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The holidays are a smorgasbord of sensory overload. The traveling. The cooking. The shopping. Even the "quality" family time. It's all packaged into two nightmarish rollercoasters scheduled at the blunt ends of November and December.
Luckily, however, if you've got a smartphone or tablet, you can get by with a little help from your app-based friends.
We've rounded up 16 apps to help you sail through the holidays problem-free. So, whether you're traveling, cooking, entertaining the kiddies, or doing some serious credit card damage in the malls or online, here are some suggestions that should make this, well, "festive" time of the year just a bit more palatable.
Many of these apps are available on multiple platforms, so whether your poison is iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, or even webOS (yes, in some cases!), you'll be covered.
Taking the stress out of holiday travel —————————————
Having to deal with the TSA is bad enough. The rest of your travel experience doesn't need to be "stranger-groping-your-private-parts" bad, so check out these three apps for a bit of relief.
Hipmunk is one of the best ways to find and compare flight plans that suit your schedule and budget.
The free Hipmunk app lets you quickly compare flight options based on either "agony level" (which takes into account total travel time and the number of stops), or by cost, departure time, and length of travel time. After choosing your departure and destination locations, the dates you'd like to travel, and how many people will be flying, the app lays out search results in an easy-to-read timeline.
Herein lies Hipmunk's advantage over competitors: Suddenly, it's easy to see exactly how long you'll be in the air, what times you'll take off and land, and, of course, the price of travel. All this, and the app directly compares options from numerous other airlines.
Other travel apps, such as Kayak, offer a more all-in-one approach to travel planning and organization, but I think Hipmunk's straightforward layout makes it a superior option for flight searches. It should be noted, though, that Hipmunk is strictly for finding flights – you can't make purchases from within the app. And some airlines, like Southwest, don't allow their flights to be booked through third-party sites, so you won't see them on Hipmunk or other travel-related apps.
Hipmunk is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
(It's also worth noting that Alexis Ohanian – co-founder of Wired.com's sister site, Reddit – is employed by Hipmunk.)
Once you've made your travel arrangements, you can use TripIt to keep your flight, rental car, and hotel reservation information in one convenient place.
After signing up and syncing your e-mail account(s), you can use the TripIt website to set up automatic travel plan importing, so the TripIt app is always up to date with confirmations heading to your inbox. Alternatively, you can manually send flight info to your TripIt account via e-mail.
This free app is primarily a portal for accessing your trip information in a single place, but you can also check into your flight, check your flight status, and download airport information, such as terminal maps. The TripIt layout is straightforward, so you can easily double-check flight, gate and terminal info at a glance.
TripIt does require a lot of integration with its website, but because you'll likely be making reservations on a computer rather than in-app, it's not too big of an inconvenience. You can edit confirmation details in-app, but to add people to your network, manage profile preferences, or adjust e-mail settings, you'll have to visit the TripIt website.
You can get TripIt on iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry.
Have you decided to road-trip rather than plane-trip? Use GasBuddy to find the cheapest and/or closest gas stations during your trek down the interstate.
If you're the type to meticulously plan out a trip beforehand, you can plan your pit stops by searching gas stations by city, state, or zip code. This exercise also gives you inside knowledge of the cheapest gas spots along your trip. But no worries if you're more of a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-fuel-tank kind of guy. When your fuel gauge is teetering near empty, just launch the app and hit the big "Find Gas Near Me" button to see where the nearest stations are.
You can order stations by distance or price. You can also see them in list format, or laid out on a map.
As a bonus, the free GasBuddy app awards points for reporting gas station prices, and if you earn enough points, you'll be entered into a weekly drawing for free gas. And, who knows, if you've got kids in the back seat, maybe you can turn this into a game: While you're at the wheel, let them scour the roadsides and submit prices through the app. Hey, it's worth a shot, right?
GasBuddy is available through the App Store, Android Market, Windows Phone Marketplace, and BlackBerry AppWorld.
Making sure the turkey's perfectly delicious ——————————————–
If you're not the type to call in Chinese food for Christmas, then you've likely got around a dozen dishes to prepare and keep track of. Use these apps to maintain your sanity when the heat starts rising.
In the spirit of the holiday hubbub, when you open the free Epicurious app, its home screen is dedicated to holiday-related topics like Turkey and Gravy, Thanksgiving Sides, and Fall Desserts.
When you open up a specific recipe – care for some Sweet Potato Pudding with Pecan and Gingersnap Topping? – you get the recipe itself, details on servings and prep time, a photo of the finished product, and reviews from people who've made the dish themselves.
To make sure you don't forget anything when you hit up grocery store, the app lets you add recipes to your shopping list, itemizing the ingredients by grocery department (e.g., fresh produce or dairy), and giving you the option to check items from the list once you've picked them up.
The number of recipes you have to choose from may be a bit daunting, but recipes are well organized, and a search for a few key ingredients will lead you to a narrowed list of related options.
Epicurious offers apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone. The content is the same on all four platforms, but the UIs change significantly.
This free Android app takes the guesswork – and the calculator-work – out of adjusting a recipe for a different number of people.
The straightforward app provides unit and serving conversions for volume, weight and temperature, and also offers a list of "substitutes" – for example, how to make allspice using cinnamon, nutmeg and clove, or what you can use for your meringue if you don't have cream of tartar on hand (lemon juice or vinegar will do the trick). If you click your Android phone's search button, you can also search for a specific item you're looking to substitute (rather than browse the list alphabetically).
Easy, super clear, and free. What more do you want out of a unit conversion app? Available from the Android Market.
KitchenPad Timer
You've got the recipe, and you know the exact proportions you need to adjust the recipe for – but now it's time to start sending saucepans to the stovetop, and roasting pans to the oven. This is where things can get hairy, especially if you're a noob to holiday cooking mayhem.
Luckily, the 99-cent KitchenPad Timer iOS app can help with your multitasking needs. The app has two main screens: a four-burner stovetop and an oven. You can label each "heating element" with text (e.g., "14-pound turkey"), as well as assign temperatures and set timers for what's sizzling. You can even select different alert sounds, so when you hear "Bubbles," for example, you'll know the cranberries are done, and when you hear "Cow Moo," you'll rush to the oven to remove the roast beast.
You can get KitchenPad Timer from the Apple App Store.
Keeping the kiddos out of your hair ———————————–
The last thing you need is little junior bouncing around between your feet while you're holding a pot of scalding water. Make sure the young'ns are occupied by showing them these kid-friendly apps.
Turkey Blast: Reloaded
It may not be very cerebral, but Turkey Blast: Reloaded, a tilt-based arcade shooter, is a great Thanksgiving-themed mobile game for keeping mini-me away from adult conversation.
The game is not only free, it's simple: Tilt your smartphone or iPad to set crosshairs on turkeys that are flying or walking around a pastoral, cartoonish environment. Tap to shoot. Each round is timed, and you must shoot 20 birds before time runs out. Best of all, the game is gore-free. When you tag a bird, it cleverly poofs into a fully cooked turkey.
The game has multiple levels, but gameplay and the general level of difficulty stay much the same throughout. Regardless, it's oddly satisfying and slightly addictive to see those flying turkeys pop into roasted birds. (Though, no, it doesn't provide an answer to that delicate question, "Daddy, where do turkeys come from?"
