canadian mom here in Rome, says that when she told hers that she was still breastfeeding her one-year old the doctor was furious – insisting it was crucial that Alina immediately switch to cow's milk. Guess who turned on her heels and walked straight out of that office?
Mammal Mia! indeed.


text:
NIAC Statement on Protests across Iran over Gas Price Hike
GasHuman RightsIranIran Sanctions News and AnalysisProtests
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, November 16, 2019
CONTACT: Mana Mostatabi | 202.386.6325 x103 | [email protected]
WASHINGTON DC – Yesterday, protests erupted across Iran as the government announced an unexpected increase in and rationing of gasoline. Reports suggest that authorities have violently cracked down on the protests.
In response to these developments, NIAC Senior Research Analyst Sina Toossi issued the following statement:
"NIAC is closely tracking reports of protests in many Iranian cities after the government announced an increase in the price of gasoline. NIAC condemns the Iranian government's use of force used to disperse protestors, as seen in videos showing the deployment of riot police and tear gas in parts of Iran, as well as efforts to stifle communication by limiting internet access. The Iranian people have an inalienable right to peacefully demonstrate and express their economic and political grievances. The Iranian government denies them this right at its own peril.
"Ordinary Iranians have borne immense economic hardship due to government mismanagement and U.S. sanctions. Importantly, the Iranian political system is not monolithic and there are signs that more hardline elements seek to capitalize on public grievances to advance their own narrow aims. Rather than empower the Iranian people, the Trump administration's fixation on 'maximum pressure' has served to embolden such forces.
"The international community must push the Iranian government to abide by its human rights obligations, allow the Iranian people to peaceful demonstrate and air their grievances, and hold repressive forces to account for abuses. The protests are also occurring in the broader context of protests across the world and in the Middle East, as a consequence of government mismanagement and objections to price hikes on everyday commodities that hurt ordinary people. Under no circumstances should any government stifle the will of its people, and Iran arguably has a greater chasm of mistrust than most.
"NIAC also reiterates its call on the U.S. to end its policy of collectively punishing sanctions, which serve to impoverish ordinary Iranians and undermine hopes for democratic change. Starving the Iranian population only creates a destructive situation that eliminates avenues for the vital diplomacy necessary to secure a brighter future for the Iranian people."
NIAC Statement on House Resolution 752 Condemning Iran's Crackdown on Protestors
"H.Res. 752 rightly condemns the Iranian government's brutal crackdown in November that left hundreds of protesters dead following mass demonstrations triggered by an end to fuel subsidies. It is important for credible voices in Congress to condemn the Iranian government's gross violations of human rights and call on Iran to uphold its international human rights obligations."
NIAC Letter Regarding Etsy's U.S. Sanctions Compliance Policies and Discriminatory Treatment Towards Iranian Americans
etsyIran Sanctions News and Analysis
The National Iranian American Council has sent a letter to Etsy concerning its apparently discriminatory treatment of an American vendor selling "Persian dolls" on its website. These dolls appear to have been made in America with American materials by an American, and under no circumstances should have been flagged as a prohibited item. No sanctions apply to American-made items celebrating Persian cultural heritage or antiquity. Etsy's knee-jerk or automated reaction that led to the prohibition of the dolls is deeply concerning and smacks of discrimination.


The Dark Secrets Of Gandhi Family That They Don't Want You To Know!
Welcome to Humor Nation. Today we will be looking at some of the unknown things and the secret of the Gandhi Family. Gandhi Family, one of the most powerful and influential families in India today. It's the Gandhi Family that controls Indian National Congress which is the major opposition today.
So Let's Take A Look At The Dark Secrets Of Gandhi Family That They Don't Want You To Know!
Here's the truth, there is no connection, no association at all between the Nehru and the Gandhi families. There is no shared trait of genealogy, of appropriation or of political ethos. Literally nothing.
The Nehru dynasty started using the Gandhi surname after Indira Priyadarshini Nehru married Feroze Jahangir Gandhi in 1942.
Mahatma Gandhi's family on the other hand never extremely utilized his name for political pick up and have to a great extent either been thoroughly out of the spotlight or have been researchers, scholars in their own particular rights. His child Hiralal even died in a state of poverty. Gandhi never gave even a particle of advantage or political largesse to any of his relatives or descendants.
Contrary to mainstream gossipy tidbits and myths as to Feroze Gandhi!
2. Feroze Gandhi was a Parsi. He was not a Khan or a Muslim.
3. Feroze Gandhi's name was constantly articulated and pronounced as Gandhi.
4. Feroze Gandhi was conceived Feroze Jahangir Ghandy; he simply changed the English spelling of his last name to Feroze Jahangir Gandhi subsequent to joining the struggle of freedom in 1930, roused by Mahatma Gandhi.
5. The Hindi/Devanagari spelling was never showed signs of change since they sounded the same at any rate.
6. Additionally, he changed the English Spelling in 1930s well before his cooperation with Indira in 1942.
7. Give it a chance to be realized that Ghandy or Ghandi is as yet a prevalent surname among Parsis.
8. Different cases: You can locate numerous English spellings for other Indian surnames like Agarwal (Agrawal, Aggarwal, Agarwall); Chaudhary (Choudhry, Chaudhry), Chauhan (Chouhan); Sarkar (Sarkaar).
It is in this way only a coincidence that Nehru's family transformed into the Gandhi surname. A pitiless incongruity of destiny that the genuine Gandhis have been sidelined and overlooked while the phony Gandhis are utilizing Mahatma Gandhi's name and are ruining the heritage of the Mahatma.
P.S: Feroze Gandhi's spirit would cry that his name has been abused by his relatives. He never coexisted with Nehru; was his resolved adversary and even blamed Nehru for defilement in the scandalous LIC Scandal. He likewise had no part to play in the production of the political tradition of Nehru. Truth be told, even Nehru had no part (or suppose – had little part) in the formation of the tradition; he didn't give Indira Gandhi a ticket of the Lok Sabha as long as he was alive.
Indira Gandhi attended prominent Indian educational institute Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan. She also studied at Oxford, but her weak academic performance and she failed in an important subject such as Latin. This prevented her from obtaining a degree. Rajiv Gandhi studied engineering at Trinity College, but couldn't finish his degree. Then he studied Mechanical Engineer at Imperial college, again he couldn't finish his degree there.
Rahul Gandhi first joined St. Stephen's college in Delhi but then moved to Harvard University, dropped out in some months. He couldn't complete his education there and moved to Rollins College where he earned his BA. But his name was registered as Raul Vinci. And then Rahul has an M.Phil from Trinity College located in Cambridge. While his mother, Sonia Gandhi doesn't possess a degree.


