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Cars and Motorbikes
Genesis GV70 teased – brand’s second SUV model
The Genesis line-up currently consists of just four models, including three sedans – G70, G80 and G90 – along with the GV80 SUV. It was always expected that new models will be introduced, with this notion being confirmed by a video released by the company when the latest G80 made its debut.
Now, we’re getting our first look at one of the brand’s upcoming models, the GV70, which is being teased wearing it calls a “G-Matrix” camouflage. According to the company, the pattern is “inspired by the diffused reflection of light from precision cut diamonds and is a core part of the Genesis brand identity.”
An official reveal date wasn’t provided, but the company says that camouflaged units of the GV70 will be tested on public roads in Korea for a period of one month. As its name suggests, the GV70 slots in below the much larger GV80, and will becomes the second Genesis SUV model that customers will be able to buy.
Despite the trippy camouflage and “creative” camera work, we can clearly see the brand’s signature “Athletic Elegance” design language in the styling of the GV70. At the front, the “Superman-style” Genesis grille gets flanked by two-tier headlamps, with the look of the latter repeated for the taillights as well.
The overall shape certainly appears sleeker when compared to the bulkier GV80, with a more dynamic face that features large corner inlets. There are some similarities, as we can roughly see small side windows between the thick C-pillars and D-pillars, while the roofline appears to taper down to a steeply raked rear window. No shots of the interior now, unfortunately.
“We are thrilled to share this early sneak preview of our second SUV, the Genesis GV70. It telegraphs an exciting new design and reinforces the core brand values that run through our lineup. We look forward to sharing full details on GV70 with everyone in the near future,” said a Genesis official.
The post Genesis GV70 teased – brand’s second SUV model appeared first on Paul Tan's Automotive News.
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Page 14, 23 February 1884 — BOOKS.
PETER THE GREAT.*
THESE two immense volumes, more than 1,300 pages octavo,. contain invaluable materials for the future biographer, but they hardly constitute a biography. Mr. Schuyler knows Russian, has read everything he could find bearing on his subject, and has had access to much information, such, for example, as the- records of the Tribunal of Preobrazhensky,—throughout Peter's. reign the Star Chamber of Russia, a tribunal which shed blood like water, and tortured the innocent to obtain evidence—which was closed to his predecessors, but he has not the instinct of the- biographer. He is by nature an annalist, who relates at great length, but simply and easily, all the facts he has collected, twisting nothing, concealing little, but leaving the reader to. form his own judgment on the data given. He has absolutely nothing of the pictorial faculty for persons, though he shows: occasionally some for scenes. We should doubt if, when his work was done, Mr. Schuyler had a clear idea of Peter- in his own mind, and certainly he has not written one out. He has, moreover, little sense of proportion, and has overlaid the narrative personal to Peter with accounts of his campaigns and battles and negotiations which are rather wearisome, and are fairly well known already. Even in the political section he gives. us no guiding-thread, and it would be difficult to gather from his- book whether he thought that Peter had a policy of aggrandise- ment, or whether he only successfully met difficulties as they arose, and took advantage of victories to push forward steadily to the sea. Still, to patient readers, the book is most valuable. Mr.. Schuyler does not believe legends, is entirely free from prejudices, and is obviously penetrated with the idea that his hero was very like anybody else, modelled partly by circumstances, partly by ambitions, partly by his innate and peculiar qualities. He describes him without horror and without admiration, tells of victories without exultation and atrocities without condemnation, and is throughout intent rather on relating the facts than on moving his readers to any judgment about the facts. He lacks, • Peter the Great. By Eugene Schuyler. London : Sampson Low mid Co.
as we have said, the pictorial faculty ; but in return, he never exaggerates, never believes gossip, and never loses a certain simple directness, sometimes very like that of an old eyewitness,
which has a curiously convincing effect. For example, when Czar Theodore died childless in 1680, the succession lapsed to two of his brothers, Ivan and Peter. Of these, Ivan was the elder, and therefore legally entitled to the throne ; and he was strongly favoured by his elder sister Sophia, an ambitious woman of ability, and by the Court party, but he was so nearly an idiot as to be incapable of reigning. The nobles, therefore,
preferred Peter, and when both parties agreed to submit the decision to the people of Moscow, the crowd almost unanimously called for Peter. He was, therefore, declared Czar, but Sophia could not conceal her annoyance, and Mr. Schuyler, quite aware that this feeling was of great historic importance, but never caying so, describes its manifestation thus
Pretence was useless; open opposition was the expression almost -of despair. On the day of the funeral of Theodore, the Princess Sophia, contrary to all etiquette, insisted on accompanying the body to the church. Remonstrances were in vain. She not only went, -disregarding the Byzantine prescriptions which kept the princesses unseen behind a :canopy, showing herself openly to the people, but she was also loud in the expression of her grief, which was certainly sincere and not feigned. At last, long before the ceremonies had -terminated, the widowed step-mother, Natalia, left the church, lead- ing her son Peter. This excited remark, not only among the popu- lace, but still more on the part of the Princess Tatiana, the eldest =ember of the family, the sister of the Tsar Alexis and the aunt of 'Theodore, highly respected for her charity and goodness, who sent
at noon a message to Natalia, saying You're a fine relation— could not wait till the end of the funeral !' Natalia excused herself on the ground that Peter was so young that it would have been in- jurious to his health to have remained in church so long without eat- ing. Her cousin, Ivan Naryshkin, who had just returned from exile, and was constantly causing trouble by his thoughtless remarks, said, ` Let him that is dead lie there. Her Majesty the Tsar is not dead, but still lives.' On returning from the funeral Sophia wept bitterly, and turning to the people cried out, Yon see how our brother the Tsar Theodore has suddenly gone from this world. His ill-wishers and enemies have poisoned him. Have pity on us orphans. We bave no father, nor mother, nor brother. Our eldest brother Ivan has not been elected Tsar, and if we are to blame before you and the boyars, let us go live in other lands which are ruled over by Christian Rings.' These words naturally produced a deep impression."
'That is the true annalist's method, not the historian's, and the immense narrative is throughout told in that style. The final struggle, for example, between Peter and his sister is described at length, but in such a way that the reader thinks of it as the 'ordinary and even insignificant and accidental contest which, at the moment, it must have appeared.
Mr. Schuyler, as we have said, discredits most of the legends.
Ile believes that Peter formed his boy-regiment solely for amusement, that he took to shipbuilding as other lads take to turning with a lathe, that he went abroad chiefly to instruct himself in his favourite pastimes, that his reforms were very eften the result of wilfulness, and that the greatest act of his sovereignty, the suppression of the Patriarchate, was caused not by any secret policy, but by a definite fear that Church and State would quarrel if the Patriarch was any longer regardtd as a sort of religious Czar, a fear recorded and explained in the final decree. He does not believe that the Empress Cathe- rine saved the Russian armies on the Prnth, or that Peter murdered his son Alexis with his own hand. Nevertheless, Peter appears in his narrative very much what he appears in the legends, a bloodthirsty barbarian, utterly reck- less of the lives of opponents, ready to torture his nearest relatives, including his own son, and to witness and urge on the tortures ; yet possessed of a genius for government, for selecting agents, and for impressing foreigners, who one and all reported that he was a genuinely great man. They were especially im- pressed with his sense, which, indeed, shines out in all his letters.
Physically he was always impressive, even from early boyhood ; and in manhood the Duo de St. Simon, who was accustomed to weigh men and had seen the greatest men in Europe, thus describes him :—
" He was a very tall man, well made,mot too stout, with a roundish face, a high forehead, and fine eyebrows, a short nose—but not too ehort—large at the end ; his lips were rather thick ; his complexion a ruddy brown; fine black eyes, large, lively, piercing, and well apart ; a majestic and gracious look when he wished, otherwise severe and stern, with a twitching which did not often return, but which dis- turbed his look and his whole expression and inspired fear. That lasted but a moment, accompanied by a wild and terrible look, and passed away as quickly. His whole air showed his intellect, his reflec- tion, and his greatness, and did not lack a certain grace. He wore only a linen collar, a round brown perruque without powder which did not touch his shoulders, a brown, tight-fitting coat, plain, with gold buttons; a waistcoat, breeches, stockings, no gloves nor cuffs; the star of his order on his coat and the ribbon underneath ; his coat often quite unbuttoned, his hat on a table and never on his head even out of doors. With all this simplicity, and in whatever bad carriage or company he might be, one could not fail to perceive the air of greatness that was natural to him."
