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As I was gathering material for one of my longer upcoming essays, I stumbled across something I think worth talking about: the third section of Degenbrecher's profile, which outlines her daily routine. Not only is it quite funny, but it's also quite adorable.

A report from our correspondent: There are many mysteries surrounding the president of Karlan Trade, Enciodes, and the most intriguing of them all is of course his bodyguard, the former three-time winner of the Kazimierz Major—Miss Degenbrecher. ... With her permission, we have shadowed her for a day—

First off, it's funny how Degenbrecher apparently agrees to let a reporter follow her for a day. She just doesn't care. It's also cute how the reporter refers to her as Miss Degenbrecher, rather than Ms., and it's not even the only instance of the Kjerags referring to her with that title.

When she wakes up in the morning, the first thing she does is to head downstairs to buy breakfast. After her meal, she will go out if Master Enciodes has work for her, or if there is Tschaggatta training to conduct. Otherwise, she will exercise in the yard for about two hours, then copy scriptures or read in her study until noon. She then goes to the nearby commercial district for lunch.

Of interest is that unlike what I'd previously assumed, despite being Enciodes's bodyguard, Degenbrecher apparently does not sleep under the same roof as he does, but has her own place. Being that she was a homeless orphan as a child, it makes sense that she would be happy to have a home exclusively of her own. But oddly, it seems that she doesn't need to shadow Enciodes's every footstep, or at least, he doesn't seem to think it necessary anymore. Perhaps there are less assassination attempts lately?

It also appears that Degenbrecher lives above a breakfast shop or cafe or even in some sort of inn, as she "goes downstairs" to "buy" her breakfast. We know Degenbrecher doesn't like noise or crowds, so my guess would be that it's a small cafe or shop, particularly as this is followed by the statement that she exercises in the yard, so it must be a building that has some standalone space around it. The mention of her "study" also implies that her home is spacious enough to have not just a bedroom but a living area as well, potentially an extra room.

The bit about her copying scripture is a reference to her voice lines where she once met Enya and Enya gave her a book and suggested she copy scripture if she was bored, and Degenbrecher subsequently decided to copy a passage every day. Aside from the fact that she finds it relaxing (in her original Japanese lines, she says it makes her "feel empty"), this is probably something that helps her understand Kjerag, because faith in Kjeragandr is the unifying factor for the people, even if Degenbrecher may not necessarily believe in Kjeragandr the same way they do.

I do wonder what kind of books Degenbrecher likes to read though; if it's only the holy books, if it's history, or fiction... (I wonder if Gnosis and/or Enciodes procures her reading material.)

During her lunch break, villagers will often approach her, asking for help with farm work or to settle some trouble (there is a consensus among the locals that her help is first-come-first-served), and what's most astonishing is that she will agree to help them after eating. You could say she spends most of her afternoon helping the villagers, and on the rare occasion she has free time, she will head to the snowy mountains in search of something more exciting.

Degenbrecher takes her lunch at the "nearby commercial district", so that lends further fuel to her home being somewhere more secluded. She is then apparently beset by the locals requesting assistance with their work, who try to get to her first. She doesn't like noise, yet she apparently doesn't mind being bothered during her meal by random people who want her help, but then, by going to the commercial district, she's specifically placing herself in the public realm and making herself visible and available.

We see one of the things that makes Degenbrecher such an unpretentious person: she has no qualms whatsoever about helping with farm work. She doesn't mind getting her hands dirty or doing manual labor, however much of a boon her strength and speed must be.

Her heading into the mountains refers to her recreation of fighting the avalanches, as mentioned in her voice lines and in another part of her profile. I wonder what she does when there is no avalanche and she's free... Just wander around? Explore? Hunt? Go hang out with her besties? Drag them away from work to hang out with her?

Usually, her dinner is willingly provided by the villagers who borrowed her assistance, or she'll simply have something on the road. Then, she goes for a stroll by Lake Silberneherze before returning to her residence and calling it a day.

Not only does she help the villagers, but they feed her too, how sweet. She must know many of them fairly well if she has dinner in their households regularly. I love how this shows that despite her generally standoffish demeanor, she'll accept sharing a table with the villagers. It shows both the warmth and regard the Kjerags have for her that they invite her to their homes like this, and also Degenbrecher's regard for them. For someone who was treated as an outcast and defective in her native land, forever looked at with disdain, this acceptance must make her happy deep down.

Her nightly stroll by the lake must be either a cursory surveillance of the place, or merely to appreciate the scenery. I'm a bit fuzzy on the precise location of Lake Silberneherze but it probably must be relatively near Turicum and somewhere within the Silverash territory, perhaps somewhere relatively by Mount Karlan, which straddles the boundary between Silverash and Paleroche land, as the Kjeragandr statue surely must have universal access for all three clans. But anyway, that aside, I wonder if it's a nostalgic site for her, given how she and Enciodes crossed it when they first returned to Kjerag...

I wonder how she learned to ice skate, and if it was the boys who taught her, and if they've ever done it together.

Yes, Miss Degenbrecher, the living legend who left an unbroken record in Kazimierz is now living the simple life here in Kjerag. This only whets our curiosity about her attitude toward life, but she was unwilling to share her opinion. After the writer was hung by a wooden pole on the wall outside her residence, we were forced to take a different approach. After interviewing some random neighboring villagers, we have selected a few valuable comments from them. Hopefully, our readers can get to know her better this way.

It's quite amusing how Degenbrecher is willing to allow herself to be observed, but draws the line at actually being interviewed; she still dislikes involvement with the media from her times in Kazimierz and keeps her personal thoughts to herself. But we can see the surfacing of her mischievous streak here, the same one which motivated her to prank Gnosis and tell him the medicine she gave him was actually poison, by the way she strings up the writer on a pole. No doubt she left them there for a little bit, unharmed but helpless, before letting them down or letting them free themselves somehow.

"Degenbrecher? She's a good person! Just ask around, there's no one here who hasn't received her help! You definitely have to write that down. No clue what this Kazimierz thing everyone keeps mentioning is, but she's definitely a good Kjerag girl!" ——An old man enjoying the shade under a tree

The elderly man doesn't have the faintest idea of the countries that exist outside of Kjerag: the only thing that matters to him is that Degenbrecher is a good person. Her origins and her past don't matter to the people of Kjerag--only who she is now and what she does. She's one of them, "a good Kjerag girl," awww. This is probably also a callback to the incident mentioned in her voice lines where the owner of a restaurant yelled at tourists attempting to pick a fight with her and referred to her as "our Kjerag lady," though that loses some of the nuance the line has in its original Japanese: the restaurant owner called her ojou-chan, once again emphasizing she's a young lady, and with an affectionate honorific to boot.

"Miss Degenbrecher? Oh, she's an honorary member of our Anglers Association. At first, we thought someone like her wouldn't be interested, but one day she spent the entire afternoon with us by an ice hole, and it was then I knew she was one of us. Go ask the fellas who're always at Lake Silberneherze. Everyone knows her, she's our idol." ——A young angler

Another demonstration of Degenbrecher being absorbed by the Kjerag culture: taking up ice fishing, and being accepted by them as "one of us". I really love the sentiment of "everyone knows her", as well, which further underlines not just how beloved Degenbrecher is to the Kjerags but how well-known she is, which I think would extend beyond just the Anglers Association but to basically the entire country. It seems that no matter how mysterious she is, she's a figure as universally recognized as the Saintess or any of the clan leaders.

