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Financial Times: AT&T and Verizon to buy Vodafone
Those with knowledge of the deal say that Verizon and AT&T will offer $3.93 a share for Vodafone's stock which would be a 40% premium to the current value of the shares. According to the source, Verizon would acquire the 45% stake in the company owned by Vodafone and AT&T would get the operations outside the U.S. Vodafone currently has 403 million subscribers and operates globally with a focus on Europe.
If the rumor is true, it would mean that all four major U.S. carriers would be involved in a deal at the same time. The third largest carrier, Sprint, is looking to close a deal that would see 70% of the company purchased by Japan's Softbank. Number four T-Mobile is a stockholder vote away from closing its deal to purchase number five MetroPCS. The latter's stockholders are voting on the deal next week.
source: FinancialTimes (subscription req'd), GIGaom via CNET
31 Comments
1. nanbanda (Posts: 17; Member since: 30 Mar 2013)
market consolidation is the right opposite of market competion, not very good for the customer on the long run....
3. gameday78 (Posts: 48; Member since: 17 Mar 2012)
Are you stupid or something? When customers travel outside the United States they get fleeced by overseas carriers... this would give Customers a solid network to use at much lowered rates! plus open door to more global plans not just country based plans. they said the same thing when it was taken from regional plans to national plans. Hence we no longer have Home areas or long distance or roaming... all plans are anywhere, anytime in the us now.
5. rvp10sucks (Posts: 5; Member since: 26 Mar 2013)
dude get real... national roaming is one thing... global roaming is a whole different game... won't happen
6. nanbanda (Posts: 17; Member since: 30 Mar 2013)
yes true imagine such plans are held by a few global providers.....
31. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
Less competition could mean higher prices and less innovation!
7. NexusKoolaid (Posts: 493; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
I'm sorry, but the names AT&T and Verizon and notion of lowered rates do not mix. The only thing that changes as far as I'm concerned is who ends up doing the fleecing.
10. MikeG77 (Posts: 422; Member since: 24 Nov 2008)
That will be At@t as they will have control of the international aspect IF the EU regulators approve the deal.
18. gameday78 (Posts: 48; Member since: 17 Mar 2012)
Wow AT&T was trying to buy T Mobile US I was hearing about and reading about the upcoming lowered international roaming agreements that that purchase would have allowed. The purchase of T Mobile by AT&T would have given AT&T a small portion of ownership and T Mobile International. The cost of roaming abroad was set to drop in the ballpark of 20 to 30 percent. So with knowing that information I have no doubt that the purchase of Vodafone which clearly allow for lowered international traveling rates and fees... If you feel the need to bash companies for charging for services but you clearly use in the United States go ahead but these are services that most people live for daily and could not live without. The wireless industry has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. From: paying 75 to $100 a month for calling 10 out paying almost the same rates per person for calling, texting, data,video chatting and much much more! There are lower plans out there that give you less service for lower cost what the average person will most likely never get away from using the Services that they have so dearly come to live and love on a daily basis.
19. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
only if they are a customer of that carrier. As far as international rates, there are ways to lower this without having to move toward a 1 carrier world.
25. xpr3ss10n (Posts: 58; Member since: 15 Dec 2011)
Your an idiot. Economics 101: more competition = better prices for consumers. Do you really think for one second that you will actually pay less for your phone bill? Carriers have done nothing but raise prices on us. Limited data, sharing data, activation fees , 2 year only deals. It is only going to get worse
9. MikeG77 (Posts: 422; Member since: 24 Nov 2008)
Any form of consolidation where a company buys out another is bad but this deal is good for Verizon because now they have full control. I feel bad for At@t as the EU is going to have to approve this deal and dealing with the EU is a nightmare. In regards to competition Europe has way more options to chose from than the US so if someone leaves the country they can use either Verizon, At@t or a local carrier. Im just curious to see how this will affect the pricing?
2. untouchable (Posts: 19; Member since: 04 Sep 2010)
This is big. This is huge. This is one monster of a deal if it goes through.
15. lsutigers (Posts: 822; Member since: 08 Mar 2009)
It ain't gonna happen.
8. amancarlos (Posts: 42; Member since: 09 May 2012)
i think verizon wants to get rid of vodafone, considering vodafone has 45% (not the latest statistics) stake in verizon.
all in all, we can't say if its a good thing or bad, but one thing is for sure its a really big f*cking deal.
16. lsutigers (Posts: 822; Member since: 08 Mar 2009)
Reason is the only thing keeping Verizon afloat is the wireless operations. Wireline, including Fios has been bleeding money for years. Not to mention the wireline business customer care is non-existent. Actually can't say wireless CS is much better.
11. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
If at&t buys vodafone they will hike the prices up. N besides im planning on visiting india next year. But dont verizon cant use gsm network or support?
12. johnbftl (Posts: 281; Member since: 09 Jun 2012)
This would be huge. Consider the possibility of drastically lowering the International roaming rates or even having plans that cover multiple countries. From a business perspective, yes the ultimate goal is to make money as a business, however if this were to go through it would allow both AT&T and Verizon to not have to pay local carriers for roaming agreements. In bypassing that cost, roaming rates would be lowered or multinational plans could be introduced.
13. mgonzalez (Posts: 22; Member since: 12 Jun 2011)
There is no way the European Union would approve of this.
24. aldridhl (Posts: 74; Member since: 12 Feb 2011)
Thank you.. it would be bad news.
14. Neurone (Posts: 54; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
$245 Billions , thats HugE!
17. Omarc07 (Posts: 513; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
Maybe this will lower atts roaming rates in Europe. . When i went to Spain i made the mistake of using my s3 while roaming on Vodafone. Came home to a $2,300 phone bill. -_-"
29. rvp10sucks (Posts: 5; Member since: 26 Mar 2013)
lol... would have been cheaper to get a return flight ...buy the most expensive unlocked phone there ... get an unlimited everything prepaid service for the time you were in spain... and still come home with lots of spare cash and an awesome phone
20. Whateverman (Posts: 3291; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Hey Alan F. I got a question for you. If Verizon is basically just buying the rest of VZW and AT&T gets all of the international operation, there is absolutely ZERO benefit to VZW customers right?
21. james1 (Posts: 97; Member since: 16 Mar 2013)
I don't think this us going to happen. Vodafone is way too big to be purchased and they are making a lot of money, more thats they can raise the money proposed by the purchase in a few years!!
23. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
But I thought Verizon was part of Vodafone☆
26. JohnnyBravo (Posts: 105; Member since: 02 Dec 2012)
I dont care so much for the deal as much as why in the bloody hell are ATT & Verizon working together!??!? These two are supposedly major competitors in the states.
Where are my European peeps? Thoughts on this deal? I am assuming you oppose? dont care?
27. Gcombs (Posts: 134; Member since: 22 Aug 2011)
Ma Bell is on the rise again. Lol
28. ScelesticSteve (Posts: 26; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
If AT&T won the bid, what would happen to Verizon Wireless in the US? Vodafone owns 45% of Verizon Wireless.