Silent Film Director
Lights, camera... charmingly hokey action! Silent Film Director is a fun, 99-cent app that will get the kids' creative juices flowing. As the name suggests, this iOS app lets you create old timey-looking silent films.
You first select the settings of your silent film: Choose from one of six different visual effects (such as vintage sepia or '20s movie), and then define picture-quality level, a soundtrack (tunes have titles like "Plucky Daisy" and "Evil Plan FX"), and the video time scale, which ranges from 1x to 3x.
Once you've got the key qualities of your film sorted out, you can record video within the app, or upload video from your library. From there, the app spits out your new silent film masterpiece.
Older, more enterprising kids will enjoy playing director, crafting and capturing a quality scene. And then, during commercial breaks of the football game (or whatever it is you watch during the holidays), the rug rats can show off their creations to the adults in attendance. Everyone wins!
Silent Film Director is available from the App Store.
Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift
Cut the Rope is one of the most popular smartphone games out there. And now there's a free holiday-themed update.
Your goal is to slice through the "ropes" that are holding a piece of candy in place – ultimately sending that candy to land in the eagerly waiting mouth of a cute green monster. In this iOS-only holiday rendition of the ubiquitous Cut the Road app, the rope is replaced by a string of Christmas lights and the action takes place on a papery-looking Christmas tree.
Challenges include bubbles that float you up to the top of the screen, multiple strands of lights to cope with, and stockings that act as portals to different locations, shooting you out at the same velocity in which you entered.
The app debuted last holiday season, but it was recently updated for 2011 with new animations, a greeting card-making feature, and a final level with rockets. You can get it from the App Store.
Settling inane family disputes ——————————
Gather together a group of vastly different people who just happen to share the same bloodline, and you're bound to run into a few quibbles. If you're lucky, they'll be the kind you can solve with the click of a button from one of these great search apps.
Dragon Go!
If you don't have an iPhone 4S, the free Dragon Go! app is about as close as you can get to the new iPhone's coveted Siri and her voice-based searches.
With Dragon Go!, you can perform searches by voice or by typing out your search terms. The app interprets your request and takes you straight to the most appropriate results, when possible.
For instance, if you search "donuts nearby," it takes you straight to Yelp, showing you the donut shops closest to your current GPS location. If you search for something like "Muppets show times," it takes you straight to the Fandango page for The Muppets.
Other times, it takes you to Google's search results, like when I searched "Rubik's cube invented." But don't fret if you're not happy with what Dragon Go! returns first. Underneath the search bar is a rotating carousel of tabbed result options. In the center – the one that opens when your search is completed – is what Dragon Go! determines to be the most relevant result. But sometimes, as in the Rubik's Cube example, one of the better options may lie on this carousel. In this case, it was Wikipedia, which was directly to the left of Google in the carousel.
Dragon Go! is free on iOS.
For some questions, you need a bit more, well, definition than what'd you get from a traditional Google Search. If your query is related to science, math or the wide, mysterious world around us, you've got to use Wolfram|Alpha. It's a $2.99 app purchase, but well worth the price.
Can't remember Avogadro's number? You're covered, and Wolfram|Alpha will also deliver buttons for related queries like vacuum permittivity and Newtonian gravitational constant. You can also tap in all manner of math queries – derivatives, integrals, summations – and specific answers will appear almost instantly, with graphical plots of the results, alternate forms of the solution, and related information you may find useful.
But don't worry, your family doesn't need to be a mix of rocket scientists, mathematics professors, and engineers to appreciate the utility of Wolfram|Alpha. Even searching for "Tom Hanks" provides a slew of useful information and stats on the actor, so you can trump your relatives with movie and Hollywood trivia.
It's like Wikipedia meets Google meets the reanimated brain of Einstein. Wolfram|Alpha is available on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Fake Calls
If you're not so much interested in settling a spat than high-tailing it out of a spat, use an app like Fake Calls.
*Oh, when am I finally going to settle down and get married? Oh, well – goodness, sorry I need to take this phone call! *
The 99-cent app simulates a phone call within a few seconds of opening the app, or you can set a timer so it calls you at a specified period in the future. You can even select the fake caller's contact information, making it someone from your actual address book or something made up. You can also adjust the ringer and vibration settings for the fake call.
This particular fake calling app is an oldie – it hasn't been updated since 2009 – but some apps really don't need much updating. If you're constantly getting stuck in awkward conversations from which you need quick escape, it would behoove you to add Fake Calls to your app arsenal.
Fake Calls is iOS only, but there are similar apps on Android and other platforms.
Sharing the memories ——————–
For relatives unable to make a Holiday trip, there's always Skype, Tango, or some other form of video chat to say hi. But a more lasting way to share your holiday fun is through an app that sends a personalized card through the mail – especially handy if grandma isn't really the video-conferencing type.
Spending the holidays in Honolulu or Aspen? Share the scenic views by sending a custom postcard to friends and family.
Postagram is a free app that takes an image from your smartphone's photo library, prints it out at 300dpi on glossy paper, and then sends it to whomever you want – and all the heavy lifting of printing and postage is done remotely. Postagram can also be used with Instagram photos, pulled from the app or the web. Like a regular postcard, you can customize your Postagram with a personal message.
When Aunt Mabel or your college roommate receive your Postagram in the mail (which costs only 99 cents for you to send, anywhere in the world), they'll be able to pop the photo out thanks to its removable bezel. From there, they can stick it to the fridge, or place it in a photo frame.
Postagram is available for iOS and Android.
For sharing memories on actual paper, Apple's own Cards app is another option that iOS owners can use.
Like Postagram, the app lets you search through your iPhone photos to find a shot. But, in this case, you're creating your own custom greeting card. There are templates for general cards, birthdays, holidays and other occasions. Once you've chosen the card type you want, you choose a photo for the front of the card, and then customize the message on the inside. From there, fill out your recipient's address and your own return address on the virtual envelope in the app (you can even import these from Contacts). It costs $2.99 to send in the U.S., and $4.99 anywhere else.
I used Cards to send my dad a personalized birthday card last month, and I felt it was both more convenient and more meaningful than just grabbing a Hallmark card off a grocery store shelf.
Cards is free from the App Store.
Getting the most out of Black Friday ————————————
Unless you're some sort of shopping-crazed sociopath, you're likely not too jazzed about waking up hours before dawn so you can get the best deals on this year's hottest gifts. Fear not. These apps may not reduce the size of mall crowds, but at least you'll know where the best deals will be had at the click of a button.
TGI Black Friday
If you're planning some hardcore holiday shopping the day after Thanksgiving, look no further than TGI Black Friday to find the best deals around. This free app collects and organizes all those ads for Black Friday deals so you can skip the newspaper (so analog!) and look at your smartphone instead.
You can check out popular deals and newest ads, as well as parse ads by category (like Baby, Desktops, or Jewelry) or by store (Best Buy, JCPenney, Sears). You can also search for a specific product. Hint: There were no deals on MacBook Airs for this Black Friday at the time I searched, but there were some bargains on MacBook Pros and iMacs.
Once you've found a deal you like, you have the option to Shop Now for the product, share the deal via Facebook, Twitter or e-mail, or add it to your list.
Although this app will be useful to general bargain hunters and holiday shoppers, I think where it really comes in useful is for those of us with targeted picks. For example, you can very easily find out if Radio Shack is having a deal on that Nikon CoolPix you've had your eye on, or if anyone has a discount on this year's must-have toy.
