Time to Fold?

The saga of the UCR med-school-to-be continues in the Riverside Press-Enterprise (excerpts):

UC Riverside officials announced Wednesday that the opening of their proposed medical school will be postponed a year because they did not secure the ongoing state funding needed to gain accreditation. The announcement from Chancellor Timothy White came the day after Democrats in Sacramento passed a 2011-12 budget that did not include extra funding for the medical school. The budget, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed Wednesday night, cut another $150 million from the UC system on top of the $500 million reduction taken earlier this year…

"We can't focus on the negative," said Dr. G. Richard Olds, the medical school dean. "We had a shot and we came really close to getting it open. We better get it open in '13." He said he will work to develop the medical school's programs and secure funding to ensure accreditation. "If we fail, there will never be a medical school at UCR," Olds said. "It's not like I can keep trying forever. I've got five months to redo a business plan and an approach." …

Full article at http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_medschool30.40b866c7e.html

Time to fold them?

If the Trigger Is Pulled

As noted in earlier blog posts, the new state budget has a trigger provision that activates if assumed revenue does not materialize. Higher ed takes an additional hit if that occurs. So does K-12. But K-12 school districts are not permitted to make budget plans that assume an additional hit. From today’s Sacramento Bee:

…Lawmakers blocked K-12 districts from laying off teachers for the upcoming fiscal year. Teachers also won provisions requiring districts to ignore – for now – the prospect of a $1.75 billion "trigger" cut that could hit K-12 districts if optimistic revenue projections fall short. Instead, the state is requiring districts to assume they will receive the same amount of money as this past fiscal year "and maintain staffing and program levels commensurate with this funding level," according to an Assembly analysis. (The) Department of Finance said the latter provision could even cause some districts to rescind pink slips handed out earlier this year…

Full article: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/30/3737655/browns-countdown-day-172-california.html

If the trigger is pulled, however, school districts in midyear will have to make some kind of adjustment. And they will be highly constrained, particularly in midyear. The legislature could change its mind about the distribution of the pain. If one sector (K-12) is kept insulated, other vulnerable sectors (higher ed) will have to take a bigger hit than originally planned.

Of course, the trigger may not be pulled. But it ain’t over ‘til it’s over:

Baby - Hahahaha

Okey folks, for the first time in years we had a day off Tune Of The Day :D

So Ill post this today in Yesterdays date :P

Cos I was out in the forest/Beach and Stones is still in Göteborg
and setting up Iron Maiden and the Big 4..the damn bastard....;p

Ah well Have fun Dudes and Dudettes!

Loooove you!

Thetania

29-Story Wilshire-Gayley Hotel

Yours truly received a phone call yesterday from a reporter about a 29-story hotel project on the site of the old Hollywood video store, long closed, on the northwest corner of Wilshire and Gayley (adjacent to the UCLA parking lot).

This project has been in the works for some time. For example, you can read a description of it in a 2009 filing with the City of LA at http://cityplanning.lacity.org/eir/WilshireGayleyProject/DEIR/issues/I._Executive_Summary.pdf

At that time, i.e., in 2009, the developer was describing it as either a mixed condo/hotel project or just a condo project. A more recent news article, however, terms it a “hotel.”

There was reference to this project in the FAQ list on the UCLA hotel/conference center project posted by the Faculty Center and dated 2/14/11. See http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/FAQs.htm (Scroll to the bottom.) But yours truly assumed the idea back then was more hypothetical than real. Apparently, it is real enough; bulldozers removed the Hollywood video building in May although the developer says project construction is not yet slated to begin. See http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/05/westwood_hollywood_video_gets_boot_stern_tower_coming_soon.php

Below is a description of the project from CurbedLA as of 11/19/2010. A picture of the proposed structure can be seen in the rendition above.

In what would bring a 29-story hotel to Westwood, the proposed Robert AM Stern-designed Wilshire Gayley is moving closer to breaking ground. With many locals coming out to speak in favor of the development at a Tuesday Planning and Land Use Committee meeting, the subcommittee approved the supergraphic-blocking project, and now developer Kambiz Hekmat is in negotiations with the city for an agreement to waive the bed tax on the hotel for a certain time period, according to Christopher Koontz, Planning Deputy for Councilman Koretz…

Full article at: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/11/wilshire_gayley_likely_a_hotel_looks_to_break.php

The construction of a major new hotel in Westwood adding to the room capacity of the hotels already in the general UCLA area has obvious (negative) implications for the fiscal feasibility of a UCLA-built hotel/conference center.

Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

Coldplay had a gig yesterday in Gothenburgh, Sweden at the "Where The Action Is". They had a big audience that danced in the sun of Azaleadalen :D

They will release an album in autumn 2011.
Its named "The Fifth Album"

Coldplay is:

Guy Berryman on bass guitar, backing vocals
Jonny Buckland on lead guitar, backing vocals
Will Champion on drums, backing vocals
Chris Martin on lead vocals, keyboards



Stones is down there and will report and might have some pics to show ya all.
Im home and just like a "sun cat" laying in the sun and bathing now and then.
Yesterday I took a break from home and my kids and went out to take some beers with some friends, wanted to go and look on "Plan Three" and Sick Puppies but...hmz..We never got there, damn wanted that.. ah well.

Back to this tune of the day´s comming album.

One of the goals for the album was to write tracks with greater use of experimenting with acoustic instruments, manipulation, and electronics by having or not having to revisit the style from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. With Chris Martin deciding to not release a solo album, it was rumoured the fifth album would be their last, but Martin later denied this fact. Upon re-entering "The Bakery,"the time to write and record songs were thought outside the box by the band to be more ambivalent than what they wanted. Coldplay were still making new matierial there, so they relocated to another building after continuing the Viva la Vida Tour in mid-late 2009. Martin predicted the style of the album as having lesser fanfare and more "stripped-down" before moving there.



The tour looks like this:
30 June 2011: Gdynia - Poland Open'er Festival
2 July 2011: Werchter - Belgium Rock Werchter
3 July 2011: Arras - France Main Square Festival
6 July 2011: Oeiras - Portugal Optimus Alive Festival
7 July 2011: Bilbao - Spain BBK Live
9 July 2011: Kinross - Scotland T In The Park Festival
10 July 2011: Punchestown - Ireland Oxegen Festival
22 July 2011: London - UK Roundhouse (iTunes Festival)
29 July 2011: Naeba Ski Resort - Japan Fuji Rock
29 July 2011: Woodford - Australia Splendour In The Grass Festival
Support: NB: Festival runs from July 29-31, day of Coldplay
performance not yet announced.
5 August 2011: Chicago, IL - USA Lollapalooza Festival
16 September 2011: Austin - USA Austin City Limits Festival
18 September 2011: Holdmel, NJ - USA RXP TĀKLIBERTY FESTIVAL
1 October 2011: Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Rock In Rio - on sale 1 July 2011
5 October 2011: Cape Town - South Africa Cape Town Stadium
Support: The Parlotones
8 October 2011: Johannesburg - South Africa FNB Stadium
Support: The Parlotones

Ladys and Gents Here is Coldplay,

Love, Thetania



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Where Are They Going?

UC fears talent loss to deeper pockets

Larry Gordon, LA Times, 6/29/11

UC San Diego faced a losing battle recently when it tried to hang on to three star scientists being wooed by Rice University for cutting-edge cancer research. The recruiting package from the private Houston university included 40% pay raises, new labs and a healthy flow of research money from a Texas state bond fund. Another factor, unrelated to Rice, helped close the deal: The professors' sense that declining state funding for the University of California makes it a good time to pack their bags.

"What's happening now is that the UC and most of the public schools are getting in a much weaker position to play this game," said physicist Jose Onuchic, who has taught at UC San Diego for 22 years but will head to Texas next month, along with fellow physicist Herbert Levine and biochemist Peter Wolynes.

…UC officials say that, so far, they have managed to fend off most raids in a system that employs about 18,000 faculty members. But matching the growing number of outside offers comes at a cost, using funds that could help fill vacancies and hire additional professors. And when they don't succeed, grant money often moves with the departing researcher, along with a dose of academic prestige.

Last year, about 75% of UC faculty who received firm offers from other schools were persuaded to stay, about the same as in recent years, according to Lawrence H. Pitts, the UC system's provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. This year's figures were not yet available, but Pitts said he did not expect much change…

A recent report to the UC regents showed a troubling trend. Of tenured professors hired in 2000-01, 28 had left UC eight years later, compared with 19 hired the previous year, the study said. The most common destinations were Stanford, NYU, USC, Columbia and Harvard — private schools that tend to pay more — and the University of Michigan, a top public university.

The rise in departures of tenured professors "is of particular concern because these are high-quality faculty in whom UC has made a substantial investment," the authors wrote. In addition, new faculty hires dropped from 607 in 2008-09 to 379 last year, the most recent figures available.