Active, powerful, and daring, Peter could almost always make his body do what he required, but he had not permanent good health, having a tendency to epilepsy, and a passion for drink amounting to dipsomania. After any feat, or when otherwise pleased, he always sat down to drink brandy, drank to drunken- ness, and when drunk became full of brutal horse-play, or occasionally of rage, which was sometimes dangerous even to his closest intimates. He would strike anybody. even General Lefort, his greatest military adviser, or Menshikof, who was in effect Premier of the Empire. He repeatedly knocked the former down, and cuffed the latter. He liked beat to drink at the house of General Lefort, perhaps the only man he really trusted; and one day, just before the battle of Narva, drinking there, he quarrelled with his generalissimo, Shein, and left the room :—
"Korb relates : It was known later that he had gone to question the soldiers, to learn from them how many colonels and other regi- mental officers that general-in-chief had made without reference to merit, merely for money. In a short time when he came back, his wrath had grown to such a pitch that he drew his sword, and facing the general-in-chief, horrified the guests with this threat: "By striking thus, I will mar thy mal-government." Boiling over with well- grounded anger, he appealed to Prince Ramodanofsky, and Zatof ; but finding them excuse the general-in-chief, he grew so hot that he startled all the guests by striking right and left, he knew not where, with his drawn sword. Prince Ramodan6fsky had to complain of a cut finger, and another of a slight wound on the head. Zatof was hurt in the hand as the sword was returning from a stroke. A blow far more deadly was aiming at the general-in-chief, who beyond a doubt would have been stretched in his gore by the Tsar's right hand, had not General Lefort (who was almost the only one that might have ventured it), catching the Tsar's arms, drawn back his hand from the stroke. But the Tsar, taking it ill that any person should dare to hinder tun from sating his most just wrath, wheeled round upon the spot, and struck his unwelcome impeder a hard blow on the back. He is the only one that knew what remedy to apply ; none of the Muscovites is more beloved by the Tsar than he. This man so mitigated his ire that, threatening only, he abstained from murder. Merriment followed this dire tempest : the Tsar, with a face full of smiles, was present at the dancing, and, to show his mirth, com- manded his musicians to play the tunes to which (so he said) he had danced at his most beloved lord and brother's, when that most august host was entertaining exalted guests. Two young ladies depart- ing by stealth were, at an order from the Tsar, brought back by soldiers.'" He was naturally bloodthirsty. Though never really menaced in his autocracy after the Streltsi had been banished and
executed, he knew himself to be an object of dislike to his people, who detested his foreign friends, and distrusted his orthodoxy; to the great nobles, whom he neglected for low-born men; and to many members of his own family, whom he treated with excessive rigour. Delators were always heard, and the smallest rumour of plotting against him roused his fury, when he would send the highest personages in the realm before the secret
Chancery at Preobrazhensky, and have them tortured, flogged, or executed. The head of this tribunal, Ramodanofsky, a prime favourite, whom Peter called "your Majesty," once ex- cused himself for some negligence by writing that he was wash- ing his hands in blood, and the excuse was accepted. Executions, in fact, never ceased under Peter, and no man in the empire was safe for a day. In 1728 he fancied, apparently without a trace of evidence, that the household of his repudiated wife Eudoxia, then imprisoned in a nunnery at Suzdal, were intriguing against him. They were not, but Peter, who for twenty years had never seen Endoxia, and had married Catherine, in his gloomy mood chose to accuse her of living with a Major Glifibof. The charge was true, as he must have known for years; but he was
in a blood-drinking humour, he threatened Endoxia with death, not for the dishonour—she had ceased to be his wife—but for favouring conspirators; and" Gliebof, after having been tortured by the knout, by red-hot Irons, by burning coals, was fastened for three days upon a plank with wooden spikes, and, as he con- fessed nothing more, was impaled, and died the next day. The Bishop of Rostof was broken on the wheel and beheaded ; his body was burned, and his head fixed on a stake. Alexander Bikin was treated in the same way. He was tortured slowly,
at intervals, so that he might suffer the more. The second day the Tsar passed by him. Elkin was still living on the wheel, and begged the Tsar to pardon him and allow him to become a monk. His head was at once cut off, and exposed on a stake. Dokfikin, who had protested against the oath of allegiance to the Tsarevitch Peter, died the death of a martyr; he was tor- tared three times, and afterwards broken on the wheel, con- stantly declaring that he was willing to suffer all for the word of Chris]' Peter's quarrel with his eon was really caused more by suspicion of his rebelliousness than by fear of his character as his successor. The son's mistress, a Finnish girl, whom he constantly sought permission to marry, and for whom he had an almost pathetic devotion, betrayed him, and reported some expressions which implied a wish for his father's death, or even some inchoate plan of rebellion. Peter did not kill him, but after the unhappy man had formally renounced the throne, which, indeed, he was incompetent to fill, the Tsar had him tortured three times in his own presence by savage beatings with the knout, was not sorry when he died of the results, and on the following day attended a grand ball in honour of the anniversary of Pultawa. In morals, though not more disso- lute than other Princes of his time—at least, if we reject, as Mr. Schuyler does, the Margravine of Baireuth's evidence—he knew no law but his own will; and though he tenderly loved the Empress Catherine and could not bear her absence, he was not only un- faithful to her, but told her so. Once, and once only, he woke np to a strong sense of decorum, and then he ordered his wife's favourite lady-of-honour, the charming Miss Hamilton, daughter of one of the many Scotchmen in his Court, to be executed for infanticide, the tears of his wife and the whole Court failing to obtain a lighter sentence.
Peter, in fact, was a hard-drinking, brutal savage; but he was also a clear-headed politician, worked at his trade of governing as no Czar had ever done, understood it thoroughly, founded the Russian Navy, remodelled the Russian Army, completely organised the civil administration, broke up the always threatening power of Sweden, and left Russia—which had been a mere geographical expression—a great and aggressive State, and though his countrymen were fully aware of his cruelties, he is still regarded by them as a hero worthy of the deepest veneration. They have been accustomed to ferocious Czars, but not to competent ones, they reverence in a Sovereign that close connection between thought and action which is for good as well as evil their own peculiarity among the nations, and like the Romans of old they pardon everything to the successful ruler. In spite, too, of their suspicion of him as heterodox and un - Russian, the people perceived that he was devoted to Russia, and to an ideal Russia, towards which he was ever marching. As Kostomarof says : — "He loved Russia, loved the Russian people,— loved it not in the sense of the mass of Russians contemporary with and subject to him, but in the sense of that ideal to which he wished to bring the people. For that reason, this love constitutes that great quality in him which causes us, even against our will, to love him personally, leaving out of view his bloody tribunals and all his demoralising despotism, which has exercised a baneful influence on posterity. On account of Peter's love of the ideal of the Russian people, a Russian will love Peter as long as he does not himself lose this national ideal, and for this love will pardon in him all that lies with such heavy weight on his memory." If a second edition of this book is ever demanded, we recommend Mr. Schuyler to reduce it to half its size, and add a chapter explaining clearly the view which his vast reading has induced him to take of the Czar Peter, his character, his policy, and his mental powers.
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Page 15, 5 May 1894 — ART.
THE NEW GALLERY.
IF there is one act more than another which ought to be a duty, and is certainly a pleasure, to the critic of exhibitions, it is to single out and insist upon those works which do not, by inartistic means, advertise themselves, and which may there- fore easily pass unnoticed in the general scrimmage. It is the object of every wise visitor to get past the touts as quickly as possible, but their clamour is so great and their clutching so impudent that escape is not easy for the unwary ; and the shy friend who is waiting in the corner where he has been elbowed by this hustle, and who cannot scream what he has to say, may have to turn away disappointed. I propose then to draw attention first to one or two of those painters who respect their art too much to spend any of its means of ex- pression in touting, and who have not yet won a very general recognition.
On the right of the entrance to the North Gallery will be found a small marine by Mr. A. D. Peppercorn, entitled On the Cornish Coast. The voice that tells here of the poetry of grey waves and grey-green headland melting into rainy light is almost a whisper, but once listen to it, and you will find it has a spell to shut away and silence the empty noise or the
less perfectly tuned voices that contend with it. We are well accustomed to have our feelings bespoken for the Cornish coast. Painter after painter has touted for our sympathy with tales of woe, expressed in the reporter's prose of paint. Here, without the aid of incident or human figure, the melan- c holy secret is distilled out of the air and the sea themselves. Mr. Peppercorn, I suppose, has never in his life made the sensation of a gallery. From time to time his work is to be found in the exhibitions. Its unmistakable good breeding has often seemed too reserved, too obedient to its models. But the present picture, quiet though it is, has a personal note that increases very sensibly one's estimate of Mr. Pepper- corn's power.
On the entrance wall of the same gallery will be found a picture by Mr. Edward Stott, called The Village Street. Here is another painter who is penetrated with the poetry of light. All painters of modern ideas conceive more or less that their business is with the behaviour of light ; but its poetry, heroic or elegiac, is seldom revealed to them. They conceive of it as an ill-natured detective agent, and on the information it supplies, they dress listless acts of accusation against the objects they paint, or retail bald and silly gossip. Hew dif- ferently Mr. Stott conceives of light at his favourite moment— its lingering withdrawal and reluctance ; and how, instead of being repulsed from a surface of hard paint, we are carried into the air of his picture, the shadows and mystery of the village street ! Another picture in the West Room, A Summer Evening, is even finer. The long heat of the day is trembling out in purple and golden air, the horses have come down to drink and the boys to bathe. The banks of the stream and this group, two white horses and a black, and the two slim, upright figures, are beautifully composed. Everything falls within the envelope of the picture; the horses and boys do not stick their heads and legs outside it to attract notice. It is impossible to avoid comparison between this picture and one above which it is hang, The Nomads, by Professor Herkomer. Two figures, caricatures of the manner of Frederick Walker, are pasted outside a landscape borrowed from Mr. North. The boy, as he walks along, lies back on the bosom of the woman. This compound action must be uncomfortable for both ; but to such extravagance of sym- bolism is the painter driven who cannot express feeling by the means proper to paint. The North Room, it may be added, contains a still more startling performance. Mr. Sargent, as will be remembered, exhibited there last year a portrait wrought with amazing skill at a very high pitch. Mr. Herkomer seems to have said to himself, But I can pro- duce notes just as high and much louder.' This he has done with his own intonation, accent, and sentiment.
