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– Timothy Geithner heads to private equity firm Warburg Pincus (Politico, Nov 16, 2013):
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, a trusted lieutenant to President Barack Obama who played a leading role in the government's response to the financial crisis, will join private-equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC in March.
On Saturday, the firm, which is headquartered in New York, announced Geithner will hold the titles of president and managing director.
"Warburg Pincus has an excellent record of performance, a very compelling global strategy and an ethical reputation of the highest regard," Geithner said in a statement. "I look forward to working with my new colleagues and to contributing to the firm's continued growth and success."
Private-equity firms' role in the financial sector played a leading role in the 2012 presidential campaign, with Democrats criticizing Republican candidate Mitt Romney over deals involving his firm, Bain Capital, that led to layoffs at different companies.
For instance, in May 2012 the Obama campaign ran an ad concerning Bain's role in the struggles of American Pad and Paper that featured former employees of the company criticizing Romney.Defenders of the industry argue it can help turn around struggling companies, but its critics, as the 2012 campaign showed, point to instances where these leveraged buyouts and the efforts to nurse a company back to financial health can often lead to large layoffs.
Following his departure from the Obama administration in January, Geithner has been giving paid speeches and working on a book but whether he would join a Wall Street firm remained a topic of interest in political and financial circles.
As both president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank between 2003 and 2009 and as Treasury secretary, Geithner was an architect of the response to the 2008 financial crisis, which led to taxpayer bailouts for big banks and insurer American International Group.
Geithner's supporters credited him for pushing a practical approach that prevented a complete meltdown of the financial system, but he faced criticism from some liberals and conservatives for being too quick to buy into the banking industry's concerns both during the crisis and later as the 2010 Dodd-Frank law was being drafted.
Private equity firms also find themselves involved in the ongoing debate over whether to overhaul the tax code.
Private equity executives, hedge-fund managers and others working on Wall Street pay a low tax rate on profits-based compensation known as carried interest. Instead of paying ordinary income taxes — which top out at almost 40 percent — carried interest is taxed as a capital gain, generally at a rate of 20 percent. Top earners started paying an additional 3.8 percent tax on their investment income, such as capital gains, this year.
Democrats have long argued for increasing the tax on carried interest.
"If you look at any tax reform proposal out there that has any patina of bipartisan support, they believe we have to rethink how we treat investment income and carried interest," Geithner said in July 2012 at a conference hosted by CNBC, according to Bloomberg."Obviously, carried interest doesn't raise that much revenue," Geithner said. "If you're not going to do that, whose taxes are you going to raise?"
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Saturday, Geithner declined to discuss public policy issues.
"I made a judgment when I left Washington I was going to leave these questions to my successors, and I'm going to stay true to that," he told the Journal.


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Party to Murder
The nearest analog
to Gaza in modern times
is the Warsaw Ghetto.
Chris Hedges
December 29, 2008
"It is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe that each day poses the entire
1.5 million Gazans to an unspeakable ordeal, to a struggle to survive in
terms of their health," Falk has said of the ongoing Israeli blockade of
Gaza. "This is an increasingly precarious condition. A recent study reports
that 46 percent of all Gazan children suffer from acute anemia. There are
reports that the sonic booms associated with Israeli overflights have caused
widespread deafness, especially among children. Gazan children need
thousands of hearing aids. Malnutrition is extremely high in a number of
different dimensions and affects 75 percent of Gazans. There are widespread
mental disorders, especially among young people without the will to live.
Over 50 percent of Gazan children under the age of 12 have been found to
have no will to live."
The body of a Palestinian security force officer
lies in the rubble after an Israeli missile
strike on a building in Gaza City on Sunday.
AP photo, Fadi Adwan
Editor's note: In light of the recent fighting in Gaza, Truthdig asked Chris Hedges,
who covered the Mideast for The New York Times for seven years, to update a
previous column* on Gaza.
Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza—the buildings
blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows
of mutilated corpses, the wailing mothers and wives, the crowds of terrified
Palestinians not knowing where to flee, the hospitals so overburdened and
out of supplies they cannot treat the wounded, and our studied, callous
indifference to this widespread human suffering—wonder why we are hated?
Our self-righteous celebration of ourselves and our supposed virtue is as
false as that of Israel. We have become monsters, militarized bullies,
heartless and savage. We are a party to human slaughter, a flagrant war crime,
and do nothing. We forget that the innocents who suffer and die in Gaza
are a reflection of ourselves, of how we might have been should fate
and time and geography have made the circumstances of our birth different.
We forget that we are all absurd and vulnerable creatures. We all have the
capacity to fear and hate and love. "Expose thyself to what wretches feel,"
King Lear said, entering the mud and straw hovel of Poor Tom, "and show
the heavens more just."
Privilege and power, especially military power, is a dangerous narcotic.
Violence destroys those who bear the brunt of its force, but also those who
try to use it to become gods. Over 350 Palestinians have been killed, many
of them civilians, and over 1,000 have been wounded since the air attacks
began on Saturday. Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister, said Israel is
engaged in a "war to the bitter end" against Hamas in Gaza. A war? Israel
uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely crowded
refugee camps and slums, to attack a population that has no air force,
no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized
armor, no command and control, no army, and calls it a war. It is not a war.
It is murder.
The U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian
territory, former Princeton University law professor Richard Falk, has labeled
what Israel is doing to the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza "a crime against
humanity." Falk, who is Jewish, has condemned the collective punishment of
the Palestinians in Gaza as "a flagrant and massive violation of international
humanitarian law as laid down in Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention." He has asked for "the International Criminal Court to
investigate the situation, and determine whether the Israeli civilian leaders
and military commanders responsible for the Gaza siege should be indicted
and prosecuted for violations of international criminal law."
Falk's unflinching honesty has enraged Israel. He was banned from entering
the country on Dec. 14 during his attempt to visit Gaza and the West Bank.
"After being denied entry I was put in a holding room with about 20 others
experiencing entry problems," he said. "At this point I was treated not as a
U.N. representative, but as some sort of security threat, subjected to an
inch-by-inch body search, and the most meticulous luggage inspection I have
ever witnessed. I was separated from my two U.N. companions, who were
allowed to enter Israel. At this point I was taken to the airport detention
facility a mile or so away, required to put all my bags and cell phone in a
room, taken to a locked, tiny room that had five other detainees, smelled of
urine and filth, and was an unwelcome invitation to claustrophobia. I spent
the next 15 hours so confined, which amounted to a cram course on the
miseries of prison life, including dirty sheets, inedible food, and either
lights that were too bright or darkness controlled from the guard office."
The foreign press has been, like Falk, barred by Israel from entering Gaza
to report on the destruction.
Israel's stated aim of halting homemade rockets fired from Gaza into Israel
remains unfulfilled. Gaza militants have fired more than 100 rockets and
mortars into Israel, killing four people and wounding nearly two dozen more,
since Israel unleashed its air assault. Israel has threatened to launch a
ground assault and has called up 6,500 army reservists. It has massed tanks
on the Gaza border and declared the area a closed military zone.
The rocket attacks by Hamas are, as Falk points out, also criminal violations
of international law. But as Falk notes, "… such Palestinian behavior does
not legalize Israel's imposition of a collective punishment of a life- and
health-threatening character on the people of Gaza, and should not distract
the U.N. or international society from discharging their fundamental moral
and legal duty to render protection to the Palestinian people."
