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Excerpt of the Sermon "But If Not" by Martin Luther King
"O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king.
The God of the Markets
But if not, even if he does not preserve us, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the images of gold you have set up and commanded us to worship."
Daniel 3:16-18
Now I want you to notice first, here, that these young men practiced civil disobedience.
Civil disobedience is the refusal to abide by an order of the government or of the state or even of the court that your conscience tells you is unjust. Civil disobedience is based on a commitment to conscience. In other words, one who practices civil disobedience is obedient to what he considers a higher law.
And there comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. And I tell you this morning, my friends, that history has moved on, and great moments have often come forth because there were those individuals, in every age and in every generation, who were willing to say "I will be obedient to a higher law." These men were saying "I must be disobedient to a king in order to be obedient to the king."
And those people who so often criticize those of us who come to those moments when we must practice civil disobedience never remember that even right here in America, in order to get free from the oppression and the colonialism of the British Empire, our nation practiced civil disobedience. For what represented civil disobedience more than the Boston Tea Party.
And never forget that everything that Hitler did in Germany was legal. It was legal to do everything that Hitler did to the Jews. It was a law in Germany that Hitler issued himself that it was wrong and illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I tell you if I had lived in Hitler's Germany with my attitude, I would have openly broken that law. I would have practiced civil disobedience.
And so it is important to see that there are times when a man-made law is out of harmony with the moral law of the universe, there are times when human law is out of harmony with eternal and divine laws. And when that happens, you have an obligation to break it.
And I'm happy that in breaking it, I have some good company. I have Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. I have Jesus and Socrates. And I have all of the early Christians who refused to bow...
And this is what I want to say finally, that there is a reward if you do right for righteousness' sake...Don't ever think you're by yourself. Go on to jail if necessary but you'll never go alone.
Take a stand for that which is right, and the world may misunderstand you and criticize you, but you never go alone, for somewhere I read that "One with God is a majority," and God has a way of transforming a minority into a majority.
Walk with him this morning and believe in him and do what is right and he'll be with you even until the consummation of the ages. Yes, I've seen the lightning flash, I've heard the thunder roll, I've felt sin breakers dashing trying to conquer my soul but I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on, he promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone; no, never alone, no, never alone. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.
Where you going this morning, my friends, tell the world that you're going with truth. You're going with justice, you're going with goodness, and you will have an eternal companionship. And the world will look at you and they won't understand you, for your fiery furnace will be around you, but you'll go on anyhow.
But if not, I will not bow, and God grant that we will never bow before the gods of evil."


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In the first half of this column on June 19, I presented four core tenets or assumptions of Concordism. We resume our discussion of that view today with certain conclusions that follow from those assumptions. A short history of Concordism will follow on July 17.
Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
Some important conclusions of Concordism
(1) Scientific evidence for an old earth is generally reliable and needn't be refuted.
Unlike the YECs, OECs do not contest the enormous body of evidence showing that the earth and the universe are billions of years old, and that complex, macroscopic life forms have been on this planet for hundreds of millions of years. Quite the opposite. OEC authors often review selected pieces of the evidence, supplemented by arguments about how to read Genesis in light of that evidence, hoping to persuade YEC readers that mainstream scientific conclusions are indeed very well founded and do not contradict the Bible.
Indeed, concordists usually seem to be writing with one eye on YEC readers. Hugh Ross, an outspoken advocate of the day-age view whose views have already been discussed, is probably the most obvious example of such an author today, although many other examples could be given. Thirty-five years ago, when Scientific Creationism was still relatively new, an influential group of evangelical authors very actively pushed progressive creationist interpretations with both eyes on YEC readers. Although obviously dated, their works still have value for those interested in the age of the earth & universe in relation to Genesis.
The late Dan Wonderley taught biology for several years at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, where YEC pioneer John Whitcomb taught at the seminary. A Baptist with master's degrees in both theology and biology, Wonderley had to resign after his OEC views became publically known. A few years later he published a book, God's Time-Records in Ancient Sediments: Evidences of Long Time Spans in Earth's History(1977), in which he presented his day-age position. Perhaps its most useful feature is the detailed account of scientific evidence unrelated to the radioactive processes that are so often criticized by YEC authors, undermining their credibility for many conservative Christian readers. It's not that Wonderley denied the validity of radiometric data, but he wanted readers to understand that even if they did not accept such data there was still abundant evidence for the great antiquity of the earth. A revised edition is available here. For a shorter version, see his article, "Non-Radiometric Data Relevant to the Question of Age". I recommend that interested parties examine these sources and place comments below.
Wonderley's essay was soon reprinted as an appendix to another important OEC book, Genesis One and the Origin of the Earth (1977), written by astronomer and biblical scholar Robert C. Newman and a scientifically-trained pastor, Herman J. Eckelmann, Jr. The revised edition of this book is also available on the internet. The authors advance an esoteric OEC interpretation of the Genesis "days," in which each of the six creative "days" was an ordinary day, but vast periods of time are interspersed between them; this is known as the "intermittent day" view. A Reformed scholar who taught New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA, for thirty-five years, Newman has in recent years been interested in ID. That should not be surprising. Many, perhaps most, ID supporters probably hold to some type of concordism, but this is hard to sort out since ID's official stance is to keep the Bible out of the conversation, as far as possible. Indeed, to some extent the OEC view has been subsumed within ID, though covertly rather than overtly. I will say more about this in my upcoming columns about ID.
Simultaneously with the books by Wonderley and Newman, geologist Davis A. Young published Creation and the Flood: An Alternative to Flood Geology and Theistic Evolution (1977). Young's father was a very conservative Presbyterian biblical scholar, the late E. J. Young. In the early 1960s, as an undergraduate at Princeton and a master's student at Penn State, Davis Young enthusiastically supported Whitcomb and Morris' flood geology, but he changed his mind as a doctoral student at Brown, subsequently becoming an energetic opponent of the YEC position (Ronald Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, 2006, pp. 304-306). As a professor at Calvin College (now retired), he has written many excellent books and articles combining scientific, historical, and biblical information on the flood, the age of the Earth (and anexpanded version), human antiquity, and even John Calvin's understanding of nature. Young might still be a concordist of some type, but several years ago he gave up the day-age view and many of his later works don't fit naturally into any of the boxes I'm using in this series. However, his scholarship is impeccable and everything he writes is well worth reading, whether or not it advances a concordist model. The consistently high quality of his work led The Geological Society of America to name him recipient of the Mary C. Rabbitt History of Geology Award in 2009. Creationist Jonathan Sarfati, on the other hand, accuses Young of "poor scholarship and self deception", while YEC geologist John K. Reed responds to Young and several other conservative Reformed geologists who accept an old earth here.
