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Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation: Smoking, Drinking, Gambling, Polluting, and Driving
- Cnossen, Sijbren(University of Maastricht and OCFEB)
Excise taxes on smoking, drinking, gambling, polluting, and driving are always topical and controversial. Not only are these taxes convenient sources of government revenue, they can also be designed to reflect the external costs that consumers or producers of excisable products impose on other people. Global warming, acid rain, traffic congestion, and the economic costs of cigarette and alcohol consumption are problems that can be corrected through selective excise taxes and other regulatory instruments. Excise taxes, moreover, are increasingly looked upon as revenue substitutes for distortionary taxes on capital and labour. Addressing these and other issues, this book by internationally recognized experts analyses the art of excise taxation, providing a systematic, insightful, and often provocative treatment of a major fiscal instrument that policy-makers often neglect, and that gets little attention in the professional literature. It provides a sound understanding, not only of relevant economic theory, but of the myriad institutional details that are crucial for the practical application of that theory. Contributors to this volume - Sijbren Cnossen, University of Maastricht and OCFEB Michael Smart, University of Toronto Stephen Smith, University College London Charles T. Clotfelter, Duke University Jean-Philippe Barde and Nils Axel Braathen, OECD, Environment Directorate Don Fullerton, University of Texas at Austin David Michael Newbery, University of Cambridge Bruno S. Frey, Institute for Empirical Economic Research, University of Zurich
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- Ian W.H. Parry, 2011.
"Reforming the Tax System to Promote Environmental Objectives; An Application to Mauritius,"
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11/124, International Monetary Fund.
- Parry, Ian W.H., 2012. "Reforming the tax system to promote environmental objectives: An application to Mauritius," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 103-112.
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Samsung hasn't changed the design of the ATIV Book 9 Plus much, and that's a good thing. An elegant anodized aluminum body encases this laptop's brilliant 13.3-inch, 3200 x 1800-pixel touch screen. Inside you'll find an Intel Core i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. That's more than enough power to handle work and some light gaming. Plus, the 8 hours of battery life will see you through the day.
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Bread Bhajias
|Bread loaf
|1 Medium
|4 Ounce (1/2 Teacup, Preferably Sour Curd)
|Gram flour
|8 Ounce
|Green chilies
|Chopped cilantro
|2 Tablespoon
|Green chilies
|4 , chopped
|Chili powder
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|To Taste
|2 Cup (32 tbs) (For Deep Frying)
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
Remove the top crust of the loaf.
Crumble the loaf into very small pieces.
Add the curds and a little water to soak the bread pieces. Leave for at least 2
Add the coriander, green chillies, chilli powder, gram flour, asafoetida and salt.
Drop a spoonful of the mixture into hot oil and deep fry.
Serve hot.
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3161 Calories from Fat 768
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 88 g135.6%
Saturated Fat 15.6 g77.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 14.7 mg4.9%
Sodium 4428.7 mg184.5%
Total Carbohydrates 472 g157.3%
Dietary Fiber 45 g180%
Sugars 39.8 g
Protein 114 g229%
Vitamin A 78.3% Vitamin C 340.4%
Calcium 78.8% Iron 178%
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|Sifted cake flour
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Baking powder
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|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Egg whites
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
Cream butter and shortening thoroughly.
Gradually add 1 cup sugar, and cream together till light and fluffy.
Add extracts.
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt: add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating till smooth after each addition.
Beat egg whites until foamy; gradually add 1/2 cup sugar and beat till mixture forms soft peaks.
Fold into batter.
Bake in paper-lined 13x9 1/2x2-inch pan in moderate oven (350°) about 40 minutes.
Cool 5 minutes before removing from pan.
When thoroughly cool, cut in 1 1/2-inch squares or diamonds.
(For a guide, poke toothpicks into sides of cake at 1 1/2-inch intervals.) Or cut with tiny round biscuit cutter.
Line cakes up on rack with cooky sheet below.
Pour Petits Fours Icing over cakes.