"It is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe that each day poses the entire
1.5 million Gazans to an unspeakable ordeal, to a struggle to survive in
terms of their health," Falk has said of the ongoing Israeli blockade of
Gaza. "This is an increasingly precarious condition. A recent study reports
that 46 percent of all Gazan children suffer from acute anemia. There are
reports that the sonic booms associated with Israeli overflights have caused
widespread deafness, especially among children. Gazan children need
thousands of hearing aids. Malnutrition is extremely high in a number of
different dimensions and affects 75 percent of Gazans. There are widespread
mental disorders, especially among young people without the will to live.
Over 50 percent of Gazan children under the age of 12 have been found to
have no will to live."
Before the air assaults, Gaza spent 12 hours a day without power, which can
be a death sentence to the severely ill in hospitals. Most of Gaza is now
without power. There are few drugs and little medicine, including no cancer
or cystic fibrosis medication. Hospitals have generators but often lack
fuel. Medical equipment, including one of Gaza's three CT scanners, has been
destroyed by power surges and fluctuations. Medical staff cannot control the
temperature of incubators for newborns. And Israel has revoked most exit
visas, meaning some of those who need specialized care, including cancer
patients and those in need of kidney dialysis, have died. Of the 230 Gazans
estimated to have died last year because they were denied proper medical
care, several spent their final hours at Israeli crossing points where they were
refused entry into Israel. The statistics gathered on children—half of Gaza's
population is under the age of 17—are increasingly grim. About 45 percent of
children in Gaza have iron deficiency from a lack of fruit and vegetables,
and 18 percent have stunted growth.
"It is macabre," Falk said of the blockade. "I don't know of anything that
exactly fits this situation. People have been referring to the Warsaw ghetto as
the nearest analog in modern times."
"There is no structure of an occupation that endured for decades and
involved this kind of oppressive circumstances," the rapporteur added. "The
magnitude, the deliberateness, the violations of international humanitarian
law, the impact on the health, lives and survival and the overall conditions
warrant the characterization of a crime against humanity. This occupation
is the direct intention by the Israeli military and civilian authorities. They are
responsible and should be held accountable."
The point of the Israeli attack, ostensibly, is to break Hamas, the radical
Islamic group that was elected to power in 2007. But Hamas has repeatedly
proposed long-term truces with Israel and offered to negotiate a permanent
truce. During the last cease-fire, established through Egyptian intermediaries
in July, Hamas upheld the truce although Israel refused to ease the blockade.
It was Israel that, on Nov. 4, initiated an armed attack that violated the truce and
killed six Palestinians. It was only then that Hamas resumed firing rockets at Israel.**
"This is a crime of survival," Falk said of the rocket attacks by Palestinians.
"Israel has put the Gazans in a set of circumstances where they either have to
accept whatever is imposed on them or resist in any way available to them.
That is a horrible dilemma to impose upon a people. This does not alleviate
the Palestinians, and Gazans in particular, for accountability for doing these
acts involving rocket fire, but it also imposes some responsibility on Israel for
creating these circumstances."
Israel seeks to break the will of the Palestinians to resist. The Israeli
government has demonstrated little interest in diplomacy or a peaceful
solution. The rapid expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank is an
effort to thwart the possibility of a two-state solution by gobbling up
vast tracts of Palestinian real estate. Israel also appears to want to thrust the
impoverished Gaza Strip onto Egypt. Dozens of tunnels had been the
principal means for food and goods, connecting Gaza to Egypt. Israel had
permitted the tunnels to operate, most likely as part of an effort to further cut
Gaza off from Israel. This ended, however, on Sunday when Israeli fighter
jets bombed over 40 tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt. The Israeli
military said that the tunnels, on the Gaza side of the border, were used for
smuggling weapons, explosives and fugitives. Egypt has sealed its border
and refused to let distraught Palestinians enter its territory.
"Israel, all along, has not been prepared to enter into diplomatic process
that gives the Palestinians a viable state," Falk said. "They [the Israelis] feel
time is on their side. They feel they can create enough facts on the
ground so people will come to the conclusion a viable state cannot emerge."
The use of terror and hunger to break a hostile population is one of the
oldest forms of warfare. I watched the Bosnian Serbs employ the same tactic
in Sarajevo. Those who orchestrate such sieges do not grasp the terrible
rage born of long humiliation, indiscriminate violence and abuse. A father
or a mother whose child dies because of a lack of vaccines or proper medical
care does not forget. A boy whose ill grandmother dies while detained at an
Israel checkpoint does not forget. A family that loses a child in an airstrike
does not forget. All who endure humiliation, abuse and the murder of
family members do not forget. This rage becomes a virus within those who,
eventually, stumble out into the daylight. Is it any wonder that 71 percent
of children interviewed at a school in Gaza recently said they wanted to be
a "martyr"?
The Israelis in Gaza, like the American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, are
foolishly breeding the next generation of militants and Islamic radicals.
Jihadists, enraged by the injustices done by Israel and the United States, seek
to carry out reciprocal acts of savagery, even at the cost of their own lives.
The violence unleashed on Palestinian children will, one day, be the violence
unleashed on Israeli children. This is the tragedy of Gaza. This is the
tragedy of Israel.
* "Israel's Crime Against Humanity," Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec. 15, 2008
Chris Hedges, who went to seminary at Harvard Divinity School, is currently
a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the
Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University.
He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America,
the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the author of the best selling
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, American Fascists, and most recently,
I Don't Believe in Atheists.
Copyright © 2008 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.

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An app might be able to tell you what your cat is saying - but how does it work?
You can now download an app which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to 'translate' your cat's miaows.
The MeowTalk app lets you record your feline's noises, then uses AI to try and decipher their meaning.
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The app's developers hope that the technology, which will improve over time as it builds up a greater database of miaows, will eventually be utilised in a translation collar.
How does it work?
The app relies partly on the user to label some of the translations, which helps to build up the app's database, and allows the AI to learn more about your cat.
It is believed that cats do not all communicate in the same way, but that, instead, each adapt the way they miaow to their owners and environment. This means each cat's miaow is unique, so the app builds up a better understanding of your cat the more you record it, becoming more accurate over time as the AI learns.
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In a webinar, group technical program manager at the app's developer Akvelon, Javier Sanchez said, "I think this is especially important now because with all the social distancing that's happening, you have people that are confined at home.
"This will enable them to communicate with their cat, or at least understand their cat's intent, and build a very important connection."
The app is available now on Apple's App Store and Google Play Store, though it has just been released and is still in its development phase, with a number of technical issues reported.


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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.
By Wendy Shalit.
Free Press. 304 pp. $24.
Despite its modest title, this book is a bombshell. In a manner both courageous and passionate, Wendy Shalit challenges the bored, desensitized masses of American women to use their female intuition in finding a way out of the emotional wilderness created by the sexual revolution. And Shalit leaves the reader with no doubts: they need to find a way out.
Exhibit A of this need is Shalit's description of end-of-the-century American mating rituals. First there's the hook-up. That's where young men and women gather in some communal territory, like a frat house or bar, medicate themselves with liquor, and then engage in any range of sexual activities, oblivious to all factors beyond momentary attraction. The next stage is the dumping: the male disentangles himself from the perceived "clinginess" of the female's attempt at emotional involvement. The final stage is the check-up, in which the thoughtful male makes sure that the dumped female is still in fairly good health and, if he is especially enlightened, offers her the chance to talk about "what went wrong." This three-tiered process is what is known as "having a relationship." Get used to it or get out.
