In the large retail sector, the focus is increasingly on the optimisation, management and monitoring of the systems installed. In particular, the running costs of refrigeration systems account for over 50% of total energy consumption, as highlighted by many studies on supermarket management. Where and how to save, how to optimise, how to control and manage the loads are consequently important issues for both the industry and end consumers. As will be shown, current technology for the large retail sector that can ensure substantial energy saving, as well as environmental compatibility (direct and indirect) is industrially available, both in terms of accessibility and reliability and, above all, return on investment.
Optimisation of the refrigerant circuit is based on the assumption of being able to operate at maximum energy efficiency, in the different environmental conditions and loads that act on the system throughout the year, but also on the same day: take, for example, the differences in load inside the store between day and night. The heart of the system that provides cooling for foods is the compressor rack, which also consumes most of the power in the installation. The power input of a compressor is proportional to the difference between the suction and discharge pressure. Consequently, if this pressure difference can be reduced, immediate energy savings are possible, along with an increase in the efficiency of the thermodynamic cycle for the same results. Enabling the two floating condensing and suction pressure control functions it is possible to bring energy saving of 20% or higher when used with proportional electronic expansion valves on the refrigeration units. Floating condensing pressure control can be easily enabled by using an outside air temperature probe. The actual condensing pressure set point, therefore, will vary according to the environmental conditions, drawing advantage from temperature differences between day and night. The floating suction algorithm, based on how efficiently the showcases and cold rooms are operating, allows dynamic shifting of the suction pressure set point. The supervisor, acquiring all the information required from the showcases and cold rooms, manages the change in the compressor rack suction pressure set point according to the parameters set for every refrigeration unit, ensuring, at all times, stable and safe operation of the installation. The underlying and now consolidated concept is the search for the best operating conditions based on the conditions outside (temperature) or inside the installation (critical units and refrigerant charge).
As mentioned, these optimisation algorithms are most effective when proportional electronic valves are used. Indeed, these allow a wider operating range (pressure difference) than thermostatic valves, as well as constant and efficient optimisation of the evaporators on the refrigeration units, irrespective of the operating conditions, even when compared to PWM expansion valves. PWM expansion valves, in fact, adjust the flow of refrigerant by opening or closing an opening of fixed dimensions, while mechanical thermostatic valves are always sized for the most critical operating conditions, that is, in summer. Consequently, when the normal operating conditions change, PWM expansion valves cannot ensure constant and efficient optimisation of the evaporators. Vice-versa, stepper proportional valves adjust flow by continuous variation of the flow-rate.
The use of electronic valves and control of the condensing and suction pressures, as demonstrated in several cases in recent years, bring savings in the order of 20%. In particular, in one of the most recent installation at Conad Adriatico in Sulmona, management of the heating system was also implemented, thus maximising integration between condensing boilers and heat pumps. The flexibility and integration of the system also makes it possible to trace and log energy consumption for heating and cooling. Nonetheless, to minimise installation and retrofit costs, these algorithms can also be applied, with good results, to mechanical thermostatic valves, as shown by experiences with Tesco (UK), with proven energy savings of 7%. This result led to the retrofit of over 300 existing Tesco stores to implement the above optimisations. Another possible algorithm for managing the operation of compressor racks, which saves energy by optimising energy consumption and ensuring greater system stability, is the DSS algorithm (Double System Synchronization). This works by exchanging information between the various compressor racks installed, so as to avoid simultaneous peaks when starting compressors, and at the same time synchronises operation of the systems through continuous interactions to predict refrigerating demand and where necessary start the compressors in advance. To decrease the power consumption of compressor and fan motors, inverters can be installed (inverters or VFD): above all in winter, when the compressor rack is oversized, inverters allow greater stability in the condensing and suction pressure, avoiding continuous compressor ON/OFF cycles that affect the stability and correct operation of the entire installation, as well as increasing wear on the mechanisms that make up the compressor. The demand for heat recovery is also growing, used to increase the efficiency of the entire system (refrigeration, heating / air-conditioning). The heat from the gas discharged by the compressors can be used to heat or pre-heat the water supplied to the boiler, thus retrieving thermal energy that would otherwise be lost (wasted).
ENERGY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
The work and commitment that goes into system optimisation would nonetheless be useless if the results reached in the design and installation of the system were not maintained and monitored over time. The PlantVisorPRO supervisor system allows to check and control system energy consumption and performance, from showcases to compressor racks, up to the air-conditioning and heating systems, as mentioned earlier. The KPI module (Key Performance Indicator) integrated into the supervisor makes it possible to analyse the entire installation and identify any critical points, taking action where necessary. Given the significant quantity and quality of data and information that can be recorded, statistical analysis of temperature and energy consumption is both useful and easy to carry out. Consumption can be controlled quite simply using the Energy module available in PlantVisorPRO, which acquires data directly from energy meters. As a result, the instant, daily, weekly and monthly power consumption can be displayed, divided into areas and groups, for the entire store. These modules thus ensure control and guarantee performance.
System optimisation and best performance mean energy saving regardless of the strategy implemented to decrease power consumption. The strategic management of power consumption must indeed retain the optimisation and functioning of the technological systems used, while reducing energy requirements (increasing the efficiency of the system) or distributing energy usage over time so as to exploit the cheapest rates (consumption strategies). These optimisation and management methods can be easily developed and implemented in new systems, as electronic controllers and the related control software come with such logic already integrated. For example, the MPXPRO controller for showcases, with or without built-in electronic valve driver, features an algorithm for modulating the operation of anti-sweat heaters. This algorithm allows all display cases where condensate may form on the surface to modulate the power input of the heaters used to heat the glass (above dewpoint). Without such function, the heaters operate 24 hours a day, irrespective of the environmental operating conditions. For maximum precision, this function requires a glass temperature sensor on each display case and a temperature and humidity sensor to calculate the dewpoint. To reduce installation costs, the algorithm however allows the glass temperature to be estimated based on the temperature inside the case and other data shared by the entire system. Consequently, the ambient temperature and humidity values (serial probe) for the calculation of the dewpoint can be shared by the controllers. These two functions mean savings in the installation of probes and wiring. The algorithm, based on the difference between the latter two temperatures, modulates the operation of the heaters, bringing, as verified in specific experiences both in Italy and abroad, energy saving of over 35%. This result is not surprising when considering the fact that the showcases are designed to operate in different countries in Europe and around the world, that is, in a wide variety of climatic conditions.
WIRELESS: SIMPLIFYING ENERGY SAVING SOLUTIONS FOR SYSTEM RETROFITS
Even when renovating and restyling existing stores, many of these algorithms can be used as described previously, and indeed wireless solutions are available to save installation costs and minimise wiring, depending on the desired results. Carel has patented a wireless solution that, using ZigBeeTM Mesh technology, self-organising and regenerative, with a series of repeaters located in the focal points of the store, creates a layout that can exchange data and information with the supervisor. This system responds to three particularly interesting market requirements: – in existing systems, to enable logging and display of the refrigeration unit values only via a wireless link (logging for HACCP requirements). Very fast installation thanks to operation without mains power supply. – again for existing systems, however also enabling management of the refrigeration units (and consequently wiring some control units on the showcases), for the acquisition of the data required to implement the optimisation algorithms described above (floating evaporation and condensing pressure and anti-sweat heaters) – in new systems, to connect and supervise units (not only refrigerators) in points that are hard and expensive to reach with wired solutions. In one recent experience, in collaboration with Epta, a system for monitoring and logging the temperature of refrigeration units was installed in the store in just one day, without having to replace the electronic controllers and without requiring major renovation work and laying serial communication cables. The PlantVisorPRO supervisor can monitor and print the HACCP data for each individual refrigerating showcase and create daily/monthly reports in PDF format.
