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|2011-06-18, 00:47
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The domination of yaoi: yuri is forever an uke
A little bit of trivia for those who don't know, but uke is a term most often applied to yaoi (romance between males), where one guy is notably submissive and receives the advances of his partner, the seme, which means "attacker." The seme-uke dynamic can also be applied to yuri (romance between females), but it usually goes nameless or under a different moniker entirely. It would certainly be difficult to envision yuri taking an uke position since its personification would be female while yaoi would be a guy, but the former is overshadowed so much anyway.
Why is the output of yaoi so much higher compared to yuri? Because yaoi is more profitable. Why is yaoi more profitable? Because more people are willing to buy that stuff. Why are more people willing to buy that stuff?
...That's where I got stuck. Both of these romantic sub-genres feature taboo relationships, so why does there seem to be more audience/reader acceptance of one set of gender-monotony and not the other? Is there some kind of greater psychology at work or are more people just really turned on by guy-on-guy than they are girl-on-girl? I mean, there has to be a reason I can walk into any random bookstore, ask for yaoi, and be directed to Loveless, then ask for yuri, and be directed to books on some Russian dude, right? Right?! And by the way, teasing doesn't count~
Anyone feel like correcting me on something? Or chiming in with your own thoughts on the subject?
|2011-06-18, 00:52
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|2011-06-18, 01:03
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not sure, i'm a yuri fan so it puzzles me a bit too
those stats impressed me though, the reason's probably old as dirt i guess
|2011-06-18, 01:27
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It's really very hard to understand because this is a very complex phenomenon.
Who likes yuri and why?
Who likes yaoi and why?
It seems that surprisingly the male population isn't as interested in yuri as much as women are interested in yaoi. I say this is strange because usual males are a lot more open at stating that "lesbian sex" turns them on. But maybe the problem is that most yuri aren't really focused on sex but more on the romance. That's probably why straight males aren't that fond of it while many straight women are.
Conversely, yaoi in general seems to be a lot more esplicit and graphic, at least the most popular are. It's interesting to note that while it's not unusual to find straight girls fond of yuri, straight males being fan of yaoi are extremely rare.
So why yaoi sells more?
Even more puzzling interesting facts raise up if we consider the gay population. There are several lesbians that like yuri and several gay males that like yaoi. So far nothing surprising.
But when you realize how many lesbians like yaoi (?!) every theory falls apart.
Conversely, that I know of, there aren't that many gay men that are particular fond of yuri.
If I could advance an outrageous theory (yeah I know I'm going to be negrepped now)... I'd say that yaoi in general is more "pornographic" than yuri, and pornography sells.
There are as many good yaoi as yuri, but there are a lot more yaoi that are sold only for their esplicit contents, and that makes its production increase exponentially.
|2011-06-18, 01:53
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A lot of anime shows (and some manga, light novels, and visual novels) that aren't yuri as a primary genre nonetheless have yuri as a secondary and/or implied element. Think of some major magical girl titles, for example.
And these yuri secondary elements are indeed intended to titillate the viewer.
Meanwhile, yaoi secondary elements in non-yaoi anime is typically there just for comedy (to use a recent example, consider the character of Fire Emblem in Tiger and Bunny).
So I think what happens here is that most people who like yuri find that they get enough of it as a secondary element in a broad range of anime shows, while people who like yaoi probably feel like they can only get non-comedic yaoi in yaoi-specific works.
That's probably a factor, at least, behind what you're noticing here.
|2011-06-18, 08:29
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Yaoi is pornography written solely for women. Now there's a slight generally unconscious stigma to women using pornography which goes counter to acceptable progressive gender relations.
But due to the fact that yaoi isn't for men at all it can only be associated with women. And this forces the unconscious stigma out into the open where it can't survive without being obviously anti feminist.
So women have to resort to yaoi for all their porn needs while men are allowed both heterosexual and lesbian porn.
|2011-06-18, 09:12
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I know straight guys that watch the odd bit of yaoi/shounen-ai/reverse harem for kicks. A decently done title of that type that has a reasonable story and hilarious interaction between the guys and looking FAB-ulous is watchable. The anime club I go to is mainly guys and they found Ouran to be a title they quite liked. I've watched Gravitation and I found that to be amusing and funny. And amazingly, the most hetero-hot blooded males in the club at present want Junjou Romantica to be played. But yes, yaoi does cater to women well - manga sections at the two stores in town certainly point out their yaoi sections. And when I see women buying them, they're not recluses or anything - they're pretty, smart-looking women. But there are guys out there who find some of it watchable because if it is outrageous in the right way, it's funny. And according to some women I've spoken to, they've said that there a re a reasonable amount of lesbians that find yaoi amusing/readable. There's a manga title called My Girlfriend's A Geek, which is about a couple where the female is a hardcore yaoi fan who keeps forcing her fantasies and thoughts onto her boyfriend. It's quite funny. However, something like Star Driver is not the type of show the guys I know being found to be FAB-ulous at all. A title like that seems to be oriented towards the females for that aspect.
Whereas whenever yuri gets mentioned, they go cold. Although Rose of Versailles, which has a bit of that and they liked it, but mainly because that title was dramatic and FAB-ulous. But the majority of yuri titles are clean, refined and more serious. THAT is why I think yuri doesn't go as well - because it's taken a bit more seriously/purely and doesn't have anywhere near as much the outrageous behaviour that yaoi does, or not in the way men get their kicks. Yuri isn't gratuitous or loose most of the time. It's more about being aesthetically cute and pretty, setting a warm, fuzzy mood and has more drama rather than outrageous. Your red-blooded guy isn't that likely to read it. Hell, as crazy as it sounds, the red-blooded ones I know are more likely to look at something yaoi that yuri. Try explaining that one. Also, I don't think gay men are as likely to read yuri as lesbians are to read yaoi. Still, there are straight women who read yuri and get kicks out of it - I know some IRL and online. But personally I get a very nice feeling when reading something like Girl Friends or Aoi Hana. But they're not titles I'll find comapny with except on an online forum.
But Ash and Triple_R have a point - yaoi gets more graphic than yuri and plays up the humour. The majority of yuri titles seem to flirt with the idea of a graphic scene then either do one late or a partial one. Yaoi doesn't seem to shy away from it once action gets going. Whereas there's almost always a 'is this something I should be doing' aspect that is prevalent in yuri which leads to the relationship being more awkward and less action happening.
I think it all comes down to aesthetics and the vibe. Yaoi seems to attune with more people than yuri does, for various reasons...Anime fans seem to like humour and insanity more than a serious story. So something like that could explain why yaoi goes more than yuri. If yuri had more 69ing, graphic scenes and 'in-relationship' content rather than spending most of the series in the 'will they or won't they' phase, I think guys would like it more. But I don't think that fits in with the Japanese mentality or society, since they heavily value cuteness and don't like carnivorous women in general.
