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Avalanche Tour: Stone Sour Theory, Skillet, Halestorm

January 28th, 2011 | No Comments

WINTER JUST GOT A LIL’ HEAVIER

The first annual Avalanche Tour brings together some of the biggest names in mainstream hard rock for a massive North American winter trek. The tour runs from March 24-May 8 and features Stone Sour, Theory of a Deadman, Skillet, Halestorm and Art Of Dying . Tickets for most shows go on sale Saturday, February 5. A special fan club pre-sale will begin Tuesday, February 1 through Artist Arena. The current Avalanche Tour dates are below, with additional shows to be announced soon.

Stone Sour

Avalanche Tour Dates

Thur 3/24 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom

Fri 3/25 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom

Sat 3/26 St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkins Auditorium

Mon 3/28 Bloomington, IL US Cellular Coliseum

Tue 3/29 Fort Wayne, IN Allen County War Memorial Coliseum

Fri 4/1 Atlanta, GA Masquerade Music Park

Sat 4/2 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum

Sun 4/3 Ladson, SC Ladson Fairground

Fri 4/8 San Antonio, TX Illusion Theater at Alamodome

Sat 4/9 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete Street Amphitheater

Sun 4/10 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie

Tue 4/12 Houston, TX Reliant Arena

Wed 4/13 Wichita Falls, TX Kay Yeager Coliseum

Fri 4/15 Belton, TX Bell County Expo Center

Sat 4/16 Lubbock, TX LoneStar Amphitheater

Sun 4/17 El Paso, TX El Paso County Coliseum

Tue 4/19 Tulsa, OK Tulsa Convention Center Arena

Thur 4/21 Park City, KS Hartman Arena

Fri 4/22 Springfield, MO Shrine Mosque

Fri 4/29 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom

Sat 4/30 Bangor, ME Bangor Waterfront

Sun 5/1 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena

Google as Phone Carrier Theory Mostly Well-Received

January 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Several readers lauded the notion of Google becoming a phone carrier to service their voice and data needs. eWEEK enlisted some industry analysts to parse the theory. – eWEEK started the new year by skewering the popular, but quite speculative
notion that Google could become a phone carrier, offering these five reasons why this wouldn’t happen.
To say nothing about the costs associated with such a move, we believe
incumbent carriers, Congress, privacy advocates,…

Mayim Bialik â€œThe Big Bang Theoryâ€ Series Regular

November 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Blossom’s Got a Gig: Mayim Bialik is being promoted to a series regular on The Big Bang Theory. The ’90s star — perhaps best remembered for the funky, floppy hats she wore as the small screen’s Blossom Russo — plays Amy, a love interest for Sheldon (Jim Parsons), on the smash CBS sitcom. Per her [...]

Government Economic Leaders Surprised that Real World Isn’t Responding to their Magic Pixie Dust

September 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Fed chief Ben Bernanke told the financial crisis inquiry commission today:If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that the too-big-to-fail problem must be solved***Too-big-to-fail financial institutions were both a source … of the crisis and among …

Did the Fed Economist Slam Bloggers for the Same Reason that Fundamentalist Priests Slammed the Printing Press?

June 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Kartik Athreya of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank argues that bloggers are stupid, and that only PhD economists have a right to say anything about economics policy.This distinction is a little ridiculous, given that many of the worldâ€™s top PhD eco…

Rock ‘N Rev Adds Alice In Chains Cage The Elephant, Rev Theory

June 16th, 2010 | No Comments

REVIVED ALICE, CHARM CITY DEVILS, HELLYEAH AND MORE ADDED

“Get your motor running and head out on the highway to South Dakota, where a host of hard rock titans Â… will rock the tattooed masses. Is it too hot to wear leather in Dakota in August? Nah. – Blender.com

Alice In Chains

Alice In Chains has joined the inaugural Rock N’ Rev Festival, which takes place Monday, August 9 through Friday, August, 13 as part of the Sturgis Rally’s 70th Anniversary celebration in Sturgis, SD. Alice In Chains joins headliners Stone Temple Pilots, Creed and Godsmack.

