This is an idea of mod for the possible AI War 2. This mod would add a new minor faction to the game.
Some wormholes in this part of the galaxy are unstable. They may collapse and become temporarily uncrossable. A Zenith faction is hidden somewhere in the galaxy and is running a golem-sized gravity drill (the ones used by the AI are just downsized versions of this Zenith tech) that causes the wormholes' disturbances.
The humans may seek for this Zenith faction. If they find them, they will be faced with a choice. They may attack them and try to destroy the origin of the wormholes disturbance, or befriend them and gain a handful of special starships able to cross the wormholes even when collapsed.
On map generation, a percentage of the wormhole links are tagged as unstable. This percentage depends on the intensity: at 0 there is no unstable wormholes, and at 10 they all are. At intensity X, 10*X% wormholes are unstable; for example, at intensity 4, 40% wormholes are unstable. Each tagged wormhole then secretly receives a random period value, which is a number between 1 and the intensity.
Also, one non-homeworld planet is randomly picked. This planet gets one new wormhole leading to one new additional special planet with no AI unit (a bit like a nebula). On this special planet are seeded the giant gravity drill and some Zenith factories. This special planet has no supply, no knowledge, no metal, can't be controlled by AI or humans, and isn't eligible for stuff like nomad wormhole or Zenith Miner Golem attack. However, any ship may cross its wormhole (humans, AI, dark spire, etc).
Each wormhole tagged as unstable has an internal counter. This counter goes by 1 each 10 minutes; when it's equal to the period value of the wormhole, it swaps its state: if it was in normal state, it becomes collapsed (and uncrossable); if it was collapsed, it becomes normal again. The counters must be randomly initialized at first or they will be all synchronous at the beginning. However, all the counters up by 1 at the same time, because the player(s) must be able to count and predict wormholes periods (a bit like the Spire Civilian Leaders ticking each hours).
The special wormhole leading to the special Zenith miner's planet has a special counter. When it's in collapsed state, it gains 1 every 10 minutes like a regular unstable wormhole. When it reaches the MF intensity, it swaps to stable state, as if it picked the highest period value at worldgen. But when it's in normal state, it swaps to collapsed on the next timer tick. This means the special wormhole will open rarely (every Intensity*10 minutes) and for a short period (10 minutes).
The top-left window displaying timers (like CPA, Exo, nuclear eyes, DGLairs spawns, etc) will be able to display one more timer. If the Zenith miner's special planet or the planet on the other side of the special wormhole has a human scout, the timer will display "Special unstable wormhole will [open|close] within X minutes" if X is less than 10.
The galaxy map will have new colors to display unstable wormholes. Let's say green for unstable opened and flashing red for unstable collapsed.
The players will receive Journal Entries, just like any lore-juicy MF. They are written by the scientific team (maybe by characters already seen in journal entries for other MF, or maybe a new one). These are just recaps but I'll fully write them, one day.
- The first journal will be received at the game's beginning, explaining the wormholes' mechanism (they collapse/open accordingly to a period, etc) and hinting that something is causing it and may be canceled.
- The second journal will be received the first time humans scout the planet with the special wormhole leading to the Zenith mining base. This journal explains that a special wormhole with a short opening window has been discovered, and that the scientific team strongly believe the origin of the perturbation comes from behind it. This journal also contains the name of the planet if the players forget it and want to find it latter.
- The third journal will be received the first time the Zenith camp is scouted. The scientific team says the big gravity drill is a living Zenith being and it's causing the wormholes' disturbances; and destroying it would cancel them. However, while the Zenith guards attack any intruders, the scientific team was unable to properly speak to them and if the players want to negotiate instead of killing them, they need to bring a science vessel on the planet.
- The fourth journal version B is received when the Zenith faction is angered. The journal acknowledges this fact and explain how the faction will retaliate until the factories are all destroyed, and that the wormholes will stabilize once the drill-golem will be destroyed.
There is X Zenith factories scattered all around the place (X is equal to the intensity). Each factory can support a certain amount of Zenith ships; if the ships are destroyed, the factories slowly rebuild them; if the factories are destroyed, the maximum amount of ships drops (just like spire ships do if spire shipyards are destroyed in the Fallen Spire MF/Campaign). Maybe the Shattered Pillar's ships can be reused (both art and stats): 3 Palisades, 3 Bulwarks and 1 Monolith per factory.
If the players bring any scientific vessel on the miner's planet, the MF switches to friendly and the players receive the fourth journal, version A.
The factories and the Drill Golem are neutral and are not automatically targeted by player's ships (FRD and stuff). However, if they can be manually targeted. If a factory or the golem itself gets hit by a human attack, the MF switches to hostile and the players receive the fourth journal, version B.
If the players manage to bring a scientific vessel on the Zenith planet, they will be able to translate and communicate with them, and reveal the Drill Golem dislikes the AI and is willing to help humans.
When the faction switches to friendly, the each player gain the control of a factory able to produce up to X mini-drill starships (X is equal to the MF intensity). These special starships are able to cross collapsed wormholes (because y'know, they're drills and can fore through the fabric of space and time and cross even a collapsed wormhole).
Also, the guards will invade the neighboring planets on each wormhole's opening. The guards will then follow the allied logic (just like the dyson's gatlings, resistance fighters and zombies do).
If the Drill Golem or factories are attacked, the faction switches to hostile. The corresponding journal is received and the following behavior will occur.
The guards will exit their planet on each wormhole's opening and attack the humans in an Exowave-like pattern. The factories must be destroyed to reduce and finally cancel the waves.
The Drill Golem has powerful weapons and will use them against invading humans. When it's destroyed, the unstable wormholes immediately and permanently revert to normal state.
- Zenith are known for having technology messing with wormholes (see the Nomad Planets MF) and being fond of mining (see the Zenith Miners MF). This is thematically coherent.
- Gravity drills already exist: the AI is supposed to have scavenged Zenith tech.
- This faction may have links to the Shattered Pillar, the Zenth faction of the Nebulae scenario. Hints maybe be seeded in the journal entries.
- Living Golems tend to be moody, don't they?
- Human warpgates will be useful (at last!!!) to deal with isolated human worlds, especially on a tree or tree-like map.
- Having multiple production worlds will be useful: having space docks only in the homeworld won't be viable anymore as a ship-based defense may be unable to defend all human planets.
- AI Waves will ignore collapsed wormholes if they are regular waves. However, threat and cross-planet waves will "normally" suffer collapsed wormholes' uncrossability.
- Choice! Yay! I love when MF give moral and strategical choices!
- The Nomad Planets MF already changes the wormholes links. However it never cut the graph. This MF would make some places temporarily unreachable and the pathfinder must handle this for this MF to be doable.
- Achievements! Yay! Here's the proposal.
* "This drilling noise drove me crazy" -> "Kill the Zenith Drill Golem and stabilize the collapsing wormholes."
* "Ride the drill" -> "Win a game after befriending the Zenith Drill Golem."
* "The gravity never bothered me anyway" -> "Win a game with the unstable wormholes MF enabled without angering or befriending the Zenith Drill Golem."
Play tests will need to check and tweak (or define) these parameters.
- If 40% unstable wormholes for the "middle ground" intensity is too much, it's possible switching to a quadratic formula: at intensity X, X^2 wormholes are tagged as unstable. Intensity 0 is still "no impact" and 10 is still "100% unstable", but lower intensities have a lower impact. For instance, 2 is 4%, 4 is 16%, 8 is 64%.
- Same thing for the collapsing period.
- Are the colors for the galaxy displaying unstable wormholes okay? Aren't they confusing? Are the clear?
- How powerful are the Zenith guards? Which stats? Same as the Shattered Pillar's ones?
- How powerful are the mini-drills granted by the friendly MF? Which stats? How fast (because their role will be to defend or attack quickly through collapsed wormholes)?