Private research universities increasingly pay professors more than public institutions, with the gap growing from an 8% advantage in 1980 for full professors at private doctoral-granting schools to about 25% this year, according to the American Assn. of University Professors.

…UCLA and UC Berkeley reported no significant change in outside recruiting this year and some experts said that because the two campuses are seen as the most prestigious in the UC system, faculty may be more reluctant to leave. Nevertheless, Scott Waugh, UCLA's executive vice chancellor and provost, said concerns about state finances loom larger these days in faculty decisions to stay or move to UC, along with traditional factors of family and housing…

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-brain-drain-20110629,0,3320287.story

Deeply Disappointed

When the previous (and now-vetoed) state budget was enacted, President Yudof and Regents Chair Gould put out a strong press release condemning the action. Now that we a new budget with the same cut and a trigger that could add still more cuts, the press release reaction seems rather tepid, given that this is the second time around:

UC statement on state budget plan

2011-06-28

The following statement about the budget plan announced by Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic leaders of the state Legislature was released today (June 28) by the University of California Office of the President:

The latest state budget plan is deeply disappointing. If the governor and Legislature impose $650 million in funding cuts on the University of California, the impact will be felt by Californians in every part of the state. Because cuts of this magnitude inevitably will drive up tuition for public university students and their families, we cannot stand silent. While we recognize the enormity of the fiscal challenge facing the state, we continue to oppose further cuts, and support any efforts that will restore long-term stability to state funding of higher education.

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25843

There is a Regents meeting coming up soon. Is this all that will be said?

Black Country Communion - Save Me

This bring my thoughts back to Me and Stones favorites Led Zeppelin.
"Save me" with Black Country Communion...John Bonhams son on the drums although he is a full grown man, and Joe Bonamassa (My alltime greato guitar player) DreamTheater keyboard player Derek Sherinian and Glenn Huges sang in both Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, although I like the originals better ;D But they are doing together a damn good job as Black Country Communion!



This tune is taken from their latest album named "2" :D
Mmmm great tunes..Im having gosebums again..damn.

Joe must be a reincarnated musician...damn good one!



Tour ongoing:
06/28/11 Vigevano Castle Sforzesco Festival IT
06/30/11 Stuttgart Killersberg DE
07/01/11 Offenbach Stadthalle Offenbach DE
07/02/11 Liepzig Parkbuhne DE
07/04/11 Munich Zenith DE
07/05/11 Berlin Zitadelle DE
07/06/11 Hamburg Stadtpark DE
07/09/11 Deurne OLT Rivierenhof BE
07/10/11 Weert Bospop Festival NL
07/12/11 Copenhagen KB-Hallen DK
07/14/11 Bonn Museumsplatz DE
07/16/11 Vienna Vienna Opera House AT
07/17/11 Loket Loket Amphitheatre CZ
07/19/11 Paris Bataclan FR
07/21/11 Dublin VIcar Street IE
07/23/11 Llandudno Cymru Arena UK
07/24/11 London High Voltage Festival-Victoria Park UK
07/26/11 Leeds O2 Academy UK
07/27/11 Newcastle O2 Academy UK
07/29/11 Glasgow O2 Academy UK
07/30/11 Manchester O2 Academy UK
08/02/11 Stockholm Cirkus SE
08/05/11 Notodden Notodden Blues Festival NO


Okey guys, Enjoy!

Peace, Thetania

Good visio..



Better Sound :D



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No Parking (On the Sidewalk) Around UCLA

From the LA Times today:

After years of warnings, debate and delays, Los Angeles officials this week began ticketing the cars of drivers who "apron park" on the streets of Westwood, a move critics say will create a parking crisis around the UCLA campus.

For decades, Westwood residents — many of them UCLA students — have packed their cars into driveways in such a way that they block sidewalks and spill out into the street. They argue that the makeshift, but illegal, practice is the only way to deal with a critical lack of parking around the campus and in the Westwood Village area.

But in the last few years, apron parking has been attacked by a growing and eclectic group of critics, including former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis and a UCLA professor who is a leading authority on parking. They say blocking the sidewalks forces pedestrians to make needless detours and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The city decided to act after being sued by plaintiffs who said apron parking broke laws regarding the disabled...

(One student said) "I don't think there's anything... we can do," he said. "We were more just (sic) trying to bring publicity to the issue (on Facebook)."

