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Japan Live
A journal about Tokyo's independent rock music scene.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Kounotori At Mona Records
Kounotori, which means 'stork' in Japanese (as in the baby-carrying bird...not very poetic in English), is an Osaka-based pop band, They just released their first album, Arawarerumono, Kieteyukumono (things that appear, things that disappear), and they played at Mona Records in Shimokitazawa to celebrate the release.
The members are friends of mine so I'm biased, but listening to them reminded me of the unique pleasure of discovering great new music by people who are writing songs for the love of it. That's what this blog has always been about.
Sweet-voiced vocalist Kazuhiro Takamatsu, who writes the songs, says he was influenced by Sunny Day Service and Kenji Ozawa and now listens to samba. The pianist Nao Orino and drummer Kiyoshi Tsurumaki are jazz musicians when not playing with Kounotori, and they give the music a nice swing. Bassist Minsung Kang, formerly of Seoul's Linus' Blanket, helps run indie label Lepus Records, which sells Kounotori's CDs. Mayumi Hozaki is usually on the flute, but she came down with the flu, so the show instead featured Mayumi Ikemizu of Three Berry Icecream on accordion and vocals, and Keiko Tanaka of Little Lounge Little Twinkle on viola.
Here they are at another show, playing a song I really like called "London Road".
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Every Great Japanese Guitar Pop Band At Shindaita Fever (...Well, Almost)
Hi. I'm still here.
But I haven't been going to as many shows. I'm less willing that in the past to spend hours at night trying out the music of new bands I've never listened to before.
There was no worry of disappointment at last night's show at the Shindaita Fever--the program was like a list of my favorite Japanese bands: advantage Lucy, Contrary Parade, Risette and Swinging Popsicle.
Lucy was playing their first Tokyo show in two years. Vocalist Aiko gave birth last year, and had been focused on bringing up the boy.
Now, they were back, and it didn't feel like all that time had elapsed. Advantage Lucy is still such a good band on stage, creating together that distinct sound, and standing at the center Aiko closes her eyes and weaves her body as she breathes in the music.
They did an old song called 'Memai' (above is a video of a past performance of the tune). Meaning something like 'dizziness', it's a sweet love song about a girl feeling dizzy when she hears the low, kind voice (hikuku yasashii koe) of her guy (but then the lyrics imply that they split up and are meeting again, though I'm not sure--maybe I'll ask one day... By the way, a lot of the words in the song are hard to translate, like 'memai' as dizziness, but I don't think it's meant to be the sort of dizzy that incapacitates you. Or, there's a line, 'futari no kisetsu ga modoreba to omotta watashi wa zurui' which I would translate to something like, 'is it wrong for me to wish that we would once again have a season together,' but that word 'zurui' is strange. It usually means sly, or cunning, or dishonest, but I think in this case a Japanese would hear it as meaning more, maybe something like, being selfish to the verge of being wrong, but it can' t be helped because of the emotions. End of digression...)
It was touching to hear this song now because, well, the singer and guitarist of this band are married now and have a child, but, making the assumption that the song's words at least partly reflect lyricist Aiko's feelings, does it mean that there's still that low, kind voice that can make her pleasantly dizzy?
There's also the matter that many of us in the audience grew up listening to Lucy songs like 'Memai', so they've now been weaved into our memories, things that happened, places where we spent time.
Mayu Tanaka, a keyboardist-vocalist who has a one-girl unit called Contrary Parade (it used to be a band with three members, I think, but it shrank), listened to 'Memai' in school too, and she said she once wrote a song imitating it. The music is passed on...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Vasallo Crab 75's So Many Colours Event Volume ?
When DJ Kamaage and I got into the Que for the Vasallo Crab 75 event "So Many Colours" after a couple of beers at the nearby Shimo-Kitazawa stand-up sake joint Yocchan, the first band was already playing, and at first I didn't recognize who they were. The singer looked different in one of those mini-beards that are ubiquitous these days, but then, gradually, I realized it was Condor 44, the 90's alternative-inspired trio I've seen from time to time for the last decade.
The singer said they were excited about the event so went into a rehearsal studio in the morning to practice one last time, but, because they were getting older, now in the evening they were tired out during the actual performance. A standard gag. But at the same time, it's pretty Japanese to follow the script diligently in terms of age roles, I'm not entirely sure why, probably a lot of it is Confucianism, but maybe there are other cultural things going on too.
The second band was called Frisco, a fabulous rocksteady outfit with a horn section and a pedal steel guitar guy, among others. It's amazing that there's a great rocksteady group playing in Shimo-Kitazawa, Tokyo, Japan, on the other side of the world from Jamaica. They've been around a long time too. The singer said when they did their first show at the Garage, they were so bad the club's manager said please don't come back again. A long way from there...
And Vasallo Crab 75 closed their event. I think I've been to a few of their So Many Colours, but I didn't pay that much attention to event names in the past, because I didn't know how much thought and emotion went into them. This one was started by the late Takayuki Fukumura, and they've been doing it for about ten years, and VC75 vocalist Daisuke Kudo told me that he'd lost count of how many they'd put on--fifteen, sixteen? In the meantime, their music has evolved from bedroom-recorded indie pop to a jazzy, funky, show-off, rocking pop. I've run out of ways to praise them--scroll back and read my past ovations if you please, in this journal that's also almost ten years old now, wow... seeing them just feels now like going to a favorite restaurant that never seems to get bad, run by a chef that never seems to turn old.
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Saturday, January 05, 2013
Munekyun Arpeggio At The Que
Happy New Year. It's taken me this long to find the time to write about a show on Nov. 25.
It was the ninth Munekyun Arpeggio, an annual event to remember the life of Takayuki Fukumura, the former guitarist for advantage Lucy and Vasallo Crab 75. I thought about birth at this show that came into being because of Fukumura's death.
It was the ninth Munekyun Arpeggio, an annual event to remember the life of Takayuki Fukumura, the former guitarist for advantage Lucy and Vasallo Crab 75. I thought about birth at this show that came into being because of Fukumura's death.
New sounds were being born. The first band was Bertoia, led by a girl who calls herself Murmur. She'd been an advantage Lucy fan since high school, when she went to see the band in Osaka with her mom. Now she has her own shoegazer group, playing for a packed audience at the Que.
Up until I stepped into the club and heard Bertoia's first note, I was feeling a mental chill--maybe going to this gig was like trying to relive something that had already passed me by. But then the first chord sounded, and the warmth returned.
I'd seen Murmur on stage before, but I saw that she and her band had grown as performers. Once shy and appearing almost afraid, she now looked at the audience, so that she could better tell her story of music. And when I listened later to their album Modern Synthesis that I bought that night at the club, I remembered what they created on stage--emotions melted and shaped into music.
When advantage Lucy came on stage and vocalist Aiko introduced the band, she said there was one other person there--she was almost seven months pregnant. Tiring more easily because of the baby, she still sang beautifully old songs like "When I Sleep" and "Nico" that she once played together with Fukumura. Almost ten years since his departure, a new life was being created--it was sweet to think about the old times those songs evoked and the days that had passed.
The bands made a compilation album for the Munekyun Arpeggio event, and advantage Lucy contributed a song called "Stars". Aiko teared up, saying women in her state became emotional easily, while explaining the song: it's about all those people who are gone, but may be looking over us from the sky. And if the death of one person hurt so much, what must it have been like, after the earthquake, when more than 10,000 lives disappeared? That was the emotion that led to the song's conception.
Last up was Vasallo Crab 75, Fukumura's final band, which he formed with school-buddy Daisuke Kudo.