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Mazda Motor Europe (MME) announces that Martijn ten Brink will take over as the new President and CEO with effect from 24 June 2021. Ten Brink comes from the position of VP Sales & Customer Service at MME and he has extensive experience from several positions both at MME and in various NSCs. He had a key role in the team that set up Mazda Motor Norway and Mazda Motor Sweden in early 2004, and he was a marketing director in the region until 2005.
Martijn ten Brink succeeds Yasuhiro Aoyama, who has led Mazda's European operations since 2019. Aoyama returns to the headquarters in Hiroshima, where he holds the position of Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer Overview of Global Marketing, Sales and Customer Service.
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Lieutenant Governor looking to solve Illinois' electric crisis
March 20, 2007 at 10:30 PM CDT - Updated July 26 at 9:00 AM
By: Arnold Wyrick
MARION, Ill. - Ameren CIPS's rate hikes in Illinois have fired up Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn. And to show his displeasure with the new rates, Quinn is calling for the companies top officials to give back their six-digit bonuses, and take pay cuts. "The CEO of Ameren made more than three million dollars last year, he got a half a million dollar pay raise and a quarter-of-a-million dollar bonus for his efforts last year. That figures out to be $17.33 a minute," says Lt. Governor Quinn.
But, now Quinn wants Illinois' lawmakers to get busy during their Spring session and solve the 'state's electric crisis'. "I don't think anything will happen in Springfield on any other issue until this crisis is resolved. Any other issue regarding the government of our state, I think has to take a backseat until we straighten out the electric rate crisis," Quinn said.
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Warner Bros reportedly is developing more films of Mortal Kombat
Warner Bros. Amusement Inc. (frequently called Warner Bros. as well as abbreviated as WB) is an American varied international electronic media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complicated in Burbank, California, and also a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia through its Studios & Networks division. Started in 1923 by four siblings Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the firm established itself as a leader in the American movie market prior to branching out into animation, television, and computer game, and is just one of the Big Five major American movie workshops, as well as a participant of the Movie Organization (MPA).
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This short piece provides amusing observations about life as an American occupier, which has similarities to life as an American expat today. For example, Mears describes confusion over English translations of Japanese words (in this case it was the Hepburn System vs. the Nippon System; I personally spent months getting used to the idea that Shinbashi and Shimbashi were the same place).
The article touches upon a topic that demands a deeper discussion: the origins and nature of democracy in Japan. The American occupation of Japan was, among other things, a mission of economic reconstruction and social engineering. One major initiative was land reform: approximately 38% of Japan's cultivated land was redistributed. The introduction of democracy was another major project.
"it was under General Dyke's direction that the C.I.&E. was built up to a staff of around a hundred people, who are now busy with the "democratization" of the Japanese press, movies, religion, and so on….
Dust jacket for "Mirror for Americans: Japan", by Helen Mears.
OCTOBER 12, 1946: TOKYO REVISITED, by Helen Mears: postwar Tokyo. Among the many strange phenomena are the crowds of Japanese who wait every day outside the Dai Ichi Building.
FEBRUARY 7, 1948: LIFE WITH THE DAI ITIANS by Helen Mears: tells about what goes on at the Dai Iti Hotel, in Tokyo, one of the largest billets for American officers and civilians.
NOVEMBER 14, 1964: THE SUPER-EXPRESS OF DREAMS, by E. J. KAHN: about travelling on a new, fast train between Japan's two largest cities, Tokyo and Osaka.
MAY 18, 1963: Preble's Law and Other Matters by CHARLES FRANKEL: modern Japan.
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The Responsibilities: The Product Manager is responsible for all aspects of a product line including the coordination of activities across various departments. This extends from deepening the profitability and penetration of existing products to developing new products for the company.
Managing the product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research using multiple channels supported by on-going calls and visits to customers and prospects.
Prepare, maintain, and evangelize the product roadmap which defines product enhancements for short- and long-term releases.
Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, overseeing interdepartmental activities to execute plans.
Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.
Define feature roadmap for company's products based on business opportunities and market research.
Propose an overall product budget to ensure success.
Monitor and set prices on products in product line to meet revenue and profitability goals.
Work with sales management and other contributors to evaluate and prioritize opportunities and develop strategy.
Create feature descriptions to provide guidance to Business Analysts and contribute and aprove the product-related Business Requirements Documents.
Validate detailed specifications and development costing versus market potential and future predictable revenue.
Become subject matter experts in product's markets and provide vision and leadership to technology R&D efforts.
Responsible for product launch and release plans. Coordinates internal and external product launches working with Marketing Support and Training teams.
Monitor and analyze new technologies and inform company of their potential applications to our business. Conduct and lead forward looking research studies.
Develop and when necessary deliver concise and meaningful presentations for internal and external audiences, including education and training of sales staff, training of support groups, train the trainer programs, and presentations at symposia, trade shows,and key customer accounts.
Act as liaison between Sales, Client Services, Marketing Support, and Technology teams to support product positioning and customer demand as part of new product development.
Work with Training team to develop product training plan internally and externally.
Consult with Client Services team to ensure appropriate service levels for the product line.
Act as a product champion within the company.
Create and maintain profit and loss documentation for products and services.
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience combined with some post secondary education.
Product Management certification a plus.
Project Management certification a plus.
Computer-literate in Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project.
Demonstrated success defining, launching, and maintaining excellent products.
Knowledgeable on use of computer technology in the education market.
Basic knowledge of web development platforms, databases and infrastructure.
Corporate CRM experience a plus.
A Product Manager has exemplary people and communications skills coupled with the savvy and maturity needed to garner the respect of senior management and clients.
Additionally, the professional is a self-starter who goes above and beyond the expected requirements of the role.
He/she is highly adept at building mutually beneficial relationships that result in value, benefit, and revenue growth.
Work well under pressure and be able to prioritize to meet deadlines and quickly shift priorities as necessary.
Ability to multi-task, work independently and demonstrate keen attention to details.
Ability to communicate with diplomacy and tact and communicate ideas including responding to resistance and criticism.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
Team player attitude is mandatory.
Positive attitude and demonstrated optimism are necessary.
Project management skills to understand project plans and aid in communication to others are beneficial.
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package com.orm.androrm.test.statement;

import android.test.AndroidTestCase;

import com.orm.androrm.Where;