Full article at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-westwood-parking-20110628,0,1311972.story

The plaintiffs were not sympathetic with the complaints:

For $200, You, Too, Can File a Pension Initiative!

There are potentially serious threats via the direct democracy process that could override the Regents' December action on the UC pension. But there are also initiatives on pensions (and other public issues) that are filed with no prospect they will go anywhere since the authors don't have the $1-$2 million needed to hire signature-gathering firms.

Here is an excerpt from a recent example that is now pending at the Attorney General:

...The members of the retirement board of a public pension or retirement system shall on and after January 1, 2016, invest and maintain at least 85 percent of the system's assets in California-based businesses and shall diversify the investments of the system so as to minimize the risk of loss and to maximize the rate of return, unless under the circumstances it is clearly not prudent to do so...

From http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i951_11-0018_%28investing_public_employees_retirement_in_california_businesses%29.pdf

The author of this particular gem - for his $200 - will get a title and summary from the Attorney General and a budget implication analysis from the Legislative Analyst. Needless to say, the cost of providing this service is well over $200. He has a website entry that says:

What I Want to Do: Change our world with good ideas

http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=846884511

A Diversion from the Obvious: Doing What They Do Best?

Let's give the state and UC budgets a rest for a moment. Many faculty during the summer travel to conferences or just vacations. Yours truly has been traveling of late on American Airlines and noted that boarding the plane has become chaotic. There seems to be no pattern in use. Many airlines board from the rear on the idea that aisles closer to the front won't be blocked by passengers trying to stow luggage or get settled. If you randomize the entry, you get blocked aisles. But the airline has decided that random will be the new system.

Now it ain't just me who noticed this odd decision. The LA Times ran an article about the American Airlines "system" yesterday. Here is an excerpt:

...The airline says the new procedure, known as the "random" seating method, saves time because it minimizes the gridlock that occurs when people in the same row try to get to their seats at the same time.

"You definitely will not have 24 people in four rows boarding at the same time," said Scott Santoro, director of airport consulting for American Airlines. He said studies have shown that the random seating process reduces boarding times 5% to 10%.

The Assn. of Professional Flight Attendants disagrees. It contends the process has created "complete chaos" among passengers, forcing attendants to spend more time preparing the plane for takeoff. The attendants are irked, it says, because they are not paid for the extra time needed to load the plane...

Full article at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-20110627,0,7934503.story

And, indeed, the flight attendants are so irked that one of them gave me the official airline memo to flight attendants that attempts to rationalize the new procedure. You can find it here.

Open publication - Free publishing

It could be worse:

State Budget Deal Retains Additional Cut to UC and May Trigger More Cuts

An earlier post today included an update reporting that the legislative Democrats have reached a deal with Gov. Brown on the state budget that can be passed by majority vote (without Republican votes) because no new taxes or extensions are involved. The deal is leaking out but contains the additional $150 million in cuts to higher ed that was in the budget Brown vetoed. It also has a trigger feature so that if assumed revenue does not appear, there will be midyear cuts including more to UC. Here is a summary:

Democratic aides provided details this afternoon on the handshake budget deal between Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders to bridge a $9.6 billion deficit.

It maintains parts of the package Brown vetoed nearly two weeks ago:

-- $150 million cut each to UC and CSU

-- $150 million cut to state courts -- $200 million in Amazon online tax enforcement -- $2.8 billion in deferrals to K-12 schools and community colleges -- $300 million from $12 per vehicle increase in DMV registration fee -- $50 million from fire fee for rural homeowners -- $1.7 billion from redevelopment agencies -- Higher tax receipts (now worth $1.2 billion from May and June)

The new budget rejects some parts of that package: -- $1.2 billion from selling state buildings -- $900 million from raising a quarter-cent local sales tax -- $1 billion from First 5 commissions -- $500 million cut in local law enforcement grants -- $540 million deferral to University of California -- $700 million in federal funds for Medi-Cal errors

And it adds the following: -- $4 billion in higher projected revenues in 2011-12, with triggered cuts -- 1.06 percentage point sales tax swap that redirects money to local governments for Brown's "realignment" plan rather than to the state. Sales tax rate will still fall 1 percent on July 1.

The $4 billion "trigger" plan bears some explaining.

First, the plan requires Brown's Department of Finance director, Ana Matosantos, to certify in January whether the $4 billion projection is accurate. She will use revenue totals for July to December and economic indicators to project the remainder of the fiscal year.