Incidentally, I met all three of these men (Wonderley, Newman, and Young) not too long after their books came out. We were all involved with the American Scientific Affiliation. Readers who are very serious about Christianity and science should join that excellent organization: there simply is no substitute for the kind of live human interaction they foster. No blog or list-serve can come close to matching it.
(2) Animals died long before the Fall of Adam and Eve.
OECs not only accept the geological evidence for antiquity, they also accept its implications for interpreting Genesis—including its implications for theodicy. Newman didn't go into this, but Young weighed in extensively in his first book, Creation and the Flood. I'll leave it as an "assignment" for readers to investigate more fully and make a report to the "class." Wonderley's book includes a short appendix on "The Problem of Death Before the Fall of Man" that should be read at this point. OECs today still talk about death before the fall, partly because the absence of animal suffering prior to the fall is absolutely crucial to the YEC view of God and the Bible.
OECs hold similar views about God and the Bible, alongside different views about natural history, so (pardon the pun) they take great pains to explain pain in a manner consistent with their OEC stance. A nice contemporary example is physicist David Snoke, who is also a licensed preacher in a very conservative denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. (I don't want to digress very far, but let me note in passing that the sin-death issue is especially important to Reformed Christians.) Snoke devotes substantial attention to theodicy in his OEC book, A Biblical Case for an Old Earth and in an interesting article, "Why Were Dangerous Animals Created?". Creationist Lita Cosner calls Snoke's book "pathetic", adding that "it takes an amazing amount of arrogance to think that someone can refute young-earth creationism in any kind of detail in a book less than 200 pages long," despite the fact that dozens of YECs have claimed to "refute" evolution in books that are even shorter!
A recent concordist book about theodicy by William Dembski has drawn substantial attention—partly because the author is a leading advocate of ID, and partly because when he wrote it he was teaching at a seminary owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, a denomination in which the YEC view has many influential advocates (especially R. Albert Mohler, Jr.). Entitled The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World , Dembski states that this particular book, unlike his others, is not about ID, even though the problem of evil is highly relevant to the nature of an intelligent designer. Rather, it is essentially an OEC book, written with both eyes on the YECs—with whom he expresses much sympathy: "The young-earth solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense," and it was the consensus view through the Reformation. However, he quickly adds, "I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it." (p. 55) Indeed, as he says in an interview about the book, the issue of death before the fall "is at the heart of the debate between young and old earth creationists". Dembski also advocates a local flood, and he treats the garden of Eden as a "segregated area in which the effects of natural evil are not evident" (p. 151; for more, see Dembski's separate article here). I'll be more specific about Dembski's theodicy in the final part of this column, where I'll highlight an historical connection he makes himself. For the time being, I only note that his views on all of these points have been controversial among Southern Baptists and other fundamentalists, such that he had to retract his position on the flood in order to remain on the faculty at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (see the "Preamble" by Paige Patterson, president of the seminary, here).
(3) Quite a bit of evolution may have happened, but humans and (at least some) other major forms of life were separately created.
Hugh Ross apparently thinks that millions of creatures were created separately. In their contribution to The G3n3sis Debate : Three Views on the Days of Creation, Ross and his co-author, the late Gleason Archer, say, "we acknowledge hundreds of millions of miracles over millions, even billions of years," but they may lie on one end of this issue (p. 196). Regardless, this is one reason why concordists are often called "old-earth creationists." It is misleading in the extreme to call them "evolutionists," as the YECs often do, simply because they accept an "old" earth and universe.
Of course, the crucial issue is human origins: whatever a given OEC thinks about how many other creatures were separately created, God created Adam and Eve ex nihilo!
Looking Ahead
Our study of Concordism concludes on Monday, July 16 (not on Tuesday, July 17 as you've come to expect) with a sketch of its history. In the meantime, let's keep talking about Concordism.

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I'm starting to notice a theme emerging in the food I have been shooting and sharing with you recently: breakfast, better yet weekend breakfast recipes. Perhaps that should come as no surprise – I know very few people in the world who do not enjoy a leisurely breakfast on a weekend morning. But even more than usual, I have found myself yearning for these dishes on the weekend. All week I crave the simplicity, the slower pace, even if just for one meal.
Welsh Rarebit is a fairly new recipe in my repertoire, but with crusty bread, cheese, eggs, and beer, I am sure it is one that is here to stay. This is a hearty meal that will keep your hunger at bay for most of the remainder of your day and I bet, like me, you will find yourself daydreaming of the dish – and the weekend – soon after the next workday begins.
Serves 2 to 4
Adapted from Talking With My Mouth Full by Gail Simmons
This is a hearty breakfast, perfect for a lazy weekend morning. Use a hearty bread that will stand up to, but not overpower the dish: rye, pumpernickel, or country are all good options. I also make this dish when I have leftover Homemade Everything Bagels, which adds a delicious crunch.
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons mustard powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 cup Guinness (I like to use the Foreign Stout)
1 tablespoon Worcetershire sauce
4 ounces extra-sharp cheddar cheese, coarsely grated
4 pieces toasted bread, sliced about 1/2-inch thick
4 large eggs
Coarse salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Pickles, for serving
Place rack in the middle of the oven and preheat broiler.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a small saucepan over medium heat, then stir in flour with a rubber spatula. Cook, stirring often to ensure no lumps form, until mixture is golden brown and very fragrant, about 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in mustard powder and cayenne, followed by beer and Worcestershire sauce.
When mixture is well combined, turn heat to low and whisk in cheese until very smooth. Spread a thick layer of the mixture on toasted bread slices. Place on a sheet tray under the broiler, until cheese is bubbly and edges of toast are crisp and golden, about 4 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. When butter begins to foam, reduce heat to medium-low, crack eggs into butter, and fry until whites are set and yolks are still runny.