You can get the app from the App Store or Android Market.
Google Shopper
Google Shopper is one of the most extensive price comparison apps available – and you'd sure hope so, coming from a giant like Google.
When you open the free app, you can search for a product by typing in what you're looking for, scanning a product's UPC barcode, or speaking the name of the product. The barcode-scanning feature is especially useful, letting you quickly assess whether that $100-off bargain at Wal-Mart is better than what you can find on Amazon or other websites.
You can also assign "favorite" status to items you want to look for later, or browse your search history in the app. The search history also conveniently displays an icon to show whether you ran a voice, barcode, or text search, and includes the products you actually clicked on.
If you've got an Amazon Prime account and are interested in Amazon-specific price comparisons, you should go with the Amazon Mobile app instead. But if you want to check multiple sources, you can't go wrong with Google Shopper.
Google Shopper is available for iOS and Android devices.


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From A Spring Warm-Up to Hot Laps
NHMS Opens Track with N.H. Cycling Club
LOUDON, N.H. - Warm weather has finally melted away months of snowfall, meaning New Hampshire Motor Speedway is finally ready to go green in 2014. Speedway officials will formally open the gates today, welcoming the New Hampshire Cycling Club (NHCC) to pedal its way around the 1.6-mile road course. The track weathered the winter perfectly and the speedway is in race condition for the kickoff to a new season of high-speed excitement.
The two-wheeled riders will be the first to cross the Granite Stripe this year, but they certainly won't be the last. The speedway, which is celebrating its 24th anniversary this year, will be active for nearly 200 days through October.
The New Hampshire Motor Speedway maintenance, cleaning and operations teams have been hard at work prepping the track and facility for the last two weeks. On top of clearing several feet of snow from the track and infield, the operations crew has gone through the entire property with a fine-toothed comb, checking for winter damage and de-winterizing several buildings and areas throughout the near 1,200-acre campus.
"We have faced a few challenges with the deck of cards Mother Nature dealt us," said Tom Blanchette, the speedway's director of operations, "but with the best team in the business here at the Magic Mile we strive to make it happen for our guests and clients every day, so they can enjoy all of the great amenities and excitement we have to offer."
April will be a busy opening month for the Magic Mile. The NHCC, which is a central New Hampshire-based cycling club, competing in several events, including the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Thursday Night Training Series, is just the first group to use the facility. Over the weekend, the Porsche Club of America (PCA) North Country and the BMW Car Club of America White Mountain Chapter will both be on the track. PCA North Country will be on-track Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 12, while the BMW White Mountain will hold an a advanced driving skills school in the S3 parking lot, using plastic pylons, to provide a safe learning environment for these low to moderate speed maneuvers.
The U.S. Legend Cars Moat Mountain Road Course Series and the Sign Works Oval Series, as well as the Gifford's Ice Cream Bandolero Series will holding testing and race sessions on Saturday, April 19, while the Loudon Road Racing Series (motorcycles) will have its first event during the April 26-27 weekend.
The Formula Hybrid Competition returns from April 28-May 1. Featuring high-performance hybrid and electric race cars, Dartmouth College's 8th annual Formula Hybrid Competition features cars built by teams of undergraduate and graduate engineering students, who compete in aspects of design, acceleration, handling and endurance of their vehicle, and abide by a long list of rules.
Speedway Children's Charities will once again hold its 10th annual Safe Kids 500 on April 30. The fun, free, family event hosted by Speedway Children's Charities and the Injury Prevention Center at CHaD promotes bike safety among children.
This year's racing season will once against be highlighted by two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekends, including the Camping World RV Sales 301 on July 13 and the SYLVANIA 300 on Sept. 21. To purchase tickets, which now include special pricing for kids under the age of 12, call the track's ticket hotline at (603) 783-4931 or by visiting www.nhms.com.


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|2011-09-24, 00:24
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|2011-09-24, 00:47
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I realize there's a humongous gender double-standard when it comes to pointless violence in anime and that's probably never going to change, but to say that he "deserved" it... Well, if it wasn't such a cartoonishly silly scene to begin with it would be worth pointing out how wrong that seems.
|2011-09-24, 06:42
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When a person with a tendency to mistreat others does something caring and considerate of others for a change, it's likely counterproductive to attack the person for "doing something caring/considerate" in order to punish them for "the tendency to mistreat others". That just sends at best a very mixed message, or at worst a horrible message period.
In reality, I think he probably took one slap across the face, and that much, frankly, he'd probably get in real life if he talked to most girls like he talked to Ringo there. Spoonroo is right there, I think.
Don't get me wrong - This doesn't change how I perceive Sho - Just that this was an unusually bad moment for him. If something equivalent to it never happens again, I'll honestly consider it an OoC moment.
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|2011-09-24, 08:34
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I didn't like the hitting scene because I felt the animation of it was extremely exaggerated (and usually I can take scenes like that in anime). Especially just watching the RAW the scene was very upsetting to me.
But I felt a little better after watching the scene subbed. Ignorning how the scene was animated for the first time I think Ringo was right to be angry at Shouma. It's not just that he didn't appreciate what Ringo did to him, but he should be concerned about his own safety too. She was worried sick about him.
In the second scene though Shouma definitely did not deserve that (he was even trying to apologize to Ringo which was really sweet of him). But I guess I can let it slide because Ringo realized her feelings for Shouma and I guess it was a blow to her. Everything she thought was true in her life turns out to not be true at all.
We are watching as outsiders but for Ringo for such a long time she was dedicated to marrying Tabuki. She was in love with Tabuki because that is how it was supposed to be. She had to become her sister. But then Shouma comes around and she isn't supposed to be in love with him...she just is. And he even tells her, you can just be you! This is a major change for her.
|2011-09-24, 10:28
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Silly argument, when you consider that Ringo made Shou strip so a frog could give birth on him, made him move her belongings twice, forced him to crawl under a house with her, drugged him so she could rape his teacher and would be dead if it weren't for him. I guess in the world of anime that means a little curtness on his part merits a severe beating and she merits a gentle kiss of the cheek.
|2011-09-24, 10:49
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Well I think the difference is we have to realize it is a cartoon and those type of scenes are exaggerated on purpose and not to be taken literally. But let's just say Ringo's feelings behind that scene were not wrong.
I do think Ringo was wrong in all those other scenes in how she treated Shouma. But in this one case her feelings were right.
And Shouma did tell Ringo off during the attempted rape scene (which he was definitely in the right about).
|2011-09-24, 14:08
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Sort of reminds me of a side story from a certain book I read once. An infamous smuggler sneaks a ship full of onions past a blockade to a Lord trapped in a siege, getting him enough supplies to allow him to win.
After the siege is done, the Lord chops off the fingers of the smuggler as punishment for his years of lawbreaking, and then raises him to knight as a reward for his delivery of onions.
Now imagine if the Lord had instead decided not to punish the smuggler for his smuggling years, but instead punished him for the onion delivery?
From a karmic perspective, yes Ringo deserved it. But from the perspective of the specific event in question, she most definitely did not.
|2011-09-24, 14:48
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Davos and Stannis, eh? Interesting story, but not completely relevant here IMHO. I don't exactly see a few curt words as equivalent exchange for all of the transgressions Ringo committed against him. All things being equal, she should have been more than happy to call it even, never mind use him as a piñata.