"Degenbrecher? To be honest, I was wary when she first joined us. After all, she pretty much took my position. But afterwards I stopped caring, yeah? Spend long enough with her, and you'll realize that despite how she looks, she really does care, deep down. There's no doubt she's an indispensable member of the Silverash family." ——An Itra with a strange scent

This is obviously Weiss, AKA Courier, as is obvious not just by the Itra comment but by the fact that he mentions Degenbrecher took his position--a position he's likely spent most of his life training for ever since he was rescued, and at the bare minimum was seven years while Enciodes was away in Victoria. Naturally, he would be wary of her, both on account of her usurping his position and being a non-Kjerag. But as soon as he realized that she cared, he was alright with her; she earned his trust, likely with her capabilities and primarily the fact that like Weiss himself, Enciodes is very important to her and she has no ulterior motives.

I also can't help but smile at how he says that she's a member of the Silverash family. She's just not considered a Kjerag, but basically a Silverash too. For Degenbrecher, who has no family she can remember, the thought that Enciodes and Gnosis have become her family is such a sweet one.

"Can Kjerag can satisfy her? That is but the preliminary question. You will soon discover that what gives her cause to leave or stay is not the satisfaction she feels, but whether her environment makes sense to her. I am pleased to note that Kjerag does indeed, and I believe her attitude towards it represents a sort of simple, yet sharp, perspective on this place. I can only hope that she finds the future Kjerag just as coherent." ——A Feline who asked to conceal his identity ..... ——Excerpt from the March 1098 issue of "Kjerag Newsletter" second edition

This is obviously Enciodes; it's evident in his manner of speech and how intimately he speaks about Degenbrecher. What I find quite amusing is how he must have apparently heard that the paper was doing this report on her, and scurried over to give an interview as the foremost expert on her (naturally, being one of her closest friends). He simply had to make sure that his opinion was known as well. (He's definitely not "some random neighboring villager.") Or, alternatively, the newspaper approached him first and asked him for a few comments and he simply couldn't resist.

Enciodes's comments themselves are of interest, too. He understands Degenbrecher very well due to their long friendship, and so he points out that what motivates her isn't actually her own satisfaction with her surroundings. Rather, it's whether they "make sense to her". This speaks of how he understands not just her way of thinking, but also how she sees herself. I believe he doesn't just mean that she thinks, "does this place make sense to me?" but also "does it make sense for me to be here?" and the answer to both of those questions is obviously yes.

It's also worth mentioning here that Degenbrecher is very down-to-earth at heart. For all that she's "living the simple life," Degenbrecher is a fairly simple person. She doesn't care for complicated things or lofty notions like honor and even finds sneak attacks to be a hassle, always favoring the most direct solution to any problem and describing herself as brute violence. So Kjerag, being the simple and straightforward place it is, not only suits her well, but she's able to comprehend it easily, and she likes that. The Kjerag people generally are simple and honest, as evidenced by their requests for her help with farm work and their lack of concern for her past; they have no ulterior motives nor desires. Degenbrecher is also a person for whom actions speak louder than words, not merely her own but those around her.

This is what Enciodes is referring to when he says her attitude provides a "simple yet sharp perspective on the place." The present Kjerag is such that someone like Degenbrecher with Degenbrecher's mindset can easily understand and feel at home there. It is a simple place, both in a positive and negative way.

His comments about the future are also slightly noteworthy on account of the date on the paper: 1098, which shows that this paper was published one year after Break The Ice, which took place in 1097. With the rapidly accelerating changes taking place in Kjerag beneath his hands, he's showing a bit of concern here regarding whether she will feel the same way about the new Kjerag he's creating; but now, post-RS, we know that she has no intention of leaving.

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on 10th December, 1976 - Queen Story!

'A Day At The Races' album released in UK

🔸FREDDIE MERCURY and KENNY EVERETT REVIEW “A DAY AT THE RACES”

CAPITOL RADIO, LONDON – NOVEMBER 1976

INTRO/ Tie Your Mother Down

Kenny Everett: God you’re noisy, Fred!

Freddie Mercury: That’s one of the softer tracks. [Laughs]

Kenny Everett: That track’s called ��Tie Your Mother Down” from the new LP called “A Day At The Races”, which is actually ‘teffifico’ and it’s just out in time for Christmas.

Freddie Mercury: Yes, that’s right.

Kenny Everett: Why tie your mother down?

Freddie Mercury: Well this one in fact is a track written by Brian actually, I dunno why. Maybe he was in one of his vicious moods. I think he’s trying to out do me after “Death On Two Legs” actually.

Kenny Everett: I see.

Freddie Mercury: So if he’s listening, folks…

Kenny Everett: Let’s try a nice gentle lilting one now.

Freddie Mercury: Oh this is the ‘real heavy’ one, yes.

Kenny Everett: That’s right. This is one where you sing by yourself, times 35 or something, isn’t it?

Freddie Mercury: Yes, I’ve multi tracked myself on this one.

Kenny Everett: How many of you are there on this one?

Freddie Mercury: Well… what the next one? “You Take My Breath Away”. This one I did myself, I multi tracked myself. So the others weren’t used on this for the voices. I played piano and basically, I don’t know how we managed to stay this simple you know, with all our over dubs and things. People seem to think that we’re over complexed, and it’s not true. It depends on the individual track really, if it needs it – we do it. So this is pretty sparse actually by Queen and our standards.

Kenny Everett: It still sounds like the choirs of Heaven. So here comes Freddie…plus Freddie, plus Freddie…

YOU TAKE: MY BREATH AWAY

Kenny Everett: Hmmm, another classic there that’ll live forever from the lips of Freddie, “You Take My Breath Away” off the new LP. Which there’s space for in you’re Christmas stocking. Freddie.

Freddie Mercury: Yes dear.

Kenny Everett: We’re going to take a break now. We’re going to play a few of our bits ok, is that alright?

Freddie Mercury: Yes.

Kenny Everett: Smashing, back with another track in a sec.

LONG AWAY

Kenny Everett: [Laughter] Hey guys, the mikes on! That’s “Long Away” by Brian May. He does four tracks on your new LP doesn’t he?

Freddie Mercury: Yes he does…

Kenny Everett: I see, can you proliferate?

Freddie Mercury: Which tracks you mean? That’s one of his and “Tie Your Mother Down” was Brian’s. He’s written a lovely Japanese song, which is at the end of the second side. It’s got Japanese verses…

Kenny Everett: What, actual?

Freddie Mercury: Actual Japanese verses which we had to do, we did a lot of research actually and we had our Japanese interpreter. We flew her over from Japan.

Kenny Everett: Actually you should know Japanese off by heart by now, because you’re always there, aren’t you?

Freddie Mercury: Do you want me to say some of them then? [Recites a verse from “Teo Torriatte”].

Kenny Everett: Oh flan flastic! [Applauds] Flerry good, and now we will split for a commercial break. [Laughs]

Kenny Everett: Right, back to the spiffingest LP ever released. Oh what do you think of the new E.L.O.?

Freddie Mercury: Oh it’s great, I’ve got a copy of that. And I know you keep, I keep hearing more of those tracks on your show than anything else.

