![]() ![]() The album settles down again with “Late Home Tonight” with some interesting strings and acoustic guitars accompanying Waters speaking before the calmness is shattered by the sound of a huge explosion. “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” is musically the best song on the album, with a strong rock arrangement and interesting chord progressions, but it again comes off preachy lyrically. “Perfect Sense, Part I” contains a beautiful moody piano and dual lead vocals by Waters and female soul singer PP Arnold, while “Perfect Sense, Part II” contains a sequence where sports commentator Marv Albert darkly simulates a nuclear missile attack as a sporting event. Driven by the bass of future American Idol judge Randy Jackson, we hear Waters voice for the first time on this track and it is quite clear that his voice is very rough and shot. The song abruptly “changes channels” into the upbeat and funky “What God Wants, Part I”, the first single from the album, banned by the BBC due to controversial lyrics. “The Ballad of Bill Hubbard” starts the album off with a spoken word story of the desperation of trying to save a comrade in the battle lines during World War I, recited in the first person by Alf Razell after some introductory David Gilmour-like guitar motifs by Jeff Beck, who continues to add licks even after the recital commences. Roger Waters – Lead Vocals, Bass, Synthesizer, Guitars Produced by: Roger Waters, Nick Griffiths, & Patrick Leonard ![]() The quality of production by Waters, Nick Griffiths, and Patrick Leonard is simply superb and makes this album worthwhile for any audiophile even if you like nothing else. Amused to Death is mixed in QSound, a virtual surround sound, which enhances the spatial feel of the audio along with the various sound effects sprinkled throughout the album. Waters’ enlisted legendary guitarist Jeff Beck to play lead guitar and a whole host of talent to provide additional music and vocal support. Waters is not.Ĭonversely, the album is superb musically. Just take the example of Waters harping on television habits from his perspective at the dawn of the Internet age. But the greatest offense may just be the mere fact that so much of the lyrical material seems dated and irrelevant, unlike past efforts which seem timeless and relevant to any era. He also applies moral relativism to the “Germans killing the Jews” and the “Jews killing the Arabs”. However, the logic of the vast rants on Amused to Death is convoluted, such as when Waters somehow ties Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists (deposed in 1949) to the slaughter at Tienanmen Square 40 years later by the very Communists that deposed them. Waters makes a few good points on these varied subjects, with the better use of sarcasm in these instances. Lyrically, the album is brimming with hate on a variety of subjects from capitalism to America to religion to war to television to Stanley Kubrick to Andrew Lloyd Weber. In fact, there appears to be some direct sampling from Pink Floyd songs “Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk”, “Echoes” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”. While the album follows the same calm, storytelling, musically rich template of Waters’ two previous solo efforts, this album seems to be the most directly influenced by that material of Waters’ former band, Pink Floyd. They come to the conclusion that we “amused ourselves to death”. The title came from a book by author Neil Postman, which explored the history of the media and the concept (although cloudy) is of aliens arriving after the extinction of humans and finding all our skeletons sitting around television sets and trying to work out why it was that our end came before its time. For what turned out to be his final solo studio album (to date, 20 years and counting), Roger Waters composed a complex (and often confused) concept album called Amused to Death.
