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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | ||||
Studio album by David Bowie | ||||
Released | 16 June 1972[1] | |||
Recorded | 9 July 1971; November 1971; 12–18 January 1972; 4 February 1972[2] | |||
Studio | Trident Studios, London | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 38:29 | |||
Label | RCA Records | |||
Producer |
David Bowie chronology | ||||
Singles from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars |
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust) is the fifth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 16 June 1972. It is a concept album telling the story of a fictional rock star named Ziggy Stardust.[3] It peaked at No. 5 in the United Kingdom on the UK Albums Chart[5] and No. 75 in the United States on the Billboard 200,[6] then improved to a No. 21 position in the wake of Bowie's death.
The album tells the story of Bowie's alter ego Ziggy Stardust, a rock star who acts as a messenger for extraterrestrial beings. Bowie created Ziggy Stardust while in New York City promoting Hunky Dory and performed as him on a tour of the United Kingdom, Japan and North America.[7] The album, and the character of Ziggy Stardust, was known for its glam rock influences and themes of sexual exploration and social commentary. These factors, coupled with the ambiguity surrounding Bowie's sexuality and fuelled by a ground-breaking performance of "Starman" on Top of the Pops,[8] led to the album being met with controversy and since hailed as a seminal work.[9]
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars has received critical acclaim and has been consistently considered one of the greatest albums of all time, with Rolling Stone magazine ranking it the 35th greatest ever.[10] It was ranked the 20th greatest album ever in a 1997 British survey, the 41st greatest of all time by Q magazine and one of the 100 greatest releases ever by Time magazine. A concert film of the same name, directed by D. A. Pennebaker, was recorded in 1973 and released a decade later in 1983.
The album presents the vague story of a rock and roll character called Ziggy Stardust,[11] the human manifestation of an alien being who attempts to present humanity with a message of hope in the last five years of its existence. Ziggy Stardust represents the definitive rock star: sexually promiscuous and wild in drug intake, but with a message of peace and love. He is destroyed both by his own consumptions, and by the fans he inspires.[citation needed]
The character was inspired by British rock 'n' roll singer Vince Taylor whom David Bowie met after Taylor had had a breakdown and believed himself to be a cross between a god and an alien,[12][13] though Taylor was only part of the blueprint for the character.[14] Other influences included the Legendary Stardust Cowboy[15] and Kansai Yamamoto, who designed the costumes Bowie wore during the tour.[16] The Ziggy Stardust name came partly from the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and partly, as Bowie told Rolling Stone, because Ziggy was "one of the few Christian names I could find beginning with the letter 'Z'".[17] He later explained in a 1990 interview for Q magazine that the Ziggy part came from a tailor's shop called Ziggy's that he passed on a train, and he liked it because it had "that Iggy [Pop] connotation but it was a tailor's shop, and I thought, Well, this whole thing is gonna be about clothes, so it was my own little joke calling him Ziggy. So Ziggy Stardust was a real compilation of things."[18][19]
Bowie covered a Legendary Stardust Cowboy song, "I Took a Trip (On a Gemini Spaceship)", thirty years later on Heathen.
In 1990, Bowie said that he had recorded "about half of the Ziggy album" before Hunky Dory was released, claiming that he had to release Hunky Dory due to his recording contract with his label.[20] Sessions in November 1971 produced "Hang on to Yourself", "Ziggy Stardust", "Rock 'n' Roll Star" (later shortened to "Star"), "Moonage Daydream", "Soul Love", "Lady Stardust", and "Five Years".
Also recorded during the November sessions were two more cover songs intended for the as-yet untitled album. They were Chuck Berry's "Around and Around" (re-titled "Round and Round") and Jacques Brel's "Amsterdam" (re-titled "Port of Amsterdam"). A re-recording of "Holy Holy" (first recorded in 1970 and released as a single, to poor sales, in January 1971) was initially slated for Ziggy, but was dropped in favour of "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide". All three songs were eventually released as b-sides. "Velvet Goldmine", also recorded in November 1971, was intended for Ziggy, but was replaced by "Suffragette City". RCA released it in 1975 as the B-side to the UK re-release of "Space Oddity" after having it remixed and mastered without Bowie's approval.
On the album's final running order, "Round and Round" was replaced by "Starman", and the Ron Davies cover "It Ain't Easy" replaced "Amsterdam". "It Ain't Easy", recorded on 9 July 1971 during the Hunky Dory sessions, closed the first side of the album.
After recording some of the new songs for radio presenter Bob Harris's Sounds of the 70s as the newly dubbed Spiders from Mars in January 1972, the band returned to Trident in early February to record the final master takes of "Starman", "Suffragette City" and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide". (Some of the radio performances appear on Bowie at the Beeb.)
"Starman", released as a single in April 1972 (and not intended for the final album at first), originally featured a "loud mix" of the "morse code" section between the verse and the chorus.[21] This single mix appeared on the original UK album, but not on other vinyl editions of the album internationally (which had a more subdued mix of this section), and it did not appear on CD until the song was included on the compilation album Nothing Has Changed (2014).
"Suffragette City", the b-side to "Starman", was mastered for the album with a three-note coda leading in from "Ziggy Stardust" to make the songs sound linked. They were never played as such by Bowie in concert.
Recorded and released during the ensuing Ziggy tour were two other songs. The first, "John, I'm Only Dancing", was recorded at Trident in late June and released (in the UK only) in September. "The Jean Genie", recorded at RCA Studios in New York in early October at the start of the American tour, was released in the US in November. The song was remixed for Aladdin Sane.
Rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman was given the opportunity to play keyboards on the album but opted to join the progressive rock group Yes instead.[citation needed]
Ziggy Stardust story[edit]
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is about a bisexual alien rock superstar; the concept album sheds a light on the artificiality of rock music in general, discussing issues of politics, drug use, and sexual orientation.[22] The album was intended by Bowie to serve as the soundtrack and musical basis for a stage show and/or television production telling the story of Ziggy Stardust.[citation needed] As well as the songs on the album, Bowie also intended songs such as "All the Young Dudes", "Rebel Rebel" and "Rock 'n' Roll With Me" (the latter two later recorded for Diamond Dogs) for this realisation of the Ziggy story.[citation needed]
In a Rolling Stone interview with William S. Burroughs, Bowie expanded on the Ziggy Stardust story:
The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything. Ziggy was in a rock-and-roll band and the kids no longer want rock-and-roll. There's no electricity to play it. Ziggy's adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, 'cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this and there is terrible news. 'All the young dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite. ...
The end comes when the infinites arrive. They really are a black hole, but I've made them people because it would be very hard to explain a black hole on stage. ...