30. Sparhawk (Posts: 75; Member since: 10 Mar 2012)
Verizon has officially denied this report:


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Don King
Race: Transylvito Vampire
Faction: Transylvito
Class: Ruler (King)
Special: Royal, Remote Visual Link (Bats)
Proposed Canon
"I do not like to spend money when I am confused."
Strengths: Thoughtful, Practical, Results-Minded
Weaknesses: Holds a Grudge, One-track Mind
First Appearance: TBFGK 99
Don King is the Ruler of Transylvito. He is a Royal, who became King in his fifteenth turn, after the croaking of his father, King County. He has not left his capital city in over 400 turns, in part because he finds it far more convenient to observe events though his bats. He persuaded Jillian to become Queen of Faq, and provided her with the money needed to rebuild that side. He's also persuaded Jillian to pop a Royal Heir for Faq, in return for certain concessions, and begun creating a new Royal Heir for Transylvito. Unlike many Transylvito units, he cannot fly.
Queen Jillian
Don King regards Jillian as an absolutely vital ally. In fact, he suspects that she may be the only person who can save Erfworld from total destruction. He also likes her personally, regarding her as his "sweet, cranky, warrior-Queen". He first met Jillian at the moment when he realized that Stanley posed a far, far greater threat than anyone had previously believed. Because of his ability to secretly observe events through his bats, Don may have seen far more of the Battle of Gobwin Knob than anyone realizes. He understands that Stanley poses both an ideological threat (because of his claim to a new Titanic mandate), and a strategic threat, (because Gobwin Knob has weapons that can wipe out an entire armies). This new awareness has forced him to reassess many things, including his views on the importance of Royalty.
Don may have been watching Jillian though his bats since long before he met her. It's not clear exactly how much he knows about her, but he certainly knows that she is a young Royal with extraordinary combat abilities who has good reason to hate Stanley and who has demonstrated some capability to predict Stanley's actions. After meeting her in person, he decided to help her rebuild Faq.
But then, he learned at some point that Ansom, whom he knew Jillian loved, was not, as previously thought, croaked. Instead, Ansom was leading Stanley's forces as his Chief Warlord. This may have led Don to question how Jillian would react to Ansom's apparent decision to support Stanley. Could Jillian be trusted, or would she join forces with her lover Ansom? It may have been concern about which side Jillian would fight on that caused him to demand that Jillian pop a Royal Heir, because producing a Heir would dramatically slow down Faq's ability to pop other units. When Don learned the truth about Ansom from Queen Bea's final message, he probably realized that his assumptions about how Jillian would react to Ansom were wrong. It was after this point that he dramatically increased the resources he was sending to Jillian in order to expand Faq's military.
After discovering that Charlie had attempted to manipulate Transylvito using Jillian as his agent, Don has been forced to reassess his perspective once again. Between the serious threat Charlescomm poses to his side, Parson and Jack's slander, and Jillian's own unreliable nature, Don King now fears that Jillian wasn't who he thought she was after all.
Chief Warlord Caesar Borgata
Don King is used to being disappointed by his Heirs. He did not get along with his Royal daughter, and his Royal son tried to have him assassinated. So after both of his children were croaked, he decided to change how his kingdom was organized and simplified things. He dropped some of the fru-fru of nobility and kept what was useful. He appointed a minor Noble named Caesar Borgata as his Chief Warlord and Heir, Don King said he did so because Caesar earned it. At first, Caesar seemed much better qualified to rule than either of Don's children had been. He was a very capable Chief Warlord and earned the respect of Transylvito's Warlords and troops on his own merits and accomplishments.
However, following the Battle for Gobwin Knob, Don King has again started to rethink the importance of royalty. Stanley claims a titanic mandate and that royalty is obsolete. Especially after the croaking of Queen Bea of Unaroyal, he places much greater importance of royalty. Unfortunately now he has a low ranking noble as an heir. The close relationship the two enjoyed before the Battle for Gobwin Knob has been divided by disagreement. Caesar is opposed to Don King bleeding all of Transylvito's resources to Faq. Transylvito is threatened on all sides because they can no longer defend themselves against kingdoms like Carpool who previously posed no threat.
In Don's view, Caesar doesn't appreciate the magnitude of the problem posed by Gobwin Knob. Don is probably also aware that Caesar feels a bitter antagonism towards Queen Jillian of Faq, despite the fact that Don has made it clear Jillian plays an important role in his plans. Don has rethought the wisdom of downplaying the importance of royalty and appointing Caesar heir designate. He has decided to pop a new Royal Heir to take Caesar's place. Don has not yet communicated with Caesar whether he will also be replaced as Chief Warlord. Caesar seriously suspects that Don tried to have him croaked by sending him with a small force on a suicidal attack against a heavily defended Chocula. Don himself openly hopes Caesar will be croaked in the near future on his increasingly dangerous missions.
Count Vinny Doombats
Vinny did not visit the city of Transylvito until after his 200th turn, suggesting that Don did not originally regard him as vitally important. At some point, Don apparently realized that Vinny had some talent for diplomacy. (The two assignments we know Don has given to Vinny were to work with the Royal Crown Coalition, and to act as liaison with Queen Jillian. Both positions require diplomatic as well as military skills.) Don had a high enough opinion of Vinny to listen to his claim that Jillian knew where Stanley was going, but he also gave Chief Warlord Caesar orders which he did not share with Vinny.
Don's recent reappraisal of the importance of Royalty has probably raised Vinny's status somewhat. He is a Count, which means that, in terms of his position in the nobility, he outranks Viscount Caesar.
However, when Vinny advised Don not to order Jillian to pop a Heir, Don threatened to remove him from his position as Liaison to Faq.
Real World References
He shares his name with Don King, a famous boxing promoter.
"Don" is a title ostensibly held by the rulers of mafia families (but certainly used in many movies and television programs), reinforcing the mafia imagery associated with Transylvito.
His appearance closely resembles Marlon Brando in his overweight later years. Brando portrayed Vito Corleone in The Godfather, a famous crime film. This is reinfored by the description of Don King's voice being "airy".

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State and Metropolitan Area Data Book [United States]: 1991 (ICPSR 6398)
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I love Halloween. I dress up every year, usually as a witch or Gypsy. Haven't thought about this year yet, although my daughters and I have discussed decorations for our apartment, they love Halloween also.
I also love going to Halloween parades. The one in New York City is beyond awesome. I have also gone to smaller ones. There is a place in the Bronx, City Island, it is a place unto itself, cool place, cool people, cool parade.
What's so great about Halloween is that you can be whatever, whoever you want, no matter how weird, gotta love it.


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Being picked to live in one of 51 new subsidized apartments on Evelyn Avenue and Franklin Street in downtown Mountain View was a bit like winning the lottery, residents said at a Sept. 4 grand opening.
In a development initiated by the city government to house low-income families a block from Castro Street and the downtown train station, the $23.4 million complex is now home to residents who make less than half the county's median income.
"It's a wonderful place to live," said resident Mary Kroger. "My children, husband and I feel like we won the lottery." Living there will "help us develop our retirement and send our kids off to a good future."