As for which I prefer, I think the sig says enough.
|2011-06-18, 12:23
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Outside of the graphic nature, and using my own limited observations, what I've noticed is this:
1. Yuri stories tend to feature girls who both act like girls. One might be more aggressive, or submissive, but it's rare for me to read a yuri story and think "one of these could easily be a dude".
2. On the other hand yaoi stories almost always feel like that to me (but in reverse). The emphasis on uke/seme relationship pairings makes one clearly "male" and the other feel very "female". The character designs don't help either, since all of the characters border on bishie overdose. It isn't uncommon for me to read a yaoi story where the submissive character is rather feminine in looks and personality...even drawn smaller than the aggressive character.
3. I agree with the others, that yuri subtext is really common even if actual yuri stories aren't. I think there's a general level of acceptance, where people have become more comfortable with yuri but not with yaoi, which I think is still somewhat more taboo than yuri. On the other hand....
4. .....going back to 1 and 2, many yaoi stories I have read feel almost heterosexual. I've read/seen many yuri stories that explore the complications and possibilities of the topic, but compartively fewer yaoi stories that aren't just about a seme dominating a uke and getting it on. That doesn't mean they don't exist, and those that do are generally pretty good, but many yaoi simply feel like a Josei story in different packaging.
5. Interestingly enough, this even branches into Hentai. Yuri stories are more explicit (obviously) but the themes generally remain the same (both leads are typically feminine). Yaoi stories are heavily themed in the sense of the uke being feminine, often to the point of crossdressing/genderbending. Futanari stories tend to go either way (pun intended? ). While Hentai is generally warped (as most hardcore pornography tends to be), it is interesting to see what authors will do when they aren't as limited by censors.
|2011-06-18, 14:47
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I think it's because Japanese male otaku want to be able to project themselves into a hentai maybe? Girls like the yaoi, but Japanese males seem to not like girl on girl for some reason. Maybe has something to do with wanting their anime girls "pure" for them to besmirch lol
|2011-06-18, 15:26
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Actually, I have asked this (and related questions) to a few girls. And what I noticed then was that girls aren't really fond of, or even accepting of, girls on girls. Not even lesbians want to watch girls on girls because it doesn't entertain them. They would much rather watch guy on guy for kicks than watch girls on girls. And well, while boys claim being turned on by girls on girls action, the amount of straight porn and hentai available suffices to satiate most of them. And the homosexual ones among them would rather watch guys on guys than girls on girls since it relates to them. What my lesbian friend told me when I asked her the question was pretty much that guys on guys is more satisfying, more risque to watch. So we have lesbians buying yaoi, straight girls buying yaoi and homosexual men buying yaoi. But lesbians don't buy yuri, straight girls seem to despise it and gay men prefer yaoi over yuri as well. Straight men are too busy with straight porn.
And the rest of the reasons mentioned in this thread.
|2011-06-18, 16:37
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Yaoi: product of straight women who hates straight men
Yuri: product of straight men who hates straight women
I always find yaoi vs yuri argument is stupid pointless because yaoi always wins because its fangirls. Yuri remained very unpopular just simply that's how its fanboys and fangirls(yes there are some straight girls enjoyed yuri) want it anyway. Wouldn't it much cooler to like something that unpopular just like you listening to some underground metal bands. I don't think most if not all fans of those bands who like that fact that their favorite obscure bands getting more and more popular.
To summarize what I saying, yuri remained unpopular just simply how its fans wanted. Its doesn't mean uncool to like it and in fact its cooler when its unpopular.
|2011-06-18, 21:27
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Well I havent read that much Yaoi but the most of Yaoi I read is about crossdressing. Well most of yaoi is gear to women who likes the chase of a romance that mite not happen
Well Yuri is geared to men or some awesome girls who dont like guy on girl hentai
|2011-06-18, 23:18
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Lolli for loli :D
However, since I am straight, I'll accept random yaoi pictures on the net and go "cute" wheras if I see random yuri ones, I'll go "Bleh." I need to know what the characters are like together if it's a yuri pairing. Otherwise I'll treat it as "men's porn". lol
|2011-06-18, 23:41
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It is a fact that the Yuri genre was created by female authors for female readers.
And Yaoi was also created by female authors for female readers.
Unlike yuri, yaoi was never intended for gay, in fact
I guess this is an important point to consider. Both Yuri and Yaoi are focused on romance, (and yuri even more than yaoi) a genre that on the whole never appealed the majority of the male public and that's usually what females are looking for.
It was only recently that a part of the male readers begun showing interest for romance and slice of life stories. In the end if a man is attracted by girl on girl sex he'd hardly be interested in a story made of 50% angst, 25% introspective thoughts, 24% of holding hands and virgin kisses and only a 1% of barely hinted sex.
Don't make the error to think that hentai featuring lesbian sex is yuri, the two things have really nothing to do with each other.
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|2011-06-19, 02:03
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That said, I haven't kept track of how the Western fandom's usage of the terms has evolved. The impression I've gotten is that those fans that still use 'yaoi' as a blanket term typically focus on the kinds of works that term actually covers in Japanese (i.e. BL works focusing on the sex - "yaoi" is an acronym meaning "no peak, no point, no meaning" after all). I would say that these are the equivalent for 'hentai' works (whether heterosexual or yuri) directed at men.
|2011-06-19, 03:02
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Anyway if you think that yuri is a more esplicit form of "shoujo ai" then you'd have to include in your list all those stuff that are actually not considered yuri in Japan.
I think that if you considered all the hentai material featuring lesbian sex meant for a male public, including doujinshi, I think that discrepancy between "yaoi" and "yuri" would even out.
|2011-06-19, 14:30
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Have some salt
I guess people demand cocks in their stuff, regardless of who it belongs to?
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|2011-06-19, 14:44
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I'm a lesbian who likes yuri and strongly dislikes yaoi. I don't find yaoi interesting or a turn-on. I don't want to read about or watch two guys getting the nasty on. It's not my thing. It doesn't make me excited.
So I'm always confused as to why so many lesbians like yaoi. I've been invited to Yaoicon by a friend, and I really didn't want to go at first, but I realized that it'll be almost all girls there, so I figured it might be a good opportunity to make some social connections if nothing else (and an excuse to dress up in gothic lolita outfits ).
A lot of the reasons posted here really do make sense to me and they also frustrate me. I'm very tired of the "flannel shirt wearing dyke" lesbian stereotype, and I'm sick of the whole "one girl has to be masculine and one has to be feminine" stereotype.
I'm rather outwardly feminine, and so is my fiancee. So hey, there you go, a real-life couple that consists of two fairly girly girls! This is not unrealistic. And I've known couples who were BOTH masculine--my former roommates when I lived in Georgia consisted of a studded-leather punk-rock-scene dyke and a tomboyish sporty girl.