Kenny Everett: Well…

Freddie Mercury: So I don’t need to play my album, really [Laughs]

Kenny Everett: And also The Eagles, they’re the three for your Christmas stocking, folks. This is me talking to Freddie Mercury of Queen, who must be a millionaire by now, what Freddie?

Freddie Mercury: Oh…in what way?

Kenny Everett: Financially and commercially, I mean you keep buying these paintings and things.

Freddie Mercury: Yes because I like them. Actually it’s what I’ve been interested in a long while, and now that I’ve got a little bit of money to throw around I thought I might as well go and buy it. So I went to Sotheby’s the other day, and got a few paintings. The dealer’s weren’t pleased at all! [Laughs].

Kenny Everett: Actually, you’ve brought champagne with you, which is very good of you.

Freddie Mercury: But of course dear, it travels with me everywhere.

Kenny Everett: You make Gerald Harper look quite cheap. Thank you for that [Laughs]. Usually when I come in here, the place is full of old dead bottles, you know. And green fly…but we’ve made him look peculiar today. Right, “The Millionaire Waltz” which is the next track on the LP, what’s this?

Freddie Mercury: Well it’s all about John Reid actually.

Kenny Everett: You’re manager, well he’ll love all that.

Freddie Mercury: I might as well…

Kenny Everett: It’s a bit gay and weird and strange, but it grows on you.

Freddie Mercury: It’s very out of the Queen format, really and we thought we’d like to do that on every album. I think I went a bid mad on this one. But it’s turned out alright I think, it makes people laugh sometimes.

Kenny Everett: It’s very jolly, let’s have a listen to it.

THE MILLIONAIRE WALTZ

Freddie Mercury: Ooh, lovely! Actually I’d like to say that Brian did do a very good job on the actual guitars. He’s really taken his guitar orchestration to its limits, I don’t know how he’s ever going to out do that one actually. And John played very good bass on that. I think it’s good and we’re patting ourselves on the back again. I really think it’s worked out well especially from the orchestration point of view. Because he’s really used his guitar in a different sort of way, I know he’s done lots of orchestrations before.

Kenny Everett: He’s probably the world’s greatest guitar technician really, isn’t he?

Freddie Mercury: Oh I’d say that dear, absolutely…[mock aristocratic accent]

Kenny Everett: Yes, pass more champagne…[same accent] [Laughs]

Freddie Mercury: Champagne everybody!

YOU AND I

Freddie Mercury: That’s the end of side one of “A Day At The Races”. That was a track by John Deacon, he’s contribution to this album. His songs are good and are getting better every time actually. I’m getting a bit worried actually.

Kenny Everett: He’s the quiet one.

Freddie Mercury: He’s sort of quiet, lots of people think that. Don’t underestimate him, he’s got a fiery streak underneath all that. I talk so much anyway, he like to let me do all the talking. But once people crack that thin ice, then he’s alright. (You can never stop him talking then).

Kenny Everett: You’re all a very shy bunch really, aren’t you?

Freddie Mercury: We are really, actually. I am actually, people don’t seem to realize that. Just because I go around tearing on stage, they think I should go tearing around life, but I’m not really.

Kenny Everett: Good, well done. I’ve said to you once, you must have had a classical up bringing, and you went ‘Ha’! So I dropped that one. [Laughs] But I think you really must have.

Freddie Mercury: I did have in my youth… that’s a couple of years ago. No, when I was about seven years old, I did piano lessons and I did up to grade 4 classical, practical and theory. Then I gave it up, as I basically play by ear really and I can’t sight read at all. So I gave that up and all my playing is done by ear. I can’t read music that well, it takes me a long time.

Kenny Everett: Well how do you work out these amazing harmonies you do?

Freddie Mercury: Well that’s quite easy, yeah. [Laughs] The same as you do! [More laughs] I don’t know, I just have to work at it and after a while you fall into a pattern through experience. I think I’m getting better every year, don’t you?

Kenny Everett: Oh yes.

Freddie Mercury: I learnt a lot from our past albums and things. Seeing how they’re constructed and things, then you use things what you’ve done in the past and work out different things.

Kenny Everett: Oh you’re polishing beautifully, it’s a polished product now. That “You Take My Breath Away”, the harmonies on that are supreme.

Freddie Mercury: They’re nice, I’m very pleased with them.

Kenny Everett: You see – modest. Right, from the polished to…side two. A bit hairy this number, so if you’re a little old lady then please stand back!

WHITE MAN

Kenny Everett: Cor! How did you manage to get such a loud noise on one record?

Freddie Mercury: I don’t know, it’s down to Mike Stone our engineer. We’re very bad in the studio for that actually, the poor engineer has to really suffer because we really want as much level as possible. We keep pushing the phasers up and he keeps looking at the meters and going ‘Oh it’ll never cut’. Then we give him the added task of going over to New York or wherever and saying ‘Make sure that cuts as loud as possible’.

Kenny Everett: Yeah, I should explain for the folks, that if a noise is too loud on a record – the little wobbly groove grundges into the groove next door.

Freddie Mercury: That’s right.

Kenny Everett: Then the record skips…

Freddie Mercury: Yes, it can skip and do all kind of things.

Kenny Everett: So the more noise you put on, the less likelihood you have of…

Freddie Mercury: So if Mary Potts has got a little dance set, then it’ll just go flying off! [Laughs]

Kenny Everett: I must admit, you do get a lot of sound on one little LP.

Freddie Mercury: Yes it’s very difficult to… it’s a very fine dividing line really, because if you want to put in more music – but at the same time you’ve got to make sure you don’t put too much in otherwise it suffers.

Kenny Everett: And you’ve got a genius technician that looks after all of that.

Freddie Mercury: Well Mike Stone is pretty good, yes. That little bugger…

Kenny Everett: Yes… right. [gives out weather report with Freddie laughing and teasing throughout]

Freddie Mercury: What a nice little chap he is. [Laughs]

Kenny Everett: Right here we are in Capitol tower with cuddly Ken and Freddie Mercury, nattering about the new LP. Which also has this track on it.

SOMEBODY TO LOVE

Kenny Everett: So, if you’re planning to but this LP – you get that thrown in as an added goodie. The new number one single in Britain today “Somebody To Love”. Well-done Freddie.

Freddie Mercury: They’ve probably all got their copies by now anyway, so we might as well play something else.

Kenny Everett: Yeah, but the thing is we all had “Sailing” by Rod Stewart and everyone bought it. Then they re-released it and everyone bought it again. Very strange.

Freddie Mercury: Yes, go out and but it again, I’m not complaining. [Laughs]

Kenny Everett: Let’s play a little track off “Sheer Heart Attack” now, because I thought this was one of your tunes, because it’s so wilting.

Freddie Mercury: I thought you’d made a slight mistake earlier on, but this is a track called “Dear Friends”. Taken from our “Sheer Heart Attack” album, it’s written by Brian. I’ve done the vocals on it, but Brian wrote this lovely tune.

Kenny Everett: Well let’s hear this one.

DEAR FRIENDS

Kenny Everett: Very pretty. I didn’t know Brian May wrote that, I thought he was the hairy department.

Freddie Mercury: Yes he does those, he’s very versatile.

Kenny Everett: Ok, this next one is one of yours isn’t it?

Freddie Mercury: Yes, it’s called “Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy”, and it’s in my ‘ragtime’mood that I get a chance to, [Laughs] to do on every album and this time, this is something I’ve come up with this time around.

Kenny Everett: Right, a little frilly number from the pen of Fred.