CO2 AND EXPERIENCES
Carel, as well as searching for solutions that optimise system efficiency, is constantly looking for new technologies and solutions to reduce the direct and indirect greenhouse effect. In this regard, one important aspect involves the optimisation and management of systems that use carbon dioxide as the refrigerant. The greenhouse effect is contributed to directly by leaks of refrigerant into the environment, and indirectly due to the production of electricity for the operation of the system throughout its working life. Over 50% of the greenhouse effect is due to direct sources , hence the importance of finding natural fluids to replace the current HFCs while ensuring the same energy efficiency in the installation, so as to avoid increasing the indirect effect. One of the simplest and best known solutions used on the market involves the use of CO2 in cascading, allowing operation in subcritical conditions without any problems of availability of materials resistant to high pressure. Conventional cascading solutions are now practically market standards for those who wish to implement the CO2 solution with a good compromise. Other solutions proposed on the market to minimise HFC usage include one designed by Crea SpA, which uses CO2 as the cooling carrier fluid and limits the HFC refrigerant charge to the local units. The solution proposed combines a chiller operation on R404a, with pressure control, which condenses the carbon dioxide pumped to the medium and low temperature units, as illustrated in the diagram. The same Case Study also presented a comparison between the consumed by this system and others currently available in the market. The conclusion was that the solution proposed should also contribute to reducing the indirect greenhouse effect . A similar solution to the one described above has been adopted at the new Bitzer laboratory and training centre in Brazil. At this laboratory, Bitzer has installed the best technology available on the market. In the laboratory, as well as a solution that uses CO2 in subcritical operating conditions, there is also a dual technology system that uses electronic or mechanical thermostatic valves installed in parallel upstream of the evaporators. By installing energy meters and integrating these into the supervisor, energy consumption can be compared between the two systems.
The use of CO2 in transcritical operating conditions nullifies the direct greenhouse effect. This however involves completely different management of the thermodynamic cycle, in the attempt to ensure maximum optimisation and avoid increasing the indirect greenhouse effect.
Carel has worked on two transcritical installations: – The first transcritical installation in Australia, supplying the controllers for the compressors, for all the refrigeration units and the electronic valves in the cold rooms; – The second in England, a project managed by Space Engineering for Tesco, where Carel developed software for complete management and optimisation of the installation, integrating it:
o Optimum gas cooler pressure management
o Heat recovery
o Pressure control valves
o Oil cooling
The transcritical solution is taking hold in northern Europe, given the lower average annual temperatures (some working days in transcritical operating conditions): this means less time needed to manage the transcritical cycle, which currently is not as energy efficient as subcritical operating conditions. On the other hand, increased knowledge of the properties of this fluid simplify operation and routine maintenance.The information shown here demonstrates that there are existing installations which are already saving energy through consolidated optimisation strategies. Carel continues to invest in research and the optimisation of the entire control system, anticipating new technologies, testing eco-sustainable solutions that reduce system running costs without neglecting the practical aspects: return on investment, usability in the sector, reliability. The results achieved and the effective market response will encourage us to keep moving in this direction.


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Bloomberg Blasts NRA: 'Connecticut Is Because of Some of Their Actions'
NYC mayor said the NRA encourages behavior that "causes things like Connecticut"
Dec. 20, 2012— -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today placed partial blame on the National Rifle Association for the Connecticut elementary school massacre in which 20 children and six adults were gunned down last week.
"We're not trying to take away your right to advance the interests of gun owners, hunters, people who want to protect themselves," Bloomberg told "Nightline" anchor Cynthia McFadden in an interview today. "But that's not an absolute right to encourage behavior which causes things like Connecticut. In fact, Connecticut is because of some of their actions."
In the days after the massacre, the NRA has remained silent, only speaking up Wednesday to announce it would hold a press conference on Friday morning. But in the meantime, people with various stances on guns, from stark anti-gun advocates to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a pro-gun politician who famously shot a cap-and-trade bill with a rifle in his 2010 re-election ad, are clamoring for something to be done.
"I think the public has finally come to the conclusion that, what the Supreme Court said you can do is have reasonable restrictions on the right to bear arms, is something that our society finally has woken up and said, 'We are going to do this whether you like it or not,'" Bloomberg said.
In 2007, Bloomberg was one of 50 mayors who gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand that Congress eliminate a law that restricts the ability of local police to trace criminals' weapons. At the time, gun advocates claimed the law, which was an amendment attached to the House appropriations bill in 2003, infringed on their Second Amendment rights.
But if he had his preference, Bloomberg said he would go farther than the 1994 ban and outlaw all automatic and semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines. The mayor said magazines shouldn't be allowed to contain more than five or six rounds.
"If you haven't hit the deer with three shots, you're a pretty lousy shot. The deer deserves to get away," he said.
Bloomberg said he doesn't absolve the public, including himself, for waiting until a massive tragedy to take national action on gun control.
"I hold you and me responsible," Bloomberg said. "We didn't pay attention to what our legislators were doing, [the NRA] as well... we have let our society degenerate -- our country degenerate to the point where we have a murder rate that you cannot compare it to other countries."
Police say Adam Lanza, 20, entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on the morning of Dec. 14, and used three firearms to kill 26 people before turning the gun on himself.
The weapons police recovered from the scene included a Bushmaster .223 semi-automatic rifle, a Glock 9-mm handgun and a Sig Sauer 9-mm handgun. A fourth weapon was found in the shooter's car in the school parking lot.
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, 47,856 people were murdered in the U.S. by firearms between 2006 and 2010.
President Obama announced Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden, who was formerly the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a leader on the original Federal Assault Weapons Ban in the '90s, would lead a task force to formulate a package of gun control policy recommendations and collect proposals that will curb an "epidemic of gun violence."

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By Grace Kena
The National Center for Education Statistics submits a report to Congress on the condition of education every year by June 1st. The Condition of Education provides a comprehensive look at the state and progress of education in the United States. Although The Condition of Education was first produced in 1975, the origins of the report date back to the creation of the first federal department of education in 1867. Its first major publication, the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, covered data for 1869-70. Today’s Condition of Education report is presented to Congress and the White House annually. In addition, the indicators are updated regularly online, with a convenient site designed for mobile devices. By visiting The Condition of Education website, you can access the latest indicators, download the full Congressional report for the current and prior years, and watch short videos about recent findings and highlights.
The Condition of Education covers early childhood through postbaccalaureate education, and addresses topics relevant to a broad spectrum of education stakeholders. The report contains text and graphics on dozens of educational indicators that describe student characteristics, participation in special programs, achievement, completion rates, as well as characteristics of teachers, schools, and colleges. Economic indicators show the success that students have in finding employment after their education, and present information on their earnings. In addition to core indicators of perennial interest and supplemental indicators on other special topics, the Condition features spotlight indicators with an in depth focus on emerging issues and new data. Taken together, these indicators provide valuable information about the progress of our education system in addressing such key policy concerns as improving graduation rates, closing gaps in student achievement, and promoting educational equity.
For more information and access to the indicators, see The Condition of Education 2016. You can also learn more about The Condition of Education in the video below, or see other videos on specific topics of interest on the NCES YouTube Channel.
This blog was originally posted on June 1, 2015 and was updated on May 26, 2016


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Sep 11, 2019 | By Cassandra Napoli
For his first men’s-only runway collection, London designer Gareth Pugh was bursting forth with as much high concept as possible without breaking through the ceiling of the Palais de Tokyo, where he showed. Horror and sci-fi movies of the ’80s seemed to be the major influence for one of the darkest and edgiest collections shown in Paris for the week, including such blockbusters as Hellraiser, Terminator and Predator. The shiny quilting on suits with extreme roped shoulders had an almost scaly effect like what you’d see on a monster walking out of the sea. An enlarged quilted jacket and overcoat with contrasted panels of technical fabric was intriguing and comforting on the same level (and, yes, more quilted pants for the week). Pugh’s version of a tuxedo, while intense and a bit severe, was worn with no shirt and with a cropped jacket, skinny pants and bulky boots. Needless to say, most items were based in black, but the occassional metallic livened up the collection when appropriate. There were lots of shredded fabrics that became a kind of ornamental trim for the uniforms of his sci-fi solder, and the fur items definitely had a supernatural feel about them. Even though his first men’s outing may not be rooted in much reality, consumer who like extreme style will find some of the pieces useful in their rebellious wardrobes.