So yeah, hey? Yuri isn't unrealistic and idealized. It is entirely possible for two women who like being women to be in a relationship together. In fact, most of the other lesbian couples I know are not much different than myself and my fiancee. Most of them are just like any other girl--they are not shaved-head, flannel-wearing dykes!
Ugh! I fucking hate this stupid media-inspired stereotype.
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The Republicans were first to the microphone, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry teamed up with Sens. John Cornyn, Ted Cruz and a strong supporting cast to explain why the state does not want to expand Medicaid.
Democrats, led by the Brothers Castro, will be responding in a short while.
Here are five things to look for if you're a political junkie:
1. Which Republican looks like the leader of the Texas GOP: Perry, Cornyn or Cruz? Perry is governor, Cornyn is the senior senator and Cruz is the national rising star. Is the state big enough for all three?
2. Does Ted Cruz defer to his seniors, Perry and Cornyn? The freshman senator has come on strong in DC, to say the least. Will he come on equally strong in Austin, where he will be standing alongside two puissant figures in their own right.
3. Who looks like the Latino superstar of Texas? Again, we have three nominees, all aged 42 or younger: Cruz, Rep. Joaquin Castro, the president of the Democratic freshman class in Congress, or San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, the Democratic Party's 2012 convention keynote speaker. This is the first time they'll be in the same place (at almost the same time) as officeholders. Who looks like the brightest of the bright stars?
4. Can Perry, Cornyn, Cruz and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst explain adequately why the state isn't willing to take lots and lots of "free money" (or almost free, 90 percent of the immediate cost) to expand health-care services for the neediest Texans, many of them minorities? Texas taxpayers' dollars are going to fund Medicaid expansion around the country, whether or not the state takes its cut. How strong an argument is "unfunded mandates" — or "states' rights"?
5. Is the "war on Washington" an eternally effective GOP talking point in Texas? Hard-nosed Republican governors like Rick Scott of Florida and Jan Brewer of Arizona are taking the federal cash for Medicaid expansion. Why should Texas hold out?
6. Can Democrats successfully engage in a policy debate with the GOP on an important policy issue — or are they going to be satisfied with scoring easy political points by attacking Republicans for supposedly ignoring the concerns of the poor, for minorities, for immigrants, for young Texans?
We'll offer follow-up coverage this afternoon. Please feel free to weigh in with your own answers to these questions.


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2013 Aston Martin V12 Vantage Roadster
Aston Martin has released the specs for their new 2013 V12 Vantage Roadster. The 6.0-liter V12 engine pushes out 510-horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, with a top speed of 190mph and 0-to-62mph time of 4.5 seconds.
The car will be available in limited numbers globally for a price tag of $233,340. From the press release:
The new sports car, available as a limited edition in selected markets worldwide, immediately becomes the most potent example of the open-top Vantage range and mixes the breath-taking power of Aston Martin's naturally aspirated 6.0-litre V12 engine with the established thrills of Vantage Roadster driving for what is an unforgettable sports car experience.
The V12 Vantage Roadster's 6.0-litre engine, mated as in the Coupe to a six-speed manual gearbox, generates 517 PS at 6,500 rpm and a muscular 570 Nm of torque at 5,750 rpm. It has been intelligently packaged into the Vantage Roadster's compact form to fully exploit the sports-orientated model's ample natural agility.
The naturally-aspirated V12 provides high levels of power and torque yet it delivers a flexible, refined driving experience illuminated with the potential for truly electrifying performance. The 0-62 mph sprint is dispatched in just 4.5 seconds* while this most potent Aston Martin Roadster is capable of 190 mph*.
While the Roadster naturally shares much of the technical and specification features of the V12 Vantage Coupe, some elements are redesigned to take account of the Roadster's neat packaging and engaging dynamics.
The V12 Vantage Roadster features a redesigned rear boot lid and lower front air intake to maintain a level of dynamic performance that's fully in keeping with the V12 Coupe, while there are also a number of unique chassis revisions. These include a modified rear damper set-up, front and rear damper valve tuning and a new rear spring design.
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Telefono: (+995) 599 70 70 19
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"Usakhelauri" is a naturally semi-sweet red wine produced from Georgian specie of grapes of the same name, found only in two villages of Lechkhumi region (west Georgia): Okureshi and Zubi. Usakhelauri is a corpulent wine of dark ruby color, distinguished by enchanting aroma and unique taste, characteristic solely of this specie, with flavor of fruit (mostly blackberry, wild berries, cherry, red sweet cherry), chocolate and cake. It is rich in tannin, and is characterized by long time aftertaste.
We aim to provide our customers with the primary, unique taste of Usakhelauri; therefore, our wine is unfiltered and does not undergo any chemical processing.
Usakhelauri is a grape specie found only in two villages of Lechkhumi region: Okureshi and Zubi.
The grapes are characterized by high acidity and sweetness, which is a precondition for obtaining best quality naturally semi-sweet wine. The vine yields first full harvest after 6-7 years from planting. Due to the mountainous landscape of Lechkhumi, maintenance of this vine specie is related to hard manual labor. Besides, this specie is characterized by low-yield. For these reasons, in the 70s of the past century serial production of Usakhelauri stopped, and in the 80s this unique vine specie became endangered. Only several local households managed to retain vineyards of this rare specie.
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The George Wilson S.A.F.E.T.Y. Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by the National Football League's Tennessee Titans Safety George Wilson. The mission of the Foundation is to Save Adolescents From the Everyday Trials of Youth by using life skills as a tool to educate youth on how to survive in different environments. Through programs such as the Leadership Retreat, Sports Fest Football Camp and the That's Life after-school program, the George Wilson S.A.F.E.T.Y. Foundation has impacted the lives of over 25,000 students within the Buffalo, NY and Paducah, KY School systems since it's inception in 2010.
George Wilson's commitment to service has been demonstrated both on the field and off the field. In 2008, George Wilson was the recipient of the prestigious President's Volunteer Service Award, which is the highest service honor one can receive from the White House. In addition to the President's Volunteer Service Award, in 2009 and 2011 George had the distinct honor of receiving the Walter Payton Man of the Year award for his commitment to educating today's youth.
As a ten year veteran George Wilson exemplifies unwavering commitment, leadership and dedication to his NFL career. In specific George served as the 2008-2010 Buffalo Bills National Football League's Players Association representative. He also served as the 2008-2010 Buffalo Bills Special Teams Captain. Finally in 2010 George Wilson was selected as the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County Regional "Live United" spokesman. George Wilson's mission in life is to serve as a voice hope and encouragement in the lives of those he encounters. George Wilson is a native of Paducah, KY and a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He currently resides in Atlanta, GA.


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Where Home Lies
Book Three of the Rebel Mage Series
Once an exile, Matthias returns to lead his home Enclave and settles into a new life with his beloved Solomon. Struggling with his new role and responsibilities toward the new town of Sanctuary and the people who had once rejected him, he knows that the relative peace he's found is temporary—the forces that destroyed Haven are still out there, and he knows that they'll come looking for him. Until they do, there are alliances to make, mouths to feed, and people who look to him to protect them. Then tragedy strikes, sending Matthias, Solomon and Tam out once more, seeking answers in the forbidden north; answers that may lead to new beginnings, or to the end of everything they've ever known.