GOOD OLD-FASHIONED LOVER BOY

Kenny Everett: Right, that was one of Freddie’s tunes. I hear you’re not too pleased with the musical press, Freddie [Laughs] Let’s be outrageous!

Freddie Mercury: It depends, I don’t take much notice to be honest. They can say what they like.

Kenny Everett: I find that they slag everything available, they just don’t say anything nice about anybody.

Freddie Mercury: Not constructive at all. The American press do their homework and the kind of questions they ask you makes much better copy anyway.

Kenny Everett: They pick the good points, and then blazon them all over the place.

Freddie Mercury: It’s more sort of things that are more relevant, I feel anyway. You can tell that they’ve done their homework because they ask you very penetrating questions – which I don’t mind. Because then you know they have some substance because when they write about it, it has much more bearing. But over here, it’s all ‘Why have you stopped wearing black finger nails or whatever…

Kenny Everett: Have you stopped? [Laughs]

Freddie Mercury: Then that’s the review of the album, they haven’t a clue anyway – so [blows a raspberry] to them.

Kenny Everett: Yes [blows a louder raspberry] to them!

Kenny Everett: You keep writing things that are things of beauty that will last forever.

Freddie Mercury: Well I hope so.

Kenny Everett: One day you’re going to come up with an LP that’s going to kill everybody.

Freddie Mercury: I thought we had – this is it!

Kenny Everett: Oh, what have I said! What have I said? [Laughs] I mean just you, I think you’ll come out with the Mercury symphony in E flat or something.

Freddie Mercury: E flat minor actually… well I hope so. There’s time for that I think, I have a lot of ideas bursting to get out.

Kenny Everett: And you’ve got a film…a film?

Freddie Mercury: Yes, we’ve erm [Laughs] He’s no fool this one. He’s a tart, but he’s no fool!

Kenny Everett: I tell you what, let’s go to this one… I’m not a tart – I’m a DJ! [More laughs and teasing from Freddie] Let’s discuss the film after the news and this little track off the new LP “A Day At The Races”, which is dying to dive into you’re Christmas stocking!!

DROWSE

Kenny Everett: That’s a Roger Taylor track, and Roger’s just had a requiem set for his hair – so we’re all in mourning. We’ll be back with some more really great stuff, including their climactic climax to this LP right after the news. So I’ll see you then, right Fred?

Freddie Mercury: Yes dear, see you then.

Kenny Everett: Ok, bye bye ladies and gentlemen.

Kenny Everett: And now here’s Freddie with the weather!

Freddie Mercury: Oh God! He’s just put it in my lap, I can’t believe it! Weather for the Capitol area; It’s dry with long sunny periods, clean spells this evening, cold…

Kenny Everett: CLEAR spells.

Freddie Mercury: Oh, [Laughs] It’s you’re writing! Clear spells – yes that’s right. Clear spells this evening, cold high feel four centigrade…

Kenny Everett: Oh forget it!

Freddie Mercury: Winds light, force two or three… well this is the way you’ve written it. It’s in code, my god! [Laughs] Two or three mostly west to northwest, becoming south to south west later. [More laughs in studio].

Kenny Everett: Are you done?

Freddie Mercury: I’m sure everybody got that.

Kenny Everett: Yeah, I’m sure…

Freddie Mercury: That does it, you wait ‘till you come to the studio next time!

Kenny Everett: Get your calculators out and work out the weather. Right, here it is folks – the climax of this LP “A Day At The Races”, waiting for a place in your Christmas stocking.

TEO TORRIATTE (LET US CLING TOGETHER)

Kenny Everett: That’s the last track off “A Day At The Races”, the new LP by Queen, and if you had your Grundig out, then you should be ashamed of yourself – you’ve just robbed this millionaire of another 18 & 6. [Laughs].

ROCKET MAN – ELTON JOHN

Kenny Everett: Well what was a civilized little gathering, is now turned into chaos with bubbling heaps all over the studio. It’s 3:30 now on the Freddie and Ken show. Any comments on that, because your manager is the same as his isn’t it?

Freddie Mercury: Yes that’s right. In fact I’d like to dedicate that one to a few friends I know; Sharon, Beryl, Phyllis, Serita, Deirdre all the lovely people who’ve all been nice to us this year.

Kenny Everett: All lady friends then?

Freddie Mercury: Yes, they’re all going into my white book. My black books quite full up actually. [Laughs]

Kenny Everett: He says with champagne bubbles coming out of both ears.

BENJAMIN BRITTON TRIBUTE

Kenny Everett: Well I suppose you could call that a golden oldie, as it was written in 1961. Lovely, I like classical stuff don’t you?

Freddie Mercury: I like a bit of Chopin.

Kenny Everett: I’m a Mozart man.

Freddie Mercury: Well there you are then, we differ.

IT’S OVER – ROY ORBISON

Freddie Mercury: ‘It’s Over’! [Freddie & co sing the last line].

Kenny Everett: The masked mouths of the Mercury entourage, and “It’s Over”. Which was written in 1964 and is one of my faves Roy Orbison, who always did a good tune when called upon.

Freddie Mercury: Yes, very good actually. “Pretty Woman” was very good as well.

Kenny Everett: He did a lot of good stuff, I think he’s fab. I tell you what, Roy was good – but you can’t beat ‘old Dusty.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME – DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

Kenny Everett: Round of applause for Dusty Springfield. She’s great, the only thing that’s wrong with Dusty is that she’s not in Britain today. She’s gone off to California the rotter.

Freddie Mercury: I wish she’d come back actually. She’s very good, a very good singer.

Kenny Everett: I think she’s a ‘nana really, as she’s sat over there and not producing some fab stuff.

Freddie Mercury: I don’t know her, but I think she’s a bit scared to go on. She’s scared of what people might think, especially in this country. I think if she did come back, she’d be liked.

Kenny Everett: She’s be adored, there’s millions of people here waiting for her to come back. I’m not sure what’s wrong with her.

Freddie Mercury: I think she’s got stage fright, she needs a bit more encouragement and a bit more confidence.

Kenny Everett: Now we have another one of your oldies.

Freddie Mercury: Oh? Which one is this?

Kenny Everett: “Love Of My Life”, coming up in just a sec.

Freddie Mercury: This tracks called “Love Of My Life” which…

Kenny Everett: Pull yourself together dear! [Laughs]

Freddie Mercury: I’m perfectly in control, and is dedicated to you dear for being so nice to us today and letting us infiltrating your ‘Be Bop Bonanza’ programme.

Kenny Everett: Shucks, ok.

Freddie Mercury: It’s from our “Sheer Heart Attack” Album – oh no, it’s “A Night At The Opera”. God, we’ve made so many I keep forgetting.

Kenny Everett: It’s the previous and it’s a lovely tune, have a listen to this.

LOVE OF MY LIFE

Kenny Everett: [Lot’s of background laughing] ‘Love of my life’…

Freddie Mercury: I can’t hear the damn thing.

Kenny Everett: It’s over now. You should wear headphones.

Freddie Mercury: Oh I hate those things!

Kenny Everett: I know it kinks your hairdo, but they’re handy and you can hear what you’re saying through them. I feel naked without headphones…[More laughing] Right, it’s thirteen minutes to four and we’re going to sing along at the end of this show ladies & gentlemen, we’ve decided to join Bill Grundy in his cell, for doing naughty things on the wireless. We’re going to sing live, the end of “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

Freddie Mercury: So get your vocal chords ready.