Ziggy is advised in a dream by the infinites to write the coming of a Starman, so he writes 'Starman', which is the first news of hope that the people have heard. So they latch onto it immediately ... The starmen that he is talking about are called the infinites, and they are black-hole jumpers. Ziggy has been talking about this amazing spaceman who will be coming down to save the earth. They arrive somewhere in Greenwich Village. They don't have a care in the world and are of no possible use to us. They just happened to stumble into our universe by black hole jumping. Their whole life is travelling from universe to universe. In the stage show, one of them resembles Brando, another one is a Black New Yorker. I even have one called Queenie, the Infinite Fox ... Now Ziggy starts to believe in all this himself and thinks himself a prophet of the future starmen. He takes himself up to the incredible spiritual heights and is kept alive by his disciples. When the infinites arrive, they take bits of Ziggy to make them real because in their original state they are anti-matter and cannot exist in our world. And they tear him to pieces on stage during the song 'Rock 'n' roll suicide'. As soon as Ziggy dies on stage the infinites take his elements and make themselves visible.[23]
Professional ratings | |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [24] |
Blender | [25] |
Chicago Tribune | [26] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B+[27] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [28] |
Pitchfork Media | 10/10[29] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [31] |
Spin | [32] |
Uncut | [33] |
Following its release on 16 June 1972, Ziggy Stardust reached No. 5 on the UK Album Chart and No. 75 in the US. It was eventually certified platinum and gold in the UK and US respectively.[34][35] The first single from the record, "Starman", charted at No. 10 in the UK while peaking at No. 65 in the US.
Ziggy returned to the UK chart on 31 January 1981, amid the New Romantic era that Bowie had helped inspire. This reissue peaked at number 33 and remained on the chart for 62 weeks. (It was followed by a reissue of Aladdin Sane, which spent the first of 24 weeks on the chart in March 1982.)[36] In the wake of Bowie's death in January 2016, Ziggy reached a new peak of No. 21 in the US. It has sold an estimated 7.5 million worldwide, making it Bowie's second-best-selling album.[37]
In Rolling Stone, dated 20 July 1972, writer Richard Cromelin gave the album a favourable review of "at least a 99" (assumed out of 100). But while Cromelin thought it was good, he felt that the record and its style might not be of lasting interest. "We should all say a brief prayer," he suggested, "that his fortunes are not made to rise and fall with the fate of the 'drag-rock' syndrome".[38][39]
In 1987, as part of their 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 6 on "The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years." In 1997, Ziggy Stardust was named the 20th greatest album of all time in a Music of the Millennium poll conducted in the UK by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at No. 24 and Virgin All-time Top 1000 Albums ranked it at No. 11, while in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at No. 48. It was named the 35th best album ever made by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2000 Q placed it at No. 25 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was placed at No. 81 in Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In his 1995 book, "The Alternative Music Almanac", Alan Cross placed the album at No. 3 on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Albums'. In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.[40]
In 2005, Brazilian singer Seu Jorge did a cover album of 14 Bowie songs, many of them from Ziggy Stardust, as a soundtrack for the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou called The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions. The translation into Portuguese is not always exact, as Seu Jorge maintains the melodies and styles, but often varies the lyrics. Bowie himself said of Seu Jorge's covers: "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with".[41] Musician Saul Williams named his 2007 Trent Reznor-produced album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!. In 2009, Techno Cowboy covered the entire album from start to finish using just the Omnichord called "The Ziggy Stardust Omnichord Album".
In 2012, on the 40th anniversary of the album's release, a commemorative plaque was unveiled at the location of the cover photo on Heddon Street in London.
After Bowie's death from cancer on 10 January 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 to achieve a new peak of No. 21.
The album was covered as part of rock band Phish's Halloween 'musical costume' on 31 October 2016.[42]
Artwork and packaging[edit]
The album cover photograph was taken outside furriers "K. West" at 23 Heddon Street, London, W1.,[43] looking south-east towards the centre of the city. Bowie said of the sign, "It's such a shame that sign went [was removed]. People read so much into it. They thought 'K. West' must be some sort of code for 'quest.' It took on all these sort of mystical overtones."[44] The post office in the background (now "The Living Room, W1" bar) was the site of London's first nightclub, The Cave of the Golden Calf, which opened in 1912. As part of street renovations, in April 1997 a red "K series" phonebox was returned to the street, replacing a modern blue phonebox, which in turn had replaced the original phonebox featured on the rear cover.[45]
Of the album's packaging in general, Bowie said:
We did the photographs outside on a rainy night, and then upstairs in the studio we did the Clock Orange look-alikes that became the inner sleeve. The idea was to hit a look somewhere between the Malcolm McDowell thing with the on mascaraed eyelash and insects. It was the era of Wild Boys, by William S. Burroughs. That was a really heavy book that had come out in about 1970, and it was a cross between that and Clockwork Orange that really started to put together the shape and the look of what Ziggy and the Spiders were going to become. They were both powerful pieces of work, especially the marauding boy gangs of Burrough's Wild Boys with their bowie knives. I got straight on to that. I read everything into everything. Everything had to be infinitely symbolic."[44]
The cover was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.[46][47] The rear cover of the original vinyl album bore the instruction "TO BE PLAYED AT MAXIMUM VOLUME". The instruction was omitted, however, from the EMI 1999 re-release.[48]
In March 2012, The Crown Estate, which owns Regent Street and Heddon Street, installed a commemorative brown plaque at 23 Heddon Street in the same place as the "K. West" sign on the cover photo. The unveiling was attended by original band members Mick Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder, and was unveiled by Gary Kemp.[49] The plaque was the first to be installed by The Crown Estate and is one of the few plaques in the country devoted to fictional characters.[50] The sign above Bowie's head was installed by Barry Lomax in the mid-1960s while working for the London depot of Brighton sign company Bush Signs.[citation needed]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks written by David Bowie, except where noted.