If Bertoia and Lucy made me think of birth, VC75's music was about growth: from a duo that home-recorded guitar pop tunes a decade ago, VC75 had evolved and mutated into a funky six-piece ensemble that mashed together rock, soul, jazz and classical, always energizing the audience. But I felt that the sensibility hadn't changed, and Fukumura would have enjoyed seeing what the band had become.
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Yuyake Lamp At Kibune Shrine
Tokyo is my true love. Kyoto is a temptress.
Walking Kyoto's mundane Japanese city streets, a temple or an old house emerges that gives a glimpse of a thousand years of history. Sitting pondering a sea of stone at Daitoku-temple, listening to the wind and cicadas, I lose track of time. The people walk more slowly, savoring their conversations, stretching out the vowels at the end of sentences.
I was in Kyoto see Yuyake Lamp play at Kibune Shrine up in the hills north of the city. Kibune means something like 'holy boat'--the tale is that a goddess took a boat up a river and left it in the shrine grounds. It's a shrine of engagement, marriage and birth. Somewhere in the grounds are two trees whose branches have joined together, a symbol of marriage.
Yuyake Lamp played on a wooden Noh stage overlooking a creek. Wearing yukata, they performed for an hour with keyboard, flute and cajon. The river's rustle below and the ringing cicadas were a harmony to their songs.
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Vasallo Crab 75 At The 251
It felt like a while since I was last in Shimokitazawa.
Walking down the stair of the south exit, for the how-many-hundredth-time?, I went down the main street, past the cafe smelling of overheated coffee. Coming up were girls, and some guys, in yukata, headed for the Sumida-gawa fireworks festival. Did this street always have this many chains? My memory is uncertain, but two decades ago when I first visited, it seemed this town was all mom & pop shops.
It was a long time too since I'd been to the 251. My friends' bands had grown up, so they mostly play now upstairs at 440, the mellow cafe.
I used to go to the 251 a lot around 1999, when shows were a salad bar of melodic punk and Shibuya-kei pop groups. There was a night when Qypthone (Shibuya-kei) and House Plan (punk) were on the same bill, and Chinese-Japanese model Hana, a friend of Qypthone, was in the audience (both bands are now M.I.A.). Wearing an orange windbreaker, immediately recognizable at the time, Hana stood shyly in the corner. I found out later on TV that her hobby was to look at Buddhist sculpture--her term was she was 'meeting' the statues--and she teared up when she saw them.
There were tables and chairs at the club tonight, and family from a white-haired grandma to a little girl in a red T-shirt sat to watch their bands. Something was missing for me with the opening bands, a lack of originality and/or Japanese-ness, but then when Vasallo Crab 75 came on, exploding rock, funk and pop, all the ice that was there despite the summer melted.
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Guitar Pop Restaurant Volume 10
I've drifted from the music scene for a bit, for various reasons, going to only a few shows and not having any idea what events are coming up at the Que, the O-Nest and all the usual haunts. It's a situation I hope to change.
In the meantime, events like Guitar Pop Restaurant help me keep in touch with the good bands out there. Organized by a guy named Nakamura Kazumi, who as far as I can tell isn't a musician himself and is involved in this venture solely for the satisfaction of bringing together on stage bands he likes, the event has been held ten times now, which is an accomplishment. I remember seeing after one of the first shows a veteran musician scolding him about some problem with the event--he's come a long way.
Volume 10 was held at the small Shibuya Home, made more cramped by the chairs laid out at the front of the hall, and it was stuffy until the air-con kicked in. It was another eclectic Guitar Pop Restaurant pick of bands--advantage Lucy-inspired Humming Parlour; saccharine-sweet songstress Marino with her excellent backing jazz ensemble, the Teapot Orchestra; Ruby Chouette, a whispering pop singer getting her inspiration from Shibuya-kei; and a collaboration of Mayumi Ikemizu's Three Berry Icecream (photo above) and Hozaki Mayumi and Lepus from Osaka--friends of mine who make mellow, creative music with flute, viola, xylophone, piano, in addition to guitars and drums.
I changed the weblog layout. I liked the one before, but it was getting old, plus the comment service I used suddenly changed its system so that all my old comments appeared to be lost and the new ones were presented in an unsightly, expanded dialogue box, so I decided to ditch it and try a new layout. Maybe I'll change this one too, though I'm usually lackadaisical about that sort of thing...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Love And Hates At The Marz
Went to see Love and Hates, the indie breakbeat duo that includes Yuppa of Hazel Nuts Chocolate. The event started at 5 and went until around 10 at the Shinjuku Marz, though I only made it about half way into it, catching the Suzan, a New York-based girl rock band, beatboxer Afra, and Luvraw & BTB, a smooth funk/soul/city pop group from Yokohama featuring not one, but two vocoder players.
Luvraw & BTB
The two LAH girls ascended the stage wearing striped leotards and paper crowns, and danced, rapped and blew various whistles over DJ samples. They reminded me of whacky, hyper Japanese acts from the 80's and 90's, except that while the latter bands were seeking the Cool of their New Wave and punk influences, LAH's more going for Cute (the name of Hazel Nuts Chocolate's second album). Yuppa kept on talking about things being 'suteki'--meaning 'lovely' or 'wonderful'.
For fans of HNC's first two albums, Bewitched and Cute, those collections of darling, children's books in the form of songs (with titles like "Yuppa Goes to Space" and "Honey Lip Tarte Tatin"), the Yuppa unit's current direction might not necessarily satisfy. It's more Club than Cafe. You see a similar thing with Capsule, who once created lovely Shibuya-kei songs about things like spending the weekend in one's favorite room, but has turned itself into a unit heavily influenced by Daft Punk, composing electronic music ballads about life and death. Capsule's latest manifestation is growing on me--I'm crazy about songs like "Pleasure Ground"--but I wonder whether anyone's going to pick up where HNC and Capsule left off and make more songs about fashion and sweets and city living and innocent childlike fun etc.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Plectrum, Rockers, 30 Boys Turning 40
A band called Plectrum turned fifteen and held their birthday gig. I used to feature them a lot, this power pop group that worships Teenage Fanclub, when I started writing Japan Live seven years ago (suddenly it's half their age!). But I haven't kept up the coverage, partly because Plectrum hasn't played as much, but also because I haven't been to all their shows. Sometimes you need reminders that there really was something there.
Plectrum reminded me. Of that feeling when musicians are able to pull you and the crowd into the songs, making you forget everything else.
Plectrum has a song called '30 Boy', written when singer Taisuke Takata was 30, and he said on stage he's about to become a '40 boy' but he wants to continue at it, heartened by predecessors like Mick Jagger sempai and Keith Richards sempai. The way he sang '30 Boy' that night... it had the weight of all those years and feelings.
There's a line in '30 Boy' that says 'I'm still not used to Tokyo/ but I don't mind how I'm left alone (mada Tokyo ni naretawakejanai/ demo hottokareruno wa iyajanai)', and it came alive when Takata sang it. He's a rocker born down south in Saga prefecture, and he's one of the many people from other places who gather in Tokyo, where things happen because so many people are together. For example, shows like Plectrum's, somewhere every night in this city, that open your eyes and make you feel you're living.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Waffles & advantage Lucy At Zher The Zoo
Advantage Lucy played at the Yoyogi Zher The Zoo after a six month absence from the live stage, and since they were opening for the Waffles, a band that vocalist Aiko said sings such sweet tunes, they also chose their sweetest numbers, including 'Sakuranbo', 'Kaze ni Azukete' and 'Memai' (and, fellow advantage Lucy fans, I'm sure you could appreciate what a delectable offering that was...).