Kenny Everett: Yes, because we want you to all join in with us, because it’s nearly Christmas and you can let yourself go. The end of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, if you forget how it goes, it goes like this…

Freddie Mercury: Oh God, you’ve put me in it!

Kenny Everett: I don’t remember that bit. [Laughter]

Freddie Mercury: ‘Nothing really matters to me’ [Sings the line].

BRIGHTON ROCK

Kenny Everett: Great, an old number by Freddie called “Flick Of The Do Dar” or something…

Freddie Mercury: “Brighton Rock” by Brian May.

Kenny Everett: Really? I thought that was one of yours. Right, here we go then “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Never been done before in it’s life – live in a studio. So we hope you’re going to join in. It’s easy, it’s like Vera Lynn isn’t it. All you’ve got to do is catch onto Freddie, because he’s going to sing the first few lines…

Freddie Mercury: I thought we were all…

Kenny Everett: No, no it’s all yours. Ready? [Laughter] Oh dear, he’s just fainted. You’ve got one minute to lead us into “Bohemian Rhapsody” Go!

Freddie Mercury: I don’t know it… ‘Nothing really matters to me’ [Sings]. I thought you were going to play the track.

Kenny Everett: No, I haven’t got it, I was thinking you being a pro…

Freddie Mercury: I can’t do it live, I mean I need the guitar and multi track, with Brian…

Kenny Everett: Now we know the truth folks, Freddie is a lemon. [Laughter] ‘I see a little silhouetteo of a do dar , scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango’ [Sung in a high pitched voice]

Freddie Mercury: Are you expecting me to sing the full track?

Kenny Everett: Oh I can’t be bothered with these live stars…

Freddie Mercury: I don’t think Capitol have the resources of multi tracking anyway.

Queen released 'A Day At The Races' and peaked at No 1 in the UK. In America, issued a week later, it reached No 5 on the US Billboard album chart and became Queen's first American album to achieve Gold status - and subsequently Platinum

Pic: Queen photographed in the Studio on 28th October 1976

📸 Photo by Lichfield Archive

[dynared]

The Voltron movie is finally moving forward with filming dates confirmed, sets being built, and a cast being rounded out, with a mostly unknown newcomer and Henry Cavill, fresh off of bashing his head into a glass ceiling trying to get a Warhammer 40k series going at Amazon. (I would not be surprised if that project stalled out and he was offered a lead role in Voltron as a compensation prize so he can earn some money).

And for reasons I'll never fully comprehend, I'm back on the Hopium that this will be a standout example of a Western-made mecha property, combining Japanese-style super robots with Hollywood budgets to create a billion-dollar hit at the box office.

This is after the West's near endless stream of failures at the genre, usually doomed by writers up their own asses who view anything with robots more complicated than a refrigerator with two legs and some guns as a glorified toy commercial and therefore immoral and needing to be changed. Take for instance Legendary Defender's writers admitting in interviews they fought to use Voltron less, hence the show bombing and WEP happy to erase it from the collective internet (as it deserves). Or gen:Lock writing in the first page of its artbook and inscribing in a plaque above the head writer's office "This show is about the characters". Its production company, Rooster Teeth, ceased operations in May, and while its sister show RWBY was sold to Viz Media for future use, gen:Lock is still for sale from Warner Bros, although I don't see anyone coming out to buy it.

So far, Amazon MGM and WEP, Inc are doing all the right things for this movie, whether purposefully or coincidentally. They're letting the rights to Legendary Defender on Netflix expire two years before the movie's targeted release date of 2026 so the show vanishes from the internet and none of the actors, directors, or crew have to hear the phrases "Klance", "Sheith", "fiction affects reality", or "Gays In Space." They're hiring Henry Cavill, a guy who still has a fair amount of sympathy from the general public for his ill-fated roles as Superman (being caught square in the Snyder drama) and Geralt of Rivera (where the longtime fan of The Witcher books and games objected to the considerable liberties taken by the show's writers and was shown the door), which as a bonus for Bob Koplar, will probably attract the Snyderbros to the super robot movie and provide a very different tenor to the fandom than VLD had, chasing that rapidly dwindling fandom out the door. Bob Koplar has spoken repeatedly at VoltCon conventions about wanting to capture the spirit of the original 80s series while repeatedly expressing distaste for Legendary Defender.

The main issues at this point are "What is the plot?" and "How big is the budget?" The rumor as per those same VoltCon panels where Koplar flat out said Dreamworks "did not get Voltron" is that we will be getting five new characters, rather than the usual crew of Keith, Lance, Pidge, Hunk, Allura, and Sven/Shiro. I'm all in favor of this because it means one less connection to Legendary Defender, but it also probably means the movie will be about an alien invasion of Earth with our super robot the only thing able to repel the invaders. As for the budget, we don't know that either, but given that the rights started a bidding war between Amazon MGM as well as other big companies like Warner Bros, Paramount, and Universal (Netflix was reportedly uninterested because of how badly VLD went) as well as reports from Australia citing shortages of set builders because of the high demand for them at the Voltron set, we could potentially be looking at a blockbuster with a blockbuster budget.

I'll guess we'll know soon. Filming is scheduled, as per Production List to begin at the end of December, which means over the next two months we'll probably see the rest of the cast rounded out and get a hard number for the budget. But there might be a reason to hope that the series is a super robot movie that the West deserves, and not another VLD or gen:Lock styled trainwreck from writers who don't get it.

[touchlikethesun]

coffee or tea?? (pt.2) ((actually it has v little to do with their drink orders i just had thoughts))

both ushijima and kita were instructed in how to traditionally prepare tea, and to this day, when they make tea, all of the steps are religiously followed and the tea is always japanese and very high quality - not really pretentiously so, they were both just taught the importance of quality when it comes to tea. they both have different brands that they are loyal to that they drank growing up, but when they get together for tea they will exceptionally drink the others' preferred brand. kita will also drink commercial tea if that's all that's available, like at a restaurant or at someone else's house, he's not such a stickler. however, if ushi doesn't have his tea setup, he also quite likes drinking fruit juice. i don’t know why he does, but this came to me in a vision~

iwaizumi is a green tea loyalist, hot or cold day or night, and oikawa tends to drink green tea as well, but he’ll get elaborate sugary coffee drinks when he’s out that iwa will pretend to be disgusted by (tooru offers him sips without saying anything and iwa accepts every time) (they both wrinkle their noses at super sweet matcha lattes tho)

kuroo drinks black coffee, no sugar - hot in the mornings, but any other time of day he prefers an iced americano. when he started drinking coffee during high school in cafes with friends he ordered black coffee just for the pun with his name and he hated it at first but didn’t want to admit that he only ordered it for a lame pun so he stuck with it and now he’s addicted and he can’t tell if he actually likes black coffee or if he’s tricked himself into not minding the bitterness

akaashi takes his coffee with a very sensible 2 creams and 2 sugars. for some reason everyone in the office thinks akaashi takes his coffee black, and always bring that back for him, so he stared keeping cream and sugar at his desk.

both kuroo and akaashi are the kind of people that need a cup of coffee (or several) before they’re functioning in the morning. they’ll both sit silently hunched over at the table cradling their mugs, and it kinda freaks bokuto out because they’re like zombie versions of his boyfriends. through trial and error he’s figured out kuroo will accept pre-coffee kisses with only minor grumbling but it’s best to give akaashi his space in the morning

without adults monitoring him, bokuto drinks hot chocolate every morning, even tho he's lactose intolerant. akaashi had been trying in vain to convince him to at the very least replace the milk with water, but when that didn't work he just started buying oat milk without saying anything, and that seems to have resolved the issue

kenma obviously has an energy drink addiction, mostly the original redbull, but kuroo bought him the watermelon flavour once because of the colour, and he didn’t hate it as much as he thought he would so now he’ll have one of those from time to time. the bin in his room is somehow always overflowing with empty cans, and more than a few people have expressed their concern but kenma can't for the life of him understand why they're so worried

[littledeathh]

"Landmine" is a perversion of consumerism

I adore jiraikei and slutpop. Despite originating in two opposing cultures and ideas, namely the USA's focus on sexual freedom and individualism, and Japanese cuteness and agreeableness, both express the human reaction to isolation, technology and consumerism. But what I love more is how perfectly they encapsulate "leftist" self-mutilation.

