For the first time since the dioxin scandal broke out in Germany, the toxin has been found in pigs, reports Deutsche Welle. EU officials have confirmed that the animal feed was also exported to France and Denmark.
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Jerry Joseph & Wally Ingram | Salt Lake City | Review | Pics
December 30th, 2010 |
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Words & Images by: Phil Santala
Jerry Joseph & Wally Ingram :: 12.12.10 :: The State Room :: Salt Lake City, UT
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons begin a three-night run in Portland, OR tonight. Amazing, under-sung American rock greats Richmond Fontaine open for the Jackmormons on NYE. For full show details pop over here.
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What ever you do, don’t call it a comeback or anything new. Jerry Joseph has been absolutely on fire the last few years. Not matter who he is touring with – the Jackmormons, Denmark Veseys, Stockholm Syndrome, or just with percussionist Wally Ingram – his shows, as of late, almost never cease to amaze me. The State Room show in Utah was no exception.
Bold words considering this summer saw me walking away from three nights in Virginia City, MT at Bandito’s shaking my head in wonderment. That run itself just gets better and betterÂ…but enough about the past. We gathered in Salt Lake City, one of Jerry’s former residencies, to partake in some pre-holidays shenanigans, Jerry Joseph Style.
Jerry came out, hulking onto the stage in big heavy boots. Some in the crowd responded by shouting, “Show us your feet!” It was clear that those in attendance were not just casual fans. The core had turned out for this event, and the duo did not disappoint. Jerry seemed to be in high spirits, joking to the crowd before “Wisconsin Death Trip” that, “Wally and I, when I was a kid, we used to sing this around the Christmas tree at Wally’s house, eating Christmas koogle.” Jerry also jested after the Vic Chestnutt song “Flirted With You All My Life” that the song was about “holidays and good times. You feeling any better?” Vic, he said, “fucking nailed it” with that song. The Christmas spirit was certainly making Jerry’s heart grow three times its size that day.
Local Jackmormons bassist JR Ruppel joined Jerry and Wally for much of the second half of the set. The encore, which was especially moving and heartfelt, found Joseph stepping out from the mike to shout and sing directly to the crowd: “Ring ‘em up, tell ‘em that you love ‘em. CALL THEM NOW AND TELL THEM THAT YOU LOVE THEM!” It was a plea, a call, a cry of passion. Hold on, hold onto those around you, those you care for, those you hurt and neglect through your selfishness, those that never left you in the dark on your own no matter how you tried to push them away and no matter how many times your vices came between you and them. Ring ‘em up, and tell them Jerry Joseph said hi. Better yet, why don’t you all come out to the next Jerry Joseph show and see what the buzz is really all about?
Setlist
White Dirt, Jump, LAX, Flirted With You All My Life, Fur, Cochise, Two Balloons> Time the Revelator> Two Balloons. Muscles*, Radio Cab*, Paper Planes*>Climb to Safety*(slow)> Train Detective rap> Midnight Rambler rap> Climb to Safety*> Paper Planes*
Encore: Ring ‘em Up*> Good Sunday*>We Fall Down*> Good Sunday*
*w/ JR Rupple.
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Denmark: Terror suspects arrested
December 30th, 2010 |
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Authorities in Denmark and Sweden have arrested five people suspected of plotting to attack Danish daily Jyllands Posten. The daily published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed five years ago.
Judas Priest: Farewell Tour
December 8th, 2010 |
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ROCK WITH THE PRIEST ONE LAST TIME
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After storming the world for nearly 40 years and taking their very special brand of heavy metal to all four corners of
the planet, Judas Priest,
one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, have announced this will be their final world tour.
However, the mighty Priest will be going out strong as they rock the planet starting in 2011 on the massive “Epitaph
Tour” – hitting all the major cities throughout the world they will be playing the songs that helped make the name
Judas Priest synonymous with heavy metal.
The band will be starting their world tour in Europe. Check out the confirmed dates below, and stay tuned as more
dates are announced.