Trim each with candy decoration or, using Ornamental Frosting, pipe on frosting rose.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 2935 Calories from Fat 924
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 105 g161.3%
Saturated Fat 45.2 g225.9%
Trans Fat 6.7 g
Cholesterol 137.9 mg46%
Sodium 2048.5 mg85.4%
Total Carbohydrates 459 g153.1%
Dietary Fiber 4.3 g17.1%
Sugars 261.2 g
Protein 46 g92.1%
Vitamin A 31.6% Vitamin C
Calcium 136.1% Iron 112.6%
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Coastal Directories is a professional business centered around the vacationer's experience. Coastal Directories advertises and promotes local businesses through a full color, bonded directory book. The directory books have been printed for over 17 years, but now the information can be found on the eye-catching website, and easy-to-use mobile site as well!
Coastal Directories covers all travel necessities for the Brunswick County and Myrtle Beach areas. Need a place to stay? Need a family-friendly restaurant? Rainy day activities at the beach? Coastal Directories is a great, one-stop location for all things vacation! We encourage you to get planning today and utilize this great tool. If you're looking for a print copy, they can be found in the majority of vacation rentals in all of the destinations included on this website. In fact, over 15,000 directories are printed!
Also, InterCoastal Net Designs would like to showcase the functionality on each detail page that displays the Google map of each location and allows users to click by the destination they want to peruse. But let's be honest, you're on the go when you're on vacation and the mobile site helps you plan your next move while you're sitting on the beach!


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Proactive Delivery Solutions, Inc. d/b/a Proactive Logistics is a Maryland based corporation with head offices in Columbia, MD. For the past six years, Proactive has manage to position itself as a leader in logistics outsourcing, providing quality rental equipment (vans, trucks, pallets jacks, loads bar etc.) as well as, staffing (drivers, warehouse laborers, forklift operators etc.) via Proactive Staffing. The company has achieve market penetration by remaining laser focused on its niche- ensuring that our employees are highly trained and by promoting on-going professional development. This philosophy has kept the company on pace to reach its goals and ahead of its competitors.
Proactive staffing is a temporary and permanent placement personnel agency working solely with skilled, professional workers in the logistics industry. Proactive differs from other temporary and permanent placement agencies not merely because of our focus niche but because of our highly trained workforce. The company believes that the temporary industry pays only cursory attention to providing companies with highly trained workers for permanent and non-permanent positions. This oversight proves costly by lowering productivity thereby resulting in higher employee turnovers. At Proactive Staffing, we derive our edge and expertise by strictly adhering to a proven five-stage methodology:
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The company is seeking to expand its expertise by providing: Specialize Certified Training/Continuing Educational Credit Courses for delivery drivers (CDL/Non-CDL), forklift operators and other skilled/general warehouse laborers.
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China Manufacture 608zz Deep Groove Ball Bearing - Chinaprice: contact company for price
Model Number Deep groove ball bearings
Types There are many different types with various sizes for our clients and we can also design or develop customized products as per the samples or drawings provided by our clients.
Material Bearing steel Gcr15, etc
Cage Material Brass, steel, etc
Number of Row Single Row
Precision Rating ABEC- 1, - 3, - 5, - 7, p2, p4, p5, p6, p0
Internal clearance codes C0, C2, C3, C4, C5
Seals Type Open, 2RS, ZZ, Z , RS, etc
Delivery date Normally ready goods and stock within 30 days
Certifications ISOÂ 9001: 2000
Service OEM Service, etc
Package Industrial package , etc
Shipping By Express, By Air, By Sea
Details Features: feel good, clearance of small, low- noise, Products are mainly exported to Korea and the United States and Southeast Asia.
Place of Origin China ( Mainland)
Structure Outer ring, Inner, complement, cage
Product description:
What's clients' need what's our OSN pursues.
Feature Description
High quality through hardened bearing steel
High precision accuracy and manufacturing consistency
Proprietary high performance sealing options
Reduced friction, vibration and noise during operation
Design options meet Consumer to Industrial performance requirements
Best- in- class seal solutions maximize equipment life in contaminated applications
Main product:
Number Product Name Number Product Name
1 Deep groove ball bearing 2 Cylindrical roller bearing
3 Thrust ball bearing 4 Tapered roller bearing
5 Self- aligning ball bearing 6 Spherical roller bearing
7 Angular contact ball bearing 8 Thrust roller bearing
9 Flange bearing 10 Needle roller bearing
11 Thin section Bearing 12 Ceramic bearing
13 Rod end joint bearing 14 Pillow block bearing
15 Water pump bearing 16 Linear motion bearing
17 Dental bearing 18 Special Bearing
Delivery Detail: 10- 25 days for deep groove ball bearing
1) T/ T, 30% deposit , 70% before shipping.