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WATERLOO — Her sisters were choir girls, but for Kathy La Hay the best music was always in the sound of hockey skates cutting through ice.
It's been that way since she was a little girl playing shinny on a frozen creek in Sudbury. She still feels it now when she steps into a rink, rolling her goaltending gear behind her.
At 67, La Hay is the oldest player in the Kitchener-Waterloo Women's Recreational Hockey League, a 13-team circuit where La Hay faces shots from women in their 20s and 30s every week.
"I've got long johns older than some of them," she said, watching players skate by inside the Albert McCormick arena in Waterloo. "I'm oftentimes old enough to be their mother."
On the ice, the retired University of Waterloo lab instructor goes by other names — Nana, Punch, or even Big Moose. But whatever you call her, don't think this gentle grandmother of eight is a pylon in net.
"I think they underestimate her because of her age. She has her fair share of shutouts," said M.J. Bonevelle, the league's 41-year-old president. "She's an excellent strategist. She treats hockey like a fast game of chess."
La Hay learned some veteran's tricks over the years, like anticipating an incoming play before it happens. And she's learned to work with the limitations of an aging body.
"I can't do the butterfly. I'm not limber enough to do that," she said. "I had an instructor once try to teach me that, and I was a mess of giggles. I was flopping all over the ice."
La Hay is also old enough to remember when a team of women playing hockey was an unusual sight. And she's wise enough to know she must keep working on her technique to outfox women sometimes 40 years her junior.
"You have to because they're getting better all the time," she said. "They know my limitations. But I know that they know that, too."
La Hay played for the University of Guelph women's team that won a pile of provincial championships in the late 1960s. But she didn't strap on goalie pads until her late 30s, when she was asked to fill in for a missing netminder.
"I was playing defence up until that point, and I started playing net. It was horrendous," she said. "I enjoyed it, but I wasn't very good. I got better as time went on."
After decades playing ringette, she came back to hockey about 15 years ago, shortly after the local women's league opened.
In this league, there's no body checking and no playoffs, and teams are mixed up every year to subdue rivalries and powerhouses. Fights almost never happen and La Hay does her part to keep swearing off the ice.
She's also competitive, but she hides it in her sweet grandma exterior.
"I can never score on her," said Carol Johnston, a 64-year-old accountant who played pickup hockey on a pond off Courtland Avenue as a kid.
As one of the league's more senior players, she's watched women's hockey come a long way over the decades. Johnston credits the success of Canada's Olympic women's teams and the Canadian Women's Hockey League with inspiring a generation of young women to get into hockey.
"When I was a kid, there was nothing like this for girls," Johnston said. "But now when my daughter tells me my granddaughter is learning to skate, I said: 'You're not putting figure skates on her, are you?' She's got to be a hockey player."
La Hay was recently named the most valuable player at a tournament in Iceland, playing against women from the country's national team. After one game, some opponents told her she encouraged them to stay in the sport as long as possible.
"They told me I was their hero," she said. "I told them, you can keep playing. You just have to keep playing."
La Hay also helps newcomers adjust to the local league, including women who are trying the sport out for the first time. Bonevelle, the league president, was one of them.
She'd never played hockey before she moved to Waterloo Region from western Michigan in 2008. To learn the basics, she took an introductory course with a bunch of four-year-old boys.
"I called the league and told them I can skate, but I can't really stop," said Bonevelle, who works in the insurance industry. "My first game was awful. I bumped into this lady and she fell over, and I got a penalty."
Then she did a very un-hockey-like thing.
"The ref put me in the box and I cried," she said. "My team thought it was hilarious."
La Hay, who runs a small business with her wife selling gemstones at trade shows, said there's no reason women can't play hockey well into their senior years. But they need to treat injuries with respect, stay active and always stretch before every game.
"At this age, if you don't do your stretches, you're going to have a lot of trouble," she said.
If her knees hold up, this Nana plans to stay in net as long as she can.
"I might still be playing when I'm 80, but I certainly won't be carrying my own equipment," she said. "It keeps getting heavier and heavier."


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Australian research stands to reap enormous benefits from the coming revolution in ‘big data’.
Big data is not just massive structured data sets. It is also large integrated data sets bringing together elements such as spatiality, facial recognition and natural language processing—all of which open potentially exciting opportunities for researchers.
The Academy is leading the development of a national framework and strategy through its project, Big data in Australian research: issues, challenges and opportunities. By consulting across disciplines and connecting with international big data initiatives, the project will identify common and discipline-specific practices, challenges and strategic developments, map existing data science capability and infrastructure within and across disciplines, identify opportunities for efficiencies, and assess technology, infrastructure, training and collaboration priorities for the future.
The project’s Expert Working Group is jointly led by Academy Fellows Professor Michael Barber and Associate Professor Jane Elith, together with the Academy’s National Committee for Data in Science.
The report to come out of the project will be informed by the contributions of a broad range of stakeholders through targeted interviews and written submissions.
As part of the consultations, the Expert Working Group has developed ten questions on which it would particularly like to hear views, with responses sought by 31 October.
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• persistent airflow limitation demonstrated by a FEV1 80% predicted and a ratio of FEV1/FVC 70% and
• currently treated with the maintenance combination of inhaled corticosteroids (≥ 800 micrograms budesonide/day or equivalent*) and long-acting β2 agonists and
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The grass grew shoulder high,
Till the shining scythes went far and wide,
And cut it down to dry.
The green and sweetly smelling crops,
They led the waggons home,
And they piled them here in mountain tops,
For mountaineers to roam.
Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty-Nail,
Mount Eagle and Mount High,
The mice that in these mountains dwell,
No happier than I!
O what joy to clamber there,
O what a place for play,
With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,
The happy hills of hay.
We have no time to stand and stare?—
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Hugo at the Hayloft
(Henk van Gerven - written August 2018)
With all the stories told
he came by name
into the house he flew
on Eve's far woven wings
He landed on the table
to be heard be spoken of
To exist in ancient land
eternal rocks and waterfalls
In meadows flowered by sunny hearts
in new dscovered friends
There he said farewell again
promised not to die
To travel circles drop by drop
to lowlands from up high
Are you weary
Does your burden seem too great?
Are you fighting uphill battles,
Struggling with a hostile fate?
The milestone at the turning point
May be a few steps round the bend.
Courage!…This may be the spot
Where joys return and troubles end.
The Happy Child
W H Davies (1871 - 1940)
I saw this day sweet flowers grow thick
But not one like the child did pick
I heard the packhounds in green park
But no dog like the child heard bark.
I heard this day bird after bird
But not one like the child has heard
A hundred butterflies saw I
But not one like the child saw fly
I saw the horse roll in grass
But no horse like the child saw pass
My world this day has lovely been
But not like what the child has seen
A Long Fall
James Rauber (1998 - )
So grand and tall
rustling leaves like emeralds,
standing on tall pillars,
pulsing with golden blood.
They suck on the sapphire water,
Like ants collecting for the nest.
The ground, a desert to be crossed by their winding limbs.
Their silent chatter is all around,
Birds, land and whistle their thanks, to the giants.
The sun is their god,
a great being that keeps them alive for a hundred years.
then a roar pierces the silence,
followed, by a groan, like a mother losing her child.
Their long arms,
fall from the stars,
and a crash to earth, like thunder.
