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After looking around for a while for a hosting plan for my ruby application I narrowed down the list to 5 hosting companies. Two things you should always keep in mind no matter what kind of hosting service you are going for are
1) Support Services: This is one of the most important things which will have an impact on you application sooner or later. Do check for the existing support tickets and see the replies from the hosting service. Open a few random tickets and see how quickly the issues were resolved.
This will tell you a lot about the companies support system.
2) Check for network latency of the web hosting company. This is very important as it will have a direct impact on the pages are served and your sites performance. Click here (PingPlotter) to download a small software which shows the network latency and graphs.
Following are the best Hosting Services offering Rails support.
Hosting Rails (http://www.hostingrails.com) (My Pick #1 for Shared Rails Hosting)
Lot of gems are available on HostingRails server to be installed. If you don't see a Rail Gem you want to install on the list, No Problem! Hosting Rails are happy to install it for you as long as it is listed on RubyForge.com and has no performance issues.
Offers good tutorials (http://www.hostingrails.com/tutorials) and has a huge repository of FAQ's and Tickets which are available for our references.
Hosting Rails not only offer one of the best services in the industry but also best prices on their hosting plans. Shared hosting plans start from $2.88/Month to $15.99/Month
Dream Host: (http://www.dreamhost.com)
DreamHost is a known name in the hosting industry and stands as one of the best hosting services today (I am sure thousands of you will agree with that).
It offers plans under $10 if purchased the account for a year. It also offers very good online support, however, charges extra for limited phone support per month.
DreamHost is currently running a discount offer on their hosting plans
* To get the setup fee waived use the promo code "NoSetupFee"
* To get the $50 discount use the promo code "Promo50"
DreamHost offers a huge list of Installed Gems on their servers. Click here (http://rails.dreamhosters.com/) to view the list of Gems on Dreamhost.
EngineYard (http://engineyard.com) (My #1 Pick for Dedicated Rails Hosting)
This is one of the most expensive services which offer exclusive Rails support. If its got anything to do with Rails and you need it then this service never says a NO, but there is no such things as free lunch.
All the additional applications come for a price tag. Click here (http://engineyard.com/customers) to see what their customers have to say about them.
EngineYard offers best support and services for Rails. Click here (http://engineyard.com/whatyouget.html) to see what do you get with a plan.
Rails Machine (http://railsmachine.com/)
One of the best services you will find on the net. These are professionals and take their business and clients business seriously. RailsMachine offers high end services and solutions in terms of hardware and support and also charges handsomely.
(Dedicated Servers) Services start from $75/month + $30 setup to $325/month + $30 setup. This is the best plan if you can afford an expensive plan and looking for dedicated servers.
A2Hosting (http://www.a2hosting.com)
I am not very much familiar with the A2Hosting (excuse my ignorance), however, on papers A2Hosting looks like a good hosting company which offers excellent shared hosting plans and offers ruby support as well.
Pricing starts from $3.95 to $17.95 for a year long plan and it also offers a 30 Day money back guarantee.
I am pushing this hosting service down the list as I noticed high latency (at least in India).
I hope this helps anyone who is planning to purchase hosting for Rails Or if you know a better one please leave comments.


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University you get a degree from. You have to pay for the course (a big yearly fee). Most undergraduate courses are 3 years, medical courses like dentist, doctors are 6 years. Upon completing that you can go on to do a Masters degree in a specific subject which is an extra year (this is what I did), and after that, you can go on to do a PHD which is another 3 years where you have to write a huge massive thesis on a certain topic.
In University you have lectures (usually just a few hours a day) and you go out drinking a lot, and do all sorts of crazy stuff in your spare time. You'd usually live on the University campus for your first year (and sometimes second) before moving into a house with your friends.
College is an extension of school. Most people go to college after leaving school at the age of 16 (you'd wait to finish school at 18 to go to University), and you'd go on to study various courses that range from learning a trade, like carpentry, plumbing, bricklaying, electrician etc, or a beauty course (for girls (and some boys I guess)) IT and computers etc.
Some people also go to college to do their final 2 years of school instead of staying in school to complete those exams.
The qualification you'd gain from college varies from course to course. The qualification I'm getting for example is a Level 2 diploma and NVQ in Electrical Engineering. I'm also getting some other qualification which I can't remember what it is lol.
Also, you'd be staying at home if you were at college, as they don't provide halls for you to live in.
But in short, yeah, there's a massive difference between both. Take it from a guy who's experienced both!

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His revenge school lessons aren't a match for exploding laser beams, women with an affinity for leather, or said women using laser beams. Sigh, what's a guy to do?
The British babe got himself into this mess when he started hacking into The Initiative's secret cell network. It led him to an abandoned warehouse and one Helen Crowley — leather enthusiast and Initiative spokeswoman.
"You're in the deep end now, Mr. Mathis," she said. "I hope you know how to swim."
Ummm, Helen, have you seen this guy save people tied to wooden posts in the ocean? He knows how to swim.
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So could The Initiative kill Aiden off? It would give Emily an even deeper thirst for vengeance. And we did see Aiden and Helen in some compromising situations in the promo. First, we see the two running down an alley into a fence looking scared. Then they're trapped in an elevator getting gassed!
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We present a model wherein electrons produced in Saturn's inner magnetosphere circulate through a combination of outward and inward motions driven by the centrifugal interchange instability and azimuthal motion through gradient and curvature drifts. Cool (< 100 eV) electrons produced inside L similar to 12 move slowly outward. To balance outflowing flux, inward transport occurs in small scale injection events. Electrons in these inwardly moving flux tubes are heated adiabatically to energies greater than 100 eV and their pitch angle distributions evolve from isotropic to "pancake'' ( peaked at 90 degrees). We show that this evolution is observed, and that the pitch angle distributions observed inside a plasma injection are consistent with loss free inward adiabatic transport from L similar to 11. As the flux tube moves inward the warm electrons undergo energy dependent gradient and curvature drifts out of the inwardly moving flux tube and find themselves superposed on cold, locally produced, plasma. At this point they turn around and are transported along with the cold plasma back toward the outer magnetosphere. With reasonable assumptions about scattering and loss this motion can naturally lead to the "butterfly'' electron pitch angle distributions ( with local minima at both 90 degrees and 0/180 degrees) that are observed in the warm electron plasma component. We note that we cannot reproduce the butterfly distributions using loss free outward adiabatic transport alone. This is to be expected because there exist pitch angle dependent losses in the form of Saturn's neutral gas cloud and E-ring.