The highlight for me was 'Hibikasete', that winter song, sung so beautifully it felt like the air around me shone. The last song on the mini-album Oolt Cloud, Aiko said its image was of winter in Hokkaido, icicles hanging. 'Hibiku' means to echo, reverberate, or just sound, so 'Hibikasete' could mean 'make (your voice) reverberate', in my imagination in a winter night in the north, the ground glowing white with snow, icicles on eaves.
The Waffles were celebrating a pre-10th year anniversary (it's next year), and they played a few nice songs from an album to be released in January called Tenpo, as well as oldies. What I liked was that from where I stood I could see a few fans in the front mouthing the lyrics to the old songs--these were a part of their lives. Toward the end they performed one of their best songs, 'Tsugi no Hikari', which means 'the next light'. I think it's about hopes of understanding another person (a lover) in spite of the obstacles of time and changes. The Waffles have been at it for nine years now, and many of their fans must have followed them all that time (I'm basically one of those). Wonder if they, we, have discovered the next light?
For the encore, the Waffles invited advantage Lucy back on stage, saying they are huge fans, and they did Lucy's 'Goodbye'--that classic--with the Waffles' Kyoko Ono singing the first part and Aiko taking over on the next. If you like both Lucy and the Waffles, you can imagine what a treat it was to listen to those two gorgeous voices singing together that brilliant tune. During the first verse, Aiko mouthed the words away from the mike. It was sweet to see.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Caraway, Reminding Me Of The Old Days
Once in a while there's a show that reminds me why I became so crazy about guitar pop around 2003, almost a decade ago now, when I sometimes went to several events in a week. This time it was Caraway, themselves playing for the first time in three years as a band. They're led by Swinging Popsicle's Osamu Shimada, the Beach Boys-loving guitarist that reminds me a little bit of Buddy Holly because of his spectacles and wholesome looks. Off stage, he is down to earth and polite, with just a hint of a charming mischievousness. On stage he's different, giving it his all, connecting with the crowd with his sound and humor.
The event was Guitar Shop Restaurant at the Nishi-Ogikubo Waver, and the flier for it featured a girl in a white dress, floating in the clouds holding a bunny and a kitten. Over drinks one night before the show, my friend DJ Kamaage and I chatted about this picture, which maybe reflected how a younger generation thought of guitar pop, but didn't feel right to us. Guitar pop isn't just sweet and gentle music. Some of us fans think it's a successor to the original punk rock, trying new things, with a Do It Yourself attitude. Or, as twee.net says, "Pop Kids everywhere know that the true spirit of Punk Rock lives on not in the mass-marketed "alternative" scene, or the sub-metal caterwauling of testosterone-poisoned grunge-rockers, but in the simple and pure efforts of kids banging out sweet delicious songs on cheap guitars. "
A certain feeling of being on edge can be seen in the live shows of bands like Caraway. In a different way, another group on the set that night, Three Berry Icecream, shows the true guitar pop spirit, creating beautiful, short tunes with accordion, viola, xylophone, just because those are the instruments that band leader Mayumi Ikemizu wants to use to create sounds.
This was a 'sold out' event, at a tiny venue I'd never been to before. Fortunately, and unusually for a Tokyo show, the audience could exit and re-enter the venue freely, which was good, because the place was packed. There's a relationship between how much you love a show and how much discomfort you are willing to put up with, and these days in my case the love really has to be there to stay at an uncomfortable event, whereas Tokyo audiences seem to be able to put up better with the lack of space, or maybe they just love the music more. Or, I might just be turning into an old grouch. It was good, though, to be able to go outside and walk around in Nishi-Ogikubo at night, a dense neighborhood of eateries and bars, including a huge yakitori joint called Ebisu that occupied multiple storefronts in one block.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Asakusa Jinta & OldFashion At The Kurawood
The Kurawood in Asakusa is such a nice live house, with a friendly vibe. I recommend it highly for any music-loving visitor to Tokyo, since you won't want to miss Asakusa in any case (and for that matter, anyone who lives in Tokyo should go too).
Kurawood's bar sells, in addition to the usual beer and cocktails, several types of shochu, sake, Denki Bran--'electric brandy'--that specialty of Kamiya Bar in Asakusa, a liquor that tastes like sugar and herbs dunked into brandy, and bar food, including oden for 300 yen, which is a good deal.
Hung from the ceiling of the stage area are paper lanterns that darken when shows start. They're inscribed with the characters for Sanjya festival, a big annual event in Asakusa.
I headed to Kurawood from Asakusa station, and the evening was autumnal, with a cool breeze swinging the branches of a willow tree next to an old restaurant with a black-tiled roof. The night's show was organized by Asakusa Jinta, so I knew it would be good.
The first group I saw was called OldFashion, an energetic, swinging outfit with three sax players, a wood bass, two guitars and a drummer. Nattily dressed in jackets and ties, OldFashion was one of those groups that was inspired by old jazz and pop. They reminded me a bit of Ego-Wrappin and Crazy Ken Band, and I liked them a lot.
Next up was a funny band led by the 'Mick Jagger of Adachi ward', and these guys really learned their stage show from Rolling Stones 101, complete with a lead guitar with Keith Richards mannerisms.
Then Asakusa Jinta came on, and the floor erupted into joyful dancing. An especially excited kid turned around and apologized when he bumped into me, and I felt bad because his hops and swinging dance and arm pumps were what I felt too, inside. Though by about the middle of the show, the music was so powerful, I jettisoned my inhibitions and joined him and the other fans in dancing.
One of the things that makes Asakusa Jinta great is that they've made music that sounds both retro and new, mixing western and Japanese styles. Others have tried this too, but I don't think as successfully. And they're master performers, fun and engaging to watch. It's a stupid miracle that you can still see these guys right up close at a little place like the Kurawood.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
This & That Volume 4 In Roppongi
Photo by Daniel H. Rosen
This & That Cafe is a neat event that a Tokyo-based artist named Daniel Rosen holds every two months or so at the Super Deluxe in Roppongi. First off, it's free, leaving you with more money to consume beverages including Tokyo Ale. Secondly, it features an eclectic mix of performances, which, when I stopped by a few weeks ago, comprised Yuyake Lamp, my beloved piano pop band, the Watanabes, a gaijin ensemble from Ehime Prefecture, another female vocalist and a flamenco group, a live painting, and animation projected on the stage wall. It's an ideal way to spend a Friday night, listening to good music at a place with a free feel.
The Watanabes, who started with a fun song about living in Ehime as foreigners, are based close to Yuyake Lamp vocalist Yunn's hometown in the western Japan prefecture, by coincidence. I wonder what it's like to be a foreigner band in a place like Ehime...
Photo by Tomohide Kimura
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Terayama Shuji Music Festival
I heard about Shuji Terayama a long time ago, but in one those things you never quite get around to, I'd never really read any of his plays or poems and other works of this avant garde writer. So, when I saw that there was going to be a 'Terayama Shuji Music Festival' at the Hatsudai The Doors club, and Asakusa Jinta was playing, I was interested. Plus, as a bonus, Panta, the singer of the legendary left-wing 70's rock band Zunou Keisatsu, or Brain Police, was also on the bill.
Terayama was active in the 60's and 70's, and a lot of the crowd in the small Doors club seemed to be about the age that they probably saw Terayama plays when they first came out. They were a quiet audience, with gray, fuzzy hair. Maybe they were once radicals, protesting, attending Brain Police shows, taking in Terayama's literary experiments. Maybe, to an extent, they are still radical, which is harder to be than, say, in your 20's.
It probably wasn't an easy crowd for Asakusa Jinta, accustomed more to playing for young punk fans, but they pulled it off, helped along by a few diehard fans in the audience who had come to see them, and getting polite applause from the Terayama followers.