As they fall, silvr droplets fall,
the birds screech,
ruby fruit hits the ground, and breaks, like a broken heart.
The snapping of tortured bones, is deafening.
Te ground is black,
the smell of fresh soil, fills the air,
black, raven black, winding arms, reach to the heavens,
as if begging for another chance,
a chance to stand tall over all.
But, silence, is their only reply

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I was at a four-day writers’ conference this past weekend. It was supposed to be on a lake in northern Michigan, but due to COVID, it was on Zoom. That’s a lot of screen time, but it was worth it. I met a wonderful group of people in my memoir workshop; each session I attended was fantastic. We critiqued each others’ work, I received lots of feedback and encouragement, and the author who led the group imparted her valuable wisdom on writing and how to navigate the publishing realm.
At the final session, she gave us an assignment. She’ll never see it. We’ll never share it. It was just a parting gift for us to mull over and write about, another way to gain insight into ourselves, our writing abilities, our hopes, our dreams. She said, “Write about what you’re afraid of.”
Now, in the context of being a writer, many of us in the workshop had already discussed success as being something we may feel is impossible to attain, and that we may also fear. We could be afraid of being vulnerable in our writing, exposing too much of ourselves. We could fear failure: never getting published or finding our voices.
But after the workshop, as I pondered the question and stared at the blank page, I came up with one word that surprised me…
I am afraid of happiness. That’s what widowhood has done to me. Watching Rick slowly die and my happiness drain away changed me. I found someone to love, someone I wanted to spend my life with. And he died. And with his death, my whole life turned upside down and my happiness evaporated.
I sought grief counseling because the sadness was overwhelming. I needed to find a way to process the grief, but I was also seeking a way to find that road towards happiness again. A few months after Rick died, I remember telling my therapist that for a fleeting second one evening, I realized I was content. Normally, since his death, I had just been devastated, or sad, or felt nothing. But that one evening for a few minutes, maybe even an hour, I was focused on something that used to be meaningful to me (I don’t even remember what it was) and I realized I was not in emotional pain. My mind was quiet. I was actually content.
My therapist told me that there was a happiness scale. And that contentment was a milestone for me, because it was the beginning. It was the low end of the scale, but at least I had reached that point. It was the bottom rung of the steps towards happiness.
Happiness: A general sense of well-being, ranging from contentment to ecstasy.
Since that time, I have moved up the scale. I have felt all those emotions again, ranging from contentment to ecstasy. I’m happy to be back in what I term, “the land of the living.” My life is full and continues to get better.
And now, I’ve come full circle. I’ve met a man. I love everything about him and the feeling seems to be mutual. When we’re together, time stands still. If we’re not together, we’re texting. If I’m not with him, I’m thinking about him. We’re so different, yet compatible. I feel a connection with him I haven’t felt in a long, long time. But with this joy, also comes this fear. What if I feel that overwhelming, fantastic, butterflies-in-my-stomach love for him and he leaves me, or… he dies?
I think I’m afraid of trusting in this kind of happiness again, because at the other end of the spectrum is such devastation. I recently discovered that this is an actual phobia. Loosely defined, cherophobia is the fear of being happy, because if you’re too happy, something tragic may happen. I wonder how many widows identify with this?
So what to do? Live a solo life, a safe, yet contented life, and never again experience the thrill of being in love? Pick safety over potential ecstasy?
Nope. I’m diving in head first. I learned something else from Rick’s death. Life is short. Life is worth living. I may be afraid of happiness, but I’ve conquered other fears, and the funny thing is, that thing I fear doing the most usually turns out to be something great, something worth fighting for.
Take the writers’ conference this weekend. I was afraid of attending. As the date approached, I second-guessed my decision to register for it. These are writing professionals. I’ve never been published. This world is foreign to me. I’ll make a fool of myself. Yada yada yada. In the end, I realized how important this was to me. How long I’ve looked forward to entering the writing world and meeting others who have a passion for the written word, just like I do. So I tossed fear aside and entered the Zoom meeting.
On a break during the third day of the conference, I found myself sitting under my gazebo crying. Tears of joy. I loved every minute! I was in my element! I came away with insights into writing, and getting published. I was with peers who accepted me and even praised the essay I read for being filled with such “raw emotion” that they were too overwhelmed to speak. The four days flew by and I was lost in a world of talented writers who taught me more in a weekend than I’ve learned in years. I didn’t want the weekend to end. And I almost didn’t attend because I was afraid. If I’d missed it, I’d have missed the ecstasy I felt as a result of that intense experience.
A little more than 25 years ago, I went on a first date with a man. Is it TMI to tell you I was so nervous I vomited before I went to meet him? But I went anyway. If I’d chickened out on that first date, I would have missed the next 20+ years of happiness that I shared with Rick. Sure, I’d have missed the grief, but would I sacrifice the joy of having loved him to avoid the grief that resulted from his loss? Never.
Loving and losing Rick, learning to live without him, was painful. So yes, that experience has made me afraid of happiness and cautious about loving again. I can choose to overcome the fear and take a chance on new love, or stick with contentment and play it safe. But I realize now that, although I’ve been enjoying my life again, there has been something missing. Every time this man holds my hand, every time he kisses me, I get a glimmer of how it feels to be truly alive again. It’s worth the risk. I’m still here – in the land of the living – and I’ll be damned if I’ll let fear keep me from the chance to enjoy that special kind of happiness again.

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HEM's principal meet and greet
A candidate for the HEM principal is interviewed
October 13, 2022
When Steve Priest, the former principal of Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow, (HEM) High School indicated his last day would be in late September, a committee was created to recommend to the Carbon County School District No 2 (CCSD2) board a candidate(s). On Thursday night, the efforts of this committee bore fruit. The committee was made up of 17 individuals, including two students from HEM and they narrowed the candidates down to one.
Hobbs was not only to be interviewed by the committee but the night was also a meet and greet for the parents and community members who were in...


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It’s hard to believe but it’s been over two years since HCK!’s first offering. We’ve come a long way, the growth is apparent, looking back at those first posts is a rad experience realizing just how tangible of a difference between then and now there is and how many people have helped to make this one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. This also marks the 100th post for HCK! making today’s mix all that more important for me to get right. Continue reading →
So it’s down to the 10 best songs of 2011. Here is what made life better, got me through tough times, made me nostalgic, got me to think optimistically, and at the end of the day helped it all make sense.
Baby Monster’s “The Fear Of Charlie Sunrise” was probably the strongest opening track on a debut album this year (or any album for that matter). There’s a subtle undercurrent of hope filled disparity and sadness of that “I’m not okay, you’re not okay, but we’re okay” vibe which carries this song from being merely a solid effort from an electronic duo to a different place completely that resembles the vacant space within our hearts.
The way the ambient undertones swell in the song until it builds to a point we never realized we had climbed to is haunting. More so is the way it leaves you with an unresolved feeling of empty longing that makes this solid effort from Baby Monster worth loving.
What puts “The Fear Of Charlie Sunrise” into the top 10 though is how there’s such a dual experience when listening between those vacant abysmal-hope feelings and the up front aspect of this being a call out to open your arms and take a chance, both to someone else and to ourselves.
“If you’re so fearless take your hand off your heart” is probably the best delivered line in a song of 2011 and that should not go without mention.
Certain songs just end up tagging along with you, making it on every cruise, each mixtape, into the background at parties, the soundtrack to five AM conversations, you’re cleaning with it on, singing along in the shower, searching for it on jukebox’s, telling everyone who’ll listen about it… In 2009 it was Animal Collective‘s “Girls,” last year it was “Rivers And Roads” by The Head And The Heart and Foals “This Orient,” this year it was “Sandcastle“.