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text: robert dye Holiday shopping season rides rising consumer confidence By Steve Carmody • Nov 30, 2014 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Holiday shoppers are feeling better about the U.S. and Michigan economies. Economists credit holiday shoppers having a few extra dollars in their pockets this season. Robert Dye is the chief economist for Comerica Bank. Dye points to falling gasoline prices and an improving job forecast as just a couple of factors helping boost consumer confidence over the holidays. "I do expect the holiday shopping season to reflect a more secure, a more confident, and a more employed U.S. consumer," says Dye. But there is a dark cloud on the horizon: Inflation. Michigan's economic picture in 2012 - stable, but uneven By Steve Carmody • Dec 31, 2011 Michigan's economy will continue to stabilize in 2012. That's the prediction of Comerica Bank's chief economist Robert Dye. Dye expects Michigan's auto and furniture industries will continue to show some growth, but he expects economic growth will be uneven in Michigan. "I would say that central, west Michigan…the Kalamazoo, Lansing, Grand Rapids…Ann Arbor…will probably show a little bit stronger gains than…southeast Michigan," said Dye. Dye said Michigan's economic picture in 2012 will be heavily dependent on what happens in Europe and Asia.


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The Madison Common Council late Tuesday night. approved a development project on the city's East Side that will bring a new grocery store to the Grandview Commons neighborhood.
The council's vote was 15-4 in favor of a project.
More than 40 people were registered to speak about the proposed renovations and re-zoning of the site. The development plan includes building a 58,000-square-foot Roundys grocery store, which would mean changing the zoning plan of the Grandview neighborhood.
Project developers said they were accommodating throughout the process.
"Every person who lives in Grandview Commons has signed a disclosure on their contract, indicating that they agreed with the fact that it is a mixed-use neighborhood, and agreed not to oppose it. We have been as ethical as possible from the beginning, said Jeff Rosenberg, president of Veridian Homes.
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Members of the Grandview Community signed a petition last month that required three-fourths of the city council to approve the zoning proposal.
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Regional Development in Northern Europe
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This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the...
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Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys...
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Employability and Local Labour Markets
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Aliens have never invaded Japan: defence minister
Alien spaceships have never entered Japanese airspace, the country's defence minister has told parliamentarians, after being questioned about a possible aerial invasion by little green men.
Alien spaceships have never entered Japanese airspace, the country's defence minister has told parliamentarians, after being questioned about a possible aerial invasion by little green men.
Peru's air force has said it is reviving a department to research anomalous aerial phenomena—in other words, UFO sightings.
The British government finally shut down a special unit investigating UFO sightings after more than 50 years as it was a drain on resources and not a single report ever revealed " a potential threat to the ...
Actor Russell Crowe made some waves this week when he claimed to have captured photos of a UFO outside the window of his office in Australia.
Nearly two in three Americans think President Barack Obama is better suited than Republican rival Mitt Romney to deal with an alien invasion, according to a survey released Wednesday.
(AP) -- The Navy has launched a new communications satellite after two weather-related scrubs last week.
An unidentified flying object photographed high in the Belgian sky that puzzled even NASA scientists turns out to have been a fake made out of foam, the man behind the hoax said Tuesday.
The New Zealand military released hundreds of previously classified reports Wednesday detailing claims of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings and alien encounters.
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Australian scientist studying photographs of fireballs, UFO sightings and a report of a strange green light in the sky suggests some UFOs may be ball lightning caused by fireball meteors.
(AP) -- E.T., phone Brussels. A European Union lawmaker urged member governments Tuesday to open their secret files on UFOs, saying people need to know about close encounters of the third kind.
Hundreds of UFO sightings by Britons, including one who developed a skin condition after a supernatural encounter, emerged in files out Thursday which also show Winston Churchill's interest in the issue.
Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.
The British government has shut a unit which has investigated UFO sightings for more than 50 years, judging its resources better spent on more earthly threats, it said Friday.
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Mines and Steel Development Minister Musa Muhammad Sada presented the licences to the firms, Merssrs Tongyi Allied Mining Limited and Multiverse PLC.
Director General of the Mining Cadastre Office, Mohammed Amate, said while introducing the two companies that Tangyi Allied is engaged in the exploration of Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, Columbite, Lead/Zinc, among others, while Multiverse is involved in quarrying and mining of mineral commodities.


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DATE & TIME: Wednesday, December 5, 7 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: FedExForum (18,400) -- Memphis, Tennessee. Television: CBS Sports Network. Home Record: Ohio 6-0, Memphis 3-0. Away Record: Ohio 0-1, Memphis 0-0. Neutral Record: Ohio 0-0, Memphis 1-2. Conference Record: Ohio 0-0, Memphis 0-0. Series Record: First meeting.
GAME NOTES: The Tigers will try to stay perfect at home as the Ohio University Bobcats storm into FedExForum to challenge Memphis on Wednesday.
Ohio will be hungry for a win after enduring an 84-76 loss at Robert Morris on Saturday. The setback was the first of the season for coach Jim Christian's team. The 6-1 Bobcats reeled off wins in every game before Saturday, although the home court advantage was on their side in each of the victories. Ohio was the last team in the Mid-American Conference to suffer a defeat. Christian will pick up his 200th career win if the Bobcats manage to tame the Tigers.
Josh Pastner's Tigers have recovered from their back-to-back losses to Virginia Commonwealth and Minnesota in the Battle 4 Atlantis as they enter this one on a two-game winning streak after defeating Northern Iowa (52-47) and Tennessee-Martin (93-65). Since 2004-05, Memphis has won 148 games at FedExForum, the most home wins in the country over that span of time.
This will be the first meeting between these programs on the hardwood.
The Bobcats lost to RMU their last time out due to a poor defensive performance. The Colonials shot 56.4 percent from the floor including 12-of-18 from three-point range. RMU also converted 28-of-35 attempts at the charity stripe and held a slight advantage in the rebounding battle. Ohio converted only 40.3 percent of its field goal attempts, but assisted 20 of 25 made field goals and had just eight turnovers. D.J. Cooper led the team with 19 points and 10 assists, but he went just 6-of-17 from the field to do so. Walter Offutt added 16 points in the loss. Cooper leads the MAC in steals (2.3) and assists per game (7.3) and also paces Ohio with 14.7 ppg. Offutt is producing 15.3 ppg in his last three outings. Nick Kellogg can take over a game with his marksman like 3-point shooting ability.