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![]() ![]() The Bohr atomic model later replaced the Rutherford model. Rutherford linked this motion to the orbit of planets around the sun. These central cores are called the atomic. The angle of deflection from the particles also showed that there was most likely a strong positively charged nucleus in the middle of the atom with negatively charged particles circling around it. All the positive charges and the entire mass number of the atom are concentrated in a very small part of the atom. This made the most sense, since it explained why so few particles were hitting the gold foil. Rutherford proposed that an atom is composed of empty space mostly with electrons orbiting in a set, predictable paths around fixed, positively charged nucleus. The Scattering of and Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom. Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) was a British experimental physicist best known for developing a model of the atom that contained a central nucleus of positive charge surrounded. As a result, Rutherford created a theory that stated that most of an atom was empty space. Instead, in 1911, Rutherford cooked up a new model of the atom in which all of the positive charge is crammed inside a tiny, massive nucleus about ten thousand. One of the alpha particles is illustrated hitting the nucleus of an atom of. Only about one in 8,000 was deflected away into the surrounding detecting screen. Rutherfords disintegration theory of atoms and the experimental results. Through this experiment, Rutherford determined that the vast majority of the particles he fired at the gold foil passed right through it. The detecting screen had zinc sulfide in it to allow Rutherford to detect the presence of particles after they passed through the filtering gold foil. In 1912 Niels Bohr joined him at Manchester and he adapted Rutherfords nuclear structure to Max Plancks quantum theory and so obtained a theory of atomic. Ernest Rutherford’s gold foil experiment involved a particle emitter, a round detecting screen with a slit in it and a slip of gold foil in the middle. The rear of the sound bar is outfitted with a comprehensive array of connections, including two digital optical inputs, one digital coaxial input, a set of stereo RCA analog inputs and a subwoofer output. That should work out to about 14 watts for each speaker, assuming the power is evenly distributed. Seven amplifiers drive each transducer for a total of 100 watts of power. ML says the crossover point between the tweeters and low-frequency drivers is 3 kHz. A tweeter/driver pair occupies the sound bar’s extreme left and right edges, with the remaining tweeter sandwiched in between two more 4-inch drivers at the center. The three tweeters are mated 4-inch fiber cone drivers. 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The question is, how does Martin Logan’s (ML) take on the sound bar stack up against its premium pals, and does it earn the extra grand it asks for in comparison to budget bars? We found out. MartinLogan is joined by the likes of Bowers and Wilkins, Yamaha and Definitive Technology, all of which have put some considerable engineering efforts toward making bars that sound so big, you won’t miss all those clunky components and rat’s nest of wires. ![]() That all sounds great to us, but $1,500 for a sound bar? Is the woo of a high performance, single-cabinet solution so strong that one would forego a proper home theater rig? You know, $1,500 can net you a respectable 5.1 speaker system and an A/V receiver these days.Īpparently, the answer to our rhetorical question is: yes. 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I believe it shouldn’t be forced, that we should motivate people to be inspired to work for us, because it is a great company.”Īfter a few more questions and presentations, the “ShowOff” begins. Basse then interjects, “We want to bring more women into the company. “I’m not the right one to ask,” Basse ducks, before another executive reveals that the total percentage of women in the workforce is just six. “What is our proportion of women to men in the workplace?” asks London’s Ross Fellows-Patel, who is no outsider to Joe and the Juice - but an employee. Which is why, when he opens it up to questions, the first one is a crowd-silencer. Basse may come across like a middle-aged dad establishing street cred with a foul mouth, but he commands an enormous degree of respect in this room. He is the leader of this cult, the fresh juice and coffee company Joe & the Juice, a business that has grown in 15 years from a single shop in Copenhagen to an empire with 212 locations in 14 countries. A branch at Dubai's Galleria Al Barsha will come next, with an opening date of September 27 pencilled in.Before him stands a legion of mostly handsome Danes, mostly half Basse’s age, hanging on his every word. The brand, which has about 300 stores in 16 countries, is planning to open a further eight outposts in the UAE. Joe & The Juice also has a retail section, offering up branded flasks, liquorice sweets from Lakrids by Bulow and coffee from Cypher Roastery. The decor is minimalist yet vibrant, with wooden accents, bonsai and eclectic wall art. The d3 branch can seat 154 guests, and offers indoor seating and a terrace with Burj Khalifa views. The spicy tuna mousse sandwich is something of a signature, while vegans can get one with avocado, mozzarella and vegan pesto. The compact food menu comprises six types of sandwiches, plus a couple of salads and breakfast bowls. There are plenty of lattes, cortados and macchiatos here for coffee connoisseurs as well, with blends and beans sourced from Uganda and Guatemala, while tea lovers can sip on vanilla-matcha or green mandarin among others. The team reveals its most popular drink with dairy consumers is the Power Shake, made with strawberry, banana and vanilla milk. The Insta-hit Blue Magic is made from blue spirulina, avocado, dates, lemon and oat-coconut, while Re-build 2.0 comes with raw cacao, banana, avocado dates and choco-almond. The brand is also famed for its protein-infused power shakes, and offers four vegan options. The Dubai menu features close to 15 juices, including Joe’s two most popular options - the Green Mile, with broccoli, spinach, avocado, lemon and apple, and Go Away Doc, with carrot, ginger and apple. Established by jet-setting entrepreneur Kaspar Basse in 2002, Joe & The Juice has made its foray into the UAE in collaboration with Lavoya, the restaurant operator behind Barbar and Dave’s Hot Chicken. The launch party for the UAE’s first Joe & The Juice on Monday was abuzz with activity, as fans of the Danish brand thronged to the Dubai Design District for healthy drinks and nibbles, complete with tracks spun by DJ Tala Samman.Ī second branch of the Copenhagen-born brand also opened at Mall of the Emirates on the same day. |
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