The problem is, not surprisingly, that women are miserable. Shalit has little use for the contingent of conservatives who claim that the misery is a big female hoax and remind us that, after all, "boys will be boys." At the same time, she is equally dismissive of feminists, many of whose ideas, she believes, are responsible for the unhappiness of female lives. The plain truth of the matter is that somewhere along the line this romance thing went terribly awry, and it's making a train wreck of young women's lives. Appalling numbers of girls today are starving themselves, bingeing and purging, mutilating their bodies, throwing their hearts away on careless cads, suppressing their natural desire for romance, and denying their need for family and children. And when they can't cope with the rotten regime, they dope themselves up on Prozac. Women have become the world's greatest woman-haters, having learned to shun all things feminine.
Shalit wants women to be women again. She sees the deep perversity of the "androgyny project" of the past thirty years that demands manhood of women and a diminution of manhood among men, but refuses to tolerate womanhood in women. It is anything but a liberation from old shackles: instead, it is a suppression of femininity, a direct assault on the oft-touted blessing of diversity. But now a counterrevolution has begun, not one that chains women to the stove and takes away their right to vote, but one that allows and even encourages the natural and complementary differences between the sexes.
This is a handbook for the counterrevolution, and every woman who wants to be herself again needs to get her hands on it. Shalit's solution is modesty, the much-maligned virtue that was ditched years ago along with corsets and girdles. Her playful, engaging exploration of the richly nuanced concept of modesty is extensively researched and amply supported by evidence drawn from sources as diverse as last year's Glamour and last millennium's Talmud. What she finds is not stuffy puritanism that wants to spoil everybody's good fun, but in fact just the opposite: a subtle, exciting, sexy social arrangement in which men are men, women are women, and both get the maximal benefit from it.
Modesty is a quality inherent in girls, Shalit argues. It is their infinite capacity for embarrassment, for blushing, for shyness, for refusing praise. The fact is, it's so natural that it has to be deliberately bred out of girls–bred out by the sorts of adults who are compelled to destroy the mysteries against which their own immorality has innoculated them–by the debased tactics of sex ed, fashion slavery, and Melrose Place . Girls without modesty are not gleefully liberated sex kittens, however. They are women who have no idea how to protect their own undeniable womanliness. The destruction of modesty is a hateful project: "[I]t is precisely denying a woman's special vulnerability and stripping her of her natural way of compensating for it that is the height of true misogyny," Shalit observes.
Modesty is woman's natural defense when it is respected by society. In fact, grumpy-feminist types will be shocked to learn, it once served as the great equalizer between men and women, not as the backbone of domination. (Shalit presents convincing evidence that modesty was encouraged in part because it was believed that women liked sex too much, and they would get themselves into endless trouble if they didn't learn early on to exercise some restraint.) Modesty gave women the right to withhold themselves from men with dishonorable intentions, and in turn forced men to make themselves worthy of the women they desired. True modesty wisely takes account of the inescapable differences between men and women in order to protect them both. "Encouraged to act immodestly," Shalit notes by contrast, "a woman exposes her vulnerability and she then becomes, in fact, the weaker sex." In that case, women are victimized while men become predators, as our current disastrous state of gender wars demonstrates.
In a nutshell, modesty brings out the best in everyone. Modest women, Shalit says, "live in a way that makes womanliness more a transcendent, implicit quality than a crude, explicit quality." Womanliness enhanced by modesty becomes as intriguing as the Sphinx, in which a Mona Lisa smile far outshines a silicone-enhanced D-cup. In turn, this has serious–and positive–implications for male character. Female modesty elicits a reciprocal response from men, enticing them to become gentlemen, behave honorably, and develop the manly virtues deserving of a woman's body and soul, especially chastity, protectiveness, and gentleness.
All of this talk of modesty may sound unhelpfully vague, and Shalit never hones in on one strict definition of it. But rather than being a flaw, this is the great strength of her argument, one that permits all kinds of women in all kinds of situations to appreciate the value of what she is saying. Shalit herself is quite taken with religious expressions of modesty, especially the Jewish modesty laws. Altogether, though, her advocacy of external modesty–especially in dress–is the logical corollary of an internalized ethic of sexual restraint. Hence the very sensible connection between sexual modesty as a social virtue and sexual morality as a religious one.
Her powerful insight is that modesty is ultimately more erotic than licentiousness. Men are more excited, she suggests, by the twinkling eyes behind the veil and the slender ankle peeking out from the long skirt than they are by casually exposed body parts and effortless conquests in the sack. The most telling example of this is her comparison (complete with photographs) of turn-of-the-century women lounging on the beach in their terribly demure bathing suits and positively wicked grins, with the dull, distracted expressions of dutifully unrepressed nudists on their beach. Mischievous and modest; bored and bare. Something more than meets the eye is at work here. Shalit wants the rules back because, without the rules, the unruly, the scandalous, the exciting, and the erotic all disappear into thin air.
There have been some modest heroines and heroes, of course, who have maintained the ideals of chastity even through the sexual revolution, but that is not enough anymore, Shalit argues. It is impossible for society to be indifferent to the varying choices of women, and it is always going to prefer one kind of choice to another. At the present time, the "survival value," as she calls it, of immodesty and sexual immorality is so high that few women have the strength–or even the option–to combat it. And so her answer is to become a counterrevolutionary, to reinstate the "cartel of virtue" among women. That is the only way to bring the gentleman back on the scene in society–when it is only through honor, decency, a flair for romance, and a commitment to everlasting love that men can earn the right to share a woman's bed. Call it unfair, but the initiative belongs with women once again. Shalit has no illusions: "If women want the men to be good, they have to want to be good too."
Let the prudes and the libertines step aside, then. Shalit has hit upon the most exciting truth to come out of the whole sexual revolution: "Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy."
Sarah E. Hinlicky is an Editorial Assistant at First Things.


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Alon Wolf: To Move Out of the Way
Alon Wolf can be mesmerizing. When the founder of Magico gets going on one of his favorite subjects, loudspeaker design, the strength of his convictions, depth of technical knowledge, and sureness of response are enough to hush many a skeptic into silence.
Footnote 1: Thankfully, Wolf's brain does not contain MDF.
Not that what Wolf says invites skepticism. On the contrary, it makes perfect sense. Take, for example, two of his favorite pet peeves: the medium-density fiberboard (MDF) used in a vast number of speaker enclosures, and loudspeaker design that is behind the times.
"Look around you," he explained during one of our many extended conversations. "Every carpenter decides he wants to be a speaker manufacturer, and before you know it, there's another MDF box with a nice veneer and off-the-shelf or modified ScanSpeak or Accuton ceramic drivers on the market.
"I built my first aluminum speaker 10 years ago. Aluminum is a far more appropriate material for a box than MDF, which is the worst thing you can use. A box should be both well damped and stiff; MDF is very damped, but it is not very stiff. The box should also have mass. But since MDF is structured of resin and glue, it's not really hard. When you attach a driver to an MDF box, because it's a damped material, the MDF swallows up a lot of the energy the driver is putting out. It stores the energy, which builds up until you hear the box flexing. When you hear a driver in a well-damped aluminum enclosure, you hear things you never heard before, because all the energy is free to come out into the room."
Magico speaker cabinets are either all-aluminum—as in the huge Ultimate horns ($329,000/pair) and the Model 6 six-driver floorstander ($146,000/pair)—or constructed of an aluminum skeleton: the groundbreaking Mini II two-way monitor ($29,600/pair) and V3 three-way floorstander ($25,000/pair, reviewed by John Atkinson in this issue). In the Mini II, for example, both the front and rear plates are made of aluminum. The speaker's wooden parts—made of extremely stiff, 17-ply Baltic birch plywood that tends not to store energy—are sandwiched between the aluminum plates without the use of wood screws. The drivers are attached directly to the front aluminum plate, which in turn is attached to the rear plate with rods. Thus, Magico avoids one of Wolf's absolute no-nos: screwing drivers into wood or MDF.