MCing the event were a playwright named Ei Takatori, who had collaborated with Terayama and whose background is also interesting, with 'manga criticism' listed in his resume, and an idol singer named Mika Hashimoto, who is the 'chairwoman' of the School Uniform Advancement Committee, which is how I guess I'd translate an idol group called Seifuku Koujou Iinkai. I missed SKI's set, but they appear to be a group of about a dozen schoolgirl singers who motto is to be "pure, upright and beautiful," according to their website. The special guest was the actress Hitomi Takahashi, a tall, somewhat fox-like beauty, who had been scouted by Terayama when she went to see one of his plays as a student in her school uniform.
Brain Police's Panta played as a duo with another guitarist. A 61-year old rocker with still-long hair wearing black clothes, Panta did an acoustic set, and the highlight was a song whose message confused me. It was a song that was ostensibly about a baseball team, and its nine players, but in reality it was about the nine hijackers of ANA's Yodo-go plane in 1970, the baseball theme invented to prevent the song from being banned. It seemed weird...I only have wiki-level knowledge of the Yodo-go incident, but the gist is a group of radicals took over the plane and had it fly to North Korea, where the nine would be able to join their comrades. It wasn't a critical song. If anything, it seemed to glorify them. Maybe the song made sense in certain circles at the time it was written, but, in 2011, it seems strange. I'm curious what Panta's take is on all this.
For the encore, all the performers got together and sang a famous song that Terayama wrote called , "Sensou wa Shiranai", a beautiful, if somewhat sentimental song about a girl getting married whose father she doesn't remember died in the war. The title means, literally, 'I don't know war', but I guess the 'know' in this case means more than just knowledge or experience, and is talking about lives where war is no longer something that exists, at least not in Japan, for now.
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Sunday, May 08, 2011
2011, From Here
2011, From Here was an earthquake charity event at the Club Que featuring a three-band roster that was hard to beat if you're into Japanese guitar pop: Harqua, the husband-and-wife collaboration of Harco and Quinka, with a Yawn, Kuki Kodan and advantage Lucy. Ticket proceeds, donations and sales of buttons made by artists (showing the prefectural birds of the quake-affected areas) went to a quake relief fund.
More than 200 people crammed into the Que, and the event ended up raising over 500,000 yen, about $6,000.
Highlights of the event for me included:
Harqua's performance. I'm a huge Quinka far, and chose her Field Recordings album as my favorite for 2008. I also like Harqua's CD a lot—I don't think there are many married duos that sing as beautifully together—and this was my first time see them on stage. One of their best songs is "Thank You", the first tune on their album, and Quinka said that when she wrote it, the message was that you shouldn't miss the opportunity to thank loved ones closest to you, but after the quake, the message became bigger, and now it's also a song to thank people from far away, strangers with a heart. Enamored of the song to begin with, and thinking about its newfound significance, I was emotionally overcome during its performance.
Kuki Kodan's lyrics. Vocalist Yamazaki Yukari writes with everyday words that mysteriously turn into sung poetry that's hard to forget. I could see several fans mouthing those words that mean a lot to them. Yukari sits the side edge of the stage, singing as if she's alone in a living room, and then sometimes looking up, surprised she's on a stage in front of a crowd.
Advantage Lucy. The organizers of the show, whose intention was written on their website (and take a guess who translated it into English :) ). What can we do in this situation? We can start helping, from now, each in his or her own way—that was the philosophy.
But when vocalist Aiko first tried to address the audience, and saw how many had shown up, she was overwhelmed and covered her eyes with a towel. The words eventually came out, and they did a fantastic set of their new material, but for the encore, when they did "Kaze ni Azukete", and she sang that line, one of my favorite of all Lucy lyrics, because it's so real:
Kimi kara koe ga todoitara nandaka
When your words reach me
Onaka ga suitekita
I start to become hungry
she choked up again. Maybe, I think, because we were there, the fans and musicians, and our voice, of support and agreement, did reach her. (And we did go grab a bite afterwards!)
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The couple who co-owned a downtown Bushnell restaurant that burned in March, taking adjacent buildings with it, has been arrested on charges of aggravated arson and arson.
Following indictments handed down by a McDonough County grand jury this week, sheriff's deputies and Bushnell police arrested 37-year-old Ricky J. Roberts, of Macomb, and Allison D. Roberts, 34, of Bushnell.
The pair is accused of setting fire to the Brickhouse, a restaurant at 455 W. Main St., in Bushnell, in the early morning hours of March 10.
According to reports, a passerby called fire crews when flames and smoke were seen coming from the upper-floor windows of the structure.
When crews arrived, the 126-year-old building was fully engulfed. In the end, it was completely destroyed. Adjacent buildings containing apartments, Cathy's Cafe, Pierce & Pierce Law Offices and M & B Furniture sustained heavy smoke and water damage.
Immediately following the fire, Bushnell Fire Chief Brent Glisan told the McDonough County Voice that the blaze had "not been ruled suspicious."
Illinois State Fire Marshal James Tunney was called in to help with the investigation.
On Thursday, a spokesperson with the Illinois Fire Marshal's office said the exact cause of the fire is still undetermined.
Also on Thursday, McDonough County States Attorney James Hoyle said he wasn't able to discuss the charges.
Bushnell Police Chief Merv Hilliard, whose department investigated the fire, said that officers interviewed the Roberts along with the other two owners, Elias (Louie) and Ghada Samaan, of Knoxville.
"We feel comfortable saying it was a set fire and that the Roberts' did it," Hilliard said.
According to Hilliard, the investigation indicated that the fire was set with intentions of defrauding the business's insurance company.
According to the indictments, the Roberts are accused of setting the fire and "reasonably should have known that one or more persons were present in adjacent buildings."
There was at least one occupant in an adjacent apartment who escaped. There were no injuries resulting from the blaze.
Because someone could have been harmed, the grand jury upgraded one of the arson charges to aggravated status. That's a non-probationable Class X felony that carries a sentence of between six and 30 years in prison.
The second arson charge is a Class 2 felony that carries between three and seven years in prison.
Bond for Ricky Roberts was set at $125,000, while Allison Roberts was being held on a $75,000 bond. Both are lodged in the McDonough County Jail.
When contacted Thursday morning, Samaan, the third owner of the Brickhouse, said he didn't want to comment on the arrest of the Roberts. He said he had just learned of the situation.
When Samaan was asked if he planned any civil action against the Roberts, he said he hadn't talked to an attorney yet regarding the situation.
Page 2 of 2 - Samaan said that ownership of the land where the restaurant stood has not changed.
Samaan and his wife, Ghada, also own Louie's Diner in Macomb and the Knoxville Family Restaurant.
They bought into the Brickhouse after the Roberts opened the business on Oct. 28, 2010.
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In Garmin connect, I can see elevation profiles from my rides, or from routes I haven't ridden on. The problem is that I can't visually compare the grades because the scales are different. For example:
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Dave Laut murder trial could begin in August
The trial for an Oxnard woman accused of murdering her husband, a 1984 Olympic bronze medal winner, is set to begin in August.
At a pretrial conference Thursday, defense attorney Ron Bamieh and prosecutor Bill Haney agreed to set the trial date for Aug. 7 for Jane Laut.
Laut, 54, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of her 52-year-old husband, Dave Laut, in the backyard of their Oxnard home on Aug. 27, 2009. Dave Laut was the athletic director at Hueneme High School.
She also is charged with using a weapon during the commission of a crime causing great bodily injury, court records indicate.
Bamieh said Thursday that he just received 2,000 new pages of information from the district attorney that is pertinent to the case. He said there is a "strong desire" by the prosecution and defense to try the case in August, and that should happen assuming all the witnesses are ready.