TOUR DATES
9th June Sweden Rock Festival, Sweden
11th June Sauna Festival, Finland
17th June Copenhell Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
19th June Hellfest, Nantes, France
22nd June Gods of Metal Festival, Milan, Italy
25th June Graspop Festival, Belgium
23rd July HIgh Voltage Festival, London, UK
5th August Wacken Festival, Germany
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Nuclear power: Team France in disarray
December 2nd, 2010 |
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Unhappy attempts to revive a national industry
WHAT solar panels are to Germany and wind turbines are to Denmark, nuclear reactors are to France: not just a power source but a pitch for global leadership in a field that is green and sexily high-tech. Electricite de France (EDF), a giant state utility, runs all 59 of the country’s nuclear plants and more than anyone else in the world. Together with Areva and Alstom, two firms involved in many aspects of nuclear-power production, EDF is trying to compete for business overseas. But Team France is ailing.
Its main product is the European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR), vaunted as the most sophisticated, plane-crash-proof and efficient in the world. But just two are under construction, and only one is being built outside France. An EPR in Finland has been dogged by quality and regulatory problems, causing cost overruns of about €2.7 billion ($3.5 billion). The fiasco led Siemens of Germany to end a joint venture with Areva, the lead contractor, reducing the chances of Franco-German co-operation on further EPRs. …
Raffles Education Corp launches Raffles European Dual Academy
November 22nd, 2010 |
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Private education provider Raffles Education Corporation says it has launched the Raffles European Dual Academy (REDA) and signed a collaborative agreement with Germany’s Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and Spain’s University AlcalaÌ.
REDA will be the first academy in Asia to introduce the “Duale Hochschule” or Dual Education System which combines both theory and practical education and is practised in Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Denmark.
Eating a variety of fruit cuts lung cancer risk by up to 23pc
November 20th, 2010 |
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Consuming a variety of fruit may reduce the risk of lung cancer by up to 23 percent, according to a new study. Eating five portions of fruit and vegetables per day is one of the means that experts most frequently recommend for preventing cancer. Now, the European EPIC study carried out by researchers from 10 [...]
Helmet: European Tour
November 12th, 2010 |
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TOUR STARTS NOVEMBER 17 IN THE NETHERLANDS
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Helmet is heading overseas on November 17 for a month-long European tour encompassing 11 countries
and 26 dates. They’ll be armed with a set list including their classics and material from the new full-length album
Seeing Eye Dog (indie label Work SongTopSpin).
The European dates kick off in the Netherlands and will take Helmet– vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Page
Hamilton, drummer Kyle Stevenson, guitarist Dan Beeman and bassist Dave
Case–to some of the largest cites including Copenhagen, Munich, Paris and London before concluding
December 17 in Glasgow, Scotland. The band is also planning another U.S. run for March 2011. The dates for that
trek will be
announced soon.
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:
Wed 11/17 Arnhem, Netherlands Luxor
Thu 11/18 Den Bosch, Netherlands W2
Fri 11/19 Bielefeld, Germany Forum
Sat 11/20 Hamburg, Germany Knust
Mon 11/22 Aarhus, Denmark Voxhall
Tue 11/23 Copenhagen, Denmark Vega Jr.
Wed 11/24 Berlin, Germany So36
Fri 11/26 Munich, Germany Feierwerk
Sat 11/27 Vienna, Austria Szene
Sun 11/28 Budapest, Hungary Durer Kert
Mon 11/29 Basel, Switzerland Sommercasino
Tue 11/30 Zurich, Switzerland Abart
Wed 12/1 Amalgame, Switzerland Yverdon
Fri 12/3 Ravenna, Italy Bronson
Sat 12/4 Turin, Italy Spazio
Sun 12/5 Annecy Le Brise, France Glace
Mon 12/6 Strasbourg, France La Laiterie
Wed 12/8 Stuttgart, Germany Roehre
Thu 12/9 Cologne, Germany Werkstatt
Fri 12/10 Paris, France Elysee Montmarte
Sat 12/11 Orleans, France Astro Lab
Sun 12/12 Tourcoing, France Le Grand Mix
Tue 12/14 Ghent, Belgium Vooruit
Wed 12/15 London, England La Scala
Thu 12/16 Manchester, England Club Academy
Fri 12/17 Glasgow, Scotland Cathouse
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Danish parliamentary delegation in Belgrade
November 1st, 2010 |
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President of the Danish parliament Thor Pedersen said in Belgrade on Monday that Denmark fully supports Serbia’s efforts to become a member of the EU. Addressing journalists at the Serbian National Assembly building, after the signing of the Agreement on inter-parliamentary cooperation between Serbia and Denmark, Pedersen said that he is satisfied with the progress Serbia has made on its EU pathway, of which his counterpart Slavica Äukić-Dejanović had informed him.