Besides - curried cabbage does not equal onions! And I think that story was included to illustrate was an inflexible, pious SOB Stannis is. Iron, not steel - break before he bends...
|2011-09-24, 16:27
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|2011-09-24, 17:58
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I think we're all forgetting that Shouma has a pretty low self-esteem, due to the incident in his past. For him, Himari is not only more important than himself because she's his sister, but also because he sees himself as..... well, as trash really. This is why Ringo giving up the diary (which is necessary to save Himari) for his sake affected him so much, so much that he acted quite out of character.
Ringo is probably the first person who cares about Shouma for who he is, something he had always thought impossible until now, as he believes himself damaged and deserving of punishment. Ringo shattered that wall, and Shouma is as scared about it as Ringo herself, if not much more.
All in all, his attitude towards Ringo was understandable. It doesn't mean he wasn't wrong; he was. But I can understand why he did it.
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|2011-09-24, 18:17
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Well I am definitely hoping Ringo and Shouma's story is going to be about them helping each other.
Shouma helping Ringo realize it is alright for her to be her and not her sister. And I am hoping Ringo will help Shouma get over whatever it is that is buried inside him. I really like that type of narrative so I would love if the show goes in that direction.
|2011-09-24, 18:43
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I may be wrong, but I get the sense that Himari herself appreciates Shouma very much for who he is. I think she loves him more than his brother, and may even love him more than a sister should.
|2011-09-24, 18:45
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Ringo used to know exactly what her purpose in life was. For the last ten years, she's been absolutely certain that she was meant to replace Momoka, and that following the diary was the way to do it. She'd managed to convince herself that everything was going according to plan, and that she was only a few steps away from fulfilling her destiny.
Then she meets the Takakuras, and everything starts going wrong. Shoma keeps getting in the way of her plans (or, at least, that's how she sees it.) He tries to get her to hand over her precious diary -- the biggest link she has to Momoka, and the key to achieving her destiny. Then she finds out that, just like her, he's doing everything for love of his family. He starts forcing her to question her sense of purpose: Does she really love Tamaki, or is she just using to create her perfect family? Is it really her destiny to become Momoka, or is she fooling herself? It's obvious that this strikes a nerve with Ringo. These doubts have probably crossed her mind before, but she was never willing to face them.
Finally, Shoma is placed in danger because of her -- twice. First, he's injured protecting her; then he's held hostage in order to make her give up the diary. Ringo is already starting to doubt herself, and she now realizes how much Shoma has sacrificed himself for her sake and the sake of others. So she gives up her diary -- her future, the sole reason for her existence -- in order to protect him. This is probably the bravest thing she's ever done; remember, Ringo really has no sense of her own identity outside of being Momoka's replacement. In a very real sense, she's giving up her self.
The problem, of course, is that the whole reason Shoma is able to be so selfless is that he feels he has no right to exist. Since the first episode, we've been hearing him talk about how he and Kanba have no future and will never amount to anything. He thinks they committed a terrible sin just by being born. From his point of view, Ringo just gave up the last chance to save Himari -- pure, innocent Himari, who's suffering as a result of her brothers' sin -- in order to preserve his worthless life. Ringo doesn't understand this, even though it's remarkably similar to her own situation -- both she and Shoma are living for the sake of someone else. Ringo assumes that, since Himari's life is all he cares about, he won't want anything to do with her anymore. Effectively, Shoma's just told her that she sacrificed her life's purpose for nothing. So she throws herself back into her pursuit of Tamaki, even though she almost certainly realizes that it's futile.
But... that's not quite all of it. Shoma still worries about her, even though she no longer has any relation to his goal of saving Himari. He tells her that she's herself -- that she, as a person, still has value independent of her relationship to Momoka. Presumably, Ringo has never heard this from anyone before, or at least not in a way that she could believe. Her own mother couldn't love her and her family fell apart because she wasn't as good as Momoka; now Shoma seems to be suggesting that it doesn't matter. That's why she can't stop thinking about him, and why she hesitates when she finally has the chance to be with Tamaki. Ringo is ashamed and angry at herself -- by developing feelings for Shoma, she's betraying her duty to Momoka. She's developing an identity of her own, and it scares her. That's why she keeps flying off the handle and raging at Shoma -- she's scared of the things he makes her feel.
Again, Shoma is in the same position as Ringo. He believes that he should never have been born, and that he has no right to have a life or desires of his own. He wants to devote himself completely to saving Himari, because he sees her as pure and innocent, unlike his worthless self. We're already starting to see cracks in his resolve, however. Unlike Kanba, he seems to feel real moral qualms about the shady things he has to do in search of the Penguidrum, and he also seems to be developing feelings for Ringo. (Feelings which will, no doubt, be complicated by the revelation that her sister's death was connected to his and Kanba's "sin.") I think that just as he's starting to convince Ringo that her life has value outside of her destiny, she may end up convincing him that his has value in spite of his sin.
EDIT: So, yeah... everything Kazu-Kun just said, but more wordy.
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But I think Shouma really needs acceptance outside his family and that is where Ringo comes in.
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EDIT: DSPaul, great post. Yeah, that's basically what I was getting at.
EDIT2: just removing something that might be too spoilerific right now.
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That would certainly explain why the damn thing is so important. It has to be able to do something of that magnitude if so many people want/need it.
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I actually do not think so... but agree that the diary could hold some secrets to it. Because a diary of (6 years old wasn't it?) kid talking about "first night" and such are a little bit extreme
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Urban Meyer wasn't just unhappy with his pass defense after last season.
So upset was he that he destroyed it, hired a new coach to oversee what was left and then they rebuilt it from the ground up.
''It's an acknowledgment of things not done well,'' veteran safeties coach Kerry Coombs said.
As a result, there are a lot of people keeping a close watch on the defensive backfield in particular as No. 5 Ohio State goes through its paces in preparation for the Aug. 30 opener against Navy in Baltimore.
''We were kind of leaky in the pass game,'' linebacker Joshua Perry said. ''We were giving up a lot of stuff underneath and that kind of hurt us. The leadership was pretty good but toward the end of the year you saw a lot of guys starting to fizzle a little bit. And that's a tough thing.''
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No wonder Meyer was so angry.
This spring, the Buckeyes are putting their cornerbacks right in the grills of the receivers on the line. There'll be no more allowing a 10-yard gap to the wide-out, as was the case against Clemson. That strategy helped turn the Tigers' Sammy Watkins into a legend with 16 catches for 227 yards.
Truth is, Watkins had freedom to run. The Buckeyes back there didn't.
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"Google and Motorola Mobility today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011," the press release reads, "The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies."
Motorola Mobility will be run as a separate business, and Google claims it will have no effect on the Android ecosystem with regards to other hardware partners, but of course, only time will tell how that's going to pan out. Other than Google buying a competent hardware partner, it also buys one of the most valuable patent portfolios in the mobile industry, causing a massive shift in power in the current let's-sue-because-we-can't-compete landscape of the mobile industry.
"Motorola Mobility's total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies," said Larry Page, Google's CEO, "Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers."
"This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility's stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world," said Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, "We have shared a productive partnership with Google to advance the Android platform, and now through this combination we will be able to do even more to innovate and deliver outstanding mobility solutions across our mobile devices and home businesses."