"After a month," he asserts, "the vibration loosens the screws. You tighten them back up, but you can only tighten them so much before the inserts you use start turning. In less than a year, you no longer have a good coupling. No matter what kind of inserts you use, no matter what kind of a process you do, in one year, it's gone. Once you don't have perfect coupling, all bets are off as to what you're really hearing. Are you hearing the driver, the box, the flopping around? Your resolution is gone."
To investigate Wolf's claim, I checked out a pair of MDF-cabineted loudspeakers that had gone through several rounds of manufacturer upgrades. Sure enough, not only were some screws loose, but others had been tightened so many times that they kept rotating in place. My concern over how much longer the larger-diameter screws I replaced those useless bolts with would themselves remain tight led me to listen closely to Wolf's spiel.
"The truth is that there has been a lot of advancement in the science of acoustics and material that you do not see migrating into loudspeakers. You see it in electronics, but not in any electromagnetic product that the industry has been putting out. The degree of technological advance and execution in the loudspeaker industry is very low. It's been the same old same old for the last five years."
How's that for a blanket condemnation? But lest any speaker manufacturer feel singled out, Wolf's critique also extends to audiophile reviewers.
"There is a whole review industry making a living off discussing subtle differences between what are basically variations on the same speaker," he says, "and there is a lot of crap out there. If cars were made the same way, when you took them for a spin on the freeway and went faster than 35mph, the car would fall apart, you'd die, and the car manufacturer would be put out of business. With the High End, you can do whatever you want, say whatever you want. You can get away with everything if you've got a good advertising package, a good line, and a good budget. I have been frustrated about this for so many years. It's part of the reason why I'm in the business. I couldn't find anything out there that satisfied me."
Wolf is far from alone. Who can count the number of manufacturers who got into high-end design because they couldn't find a single product on the market that made them happy?
Music and Audio: Lifelong Passions
As technically sound as Wolf's design philosophy may be, his passion for accurate sound reproduction is rooted in a deep love of music. He treasures a photo of himself playing the accordion at age two. Wolf first began to study the violin when he was six. Soon, recorder and classical guitar were part of his life. The photo of Wolf playing the guitar on the Magico website isn't just window dressing; he won several scholarships to a conservatory in Israel, and, after coming to the US, continued studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Wolf's other childhood interests included sound reproduction and industrial design.
"I was interested in sound reproduction from the time when I first remember myself," he reveals. "But a decent system was not easily available in Israel when I grew up in the 1960s and '70s. The first time I heard Quad 57 electrostatics, when I was 14 or 15, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. That experience, which initiated my craze to build a system that could re-create the feeling I had back then, has screwed (footnote 1) my mind ever since."
After completing obligatory military service in Israel, which included 18 months of advanced study in physics and math at the Israeli Air Force Academy, Wolf came to the US. With his first American paycheck, he bought a turntable and preamp. He also bought a pair of headphones, because he couldn't yet afford an amp or speakers. In addition to studying music, he continued studies in industrial design. He stopped pursuing a career in music only when he realized that he could never make it financially as a classical guitarist without embracing a teaching career, which he wished to avoid.
Wolf's new goal was "to make money fast so I could do my art. I'd heard lots of stories of people getting rich real fast somehow, and thought if I did, it would give me time to do my thing." His first foray into the fast buck began with home-security products. In 1989, as the company's top salesperson, the 25-year-old was sent to open branches in Santa Barbara and his future home, the Bay Area (footnote 2). Less than a year later, he started his own security company. By the time he was 30, he'd made enough money to stop working and pursue his interests in design.
He began doing commercial computer-animated design just about the time Jurassic Park was released, in 1993. Freelancing on movies, TV series, and commercials, he worked for Sony, Disney, LucasArts, and other companies, and worked on the movies Antz and Shrek. He also worked on video games for Electronic Arts and project design for Sony. For 10 years, he did high-end design work on very sophisticated software in a virtual environment—experience he soon applied to the audio realm.
Magico's Beginnings
Wolf also continued his audio pursuits. A self-described autodidact who works 20 hours a day and needs only four hours of sleep, he began researching speaker technology, and absorbed the physics at the core of industrial design. About 16 years ago, he started to come up with ideas for building better loudspeakers.
Footnote 1: Thankfully, Wolf's brain does not contain MDF.
Footnote 2: The beautiful Oakland hills, to be exact. If, from the roof of his house, Wolf looks down toward Oakland's barrio, as far below him as the eye can see, he can probably spot our own humble casa.


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Ellen DeGeneres Facing Backlash After Claiming Quarantine in Her Mansion Feels Like Prison
Ellen DeGeneres is under fire after comparing quarantine in her palatial mansion to prison.
The talk show host released the first episode of her show while in quarantine on Monday (April 6), during which she compared being isolated due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) to life in prison.
Fans were at first thrilled that she was returning to film her talk show as soon as possible "because it's really for people who are stuck at home and especially my staff and crew." She shared her love for them and explained that she wanted to support her crew and her viewers by keeping the show on the air.
However, moments into her first segment she made the joking comparison, "One thing that I've learned from being in quarantine is that this is like being in jail."
Backlash to the tone-deaf remark quickly ensued on social media, where people criticized DeGeneres for complaining about being isolated in her sprawling Beverly Hills home, complete with floor to ceiling windows and a pool. (Users on social media revealed that her home is reportedly worth $27-$33 million.)
People were also upset that she used the comparison when people who are indeed currently incarcerated are contracting COVID-19 at an alarming rate.
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is my score, it's off scale)
I found this floating around the Google engine again and being bounced about on CARM
so I figured it was time put it back up and get it high in the search engines.
Last week the net was abuzz with talk of a Pew study that said atheists know the Bible better than Christians do. I found about 14 blogs referring to it and it was on message boards all over. The Actual study is available on the Pew site it's called "U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey." The press began saying the study shows "atheists know more about religion." what it really says is that atheists know more about religion other than Christianity, than do Christians. That's not so unreasonable given the exclusivity most Christians believe their faith has over others. The media turned it into "atheists know more about religion" us as the Los Angels Times, (Tuesday Oct, 19th)"Atheists, Agnostics most knowledgeable about religion surveys say."
"Religious IQ: Why do Atheist Outscore Christians?" The Week "A significant number of Christians don't know the basics about their own professed faith or other major religions, according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, while atheists and agnostics have the highest "Religious IQ,"
The study doesn't say anything about an IQ, but it's plots the answers on a bell curve. The Pew Site offers a short version of half the questions (the original is 32 the short version is 15). I took the short version (see my score above I'm the only one got every question right and went off scale). The site "debating Christianity and religion" says "Atheists know more about the Bible" than do Christians.
The point is of the 15 questions11 were not about the Bible or Christianity. So the test was biased in the beginning to screen out Christians. I suggest it was a put up a job, designed to give other than Christians a higher score. Why would Pew want to do this? Pew is a respected polling organization but is ran by an private family that is very Evangelical and the Pew Evangelical trust gives a lot of evangelistic enterprises. They want to do that because they are the tough kind of Christians. They want to shame the chruch into learning more about the bible and about religion in general.