"It's awesome -- I love it," said Jasmine Maduro, a Mission College student on government assistance who lives in a three-bedroom unit with her aunt and her daughter. The young mother was born and raised in Mountain View, and now she is a bit more committed to staying in the city, she said.
Even as she pointed to the noisy rear patio of the Tied House near her double-paned back window, Maduro said, "I feel safe."
Maduro said she pays not much more than $700 a month in rent, in a part of downtown where such a unit would normally cost $4,000 a month or more. Rents in the complex range from $563 to $1,600 for one-, two- and three-bedroom units.
In an opening ceremony on the complex's courtyard, which includes a playground, developers, investors and city officials lauded the project's high quality and ideal location.
"This place is truly amazing," said Google investment manager Kojo Ako-Asare at the opening ceremony. "I wanted to move in here because it's certainly better than the place where I live," he joked.
Google purchased $6.5 million in bonds that funded the project, an investment that provides a tax credit for the Internet giant. Google has invested similarly in 15 other projects around the U.S., including one in Sunnyvale. "It was very clear to me and my fellow Googlers that the project was a worthwhile investment," Ako-Asare said.
Council member Mike Kasperzak said Google's significant "philanthropic action" on the project was actually the donation of $81,859 for free WiFi in the building, and computers and furniture in the complex's computer room.
"If Google hadn't bought the bonds somebody else who wanted a 4 percent tax credit would have bought them," Kasperzak said.
The building won a LEED platinum rating for environmentally friendly design, with solar panels, free transit passes for residents and energy-efficient appliances. It was built on time and on budget, according to developer Robert Emami of ROEM.
"This is by far the nicest project ROEM has built," said Jonathan Emami, ROEM vice president.
Mayor John Inks called it a "spectacular piece of architecture." He credited the property-tax payers of the now defunct downtown revitalization district for funding much of the project.


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Kristen's SXSW Concert Picks...
I forget where I read it but there was an interview where she also said she's listening to Camera Obscura right now, who I've since looked up and are really good!
- Lorabell
P.s. TK also spotted Stew at one of Bobby Long's SXSW shows - lucky bunny!
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Thats cool that she was in Austin, TX. I didn't even realize celebs came to Austin lol, I live in Austin, TX.ReplyDelete
She said in another interview that she loved The Shins, Interpol, Radiohead and Jenny Lewis, she's got great taste, I love all of those bands/singers!ReplyDelete
I lived in Austin for years...celebs come there all the time. Especially during SXSW. She def has excellent taste. But, I mean, who doesn't worship at the altar of Radiohead??ReplyDelete
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what does SXSW stand for???ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM
Who is she saying? Ben in forces? lmaoReplyDelete
Band of horses hahaReplyDelete
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haha she's so cute. Love Band of Horses.ReplyDelete
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MISSOULA – Fifteen Montana University System undergraduates have received summer internships to research climate science-related projects at sites throughout Montana.
The Institute on Ecosystems students will work with faculty at the University of Montana and Montana State University on a variety of projects, studying everything from elk, marmots and snowshoe hares to Ponderosa pines and microscopic cyanobacteria.
The Institute on Ecosystems is a multi-institutional community dedicated to understanding complex ecosystems and the interconnectedness of people and nature. Its internship program supports students who explore the effects of climate change in sustaining healthy ecosystems and economic growth.
The students' research findings will be presented at the Institute on Ecosystems annual summit in Helena on Aug. 21-23.
"We are excited to fund these students and look forward to their findings," said Ric Hauer, Institute on Ecosystems director at UM. "One of our institute's primary goals is to support the next generation of ecosystem scientists. These students are our future."
"Climate impacts nearly every sector of our economy – from agriculture to tourism," said Cathy Whitlock, MSU's IoE director. "These students are researching important questions that will give us valuable information about Montana's vulnerability to climate change."
Montana interns, along with their hometowns, research topic and project location are:
- Kayli Anderson, Billings: Temperature dependence of hydrogen metabolism in the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus, Yellowstone National Park.
- Dominique David, Bozeman: Snowshoe hare behavioral response to a potential predator, Northern Rockies, Wilderness Society.
- Katie Noland, Great Falls: Soils and their relationship to ecosystem health in the context of the Northern Great Plains, Judith River Watershed, American Prairie Reserve.
- Kimberly Ledger, Missoula: Biogeographical investigation of exotic invasion, UM campus.
- Gilia Patterson, Missoula: Resin duct density and growth in Ponderosa pines, Lubrecht Experimental Forest.
- Matthew Weingart, Pablo: Reconstructing the late-glacial and Holocene vegetation, fire and climate history of Swan Lake through analysis of lake sediment cores, Swan Lake, Yellowstone National Park.
- Hannah Funke, Polson: Relationship between Pinus contorta recruitment in meadows and fire, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Students from Alaska, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Utah, Vermont and Washington also were selected as Institute on Ecosystems interns.


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Beats, Red Courtesy Phone, Please: HTC's Rezound
HTC's Rezound, which made its way out to consumers last week from Verizon, is the first US phone to get the full Beats Audio treatment, the specifics of which have been hazy 'til the release of this very device. So has HTC's substantial investment in Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine's headphone juggernaut paid off?
First things first. This is an impressive phone by any measure - solid hardware, speedy 1.5 GHz dual-core brains, tangibly speedy, good camera, plenty of storage, Ice Cream Sandwich promised just around the corner - but you can read about all of that elsewhere. If you want a fast phone and you're a Verizon fan, this may be your device, A/V capabilities aside.
But I'm going to skip all of that and just focus on some S+V-specific considerations, since this is being marketed as a media phone, and the first fruit of what will doubtless be an interesting collaboration between Beats and HTC (the Beats partnership with HP's been ongoing since 2009 at this point, so they seem to be able to hang in there for the long haul, thus there's room for development, whatever this particular model and the related Sensation XE and XL models have to offer).
The story here is Beats Audio (on initial startup, the Beats logo comes up even before Verizon's 4G LTE graphics), and the Rezound comes packaged with a pair of Dre's entry-level iBeats earphones, modified somewhat with an iOS-style HTC three-button remote module (very convenient in a world of single-button Android headphones) and outfitted in matte-black trim to match the phone's red-and-black color scheme. (Even the innards under the battery door are finished in translucent red plastic; how's that for aesthetic consistency?) These aren't top-shelf in-ears, certainly, but they're a much nicer offering than you'll find packaged with any other mobile device, and you get four sizes of eartips, though not the flanged versions that you'll find in the iBeats retail package.
Beats Audio, as has been detailed elsewhere, is a set of three EQ profiles - optimizations for the included iBeats (stock iBeats seem to be recognized as well), Beats Solos, and a general profile for other headphones. It's only implemented as part of the HTC music app: it isn't systemwide - i.e., you won't have access to it via the just-refreshed Google Music player or your other favorite Android audio apps. I didn't have a pair of Solos on hand, but the Beats EQ did seem to improve the sound of the packaged iBeats 'phones; interestingly enough switching on Beats gave the iBeats a midrange presence that they were lacking unaltered. I'd been expecting even more boom, so I was pleasantly surprised by this. (I didn't love the earphones on their own, finding them overly bassy and generally dull.) The effect seemed the same with a set of retail iBeats plugged in; Beats Pros got assigned to the generic category, and I preferred to hear those flat, via Google Music, which was my only option for uncolored playback.