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Life on the Run
Vintage Books, 1976 - Biography & Autobiography - 229 pages
Almost two decades after its original publication and more than fifteen years after its author retired from the New York Knicks to become a United States senator, Bill Bradley's account of twenty days in a pro basketball season remains a classic in the literature of sports, unparalleled in its candor and intelligence.
Bradley takes readers from the court to the locker room, from the seamless teamwork of a winning game to the loneliness of a motel in a strange city. We see Bradley and his fellow Knicks as they withstand the abuse of the press and the smothering adoration of their fans, along with the shameless appeals of those who want to parlay their celebrity into a fast buck. We watch in horror as Earl Monroe is beaten outside Madison Square Garden barely an hour after twenty thousand people cheered him. And we come to understand the euphoria and exhaustion, the icy concentration and intense pressure, that are felt only by those who play basketball for keeps.
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A church leader who has admitted his failure in the Brendan Smyth case has refused to absolve Cardinal Sean Brady from blame and believes the Primate of All-Ireland should quit.
Father Kevin Smith was the abbot who transferred vile paedophile Smyth from parish to parish even after he was accused of child abuse.
The former head of the Norbertine Order, Fr Smith has confessed that he is partly responsible for the hundreds of rapes committed by the late Smyth.
Now he says that Cardinal Brady, leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, must share some of the blame for failing to report the paedophile priest to the civil authorities.
The 81-year-old retired priest, forced to resign in wake of the Smyth scandal, believes Brady should follow suit.
"Of course Cardinal Brady should resign, I'm not the only one responsible for this affair," claimed Fr Smith in an interview with the Irish Independent at the Order's Cavan base where Smyth is buried.
Fr Smith's role in the case has also come under the spotlight in the Irish media after the latest revelations surrounding Brady's part in a 1975 enquiry against Brendan Smyth.
The Independent reports that: "Former Abbot Smith has admitted in the past that he moved the serial abuser on numerous occasions in an effort to keep him from forming attachments to families and their children."
He later acknowledged that the policy was 'inadequate'.
Reports at the weekend also claimed that Fr Smith actively lobbied to have a 'children ban' against Smyth lifted by the church.
The paper says that current Bishop of Kilmore Dr Leo O'Reilly has confirmed that in 1984 Abbot Smith wrote to his predecessor Bishop Francis MacKiernan seeking an end to the ban.
Bishop MacKiernan agreed to the request in a decision that would allow Smyth to prey on children more easily according to the paper.
Bishop O'Reilly told the media that the decision gave 'permission to the pervert priest to return to hearing confessions and celebrating Mass publicly'.
The Independent says that the decision was reviewed every six months for the next three years before reviews were then initiated annually. It was only revoked in 1993 as the RUC investigations into Smyth stepped up.


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Rox slip by D-Backs in 10
Denver, CO – Wilin Rosario drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Colorado Rockies past the Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-4, in the middle test of a three-game set at Coors Field.
Carlos Gonzalez hit a one-out double and the D-Backs intentionally walked Troy Tulowitzki to get to Rosario, who made them pay with a base hit to right field that scored Gonzalez easily.
"Wilin had a great approach there. I looked like he was approaching the big part of the field and really hit the ball hard the other way," said Rockies manager Walt Weiss.
Rosario finished the game with two hits and also scored a run and DJ LeMahieu went 3-for-4 with two doubles and a pair of RBI for the Rockies, winners in four of their last five games.
Wilton Lopez (1-1) pitched a perfect top of the 10th to earn the win. Starter Jhoulys Chacin gave up four runs -- three earned -- on three hits and three walks over 6 1/3 innings.
Jason Kubel and Martin Prado both drove in a pair of runs for Arizona, which lost for just the second time in seven games.
Matt Reynolds (0-2) gave up the deciding run to absorb the loss.
Starter Ian Kennedy was tagged for four runs -- three earned -- on seven hits while striking out six over six frames.
"The biggest thing for Ian was he gave up four two-out hits. They got four runs off it. He kept us in the game, our bullpen just couldn't hold it," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said.
Colorado jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Tulowitzki doubled and Rosario singled to put runners on the corners with no outs. After Jordan Pacheco popped out, Nolan Arenado ripped a base hit to right field to push Tulowitzki across. LeMahieu followed with a base hit to left to plate Rosario.
Tulowitzki's homer in the third put Colorado up 3-0 and LeMaiehu's RBI double in fourth gave the hosts a four-run lead.
The Diamondback's tied the game with a four-run seventh inning. Paul Goldschmidt walked, Eric Chavez reached on a Pacheco fielding error and Cody Ross walked to load the bases with one out. Kubel crushed a double to left field to score Goldschmidt and Chavez and Prado followed with a single to clear the bases.
Miguel Montero singled and Josh Wilson walked to load the bases once again, but reliever Josh Outman struck out Gerardo Parra and Didi Gregorius to end the threat.
The Rockies had a chance to end the game in the ninth after LeMahieu doubled and pinch-runner Eric Young moved to third on Todd Helton's ground out, but Dexter Fowler flew out to center to force extras.
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Colorado was 5-for-11 with runners in scoring position ... Tulowitzki extended his hitting streak to eight games ... Rockies reliever Rex Brothers extended his scoreless winning streak to 17 innings after pitching a shutout ninth ... Arizona is 6-2 in extra-inning games this season ... Chavez has hit safely in 10 of his last 12 games.


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Communications in the Workplace: The Five Rules of Questioning
By: Jeb Blount, author of People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership (Wiley, 2011)
When it comes to coaching, training and other communications in the workplace, questions are king.
Learning and practicing effective questioning skills is central to effective leadership.
These five rules of questioning will guide you in asking employees the right questions, at the right time, in the right way, enabling you to generate effective communications in the workplace.
These rules can be applied in a number of scenarios: in casual employee conversations, in employee performance reviews, or when learning how to interview…
Rule #1: People Won't Tell You the Whole Truth Until They Feel Connected to You
Because you are the boss, people naturally have their wall up. Connecting is designed to pull the wall down. You connect by listening, giving people your complete attention, and being genuinely interested in what they have to say.
Rule #2: Ask Easy Questions First
To get people to reveal their problems, roadblocks, concerns, and feelings, you need them to talk. The more they talk, the more problems they will reveal.
To make it easy for people to talk, begin conversations with questions that are easy to answer and that they will enjoy answering. Once they feel comfortable talking, the door will open to ask deeper or more direct questions designed to trigger self-awareness.
Rule #3: People Communicate with Stories
In conversations, people don't spit out facts. Instead they tell stories. When you listen attentively and patiently, you foster effective communication skills that encourage the speaker to expand on and tell more stories. The clues that lead to roadblocks and opportunities to coach, train, and develop are buried inside these stories.