World Music Expo: Womex 2010
September 29th, 2010 |
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OCTOBER 27-31 IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
It’s an all-day, all-night dance and listening party, where old hands and grand dames share space with wild
newcomers. It’s a business platform where people from remote villages and well-heeled megalopolises meet and
discuss how to sustain musical diversity. It’s the best place to launch a successful career, whether you’re a striking
traditional singer from Afghanistan or the best rock guitarist in Zanzibar.
It’s WOMEX, the world’s premier world music expo
and music event (October 27-31, 2010 in Copenhagen,
Denmark). This year, in addition to hearing sounds from across the planet, participants will get a chance to build
new approaches to “world music,” a term coined at the end of the eighties in the UK to help market music from
outside the Western world, now about creating musical infrastructure to support artists and audiences everywhere.
WOMEX has brought Saharan desert rockers Tinariwen, Cape Verdean diva Cesaria Evora, Brazilian bohemian Seu Jorge, and countless others to global stardom. This year’s showcase festival highlights
everyone from La Reunion’s soulful Creole blues poet Danyèl Waro to the hip electro-cumbia of Colombia’s
Bomba Estereo and the hard-core Bavarian brass of LaBrassBanda. Virtuoso hurdy-gurdy from
Austria (Matthias Loibner) may follow 10,000-year-old Chinese jew’s harp tunes (Wang Li) and
the resonant funk of the Senegalese hoddu (Malick Pathe Sow & Maoba). Anything goes—as long as it
excels.
“The jury always tries to put together a program that is broad in styles and traditions,
that reflects electronic and acoustic approaches,” WOMEX Director of Music Programming Alexander
Walter notes. “We keep an eye on having bigger and smaller bands. Only by being this open and diverse can
cover the radically different interests and tastes of the delegates that come to the event.”
Patterson Hood Talks New Drive-By Truckers Tour, Album
September 21st, 2010 |
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TOUR STARTS SEPTEMBER 17 IN MEMPHIS, TN
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Patterson Hood of the Drive-
By Truckers issued this statement yesterday:
“Y’ALL:
We leave this week for next leg of DBT The Big To-Do Tour. This will be final USA leg of the tour and it’s a
good one. Our opening act for most of it are The Henry
Clay People who opened for us
earlier this year and are
Fantastic. We’ll also be playing a couple of dates with our dear friends Hill Country Revue who put on a
kickass show.
Don’t forget, there’s a little more time before the deadline to enter
the Nuci’s Space / Drive-By Truckers Halloween Rock’ N
Raffle. The Winner will get all inclusive
trip for two to see DBT in our beloved Richmond VA at The National (one of the greatest venues in America) on
Halloween Weekend. Our dear artist Wes Freed (who does all DBT artwork) lives there and we’ll be going
all out celebrating Halloween that Saturday Night. Prizes include airfare, VIP tickets for two (including Meet and
Greet w/ band), hotel accommodations and spending cash. It’s a $2000.00 valued prize and entering is only $5 plus
you’re supporting a great cause. Go to www.rocknraffle.com for more details.
We’ve been wanting to play a Halloween Show in Richmond for years and are finally getting to do it (at least on the
29th and 30th). Richmond is a beautiful and somewhat haunted town that has inspired Edgar Allen Poe, Wes Freed
and certainly us. The National is an amazing venue and Bobby Bare Jr is opening, playing songs off of his stellar new
album A Storm – A Tree – My Mother’s Head which will be on my year end list.
Tickets are selling fast for our upcoming European / UK Tour. The UK dates look like they’ll all sell out in advance
and the European sales are by far our fastest and best yet. It’s been too long and we plan on making it up and then
some.
We’re also gearing up for our year end finale in NYC for NYE. More details to be announced soon. We also recently
added a show in Philly on Jan 1 at the TLA, tickets are on sale now for both shows<www.drivebytruckers.com/tour>.
Oh Yeah, we also finished our next album this week and I can’t wait to tell Y’all all about it very soon.