/**
 * @author Philipp Giese
 */
public class WhereTest extends AndroidTestCase {

	public void testEmptyWhere() {
		Where where = new Where();

		assertNull(where.toString());
	}

	public void testSimpleConstraint() {
		Where where = new Where();
		where.and("foo", "bar");

		assertEquals(" WHERE foo = 'bar'", where.toString());

		where = new Where();
		where.or("foo", "bar");

		assertEquals(" WHERE foo = 'bar'", where.toString());
	}

	public void testAddAnd() {
		Where where = new Where();
		where.and("foo", "bar")
			.and("bar", "baz");

		assertEquals(" WHERE foo = 'bar' AND bar = 'baz'", where.toString());
	}

	public void testAddOr() {
		Where where = new Where();
		where.or("foo", "bar")
			.or("bar", "baz");

		assertEquals(" WHERE (foo = 'bar' OR bar = 'baz')", where.toString());
	}

	public void testHasConstraint() {
		Where where = new Where();
		where.and("foo", "bar")
			.or("bar", "baz");

		assertTrue(where.hasConstraint("foo"));
		assertTrue(where.hasConstraint("bar"));
	}
}

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Members of this committee evaluate amendments, additions, and/or deletions to the Local By-Laws and then adhere to the guidelines to insure that they are properly discussed and then subsequently approved by the membership.
The committee makes sure that the membership approved by-laws are then submitted to the UAW International Executive Board pursuant to UAW Constitution, Article 37, Duties and Powers of Subordinate Bodies, Section 3.
The Union Label Committee helps to emphasize the importance of supporting those goods and services produced by union members under union-won working conditions. As citizens, we can demand that tax dollars be spent on quality, union-made products including cars, buses and the like. If every American were to switch the purchase of just $30.00 a year from imports to US made apparel and home fashions, more that 100,000 jobs could be saved, all by spending just a little more for American-made products.
The Education Committee coordinates efforts to get information to the membership on a variety of issues.
The committee will use a variety of resources from the UAW International, UAW Region 1-C, Local 724, and community partners to bring the necessary informational outreach to meet membership needs.
This committee provides activities in the two above categories. Currently the committee has been focusing its efforts more toward the area of recreation.
The Local Recreation committee is committed to promoting stress relieving activities for the members and their families. The Local 724 Golf Outing has been ongoing for years. The committee has continued to offer a reasonably priced outing, with a generous assortment of prizes.
The committee is also looking to renew the annual Local 724 family picnic. The picnic, which was open to all members and their families, was well attended and was accompanied by a softball tournament.
The committee is also considering hosting an event for the holiday season and is looking for ideas and participation.
The Community Services Committee assists members in need. These crisis situations may occur during times of layoff, strikes, facility closure, and/or dealing with day to day situations.
The Community Services Committee collaborates with community based resources that may be helpful in solving membership issues. By partnering with the Labor Liaison network at the United Way, the Community Services Committee uses a variety of methods to determine the necessary steps to help the member in need.
Additionally, during times of strike, the Community Services Committee assists with the members on strike in identifying the critical needs during the strike, and helps alleviate the stress involved. They work in conjunction with the UAW Strike Department to help the membership.
Currently, community services activities conducted by the Local are; Toys for Tots, Old Newsboys, Holiday Tree of Warmth (collecting hats, mittens, scarves and gloves), National Association of Letter Carriers one day food drive, worksite United Way drives, just to name a few.
The Civil and Human Rights Committee is the union's guard dog on the "No Discrimination" policies of our Union. The committee members are committed to making sure that member rights pertaining to religion, race, gender, creed, national origin, color, political affiliation, sexual orientation, age, marital status, and/or disability are not violated.
The committee assists members with the proper adherence to the steps and procedures necessary to protect their rights in the event of violation by either management and/or fellow union members.
Additionally the committee works with groups that are involved with advocacy against discrimation, bigotry, unjust policies and/or actions.
Another important committee is the Women's Committee. The committee engages in activities that help promote the well being of women in the workplace.
The Region 1-C Women's Committee meets regularly in both Flint and Lansing. Although the committee is titled the "women's Committee", men are encouraged to participate to help support wives, daughters, friends, or co-workers.
At the UAW Region 1-C Flint office, there is a special section of the Sitdowner's Monument Park courtyard acknowledging the contributions of women to the labor movement. The displays show the bravery and determination of the women whose fathers, husbands, and sons who stood up to General Motors during the Flint sit-down strikes.
Local 724 took action and along with several Units contributed to the memorial with a bench at the site. Special recognition goes to the Bridgewater Unit, which made a generous contribution which allowed for the bench purchase. Additionally, the Bridgewater Unit purchased a brick in honor of some of their sisters who passed away.
The Veterans Committee mission is to assist all UAW active and retired veterans and their families. By using a wide veteran's network, they can assist in the event UAW veterans needing help secure services they may need.
The Committee also serves as an advocate for veteran issues on the political scene as well. In light of the service to our country, the committee is dedicated to making the honor and dignity of our veterans is protected.
The Region 1-C Veterans Association actively meets to discuss veteran's issues and to plan needed outreach efforts. The Region 1-C Veterans Association has been very active in a partnership with the VFW National Home In Eaton Rapids, MI, see the following link: http://www.vfwnationalhome.org/index1.shtml The Association has been active with upkeep at the Stephen P. Yokich home at the home, which was built with UAW and partner donations. They have held fundraisers to purchase bikes for the children of the home as well.
The Local has a seven (7) member Election Committee. The Committee is election by the membership every three (3) usually before the triennial Local 724 nomination/election election cycle and are elected Local wide.
Any member of the Local and/or Unit Election Committees may not hold any another elected Local and/or Unit level position, in order to remain impartial.
The Election Committee is called upon to handle all Local Executive Board nominations, set up all Local 724 Elections, conduct said elections and make sure that the votes are tabulated and verified. They also handle the nomination and election of Local 724 delegates to the UAW Constitutional Conventions as they occur. Additionally the committee has assisted with the Unit level election process when needed.
Executive Board recommends appointments for the Chair of the Standing Committees, with the membership approval being the final answer. Additionally, the Local has members who act on behalf of the membership as it pertains to delegates to the Independent Parts and Supplier Council (IPS), Technical, Office and Professional Council, (TOP), Skilled Trades/Journeyman card applications, and Chaplaincy. The delegate to the Region 1-C IPS Council is Todd Collins, while Jane Gibbard is the representative from the Local for the TOP sector. Everett Henderson is the Local 724 Chaplain. Please contact the Local if you need to have anyone assist you in any questions you may have.
The Local has an Election Committee that handles the triennial elections, Constitutional Convention Election, and if needed helps Units that don't have Unit level Election Committees take care of Unit nominations and/or elections, along with helping with contract votes.
Many of the Committees have opening for those interested. The requirements for the participation vary by committee and amount of activity and outreach planned.