See the properties and their building in real-time.
No time to search, No problem, setup property alerts and be automatically informed using push notifications when new property which matches your alert criteria is listed.
Choose from AE Dirham, US Dollar and GB Pound, then search all properties in your preferred currency.
Get property alerts via push notification, only for new properties which match your alert criteria. Set multiple alerts for Sale or Rent and turn On and Off individually.
Locations and Area lists with thumbnails for quick location selection. Location button is placed at the top on the main app menu. Easy to switch between locations for quick comparisons.
With our second release we have improved so much with your feedback, worked to present you with the best Property App for Dubai. New features and enhancements focused on making the App do more of the work so you can spend more time choosing, not chasing.
shopping window of property results. Point your iphone at a building to see what is on offer.
remember your conversations and thoughts.
Communicate instantly using the inbuilt instant messaging service which makes sure your message is delivered.
Save for Later. We understand that property searching can be a tedious, time consuming task.
Sometimes we just want to save it for later. One tap and it's done.
Where did it go? Did you see a property that you liked and now cannot find it, no problem we store up to a 100 properties in history.
Only need to set it once to either AE Dirham, US Dollar or GB Pound and its saved.....forever.
View property prices in your preferred currency anytime, every time.
If so, you can send the property details to property agents free of cost.
© 2007-2019 Sandcastles.ae. All Rights Reserved.


Whey protein (the highest quality and best form of protein) provides the body with the necessary building blocks to produce amino acids that are used for building muscle tissue. Whey protein has the highest BV (biological value) of all natural protein sources. This allows your muscles to absorb more protein and grow faster.* Whey protein also plays a role as an antioxidant and helps support a healthy immune system.* Pure Whey is packed with Whey Protein Isolates. They are the purest and most expensive form of whey protein that exists. Even more Pure Whey contains Whey Protein Hydrolysates (whey peptides). Hydrolyzing breaks larger proteins down into smaller pieces that are able to get into your body rapidly, enabling your muscles to start rebuilding quickly. Pure Whey is also loaded with Glutamine and BCAAs, which play a significant role in stimulating muscle growth while also protecting valuable muscle tissue and enhancing muscle recovery.* Pure Whey mixes instantly with a spoon or shaker and tastes great.
Pure Nutrition was found in 2011. At that time we already had experience selling other brands of nutritional supplements. Spending more than 5 years looking for the "perfect" products, In the end we have found out that there is only one way we can be sure we have the best quality products, the best tasting proteins and products that deliver uncompromised results - create our own supplement line. With so many good brands on the market, the beginning was very difficult. We started with less than 10 products, but currently our portfolio includes more than 230 different products. Since then we have committed to becoming one of the most trusted brands in the industry. Our mission is clear our customers are our number one priority and therefore, we strive to provide them with nothing else, but premium-quality products at affordable prices. Several years later, looking back - we are satisfied with how the product line looks. The joy of customer satisfaction motivates us to continue doing what we do even better.


Formed in 2009, OGC Services specialise in garden and grounds maintenance, fence installations amd repairs and the construction of timber decking. We work within the North Hampshire / Surrey border area, including the towns of Guildford, Godalming, Aldershot, Camberley, Farnborough, Farnham, Fleet, Woking and all the outlying towns and villages.
Whether it be a one off job or regular contracted work we can provide an affordable service to meet your requirements. Our services are offered to domestic home owners, management companies or commercial premises.
We do not have any reviews about OGC Services available right now.


The present printable, downloadable handout is intended for elementary school students at Elementary (A1) level. It was designed for developing your groups' Reading and Writing skills. It centers around the topic and words of Animals.