At first glance, both styles appear to be a standard pandering of common tropes -- "sex sells, beauty is good" -- backed by massive corporations putting out constant advertising. In fact, jirai and slutpop often employ commercial techniques, such as radio style song intros, flashy thought bubbles, glossy magazine covers, price tags, photoshoot poses, 1980's-2000's nostalgia for tech progress, corporate logos etc., in order to both satirise and perversely validate marketing brainwashing as a desperate attempt for approval, arrogance and self-harm.

Part of the aim of this art is to mimic advertising, as acceptance of the status quo. The "characters" in question are genuinely proud to resemble celebrities, posing with money, jewelry, bags and gadgets to an extreme. We often see collections bordering on hoarding of accessories, perfumes, sex toys, phones and cosmetics, strewn about an empty or messy apartment, full of garbage bags, sometimes splattered in human matter. The styles often make reference to late bills, tax evasion, unemployment, as well as emotional instability, often leading to prostitution and substance abuse as a method to make money and cope with life.

The second aim is to emphasize that this is a person who isn't and never will be part of the "elite". Their attempts to appear wealthy leave them destitute. Trying to portray beauty leaves them so frustrated they cover their walls in grime. No matter how many accessories they buy, they will never fill the void in their soul. Often we see these characters escaping into a fantasy world, where they can slip into their alter egos online, searching for virtual friendship to heal their real world isolation.

Despite being such a common theme, sex is actually understood as a method of revenge against expectations, manipulation or self-harm. The characters don't embrace sexuality because they do not understand love. A sense of cynicism pervades, that no matter how beautiful or wealthy, that person is corrupt and wishes that corruption was acknowledged.

References to recklessness, drugs, manipulation, madness etc. are actually considered first the person's direct fault, due to their rotten character, as well as an unfortunate adaptation to society, through phrases such as "sex sells", "rich live, poor die" and dehumanization into a piece of meat. This thinking leads the person to blame themselves more, rather than become angry at society, due to the fact that they are directly responsible for ruining their own life, while simultaneously trying their hardest to follow society's path to security.

My projection is that media messaging is particularly likely to lead to self-mutilation due to lacking a physical body to attribute disagreement to. Our human brains are built to sort an issue out with a direct entity, be it an animal, object or other human, which often leads to a discharge of energy. If the source of our misery has no physical source (mass media), that energy will be discharged into our own bodies through self-harming behaviours, our environment or people around us. For those isolated, their body and space are more accessible to destroy.

As long as such a person will continue to blame themselves and mutilate themselves due to nonconformity, they will redirect their true human emotions, which have a source -- conglomerates making up society's core -- into their own self-hate.

[littleeyesofpallas]

I want one of those like idle clicker games where is the late 1980s and you're a Japanese college student and an otaku and youre managing your hobby cataloging TV broadcast on VHS, so you've got to buy tapes and check your TV guide and set your VCR timer but also go to work and class and your SF club and lend/borrow/trade VHS with friends and then go home and copy tapes before returning them, and send letters and emails to penpals across the country to trade tapes with them for tapes you and your local circle don't have or broadcasts unique to the region. And there's the shows you like and the friends your friends like but also the shows people online will pay for, and sometimes they don't even want the show they just want rare commercials or emergency news broadcasts or regional promos. So you have to go and fast-forward thru stuff and see if it's got things other than what's on the label. And naturally the scale of your operating snowballs pretty fast so you have to start buying additional VCRs and extra TV sets. And you need to manage space for your growing towers of VHS tapes. And through all this every task takes a set amount of time and you have to be there to change the tapes between programs and make sure your schedule lines up so you don't miss your shows. And the whole while citypop and 80s anime theme songs are playing in the background thru a kind of muffled filter like it's coming from 2 rooms over on a hot summer day

[usafphantom2]

China will retire its MiG-21 clone this year

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 01/30/2013 - 08:20 In Military

The Air Force of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLAAF) plans to complete the withdrawal of all its J-7 fighters this year, a procedure started in 2018.

New generation 4.5 fighters such as the J-10C and J-16, as well as the fifth generation J-20 fighter are being built in large numbers, replacing the legacy J-7s. Retired J-7s can be reserved for training and testing, or can be modified to become drones and play new roles in modern warfare, according to the Global Times.

The J-7 is the first supersonic fighter developed by China that can reach Mach 2. This type of second-generation jet fighter was used by the PLA Air Force and the PLA Navy aviation force. Many variants, including the JL-9 training jet, were developed based on the J-7. The production of the J-7 was closed in 2017.

Du Wenlong, a Chinese military expert, told state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) that the number of remaining J-7s in active service is low. He predicts that the PLA Air Force will probably disable these old combat service jets this year.

The withdrawal of service of J-7 jets in China began in 2018.

Wei Dongxu, a Chinese military expert, told the Global Times that J-7 fighters contributed significantly to China's air defense, and many variants, including the JL-9 training jet, were developed based on the J-7.

The J-7 also sold well in the international market, Wei said. Brazil even evaluated the purchase of the Chinese J-7 jet in the 1980s, more precisely in 1985, when FAB evaluated the purchase of the F-7M Airguard, the export version of the J-7 Jianjiji fighter, manufactured at Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation (GAC), in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

The decision to buy the J-7, or F-7, was due to the unavailability of F-5 jets in the international market. Two years later the purchase did not go ahead, although FAB pilots said at the time that the jet was robust, had good firepower and was very manoeuvrable.

In 1985, the Brazilian Air Force was considering a few possibilities in fighter aviation, since it was having trouble expanding the Northrop F-5 Tiger II fleet and there were not many options that fit its limited budget. A rare exception was a version of the legendary MiG-21 made in China, the Chengdu F-7M.

Tags: Military AviationJ-7PLAAF - China Air Force

Fernando Valduga

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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[calvinpo]

An exhibition/pavilion review:

Ringing Hollow: A Review of Black Chapel, the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion

Calvin Po

It’s perhaps an unfortunate coincidence that on my way to this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, Black Chapel, designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, I had a rather more spiritual experience when I passed by a group of street preachers on the square next to Speaker's Corner. With their Union Jack bunting draped all around their assembly, placards with JESUS IS LORD, large banners of the English flag adorned a patriotic lion and names of the all the London boroughs proudly proclaiming LONDON SHALL BE SAVED. Puncturing through even my atheistic, bemused scepticism, the blaring music and odd bursts of song had a patriotic, messianic energy that was electric. By the time I got to the Chapel I came to see, it had simply been upstaged.

