As of Wednesday, the residents of Bosnia-Herzegovina who possess biometric passports will be able to travel visa-free to the EU member states. This also applies to trips to Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway.
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Greece → Ireland → Portugal → Spain → Italy → UK → ?
November 26th, 2010 |
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It is now common knowledge that there is a potential domino effect of European sovereign debt contagion in roughly the following order:Greece → Ireland → Portugal → Spain → Italy → UKWhile some people have been writing about this for well ove…
Yoko Ono John Lennon 70th Birthday Tribute
October 12th, 2010 |
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On Saturday, Yoko Ono paid tearful tribute to her husband, late music icon John Lennon, on what would have been The Beatles star’s 70th birthday. In 1980, Lennon was gunned down by stalker fan Mark David Chapman in front of Manhattan’s The Dakota Apartment Building, where he shared a home with Yoko and their then [...]
Ringo Starr joins Yoko Ono on stage at John Lennon tribute concert
October 11th, 2010 |
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Ringo Starr joined Yoko Ono on stage at a John Lennon tribute concert. The pair sang ”Give Peace A Chance”, a Plastic Ono Band song penned by Lennon while the Fab Four were still together, on would have been the 70th birthday of the ex-Beatles, reports the Daily Express. Also present on stage at the [...]
Yoko Ono’s most passionate commitment – promoting Lennon’s legacy
October 9th, 2010 |
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British artist-cum-peace activist Yoko Ono has revealed that after her husband John Lennon passed away, she spent her time not in wallowing his absence but in promoting his legacy. Ono, 77, started promoting his legacy soon after he was murdered in 1980, and she has endorsed and overseen many of the Lennon tributes building to [...]
Kerry Katona eyes movie career
August 11th, 2010 |
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Kerry Katona is desperate to launch a blockbuster movie career. The deluded blonde is convinced she can get on the big screen, even though her last acting role was in an Iceland telly ad. Kerry, 29, is heading out to LA next month for a series of meetings, which she believes, will help her reach [...]
Aug. 11, 1978: First Atlantic Balloon Crossing Takes Off
August 11th, 2010 |
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1978: Three Americans take off in a balloon from Presque Isle, Maine. They will land in a field north of Paris 137 hours, 6 minutes later, the first people to cross the Atlantic in a balloon.
After Lindbergh’s famous 1927 flight, crossing the Atlantic in a balloon remained one of the last great unconquered aviation challenges. [...]
JamBase Questionnaire: Plants and Animals
July 16th, 2010 |
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Welcome back to JamBase’s baker’s dozen to the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from Chatham County Line.
 Matthew Woodley by Scott Eagle |
Plants and Animals are an evolutionary entity. There lays the forward rushing molecular energy of new things forming inside what seem pop and rock vessels. Only two full-length albums in this Montreal-based band is handily slithering out of easy definitions and rote rockin’ with the fabulous La La Land (released April 20 on Secret City Records), which engages with pop culture in a wholly winning, smarter-than-most way. In wrestling with “American Idol” and “Tom Cruz” (two cheekily titled cuts), Plants and Animals find depth in the shallows of contemporary life. And beyond the brainy subtext, La La Land offers up beautiful, sometimes elegiac music that’s unafraid to saunter into brittle jitter, island streams, Beatles-esque grandeur or ambient exploration. Kindred spirits include Apollo Sunshine, Big Light and The Slip, whose Brad Barr guests on piano. Put another way, La La Land is one of those glorious slabs that gives up its juices slowly but quenches every time. (Dennis Cook)
Here’s what Plants and Animals’ Matthew Woody Woodley had to say to our inquiries.
Nicknames: Le Woodman
Instrument of choice: drizums
1. Great music rarely happens withoutÂ…
Soooooul
2. The first album I bought wasÂ…
a-ha‘s Hunting High and Low.
3. The last song or album to really flip my wig wasÂ…
a-ha’s “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.”
4. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to beÂ…
An orthodontist
5. My favorite sort of gig isÂ…
Old theatres with thick curtains
6. One thing I wish people knew about me isÂ…
I have an underground indie orthodontist practice back home in Montreal.
7. I love the sound ofÂ…
The barred owl. “Who cooks for you?”
8. One day I hope to make an album as fantastic asÂ…
Al Green’s Greatest Hits
9. The best meal I ever had on tour was atÂ…
Guu – Japanese fusion tapas in Vancouver
10. I always find the coolest audiences inÂ…
Montreal. No place like home. A close runner up is Reykjavik, Iceland.
11. The worst habit I’ve picked up being on the road all the time isÂ…
Letting things slide in shows that shouldn’t slide.
12. The Beatles or the Stones? Por que?
The Stones. Murky voodoo magic. The Beatles did some pretty okay stuff too though.
13. The craziest thing I ever saw wasÂ…
Once Bill Clinton waved at me from a limo.
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Gary Numan: North American Dates
July 2nd, 2010 |
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NUMAN CURRENTLY WORKING ON FORTHCOMING ALBUM SPLINTER
To celebrate the recent re-issue and 30th anniversary of his classic album The Pleasure Principle, Gary Numan has announced he will
come to North America this fall on tour. On The Pleasure Principle 2010 Tour, the modern music icon will perform
in its entirety the album that climbed into the Top 20 on the U.S. charts 30 years ago propelled by his unforgettable
Top 10 single “Cars.” The shows will feature material spanning across Numan’s career, including tracks from his
forthcoming album Splinter which he’s currently working on in the U.K.
Numan last toured America in 2006 in support of his Jagged album and was set to appear at the Coachella
Valley
Music & Arts Festival this past April, but had to cancel due to the volcanic eruptions in Iceland blocking air traffic.
The Pleasure Principle made Gary Numan a huge international solo star upon its release in 1979. Given the
soft rock and disco-dominated music scene in America at the end of the decade, the disc pioneered electronic pop
music on a new, worldwide scale built around icy synthesizers without guitars or conventional song structures
(“Cars” doesn’t even have a chorus). The disc’s impact was crystallized in the U.S. when NUMAN performed “Cars”
and “Praying To The Aliens” an audience of 40 million people on Saturday Night Live. The music from
The Pleasure Principle gave birth to new musical movements in the States over the next decade, including
hip-hop, industrial and techno.
Gary Numan – 2010 Tour Dates:
Sun 10/17 Orlando, FL The Firestone
Mon 10/18 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
Wed 10/20 Washington, DC Black Cat
Thu 10/21 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero w/ Emilie Autumn
Fri 10/22 Boston, MA Paradise
Sat 10/23 New York, NY Nokia Theatre w/Emilie Autumn
Sun 10/24 Toronto, ON Opera House
Mon 10/25 Detroit, MI Majestic Theater
Tue 10/26 Chicago, IL Metro
Thu 10/28 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre
Sun 10/31 Seattle, WA Neumos
Mon 11/1 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
Tue 11/2 San Francisco, CA Fillmore
Wed 11/3 Los Angeles, CA El Rey
Thu 11/4 Los Angeles, CA El Rey
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Ploughing on
July 1st, 2010 |
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The rich world’s farmers are still reaping handsome subsidies
FARMERS are getting by with fewer subsidies in many countries around the world compared with 20 years ago. Yet subsidies still accounted for more than three-quarters of farmers’ incomes in Norway, Switzerland and Iceland between 2007 and 2009. And farm subsidies in the EU made up a slightly greater proportion of farmers’ incomes in 2007-09 than two decades beforehand. OECD countries spent $253 billion on farm subsidies in 2009—22% of gross farm receipts, the first increase since 2004. High agricultural commodity prices ensured payments slid, and reach a record low in 2008. Last year, this trend reversed as commodity prices fell.