"The United States is a nation of religious illiterates," says Boston University professor Stephen Prothero, whose research on Americans' spiritual ignorance inspired a new study that has religion teachers and ministers aghast,"(from the Week)
Here's what the study actually says:
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
So it's up front about world religion and the media turns into religion as a whole and atheists sites turn into "know more about the bible." The actual study doesn't say that. The 15 question version 11 questions were about subject not in the Bible and off those about 3 were Christian history. Most the study is about world religion (I got them all right anyway). The study results say and the site reflects with a table and big capital letters that atheists know more about world religion But Mormons and Evangelicals know More about Christianity. That would seem to contradict the whole mocking point upon which most atheists are gleefully claiming that they know about "the Bible" than do Christians. On Bible White Evangelicals score 7.3, Mormons 7.9 whle Atheists score 6.7.
from the Pew study site:
Previous surveys by the Pew Research Center have shown that America is among the most religious of the world's developed nations. Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults say that religion is "very important" in their lives, and roughly four-in-ten say they attend worship services at least once a week. But the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey shows that large numbers of Americans are uninformed about the tenets, practices, history and leading figures of major faith traditions – including their own. Many people also think the constitutional restrictions on religion in public schools are stricter than they really are.The survey should shame Christians, however, because it shows some shocking ignorance. Catholics have had a tradition of placing Church authority over Bible, but half of these guys don't even know their own church's stand on transubstantiation. Come on that's the one doctrine that is more uniquely Catholic!
More than four-in-ten Catholics in the United States (45%) do not know that their church teaches that the bread and wine used in Communion do not merely symbolize but actually become the body and blood of Christ. About half of Protestants (53%) cannot correctly identify Martin Luther as the person whose writings and actions inspired the Protestant Reformation, which made their religion a separate branch of Christianity. Roughly four-in-ten Jews (43%) do not recognize that Maimonides, one of the most venerated rabbis in history, was Jewish.
In addition, fewer than half of Americans (47%) know that the Dalai Lama is Buddhist. Fewer than four-in-ten (38%) correctly associate Vishnu and Shiva with Hinduism. And only about a quarter of all Americans (27%) correctly answer that most people in Indonesia – the country with the world's largest Muslim
There is a crying need for Christians take more of an interest in learning. Its also apparent that we need to branch out from just the bible and learn about religion as a whole.
It is not shocking once you look at the questions why atheists would do better than Christians on those questions where they scored higher. Most of those are world religion questions such as "which of the following is an Islamic Holiday, 'Ramadan, Duwali or Christmas.' I got this one right too. Most Christians don't learn enough about Hinduism to even know their major holiday. BTW Duwali is the festival of lights. The celebration of rebirth and triumph of good over evil, they celibate with lots of little candles and lanterns and lights, they have parities. I think it should be a point with Christians to learn about festivals of re-birth.


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The facts of the case involved a drug investigation of a house in Utah, where the police had received an anonymous tip of "narcotics activity." Police conducted "intermittent" surveillance of the home where they observed visitors who had left a few minutes after arriving. One day, they observed this particular defendant leave the home and walk to a nearby convenience store. A detective approached him and asked him what he was doing at the home and requested the man's identification. Continue Reading ›


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Inspired by the event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris that celebrated the anniversary of the signature of the CERN convention, Sophie Redford wrote about her impressions on joining CERN as a young researcher. A CERN fellow designing detectors for the future CLIC accelerator, she did her PhD at the University of Oxford, observing rare B decays with the LHCb experiment.
The "60 years of CERN" celebrations give us all the chance to reflect on the history of our organization. As a young scientist, the early years of CERN might seem remote. However, the continuity of CERN and its values connects this distant past to the present day. At CERN, the past isn't so far away.
Of course, no matter when you arrive at CERN for the first time, it doesn't take long to realize that you are in a place with a special history. On the surface, CERN can appear scruffy. Haphazard buildings produce a maze of long corridors, labelled with seemingly random numbers to test the navigation of newcomers. Auditoriums retain original artefacts: ashtrays and blackboards unchanged since the beginning, alongside the modern-day gadgetry of projectors and video-conferencing systems.
The theme of re-use continues underground, where older machines form the injection chain for new. It is here, in the tunnels and caverns buried below the French and Swiss countryside, where CERN spends its money. Accelerators and detectors, their immense size juxtaposed with their minute detail, constitute an unparalleled scientific experiment gone global. As a young scientist this is the stuff of dreams, and you can't help but feel lucky to be a part of it.
If the physical situation of CERN seems unique, so is the sociological. The row of flags flying outside the main entrance is a colourful red herring, for aside from our diverse allegiances during international sporting events, nationality is meaningless inside CERN. Despite its location straddling international borders, despite our wallets containing two currencies and our heads many languages, scientific excellence is the only thing that matters here. This is a community driven by curiosity, where coffee and cooperation result in particle beams. At CERN we question the laws of our universe. Many answers are as yet unknown but our shared goal of discovery bonds us irrespective of age or nationality.
As a young scientist at CERN I feel welcome and valued; this is an environment where reason and logic rule. I feel privileged to profit from the past endeavour of others, and great pride to contribute to the future of that which others have started. I have learnt that together we can achieve extraordinary things, and that seemingly insurmountable problems can be overcome.
In many ways, the second 60 years of CERN will be nothing like the first. But by continuing to build on our past we can carry the founding values of CERN into the future, allowing the next generation of young scientists to pursue knowledge without borders.
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How Finance And Tech Are Helping The Financially Dependent
Innovations in Financial Technology are transforming the financial sphere, and whilst the government attempts to grapple and understand the way in which they work, these new tools are revolutionizing the way in which consumers pay and receive their money, battling with the banking services that have always been.
Although we live in an environment where every technological update will be scrutinized by experts in the field and the public in general, we can certainly admit that, for better or for worse, the technology that we wield has vastly improved the efficiency of how we go about our financial exertions, either in business or personal use.
With the help of Alpha Blue Ocean, an alternative investment company, we investigate how this branch of technology is opening new doors to those most in need.
Bank closures
Despite the amount of physical shops closing for a number of years, leaving some of the smaller towns and villages across the UK stranded when it comes sorting out their personal finances, systems are now in place to ensure traditional problems don't arise, such as queuing at peak times or elderly consumers having to walk a short distance to their local branch.
All that is needed in this generation to access your finances is a stable internet connection, which in the 21st century is expected even in the most unexpected of places. Of course, a potential digital barrier could arise here if the elderly aren't competently equipped with the necessary skills in order to perform their business.
Cashless society
The handing over of physical cash has been the known transactional method when it comes to paying for most things or for helping out those who are in need to get by. But as of last year, debit cards payments overtook cash payments for the first time, marking a revolutionary landmark in the finance and banking industry.
But with more and more consumers resorting to card payments when they go out leisurely, they carry less cash. This isn't' a concerning problem yet, but this is a trickling issue that will only grow in time. With us heading into a cashless society, how will we be able to offer assistance, no matter the size?
Startups are beginning to realise this growing problem and have already started to act. Spare is an app that is currently partnered with certain restaurants, encouraging diners to round up their bill to the nearest pound or dollar, and then distributes it to one of its many registered charities or food banks. To put things into perspective, just 99¢ can provide four meals.
This method of addressing a huge problem, with the help of this particular type of Fintech, is a quick and easy way to become charitable in an effective way. Ad an added incentive the app tracks how many meals you have provided and offers rewards, so participants know they have helped people out whilst getting something back in return.
Fighting poverty
The fintech industry is already deconstructing the barriers that lay in the paths of those who are financially excluded. An example of widespread fintech use in an undeveloped country is M-Pesa, a mobile phone-based money transfer service. Launching in 2007, it soon gained traction and in 4 years had accrued 17 million subscribers in the country alone.