Pavilions have often mattered more for the reason they are built, than the actual functions they house. From completing the composition of a Picturesque landscape, to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion itself becoming a manifesto, the purpose of pavilions often exists beyond the building itself. In the case of the Serpentine Pavilion, it is more about the annual cycle of patronage by the London cultural elite as they pat the “emerging architect” of the year on the back. So I was intrigued when Gates claimed a loftier, more sacred ambition of creating a ‘Chapel’, a “sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality”, for “contemplation and convening”, on top of the usual purpose as a place to sit and buy an expensive coffee.

The pavilion’s imposing 10.7m high cylindrical form, clad in all-black timber has an immediate presence as I approach. Gates claims the form references inspirations as eclectic as “Musgum mud huts of Cameroon, the Kasubi Tombs of Kampala, Uganda [...] the sacred forms of Hungarian round churches and the ring shouts, voodoo circles and roda de capoeira witnessed in the sacred practices of the African diaspora.” Perhaps the subtlety of these references is lost on me, but the Pavilion mostly evokes an industrial structure, like a water tank or gasometer, especially with its external ridges of timber battens  and internal ribs of timber and metal composite trusses. Yet despite the grand gesture of an open oculus in the roof, letting light into the inky, voluminous interior, it fails to move me in that transcendental way that even a modest place of worship can. 

Is it perhaps the quality of the execution? Serpentine Pavilions are often put together on hasty timescales, with six months from conception to completion. Little details give this away: boards of the decking and cladding not quite lining up, the black-stained timber a bargain basement imitation of yakisugi (Japanese technique of timber charring). Perhaps this can be forgiven of a non-permanent structure: in a nod to sustainability credentials, this year the designers have taken care to ensure the structure is demountable, down to the reusable, precast concrete foundations. But seeing that the Pavilions are almost always auctioned off to recoup the costs and relocated to the grounds of private collectors and galleries, this seems more a convenient commercial expediency, than an environmental one. Perhaps it is difficult to be spiritually moved by a structure that is sold and delivered like a commodity, with little rootedness in its physical and congregational geographies. 

Or could it be the atmosphere, a lack of drama? One of Gate’s flourishes, such as his seven silvery ‘Tar Paintings’ that are suspended in the inside walls of the space like abstract icons, are a nod to his father’s trade as a roofer, and Rothko’s chapel in Houston. Yet these self-referential gestures seem lost on the throngs of sun-seeking Londoners taking brief shelter from the heat and wilted grass, with hardly anyone giving them a second glance. Most seemed more interested in the shade than symbolism. For a project that also emphasises “the sonic and the silent”, the acoustic atmosphere of the space I found wanting, perhaps because of the sound that leaks out of the two full-height openings that puncture straight through the volume: its acoustic experience had neither the reverberant, sanctified silence once expects from a chapel, nor the sonic presence that the street preachers managed to carve out of a busy corner of a London with just their vocal chords. Instead, all I heard was the low chatter of visitors going about their own business. The Pavilion is being programmed with “sonic interventions” (read: music performances), and the jury is out on whether or not the Pavilion can serve as a suitable venue for sounds with a more explicit, ceremonial intentionality.

But perhaps the coup de grâce was the decision to relocate a bell from St Laurence, a now-demolished Catholic Church from Chicago’s South Side. Sited next to the entrance, it is to be “used to call, signal and announce performances and activations at the Pavilion throughout the summer.” Gates explains this decision as a way to highlight the “erasure of spaces of convening and spiritual communion in urban communities.” But now mounted on a minimal, rusty steel frame like an objet d’art, I can’t help but feel a cruel irony that a consecrated object that once used to convene a lost community is now used as a performative affectation for the amusement of London’s arts and cultural gentry. This perhaps exemplifies a deeper ethical issue at the heart of the Pavilion’s concept: narratives of collective worship, cherry-picked from across communities and cultures, are sanitised, secularised and aestheticised in a contemporary art wrapper for the tastes of the largely godless culture crowd. The curator’s spiels of a creating “hallowed chamber”, if anything ring hollow.

As I leave Hyde Park, I pass by again the assembly of street preachers, who have now moved on to delivering a sermon. Gates said of his Pavilion, “it is intended to be humble.” Yet I can’t help but but feel how much more these preachers have achieved, with so much less.

[anumberofhobbies]

As it happens I did buy/order a book today,

Artemis Base Camp: The First Steps Paperback – December 4, 2022 by Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried (Author) With the launch of Artemis I in November, 2022 the Artemis Program is off to the Moon; a half century after the last Apollo flight in 1972. Artemis I represents “the first step” of what will be a long journey, to arrive at that point in time, when we can say that there is a sustained human presence on the Moon. This will, over many years, establish an Artemis Base Camp for future missions of exploration and discovery. The program starts off with several commercial robotic flights to search for the right place for humans to begin to rediscover the Moon; this time to the South Pole where previous flights have detected sources of water in the form of ice in craters that never see the light of day. The book will describe the crewed and uncrewed flights necessary to first, build a small Gateway space station in a new and unique lunar orbit that will facilitate flights from there to the lunar surface. All the necessary elements, habitats and vehicles necessary to stay on the Moon for weeks at a time and in the Gateway for a month at a time, are described. After Artemis I and II complete the checkouts of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, two of the four person crew of Artemis III will touch down on the lunar surface near the South Pole in 2025. This will begin the 21st Century exploration of the Moon and begin a series of subsequent flights to build a permanent presence in the form of the Artemis Base Camp. The lunar base is planned to evolve over decades. The NASA Program is supported by the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency.

snoopy encourages you to buy a new book!

[bashamichiroom]

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The commercial  space is currently occupied with a tenant providing an annual rental income of ¥2,877,600 with a gross yield of approx. 5.18%. This space can be purchased for investment purposes, and is currently listed at ¥55,500,000. This property can be purchased regardless of your residency or visa status. Overseas buyers are more than welcome!

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[realestateeee]

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Located in Noida Extension's Sector 10, It enjoys extraordinary connectivity to the most important commercial enterprise hubs, educational institutions, and healthcare centers. The assignment is effortlessly accessible via the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway and FNG corridor. Its proximity to imminent Metro stations and commercial centers makes it a super desire for each quit-customers and traders.

Architectural Excellence 

Drawing thought from Japanese design standards, Its structure emphasizes harmony, minimalism, and functionality. The homes feature modern facades with clean strains and fashionable finishes. Large windows maximize herbal mild and ventilation, even as thoughtfully planned spaces ensure the most reliable utilization. The development's structural layout meets global requirements for protection and durability.

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Each apartment at Ace Sector 12 Greater Noida West is crafted with premium specs and advanced finishing. The spacious devices function with vitrified tile flooring, modular kitchens with excessive-give-up furnishings, and anti-skid tiles in lavatories. The 2, 3, and 4 BHK configurations range from 1,195 to 2,350 square feet, catering to various circles of relatives' desires.

Amenities and Facilities

ACE Hanei Noida Extension offers global-magnificence facilities inclusive of a prepared clubhouse, swimming pool, multipurpose court docket, and kid's play location. The property features landscaped gardens, running tracks, and meditation zones. Security systems include CCTV surveillance, intercom facilities, and skilled personnel. Additionally, the complex homes a contemporary gymnasium and indoor video games room.