Why's that? You can, of course, disable the Beats EQ if you don't like it - but if you're using the HTC player, you can only do so if you're using iBeats or Solos, the phones that probably benefit most from having it on in the first place. Naturally. Otherwise, you can only toggle between two enhancement flavors.
There's another enhancement routine onboard, from SRS, and if you're not using either iBeats or Solos, when you switch off Beats you don't get a flat response - you get SRS's enhancement routine, which may or may not be to your taste. The situation seems like a collision of licensing deals rather than something that was thought through from a usability perspective - and the only solution (if you're not into either effect) is to turn instead to Google's Music or one of the many other Android music apps.
This isn't necessarily a dealbreaker, of course but it's something to think about. If you've already got non-Dre-approved headphones you like, don't have any particular interest in Beats, and don't care for the HTC player's other bells and whistles (such as the slick interface for accessing both local content and music on a networked DLNA server, and it's facility for tracking down YouTube videos from the artist you're currently listening to) this may not be the phone for you.
The same applies to video watched via HTC's HD Watch player - if you use any headphones except iBeats or Solos, you'll have to choose between Beats or SRS enhancement - no bypass is availably. This is a bit of a shame since (with its 4.3" 720p-capable display) the phone is so damned good as a video player, Again, there are other video apps to choose from out there, but the stock player is impressively fast. You can output 720p video (with 5.1 surround) over the Rezound's MHL port, though you'll need to use an MHL-to-HDMI adapter, which isn't included in the package.
There's no enhancement available when playing back over Bluetooth or via the onboard speaker, though the latter would be one of the few situations I'd actually prefer some enhancement. While it wasn't going to fool anyone into thinking it was any more than a phone, for example LG's implementation of DTS over the G2X's built-in speakers was pretty useful in a pinch, greatly improving intelligibility of movie dialogue.
One of the most useful features from a music-player perspective is the new Sense 3.5 lock screen, which lets you place shortcuts on the device's home screen; while playing, you also have access to basic music controls (play/pause and track advance/back) from the lock screen. Seems trivial, but having those controls at your fingertips without unlocking the phone provides an experience much more akin to that of using an iPod, er, Walkman, er. . . dedicated media device of your choice.
And another thing that'll remind you of those products from Cupertino: HTC's desktop Sync app for Mac and Windows lets you synchronize iTunes playlists and the contents of your Music folder with your phone on connection - other Android apps (doubleTwist's AirSync comes to mind), but it's nice to have the functionality out of the box. It'll also sync your iPhoto library, iCal calendars, and so forth and so on, if you don't feel like admitting to yourself that you don't have an iPhone.
I think overall I'm more impressed with the convenience features and the video performance than I am with Beats Audio itself. But if you're looking for a full package for on-the-go music, and you're going to use the included iBeats (which, think what you will of them, are certainly a step up from your average earbud), you may well enjoy using them with the provided Beats EQ profile. Your mileage, of course, may vary. You'll definitely want to get a test listen in.
That said, Iovine says that this phone is "only the beginning," and it remains to be seen in what direction the HTC/Beats partnership will develop. I've got nothing against well-implemented EQ, and I think this one would be much improved with some user control over EQ profiles (a la PowerAMP), or at least direct support for a wider variety of headphone models, not to mention (should those other issues be adressed, of course) global system-level integration of enhanced audio output (especially now that Google Music has reinvented itself as a one-stop shop and player solution).


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Unconventional swine: how invasive pigs are helping preserve biodiversity in the Pantanal
Ordinarily, invasive and exotic species are a grave threat to native wildlife: outcompeting local species, introducing parasites and disease, and disturbing local ecological regimes. A unique case in the Brazilian Pantanal, however, has turned the tables; here, an introduced mammal has actually aided the conservation of native wildlife.
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The Pantanal region of South America, which extends beyond Brazil into Bolivia and Paraguay, is one of the largest freshwater wetlands on the planet and boasts a diversity of unique wildlife- but this hasn't always been the case.
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The introduction of feral pigs (about 200 years ago) relieved a significant amount of hunting pressure on native species, allowing populations a chance to rebound after the legislation. Pantanal denizens prefer to hunt pigs as opposed to native wildlife because they are abundant, easily accessible, and provide a substantial amount of meat and oil. Pig hunting has become an important part of Pantanal culture.
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"Feral pigs are hunted on horse[back] with dogs...this means that the young are often separated from their mother and will die of hunger or through predation," he told mongabay.com.
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Boca Paila is a well known local attraction for the Tulum area in Quintana Roo. It's located in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve. I took this shot from the old bridge for fun. The new bridge is very sturdy.
It's a great place for fishing. You'll see many locals here with hand lines and catching plenty of fish particularly at dawn and dusk. I've personally seen them hauling up fish weighing in at 20-25 lbs and having three of them like that already!
The water way is the one short cut to the back bay area on a peninsula extending 45 kilometers. Most visitors find this a great place to take a break on their way to Punta Allen.


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"It goes without saying that this has a lot of great music, and is an essential purchase for fans of this phenomenal 1960s folk-rock-psychedelic band, containing no less than 36 previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and previously unissued mixes. It's the unreleased stuff that holds the most interest, especially since even on their outtakes, Buffalo Springfield were often superb. Songs like 'Neighbor Don't You Worry,' 'Down Down Down' (which contains seeds of both 'Broken Arrow' and the Neil Young solo standout 'Country Girl'), 'We'll See,' and 'My Kind of Love' are actually up to the standard of many of the songs that made it onto the official albums
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Bellaboo was right -- it is hard to learn paper piecing from a book.
1.My first mistake was ordering a used Carol Doak book online that was missing the CD -- after all I can read!
However I failed to notice that she wrote "after making copies of sections A and B, cut the triangles 0NE HALF inch from the outside line." I made ALL my outside lines also 1/4". (I am such a creature of habit.....)
2. When I went to sew the segments together, I wound up with less than 1/8" seams in some places and even wound up with only a few threads in other places.
3. To remedy this, I decided to try using some fray block but the tube was dried up.
Okay .... then decided I would try Fray Check. Planned to dab it on sparingly with q-tip then discovered I was out of them too. Mind you, this was in the middle of a bad snowstorm so couldn't get to the mall.
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5. Also should have pressed some of my seams open and wound up with lumpy centers so took a mallet and clapper to those.
6. Had planned to SID around the star segments but broke several needles trying to penetrate some of the thick seams. Free motioned it instead with my Viking 1+.
With a great deal of regret (over not prewashing) and trepidation, I finally lucked out and not one fabric bled -- not even the black or reds.