Rule #4: Be Empathetic — Follow Emotional Cues to Problems
Listening deeply with your eyes, ears, and heart will lead you to emotional cues like voice inflection, facial expressions, and body language that indicate that a story point or issue has emotional significance. When you find these cues, use follow-up questions to dig deeper. This is where real problems, wants, and needs will be revealed.
Rule #5: Never Make Assumptions
Many leaders assume that they know exactly what people need. After a little questioning, they move right into pontificating. They dump their answers on the other person who eventually just tunes them out. Leaders assume, rather than ask questions, because they are in a hurry, bored, impatient, or lack empathy.
Besides all of the obvious pitfalls of assuming, there is also an emotional trap. No one, not you, not me, not the people who work for you, likes to be told that we are not unique. We resent it. We want to be treated as individuals.
Bonus Rule: Do Not Answer Your Own Questions
When you ask hard questions of people, they will often attempt to freeze you out with silence. People have learned that the best way to get out of the hot seat is to just stare back at their manager. The manager, intimidated by this silence and impatient to move on, rewards this behavior by answering his own question — usually as a run-on sentence. The coachee then walks away, off the hook, and nothing changes.
Excerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. from People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership by Jeb Blount. Copyright (c) 2012 by Jeb Blount. This book is available at all bookstores and online booksellers.
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Jeb Blount, author of People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership, publishes Sales Gravy magazine, read by more than 270,000 sales professionals each month. He is the founder of SalesGravy.com, a destination site for sales professionals, executives and business owners.


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Nothing will be pleasant when tackling the task of shoring up the state unemployment compensation fund. Sacrifices will have to be made by the business community in the form of increased taxes into the fund, and by workers who have lost their jobs.
As compassionate Vermonters, the notion that unemployed workers may have to do with less is tough to hear, but we all must brace for the pain that comes with shared sacrifice.
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I took off for New York earlier this month, cutting out of work a bit early on a Friday afternoon to make the trip. Almost all of my dearest college friends flocked to the city after graduation, so an outing to New York is a bit like one-stop shopping at a big-box store: Somewhere, in a city of 8 million some odd people, are a half-dozen friends waiting for me; I just have to elbow my way through never-ending aisles of strangers, knick-knacks and two-for-the-price-of-one deals to find them.
FairPoint Communications' resort to bankruptcy court to restructure its debts raises important policy issues for state and national legislators and utility regulators. FairPoint, Vermont's dominant provider of landline communications services, bought Verizon's landline operations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in early 2008. FairPoint, which had been a small company serving rural markets in southern states, added more than 1 million new customers in the Verizon deal, along with over $2 billion in debt.
We shouldn't even have to tell you where you're having lunch this Saturday, Oct. 24, or what you're bringing. You should already know. I'm bringing a pot of hot pumpkin soup and maybe my apple crisp, the kind with the crunchy topping flavored with maple syrup. Can't beat it when it's hot. Where are we going? To the gigantic Middlebury potluck lunch, and while the food will be delicious, the cause is the driving force.
For all too long, firefighting in America has been the sole monopoly of government, usually organized at the very local level of cities and communities and often relying on volunteers. While firefighting serves the community, this public stranglehold needs to be broken for a variety of reasons.
The hearing before Middlebury's Development Review Board on Monday night concerning the proposed Fenn Gravel Pit off Route 116 in Middlebury fits the mold to the letter: it was tedious, contentious and frustrating for the public. Unfortunately, that's the process (the applicant must present their plans in full at the initial hearing, which seldom leaves adequate time for questions) and there are few, if any, shortcuts to that first step.
A proposed railway tunnel in downtown Middlebury connecting the Main Street underpass to the Merchants Row underpass is an imaginative vision that deserves wholehearted support from town officials and community residents — and creates the opportunity to address adjacent problems that have gone unresolved for far too long.
Now that Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie has announced his intentions to run for governor, the state's political landscape has become a lot clearer — and that landscape might pose a surprisingly stiff challenge for Democrats to take back the governor's seat.
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Application of mechanical stress to a piezo crystal generates a charge.
Quoting from wikipedia, a 1 cm3 cube of quartz with 2 kN (500 lbf) of correctly applied force can produce a voltage of 12500 V.
What happens when the crystal is exposed to a vacuum? Is the converse true? If the structural deformation occurs as a result of exposure to vacuum, is a voltage still generated?


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Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca doesn't want her story to repeat itself.
Some years ago, she was a promising high school student in Los Angeles, so much so that the University of California at Los Angeles recruited her for her high grades and many extracurricular activities. But Salamanca is an undocumented immigrant. Her parents brought her to the United States from Mexico when she was 4 years old. Without a Social Security number, she could not apply for the financial aid she needed to pay for UCLA tuition.
"I felt like I had my ticket to go but I didn't have the money," she said. "So I didn't go.
"That was very difficult for me to find out that I wasn't going to be able to go to the college that I wanted to because I didn't have the money and I didn't know anybody who could help people in my situation at the time."
The 24-year-old East Palo Alto resident has set out to be that person for other undocumented students. Last year she launched a website, sarahi.tv, with links to scholarships available to undocumented students, local networking events and conferences, news articles on immigration reform, video interviews with undocumented youth and personal writing pieces. Her website which was built by a friend, but she has since taken over after teaching herself how to write HTML also caught the attention of Facebook's immigration-reform lobby group FWD.us. She was one of 20 undocumented students invited to participate in a national DREAMers hackathon, which focused on immigration-reform projects and culminated in a 24-hour coding session at LinkedIn last November.
She was also honored at the White House June 17 as one of 10 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients President Barack Obama's administration dubbed "Champions of Change," illegal immigrants who "serve as success stories and role models in their academic and professional spheres," a White House statement read.
"I wanted to make a difference for students who go through high school and are undocumented and to advocate the resources that are out there because you don't really know," Salamanca said of her website. "Especially being undocumented, you're scared to tell people."
She said that fear, coupled with the fact that talking about one's legal status is a "taboo" topic, makes it difficult for undocumented students to find help or support if they want to pursue higher education.
After graduating from high school, she moved back to the Bay Area where she originally came with her parents when they first immigrated and attended Foothill College. Because she graduated from a California high school, she qualified under state law AB540 to attend Foothill College and pay in-state tuition, rather than the much higher international cost. She worked the summer before entering college babysitting, washing people's clothes, any cash-only jobs to pay her own way, she said. She had been mostly on her own since she was 16, when her mother, in the process of securing residency, returned to Mexico to request a waiver required as part of the application process. She was told she would be able to return, legally, in six months, but that turned out not to be true.
This November, it will be nine years since she left.
"She's still in Mexico," Salamanca said. "She was caught in the system."