The "trigger" cuts are essentially in three tiers, based on how much of the extra $4 billion comes in.

Tier 0: If the state gets $3 billion to $4 billion of the money, the state will not impose additional cuts and roll over any balance of problem into the 2012-13 budget.

Tier 1: If the state gets $2 billion to $3 billion of the money, the state will impose about $600 million of cuts and roll over the remainder into the 2012-13 budget.

The $600 million in cuts include a $100 million cut to UC, a $100 million cut to CSU, a $100 million cut to corrections and a $200 million cut to Health and Human Services.

Tier 2: If the state gets $0 to $2 billion of the money, the state will also impose up to $1.9 billion in cuts, including a $1.5 billion reduction to schools that assumes seven fewer classroom days. It also includes a $250 million elimination of school bus transportation (except for that which is federally mandated). Cuts will be proportionate to how much of the first $2 billion in revenues the state gets. State will also impose the Tier 1 cuts.

From: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/06/more-details-on-the-democratic.html

Thanks to Jim Chalfant for this apt clip:

Better Learning Through Chemistry?

Yours truly is not sure this is exactly what those pushing for more online education at UC envisioned.

The Daily Bruin today carries a story about Chemistry 14D. Students receive credits for putting together videos that communicate principles of the course.

Full story at http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2011/06/extra_credit_music_videos_make_chemistry_14d_more_basic

An example is below. Click on cc (closed captions) to see the words.

Flyleaf - Chasm

Flyleaf is the band im gonna show u today, I saw em as a support band to a band I dont remember... haha Ah well it was on the Stadion In Stockholm, Sweden.
I was pretty amazed over her voice.



Then last year I heard her (Lacey Sturm)singin´ in Apocalyptica´s "Broken Pieces, and i was totally hooked to her!



Flyleaf is heavy music and pained lyrics go together like cake and ice cream, and Belton, Texas quintet, Flyleaf, aren't about to break with tradition. But while many loud rockers reopen old wounds by singing about their broken homes and broken hearts, Flyleaf confront past traumas to heal old scars and prove in the process that hope shines brighter than despair.



The tune of today is on the album on their follow-up to their 2005 platinum debut. It contains 14 songs, which were selected out of 30 already written. The band reunited with producer Howard Benson to make the album. The album was recorded at Bay7 Studios in Los Angeles, California. It was released on November 10, 2009. The band debuted two songs, "Chasm" and "Circle", from Memento Mori live during a small acoustic tour in Afghanistan for United States Troops.

Folks, Here is Lacey Sturm and her Flyleaf!

Peace, Thetania



A live performance of the same tune.


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State Budget: Running the Clock

If you are wondering what is happening to the state budget, it appears that the closest analogy is the point in the film High Noon in which the train carrying the Bad Guy arrives at noon. After he arrives, there will be a confrontation/shoot-out with the Good Guy. In the case of the state budget, however, it is midnight - not noon - that is critical: midnight on June 30. At that point, the fiscal year 2010-11 ends and there is no budget to replace it. Also, the taxes that the governor wants to extend expire so that any ballot measure regarding them becomes an issue of tax increases, not extensions.

The Republican strategy seems to be to run the clock until after June 30. They can then offer to put a tax vote on the ballot, expecting that tax “increases” will be defeated, unlike tax “extensions.” And the price is some kind of pension proposition (that could override the pension changes the Regents adopted for UC last December), some kind of spending cap, and various regulatory changes.

Democrats could pass another majority-vote budget with no tax increases to replace the one the governor vetoed. If they pass another that he again vetoes, that passage could nonetheless restore their pay (and the pay of legislative Republicans), so long as it is “balanced” on paper. Contrary to some public impressions, the controller’s decision not to pay does not hinge on the realism of the “balance” but rather technical issues that the Dems could correct. There is brave talk about a Democratic budget that would somehow have retroactive taxes after July 1. No one has any idea what that means, or even could mean.

Nonetheless, the clock is ticking away:

High Noon - clock montage from Steve Parry on Vimeo.