Memphis is netting 71.8 ppg on 46.1 percent shooting from the field. Its opponents are averaging only 65.7 ppg, but they have converted 48-of-122 from three-point range in six games. The Tigers played very well on both ends of the floor their last time out, as they held UTM to 35.3 percent shooting and drained 52.2 percent of their own field goals. It was a collective effort on offense with freshman forward Shaq Goodwin leading the way with his first career double-double of 17 points and 12 rebounds. Adonis Thomas scored 15 points, Chris Crawford drilled four 3-pointers on his way to 14 points, and Joe Jackson added 13 points and eight assists. Geron Johnson tallied a career- high 13 points off the bench. Thomas leads the team with 12.5 ppg.
The Bobcats may have been looking ahead on their schedule to this game when they fell to RMU. However, the Tigers are once again a very athletic and talented unit. Cooper will need to deliver a big time performance for Ohio to hand Pastner's squad a loss in Tennessee.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Memphis 75, Ohio University 71
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This blog started after a cold, wet winter night, when a transport trailer carrying pigs crashed, spilling several pigs onto a busy highway. Some were hit by oncoming cars and later shot by police officers. It started as a love story to the one pig we rescued from yet another scene of carelessness and animal suffering. It has evolved into a place where I can archive and discuss the unjust, dark, and deceptive world of the meat industrial complex.
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Often is it said that free throws determine the outcome of most basketball games.
If you make them, you win. If you miss them, well, you make things challenging in searching for the win.
On Saturday afternoon in the Humphrey Coliseum, No. 22 Mississippi State held on for the 91-88 win over Auburn despite struggling from the charity stripe.
"We didn't separate it the way we needed to in the second half because of free-throw shooting," said Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury. "We got to the free-throw line 33 times the second half but only made 19. That let them hang around. We had a bunch of opportunities to stretch that thing out to 13, 14, or 15 points if we just make some free throws."
Arnett Moultrie, who led MSU in scoring with 21, was 7-of-11 from the line. In the last 31 seconds, he missed four of his six attempts allowing the Tigers to hang around. Â
"It was frustrating that we just couldn't put them away," said Moultrie.
While the Bulldogs were struggling at the line, shooting just 60 percent for the game, the Tigers were taking advantage of their opportunities.
"They got to the foul line probably more than anyone has gotten to the foul line on us this year," said Stansbury. "That's a bad stat for us, for an opposing team to get to the free-throw line as many times as they got to the free-throw line."
The Tigers, who lead only Ole Miss from the foul line by shooting 66 percent, shot 72.2 percent, making 26-of-36 shots from the line.
The Bulldogs, on the other hand, entered the game fourth in the SEC with 70.4 percent and missed 14 shots in the second half alone.
"We got the ball around that hole a bunch. We got fouled a bunch and we let them hang around," said Stansbury. "We missed some free throws. We missed 14 free throws in the second half, that's a lot of free throws to miss."View more articles in:


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Biodiversity News
World Population Day 2015: Demographic Resilience
Jun 23, 2015
As events and discussions centered around World Population Day 2015 begin and continue, we spoke with the Wilson Center's Roger-Mark De Souza about the concept of "demographic resilience." De Souza offers thoughts on its usefulness as a lens through which to view and assess the overall health of a community.
Telling Tales of Complex Connections
Apr 01, 2015
On March 24 we hosted the DC Environmental Film Festival to screen two new documentaries, each telling local stories of global trends. SPSS Blog, the weekly blog of the Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy journal, came to the Wilson Center to cover the event.
Responding to Climate Change: Will New Warnings Lead to Action?
Nov 14, 2014
With every new report issued, increasingly dire warnings about present and future threats posed by a warming planet suggest a more vigorous response than has been seen to date. Political action has been slowed or stymied by ideological debates that have little to do with the world of science or realities on the ground. Such inaction raises questions about whether any sector of society is adequately responding to the challenge or if there is even time to do so. A new round of international meetings will soon begin. In anticipation of those efforts, and in response to recent reports, Roger-Mark De Souza provides insight into what to expect and describes issues that should be part of the agenda moving forward.
Preserving the Amazon: A Race Against Time
Nov 13, 2014
Researchers from the United States and the state of São Paulo met at a FAPESP (Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo) symposium in Washington, DC to present the latest findings from their studies of the Amazon. The "FAPESP-U.S. Collaborative Research on the Amazon" meeting was organized in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Brazil Institute of the Wilson Center. One of the featured speakers was noted biodiversity expert, Tom Lovejoy. We spoke with him about the state of the Amazon and efforts to preserve its endangered ecosystem.
CEF's latest dam interactive map reported by Quartz
Apr 22, 2014
CEF has recently released its new interactive map concerning the information of dams in the southwest China.
CEF Director Jennifer Turner interviewed by Living On Earth on China's hydropower overload
Apr 22, 2014
For the past 65 years, China has built nearly two dams per day, and wants to expand its hydroelectric capacity. Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Washington DC's Wilson Center, tells host Steve Curwood that China plans to ramp up dam installation in Yunnan Province, which raises the risks for this biodiversity hotspot in Southwest China.
CEF Intern Katie Lebling Cited by Bloomberg Businessweek
Nov 22, 2013
Bloomberg Businessweek cited Katie Lebling's work on China's distant water fishing fleets.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Investigates China's Water Challenge
Jul 24, 2013
Dr. Elizabeth Economy from Council on Foreign Relations testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs and talked about China's water challenge and its implications for the U.S. rebalance to Asia.
CES 12 Preview: Sustainable Coffee Growing in Yunnan
Feb 19, 2013
Yunnan is a microcosm of the intertwined challenges facing China; climate change, strained water resources, and rising energy and food demand to meet the demands of the world's largest country are together forming a Choke Point that cannot be ignored. In a striking example of one such growing water-energy-food choke point, Yunnan's Nuozhadu Dam on the Mekong River is located in Pu'er, the epicenter of Yunnan's coffee growing boom. Yunnan's looming threats of drought, dams, development, and deforestation are making the need for sustainable water practices, like those in Starbucks' C.A.F.E. Practices, all the more urgent.
Global Warming Experts Should Think More About the Cold War
Dec 22, 2012
Every year the United Nations convenes diplomats from more than 190 nations to negotiate a climate change treaty, and in many years negotiators go home with little more than the promise of another annual meeting. They might find at least three lessons from the history of arms control, writes Public Policy Scholar Ruth Greenspan Bell and Barry Blechman of the Stimson Center.


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The early days of Superbike racing from 1975 through 1984 was an amazing time, Moto-Guzzi, BMW, Ducati, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Honda, Leverda, Triumph and Norton all duking it out on "production machines", the good the bad and the ugly, all there, from works bikes to machine shop specials. It was a time of legends and gods...
In 1979 I had the good fortune to work at Racecrafters in the San Fernando Valley, I spent some time volunteering in support of the Racecrafters Superbike effort. Harry Mallet had taken over the tuning from Pierre Des Roaches, the folks logging saddle time were such notables as Steve McLaughlin, Harry Klinzmann, and Eddie Lawson. I was changing oil and cleaning parts...