Salamanca's father, who went back to Mexico years before, was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 creating a circumstance Salamanca said is common for immigrant youth: choosing between furthering her education and supporting her family financially.
"I stayed for as long as I could (in school) but my mom just couldn't handle the bills and my dad always being sick and having to take a taxi to the hospital every time he got sick or calling an ambulance," she said. "She couldn't do it by herself anymore. ... So then I made the decision do I stay and kind of ignore everything that's happening or do I just drop out of college and work as much as I can and send them as much money as I can?"
She dropped out of Foothill and worked full time for the next two years, sending her parents as much money as she could until her father died in March 2011.
"Our parents don't motivate us to go to school," she reflected. "They motivate us to go to work and make money because we need to make ends meet because we need to feed our younger siblings. We need to pay the bills. We need to pay the rent.
"So it's very difficult to go to school and hear 'Education is first' and then to go home and your parents are like, 'No, education is not first; first you need to bring in the money, and then go to school.'"
Salamanca said she also wants to serve as a resource for immigrant parents.
"One of my passions is not just to educate the students on what's out there and motivate them to go to school, but also to change the mindset of the parents and be like, 'You know what, I understand where you're coming from because I grew up in the same home where education wasn't a priority, but that needs to change in order for you to see a change in your family. ... You have to let your kids go to college and come back."
Salamanca has since returned to her own education, re-enrolling in Canada College last August. She has yet to pick a major, having trouble deciding between computer science, broadcast journalism and political science, she said. She also now has a Social Security number and a driver's license through DACA, the federal program that allows undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children to obtain temporary legal status. The passage of DACA in June 2012 was seen as a victory for immigration reform, but its recipients and supporters wait with baited breath to see what the next president might do with the Obama administration's program.
DACA allows Salamanca to work this summer, which she does for the Girl Scouts of Northern California. She also continues to advocate for immigration reform and work on her website. This week, website visitors will find a recent video of Obama speaking about delayed immigration legislation; a scholarship opportunity for eighth graders; the California DREAM Act financial aid application; and a post asking others to share testimony on how DACA has changed their lives.
"That's why sarahi.tv started, so that my story wouldn't repeat and somebody who's in high school who has the grades and the potential to go straight to college doesn't have to feel like there is nothing out there for them because there is," she said. "It's difficult to find, but it is out there."


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my first LEI ; before that it was Ram Air's.
Gave it to a friend in SD and he & his 9-year old son learned
on it after my legs ran away in 07 ; they used the rest of that kite All-up.
It was a "Good" kite !!
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Is Programming an Art Form?
Regarding intention… Although art is a term almost impossible to define, Wikipedia claims that art is a product of human activity, made with the intention of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind, by transmitting emotions or ideas. I never wrote a class to stimulate the human senses, and I never wrote a method with transmitting emotions in mind; you write code simply to make something work, preferably in such a way that will ease testing, debugging, maintenance and future enhancements.
Regarding creativity… It is true that for any given software problem, there are many possible implementation solutions; all have pros and cons; some are more "creative" than others. But… in my book, writing code "the right way" means striving for the most simple solution (KISS principal), following known design patterns (GoF, Fowler, et cetera), standard practices (MS, W3C, et cetera), and sticking to a strict naming convention (MS, Sun, et cetera). Come to think of that, the more creative you'll be, the more depressed I'll be when handling your code. So, in my book, the best programmer is actually the less creative guy on the team; the one that copies as much as he can from books written by others. Not exactly your typical artist profile…
Programming sure requires intelligence, knowledge, skill, good judgment, customer awareness, diligence and patience, but I don't see that as an art form. Besides, don't you feel that programming is too much a left brain thing?
p.s. I'm still waiting for Apple's iWife with a big red mute button as its main feature.


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Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life
Touchstone, Jan 15, 1987 - Social Science - 224 pages
Examines the changes taking place in modern America, and discusses shoddy workmanship, poor service, inflation, crime, and religious cults.
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A train derailed in Taunton, Massachusetts yesterday after thieves apparently used a blowtorch to steal two 8-foot, 900-lb chunks of solid steel track. Luckily, the train was moving slowly when the conductor hit the brakes, so no one was injured. Though this crime initially baffled me (what the hell would you do with a 900-lb railroad track?) Taunton's police chief barely batted an eye:
I'm not really surprised. It just shows you people do desperate things to get drug money.
Apparently scrap yards are the new pawn shops; metal theft the more desperate version of cat burglary. The thieves made off with one of tracks, and abandoned the second one in a field.
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Federal Regulators Issue Final Model Privacy Notice Form
WASHINGTON — Eight federal regulatory agencies today released a final model privacy notice form that will make it easier for consumers to understand how financial institutions collect and share information about consumers. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act), institutions must notify consumers of their information-sharing practices and inform consumers of their right to opt out of certain sharing practices. The model form issued today can be used by financial institutions to comply with these requirements.
The Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006 amended the GLB Act to require the agencies to propose a succinct and comprehensible model form that allows consumers to easily compare the privacy practices of different financial institutions, and has an easy-to-read font.
The agencies conducted extensive consumer research and testing in developing the model form issued today. Then they solicited public comments and considered those comments in developing a model form that is easier for consumers to understand and use. The final rule provides that a financial institution that chooses to use the model form obtains a "safe harbor" and will satisfy the disclosure requirements for notices. The rule also removes, after a transition period, the sample clauses now included in the appendices of the agencies' privacy rules.
The final model privacy form was developed jointly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Trade Commission, National Credit Union Administration, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Office of Thrift Supervision, and Securities and Exchange Commission.
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If you're in the U.S. or Canada, Facebook Messenger for iPhone now lets you place Skype-like VoIP (voice over IP) audio calls over Wi-Fi to any of your friends who also happen to be in the U.S. or Canada. There's no FaceTime-style video calls yet, and no international calls, and the quality doesn't yet sound as good as Skype, but if you live in Facebook Messenger, it can be a convenient alternative.
The only problem is, Facebook hasn't exactly made the calling process obvious. And in some cases, it's downright cumbersome. Here's how you do it...
- Download Facebook Messenger from the App Store
- Launch Facebook Messenger from your iPhone Home screen.
- If you already have a recent text message conversation going on with the person you want to call, tap it.
- If you don't already have a recent text message conversation going on, tap the compose button at the bottom right. Then:
- Enter the name of the friend you want call.
- Tap on the friend they show up in the search results.
- Type a message to the friend.
- Tap Send to send the message.
- Tap on the Info button at the top right.
- Tap the Free Call button mid-screen left.
That's it! Provided you're both in the U.S. or Canada, and both on Wi-Fi, Facebook will connect your call.
Note: You have to have Facebook Messenger running, or have Push Notifications enable to alert you to incoming calls, or you won't know if or when a friend calls you.
If you get it working, or figure out any way to connect a call without jumping through the text messages hoop, let me know!
