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This Benedictine Monastery and Abbey Church,

founded as early as 1018, reputedly by King Cnut,

served under Savignac and later Cistercian rule in medieval times.

It suffered the consequences of religious persecution in the 16th. Century, when the Dissolution of the Monasteries, by direction of King Henry VIII, saw it ransacked and ultimately demolished.

 

The site was bought by French Benedictine monks in the nineteenth century and dedicated to St. Mary. Not until 1907 did a re-build commence followed by consecration in 1932 and completion in 1938.

Prayer and worship is only one part of a monk’s daily life.

What always strikes me is how active they are in supporting their community and earning their keep.

 

Vegetables, honey, beeswax, pigs, cattle, wine, fudge, publications and many other products are sold near and far.

Monks built the building, help to maintain it, design stained-glass windows for new chapels, farm the land, tend the gardens and benefit from the thousands of paying visitors that come to enjoy, this thriving, yet spiritually uplifting and inspirational place.

 

Indeed, healthy income enables continuous development.

For example a magnificent new pipe-organ, sourced from Italy, was successfully installed in 2017.

The vibrant, ongoing work of this highly committed

and faithful community is complemented by the incredible beauty of its setting.

Nestling as it does on the edge of Dartmoor,

in the exquisite Dart Valley, where it is,

and what it does, evokes the peace, solace, tranquillity

of the spirit of God, to his honour and glory.

 

A thousand years, 1018-2018 is only the beginning!

 

best_of_2024, Brat

 

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интересует в основном топ The Wire (+ тематические списки других изданий), да и в целом любопытно взглянуть спустя год, что же котировалось в mainstream media

 

 

deepskyobject (Top-20 of 2024 to RED)

 

1. Left at Orion - Radiowaves (2024)

2. Trentemøller - Dreamweaver (2024)

3. Инна Пиварс и Гистрионы - Песни града Китежа (2024)

4. Whirr - Raw Blue (2024)

5. Julie - My Anti-Aircraft Friend (2024)

6. Хадн Дадн - Поцелуйчик солнышка (2024)

7. Vylet Pony - Monarch of Monsters (2024)

8. TTSSFU - Me, Jed and Andy (2024)

9. конъюнктура - керамика (2024)

10. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World (2024)

11. Softcult - Heaven (2024)

12. Mo Dotti - Opaque (2024)

13. Dog silent - Voices in My Head (2024)

14. Clinic Stars - Only Hinting (2024)

15. Sestrica - Memory Lane (2024)

16. Kali Malone - All Life Long (2024)

17. LAAVU - Escape (2024)

18. NewDad - MADRA (2024)

19. Wisp - Pandora (2024)

20. Kim Gordon - The Collective (2024)

 

honorable mentions:

Broadcast - Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006 - 2009 (2024)

Broadcast - Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 (2024)

 

 

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024

 

50. claire rousay - Sentiment [bedroom pop]

49. Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist [experimental]

48. Robin Mackay - By The North Sea [radio play]

47. Clarissa Connelly - World of Work [progressive folk]

46. Yatta - Palm Wine [glitch pop, hypnagogic pop]

45. The Necks - Bleed [ambient, avant-garde jazz]

44. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven [indie rock]

43. Neil Luck - Radio Archive (2014-2023) [spoken word]

42. KRM & KMRU - Disconnect [dark ambient]

41. Sarah Hennies - Motor Tapes [modern classical]

40. Trigger Object - Ghost Bros OST [noise, electro-industrial]

39. Rhodri Davies - Telyn Wrachïod [free improvisation]

38. Tony Conrad, Jennifer Walshe - In the Merry Month of May [experimental]

37. Frederic D. Oberland, Grégory Dargent, Tony Elieh, Wassim Halal - SIHR [avant-folk]

36. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield [heavy metal]

35. Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us [west coast hip hop]

34. Laurie Anderson - Amelia [spoken word, modern classical]

33. Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding - Milton + Esperanza [chamber jazz]

32. Sisso & Maiko [Tanzania] - Singeli Ya Maajabu [singeli]

31. Nídia & Valentina - Estradas [batida, electroacoustic]

30. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes [jazz pop]

29. Charli XCX - Brat [electropop]

28. The Bug - Machines I​--V [ambient dub]

27. Karl D'Silva - Love Is a Flame In the Dark [indie pop]

26. Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams - Something About Shirley [abstract hip hop]

25. Richie Culver - Scream If You Don't Exist [glitch, dark ambient]

24. Kali Malone - All Life Long [minimalism, drone]

23. Able Noise - High Tide [experimental rock]

22. Fay Victor & Herbie Nichols SUNG - Life Is Funny That Way [vocal jazz]

21. Mary Timony [Ex Hex, Helium] - Untame the Tiger [indie rock]

20. Cappo - S.T.A.R.V.E [UK hip hop]

19. Pat Thomas - The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir [free improvisation]

18. Dialect - Atlas of Green [progressive electronic]

17. Shellac - To All Trains [noise rock]

16. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere [progressive death]

15. Water Damage - In E [drone]

14. Ka - The Thief Next to Jesus [abstract hip hop]

13. Toshiya Tsunoda/Taku Unami - Wovenland 3 [musique concrète]

12. The Body & Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven [post-industrial]

11. Dhangsha - Broadcast Signal Intrusion [industrial, noise]

10. Beings - There Is a Garden [free jazz]

9. Caxtrinho - Queda Livre [psychedelic]

8. Kim Gordon - The Collective [noise rock]

7. Moin - You Never End [post-rock]

6. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee [hypnagogic pop]

5. Still House Plants - If I Don't Make It, I Love U [experimental rock]

4. Moor Mother - The Great Bailout [electroacoustic]

3. Elaine Mitchener - Solo Throat [experimental]

2. Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution [ambient]

1. أحمد [Ahmed][UK] - Giant Beauty [free jazz]

 

 

Rob Barnes @ Top 60 Shoegaze/Dreampop albums of 2024

 

01. Newmoon - Temporary Light

02. Animal Ghosts - Swell

03. Mo Dotti - Opaque

04. Clinic Stars - Only Hinting

05. Whitelands - Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind to the Day

06. All Under Heaven - What Lies Ahead of Me

07. Punchlove - Channels

08. Ride - Interplay

09. Softcult - Heaven

10. Magic Shoppe - Down the Wish Elm

11. Tombstone in Their Eyes - Asylum Harbour

12. Virgins - Nothing Hurt and Everything Was Beautiful

13. Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold

14. DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water

15. Joyer - Night Songs

16. Abandoned Buildings - Eroding Light

17. Mondaze - Linger

18. Ammonia Wash - Fading on the Way Down

19. Left at Orion - Radiowaves

20. Indoor Voices - Past Present

21. Bloococoon - Bloococoon

22. Flu Flu - Furia

23. Blushing - Sugarcoat

24. Newdad - Madra

25. San Carol - Mada Vida

26. Julie - My Anti-Aircraft Friend

27. Air Formation - Air Formation

28. So Totally - Double Your Relaxation

29. Blurred City Lights - Overload

30. The Fauns - How Lost

31. Shower Curtain - Words From A Wishing Well

32. Healees - Coin De L’oeil

33. Keeley - Beautiful Mysterious

34. Brief Candles - Unfinished Nature

35. Future Nostalgia - Imaginary Conversations

36. Bright Like Stars - Reflections

37. Swirlpool - Distant Echoes

38. Burrrn - Without You

39. Somesurprises - Perseids

40. 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Let Go

41. Tears Run Rings - Everything In The End

42. Trauma Ray - Chameleon

43. Yndling - Mood Booster

44. PURS - Dissipate

45. Sungaze - Sungaze

46. Gift - Illuminatior

47. Wishy - Triple Seven

48. Midwife - No Depression In Heaven

49. Torrey - Torrey

50. Aluminum - Fully Beat

51. Flavor Crystals - Gone Six

52. Fazerdaze - Soft Power

53. A Place To Bury Strangers - Synthesizer

54. Calliere - Float

55. Cold Gawd - I’ll Drown On This Earth

56. White Poppy - Ataraxia

57. Kodaclips - Gone Is The Day

58. Zzzaam - Shine

59. The Proctors - Snowdrops And Hot Air Balloons

60. Three Quarter Skies - Fade In

 

 

Piero Zaccagnini - Best Albums of 2024

 

1. Tears Run Rings - Everything in the end

2. Air Formation - Air Formation

3. Ural Mountains - Dead oceans

4. 93millionmilesfromthesun - Let go

5. Anilore - Lia fail

6. New Moon - Temporary light

7. Hoо - III

8. Asteroid No4 - Several shapes of solar flares

9. Echodrone - The curvature of sound

10. Lightning Bug - No paradise

11. Trentemoller - Dreamweaver

12. Starflyer 59 - Lust for gold

13. The Fauns - How lost

14. Loom - Eternal aphelium

15. Oeil - Dream within a dream

16. Indoor Voices - Past present

17. Reverb On Repeat - Ycneo

18. Staring Problem - Equinox

19. Shalloboy - At the mercy of the cloud

20. Horsebeach - Things to keep alive

 

 

Manfredi Lamartina (shoegazeblog, Italy)

 

1. Opinion - Horrible

2. Phantom Handshakes - Sirens at golden hour

3. Miners - A healthy future on Earth

4. Punchlove - Channels

5. Chiaroscuro - Chiaroscuro

6. So Totally - Double your relaxation

7. Bloody Knives - Drowning in light

8. Softcult - Heaven

9. Clinic Stars - Only hinting

10. Wishy - Triple seven

11. Fir Cone Children - Jig of glee

12. julie - My anti​-​aircraft friend

13. Magic Shoppe - Down the Wych Elm

14. swan•seas - Songs in the key of blue

15. Trentemøller - Dreamweaver

16. Burrrn - Without you

17. DIIV - Frog in boiling water

18. Mondaze - Linger

19. Blushing - Sugarcoat

20. The Fauns - How lost

 

 

Greg Peters - Top 25 Shoegaze Albums for 2024

 

01. Mo Dotti - opaque (Los Angeles)

02. Mondaze - linger (Faenza, Italy)

03. Whitelands - Night​-​bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day (London)

04. Newmoon - Temporary Light (Antwerp, Belgium)

05. Sorry, Dave - Sink (Melbourne, AUS)

06. burrrn - blaze down his way like the space show (Tokyo)

07. abandoned buildings - Eroding Light (Bradford, UK)

08. Shades of Violette - Shades of Violette (Washington, D.C.)

09. Casino Garden - Transition (Wuppertal, Germany)

10. trauma ray - Chameleon (Fort Worth, Texas)

11. DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water (Brooklyn, New York)

12. Starflyer 59 - Lust For Gold (California)

13. Virgins - g l i s s (Belfast, UK)

14. Air Formation - Air Formation (Worthing, UK)

15. flu flu - Furia (Sevilla, Spain)

16. CASTLEBEAT - Stereo (California)

17. copperplate - subtle senses (Marietta, Georgia)

18. Healees - Coin de l'​œ​il (Paris, France)

19. julie - my anti​-​aircraft friend (Los Angeles)

20. sunshy - I don't care what comes next (Chicago)

21. Perpetual Void - Winter in Orbit (Glasgow, UK)

22. Meltway - Nothing Is Real (Denmark)

23. Belong - Realistic IX (New Orleans)

24. The Essential Ether - Ten Indie Essentials (Bergen, Norway)

25. Local Authority - Memory Loss (Brisbane, AUS)

 