Side one | ||
No. | Title | Length |
1. | "Five Years" | 4:42 |
2. | "Soul Love" | 3:34 |
3. | "Moonage Daydream" | 4:40 |
4. | "Starman" | 4:10 |
5. | "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies) | 2:58 |
Total length: | 20:04 |
Side two | ||
No. | Title | Length |
6. | "Lady Stardust" | 3:22 |
7. | "Star" | 2:47 |
8. | "Hang On to Yourself" | 2:40 |
9. | "Ziggy Stardust" | 3:13 |
10. | "Suffragette City" | 3:25 |
11. | "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" | 2:58 |
Total length: | 18:25 38:29 |
- David Bowie – vocals, acoustic guitar, saxophone, piano, arrangements
- Mick Ronson – electric guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, piano
- Trevor Bolder – bass, trumpet
- Mick Woodmansey – drums
Additional personnel
- Dana Gillespie – backing vocals on "It Ain't Easy"
- Rick Wakeman – harpsichord on "It Ain't Easy"
- Ken Scott – producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer
- David Bowie – producer
- Dr. Toby Mountain – remastering engineer (for Rykodisc release)
- Jonathan Wyner – assistant remastering engineer (for Rykodisc release)
- Peter Mew – remastering engineer (for EMI release)
- Nigel Reeve – assistant remastering engineer (for EMI release)
- George Underwood – artwork
CD releases[edit]
Ziggy Stardust was first released on CD in November 1984 by RCA. The digital master recording was made from the equalised master tapes used for the LP release.[51]
1990 Rykodisc/EMI Dr. Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital Recording, Southborough, Massachusetts,[52] remastered Ziggy from the original master tapes for Rykodisc, who released it with five bonus tracks:
- "John, I'm Only Dancing" (1979 remix of 1972 single) – 2:43
- "Velvet Goldmine" (Single B-side from the 1975 RCA re-release of "Space Oddity"; original recording from the The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars sessions, 1971) – 3:09
- "Sweet Head" (Previously unreleased outtake) – 4:14
- "Ziggy Stardust" (Demo) – 3:35
- "Lady Stardust" (Demo) – 3:35
1999 EMI/Virgin The album was remastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios and released on 6 September 1999 by EMI without bonus material – the same track listing as the original LP and 1984 CD release.
2002 EMI/Virgin On 16 July 2002, a 2-disc version was released by EMI/Virgin. The first in a series of 30th Anniversary 2CD Editions, this release included a newly remastered version as its first CD. The remaster on this edition reverses the left and right stereo channels on the first disc and many of the songs have been edited. Among other things, the three-note bridge between "Ziggy Stardust" and "Suffragette City", and the count-in to "Hang on to Yourself" are missing.[53]
The second disc contains twelve tracks, most of which had been previously released on CD as bonus tracks of the 1990–92 reissues. "Sweet Head" is the same version as on the 1990 reissue, but with extended studio banter in the beginning. The new mix of "Moonage Daydream" was originally done for a 1998 Dunlop television commercial. The bonus tracks:
- "Moonage Daydream" (Arnold Corns version) – 3:53
- "Hang on to Yourself" (Arnold Corns version) – 2:55
- "Lady Stardust" (Demo) – 3:34
- "Ziggy Stardust" (Demo) – 3:38
- "John, I'm Only Dancing" – 2:49
- "Velvet Goldmine" – 3:14
- "Holy Holy" (1971 re-recording) – 2:26
- "Amsterdam" (Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman) – 3:25
- "The Supermen" (Alternate version, recorded for the Glastonbury Fayre in 1971, originally released on Glastonbury Fayre Revelations – A Musical Anthology, 1972[54] and on CD on 1990s Rykodisc/EMI Hunky Dory) – 2:41
- "Round and Round" (Chuck Berry) – 2:44
- "Sweet Head" – 4:53
- "Moonage Daydream" (New mix) – 4:47
All tracks written by David Bowie, except as noted.[53]
At the same time, a hybrid SACD version was released, which includes high resolution stereo and 5.1 mixes.
Personnel (only on tracks where it differs from album)
- David Bowie – vocals (tracks 1, 2), guitar (tracks 1, 2 and 4,) piano (tracks 1–3)
- Freddie Burretti – vocals (tracks 1, 2)
- Peter De Somogyl – bass guitar (tracks 1, 2)
- Mark Carr Pritchard – guitar (tracks 1, 2)
- Tim Broadbent – drums (tracks 1, 2)
- Lindsay Scott – violin (track 5)
2012 EMI/Virgin On 4 June 2012, a "40th Anniversary Edition" was released by EMI/Virgin. This edition was remastered by original Trident Studios' engineer Ray Staff (at London's AIR Studios).
It was made available on CD and a special, limited edition format of vinyl featuring the new 2012 remaster, together with a 5.1 mix and high resolution audio on DVD, including previously unreleased 5.1 and stereo bonus 2003 Ken Scott mixes of the album, as well as of "Moonage Daydream" (instrumental), "The Supermen", "Velvet Goldmine" and "Sweet Head".[55]
The 2012 remaster of the album and the 2003 remix were both included in the 2015 box set Five Years 1969–1973.[56][57] The album, in its 2012 remastering, was also rereleased separately, in 2015–2016, in CD, vinyl, and digital formats.[58]
Weekly charts[edit]
Year | Chart | Peak position |
1972 | UK Albums Chart[59] | 5 |
1973 | US Billboard 200[60] | 75 |
2016 | US Billboard 200[61] | 21 |
2016 | US Top Catalog Albums (Billboard)[62] | 3 |
Year | Single | Chart | Peak position |
1972 | "Starman" | UK Singles Chart | 10[5] |
1972 | "Starman" | Billboard Pop Singles | 65[63] |
1974 | "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" | UK Singles Chart | 22[5] |
Sales and certifications[edit]
Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
United Kingdom (BPI)[64] | Platinum | 1,500,000[65] |
United States (RIAA)[66] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^shipments figures based on certification alone |
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Further reading[edit]
- Goddard, Simon (2013). Ziggyology: A Brief History of Ziggy Stardust. Ebury. ISBN 978-0-09-194888-7.
- Weisbard, Eric; Craig Marks (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
External links[edit]
- 1972 albums
- Albums produced by David Bowie
- Albums produced by Ken Scott
- Albums recorded at Trident Studios
- Albums with cover art by Mick Rock
- Concept albums
- David Bowie albums
- EMI Records albums
- Glam rock albums
- Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
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- RCA Records albums
- Rock operas
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GOLDFIELD — Randy Johnston's crowning achievement sits upon a dusty mountaintop in desolate Esmeralda County, looking more like a castle than one man's desire to poke a stick in the eye of every construction inspector who ever cramped his builder's style.
It is a citadel of sorts — built to last 1,000 years, with block walls 16 inches thick, 7 tons of steel rebar on the same concrete foundation used in bomb shelters and not a stick of wood in the framework: all to outlast the worst vicissitudes the bone-dry high desert can dish out.
Johnston spent $3 million on his stylish, 8,000-square-foot mountain redoubt, well, because he could.
The consummate tinkerer spent three decades in Lake Tahoe, constantly harassed by local government inspectors who poked their noses into his every pet project, right down to a side-yard tool shed. Then, on a weekend off-roading adventure in the Nevada desert near Goldfield, 150 miles north of Las Vegas, he stumbled onto a place where a man with a little money, imagination and a two-by-four-strong sense of pluck can build whatever he damn well pleases.