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Report on St. Helens (United States) — 2 March-8 March 2005
2 March-8 March 2005
Global Volcanism Program, 2005. Report on St. Helens (United States). In: Mayberry, G (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 2 March-8 March 2005. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Weekly Report (2 March-8 March 2005)
A small explosive event began at St. Helens at approximately 1725 on 8 March. Pilot reports indicated that the resulting steam-and-ash plume reached a height of about 11 km a.s.l. within a few minutes and drifted downwind ENE. The principal event lasted about 30 minutes with intensity gradually declining throughout. There were no reports of deaths or injuries. This was one of the largest steam-and-ash emissions to occur since renewed activity began at St. Helens in October 2004. CVO lost radio signals from three monitoring stations in the crater soon after the event started. The event followed a few hours of slightly increased seismic activity that was noted, but was not interpreted as precursory. There were no other indications of an imminent change in activity.
Prior to the explosion, during 2-7 March, growth of the new lava dome inside the crater of St. Helens continued, accompanied by low rates of seismicity, low emissions of steam and volcanic gases, and minor production of ash. Seismic data indicated that parts of the growing lava dome continued to crumble, forming rockfalls and generating small ash clouds that drifted out of the crater. The bulging ice on the deformed E arm of the glacier in the volcano's crater continued to rapidly move northward about 1.2 m per day.
CVO stated that the current hazard assessment for the ongoing eruption mentions the possibility of events like the 8 March explosion occurring without warning, and the assessment remained unchanged. The eruption could intensify suddenly and with little warning and produce explosions that cause hazardous conditions within several miles of the crater and farther downwind. Small lahars could suddenly descend the Toutle River if triggered by heavy rain or by interaction of hot rocks with snow and ice. These lahars pose a negligible hazard below the Sediment Retention Structure (SRS) but could pose a hazard along the river channel upstream.