But this is a digression. To the two names already men- tioned may be added that of Mr. James Charles. His two landscapes may have none of the pathos of Mr. Peppercorn's and Mr. Stott's ; but a cheerful sense of open daylight per- vades them, and its notation is singularly fresh and clean. Mr. Mark Fisher has something of the same fresh and simple feeling for English country ; but there is a bitter metallic trace in his colour. A landscape of some merit, in the Glasgow manner, by Mr. Archibald Kay, will be found in the balcony.
Let us now turn to names more familiar, and more closely associated with the Gallery, which, so far as it represents a tendency and school, stands for that throw-back to the Italian period of painting when light in its effect on the values of colours, and air in its effect on definition, and focus in its determination of accent and relief, had not been included in the beautiful material and expressive resources of painting. But first a connecting-link may be touched upon in Mr. Watts, who draws upon Italian art not at its Florentine and Umbrian period, but at its Venetian stage, when the suffusion of colours with a uniting glow had been arrived at. Mr. Watts's subject-pictures, it is true, amount to little more than the statement, I should like to paint pictures like Titian, but I forget exactly what it was he did ; ' and his portrait of Mr. George Meredith is interesting rather in spite of, than in virtue of, the qualities of its colour and paint. It conveys something of irritated nervous intellect in the character of the sitter's head, and also that elevation and distinction of feeling that somehow fights through the clogged material of Mr. Watts's painting.
A like personal distinction, expressed in a sharply defined lineal view of things, marks the strong, artistic talent of Sir" Edward Burne-Jones. The designer of the illustrations in line to the LEneid is a great artist. But in view of the con, fusion by which it is attempted to found a school dubbed " decorative " on his limitations as well as his merits, it is desirable to arrive at a clear conception of what these are. The painter of Love Among the Ruins has been trained to see things primarily in lines, secondarily as spaces of flattish colour bounded by lines. Each group and part of the picture has been thought out, and studied out, as such a system of spaces and contours, but seen and studied rather separately— with reference of course to an allotted space planned on the canvas, and with a common character in the lines. But when these studies are put in their places, they call for some further uniting and subordinating principle. Without having recourse to effect of light, such a principle might be found within the limits of the convention in a disengaging and compounding of parts by silhouette, whether the silhouette were constituted by mass of tone or by colour. In either case the significant master-line would bound it. In the same way the colours are too much of hermits within their inclosures, without com- munity or subordinations. These are weaknesses of the painter within the limits of patch and line; a further one marks his" attemptto go beyond them. The author of the Portrait of Miss Amy Gaskell is not content, like the Japanese, with contour and colour spot, though these are the elements be grasps most strongly. He has a feeling for the rounded surfaces of objects. It is a feeling loosely attached to the facts. The roundnesses,. elaborately as they are modelled, in the manner of Leonardo, are not, as with him, based on a grasp and observation of structure. The painter is not the victim of a pedantic theory of flatness, he would fain transcend the tinted patch, he only stops- where his vision and his training set up a sort of screen, before his perception. The effort to get at modelling, ineffectual as it is. is a wise one; for even if decorative reasons require flat- ness in a design, an expressive outline can only be arrived at by one who has studied the interior structure of forms. In the Vespertina Quies there is a further example of a half- realised range of effect in nature. The distance is treatedt with a certain obliteration of forms, but without the sub- stitution of their true appearance, or any rendering, of course, of the value of their colour at that distance. A miniature treatment would have been more logical. It is a very curious spectacle, this uncritical return upon early limitations, aad this tentative breaking of their bonds over again, especially when it is coupled with so real and active a designer's talent..
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boating the baltic
sailing and motoring the baltic sea
Als Sund – Sottrupskov
Fuglsø Vig
Karrebæksminde / Enø
Lundeborg
Saeby
Skarø
Schlei – Hülsen
Missunde
Schleimünde
Strande
Arpö
Kristianopel
Tärnö
Tjärö
Ven / Kyrkbacken
Disclosure and Imprint
56° 00.6′ N · 14° 50.2′ E
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Depth: >3m · Harbour fees: average 36-43 foot 260SEK · The harbour is restricted for space, so get there early
Hanö isn’t just around the corner for many on a boat in the Baltic. But if you have suitable weather conditions to get there, it is one of those islands you also want to go back to.
The view from the top of the hill at the lighthouse is magnificent. To the north you can see the islands in the archipelago, to the south and east you look out across the water for miles. The English were here quite a few years back, so you can visit the old graveyard to the north of the harbour. But go up to the lighthouse first, to get that view and put things into perspective. If you need some strengthening on the way stop in and get a waffle at the last house on the right along the way. A northwesterly will push a swell into the harbour, so watch out for that.
Go, See and Do:
Walk up to Hanö Fyr for the great views, sit or lie down and make the most of it.
To the south of the harbour a lovely walking track starts, that will take you around the southern more forested part of the island. There are some longer and shorter tracks, so take your pick. The landscape here is much different to that of the north with its open fields and rock.
Speaking of rocks, the northern most point of the island, Bönsäcken, is formed by hand-sized round stones. As the saying goes a troll wanted to build a bridge to the mainland. Well she didn’t complete her feat, but left thousands of these beautifully smooth rocks to roll around in your hands. The sound of the waves rolling back and forth over them is also soothing to the ears.
Off the northern pier is a swimming spot Giselas brygga. Great for refreshing in the clear, usually cold water.
Visit the Seaman’s Graveyard to the north of the village and go on to the northern tip of the island to feel all those stones under your feet.
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The Black Rock Arts Foundation is proud to collaborate with the Flaming Lotus Girls artist collective to install their piece Soma in the Pier 14 tidal plaza on San Francisco’s Embarcadero waterfront.
Soma by the Flaming Lotus Girls
Pier 14 Tidal Plaza
July 18, 2014 – Present
Stainless steel. 12V lighting system
28′ H x 40′ W x 25′ W
We celebrated an Opening Reception for Soma on Friday August 1, 2014. See local CBS affiliate KPIX’s coverage of the installation here.
Soma at Pier 14 Photo by Caroline Miller
Soma is in place in San Francisco, but we still need your support! Please consider donating now to this project.
Originally displayed at Burning Man in 2009, Soma is an interactive sculptural installation depicting two communicating neurons connected by an axon bridge. A soma is the cell body of a neuron, with branching dendrites projecting away at different angles, and an axon which conducts the nerve signal electrochemically to its neighboring cell.
Soma translates the anatomy of neurons into metal, fire and light, magnifying the microscopic world to an epic scale. In this urban installation, Soma features interactive LEDs to create a spectacular daytime and nighttime experience.
“Soma with Moon,” Photo by Michael Holden (CC BY-NC-ND)
Soma is made entirely of stainless steel and a waterproof 12V lighting system. It occupies a 28′ high x 40′ long x 25′ wide rectangular footprint, secured to the ground beneath each nucleus with concrete anchors, covered by wooden platforms. Its weather resistant, stainless steel body features 70 custom LED units, each outputting 270 lumens of light. Each LED unit is mounted inside a unique resin casting. The LED units are individually controllable and capable of producing 16 million colors. The public can interact with Soma’s computer-controlled LED system by pushing buttons to activate the trans-synaptic action potential simulation. The on-board computer system can be remotely controlled and configured to automatically respond to factors such as time of day, lighting conditions or special events.
Over 100 Flaming Lotus Girls volunteers worked to create Soma!
Soma at Pier 14 Photo by Tex Allen
Soma will be the third piece installed by BRAF in the Pier 14 Tidal Plaza on San Francisco’s Embarcadero waterfront. BRAF previously collaborated with the Port of San Francisco in 2007 to bring Passage by Karen Cusolito and Dan Das Mann and in 2010 to bring the Raygun Gothic Rocketship by Sean Orlando, David Shulman, Nathaniel Taylor, Alan Rorie, and the Five Ton Crane crew to the same location.
The Flaming Lotus Girls are a female-driven, volunteer-based group of artists who have been making kinetic, mechanical fire art since 2000. Their work stands at the intersection of sculpture, kinetics, robotics, pyrotechnics, and electronic technology. They create interactive large-scale installations that engage viewers and invite them to become part of the art. Flaming Lotus Girls’ work is a collaborative process that empowers participants to learn new skills and become experienced, talented and active artists. They use a unique design methodology with a hyper-fluid organizational structure. Through an open and supportive cultural environment, the Flaming Lotus Girls promote creativity, education, volunteer contribution and leadership opportunities.
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Peugeot 208 GTi could have 230bhp & Torque Steer!?
April 12, 2012 Sean
Peugeot hot hatch fans worried the 208 GTI won’t live up to its predecessor’s legend can take solace in one fact – the man leading the team behind the engine choice put the 1.9-litre in the 205 GTI!Philippe Merckx is in charge of Peugeot’s 100-strong engine design team and his workforce is currently testing prototypes of the next GTI. So what engine does he prefer?”There’s really only one choice,” said Merckx. “And that’s the 1.6-litre turbo from the RCZ. The decision we’re currently debating is whether it should be in 200bhp or 230bhp guise.