"No fees, no inspections, no permits, no nothing," he says. "Nobody to come out and say, 'You can't do that. Color's not right. Dimensions are wrong.' It was enough to drive a man crazy."
And so in 1998, after receiving a sizable inheritance, Johnston chucked his overregulated California life and began work on his circular mountain masterpiece — with its 22 rooms, winding staircase, ornate tile work, two mammoth pipe organs and a rooftop observatory affording views of mountains and valleys that stretch into forever.
It's one man's quirky vision, a thumb-your-nose construction project built without blueprints, done one brick at a time, mostly with his own hands, (with the occasional help of local fellas named Denny, Doc and Kenny), heeding only to the dictates of his own imagination.
He calls it the Hard Luck Castle, named after the nearby abandoned 19th-century mine at the end of a dirt road 9 miles from the nearest pavement. For years, Johnston has offered tours to fellow desert wanderers and Death Valley tourists who want an inside look at the place that runs on a few generators, but mostly on solar and wind power.
Now, at age 69 with his passion project nearing completion, Johnston is throwing in the trowel. The place has been for sale for years, but now he feels the clock ticking. His health is beginning to teeter, he says, and doctors are scarce among the Joshua trees and howling coyotes in the Nevada outback. He's also weary of the 250-mile round-trip to Pahrump for groceries and supplies.
The final insult came when a massive flood closed Highway 267, stopping the flow of visitors whose $10 tour donations helped keep him going after his inheritance ran out. In the past two months, not one traveler has crossed the flatlands into the Gold Mountains to see Johnston's attraction, which includes 40 deeded acres and the old mine.
"The entire Hard Luck Mine and Castle estate is for sale,'' his website reads. "Everything — and we mean everything — comes with the sale. All the owner wants to leave with is his truck, his trailer, and his dogs."
He recently slashed the asking price from $3.2 million to $1.5 million. Still, no one with a checkbook has ventured to look at the place.
"I've had a few calls, but nothing more than that," Johnston says. "And most of those people were asking about the mine."
It's enough to make a man think no one appreciates his personal vision.
Now he sits out in the desert, putting the last touches on his dreamscape, with his two dogs, Hunk and Molly, as his only company.
But Johnston isn't feeling sorry for himself. He likes telling how his castle came to be — about the 1986 off-roading trip in a souped-up Volkswagen bus when he and his son discovered a cabin at the site, where they took shelter in a snowstorm.
He fell in love with the place and returned year after year. Finally, after countless lunches courting the reluctant owner, he bought the property for $17,000.
Disaster struck with the first load of gravel he hauled up the winding dirt road. A broken axle forced him to abandon his old trailer among the rocks and scrub brush, decorating it with Buddhist, Christian and hedonist figures to resemble a wacky altar to some mad new religion.
For Johnston, that religion is building whatever the hell you want.
He keeps tinkering, waiting to install the last bit of circuit board for his pair of 3,000-pipe organs. He wants to build a campground with a pyramid-shaped carport.
He's also putting the finishing touches on an obelisk that defines his unique vision: On various sides he has listed the names and election dates of all the U.S. presidents. He plans to add historic footnotes, Egyptian hieroglyphics, words of wisdom and his personal collection of slang words.
"You know," he says, "like 'bitchin', and 'far out.'"
For now, the long winter months have become kind of lonely as he waits for a visitor, a would-be buyer, anyone really, to click on www.hardluckcastle.com and maybe venture out to appreciate his handiwork.
He has no regrets.
"Hell, no, I love this place," he says. "But trying to sell it is a pain. Eventually, I'll find someone who wants to come out here and keep the place going."
When that happens, Johnston plans to pursue another dream that involves registering a 50-foot sailboat in Panama and disappearing on a new adventure.
And what if his sturdy mountain castle does stand for a millennium? How would he want future desert-dwellers to remember its creator?
"Oh, I don't know," he says, scratching his head. "Maybe just as some idiot who built his dream house out in the middle of nowhere."


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I was wondering because for the achievment 'Tis the Season. I accidently deleted my fruitcakes because I did not realize they were going 2 be used for an achievment. Is there anyway I could get it back so that I can complete the achievment?
happy xmas everyone i would love to get to level 80 by then
Believe it or not, I triggered mine because I still had "Presents" from last year I hadn't opened....I mean, well, I have 42 toons...It's not my fault that I start a new one every time my server is down. You just can't sit there and stare at the screen all day and do nothing, right? (oh yeah, that's exactly what we do)
you think getting to 325 cooking is tough? try grinding from hated with gad so you can just get past 225 and then get to 335. =/
actually, you do have to lvl your cooking for the merrymaker title, which is the reason i'm not gonna get the title
hohoho my elf would like for xmas a new haircut for girls like the guys have they got cooler ones :)
fortunately there's nothing in the guide about it needed to be made during the holiday. Hopefully we can just pick up the recipe and casually raise cooking instead of wasting precious time. I'm just gunna buy the recipes, bank 'em and make them later.
i've found out that WSG is a very simple way to get HK's. All you gotta do is follow the flag carrier and none of the other fraction attacks your they just attack the flag carrier
Wulmort Jinglepocket in Ironforge sell: * Pattern: Red Winter Clothes (Alliance) * * Pattern: Winter Bootsdoesn't sell the patterns
The Merrymaker title looks so awesome before my nick and afaik I was one of first people at my server to get it :D
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"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect"
Edgar Allan Poe
"I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations."
Hugh Hopper
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
"We have to have the best education system in the world. We need mathematicians, engineers and scientists to develop the products and processes of the future, and frankly, we're not doing that."
John Castellani
"There would be the need to try and kill as many as possible of the scientists, technicians, engineers, mathematicians who are involved in the process because, in some ways, one sets back a program much more by killing the personnel."
Paul Rogers
"The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not what they think it is."
David Deutsch
"You need forensic mathematicians, artists and psychologists as well as scientists. We're learning a little bit about all of it."
Jeff Abraham
"The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions."
Alonzo Church
"It doesn't take a mathematician to add it up. The Hispanics felt they wanted to put the pressure on these two. . . . I'm going to go out and fight this. If I win or lose, I'm still going to win because I'm fighting the good fight."
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"The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain / And simple to express: / Err / and err / and err again, / but less / and less / and less."
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Topeka A judge has ruled that Kansas gambling regulators had no grounds to bar a former state legislator from being involved with a dog-racing track in his hometown.
Jim Barone was a state senator when the Racing and Gaming Commission refused in 2007 to approve a background check on him. The decision kept Barone from serving on the board of a nonprofit group affiliated with Camptown Greyhound Park, in the southeastern Kansas town of Frontenac.