This is big. Very big. Now I understand why Google didn't seem to take the Nortel bidding process seriously - they were already working on this much more substantial deal. This effectively means that while Microsoft and Apple thought they had bought a powerful anti-competitive patent club to hit Google with, they have now spent $4.5 billion on a patent portfolio about 1/4th the size of Motorola's.
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New Section 199A - Planners, Sharpen Your Pencil
New code section 199A is confusing and complex and offers many planning opportunities once it is understood. Dennis Walsh helps clarify with great insight into some of the many considerations we face.
By: Dennis R. Walsh, CPA
Sometimes me sits and thinks. Sometimes me just sits.
Perhaps this captures the feelings of many tax practitioners and gift planners faced with the daunting task of optimizing business and personal income taxes under the CPA Full Employment Act, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Most small businesses need to re-examine flow-through versus C corporation taxation, in particular the extent to which to utilize the 20% of qualified business income deduction under new Section 199A applicable to income from flow-through entities, or the 21% flat tax rate applicable to C corporations, both effective with the 2018 tax year. And the implications go beyond operating effects.
Given (1) the statutory ink is barely dry, (2) current absence of implementing guidance for Section 199A, (3) time compression for tax practitioners in their busy season, and (4) client expectations to make the best recommendations, the analysis amounts to a formidable task.
It would therefore seem justifiable to defer recommendations until a future date. Looking ahead, tax year 2017 may be remembered as the year of the tax filing extension.
Projections regarding the combined 2017 and 2018 effects of elections such as the Section 179 and 168(k) writeoffs, or whether to carryback a 2017 net operating loss will help inform the tax entity evaluation. Assumptions regarding the amount and timing of charitable gifts and other non-business deductions will also play an important role in managing the taxable income based limitations of the 20% deduction from year to year.
Thus, the study goes beyond tax rate differentials under the old and new law. Given the nuances of the 20% deduction, , The calculations will often yield surprising results and will require running pro forma numbers in most cases.
Taxpayers operating more than one trade or business have greater possibilities, but the analysis is compounded. In addition, Section 199A guidance for defining separate trade or business activities is not yet available.
This is important because the limitation of the 20% deduction to the greater of 50% of wages paid or 25% of wages paid plus 2.5% of qualified property, applicable to high-income taxpayers, is not applied by comparison of aggregate totals but separately applied to each qualifying trade or business of the taxpayer. see "Planning for the UBTI Changes" for a discussion of other Code provisions on this issue.
Accordingly, accounting systems of pass-through entities operating multiple trades or businesses must be able to capture this data for each separate activity for Schedule K-1 reporting to shareholders, partners, and trust or estate beneficiaries.
The evaluation also poses a timing challenge for businesses operating as a corporation or LLC with the option of electing or revoking S corporation status. For such entities using the calendar year, representing most S corporations, the due date for either election to be effective for 2018 is March 15, 2018. In the case of termination, a new election cannot be made for 5 years without obtaining IRS consent.
Yet, there may be situations where perceived tax differences between C and S corporation status for 2018 under the new law are so dramatic that the assumption of risks associated with acting on less than a fully ripe analysis is warranted. That's for advisors and their clients to decide on a case by case basis.
Here are some bite-size planning points gleaned from reflecting on immediate and long-term implications of the 20% deduction and related tax entity choices:
· The new 21% corporation tax rate is permanent, while the Section 199A deduction sunsets after 2025 unless extended at some point.
· Personal service corporations are taxed at the new 21% corporation rate versus the former 35% rate, creating a potential to divide income that for most taxpayers in affected occupations did not exist under prior law.
· The built-in gains tax still applies in the case of a C corporation with appreciated assets and converting to S corporation.
· C corporation status comes without the limitations associated with employee benefits for 2% S corporation shareholders.
· State corporation income and franchise taxes, where applicable, should be considered in evaluating corporate versus pass-through taxation of business earnings.
· The 20% accumulated earnings tax applicable to a C corporation remains a potential long-term threat, but the $250,000 exemption and the reasonable needs of the business exception still apply under the new law.
· If a decision is made to shift trade or business activities away from a tax entity also having income from passive sources, consideration should be given to potential exposure to the passive income tax in the case of an S corporation and the personal holding company tax in the case of a C corporation.
· State taxes attributable to business income are generally deductible by a C corporation, which may provide a partial offset to a loss of personal itemized deductions due to the new $10,000 cap on the sum of property taxes and state income or sales taxes.
· Qualified business income under Section 199A does not include any amounts treated as reasonable compensation paid to an S corporation shareholder/employee. The IRS now has twice the incentive to attack dividends as constructive wages (i.e. reasonable compensation). Accordingly, the basis for reasonable compensation as well as any factors supporting reduced wages, such as decreased involvement due to health, age, or other activities should be documented.
· It is not yet certain how a net operating loss carryover will affect computation of the 20% deduction, but it appears that while not reducing qualified business income arising in the carryover year it will nevertheless come into play with the taxable income based limitations.
· The lower capital gain rates generally apply to gain on stock arising from corporate liquidation, but there may still be a corporate level tax if any appreciated assets are held by a C corporation upon liquidation or if such property is disposed of within the built-in gains recognition period in the case of an S corporation.
As with other property, the estate of a deceased shareholder receives a fair market value adjustment to the basis of stock acquired from the decedent, generally eliminating shareholder tax on subsequent liquidation of the corporation.
Due to the myriad of planning possibilities and sensitivity of the 20%of business income calculation, the introduction of Section 199A may result in the most computational approach to tax planning yet. Bottom line – do the math.
Submitted by Paul Caspersen on Sat, 02/10/2018 - 14:06
Re: New Section 199A - Planners, Sharpen Your Pencil
Dennis, someone at the Heckerling brought up the question whether charitable income tax deductions would help to reduce a high income taxpayers AGI so their income may get under the 199A phaseout. In order for that to be true 199A would have to also be a below the line deduction. Does that logic make sense? thanks for the article.
Submitted by Dennis Walsh on Wed, 02/14/2018 - 16:16
Re: New Section 199A - Planners, Sharpen Your Pencil
The Section 199A deduction is taken "below the line" (i.e. adjusted gross income) in arriving at taxable income. Taxable income is the starting point for the phaseout calculations. So, yes, optimizing contributions may be important in managing the deduction phaseouts applicable to high-income taxpayers and those in specified service trades. But there are numerous moving parts to the calculation and no assumptions should be made. Remember that this is a "lesser of" computation. Increasing contributions may help with one of the limitations while at the same time working against the taxpayer in another. Run the numbers in every case.
Submitted by Paul Caspersen on Wed, 02/14/2018 - 20:44
Re: New Section 199A - Planners, Sharpen Your Pencil
thank you Dennis. that's great


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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The UC Santa Barbara basketball team started the night by getting some bad news, but then responded with one of its most impressive overall games in recent years, defeating UNLV at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, 86-65 on Tuesday night.
The Gauchos (2-0) got the bad news on the bus ride between the team's hotel and the arena when head coach Bob Williams announced to the team that their teammate, John Green, would be sidelined from 3-6 weeks with an injury to his left foot. Green returned this season after missing two full years with foot injuries and while this one doesn't appear as serious, it made for a very quiet ride.