Please post your photos and personal stories of early Superbike racing for all to enjoy
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God bless bikes with great thrust and awful handling! I loved my Z1!
Let's see the old girls in race prep!
the heel on his riding boot is crazy!
No knee pucks. I'd feel nekkid.
Bell helmets! The apogee of noggin protection technology in the 1970's! :freaky
Bias-ply tires, no doubt!
Solid disk brakes! (EDIT: and single piston!)
What are those, like, 37mm fork tubes?
That's Klinzmann in that pic, right? #31. Whatever happened to him?
Very, very cool :clap
I was working on a Kawi Superbike team here in the PNW back then, and we ran enough California tracks (when we could afford to) that we probably have seen each other. Mostly we ran SIR, Portland, and Westwood up in BC. We loved Westwood because it paid better. We had pretty good sponsorship (Yoshimura, Fox, Kerker, Megacycle, D.I.D, MDS ignitions), and the local Kawasaki shop's van was our "transporter". It had only two seats. The rest of us had to sit on a bare metal floor in back with our legs under the bike and huffing gas fumes from the jerry cans.
Typical mongrel from the day. Our bike was originally built by Krauser, and they threw a bunch of money at it. But all it did was blow the fuck up on them (which takes some real talent with a Z1), so we bought it in 1980. Over the next year we changed damn near everything but the gas tank...and we re-painted that (which put Krauser's nose out of joint, but our attitude was: "Want that paint job to stay? Pay us")
The frame was classic "cheat like hell": About 80% of the stock tubes were replaced with thinner wall cro-mo. It had some hideous solid aluminum disc wheels when we bought it (geez, remember those?), which we replaced with morris and then dymag.
We re-designed the rear suspension to move the shocks up on the swingarm and lay them down 34 degrees. I was really happy with the way that worked out.
We had a trick set of genuine Yoshimura racing forks, but they had thin wall 36mm tubes and were shite. We built up a set of GS1000 forks (beefy 37mm tubes :brow), ran S&W springs from a Goldwing, and modified the dampers. We ran triple clamps from a Suzuki cruiser, because they had an extra set of bolts in the lower clamp and a lot more clamping area, and had a lot less offset than stock. They worked pretty well.
We had Fox remote reservoir shox, and we set up the low speed compression and rebound damping "medium", the high speed compression damping "fuck-all", the high speed rebound damping 'firm". We ran as little pre-load on both ends as possible, and changed spring rates when needed. To this day I hate pre-load. It just screws things up. Generally, if you could get a bike to handle well at Westwood (and ours did), it would handle well anywhere (OK, except Daytona, but Daytona is a freak show with banking). We probably ran more suspension travel at both ends than just about anyone, but that really helped to not overload those flexi-flyers. Those beasts were just not stiff enough to run short travel suspension with firm spring rates.
We ran Lockheed calipers and 13" rotors.
The crankshaft was a welded stocker (bomb proof, but heavy, I always wanted to build up a lighter crank but we never had the scratch), We ran Yosh single ring high-silicon cast (yeah, that's right) pistons. Those pistons were wonders: Bullet proof at high rpm and sealed perfectly every time. The heads were from Yoshimura, Branch, and later we got one from Kenny Augustine (but never raced it). Augustine's stuff impressed the hell out of me. The Yosh heads were all top end. The Branch heads were really nice all-around. We never ran more than 11:1 CR, as it killed the combustion burn (and top end power) above that. 11:1 was a good match to the cams. Squish clearances were 1.0 mm
We started with Yosh cams, but switched to Megacycle (they still list the #470-65A we ran) and they made power everywhere with 110 degree lobe centers. Yosh gave us inverted buckets that were much lighter than the KZ-650 stuff everyone else ran. The valve springs and Ti keepers were S&W from Branch. We had a racing D.I.D camchain from Japan (Yosh again), and the camchain tensioner was mechanical.
We got the bike with two sets of Yoshimura CR transmissions (really nice stuff), and the clutch was banded and had Barnett plates and stronger springs.
We had a "real" Kerker racing exhaust (the one they gave you that you had to weld up, not the one he sold). You knew you had arrived when Kerker gave you the good stuff (Same one he gave Muzzy and others)
As far as I know, we ran the first prototype MSD ignition for a motorcycle, and if someone else had a rev-limiter before we did, I never heard about it. We never needed more than 28-30 degrees of advance with single plugs.
We ran nothing but Castrol R (ahhhh, I love the smell of bean oil), and would change it twice on a weekend. We ran an MG oil cooler with AN fittings welded on.
We ran Goodyear slicks. We tried Michelins and Dunlops, but Goodies worked best.
The whole thing weighed 388 lbs (with gas), and made @135-140 BHP. It was as reliable as a pile of bricks with the following exceptions:
Other than that, it was completely reliable. We would do the top end every race (lap the valves and re-shim the springs, if needed, to get the seating pressures back where we needed). Cam chains, valve springs, and pistons every three races, new drive chain every two (hey, they were free)
We won a bunch of races (and a few track championships) in '81 and '82. Those were very good years, and the purses more than covered the expenses.
The AMA pretty much fucked us when they switched the class to 750's, and chose to do so in the middle of a recession (We had a deal lined up for Bardhal to sponsor the whole show for about $60K/ year...my how times have changed...but they pulled out when the economy tanked). We had no resources to build a brand new 750, and had no interest in running a warmed-over stocker mid pack. The rider moved onto BOTT, and I had to go to either Hell or Texas. I chose Texas. But we all had a hell of a good time for a few years. I love that era in racing.
PS - Wish I could find some pics. It was a 1979 Mk-II with a black tank and silver knee panels. Big ass Yoshimura sticker on the tank. Maybe mom knows where they went. Hell, I would love to know where the bike went (it was sold off as club racer, and last I heard succeeded in scaring the living shit out of the new owner...no, you can't buy wins), or maybe I don't. Old racing bikes rarely have happy endings.
I love it when Jinx gets technical on our ass :evil :lol3
The original #34
Wes Cooley
The bike Lawson is still pissed about.
Great write up Jinx.
All my old racing pictures are crappy scans now.
This is local racing in Colorado early 70's
Adams County Fair Grounds I think this is an XS 650 Yamaha, I think this is Bruce Sass, can't remember for sure.
This is a Suzuki same race, and yes western boots, I think this fellow raced Daytona with this.