Barone responded by suing the commission. He said Monday he feels vindicated by last week's ruling by Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis (tyce), who concluded the commission's decision portrayed Barone in a false light.
The racing commission declined comment Monday.
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Uses of GBIF in scientific research
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List of publications
Mirski P, Brzosko E, Jędrzejczyk I, Kotowicz J, Ostrowiecka B, Wróblewska A (2017)
Genetic structure of dioecious and trioecious Salix myrsinifolia populations at the border of geographic range
Tree Genetics & Genomes 13(1) 15.
Gene flow in plant populations is heavily affected by species sexual systems. In order to study the effect of sexual systems on genetic structure, we examined plastid and nuclear DNA of 12 dioecious (males and females) and 18 trioecious (males, females and hermaphrodites) populations of Salix myrsinifolia—a boreal shrub with slow range expansion. Populations were located along latitudinal gradients across submarginal and marginal parts of the range. Individuals of each sex morph were all hexaploid. We identified 10 chloroplast DNA haplotypes and scored 205 polymorphic bands with amplified fragment length polymorphism. We found dioecious populations that differed from trioecious populations via the presence of four unique haplotypes and significant difference in Nei's gene diversity index (0.119 vs. 0.116) and down-weighed marker value (1.17 vs. 1.02). The latter parameter, together with haplotype and nucleotide diversity, significantly decreased with latitude similar to the expansion front. Also, we found that 89% of hermaphrodite individuals belong to one distinct in tree parsimony network haplotype. This frequency significantly decreased with latitude towards the expansion front. We suspect that the presence of hermaphrodites in trioecious populations may represent a trade-off between the possibility of producing progeny by single hermaphrodites and genetic variability loss through autogamy. S. myrsinifolia benefits from trioecious sexual systems under colonization events. This phenomenon is no longer a gain closer to the core of the species range.
Keywords: AFLP, Dioecy, Sex structure, Subdioecy, Trioecy
Depa �, Mróz E, Bugaj-Nawrocka A, Orczewska A (2016)
Do ants drive speciation in aphids? A possible case of ant-driven speciation in the aphid genus Stomaphis Walker (Aphidoidea, Lachninae)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Ecological divergence is an accepted mode of speciation in phytophagous insects such as aphids. Adaptations of ancestral populations to various feeding locations on a plant seem to be a promoted mode of such speciation. In this study we present a thesis that for obligatorily myrmecophilous aphids it is a mutualistic relationship with distinct ants that constitutes a significant selective factor. It leads to the separation of ecological niches of ancestral aphid populations and development of sibling species. The thesis is supported by the example of two sibling aphid species of the genus Stomaphis, S. quercus (L.) and S. wojciechowskii Depa, which show very peculiar adaptations to feeding on trees and are both undoubtedly obligatorily myrmecophilous species. Their separateness is proven by mitochondrial markers, as well as their life modes and ecological adaptations: they all follow the biology of their respective ant hosts: Lasius (Dendrolasius) fuliginosus and L. (L.) brunneus. Proven and modelled geographical distributions indicate a high level of sympatry and the fact that environmental requirements of both aphid species overlap. It is suggested that their divergence has resulted from having adapted to living with ants of distinct life modes, foraging strategies and positions in the hierarchy of ant assemblages. This, in turn, indirectly affected their adaptations to exploit different host plant genera.
Keywords: ecological divergence, modelling, mutualism, phytophagy, sympatry
Kanturski M, Bugaj-Nawrocka A, Wieczorek K (2016)
Pine pest aphids of the genus Eulachnus (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Lachninae): how far can their range extend?
Agricultural and Forest Entomology.
Species of the aphid genus Eulachnus (Hemiptera, Aphididae), associated with pine trees, are an example of insects reported as rare over their native geographical range in Europe and serious pine pests far from their natural distribution. To predict the risk of invasion of spotted pine aphid Eulachnus agilis (Kaltenbach, 1843), green pine aphid Eulachnus brevipilosus Börner, 1940 and narrow brown pine aphid Eulachnus rileyi (Williams, 1911) on a global scale, ecological niche modelling was applied. We used the maximum entropy model, based on associations between unique occurrence localities and a set of environmental variables. We obtained models of potentially suitable habitats, based on climatic variables and distribution of host plants, suggesting that favourable conditions for each species may be present on every continent. However, E. agilis and E. rileyi appear to be potentially the most widespread species. In Europe, models showed that the potential distribution of the representatives of the genus Eulachnus overlapped with that of the host plants. In places where they have been introduced, these aphid species have readily adapted to indigenous or introduced pines, including trees grown commercially for timber. A jackknife test indicated that annual mean temperature and mean temperature of the coldest quarter were the most important environmental variables restricting the expansion of the species under investigation. Moreover, the most important factor in the decrease in population density of the feeding aphids is the rainy season and, on a smaller scale, the presence of their natural enemies.
Keywords: Biological invasion, Eulachnini, Pinus spp., ecological niche modelling, potential distribution
Reichel K, Richter F, Eichel L, Kącki Z, Wesche K, Welk E et al. (2016)
Genetic diversity in the locally declining Laserpitium prutenicum L. and the more common Selinum carvifolia (L.) L.: a "silent goodbye"?
Conservation Genetics.
Evaluating the consequences of the decline of threatened species on their population genetic structure is crucial for establishing effective conservation strategies in the strongly fragmented landscapes of Central Europe. Laserpitium prutenicum is a bi- to perennial forb occurring in intermittently wet meadows and light oak forests throughout central to eastern and south-eastern Europe. During the past 70 years, the western limit of its distributional range retracted dramatically, the number of populations decreased and the remaining populations faced a considerable increase of fragmentation. To study the effects of this decline on the genetic diversity of L. prutenicum, we conducted an AFLP study on 20 populations from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. For comparison, we collected the same data on Selinum carvifolia, a taxonomically related and both ecologically and morphologically similar species, which is still more common in the study area. Both species showed similarly weak spatial genetic structuring and intermediate genetic diversities. We attribute this result to the loss of habitat being faster than the loss of genetic diversity in smaller and fragmented populations. Depending on the ecological characteristics of a species, even a gradual disappearance is not necessarily accompanied by any detectable effect at the population genetic level ("silent goodbye"). In the case of L. prutenicum, habitat preservation should be given priority over all other conservation measures.
Keywords: AFLP, Endangered species, Habitat fragmentation, Habitat loss, Wet meadows
Schleuning M, Fründ J, Schweiger O, Welk E, Albrecht J, Albrecht M et al. (2016)
Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change
Nature Communications 7 13965.