Place one egg on top of each slice of bread and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve immediately with pickles. Leftover cheese mixture may be refrigerated up to 1 day.


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Fabian Society Labour party leadership hustings
June 15, 2010 12 Comments
In the copy of progress magazine that I stole from the Fabians' leadership hustings tonight, Richard Angell interviews David Miliband about his candidacy for the Labour leadership.
In it, there is a quote that just about sums up his campaign:
In his first weekend as leadership contender, the former aide to Tony Blair appears to be distancing himself from New Labour with his call for the party to become 'Next Labour'.
Miliband the elder is the least comfortable candidate with really identifying where the New Labour project, to which he is linked – despite what the above says – failed. He is also the least comfortable candidate when explaining where he wants to see the party go to, in order to change its image from, as Andy Burnham pointed out during the debate, "pro-big business without being pro-ordinary people".
This comes through in the very New Labour quote above; meaningless symbolism and clap in the words "Next Labour" – it is hard to even make sense of what this could mean. Unlike what the interviewer says, it reveals no distancing whatsoever.
David Miliband went further in his soundbite babblery hatchet job with his opening statement. Among other vague notions he told the audience of Fabians:
the question for us is how we turn the poetry of values into the prose of real change in people's lives
It didn't get much better for him, stumbling over safe and habitual epithets, nervous smiles and uncomfortable hand gestures towards Dianne Abbott to his left (!).
A well-known blogger I got talking to recently, toying with whether to have Dave Miliband as his first choice candidate when the party comes to vote, told me that all candidates are trying to weave leftist tenets into their gamut, but nobody is reaching to the right. After wiping up the spillages I had made after hearing that, I realised that nobody else in the party but David Miliband was someone able to do both; someone to remind the party of its regretful right wing flirting past, and one who says through gritted teeth things we on the left vaguely want to hear, but see straight through it when uttered from his mouth. He reminded the audience tonight of how right I am (even if I do say so myself).
After answers to phantom questions about concerns to family life for MPs, agreement across the board about the 10p tax, Burnham's reception of slow hand clapping for his uncommitted and nervous comments on immigration and the war in Iraq, and boring questions on women MPs and voting systems (boring, only because we already know the answer in advance; for more women; AV system) – not to mention Ed Balls' mistimed jokes, met with flapping hands from Ellie Gellard in the front row – audience members with a little more blood lust were wondering where those questions aimed to stump our candidates were going to come from.
The best we got was a question from the audience on what measure the candidates wish they could delete from Labour's past, which worryingly turned out to be the question all candidates had some of their finest moments with (with the exception of, again, David Miliband, who was clearly keen on being the voice of the past, New Labour legacy intact).
It was Andy Burnham, and not Dianne Abbott, who played the divider tonight, to the surprise of many people I have spoken to. He was the one laying himself open and making friends and enemies along the way, whether on the clergy in the Lords (which he opposes, but will explain his reasons in confession for, by his own jesty admission), to selection in schools to his own class and upbringing in Manchester.
Abbott was playing it far more pluralistic than many had anticipated, being personable and less antagonistic than many would hope (leaving that space for Burham).
Ed Balls was barely clear all evening, most comfortable when he was talking absolute jibberish and complaining about criticism he has had to endure as Minister. His attempts to re-write his past support for the war in Iraq, which he now admits was a mistake, were badly executed when he told the audience: "we should say sorry and move on" – if only life were so easy. These are not the words of a man in touch.
This leaves me to talk about the candidate who won the debate hands down tonight. Ed Miliband wanted to drive home the message that he was a "values driven" candidate, calling for Lords reform, a 50% female shadow cabinet, a need to govern markets by democracy, a look at top pay in the private sector, a high pay commission, a living wage, and the need to criticise capitalism from a democratic perspective.
Emma Burnell asked the pivtal question at the end of the night: "are you a Socialist – and what does the word mean to you?" David Miliband of course skirted round the issue, saying he was happy to accept what is written on the back of Labour membership cards (democratic socialist), while the others used the word to explain why they opposed social barriers. Ed Miliband used the most colourful language when he noted that:
Being a socialist for me is about being willing to criticise capitalism – and saying capitalism produces many injustices, which politics must tackle. It is not about abolishing capitalism but it is about changing it.
Balls noted having no truck with barriers, Burnham quoted Billy Bragg and Abbott spoke about the marginalisation of the minority working class.
These events are about Labour members and supporters working out who comes off best. Small-scale differences aside, the candidate scores points by saying the things you want to hear, appearing to mean it, and manoeuvering better on the spot than others. For me, Ed Miliband did this the best, not necessarily because I feel his politics are closer to mine than that of any other candidate, nor because I desire for him to be the next leader of the Labour party, but because he spoke clearly and elegantly about important matters, rallied with passion about more than just things we might want to hear him say, and did this far better than any of his colleagues.


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Q&A: Cyclocross Cliques, XTerra Dares, Favorite Bikes
What's your favorite bike and favorite type of riding?
Ouch! Favorite bike! That's a tough one.
To be honest, my favorite bike is a figment of my memory. It was a vintage Pogliaghi that Sal gave to me to use when I met him. A "friend" of ours took it and never returned it. It's a long story.
Back to reality. Here's my favorite bike: Veloforma F1R Road Bike
It's the nicest bike I've ever had, more bike than I probably deserve, and on the first day I rode it I felt like I could climb.
If that ain't magic, then I don't know what is.
As for my favorite riding, it's a tie between cyclocross and touring. The touring thing might come as a surprise since I haven't done a lot of it but I absolutely love the idea of the bike as Journey Machine. I'm smitten with actually covering significant ground with my bike, instead of just riding in big 80 mile circles around town. I have done a lot of ultralight backpacking in the past and I like the feeling of self-sufficiency and simplicity.
When you first got into cross, did you find that there was a bit of a "clique" mentality that you had to get passed, or was the community more open. -OR- How did you find the attitudes of the people when you first got into cross?
You know. This is a really interesting question.
I routinely write about how inclusive and fun cyclocross is. About how easy it is to get into and how welcoming the community is. And I really think all those things are true – compared to road racing, cyclocross is a kumbaya campfire of cycling love.