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Consumers can expect prices of tablets and smartphones running Microsoft's software to dip below $200 this year, says the company's vice president of OEM partners Nick Parker.
"We'll reach price points that are very industry competitive for 7, 8, 10-inch devices," Parker said, speaking to reporters after his keynote at Computex, Asia's largest computing show. "They will really surprise you. Last year, we were in the 3s, 4s, 500 dollars. This year, we'll be 1s, 2s, 3s."
He also said some Windows Phone smartphones will sell for under $200 in certain markets this year.
The fast fall in prices for Windows 8 devices is the result of Microsoft's aggressive efforts this year to gain market share in the mobile sector. The market is dominated by Google, which offers its Android operating system for free to handset and tablet developers.
While Microsoft has traditionally charged for its software, it made Windows free this year for devices smaller than 9 inches, in an effort to bring the prices of Windows mobile devices closer in line to those running Android. The company also relaxed certification requirements for mobile devices, reached out to new manufacturing partners and made other efforts to encourage development of Windows tablets and smartphones.
Microsoft's share of the tablet market was less than 4% last year, according to research firm IDC. Parker declined to say if the free offering of Windows is a permanent strategy for the company, or if it will return to charging next year.
But he emphasized that Microsoft had other ways to make money besides Windows licensing fees, such as the "freemium" model of its Skype video chat service and the launch of Office 365, which allows users to rent the software for a year instead of buying it.


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According to the Guinness Book of Records, Liverpool is the world capital of popular music, with more number-one hit singles produced by it than any other city. On closer inspection, a lot of these records are absolute shite. Atomic Kitten anyone? But, nevertheless, Liverpool has produced a fair few important musicians over the years.
The city's musical vibrancy has gone up and down throughout the history of pop. Top of the world in the early '60s, by the hippy era the scene had lost its spark. It didn't recover again till the late '70s, when a strong scene emerged out of the famous Eric's nightclub that was the inspiration for Tony Wilson's Factory. But whilst Factory and Manchester went on to change the face of popular culture, Eric's was closed by the authorities, and in the face of continued economic stagnation and social decay, the music declined once more, driven underground and fragmented.
By the '90s, venues had dwindled and the music scene in Liverpool was dominated by people getting fucked in generic dance clubs where Scouse House ruled. During this period, only The Lightning Seeds, Space, Shack and Cast made any sort of impact in the mainstream. With some noble exceptions such as Clinic, most local musicians formed generic Oasis/La's-style rock and roll combos and did little other than mooch about local venues looking for blow jobs.
There was a brief resurgence of the city in the national musical consciousness a few years ago when The Coral, a band from nearby Wirral, created some brilliant, surreal prog-pop, and spearheaded a scene based around a series of gigs with like-minded bands at The Zanzibar venue. The Coral and The Zutons continue to plough their own furrows with a dedicated fanbase and a measure of fame, all the other bandwagon riders long since disappeared in a puff of media overexposure.
Video: Eugene McGuinness live @ Glastonbury 2007
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But, it seems, things are on the up once more. Musically, in the last year alone, The Wombats have stormed that archaic thing, the pop charts, with their witty, indie-dancefloor anthems. Hot Club de Paris have won both critical acclaim and a dedicated fanbase with their poetic and dynamic sound, while long-time local resident Eugene McGuinness' debut album has had DiS readers salivating (review). None of those artists worked together much. There's is no 'movement' there. But that's the point; there's a lot of good music coming out of the city and there are many other musicians biting at their heels.
One guy who's been a driving force in local music for the last few years is Stevie Law, sometime music journalist, DJ, promoter and band manager. Originally from Essex, Stevie, like many, originally came to the city to study, but stayed for the music.
"The music scene in Liverpool is like no other in the country," he says. "For a band to make it in Liverpool they have to have songs and they need to be tight. You can't pretend to be a rock star here. Everybody really knows their music and everybody can REALLY play. I mean, you can be sat at a house party and be sat next to a rocky-burned shell-suited scally and he'll pick up an acoustic guitar and play the most beautiful piece that you have ever heard. That was probably the biggest shock to me." Dave McTague, another local promoter whose Mellowtone acoustic night gave an early leg-up to Eugene McGuinness, The Wombats and John Smith, also sees music as something intrinsic to the fabric of the city itself:
"I suppose it can be attributed to some extent to Liverpool's links with Ireland, where you go into a bar and someone will be in sat in the corner playing the guitar, playing the fiddle, whatever. And while it's not quite as extreme as that in Liverpool, if you walk down the street you'll be ten buskers, music coming out of all the bars. There's a real buzz about the music here, so while other cities have more venues and bigger venues and better venues, there's something about the music scene here. I suppose the key points are the vibrancy of it, and the frequency of it, it's all the time, not just at weekends: it's embedded in the culture."
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One of Stevie's charges, and one of the hottest-tipped of the current crop of local bands, is Elle S'appelle. Since their June 2007 debut, the trio have quickly gained popularity for their surreal, giddy pop. They've been tipped by the likes of DiS (DiScover), Zane Lowe, Steve Lamacq and had their first single out on trendy Moshi Moshi records (review). They've also just completed a national tour with another fresh local act, goFaster >>. The tour went under the name 'Bosspop', a banner under which both bands are happy to unite. They see it as the perfect description of the sound that them, and others like them, are currently creating in the city.
Elle S'appelle's co-singer and keyboardist Lucy Blakely explains the thinking behind the label: "I think a lot of people are scared of pop music because they think it makes them less credible, but I think 'It's pop, it's great, you've got to embrace it'. We're having such a good time. And I think the phrase 'Bosspop' is great, 'boss' is such a Liverpool word and I think if we didn't coin it ourselves, the NME, or someone just as cool would have come up with something worse."
"It's not like we're trying to adhere to anything," continues Andy Donovan, singer/bassist of Elle S'appelle. "It's completely genuine, it's not like, 'Oh, we should sound like goFaster >>, how did they get that sound?' If we influence each other it's happening because we're literally in each others houses and flats listening to the same music."
Chris Smith singer, guitarist and synthman for goFaster >>, details when he felt that the Bosspop 'thing' was coming together:
"[The band] 28 Costumes have got a practice room, and they started putting on warehouse parties and stuff and pretty much everyone who went was in a band who played on the night, it was just great fun. I think at that point, everybody realized that there was, not so much a scene, but a big group of like minded people. That was October/November last year. It was in the run-up to Elle S'appelle's single coming out, and ours had been out not long before, 28 Costumes has released and EP, and at that moment, that's when it all came together, I think personally like."