 

Bandcamp Daily's Essential Releases of 2024

 

Amaro Freitas - Y'Y [avant-garde jazz, post-minimalism]

Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere [progressive death metal]

Caribou - Honey [house, indietronica]

Caxtrinho - Queda Livre [psychedelic rock, vanguarda paulista]

Daudi Matsiko - The King Of Misery [indie folk]

Dummy - Free Energy [neo-psychedelia, noise pop]

E L U C I D - REVELATOR [abstract hip hop]

Helado Negro - PHASOR [indietronica, neo-psychedelia]

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo [deconstructed club]

J.R.C.G. - Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra) [experimental rock, neo-psychedelia]

Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full Of Blood [post-metal, post-hardcore]

Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement [spiritual jazz, jazz fusion]

La Luz - News of the Universe [neo-psychedelia, indie surf]

Machine Girl - MG Ultra [digital hardcore]

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness [jazz fusion, space ambient]

Nubya Garcia - ODYSSEY [third stream, spiritual jazz, jazz fusion]

Previous Industries - Service Merchandise [abstract hip hop]

Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution [ambient, electroacoustic]

Kronos Quartet - Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra [third stream, modern classical, nu jazz]

Rosali - Bite Down [indie rock, folk rock]

SML - Small Medium Large [jazz fusion]

Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod [darkwave, avant-folk, neofolk]

 

 

Louder Than War's Top 100 Albums of 2024

 

100. Loose Articles - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

99. Amelia Coburn - Between The Moon and The Milkman

98. Chris Bridgett - Speedboat On Chapel Street

97. Arab Strap - I'm totally fine with it don't give a fuck anymore

96. Wire Worms - The First To Come In

95. The March Afternoons - The March Afternoons Aren't Real

94. Poppycock - Magic Mothers

93. Sassyhiya - Take You Somewhere

92. The March Violets - Crocodile Promises

91. Amy Rigby - Hang in There with Me

90. Michael - Nite Salad

89. The Mystery Lights - Purgatory

88. Plastic Bag - Dead Kings Of Europe

87. Emissaries Of Syn - Past Prescient Future

86. Dan Guidance - Freedom Of Movement

85. Collision Course - Ländfill

84. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

83. Douglas Dare - Omni

82. Anja Huwe - Codes

81. Osees - SORCS 80

80. New Model Army - Unbroken

79. Horsemeat - Embrace The Abyss

78. David Lance Callahan - Down To The Marshes

77. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

76. Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Revelations

75. Yard Act - Where's My Utopia?

74. Jozef Van Wissem - The Night Dwells In The Day

73. Humanist - On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World

72. Keeley - Beautiful Mysterious

71. Emilíana Torrini - Miss Flower

70. Coded Marking - Coded Marking

69. The Battery Farm - Dark Web

68. The Peawees - One Ride

67. AMASS - Gameskeepers Gallows

66. The Baby Seals - Chaos

65. Fightmilk - No Souvenirs

64. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat

63. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da

62. X - Smoke & Fiction

61. God Bullies - As Above, So Below

60. The Courettes - The Soul of... The Fabulous Courettes

59. Sarah Davachi - The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir

58. Peter Alexander Jobson - Burn The Ration Books Of Love

57. Goat - Goat

56. Coughin' Vicars - Cyrses & Prayers

55. Bugman - The Proto Push

54. Fat White Family - Forgiveness Is Yours

53. Gossip - Real Power

52. cumgirl8 - the 8th cumming

51. The WAEVE - City Lights

50. Objections - Optimistic Sizing

49. Snowgoose - Descendent

48. Stick in the Wheel - A Thousand Pokes

47. Retsu - Retsu

46. Oruã - PASSE

45. Moor Mother - The Great Bailout

44. KNEECAP - Fine Art

43. Kali Malone - All Life Long

42. Einstürzende Neubauten - Rampen: apm (alien pop music)

41. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD

40. Nubiyan Twist - Find Your Flame

39. Dearthworms - Sapsucker

38. Mary Timony - Untame the Tiger

37. ARXX - Good Boy

36. 86TVs - 86TVs

35. Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle

34. Small Black Arrows - The British Museum

33. BIG SPECIAL - POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES

32. Kim Gordon - The Collective

31. Chrystabell & David Lynch - Cellophane Memories

30. Fat Dog - WOOF.

29. The Jesus Lizard - Rack

28. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy

27. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

26. Tess Parks - Pomegranate

25. Charles Lloyd - The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

24. YOBS - YOBS

23. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont - DAYLIGHT

22. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes

21. SOFT PLAY - HEAVY JELLY

20. John Cale - POPtical Illusion

19. Richard Hawley - In This City They Call You Love

18. Erotic Secrets Of Pompeii - Mondo Maleficum

17. HOUSE Of ALL - Continuum

16. James - Yummy

15. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud

14. Dead Pioneers - Dead Pioneers

13. The Lovely Eggs - Eggsistentialism

12. DEADLETTER - Hysterical Strength

11. Pizzatramp - The Last Supper

10. The Smile - Wall of Eyes

9. Meryl Streek - Songs For The Deceased

8. Ultimate Thunder - A Spider Will Come to Eat Your Flesh

7. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

6. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

5. IDLES - TANGK

4. Peter Perrett - The Cleansing

3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God

2. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

1. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness

 

 

A.V. Club's 25 Best Albums of 2024

 

25. The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet

24. Rosali - Bite Down

23. Faye Webster - Underdressed at the Symphony

22. Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me

21. Empress Of - For Your Consideration

20. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

19. Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy

18. Redd Kross - Redd Kross

17. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

16. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage du Desir

15. Friko - Where we've been, Where we go from here

14. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

13. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More

12. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

11. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

10. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER

9. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

8. Jack White - No Name

7. Clairo - Charm

6. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

5. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

4. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

3. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

2. Charli xcx - BRAT

1. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

 

 

Gorilla vs. Bear's Albums of 2024

 

40. Discovery Zone - Quantum Web

39. Gb - Gusse Music

38. Merely & Malibu - Essential Mixtape

37. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes

36. Erika de Casier - Still

35. Bullion - Affection

34. Man Rei - Doer

34. Man Rei - Thread

33. Caoilfhionn Rose - Constellation

32. Fergus Jones - Ephemera

31. Hemlock - 444

30. Loukeman - Sd-2

29. Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild

28. Laryssa Kim - Contezza

27. Dorothea Paas - Think Of Mist

26. Caroline Says - The Lucky One

25. Broadcast - Spell Blanket - Collected Demos - 2006-2009

25. Broadcast - Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006

24. Burial - Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above

23. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino

22. Sam Morton - Daffodils & Dirt

21. Tyla - TYLA

20. F.G.S. - Tinker Bell's Cough

19. Nourished By Time - Catching Chickens

18. Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt

17. Hildegard - Jour 1596

16. Naemi - Dust Devil

15. Armand Hammer - BLK LBL

14. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

13. Jack J - Blue Desert

12. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

11. Night Tapes - assisted memories

10. Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt - Backstage Raver

9. Charli xcx - BRAT

8. Skee Mask - Resort

7. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

6. Fine - Rocky Top Ballads

5. Mach-Hommy - RICHAXXHAITIAN

4. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

3. Being Dead - EELS

2. Mk. gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

1. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

 

 

Consequence's 50 Best Albums of 2024

 

50. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More

49. Maxo Kream - Personification

48. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

47. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

46. Wishy - Triple Seven

45. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

44. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

43. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

42. Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene

41. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

40. Shellac - To All Trains

39. Denzel Curry - KING OF THE MISCHIEVOUS SOUTH

38. Lip Critic - Hex Dealer

37. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament

36. Vince Staples - Dark Times

35. Joy Oladokun - Observations From A Crowded Room

34. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

33. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS

32. Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan's Slingshot

31. Hovvdy - Hovvdy

30. MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball

29. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

28. Jamie xx - In Waves

27. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

26. Mount Eerie - Night Palace

25. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

24. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK

23. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas

22. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

21. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

20. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

19. Chat Pile - Cool World

18. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

17. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness

16. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross & Boys Noize - Challengers [MIXED] By Boys Noize

15. High on Fire - Cometh the Storm

14. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

13. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

12. The Smile - Wall of Eyes

11. Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns

10. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

9. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

8. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

7. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

6. Jack White - No Name

5. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER

4. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage du Desir

3. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

2. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

1. Charli xcx - BRAT

 

 

Vulture's Best Albums of 2024

 

10. mediopicky - Bexaco y rico

9. Red Hot Org - TRA​​​И​​​Ƨ​​​A

8. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

7. Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn of Events

6. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

5. Mustafa - Dunya

4. Bilal - Adjust Brightness

3. KA - The Thief Next to Jesus

2. Mach-Hommy - RICHAXXHAITIAN

1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

 

 

BrooklynVegan's Top 50 Albums of 2024

 

50. Martha Skye Murphy - Um

49. Growing Stone - Death of a Momma’s Boy

48. Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus

47. Undeath - More Insane

46. BigXthaPlug - Take Care

45. High On Fire – Cometh the Storm

44. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da

43. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

42. Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes

41. GloRilla - Glorious & Ehhthang Ehhthang

40. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign

39. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

38. Mach-Hommy - # RICHAXXHAITIAN

37. Chat Pile - Cool World

36. SUMAC - The Healer

35. Candy - It's Inside You

34. State Faults - Children of the Moon

33. ELUCID - Revelator

32. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive

31. Thou - Umbilical

30. Ekko Astral - Pink Balloons

29. Speed - Only One Mode

28. Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition

27. glass beach - Plastic Death

26. High Vis - Guided Tour

25. Rosali - Bite Down

24. Foxing - Foxing

23. Kim Gordon - The Collective

22. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

21. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

20. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

19. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

18. Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) - Passage Du Desir

17. ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips

16. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

15. Gouge Away - Deep Sage

14. Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene

13. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

12. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

11. This Is Lorelei - Box for Buddy, Box for Star

10. Jessica Pratt - Here In the Pitch

9. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

8. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

7. Tyler, the Creator - Chromakopia

6. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

5. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

4. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

3. Charli XCX - Brat

2. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

1. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

 

 

brooklynvegan staff:

 

Dave’s honorable mentions

Colin Stetson – The Love It Took to Leave You

Drug Church – PRUDE

Hulder – Verses in Oath

Immortal Bird – The Love It Took to Leave You

Your Old Droog – Movie

 

Andrew’s honorable mentions

Combat – Stay Golden

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland

MGMT – Loss of Life

Nala Sinephro – Endlessness

Touché Amoré – Spiral In A Straight Line

 

Amanda’s honorable mentions

Allie X – Girl With No Face

Christian Lee Hutson – Paradise Pop. 10

Eliza McLamb – Going Through It

Friko – Where we’ve been, Where we go from here

Wishy – Triple Seven

 

Bill’s honorable mentions

Tindersticks – Soft Tissue

Bibi Club – Fou de garde

Beak> – >>>>

High Llamas – Hey Panda

The Innocence Mission – Midwinter Swimmers

 

 

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2024

 

50. Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder

49. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2

48. Djrum - Meaning's Edge

47. Helado Negro - PHASOR

46. Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come

45. 454 - Casts of a Dreamer

44. Milan W. - Leave Another Day

43. حمد [Ahmed] - Wood Blues

42. Loidis - One Day

41. 坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto] - Opus

40. Erika de Casier - Still

39. This Is Lorelei - Box For Buddy, Box For Star

38. Being Dead - EELS

37. Lisha G & Trini Viv - Groovy Steppin Sh_t

36. Kali Uchis - ORQUÍDEAS

35. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

34. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

33. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive

32. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes

31. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat

30. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

29. xaviersobased - keep it goin xav

28. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

27. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD

26. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

25. Jlin - Akoma

24. Ka - The Thief Next to Jesus

23. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

22. Tyla - Tyla

21. Clairo - Charm

20. Mabe Fratti - Sentir que no sabes

19. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

18. Mk. gee - Two Star & the Dream Police

17. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

16. DORIS - Ultimate Love Songs Collection

15. Still House Plants - If I don’t make it, I love u

14. Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution

13. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

12. skaiwater - gigi

11. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

10. Kim Gordon - The Collective

9. Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt

8. Bladee - Cold Visions

7. Mount Eerie - Night Palace

6. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

5. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

4. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

3. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

2. Charli XCX - BRAT

1. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

 

 

Resident Advisor's Best Records of 2024

 

25. British Murder Boys - Active Agents and House Boys

24. Regal86 - Unearthed Vol. II 100 Trax

23. Jlin - Akoma

22. Nourished By Time - Catching Chickens

21. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

20. Midland - Fragments Of Us

19. Total Blue - Total Blue

18. gum.mp3 - Black Life, Red Planet

17. Tim Reaper & Kloke - In Full Effect

16. Tyla - TYLA

15. Various Artists - 10 Years Love On The Rocks - Sky Is The Limit

14. Skee Mask - ISS010

13. Ciel & CCL - Tilda's Goat Stare

12. Various Artists - Letters to a Future Palestine

11. Verraco - Breathe... Godspeed

10. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes

9. Nídia & Valentina Magaletti - Estradas

8. Syclops - Black Eye

7. gyrofield - These Heavens

6. DJ Anderson Do Paraíso - Queridão

5. Polygonia - Da Nao Tian Gong

4. Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt

3. Charli xcx - BRAT

2. De Schuurman - Bubbling Forever

1. Loidis - One Day

 

 

The Forty-Five's Best Albums of 2024

 

45. Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me

44. ARXX - Good Boy

43. Maya Hawke - Chaos Angel

42. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites

41. Lime Garden - One More Thing

40. Kali Uchis - ORQUÍDEAS

39. Dora Jar - No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire

38. Tinashe - Quantum Baby

37. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope

36. Ravyn Lenae - Bird's Eye

35. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

34. Wallice - The Jester

33. MICHELLE - Songs About You Specifically

32. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

31. Marika Hackman - Big Sigh

30. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

29. Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate

28. Tyla - TYLA

27. Katie Gavin - What A Relief

26. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas

25. Megan Thee Stallion - MEGAN

24. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

23. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

22. Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn of Events

21. Kim Gordon - The Collective

20. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

19. Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath

18. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat

17. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

16. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy

15. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

14. Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us

13. Bbymutha - sleep paralysis

12. SPRINTS - Letter To Self

11. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud

10. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness

9. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK

8. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

7. Clairo - Charm

6. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

5. Charli xcx - Brat and it's completely different but also still brat

4. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

3. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER

2. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

1. Charli xcx - BRAT

 

 

MOJO’s Top 75 Albums of 2024

 

75. Field Music – Limits of Language

74. Pom Poko – Champion

73. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue

72. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741

71. The Bevis Frond – Focus on Nature

70. Kelly Finnigan – A Lover Was Born

69. The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Rhapsody

68. Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves

67. Ghost Dubs – Damaged

66. Khruangbin – A LA SALA

65. Cassie Kinoshi’s Seed – Gratitude

64. Hamish Hawk – A Firmer Hand

63. Floating Points – Cascade

62. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico

61. Oisin Leech – Cold Sea

60. The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet

59. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II

58. Naima Bock – Below a Massive Dark Land

57. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir

56. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath

55. The Bug – Machine

54. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks

53. Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight

52. Richard Hawley – In This City They Call You Love

51. IDLES – TANGK

50. Lee “Scratch” Perry – Spaceship to Mars

49. Joan As Police Woman – Lemons, Limes And Orchids

48. Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari

47. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes

46. The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy

45. Nubya Garcia – ODYSSEY

44. Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement

43. The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards

42. Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes

41. Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat

40. Brittany Howard – What Now

39. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign

38. Leyla McCalla – Sun Without the Heat

37. Common – The Auditorium Vol. 1

36. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch

35. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future

34. Amyl and The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness

33. Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching

32. Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless

31. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World

30. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood

29. Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

28. John Cale – POPtical Illusion

27. The The – Ensoulment

26. Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything

25. St. Vincent – All Born Screaming

24. Mercury Rev – Born Horses

23. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore

22. Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice

21. Gruff Rhys – Sadness Sets Me Free

20. Lady Blackbird – Slang Spirituals

19. Peter Perrett – The Cleansing

18. David Gilmour – Luck and Strange

17. Paul Weller – 66

16. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Loophole

15. English Teacher – This Could Be Texas

14. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer

13. The Smile – Wall of Eyes

12. Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

11. John Grant – The Art of the Lie

10. Kim Gordon – The Collective

9. Jane Weaver – Love In Constant Spectacle

8. The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know

7. Fontaines D.C. – Romance

6. Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More

5. Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da

4. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland

3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God

1. Jack White – No Name

 

 

Rolling Stone‘s Top 50 Albums of 2024

 

100. Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me

99. Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope

98. Common and Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1

97. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God

96. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas

95. Koe Wetzel - 9 Lives

94. Grace Cummings - Ramona

93. Kerry King - From Hell I Rise

92. Megan Moroney - Am I Okay?

91. Allie X - Girl With No Face

90. Various Artists - Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin

89. Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy

88. RM - Right Place, Wrong Person

87. Cavalier - Different Type Time

86. Porter Robinson - SMILE!: D

85. Camila Cabello - C, XOXO

84. The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet

83. Floating Points - Cascade

82. NSQK - ATP

81. Hinds - Viva Hinds

80. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy

79. Adeem the Artist - Anniversary

78. Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyans Sling Shot

77. Xavi - NEXT

76. Claire Rousay - Sentiment

75. Vince Staples - Dark Times

74. Peso Pluma - Éxodo

73. Ice Spice - Y2K

72. Maggie Rose - No One Gets Out Alive

71. Sexyy Red - In Sexyy We Trust

70. Charly Bliss - Forever

69. This Is Lorelei - Box for Buddy, Box for Star

68. ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips

67. Rosie Tucker - Utopia Now!

66. ELUCID - Revelator

65. Maggie Rogers - Dont Forget Me

64. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

63. Red Clay Strays - Made By These Moments

62. Helado Negro - Phasor

61. Allegra Krieger - Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine

60. Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers

59. Omar Apollo - God Said No

58. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

57. John Cale - POPtical Illusion

56. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

55. Shaboozey - Where Ive Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going

54. Brittany Howard - What Now

53. Ayra Starr - The Year I Turned 21

52. Towa Bird - American Hero

51. RaiNao - Capicú

50. Cash Cobain - Play Cash Cobain

49. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

48. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

47. Lainey Wilson - Whirlwind

46. Latto - Sugar Honey Iced Tea

45. Illuminati Hotties - Power

44. The Marias - Submarine

43. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

42. Halsey - The Great Impersonator

41. Young Miko - Att.

40. Kaytranada - Timeless

39. Soccer Mommy - Evergreen

38. Rachel Chinouriri - What a Devastating Turn of Events

37. Tems - Born in the Wild

36. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive

35. The Smile - Wall of Eyes

34. Faye Webster - Underdressed at the Symphony

33. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2

32. Normani - Dopamine

31. Griff - Vertigo

30. Mustafa - Dunya

29. Anycia - Princess Pop That

28. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - Woodland

27. Shakira - Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran

26. Kim Gordon - The Collective

25. GloRilla - Glorious

24. Johnny Blue Skies/Sturgill Simpson - Passage Du Desir

23. Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

22. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

21. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

20. Jack White - No Name

19. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

18. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

17. Tyler, the Creator - Chromakopia

16. Álvaro Díaz - Sayonara

15. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

14. Mk. Gee - Two Star & the Dream Police

13. Clairo - Charm

12. Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene

11. Rema - Heis

10. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

9. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

8. Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine

7. Future and Metro Boomin - We Don’t Trust You

6. Tyla - Tyla

5. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft

4. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet

3. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

2. Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter

1. Charli XCX - Brat

 

 

The Independent's Best Albums of 2024

 

20. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy

19. Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

18. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

17. Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes

16. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

15. Hinds - Viva Hinds

14. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

13. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

12. Brett Anderson, Paraorchestra & Charles Hazlewood - Death Songbook

11. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER

10. The Smile - Wall of Eyes

9. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat

8. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

7. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

6. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More

5. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God

3. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

2. Charli XCX - Brat

1. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

 

 

Paste's 100 Best Albums of 2024

 

100. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She

99. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

98. Feeling Figures - Everything Around You

97. Bladee - Cold Visions

96. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud

95. Rosali - Bite Down

94. Young Jesus - The Fool

93. Empress Of - For Your Consideration

92. Hour - Ease the Work

91. Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed

90. 파란노을 [Parannoul] - Sky Hundred

89. Rosie Tucker - UTOPIA NOW!

88. claire rousay - sentiment

87. Rose Hotel - A Pawn Surrender

86. Yasmin Williams - Acadia

85. Shovel Dance Collective - The Shovel Dance

84. Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn of Events

83. Ekko Astral - pink balloons

82. NxWorries - WHY LAWD?

81. YATTA - PALM WINE

80. Brittany Howard - What Now

79. Amaro Freitas - Y'Y

78. Chris Acker - Famous Lunch

77. Tex Patrello - Minotaur

76. Clairo - Charm

75. 1010benja - Ten Total

74. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers (Original Score)

73. Mount Eerie - Night Palace

72. Still House Plants - If I don't make it, I love u

71. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

70. Tasha - All This and So Much More

69. Combat - Stay Golden

68. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

67. Cavalier - Different Type Time

66. Midwife - No Depression in Heaven

65. Kali Uchis - ORQUÍDEAS

64. Kim Gordon - The Collective

63. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

62. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes

61. Hovvdy - Hovvdy

60. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

59. Thou - Umbilical

58. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

57. Lip Critic - Hex Dealer

56. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER

55. More Eaze, Pardo & Glass - paris paris, texas texas

54. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

53. Jimmy Montague - Tomorrow's Coffee

52. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS

51. Mk. gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

50. Wishy - Triple Seven

49. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

48. Good Looks - Lived Here For a While

47. KA - The Thief Next to Jesus

46. Being Dead - EELS

45. Hannah Frances - Keeper Of The Shepherd

44. MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball

43. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More

42. Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat

41. Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild

40. MICHELLE - Songs About You Specifically

39. Willi Carlisle - Critterland

38. Allegra Krieger - Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine

37. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2

36. Hayden Pedigo - Live in Amarillo, Texas

35. Yaya Bey - Ten Fold

34. Ezra Feinberg - Soft Power

33. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino

32. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

31. Uniform - American Standard

30. Mustafa - Dunya

29. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know

28. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

27. Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt

26. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

25. This Is Lorelei - Box For Buddy, Box For Star

24. Sharp Pins - Radio DDR

23. The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis

22. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland

21. Ducks Ltd. - Harm's Way

20. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

19. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

18. Jack White - No Name

17. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes

16. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

15. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

14. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

13. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

12. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive

11. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

10. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

9. Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns

8. Vince Staples - Dark Times

7. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

6. Charli xcx - BRAT

5. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage du Desir

4. Friko - Where we've been, Where we go from here

3. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

1. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

 