But because the community is so tight knit, you definitely know when you're not in it.
The first year Sal and I raced we put an umbrella in a bike workstand and warmed up underneath it alone. Our friend Sherry came to all of our races and often talked me into racing when I tried to back out at the last minute because I was scared out of my mind.
We didn't really feel specifically isolated, but we definitely didn't feel like part of the club. It wasn't personal – it was just a matter of hanging out and racing and talking to people and meeting people. It took time. I felt like people were extremely friendly and welcoming when we did get to interact with them.
And – then – BAM! After the first year, people recognize you from the year before. They recognize you on training rides. They wave. You talk to them on the start line. They offer you a burger. They offer you a beer.
The rest is history.
I'd say, like all good relationships, it took time because because it was substantive and meaningful.
I dare, no DOUBLE DOG DARE, you to race XTERRA Portland on August 14, 2010 at Hagg Lake.
(I know someone who will teach you how not to drowned)
I'm scaring even myself with this response but. I'm actually a little tempted.
Why bikes?
I never really had a choice. They came with the Sicilian.
I joke about this, but it's true. I would have never been inclined to become a competitive cyclist otherwise.
It's an expensive sport requiring obnoxious amounts of time. I find the demographics troubling. There's a lot about cycling that I struggle with, actually.
But after many years, bike-love finally overcame me.
Why Sal?
Sal is funny and calm and happy.
He is kind of like human valium for me. :)
What I'm saying is, we complement each other. He keeps me sane, I keep him motivated.
Also, Sal doesn't want kids and that's a hard quality to find in a good man, I tell you.
Where is Tyler Brady?
I really wish I knew but I hope he's safe and sound.
It seems like you ride all year long, from someone like myself who has a winter to xc ski I sometimes get burned out trying to get as much riding as possible in from March to November or December depending on the weather how do you keep from burnout?????
Ah ha! A common misconception. I actually do not ride my bike all the time.
I hate riding in the summer and prefer to ride in the colder winter months. Last year I did not touch my bike once during the month of July and only rode twice in August (for a total of 85 miles). During 'cross season from September to December I averaged 20 miles a week, which included races (which basically accounts for one hour training a week with a race on Sunday). FYI: I do not recommend this training plan.
I'm a big fan of taking breaks from the bike. I burn out mentally very easily – mostly because I get bored out of my mind with cycling after a while.
When that happens I usually start running again. I'm also an unapologetic gym rat with a penchant for weight lifting. And I love brushing up on my line-drive mashing capabilities at the batting cages.
So, basically, when you feel burned out – do something else! The day you feel obligated to be on the bike is absolutely the day you should stay away from it. (Unless you're working toward some really lofty goal that requires some intense training and a different level of commitment, if that's the case – then remind yourself what you're working toward and go pedal.)
What kind of camera do you use on your rides?
I use a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 or my iPhone. The Lumix is a little bigger than I'd like, but it does the trick. I just set it to "Sports Mode" and let 'er rip.
2 Responses to "Q&A: Cyclocross Cliques, XTerra Dares, Favorite Bikes"
I know what you mean about summer and heat,,,,, I prefer the colder weather also ….. Thanks
Perhaps because none of my racing buddies expected me to try cyclocross, when I entered my first race last fall they damned near threw me a party just for showing up.
Still, I know what you mean. The 'cross scene is *the* friendliest place ever.


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Sweet and Sour Chicken
I've made this one several times now, it a fast route to sweet and sour chicken, easily done on a busy weeknight. This is not least because the sauce is just stirred together in a jug before actually cooking it. It's not the same as Ching-He Huang's one that I make, but then it in turn isn't as easy for a weeknight either – so they both have their place in my kitchen
Baked Seafood
I just did this with prawns, because that as what looked best on the day I made it, think I'll add in some salmon next time too. It was good, the pan juices really made it.
Chocolate Orange Loaf Cake
Well I don't suppose it's much of a surprise that we loved this one given our liking for the pairing of chocolate and orange. It disappeared quickly – not even a slice left for next day.
Cheesy Chilli
Wouldn't make this one again. It didn't work for me on three levels, the chilli itself was not flavourful enough, the cheese was bland here, and it in turn made the whole chilli a bit water-y. Can't love them all.
Bolognese Risotto
This one by contrast was absolutely superb. The mix bubbles ferociously when the meat sauce is added, and do watch it doesn't spark you, as I got a little burn. Still, it is so worth making, I used beef stock and missed out the anchovies- and it was so just so good.
I had a bit of leftovers so made the risotto cakes appended to the recipe, and although they weren't as good as the initial risotto (but that would have very hard really), they were a nice supper to use up what was left.
Bacon and Egg Salad
I've been making this for ages, a go to lunch. Nigella's method for boiling eggs works a treat, they are a good texture. I do my boiled eggs a la Nigella now.
Franks in Blanks
Don't make these if you are on a diet – they are oddly compulsive. Nigella does warn us of this in her introduction, and it's true. I've made (although assembled is more like it) these so many times both with full fat puff pastry and also the lower fat puff that has appeared in the shops recently. Both were good. We did try the mustard dipping sauce, but it blew my head off with its fiery intensity. On two or three occasions I did try watering the heat down a bit, but in our house Heinz tomato ketchup is the order of the day apparently!
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cheesecake
This is very very rich. Too rich for my tastes, and I'm not averse to butter and cream. It did have a lovely texture though. Hubby really disliked it, so won't do this one again.
Korean Keema
Oh how I'm addicted to this. I've surprised myself, being a self confessed chilli wimp. If I haven't made this for a couple of weeks I feel I must have it again. Pretty healthy too.
Chorizo and Chicken Bake
This one is very easy and full of flavour. A green vegetable and your are set for a feast.
Red Velvet Cake
I've posted about this recipe as cupcakes before, and this is it in cake form. I made for a Birthday cake, as was requested, and it's just as good in cake form. You can really see the red this way. I decorated it with sprinkles and edible glitter, would be nice as a Christmas time party cake too. I thought it was beautiful!
Followed by my Next Review : The Hairy Bikers new one: Mum's Still Know Best by Si King and Dave Myers. I've made a few recieps from this one already, and looking forward th sharing with you.