Who cares about the weight, no need to remove the luggage-rack ... :clap
I purchased my first motorycycle in 1987, it was a 1982 Kawasaki KZ1000 MKII (I was 16 years old at the time). Bought it of an older guy up my block who used to race in his prime. It needed some work (he had it sitting for years), had a bald rear tire, no front brakes and it took me awhile to get it started (changed the oil, new plugs, filter, etc) and finally got the ole girl to kick over. "Oh boy", I used to fly down residential streets (note to everyone, not a smart thing to do) at 80 miles an hour and brake so hard that I would fish tail her at every stop (LOL). I've had a lot of speed bikes until now and just purchased my first BMW Sport Tourer, but i'll tell ya, i sure miss that ole Kawi. Every so often I see if I can hunt a MKII down but they seem to be either non existent anymore or of musuem quality with a musuem price to match! Maybe one day i'll put er back in my stable, maybe one day...
Jinx - That really was a great post. I didn't realize there was so much hot rodding of those old beasts. I hope you can post some more of your experiences here. Really fun read.
I rescued this 1983 GPz 550 from a software engineer. I got it for free, and dumped nearer 2 grand into it for parts, and my labor to bring it back. The idea going in was a trackday toy and sometimes racebike. I got bored with the wobbling thing and sold it. I had upgraded the fork internals along with a complete rebuild at that end including wheel and steering bearings, brake pads and steel overbraided lines.
The motor was stock save for a re-jet and freshened cam chain, tensioner, new clutch, sprockets and drive chain. Sealing the thing all back up and getitng the carbs sorted took the longest.
A friend had offered me a Basani headed for free, that was in good shape. I considered it, but went with the stock for the looks.
The rear shock was custom from Works Performance. Swinging arm bearings/bushings, helped but it still flexed a lot with modern rubber sticking it to the road.
The tank was dented on all sides, but held fuel. Smaller Ducati turn signals looked a whole lot better.
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A senior university relations officer, Yankuba Mamburay, who authored and published three books, recently launched two of those books - "The Search for a Lost Brother" and"The Mysterious Odyssey of a Village Boy" during a ceremony held at the Law Faculty of the University of The Gambia.
The programme was attended by several dignitaries and the general public. Speaking at the ceremony, the deputy permanent secretary at the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Momodou Sanneh explained to the audience the procedure that authors need to follow to have their books reviewed by a panel of book reviewers at the ministry for approval for schools. He commended Mamburay for painstakingly following the required procedure which has culminated in the approval of two of his books for senior secondary schools. Sanneh noted that the number of Gambian books in Gambian classrooms has increased astronomically since the year 2003.
The vice chancellor of the University of The Gambia, Professor Muhammadou M. O. Kah, for his part, expressed his delight to witness the launching of two books of one of the university staff. He said he is proud of Mr. Mamburay in that "anybody who sits through long nights, hunchback, to write and express his thoughts on paper until it becomes a book, should be commended"'
While encouraging the audience to develop the culture of using their intellectual creative faculties to write, VC Kah equally stressed that in an intellectual institution like the University of The Gambia, writing should be ongoing. He further encouraged all to support Author Mamburay by doing one of the three things - buy his books, read them or donate them.
Also speaking at the occasion, the director general of The Gambia National Library Services (GNLS), Abdou Wally Mbye, informed the gathering that Mamburay has already donated two of each of his books to the Gambia National Library. For this, he thanked Mamburay and urged all to emulate him. Mbye encouraged a culture of reading in every home, beginning with early childhood stage and for all to make the library their friend.
For the man of the day, whose success was being celebrated, Mamburay, thanked Allah the Almighty, his parents, wife of 15 years, Bintou,colleagues and all those who have been supporting his efforts from the very beginning; from the Gambia, USA, Asia, Europe and the wider world. He also expressed his gratitude to those who managed to come to the book launch despite the day being "Yawm Al A'Shura". He said he has authored three books but was launching two today.
The two books, he added, are: "The Search for a Lost Brother"; which he explained is a true, non-fiction story, narrated by the author, about a brother who traveled before the birth of the author. "The family, after several years, came to know that the brother was in the war-torn country, Liberia. During the war, Mr. Mamburay embarked on a journey to look for his brother and was apprehended by Charles Taylor's troops at gunpoint. It is the story of a Gambian family," he explained.
The second one launched entitled: "The Mysterious Odyssey of a Village Boy"; according to Mamburay, is a mystery book that spans over four decades of the life of a little boy who mysteriously found himself in a strange world, in a web bigger than himself. "He was brought up in the most brutal and inhumane condition which helped build in him the spirit of a great man. The boy had to spend his entire life trying to find out why he was in the situation that he found himself in," he explained.
Meanwhile, VC Prof Kah pledged on behalf of UTG to buy 30 books (15 of each book) to be spread among the libraries at the Schools of Arts and Science, ICT and Education at Brikama, School of Business and Public Administration, School of Medicine, Law Faculty and Faraba Banta Campus; whilst Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation (SSHFC) pledged to purchase 125 books; and Takaful Insurance Company Ltd. purchased eight books.


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Our artists are emerging talents. They are all graduates of prestigious art academies and exhibit and sell widely in Eastern Europe to collectors from around the world.
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Situated in the business district, this motel is 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from St. Claire Square Mall and within 3 mi (5 km) of Stonewolf Golf Course and Far Oaks Golf Course. Labor and Industry Museum and Gateway Conference Center are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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Along with an indoor pool, this motel has coffee/tea in the lobby and a business center. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and a TV in the lobby.
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All 50 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. Guests can appreciate conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves, and other amenities include premium bedding and cable TV.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access. A business center is on site. A complimentary breakfast is offered. This Fairview Heights motel also offers an indoor pool, coffee/tea in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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Rural LTE a Challenge, says Alcatel-Lucent Exec
ORLANDO, Fla.—Smaller wireless providers are likely to have a more difficult time deploying LTE than their top-tier competitors, an Alcatel-Lucent executive told attendees at the Rural Cellular Association conference today.
Regional providers often lack the spectrum and financial resources to roll out a whole new LTE network while continuing to operate their legacy services, Sandy Motley, Alcatel-Lucent's vice president of sales for U.S. wireless accounts, said during a keynote address this morning.
Getting them to LTE will require flexible solutions that make the most of available airwaves by refarming spectrum. And because the LTE footprint will be initially limited in scope, devices must be able to seamlessly interoperate with 3G.
By comparison, top-tier operators are able to roll out LTE across broader areas and support multiple legacy technologies during their next-gen deployments.
"Many of the competitive carriers are moving down a different path to 4G than larger operators," Motley said, citing the limited spectrum holdings of operators in rural areas of the country.