 

Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2024

 

50. Jamie xx - In Waves

49. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

48. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas

47. Dorothea Paas - Think Of Mist

46. Floating Points - Cascade

45. Naima Bock - Below a Massive Dark Land

44. MIKE & Tony Seltzer - Pinball

43. Myriam Gendron - Mayday

42. A. G. Cook - Britpop

41. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To

40. Future & Metro Boomin - WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU

40. Future & Metro Boomin - WE DON'T TRUST YOU

39. Fontaines D.C. - Romance

38. Four Tet - Three

37. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD

36. BIG|BRAVE - A Chaos of Flowers

35. Kim Gordon - The Collective

34. OMBIIGIZI - Shame

33. Sumac - The Healer

32. Nap Eyes - The Neon Gate

31. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS

30. Clairo - Charm

29. Nemahsis - Verbathim

28. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

27. Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

26. Still House Plants - If I don't make it, I love u

25. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

24. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

23. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

22. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

21. Nicolette & The Nobodies - The Long Way

20. Vince Staples - Dark Times

19. Mk. gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

18. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

17. Corridor - Mimi

16. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

15. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

14. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

13. Jack White - No Name

12. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

11. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

10. Ducks Ltd. - Harm's Way

9. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

8. Bibi Club - Feu De Garde

7. Chat Pile - Cool World

6. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

5. Caribou - Honey

4. Mustafa - Dunya

3. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

2. Charli xcx - BRAT

1. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

 

 

BBC Radio 6 Music's Albums of the Year 2024

 

A. G. Cook - Britpop

Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness

Bob Vylan - Humble As The Sun

Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free

Charli XCX - Brat

Clarissa Connelly - World of Work

English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

Ezra Feinberg - Soft Power

Faux Real - Faux Ever

Fontaines D.C. - Romance

Ganavya - Daughter of a Temple

Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand

I. JORDAN - I AM JORDAN

Infinity Song - Metamorphosis Complete

Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch

Kim Gordon - The Collective

Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent

Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath

Naima Bock - Below a Massive Dark Land

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Oisin Leech - Cold Sea

Shy FX & Mr. Williamz - Rudeboy Design Soundtape

Tess Parks - Pomegranate

Thee Marloes - Perak

Violence Gratuite - Baleine à Boss

Warmdüscher - Too Cold To Hold

 

 

Loud and Quiet's Albums of the Year 2024

 

20. Tony Njoku - Last Bloom

19. Bingo Fury - Bats Feet For A Widow

18. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas

17. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

16. Moin - You Never End

15. Elias Rønnenfelt - Heavy Glory

14. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

13. Goat Girl - Below The Waste

12. Clarissa Connelly - World of Work

11. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

10. Anastasia Coope - Darning Woman

9. claire rousay - sentiment

8. JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

7. Kim Gordon - The Collective

6. Geordie Greep - The New Sound

5. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

4. Ex-Easter Island Head - Norther

3. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes

2. Charli xcx - BRAT

1. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

 

 

The New Yorker's Best Albums of 2024

 

20. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

19. Yasmin Williams - Acadia

18. Clairo - Charm

17. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

16. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

15. ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS

14. Brittany Howard - What Now

13. Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I'm Called

12. Helado Negro - PHASOR

11. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2

10. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

9. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

8. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

7. Charli xcx - BRAT

6. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER

5. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

4. Bon Iver - SABLE,

3. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

2. Mk. gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

1. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

 

 

NPR's 50 Best Albums of 2024

(it’s in chronological order)

 

Kali Uchis – ORQUÍDEAS

Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey – Compassion

Mk. gee – Two Star & The Dream Police

Madi Diaz – Weird Faith

Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive

ScHoolboy Q – Blue Lips

Experiential Orchestra – American Counterpoints

Kim Gordon – The Collective

Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood

Tyla – Tyla

Rosie Tucker – UTOPIA NOW!

Amaia Miranda – Mientras vivas brillas

Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter

Fabiana Palladino – Fabiana Palladino

Maya Beiser – Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C

Ekko Astral – pink balloons

claire rousay – sentiment

Luiza Brina – Prece

Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch

Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

Angelica Garcia – Gemelo

Kaytranada – TIMELESS

Charli xcx – brat

Tems – Born in the Wild

Gabriela Ortiz – Revolución Diamantina

Rema – HEIS

Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer

Remi Wolf – Big Ideas

JPEGMAFIA – I Lay Down My Life For You

Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Rae Khalil – CRYBABY

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland

Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet

Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal

Emily D’Angelo – Freezing

Patricia Brennan Septet – Breaking Stretch

Nala Sinephro – Endlessness

MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks

Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor

Mustafa – Dunya

Yasmin Williams – Acadia

Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere

Immanuel Wilkins – Blues Blood

BigXthaPlug – Take Care

GloRilla – GLORIOUS

Roy Hargrove’s Crisol – Grande-Terre

Latin Mafia – Todos los días todo el día

Tyler, The Creator – CHROMAKOPIA

The Cure – Songs of a Lost World

Kendrick Lamar – GNX

 

 

Uncut's 80 Best Albums of 2024

 

80. Leyla McCalla – Sun Without the Heat

79. Yasmin Williams – Acadia

78. Wadada Leo Smith – Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens

77. Kali Uchis – ORQUÍDEAS

76. Personal Trainer – Still Willing

75. Pye Corner Audio – The Endless Echo

74. Dave Alvin – TexiCali

73. Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari

72. Laurie Anderson – Amelia

71. Beachwood Sparks – Across the River of Stars

70. Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it don’t give a fuck anymore

69. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World

68. Taylor Swift – THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

67. John Canning Yates – The Quiet Portraits

66. Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us

65. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue

64. Billie Eilish – HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

63. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes

62. Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement

61. IDLES – TANGK

60. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath

59. Charli XCX – BRAT

58. Linda Thompson – Proxy Music

57. Jlin – Akoma

56. Fievel Is Glauque – Rong Weicknes

55. Nilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor

54. Kaia Kater – Strange Medicine

53. Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free

52. BASIC – This Is BASIC

51. Chuck Johnson – Sun Glories

50. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II

49. Still House Plants – If I don’t make it, I love u

48. David Gilmour – Luck and Strange

47. Sarah Davachi – The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir

46. Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow

45. Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat

44. Christopher Owens – I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

43. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore

42. Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More

41. Paul Weller – 66

40. Grandaddy – Blu Wav

39. Brown Horse – Reservoir

38. Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything

37. Shellac – To All Trains

36. Myriam Gendron – Mayday

35. Brittany Howard – What Now

34. Rosali – Bite Down

33. Willie Nelson – The Border

32. Beak> – >>>>

31. Mabe Fratti – Sentir Que No Sabes

30. Kim Gordon – The Collective

29. Oisin Leech – Cold Sea

28. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called

27. English Teacher – This Could Be Texas

26. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Loophole

25. Nala Sinephro – Endlessness

24. Phosphorescent – Revelator

23. The High Llamas – Hey Panda

22. Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God

21. John Cale – POPtical Illusion

20. Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive

19. Peter Perrett – The Cleansing

18. Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

17. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir

16. Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da

15. Jack White – No Name

14. Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice

13. Fontaines D.C. – Romance

12. Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves

11. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer

10. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood

9. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee

8. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks

7. The Smile – Wall of Eyes

6. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future

5. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch

4. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign

3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

2. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God

 

 

The Quietus' Top 100 Albums of 2024

 

79. Geordie Greep – The New Sound

78. Thou – Umbilical

77. Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver – The Blacksmiths, The Flowers

76. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of The Last Human Being

75. Helado Negro – Phasor

74. Sahra Halgan – Hiddo Dhawr

73. TOMO – Vielle​-​Electronica

72. Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God

71. Skee Mask – ISS010

70. Rosso Polare – Campo Amaro

69. Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice

68. The Dengie Hundred With Gemma Blackshaw – Who Will You Love

67. Bòsc – Bòsc

66. Caveira – Ficar Vivo

65. Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere

64. Underworld – Strawberry Hotel

63. Martha Skye Murphy – UM

62. The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World

61. Uniform – American Standard

60. MIKE & Tony Seltzer – Pinball

59. Cower – Celestial Devestation

58. Mach-Hommy – RICHAXXHAITIAN

57. BIG|BRAVE – A Chaos Of Flowers

56. Laura Cannell – The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined

55. Wendy Eisenberg – Viewfinder

54. Erika Angell – The Obsession With Her Voice

53. Persher – Sleep Well

52. DJ Anderson do Paraíso – Queridão

51. Schoolboy Q – Blue Lips

50. Kim Gordon – The Collective

49. Quatuor Bozzini - Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4

48. British Murder Boys - Active Agents & House Boys

47. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes

46. Harry Górski-Brown - Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats

45. Saagara - 3

44. Holy Tongue Meets Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy Of Now

43. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

42. Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand

41. Guðmundur Steinn Gunarsson - Stífluhringurinn

40. Mary Halvorson - Cloudward

39. Senyawa - Vajranala

38. Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle

37. Water Damage - In E

36. Chrystabell & David Lynch - Cellophane Memories

35. Wu-Lu - Learning To Swim On Empty

34. Lorenzo Abattoir - Mess (Akt IV)

33. Roc Marciano - Marciology

32. Eric Chenaux Trio - Delights Of My Life

31. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

30. Xylitol - Anemones

29. Eros - Your Truth Is A Lie

28. Elijah Minnelli - Perpetual Musket

27. Milkweed - Folklore 1979

26. Naemi - Dust Devil

25. Einstürzende Neubauten - Rampen (apm: alien pop music)

24. Róis - Mo Léan

23. William Doyle - Springs Eternal

22. Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da

21. The Body & Dis Fig - Orchards Of A Futile Heaven

20. Sealionwoman – Nothing Will Grow In The Soil

19. Gnod – Spot Land

18. Nonpareils – Rhetoric & Terror

17. Clairo – Charm

16. Tashi Wada – What Is Not Strange?

15. Charli xcx – Brat

14. Jacken Elswyth – At Fargrounds

13. Dialect – Atlas Of Green

12. Fat White Family – Forgiveness Is Yours

11. Shellac – To All Trains

10. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath

9. Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja

8. Shovel Dance Collective – The Shovel Dance

7. Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution

6. Still House Plants – If I don’t make it, I love u

5. Mohammad Syfkhan – I Am Kurdish

4. Xiu Xiu – 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips

3. Moin – You Never End

2. Tristwch y Fenywod – Tristwch y Fenywod

1. Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther

 

 

Stereogum: Best Albums of 2024

 

50. Wussy - Cincinnati Ohio

49. Mach-Hommy - RICHAXXHAITIAN

48. Willi Carlisle - Critterland

47. LL Cool J - The FORCE

46. 2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions

45. Sabrina Carpenter - Short N' Sweet

44. glass beach - plastic death

43. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

42. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir

41. Madi Diaz - Weird Faith

40. Nubya Garcia - Odyssey

39. Couch Slut - You Could Do It Tonight

38. Four Tet - Three

37. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

36. High Vis - Guided Tour

35. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes

34. Drug Church - Prude

33. Hovvdy - Hovvdy

32. Floating Points - Cascade

31. Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I'm Called

30. DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water

29. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World

28. Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL)

27. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

26. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

25. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

24. Kim Gordon - The Collective

23. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

22. Mk. gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

21. Chat Pile - Cool World

20. Erika de Casier - Still

19. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

18. Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus

17. Wild Pink - Dulling The Horns

16. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

15. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2

14. Gouge Away - Deep Sage

13. This Is Lorelei - Box For Buddy, Box For Star

12. Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia

11. Wishy - Triple Seven

10. Los Campesinos! - All Hell

9. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

8. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

7. Mount Eerie - Night Palace

6. Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch

5. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

4. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

3. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

2. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

1. Charli XCX - Brat & Brat And It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat

 

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2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

 

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The Braga cathedral is the most ancient of all cathedrals in Portugal.