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Tribal Tech is considered an iconic band of music associated with jazz-fusion (for some), jazz-rock (for others) or (as few) related to rock-fusion and / or (according to the founding members of group) to the fusion-progressive. Labels aside, note that Tribal Tech was established in 1984 at the behest of guitarist Scott Henderson and bassist Gary Willis and his recording debut came in 1985 with the album Spears. Then, alternating different integrations, which include among others, drummers Joey Heredia and Steve Houghton, percussionist Brad Dutz, saxophonist and flutist Bob Sheppard and David Goldblatt and keyboardist Pat Coil-, Dr. Hee arrive Albums 1987 Nomad Tribal Tech in 1989 and 1991. In the early nineties, with the album Illicit, 1991, the band settle the integration is considered classic in addition to those already mentioned Scott Henderson on guitar and Gary Willis on bass, drummer Kirk Covington and Scott Kinsey on keyboards .
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Monday's band line up: Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Ed Richardson (drums).
Tuesday's band line up: is Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Chris Higginbottom
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Upcoming upgrades - ballast questions
We just got a 2007 LSV, so now I have to think about it all winter. To entertain myself, I'm starting to plan some modifications. I got some great ideas from this forum. I think that the top of the list will be a swivel seat, some ballast upgrades and a wind screen for the walk through.
It came with the GIII system. My end goal is to have large locker bags, IBS and plumbed with 3 dedicated reversible pumps. I have a couple of questions:
1. Can I "ease" into this system, financially? I'd like to get the larger bags first. Can I live with the stock pump set up with longer fill times (20 minutes?) while I save some money for the pumps?
2. It's not clear to me what size bags fit in the lockers. From what I've read, I think that 1100# bags fit (with bracing) but I've also read a lot of 750# set ups. Is 750# the limit for the earlier LSVs (2005 and earlier)?
Are there any other must-have modification projects that should be on my short-list?2007 Mobius LSV
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11-07-2013, 11:14 AM #3Hey, Its Moomba time
Its all about the dash - enjoy the dash, as that is your time between the dates
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The poor guy asks a couple of simple questions in one of his first posts and that's the welcome he gets?? Let the ridicule begin....
I have the smaller OBV, but you should be fine with the stock pumps until ready to upgrade and I believe the 1100# sacs should fit in your LSV just fine.Mike
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If you upgrade to the bigger bags in the back, you will find that you need an IBS to compensate for the weight. I've got the same boat and it loves weight in the bow. When we fill the 750's in the back for wakeboarding, we put an additional 800 in the bow on top of the IBS. So that's another bag you will need to fill soon enough, and you can't run all four on one pump in my opinion - it would take too long. You could save a little money and go with aerator pumps over the reversibles. That is what I currently have and they have treated me well (although reversibles would be nice). The timing really depends on you and how you most enjoy your time on the boat. Time to sit/fill or on the go?
The 1100's will fit in the 07 LSV with bracing as you said. If you plan to do a lot of surfing, definitely go with the 1100's. The 750's I have put out a good surf wave for our use but we spend most of our time and effort progressing on wakeboarding. As I mentioned earlier with the 750's and some weight up front, we get a great wake for boarding.
If it didn't come with Perfect Pass, that would be mod #1 in my book. The ACME 1433 or similar prop upgrade would be #2 with the added weight.Joey
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It had already been upgraded to PP Star Gazer, which would have been #1 otherwise. My old boat doesn't have PP and I was tired of jerky pulls while every new driver learned. I forgot about the prop. I don't know what is on there so I'll need to look.2007 Mobius LSV
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You don't want to fill with just one pump. I suggest you drill a new 1" thru-hull to supply your surf side bag and get a Tsunami pump like this one dedicated to the surf bag. You can keep everything else stock for now. (You can keep the pump or sell it later but you need the extra inlet for your eventual reversible pump on that side anyway.) You can also consider a T fitting and putting two of these on there.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Attwood-T1...2-VDC/14150754My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
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I had the old sprinkler valve setup with 3 fill valves running off a single thru hull/pump on my old supra. it would take around 15 minutes to fill one of the 1100 sacs in the rear locker and the 400 sac in the belly. no other mods to the setup than the bag. had plans to do some of the mods you will find on here, but really never found the need nor the time to do them. gave time to swim, crack a beer or just shoot the breeze. I can't speak to switchover as that boat never saw a goofy wave in the 5years I owned it. around the same time for the single rule pump to drain the 1100bag as well.'06 Supra Launch 20SSV-gone but never forgotten


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The Real Vocal Book Volume 2Various Composers - Hal Leonard Corporation
The Real Vocal Book Volume 2Various Composers - Hal Leonard Corporation
Here's the next book in the Real Book series that features nearly 300 songs picked especially for vocalists! Includes: Ain't Misbehavin'; Bali Ha'i; Bein' Green; Besame Mucho; Caravan; Cheek to Cheek; Crazy; Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It); How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky); I Left My Heart in San Francisco; I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; I've Got You Under My Skin; Java Jive; The Lady Is a Tramp; L-O-V-E; Makin' Whoopee!; Mona Lisa; More (Ti Guardero Nel Cuore); A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; On the Street Where You Live; Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time); Strangers in the Night; Unforgettable; What a Wonderful World; Witchcraft and many more.
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Gain the knowledge to litigate an appeal of an administrative decision in State Supreme Court and the Appellate Division. Participants will learn to draft legal pleadings, memoranda, conduct oral argument, and perfect an appeal. These proceedings are the last avenues of redress for many of Legal Aid's clients who have lost government benefits or public housing.
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There are people who say that nothing exists outside of the mindyadave wrote: You just admitted that air molecules, vibrations, and tape recorders have a reality external to or separate from you and I. This is my point. Yes they are all empty, yes they depend on many causes and conditions for their existence, but they do not depend on my mood or whether you are taking a nap.
but I believe they misinterpret the meaning of that.
They think that an objective universe began when they were born.
This isn't what the Buddha taught or what great teachers have taught.
It's true that everything is a projection of mind
But not this way.
Buddha sat under a tree.


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It's been nearly 30 years since the height of the AIDS epidemic and today's college students might not know much about it. To raise that awareness, a portion of the AIDS memorial quilt is on display this week at Palomar College.
"Young people and students that come to our campus, most of them don't even know anything about the AIDS memorial quilt," said Palomar math professor Monika Brannick, adding that it's the second time a portion of the quilt has been on display at the college. "I think we still need to make progress when it comes to HIV and AIDS, and I think it's important to AIDS awareness and (to) make students understand that safe sex is extremely important."
According to the AIDS quilt website, the quilt was conceived in November 1985 by longtime San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones. He created the first panel for the quilt in memory of a friend, and in 1987 he helped organize the NAMES Project Foundation, the organization in charge of the quilt. The foundation uses the quilt to foster healing, increase knowledge and inspire action in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Today the quilt consists of more than 48,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels sewn together by friends, partners and family members.
Since 1987, more than 14 million people have visited portions of the quilt at thousands of displays worldwide, helping the foundation raise more than $3 million for AIDS service organizations throughout North America.