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June 22, 1783: Icelandic Volcano Disrupts Europe’s Economy
June 22nd, 2010 |
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1783: Ash from the Laki volcano in Iceland arrives in Britain and northern France. It will linger for months, creating a hot summer, a very cold winter and thousands of deaths.
Laki began erupting June 8. It produced the largest lava flow in historic times when a fissure 16 miles long sent a flow of pahoehoe [...]
EU citizens to enter Serbia without passports
June 13th, 2010 |
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Citizens of EU member-states, as well as from Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, can enter Serbia as of Saturday with only their personal identification cards. The Serbian government passed a decision on May 28 regarding countries whose citizens can cross the border into Serbia without a passport, as long as they have a valid identification card.
EU citizens in Serbia without passports
June 13th, 2010 |
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Citizens of EU member-states, as well as from Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, can enter Serbia as of Saturday with only their personal identification cards. The Serbian government passed a decision on May 28 regarding countries whose citizens can cross the border into Serbia without a passport, as long as they have a valid identification card.
Wikileaks: Wiki Gaga
June 10th, 2010 |
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No technology can protect whistle-blowers from themselves
MUCH can be lost because of the loose talk of a 22-year-old. Wikileaks, an international publishing service for whistle-blowers, goes to extraordinary lengths to protect its sources, but it cannot control them. At the end of May the American army arrested Bradley Manning, who was said to be the source of a leaked video, shown on Wikileaks, revealing how soldiers in an Apache helicopter killed unarmed civilians in Iraq. Mr Manning, an intelligence analyst, apparently betrayed himself by boasting of his actions to a stranger in an e-mail. The case is a reminder that Wikileaks is only as robust as the humans who use it.
Julian Assange, an Australian former hacker, founded the service in 2007. It now has perhaps 800 volunteer technologists, activists and lawyers around the world. Media groups such as the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times provide legal advice. In addition to the Iraq footage, it has published evidence of corruption in Kenya, financial improprieties in Iceland, procedures for detainees in Guantanamo Bay and a string of Sarah Palin’s e-mails. It has been so well run that Daniel Ellsberg, an ex-Pentagon analyst who leaked an internal history of the Vietnam war in 1971, assumed on first sight that it was a honeypot run by American intelligence. …
Shahid Kapoor’’s â€Mausam†being shot in Edinburgh
June 8th, 2010 |
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Scotland’’s capital Edinburgh has become home to another Bollywood film – ”Mausam”.
The film, which is being made by veteran star Pankaj Kapoor and will be starring his son actor Shahid, is being shot with Edinburgh’’s historic Grassmarket as the backdrop, reports the Scotsman.
In the movie, the ”Jab We Met” star will play the lead role [...]
EU citizens don’t need passports to enter Serbia
May 28th, 2010 |
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The government has decided that the citizens of EU countries, as well as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, will no longer need passports to enter Serbia. This was announced by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković on Friday in Belgrade.
10 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History
May 21st, 2010 |
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The recent eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland were a stark reminder of nature’s ability to bring human activity to an abrupt standstill. The cloud of smoke that drifted over Western Europe made aviation travel untenable, returning European skies to a quietude not felt for decades. Yet, while the effects of the eruption were [...]
SIA’s Q4 net beats forecast, sees growth
May 21st, 2010 |
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Singapore Airlines (SIA) (SIAL.SI), the world’s second most valuable airline, said advance travel booking is encouraging and cargo demand will hold up after it posted a better-than-expected seven-fold jump in quarterly profit.
Singapore flag carrier and its Asian rivals, coming out of an economic downturn, are facing new threats from the European market where travel could be hit by volcanic eruption in Iceland and economic problems.
California Is More Likely to Default than Iceland or Iraq
May 12th, 2010 |
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The Federal Reserve isn’t the only one who owns credit default swaps betting that California will default.As Ed Harrison points out, credit default traders have now ranked California in the list of top 10 governments most likely to default, with a 20% …