 

As consequence of the importance the city of Braga had already to the Romans (known as Bracara Augusta) and all the following invading people like the Visigoths and Muslims, this cathedral was always a main worship place. Because of this it was heavily remodelled in 1093, when this region was already Christian territory again, to fit it to the pilgrimage spirit of the epoch, much by influence of the nearby Santiago de Compostela.

 

As usual, this place shows besides the Romanesque architecture of the Medieval Ages, many others which were added through times, namely in the 15th and 18th century.

 

The main façade was profoundly changed in the 15th century fitting it into the Gothic Stile, and the inside in the 18th filling it with the splendour and wealth of the Baroque. Still, the inside was much affected in the recoveries of the 1930’s and 50’s when the architects and archaeologists decided to revive the Romanic and Medieval spirit of it. Much of its wealth was taken away to bring the simplicity of the Romanesque Stile but depriving us from the wealth of the Baroque… But it still is a magnificent place to visit filled with a beautiful atmosphere.

 

Still, this place has much more to show than just the church. A museum with religious treasures, as well an absolutely incredible organ and the reunion place of the Bishops with complex carved wood decoration are a must. All this are inside the Church complex allowing us to visit at the same time the older parts of the Church and other side chapels.

Mostar (Мостар) is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after its Old Bridge (Stari most) and the towers on its sides, "the bridge keepers" (natively: mostari).Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia following Referendum held in February 1992. The Yugoslav National Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija - JNA) first bombarded City of Mostar on April 3rd, 1992 and over the following weeks, gradually established control over large portions of the City. The siege lasted for three months.The Yugoslav National Army (JNA) shelling forced tens of thousands from their homes, and resulted in the deaths of approximately 1,600 people. Amongst the destroyed historic monuments were the Karadžoz-bey mosque, Roznamed-ij-Ibrahim-efendija mosque and twelve other mosques, a Franciscan monastery, the Catholic cathedral and the bishop's palace, with a library of 50,000 books, as well as secular institutions.By June 12th 1992, the ABIH (4th Corps of Army of Bosnia Herzegovina) and HVO (Croatian Military Council supported by HOS - Hrvatske Obrambene Snage/Croatian Defence Forces) amassed enough weaponry and manpower to force the JNA troops out of Mostar.

Saborna Crkva (Orthodox Cathedral Church) largest and most beautiful Orthodox Church in Bosnia Herzegovina, built between 1863-1873, was destroyed on the night of June, 15, 1992. After the Yugoslav National Army were driven out by the Bosnian-Croat forces, the Croatian army (HVO) clashed with Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH). The campaign reduced the city to rubble - including the famous 400-year-old Stari Most Old Bridge, and resulted in the division of the city of Mostar into West Mostar (administered by Croats) and East Mostar (adminsitered by Bosniaks).

Photo by Syanne Walker as part of what we want! , a project of Futureversity Tower Hamlets

The consequences of the pogrom Barbara Oberrauch, Magdalena Plainer

Already in the 1930s, Tyrolean Jews had emigrated due to rising anti-Semitism, most of all to Palestine or to the USA. The Pogrom Night meant a turning point in the history of the Jewish Community in Tyrol and severely shook the already very small Jewish community in Innsbruck, the Jewish community largely dissolved. The board members were no longer alive, the rabbi went to Vienna, the interior of the synagogue was destroyed.

The marginalization of the Jewish population by exclusion from public life and deprivation of their livelihood has now been significantly tightened.

As a result of the terrible events many Jews drew the consequences. An incomplete list of the Federal Police Directorate Innsbruck shows that only 26 Jews from Innsbruck left Tyrol in November or December 1938 or, as it was official, came to Vienna to deregister. By the end of 1938, 22 Polish and stateless Jews had been deported. On 19 November, the Gestapo ordered the emigration and shortly thereafter has a ban of staying disposed. The surviving Tyrolean Jews were given the ultimatum to leave their homes by 15 March 1939 at the latest.

Gauleiter Hofer came very close to his goal of making Tyrol free of Jews. He managed to expel the local Jewish population and send them to Vienna, from where they were deported to the ghettos and death camps. However, occasionally Jewish refugees from Eastern Austria, Germany and Eastern Europe came to Tyrol to find refuge there.

 

Accompanied by the State Department JUFF Youth Office. Built from the land Tyrol

 

Designed by Mario Jörg Scholz - design competition "not to forget". Made by the HTL Fulpmes.

 

Initiated by the Parliament of the Youth of a chance for political participation for Tyrolean youth

 

For not to forget that prejudice, hatred, and carelessness can lead to a cruel spiral of violence, this memorial was erected in 1997.

 

Begleitet von der Landesabteilung JUFF Jugendreferat. Errichtet vom Land Tirol

 

Entworfen von Mario Jörg Scholz - Gestaltungswettbewerb "um nicht zu vergessen". Gefertigt durch die HTL Fulpmes.

 

Initiiert vom Landtag der Jugend einer Chance zur politische Mitsprache für Tiroler Jugendliche

 

Um nicht zu vergessen, dass Vorurteile, Hass und Unbesonnenheit zu einer grausamen Spirale der Gewalt führen können, wurde dieses Mahnmal 1997 errichtet.

 

...um nicht zu verschweigen, dass in der Nacht vom 9. zum 10. November 1938, "Reichskristallnacht" - Novemberpogrom, jüdische Mitbürger in Innsbruck ermordert wurden und ihnen viele Kinder, Frauen und Männer in den Tod folgen mussten...

 

Die Folgen des Pogroms Barbara Oberrauch, Magdalena Plainer

Bereits in den 1930er Jahren waren Tiroler Juden und Jüdinnen aufgrund des steigenden Antisemitismus ausgewandert, v.a. nach Palästina oder in die USA. Die Pogromnacht bedeutete einen Wendepunkt in der Geschichte der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde in Tirol und erschütterte die ohnehin sehr kleine jüdische Gemeinde in Innsbruck schwer, die Kultusgemeinde löste sich weitgehend auf. Die Vorstandsmitglieder waren nicht mehr am Leben, der Rabbi ging nach Wien, das Innere der Synagoge war zerstört.

Die Ausgrenzung der jüdischen Bevölkerung durch Ausschluss aus dem öffentlichen Leben und Entziehung ihrer Existenzgrundlage wurde nun wesentlich verschärft.

Infolge der entsetzlichen Geschehnisse zogen viele Juden und Jüdinnen die Konsequenzen. Aus einer nicht vollständigen Liste der Bundespolizeidirektion Innsbruck geht hervor, dass allein 26 Juden aus Innsbruck noch im November oder Dezember 1938 Tirol verließen oder, wie es amtlich hieß, nach Wien zur Abmeldung gelangten. Bis Jahresende 1938 wurden auch 22 polnische und staatenlose Juden abgeschoben. Am 19. November hatte die Gestapo die Auswanderung angeordnet und kurz darauf ein Aufenthaltsverbot verfügt. Den noch verbliebenen Tiroler Juden und Jüdinnen stellten die NS-Behröden das Ultimatum, bis spätestens 15. März 1939 ihre Heimat zu verlassen.

Seinem Ziel, Tirol judenfrei zu machen, kam Gauleiter Hofer sehr nahe. Es gelang ihm, die heimische jüdische Bevölkerung zu vertreiben und nach Wien zu verschicken, von wo aus sie in die Ghettos und Todeslager deportiert wurden. Allerdings gelangten immer wieder vereinzelt jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Ostösterreich, Deutschland und Osteuropa nach Tirol, um dort Unterschlupf zu finden.

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Conséquences d'une pratique d'étudiants pompiers /

Consequences of a practice by firefighters students

 

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The debate over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should focus on one goal: don’t harm people. But repealing the ACA without a replacement has consequences that will hurt people across the U.S., as we describe in our new report, "GOP's Waterloo? 10 Consequences of Repealing the ACA" available here: bit.ly/2j0m92J

Above is a screenshot of part of the first page of a report about 639 High Road, Tottenham. It was written for a meeting of Haringey's "cabinet" councillors on 7 February 2012 .

 

The report was originally in electronic format - probably in a Microsoft Office file such as MSWord. But like many such reports for the "cabinet", Haringey staff were told to print it out on paper. It was then signed by a senior officer. Later, other staff scanned the signed version to produce a graphic file - in PDF format - for posting on the Council's website.

 

Yes, you read that right. A three-stage process which meant that the public get an image of a paper copy of the original digital file..

 

What's wrong with doing it this way?

 

There are several obvious disadvantages. It's a waste of money; of paper and ink; and a waste of staff time as it generates unnecessary extra work. During deep Government funding cuts to local councils and a shrinking workforce, it is stupid nonsense.

 

But the downside is even worse.

 

Printing out a text file and then scanning it as a graphic gives a hugely bloated electronic file where everything on each page is described in terms of dots. This takes longer to download and uses more space for storage on disk.

 

Most important, like the report fragment I've posted above, with a graphic file, the text cannot be easily searched, retrieved or indexed. At least, not without using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Not everybody has OCR software; it's not always 100% accurate; and the process takes more time.

 

Hopefully as an unintended consequence - and not deliberate pigheaded obstruction - this creates another barrier for any Haringey resident trying to discover what "our" local Council is up to. In other words, it reduces transparency and accountability .

 

It wasn't only Haringey's Environment Department which followed this obsolete procedure. I was told that all Directorates were required to do the same.

Mary Owens (1808-1877)

 

Mary Owens was born to a prosperous planter, Nathaniel Owens, on his Little Brush Creek plantation in Green County, Kentucky, on September 29, 1808.

 

Mary and Abraham met for the first time in 1833, while she was visiting her sister Betsey Abell in New Salem, Illinois. After Mary returned home to Kentucky, Lincoln was quoted as stating that he “would marry Miss Owens if she came a second time to Illinois.”

 

He realized the consequences of his rash statement when Mary came to New Salem and considered herself engaged. Lincoln immediately regretted his promise, and his papers record his objections to the woman’s appearance, weight, and temperament.

 

Too honorable to simply break the engagement, Lincoln wrote three letters to Mary during their engagement, painting a bleak image of their future and subtly suggesting that she could do better.

 

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May 7, 1837

Friend Mary

 

. . . I am often thinking about what we said of your coming to live at Springfield. I am afraid you would not be satisfied. There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here; which it would be your doom to see without sharing in it. You would have to be poor without the means of hiding your poverty. Do you believe you could bear that patiently? Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine, that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should be much happier with you than the way I am, provided I saw no signs of discontent in you. What you have said to me may have been in jest, or I may have misunderstood it. If so, then let it be forgotten; if otherwise, I much wish you would think seriously before you decide. For my part I have already decided. What I have said I will most positively abide by, provided you wish it. My opinion is that you had better not do it. You have not been accustomed to hardship, and it may be more severe than you now imagine.