Beverlay is the side-project of Matt Raudsepp (Honheehonhee) and Nico Ormiston (Winter Gloves). Their album Boardwalk was one of the best EP’s to drop in 2011 but outside of giving us the incredible release they have remained almost completely unseen. HonheeHonhee had a fairly successful year so I’m sure a lot of the inactivity stems from focus in that direction.
I really hope to hear more from Beverlay in the future, the duo’s combined effort has a strength to it that thousands of songs I heard this year attempted but few even came close to.
The first time I heard “Shut-Up” it was four-thirty in the morning and I was falling asleep at my computer. I have never heard a song that got me as stoked to hear it as this one did. I must have sent this link out to fifty people before the sun came up that day. This is a song that NEEDS to be heard. If I were making a list of 100 songs that impressed me this year “Shut-Up” would without a doubt be my number one.
Jhameel is spreading around the internet like herpes at Ball State. Only you’re actually thankful to have him in your life. Everything about the guy screams talent and potential that no one else this year has come close to displaying. World meet Jhameel… your new addiction.
I love when people tell me they don’t “Get Into” depressing music. BULLSHIT! I’m calling you out. You may prefer to avoid your feelings but don’t lie to me. I can understand if you were to say you prefer to not listen to sad music. But if I play “252” for you and you tell me something like “I just don’t get into this” you shouldn’t be surprised by my no longer taking anything you say about music for having any amount of substance whatsoever.
You don’t get into “252” it gets into you. It shakes away facades and the self-told lies and leaves you in the healthiest of positions… open and vulnerable. Music with these sad undertones is the most important thing art has to offer. Happy art has no spine, there’s no passion, it’s passive and meant for mass appeal which will have about as much relevance in twenty years as a copy of NOW7.
I guarantee if you hear this song and it connects with a place you’re at inside you will remember it for the rest of your life.
There was a time when I thought depressing music was a waste, there was also a time when I thought baggy jeans and polo shirts looked good, We all grow up, we all see the light, or for your salvation I sure hope so.
The most important songs ever written have come in the midst of social crisis. Folk and Blues were driven by political/social discomfort without a voice. Despite your feelings towards the “Occupy Wallstreet” movement, from an outside standpoint, I hope everyone at least respects the fact that there are thousands of people who feel strongly enough about an issue to make a conscious effort towards change, something they feel so passionate about that they are willing to do more than randomly rant about it through social networks but instead move in visible active ways towards some form of transformation.
I caught a few tracks from Howth over the summer which I thought were full of potential, still I must have underestimated them because I never imagined they would ever create something close to what they’ve given us with “Belly Of The Beast“.
They wrote the song after hearing Professor Gayatri Spivak‘s speech in Washington Square Park on October 15th, they released this song four days later.
The lyrics are on point and delivered in such an incredibly relaxed fashion alongside guitars breathing sullen life the entire way edging in and out of the backdrop of echos and emotion. Even taking the message away from the equation this song has an incredible sound that draws emotion out of the listener from the moment it begins to play.
“Belly Of The Beast” is a song which encapsulates the voice of an entire generation overflowing with discontent… I truly hope someone is listening. – (Via)
” … And if your still breathing you’re the lucky ones cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs setting fire to our insides for fun collecting the names of the lovers that went wrong. We are the reckless we are the wild youth chasing visions of our futures. One day we will reveal the truth that one will die before he gets there, and if you’re still bleeding you’re the lucky one cause most of our feelings they are dead and they are gone. We’re setting fire to our insides for fun collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home, it was a flood that wrecked this home… and you caused it.”
“Youth” gave me a whole new respect for Elena Tonra‘s songwriting abilities which were already impressive. This song just felt like she finally had gotten to the heart of what she’d been signing around for so long.
In what’s felt like one of the more positive years for me this was the only song to actually cause me to shed a tear.
I couldn’t take this song off of repeat the first time I heard it. My brother’s my best friend and I’ve spent the last six months waiting for the first opportunity to move out of this place so there’s something in “Always Gold” that resonates more than most songs do with me.
Radical Face creates music that sounds like a friends voice and he brings his songs from a place that most artists lack the courage to pull from.
Radical Face is personal, and courageous, and aprreciated.
Upon first listen I slid “Make That Call” into my best songs ever written playlist. At the time I was in what felt like a rather solid relationship so the personal connection wasn’t even there and still it floored me.
You can hear Andrew Boze dealing with his own emotions in this track, this is his release and it’s nothing short of monumental.
Fast forward seven months since and “Make That Call” has taken on a whole new place in my life. My relationship of two years ended at the end of summer, this song has helped calm a lot of emotions that might have enveloped me had I not had it as a companion.
2011 has been Trevor Powers‘ year. Going from some practically unknown kid screwing around in his bedroom to having Year Of Hibernation on top of everyone’s best albums of 2011 lists. The dude’s from Idaho! How unreal is life for this guy right now?
When I downloaded the July/Cannons split release I couldn’t upload them fast enough. I must have included one of the two tracks on six posts in two weeks between both sites and the response was overwhelming, I’m still getting emails about the guy.Youth Lagoon is no one’s secret anymore and he without a doubt earned it.
“Wilderness Eyes” is only three listens behindShiv Hurrah’s “All My Teeth” for the most played song in my library, and for good reason; I look for every chance possible to play this song and no matter what the situation it feels fitting.
It was not an easy decision on my part for what song should be number one but as I was shifting songs around and things began taking form I knew that if I were going to post this list with any sort of confidence that “Wilderness Eyes” deserved it the most.
This incredible song embodies everything I hope Heycoolkid! to be about, from how each line feels like a sing-alongable hook to the lyrics encapsulating the feelings of our entire restless generation, all the way down to the confidence displayed in this song yet remaining unpretentious and lacking all forms of arrogance. What’s not to love?
Up in the mountains the light will grow and surround us til we hardly know our friends from the animals
Out on the shoreline we beat our drums and we sing all of our parents songs but the words don’t mean the same no more
Take to the streets with a shriek and a howl bare our teeth with a grin and a growl we wear our faults like crowns
We’re wild When we hit the streets Wild In the packs we lead
Back in our homes they will cage us in try to wash all of our painted skin but their hands cant feed what they don’t own
So we run to the woods where we hid the fear that we’ve wasted all our golden years my friends we’re losing all we know
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Making theBest Albums list was relatively easy compared to nailing down the 100 best songs of 2011. The level of incredible music to surface this year is unbelievable. What’s more difficult is trying to create some sort of order when laying these songs out, what makes one great song better than another great song? Nothing. Keep that in mind as you go through this list, hopefully there will be a few new tracks you haven’t heard before and if a song stands out to you which should have been included, make use of the comments section If I haven’t heard it before or haven’t given my full attention to a song that may have been lost in the midst of the unorganized shuffle that is my “new music folder” know I will take full advantage of the opportunity to check it out.
I’m going to space these out in hopes that the artists get more of a focus per song than if I put them all up at once, with art as good as this they deserve it.
This Rollo And Grady Session was the first I’d ever heard of Lord Huron. These Michigan via L.A. natives are killing it with potential, I can’t imagine anything other than HUGE things from these guys in 2012.
The strength of “Street Joy” lies in the fact that it’s a nice change from what we’ve come to expect from an A-typical White Denim track which is precisely why it stands out as being worthy of this year’s list over the other solid tracks off of “D” .
Real Estate seem poised for scene domination in the wake of the incredible “Days.” Without a doubt they’ve got the sound and talent yet it’s the band’s universal acceptance from every demographic other than mainstream that allows me to write that with full confidence, which would probably seem blasphemous to the hipster crowd but they seem to be staying loyal which is a feat in itself. “It’s Real” was the first single from the new album and is just chill enough to remind us these guys are from Brooklyn but clean enough to make those of us in the mid-west not feel neglected by their coolness.