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Somewhere between the heights of Peer made and Vagamon and the plains of Kumarakom and Kottayam town, you will sit on the veranda of a white 53-year-old art deco home and not really care where in the world you are. In the Mundakayam midland slopes plantation life is at its laid-back best. George and Anju Abraham, owners of a 50-acre rubber plantation in Kootickal are relaxed hosts and typify Kerala's estate gentry. The much-traveled George is well connected in the tourism industry and can suggest and arrange many a trip around his homeland.Read more
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NETTLE CREEK – Heavy loads and thawing roads should not mix, according to Grundy County engineers, so rural residents can say goodbye to their garbage collectors until further notice.
Highland, Erienna, Nettle Creek and Wauponsee townships are halting their trash pickup to prevent garbage trucks from creating pot holes. Residents have been asked to haul their garbage to designated drop-off sites until the roads are stable enough to accommodate the heavy loads.
The initiative will only effect those residents living on weight-restricted roads. Such as in Wauponsee Township there are only about 12 homes that will have to bring their garbage to another location. Those homes are off of Lynn, Vanderpool and Lund roads.
County engineers and township road commissioners have deemed the program a necessary inconvenience to prevent expensive pavement repairs later this spring.
"The past two years, we didn't do it because our road conditions were a lot different than this year's conditions," said Ryan Cryder, road commissioner for Nettle Creek Township. "But with the very deep frost under our roads, we thought we should do it."
As the ground warms and the frost thaws, county roads are made vulnerable by "soft spots," caused by the changing, unstable ground, Grundy County Civil Engineer Brian Tjernlund said.
"Frost develops under the roads," he said. "It happens under all roads, but the ones most at risk are the oil, chip and gravel roads, which is what many of the rural township roads are."
Large garbage trucks can "rip up the roads very quickly," when the soft spots form, Grundy County Engineer Craig Cassem said.
The problem is intensified in rural areas, such as Nettle Creek, where residents are free to choose their own garbage collection company. Because of this, multiple garbage trucks – one from each pickup provider – can travel down the same road in the span of a just few hours.
"You may have three or four garbage trucks run down the same road just to pick up for three or four different homes," Cryder said.
Typically, it takes one month for the frost to melt and roads to strengthen, but this year, the thaw could take longer since this winter's frost was so deep, Tjernlund said.
This leaves residents without garbage pickup for an extended amount of time which will most likely anger some rural homeowners, Cryder said.
When this program was used in years past, Cryder said he heard complaints from several residents, especially those who were unable to drive to the township hall and unload their garbage.
"It is something that, of course, hasn't gone over really well," he said.
In Nettle Creek, Cryder said people have left their garbage outside the dumpster or have not used garbage bags, creating a mess for him to clean.
Cryder said he understands the service stoppage can be a major inconvenience for residents, but felt it could not be avoided this year with the harsh winter.
The highway department directed residents with any questions or concerns to contact their waste hauler, their township road commissioner or the county highway department.
"This can be a real pain," Cassem said. "But it's something we need to do to prevent damages and expensive repairs."
Drop-off sites
Highland – Old Kinsman Grade School located on Kinsman Road; the Highland Township Garage located at the intersection of Kinsman and Cahill roads
Erienna – 7110 Old Stage Road, located east of Mann's Floral Shop
Nettle Creek – Nettle Township Building located on Nettle Creek Road
Wauponsee – Wauponsee Township Garage located at IL 47 and Southmor Road


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The University of Tasmania's music program is grounded in the vibrant cultural community that is the Conservatorium of Music. Connected to the groundswell of creativity in Tasmania, the Conservatorium not only provides world-class staff, music facilities, study and performance opportunities, but the personal attention and incredible working relationships only possible in a smaller institution.
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Through creative partnerships with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, MONA, DARK MOFO, Tasmanian Youth Orchestra and the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, find yourself at the centre of Tasmania's internationally acclaimed festivals and cultural institutions. Develop the industry connections and creative, academic and physical skills to prepare you for a life of outstanding music making and artistic leadership.
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The Conservatorium of Music is located between Hobart's vibrant cultural precinct and the CBD. A few minutes walk in one direction takes you to Salamanca Place, Constitution Dock where the ferry leaves to MONA, TMAG and UTAS' Hunter Street campus for art and design. A short walk the other way offers an eclectic range of boutiques, cafes and large retailers.
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Give yourself every chance to create, perform and grow artistically with courses that maintain a practice-based approach. Expect regular opportunities to collaborate across disciplines, explore new technologies, and engage with acclaimed musicians.
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The Conservatorium of Music's Red Lion Drum Corps was a first in Australian universities when established in 2012.
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In 2011, the Camerata gave an online streaming performance which received acclaim from many countries including China, the USA, Japan and the United Kingdom.
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Our research also investigates how music enhances the spiritual experience, including the impact of African American gospel music within Australia. More broadly, our staff and students are developing creative solutions for problems associated with historical and contemporary performance practice.
We publish research in both traditional scholarly formats (books, edited collections, chapters, journal articles and conference papers) and non-traditional creative formats (compositions, performances, sound recordings), both within Australia and internationally.
We welcome proposals from qualified applicants to undertake research degrees in PhDs and Masters.
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"Now that people are seemingly inseparable from their tablets, using them for everything from sending emails to watching videos, they want accessories powered to meet their needs," said Alexis Richard, director of product marketing at Logitech. "The Logitech Solar Keyboard Folio is a smart partner for your iPad. Its sleek built-in keyboard uses light to charge and it provides hassle-free protection for your iPad – both for the front and back. It gives you an ideal way to use and protect your tablet without adding bulk."
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The next day, once again, there was a message waiting for me. This time it was the charge nurse who had taken the call, and she had gotten some more information: it was Mrs Jones, who wanted to meet me and thank me for "saving her husband's life."
Comprehension dawned.
I had almost forgotten about the megacode of last week. I looked Mr. Jones up in the computer and saw that he was doing very well. So when I got a moment I went back up to the ICU to check in on him.
He was asleep, but his daughter was at the bedside. She was a beautiful young woman, in her late teens or maybe twenty years old. I introduced myself and we chatted; she wept and thanked me profusely for our efforts. She told me how great her dad was, and how much it meant to have him still around. Eventually the noise woke him up and he asked me who I was. I introduced myself as one of the doctors who had worked on him when he had his cardiac arrest. Too late, I saw her frantically waving her hands behind him, clearly mouthing the words, "We haven't told him!"