 

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In a later letter to friends, in which he recounted the story of the “scrape” with humor, Lincoln said some quite unkind things about Owens’ physique.

 

"When I beheld her, I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother; and this, not from withered features, for her skin was too full of fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles, but from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in less than thirty-five or forty years ; and, in short, I was not at all pleased with her. . . . Exclusive of this, no woman that I have ever seen has a finer face. I also tried to

convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person ; and in this she was not inferior, as I could discover, to any with whom I had been acquainted."

 

He also reserved a fair share of criticism for himself for having so thoroughly misunderstood the situation. “Others have been made fools of by the girls,” he wrote, “but this can never with truth be said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself.”

 

"Although I was fixed, "firm as the surge- repelling rock," in my resolution, I found I was continually repenting the rashness which had led me to make it. Through life, I have been in no bondage, either real or imaginary, from the thralldom of which I so much desired to be free.

 

. . . After I had delayed the matter as long as I thought I could in honor do (which, by the

way, had brought me round into the last fall), I concluded I might as well bring it to a consummation without further delay ; and so I mustered my resolution, and made the proposal to her direct ; but, shocking to relate, she answered. No.

 

At first I supposed she did it through an affectation of modesty, which I thought but ill became her under the peculiar circumstances of her case ; but on my renewal of the charge, I found she repelled it with greater firmness than before. I tried it again and again, but with the same success, or rather with the same want of success.

 

I finally was forced to give it up ; at which I very unexpectedly found myself mortified almost beyond endurance. I was mortified, it seemed to me, in a hundred different ways. My vanity was deeply wounded by the reflection that I had been too stupid to discover her intentions, and at the same time never doubting that I understood them perfectly; and also that

she, whom I had taught myself to believe nobody else would have, had actually rejected me with all my fancied greatness.

 

And, to cap the whole, I then for the first time began to suspect that I was really a little in love with her. But let it all go. I'll try and outlive it. Others have been made fools of by

the girls; but this can never with truth be said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself.

 

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason : I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me."

 

Mary Owens returned to Kentucky, married her brother-in-law, Jesse Vineyard about 1842 and had five children in Missouri. Only two children lived to adulthood. Her sons joined the Confederate army. Jesse Vineyard was killed in the Civil War

 

Mary Owens Vineyard later admitted to William Herndon: "I think I did on one occasion say to my sister, who was very anxious for us to be married, that I thought Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the great chain of womans happiness."14 She cited as evidence a horseback ride to "Uncle Billy Greens, Mr. L. was riding with me, and we had a very bad branch to cross, the other gentlemen were very officious in seeing that their partners got over safely; we were behind, he riding in never looking back to see how I got along; when I rode up beside him, I remarked, you are a nice fellow; I suppose you did not care whether my neck was broken or not. He laughingly replied, (I suppose by way of compliment) that he knew I was plenty smart to take care of myself."

 

She herself tried to "bend" Mr. Lincoln to test his "love," according to her cousin Johnson Gaines Greene. One day, when she learned from a messenger boy that Mr Lincoln was coming to the Abell's farm to see her, Mary deliberately went instead to Mentor Graham's house.

Now every day is washing day.

 

Roll on spring, this is the first day this year that I've actually been able to dry things on the washing line. The vernal equinox approaches...

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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host, Stephanie Piche were at the 5th Annual TorC Film Fiesta.

 

This year’s TorC Film Fiesta was held from October 22-24, 2021 in Truth or Consequences New Mexico and screened winning feature and short films from the Santa Fe Film Festival and some local films in addition to “Walking with Herb’ a truly New Mexican film from the author of the book to the filmmaker.

 

The festival also had Anthony Michael Hall, who is a star in the new “Halloween Kills” movie along with a rich history of film and TV work. Three of the films that AMH made with John Hughes, “Weird Science,” “16 Candles,” and “The Breakfast Club” were screened on the opening night of the festival with AMH available for photos, signed merch and a Q&A held after the final film was shown to a grateful audience of fans.

 

Screenings of films "Walking with Herb," "The Kennedy incident," "Earl biss Doc," Steven Maes "Caffeine & gasoline," Jerry Angelo "Artik," Hafid abdelmoula "Broken GAite," Ruben Pla "The Horror Crowd," Jordyn Aquino "Can't have it both ways," Jordan Livingston "DeLorean: Living the dream," Jeanette Dilone "Rizo," & Two 'Best Of' Shorts screenings

 

In addition to the screenings, the El Cortex Theatre, was enjoying a grand re-opening after being shuttered for years and the town was thrilled to see the progress of the updates being done for this event.

 

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Filmmakers were also honored with a filmmaker brunch, a panel by esteemed entertainment lawyer, Harris Tulchan, at Ingo’s Cafe, after parties at the Point Blanc Winery and Glam Camp which also had a fire dancer perform in addition to everyone letting loose and singing Karaoke songs throughout the night.

 

There was a filmmakers brunch at the Center Gallery and a filmmakers lounge with specialty cocktails during the festival.

 

In addition to honoring filmmakers, it was a joy to hear that they were excited to see their films on the big screen.

 

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Menlo School employs CHP's Every 15 Minutes program to discourage students from drinking and driving. The program simulates a deadly crash and its consequences. Photo by Pete Zivkov.

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Consequences of being famous...

 

A marionette of Tina Turner on the square in Cracow.

First live performance of the Consequences single, by the Consequences Supergroup

Living a Life of Consequence: Vancouver, Canada

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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host, Stephanie Piche were at the 5th Annual TorC Film Fiesta.

 

This year’s TorC Film Fiesta was held from October 22-24, 2021 in Truth or Consequences New Mexico and screened winning feature and short films from the Santa Fe Film Festival and some local films in addition to “Walking with Herb’ a truly New Mexican film from the author of the book to the filmmaker.

 

The festival also had Anthony Michael Hall, who is a star in the new “Halloween Kills” movie along with a rich history of film and TV work. Three of the films that AMH made with John Hughes, “Weird Science,” “16 Candles,” and “The Breakfast Club” were screened on the opening night of the festival with AMH available for photos, signed merch and a Q&A held after the final film was shown to a grateful audience of fans.

 

Screenings of films "Walking with Herb," "The Kennedy incident," "Earl biss Doc," Steven Maes "Caffeine & gasoline," Jerry Angelo "Artik," Hafid abdelmoula "Broken GAite," Ruben Pla "The Horror Crowd," Jordyn Aquino "Can't have it both ways," Jordan Livingston "DeLorean: Living the dream," Jeanette Dilone "Rizo," & Two 'Best Of' Shorts screenings

 

In addition to the screenings, the El Cortex Theatre, was enjoying a grand re-opening after being shuttered for years and the town was thrilled to see the progress of the updates being done for this event.

 

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Filmmakers were also honored with a filmmaker brunch, a panel by esteemed entertainment lawyer, Harris Tulchan, at Ingo’s Cafe, after parties at the Point Blanc Winery and Glam Camp which also had a fire dancer perform in addition to everyone letting loose and singing Karaoke songs throughout the night.

 

There was a filmmakers brunch at the Center Gallery and a filmmakers lounge with specialty cocktails during the festival.

 

In addition to honoring filmmakers, it was a joy to hear that they were excited to see their films on the big screen.

 

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That’s what it’s about, making stories come alive and enjoying them in the dark with strangers…

One consequence of having tried to avoid well known photographic locations is that - paradoxically - one's own offerings can become a bit repetitive when assembling a collection like this if, like me, you relied on favourite local haunts. So, that's my excuse for showing my interpretation of a well known view for the Edinburgh to Fort William Sleeper Train in 2006. The area around Achallader has scenery as stunning as any to be found in in Scotland - as worthy a backdrop as any for a Class 37!

Il fait froid en ce moment.. Ce soir c'est donc auto portrait en conséquence !

 

It's cold right now.. So tonight is a self portrait as a result !

 

My shot :

 

Location : Grenoble

Time & Date : Wednesday 18 of January

Camera : Nikon D300s

Lens : AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 G

Exif : ƒ/11 | ISO 100 | 1/200s |

Flash/Strobist info : Black background; Cactus KF36 at the left and above into a 60*60 softbox at 1/4 power; SB-900 at the right and above through a white umbrella at 1/32 power and 35mm for the rim light; triggered by cactus trigger V5

Tripod : Manfrotto 190XPRO + head 804RC2

Filter(s) :

 

Postraitement : aperture / photoshop CS5 + Color EFex Pro : pro and tonal contrast, levels, desaturation and work of the skin and saturation of brown tones

 

Toutes vos critiques, commentaires et fav sont les bienvenus !

All criticisms, comments, and fav are welcome !

 

Si vous souhaitez utiliser une de mes photos merci de me contacter.

If you plan to use one of my picture, thanks to contact me before.

 

Merci / Thanks

 

My facebook : Thibault Bevilacqua Photography

 

I was really amazed to see how hot the Mercedes heat exchanger was

getting from my trip today. At one point while driving around

Albuquerque I measured this temperature of 171.5. This is just before

the heated filter which ties into the cars injection pump.

Creative fun, whatever...

The nature and pace of climate changes being observed today and the consequences projected by consensus scientific opinion are serious and pose severe risks for our national security. The CNA Military Advisory Board (MAB), a group of more than a dozen admirals and generals from all four branches of the U.S. military, first published a report on these threats in 2007. After nearly a decade of advances in scientific understanding and slow, or in many cases non-existent, reactions to projected changes, the MAB felt compelled to provide an update.

 

A strong call for action has been issued with the newly released 5th IPCC report, which illustrates the high environmental and security risks imposed by climate change. This call for action extends to the role of demographers in anticipating how climate change will interact with demographic factors such as population growth, women’s empowerment, age-structure, migration, and urbanization. At the same time, it’s important to address the population, environment, and security implications of extreme weather events and climate variability. Join us in a discussion with leading researchers to identify the critical questions and gaps in understanding what needs to be addressed, and how a population perspective can contribute to the development of effective adaptation strategies in Africa.

 

More: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/strengthening-the-field-the-ro...

Right now there is a Golden Orb in my back yard I call “My Friend”. She is really large and I have been getting my face very close taking these photos with the Canon S3 IS. I am happy with the results. This spider is more than 8 inches across (around 215 mm) counting its legs. Some information about this weaver spider:-

 

Golden-Orb Spider (Nephila pilipes)

 

The family of Orb-Weaver Spiders is unusual in showing a marked size difference between the two sexes. The bodies of the males are only 6mm long but the females are giants, with bodies up to 60mm long and leg-spans reaching 200mm or more. The female can be 600 times bigger than the male. Populations living further from the equator tend to be smaller, possibly because of the shorter growing season.

 

The females build large webs, in open areas often high in forests. The web is a vertical oval made up of a golden spiral bridged by colourless radiating threads; the oval is suspended by colourless threads from the surrounding vegetation (or structures) which may be meters away.

 

These spiders eat flies, beetles, butterflies and other flying insects that become ensnared in their webs. Leftovers of meals, such as the exoskeletons (skins) of insects are left hanging in the web (and are visible in the photograph).