"John handled it incredibly well," Williams said. "All he did after we told the team was inspire them to focus on the game tonight. It was all about the team and not just about him. He is a very impressive young man."
UCSB looked inspired out the outset and led 11-6 when Michael Bryson made a three-pointer with 14:48 to play in the first half. But the Runnin' Rebels (1-1) rallied and took a 13-11 lead on a layup by Jamal Aytes with 12:37 left.
That was the last time the Gauchos trailed in the game. They outscored UNLV 34-16 in the final 12 minutes of the half to take a commanding 45-29 lead at the break. Taran Brown got the rally started with a three-pointer and freshman point guard Eric Childress ended it with a three of his own with 11 seconds left and a pair of free throws with just over a second to play.
Kyle Boswell, who finished with 19 points, scored nine during the run that ended the half, hitting three consecutive threes during one stretch.
"We got contributions from so many people," Williams said. "I thought we did a good job of running our offense and we really protected the ball."
UCSB pushed the big halftime lead to 52-32 when Boswell made another three-pointer less than three minutes into the second half. UNLV crept back within 54-39 on a 7-2 run that culminated with a tip-in by Aytes at the 14:54 mark.
The Gauchos were up to the task again, scoring seven straight on a baseline jumper by Alan Williams, another three by Brown and a beautiful driving layup by Bryson. The lead had ballooned to 61-39.
"Our response when they got it to 15 was just outstanding," said Coach Williams. "We defended, rebounded and really got it going in transition."
UNLV would never cut the lead under 20 the rest of the way and Santa Barbara actually pushed it to as many as 26 (74-48) when Boswell made his fifth three-pointer with exactly seven minutes to play in the game.
The Gauchos finished the game having made 29-of-52 shots overall, 55.8%, and 9-of-14 from outside the three-point arc, 64.3%.
"You've got to give them credit," said UNLV head coach David Rice. "They really got into their offense and ran some great stuff. It was a great inside-outside job."
Alan Williams finished with a game-high 21 points and a team-high nine rebounds. He also had three blocked shots. Boswell's five three-pointers moved him into the school's all-time top-10 in the category with 151.
Guard Kevin Olekaibe had 15 points, Kendall Smith added 13 and Aytes had 10 for the Runnin' Rebels. Roscoe Smith had a game-high 12 rebounds.
UCSB received outstanding contributions from several other players. Zalmico Harmon and Bryson joined Childress with nine points apiece. Sam Beeler had five points and seven rebounds, Taran Brown had eight points and six boards, and Shawn Moore had career-highs of six points and five rebounds.
As a team, the Gauchos committed just nine turnovers against UNLV's pressure defense. In two games, they now have just 17 turnovers.
"That's a testament to good point guard play," said Coach Williams of the play his team has received from Harmon and Childress. "It also speaks well of Kyle (Boswell) who is really handling the ball so well this year."
UCSB returns home on Saturday, Nov. 16 to host another former Big West rival in Utah State. The game will tip-off at 7:00 PM at the Thunderdome. Tickets are available from the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, by calling 805-893-UCSB (8272) or online by clicking here.


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Sunday what have you been listening to thread (w/ optional last.fm statistics)
I've been listening to a fair bit of Mount Eerie after finally getting Wind's Poem. Through The Trees is so freaking good.
And So I Watch You From Afar's new one is a joyous affair - the funnest album since that Fang Island S/T.
Also been listening to Pavement a lot after that favourite Pavement song thread. It's still Range Life by quite a wide margin but I'm appreciating their other songs a lot more as well instead of just hammering that on repeat.
I've also been listening to a lot of gospel and old folk recordings and stuff whilst compiling this month's mixtapes. This song is especially amazing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsJTOY67vlk - although not religious or w/e so unfortunately couldn't include it :(.
I love lists, sorry
1. Phosphorescent 45
2. Fairport Convention 37
3. Daughter 36
4. Low 31
5. Hope of the States 29
6= Mogwai 21
6= Conquering Animal Sound
8. Broadcast 14
9. Youth lagoon 13
10. Olafur Arnalds 12
I think this is the first time that a Phosphorescent record has really clicked with me, it sounds exactly like a soundtrack to spring should. Although we don't actually have a spring.
Been great to listen back over those HotS records on the back of a recent thread as well. What a band.
Not ashamed of my love for the Convention.
New Low and Youth Lagoon records slowly impressing but not blowing me away
Mostly the new Clutch album, which is pretty damn excellent and full on face-rocking. Axis Of album, 'Finding St. Kilda' has been given a few spins as well - strange mix of styles on this, but it sounds great.
Been listening to Cable35, who are from Malta - 90s-grunge rock style stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6xTZBJm6Pw got an EP coming out soon.
Recently had Cold Cave's Cherish The Light Years on whenever I've been out for a walk (especially in the snow) - seems fitting for some reason.
My last.fm stats are just Clutch and Megachurch really.
AND THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I'M STILL A PART OF THIS DREADFUL SCENERYGoatmeatMF and shucks this'd this
New scrobble thing won't scrobble my iPod
1 Dangers 13
2 Hammers 12
3 Circle Takes the Square 10
4 Cerce 6
5 Brand New 5
7 Pavement 3
7 The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die 3
9 Cap'n Jazz 2
listening to Hookworms for the first time
so far it's pretty great
1 Justin Timberlake 45
2 Glassjaw 22
3 Sigur Rós 20
3 The Isley Brothers 20
5 The Men 19
6 Sly & The Family Stone 15
7 Pissed Jeans 14
8 Prince 13
9 Paramore 12
9 Jessie Ware 12
1 Passion Pit 1846284
2 Everything else / who cares 1
tip of the hat to Alaska in Winter
who I'd previously always viewed as a bit of a Beirut ripoff chance but whose December Compositions record has been filling my eyes with some lovely sounds far beyond his other stuff.
not sure on the 2nd PP album as a whole
but Take A Walk would easily have been one of the best songs of last year if I'd being paying attention to it then
I basically didn't listen to it until December
and then sometime in February I just became unable to not listen to it probably once a day.
Also, Carried Away > Take a Walk
I think it feels a bit frontloaded because they basically make pop music and all of the super pop stuff is early on, but the second half is pretty great as well. there was a whole subthread on it recently about how brutally honest a record it is, and even within the context of that the bit where he sings "I'm just working with what I've been given" on It's Not My Fault I'm Happy pretty much kills me every time.
:) finally the last.fm is dead!
I went to monorail in Glasgows on Monday and got myself the new Black Pus album (BRILLIANT), a lp reissue of Yeti by Amon Duul 2 (BRILLIANT) and an lp of Velvet Donkey by Ivor Cutler (BRILLIANT). Also a couple of used Parliament cds, Chocolate City and Mothership Connection (JURY IS OUT HAVENT LISTEN TO YET)
I have this tape of the Hieroglyphic Being party I was at last year coming
and have been listening to his class 3hr DJ set from the youtube
and I have been listening to endless tiny loops of this Pharoah Sanders song that i'm trying to turn into cheesy house music.
wait that's not all
here's a link to the video from the Black Pus album that he made from his childhood flick books. It's dead good.
wait again
also the album by Masonna's garage punk band Acid Eater called Virulent Fuzz Punk A.C.I.D.
It sounds as you would expect. It is also BRILLIANT
Pharoah Sanders is playing over here
I literally thought he was dead. Shall I go and see him?