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Orange Plankton's Recording Session
Orange Plankton (minus drummer Tamarou) at their home studio.
I'm playing a minor role in the recording of Japanese piano pop quarter Orange Plankton's 4th album. On Sunday I went to their home studio to help out.
This studio is also the home of Orange Plankton bassist Tsu-ji-, drummer Tamarou and manager Hiroki. It's on the 4th floor of an apartment building, and the musicians only play in the afternoon to avoid pissing off the neighbors. In a quiet residential area in Sakura-jousui in western Tokyo away from urban noise, the apartment is still not an ideal environment for recording: While I was there I could hear the American football club of Nippon University practicing outside (yes, American football. It's fairly popular among college kids), and crows and pigeons on the balcony.
They also have to turn off the air conditioning while they are recording to keep out the machine's sound. That means on hot days, they sweat. Everything is basic, yet they pull it off, making beautiful songs. Are there many things more moving than that? A group of musicians doing part-time jobs so they can afford to create lovely songs in a cramped apartment studio.
These guys, Orange Plankton, are one of my favorite Japanese bands. I was thrilled at the opportunity to sit in on one of their recording sessions, allowing me to see how they make their distinct, enveloping and sometimes swinging sound. They are picky. A long time was spent deciding whether one track of a few bars of music was better than another. For a non-member like me, the difference between the tracks sounded slight, but they decided one track was superior, and stiched those together to create a song. The results shined. It was inspiring.
It took more than six hours just to record the vocal part of the song I came to help out with. There are 12 songs planned for the new album -- this is all they'd been doing for weeks. This was hard work, but it wasn't difficult to understand the perfectionism that drove them. Once the album is pressed, there is no turning back, the sound is permanent. That album will be Orange Plankton for people who listen to only that album.
The album is due out in the middle of August. I'll tell you more about how I was involved in it when it comes out.
Yumi sings at recording session.
Bassist Tsu-ji- recording.
More Names - Vasallo Crab 75
Further to last post, in my quest to find out how Japanese bands come up with their names, I've made another discovery: why 'Vasallo Crab 75' is called that.
The truth of the matter: the two guys that formed the band, Daisuke Kudo and the late Takayuki Fukumura, were both born in 1975, or the Year of the Crab. Therefore, the 'Crab' and the '75'.
As for 'Vasallo', it refers to the swimming technique used by Daichi Suzuki, the 1988 Seoul Olympic gold medalist. The two thought it would be funny if a crab swam Vasallo style, and the name 'Vasallo Crab 75' was born.
This info is from an interview with Kudo published in the excellent Japanese indies music magazine Cookie Scene.
At this rate, I'll know the secret behind ALL the good Japanese bands by the end of 2004!
P.S., Burger Nuds; Names
As I was writing the last post on the Burger Nuds, I found in the Web a site that answered one of my minor Japanese rock questions: What in the world does the name "Burger Nuds" mean? In an interview (which is in Japanese and includes a portait of the Nuds, though I think they are better looking in person), the band members reveal the truth.
First, they explain, 'nuds' is English slang for someone who geekily gets too obsessed in things. ... Wait. Burger Nuds. Shouldn't that be 'nerds'?
As for 'Burger', the interview says that the band members ate burgers often at Wendy's, ergo, 'Burger'.
So, in reality what this band should have been called was Burger Nerds, a cool band name in itself, three rock music geeks who ate too many hamburgers (but remained rail-thin, the obnoxious nerds).
Having found this out, I must say I prefer Burger Nuds to Burger Nerds, because of the weirdness of the former. By the way, the band says their home page, filled now with messages from their aggrieved fans, will soon be discontinued, as will the sale of their albums. Sadness.
Writing about what Burger Nuds' name means got me thinking about where other good Japanese bands' names come from.
There is a whole group of bands with English people names, for example: Cecil, Winnie, and going back further in the past, Judy & Mary, Rebecca, and others.
There is Lucy, which people usually call the brilliant
In addition, Advantage Lucy. In their case I know the reason for their name. Advantage Lucy was originally called Lucy van Pelt, as in the Peanuts character who pulls the football away from Charlie Brown, but they decided to change it when they felt they might make it big (which they did) and the old name might cause problems. They therefore became advantage Lucy.
There are bands with mystery names: Qypthone, Moga the 5 Yen, Vasallo Crab 75, Condor 44 (the latter two examples of bands-with-names-with-numbers-after-cool-sounding-nouns. I think I've seen other examples of this), and many others.
For some bands, I know why they came to be called what they are.
Plectrum, for example, was given their name, which is another way to say 'guitar pick', by Teenage Fan Club.
Orange Plankton's 'Orange' reflects the fact that singer Yumi is from Ehime prefecture, a major producer of mikan, or Japanese orange, while the 'plankton' reflects their wish that the bands grows as fast as the sea-floating organism.
I now know the secret to Burder Nuds' name too, though a bit too late.
Goodbye, Burger Nuds
Tonight is the sold-out final show of Burger Nuds, at the Shinjuku Loft.
I made several half-hearted attempts to get tickets to the show, but was unsuccessful each time. First, I was planning to buy them from Pia, the ticket service, but forgot about when they would go on sale. The tickets sold out in less than half an hour.
I also tried Yahoo auction, where the tickets went on sale several times in the weeks before the Loft show. At one point I was willing to pay up to Y15,000 (about $140) for a pair, but someone outbid me at the last moment at Y15,500. My maximum bid would have worked out to Y7,500 a ticket, compared with the Y3,000 cover price. Not an exhorbitant mark-up, and if it were another band I might have paid more for a goodbye performance. But I didn't feel like forking out the big bucks (big yen, rather) for the Burger Nuds.
I would have liked to have seen the show if possible, but if I couldn't, that was that.
That was not a feeling shared by the legion of Burger Nuds fans, who for weeks had been posting their messages of lament on the band's home page BBS. Some of these fans wrote that they cried and suffered insomnia upon finding out the Nuds were splitting up.
Many of the hapless girls (and they were mostly girls) said that for one tactical error or another, they failed to buy the tickets -- they couldn't log on to Pia in time, for example. One complaint was that the Shinjuku Loft was too small a venue for the final performance of a popular band like the Burger Nuds. And that was probably true: Fairly recently the band had played at the Shinjuku Liquid Room, a much bigger hall, and it seemed to me they could have filled up other big clubs like the Quattro or O-West/O-East in Shibuya.
I'd seen them live three times, once in Nagoya, another time in the basement of Tower Records Shibuya, and most recently at the Liquid Room show mentioned above. A trio of good-looking twenty-something guys, they played with nervous precision their long and unfolding hard rock tunes. Although their songs dealt with poetic young adult angst-type subject matters (with titles like "Normal Abnormal" and "Candle for minority"), in person they were disarmingly down-to-earth and goofy without seeming to intend it.
For instance, the singer Monden made me almost giggle at the Liquid Room when he said something like, "Do you believe in magic? I can use magic, because the music I play can make you happy." Another time, at the Tower Records show, when the audience wouldn't leave because the show was so short and they wanted an encore, he stood at the exit saying they had to get out because their allotted time was over, then shook the hands of the dozens of girls leaving the place.
Sadly, there will soon be little record left that Burger Nuds existed. They said their record label won't print any more of their CDs, so once the disks are sold out in the stores, they are gone for good. At least they will live on for a while in the minds of all those girls, many of whom doubtless spent the evening in semi-hysterical tearfulness, who either made it to the show or didn't and imagined it at home. Goodbye, Burger Nuds.
The Clicks in Yokohama
Bassist Chiharu of the Clicks.
(Sorry about the bad quality of this photo - I didn't use a flash. But I wanted to post it anyway because of the so-cool "Rock 'n' Roll Street" in the background.)
This is, unintentionally, turning into a weekend of all-girl bands.
Last night I saw the Noodles in Shimokitazawa. Today, I went to Yokohama to see a three-girl trio, the Clicks.
I first found out about the Clicks when I saw a flier for their debut album in one of those bundles of fliers they give you at the door at Japanese rock clubs. Among the colorful advertisements, the Clicks' stood out. It featured three good-looking Japanese women in cocktail dresses -- and it was clear they weren't models but the actual musicians in the band. I speed-walked to Tower Records to buy their album, Come To Vivid Girl's Room.
The music in the album was straightforward hard rock/punk. Fun to listen to, bit nothing to write home about. But on my scale of rock band ratings, all-girl bands earn an additional 50 points, while those with girls wearing colorful cocktail dresses get 50 bonus points, so the Clicks were better than perfect. They immediately became a personal hit. I especially liked the last song on their album, a love ballad called 'Summer has gone'.
The show was at the Motomachi Gig, a Yokohama bar that usually plays 60's and 70's rock but has punk rock shows on weekends. The event took place after a rare, beautiful sunny day during the June rainy season, with an approaching typhoon causing the clouds to travel fast in the blue sky.
The Clicks were in the same primary color dresses as they wore in the photo on their album cover. Somewhat unexpectedly, though, for a band whose members look like Moody Jazz Night at a hotel bar, the girls played with plentiful rock 'n' roll spirit. The Gig was home ground for them, according to what guitarist Yuko said during the show: Their first performance after forming in 1998 was in Yokohama (I was surprised that they had been around that long).
I didn't have a chance to talk to the band members, but they're playing at the Shinjuku Red Cloth next week, so maybe then.
Drummer Yuki and guitarist Yuko of the Clicks.
Vasallo Crab 75/Noodles/Salt Water Taffy
Noodles singer Yoko in her watermelon outfit.
Wow. Vasallo Crab 75. They made the rock club tonight as hot as a basement on a Tokyo summer day with the air conditioning down.
