Serbia and Algeria have strong friendly ties, Algeria supports Serbia and believes that the Kosovo issue can be solved only by a consensus at the UNSC This is what visiting Algerian Foreign Minister Murad Medelci told Tanjug news agency in Belgrade late on Thursday.
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GPS voices don’t sound as “Kiwi” as they should
October 1st, 2010 |
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As a native of New Zealand, this story in an email today caught my eye. Apparently some Kiwis don’t think TomTom’s current ‘NZ’ voices sound as authentic as they should.
Neither do I; I have one of TT’s earliest ‘Go’ models and, though it has guided me flawlessly to many destinations in the UK, Europe and Canada, I don’t reckon the Kiwi accent on it is genuine, nor is the Australian version. So I stick to the UK or US voices while resisting regular pleas from the company to pay to download Homer Simpson.
TomTom announced a competition this week to find “the voice of New Zealand” for its vehicle navigation tool and some of the entries so far are classic, if almost incomprehensible to foreign ears in some cases.
A little Friday afternoon entertainment awaits.
Guided By Voices: Tour Dates
July 15th, 2010 |
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TOUR BEGINS SEPTEMBER 30
Guided By Voices have
announced dates for their reunion tour featuring the “classic 1993-1996″ lineup of vocalist Robert Pollard,
guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell, bassist Greg Demos, and drummer
Kevin Fennell. The tour begins September 30 in Austin, TX and swings through LA, SF, Portland, Chicago,
DC, Atlanta, and other cities. The band will be playing with Times New Viking and Blitzen Trapper on select dates. All tour dates are available below.
Guided By Voices 2010 Tour Dates:
09/30 – Austin, TX @ East Side Drive *
10/03 – Las Vegas, NV @ Matador at 21
10/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern *
10/05 – San Francisco, CA @ Warfield *
10/07 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom *
10/09 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo *
10/12 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
10/13 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic *
10/15 – Newport, KY @ Southgate House
10/16 – Columbus, OH @ Outlands Live
10/21 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/22 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
10/23 – Atlanta, GA @ The Buckhead Theatre
11/05 – Boston, MA @ Paradise #
11/06 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero #
11/07 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5 #
* = w/ Times New Viking
# = w/ Blitzen Trapper
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Matador At 21: Pavement, Sonic Youth, Guided By Voices
June 30th, 2010 |
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CELEBRATE YOUR 21ST BIRTHDAY THE RIGHT WAY
 Pavement |
Matador Records sure know how to throw a 21st birthday party. Over the course of three days on October 1-3 at
the
Palms Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, fans will be treated to a celebration of 21 years at Matador Records, featuring
an absolutely bulletproof lineup of Pavement, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, The New Pornographers, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Girls, Fucked Up, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion,
Shearwater, Chavez, Cold Cave, Kurt Vile, Guitar Wolf,
Harlem, and Superchunk.
Guided by Voices will
reunite at the festival to play their first show since 2004. The performance will feature the “classic 1993-1996″
lineup of vocalist Robert Pollard, guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell, bassist
Dan Toohey, and drummer Kevin Fennell.
Yim Yames, Ben Sollee, Moore Appalachian Voices Tour
May 17th, 2010 |
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TRIO PLAYS TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING
/100214_johnson/4_1.jpg) Yim Yames by Kory Johnson |
Yim Yames, singer-songwriter Daniel Martin Moore and genre-bending cellist and vocalist Ben Sollee will embark on a nine date Appalachian Voices Tour in an effort to raise public awareness of the devastating practice of Mountaintop Removal coal mining throughout Appalachia. A portion of the proceeds from the tour will benefit Appalachian Voices, for which the tour was named, an organization devoted to ending mountaintop removal coal mining together with diverse environmental problems impacting the central and southern Appalachian Mountains.
The trio released an album made together earlier this year, Dear Companion, which also sought to generate further awareness of the devastating impact of mountaintop removal mining. See the JamBase review for the album here.
Tickets for the shows will go on sale beginning Friday, May 21st. For links and info, go to www.yimyames.com. A statement on the site reads:
“The people and the land of Appalachia are too important to us as a nation to be sacrificed for something as short-sighted as Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal mining. Our cultural stake in the region, from its music to its log cabins, is an indispensable part of our history and identity as Americans. People all over the world know our country music, our dances and our stories and they call them American. They are the fruit of Appalachia.” – Ben Sollee, Daniel Martin Moore and Yim Yames.
Tour Dates
7/22 Lexington, KY – The Opera House
7/23 Knoxville, TN – The Bijou
7/25 Charleston, WV – Mountain Stage
7/26 Marlinton, WV – Pocahontas Opera House
7/28 Charlottesville, VA – The Jefferson Theater
7/29 Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
7/30 New York, NY – Music Hall Of Williamsburg (with Special Guest The Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
7/31 Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival (Yim Yames Solo)
8/1 Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival (Daniel Martin Moore & Ben Sollee)
Baker Tech accepts Yangzijiang’s offer to buy PPL Shipyard; SembMarine voices disapproval
April 23rd, 2010 |
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Baker Technology says it has accepted the offer by Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings to buy the entire issued and paid-up share capital of PPL Shipyard held by the company for US$155 million ($212.8 million).
UN chief voices concern in Kosovo report
April 7th, 2010 |
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said that he is concerned over PriÅ¡tina’s new policies towards northern Kosovo. He called on the Kosovo Albanian government to “carefully implement” its new strategy for that part of the territory, which has a majority ethnic Serb population.
Mindtouch Names 20 Most Powerful Open Source Voices of 2010 at OSBC
March 18th, 2010 |
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The sixth annual Open Source Business Conference opened March 17 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and will present two full days of seminars, keynotes and networking opportunities. MindTouch, an open source-based analytics and collaborative networking software maker, came out on the first day with a list of who it deems to be the Most Powerful Voices in Open Source. These are the most prominent and followed open source commentators, representing several spheres of influence including media, vendors, OSS projects, standards bodies, community management and more, MindTouch said. The ranking draws from an array of metrics available through Web and Enterprise 2.0 channels, including Twitter, Google News alerts, unique online visitor counts and analysis of the related ‘buzz’ of vendor/project affiliations. The data itself was compiled using the MindTouch platform, which federated these data sources, applying varied weighting, and processing it for delivery of the ranking, MindTouch said. In no particular order, here is the Top 20 list — plus a blog by Mark Fidelman explaining how they were selected.
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Antonio Villaraigosa: Voices of Reason in Sacramento
July 25th, 2009 |
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Over the past few days, mayors and local leaders across California have fought against an unjust and unacceptable budget deal. We demanded that our state’s…