 

E.J. Banfield, a naturalist who lived on Dunk Island in Queensland, wrote in 1918 about indigenous people using these webs for fishing. “The end of a stick was twisted in the web to attach the web to it, then the stick was waved about to spin the web into a single line about a metre long. The spider was squashed onto the end of the line and trailed in the water. Fish that attacked the bait became attached by their mouths and were taken. The breaking strain of the line was estimated at about 0.3kg but this was of no real consequence because the fish that were being caught were only about 4cm long. However, the method was successful enough to yield 17 fish in 10 minutes of observation.”

 

Spider silk is highly elastic and very strong for its weight. Different types of silk are exuded from different glands in the abdomen. In the web of the Golden-Orb Spider, the golden spiral is sticky but other threads are not. Silk is exuded as a liquid but quickly solidifies, remaining highly elastic and very strong for its weight. Because of these unique properties, many laboratories are working on production of this silk by genetic engineering.

 

Reproduction in the Orb-Weaver Spiders is not a straightforward affair. The web is occupied by a single female and several hopeful males. Although it might not be true of Nephila pilipes, in the related species, Nephila plumipes, 60% of males are eaten during or after sex! It appears that the larger males are more likely to be eaten, which probably explains their small size. However, males that have been eaten generally have copulated for longer, so that more of their sperm fertilize eggs. These males leave more offspring, passing on more genes into the next generation and contributing to their biological success.

 

In Nephila fenestrata, some males copulate with females that are preoccupied with feeding. These males are even more successful because they have long copulations while the female is eating, thereby transferring more sperm. Not only this, but they survive the event to defend the female from fertilization by other males as well as having the opportunity to mate again!

 

The female digs a pit in the ground into which she deposits the fluffy yellow egg sac and covers it with soil and leaves. After hatching, the spiderlings quickly make their way up trees and other structures.

 

This species was first described by the Danish entomologist, Johan Fabricius, in 1793. A pupil of Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who devised the basis of modern biological classification, Fabricius went on to become a professor at the University of Kiel (which was in Denmark at that time), publishing several important works on insects.

 

The Golden-Orb Spider is found in the northern parts of Australia as well as in South-East Asia and in the Papua-New Guinea region.

the little town that time has passed by.....

November 18, 2010 - "Roles for Third Parties in Improving Implementation of EPA's and OSHA's Regulations on the Management of Low-Probability, High-Consequence Process Safety Risks" - Penn Program on Regulation, in conjunction with the Wharton Risk Management Center, hosted a conference regarding the usage of third party auditors in the enforcement of regulatory safety measures in high risk industries. Industries which experts call "Low-Probability, High-Consequence," such as nuclear reactors, oil refineries, or chemical processing plants, are specifically hoped to be improved by third party inspections safety. The conference brought together numerous participants from a variety of fields, including from government, industry, insurance, academia, and non-profit sectors. The conference consisted of a day-long discussion spread over three separate panels. Over the course of the conference, participants stressed the importance of implementing a third party system to effectively and thoroughly audit industry despite lack of adequate funds and resources. Other potential scenarios offered for enacting effective third party auditing included making sure that these third party auditors were completely independent from the industries they would be inspecting so as to eliminate bias or a conflict of interest. Another issue to consider is the question of whose authority would the third party auditors be under and what kind of enforcement power would they have to enforce industry change. One of the panel discussions brought up the potential linkage of third party audits with insurance companies so as to provide an incentive for industry to decrease safety risks in order to pay lower insurance premiums. Workshop participants included Isadore "Irv" Rosenthal, a Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Howard Kunreuther, James G. Dinan Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton and Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Center; Laurie Miller, Senior Director of Environment and Process Safety at the American Chemistry Council; Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Managing Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Scott Berger, Executive Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Don Nguyen, a Principal Process Safety Management Engineer at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Marshall, Process Safety Management Coordinator at the Directorate of Enforcement Programs at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) within the United States Department of Labor; Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation; Bob Whitmore, Former Chief of OSHA Division of Recordkeeping at the United States Department of Labor; Jim Belke, Chemical Engineer at the Office of Emergency Prevention and Member of the Office of Chemical Preparedness within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); William Doerr, FM Global Research Area Director; Manuel Gomez, Director of Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board; Tim Cillessen, Manager of Sales and Marketing at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Wright, Director of Health, Safety, and Environment at United Steelworkers; Jennifer Nash, Affiliated Researcher of Nanotechnology and Society Research Group at Northeastern University and the Associate Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Executive Director of Regulatory Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Michael Perron, Senior Vice President of Willis Re New York.

"The papacy inspires the same sentiment like the Roman goddess, Queen of Heaven, and leads its followers to consider Eve's sin in the same way as paganism did. as paganism. In the canon of the Mass, the most solemn service in the Roman

missal, we find the following expression in the apostrophe to the fault of our first parents:

 

"O beata culpa,quas talem meruisti Redemptorem!"

O blessed fault, which has provided us with such a Redeemer. -

 

The idea contained in these words is entirely pagan. Here's what they boil down to: "Thanks be to Eve, whose fault whose fault has obtained for us the glorious Savior." -

  

The idea of a primordial tradition emerged in Germany in the early 19th century as a consequence of the discovery of the great Eastern sacred texts: it enabled the universal claims of the biblical narrative to be transposed by assigning it a common ancestor with India, Persia and China. In fact, his approach remained marked by his Catholic training and the notion of apostolic tradition based on the two sources of truth: the Scriptures and transmission through the chain of the priesthood."This is the great connection between the physical and the and the spiritual, the earthly and the supersensible, which he wanted to present, as well as the way, which the

the path that man must take through his developing cognitive abilities the path that man must take through his developing cognitive abilities if he wants to ascend from the earthly to the spiritual. to the spiritual. This is a question that man must always ask himself. Schiller had presented this problem in his own witty way in the "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man".

This treatise, only little known and studied, is a

treasure trove for the one who sets out to solve this riddle. Goethe was inspired by it to express himself on the same question and he did so in the fairy tale "Green Snake and the beautiful Lily", which he later added to the "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten" (conversations of German emigrants). The fairy tale "Green Snake and the beautiful lily" shows the development of the human soul to ever higher insight,

All human soul forces can develop, not only the human thinking faculty. All soul forces, also feeling and willing, can penetrate into the objective secrets of the world. But they must learn to

must learn to switch off.

 

anthroposophie.byu.edu/vortraege/053_16.pdf

 

"In itself, the reality which we now call 'Christian religion' existed even among the ancients, and was present from the beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh; and it is in consequence of this coming, that the true religion existing from all time, began to be called Christian."

- Saint Augustine, Retractaciones, I, XII, 3

 

"My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks, and a temple for idols, and the Kaabah of the pilgrim, and the table of the Thorah and the book of the Qorân. I am the religion of Love, whatever road its camels take; my religion and my faith are the true religion."

Ibn Arabi (Tarjumân al-Ashwâq)

 

"As far as religions are concerned, only transcendent unity, achieved from above, is valid: the unity that results from the recognition of the One Tradition beyond its various particular and historical forms, the recognition of the constant metaphysical contents that present themselves in various guises - like so many translations into several "languages" - in the world's multiple religions and sacred traditions. The prerequisite, then, is an "esoteric" understanding of what manifests itself in the confusing and sometimes contradictory variety of religions and traditions. Encounter, therefore, can only take place at the top, at the level of elites capable of grasping the inner, transcendent dimension of the various traditions; then unity would automatically follow, and "dialogues" could take place without disturbing the limits proper to each tradition at the level of "base" and external doctrine. But there is nothing of the kind in the recent reformist initiatives that have given rise to "ecumenical euphoria". It's essentially a matter of simple tolerance that more or less renounces dogma."

Julius Evola (1898-1974)

 

For René Guénon, religious practice in general concerns only the exoteric, essentially social and moral, aspect of the Primordial Tradition. His knowledge is therefore intended to go beyond the religious point of view, without denying it, but assuming it in its entirety19. Epistemologically speaking, for traditionalists, metaphysical knowledge is not simply a matter of reason, but of intellectual intuition, which is supra-rational20. Knowledge of this hidden truth is therefore aimed at "metaphysical realization" through traditional initiatory rites that are distinct from mere religious rites and inaccessible to the majority. Christianity is, however, an exception for Frithjof Schuon and Jean Borella, for whom Christian sacraments are indeed initiatory. Be that as it may, the Traditional Method is in many respects a "method which is the opposite of a method, since it maintains the secrets, the trials". Beyond his rejection of modernity, Guénon rejected the autonomy and primacy of reason, in contradiction to the entire evolution of Western thought since the end of the Middle Ages, in favor of a purely spiritual "intellectual intuition". Such an approach led him to view the entire cosmos as an illusion destined to dissolve into divine unity at the end of time. These choices gave rise to two complementary features essential to the development of his system: 1) the existence of an original revealed datum, which the work of reason had first commented on and then distorted, and which he called "primordial Tradition", long predating Judeo-Christianity; a tradition handed down from master to disciple since the dawn of time; 2) the central role attributed to the forces of evil, the only "motor of history" driving the world into a slow, ineluctable "descent".

 

The concept of "intellectual intuition" is rather difficult to grasp. Guénon also rejects mysticism. Does this "intellectual intuition" correspond to the spirit of the classical body-soul-spirit triptych (with reason referring to the body and mysticism to the soul)? Things change when we consider, beyond the method of approach, the nature of knowledge: what Guénon calls pure intellectual intuition is immediate access to "Deity", to use Master Eckhardt's language, beyond the revealed God. It refers to that identification with God himself which led the Sufi master al-Hallaj to martyrdom, and to what other great spiritualists, recognized by Guénon himself as esoteric, have called mysticism.

 

www.cairn.info/revue-la-chaine-d-union-2007-1-page-18.htm

 

The Two Babylons, subtitled Romanism and its Origins, is a book that started out as a religious pamphlet published in 1853 by the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland theologian Alexander Hislop (1807–65). Its central theme is the argument that the Catholic Church is the Babylon of the Apocalypse which is described in the Bible.[1] The book delves into the symbolism of the image which is described in the Book of Revelation – the woman with the golden cup – and it also attempts to prove that many of the fundamental practices of the Church of Rome, and its Modus Operandi in general, stem from non-scriptural precedents. It analyzes modern Catholic holidays, including Christmas and Easter, and attempts to trace their roots back to pagan festivals. It also attempts to show that many other accepted doctrines (such as Jesus' crucifixion on a Cross) may not be correct. Hislop provides a detailed comparison of the ancient religion which was established in Babylon (allegedly by the Biblical king Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis) by drawing on a variety of historical and religious sources, in order to show that the modern Papacy and the Catholic Church are the same system as the Babylon that was mentioned by the apostle Paul in the first century (when he commented on the iniquity that was already creeping into the 1st century Christian church and the author of Revelation. Most modern scholars have rejected the book's arguments as erroneous and based on a flawed understanding of the Babylonian religion, but variations of them are accepted among some groups of Christian religious evangelical Protestants. The book was expanded in 1858, going through many editions. A 3rd edition was published in 1862, a 7th in 1871, (thus, a mere six years after the author's death, four successive posthumous editions had already appeared), and a popular edition in 1903.