This 5-man alternative music band has topped Japanese indies charts recently, and they are creating a buzz in the Tokyo live music scene. Watching them live at Shimokizawa Club Que, it's not hard to see why.
They played for 40 minutes without stopping, creating a sound feast with musical ingredients like psychedelia, funk, pop and a bit of punk. Vasallo even puts an electrical vioin to good use -- it makes some of their melodies sound a bit like psychedelic-era Prince. (Singer Daisuke Kudo is a big Prince fan, according to the band's home page.)
Vasallo was the band Takayuki Fukumura belonged to before he passed away last year of heart disease. At one of their past shows, a band member said the truth was that even after months had passed, they hadn't gotten over his death. But at the same time, it seems the spirit of Fukumura drives the band members to make intense, beautiful music. What a band Fukumura left behind!
The Noodles were the first act of the evening, followed by Vasallo. It was my second time seeing the all-girl band live. The singer of Salt Water Taffy, the final act of the night, described the Noodles well: She said they are 'kawaii' -- cute -- and 'kakkoii' -- cool. A musical group of four women in Tokyo playing heavy but catchy original rock tunes is the definition of cool.
The band recently went on a U.S. tour, photos of which can be seen on their home page by clicking on the map of America on the floor. They visited McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California. I only mention this because the fine store is a 5-minute walk from my parent's home.
Yoko, Noodles' singer, claimed she'd forgotten about tonight's show and that's why she was wearing a T-shirt that made her look like a watermelon.
It was my first time to Salt Water Taffy. They were a quirky bunch -- the singer, whose name I don't know, scolded (half-jokingly, I think) the bassist for messing up a part, and she ran off stage in the middle of the set to change into a T-shirt from a tanktop that kept on trying to slip off of her. But they played good hard rocking music.
Orange Plankton at Shibuya Deseo
Tonight's show is piano pop quartet Orange Plankton, back in Tokyo after touring a number of Japanese cities. They have just released a new single, 'Ai no youna' -- 'something like love' (my translation). A new album, their fourth, is coming up in August.
Singer Yumi. In the background, bassist Tsu-ji- and drummer Tamarou.
Yuki on keyboard.
Cloudberry Jam at Shibuya Duo
Shibuya Duo, where Cloudberry Jam played.
On Friday night in Tower Records Shibuya before heading to a club, I found the new album 'Movin' On Up' by Cloudberry Jam, and a sticker on the cover saying they were playing in Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday. I rushed home to reserve tickets on Pia's web page. This Swedish pop band was a group whose show I didn't want to miss. They were a favorite band of advantage Lucy and probably a lot of other Japanese musicians who were into Sweden's pop music.
Cloudberry Jam was playing at a club called Shibuya Duo, which I had never heard of. It was in the corner of the Dogenzaka love hotel district that contains the Shibuya-O rock clubs. The street in front of the clubs always fills up with music fans once shows end, the fans mixing together with couples walking toward their destinations in the neighborhood.
As soon as we entered Duo, we knew it was a class joint. First, there were tables and chairs. Waitresses took your drink orders, and you could order food too. In normal rock 'live houses', by contrast, you stand in basement-like rooms and order drinks from bartenders exhibiting varying degrees of job apathy. Duo was like the dinner club in GoodFellas that Ray Liotta took Lorraine Bracco to in order to impress her. All the class didn't come cheap though: the tickets alone cost about $70 a piece, and that didn't include the charge for food and drinks.
Cloudberry Jam was seven people -- the singer, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, sax and trombone. The female singer Jennie Medins had a full, deep voice and R&B stage moves. I wondered whether she grew up listening to American music like Motown, soul and R&B. If that's the case, it would mean the Swedish singer who influenced Japanese musicians herself got her inspiration from American pop. Though good musicians are usually influenced by many types of music, not only one. The chains that bind musicians together wind around the world in complex patterns.
Love hotel street outside of Duo.
Walking back home from Shibuya after the aborted club experience I talked about in the last post, I listened to Mission of Burma's song "Falling" from their new album. I'd just read music journalist Michael Azerrad's profile of Mission of Burma in his book "Our Band Could Be Your Life", how the band was forced to call it quits because of their guitarist's ear problems, so it came as a pleasant shock to find their first album in 21 years (!), ONoffON, on sale in Tower Records Shibuya recently. Was Roger Miller's ear problem cured?
Japan has entered its June rainy season and this year's Typhoon #4 has landed in Kochi prefecture in western Japan, and therefore it was pouring as I walked home. Trudging through the concrete canyon of Meiji street in heavy rain, the song 'Falling', whose lyrics I listened to seriously for the first time, seemed strangely appropriate to the night.
'Falling' is an eerie song. It's about a guy who had fallen from a skyscraper. It has lines like "I was falling through the air/From the tallest building/away ok away" and "I could see the future rushing up to meet me/Between the seconds split into smaller parts". The 'fall' is probably a metaphor for something, but I wondered, walking, whether the image of the suicide jumpers from the World Trade Center on 9-11 inspired, consciously or subconsciously, the image.
Maybe it was just the gloominess of the rainy night and the fact that many raindrops were falling from the heavens that made me feel the song was the right one for tonight. At the same time, bad weather, people-less streets and a dark song on headphones sometimes makes you realize that always, all your life, you're descending slowly.
Tonight I was planning to go to a DJ event featuring Yoshiharu Konishi, the creator of Pizzicato Five's music. Konishi is a big collector of obscure pop and jazz records, and listening to his choice disks at the event's tiny venue, the Organ Bar in Shibuya, seemed a good way to spend a few hours of an evening. But I ended up not going -- there was a time zone problem.
I'm used to Tokyo 'live house' time. Shows at live house rock halls start early, with the opening band usually hitting the stage around 7 P.M. They wrap up about 10 P.M. in most cases. The bar where Konishi's event took place, on the other hand, opened at 9 P.M. I got to the club around 9:30 after wandering around wasting time in Shibuya, but when I entered, there was no door man and no customers, and there was just a DJ (not Konishi) playing some music.
If at 9:30 there's no one, I thought to myself, then the club probably won't start filling up for another hour or so at the earliest. Even then, Konishi, being a big deal, might not play his records for another hour or two. That means what I'd come to listen to possibly won't happen until midnight. I wasn't sure whether on a Friday after a long week of work, I'd last that long.
Maybe it's just conditioning, but I prefer the shape of an early rock show night to a DJ club event night. In an early rock show night, you have a few drinks during the show, then when it's done get food and more booze, sometimes with the band members, and collapse after a few hours. In contrast, when people go to a club late at night, what do they spend all the hours in the evening before the show doing? Do they watch TV? Do they have dinner? But if they drink during the meal, wouldn't they be burnt out by around 3 A.M. or so? I like the rocket-like progression of a Tokyo rock show evening where your excitement is built up steadily by the music, you fly high in celebration after the show, then come crashing down to earth in a few hours.
My guess is that the rock live houses start and close early because for one thing, many of its customers live an hour or more away by one of the Tokyo commuter trains, and they need to leave at a decent time. A DJ club is a different matter: there, people go assuming they will stay until morning to catch the first train of the day home. Different life style choices.
I'd been to Organ Bar before to see the band Qypthone, and there was the same issue. The bar had opened at 9 P.M. but even after midnight the band hadn't played and we decided to leave because we'd simply run out of things to talk about and do. The event made me uncomfortable in the same way as a cocktail party filled with strangers. Qypthone used to play early shows at rock clubs until a few years ago, but now in Tokyo they appear to perform exclusively at the Organ Bar. I'm not sure why they made that change.
One of these nights, though, I want to go to the Organ Bar sufficiently late with enough energy to party into the early hours of the day, and see Qypthone and Konishi. Fortunately, their shows are held every month.
House Plan!
I first became a fan of House Plan! around 1999, when they played from time to time in Shimokitazawa, a Tokyo neighborhood filled with music clubs and stores. I found out about them because they were playing in the same multi-band event as Qypthone, who I had gone to see -- a good example of how, often, bands that are radically different appear together at the same clubs in Tokyo's live indies music scene. Qypthone (pronounced Kip-thone) played music that is pop, techno, jazzy and sophisticated. House Plan, on the other hand, was a spirited punk rock band that did fast and fun tunes. They came from one of the prefectures east of Tokyo -- the equivalent of San Pedro versus LA (like Minutemen), or New Jersey versus Manhattan.
The trio stood out. Like a hard rock Beastie Boys, the guitarist, bassist and drummer took turns mid-song doing the singing. There was nothing deep in their songs, which had titles like 'Ninja Force', 'Psycho' and 'Les Yes' (about a guy's depression upon finding out that a girl he has a crush on turned out to be a lesbian), but their hard rocking songs were fast and aggressive without being too serious.
Then I left Tokyo for a couple of years, and when I came back they had disappeared. I checked the Internet, but all I could find were references to their career in the late-90's. Did the band members get bored of the music scene and quit? Did they become ordinary salarymen? I soon wrote House Plan off as a good band that was gone, and forgot about them.
Until one day, when the intricate web of Japan's music scene led me back to the band, in their current form. One night I saw a show that included the band Poly ABC, one of whose songs appeared in a compilation album that also featured advantage Lucy and the Cymbals (the album is called Killermont Street). A few weeks or months later, I went to a show by the Banks, led by the former singer of the band Hoff Dylan. I noticed that the bassist for the Banks was the same guy as Poly ABC's bassist. Upon further research I found out that the musician went by the nickname Umu. And, in a big surprise, Umu also played bass for House Plan.