The festival also announced the additions of Three Days Grace, Hellyeah, Cage The Elephant, Theft, Sweet Cyanide, Charm City Devils and Rev Theory to the growing lineup.

Dutch fury at U.S. general’s gay theory over Srebrenica

March 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Dutch officials have rejected a retired US general’s claim that its forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers. A defence ministry spokesman dismissed as “complete nonsense” the remarks by John Sheehan, a former Nato commander.

Domino theory

February 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Assessing the risk that Greece’s woes herald something far worse

HOW far is it from Athens to America and which countries lie on the way? That may sound like an esoteric geography question, but it is being asked by investors as Greece’s debt crisis creates global jitters about the safety of sovereign debt. So far Portugal, Ireland and Spain, the other high-deficit countries on the periphery of the euro zone, are thought to be next in line. In most big rich economies, yields have been stable and well below their long-term average (see chart).

But nerves are fraying elsewhere. The cost of insuring against sovereign default has risen in 47 of the 50 countries for which these instruments exist. Dubai’s sovereign credit-default-swap spreads soared to their highest level in a year this week, amid concern about the terms of a debt restructuring by a state-owned conglomerate. There is increasingly shrill commentary arguing that Greece is the start of a far bigger problem. “A Greek crisis is coming to America”, blared the headline on a recent Financial Times article by Niall Ferguson, a financial historian. …

Network theory: Tree and leaf

February 11th, 2010 | No Comments

The study of living things may shed light on urban planning. And vice versa

CITIES are often described as being alive. A nice metaphor, but does it mean anything? And, if it does, can town planners and biologists learn from one another? Steven Strogatz, a mathematician at Cornell University, wrote last year that Manhattan and a mouse might just be variations on a single structural theme. His point was that both are, in part, composed of networks for transporting stuff from one place to another. Roads, railways, water and gas mains, sewage pipes and electricity cables all move things around. So do the blood vessels of animals and the sap-carrying xylem and phloem of plants. How far can the analogy be pushed?

Peter Dodds of the University of Vermont draws a particular analogy between the blood system and a suburban railway network. The commuter-rail system of a city ramifies from the centre. The farther out you go, the sparser it is. By analogy, Dr Dodds predicted, the network of capillaries (the tiny blood vessels that permeate tissues) would not be as dense in large animals (where many of them are far from the centre) as it is in small ones. They, too, branch ultimately from a central source—the heart. Surprisingly, no one had looked for this before, but in a paper published recently in Physical Review Letters Dr Dodds shows that this does indeed turn out to be the case. …

Errors of omission

October 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Climate-change models must become even more complex

BUMBLEBEES cannot fly—or so physical models are said to have shown. That the insects routinely become airborne demonstrates the shortcomings of some theoretical accounts of the world. But one of the strengths of the scientific method is that, when presented with evidence that discredits their theories, scientists are forced to concede that their models are wrong and endeavour to learn from the failure. In science, observation always trumps theory, no matter how elegant the theory might be.

The same is true of theoretical models of climate change. Over the past decade there have been large variations in the projected increase in global temperatures and sea levels over the coming years. The range has been great because climatologists simply do not know exactly how different factors will influence one another. As data accumulate, the true picture will emerge. …

Bottleneck Theory of Inflation

September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Andy Xie has an interesting theory about inflation.Specifically, Xie argues that bottlenecks can form in certain asset classes – such as oil – even in a weak economy, which can lead to inflation:Conventional wisdom says inflation will not occur in a w…

Did Greenspan Just Confirm Exeter’s Theory of Gold?

September 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Antal Fekete has argued for years that gold is the ultimate – and only – safe haven when things really hit the fan.For example, in 2007 Fekete wrote:The grand old man of the New York Federal Reserve bankâ€™s gold depa…

Saut Confirms Mixed-Flation Theory

September 10th, 2009 | No Comments

I have previously argued that we will have inflation in food, energy and health care prices, and deflation in most other asset classes:You know from experience that when you’re in a national park, movie theater or some other contained place, prices are…