Bamieh has acknowledged his client fired the shots that killed her husband but said it was an act of self-defense triggered by years of domestic violence.
Haney has rejected those claims, saying it was a brutal murder, that Dave Laut was shot execution-style four times, and that his wife initially tried to conceal her role in the death.
If found guilty, Laut is facing 50 years to life in prison, said Bamieh, who represents The Star on First Amendment issues. She remains free on $500,000 bail.
Laut was arrested in February 2010. Haney said the time it has taken for the case to go to trial isn't "abnormal at all." It's a complex criminal matter that requires much information to be exchanged between the two lawyers, Haney said.
"The discovery in this case is voluminous," he said, adding that his and Bamieh's offices continue to exchange information.
Dave Laut was four times ranked as the nation's top shot-putter and once held the U.S. record. He was a track coach at Hueneme High School in Oxnard for eight years and athletic director at the time of his death.
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The 23rd Indiana University School of Dentistry Research Day will be held on Monday April 13, 2015 from 12:00 pm to 4:30 pm at the IUPUI Campus Center on the third and fourth floors.
IUSD Research Day is an annual event highlighting the advances in basic and clinical research of the students, staff and faculty associated with Indiana University School of Dentistry. The Indiana Section of the AADRÂ is the local link to the National and the International organizations for dental research -- the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) and the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).
Opening remarks will be given by Dr. Janice Blum, Chancellor's Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at IU School of Medicine, Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Education IUPUI, and Associate Dean for the University Graduate School, Indiana University.
This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Paul H. Krebsbach, DDS, PhD, Professor of Dentistry and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and Division of Prosthodontics at the University of Michigan.
Following the keynote address, research and clinical case poster presentations will be displayed. The poster sessions are designed to encourage the interaction among presenters and attendees with ample time allotted for questions and discussion. Research Day also includes an award program to honor the award winners in several categories and a commercial exhibit by leading manufacturers and companies.
The 23rd Research Day abstract registration will be open from Monday January 26 through Monday March 16, 2015. Abstract registration for poster presentation will be done online. Before beginning the registration process, make sure you have the following documents ready:
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When all required documents are prepared and ready for uploading, you may begin registration by selecting the link below:
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I said in my post about the Vuvuzela app that I'd post the source separately and promptly forgot to do so until reminded by an anonymous comment on my original post. Since then I've made minor tweaks to enable touch gestures (manipulations). It's the updated code I've uploaded.
Great, just in time for the world cup! oh wait... nevermind.
Realistically I didn't think anyone would be sitting in front of their telly running the emulator on their laptop just to add more Vuvuzela sounds to the action. Maybe I misjudged it though :) Mike


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Mark worked as a teacher's aide and the College and Career Readiness Coordinator at Catalina High School, retiring in 2014. He has served as chair of the Pima Community College Alumni Association, was a member of the PCC Foundation Board and was Pima East Campus Student Government treasurer. Mark also is an officer of The University of Arizona Hillel Board Of Directors. Mark was awarded the Metropolitan Education Commission's "Crystal Apple Award" in 2011 and the Century Link/Arizona Diamondbacks "All Star Teacher Award" in 2013.
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Mr. Longoria has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Arizona, and a Master of Public Administration degree in Local Government and Non-Profit Management from the U of A School of Government & Public Policy. He is a member of the Service Employees International Union (AZ Local 48), and holds several distinguished honors, including a 2012 Fellowship in the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership's Flinn-Brown Academy. He was acknowledged as an emerging local leader by the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Arizona Daily Star's "40 Under 40" recognition in 2009
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Mr. Stewart continues in leadership roles in civic activities and maintains proficiency in technical Russian.
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text: Home > How To > Exteriors > Does the Size of a Rain-Screen Gap Matter? Exteriors Q&A Does the Size of a Rain-Screen Gap Matter? By Bill Robinson Login or Register to download the PDF version of this article. (38.55 kB) A.Bill Robinson, a long-time general contractor and moderator of the JLC Online exterior-details forum, responds: To avoid the possibility of capillary action, researchers like John Straube of Building Science Corp. generally agree that rain-screen drainage gaps should be at least 1/4 inch wide. To provide ventilation so that wet siding can dry to the back, the size of this gap should increase as the average annual rainfall increases. Rain screens are probably unnecessary in mild climates with less than 20 inches of rain per year, while in an extreme coastal climate with more than 60 inches of rain annually and a lot of wind, the gap should be as large as possible and pressure-equalized, with ventilation at both the top and the bottom of the wall. In an average climate where 20 to 60 inches of rain falls annually, a 3/8-inch gap is typically recommended, though I'd think that a 1/4-inch gap would be acceptable in most cases.Battens can be ripped from decay-resistant wood, but I've had good luck using battens cut from 4-foot-by-8-foot sheets of 6-mm-thick (1/4-inch-thick) Coroplast (800/666-2241, www.coroplast.com), a corrugated plastic that won't absorb moisture and is sold at most sign shops for about $50 per sheet. For more ventilation and drying capacity, I use... Login or Register to read the full article.


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Like I said though I don't know how much stock solution is needed per roll.
You probably got a double whammy of underexposure and underdevelopment due to the slight exaustion.
Since you are scanning you will probably salvage some images though unless you have uneven skys or some agitation issue.


text: A small boy's hand shares the fishing pole with a man's hand as they walk back to their car after the fishing clinic. The Oklahoma City Police Athletic League and the Oklahoma City parks department teamed up to organize a fishing clinic for kids, aged 5-15, Saturday morning, July 121, 2011. Organizers at the event said 50 children showed up to cast their fishing lines and lures into Crystal Lake on SW 15, west of MacArthur Blvd. Most children were accompanied by an adult. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman.


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Laura Levites is a comedian, writer and actress from New York City. She has appeared on Comedy Central, BBC radio, SiriusXM radio, and Twitter. She has toured her stand up and one woman shows American Girlfriend and Selfhelpless both nationally and internationally.
Laura doesn't tell jokes: her life is the joke.
Laura agrees with this description of her comedy "brilliantly observed, heart-breakingly honesty and quirky comedy with a heart bigger than it would care to admit."
Laura is not on YouTube because she doesn't have enough self-esteem to do shit like that but she's working on it with her shrink. If you want to see her go out and find her. #SorryNotSorry
Currently Laura is performing around NYC nightly, finishing her book American Girlfriend, trying to write a really good script, working on a new one woman show, and she is trying to get herself to blog.
Laura is thinking about starting a podcast but that's as far as it got.
As always, she is trying not to take her insanity personally.
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"The most significant feature that is new to VTAP 2.0 is the ability to save and share renderings," explains Lennerton. "By submitting their footprint, users can create the basic layout they need and work with one of our representatives to create the most efficient system possible."
Launched just last month, VTAP 2.0 has already generated enormous traffic to the DRASH website. To access the program, visit www.drash.com/vtap.
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DHS Technologies LLC is the parent company for DHS Systems and MilSys (UK) and holds numerous brand names and patents including DRASH, Reeves EMS and the Reeves ICP. The company currently grosses approximately $200 million a year, and employs the expertise of approximately 400 employees worldwide. DHS Technologies was formed in 2004 when global private equity firm, the Carlyle Group, became a major investor.
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Dr. Nyhoff is now meeting the needs of patients in The Pas. As far as I'm concerned, he is very punctual, actually warns against unnecessary use of medications, has a great rapport with his patients, and demonstrates considerable clinical experience. Speaking from the point of view of one who deals with parents, children, and a number of professionals from a variety of disciplines, I can unequivocally say that he engenders a sense of trust and commitment to good care. I'm glad he takes the time to come up north. His humor is an added bonus.