See You at The Big To-Do!
Patterson Hood
Drive-By Truckers“
Fri Sep 17 Memphis TN MINGLEWOOD MUSIC HALL
Sat Sep 18 Bristol TN BRISTOL RHYTHM & ROOTS REUNION
Sun Sep 19 Raleigh NC LINCOLN THEATER – OUTDOORS
Wed Sep 22 Mobile AL SOUL KITCHEN
Thu Sep 23 Houston TX HOUSE OF BLUES HOUSTON
Fri Sep 24 Austin TX STUBBS OUTDOORS
Sat Sep 25 Dallas TX HOUSE OF BLUES DALLAS
Sun Sep 26 Kansas City MO CROSSROADS
Tue Sep 28 Madison WI MAJESTIC THEATER
Wed Sep 29 Iowa City IA ENGLERT THEATRE
Thu Sep 30 Minneapolis MN FIRST AVENUE
Fri Oct 01 Milwaukee WI PABST THEATER
Sat Oct 02 St Louis MO THE PAGEANT
Sun Oct 03 Indianapolis IN THE VOGUE
Tue Oct 05 Akron OH MUSICA
Wed Oct 06 Columbus OH NEWPORT MUSIC HALL
Thu Oct 07 Morgantown WV WVU – MOUNTAINLAIR BALLROOM
Fri Oct 08 Louisville KY BROWN THEATER
Sat Oct 09 Atlanta GA BUCKHEAD THEATER
Thu Oct 28 Boone NC LEGENDS @ ASU
Fri Oct 29 Richmond VA THE NATIONAL
Sat Oct 30 Richmond VA THE NATIONAL
Sun Oct 31 Charlotte NC THE FILLMORE CHARLOTTE
Wed Nov 10 Glasgow, Scotland ABC-GLASGOW
Fri Nov 12 Manchester UK ACADEMY 2
Sat Nov 13 Birmingham UK ACADEMY 2
Sun Nov 14 London UK SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE
Mon Nov 15 Brighton UK CONCORD 2
Wed Nov 17 Amsterdam, Holland PARADISO
Thu Nov 18 Groningen, Holland VERA
Fri Nov 19 Berlin, Germany LIDO
Sat Nov 20 Munich, Germany CLUB 59:1
Sun Nov 21 Milan, Italy SALUMERIA DELLA MUSICA
Tue Nov 23 Barcelona, Spain RAZZMATAZZ 2
Wed Nov 24 Madrid, Spain SALA HEINEKEN
Thu Nov 25 Bilbao, Spain KAFE ANTZOKI
Fri Nov 26 Toulouse, France LA DYNAMO
Sat Nov 27 Rennes, France UBU
Sun Nov 28 Antwerp, Belgium TRIX CLUB
Tue Nov 30 Odense, Denmark POSTEN
Wed Dec 01 Gothenburg, Sweden BREWHOUSE
Thu Dec 02 Malmo, Sweden KB
Fri Dec 03 Stockholm, Sweden DEBASER
Sat Dec 04 Oslo, Norway ROCKEFELLER
Fri Dec 31 New York NY TERMINAL 5
Sat Jan 01 Philadelphia PA THEATER OF LIVING ARTS
Sat Jan 22 Orlando FL HOUSE OF BLUES – Hannah’s Buddies Benefit
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Valuing education: Critical thinking
September 9th, 2010 |
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Where do graduates end up doing unskilled work? And earning most?
ACADEMIC qualifications’ value in the workplace is a big issue for students, policymakers and taxpayers, especially as the rising numbers of students in higher education make them less distinctive. In the latest annual report on education by the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, the answer is clear: the pay-off from tertiary education is still good, both for the individual and the economy. Most graduates take jobs fitting their qualifications, earn more than non-graduates, and thus tend to pay more in taxes.
The workforce is smartening up. In the OECD 35% of the 25- to 34-year-old workforce has completed tertiary education, compared with 20% of the cohort approaching retirement. Countries such as Japan and South Korea have invested so heavily in educating their young that more than half now hold post-school qualifications. Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are close behind. Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s chief of education research, reckons that these countries may well become more competitive as a result. …
Sofia Vergara Boyfriend Admitted To ICU After Driving Over Cliff
August 24th, 2010 |
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The joy of an Emmy-nomination has turned to heartbreak and anguish for Modern Family star Sofia Vergara: The actress’ boyfriend Nick Loeb, 35, has been admitted to the intensive care unit of UCLA Medical Center after a devastating car crash in Bel Air on Monday, TMZ.com reports.Loeb had to be freed by a rescue team [...]