The quilt display at Palomar is hosted by Palomar College Health Services and Palomar College LGBTQ Pride Center and sponsored by Vista Community Clinic. It can be viewed during library hours, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. In addition to the display, a series of events is also planned, including a showing of the 2012 documentary "How to Survive a Plague," about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, from 2 to 4 p.m. today in room O-13, a reception with refreshments from 5 to 7 p.m. today in the second floor lobby of the library, and a symposium, "I Don't Live with HIV, It Lives with Me: Women's Stories" from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Thursday in room MD-157.
Among the tributes to people lost to AIDS emblazoned on the quilt panel at Palomar is a poem for San Diego-based actor, writer and director James Carl Manley, who died in 1988 at age 37.
"We can't express the love and feelings we had and still have for you. ... No more suffering. You'll always be in our hearts," the poem, written by his niece Sasha Manley, reads in part.
Patricia Elmore Costa, founder of the San Diego Actors Theatre, often collaborated with Manley in the '80s.
"He was creative, talented, intelligent, (and) funny," she recalled in a phone interview Tuesday. "He was a young, handsome guy and I really miss him."


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Rob Henry's football career has been anything but ordinary.
Rob Henry's football career has been anything but ordinary.
It started with an unconventional move from his hometown of Corinth, Miss. to Ocala in order to play quarterback at Trinity Catholic High School. The fact that Henry had already been an all-state-caliber safety and receiver did little to divert the determined youngster, who shacked up with his grandfather, Wayne Henry, for two years in order to chase his dream of playing quarterback at a big-time college football program.
The hardworking Henry earned the respect of a talented Celtic locker room that included the likes of current LSU wide receiver Kadron Boone and FIU running back Kedrick Rhodes, among others, and led Trinity to its third state championship game while totaling nearly 3,000 yards and scoring 30 touchdowns.
Henry and the Celtics came up short that day in Orlando, but he signed on with Purdue three months later, just like he planned when he left the small pond in Mississippi for the deeper waters of Florida.
"Being able to play at a place like Trinity, with so many great athletes … it was a great experience for me and it's something that I really needed coming from Mississippi," said Henry, who is now preparing for his senior season at Purdue. "It helped mature me as a person — you know, kind of getting away from my parents — and it really made me a better football player. Without my experience at Trinity, I definitely would not be where I'm at today."
The self-made quarterback made an immediate splash at Purdue, a school that has produced such QB greats as Len Dawson, Bob Griese and Drew Brees. Following a redshirt season, he stepped into the starting quarterback role his second year on campus. Even a deep laceration on the index finger of his throwing hand couldn't derail the dual-threat athlete who became the first Boliermaker QB ever to lead the team in both passing and rushing.
"In the back of your head you're thinking 'OK, I'm going to be the starting quarterback at Purdue for basically four years," Henry said of that season. "That was something I was really excited about. But then the injuries occurred."
After a stellar spring and fall camp, Henry was a week away from kicking off his sophomore season when misfortune struck. He blew his ACL and was forced to sit out the entire 2011 season.
"That right there was kind of a gut check," he said. "It was a hard, trying time. But I relied on my faith and my family, and the people around me that supported me."
He attacked rehab and came back last year looking to reclaim his quarterback spot. Instead, he found himself third on the depth chart behind Robert Marve and Caleb TerBush. He was shuffled around all year, playing some running back, receiver and spot-duty quarterback for a Boilermaker team that struggled to find an identity despite being earmarked as a Big Ten contender in the preseason.
It ended with the firing of last year's head coach Danny Hope and his staff and a gut-wrenching 58-14 loss to Oklahoma State in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.
Now, under the tutelage of new head coach Darrell Hazell and offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach John Shoop — who has a dozen years of NFL experience — Henry is back where he belongs; leading the Boilermaker offense. Henry took all the first-team snaps this spring and fully expects to be the starting quarterback this fall when he'll write his final chapter at Purdue.
"It's been crazy, it really has," Henry said. "Lot of ups and downs, trials and tribulations, but I feel good heading into camp. And I feel confident about the season I'm going to have in 2013. I'm really looking forward to it. I know the work that I've put in and I know the guys are going to pull together for me this year. It's going to be a good year."
The Boilermakers will be tested early and often with a schedule that includes two top-five teams from last season in undefeated Ohio State and Notre Dame, which played for a BCS title. There's also Big Ten champ Wisconsin, MAC champ Northern Illinois and Big East champ Cincinnati to deal with.
But Henry is determined to leave a lasting legacy at the school that has produced so many great quarterbacks before he leaves.
"We want to win the Rose Bowl," Henry said. "Last year we were picked to go to the Rose Bowl and things kind of fell apart. But we know we have the talent on the team to compete and be in the top two or three teams in the Big Ten.
"The new coaching staff has come in and brought a lot of energy and a new scheme. We're confident we can make a run at it. That's our goal — to make it to Pasadena — and then to win the Rose Bowl and leave our mark at Purdue."
Henry and the Boilermakers kick off the 2013 season on August 31 with a trip to Cincinnati.


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― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:20 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:23 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:25 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:26 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― pulpo, Friday, 13 February 2004 15:28 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― mzui, Friday, 13 February 2004 15:28 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Sean (Sean), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:29 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
Scott 4 is great but a touch overrated. Does anyone else think "Angels Of Ashes" is very derivative of Cohen's "Sisters Of Mercy"?
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:42 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
That never occurred to me, actually. Do you mean it as negatively as it sounds? Because "Angels of Ashes" has to be one of Scott's most gorgeous creations...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:47 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:52 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:07 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
Played it twice so far..
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:09 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― otto, Friday, 13 February 2004 17:26 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
but 3 has "It's Raining Today" and "Big Louise", probably his best songs ever ("Big Louise" may be on par with some of the greatest films ever made!)
2 has the most fun sing-alongs: "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg" and (the brilliantly grotesque failed attempt at Brel that's in some ways better than Brel) "Girls From The Streets"
and "Montague Terrace In Blue" lifts Scott/Aloner
several people have remarked on the similarity between "The Sisters Of Mercy" and "Angels Of Ashes" - I totally agree and it's also my personal fave Scott track evah (on a gives-you-goosebumps / makes-you-weep level)
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:50 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
Which is interesting because he ended up covering "It's Raining Today"...
"Big Louise" may be on par with some of the greatest films ever made!
:-) :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:53 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
I don't own 1, but I do own "The Godlike Genius of" or whatever that Cope/Zoo compilation is called.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:58 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:59 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:01 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
And as for 4, the only song that overtly bothers me is "Get Behind Me," which just sound incongruous (though not as incongruous as some of the stuff he'd do in the 70's would)...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:53 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
is that what he says in "Get Behind Me?"
I just can't get into the Seventh Seal. Now had Scott Walker written a song about the movie the Seventh Sign, then we'd be talking...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:36 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:38 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 February 2004 22:52 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:54 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 13 February 2004 23:56 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 14 February 2004 00:03 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
Failed??? FAILED???!
― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:30 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 14 February 2004 05:37 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 14 February 2004 10:41 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 14 February 2004 11:13 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 14 February 2004 15:13 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
Hey, I hear Climate of Hunter is being reissued this month in the UK. I'm going to pick it up regardless, but tell me what it sounds like. Is it as out there as Tilt (which I don't really care for too much) or is it more like "The Electrician," experimental but with SOME relation to pop form?
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 14 February 2004 20:55 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
Kind of in the middle, really. I'd say it's very much like "The Electrician," but instead of an MOR 70's production, it's got all the hallmarks of the 80's, like gated drums and fretless bass. I like it.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 14 February 2004 21:22 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 15 February 2004 09:04 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
I have to take my hat off to the arranger (Wolly Stott ?) too who makes 4 for me and someone else i know too. And the songs are the least abstract of 1 .. 4, the most well formed and crafted. The always possibly-dodgy instensity feels justified by the lyrics & music for me here as they seem to be just the right side of vague (from a performer i've thought is often simply far too vague))
scott 4 great as it is gets docked heavily for that bergman adaptation i always thought, yeah, get the corny arty cowboy stuff that dices with death with such swagger (however deliberately mannered) out of the way first. I think this song is more a mirror building chess game than a real bout. Too lofty and once again vague. It comes together for me about as much as those drawings that supposedly defy gravity. I like the western "Old Man's.." as much as i dislike this, with in that case the wild west/ barren wasteland feel making sense, a political purpose not instantly left but more complicated, something uncomfortably true and fitting together properly.
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 15 February 2004 09:39 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
2, 3, Till The Band Comes In, Tilt, 4, Climate Of The Hunter, 1
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Sunday, 15 February 2004 10:15 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
coincidence ! as Tico wrote his post i wrote the exact opinion.
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 15 February 2004 10:47 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
(stating an oversight and instead accidentally overstating a coincidence !)
i meant to simply indicate that i wasn't simply and deliberately saying the obvious of Tico. Now it's become superfluous.. words vs. substance in a scott walker collision. coincidence upon coincidence. synchronicity ?(no!) flaky, vague, yes.
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 15 February 2004 10:58 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
I've never found the first two quite on the same level as 3 and 4; while there's great stuff on them, they don't have the same consistency.
― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:08 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
(i've read it suggested that nite flights was all really written by Scott -- does this claim make any sense ?)
― george gosset (gegoss), Monday, 16 February 2004 03:16 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 February 2004 03:17 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
Scott 3 has some of the most gorgeous strings. Scott 2 is wonderful and naughty.
Pitchfork freaky style scale:
Aloner, 1: 8.22: 9.13: 9.84: 9.9 (would be a 10 if opened with "On Your Own" again)
― Star Hustler, Monday, 16 February 2004 07:01 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Star Hustler, Monday, 16 February 2004 07:02 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
reading about Walker's life (in "Another Tear Falls" which while intriguing is very wet -- the author overwhelmed and scared in his devotion to Scott that he doesn't track him down, doesn't even try, assuming Walker a non-cooperator -- the book never get's much further than sitting down with the author's pet-favourite list and drawing conclusions from the art and from the press clippings -- no interviews with anyone but plenty of prosaic "i note it's raining today,. i wonder what Scott's doing across London" filler, but anyway),
it's this alienation thing that comes across, his weird subject-of-rumour lifestyle, the lonely side of stardom. existential angst was possibly a perfect public fit for someone becoming more shy of his public, supposedly selling off his record collection when the royalties stopped, working in a hurry when he had to, withdrawing again, ignoring david bowie, name-crossing a movie. like a 20something star grows up, reads more, begins to feel less significant, stuck with a MOR TV show on which he can't sing his own great songs.
(i felt the book was a waste of time & amounted to a three-part music feature for the indie-paparazzi)
― george gosset (gegoss), Monday, 16 February 2004 09:19 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 04:47 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:06 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
i have not seen the Bergamn film. But i _was_ in a video store _today_ and looked at the sleek dvd of 'the seventh sign' (or 'seal' or whatever) and stubbornly decided _no_ because of this thread, because of Scott Walker !no, the song should stand on it's own i said to myself -- let the song speak to me first, unaided.
(1) musically, i hate the way the song keeps moving up a key -- that very kitsch old-fashioned way of increasing the drama (however possibly deliberately cheap sounding pisstake of knights, darkness and silent-movie drama blackness)(2) i've heard the old invocation of Spanish inquisition/ civil war done by Charlie Haden who got the idea off Mingus "Black Saint .." -- i've heard the Spanish overtones plundered better by others, whereas this sounds euro-cheap (cf: the high quality orchestrations on the rest of the album, the 'standards' of the rest)(possibly ironic, meant as over-the-top, obvious Hammer Horror sound effects, to emphasise translucent fake-intellectual vagueness)(3) lyrically, it hold together only as silly melodrama with a deliberate "intelligensia-oriented" arcane film reference, re-doubling as "pseudo-intelectual" by virtue of the "game of chess" set of moves amoungst players like "death" and "the knight"(only plausible as tounge-in-cheek melodrama, like a silent movie starring Rudolph Vanlentino)
yeah, i see the song as fake pseudo-intellectual self-mocking, a cardboard-cut-out set and deep and dark like bad Nick Cave (too deep and too dark to be anything other than bad melodrama)
why single it out ? let's face it, on this album, it's the odd song out. Scott's stuck it first on the record like he's laughing at his then image of over-serious deep (voiced) non-pop-music (therefore "intellectual") bore, and gets the song out of the way early.
the rest of the record has chilling orchestrations, vagueness that cannot be resolved or explained away as a chess game when it isn't. the first song is inconsistent in so many ways with the rest of the album that its placement first seems deliberate. let's face it, it would have been the pick for the 'single' or 'charts' if they wanted a song with such consistent middle-brow crooning (in stark contrast to the balanced patent bitter-sweet beauty of the rest of the album, musically & lyically)
this song is comedy. I always wonered why this silly knight, having just visited a village plague-ridden and burned to the ground, helpfully brings the spores of the plague to the next village so as to have it out in the confession box, only to be let down by god and bump into death again. like the comic side of Dostoevsky or a character from Kafka.
and they all end-up unhappily in the forest at midnight, like some good Nick Cave song ("Deep in the Woods"), only to have a slapstick ending thrown on and the song wrapped up quickly and inconclusively (somewhat less satisfyingly than the similarly slapstick end to (another film) "The Draftman's Contract")
i guess it's glib humour and Hollywood-brow earnestness, and as a joke before the serious consistent business of the rest of the album, it ain't bad. Yet that is th only way i can be bothered with the song -- as a deliberately corny joke about the new non-pop pseudo-intellectual Scott -- i usually skip it simply for it's pantomine sound, and then i do feel like i'm getting down with Scott for the rest of the album, even if i am left bewildered by lyrics, bedazzled by voice/orchestra.
I do wonder if he meant it that way. Discussions of Scott with some local friends have evidenced little levity with respect to this song (cf "yeah, i saw the film" .. so what !) well, I think it's a joke, one way or the other.