“I prefer the 230bhp but there are issues with torque steer. There are options to use electronics to reduce these issues, but I really don’t think a performance model should have restrictions like this.”Merckx has been with Peugeot for 24 years and has worked on a series of key powerplants for the French maker. His first was the iconic 1.9-litre lump that was so successful in the 205 GTI as well as the 2.2-litre HDI engine with the first particulate filter.
“Developing the engine for the new 208 GTI is very difficult as so much has changed since the 205 GTI,” explained Merckx.
“When I had my 205 GTI 1.9 I would drive everywhere at high speed but now there are speed cameras everywhere and etiquette issues to contend with.
“The image for GTIs has changed over the years. Now the bosses have to consider marketing and how high powered cars will be received.
“However, I have tried the 230bhp 1.6-litre 208 GTI prototype and was very impressed. There is development to be made and no decisions have been taken, but I am passionate about making it exciting and great to drive.”
Merckx has ruled out a larger unit than the 1.6 though as there are cooling issues. A 1.8-litre was considered but the modifications needed to make it into production ruled it out early on. “It would have been possible for small production numbers but not for the GTI,” he added.
The engineering chief also admitted his department had been asked to look at a series of Rallye models over the years and he didn’t ruled out the name reappearing on the back of a hot hatch again in the future. “We’ve looked at a number of Rallye engine options, but none have so far got the green light,” he revealed.
But does be really think the 208 GTI can live up to the legend of the 205 and recapture the magic of that legendary hot hatch?
“Things have changed over the years, but I want to see an exciting car to drive again,” explained Merckx. “It’ll be up to the bosses to decide which unit gets the go ahead, but I know which I prefer and which I’ll be fighting for – and that’s the 230bhp version.”
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Mozambique revolution, no. 56 (1973 July- Sept.)
Cahora Bassa, to withdraw.
c) Put whatever support the SPD is
willing to give FRELIMO on a political
and not on a humanitarian basis.
We explained our requests. There is irrefutable evidence that the West German
government is continuing to give military
support to Portugal. A large proportion
of financial and technical participation in
Cahora Bassa is from West Germany.
Cahora Bassa, we explained, is a scheme
aimed at creating conditions for the
establishment in Mozambique of hundreds
of thousands of white settlers, who would
act as a force against the liberation struggle. Cahora Bassa has been condemned
by the UN, by the OAU, by the World
Council of Churches and indeed by all
progressive forces in the world. Support
for Cahora Bassa is therefore an act of
hostility against the Mozambican people,
and precludes any possibility of our
establishing friendly relations.
Support for FRELIMO should be based
on acceptance by the SPD that FRELIMO
is right in its fight against Portuguese
colonialism, that colonialism must be
eradicated from Mozambique, and that
therefore this support should not be conditional and «humanitarian)) but global
political, as is already the case with other
Social Democratic Parties in Europe and
also with the Dutch Government, whose
Minister for Development Aid, Mr. Pronk,
stated on July 2nd, 1973: "The
Dutch Government is going to give support to the liberation movements because
it wants to speed up the process of
decolonisation in the territories occupied by Portugal, and not for «humani-
tarian reasons)). "
The SPD rejected the FRELIMO requests.
It refused to commit itself to a move to
stop military supplies to Portugal (it must
be recalled that the SPD is the ruling
party in the FRG). On the Cahora Bassa
issue, it stated that this project will be
useful to independent Mozambique, and
that it would not do anything to force
West German companies to withdraw. It
insisted that its support should be confined to giving FRELIMO ((humanitarian
aid)).
The SPD position on Cahora Bassa is
particularly serious since it shows great
contempt for our personality and sovereignty. The SPD wants to teach us,
the Mozambican people, what is good for
The FRELIMO delegation returned, having
found out that at this stage, at least,
there are no grounds for co-operation
with the SPD. The SPD does not in fact
live up to its anti-colonial statements.
Moreover, it is FRELIMO's position that
we cannot establish relations with any
organisation except on a correct political
and moral basis.
W. German
firm helps
Zurich, Wednesday.
PORTUGAL is building its first
aircraft factory with help from
a West German firm whose
planes formed the nucleus of
Hitler's air force in World War
II, according to a newspaper
report here.
The "Neue Zurcher Zeitung'
said that the factory, which is
being built at Beja, will provide
employment to more than 1,000
workers and cost about 200 million escudos (60 million/-),
The West German firm,Mes-
serschmitt Werke, will render
financial and technical assistance, ihe paper said.
Messerschmitt's past intimate
association with fascist militarism — its fighter planes played an important'part in Hitler's
attempt at world conquest — suggests that the project is connected with production of military rather than civilian aircraft.
The report is the second major
embarrassment for Chancellor
Willy Brandt's Social Democratic party in recent weeks,
following SPD's unsuccessful attempt to persuade Frelimo to
accept its aid. The first was
the Pentagon's disclosure in
August that for the past three
years Portuguese fighter pilots
have been receiving training at
US bases in West Germany.
The factory project and
the pilot training facilities are
examples of the kind of West
German support for Portuguese
fascism that influenced Frelimo's decision to reject SPD
aid. Mr. Brandt's party said it
did not approve of such support
but it would not commit itself
to forcing the government to
end it,
DAILY NEWS, Thursday,
October 4,1973.
The W. German people express their solidarity with the peoples of the Portuguese colonies
Title Mozambique revolution, no. 56 (1973 July- Sept.)
Description Contents: Editorial - A year of impressive advances (p. 1); Offensive on all fronts (p. 3); War communique (p. 9); Apply or principals and march to victory (p.11); FRELIMO hails the Republic of Guine-Bissau (p.13); An endless stream of fighters (p.14); Algerian television in Tete (p.15); FRELIMO's reply to Wiriyamu (p.16); Visitors in free Mozambique (p.17); Wiriyamu: A case study of Portuguese repression (p.18); FRELIMO and West Germany's SPD (p. 20); FRELIMO at youth festivals (p. 22). This is an issue reprinted and distributed by the LSM Information Center in Richmond, Canada.
Coverage date 1972-07/1973-09
Creator Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO)
Publisher (of the Original Version) Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information
Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) Dar Es Salaam, U.R. of Tanzania
Date issued 1973-07/1973-09
Full text Cahora Bassa, to withdraw. c) Put whatever support the SPD is willing to give FRELIMO on a political and not on a humanitarian basis. We explained our requests. There is irrefutable evidence that the West German government is continuing to give military support to Portugal. A large proportion of financial and technical participation in Cahora Bassa is from West Germany. Cahora Bassa, we explained, is a scheme aimed at creating conditions for the establishment in Mozambique of hundreds of thousands of white settlers, who would act as a force against the liberation struggle. Cahora Bassa has been condemned by the UN, by the OAU, by the World Council of Churches and indeed by all progressive forces in the world. Support for Cahora Bassa is therefore an act of hostility against the Mozambican people, and precludes any possibility of our establishing friendly relations. Support for FRELIMO should be based on acceptance by the SPD that FRELIMO is right in its fight against Portuguese colonialism, that colonialism must be eradicated from Mozambique, and that therefore this support should not be conditional and «humanitarian)) but global political, as is already the case with other Social Democratic Parties in Europe and also with the Dutch Government, whose Minister for Development Aid, Mr. Pronk, stated on July 2nd, 1973: "The Dutch Government is going to give support to the liberation movements because it wants to speed up the process of decolonisation in the territories occupied by Portugal, and not for «humani- tarian reasons)). " The SPD rejected the FRELIMO requests. It refused to commit itself to a move to stop military supplies to Portugal (it must be recalled that the SPD is the ruling party in the FRG). On the Cahora Bassa issue, it stated that this project will be useful to independent Mozambique, and that it would not do anything to force West German companies to withdraw. It insisted that its support should be confined to giving FRELIMO ((humanitarian aid)). The SPD position on Cahora Bassa is particularly serious since it shows great contempt for our personality and sovereignty. The SPD wants to teach us, the Mozambican people, what is good for us. The FRELIMO delegation returned, having found out that at this stage, at least, there are no grounds for co-operation with the SPD. The SPD does not in fact live up to its anti-colonial statements. Moreover, it is FRELIMO's position that we cannot establish relations with any organisation except on a correct political and moral basis. W. German firm helps Portugal build planes Zurich, Wednesday. PORTUGAL is building its first aircraft factory with help from a West German firm whose planes formed the nucleus of Hitler's air force in World War II, according to a newspaper report here. The "Neue Zurcher Zeitung' said that the factory, which is being built at Beja, will provide employment to more than 1,000 workers and cost about 200 million escudos (60 million/-), The West German firm,Mes- serschmitt Werke, will render financial and technical assistance, ihe paper said. Messerschmitt's past intimate association with fascist militarism — its fighter planes played an important'part in Hitler's attempt at world conquest — suggests that the project is connected with production of military rather than civilian aircraft. The report is the second major embarrassment for Chancellor Willy Brandt's Social Democratic party in recent weeks, following SPD's unsuccessful attempt to persuade Frelimo to accept its aid. The first was the Pentagon's disclosure in August that for the past three years Portuguese fighter pilots have been receiving training at US bases in West Germany. The factory project and the pilot training facilities are examples of the kind of West German support for Portuguese fascism that influenced Frelimo's decision to reject SPD aid. Mr. Brandt's party said it did not approve of such support but it would not commit itself to forcing the government to end it, DAILY NEWS, Thursday, October 4,1973. The W. German people express their solidarity with the peoples of the Portuguese colonies 21