After that, I went to see House Plan last month in Shinjuku's ACB Hall, advertised on Umu's home page. They were a different band from the one I had seen in '99. For one thing, there wasn't the tossing-of-hot-potato-like switching between band members of lead vocal parts. The band members themselves were different. From what I've been able to figure out, members of the Beat Crusaders, one of the more popular indies bands, left and joined House Plan, which by then consisted only of the guitar/singer Tatsuyoshi Genda. The new House Plan was still a hard rock band, but their music seemed more mature than when I last saw them, and they had written a bunch of songs and were working on a new album. I plan on seeing more of House Plan.
From left: Ishizaka of advantage Lucy, Acky Fujita of Plectrum, Aiko of Lucy and Taisuke Takata of Plectrum, in Seoul.
Advantage Lucy's singer Aiko said at Saturday's show that the band is releasing their new album in autumn. That's great news for Lucy fans. It's been three years since the Japanese pop band's two EPs, 'Anzu no Kisetsu' (Season of Apricot) and 'Oolt Cloud' came out. Judging by the quality of their the new songs they've been playing at recent shows, this new album is sure to be a gem.
But the high quality of the new album won't come as a surprise. All of the music that advantage Lucy has made in their eight years of existence has been excellent. 'Guitar pop' is one way to describe their sound, a sound reminding one of Swedish pop and bands like Ivy, Club 8 and the Smiths.
Most of their songs are in Japanese, but some are in English. The English lyrics to one song, called 'fizz pop' (from the album 'Station'), strike me as one of the simplest and most straightforward descriptions of how it feels to love music that I've ever heard. The main refrain goes:
It's so funny
It's so sunny
It's so lovely
It's so funky
Makes me happy
Makes me dizzy
It's so simple -
can't explain it.
It hasn't been smooth sailing for advantage Lucy. To begin with, they haven't had a full-time bassist since the beginning, in the mid-90's, when they were called Lucy van Pelt. They signed with the major label Toshiba EMI and hit the peak of their popularity around 1999, but then left the label to create their own, called 'Solaris Records'. One of their guitarists, Takayuki Fukumura, quit during the major label days and later formed a band called Vasallo Crab 75. But last year, he passed away of heart illness, only 28 years old.
Lucy's show right after his death, on Dec. 6 at a club called Live Inn Rosa in Ikebukuro, is one I'll never forget. At the start of the show, Aiko said only that they will play old songs that night, without elaborating. The fans knew, though, that those old songs were in tribute to Fukumura (a guy who, from everything I've heard was a sweet, optimistic, ever-cheerful person despite his chronic illness). It was only after an emotional set that lasted about an hour and a half that Aiko talked about Fukumura. The club became so quiet that you could have heard a guitar pick drop. And then she asked for applause in memory of Fukumura. It was long, loud and sustained applause -- a farewell to a rock 'n' roller.
Meanwhile, the drummer, Kaname Banba, developed a condition that made him unable to use one of his legs for drumming, and he hasn't been active in Lucy (though he's playing in another band called Orang, adjusting the drum set so he doesn't have to use one leg. Watching the joyful way Banba played in Orang at one show made me wish I had seen Lucy perform when they were him, Aiko, Ishizaka and Fukumura).
So, the band advantage Lucy has been reduced to its creative core - guitarist Ishizaka, who makes the music, and Aiko, who writes the lyrics, backed by guitarist Taisuke Takata of the band Plectrum, Manabu Chigasaki, a bassist for several bands, and Kimitoshi Sotomura, a veteran drummer.
Lucy at Shinjuku Red Cloth
The Red Cloth is a relatively new rock live house, located near the entertainment/red light district of Kabukichou in Shinjuku. To get there from the JR station, you walk through one of Tokyo's most crowded shopping streets and pass a Shinto shrine called Hanazono. The club has a Chinese design motif. The walls are pink with a floral design, Chinese-looking glass lamps hang from the ceiling, and on the wall behind the stage is a banner proudly proclaiming the name of the club in alphabet and Chinese characters. (The name might also be a pun on the band name 'Redd Kross', both being pronounced 'reddo kurosu' in Japanese.)
It's here that advantage Lucy will play, and the club is packed, maybe 150 to 200 people stuffed into the small space. The show is sold out. Shows of Japanese bands I like the most sometimes make me nervous as I wonder whether they'd measure up to my memories of their past performances. Happily, everytime I've seen Lucy live (I must have seen them a dozen times now) they've blown me away. Tonight is no exception.
Playing before Lucy are Sloppy Joe, Lost in Found and Snow Ball. Sloppy Joe are five slightly-nerdy looking guys playing guitar pop. They haven't made any albums yet, and up to tonight have only performed in little clubs, as a sort of 'extra treat' for the club-goers, according to Sloppy Joe's singer. They are therefore nervous playing in front of the big audience, but their songs are good, particularly the tunes 'Weekend' and 'Wonder'. Listening to them I think about how in Japan there's one subculture of youth who grew up listening to music like Swedish pop and guitar pop, and went on to make their own bands that are sometimes excellent. Back when I was growing up in L.A., I doubt many of my contemporaries were listening to music from Sweden. It was mostly punk and alternative rock that inspired people to create bands.
Band #2 was Lost in Found, a six-person group, with a big blond Canadian of Polish descent named Mike doing the singing. I've come to know Lost in Found pretty well -- I traveled with them to Seoul in March for a four-band tour. Even though Lost in Found is fairly new, members of advantage Lucy have taken a liking to their sound and have invited them to play at their shows, thrusting them in front of much bigger crowds than they might have expected this early in their career. That may freak them out a bit, but it's no doubt good experience for them. They have a catchy pop sound. Some of their songs can be sampled on their home page.
The third band was Snow Ball, a five-person band (I think...) with a tiny keyboardist/singer girl. I've seen them once before. Neither the last time I saw them nor tonight did they leave much of an impression, though their playing is expert and their songs are well-crafted.
And then -- advantage Lucy. I will describe them in more detail sometime later, but they consist of Aiko, the female singer, who writes all of their lyrics, and Yoshiharu Ishizaka, a guitarist, who composes all of their music, and a guitarist, bassist and drummer who aren't officially part of the band but help out with shows and recording. Aiko and Ishizaka are the inseparable creative core of the band.
It seems that Lucy's intensity level has been increasing at the last few shows, maybe because they are about to release their long-awaited album, after a three-year hiatus. Usually, they take short breaks every couple of songs, but tonight they played almost non-stop and it made for an intense show. (Someone told me later Aiko was very impressed by Vasallo Crab 75's show a few days earlier, where they also played without rest, and decided to try it out.) Particularly cool was the way that their new song Andersen fused into the next number, Red Bicycle, one of their classics.
As someone who owns all of their CD albums and singles, I'm looking very much forward to the new album, which Aiko said should be out in autumn. Judging by the new songs they've introduced at performances in the past few months, it's going to be a blockbuster. The new tune 'Everything' that opened tonight's show, for example, has such a catchy melody line that, although it was only the second time I'd listened to it, I was humming it on the way home. For their encore they played 'Citrus' from the album 'Fanfare'. This gem of a song seems to be one of their favorites. They often play it as their last song of the night. Remembering how it was played at these shows makes me like it even more when I listen to it at home.
This is a journal about Tokyo's rock music scene. It begins on a good night as any to embark on this project: the evening before a show at the Shinjuku Red Cloth, featuring the Japanese pop bands advantage Lucy, Lost in Found, Snow Ball and Sloppy Joe. Your guide, you see, is a devoted Lucy fan. Their shows are always a major event for me, a time to see brilliant musicians in person, hear them play the songs that have become personal favorites, and listen to their new music that takes them in fresh and unexpected directions. But for a band that I think is one of the best in Japan, advantage Lucy plays in modest settings, usually basement clubs in Tokyo that house a couple of hundred people at most, about once a month. More on them later. Tomorrow, I'll walk through Kabukichou, Tokyo's biggest red light district, to get to Red Cloth, a relatively new rock club, pay 2,500 yen for the door charge, buy beer, and settle back in one corner of the club to take in great music.
That's what I've been doing a lot of for about a year now -- I often go to two or three shows a week in this city that is an Asian rock 'n' roll center. How big og a scene is this? Just buy a copy of the Weekly Pia entertainment magazine, open the live pop music section, and there in front of you are pages after pages in small print of names of bands (some of which are totally weird, including 'Hotbitchis Marie', 'Baby Juice', 'Bo-Peep' and 'CIPHER BREAKA') who are scheduled to play in the more well-known clubs. There are hundreds of other smaller clubs, bars, and performance spaces that aren't listed in the magazine, where the music that's performed is sometimes as compelling as that at the bigger venues. After work and on weekend nights, I set out to catch shows at entertainment centers in Tokyo like Shibuya, Shimokitazawa and Shinjuku.
There are also vast assortments of record and music software stores, guitar and musical instrument shops, music book and magazine stores, and even a guidebook to tell you what's where. A trip to Tokyo is a pilgrimage to the great sites of J-pop (Japanese pop). One Grand Temple is Tower Records Shibuya, a seven-story yellow monster of a building containing music of all major genres from all over the world. There, in the independent music section of the J-pop floor (the 2nd floor), I discovered unforgettable bands like advantage Lucy, Orange Plankton, Art-School, Burger Nuds, Moga The 5 Yen and many others. Going to see these groups play live has also been a chance to watch shows of other good bands on the same billing. I want to tell you about these musicians in this journal.