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:11 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:24 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
i sometimes try to rationalize the song as a kind of self-parody but for all his achievements in that era (and more recently) i wonder how capable of that scott really is. it's sort of telling to me that he chose that bergman film to 'adopt' anyhow--the film has all the faults you associate with the song, it's basically a simple little narrative with a variety of facile metaphors and 'symbols' tossed in with chiascuro lighting effects and lots of grand speeches. once upon a time, a lot of people took this as the summit of film art (i don't think it's really given much thought now), and i sort of wonder whether scott wasn't one of those bedsit dreamer types rather than someone capable of parodying just that.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:04 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
these records belong so much to their era, they're inextricable from it really--that's not a criticism, but however i think those two songs do evidence two of the more shallow aspects of a certain intellectual youth culture of the time
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:05 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
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― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:46 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:54 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
ok his dedication to Kruschev is obvious, and you're right, again it _is_ very much of the times (a real bad cynic would say it's a cash-in on another summer of love gone horribly wrong, if one really thought about marketing, but to me a sincere "protest song" nicely coming correctly from right-field) (plus) a meditation on "springtime", but viewed paradoxically. I _do_ like the way this song positively excels in country western cowboy cliche. The story/words are so simple and direct. Makes me think of John Wayne and the Cavalry not coming to the rescue. Milosevich. George W Bush.
Scott _does_ generally come across in all the exposures we get as a dreamy kind of guy i agree (with the lyrics just seemingly the start of biographical puzzle if they're not so disembodied from him as to be really rather useless except as indicative of his then intent) -- he's got to be the role model for david bowie's messy-cum-meaningful lyrics, and bowie made good on at least half his '70s output seemingly saying something to lots of people (exceptions like Ziggy are beyond my understanding of glam and too simple to even be slightly creepily OTM except re: audience-hysteria) -- they've both got a way with tunes and musical collaborators that i think is exceptionally musically gifted -- i suppose musicians have to be poets to be songwriters, which has got to be hard.
i think hero of the war gains something in its bluntness, but yeah it is impossibly self-righteous well someone had to sing about peace and stuff right then i suppose, a baby-boomer at that, part of his back-turn on "pop", or better, let's use "pop music" norms to _really_ say something -- i like the way the song sounds stuck in its own funereal pomp actually, a far cry from the catchy "it's all over for the unknown soldier", however well-intended that song was
try to rationalize the song as a kind of self-parody but for all his achievements in that era (and more recently) i wonder how capable of that scott really istragedy, lonliness, the spaces between all the beautiful monumental architecture of Europe where the people were meant to be singing happily -- yeah, he's a culture-vulture and i suppose it comes out all blurred or maybe an idea gets followed through or copied and doesn't sound so good afterwards (like "seventh seal") -- the original idealist with cred., even with the blurry poetry
i'd love to believe Scott was sincere and maybe yes a 20something child of the revolution and maybe guilty over that bullshit of the Walkers' US invasion ever since. Reverting to Engel of all names, he's trying to be honest about the parodoxical tragedy of so many US and European people during those times.
permanent beauty vs. fleeting pleasure/beauty, that bittersweet thing. All his songs set out to turn pop norms on their heads and say something profound and poetic even if as small a subject as an ageing duchess. I agree he's dreamy, seemingly organised but vague but i guess that is what it felt like back then. Confusing unsettling times for all, yet with pop music spitting out "feel good" all the time. I admire his honesty and how he ultimately stuck to his guns.
I approach it often as music with nice well-meant words -- a male voice i can actually enjoy as noise, with the words these days just providing clues or dedications for the 'songs', a bit like bowie's, except bowie was a crafty cynic as well as a sometimes good commentator who spread as many good songs over far more albums with lots of filler. Scott comes out more focused, so much more intense, like he eventually overcome himself with his feelings, knocked himself out. I presume the later '70s and '80s were Scott's psychic implode and recovery, just like bowie's coming back to life now. Certainly in the '70s, i think bowie took scott's ball and ran with it, with careful extra airbrushing (or eyeliner) for the larger public. I think the results could have been worse.
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:43 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:57 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:16 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
and ok yes, maybe he did want a bergman dedication/ allusion.
I think, for whatever reason, it belongs (out of the way) as the first track, although it probably doesn't belong at all for many, and yeah ok, i agree, he _probably_ _was_ a completely a young idealist.
thank goodness Ady Semel was there to at least help the seemingly drained Scott produce at least a few more good songs (and david bowie! to try carrying the torch -- maybe he should cover more Scott songs and help out with the royalties somemore)
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:43 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
The John Walker songs are just abysmal from memory but some of the Gary Walker songs are quite interesting - if only he could sing but he most certainly can't.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:59 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
The cd booklet contained an image of Bowie's "War Child" charity art piece from '97, where ".. famous celebrities .. all homages to .. other musicians .. they considered to be a big influence on their work".This art consisted of a lightbox containing 3 x-rayed skulls and six eyes (a curious Residents coincidence). There are two side-view skulls on the two sides of this box and one forward facing central skull, presumably Skott, the brains of the operation. The eyes mystify me. OK we all know about David's special eye, but was the Walkers' invasion of Britain really in part due to tricky eyes ? It seemed a rather self-aggrandizing feature from Bowie's art otherwise, epecially as of all things Walker to leave out it left out their ears.
― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 19 February 2004 05:38 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 19 February 2004 05:53 (thirteen years ago) Permalink
by a mile.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:20 (twelve years ago) Permalink
― Jimmy James Inc, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:42 (twelve years ago) Permalink
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:53 (twelve years ago) Permalink
― yugi ex, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:59 (five years ago) Permalink
lol 'The Amorous Humphrey Plugg' just popped up on random play
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:00 (five years ago) Permalink
Oh man, it's all I can do not to play Scott's stuff day after day after day...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:12 (five years ago) Permalink
Thanks to facebook, I only JUST learned about the song The Plague. Can you imagine, having known Scott's 1 - 4 (and side A of 'Til the Band) by heart and obsessing for years and suddenly learning there was another song? I don't know how I missed it.
― dan selzer, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:55 (five years ago) Permalink
...containing the immortal couplet "It's all so vague/When you meet the plague".
― hugo_w, Friday, 4 May 2012 05:54 (five years ago) Permalink
That's awesome, Dan! I'm jealous! It was there from the beginning for me as my first Scott purchase was the Boy Child compilation.
(In a bookend kind of way, I assume you know about his track on 4AD's Plague Songs comp?)
This is a pretty great Scott thread that I've never noticed before. My answer is, resoundingly, Scott 3. Wally Stott ftw.
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:24 (five years ago) Permalink
The Plague is the first Scott Walker solo song I heard, it got me hooked.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 4 May 2012 16:16 (five years ago) Permalink
interesting timing for the thread revival as i was thinking about this the other day and concluded that Scott 3 is probably top 5 of all time for me. Scott 4 is a bit too cavalier for me in parts, whereas Scott 2 doesn't quite connect with me the whole way through. Scott 3 has the perfect balance of introspection and storytelling and is capable of moving me in unique ways.
― charlie h, Saturday, 5 May 2012 05:34 (five years ago) Permalink
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 May 2012 07:28 (five years ago) Permalink


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