Also I saw Hieroglyphic Being this week, it was good
but he was on first at like 21h and didn't play for three hours or anything so I was a bit disappointed.
wasn't that a Mathematics night as well? Doing the modest Shellac thing and going on first for his own night. mergh
he was really really really good at ATP (people will back me up on this)
I would if I was you. Dude is a master! I think he just played with random jazz musicians and didn't have his own band.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna go
So much good stuff in the next two months over here, outrageous. KTL and Ben Frost for free in two weeks time! god bless French publicly funded arts organisations.
Just sorting out Primavera Porto as well as it turns out I will be exam free. You're going to that right? Meat up!
I have no plans for any sort of holiday/festival ting yet actually
that was one of the ones I was thinking about but I dunno. Will certainly meat up if I do end up going!
See the French are doing it right. Newcastle has loads less arts funding now.
i'm really sorry
but i'm absolutely dying with laughter at "Meat up!"
just had to get that out there.
Mainly Justin Timberlake this week, it's so great. I listened to MCR's debut in the wake of them splitting up, I still remember all the words from when I was 13. Revisited Vampire Weekend's 2 albums 'cause of the killer tracks they released, I'd forgotten how great they were. Not very exciting this week.
1 Justin Timberlake 70
2 Rhye 40
3 Deptford Goth 38
4 Death Cab for Cutie 29
4 Phosphorescent 29
6 Waxahatchee 27
7 Laurel Halo 21
8 Neutral Milk Hotel 19
9 The Antlers 18
10 Vampire Weekend 16
11 Madvillain 13
12 My Chemical Romance 12
13 Poliça 11
14 Frankie Rose 10
14 Atoms for Peace 10
14 Youth Lagoon 10
17 OutKast 9
17 Beach House 9
17 J Dilla 9
17 Caribou 9
grasse matinée
I bought that Giles Peterson Black Jazz radio compilation. It is very good if you like that funky, smooth jazz where you think they might have been listening to Can or maybe Can was listening to them in between studio takes. Giles has a really good radio voice huh? I think it's my favourite. Other good radio voices? Annie Mac is great, as is Jace Clayton.
Thursday I saw Divorce and they had the gnarliest bass sound ever. The bassist was great, spent ages talking to her after the gig, had no idea she'd been in Stig Noise. That kinda launched me on a Jesus Lizard trip in search of more gnarly bass.
The new Mainliner record is very good and fuzzy and stuff. I still think Solid Stick Attack is my favourite thing he ever has or ever will do. More excited about the forthcoming tour tbh, but a new record is always welcome.
I think I might buy the Dylan Carlson Latitudes EP this week, anyone picked that up?
I really want that Dylan Carlson record
but it's been absurdly expensive whenever I've come across it and as far as I know it isn't very long. Still haven't properly listened to all of Earth's albums so I'll just do that first I guess.
Weird, saw it for about 13 euros, which is reasonable I thought
There are a lot more Earth albums than you think. I am a pretty enormous Earth fan but I don't think I even have all of them.
One of the nerdiest claims I can make is that I own everything Earth have ever done
Including the live album with the 3" CD, the bootleg they only made 360 copies of and the useless 16 rpm single which, unsurprisingly, I can't play.brainfeedr this'd this
I'll look it up on discogs or something.
The Latitudes stuff just seems to be really expensive wherever I see it.
I have been mourning Jason Molina this week - and have listened to little else.
1 Songs: Ohia 92
2 Magnolia Electric Co. 39
3 Jason Molina 18
4 The Microphones 13
4 Inc. 13
6 The Men 12
7 Daughter 11
8 Clinic 10
9 Adem
Also, William Tyler (of Lambchop, I think)'s new solo LP is a real treat
if you like Bert Jansch etc. Bit heavier on the Eastern influences though I think (like a less mental Sir Richard Bishop maybe). Good stuff anyway.couldbebrianmay this'd this
awesome isn't it
I plugged it in the recommended albums thread the other day. He played with Lambchop for a while, Silver Jews and Wooden Wand as well I think
No home internet means I have no last.fm numbers this week
Listened to a lot of Melvins following the news that they're playing in the pub opposite my house 3 times in the next couple of months. Can't justify paying £15 each time so will probably go to the Stoner Witch one and maybe Melvins Lite too.
Also still playing the Nonplus compilation and lots of Ostgut Ton/Sandwell District techno, namely Function's album, some Rrose 12"s and Ben Klock's fabric mix (which has become my defacto commute music). Out of interest, has anyone heard Unleash the Golem part 2 by Juju and Jordash? It had come and gone before I noticed it was out, and what I've heard sounds very relevant to my interests.
Oh, and today I listened to () by Sigur Ros while assembling flatpack furniture.
Amon Duul II - Yeti
and then on to Tanz Der Lemminge. Not listened to them for a while.
Yeti is so great
still haven't heard God's Cock
as of this moment in time...
Broadcast (33)
Modest Mouse (26)
Broadcast & The Focus Group (23)
Mogwai (16)
Mount Kimbie (14)
Joint 6.
Yo La Tengo
Library Tapes
Julia Holter (12)
Prefuse 73 (8)
Rachel's (5)
some notes
1 and 3.
... Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age and Berberian Sound Studio OST soundtrack The Sandman quite well.
Was in London for a seminar relating to an internship programme thing I've been shortlisted for (fingers are crossed as fudge) on Tuesday. Building Nothing Out Of Something was very nice to listen to while walking round the city as it was just getting dark (and while I was waiting for my off-peak travel pass to become usable).
1 Songs: Ohia (9)
2 Yo La Tengo (6)
2 Brainiac (6)
4 Cocteau Twins (5)
5 Swirlies (4)
6 Son Lux(3)
7 Sparklehorse(1)
7 Cat Power(1)
7 Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast (1)
Also, the first video from this Low session is wonderful.
I made a playlist
of recent songs. If you're bored.
I have spent a lot of time inside this week
1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 267
2 Parquet Courts 101
3 The Wednesday Club 77
4 The Men 57
5 Autre Ne Veut 34
6 Marnie Stern 19
7 Justin Timberlake 15
8 Wooden Wand 14
8 Youth Lagoon 14
10 British Sea Power 12
Sugarcubes - Life's too good
Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
Mary Lorson & St. Low - Tricks for Dawn
Six Organs of Admittance - Ascent
The Blue Nile
Bill Callahan
Paul Simon
My Bloody Valentine
Cocteau Twins
The Antlers
Standard Fare
Art of Fighting
David Thomas Broughton
Coaltar of the Deepers
1 spektr 46
2 grave babies 25
3 lucrecia dalt 25
4 david thomas broughton 21
5 oasis 20
7 inter arma 14
8 black pus 13
9 dungen 11
10 confessor 10
11 jenny hval 9
12 kiss the anus of a black cat 7
13 botanist 7
14 gunslingers 6
15 kadavar 6
1 realllllly like this spektr record a lot alot. more than any of the other obtuse black metal stuff i've heard maybe... jumps between jazzy drum interludes, dark ambient and 1349esque industrial bm.
2 thermals with eyeliner and smocks on.
3 good name there lucrecia. like grouper and o paon and the books and all that good stuff.
4 outbreeding has grown on me so much recently, had it pegged as his worst for a long time.
6&14 dudes from aluk todolo doing scratchy psychedelic punky stuff. real enjoy, big time.