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Awful doctor!! Arrogant and unhelpful. He doesn't explain much and doesn't seem to listen (continuously types on his computer during the appointment)
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Dr. Nyhof is a pompous jerk.While I was his
patient I was suffering from reoccurring bouts of virtigo and when I asked him what are the causes of virtigo he simply looked at me over his glasses and shrugged his shoulders . At the Access River East where he was practising he made a comment to me about the free condoms that they supplied at the A.R.E.
saying they should all be cherry flavoured . I as well work in the health care field and found his lack of professionalism and his
propensity for telling off colour jokes very telling about his character . I also work with seniors and a few of them had had Dr. Nyhof as their doctor , there were no tears shed by them on behalf of the Dr. as they as well found him to be lacking sorely in both skill and class. I think that these seniors would rather have been treated by a Dr. who wants to HONOR the Hypocratic Oath rather than try to find ways to make as much money off of his patients as possible . Even though he came back to 'practise', hmm that about sums it up he was only practising , as I've said before once I take out the trash I don't bring it back in .
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Dr. Nyhof was my doctor when he was on Main Street, at first he was okay although he shared an office with another doctor whom the receptionist said was too cheap to hire a receptionist of his own so she had to do all the work. My sister also went there along with my Brother-in-law. I had thankfully found a different doctor so wasn't there when he left. But he closed up shop and didn't give people their charts. He told my sister he was being hired by the WHRA and would be teaching. Unfortunately, he ended up moving but he ended up being my mother's doctor. I can't repeat the horror stories so many of the residents of a seniors' apartment said about him and how one women totally thought he killed her husband by prescribing a medication he wasn't supposed to take. It was bad enough when he worked with his wife , I can't imagine what it would be like with his daughter there. Good work WHRA, the system has gone down the tubes since you took over in oh so many ways. Why do we have to accept you? Next election I'm making it a priority to find out what good you do.
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I was a patient of his a 9 years ago,also had my father start seeing him as well.At first seemed to be a decent doctor,found it strange when i would go in to see him he would see a patient then a drug sales person.So he was not very punctual,also put my father on 13 different prescriptions and within 6 months my father passed a way from over medicating him. My father saw a specialist twice before he passed and he could not believe all the meds Nyhof had prescribed him.I think he is to focused on money to give proper attention to his patients. I believe he is a **** and should not be allowed to hurt anyone else. I ran into his old secretary the one that always looked so crabby,she said he treated her like crap.Almost didn't recognize her she was smiling and quite pleasant
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Attended the clinic a couple of weeks ago for a back pain issue. Nyhof was in a miserable mood and scowled at me when i was describing what irritated my back . He made a couple of demeaning comments about my physical stature and cut me short when i talked of physio/exercizes. All he wanted to dowasprescribepain pills, and quickly exited while i was talking to him.Earlier while waiting , i overheard a loud young staff member berating another worker.I heard from another patient that it was his daughter who also works there. Certainly gets the rudeness from her dad. Because her dad works there you'd think she ran the clinic.
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My Mother has terminal bone cancer that is the result of metastasized Breast Cancer. Dr Nyhof failed to diagnose or send my Mother for proper test (even a simple mammogram) when it was just Breast Cancer. He said that My mother was just suffering from depression and increased the meds he had given her. In effect he has murdered my Mother. Why Canada allows itself the embarrassment of this incompetent hack (witch doctor) to practice is beyond any reasonable pale. Perhaps we should all get together and file suit against Canada for violating common human rights because there is failure to hold this person accountable for the malpractice he routinely commits. The sheer number and kinds of complaints listed on this board alone would have him jailed by now in the states. I think if the Canadian Medical Society lacks the conscience to take proper action the citizens of Canada should do what ever is necessary to demand it. My Mother is dying because of this man. Don't see him.
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I have mixed feelings about my time as Dr. Nyhof's patient. So he's back in practice, is he? His 'staff' said he was closing up & not taking ANY patients with him. According to other comments here, that wasn't necessarily true. I believe his punctuality was affected by those very long-time patients who went to visit him & chat. I always looked forward to his pleasantries, and appreciated how he kept thorough records on me. I think he was frustrated with giving advice to patients who wouldn't take it, & kept coming back with the same issues. I hope he's happy doing whatever he's doing now.
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He's an unhelpful jackass. Sure, he's very funny, he'll tell you a ton of funny jokes and have you LOLing the whole visit, but as far as actually HELPING you with any problems? Not a chance! I was his patient for over 2 years, and I suffer from severe depression. EVERY SINGLE TIME I asked him to refer me to a psychiatrist, he always told me the waiting lists were too long and I should just call Klinic if absolutely needed. Meanwhile, if he actually HAD bothered to refer me when I asked, I would've been at the top of the waiting list and accepted already! My friend's mother ended up in a wheelchair because he didn't help her arthritis and weight issues in any way, and a 50-y.o. diabetic neighbour of mine ended up getting her leg amputated because he ignored her foot turning black! He also literally suddenly closed up shop, without telling anyone and leaving his patients high and dry! About a year later, he suddenly re-appeared in a new office, to the dismay of many.
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I am working on site testing tool. I am facing problem in accessing our site https://www.deshaw.com from a java program (Using URLConnection). I am getting following exception:
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I am using JDK1.4 and certificate is signed by Verisign.
I am able to access other secured sites like "https://us.etrade.com/e/t/home" and https://banking.raiffeisen.at/html/login.jsp. SSL certificate of these sites are exactly similar to the
certificate of our site https://www.deshaw.com (all signed by Verisign/CPS)and I could not figure out any difference.
After importing the certificate to the JVM it works, but I dont want to do that.
If any body can help me or can tell me what are the possible reasons of this, I would be extremely thankful to him.
Code is very simple.I am opening one URL connection and then reading the content.
URL url = new URL("https://www.deshaw.com");
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
InputStream inStream = url.openStream();
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...it discusses how to override the TrustManager which may not be what you're after, but seeing as how you've got so few replies I figured any help might be worthwhile...


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I made soba too! :D
I love soba so I may try them with pesto next time.
I didn't know that sake should be consumed within 12 moths. Thanks for all that interesting info. I prefer sake warm. I've even poached pear with sake and served it with green tea ice cream and red bean compote. yummmm....
I´d never have thought to include the two words soba and pesto in a same sentence, you´re awsome. sounds great, too.
Glad I read this, I need to refrigerate my sake then! I love using sake for cooking as an alternative to the chinese cooking wine.
I'm a sake novice, so I really appreciate this post, Lydia. You know, it's funny, my dad is always saying how he and his siblings ate food that was left on the counter or not stored as it would be today and how "obsessed" we have become with food handling and storage. Things are so different now than they were 50 or 60 years ago, aren't they?
Ohhh, Lydia! This recipe sounds so good! I will make it soon. I have never had sake in my pantry, so a trip to "88" (local asian grocery store) is a must.
I tried hot sake for the first time a couple weeks ago...it was interesting to say the least. I couldn't bear more than a tinnny sip at a time. And the smell, is a bit nauseating in my opinion. Worth the experience though!
We used to drink sake with our "Japanese" meals back in the U.S. I rather liked it, but preferred it cool, rather than warm.
I loved it for cooking. Now I have to content myself with sherry...which I also like to drink....hmmmm, wonder what that all says about me...
How lovely to think of this as a happy accident :)
I didn't know that sake needed to be finished soon after opening... that would explain the 'sake vinegar' in my fridge.
You always teach me something new!
Tigerfish, the seasonings with the soba are so good in this recipe. I hope you like it.