A 2016 study based on the M-Pesa showed that at least 2 percent of Kenyan households were lifted out of extreme poverty, and women graduated women from farming to small business. This highlights that mobile-money services aren't just convenient, they also have a positive impact on people's livelihoods.
Technology will always split opinion, and whether it is leading us to be lazier or it is efficiently assisting our lives to make them more easier, it's interesting to see startups and larger corporations giving back to those that need it most.


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Hebrews, CHAPTER 11
Faith of the Ancients.
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.
Because of it the ancients were well attested.
By faith we understand that the universe was ordered by the word of God, so that what is visible came into being through the invisible.
By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice greater than Cain's. Through this he was attested to be righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts, and through this, though dead, he still speaks.
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and "he was found no more because God had taken him." Before he was taken up, he was attested to have pleased God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
By faith Noah, warned about what was not yet seen, with reverence built an ark for the salvation of his household. Through this he condemned the world and inherited the righteousness that comes through faith.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was to go.
By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;
for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.
By faith he received power to generate, even though he was past the normal age―and Sarah herself was sterile―for he thought that the one who had made the promise was trustworthy.
So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.
All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,
for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.
If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come, they would have had opportunity to return.
But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,
of whom it was said, "Through Isaac descendants shall bear your name."
He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead, and he received Isaac back as a symbol.
By faith regarding things still to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and "bowed in worship, leaning on the top of his staff."
By faith Joseph, near the end of his life, spoke of the Exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions about his bones.
By faith Moses was hidden by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
he chose to be ill-treated along with the people of God rather than enjoy the fleeting pleasure of sin.
He considered the reproach of the Anointed greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the recompense.
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's fury, for he persevered as if seeing the one who is invisible.
By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell after being encircled for seven days.
By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with the disobedient, for she had received the spies in peace.
What more shall I say? I have not time to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,
who by faith conquered kingdoms, did what was righteous, obtained the promises; they closed the mouths of lions,
put out raging fires, escaped the devouring sword; out of weakness they were made powerful, became strong in battle, and turned back foreign invaders.
Women received back their dead through resurrection. Some were tortured and would not accept deliverance, in order to obtain a better resurrection.
Others endured mockery, scourging, even chains and imprisonment.
They were stoned, sawed in two, put to death at sword's point; they went about in skins of sheep or goats, needy, afflicted, tormented.
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered about in deserts and on mountains, in caves and in crevices in the earth.
Yet all these, though approved because of their faith, did not receive what had been promised.
God had foreseen something better for us, so that without us they should not be made perfect.


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Rameses III want to take time hostage - slow it down and put it on ice. Combining acoustic guitar, lap steel, samples, voice, keyboards and field recordings they atomize isolated notes, before stretching them into lush oceans of somnambulant sound. These ambient explorations have scored them gigs with such genre luminaries as Stars Of The Lid, Current 93, Murcof, Fursaxa, James Blackshaw, These New Puritans and Astral Social Club. Several albums have been released on such notable labels as Type, Important, Digitalis, Under The Spire and Celebrate Psi Phenomenon.
'I Could Not Love You More'
Rameses III are on indefinite hold now (except for going down the pub!) as Spen, Steve and Dan have happily moved onto other projects.
This site contains some information but for the full discography,
and other content please see this newer
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For the latest projects please see:
Padang Food Tigers (the new music from Spen and Steve)
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Many thanks for all your support - it was an amazing 10 years!
Rameses III, 2010
After months of preparation Rameses III released a major retrospective of their work today collecting several out-of-print EPs, most of the albums and 11 previously-unreleased tracks and putting them all out on digital for the first time. A Rameses bonanza!
"Jozepha (Deluxe)"
"Parsimònia (Deluxe)"
"Basilica Origins (Deluxe)"
"Across Wounded Galaxies" (new EP)
Daniel from Rameses III has co-written the music to the Film4 / BFI feature film
Catch Me Daddy
with Matthew Watson which has been shown in
Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2014
and won Best British Newcomer at the
London Film Festival
You can get a taster of the score in the teaser video below.
A Rameses III track has been used in the National Film Board of Canada interactive short film
The Last Hunt
which has just won a
2014 Webby Award
Daniel from Rameses III will be playing from around 12:55 at the
Union Chapel, London this Saturday September 17th
- it's free so hope to see you there.
News of the latest Rameses-related release: Dan's first solo album
"The Beauty Of Doubting Yourself"
is due out on Home Normal on 16th June 2011.
Apologies but we've had to cancel our support slot at Tim Hecker's gig at the Luminaire tonight due to the ridiculous amounts of snow near Steve which was going to make travel difficult and dangerous for us. Thanks to Terence at milesofsmiles for being understanding.
We're back at the
next week on 01st December supporting Tim Hecker and Family Battle Snake, hope you can make it if you're in the area.
Unfortunately the gig supporting Roger Eno in Oxford in March 2011 has had to be cancelled. We are hoping re-scheduled dates will be announced shortly.
It is a pleasure to announce that we have 2
coming up, 1 with Murcof on October 14th in Leeds and 1 with Roger Eno in Oxford on March 5th next year.
And a 3 releases to talk about: a
7" single with Comus and Simon Finn
to commemorate the Current 93 25th anniversary gigs we were part of back in May, there's a Rameses III remix on the latest P. Jørgensen double CD '
' out on our friends Under The Spire and we have another remix on the Papercutz CD '
Do Outro Lado Do Espelho (Lylac Ambient Reworks)
We're also expecting news on the release of another 7" single and a re-release before the end of the year.
If you'd like a copy of the Comus / Rameses III / Simon Finn 7" please
get in touch
as we have copies for sale.
Until next time ...
We are pleased to announce news of the biggest Rameses III gig to date: on Saturday 29th May 2010 we have been asked by David Tibet to support Current 93 at their
HMV Forum gig in London to celebrate 25 years of Current 93
and David's 50th birthday (many happy returns).
Pre-sale tickets are available
with tickets going on general sale from Friday 26 February.
I think we're still in shock!
The latest Rameses III CDR EP '
For José María
' will be released very shortly by our friends at Under The Spire. This will be a limited edition so we would recommended pre-ordering if you would like a copy.
Jon DeRosa (Aarktica) played on a track on our latest album '
I Could Not Love You More
'. We've been able to return the favour by providing a remix for Aarktica's new '
In Sea Remixes
' album which is out now on CD.
Finally, a couple of links which are worth checking out: an
interview with Rameses III
and a
YouTube video
for track 2 off 'I Could Not Love You More'.
Until next time ...
The new Rameses album '
I Could Not Love You More
' was released by Type Records in September 2009 and has been receiving some excellent reviews. We'll be following it up with a
FREE daytime gig at the Union Chapel in Islington, London, Saturday 28th November
We're due to
the wonderful Union Chapel in Islington, London on 11th August as a precursor to the next Rameses album 'I Could Not Love You More' being released by Type Records in the autumn ... more details to follow shortly.
A quick stop-gap update: the next Rameses III album is finally in the can - it's been very hard work but we also know it's our best album yet. We're currently sorting out the artwork ready for release on vinyl and CD in the autumn - details should follow in the next few weeks.
By then we also hope to announce details of another couple of gigs and another release or 2. Until next time.
Our next London
has just been confirmed for Saturday 25th October. Trome Records have kindly invited Rameses III to support our friend James Blackshaw and Duane Pitre, a New York avant garde composer who will be part of a string, reeds and harmonium ensemble performing an acoustic drone composition.