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hound shark facts
This shark is an olive grey or brown, and may have shades of yellow or grayish white. Sport Diver may receive financial compensation for products purchased through this site. Extremely long terminal caudal lobe ( half the dorsal caudal margin ). ASK DAN: How can I avoid an out-of-air incident? The shark species is the second most commonly found shark along the southern coast of New England. • Their close relatives, the spiny dogfish, have spines in their dorsal fins, but dusky smooth-hounds do not. The bigeye houndshark, Iago omanensis, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found on deep continental shelves in the western Indian Ocean from the Red Sea to southwestern India, between latitudes 30° N and 10° N, at depths of between 110 and 2,200 m. Information about the classification of Iago omanensis. Dogfish, (order Squaliformes), any of several small sharks making up an order of chondrichthyian fishes composed of the families Centrophoridae (gulper sharks), Dalatiidae, Echinorhinidae, Etmopteridae, Oxynotidae, Somniosidae, and Squalidae. Researches at California State University in Long Beach have recorded three times more great whites than 2019. The color is brown to dark gray above and whitish below. The gray smoothhound can be distinguished from other smoothhounds by ⦠There are no distinguishing stripe⦠The trailing edges of both dorsal fins have exposed ceratotrichia (slender soft or stiff filaments of an elasti⦠Additional dark spots are found along the lateral surfaces of the species. • There is an active online conversation about dogfish fisheries management. The environments in which many hound sharks species are known to live. Published August 21, 2016 Updated July 14, 2020. Near Threatened. Due to political negotiations for the 2010 Shark Conservation Act, this is one of the few species of sharks for which it is legal for fishermen to remove fins at sea in U.S. waters. Plan your trip with Rainbow Reef today by visiting www.rainbowreef.com/key-largo-diving-package-specials/ or call 800-457-4354 for personalized friendly service. 10 Interesting Facts About How Sharks Hunt. Coloration Color is generally gray or brown dorsally and lighter in color ventrally. You can make a difference! Most coral reefs have declined to fair "fair" condition, according to the first-ever nationwide assessment of the nation’s coral reefs. Despite how many sharks are in the ocean, scientists are still discovering how these menacing creatures actually behave. by David Rosenfeld. Smoothhounds are the only shark species targeted along the Atlantic Coast of the U. S. with no fisheries limits in place. One of the most distinguishing features of this species is the bold dark bars draped across the dorsal surface. All rights reserved. Mustelus canis canis. More • Low-quality fish and chips served in the U.K. is often made from dogfish. Females give birth to 2 to 5 pups. The snout is bluntly angular and there is narrow distance between nostrils. Family: Carcharhinidae (Requiem sharks) Genus and Species: Mustelus californicus Description: The body of the gray smoothhound is elongate, slender, tapering from behind the dorsal fin to a long slender tail. Second dorsal fin much smaller than the first and about as large as the anal fin. This shark is an olive grey or brown in color, and may have shades of yellow or grayish white. Striped smooth-hound sharks swim at low-density waters over a small area. Pop culture depicts sharks as deadly goliaths, so you may be surprised at the typical size of a real shark is smaller than an average human! Grey Smooth-hound Shark For Sale. SRI conducts and sponsors rigorous, peer-reviewed field research about sharks and uses science-based information to educate and advocate for shark conservation policies and ⦠These guys are pretty shy around humans. The Smooth-hound lives in the demersal, marine, depth range - 350 m environment. Dusky smooth-hound sharks, commonly called smooth dogfish, are native to the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States. See more ideas about Shark, Hound, Animals. Great White Shark Populations Increasing Off California Coast. In North America the name is also used for a freshwater Includes facts, pictures and articles. I've always got some interest in biology. Grey Smooth-hound Shark, the grey smooth-hound is a species of houndshark found from California to the Gulf of California, in Mexico. Sign up to receive our weekly email newsletter and never miss an update! The name of the genus comes from the Latin word mustela, meaning weasel. In this edition of Ask a Marine Biologist, Dr. David Shiffman tackles a frequently asked question about shark size. David Shiffman is a Ph.D. student at the University of Miami’s Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, where he studies shark ecology and conservation. Sharks, Turtles, Manta Rays, Nudi's, Frogfish...and more! Average Adult Size: The adult average appears to be about 4.0-4.25 ft (122 â130 cm). The smooth-hound sharks are constantly on the move, when kept in captivity. Japanese Leopard Shark . Diet: invertebrates, bony fish, crustaceans, squid, and octopus [4] Shark don't have vocal cords. Copyright © 2020 Sport Diver. Their flattened teeth are ideal for crushing their diet of crustaceans, mollusks, squid and small fish. ** It is found on the continental shelves of the eastern Pacific, from California to Mexico, from the surface to a depth of 200 m. This is a healthy Grey Smooth Hound Shark. Species Profile on the Banded Houndshark Common Name: Banded Houndshark Scientific Name: Triakis scyllium Alias: Banded smooth hound, or Japanese Leopard Size at Birth: Most sources state that Banded Hound sharks are born at about 7.1-9.4 inches (18-24 cm). Females live to 16 years and males have a life span of 10 years. Newborns and juveniles have dark bars of uneven widths running across the upper surface of their head and body. The striped smoothhound is one of the most distinctive of the smoothhound shark species, due to its large head, very small eyes and sharply pointed snout. DIVE with a PURPOSE and combine diving in the Galapagos Islands while supporting the conservation of sharks! 1. Select an environment to see its hound sharks species checklist. 2) Adult leopard sharks reach lengths of over 6 feet; though they average less than ⦠νικά)宽鼻æ鲨 in Mandarin Chinese寬鼻æé¯ in Mandarin Chinese, © 2010 Thewebsiteofeverything.comPictures and facts of theSmooth-hound (Mustelus asterias), Picture of the Smooth-hound has been licensed under a Creative Commons, Ukrainian (ÑкÑаÑнÑÑка мова). 82 Interesting Shark Facts. The lower lobe of the caudal fin is usually indistinct. A PADI Worldwide Company. IUCN Red List Thanks to specials like Discovery Channelâs Shark Week, our understanding of sharks has ⦠When hundreds of leopard sharks were found dead and dying in Californiaâs San Francisco Bay earlier this month, we wanted to learn more about these beautiful fish. The dorsal fin originates slightly behind the free rear tip of the pectoral fins. Grey Smooth Hound Sharks can tolerate a range of water conditions from water temperatures between 59-72 F and salinity ranges of 1.020-1.025 SG, with a pH range of 8.0-8.4, they are temperate water sharks that will do best with water temperatures between 62 F and 68 F. Large arched mouth. Facts about the Smoothhound - Mustelus mustelus from the Shark Research Institute (SRI). Fun Facts About Sharks for Kids. The snout is comparatively long and flattened. • U.S. fishermen land more than 2 million pounds of dogfish each year, with active fisheries in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Massachusetts, with approximately 90 percent of U.S. shark exports in 2011 consisting of smooth and spiny dogfish. By Karin Lehnardt, Senior Writer. It occurs at the bottom, usually in shallow waters, but has been found in occasion in waters as deep as 200 m. Theyâre viviparous. They have a relatively long snout and a flattened head. Sizes will vary but generally are from 12-16 inches. Although the distinguishing vertical bars are still present in adults, they ⦠Jan 24, 2019 - Explore Mark Madsen's board "Smooth Hound Shark" on Pinterest. NEW 15 Day Galapagos Liveaboard - Dive for Shark Conservation! The Striped Smooth-Hound is a type of houndshark that swims off the coast of Brazil and northern Argentina. jmaley cc-by-nc-4.0 Hound Shark Habitats. There are now more than 10,000 shark pictures and sections on shark evolution, biology, and conservation. scubadiving.com is part of PADI Media, a division of PADI Worldwide. Where to Find Them: The narrownose smoothhound shark has a slender body, similar in form to other triakids, and a short head with large eyes. The first sharks lived more than 400 million years agoâ200 million years before the first dinosaurs. The anterior edge of the first dorsal fin appears behind the pectoral f⦠While females mature between 106 to 117 cm at six to seven years. Grey Smooth Hound Shark - Mustelus Californicus **Canada buyers please contact us for shipping arrangements! Females live to 16 years and males have a lifespan of 10 years. However, their numbers fall fairly short of the spiny dogfish, which is the most common shark in the world. Striped Smooth-Hound Shark Status: Critically endangered. (Banded Hound Shark/Triakis scyllium) Sizes will vary.Typical sizes range from 8 - 18 inches. They can reach 150 cm long. The sharks are in SoCal waters longer due to warming…, U.S. Reef Continue Decline, Nationwide Report Finds. The dusky smooth-hound (Mustelus canis), also called the smooth dogfish or the dog shark, is a species of houndshark in the family Triakidae. Maximum Adult Size: Most sources state the ⦠Select an environment to see its hound sharks species checklist. Their night vision is better than a catâs or a wolfâs. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. It sounds unlikely, but it happens more than you might think. Though they can reproduce relatively quickly for a shark, with females becoming reproductively mature at four or five years of age, conservationists are concerned about the lack of a scientific population assessment and science-based fisheries catch limits. Divers report that smooth-hounds are generally shy and are not aggressive, preferring to avoid people. Itâs hard to see in the murky waters of the deep, but sharks have excellent vision. ; A sharkâs sense of smell is 10,000 times better than a humanâs. There are…, This unspoiled paradise is on Turneffe Atoll, which has been called the “Jewel of the Caribbean”…. The Brown Smooth Hound Shark reaches sexual maturity at about 24 inches in length, which it can attain in about 2 to 4 years depending on abundance of food and water conditions. Their depth ranges from the just under the surface of the water to 624 m, but they typically swim around 50 m. Striped smooth-hounds are coloured grey or brown-grey and sometimes black-spotted with a white underside. Distinctive Features The body of the grey smooth-hound is similar to other sharks within the family Triakidae with a slender body, large oval eyes, low blunt teeth and a large second dorsal fin. Habitat: sand, mud, or rock bottoms, bays, river mouths, and seabeds Location: world-wide in warm coastal waters Size: range between 1.3-5.6 feet long Description: Houndsharks are one of the largest families with over 40 different species.Some species swim continuously during the day, while others spend time resting on the bottom. Narrownose smoothhounds are gray with numerous small white spots on their dorsal side and solid white coloration underneath. In the western Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to Brazil, Threat Level: hound sharks Habitats. Divers report that smooth-hounds are generally shy and are not aggressive, preferring to avoid people. This is a healthy Japanese Leopard Shark. Unfortunately for this species, their nursing grounds are in a popular fishing area. Houndsharks, the Triakidae, are a family of ground sharks, consisting of about 40 species in nine genera. They have a short, rounded snout with widely spaced nostrils. In some classifications, the family is split into two subfamilies, with Mustelus, Scylliogaleus, and Triakis in the subfamily Triakinae, and the remaining genera in the subfamily Galeorhininae. Shiffman is happy to answer any questions you have about sharks on Twitter (@WhySharksMatter) or Facebook (facebook.com/WhySharksMatter). Dusky Smooth-hound Shark The Soupfin shark is a moderately slender long-nosed hound shark, without obvious anterior nasal flaps or sub ocular ridges. Follow twitter hashtag #dogfishrsharks2 to learn more about dogfish conservation and how you can help. The Banded Houndshark (Triakis Scyllium) is a species of Hound Shark found common in the northwestern Pacific from the southern Russian to Taiwan.Found on or near the bottom, it favors shallow coastal habitats with sandy or ⦠Follow twitter hashtag #DogfishRSharks2 to learn more about dogfish conservation and how you can help. They have changed very little over the eons. Off the coast of Japan, male Banded hound sharks mature between 93 to 103 cm at five to six years old. The striped smoothhound is grey or greybrown on its dorsal side and white underneath. There is a large library of reviewed shark books, a constantly updated shark taxonomy page, a monster list of shark links, and deeper in the site there are numerous articles and stories about shark encounters. Many products featured on this site were editorially chosen. I have seen/caught some Smoothhound Sharks and mullet in Cat Harbor but nowhere else around Catalina. The environments in which many hound sharks species are known to live. This unspoiled paradise is on Turneffe Atoll, which has been called the “Jewel of the Caribbean”. In adult specimens, the pectoral fins are broadly triangular. The dusky smooth-hound or smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis, is a species of hound shark, family Triakidae. 6 amazing shore dives in Maui! The name of the genus comes from the Latin word mustela, meaning weasel. Dusky smooth-hound sharks, commonly called smooth dogfish, are native to the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Here are 10 interesting facts about Triakis semifasciata.. 1) The leopard shark is a species of houndshark, in the family Triakidae. Dusky Smooth-hound Shark Mustelus canis canis. Banded houndsharks feed on invertebrates and can grow to a maximum length of 150 cm. By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. Even the most experienced divers can fall victim to a common diving incident: running out of air. 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COLOMBO, Feb 5 - The 58th anniversary of Independence for Sri Lanka brought another fete for the country as it became the first nation to host three important ICC events in the last six years as the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup 2006 was officially inaugurated today amid a function at the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo.
This is the second time the city of Colombo is hosting the tournament as the third edition in 2000 was held here. Thus, Sri Lanka became the first country to host the tournament twice.
ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed, Sri Lankan Minister for Sports Jeevan Kumaratunga and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) president Jayanta Dharmadasa along with all the captains of the 16 participating teams took to the podium led by a dancing troop reflecting traditional Sri Lankan culture.
The skippers also lit an oil fed lamp one by one after ICC CEO Malcolm Speed passed the flame to them. Match referees Allan Hurst and Roshan Mahanama were also present at the podium.
The most exciting part of the evening was the unveiling of the trophy. The trophy, for which all the team will fight in the next 15 days, arrived laden on an elephant back and was handed over to Speed.
The Nepali contingent felt proud when the ICC CEO reminded all the guests of Nepal's achievement of beating South Africa in the 2004 U-19 World Cup. "We are glad to see the increasing interest in the U-19 World Cup from the media," said Speed terming the event as a very important one in the ICC Calendar.
"This is the ground where future stars of world cricket undergo an acid test to prove their abilities and try to break in the international cricket arena," said Speed wishing all the best of luck.
Sri Lankan Minister for Sports Jeevan Kumaratunga thanked ICC for the trust in Sri Lankan cricket.
On behalf of SLC, secretary Anil Hasim thanked all the dignitaries and ICC for granting an opportunity to host the tournament.
All the team members and ICC officials, SLC staff were also thanked for their hard work.
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All the teams participating in the U-19 World Cup will have to undergo doping test. Manager of the Nepali team TB Shah said that urine samples of three players of each team will be collected in a random basis during every match.
Nepali skipper Kanishka Chaugai and manager TB Shah attended the managers' meeting this morning. "The meeting discussed things regarding the doping test and anticorruption regulations along with the playing conditions," said Shah.
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As the World Cup kicks off from Sunday, Colombo suddenly received a heavy rain throughout the day today. Locals say this is the first time in more than a decade, it has rained in Colombo in the month of February.
However, the teams found the rain rather pleasing. Although the unseasonal rain might have given some relief, they are certain to see hotter Colombo in the few days as the rain is expected to make way for sunny days.
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The Quantitative Measurement of Neutron Induced Activity in Biomedical Applications.
Hosseini-Ashrafi, Mir Ebrahim. (1990) The Quantitative Measurement of Neutron Induced Activity in Biomedical Applications. Doctoral thesis, University of Surrey (United Kingdom)..
The principles of In Vivo Neutron Activation Analysis, IVNAA, and the present status of IVNAA methods and other in vivo elemental composition techniques have been outlined. Description has been given of the modifications made to the IVNAA facility used in the present study and the subsequent effects on the performance of the system have been discussed. Detection limits, using the ’prompt’ neutron activation technique for the major body elements, sodium, chlorine and nitrogen were found to be 220 ppm, 140 ppm and 1.55% by weight, respectively. It was found that neither calcium nor phosphorus could be measured using the ’prompt’ technique at acceptable dose levels to the subject. It has been shown that measurement of body chlorine concentrations through the 37Cl (n,γ) 38mCl reaction is not feasible using ’cyclic’ activation analysis at acceptable dose levels delivered to the subject. Determination of cadmium and selenium concentrations in a liver phantom was carried out, during the same experiment, using the technique of alternate ’prompt’ and ’cyclic’ activation analysis. This allows for the collection of the ’prompt’ gamma-ray data with no further dose delivered to the subject. Detection limits of 13 ppm and 5.8 ppm for Cd and Se were obtained, respectively. The origin of the interfering photopeak in 77mSe measurements was not conclusively identified but some of the possible sources have been outlined and suggestions have been made for further investigations. Neutron inflicted damage of germanium based semiconductor detectors has been discussed and a method of Ge(Li) crystal repair has been described that is expected to lead to full fast neutron damaged detector regeneration, provided that the necessary active outgassing of the detector vacuum enclosure is incorporated. A Monte Carlo aided Fortran-77 computer programme for the calculation of the average solid angle subtended by a collimated detector at the photon emitting source which addresses the collimator edge penetration was developed and tested. The strength of the simulation technique in providing pre-experimental information in a variety of investigations where collimated detectors are used for gamma-ray measurements has been demonstrated. The goal of performing IVNAA as an ’absolute’ method has been partially addressed; it has been shown that the programme can be used to: (i) determine the volume of the activated target viewed by the collimated detector and (ii) to estimate the effect of the neutron flux non-uniformity within the activated volume of interest. Finally, the photoneutron field around a medical electron accelerator has been determined using ’bare’ activation detectors. A review has been given of the past photoneutron measurements and the results of the present study have been discussed. Evidence of photoneutron production within the patient body has been presented. The ’in beam’ photoneutron dose equivalent contribution on the patient plane was found to be 8.7 +- 30% mSv per Gy of photons.
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Hosseini-Ashrafi, Mir Ebrahim.
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Ab Imperio (2010), 3
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Ab Imperio (2010), 3.