"I had a cardiac arrest?"
Awkward. "Um, yeah. A little one. Nothing much really."
"So what did you all have to do to me?"
"Well, we just ... ah ... pushed on your chest a bit and gave you some medicines."
"Oh." He mused a bit. "So that's why my ribs hurt."
He let it drop, and we had a nice conversation. He thought it was 2006, but otherwise was pretty oriented. A fellow Bears fan, we talked football. He asked how Jay Cutler was working out. Awkward. "He's had some good games, but a few rough ones. I think he could use some more support from the offensive line." I didn't have the heart to tell him about Favre.
On my way out, he stopped me. "So doc, was I dead? Was it pretty bad? How close was I?"
How do you answer that? It's hard to be honest when you don't want to agitate someone who is still pretty ill. I went for the euphemism: "Well, your heart wasn't beating effectively, so you were unconscious. From your perspective, it was more like a prolonged fainting spell. But you're still here, so clearly you weren't dead." One of my old professors had liked to say that the difference between fainting and dying is that you wake up. That seemed to satisfy him, and we parted.
I had given my card to his daughter, and Mrs Jones and I traded emails and voice messages for several days till we finally hooked up. She and her youngest son came by the ER and she enveloped me in a crushing hug. I'm not usually the hugging type, but in cases like this I can make an exception. She told me in very affecting terms how grateful they were to all of us. Her nine-year-old told me, in the non sequitur manner of the young, that he had just gotten his black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She told me about her husband's work, the church he runs, how he was the glue holding their family together. I told her that I was just one part of a large team that had done the work. She left, still wiping tears, promising to bring cookies to the ER for us to enjoy.
There are so many codes I've run. So many times I've told families that their loved one is dead and gone forever. So many times I've left the room to the sound of strangled sobs and tears. Bad outcomes are the rule, perhaps not surprising in a situation when the patients come in already dead or actively in the process of dying. So many times I've called the ICU doc for the admission after resuscitation, knowing that the pathology -- the head bleed, the anoxia, the sepsis, etc -- is overwhelming and undoubtedly lethal. Like many health care providers, I too become habituated to death, jaded by the inevitability of mortality, enervated by the futility of the rigmarole.
These few cases, the happy endings: they are so rare, and when they do happen so often they are so utterly unexpected, like a bolt from the blue, that when someone defies the odds and defies all logic in surviving and not only surviving but doing so unscathed it doubles and triples the delight we take in their good fortune. It reminds us not to be cynical, that though you do CPR on a hundred people, not all of them will die, so you should focus your effort and energy on the one whose chest you are compressing right now, because this might be the one who makes it all worthwhile. That's the payoff -- a dozen cases and more of suffering and tragedy for the one whose wife hugs you and promises you cookies. That makes it all worthwhile.
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The retail merchandising software market has become increasingly complex over the past decade. Large ERP vendors and retail specialists have blurred the lines between inventory management, merchandising and supply chain management, making the merchandising market appear much more complex than it really is.
In order to help you navigate your software purchase, we've written this buyer's guide to help you understand the market and know where to begin your research.
Here's what we'll cover:
What Is Merchandising Software?
Deployment Strategies
Benefits and Potential Issues
Market Trends to Understand
The Merchandising Vendor Landscape
Small and mid-sized retailers can learn a lesson that tier-one retailers have learned the hard way: merchandise planning can and should be a precise science. If not, poor merchandise decisions will usually lead to lost profits. On the most basic level, merchandising software helps retailers plan and execute merchandise operations, including deciding which items to stock, where to stock them, when to promote them and how to price them. It eliminates the guesswork that retailers have been conducting for years, often based on subjective experience and formulas in Excel spreadsheets.
Core features for merchandising systems include pricing engines that help retailers price items based on competitors' prices, gross profit margins, demand, past sales performance and vendor incentives. Systems also help retailers recognize where given items sell best and under what conditions. Analytical tools help retailers see the impact of their decisions to better plan future merchandising strategies.
Buyers of merchandise management software will essentially have two options: implement a best-of-breed package or a complete retail suite. Best-of-breed buyers will enjoy being able to purchase a merchandising system that exactly matches their needs, while they will face the challenge of integrating it with their existing applications. Integrated suite buyers will like having one, integrated system, while they will face a larger spend and a potentially more complex implementation. The decision will be based largely on retailers' existing applications, their immediate needs, and their budgets.
Properly implemented merchandise management systems should yield a number of benefits that impact multiple aspects of the enterprise. The most common benefits include the following:
Optimized inventory. Robust analytical tools offer insight into key merchandise decisions, such as: Which items sell the best at which locations? What are the sales rates of items in different seasons? Which inventory mixes and item pairings lead to increased cross-sales? Being able to answer these questions intelligently enables retailers to have the right quantities items on sale at the right time. Cross sales are key sources of profit margin growth as well.
Increased revenue. Due to a better understanding of consumer demand, retailers should be able to maximize revenue by increasing sales of hot-selling items and preventing overstocks of items that move slowly. Integrated item pricing engines help staff price and discount items to leverage buying trends and inventory levels.
Improved efficiency and productivity of staff. Employees in supply chain and merchandising departments should find that formal solutions save them time from performing redundant tasks in Excel and other programs. Having all efforts centralized leads to less wasted time and more effective employees, allowing them them to focus on productive tasks that improve the company.
Improved customer service. Retailers can expect to keep customers happy and keep them returning when they find what they are looking for at the right time. They will also spend less time trying to help find customers out-of-stock or back-ordered items, saving time and reducing buyer frustration.
As with all technology implementations, there are a few potential issues to consider when comparing solutions for retail merchandising. The most common concerns we hear about are related to ease of use and costs. This first risk is a risk common to most enterprise IT implementations. IT purchasers should ensure that the system is not overly complex and should not try to save costs by reducing training. Proper training is essential to merchandise systems and improper training is a large contributor to failed implementations. Like most enterprise systems with robust analytical tools, merchandise systems can be very expensive, but the costs of not having a formal system are very high. Retailers should pay close attention to revenue and profit margin growth after implementing merchandising software to gauge their overall return on investment (ROI). Most enterprise retailers should find that a properly implemented system will lead to a positive ROI.