We are finally near to completing the mixing and mastering of the new Rameses III studio album and we're hoping to include elements of the new CD at the gig and have the new album out in the first half of 2009.
A (very) alternative version of 1 of the new album tracks called the 'Dark Magus' should be released on the forthcoming 4CD compilation on
but we have no release date for this as yet.
Some more reviews of '
' have been uploaded to the site - thanks to everyone for their kind and interesting comments.
We're currently just starting to record a new mini album and the mixing for the next Rameses III studio album is now well under way. We're also hoping to play with our friends Starving Weirdos in London in September - more details to follow.
The '
' double album has just been made album of the week by those nice people at Norman Records - spin over to the '
' page to see the full review - thanks Norman.
2008's here and we have some good news and some bad news.
The bad news is that, unfortunately, the re-release of '
Jozepha / Parsimònia
' is on indefinite hold as Type Records have had some problems with their distributors. They are hoping for great things later this year so hopefully the delay won't be too long.
The good news is that the '
' double album is finally out on release at the end of this month - the CDs are already with Important Records and we have copies to sell directly from this site. John at Important has a three year old son Henry who has adopted 'Basilica' as one of his favourite records. We think he perfectly encapsulated what our music is about when he said "This isn't music, it's a movie".
A quick bit of news ... we are pleased to announce the first Christmas Rameses
: a London Sunday afternoon gig at In The Pines.
Greetings once again from the land of Rameses.
First off, 3
to report, 1 in Manchester, 1 in Luton and 1 in London with the mighty Stars Of The Lid! We are a little excited about that last 1 to put it mildly ... but we're looking forward to all 3 gigs.
The bad news is that we have had a bit of a delay on the '
' album which was originally due this summer. The good news is that when it is released by Important early next year it will have grown - we've added another entire CD of live Rameses recordings to accompany the original remix CD. All of the second disc is new material.
We're also very pleased to announce that our friends at Type are re-releasing the mini albums 'Jozepha' and 'Parsimònia' as the stunningly titled '
Jozepha / Parsimònia
' album. It will be released in the next few months on both CD and vinyl.
Oh, and Dan got married to the lovely Val which was rather special!
All for now.
It's been a loooong time since our last news item - apologies as we've been rather snowed under with loads of Rameses stuff and life in general.
Here we go then: 2
to report at last: a little one at The FleaPit with our mate Phil Julian and a rather bigger extravaganza at Corsica Studios with Yellow Swans and Astral Social Club ... both in London, both in May.
Next, we can report that the '
Honey Rose
' album was released by Important Records in February and seems to be going down rather well which is rather gratifying after all the work that went into it (we'll be posting reviews shortly).
Important are also scheduled to release the '
' remix album in the summer which we're really pleased about as all the artists involved worked hard and produced good results.
We're also hoping to have some excellent release news from our friends at Type shortly - we're finalising arrangements for this at the moment.
A brief last-minute news item: Spen from Rameses is playing a
tonight at the Fleapit with Mark Wastell amongst others.
It's been a while since our last missive and, as usual, we have a fair amount to report.
The '
' album has finally been released ... and very proud of it we are too. And all the last minute panics with the artwork have paid off as the printers have done a great job.
The excellent
'Goin' Down Slow - Music for Acoustic Guitar'
compilation which contains a track by our very own Stephen Lewis has also been released.
Finally, we have just finished the work on a Rameses remix album, provisionally titled 'Basilisk'. This includes remixes from our friends Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and Neil Campbell (a.k.a. Astral Social Club). All the chaps have done wonderful work on the live recordings we gave them and we're looking to get labels interested over the next few weeks.
All for now.
A big gap for Rameses news - not least with Steve and his wife Anna producing little Joshua who's already being tutored in the fine art of playing (well, hitting maybe more accurate) the banjo.
We're also rather excited by the prospect of the new '
Honey Rose
' EP coming out on the US label
Important Records
. This is the soundtrack to the short film 'Suityman' directed by Jon Spira which we've been working on for the last few months and we finally got it right after a lot of work.
The fine and
internet-only '
' compilation is now out and downloadable - and rather fine it is too ...
... and that should keep you all going until the first full Rameses album '
' is finally released in a few weeks - we unfortunately have had a few last minute panics with the artwork but it does now look like this will be out very shortly (fingers crossed).
All for now other than to say that the Type re-release of '
Night Of The Ankou
' seems to have been gathering some very nice reviews - thanks very much.
First news in a while ... but we think you'll see we've been busy.
First off, we are very proud to annouce that Type Records wil be re-releasing '
Night Of The Ankou
' on July 3rd 2006. After numerous good-hearted arguments about the artwork, we finally received our advance copies a few days ago and we're really pleased with the final product and we hope you will be too.
Next, although we have not had a absolutely final release date as yet, Music Fellowship will finally be releasing the first full Rameses album '
' this month.
The 267 lattajjaa compilation '
Kanoja, Myös Hanoja
' came out last month and includes tracks from Robert Horton, Ben Reynolds and Alex Neilson and Pumice as well as our track 'September Morning Rain'.
Steve has been busy and has got a cracking track on the upcoming compilation 'Goin' Down Slow - Music for Acoustic Guitar' on the new
Finally, we appear on the cassette compilation '
Orange Gold
' on the Gold Soundz label along with Roberto Opalio, Agitated Radio Pilot and Shattered Minds.
Enough news already! Until next time ...
It's taken a while but finally the '
' 8" split single with The Trust Riots is out on transparent lathe cut vinyl on Scarcelight - we have a few copies which we'll be selling at
tomorrow's gig
with the Kranky acts Boduf Songs and Gregg Kowalsky.
- With Boduf Songs (Kranky) and Gregg Kowalsky (Kranky) on
March 31st 2006
in London.
Talking of Gregg, we're hoping to do some recording with him shortly, either when he's in the UK for the gig above, or by post once he returns to the US.
In other news, apologies for the appalling sound last night at the Red Rose gig for those who made it. We did our best but the PA supplied just couldn't cope with the mightiness of the Rameses sound! Hope it didn't spoil your fun too much.
Finally, we've just heard that it looks likely that '
Night Of The Ankou
', our collaboration with Brad Rose of Digitalis will be re-released on
Type Records
in the near future - possibly with an additional remix not on the original 267 lattajjaa release. It will make a change to be on a UK label for once!
- With Sir Richard Bishop (of The Sun City Girls) and James Blackshaw on
March 2nd 2006
in London.
In other news, our mate Simon at Barl Fire Recordings has just re-released the '
' mini album - but be quick if you want a copy as most of the limited run has already been pre-sold.
In addition we have just started work on the music for the short film 'Suityman' - more details to follow when we have them.
Hope to see you at the gig ...
First news of 2006 and a happy new year to one and all.
Our Finnish friend Hannu Haahti has put together a 'new compilation of the psychedelic underground' featuring Robert Horton, Pumice, Ben Reynolds and Alex Neilson as well as our good selves. '
Kanoja, Myös Hanoja
' should be out in early 2006.
We have also heard that the '
' album is still scheduled for release and should be out early this year, a little later than originally planned.
We do have a couple of interesting projects in the pipeline which we hope we can confirm shortly but we are having to be good and keep our mouths shut for the time being.
Oh, and our track on '
The Pet Series Volume 4
' is now available as an individual download.
Until next time ...
Greetings. We've been busy once again and we have 3 releases to talk about.
First up, '
Night Of The Ankou
', our collaboration with Brad Rose of Digitalis, came out a couple of weeks back on the Finnish label 267 lattajjaa. If you want a copy we would suggest pulling your finger out because half of the limited run has already been sold.