Motley laid out a scenario where operators would re-use some of their 3G spectrum for LTE in some areas, while continuing to offer legacy services in other markets. Such a buildout would require specialized equipment and devices.
The vendor community is responding to these unique challenges with technology that uses spectrum more efficiently through the use of small cells and Wi-Fi offload, Motley said, citing Alcatel-Lucent's LightRadio product.
New business models like spectrum and network sharing could also help operators find viable ways to market, she said. Collaborative arrangements were a common theme of the event's morning speeches.
"With the right partnering with the right innovations, technology and legislation, we can move into the very best of times ahead with LTE," Motley said.
The FCC estimates that about 18 million people in rural areas of the country do not have access to high-speed broadband Internet. Wireless services are often a more cost-effective solution for rural markets than fixed broadband.
The FCC's recent changes to the Universal Service Fund were criticized by some in the wireless industry who said the agency underfunded mobile providers. The $4.5 billion fund provides just $300 million in annual subsidies to wireless operators, but will eventually increase to $500 million a year.


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Muldrow police say the body of whom they believe to be Terry Stuart was found in his own back yard covered with a sheet by his neighbor Monday afternoon. Police say Stuart's roommate, Kelly King, was arrested following a high speed chase to Sallisaw after investigators tried questioning him about Stuart's death.
Chief George Lawson says Stuart's body was identified by family from tattoos, but the body has been sent to the Oklahoma Crime Lab for identification.
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Reiki is unique. Some people might consider training the most important component in becoming a Reiki Practitioner. Actually, the training is rather simple. The attunements are the most important part. Once you receive the attunements, the Reiki energy will flow into your Crown Chakra and throughout your body for the rest of your life. You transmit this wonderful healing energy through the palms of your hands.
Some claim that one attunement is all you need for each level of Reiki in order to be attuned to that level. However, many of us believe that additional attunements enhance and refine the Reiki energy which will flow through you, as well as raise your consciousness and increase your intuitive abilities. I recommend giving two activating attunements for Reiki I, and two activating attunements for Reiki II, III, Master and Master Teacher. Members of the Reiki Connection also prescribe to this process.
If you receive your Reiki I from any Reiki Master or Master Teacher who belong to the Reiki Connection, you will receive at least two activating energy attunements. The first attunement gently opens the energy matrices at the Crown (or top) Chakra. It then moves along the spinal column with its subtle body counterpart, gently aligning and balancing your major energy chakras. An increasing amount of Light energy is directed to the area of the Solar Plexus and the center of the palms of both your hands.
The second activating attunement increases the flow and velocity of the Light energy while gently widening the energy "core" and activating the primary left and right energy paths (known as the Ida and Pingala). It also serves to lock and seal the established energy flow from the Higher Vibrations and aligns the major energy centers to receive and utilize trans-dimensional energies. Your system is established intact and opened to a higher level of Universal resonance that can be increased through conscientious use and application.
Most of my initiates have affirmed that their attunements were the most enjoyable and powerful spiritual experiences they have ever had. Some have had mystical experiences, bringing personal messages, healings, awareness of other lifetimes as healers, and communication with their Guides, Masters and/or Power Animals. Some have reported being able to "see" auras when they never could before. Others were well aware of an opening in their Third Eye Chakra and increased awareness and intuitive abilities. I have also found that receiving the Reiki attunements begins a cleansing process for the Initiate which affects the physical body as well as the mind and emotions.
I have received reports from Initiates that have been very enlightening with regard to the cleansing and purification process. One Initiate who had allergy problems found that the symptoms intensified for 12-18 hours following the first attunement. After that, the allergies no longer were a problem. Another Initiate had problems with high blood pressure. After receiving the attunements for Reiki I, her blood pressure slowly and methodically went down until it reached the acceptable level. Other Initiates have explained that their Reiki attunements were responsible for the cleansing of toxins in their bodies and that old, un-warranted and unwanted fears miraculously disappeared. They felt stronger and more in control of their lives than ever before.
During an attunement, the Initiate sits in a chair, eyes closed, hands in prayer position, allowing the mind to go blank to receive any messages, thoughts or visions which may come from the attunement. With the exception of a dedication and blessing, the attunements are performed in silence. They consist of a series of hand positionings and placing the Reiki attunement symbols in the Initiate's field. At one point this is done by mentally drawing the symbols. At another point it is done by blowing the symbols into the Crown, Third Eye and Heart Chakras, and also by slapping them into the palms.
It is acceptable if the Initiate wishes a close friend or relative to witness the attunements, but I have found that the experience is much more profound if done with just the Reiki Master/Teacher and Initiate present. Many Reiki Master/Teachers give classes, during which all Initiates receive training and attunements together. These classes work very well for some; not so well for others. Most of my training and attunements have either been done on a one-on-one basis or on what I call the "Buddy System" (where two or three friends receive their training and attunements together). This works the best for me and for those who come to me for training and attunements. Other Master/Teachers are more comfortable working with larger classes. Either way is right, and no way is more effective than the other. Reiki just "does its own thing!"
The Reiki I Initiate is first given the Reiki Manual and then receives one attunement (after a brief explanation of the process). The attunement takes about 15 minutes. After the first attunement, the Initiate receives in-depth training in the scientific method of activating and applying the Reiki energy and specific hand positions to use when giving a Reiki treatment. This takes about an hour. The Initiate then receives the final attunement, after which the Reiki Master/Teacher answers any questions the Initiate may have and presents the Initiate with his/her Reiki I Certificate.
Once the Initiate has received the attunements, all he/she has to do to activate the Reiki energy is to place his/her hands on the subject to be healed, with the intention of healing. Reiki has its own intelligence and automatically flows to whatever areas need healing. It works together with the subject's Higher Vibrational Essences.


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Bob Seger Releases New Single 'Detroit Made'
Bob Seger has released a new single, "Detroit Made."
While it's unknown if "Detroit Made" is a single off of a future Seger album, the Detroit Free Press quotes members of his team who promise that release information will be made available shortly.
Seger admits that he just sort of stumbled across "Detroit Made," and he originally wanted one of Detroit's favorite sons, Kid Rock, to perform the track with him.
"I stumbled on "Detroit Made" on [SiriusXM] Outlaw Country," Seger told Billboard. "I downloaded it, and that's a great opener for us. My initial plan was to have Kid Rock do it with me, but he was just so busy with the start of his tour that we weren't able to do it. I thought it would be great."
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using FB boards
I am building a 42 inch pompeii. The sales dept at FB told me to purchase 3 FB boards for this sized oven. I cannot figure out how to orient them to make the oven fit. Anyone care to send me a sketch?
