I just got back from New York City where The Verve played a tight show, really tearing shit up. Psychedelic guitar genius Nick Mccabe had been reluctant to tour for many years, but now he's back to help this band attain the status they've always deserved. I've always thought that if more people saw the Verve live they would understand how awesome they are.
This show featured a Verve with renewed energy, exploring choice album cuts while debuting two new songs. "Already There," a Storm in Heaven cut was on the menu as well as a spontaneous "Gravity Grave," from the Verve EP. For this one lead man extraordinaire Richard Ashcroft already had the acoustic guitar on for "Drugs Don't Work" but bassist Simon Jones, clearly enjoying himself played a bit of the "Gravity Grave" bassline drawing anxious pleas from the audience. Ashcroft picked up on it saying how Simon wanted to play a "15 minute" version. He handed his acoustic back to the roadies and they were off into "Gravity Grave." Just the type of interplay that shows when a band is enjoying themselves. Excellent show all around, for the complete setlist go here.
This show featured a Verve with renewed energy, exploring choice album cuts while debuting two new songs. "Already There," a Storm in Heaven cut was on the menu as well as a spontaneous "Gravity Grave," from the Verve EP. For this one lead man extraordinaire Richard Ashcroft already had the acoustic guitar on for "Drugs Don't Work" but bassist Simon Jones, clearly enjoying himself played a bit of the "Gravity Grave" bassline drawing anxious pleas from the audience. Ashcroft picked up on it saying how Simon wanted to play a "15 minute" version. He handed his acoustic back to the roadies and they were off into "Gravity Grave." Just the type of interplay that shows when a band is enjoying themselves. Excellent show all around, for the complete setlist go here.
In light of alarming articles now appearing proclaiming a global food crisis, all I can say is DUH! If anyone would bother to listen to some science-types and most vegetarians have been saying for years, this wouldn't even be a problem. Oh and that whole carbon emissions problem would be solved too.
It's simple. Cows eat many times the amount of the amount of food they will eventually become, and they consume a whole lot of fresh water. And if you think automobiles emit a lot of greenhouse gasses, guess how much greenhouse gases these bovine eco-terrorists emit? A whole lot. Worse yet, at this moment, vast swaths of pristine, virgin rainforest are being cleared to make room for more livestock to graze. These acres of ancient trees, which help soak up carbon-dioxide, are being slashed and burned so more cows can eat up more of the world's food.
At a time when the economy is faltering, meat consumption is devastating to world finances. An unthinkable amount of time and money is wasted in food production for livestock, meat production, transportation (as in millions of gallons of gas annually), massive recalls, and most crushingly the health care cost of having everyone sick, debilitated and dying. Poor diet is the main cause of heart disease which is the still the number one killer of Americans. As the threat of mad cow disease is always looming.
Eating meat and dairy products is a choice, the same as driving a gas-guzzling SUV. There are plenty of vegan foods that taste wonderful and are as healthy as can be. Instead of blaming gas prices for the food shortages, maybe the media should look a little closer. This problem has been a long time coming and even electric cars aren't going to stop us from using cows to kill us all.
It's simple. Cows eat many times the amount of the amount of food they will eventually become, and they consume a whole lot of fresh water. And if you think automobiles emit a lot of greenhouse gasses, guess how much greenhouse gases these bovine eco-terrorists emit? A whole lot. Worse yet, at this moment, vast swaths of pristine, virgin rainforest are being cleared to make room for more livestock to graze. These acres of ancient trees, which help soak up carbon-dioxide, are being slashed and burned so more cows can eat up more of the world's food.
At a time when the economy is faltering, meat consumption is devastating to world finances. An unthinkable amount of time and money is wasted in food production for livestock, meat production, transportation (as in millions of gallons of gas annually), massive recalls, and most crushingly the health care cost of having everyone sick, debilitated and dying. Poor diet is the main cause of heart disease which is the still the number one killer of Americans. As the threat of mad cow disease is always looming.
Eating meat and dairy products is a choice, the same as driving a gas-guzzling SUV. There are plenty of vegan foods that taste wonderful and are as healthy as can be. Instead of blaming gas prices for the food shortages, maybe the media should look a little closer. This problem has been a long time coming and even electric cars aren't going to stop us from using cows to kill us all.
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Space.com has an article about how NASA and the ESA are meeting to decide whether shell out the dough for a "flagship" mission either to Saturn or Jupiter. For one thing there is already a hugely successful mission currently at Saturn. It called Cassini, maybe some of you have heard of it? As for Jupiter, although the Galileo mission was admittedly flawed it still returned good science.
Now Uranus on the other hand, has only been visited once, if you call a flyby at 80,000 km a visit. And that mission with Voyager 2 didn't do justice to what is arguably the most unique planet and moon system in our solar system. The planet is tilted 90 degrees on it's axis, how sweet is that. Instead of spending more money retreading the familiar paths, let's blaze a new trail all the way out to mysterious Uranus and see what this planet is really all about.
Now Uranus on the other hand, has only been visited once, if you call a flyby at 80,000 km a visit. And that mission with Voyager 2 didn't do justice to what is arguably the most unique planet and moon system in our solar system. The planet is tilted 90 degrees on it's axis, how sweet is that. Instead of spending more money retreading the familiar paths, let's blaze a new trail all the way out to mysterious Uranus and see what this planet is really all about.