2) L/ C at sight. ( high bank charge, not suggest , but acceptable )
3) 100% Western Union in advance. ( specially for air shipment or small amount)
Company Contact:
- Posted By: Shandong Osn Tools Co., Ltd
- Phone: 008615853913629
- Address: Dadian Industrial Park,Junan,Linyi,Shandong-682216, LInyi, China
- Email:
Published date: October 12, 2015 -
- Business Description: Shandong Osn Tools Co.,Ltd is one of the leading tools factory in China
specialized in manufacture and export abrasives, drills, bearings and we
also supply lathe chuck and grinding fluid. Ever since established in
year 1989, our business has expanded to worldwide. Our own brand is OSN
and OEM service available as per clients demand.
Initially, our OSN mainly manufacture of abrasives products such as grinding wheel, sharpening stone and abrasive segment. With the development of business more and more clients demand the relevant products from us, so we set up new production lines for bearings, drills, lathe chuck and grinding fluid. Now our company occupies an area of 60,000 square meters with staff more than 500. Our goods have been entitled as State Industrial Products and the quality ensuring system has passed the authentication of ISO 9001:2000.
Our company equipped with advanced production facilities and test equipment, in order to ensure the good quality. Meanwhile the good quality and service, fast delivery also make us develop rapidly. Our products are exported to America, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia over 20 countries and regions
What s clients need what s our OSN pursues. Welcome friends worldwide come our factory for visit.
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Expert advice is not always easy to come by when resources are stretched and this can be a particular problem for small charities. Big Advice Day will take place on 14th June 2016, involving a national London event and various regional events across the country where small charities can access expert 1:1 advice on a variety of topics.
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National Big Advice Day
The FSI will be hosting its annual Big Advice Day in Central London on the 14th June 2016. We have an array of brilliant experts signing up to share their experience and expertise in a range of different areas, including HR, legal, marketing, business planning and strategy, finance, leadership and more. Just tell us the specific challenge you are facing and we will match you with a skilled advisor who can provide advice and recommendations.
New this year: We will have a panel of Fundraising Experts ready to answer your queries on anything from Major Donor programmes, Capital Appeals, Legacies, Individual Giving, Corporate partnerships, Digital fundraising and more.
One-to-one advice appointments will be available either face-to-face at our Advice Hub in central London, or via Skype/over the phone. Those attending the Advice Hub will also benefit from short informative workshops on a range of topics.
Last year over 276 hours of free advice were provided and we're hoping to increase the total even further this year, so sign up for your session today.
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The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), in partnership with Burness Paull, is organising a Big Advice Day in Glasgow on June 14th. A range of skilled legal experts will be available to offer free one-to-one advice and recommendations on the issues that matter to your organisation. So whether you've got a question on governance, fundraising, property and contracts, data protection or intellectual property, make a date in your diary to get the answers you need. The event will also include a short informative presentation, lunch and refreshments, and the opportunity to network. The booking form can be accessed here.
WHEN: 14 June 2016, 12:00 – 14:00 (BST)
WHERE: Burness Paull, 120 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, G2 7JL
Voluntary Action Arun and Chicester will be running a Big Advice Day event for small charities. On June 14th, the team at VAAC will be on hand to give free advice on any charity topic. For more information and bookings, please contact Tanya Telford at firstname.lastname@example.com or on 01243 840305.