BattleField V Official System Requirements are Out Now !!
The world war 2 first person shooter has few weeks to go for it's release and the official System requirements of the game are out already. Dice, the developers of BattleField V have released the system requirements of Battlefield V via reddit. BattleField 5 boasts of supporting the latest real time ray tracing technology developed by Nvidia. So the developers sheeted out seperate requirements for the RTX Graphics card users.
Here are the official system requirements of BattleField V.
As you can see, the game demands a high end rig. So do make sure that your PC can handle it well by checking out the specifications. By the looks of it, it pretty much demands an upgrade from most of us.


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Cui Guolian, the "Aid Show Doctor" in Texas, took root in Xiushan to diagnose and treat more than 800 people, saying "everything is for their smiles"
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Amidst all the changes we've seen in business over the past several years, particularly in high tech, 2016 will be a turning point.
The rapid pace of change over the last five years has opened the door to new, creative business plans, sky-high valuations and meteoric growth for the nimble. Indeed, a bellwether of growth, mergers and acquisitions are on a record pace in 2015. We're set to break the record of $4.6 trillion set in 2007, according to Dealogic, which tracks the market.
Yet, for all of the change we've seen in the industry, the lofty valuations and the profound optimism about how software and technology can cut costs, improve efficiencies and make the world a better place, the time has come for these businesses to demonstrate an ability to monetize these innovative ideas, grow revenue and begin the path to profitability. We're already seeing early indications of this pressure in recent valuation adjustments. I predict that sort of pressure for results will continue to mount in 2016.
Really, it's to be expected. The early winners were those that disrupted their industry, established new business models and grabbed market share early. The next round of winners will be those that can fully monetize these new business models, and not just at the point of customer acquisition but throughout the customer life cycle. Growth is great; but unless you find a way to monetize, you run out of runway.
It has been a challenge just to keep up with the remarkable pace of change in recent years. The shrinking half-life of the Fortune 500 is a good indication. In 1965, that half-life was 28 years; today, it takes just 15 years for half of the companies listed on the Fortune 500 to turn over.
That change has spanned industries and business models. Companies that sell products have evolved into companies that sell services, with software companies a prime example, as subscription revenue growth rates surpassed the traditional licensing model. Likewise, services companies are now selling products. Take Jawbone, which began with selling noise-cancelling headphones, expanded into wireless speakers and now sells activity trackers with smartphone apps. Or Shazam, which began as an app that informed users of the name and artist of the song they held up to their phone and now lets users access all kinds of information about music, television and film, partnering with advertisers.
In fact, the very way that people are buying has changed dramatically. As much as Netflix transformed video rentals with sophisticated algorithms for movie recommendations, it was the shift from a flat rental fee to a monthly subscription that really disrupted that market. We've all seen the profound effect subscription pricing and freemium models have had on the software, communications and media industries.
We've also seen the impact of this digital transformation play out in retail. Ecommerce quickly became a new sales channel, but retailers that established an ecommerce channel years ago are realizing that customers now expect the same experience online as they get in the store. They want to be able to buy online and pick up or return in store. The companies winning in retail are the ones that have not only created efficiencies and superior experiences with regard to selling but have deep visibility into their customers, inventory and supply chain.
Clearly, we've seen some of the winners emerging from this rapid pace of change, and many of them have found ways to monetize their disruption. But for many more, these changes create an incredible strain on their internal systems and their traditional business processes, leaving them at a disadvantage and unable to adapt and ultimately survive.
To truly prepare for the change in business climate in 2016, businesses need to do three things.
1. Take a close look at your existing systems and processes. Do you have the infrastructure in place that enables you to monetize your business today, as well as where it's heading? Can you – scale – that is, attract new customers, process orders, provision/fulfill, bill timely and accurately, recognize revenue, and then renew that customer relationship over and over again?
"At scale" is critical; if you've taken a piecemeal approach with your infrastructure, then a period of intense growth will put a tremendous strain on the organization that will be costly and time consuming to resolve.
2. Next, assess your organization's ability to pivot. Are those systems and processes flexible enough to adapt to change and capture new opportunities? Can the back end, for example, support a move from a mobile app that recognizes music to a new advertising platform? If not, all the great innovation and market momentum won't mean much when that market takes a turn or the industry is disrupted by someone, or something, else.
3. Finally, do you have the right people in place to make that move from billion-dollar valuation to a billion dollars in revenue? It might mean bringing in some new talent with the skills you haven't needed in the past. It definitely means retaining your existing talent, which these days is more critical, and more difficult, than ever.
Jim McGeever is president and COO of NetSuite. He joined NetSuite in 2000 and was the company's 15th employee. From 2000 to 2010, he served as NetSuite's CFO and was a driving force behind NetSuite's successful IPO in 2007. In 2010, he became the company's COO, responsible for global sales, services and support operations. Previously, he was director of finance for Clontech Laboratories, the corporate controller at Photon Dynamics, and a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young.


Alleged LeEco Dual3 live images leaked - Playfuldroid!
If you can still remember, earlier this week we just posted an alleged live image of a mysterious LeEco smartphone which has an awkward looking dual-camera setup at the back of the device.
Today, this mysterious handset is back again in another set of alleged spy shots showing us a clear view of its front panel as well as its rear chassis. According to a new rumor out of Chinese Weibo, this device will be launched as the LeEco Dual3 smartphone instead of Le 3 which was previously rumored. However, its good to know that this device is purported to be another high-end LeEco unit and will definitely be heading to the US market as well.
Right now, this device is still fresh to the rumor mills but it was apparently tipped to be unveiled by the end of the year so that it will not clash with the April release date of their upcoming Le 3 flagship.
Steve has been a die-hard fan of Android for more than 3 years, ever since he have purchase his first Android handset - HTC Dream. Currently holding on to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Steve still love to play around with his HTC Dream during his free time.


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