Ab Imperio. Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space
Neighbor: Social and Political Encounters in the Imperial Context
Russia and CIS: Dr. Ilya Gerasimov, Dr. Marina Mogilner, Kazan State University e-mails: office@abimperio.net, marina@abimperio.net USA and Canada: Dr. Serguei Glebov, Rutgers University e-mail: glebov@abimperio.net Western Europe: Dr. Alexander Kaplunovski, Giessen University e-mail: akaplunovski@abimperio.net Eastern Europe: Alexander Semyonov, Central European University e-mail: semyonov@abimperio.net Reviews and Bibliography Editor: Igor Martyniuk, Central European University e-mail: igor.martynyuk@abimperio.net
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"Ab Imperio" editors are pleased to announce the release of the third issue of the journal in 2010. "Ab Imperio" is a bilingual (English Russian) international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of empire and nationalism in the post Soviet space. The third issue of the journal is devoted to the exploration of "Neighbor: Social and Political Encounters in the Imperial Context". The language of each publication (Russian or English) is indicated by a letter in brackets.
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Do Not Love Thy Neighbor: The Dynamics of Neighborhood, Friendship, and Enmity (R&E)
There is an understandable temptation to frame the thematic issue dedicated to the problem of neighbors in the imperial context by the famous Jan Gross’s Neighbors (Jan T. Gross. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. Princeton, NJ, 2001), that is, to focus on the potentially menacing condition of living side by side with the Other in a heterogeneous imperial polity. We did not yield to this temptation while preparing this issue, precisely because our goal was to focus on the variety of relations of diversity and alterity and to eschew the readily available patterns of interpreting the Other as a friend or a foe. At some point in common history, the Other is just a neutral neighbor. The question of “when nationalism began to hate” (to quote the title of another study in Polish history - Brian Porter. When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland. Oxford, 2000) has a discouragingly simple answer: the moment it began to blindly love. Affection for members of one’s imagined community has the side effect of growing hatred of equally constructed homogeneous adversaries: “oppressors,” “exploiters,” “occupants,” all kinds of ideological and political opponents. At a certain historical junction, the only way to prove one’s belonging to “us” is through participation in the extermination of “them,” and the position of a neutral neighbor becomes structurally impossible.
Recently, some students of postcoloniality questioned the dichotomy between the colonizer and the colonized, thus complicating our understanding of historical empires. Historians are challenged to enrich and complicate their own understanding of group interactions in historical empires. It seems to us that one way to do so is to focus on the underreflected category of “neighbor” and its dynamic relationship with categories of “friend” or “enemy.” For instance, scholars have long wondered why contiguous land empires of the Old World appear at times less efficient in exterminating native populations than the settled colonies of European nations. According to Dominic Lieven, “white democratic nationalism in Europe’s colonies of settlement generally far outdid the aristocratic and bureaucratic empire in its devastation of indigenous peoples.” (Dominic Lieven. Empire. Russian Empire and Its Rivals From the 16th Century to the Present. London, 2003). Yet, these empires are no more “humane” in this respect than national communities, it is just that their entangled and multilayered principles of groupness complicate a coherent application of hatred: it is difficult to hate all the Tatars, or Muslims, or Old Believers, or Jews, because boundaries between these categories of population have blurred and even became transient. Representatives of some of them could be found among the imperial elite or in the state service, or would be perceived absolutely differently once they were beyond certain territorial locations (Old Believers – in the Caucasus, Jews – in Central Asia or Harbin). There is also no official imperial politics of unconditional “love” toward any social groups, and hence a lower degree of social animosity. Thus, arguably, in the imperial situation there is a much wider niche for the neutral category of neighbor.
We open the issue with a translation from the seminal study by Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (1991). The concept of the middle ground as elaborated by White in the book and further developed in a 2006 article, which we also publish in Russian translation, has tremendous explanatory potential but remains largely unknown to specialists in Russian imperial history. In part, this can be explained by the prejudices shared by some structuralist-minded historians (from the ranks of both Americanists and Russianists) that the concept of the middle ground can be applied only to explicitly frontier situations, in territories claimed by at least two empires, and, it can be added with only a little exaggeration, in the proximity of big lakes, preferably, the Great Lakes. (See a skeptical appraisal of the portability of White’s concept in Philip J. Deloria. What Is the Middle Ground, Anyway? // The William and Mary Quarterly. 2006. Vol. LXIII. No. 1. Pp. 15-23. Some specialists in Russian history uphold to even more radical views). White himself elegantly formulated his attitude to the problem of portability of his concept:
So, do I think that the middle ground as a process is replicable in other places and other times? Yes, I do. Is every instance where academics find this process at work the equivalent of the Upper Country? No, but sometimes other academics might think so. I was fairly specific about the elements that were necessary for the construction of such a space: a rough balance of power, mutual need or a desire for what the other possesses, and an inability by either side to commandeer enough force to compel the other to change. Force and violence are hardly foreign to the process of creating and maintaining a middle ground, but the critical element is mediation. (Richard White. Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings // The William and Mary Quarterly. 2006. Vol. LXIII. No. 1. P. 9)
What makes the “middle ground” so interesting to historians of Russian Empire is not the spatial setting in the woods, in the frontier zone (reminiscent of Siberia or the Caucasus), but the cognitive processes at work here, determined by a specific power–knowledge constellation. In the imperial situation, when different branches of state authority possess a certain autonomy and hence no one can enjoy the monopoly on government backing, dealing with the Other often requires entering the middle ground. As White himself explained,
“I was trying to describe a process that arose from the ‘willingness of those who ... [sought] to justify their own actions in terms of what they perceived to be their partner’s cultural premises.’ These actors sought out cultural ‘congruences, either perceived or actual,’ that
‘often seemed—and, indeed, were—results of misunderstandings or accidents.’ Such interpretations could be ludicrous, but it did not matter. ‘Any congruence, no matter how tenuous, can be put to work and can take on a life of its own if it is accepted by both sides.’ The middle ground is thus a process of mutual and creative misunderstanding.” (He used quotations from: Richard White. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815. Cambridge, 1991. Pp. 52-53)
Richard White provided a complex and workable model of the imperial neighborhood situation: for example, in Kazan, where, in the imperial heartland, Russians and Tatars were engaged in the intensive process of mutual and creative misunderstanding. (As demonstrated in his seminal study Robert Geraci, who did not use the model of the middle ground but described exactly this kind of intergroup dialogue: Robert Geraci. Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia. Ithaca and London, 2001). Russians and Tatars (Orthodox Christians and Muslims) were neither “friends” nor “foes”: imperial authorities would not even experiment with the “friendship of the peoples” ideology, while anxiously avoiding any possibility of Russo-Tatar confrontation. They were neighbors, and their everyday relationships on the intergroup and individual levels were based on the middle-ground process.
In the historical section of the journal, we publish three articles that explore the functioning of Orthodoxy on the margins of empire, where notions of neighborhood and otherness are supposedly evident and given. Perhaps, it is not a coincidence that these notions in our issue are illustrated with the help of the history of confession. As recent scholarship suggests, confession was one of the most important markers (but by no means the only marker) of belonging and exclusion. If we take seriously the notion that the Russian Empire was, as Robert Crews proposed, a confessional state (among other things - Robert Crews. For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia. Cambridge, MA, 2006; idem. Empire and the Confessional State: Islam and Religious Politics in Nineteenth-Century Russia // American Historical Review. 2003. Vol. 108. No. 1. Pp. 50-83), then surely its operation should become visible through the study of the “dominant” confession of the empire.
Liudmila Posokhova’s article deals with the phenomenon of the Orthodox colleges (pravoslavnye kollegiumy) of the eighteenth–early nineteenth centuries. Orthodox colleges were created in the towns of Chernigov, Kharkov, and Pereiaslav in Ukrainian lands in the first third of the eighteenth century, and in her meticulous study of attempts to reform their curriculum, the author shows how the initial model of the Catholic university was transformed with heavy borrowings from the repertoire of German Protestant universities. Thus, the official anti-Catholic and less pronounced anti-Protestant rhetoric notwithstanding, Russian Orthodox schooling developed in a dialogue with other Christian traditions (neither friends nor foes), or at least with their image created by Orthodox educators. In the dynamics of confessional “othering” that Posokhova illustrates, Protestant influences become less threatening due to the Protestants’ relations with Catholics, thus transferring the former from the realm of “enemies” into that of “neighbors.” It should be noted that this position of Protestantism continued to be present in the later history of Russian Orthodoxy, which was more willing to enter into dialogue with Lutherans (with whom the Orthodox, admittedly, shared more than just anti-Catholic sentiment but also specific interests and interpretations).
Anton Rybakov contributes an article on the history of the incorporation of the Georgian Church into the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church in the early nineteenth century. Rybakov’s study offers a fascinating example of multiple layers and factors in the interpretations of belonging: although the Georgian Orthodox Church shared communion with Russian Orthodoxy, the logic of imperial administrative universalism and a sense of Russia’s “advancement” in comparison to Georgia precluded its persistence as a separate Church. Still, we find the same situation of creative misunderstanding producing some new common (middle) ground: Russian imperial church officials misinterpreted the signs of poverty in Georgian churches, while Georgian hierarchs often erroneously assessed the rational of the St. Petersburg authorities. And as is characteristic of many “middle ground” situations, the consequences of imperial policies were often unintended, as was the case with the impact of the incorporation of the Georgian Church on the development of the Georgian national movement.
In his study of the famous missionary Innokentii Veniaminov, Ilya Vinkovetsky explores another aspect of Russian Orthodox Church activity: its problematic partnership with the Russian-American Company in Alaska, and its missionary activities among the indigenous population. Just as in the articles mentioned above, we cannot explicitly identify this historical case as an instance of the middle ground, but we clearly see the mechanisms of the middle-ground situation at work here: the mutual projections of the missionaries and the locals, and missionaries and the Company officers, or St. Petersburg authorities. Whenever the inequality of interacting parties does not reach the magnitude of direct domination, we have to discuss them as neighbors, if not partners.