I’ve always felt the conviction that if a band or artist is going to do a cover it should be an entirely new take on it. Any thirteen-year-old with some free time can learn to play a song identically with the original, if you need proof just look at forty percent of the videos on youtube.
Needless to say this take on “Barely Legal” may go down as my favorite cover of the year. Brazil’s Cicero strips this song completely back and has rebuilt it in a way that feels as if I’ve never heard it before. For some it may seem blasphemous but I truly like this version better than the original, sorry Julian.
Real Estate put out there own version of this track earlier this year and although the two re-envisioned versions are similar Real Estate was able to keep the arrogance that IS The Strokes still slightly attached where Cicero is able to discard it completely and make this song actually sound like a soul baring piece of acoustic indie. As a fan of The Strokes the fact that they never wrote a song that didn’t sound pretentious is basically the underlying theme of the band we once loved, for someone else to take the exact same song and deliver a feel that is anything but impresses me.
The line “these places your therapist fears to tread, well I bet you knock em dead” is an ideal example of the clever and surprisingly original lyrics that set this song up for necessary repeat listening. (Via)
There have been a few times this year when I’ve had to ask myself whether I’m writing music reviews or heading the Jhameel fanclub (Example 1, Example 2) . If you haven’t noticed lately, I’m not the only one getting all band-crush on his music either. “Waves” is the more “pop” style track he’s put out this year and shows why it’s the title track from his most recent project.
“…Dystopia is their supercharged, post-apocalyptic anthem, virtually a warrior’s cry warning of the impending inferno of mother earth; all the while beating the drums of self-empowerment in the face of doom and leading the listener towards the kinetic potential within. It’s a tall order, but these dance-punk emissaries have an intergalactic belief system to back up their call to the altar of their disco floor…” – My Old Kentucky Blog
“I caught a video a few weeks ago from Oh land and immediately was attracted to what this band is doing. Like a chill Florence and the Machine or Coco Rosie with pop sensibility. Each song breathes exceptionally well ‘Perfection‘ is a solid example of that.” (Via)
“Mike Tucker is Canadian video game design student who goes by the name of Blood Diamonds when he turns to music production in his spare time. Recent track, “Dreams” is an explosive cocktail of R&B-inspired high pitch vocals, dreamy synth melodies and repetitive beats that sounds something like Beach House with a hint of The Weeknd and a little Animal Collective” – Onomatopoeia
Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan (a.k.a. The Milk Carton Kids) have made one of the most sing-alongable songs with Girls, Gather Round. This one shows what strengths these two troubadours are working with. A tinge of classic bluegrass that makes you want to swing a mug and belt along with the chorus and what’s even better is that such a full sound is created by two guys playing live. (Via)
Although I think for most people “Girls Gather Round” is the more worthy songs for this list, I’m starting to think I should have included the haunting “Michigan” higher up on the list, here’s a video for it if you haven’t heard it yet.
And while some of the imagery has drawn specifically on Alberta, from where frontman Nils Edenloff hails, Cole loves the universality of the music. “I’m from a small town, too, and I feel an emotional connection to the themes cause I think it’s something everyone goes through,” she says. “Like, you leave your small town and move to the big city, leaving things behind, ending relationships. You don’t have to necessarily come from Alberta to understand it.”
“North Star” finds Edenloff singing about driving in a friend’s car, with the north star guiding them home. He croons over sparse electric piano and a skittish drumbeat, before the song finally swells into a organ-led crescendo that comes on like the first hints of a sunrise after an all-night adventure. – Spin
“Kaputt” has shown us once again how phenomenal Dan Bejar is. It’s not like he had anything left needing to be proved but he took his art to a whole other level this year. He’s so relaxed in his delivery we can’t help but turn the volume up in awe of the ease he portrays.
Pat Grossi first came onto the scene last year with his highly praised “Curtis Lane EP” that bloggers couldn’t get enough of, myself included. When Active Child’s debut album “You Are All I See” came out it basically perpetuated what he started a year ago. This is how good electro-pop can be and indie at it’s finest.
Every day this week when riding my bike to work I have started off with “Cosmonauts”. This may not seem like something worth mentioning but it really is because I never repeat listen. My ride to and from work is the only time I get to relax while listening to the songs that i’ve enjoyed each day, the only chance I get to really experience them. I noticed on day one that this song gives off that eighties movie vibe that is in the action/music scene which is a great way to get you motivated about going into work (think Iron Eagle when Pappy gets told to shove his rules “I’m doing it my way” and slips the cassette in, the opening scene with the feet from footloose, or I’m trying to think of a good dirtbike/bmx scene from a movie but have drawn a blank- you get the idea though). I guess what i’m trying to say is Kites With Lights have created a song which is a perfect track for doing shit.(Via)
With how incredible Mr. Plastic was I’m practically offended by the lack of hype going towards Glowbug. The album was the most addicting of any to come out in 2011. Secrets aren’t always good to keep and Glowbug is the ideal example, so quit keeping them to yourselves and start mixing up some cd’s for your friends, these guys are too good to be floating this low under the radar.
Try “Generation Handclap” — a track from Canadian indie-poppers Library Voices. It features just the right doses of New Order guitar freakouts, surfy drums, power pop harmonies and even those saxophone accents that make you do a twisty dance without caring what others think. – Rcrd Lbl
Slothpop are the best local export we have here in Indy. As with most great bands you really need to see them live to grasp the fire to understand all the smoke surrounding them in this town. “Kokoro” comes close very close to delivering on the hype but given the chance to see them sweat on stage in the coming year make it point number one not to pass it up.
If the feel-great lyrics and handclaps don’t bitchslap a smile across your face, perhaps the punchy piano and crip-walking bassline will. This is like that random Cults song meets Panda Bear’s collab with Atlas Sound, except not something you’re ridiculously sick of hearing at Urban Outfitters. Savor it, folks, before it winds up in a Nissan commercial. – I guess I’m Floating
Like an upbeat Quick Said The Bird, Mother Falcon are incredibly talented musicians who understand the importance of being part of a whole. Nothing escapes from the ether yet at the same time every note in this song is astonishingly fitting. The vocal round-about does me in more than any other aspect of “Fireflies” reminding me of a mature Lydia who at one point in time I was obsessed with. (Via)
The best news I’ve heard in the last few weeks is that Mat Cothran will be continuing on with his recently acquired Elvis Depressedly moniker.I’m a huge fan of artists who place art before self. By putting out music under a band name it throws all pretensions aside and allows us to take in the music without the unnecessary distraction that comes with solo artists.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from following Cothran’s musical endeavors is that this guy has absolutely no clue what he’s going to do next. One day Coma Cinema is done the next day he’s saying it’ll be around until his death and pretty much copying the same format at the same time with Elvis Depressedly.
His work as Elvis Depressedly feels more truthful than what he’s given us before reminding me immensely of early Bright Eyes with its raw honesty and unrelenting emotional heart-on-sleeve sound.Wherever Cothran chooses to take his music I’m sure we’ll be thankful for it and thoroughly enjoy whatever sounds he gives us, I’m hoping for much more Depressedly it’s too real to just throw to the way side. (Via)
“While We’re Young” is the new single from Californian musician Max Greenhalgh, who has recently finished the recording of a solo album dubbed ‘Teenager’. Yeah, there’s a bit of a trend here. Naturally, the song is a melodic lofi pop number, but instead of being cliched it’s actually a fantastic example of summer music done right. With the warmer weather obviously on its way, we could all do with a bit more music like this. –And Pluck Your Strings
The Speed Of Sound In Seawater is one of the bands that, after taking some time to grasp, have worked their way into just about every personal playlist I’ve made this year. Something about their Maps And Atlases meets early 2000’s emo mixture elevates them from being merely another overly talented band to one of the key lines of defense I use to defend the state of music when combating friends who believe there hasn’t been instrumental talent since the seventies, those friends are also idiots.