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Put two side by side to make it 36 x 48. Put the third one down rotated 90 degrees. You may have to do some trimming to get the pieces you need to allow all the dome bricks to sit on the board. My board was a different size then the FB.
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Exactly as Les says. I startedmy oven at the front of the boards so I would have a nice clearn edge.
I think you'll be happy that you got the boards - I know I was.
Thte boards is easy to cut - be sure to wear a mask.
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OK, now I'm still feeling a little dumb. Still can't make it work. A 42 inch oven with 4.5 inch walls is 51 inches across. I need to cut a three inch piece off the third to cover this. No matter how I arrange that third piece, it doesn't seem to make up for the difference. I think I need a fourth board.
I re-looked at your thread. Your oven wasn't 42 inches, was it?
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Hi Mike,
If you do need the fourth board, email me, and we will send it to you without a freight charge. I will also take a closer look at our "recommended FB board" web page, and make sure we are recommending the right number.
Sorry about the hassle.
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Duh, you're right mine was a 36... sorry about that. For some reason I thought i had to trim off more than I did...
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Or... you might use something else of equal thickness under the walls and use the board you have for just under the floor - where you need it.
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Here's how to make it work: arrange your three boards into a "T". you are going to nip off the corners of the upper tee to fill in the places where your oven overhangs. Measure in diagonally 5 3/8, and 9 3/8 from each upper corner, and draw and cut 45 degree lines at those points. The four offcuts will fill in the corners where your circle overhangs. PDF of drawing enclosed:
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I spoke with the folks at FB again, they think 4 boards is more appropriate for a 42 inch oven. I ordered one before seeing dmun's sketch.
dmun, thanks for the sketch. Your drawing sure beats me cutting pieces of graph paper! That looks like it would work, with quite a bit of cutting. Still, would save $70! (although I'm not confident I would have cut mine so precisely. Probably still would have splurged for the 4th board)
Perhaps James should send a sketch like that out with the boards he sells. thanks again, dmun. Hopefully it will help future builders.
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Don Pafko, long-time IHRC supporter and former president of Friends of the IHRC, has been named as Honorary Consul for Slovakia, with Minnesota being the newest addition to the Slovakian consular network in the United States.
On December 11, Don Pafko officially was named to the position. He has informally supported Slovak culture and the needs of that state's citizens in the United States for many years, and his role in facilitating connections between the two countries is expected to increase with the appointment.
The Honorary Consulate will be located in Minneapolis, MN, and was announced in the presence of numerous representatives of Slovakia and invited guests on Thursday, Dec. 10, as a large event held at a downtown Minneapolis hotel. Community, governmental, academic, and business representatives from both Minnesota and Slovakia attended the event.
Slovak dignitaries extended their visit in order to meet with State of Minnesota counterparts in order to encourage economic cooperation between Minnesota and Slovakia, which are roughly the same size and population.


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A Fantasy In Seasons [CS; NNA Tapes]
By C Monster on Nov 7 2011
I shared this cassette with my favorite coworker, and she said it reminded her of background music to a glitch-fucked poetry slam competition. My brow was raised by the amount of hand drumming I heard over the synthetic wash-out echoed throughout A Fantasy In Seasons. And what made it exciting for me was the unique structural changes within songs, shifting between mystery and awe, wonder and sensibility, human and human-made. Or, it's like the feeling after fucking for a while and then changing positions to confuse your parts. And it's not a sneaking shift either, but more along the lines of a conversation you've been involved in for the last 15 minutes, only now you're listening in. Maybe it's better compared to watching a creepy movie on a sleepless Saturday night, but come Sunday, you think, "Fuck terror, I need my sleep." Err — something like that. It ain't chilly to be willy, but A Fantasy In Seasons certainly falls under the will of chill.Links: NNA Tapes
Aoxomoxoa [12-inch; Brave Mysteries]
By Jspicer on Oct 5 2011
Doom and gloom exporter Brave Mysteries continues to expand its stonewashed mind with acid-washed tomfoolery. How else to explain the schizophrenic wonders of the strangely twisted PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS? Blending warped tape loops and samples, Aoxomoxoa exists only in the mind, so to hear it coming from speakers only causes paranoia and anxiety. Noises come from all directions and in all pitches and tones, blending itself into a climax only suitable for those who can stand to watch Requiem for a Dream on repeat. But when the swirling nonsense does die down, PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS is discovered to be masters of nuance. As the din of "The Mirror Cabinet of the Water Witches" draws to a fade out, the rich layers of low-end rhythm and high-end drone unveil a band as steeped in musicology as it is in psychology. The cassette's title track is even more subtle once it silences the voices talking over one another. Don't be fooled by the stylized name and gimmick; PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS is deeper than their shallow name and trendy palindrome of a tape title leads on.Links: Brave Mysteries
Aaron Dilloway
Lip Syncing to Verme [CS; Hundebiss]
By Grant 'Gumshoe' Purdum on Oct 5 2011
Aaron Dilloway's Lip Syncing to Verme is the best kind of noise experiment: one that constantly turns the listener on his ear. D-way also takes the extra step necessary to extend a noise recording's worth from "glad-I-checked-it-out-now-to-the-back-of-the-pile-with-you" to "I-find-you-enchanting-and-will-lovingly-place-you-on-the-Favorites-rack." Side A is like hearing that short story wherein a young girl falls asleep and wakes up packed to the gills with ants (They had climbed into her nose, you see.): I'm creeped the-fugg out and I think something's buzzing around my skull. I can't really tell you what's going on here. Dill could be sampling a pig's "hoinkle" or diddling the innards of a dusty, hard-to-find Royal typewriter and I'd never know the difference between it and a duck's fart (though officially my money's on a piece of luggage being thrown around a room with snare-drum-head walls). And that's of course the beauty of the whole process: I feel I'm learning by way of knowing it exists.Links: Hundebiss
Shearing Pinx / Ahna
Shearing Pinx / Ahna [7-inch; Geographing]
By Grant 'Gumshoe' Purdum on Oct 5 2011