Nora, I didn't know that, either -- and when I checked the expiration date on the bottle of sake in my pantry, I tossed it out right away and bought a new one. Old, old sake -- and it does not improve with age.
Lobster, the combination of basil and mint in this "pesto" is really delicious.
Veron, I just learned this, too. Glad to share the info!
Susan, it's true that our food storage habits, especially in the US, are often a bit over-the-top. I've learned this in Europe, where cheese and often butter are stored at room temperature for far longer than we'd do it here. And many foods simply taste better when they are not ice cold.
Candy, take me with you -- I'm always up for a run to my favorite Asian market!
Hillary, the taste of warm sake doesn't appeal to me, either, but when used in cooking and the alcohol is cooked out, it leaves a sweetness that is truly wonderful.
Katie, it says that you are a woman who knows how to have fun in the kitchen!
Kelly-Jane, yes indeed, turns out that some of my favorite foods were happy accidents.
Sandi, thank you. I'm having such fun learning and sharing what I learn about the items in my pantry.
THat's an interesting recipe Lydia. There's no doubt it's deliciously flavoured with the pesto soba!
That looks like a wonderful recipe! I must try it.
This is an interesting recipe. But I have used sake in place of white wine in a pinch when cooking "Italian" style, so it makes sense how it would work here.
Also, I just read "The Zen of Sushi" which explains in fascinating detail all about the history of preserving rice and fish in Japan.
I have never had sake, Lydia - I'm kind of weak with alcohol but would love to try it!
I love sake, especially in my steamed clams with sake...OMG, soooo good. First had the dish in an izakaya in Tokyo, now I can't do without sake and the clams!
Valentina, I love the combination of mint, basil and soba -- such a perfect balance.
Sher, you'll enjoy it, I know. Would this qualify for presto pasta?
Karen, I have that book on my to-read list but now will move it closer to the top.
Patricia, remember that when you cook with sake, as with all wine, the alcohol burns off, leaving behind the sweetness and flavor. I don't drink wine at all, but I do cook with it.
RM, steamed clams with sake sounds so incredibly good. Do you have a recipe you could share with us, or have you posted about this on your blog? If so, please share the link.
what an unusual mixture of ingredients that I am simply dying to try! I adore mint "pestos" but never thought to put basil in there. it's kind of a head slapper ;-)
thanks as always for all your wonderful knowledge!
One of my most enjoyable times getting tipsy was taste testing sake in a sake brewery (is that the right word?) Yes! I am most intrigued by the pesto being drizzled by another sauce. Maybe like a hot fudge sundae having an extra adornment of pineapple sauce? Cool.
Ann, somehow the mint really brings out the basil flavor a bit more, and I was surprised (and delighted) by that the first time I made this recipe.
Callipygia, a sake tasting must have been a lot of fun! Yes, this dish is rich in layers of flavor.
RM, I'm looking forward to your "sake and clams" recipe. Sounds like a winning combination. P.S. the photography on your blog is "simply" beautiful!!!
I'm a sake virgin, too! If I have had it, I am unaware of it.
My favorite products are mistakes then! Post-it notes, penicillin, silly putty and panty hose were mistakes, too. Then again, I don't like panty hose at all.
Mimi, I'll bet you've had it, in Japanese dishes, and not known it.
Kelly, you're so right! I remember the stories about Post-its, penicillin, and Silly Putty, but I didn't know about panty hose. I definitely think they are a mistake, and to be honest, I can't remember the last time I wore a pair.
What kind of madman would put sake into a risotto ?? With wasabi no less ! Oh wait...
Matt, thank heavens for madmen!
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How to Wake Up Without an Alarm Clock
Three Methods:Getting Into a RhythmUsing Your SensesSetting Your Mental Alarm Clock
Of all sounds (including fingernails screeching down a blackboard and the shrill tones of the Emergency Alert System), few are as obnoxious as those of an alarm clock. Human beings have survived for most of our history without these confounded noisemakers —so why would you need one now? Using your natural circadian rhythms and employing other environmental signals other than sound can help you wake up without an annoying alarm.
Method 1 of 3: Getting Into a Rhythm
1Determine what time you will need to wake up on most days. Make this your sleep goal for every day. Even if you don't need the time on a day or two, consider it a boost to your productivity. Step 1 for your routine -- check.
- In order to set yourself to an alarm-less rhythm, there won't be any sleeping in on weekends, unfortunately (at least at the beginning). You need to program yourself, and that means 7 days a week.
2Use your alarm clock to wake up at approximately that same time each morning. Our bodies' physiological processes are governed by the circadian rhythm, a cycle that in humans is closely adapted to the 24-hour day. By training yourself to wake up at the same time each day, you "set" your circadian rhythm.
- Don't hit the snooze button! Studies show that just makes you more tired.[1] Even if you stay awake, it doesn't fully count. No cheating!
3Figure out how much sleep you really need. In general, people need about 7-10 hours of sleep each night; adults normally come in at around 7-8, but individual sleep needs vary. Needing 9 is still normal.[2] Getting adequate rest is the most obvious way to help you wake up when you want.
4Go to bed at approximately the same time every night. Once you know when you need to get up and how much sleep you need, you can determine what time you need to go to sleep. While you may initially find it difficult to go to bed at the same time each night, if you make an effort to do so it will become easier over time.
- This could involve going to sleep earlier than desired or later than desired. If you know Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will be late nights, make Monday - Wednesday later, too. Initially it'll be a drag, but you'll get used to it quickly.
5Wean yourself off the alarm clock. After as little as a week of using a regular bedtime and wake-up time, you should be able to wake up at about the correct time without your alarm. The more consistent your schedule is, the better, but even if you occasionally go to bed later or earlier than your usual time, your body should still feel ready to get up at your set time.
- Start off using your alarm clock one day, then skipping it the next. If not using your alarm clock worries you, simply set it for a few minutes after you want to wake up, as a safety net.
Method 2 of 3: Using Your Senses
1Use light to your advantage. Your mind will respond to light and bring you out of sleep. Leave your curtains or blinds open to wake up with the sunrise. Close them if you need to sleep later. Adjust the positioning of your bed to catch the light at the right time — you may need to move your bed occasionally since the sun will strike your room at a slightly different angle as the seasons progress.
- Remember that the sun rises in the east; in the northern hemisphere a south-facing orientation will receive more sunlight, and in the southern hemisphere a north-facing orientation will get more, but unless you are trying to wake up when the sun is high in the sky, you will still want to face to the east to catch the sun when it rises.
- If you need to get up before the sun rises, putting the lights in your room on a timer can also help, as this may not seem as disruptive as an alarm clock.
2Employ sounds. Noises (such as that pesky alarm) also bring you out of sleep. Identify what sounds regularly occur around where you sleep and when they occur. Trains, automobiles, animals, and other people going about regular tasks can serve as waking cues. You can take advantage of this by noting what wakes you up and when. Consider leaving your window open to capture more sounds.
- Though it's technically still an alarm clock, the kind that has nature sounds doesn't really feel like an alarm clock. If it's just the sound that bothers you, consider researching all your options. There are loads of alarm clocks nowadays that use methods like sound, light, flying away, smelling like bacon....[3]
3Set the right temperature. Your sleeping body is very sensitive to temperature. If you turn your heat down at night and have a timer on your thermostat, you can set the heat to come back on about an hour before you want to wake up. Assuming you were at a comfortable sleeping temperature all night, this should prompt you to awaken. You can also use temperature in conjunction with light, since sunlight hitting your bed directly will warm you up.
- You may even choose what blankets you use so that you will be comfortable throughout the night (your body temperature drops after midnight), but begin to get too hot as your body temperature naturally rises (regardless of external temperature), toward the end of your sleep cycle.