10 dunno how i missed out on these before, technical doom metal never really caught on though i suppose.
Some stuff I definitely need to check out by the sounds of it
especially spektr. still haven't listened to that inter arma record either and need to rectify that.
OK this spektr record is already blowing my mind
Tetralogy is fucking genius. To me it sounds like someone's cut together a load of jazz records to make a scuzzy black(ish) metal record. Suffers from the same flaw that basically every single black metal album does though in that the snare is mixed way low so when the blast beats kick in I have to turn it up to get the full effect and then turn it down again when the ambient-y stuff comes in so my eardrums don't burst.
my spotify top 10 for last week
1 - future
2 - gang gang dance
3 - bruce springsteen
4 - youth lagoon
5 - grimes
6 - hookworms
7 - gucci mane
8 - rick ross
9 - william basinski
10 - echo and the bunnymen.
this week i've played nothing but echo and the bunnymen's first 4 albums and DMX's 'its dark and hell is hot' and 'flesh of my flesh'.both are genuine 10/10 albums,really worth checking out.
1. Phosphorescent - 22
2. Modest Mouse - 20
3a. Sparklehorse - 17
3b. Kurt Vile - 17
5. Songs: Ohia - 15
6. How to Dress Well - 13
7. The Walkmen - 11
8. múm - 10
9a. Pavement - 9
9b. The Mountain Goats - 9
9c. Jason Molina - 9
1. The new album is really, really lovely. It's totally contrasting with the weather and making me forget how horrible it is outside.
2. After seeing recent threads about them I went on a journey of discovery through all their stuff recently. Turns out that I really fucking love Modest Mouse and I didn't even know it.
3b. My girlfriend has just discovered Smoke Ring for My Halo, so yeah.
5 & 9c. RIP
1 Songs: Ohia 54
2 Pavement 40
3 The Magnetic Fields 15
4 Aphex Twin 11
4 Radiohead 11
4 Jason Molina 11
7 Joy Division 10
7 Jessie Ware 10
9 Liars 9
10 Julianna Barwick 8
The new Bonobo album: pretty much exactly what I was expecting but its really good. Everything he does is just so consistently lovely.
The Bug - London Zoo: I've been listening to that new Kahn and Flowdan song all week and it reminded me how good this album is. SKENG
Tessela - Hackney Parrot/Helter Skelter: Finally came out this week and its amazing.
Main Attrakionz - Bossalinis and Fooliyones: I've ignored them up until now for some reason, I think it's their name and all that cloud rap stuff. I like this though, Do it For the Bay is a tune.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours: was feeling a bit down yesterday so I just listened to this all day
Duke Dumont - Need U (Skream Remix) and Krystal Klear and Jenna G - Addiction: discoey


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Three Phinney Ridge girls have roles in Pacific Northwest Ballet's "Nutcracker," which runs from Dec. 7-29 at Seattle Center's Marion Oliver McCaw Hall.
Ivy JaNayah, a 9th grade student at the Center School, and Annika Greenig, an 8th grader at Hamilton International Middle School, will both play the role of "Chinese."
JaNayah Ivy; photo by Adrienne Woods, courtesy of PNB.
Annika Greenig; photo by Adrienne Woods, courtesy of PNB.
Alice Rupp, a 4th grader at Pacific Crest School, plays the role of "Small Servant."
Alice Rupp, left, trying on her new costume of Small Servant; photo by Lindsay Thomas, courtesy of PNB.
PNB's famed "Nutcracker" was created by PNB Founding Artistic Director Kent Stowell and world-famous author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. It features more than 200 roles danced by professional dancers and PNB students.


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Charlie Hunnam has dropped out of Fifty Shades of Grey.
The British actor, 33, was set to play bondage-loving billionaire Christian Grey in Sam Taylor-Johnson's upcoming adaptation of the erotic novel, but has decided he is too busy filming Sons of Anarchy to "adequately prepare" for the role.
Universal Studios issued the following statement to Deadline.com: "The filmmakers of Fifty Shades of Grey and Charlie Hunnam have agreed to find another male lead given Hunnam's immersive TV schedule which is not allowing him time to adequately prepare for the role of Christian Grey."
The first film in the trilogy was due to begin filming next month.
Charlie's decision to pull out of the movie will come as a surprise to fans, as he recently gushed about how excited he was to be cast in the blockbuster alongside Dakota Johnson.
He said: "As soon as we got in the room and started reading with Dakota, I knew that I definitely wanted to do it, because there was a tangible chemistry between us.
"It felt kind of exciting and fun and weird and compelling, and so that was it."
But Charlie also admitted that the movie's director, Sam, had a huge hand in getting him to take on the role and after speaking to her, he "felt really intrigued and excited about it."
It was previously revealed that Ryan Gosling, Robert Pattinson, and Shailene Woodley were among the high-profile stars to turn down roles in the controversial movie.


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Could Bolivia Opt-Out Of Berne And WIPO And Forge A New Path On Copyright?
from the that-would-take-guts dept
The Berne Convention rules have massively expanded the scope of copyright law around the globe -- for example, it's the Berne Convention that says copyright should be automatically applied on new works, rather than requiring registration. The WIPO Copyright Treaty more or less tried to update the century-old Berne rules for the modern age, and (of course) did so by expanding the rules even further. Nearly all the countries in the world have agreed to both of these faith-based agreements, blocking off the ability to experiment to see if different (or no) copyright rules might be better. Merely mentioning the idea of a different form of copyright law (or no copyright law) will quickly bring out defenders of the status quo pointing to our "international obligations" -- which is the universal dodge from copyright system defenders who don't want to discuss how copyright law might react to being changed.
So what would it take for a country to actually opt-out of WIPO and Berne? A hell of a lot of guts, I imagine. The diplomatic pressure to stay in those agreements would be tremendous. In fact, I can't recall ever hearing of countries seriously thinking about opting out of either. Which is why I was so interested to see Amelia Adersdotter point to a recent panel discussion at the CopySouth event held in Brazil, where a Bolivian musician active in these issues suggested that Bolivia might actually consider leaving Berne and WIPO (link is a Google translation of the original).
The speaker, Juan Carlos Cordero, used to work for the local collection society in Bolivia, and has worked on various groups studying the impact of intellectual property. He notes that Bolivia's new constitution actually goes against many old international treaties, and that the country seems willing to not be tied down by such agreements if they're not in the best interests of the country.
It's not clear that anyone in the Bolivian government is really thinking of dropping out of Berne or WIPO, or what would actually happen if they did. But given how rare it is for anyone to even suggest a country dropping out of Berne/WIPO, this seemed worth noting.


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Paris: The father of the Muslim gunman who
attacked French soldiers and a Jewish school says he wants to know why special forces killed his son rather than knock him out with gas and "take him like a baby."
In a brief interview aired today by France 24 TV, Mohamed Benalel Merah asked why a "strong country" with options killed
him instead of capturing him.
Mohamed Merah, 23, killed seven people. Police killed him after a 32-hour standoff at his Toulouse apartment.
Authorities have said Merah had fired volleys at them.
Merah`s father, who lives in Algeria, said he should have
been taken alive and judged.
He asked, "Why did they kill him? ... They could have
used gas, for example to take him like a baby."
Merah reportedly wants to file a complaint for his son`s