 

Description

Hislop builds on the Panbabylonian school of Hyperdiffusionism, which was common in the 19th century, to argue that Classical and Ancient Near Eastern civilization took its inspiration from Babylon. From this he derives the argument that the mystery religions of Late Antiquity were actually offshoots of one ancient religion founded at the Tower of Babel. Panbabylonism has since been relegated to pseudohistory by 20th-century scholars. Much of Hislop's work centers on his association of the legendary Ninus and his semi-historical wife Semiramis with the Biblical Nimrod as her husband and her son, with their incestuous male offspring being Tammuz. Hellenistic histories of the Ancient Near East tended to conflate their faint recollections of the deeds of ancient kings into legendary figures who exerted far more power than any ancient king ever did. In Assyria, they invented an eponymous founder of Nineveh named Ninus, who supposedly ruled 52 years over an empire comparable to the Persian Empire at its greatest extent. Ninus' wife Semiramis was in turn a corruption of the historical figure Shammuramat, regent of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 811 BC.[10] Hislop takes Ninus as a historical figure and associates him with the Biblical figure Nimrod, though he was not the first to do so. The Clementine literature made the association in the 4th Century AD. An influential belief throughout the Middle Ages was that Ninus was the inventor of idolatry,[11] a concept that Hislop clearly drew upon. However, Hislop wrote before the historical records of the ancient near east had been thoroughly decoded and studied, that cast doubt in the decades after he wrote whether there was any such figure as Ninus, and the Greek authors whom he quoted lacked credibility on the subject. The Two Babylons heavily relies on Austen Henry Layard's publications of his excavations at Nineveh, which had only been just discovered in 1851. This gave his work an appearance of being well-researched at the time of its publication. For example, Hislop linked the name of Easter with Astarte, the Phoenician fertility goddess by citing Layard's recent discovery of Astarte's Assyrian name, Ishtar, which Hislop took to be "identical" to Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar.

Relief of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, whose name Hislop incorrectly claimed to be the root behind the English word Easter

Hislop's claim that Easter is derived from Ishtar is rejected by historical linguists and is an example of folk etymology. Philologists derive the word Easter from Old English Ēostre, the name of a West Germanic goddess. Ēostre derives from the Proto-Germanic goddess name *austrōn-, whose name in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European deity and personified dawn *h₂ewsṓs (from the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning 'to shine' and thus 'dawn, east'). Other dawn goddesses who developed from *h₂ewsṓs include Latin Aurora, Ancient Greek Eos, and Vedic Sanskrit Ushas.[14][15][16] Ishtar, however, is unrelated. Ishtar is a Semitic name of uncertain etymology, possibly taken from the same root as Assyria, or from a semitic word meaning "to irrigate". Hislop ultimately claimed to trace Catholic doctrines back to the worship of Nimrod, asserting that the Catholic Church represented Whore of Babylon of the Book of Revelation and that "the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar." He claimed that the Christogram IHS, the first three Greek letters in the name of Jesus, represented Latin characters standing for Isis, Horus and Seb.

 

Analysis

In the note by the editor of the 7th edition, which was published in 1871, it was claimed, "that no one, so far as we are aware, has ventured to challenge the accuracy of the historical proofs adduced in support of the startling announcement on the title page." Since then, however, there have been many who have challenged the accuracy of Hislop's claims. For example, Lester L. Grabbe has highlighted the fact that Hislop's entire argument, particularly his association of Ninus with Nimrod, is based on a misunderstanding of historical Babylon and its religion.[4] Grabbe also criticizes Hislop for portraying the mythological queen Semiramis as Nimrod's consort, despite the fact that she is never even mentioned in a single text associated with him, and for portraying her as the "mother of harlots",[4] even though this is not how she is depicted in any of the texts where she is mentioned. In 2011, a critical edition was published. Although Hislop's work is extensively footnoted, some commentators (in particular Ralph Woodrow) have made the assertion that the document contains numerous misconceptions, fabrications, logical fallacies, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and grave factual errors.

 

Influence

Some fundamentalist Protestants still regard Hislop's book as proof that the Roman Catholic Church is, in fact, the continuation of the ancient Babylonian religion. In 1921 A. W. Pink confidently asserted that Hislop's work had "proven conclusively that all the idolatrous systems of the nations had their origin in what was founded by that mighty Rebel, the beginning of whose kingdom was Babel."[20] Jehovah's Witnesses' periodical The Watchtower frequently published excerpts from it until the 1980s.[21][better source needed] The book's thesis has also featured prominently in the conspiracy theories of racist groups such as The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord and other fringe groups. Anti-Catholic Evangelical publisher Jack Chick endorsed the book, and his store still offers it. non-primary source needed] A number of Seventh-day Adventists still use The Two Babylons as source material. An example is the somewhat controversial Walter Veith, who still use the conclusions from Hislop's book to support his articles published at the website "Amazing Discoveries". Adventist magazine Spectrum, however, dismisses Veith as a conspiracy theorist. As well, various viral image posts have appeared on the internet, usually in neopagan or atheist spaces, citing Hislop's theory of Easter being etymologically derived from Ishtar, as well as adding in more misleading pieces such as claiming Ishtar's symbols were the "bunny" and the "egg". This view has been echoed by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, who has since redacted the claim.[

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Babylons

 

This book has been reissued many times. Its first publication was in 1916. The edition I read was printed in 1965. The title has one of those old lengthy subtitles underneath it: “Or, the Papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife.” I guess the subtitle about sums it up. The author carefully examines the various elements of Roman Catholicism and concludes in each case that it has its foundation in the ancient religion and practices of old Babylon as opposed to New Testament Christianity. The topics covered include: mitres, robes, candles, rosaries, statues, crosses, fishes, festivals, doctrines, developments and much more. It is pretty comprehensive, at least up until the date when it was written. The book will also go some way to explaining the origins of ‘the gods’ showing that they were founded upon the patriarchs and their deeds. The style of this book is more suited to academics and particularly those who are familiar with classical mythology. Neither of which describes myself and I would have to admit that much of the finer detail went over my head. The book can be made easier to comprehend and considerably shortened by not reading the frequent and lengthy footnotes. Why am I recommending this book? Well, quite simply the subject matter in hand is of such vital importance to God’s children. Many through woeful ignorance have been seduced into thinking that Catholicism is somehow ‘Christian’. This book is something of a standard work when it comes to exposing, not just a few ‘errors’ in Catholicism, but the entire system for what it is really all about. From both history and doctrine Mr Hislop shows overwhelmingly that the origins and practices of this religion are founded upon ancient Babylonian mysticism. Whether it is through this particular book or one of the many others that have been ably written on this subject I think that every one who is a believer in the biblical Gospel should acquaint himself with the facts of what that religion is really all about. There is no inference whatsoever in this book that anyone should have cause to despise catholic people. It focuses purely on the facts of the development of the system and concludes, just as many others do, that God has one specific word to those who are caught up with this ‘Alternative Church’ – “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” In conclusion, this particular book may not be the one for everyone on this subject, but those with a slightly more academic bent will appreciate the carefully researched detail and its presentation.

www.newtestamentpattern.net/book-reviews/expose/the-two-b...

 

Primordial Tradition is Perennialism's idea that a single metaphysical truth intrinsically links all sacred traditions to an original revelation, the cause of which is non-human (divine). This truth, intrinsic to all traditions, constitutes the unique "Universal and Unanimous Tradition "1, which can be discovered through the multiple symbolic, mythical and ritual correspondences shared by the various sacred traditions of mankind.Developing the concept of Perennis Philosophia, the concept of Primordial Tradition has been theorized and problematized in contemporary times by the "School of Tradition "2 . This school is made up of writers, philosophers, anthropologists, historians and essayists from various religious denominations, whose founder and principal representative is the metaphysician René Guénon. For him, Primordial Tradition refers to humanity's oldest tradition, of meta-historical origin, which is "common to all authentic and 'orthodox' traditions, whose traces and signs appear very legibly in the symbols, rites and myths "3 of the various "traditional forms" or observable religions. Primordial Tradition is a concept that refers to the founding myths of mankind's various sacred traditions, such as the earthly paradise of the Bible, the Golden Age of Greco-Roman mythology or the Hindu krita yugaAS 1. Intimately linked to intuitive and intellectual knowledge of the "Ultimate Principle", Primordial Tradition thus designates a state of spiritual being that man lost during the Fall, and which he must regainAS 2 through metaphysical knowledge, both speculative (oral or written teaching) and operative (ritual initiation). The traditionalist imaginary is thus attentive to what each observable orthodox tradition says, and draws from their common account of a golden age the conclusion of a "Revelation, or primitive illumination of human thought". The starting point is therefore that the unity of the Principle of reality, God, is matched by the unity of a primordial revelation, expressed and revealed in the various sacred traditions of mankind. The traditionalist therefore gives equal credence to the accounts of the different "religions" as legitimate testimonies to the same original metaphysical experience. The "Traditional Method" thus endeavours to "discover an essential unity or equivalence of symbols, forms, myths, dogmas and disciplines beyond the varied expressions that the contents may have in the different historical traditions", with the aim of "bringing out the universal character of a symbol or teaching by comparing it with other corresponding symbols belonging to other traditions, in order to establish the presence of something superior and anterior to each of these formulations, different from each other, but nevertheless equivalent". The School of Tradition's approach is therefore not limited to the religious realm, but penetrates what it considers to be its inner, metaphysical aspect. From this perspective, the "synthesis" it intends to make of the various doctrinal expressions is not a "syncretism", as it does not intend to mix rites, symbols or myths, but to draw comparisons between them. Indeed, "Syncretism consists in bringing together, from the outside, elements that are more or less disparate and which, seen in this way, can never really be unified; in short, it's just a kind of eclecticism, with all that eclecticism always entails in terms of fragmentation and incoherence. This is something purely external and superficial; the elements taken from all sides and brought together artificially in this way only ever have the character of borrowings, incapable of being effectively integrated into a doctrine worthy of the name. Synthesis, on the other hand, is essentially performed from within; by this we mean that it properly consists in considering things in the unity of their very principle, in seeing how they derive and depend on this principle, and thus uniting them, or rather becoming aware of their real union, by virtue of a link that is all interior, inherent in what is deepest in their nature."

  

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition_primordiale

Shartu Mumay, 43, is a community social worker that goes from woreda to woreda to educate the community on the consequences of harmful traditional practices such as early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation. She was recruited by UNICEF because she refused to practice FGM on her youngest two daughters despite on the community pressure.

. . . global warming.

First live performance of the Consequences single, by the Consequences Supergroup

There are always consequences to all your actions. Eddie learned that lesson today....again. He rubbed in some gross animal stuff. He was due for a shower anyway.

I did a ride to MOnticello Box on my DR650. There was about 50 stream crossings for a great ride.

The clock that controls the lives of migrating birds (like hummingbirds) pays no attention to what we humans do or when we do it. When it's time to go, it's time to go.

 

As promised, I stopped feeding the hummingbirds in October. Not because I don't love having them around, but because I do. Even if I were willing to feed them all year long (and I would..), they would only die when it got cold. So actually it would be selfish and cruel to continue feeding them.

 

The migration is dangerous and tough for these guys, and some won't make it, I'm sure. But that *is* the way of the world, whether we like it or not. And mucking around with the way of the world always, always has "unforeseen consequences"..

 

Always.

The biggest consequence of the square in Kinetic Energy is that a car going fast becomes a more dangerous object at a very rapid rate. Here are some numbers calculating kinetic energy for two identical cars: one going 20m/s and one going twice as fast. You can see that the 40 m/s car doesn't have twice the energy, but FOUR TIMES the energy. The right half of this slide shows that since brakes stop cars with a constant force, this means that for the twice as fast car, it needs FOUR TIMES the stopping distance. Don't speed in school zones, y'all.

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