WHEN: 14 June 2016, 09:30 – 15:15 (BST)
WHERE: The Town Hall, Clarence Road, Bognor Regis, England, PO21 1LD
Whittingham Riddell will be marking Big Advice Day by hosting a free seminar, with several timings, on Trustees Responsibility. Recent challenges in the charitable sector have highlighted the importance of an effective Trustee board. These seminars aims to help Trustees understand their responsibilities, as research indicates that up to 80% of Board members are not sure of their roles. Presented by Clair Moelwyn-Williams, Director and Jane Tweedie, Senior Manager from the specialist charities team. For more information please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or on 01743 273273
14 June 2016, 09:00 – 10:00 OR 17:00 – 18:00 (BST)
Location: Whittingham Riddell, Shrewsbury office, Belmont House, Shrewsbury Business Park, SY2 6LG
15 June 2016, 10:00 – 11:00
Location: Alyn Waters Country Park, The Conference Room, Mold Road, Wrexham, England, LL11 4AG
Midlothian Voluntary Action will be hosting a training session on how to be an effective minute taker on Big Advice Day. This session aims to take some of the fear out of minute taking, and is aimed at people who have very little, or no, experience at taking minutes. Those who would like to refresh their knowledge are welcome to come along too. The course will be a mixture of presentations and discussion. Priority will be given to small charities, community groups and voluntary organisations based in/working in Midlothian. The Booking form can be accessed here.
WHEN: 14 June 2016, 10:00 – 12:00 (BST)
WHERE: Midlothian Voluntary Action, 4-6 White Hart Street, Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 1AE
East Devon Volunteer Support Agency (EDVSA) will be running a Big Advice Day event, providing a drop-in clinic and telephone advice line. You can call EDVSA for a 45 minute one-to-one free advice consultation from an expert on a range of subjects to assist with the running of a small charity. To book a telephone consultation or a face-to-face drop in session at the Younghayes Centre, call Sandra Chapman on 01404 549045, Email email@example.com.
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This effort grew out of a confluence of enthusiastic grassroots efforts, and growing demand, by Jewish youth in Ukraine to build a local youth movement, the combined guidance and resources of both JDC and BBYO, and the expertise of JDC-BBYO fellows, placed in Ukraine, who helped provide critical tools to shape and build the movement that these young Jews dreamed of. In just three years, AJT has grown to galvanize its members in local chapters throughout the FSU, provide volunteer opportunities, and bring teens together at an annual conference each year just like their teenage peers in JDC-BBYO partner communities around the world.
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Jeremiah 7:1-11New International Version (NIV)
False Religion Worthless
7 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 "Stand at the gate of the Lord's house and there proclaim this message:
"'Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. 3 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. 4 Do not trust in deceptive words and say, "This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!" 5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, 6 if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, 7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. 8 But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.
9 "'Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,[a] burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, "We are safe"—safe to do all these detestable things? 11 Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
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|Lime cordial
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|Ice cubes
|8 (Adjust Quantity As Needed)
|Chilled tonic water
|1 Pint (600 Milliliter)
|For sorbet
|Caster sugar
|1 Pound (450 Gram)
1. For the sorbet, put 500ml water and the sugar into a pan over a low heat and leave until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat and cool. Meanwhile zest 6 of the limes, then juice all 12. Stir the lime zest and juice into the sugar syrup, then cover and chill overnight.
2. The next day, strain the syrup, then churn in an ice-cream maker. Alternatively, pour the mixture into a shallow container, cover and freeze until firm but not rock hard, then whizz in a food processor until smooth. Re-freeze and repeat the process 2-3 times more, then leave in the freezer until needed.
3. To serve the gin & tonics, put the gin, lime juice (you'll need about 8 tbsp), lime cordial and 16 scoops lime sorbet into a tall jug or liquidiser and blend until smooth and slushy. Fill 8 glasses with ice and pour 75ml of tonic water into each one. Top up each glass with the sorbet mixture, stir to mix, then garnish each glass with a lime wedge and serve.
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Saturated Fat 0.01 g0.07%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
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Total Carbohydrates 70 g23.2%
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It comes as something of a surprise that one of the best pieces of writing on music I read this past year wasn't even about a 2013 release, but rather a future one. Father John Misty's open (and promotional) letter to the world about Damien Jurado's upcoming album, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, does more in its short span to wrestle with contemporary listener pathologies, and goes further into grappling with notions of faith and the spiritual as they relate to creative expression in the modern world, than most music critics will in years worth of writing. Not surprising is that this came from a fellow musician. I quote below, but the whole thing is worth yer while:
You know what else they have a lot of in "America"? Religion. Don't leave out that old-time relijun or your souffle of polite, revisionist, fantasy America is going to fall flat at the foot of the Cross. When "folk" comes up in their iTunes genre column, them lily-white champions of gravel-voiced, hard-won-wisdom-shilling, Millennial old-timin'™ expect some goddamn symbolic imagery, man! Not actual faith per se, I mean, c'mon now, what are you: fucking insane?