Talking of Digitalis, our mate Brad has also got around to releasing the truly mammoth 3 CD compilation '
Gold Leaf Branches
'. A full CD release, this 59 (!) artist compilation has gorgeous hand-made packaging and includes tracks from Six Organs Of Admittance, Charlambides, Marissa Nadler, Wooden Wand, Dead Raven Choir as well as a cracking track from James Blackshaw.
Finally, with yet another Brad connection, the original version of 'Death Of The Ankou' (before Mr Rose got his evil hands on it) has also been released as 'Birth Of The Ankou' on the musicyourmindwillloveyou compilation '
Sounds Surrounds Us Volume 3
'. This may sound like overkill but we liked the results of that 1 particularly inspired night so much that we wanted the minimilist version to come out too.
No news for 7 weeks ... and then 3 releases at once!
First off we have the ambient drone collaboration with The North Sea a.k.a. Brad Rose of Digitalis ... he liked 'Parsimònia' so much he decided to send us some bouzouki on CD to play against / destroy. We're all really pleased with the results the '
Night Of The Ankou
' CDR should be out very shortly on the Finnish label 267 lattajjaa.
Barl Fire have now pretty much sold out of their limited edition re-release of '
' but the good news is that they will be re-releasing '
' in late November 2005.
Shortly after that in December, Scarcelight will be releasing the '
Ashes / Freightliner
' split single with The Trust Riots which will be great as we still haven't heard the flipside yet!
First off,
Piccadilly Records
in Manchester, UK have been kind enough to make '
' their new-psyche-folk / americana / folk / country) Record Of The Week award - thanks very much!
The cover art for our forthcoming Music Fellowship release 'Matanuska' has just been finished, we're really pleased with it and you can see a preview of it on the
Spen from Rameses has just had 1 of his poems published in the hand-bound Digitalis book 'Pine Meoquance'. Although he's since done better work (his words), there's some lovely poetry and art from Christina Carter, James Blackshaw, Keith Wood (Hush Arbors), Brad Rose, Eden Hemming Rose, Robert Horton and Michael Donnelly amongst others.
If you're interested it costs $10 and you can order it from
Melody Bar
in the UK or direct from
Digitalis Publications
in the US.
The re-release of '
' on the new British micro-label
Barl Fire Recordings
is now out. Go out and buy it you lucky, lucky people.
news! We are really excited about the forthcoming release of '
' later this year by The Music Fellowship from Connecticut, USA. This is scheduled to be a full CD release and the album tracklisting and an MP3 are already available on the 'releases' page to whet your appetite.
Scarcelight Recordings
have just announced that the split 8" vinyl single with The Trust Riots can now be ordered from them in advance. Can't tell you any more yet as we haven't heard the little beauty ourselves yet.
In addition, although the original limited edition release of '
' on the CPSIP label has now sold out, we are very pleased to announce that the new British micro-label
Barl Fire Recordings
has breathed new life into our Frankenstein's monster by deciding to re-release 'Jozepha' later this year.
- With A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Limn on 02/06/2005 in London.
Please see
for more details.
Michael from the
label in New South Wales, Australia has been incredibly organised as the '
Charms Cut From Our Trees
' compilation has already been released.
There are only 100 copies of this release and, although we haven't yet heard the results, the band-listing looks very promising what with Hush Arbors, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood and Juniper Meadows being included as well as the mighty Rameses.
Early warning of a limited-edition lathe-cut 8" split single on
Scarcelight Recordings
from Birmingham, Alabama in the US. Rameses will be providing 7 minutes of top drone action in the form of 'Ashes', whereas The Trust Riots will be dosing us all with the heavy feedback / tape manipulation wonders of 'Trust Thyself'. Due in summer 2005.
Another Rameses track is due to be included on a compilation, this time on the
label in New South Wales, Australia.
The 'charms cut from our trees' compilation will be a limited 100 copy edition featuring Hush Arbors, Juniper Meadows, Terracid, Corsican Paintbrush, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, The Golden Oaks, Keijo, Nada, The Greenlanders, Kageplan, Snowfox, ffehro as well as the mighty Rameses.
The 'Parsimònia' mini-album has also recently been played on John Cavanagh's 25th
show on Radio Six International in Glasgow, Scotland and was listed in the charts in The Wire issue 253 for Chris Robinson's Oblique Motion show on
in Maryland, USA.
- With Josephine Foster, Peter Wright and James Blackshaw on 20/03/2005 in London.
- With Ashtray Navigations, Blood Stereo and Birds Of Delay on 09/04/2005 in Leeds.
Please see
for more details.
Foxy Digitalis
have been really quick off the mark - the
'Parsimònia' mini-album
has already been released.
The Dutch label
Sally Forth Records
have just released the compilation album
'The Pet Series Volume 4'
A Rameses track is included along with 11 other tracks from Thomas Denver Jonsson, Damien Jurado and Multi-Panel.
The Oklahoma label
Digitalis Industries
are going to be releasing the next Rameses release 'Parsimònia' as part of their Foxglove series in the near future.
A Rameses track will be appearing on their next compilation in around April 2005 along with Six Organs of Admittance, Hala Strana, The Juniper Meadows, Dead Raven Choir, Anla Courtis (of Reynols) and Black Forest / Black sea.
The New Zealand label Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon has just released the
'Jozepha' mini-album
- With Christina Carter of Charalambides (Kranky records) and Fursaxa on 28/10/2004 in Bristol.
- With The Album Leaf on 19/10/2004 at Bush Hall, London.
Please see
for more details.
The New Zealand label Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon has just confirmed that they will be releasing the 'Jozepha' mini-album later this year.
Please see
for more details.
The double-CD compilation 'For Jonathan' featuring the track which the US band Unwed Sailor recorded in the Rameses studio last year has finally been released.
All songs were based on the images of Chris Bennett's film "For Jonathan" and forced each artist to write a piece based the images and the emotions they created, rather than just writing a song from scratch.
Please see
for more details.
gig with new Warp Records signing Gravenhurst on 10/07/2004 at the nottinghillartsclub, London.
- Firefly Records night on 20/07/2004 at the 12 Bar Club, London.
Please see
for more details.
Rameses are playing live on Resonance FM, London's art-radio station tonight, along with Jack Rose. You can catch the show in London on 104.4fm or you can hear streamed audio at
- it's the Clear Spot show from 7pm until 8:30pm GMT.
::With Sodapop and The City Is Ours For The Taking on 07/06/2004 at the 12 Bar Club, London, UK.
John Schuller - who has worked with Eyvind Kang and Low amongst many others - has suggested a collaboritive EP / album with Rameses III.
We have already provided backing tracks ready for his contributions and he is currently putting together his tracks ready for Rameses contributions.
For more details on John Schuller please visit
We have just had confirmation that we are to be included on the next Pet Series compilation, along with Giardini di Miro, Spinvis, Tiebraker, Sarah Hepburn, The River Curls Around The Town, Multi-Panel, Lilium, Krakow, Honey For Petzi, and John Shaffer.
See the The Pet Series 4 on
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Tolkien. With Peter Jackson's The Hobbit adaption now being three films, the second has been retitled The Desolation of Smaug, with There and Back Again now being the third installment. I fully expect it to contain at least an hour of various slow-motion endings. But seriously, it looks like there was a lot of hints dropped at DragonCon.
A Song of Ice And Fire. A hilarious Storm of Swords 'It Gets Better' PSA. Yes, of course there are spoilers. Or, you can read what GRRM has revealed of the Targaryen conquest of Westeros from the upcoming The World of Ice and Fire.
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