Impacts of climate change on individual species are increasingly well documented, but we lack understanding of how these effects propagate through ecological communities. Here we combine species distribution models with ecological network analyses to test potential impacts of climate change on >700 plant and animal species in pollination and seed-dispersal networks from central Europe. We discover that animal species that interact with a low diversity of plant species have narrow climatic niches and are most vulnerable to climate change. In contrast, biotic specialization of plants is not related to climatic niche breadth and vulnerability. A simulation model incorporating different scenarios of species coextinction and capacities for partner switches shows that projected plant extinctions under climate change are more likely to trigger animal coextinctions than vice versa. This result demonstrates that impacts of climate change on biodiversity can be amplified via extinction cascades from plants to animals in ecological networks.
Keywords: AFLP, Endangered species, Habitat fragmentation, Habitat loss, Wet meadows
Jermakowicz E, Wróblewska A, Brzosko E, Mirski P, Hirse T (2015)
Phylogeographical structure of the boreal-montane orchid Malaxis monophyllos as a result of multi-directional gene flow
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 178(1) 138-154.
We investigated the phylogeographical structure of the boreal-montane orchid Malaxis monophyllos in its Eurasian geographical range. We analysed four sequences of plastid DNA (trnL, trnL–trnF, rps16 and accD-psaI), resulting in 19 haplotypes and revealing a high level of intraspecific diversity (HD = 0.702 and π = 0.196 × 10−2), but showing a lack of phylogeographical structure. This pattern might be caused by multiple phenomena and processes, e.g. broad-fronted recolonization with accompanying multi-directional gene flow between populations and expansion from at least two refugial areas. Despite the lack of phylogeographical structure, three centres of haplotype diversity were indicated in the European part of the range of M. monophyllos. According to these data, alpine and lowland glacial refugia located between the ice sheets in the European Alps and the Scandinavian glaciers seem most likely to be in Europe. Moreover, models of climatically suitable areas during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) confirmed the Alps as a possible refuge, and indicated an opportunity for the persistence of M. monophyllos populations in Beringia and parts of Siberia. Using two models [Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC) and Community Climate System Model (CCSM)], we predicted a significant reduction in climatically suitable areas for M. monophyllos in the future (2080). Our study also demonstrated that the biological features of M. monophyllos, including breeding system and dispersal mode, seem to be crucial in understanding its phylogeographical pattern. Our results also highlighted the importance of anthropogenic habitats as reservoirs of genetic diversity and alternative habitats for this species in the context of declining natural populations
Keywords: Orchidaceae, anthropogenic habitats, cpDNA, plastid DNA diversity centres, species distribution models
Popiela A, Łysko A, Molnár V. A, Kącki Z, Lukács B (2015)
Distribution, morphology and habitats of Elatine triandra (Elatinaceae) in Europe, with particular reference to the central part of the continent
Acta Botanica Gallica 1-13.
AbstractElatine triandra Schkuhr is the most variable and widespread species within the genus Elatine L.; it has been recorded in all continents, except Antarctica, but it is mainly located in Europe. The study is based on an extensive data set of European literature, herbaria and web data that covers the period 1828–2012. The range of the species in Europe is disjunctive, covering the southern and western parts of the Central European Plain and the southern part of the Fennoscandian Shield. At a smaller scale, the species can also be found along some river valleys. In Central Europe many localities, particularly isolated ones in the northern part of the range, are now only historical. From the data set we determined that E. triandra may be best observed between May and October. We found that species records show a near-significant shift since 1828. Depending on the environmental conditions, individuals of the taxon develop as one of two morphs: terrestrial or aquatic. The aquatic morph is characterized b...
Keywords: Isoëto-Nano-Juncetea, chorology, ephemerophyte, maps, morphology, phenology, phytogeography, vegetation
Do climatic requirements explain the northern range of european reptiles? Common wall lizard Podarcis muralis (Laur.) (Squamata, Lacertidae) as an example
North-Western Journal of Zoology 11(2) 296+303.
Climate seems likely to play the key role in determining the northern range limits of reptiles in mid- latitude Europe, as these ectothermic animals are dependent on external conditions. We tested this hypothesis for the example of common wall lizard Podarcis muralis (Laur.), and showed that it tolerates a wide range of different climatic factors, therefore could be potentially distributed more to the north from the northern limit of its native range. However, the main factor limiting the occurrence of the lizard in its northern range is the presence of suitable habita ts, particularly rocky areas. Human econ omic activity in mid-latitude Europe resulted in the development of such suitable habitats in areas of advantag eous climatic conditions. In this way, humans created niches suitable fo r the species as well as provided rout es of access to th ese areas, what resulted in the increase the range of this lizard to the north.
Keywords: Europe, invasive species, MaxEnt, species distribu, MaxEnt, invasive species, species distribu
Ware C, Berge J, Jelmert A, Olsen S, Pellissier L, Wisz M et al. (2015)
Biological introduction risks from shipping in a warming Arctic
Journal of Applied Ecology.
1.Several decades of research on invasive marine species have yielded a broad understanding of the nature of species invasion mechanisms and associated threats globally. However, this is not true of the Arctic, a region where ongoing climatic changes may promote species invasion. Here we evaluated risks associated with non-indigenous propagule loads discharged with ships' ballast water to the high-Arctic archipelago, Svalbard, as a case study for the wider Arctic. 2.We sampled and identified transferred propagules using traditional and DNA barcoding techniques. We then assessed the suitability of the Svalbard coast for non-indigenous species under contemporary and future climate scenarios using ecophysiological models based on critical temperature and salinity reproductive thresholds. 3.Ships discharging ballast water in Svalbard carried high densities of zooplankton (mean 1522 ± 335 SE individuals m−3), predominately comprised of indigenous species. Ballast water exchange did not prevent non-indigenous species introduction. Non-indigenous coastal species were present in all except one of 16 ballast water samples (mean 144 ± 67 SE individuals m−3), despite five of the eight ships exchanging ballast water en route. 4.Of a total of 73 taxa, 36 species including 23 non-indigenous species were identified. Of those 23, sufficient data permitted evaluation of the current and future colonization potential for eight widely-known invaders. With the exception of one of these species, modelled suitability indicated that the coast of Svalbard is unsuitable presently; under the 2100 RCP 8.5 climate scenario, however, modelled suitability will favour colonization for six species. 5.Synthesis and applications. We show that current ballast water management practices do not prevent non-indigenous species from being transferred to the Arctic. Consequences of these shortcomings will be shipping-route dependent, but will likely magnify over time: our models indicate future conditions will favour the colonization of non-indigenous species Arctic-wide. Invasion threats will be greatest where shipping transfers organisms across biogeographic realms, and for these shipping routes ballast water treatment technologies may be required to prevent impacts. Our results also highlight critical gaps in our understanding of ballast water management efficacy and prioritization. Thereby, our study provides an agenda for research and policy development.