Various trends impact the retail merchandising solutions market. The primary trends include the following:
The retail merchandising market becomes much less cluttered when buyers approach it with their respective deployment strategies in mind.
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|Vendors who offer merchandising only on a best-of-breed basis
|Vendors who offer merchandising on a best-of-breed basis AND as part of an integrated suite
|SAP, Epicor, Jesta Vision
|Vendors who offer merchandising only as part of an integrated retail suite
|Celerant, Cybex
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NJ Power Outages Drop to 2.3 Million After Sandy
The number of power outages in New Jersey from hybrid storm Sandy has dropped to 2.3 million.
It was the first time the number of outages has dropped since the storm hit. It peaked at 2.7 million earlier Tuesday.
The state's largest utility, Public Service Electric & Gas, reports 1.1 million of its residential and business customers don't have electricity, down from 1.4 million.
PSE&G says full restoration could take seven days or more.
Jersey Central Power & Light reports nearly 1 million customers without power Tuesday afternoon, a decline of 100,000.
Atlantic City Electric was down slightly to 181,000 out. Orange & Rockland reports about 52,000 outages, about the same as earlier in the day.
The utilities say it may be another day before they can begin major restoration efforts as the winds need to die down so crews can safetly be hoisted off the ground. They are asking customers to report outages so they can pinpoint issues and better plan their work.
JCP+L posted on its Facebook page it has intentionally shut down power to the barrier islands of Monmouth & Ocean counties to protect equipment, a move they say will help with getting power restored more quickly.
Earlier, PSE+G, JCP+L and Atlantic City Electric expressed confidence they are ready for the cleanup when Sandy passes. PSE&G says they have secured 653 line workers from other utilities to assist PSE&G's 600 linemen in restoring power along with extra tree contractors to clear damaged trees and limbs from power lines.
Atlantic City Electric reports the activation of all its field personnel including utility crews from states as far away as Alabama and Louisiana to assist with restoring power. JCP+L has 400 linemen and 1,200 additional line personnel from as far away as Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio en route.
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Topic: why do you think people attend college or university?
Nowadays, more and more people try their best to attend the University for several reasons. Also, studying in the university is my best priority when I finished high school. From my perspective, there are three reasons to apply to the university: a good way to prepare for career, to get more knowledge and try a wonderful experience.
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The Zen of Twitter's Retweet Feature
The Meme Ocean and the Art of Zen Retweeting
Today, I get to play Devil's Advocate. Today the quite brilliant, smashing, blunt, and brazen ladies of Outspoken Media declared "the suck" on Twitter's new RT feature. After reading it, I don't disagree with it in principal. It would definitely suck to have a great night of good times, think you went to bed alone, and wake up next to some chico/chica.
But, now with the ass-kissing and link-dropping out of the way, let's move into the position. While the new Retweet feature can be a bit invasive, it's only because we all see ourselves as a "stream" of meme. That this stream, like other tributaries, are encapsulated and flow into a larger system.
While this is not entirely incorrect, it's conceptual and subjective stance to see yourself as a stream. One could choose to think of themselves as a meme ocean. After all, what are tweets but 140 character memes dispersed in a finite system, connected to other finite systems.
The true genius behind the RT feature is that it tries to capture this Ocean Meme subjectivity. With Traditional RT'ing, you can stretch a meme only so far. Now the entirety of Twitter is an ocean. It's a movement away from the individualized stream into an almost super-conscious of meme threads and Zen Retweeting. But this only a surface level issue, and a little philosophical to explore without another post. So let's leave it at that.
The Point / Counterpoint:
However, I still have followers who will try out the new way and insert possible muggers, thieves and puppy killers into my stream. Twitter has now left me in a really uncomfortable position – let the strangers in and give up the sanctity of my network or block retweets from people in my network. I don't like how that feels. I don't like any of this.
I think that's a little bit of an exaggeration. And truthfully, I don't like it either. However, I do like the fact that my ego-driven meme can be spread even farther now, reaching people it might not normally ever run across. As for the "strangers in your stream", I tend to think it's a good. If Twitter is to really be a community, the new RT functionality is certainly fostering that idea. Of course you're going to get a fair share of worthlessness. Everyone's going to get spammed, and get "weird faces", but you've got to look past that.
The New RT: Death of Niche Communities
The great part about this is discovering those who you never would have discovered otherwise. The 3rd and 4th level connected followers. I admit, the odds definitely don't favor it, but there's always a diamond in the rough. This RT functionality does a lot to lift the veil on "niche communities" (i.e. the SEM community, the Celebrity community, or the Tech community). Straying into philosophical territory again, the new RT helps to show the inter-connectivity of system, the entire "no wo/man is an island" concept.
And, for a conflict-theorist subscriber, I always up for tearing down power-structures and leveling the playing field. Get ready for it: I'm about to call a spade a spade. The only people really, really, bitching about this new functionality are superstars of the Twitter community. Those with a relatively large following are obviously protective of their stream and followers. I don't think this is Twitter's way to spread the power equally, but it's certainly to get some exposure to those just engaging the space. And, after all, isn't that what each of us begs of followers (and ourselves): we care less about how you use the space, but that you engage it genuinely. This is a chance, an opportunity, to allow people to do that.
At the end of day, I'm on the side of giving Twitter a "Commendable Effort" award to help along the system as a whole get "more connected" and loosen the grip of niche-power-holdings within communities. You don't have to use it, but open yourselves up to the possibility that you may find some great folks out there who can provide insight, reliable, and trustworthy information (even if they are strangers to your ocean memes).
Nov 18 2009
Wow. Bold move Anthony.
Though I completely disagree with you.
"The only people really, really, bitching about this new functionality are superstars of the Twitter community. Those with a relatively large following are obviously protective of their stream and followers."
Really? Me, with my tiny following count? I'm a superstar of Twitter? Teh Awesome!
There are so many of us "little people" complaining it makes heads spin.
"I don't think this is Twitter's way to spread the power equally, but it's certainly to get some exposure to those just engaging the space."