Funny, hilarious quote on what most of us have felt, one time or the other, picking our brains over a math word problem. Featured here on a custom, personalized, fun, send a smile card.
Makes a great, fun mail to kids, grandkids, math geeks, nerds, school students, math scholars, teachers, friends & family.


text:
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.

// jshint ignore: start
// Note that this file is jshint clean except for properties inside token response
// which are not camel cased and they are issued by the MSI service,
// we do not control the shape of the response object.

'use strict';

const msrest = require('ms-rest');
const request = require('request');
const Constants = msrest.Constants;

const MSITokenCredentials = require('./msiTokenCredentials');

/** Class representing an MSIAppServiceTokenCredentials. */
class MSIAppServiceTokenCredentials extends MSITokenCredentials {
  /**
   * Creates an instance of MSIAppServiceTokenCredentials.
   * @param {string} [options.msiEndpoint] - The local URL from which your app can request tokens.
   * Either provide this parameter or set the environment varaible `MSI_ENDPOINT`.
   * For example: `MSI_ENDPOINT="http://127.0.0.1:41741/MSI/token/"`
   * @param {string} [options.msiSecret] - The secret used in communication between your code and the local MSI agent.
   * Either provide this parameter or set the environment varaible `MSI_SECRET`.
   * For example: `MSI_SECRET="69418689F1E342DD946CB82994CDA3CB"`
   * @param {string} [options.resource] - The resource uri or token audience for which the token is needed.
   * For e.g. it can be:
   * - resourcemanagement endpoint "https://management.azure.com"(default)
   * - management endpoint "https://management.core.windows.net/"
   * @param {string} [options.msiApiVersion] - The api-version of the local MSI agent. Default value is "2017-09-01".
   */
  constructor(options) {
    if (!options) options = {};
    super(options);
    options.msiEndpoint = options.msiEndpoint || process.env['MSI_ENDPOINT'];
    options.msiSecret = options.msiSecret || process.env['MSI_SECRET'];
    if (!options.msiEndpoint || (options.msiEndpoint && typeof options.msiEndpoint.valueOf() !== 'string')) {
      throw new Error('Either provide "msiEndpoint" as a property of the "options" object ' +
      'or set the environment variable "MSI_ENDPOINT" and it must be of type "string".');
    }

    if (!options.msiSecret || (options.msiSecret && typeof options.msiSecret.valueOf() !== 'string')) {
      throw new Error('Either provide "msiSecret" as a property of the "options" object ' +
      'or set the environment variable "MSI_SECRET" and it must be of type "string".');
    }

    if (!options.msiApiVersion) {
      options.msiApiVersion = '2017-09-01';
    } else if (typeof options.msiApiVersion.valueOf() !== 'string') {
      throw new Error('msiApiVersion must be a uri.');
    }

    this.msiEndpoint = options.msiEndpoint;
    this.msiSecret = options.msiSecret;
    this.msiApiVersion = options.msiApiVersion;
  }

  /**
   * Prepares and sends a POST request to a service endpoint hosted on the Azure VM, which responds with the access token.
   * @param  {function} callback  The callback in the form (err, result)
   * @return {function} callback
   *                       {Error} [err]  The error if any
   *                       {object} [tokenResponse] The tokenResponse (tokenType and accessToken are the two important properties).
   */
  getToken(callback) {
    const endpoint = this.msiEndpoint.endsWith('/') ? this.msiEndpoint : `${this.msiEndpoint}/`;
    const getUrl = `${endpoint}?resource=${this.resource}&api-version=${this.msiApiVersion}`;
    const reqOptions = this.prepareRequestOptions();
    request.get(getUrl, reqOptions, (err, response, body) => {
      if (err) {
        return callback(err);
      }
      try {
        if (body.indexOf('ExceptionMessage') !== -1) {
          throw new Error(`MSI: Failed to retrieve a token from "${getUrl}" with an error: ${body}`);
        }
        let tokenResponse = this.parseTokenResponse(body);
        if (!tokenResponse.tokenType) {
          throw new Error(`Invalid token response, did not find tokenType. Response body is: ${body}`);
        } else if (!tokenResponse.accessToken) {
          throw new Error(`Invalid token response, did not find accessToken. Response body is: ${body}`);
        }

        return callback(null, tokenResponse);
      } catch (error) {
        return callback(error);
      }
    });
  }

  prepareRequestOptions() {
    let reqOptions = {
      headers: {
        'secret': this.msiSecret
      }
    };

    return reqOptions;
  }
}

module.exports = MSIAppServiceTokenCredentials;


The maximum wage an employee will pay social security on for 2016 is $118,500. The rate is 6.2% on up to that amount.
There is no limit on the amount of wages for the 1.45% of Medicare tax withheld.
If you end up paying on more that $118,500 for Social Security either because your employer overwithheld or because you worked more than one job during the year then you will get the excess back on your tax return.
Those 62-65 years old by the end of 2016 can earn up to $15,720 before losing any benefits.
Those who turn 66 in 2016 can earn up to $41,880 before starting to lose any benefits.
Those over 66 in 2016 have no earnings limit.