Investment Potential 

The strategic place and toptop-classferings make it an appealing investment opportunity. Noida Extension's fast infrastructure improvement, including upcoming Metro connectivity and business traits, promises great appreciation potential. The property's aggressive pricing, coupled with flexible price plans, makes it an excellent preference for property investment.

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Ace Hanei Flats demonstrates a robust commitment to sustainability through numerous green projects. The assignment includes rainwater harvesting structures, sun panels for not-unusual areas, and waste management centers. Green areas include seventy percent of the overall area, ensuring healthy living surroundings for citizens during the year.

Construction Quality and Timeline 

The production employs advanced technology and top-rate substances to ensure durability and aesthetic enchantment. ACE Group's tune document of well-timed transport and pleasant production is evident within the property's execution. Regular creation updates and transparent communique hold customer confidence at some point in the improvement method.

Lifestyle and Community 

It combines a colorful network of roundings through thoughtfully designed commonplace spaces and everyday social activities. The property attracts like-minded residents who value luxury, comfort, and a balanced lifestyle. The development's layout promotes interaction while maintaining privacy, developing perfect living surroundings for families.

Purchase Process and Documentation 

The buying process at Ace Sector 12 Greater Noida is streamlined and transparent, with dedicated relationship managers guiding buyers through each step. All necessary approvals and documentation are in place, ensuring hassle-free transactions. The developer offers attractive payment plans and assistance with home loan arrangements through leading financial institutions.

[midinmod]

2024 Furniture Trends: What to Buy and Where to Buy

Hey furniture hunters! The 2024 furniture scene is shaking things up big time, just like the fast fashion industry. Forget Mango, Zara, or Shein—this year, it’s all about Wayfair, Amazon, Overstock, and Temu. If you love trendy, affordable pieces, you’re in the right place. Let’s dive into what’s hot this year and where to snag the best deals!

What's Hot in 2024?

2024 started slow for furniture, but some styles are flying off the shelves. The Japandy trend is the star—think big, comfy Japandy sofas, tables, coffee tables, beds, and dressers. This Japanese-Scandinavian fusion is all about minimalism and function. Wayfair furniture deals 2024 are full of these chic pieces.

Trendy Colors to Watch

This year, it’s all about warm, earthy tones. Japandy colors are calming, with soft edges and a mix of Mid-Century Modern vibes and minimalist comfort. Look for ivory, light grey, mocha, light brown boucle fabric, dark green, and olive green velvet. Mustard and burnt orange velvet are also trending for living rooms and bedrooms. Linen and performance fabrics in cream, ivory, light pink, olive green, and teal are hot, especially for commercial spaces. Check out Amazon furniture trends 2024 for these colors.

Best-Selling Furniture Styles

Affordable but stylish items are the big winners. Japandy and Mid-Century Modern designs are topping the charts, while bulky traditional furniture is out. Modern motion upholstery sofas, sectionals, and power recliner chairs are all the rage, especially for small spaces. Japandy U-shaped and L-shaped corners are perfect for larger living rooms. If you’re looking for affordable furniture 2024, these styles offer great value.

Industry Outlook for 2024

The year started slow, but affordable options from Amazon, Wayfair, Walmart, and Temu are leading the pack. Traditional stores like Ikea, Ashley Furniture, Rooms to Go, Living Spaces, and Bob’s Discount Furniture are losing ground to these online giants. High-quality brands like CB2, West Elm, Crate and Barrel, Anthropologie, All Modern, Article, Mid in Mod, and Rove Concepts are still holding strong, thanks to their quality and personalized shopping experiences.

Where to Shop in 2024

For trendy, affordable pieces, check out Wayfair, Amazon, Overstock, and Temu. They’ve got a wide range of styles and prices. For those who want quality and great service, hit up CB2, West Elm, Crate and Barrel, Anthropologie, All Modern, Article, Mid in Mod, and Rove Concepts. These are some of the best online furniture stores 2024.

As you shop in 2024, stay on top of trends and find pieces that mix style, quality, and affordability. Look out for pet-friendly furniture 2024 and power recliner chairs 2024 to keep your home both stylish and comfy. Happy shopping!

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The people who are against GTA5/Online just because it has gang violence, prostitution, drugs, and alcohol need yo understand that there’s a good reason why it’s there and not “the devs put it in to make it interesting” bull shit.

Yes it has all of those things but it also has radio commercials of a Republican candidate for Los Santos mayor who is openly “against anything that isn’t the strait, white, blue eyed, red blooded American man” and is “against the homeless because like c’mon.. get a job” (those are quotes from the ad in game) as well as some horny French person trying to sell “sex therapy” sessions to “every young attractive woman, and maybe man, out there”. Some businesses have the ability to “bribe the authorities” for a limited time in order to commit any crime you can think of. The police shoot first and ask questions later. The NPCs, like actual Californians, are dumb as hell, even their speech lines are the stupidest things to hear such as but not limited to “no I don’t miss your 10 inch dick, you sold my dog for crack” and “no brah, it’s supposed to be an antique, it’s supposed to be worth more than a collectors item”

Some of the non player owned businesses are funny as hell too

One called “humans labs” basically uses animals for testings of their new rail gun rifle. They also hire a government sponsored hirable militia to guard theire factory which you brake into multiple times.

And the brand names of drinks like “spunk” which is Sprite, “ecola” which is Coca-Cola, “Pisswazzer” which is just any beer out there, and “junk energy” which is just Amy energy drink out there but the one in game focus on extreme sports so the closest it relates to in Red Bull and monster energy

all of the celebrities in game making a fool of themselves by being either high, drunk, getting pulled over, going bankrupt, the whole lot.

Everyone and anyone having a gun.

The Casino being rigged as hell and taking all your money

The video games being marketed towards children yet being over sexualized or over brutalized

The corrupt cult called “epsilon” (insanely so)

The tv shows like “princess robot bubblegum” which is advertised as a Japanese anime but is nothing but soft core porn. “The republican space rangers” that are a bunch of xenophiles, fly a very phallic looking space ship, while the younger one being a closeted homosexual. “Kung fu rainbow ultraforce” being a she marketed towards children to not be over sexually and preaching that abstinence is good while the show is being very sexual uncomfortably so. “Classic vinewood” which is a place where you can watch “classical movies like “bullwhip fury”, “high school”, “rum runner” and more

Has apps like “life invader” which is favebook

Live shows like “fans or shame” where celebrities go there and make a fool of themselves again

Clothing brands like “swallow” that sells Edmond underwear

Makes fun of Botox

Had political propositions luke prop14 which wants ti take America back to “the good ol days where alcohol was illegal and beating your unfortunate wife was common practice”

Yoga practice where you just end up getting dry humped by the teacher

The sports industry is just “arena war” where if you lose you die

Websites like “dock teasel” where you by boats and other water vehicles. “Petal and metal” a super rock and roll sounding website where you buy bicycles

Food industries like “los Santos freegans” which is a diet where to go around eating out of the trash. “Ego chaser” which is a protein bar. “Taco bomb” a knock off company of Rico bell which both advertise upside down volcano action.

The reason why you should not just jump to judge the game for having certain aspects look into the reason why they’re there, in this case is to make fun of the entire American system and situation.