UPDATE: Rather than wait for the shootout at high noon, there is now a report that the legislative Dems and the governor have a deal. It assumes more revenue will arrive than the May revise and contains a trigger; if the revenue does not materialize, that trigger reportedly will - among other programs - cut higher ed. No word about the retroactive taxes, whatever those were supposed to be. Since the Republicans are not part of the deal, the legislature presumably will not put the GOP's desired pension limits, spending cap, and regulatory relaxations on the ballot. Of course, such propositions could be put on a future ballot via the initiative process, assuming someone has the money to pay for signature-gathering firms. There will undoubtedly be more details by tomorrow. Early info at http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/06/california-budget-deal-under-discussion-by-gov-jerry-brown-and-democrats.html

UCLA History: Moving Bonds

From the UCLA History Project comes this tale of an LA City bond measure approved by voters in 1925 that enabled UCLA to move from its Vermont Avenue campus to Westwood.

New media, record voter turnout and engaged young voters - these were the stories that riveted citizens on May 5, 1925. The biggest issue for Bruins was Proposition 2, a city bond measure that would raise about 70% of the funds needed to purchase a 200-acre parcel for the Southern Branch of the University of California.

Students and young alumni joined together to conduct a colorful and noisy campaign. They knocked on doors, distributed literature on street corners and exploited new technology. Local theaters screened a 10-minute advocacy film, and students took the case directly to voters over the radio airwaves.

The Los Angeles proposition passed by a 3 to 1 margin, and victories soon followed in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Venice and statewide measures. A final grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors allowed the UC Board of Regents to purchase UCLA’s current Westwood location at no cost to the university. Originally known as the Beverly site, the area was selected over proposed locations in Burbank, Fullerton and Palos Verdes.

Meshuggah - Rational Gaze

Back To Metaltown!

The band that I adore the most on this festival is MESHUGGAH!!
Damn good.

The intro was heaven, and then when Jens Kidman, Fredrik Thordendal, Mårten Hagström, Dick Lövgren and Haake (a bit), came in and headbanged that was even more heavenly what a impact! LOOOOVED it.



Ive seen them a lot of times now and damn those Luleå guys really deliver every time!



It was raining a bit when they entered the stage but wtf WHO CARES! :D

MESHUGGAH are currently working on the follow-up to their 2008 Billboard-charting album, obZen, which debuted at #59 on the American Top 200 Billboard chart in 2008. It also clinched the #14 spot on the iTunes Top Rock Albums chart, was the #1 Most Added metal album on the CMJ Loud Rock and FMQB radio charts, and set a new Swedish MySpace pre-listening promotion record for over a quarter of a million album streams in seven days.



Tour:
Kvinesdal, Norway Jul 08 Norway Rock Festival
Turin, Italy Jul 10 Colonia Sonora Festival
Faroe Islands Jul 15 G! Festival
Helsinki, Finland Jul 24 Tuska Open Air Festival
Viveiro, Spain Jul 30 Resurrection Fest
Katowice, Poland Aug 5 Off Festival
Le Locle, Switzerland Aug 12 Rock Altitude
Ieper, Belgium Aug 13 Ieperfest

Dudes and Dudettes, here is Meshuggah!

Peace, Thetania




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Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight, Queen - The Show Must Go On, Foo Fighters - Best Of You, Seether Amy Lee - Broken

As it was my day couple of days ago and I want to choose some of my memorys.

I wont write that much today.

I miss my Man tonight, Stones is in Gothenburg and working at "Where The Action Is"
Love you honey for ever and ever!

Much Love, Thetania






Here are some tune-candy for some of us....









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UCLA History: Building Royce Hall

Three pictures illustrate the construction of Royce Hall in the late 1920s, as the Westwood campus of UCLA was being built. We see a model of Royce being examined (bottom), the foundation for the building being laid (right), and (top) a shot inside Royce as it is being completed.

Hasse Alfredson - Blommig Falukorv

Today is Midsummer, a feast that is celebrated in Sweden. Naturally I find myself in a not so easily walkable distance from home, more specifically, Gothenburg and celebrate Midsummer.

Midsummer may simply refer to the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, but more often refers to specific European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice, or that take place on a day between June 21 and June 24, and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary between different cultures.

Finding a song that fits internationally for this day is not easy, in Sweden played most drinking songs of all kinds.

A song is really not suitable for the older ones but a success for the younger ones are melodies created by Hans Alfredson.

Among the many lasting contributions Alfredson enriched Swedish cultural life with can be mentioned in particular his efforts as a child, wise writer (”Blommig sausage”, ”Styrman Karlssons äventyr med porslinspjäsen” ("mate Karlsson's adventures with porcelain piece”), etc.) Today's Tune is ”Blommig Falukorv" from the ”Blommig falukorv och andra bitar för barn" ("Flowery sausage and other pieces for children”) release 1965





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