For how much I enjoy promoting new songs and great bands I feel a confession is called for; I have a secret stash . With the ease that artist get tossed around and discarded (I’m part of the problem), with terms like “buzzband” often times doing more damage six months down the road than it helped, and the way that “great music” can become “generic music” just through album sales and the amount of people we are crammed between when going to a show I feel justified in having a few secrets.
I love the feeling of having a band to myself as much as anyone else, to know that a song I love is “my” song instead of everyone’s song. That amazing feeling that lingers all night after standing in some small sweaty basement with thirty-five people when there is only room for about ten with that constant fear of knowing if there is one spark, one faulty wire in an amp, we will all burn to our death before we have a chance to react. These are the things that I love about music and sure it’s not fair to the bands I choose to keep to myself but I need that personal connection and sometimes I make a conscious effort to keep certain bands that way.
I got nervous when the whole surf rock thing started trending that Teenagers would get chewed up and spit out by the hype machine (the actual machine and not the blog) so I kept my mouth closed. Unfortunately/fortunately the music which Travis Keymer creates using the Teenagers moniker is far too great to keep hidden beneath a bushel…. (Excerpt from my Listen Before You Buy post)
The opening guitar lick to this track just radiates sunshine, immediately transporting me to the top of a sand dune watching a hazy sunset fade away into the horizon. Featuring Mississippi’s premiere ukulele-maestro Dent May and Woods’ Jarvis Taveniere as guests, this song is a case of beer and a few mermaids away from a summertime blast. If you’re suffering from seasonal depression or need a good soundtrack to watch sea turtle babies crawl back to the ocean, spin “Killin The Vibe”! – I Guess I’m Floating
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If you haven’t been downright impressed with the overflow of incredible genre crossing music this year you are either a huge Nickleback fan or you are Amish, there’s no other logical excuse to complain about the status of music.
Last year when I put the “Best Albums” list together it was one of the first Heycoolkid! posts ever and with all honesty I was ill-prepared. This year I’m putting these albums up with complete confidence. Sure there’s an album or two that should have the made the cut and somehow was overlooked but all excuses aside here are the albums which I thought were the best of 2011:
These guys sound more like London than Brisbane and for some reason that makes DZ Deathrays more endearing. Arrogantly confident in the best kind of way, this song is as powerful as any form of liquid courage when it comes to giving Caucasians the support they need to approach the opposite sex.
As I’m typing this Jhameel is #2 on We Are The Hunted‘s emerging artist list! There is a reason I put this guy’s stuff up every chance I get. For fuck’s sake have you ever heard someone with more potential?!? Next week he drops his acoustic track which is the one I’m looking forward to the most out of the “Waves” series, something inside me says it’s going to be magical.
You know that friend of yours who is obsessed with Adele; The one who only seems to think that one good singer has surfaced since the cold war and that singer is Adele? We all have one. Alabama Shakesis the closest thing to gaining any sort of ground in the indie vs mainstream battle with said friend. I’m not even a huge Janis Joplin fan but there is something about listening to “On Your Way” that makes me really appreciate what she did for music and her role in getting us to the point that we have a new band like Alabama Shakes.
To say I was timid about the Nightlife EP would be an understatement, something in me believed that Phantogram would never come close to making anything that could ever hold a candle to “Eyelid Movies.” It feels good to be wrong sometimes… this is one of those moments.
Outside of J. Nolan there hasn’t been another rapper I’ve name dropped in as many conversations about the future of Hip-Hop as Freddie Gibbs. The guy is the best of the best and still floating under the radar. Cults bringing him on board for this song takes the whole Washed Out/Nas mashup to an entire new cross genre level. I expect to hear this one remixed a couple thousand times in the months to come.
I downloaded a handful of tracks from these guys out of Knoxville and on first listen wasn’t that impressed. Not that I didn’t think their music was good it just didn’t stand out to me. I’ve noticed them popping up more and more frequently over the last month and a half on blogs I respect causing me to reevaluate my initial impression off Coolrunnings. So last weekend I sat down and gave them a second chance, I wonder how many other bands I’ve written off when shuffling through new songs that are actually really good, I bet there has been a lot.
Melbourne‘s Cut Copy have been make huge waves in the mid-west psyche over the last few years. It’s hard to pinpoint what it is about these guys that makes those of us half-way around the world attach with such magnetism other than it’s just really solid music that works well to sing along and tap your feet with. What other reason do we need?
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The third installment in the “Waves” series is the slightly minimalistic title track. Again we see the key elements of what is now becoming the Jhameel “Sound” slightly shifted. This one sways a bit closer to “White Lies” than with “Collision” just a bit more stripped down to the basics. Everything fantastic remains intact just sparingly.
I had a chance to talk with Jhameel a few weeks ago just before the “Waves” release and he mentioned that an acoustic “Dylan-esc” track was going to be one of the five songs to be released which is what I”m really looking forward to about this series since “The Soldier’s Daughter” was my second favorite song on “The Human Condition” (of course “Shut-Up” is number one!).
So I sat down last week with Jhameel (Via Skype) and had my first official Heycoolkid! interview.
For those of you who may not follow the website closely Jhameel has become a steady HCK! favorite since he put out “The Human Condition” earlier this year. I originally planned to put this up on Tuesday to coincide with his first release from his new project “Waves“. I made a last second decision to run with the new track over on Listen Before You Buy and slated this to come out today since I get the most hits on Fridays and Sundays and really want to get this guy the most exposure possible.
I will say before getting into the interview that I think this novel approach at releasing an album could quite possibly end up being a new model that many artists emulate in the future. It’s a brilliant way to keep people focused on a project and remain motivated about new music from a specific artist.
I truly hope that if you haven’t given Jhameel a chance that you allow yourself a few minutes to get to know the most promising new face in indie-pop.
HCK!- So how has everything been going?
Jhameel- Oh it’s good. Just been preparing for the release next week, and everything’s basically prepared I’m just doing little mixing things here and there to yeah know perfect it.
HCK!- So you’re still working on the songs as they are coming out?
J- Well everything’s completed, I’ve just got a little extra time so I’m just mixing here and there making it a tiny bit better.
HCK!- So you are recording this yourself like you did the last album?
HCK! – Awesome, I like that. The last one turned out really well so I’m exited to see you keep going in that direction.
J – I can show you a little bit if you want
HCK! – Yeah, I’d love to hear it.
[ this is where Jhameel played two incredible samples from the upcoming release]
HCK!- [the second track] is like taking “Bernal Heights” a step forward, reminds me a lot of that song
J- Yeah I learned a lot from that song in particular, that one was really popular so I studied what made it so good and tried to get the best parts of everything into five songs ya know
HCK! – On the last album it seemed like each song had a different vibe to it like each one was distinct, there are very few artist I get that from. Where usually you get just one solid sound throughout the album that’s something I really dug about [“The Human Condition“] EP where I got into “Shut-Up” early on and then as I started listening to the other stuff rather than hearing five more tracks like that each one was different. is that something you go in trying to do or is that just how it came out, is that more of a subconscious thing?
J- Not a lot of people heard my first album but on my first album it wasn’t something I was trying to do. I think what it is, is if you look around my room I have like every instrument just lying around; I’ve got a cello, a guitar, a trumpet, a ukelele, a piano right here, synth, it’s kind of everything at my disposal I’ve been, I’m lucky to have a voice that I can do different shit
HCK! – Right
J – So it comes out that way because I’ve got so many resources I have then I try in a diverse way try to do different things. When I hear an album I don’t wanna here the same slow album. Like in this day and age where we have free music… we have every song we ever created at our finger tips I listen to different stuff all the time. Why not create an album that is completely different every time cause if I won’t listen to it other people won’t listen to it. What I’m trying to do with this series is try to make it a little more diverse in the sense that each one represents a different type of music so one song is like 70’s disco, another is like nineties hip-hop and then I’ve got like a 2000 electro-pop kind of thing and then a metal/eighties prince kind of thing, I’ve got like an acoustic 60’s Bob Dylan-esc song.