Damien Jurado is every character in every Damien Jurado song. He is the gun, the purple anteater, the paper wings, the avalanche, the air show disaster, Ohio, the ghost of his best friend's wife. It is a universe unto its own, with its own symbolism, creation myth, and liturgy. You might go as far as to call it a religion, and your religion is a character in his religion.
Level with me. You're reading this because of Damien Jurado's new album […] You are a progressive minded, left-leaning person who in parlor-style conversation regarding the globo-political ramifications of Sky Person relationships laughs knowingly so as not to be judgmental and very reasonably concedes "Well, I don't believe He's some old man with a beard sitting up in the clouds" at which point everyone agrees on (insert benign middle-ground) and moves on.
Consider this: What if the only way to understand a religion is to create your own? Who is this Silver community? Where the hell are they in the Bible? Is this heresy? Agnostic reference? Isn't this sun business a little, I don't know, animistic? Pagan? Go ahead and answer that question for yourself. I'll give you a second. Do you understand the music any better?
Faith is like theater: it isn't meant to be read, or analyzed it is meant to be performed and inhabited. Upon being asked if he believed in Gawd or not, Norman Mailer replied, "Sure, why don't you and make him better?"
Questions of the spiritual or faith as it resides in music, especially in the western tradition, for a very long while seems to have been one of those 'tread lightly' topics for most all of the self-serious scribes chronicling the evolution of popular music. Exceptions to this rule of course exist, but from my vantage point there remains a strikingly agnostic attitude when it comes to considering the deep river of creation from which every artist worth their salt will tell you they tap into. A typical allusion to this fact by a writer will be expressed in an aspiritual way, most often by tracking a cultural lineage of influences to situate the artist within an identifiable cannon of expression. And while that can be helpful when discussing larger collective histories and movements, it effectively de-mystifies the artist's pursuit, which in its purest form is a mystical practice. An artifact born of great creativity will always be a small scale archetypal remnant of creation itself.
If we take seriously this question of higher, more divinely sourced consciousness, and ourselves as the humble translators fashioning these empyreal dialogues into material form, we run the risk of sounding like a nice brochure for an also-ran Joshua Tree retreat, or, less generously, perhaps like we're naïve. Perish the thought of actively seeking and visiting with the unknowable or ineffable; in our banal age of tech-forward solutions for seemingly every human problem, where consumption, possession, and connection births our nobility, the capacity for stillness, the inherent need to convene with the expanse of our inner selves, meets a slow dry death. This is where the artists intervene, where music hits the spheres. Where acts of passionate listening become active protests against such mitigating factors on the soul . . . and where my long windedness comes around to talking about the quintet of albums I was most taken with in 2013. ___________________________________________________________________ Steve Gunn – Time Off
In a classroom recently, a young man with an inquisitive look asked me, "Do you like rock festivals?"
"I suppose I do. Depends which one."
"Yeah, I kinda thought so. My mom was somewhat of a hippie and she took me to a bunch of music festivals up in the mountains growing up. Now, like, I can't get past listening to the Grateful Dead."
"How old are you?"
. . .
Steve Gunn will readily admit he can't get past the Grateful Dead either, and this is without question a good thing. His unadulterated love of the mesmeric jam, known scientifically as a mind expansion device used in strategic attacks against the compartmentalized parts of the brain, heard/experienced on Time Off as cyclical guitar phrases and a near heroic sense of finding the groove and "lettin' in ride," is an unsolicited but wholly necessary antidote for freeing up some roaming space in the ol' noggin. ___________________________________________________________________ Califone – Stitches
Cut the connection / Just to stitch it together / Again again again
Focused and vibrant, with a deft balance of new world textures and old world tradition, Califone's 2013 release Stitches offers a complex and layered blend of word, sound, and color; synesthesia for the music seeker. Washes of autumnal tones dance with gracefully staged rhythms while narratives born of a searching, so focused it could be called a type of faith, contrast and create expressive patchworks rich with imagery and open breadth. Given proper and mindful attention, this record unfolds revealing a multidimensionality of intent that will linger long after it passes the ears.