Keywords: Arctic, ballast water exchange, climate change, ecophysiological thresholds, habitat suitability, invasion, marine non-indigenous species, regeneration niche, shipping, zooplankton
Wasowicz P, Pauwels M, Pasierbinski A, Przedpelska-Wasowicz E, Babst-Kostecka A, Saumitou-Laprade P et al. (2015)
Phylogeography of Arabidopsis halleri (Brassicaceae) in mountain regions of Central Europe inferred from cpDNA variation and ecological niche modelling
PeerJ PrePrints 3.
The present study aimed to investigate phylogeographical patterns present within A. halleri in Central Europe, to propose hypotheses explaining the emergence of these patterns and to formulate hypotheses on the formation of the present day range of A. halleri in the region. 1281 accessions sampled from 52 populations within the investigated area were used in the study of genetic variation based on chloroplast DNA. Over 500 high quality species occurrence records were used in ecological niche modelling experiments. We evidenced the presence of a clear phylogeographic structure within A. halleri in Central Europe. Our results suggest that the species might have not survived the last glacial maximum in the Carpathians and Sudetes and that its range during the last glacial maximum might have consisted of at least two major parts: (1) a northern refugium consisting of vast refugial areas north and northeast of the Alps and (2) a southern refugium located in the Dinaric Alps and Balkan Mts. We postulate that the Sudetes and Western Carpathians were colonised mainly by plants originating from the northern refugium, whereas populations from the Eastern Carpathians originate from southern refugium. We also discuss our results in relation to the problematic taxonomy of the species
Keywords: Alps, Arabidopsis halleri, Carpathians, Harz, Quaternary, Sudetes, phylogeography, taxonomy


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Common Features of Organic Compounds
All organic compounds contain carbon atoms and most contain hydrogen atoms.
Carbon forms single, double and tripe bonds to other carbon atoms
Some compounds have chains of atom and some have rings
Carbon is in group 4A thus, has 4 valence electrons
For 2 or more carbon containing compounds, the type of bonding is determined by the number of atoms around carbon.
4 atoms surrounding a C atom = 4 single bonds
3 atoms surrounding a C atom forms one double bond
two atoms surrounding a C atom generally forms one triple bond
Organic compounds may also contain elements other than cabon and hydrogen.
Any atom is a
Each heteroatom forms a characteristic number of bonds, determined by its location in the periodic table
The common heteroatoms alos have nonbonding, lone pairs of electrons, so that there is an octet surrounding the atom.
common bonding patterns for atoms in organic compounds
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Ace Capone, the CEO of a Philadelphia-based Hip-Hop label was convicted under Pennsylvanias Kingpin law and was sentenced to life in prison today.
Capone, born Alton Coles, was originally arrested and charged in August of 2005, accused of running a $25 million dollar drug ring in Philadelphia, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland.
During his March 200 seven-week trial, prosecutors accused Cole and his cronies of moving over two tons of powdered cocaine and nearly a half-ton of crack between 1997 to 2005.
Prosecutors claimed Cole concealed his earnings through his businesses, which included a day care center, a water ice stand and Take Down Records, were fronts that helped mask his true source of earnings.
During his trial, prosecutors played a Take Down Records DVD titled New Jack City: The Next Generation which featured Ace Capone playing a drug kingpin involved in a brutal war for the citys drug trade, along side artists on the label.
It was this DVD, along with the $500,000 in cash, 10 guns and 450 grams of cocaine found in his home in a suburb of Southern New Jersey.
"You never respect life, or the value of it, until it's taken away," Coles told Judge R. Barclay Surrick, who sentenced him to life plus 55 years.
"I never thought it would come to this," said Coles in tears.
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This blog is all about the automatic generation of narratives from data. It looks at what it means to generate stories, reports, tweets, powerpoint, email, etc. all based on a substrate of data. My focus is on the current state of the technology and the implications and opportunities it presents for news, media organizations, audience, and businesses that sit on large data repositories.
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Although the data flow isn't quite there yet for the personalization of stories in the media space the world of business and public data has matured to the point at which it can support both hyper-local and personal reporting. More to the point, I would argue this kind of personalized reporting is the only way in which we will be able to draw out the actionable insights that is contained in that data.
In particular, the automatic generation of personalized reporting with feedback and advice holds the promise of transforming the landscape of education.
But what would this mean?
Let me start with an example. My 14 year old started this year as a freshman in high school and ran into some problems with a Physics test. The moment this happened, my first reaction was straightforward: go talk to your teacher and find out exactly what you did wrong. My point was that it could have been anything: issues with framing the problems, misapplication of formulae, etc. Regardless, in order to figure out what to fix, he needed to know what was broken.
It turned out that he had two critical problems. First, he kept forgetting to include units in his answers. Second, he would make simple computational errors, mostly having to do with flipping the signs in inequalities. Both problems led to wrong or incomplete answers and were easily fixable. But it was crucial for him to understand the problem in order to get to the solution.
Now, he goes to one of the better public schools in Chicago and –luckily– has a teacher who is dedicated to his students. But the reality is that this situation is rare and as a result, this level of personal attention, communication and counsel is often impossible to get to. In short, a one-on-one conversation doesn't scale.
This problem is amplified as more and more of our educational practices move online. It is hard today for all students to get one-on-one attention in the classroom. As students move online, it is simply impossible.
Narrative Science has begun work to solve this problem. We are starting with data generated by students who are taking online courses aimed at helping them with standardized tests. In particular, we have an initial configuration of our Quill™ technology platform that is able to generate personalized reports to students who take practice tests each month that are not only retrospective, but actually provide specific advice as to actions each of them can take to improve their performance.
Which is to say, each student can receive a report after each practice test that goes beyond the expected feedback:
This is helpful, but we can go much deeper than this, because the data from the questions, what they test and the student's answers is already there. As a result, reports to the students can also include specific action items that flow from the data associated with each of the test questions, their level of difficulty, how other students are doing on them and what material they are designed to test. In turn, the students can get highly personalized advice. Because we know what they have done and what it means, we can provide them with the following:
The communication is personal, on point and contains focused action items. Ironically, although it is personalized, it is generated by a computer. But when you are talking about massive volume (25,000 customized reports every two months) computer generation is the only way that it is even possible to reach the scale and comprehensiveness that is needed to best serve the students.
Testing and practice are part of the learning process. By taking the data that is part of tests as they stand (level of difficultly of the questions, material being tested, types of conceptual errors that the wrong answers indicate) and using the results as a driver for focused communication, we can change the shape of educational progress. By having analysis of that data be part of the process and having focused, personalized reports as the output, we can achieve scale and improve student performance by improving the feedback and the advice they need.