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"I don't know," muses the frontman, "it's one of those things, I've been in Liverpool eight or nine years and I'll go to [trendy local venue] Korova and I'll know a bunch of people there, because my band's played there loads of times before. I do a lot of music with a lot of musicians in Liverpool. We're all mates, but then again, the only reason I can work is that people aren't self-consciously assuming they're part of a scene or a movement. In my experience, the only way that scenes exist is in retrospect. And then when people form a movement, it looks shit, and it is shit and flawed. If you look on a larger scale at New York in the '70s, you've got The Ramones, Blondie, Television and Talking Heads, and it's like 'fuck man, those guys all played together.' But you think, that's four bands from that time, there must have been 40,000 piece of shit bands were everyone knew each other and stuff. It's only when all those bands got really fucking massive that you could take a step back say, 'right, okay, that's the New York scene of the '70s'."
He's also keen to point out that geography can only be a small part of the myriad of influences of the individual creative:
"Just because The Wombats are getting all massive now, it doesn't mean that because we're from Liverpool as well that we have anything in common. It's a shame when journalists are more interested in geography than music, when people don't have their own frame of reference to measure bands on their own merit."
Ouch, but despite this understandable fear of scenedom, there's an undeniable level of friendly collaboration in the city. Liverpool is a small city, but a small city where a lot of people like music and don't have much money. This means people meet, hang out and play together. This creates a culture of record swapping and cross-pollination, as different random bands and sounds discovered by one individual one crazy evening filter out into all the other music makers.
It is this friendliness which is consistently what people say they like the most about making music in the city. Despite the difficulties of working in the arts outside the capital, it is this attitude which keeps people like Dave McTague working in Liverpool: "What I like is that, although it's a big city, obviously one of the biggest cities in the country, but it still retains more of a villagy sort of feel, especially within the wider creative industries, the arts, and the smaller scenes within the music scene: 'everybody knows everybody.' Whereas in other places, you find people are cagey around each other and treat each other as competition, here people are much more willing to just help each other out to make it be a good event or a good party, they're not as bothered seeing who's better than who."
Video: Elle S'appelle, 'Little Flame'
Video: The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, 'Tin Drum'
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Nik Glover, frontman of The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, prog-pop masters who are one of Merseyside's most original acts of the moment, leads a band that like The Coral comes from 'over the water' on the Wirral peninsula. They still class themselves as a 'Liverpool band'. But, he also thinks that the 'friendly' scene in the city can also have the air of an exclusive club about it sometimes, for those outside this tight-knit circle:
"There's the whole lifestyle thing about Liverpool," says Nik. "I've got no problem with that, I wouldn't mind being part of that if they actually had a good venue to play at. But we're actually quite choosy about the venues that we play at, because we want really, really good sound. But we can't be part of that scene whether we want to be or not, but I don't think we really sit in with any of the Liverpool groups. We're not weird enough to play at Class A Audio (more of them later) and we're not cool enough to play at Korova really."
Unlike many of the currently successful local bands, recent press and pop chart darlings The Wombats operated largely on their own, being graduates of LIPA, the city's often mocked school of performing arts and an institution of which many in the music scene are suspicious. This despite the fact that LIPA graduates are responsible for many positive things in the city's music scene, including adding exponentially to the skills base in booking, programming, sound engineering, PR etc.
"We didn't feel part of anything," says Wombats frontman Matthew Murphy. "I felt there was a scene but we never felt like we fitted in, or wanted to fit in. We played with other bands, but we never got really suited with anyone."
But Nik Glover also thinks that the city has improved immeasurably over recent years in terms of musical diversity: "Liverpool's got a great thing at the moment, that there's so many different bands that play in the city. When I started going to see gigs like six or seven years ago, there was like the future Emo scene, then on the opposite side of that The Coral and The Zutons, and there wasn't really a great deal else on then."
Indeed, despite appearances, the city does produce more than catchy and witty guitar pop. Class A Audio is a night of… well, alternative music doesn't cut it. They're constant champions of underground esoteric sounds, and their gigs have been some of the only shows at which this writer has been genuinely lost for words. Certainly it's a million miles away from Bosspop.
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One of the key acts to grace the stage of Class A is a.P.A.t.T.. One of the most interesting and idiosyncratic bands ever to emerge from Liverpool, a disturbing and wonderful musical project, utilising laptops and violins and many other things: they will blow your mind. They epitomise the maverick and uncompromising spirit of music in the city, perhaps the same spirit that saw Lee Mavers of The La's reject what is still one of the most popular indie records ever released because it wasn't quite good enough. General MIDI, a.P.A.t.T leader, elaborates:
"The minute we started it, it was slightly anti-music or something like that, but it's absolutely guaranteed, set on, to be our life's work, whatever goes on with it, this is what we're going to do, even if it's just goes back to giving out CD-Rs to our friends or something. And it's me learning, the band learning, it's us all learning together, and that's why we enjoy it loads."
People work incredibly hard to make music work in the city, even though they almost certainly have to have a second, often shit, job, and even though any financial reward, or even any measure of recognition, is also hard to come by, especially, when infused with that maverick spirit.
"[Class A Audio is] basically a small circle of people who work hard to promote music that they enjoy," General MIDI explains. "And you've got to appreciate that. We've got a split 12" coming out that we're doing with Stig, and that's being done with funding we've got from the nights, so it's a self-funding little vehicle for us all. Being creative is the only thing that stops us killing people with biros."
But does MIDI feel any connection with bands like Elle S'appelle or The Wombats?
"I don't know, I suppose not," he says. "But, even though we make oddball music, we don't try and isolate ourselves into an oddball music bracket, we want to be on lunchboxes," he laughs. "we've got no qualms about playing Pebble Mill at 1 or the National Lottery or something like that, it would be great."
Music journalist and occasional DiS scribe Joe Shooman is sceptical about talking about any sort of 'scene', but in general terms of people making music in Liverpool he sees the culture of 'getting on with it' and the general anti-authoritarian and non-deferential nature of the city as something which helps to create good music:
"There's a kind of bullishness to just DO stuff. Everyone seems to be always scheming things which is a very healthy sign. Of course, there's the occasional whinger but they seem to be outvoted by those who just go out and grab some action - that's very inspiring sometimes."
But are the 'doers' like that because of the difficulty of doing cutting-edge stuff in the regions and perhaps more controversially, because the general population are uninterested in cutting-edge music?
"Perhaps," he retorts. "Or maybe just that people don't give a fuck about people telling them what to do. As in, if someone wants to do something they will; as regards the regions I think it's easier to do cutting-edge stuff because culturally and traditionally there's less media and cultural pressure to conform."
Video: The Wombats, 'Backfire at the Disco'
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In order to enhance a new healthy lifestyle I was starting, I recently had a Health Mate Sauna put in my backyard. It is so beautiful that I finally decided to do something with the rest of my yard, instead of letting it all just grow wild. I want the area surrounding the sauna to give me a peaceful, healthy feeling when I go outside to enjoy the benefits of my sauna, and you can read about the Health Mate Sauna Review.
To beautify the area I am looking for the best hardwood decking material to create a beautiful deck to enjoy the enchanting nights. I am also looking for the best waterfall designer in Los Angeles, and the best pond designer in Los Angeles to enhance the beauty of the nature I am surrounded by.
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