Really? How does limiting the ReTweet to injecting alien avatars into my tweet stream garner my trust? The reason I follow new people is because the "old" RT method allows me to instantly consider who they're RTing. The new method mostly comes across as feeling like spam.
And I'm exponentially less likely to click on a link in one of these – instead, opting to ignore it rather than having to go hunt for the person I already trust in that RT stream.
With the previously unpolluted RT method, I was (and thanks to TweetDeck still AM) more likely to find new people to follow. That I can assess in a faster, more intelligent manner.
Just my counter-point to your counter-point.
Nov 18 2009
Nice post, and also a valid opinion.
While I personally fall on the side of Outspoken on this one, I completely acknowledge the logic here. I don't think it's a right or wrong issue, simply personal preference. Along those lines, maybe this is all leading towards an option allowing users to personalize their experiences (Preferences).
I personally don't follow many people, which would probably offer insight into the fact that I prefer a smaller network of people I'm comfortable with. Perhaps this will lead me to broaden my horizons…who can say.
I will say that I have no intentions of rebelling and blocking people. Will I subconsciously filter those I don't know? Could be, don't know. So far, yes.
Thanks for sharing the opinion. I prefer the old way, but your post has valid reasons others may disagree. I do not think this is as much a landslide failure as some seem to make it out to be…I just think they may be the louder ones. Time will tell there.
Nov 18 2009
But niche communities are kind of the whole point, right?
I mean, isn't that what's great about social media? That it provides mechanisms where you can go online and find the members of your own particular tribe? Where whatever kind of weird happens to spin your wicket, you can find those with whom to share it?
Nobody belongs to just one tribe. I'm in the "writer" tribe and the "left-wing social services tax-me-harder" tribe and the "local food and sustainable agriculture" tribe, yadda yadda. Twitter lets me collect my tribe members into my stream, and share with them as I see fit.
Now, somebody out there in my tribe is probably a member of the "feral cat lovers" tribe and someone else is probably in the "we love tofu just a little bit TOO much" tribe, and god knows what else. And that's great–for them. They can turn their twitter stream into something customized for them.
But there's no particular value to me in a retweet from some random joe about tantric tofu tips suddenly showing up in my stream.
The whole point of social media is enabling niche communities to find themselves and flourish. All this new RT feature does is decrease the signal-to-noise ratio overall, and that's no help to anyone.
Nov 18 2009
I like it. I wish it would let me add/edit to Retweets. I can always do old-school style for that though. For a Retweet with a click, it's perfect. At my age and status, waking up next to someone I don't recall immediately makes me want to start it up like I'm with Mick Jaggar. You know why? I trust myself, that's why. I even trust myself inebriated.
Nov 18 2009
Valid points and I can see this side of the argument. For me, though, it is still like inviting one person to a dinner party and having them send a total stranger in their place. It's an invasion and a violation of the trust I put in that person when I invited them to my dinner party (i.e. into my Twittersphere).
For the record, if I ever invite you to a real life dinner party, don't send someone in your place and don't bring anyone uninvited along. I bite strangers. 😉
Nov 18 2009
The strangers in the stream? well, how about spending say 10 hrs. writing a post and have someone else claim it literally, it happens all the time, or heaven forbid you be exposed to someone outside of your current sphere i.e. you meet a new person who may just be the smartest person in the room. Geez, that'd be a major catastrophe!
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Monday, May 24, 2010
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What an honor to be featured on design*sponge's sneak peak today! Thank you, Amy and Grace. More here.
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thanks guys- Maryann, I left a comment on D*S with sources, including tee-pee.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Eldorado - Antigravity Sound Machine
There's something in the air. I can feel it.
Living music as much as I do, day after day, it just feels like something big is happening. More and more it seems that the world is waking up to real rock n roll. The time of overly-produced, radio-fodder, corporate commercial pap is ending. People want to rock. They want real instruments and passon and energy. I sense a longing for old-school 70's festival shows like the famous Days on the Green in Oakland. People want real, retro hard n heavy rock.
And this seems to be happening all over the world, not just the classic music staples of the U.K., Sweden and Germany. Just check Miss Lava in Portugal. Concrete Sun in Serbia, and now, Eldorado from Spain.
I hadn't heard Eldorado before, but I've learned that Antigravity Sound Machine is their third album; their second with new singer Jesus Trujillo, and their second album sung in English (first album with Trujilo was in English and Spanish). Cool. Now that means I gotta go back and track down their first two albums because I'm a sucker for rock blasted out in a band's native language. Particularly if those albums sound half as good as Antigravity Sound Machine.
Full on retro-heaviness Zeppelin inspired rock is the name of game here. Blazing guitars and ballsy rhythms for days, played with zeal and fire. Trujillo ably brings a Plant-esque command to the music without ever aping the master. In fact, despite the retro-influences, Eldorado never fall into the "too-heavinly influenced by the masters" trap. They combine their Zeppelin meal with other 70's touches courtesey of Sabbath, and Bad Company, some 80's spice from the cookbook of The Black Crowes, and some stewy gobs of 90's grunge to the scene a la Soundgarden, fusing it all into a paella of simmering rock tastiness. I've seen a lot of references to Rival Sons, The Answer, and Wolfmother, but Eldorado seems much more real to me. The closest comparison I hear is Portlands, Ape Machine, and that's a damn fine band to be compared to.
"Background Radiation" is all Zep and Soundgarden swagger with soaring bluesy vocals and massive chunky riffs. Think Crowes, "Too Hot to Handle" existing on a diet of Red Bulls, weed and uppers for 20 years. It rages, it steams, it kicks some serious ass. "Like a Lost Child" builds off a simmering bass intro to layer in huge Deep Purple, Hammond organ, before dropping into a groovefest of mid-tempo blues-fueled stadium rock. This song just explodes with some tasty psychedelic guitar licks and groove. "Another Bright Sunday" is an explosion of ballsy, hard-rocking madness with massively thick grooves and a killer, guitar-vocal harmony verse.
From start to finish, Antigravity Sound Machine is a kick-ass journey through the world of retro-rock, with band finding ample room to explore and show off their chops. Quality from start to finish.
If the sounds of retro-70's rock are your thing, take heart, the world is right there with you. What started out as an underground rumble is becoming a world-wide roar. Rock is back, and Eldorado rightfully take their place leading that charge.
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