- The National Sleep Foundation says that temperatures below 75 °F (24 °C) are best for sleeping. However, individual needs vary and not all scientists agree on a set number. But in general, keep it cool. If you like heat, bundle up.[4]
4Let your nose awaken you. If you drink coffee regularly, the easiest way to use smell as a trigger to awake is to put your coffee maker in your bedroom (or very near) and set its timer for just before when you want to wake up. Smell is not generally a reliable way to wake up, though, so use this in combination with other methods.
5Put your bladder to good use. Drink a tall glass of water before going to bed. You will find that you wake up very promptly in the morning! Maybe that's how the cavemen did it....Ad
Method 3 of 3: Setting Your Mental Alarm Clock
1Get healthy. It's really hard to make your body do things it doesn't want to do if you're not in good shape. That doesn't necessarily mean a certain body fat percentage or waistline measurement, but it does mean treating your body right. Giving it the right fuel to burn each day will help you get up and fall asleep at the right times.
- A diet full of processed junk, sugars, and fat will keep you feeling groggy. Adding more whole grains, fruits, and veggies to your diet can actually help you on this mental-alarm quest.
- Stay away from too much caffeine. Using it to get up or stay up puts your natural signals on standby. Soon enough, you don't need them and they stop working. To get on a better schedule, limit your consumption of caffeine as much as possible. Stick to under 500 mg a day.[5]
2Find a reason to get up. Though there's no hard science behind it, there is a school of thought that says if you know what time you need to get up, you'll do it. It has something to do with the hormone adrenocorticotropin, which the body begins releasing a relatively high concentration of about an hour before a person expects to wake up.
- So, give your body a reason to get up. What do you have going on tomorrow that would equate for a 7 AM wake-up call? Now set your mind to it. Adrenocortico-whatever-its-called receptors, at the ready. On your marks, get set...
3Determine what time you need to go to sleep and wake up. Unlike the methods above, this method does not require that you wake up at the same time each morning. If you can adequately program your brain (like it is believed you can), you need only prompt the release of this hormone at the right time.
- Don't tell yourself to get up in 3 hours, though; it doesn't work like that. You'll only be able to waken on command if your body is fully rested. There's a definite hierarchy of needs, here. Your body needs to recharge you and then worry about waking you up.
4Calculate the number of hours before your intended wake-up time. If possible, try to sleep for a multiple of 90 minutes; your sleep cycle repeats in approximately 90 minute intervals (this will differ from person to person). You can use this to your advantage, as it's easier to awaken from the lighter part (the end) of your sleep cycle.
5Envision your wake-up time. As you lie in bed, think about the time at which you want to wake. Visualize a clock with that time on it, and visualize yourself getting up at that time. You may even find it helpful to tell yourself out loud, "I will wake up at (the desired time)."
- While this may sound silly, controlled experiments have revealed that many people can use these techniques to successfully and regularly awaken at the correct time without using an alarm or other external trigger.[6] How the brain manages to keep track of the hours is unknown.
6Use your alarm clock as a backup. If you have an alarm clock available, and you absolutely must wake up at a certain time, it is best to set it to shortly after you normally wake up just in case this method doesn't work. Additionally, using an alarm clock may also help you to wake up before the alarm goes off because you will truly expect to awake at that time. This strong expectation should prompt the release of adrenocorticotropin.
- While adding this step doesn't really free you from the alarm clock, you may still be able to enjoy awakening without the harsh jolt of the alarm.
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- Use the weekends for practice. Any time when you don't have an obligation, try waking without the alarm, that way if you sleep in, you won't get in trouble at school or work.
- Since core body temperature is naturally higher during morning and normal waking hours, if you need to sleep in the morning or day it may help to allow your body a slightly cooler sleeping environment. This may enable you to fall asleep more quickly, rest better, and thereby be able to wake up at the desired time.
- Using your circadian rhythm and regularly getting the same (adequate) number of hours of sleep during the same time period is the most effective way to wake up for most people. You can combine all three methods above for extra effectiveness. If you must deviate from your established sleep pattern, it would be wise to use an alarm.
- The sunlight needs to penetrate in the bedroom in order to make oneself warm and healthier.
- Try to make a routine.
- Caffeine can help cover feelings of sleepiness, but may also interfere with your ability to sleep later — when you really want to be sleeping — and thereby confuse your sleep clock. Use it sparingly and avoid caffeine completely in the hours prior to your desired bedtime. Consider avoiding it completely as it puts the body in an overall stressed state and can interfere with sleep in the longer term.
- Stress hormones keep your body alert and interfere with sleep. This can be used to your benefit if you're worried about waking up and therefore sleep lightly, but regular sleep patterns are difficult to establish when your body is stressed. Find ways to relax so you can sleep better and wake up when you want.
- Be careful of taking naps. Napping can mess up the circadian rhythms set by a regular sleep schedule. They can make it harder to fall asleep at the planned time. If you do need to nap, try to keep it under 30 minutes. If you are napping every day, then make this part of your regular schedule and take the same length nap at the same time each day.
- None of these methods are 100% effective, and what works for one person may not work for another. Try them out when you don't have something vitally important to do at a certain time, or use your alarm clock as a backup.
- If your work demands long periods of time without sleep or with sporadic sleep (e.g., medical resident), then it may be necessary to rely on an alarm, possibly as a backup in case these methods do not work.
- Constantly messing with your internal clock may cause you to always wake up at a specific time. Beware people that need sleep.
- If you work "nonstandard" hours, your sleep–wake cycle is likely somewhat confused already. You can use these techniques to help settle your body into a better sleep rhythm, but this may take significant time. If you frequently have to work different shifts, these techniques will be especially difficult to use.
Sources and Citations
- ↑ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/03/21/snooze_button_bad_for_you_yes_here_s_the_science_of_sleep_that_explains.html
- ↑ http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/how-sleep-works/how-much-sleep-do-we-really-need
- ↑ http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-alarm-clocks/
- ↑ http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/how-sleep-works/the-sleep-environment
- ↑ http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/caffeine/NU00600
- ↑ http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-wake-up-without-an-alarm/#axzz2cjSVGRSe
- Killing Time: How I Ditched my Alarm Clock and Why I'm Never Looking Back
- Nature Of particular interest are a number of articles on the "mental alarm clock," such as "Timing the End of Nocturnal Sleep" from January, 1999. These are not available for free, however.
- Google Books Limited preview of "Understanding Sleep and Dreams," by Paula Belcher and William Moorcroft.
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After finishing her degree in the USA, Nicki returns to the UK and signs for Durham Ladies Football team.Read More
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After finishing her degree in the USA, Nicki returns to the UK and signs for Durham Ladies Football team.Read More
Call for entries for THE HARROGATE OPEN 2015 at The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate. Submission dates are 24 - 28 June 2015 with exhibition running from 4 July - 8 November 2015. With a prize fund of £1200 this is a great opportunity for artists to reach a wider audience. All media accepted, up to 3 artworks can be submitted at £7 each. Application details from www.harrogate.gov.uk/mercerartgallery or from Mercer Art GalleryRead More
Ripon Community Bonfire and Fireworks Display is being held again at the Ripon Racecourse on Friday 7th November 2014.Read More
The 160 winning organisations in a great cash giveaway last year are encouraging more community groups in Ripon to apply for funding and support in 2014. Grassroots Giving was launched last year by one of the countrys oldest mutuals, Skipton Building Society, to celebrate its 160th anniversary.Read More
Salvation Army Trading Companys charity shop in Ripon is set to launch its 2013 Christmas campaign on Thursday 21 November with an appeal to shoppers that All we want for Christmas is your donations!Read More