In the other set of historical articles, Aleksandra Petuhova examines the transformation that had occurred in the course of the last decade of the Russian Empire, when the public image of the Finn as a neighbor was forced out by the image of the Finn as an enemy. She approaches the “Finnish question” as an influential and genuinely mass discourse of Russia at the turn of the twentieth century that made evident mechanisms of political, national, and social othering of the former neighbor. Incidentally, although the imperial center did not have complete control over Finland, the growing mutual alienation was a result of the demise of the elements of the middle ground that gave way to discourses of domination and national competition.
The article by Yukiko Hama reveals the dialectic quality of “neighbor” as a category, equally applicable in the context of conflict and cooperation. She tells the story of a founding father of Japanese Russian and Soviet Studies, Saburō Shimano, whose career covered periods of wars, confrontations, cooperation, and ally assistance between Japan and Russia in the twentieth century. His views presented a mixture of sympathy and animosity toward Russia. His ideology of pan-Asianism was developed under the influence of Russian Eurasianism and in opposition to it. In other words, his case illustrates a typical middle-ground cognitive process by a “neighbor:” rephrasing the elegant formulas of White in plain language, when one cannot ignore the existence of the Other or get rid of the Other, everything is left is to make sense of the Other’s existence in familiar categories.
Articles published in the “Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Science” section review the neighbor situation in several contexts. Philipp Casula analyzes the post–Cold War relationships between Russia and the United States (primarily during the 1990s). He shows the intrinsic connection of foreign politics with domestic problems, and how both countries coped with the problem of the disappearance of the ultimate Other as the constitutive external factor of national identity. Sophie Roche’s ethnographic study of post–Civil War Tajikistan discovers a distinctive friendship system as an important foundation of the social order, as an intermediary between traditional bonds of kinship with formal social institutions such as the state apparatus. In the multiethnic Tajik society, social practices of friendship help to integrate “neighbors” into citizens. Finally, Sami Zegnani and Alexandra Filhon have written an article about French suburbs that are perceived in contemporary France as “ethnic” and dangerous. They decipher the meaning and social functions of “ethnicity” in the language of those who ascribe it to their neighbors and those who appropriate this language to demarcate the boundaries of their own, almost always ethnically heterogeneous, group.
In “Newest Mythologies,” the essay by Sergei Sokolovsky explores the relationship between the concept of indigeneity as it is practiced in identity politics and the more respectable spheres of knowledge, such as biomedical sciences. Sokolovsky demonstrates the resemblance of the biology of invasive species and environmental thinking to the discourse of sociocultural nativism and xenophobia. With the help of environmental studies of Hawaii he shows that many premises of the biology of invasive species are based on flawed assumptions about indigeneity taken from cultural and social constructions. This article reminds us of yet another aspect of the neighbour condition: living side by side, it is both erroneous and self-destructive to claim a monopoly over any territory as “ancestral.” Very few plants or animal species can be recognized with some justification as indigenous to their habitat (on several islands), but never human collectives. Living next to each other, it is quite a challenge to remain a good neighbor; to this end, probably, one should not attempt to follow the commandment “to love thy neighbor” lest a symmetrical urge to hate emerges.
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
The Middle Ground (R)
Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings (R)
Liudmila Posokhova
Orthodox Colleges in the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Century: Between Traditions and Innovation (R)
Anton Rybakov
In “the Realm of Caesar:” The Problem of Status and Structure of the Georgian Orthodox Church After the Revocation of Its Autocephaly (R)
Ilya Vinkovetsky
Building a Diocese Overseas: The Orthodox Church in Partnership with the Russian-American Company in Alaska (E)
Alexandra Petoukhova
“Tell Me Who Your Enemies Are...:” The “Anti-Finnish Discourse” in the Sphere of Sociopolitical Communication in the Russian Empire in the Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries (R)
Yukiko Hama
Russia from a Pan-Asianist View: Saburō Shimano and His Activities (E)
SOCIOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE
Philipp Casula
“Primacy in Your Face”: Changing Discourses of National Identity and National Interest in the United States and Russia (E)
Sophie Roche
Friendship Relations in Tajikistan: An Ethnographic Account (E)
Sami Zegnani, Alexandra Filhon
Linguistic Practices of Ethnicity in a Workers Suburb in France (R)
NEWEST MYTHOLOGIES
Sergei Sokolovski
Indigeneity and Territorial Rights: Anthropological and Biogeographic Parallels (R)
Alexander Morrison
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Timothy A. Nunan
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Oxana Ermolaeva
Cathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. Vilensky, Children of the Gulag (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010). 450 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-300-12293-0. (R)
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Leonid Rein
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Post subject: Distant Light
That was the first Hollies album I bought after I've heard Long Cool Woman on a sampler. After the first listen I thought it's good but not great. But as I listened to it for the 2nd and 3rd time and so on it really grew on me and now I hold it as one of my three favourite albums of all time and it's my favourite Hollies album of course!
There isn't a single weak song on the whole album. The only thing I wouldn't go crazy about is the middle section on You Know The Score, written by Terry and Allan, otherwise it's a great song!
The two songs written and sung by Terry Sylvester, Cable Car, a beautiful ballad with a great string section and Pull Down The Blind, an R'n'B number with a fantastic guitar solo by Tony, are among the best ones written by him and that aren't even the highlights on the album. These are the two Hicks/Lynch collaborations What A Life I've Led (with female harmonies in the chorus) and Long Dark Road and of course Allans FBI Rock'n'Roll number Long Cool Woman. The other three songs by Hicks/Lynch are also very catchy tunes: Look What We've Got, which has an Elton John styled piano and a strong saxophone solo, To Do With Love, which is an uptempo acoustic pop song with an interesting accordion as an unexpected instrument thrown in and Promised Land, which has an acapella intro which is followed by a rock song which is quite fast and then slows down in the middle with a great dostorted guitar in the backround.
The other two Clarke numbers, Hold On, similar to LCW but a bit worse (it's a perfect song mind you) and A Little Thing Like Love, it has a really catchy melody, show the way Allan went on his solo records, which are, judged by the ones I've heard, just as good as the ones the Hollies released.
Best songs: What A Life I've Led, Long Cool Woman, Long Dark Road
Worst songs: ---
Rating: a big fat 10 out of 10. It doesn't get any better...
Posted:Tue Sep 21, 2004 18:39 pm
SpartyScott
Location: Gahanna, Ohio USA
I like the album, but don't love it.
Long Cool Woman, obviously, is an all time great.
Just about as good, IMO, is Long Dark Road.
Look What We've Got has a great, dramatic Allan vocal.
And Pull Down The Blind shows Terry revealing a new side to us.
Hold On is solid, too.
HOWEVER ...
In general, album doesn't feature enough harmonies to satisfy me. Plus, a few of songs could have used a bit more polish (particularly Life I've Led).
And of course, I refuse to listen to You Know The Score.
Posted:Thu Apr 27, 2006 17:32 pm
James Towill
Location: Dunfermline, Fife
SpartyScott wrote:
Boo hiss
I like this tune, a bit experimental, Hicks really showing his metal on the old guitar feedback.
The Last Wind... don't eat curries late at night
James Towill wrote:
You know the part I hate -- that wind sound effect and what I guess is supposed to be a post-apocolypse wasteland. That part absolutely doesn't work for me.
Yes, I loved Hicks' hard guitar on that song, that sounds something like what he did Hard, Hard Year.
I think that the gimmick bit with the experiement ruined what could have been a very good song.
It does tend to give me a fright after being so quiet for a couple of minutes only for the piercing guitar to re-enter!
KingRickfors
That's one of my favourite parts ..... guess that's my Proggy tendancies showing through again !!
Posted:Fri Apr 28, 2006 18:11 pm
How silly you are. "You Know the Score" is a fine track with a strong message. I think it's one of the best on the LP. It was very effective when performed live. And the middle section is excellent. Love it.
Dennis wrote:
Oh gee, we have another name-caller.
Maybe I'll have to consult with a 10-year old in order to frame a suitable reply.
DistantLight
Rythym Guitar
Come on Dennis! Not liking a track or in this case a part of a track has got nothing to do with being silly - it's just a matter of taste.
Posted:Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:12 am
[quote="Dennis"]
It was very effective when performed live. And the middle section is excellent. Love it.
When did you hear it live, Dennis?
Posted:Sat Apr 29, 2006 19:12 pm
[quote="James Towill"]
November 22, 1972, at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, CA. Lead singer was Tony Hicks.
Posted:Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:49 am
This is a great album,
I always thought it had a different Hollies sound to it, I thought it could have been made for the American market.
Every member of the Hollies has played his part, 50 great years and still going.
http://www.myspace.com/pinocchioman visit me and say hi
Posted:Wed May 03, 2006 4:48 am
Anthony wrote:
"Distant Light" had its greatest success in America, reaching No. 21 on the album chart.
Posted:Wed May 03, 2006 20:11 pm
Thanks Dennis for that info, 21 in the album charts shows how big they were in the States. I have heard that Long Dark Road was very popular in the US, have you seen the video clip of Tony singing it, BRILLIANT.
Posted:Thu May 04, 2006 15:12 pm
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