Like a fine wine, Califone just better with age.
___________________________________________________________________ Cass McCombs – Big Wheel and Others
Small wheel run by faith
Big wheel run by grace
A wheel in a wheel go round and round
So gets rolling the title cut to Cass McCombs' capital L-P long player, or what could otherwise be considered a keen, and wry, dissertation on an idiosyncratic American west, one that any real resident wouldn't be forgiven for not recognizing. Literary in its scope, and populated by a cast of wayward peoples lost from a Sam Shepard play, McCombs' 'wheel within a wheel' invocation at the album's outset rightly situates the complicated struggle inherent in the process of identity. Do we view ourselves strictly within the physical and material paradigm of this allegedly fallen world, with faith playacting as our bridge to more ultimate states of understanding? Or can we identify directly with divined grace as our inherited expression on this planet? Bear in mind also that this type of questioning is situated within a song that comes from the perspective of a man longing to be behind a bulldozer to push dirt around.
McCombs' gift is his ability to take these matters serious enough to explore them with a levity and gentle nature, utterly lacking the trap of sanctimony many a skilled songwriters would fall into.
___________________________________________________________________ Bill Callahan – Dream River
Giving praise in a quiet way / like a church that's far away
If it hasn't become apparent yet, this year figured a big one with what Father John Misty might more agreeably call the "hard-won-wisdom-slingin'" American songwriters caste. Bill factors hugely in this troupe of javelin throwers. Perhaps the most sharply distilled of them all, he seems with each release to hack further and further into some type of core conception of what the songwriting process is or can be. What remains here on Dream River is soul music as expressed on an individual level, a more literal iteration of the term and perhaps more a universal one as well.
___________________________________________________________________ James Blackshaw & Melnyk Lubomyr – The Watchers
In Enochian literature, The Watchers are angels sent by the Holy One to Earth to oversee the seeded creation. Once there however, they soon fall prey to lust for human women. Led by their leader Samyaza, a pact forms to rebel against the heavens by procreating with them as well as illicitly teaching greater humanity advanced technologies in weaponry, science, and the arts. Their offspring, large savages known as the Nephilim, run rampant across the Earth threatening the future survival of humankind. At that point, archangels Michael, Raphael, Uriel, and Gabriel have had it with the insanity, asking then God to cast judgement upon the fallen angels for their corrupting nature. Uriel is then sent to Noah as a messenger to warn and prepare him for the upcoming cataclysm of The Flood. As punishment to The Watchers, God declares:
And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: (and) to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations."
True story.
Now what this all has to do with the four blissfully exquisite guitar and piano improvisations contained on this album . . . heck if I really know. But shucks if it don't make for a compelling subtext! ___________________________________________________________________ And of course, because there is always just too much good music to adequately give testimony to here, this is an extended mix of many other great releases from 2013. ENJOY! 1. Majical Cloudz: "Turns Turns Turns" from Impersonator
2. Merchandise: "Anxiety's Door" from Totale Nite
3. Hiss Golden Messenger: "Sufferer (Love My Conqueror)" from Haw
4. Ty Segall: "6th Street" from Sleeper
5. Thee Oh Sees: "Maze Francier" from Floating Coffin
6. Cave: "Shikaakwa" from Threace
7. !!!: "Even When the Water's Cold" from THR!!!ER
8. Golden Gunn: "Dickie's Theme" from Golden Gunn
9. Glenn Jones: "Alcoeur Gardens" from My Garden State
10. Danny Paul Grody: "Time Spirals" from Between Two Worlds
11. The Besnard Lakes: "People of the Sticks" from Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO
12. These New Puritans: "Fragment Two" from Field of Reeds
13. DARKSIDE: "Paper Trails" from Psychic
14. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: "Finishing Jubilee" from Push The Sky Away
15. Mazzy Star: "California" from Seasons of Your Day
16. Forest Swords: "An Hour" from Engravings
17. Oneohtrix Point Never: "Chrome Country" from R Plus Seven
18. William Onyeabor: "Good Name" from World Psychedelic Classic 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?
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