I'm way beyond the point of return with Shearing Pinx. I know and love them like the back of my hand, and the back of my hand is FUCKING AWESOME, an uncanny assortment of veins, skin, and sandy, blonde body hair. ShxPx's side of their split 7-inch with Ahna isn't particularly special when you consider the incredible scope and dearth of the former's catalog, but it's still a damn-fine egg. "Bodies" is more a groove than a noise-rock shard, starting off heavy-handed and ending in a warm pool of its own delicious leavings. More of those fantastic vox, by god; Pinx know how to stretch a larynx without pulverizing it. Ahna are like a young Shearing Pinx: They charge balls-/bass-out and scream right in your face, BLAHHHHHHHAHLKGKSALDG!$^&*#$!!, and a lot of folks aren't going to like that. I, however, DO. It's a robotic attack of slow, churning hardcore aggression. Ahna's stuff is fairly rote considering the craziness being undertaken these days, but that's also its charm. Think Dead And Gone/Creeps On Candy, Flipper, The Pope, etc., then click your heels twice to get back home.Links: Geographing
Sister Overdrive
Honey [CS; Organized Music from Thessaloniki]
By Matthew Horne on Oct 5 2011
On the more abrasive side of Organized Music from Thessaloniki's, Sister Overdrive's (a.k.a. Giannis Kotsonis) Honey is a patchwork of at times short tracks stitched together into two sides of a cassette. As a result, it covers quite a bit of ground within the electro-acoustic and harsh noise spectrum but without ever feeling disjointed — as the liner says, "The structure, episodic on the surface, follows at the same time a larger form with a discernible internal logic." This fractured yet consistent structure is reminiscent of a dream-like state experienced at supremal volumes; car jams for the catatonic.Links: Organized Music from Thessaloniki
M. Geddes Gengras
Tetragrammaton [CS; Sacred Phrases]
By Jspicer on Oct 5 2011
Fort Wayne, Ind may not strike fear into the hearts of mortal men, but tape label Sacred Phrases will do its damnedest to change that attitude — even if they have to go outside their Hoosier borders to make it so. Prime example: the bombastic new cassette stunner from M. Geddes Gengras. Plastered with a fantastical fireworks display, Tetragrammaton puts the onus of synthesized pleasure on the listener, exploding with the fiery energy of its cover from the moment the play mechanism broaches the tape. Intro "Agape" leaves listeners just as it contends a whirlwind of sound kinetically combining into a synth sound that is neither the future nor the past, but the now — a much-appreciated exploration of the sound. Complement "IAO" is a softer, more sensual sound, perhaps a bit swank in Barbarella futurestyle but yet, one can't help but sense the need to stay in the now from Gengras. B-side séance "LVX" is the first real hint of reaching out to the future, forgoing the combustible energy of Side A for the spatial. It's a colder second half, but one that puts a bit of bite into Gengras' work and Sacred Phrases' reputation.Links: Sacred Phrases
Cave Bears
No Weird USA [CS; Feeding Tube]
By Grant 'Gumshoe' Purdum on Oct 5 2011
Cave Bears, holy fuckballz. They're for people who think Mama Baer "fuckin' sold OUT man," those who find harsh noise comforting and, perhaps most of all, those who believe that hysterical whimsy brings out the best in an abstract artist. These are sound paintings made with brushes covered in human excrement, video games constructed with broken pixels, and ballads dedicated to farm animals. My favorite moments don't take a genius to "get" — the sudden swarms of Atari bleepity-bloop, fiery bathhouse scream-a-longs (I honestly don't know what the "bathhouse" thing even means) — and it'll probably be a few decades before I can really Digest all that's going on here. I have to say, however, that it doesn't ring that much crazier today than, say, Danse Manatee did in its day, which, well SHIT, wasn't even that long ago besides. "No Weird USA" is too painful not to be ahead of the curve, if you know what I mean. Too instinctive to even question.Links: Feeding Tube
The Ketamines
The Ketamines [7-inch; HoZac]
By Grant 'Gumshoe' Purdum on Oct 5 2011
Probably the best venture I've heard from Ho-Ziggety, and I'm no hater — I find they do rock just fine. The Ketamines go for the psych-rock juggernaut on a killer-diller B-side ("Dig") and do a fabulous job not making dicks of themselves with cliched moves and well-worn saddles. More bands should cloak their echoes into eternity with synths and effects so delightfully squiggly. This is "Arnold Layne"'s drugged-out nephew (who is a Ramones fan), and once again, I'm left to wonder: How am I going to move on after such a skull-searching sun of a flip-side? "Victims" makes it easier. We get more of the echo, more of the ghostly harmonies, but this time dressed in a more psych-punk feel — think Woven Bones' vox overtop echo-drenched garage rock — than "Dig," though either avenue suits them. I never tried Ketamine so apparently there's another item to add to the bucket list…Links: HoZac
Seven Stars [10-inch; Touch]
By Jspicer on Oct 5 2011
In having the pleasure to see Fennesz live last year, I learned how to properly listen to Fennesz: LOUDLY. With the ability to combine complicated layers with simple elegance, Fennesz flexes this muscle once more on the four-song Seven Stars — and if you're aren't testing speaker thresholds with this 10-inch, you are doing the system and the music disservice. "Liminal" is a rich combination of Fennesz's brand of computer manipulations and deconstructed guitar playing, the undercurrent of distortion unraveling the slow dance into the minimal buzz of "July," heavy with the electric buzz of humidity in an agitated atmosphere. "Shift" and "Seven Stars" play a mirror to the first half, further breaking down the elements that make Fennesz. Even in subtlety, the master requires high decibel levels to hear every intricate level, and though Seven Stars can be enjoyed on a superficial level, choosing such vapidity is cheating.Links: Touch
Rat Columns
Rat Columns [7-inch; Smart Guy]
By Grant 'Gumshoe' Purdum on Oct 5 2011
Despite some stumbles/mumbles, Rat Columns cover a lot of ground and come out a lot more unscathed than, say, YOU would. "I Wonder" is a lukewarm — in a good way — strip of effeminate indie-rock that screams for the early '80s without raising its voice. I must say, I'm in love with this song's up-tempo, yet still relaxed, gait. Don't change, baby! But they do. "Keep Waiting" is buttressed by almost unbearable bassiness and yet another sound environment I'm goddamn impressed by, beholden to Factory, coldwave, noise, and modern detachment as it is. A lot of bands tried to nail the feel of "Keep Waiting" down over the years and failed (I don't care what the reviews said at the time), so hats off to Rat Columns' wonderful escapades. A super-strong dose of addictive, fleeting cool that bleeds black and burns slowly, to be sure. And don't forget "Glass Coffin" on the flip, a more scattered, gypsy-esque outing that's more desert-sun than eternal-night. By this time, it doesn't even matter what "Darkness" brings (for the record: think Deerhunter); you've already heard enough light to turn on the switch.Links: Smart Guy


text: After Shave – Skin Deep CD. Official reissue of rare 1972 Swiss underground hard rock album featuring liner notes, photos and five bonus tracks! After Shave were a heavy trio formed in the late 60s and influenced by Cream, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the usual suspects. They toured Europe in the early 70s and eventually recorded this debut album for the tiny Splendid label in 1972, which now commands big dollars on the rare record collector market. [Read more…]