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The head of insurance group Royal London has made a last-minute plea to its members over the company's planned £219m takeover of the Co-operative's life insurance and asset management unit ahead of a key vote tomorrow.
Phil Loney said the deal would be "transformational", and defended Royal London's ability to absorb such a large acquisition.
The takeover, which is expected to be approved by Royal London's 500,000 members at the annual general meeting in London, will provide a much-needed cash injection for the troubled Co-op, which has a capital shortfall that analysts have suggested could be as high as £1.8bn.
The Co-op last week turned to former HSBC banker Niall Booker to steer its banking arm back to health. Mr Booker replaced Barry Tootell, who stepped down as chief executive of the Co-operative Bank in May after its debt rating was cut to junk status by Moody's.
Mr Loney told The Independent that the Co-op's problems had no bearing whatsoever on his company's deal.
"If approved, the acquisition will increase our assets under management from around £50bn to around £70bn, the number of policies we manage will rise from 6.8m to more than 10m, and our overall customer base will increase from 4 million to around 6 million," he said.
"We are already a strong player in the life and pensions market and in fund management but the impact of this acquisition on our business will be transformational and create opportunities to increase our scale, profitability and financial strength."
On Friday, ratings agency Standard & Poor's upgraded Royal London's credit rating, and Loney hinted that the Co-op deal is unlikely to be the last of its kind.
He added: "We have a very strong financial profile and a competitive position in the market – as reflected in our credit upgrade to A from S&P. This gives us a powerful and stable platform to achieve organic growth and to make strategic acquisitions.
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Meanwhile, it has emerged that investors holding up to £370m in Co-op corporate bonds may be at risk of suffering a substantial financial loss. Most of the bonds are held by other financial institutions but at least £30m is believed to be in the hands of private investors. An almost inevitable restructuring of the Co-op's finances could lead to bond holders losing all or part of their investment.
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Give it at least a minute - down tempo tinny skritzy beats with trippy slo-mo ambience
Rated 4 / 5 stars
maybe too normal a sense of 'progression'.
I really love your music. They all loop perfectly and I find that when I play them through Winamp, it becomes a sad affair to turn them off.
I always make sure to listen to any piece I'm considering for an in-game loop for at least half an hour - if I don't enjoy it for that long, I consider it too short-lived to accompany a game.
When listening to your pieces though, time stretches and snaps... and I lose track of time.
Enough of the general compliments, down to specifics. Relatively speaking.
The sorta reversed cymbal noise you have going on reminds me of some big dark room full of gas pipes and some of the later noise samples sound (to me) like gas escaping from those pipes.
It could be a dark, sinister place - and it is initially. But the piano - well measured and each note well chosen - lifts the mood slightly, giving it all a dreamlike quality.
My one complaint is that the whole thing is more like a normal 'piece of music' than your usual affairs and so - whilst we can still enjoy it as an endless loop - it becomes more 'obvious' that it has a start/end and where those are. Both because of the slight silence with the bouncy notes bringing us in/out at the start/end and also because of the introduction of the extra instruments, after which they continue, until just before the end.
I hope you understand what I mean. In some other pieces, you have extra layers coming, leaving, so there's no one place where the tune is 'denser', just places where it's 'different'. This actually feels like it has a normal sense of 'building' and 'progression'.
The sorta reverse-echoey effect you have with the piano sounds great and really softens it all up.
In conclusion - yet another masterpiece from you, but maybe too normal a sense of 'progression'.
Let me say that I really enjoy your reviews - they are very clear, you're not afraid to point out problem areas and you're not afraid to assign reasonable scores.
Your opinions are stated with a great deal of tact and I really appreciate honesty more than anything else.
More than just about anything else, our time is worth a great deal - I very much appreciate the time that you've spent listening to and reviewing the music that I've posted here.
Thanks again and I'll catch up with you at some other point.
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
the crispy percussion sounds great. and the growling bass is juicey.
i wasnt so keen on the piano&chord section it moved into. it seemed to lose its attitude a bit. the production as with alot of other tracks of yours is v good. The industrial feel of the beginning i really liked.
A few peeps didn't seem to care for the piano bits... that's why it was remixed.
We're getting into older tracks here that were made on slightly older equipment - anything from this time is difficult really - a lot of it was mastered through cans and so it loses something when played back on externals.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Not as good as the new one
It's not as good as the updated one but it is still god non the less. I think that it seemed to have a faster pace then the newer one but i still prefer the new one over this one. good job anyway
Well then thank you - but not as much as for the updated version!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Good shit.
personally, i love the piano.
i think it fits nicely.
without it it feels like the song
has no face, metaphorically
speaking, like its a shell
full of ambient sound effects.
the piano is just the right touch. XD
but yeah, good stuff.
That's cool man. This was the piece that eventually turned into "Still under the influence" - if you listen back to back I'm sure you'll hear the similarities. I think the prob with the piano was that it was so quantized... Maybe if I jittered things up a little - shifted a note or two by a 64th triplet here and there it would have felt a little more natural. (i know I can't personally play a piano to that sort of accuracy!)
I appreciate the review - I've been meaning to check to see if you had any new stuff... I'll go take a look in a bit.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Downloading :)
It is a nice track, but i'm with the others, the piano is not quite right. The melody is good, its the actual sound. Maybe another patch(still not sure what one is) , or alternatively cut the volume and play with the equaliser. Some of the accents are too strong, relatively, and it spoils the flow. Everything else is sweet :)
Go listen to the remix :)
Yeah - I read the reviews and pretty much agreed - Sometimes we have to hear another opinion to put things into perspective or to make us realize what we probably already know but refuse to admit... I sort of knew that the piano was a little umm. - flat maybe but I went with it anyway thinking that it might be just me...
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These can be further classifed as adjustment disorder with ______ (Depressed Mood, Anxiety, Disturbance of Conduct, Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood, Mixed Disturbance of Emotions and Conduct)


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HA! NOW, LIL BOW WOW FANS, THE BOOT IS ON THE OTHER FOOT: One of the pains of music in the last couple of years has been scanning pages on the internet and going "Hey! Bow Wow Wow are back toge... oh, no, it's only that prepubsecent shouty Lil Bow Wow bloke." However, now, Bow Wow Wow have got back together - or at least Annabella Lwin and Leigh Gorman have reunited, and pulled in No Doubt's Adrian Young to bang the drums around.
Even now we're not sure if we'd go to prison for looking at Lwin's bottom.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
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First glimpse of the summit | [ Sizes: Orig | Med | Small | Thumb ] | |||
The clouds parted just enough to afford this brief view of the summit from 12,500', where the snow began. This was the best visibility I had all day. Most of the day it was socked in, just white on white. (March 2006) | Image Data
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