HCK! – Nice, You’re still unsigned right?
J- Yeah, there’s been interest but my team and I haven’t had any reason to sign yet
HCK! – Outside of being a performer is sound engineering something you see yourself pursuing down the road, is that something you really enjoy doing or is that just a labor of love for yourself ?
J- Its something that’s a labor of love for myself. So much of the style comes through in production, I feel a huge advantage in there being no communicating between me and a producer. I can make it sound exactly how I want
HCK!- Now do you think that will affect you in the future if you ever have to work with somebody. Do you think that could be an issue maybe, having a vision in your head of it and dealing with the barriers in translation?
J- You know my management is trying to set me up with sound producers,it didn’t really work out because my vision was too specific. I can see myself collaborating with someone on a side project and in a context outside of my own major releases I’m totally open to trying different things. It’s just for the beta releases I want to convey my specific vision but outside of that I can imagine myself collaborating easily with any good producer .
HCK! – Tell me what’s different now as opposed to a year ago before you put out the last album.
J- Okay so the last album I was still figuring it out from all the angles, I was figuring out good music structures that could keep your attention I was very much figuring out the best way to present lyrics, still figuring out the sound engineering portion, it took me a while to like get it perfect in an album. It was a very stressful situation. With this time around it’s like very systemized, I think I’m a much better writer now, better sound engineer, and I got the presentation down. So now I’m free to just be creative with the music. So all the base foundation things are set up so now I can just branch out. I’m really free.
HCK!- What about the time period, have you felt more pressure to put this album out than you did with the last one? I feel like before the last one came out you probably had all the time in the world to create it or did you set a deadline for that one as well?
J- Um yeah the last one I had all the time in the world, and that was kind of stressful cause it means I wouldn’t be happy with myself unless it weren’t absolutely perfect. This time around I did have a deadline but I created it for myself and I new it would completely manifold to be completely happy with the final product,cause so many of the instances that were time consuming are now automated, if that makes sense.
HCK!-it makes complete sense. What are the shows like now as opposed to before, are people starting to come out ?
J- Yeah every single time it’s more and more coming out to see me and ya know the live show is a lot better than it use to be, I got a backing band and we practice all the time, we have a lot of fun and try to just bring out all the passion I wanna put on a vibrant consuming performance. My team and I think the live show is very very important.
HCK!- I feel like of any time live performance is probably more important now than ever if your trying to build a career. Anyone can put out one good song and everyone notices it but if they come to town and you don’t see them deliver it’s so easy to just throw them aside cause there’s so much music out there
J- it’s like the fans put faith in you when you have good recordings and then when you have a bad live performance they lose faith, like i recently saw the godfather, everybody judges me for this,but I recently saw the Godfather for the first time and I remember the scene where the families are all together and the godfather, the original godfather, is like “you all know that I’m a man of my word” right and that was like his enemies believing his word that was like him being dedicated to being a man of his word. So I feel, especially at this early stage, I have a responsibility to not let the hype get bigger than it actually is. There’s a lot of hype but I feel like I can live up to it, but the live show, if I don’t put on a good live show people will lose faith, people will be like well he makes fake shit on production or something to make it sound good.
HCK!- That seems to be the Achilles heal for guys like you who do all instruments and everything, once you get live and you see it you just write it off as well he’s a good producer, he knows what he’s doing, but… Tell me about maybe one bad show that stands out in your mind cause I’m sure that getting to this vibrant live performance it took a lot of work. Is there maybe one experience that stands out in your mind that you keep with you?
J- well uh I use to do a loop station show, I think there’s videos on the internet, it was cool but it didn’t let me express emotion it was… it was kind of pretentious.
HKC! – Really? That’s the way that it appeared to other people or the way it felt to you?
J- The way it felt to me. It was more of an intellectual show than an amusing passionate emotional show. I feel like music is just pathos you know, but to everyone it’s different, but to me I think it should be mostly pathos presented in a good way so as soon as I switched to a band i tried different people out. Now I’ve got a set band it’s just a lot better, but yeah we’ve had terrible shows and but the key is we learn from those shows we’re honest with ourselves, if it’s bad we know it’s bad it makes us try twice as hard and that’s my philosophy with every front; if you make something bad as mistake except it as a mistake immediately, learn from it, study it, force yourself to watch it… we video tape our shows and force ourselves to look at the failures.
HCK!- I think that’s great, there’s a lot of bands I’ve wished would do that. Are you touring now or what’s that looking like in the near future?
J- The plan is to tour over the summer. So we had a showcase, my team and I had a showcase two weeks ago in LA and some of the big booking agencies were there, well they said I wasn’t ready yet so… I think what they’re waiting for is for me to get big enough so they don’t have to work to promote me. which is not smart because then I could just hire someone else.So what we’re going to do is my manager Ryan, he’s going to book a summer tour. He does all the publicity he’s an incredibly smart business man, he’s going to be able to do it, so we’re planning a summer tour no matter what.
HCK!- Hopefully you can make it through Indiana. So let’s get into the new album, originally you planned on releasing it as a one unit and now… explain how that’s going to go over the next few weeks
J- Alright I guess I should tell the story. I originally planned on releasing a ten song album over January. and then it all happened a little less than a week ago, me and my manager, Ryan, we were discussing well is the album still relevant today in the internet world and what we thought about was that I can’t pay attention, when an artist releases an album usually I like two/three songs and then I forget about the rest, like i don’t want to but it happens, and then we thought about well a lot of the good ones get lost in the shuffle so I had this four song demo already out for the industry people, we realized these four songs flow really well I just needed one more which i finished yesterday.
HCK! – Yeah when [Ryan] sent the email over it said you were still working on the songs, since you’ve already set that five week date I thought that was kind of crazy
J- They come together fast. That’s one of the reasons we’re doing it in a five week series. Partly a series because it’s once a week and at the end of the five weeks it turns out to be a cohesive thing. and it’s just five songs which I think is perfect because it’s manageable, there’s no overwhelmingness for you not to listen to the entire thing, it doesn’t get in the way of your life with one song a week. Each song has it’s own artwork which each of the pictures are very appropriate I’m very happy with how they turned out.
HCK! Yeah that’s awesome. What’s one aspect of music you’ve discovered in the last year that maybe frustrates you or upsets you ?
J- Frustrates me? It’s that the music industry hasn’t adapted to the internet yet completely. What frustrates me is that there’s no unifying network. like Ryan has worked really hard for people and blogs to get them to pay attention, he’s done it really well, he’s organized his network in very efficient manner, he talks to every person individually, he’s very personable, so it’s been a lot of hard work it’s been a beautiful challenge and a lot of fun but I think in the coming years we need to figure out, people in the music industry need to figure out, that we need to change immediately like the next step is streaming. We need to accept that people get music for free,
HCK! – It’s almost impossible to go forward without excepting that
J- Impossible. So like streaming is the next step, like Spotify is one, itunes is going to go streaming, I’ve been reading stuff about that too. The frustrating thing is that Ryan and I ,as a team, and Cyndi is also my LA manager, we all as a team want to be progressive but we need to figure out a way to do that without upsetting tradition, it’s a balance between trying to do new things but also having industry people understand. If that makes sense.
HCK! -yeah it makes complete sense
I’ve cut a little from the interview in respect to length and the realization that most of us have a fifteen second attention span. It’s worth noting though that Jhameel did tell me that all the pictures for the upcoming track releases and promotions were shot in his living room.
Here’s the first track “Collision,” it should help you understand why I’m so stoked about this guys music and why his taking the time to sit down and have a conversation for Heycoolkid! meant so much to me.

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