Tech Data Acquires Triade Holding
August 3rd, 2010 |
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Stepping forward into its diversification strategy, Tech Data, an IT software and hardware distributor, announced it acquired Triade Holding, a portfolio of value-added distributors based in the Netherlands. – Tech Data, a distributor of IT products, announced it has entered
into an agreement to acquire the stock of Triade Holding, a privately
held portfolio of value-added distributors of consumer electronics,
mobility and IT products in Benelux and Denmark.
In a related transaction, Brightstar Europ…
Serbia 91st on “happiness list”
July 17th, 2010 |
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According to a recent Gallup poll, the happiest people live in Denmark, while Serbia is in 91st place on the list of happy countries. The Republic of Togo is the unhappiest, according to the survey.
Quality of death
July 14th, 2010 |
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A ranking of care for the dying by country
CUSTOMER-satisfaction surveys are, alas, unsuitable for rating the quality of death. So the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister group to The Economist, has devised a ranking of end-of-life care, published on Wednesday July 14th. It rates 40 mostly rich countries by how well they care for the dying. Britain tops the table. For all the health care system’s faults, British doctors tend to be honest about prognoses, the mortally ill get plentiful pain killers and a well-established hospice movement cares for people near death. Countries such as Denmark and Finland rank lower because they concentrate more on preventing death than on helping people die without suffering pain, discomfort and distress.
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Porcupine Tree: Tour with Coheed Euro Fests, Live Download
June 23rd, 2010 |
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BUSY SUMMER FOR UK PROGRESSIVE HARD ROCKERS
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This summer, Porcupine Tree will join up with Coheed and Cambria for a 12-date co-headlining U.S. tour that kicks off at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on August 12. Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, June 25.
And that is by no means the extent of Porcupine Tree’s activity this summer.
-Porcupine Tree will headline Radio City Music Hall September 24.
-The band has released their second live concert film, Anesthetize, on DVD and Blu-Ray. Amazon sold out of the Blu-Ray version on pre-orders alone, and the DVD has notched top-10 debuts in the UK, Germany, Finland, Sweden, and Holland.
-Porcupine Tree has posted Atlanta, a complete 2-hour live performance from the Fear of a Blank Planet tour, as a download from the PT Store. All proceeds from this digital-only release will go towards Japan bass player Mick Karn’s treatment for cancer.
-Porcupine Tree will play several major festivals in Europe including Roskilde (Denmark), Rock Werchter (Belgium), and Sonisphere (Spain).
-Gavin Harrison has been named “Best Progressive Drummer” for the fourth consecutive year in the 2010 Modern Drummer readers’ poll.
-Steven Wilson co-wrote and sang the track “The Fountain” on Pendulum’s new album Immersion.
-And Steven Wilson has launched a second career as a writer. Wilson now pens the back-page column for Electronic Musician and was recently published in the New York Times as well. Check out his words here and here.
Porcupine Tree/ Coheed and Cambria Tour Dates
8.10 San Francisco, CA- The Warfield (Porcupine Tree only)
8.12 Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Palladium
8.13 Las Vegas, NV – The Joint
8.14 San Diego, CA – 4th and B
8.16 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
8.17 El Paso, TX – Club 101
8.18 San Antonio, TX – Sunset Station
8.20 Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
8.21 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
8.22 Nashville, TN – War Memorial Auditorium
8.23 St Louis, MO – Pageant
8.24 Grand Rapids, MI – Orbit Room
8.26 Cleveland, OH – Nautica Pavilion
And check out JamBase’s 2009 interview with Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson here.
“Trolls†Movie
June 22nd, 2010 |
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Remember Trolls, those multicolored fuzzy-haired and bejeweled good luck charms that were flying off toy store shelves back in the early ’90s? Get ready for a resurgence.DreamWorks Animation has reached an an agreement with Denmark toy manufacturer Dam Things to feature the iconic Troll doll in an CGI-animated movie bound for the big screen, USA [...]