Age Machine
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Employee fraud 'time' is a big problem in some environments in which the simple act of clock for a company is not protected or not taken by a supervisor. In other words, when someone watches someone else's use of paper (sometimes called Buddy-punching) a company that is losing money and efficiency is decline. Worse however is that the rest of society can see this in progress and you can actually see a greater effect for the lack of productivity employee discontent.
Some companies have tried to solve this problem by installing CCTV, employee clock are, but this can often lead to resentment of those who feel penalized because of a few dishonest. Over recent years, however, many solutions have been found for this problem and are in place systems that can make process discreet, private, yet eliminate fraud and 'Buddy punching' completely.
But this will never go away? Sometimes the solution of problem like this should not be heavy handed with the technology and try to use the much more subtle and systems that simply do not give the employee a reason to try to circumvent the system.
E 'from the IT industry that we can learn as much here because, as they have found more security put in place around a particular system, website or a piece of hardware, the more people will try to break it, compromise or find a way to do it.
In our experience, has always been much better to provide a secure solution with HR other techniques, such as incentives for employees is not a reason to try to break the system or at least force them in an attempt technically fraudulent activity.
Very often the ideas incentives should not be expensive or burdensome for the company and extremely simple, as prizes or even free time and flexible working can lead to increased productivity beyond the actual cost to the business.
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Machine Age Voodoo
$10.99 Machine Age Voodoo |
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Successful Living in This Machine Age
$32.14 Successful Living in This Machine Age |
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Machine-Age Ideology
$35 Machine-Age Ideology |
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Recasting the Machine Age
$26.95 Recasting the Machine Age |
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Machine-Age Comedy
$27.95 Machine-Age Comedy |
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Recasting The Machine Age
$34.95 Recasting the Machine Age recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen decentralized, small-scale plants within sixty miles of Ford headquarters in Dearborn. The visionary who and become famous in the early twentieth century for his huge and technologically advanced Highland Park and Rouge River complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the late 1910s and continuing until his death in 1947. According ot Howard P. Segal, Ford decided to create a series of village industries, each of which would manufacture one or two parts for the company's vehicles. Although he imagined that the rural setting of these decentralized plants would allow workers be become part-time farmers, Ford's plan did not represent a reaction against modern technology. The idea was to continue to employ the latest technology, but on a much smaller scale--and for the most part it worked. All nineteen of these village indusstries helped save their communities from decline, in several case ensuring their survival through the Great Depression. The majority of workers in the village industries, moreover, appear to have preferred their working and living conditions to those in Detroit and Dearborn. Ford may well have been motivated to spend great sums on the village industries in part to prevent the unionization of his company. But these industrial experiments represented much more than union busting. They were significant examples of profound social, cultural, and ideological shifts in America between the World Wars as reflected in the thought and practice of one notable industralist.Segal recounts the development of the plants, their fate after Ford's death, their recent revival as part of Michigan's renewed appreciation of its industrial heritage, and their connections to contemporary efforts to decentralize high-tech working and living arrangements. |
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SPK - Machine Age Voodoo
$18.13 Personnel: Sinon, Mary Bradfield-Taylor (vocals); James Kelly (guitar); Graham Jesse (saxophone); Jeff Bartolomei, Phil Scorgie, Sam McNally (keyboards).SPK`s first album after adding Graeme Revell to the lineup features another leap towards dance-rock and away from the group`s industrial past. The fusion of `80s dance and more experimental electronics is certainly prescient, with vocals still on their way from the rigidities of mechanistic synth-pop to surprisingly emotional. ~ John Bush Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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SPK - Machine Age Voodoo
$13.98 Personnel: Sinon, Mary Bradfield-Taylor (vocals); James Kelly (guitar); Graham Jesse (saxophone); Jeff Bartolomei, Phil Scorgie, Sam McNally (keyboards).SPK`s first album after adding Graeme Revell to the lineup features another leap towards dance-rock and away from the group`s industrial past. The fusion of `80s dance and more experimental electronics is certainly prescient, with vocals still on their way from the rigidities of mechanistic synth-pop to surprisingly emotional. ~ John Bush Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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SPK - Machine Age Voodoo
$14.98 Personnel: Sinon, Mary Bradfield-Taylor (vocals); James Kelly (guitar); Graham Jesse (saxophone); Jeff Bartolomei, Phil Scorgie, Sam McNally (keyboards).SPK`s first album after adding Graeme Revell to the lineup features another leap towards dance-rock and away from the group`s industrial past. The fusion of `80s dance and more experimental electronics is certainly prescient, with vocals still on their way from the rigidities of mechanistic synth-pop to surprisingly emotional. ~ John Bush Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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SPK - Machine Age Voodoo
$12.73 Personnel: Sinon, Mary Bradfield-Taylor (vocals); James Kelly (guitar); Graham Jesse (saxophone); Jeff Bartolomei, Phil Scorgie, Sam McNally (keyboards).SPK`s first album after adding Graeme Revell to the lineup features another leap towards dance-rock and away from the group`s industrial past. The fusion of `80s dance and more experimental electronics is certainly prescient, with vocals still on their way from the rigidities of mechanistic synth-pop to surprisingly emotional. ~ John Bush Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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In the Age of the Smart Machine
$33.77 A Harvard social scientist argues that today's computer revolution in the workplace confronts us with a momentous choice either to automate, dehumanizing work and alienating workers, or to informate, giving workers the knowledge to make critical, collaborative judgments. |
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Successful Living in This Machine Age
$23.56 Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster Publication date: 1931 Subjects: Industries Machinery in the workplace Economics Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Machine Age in the Hills
$20.49 Publisher: New York The Macmillan Company Publication date: 1933 Subjects: Coal miners -- Kentucky Coal miners -- West Virginia Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia Bituminous coal Appalachians (People) Kentucky -- Social conditions West Virginia -- Social conditions Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. |
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Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816-1870
$26.33 Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816-1870 |
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The Genie in the Machine
$18.63 The Genie in the Machine examines how computers are being used to automate the process of inventing, and explains the steps that high-tech companies, patent lawyers, inventors, and consumers should take to thrive in the upcoming Artificial Invention Age. |
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The Arc and the Machine
$72.38 The Arc and the Machine is a timely and original defense of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed. |
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The Citizen Machine
$18.01 The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television''s formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV''s potential to mold the right kind of citizen. Based on years of path-breaking archival work, The Citizen Machine sheds new light on the place of television in the postwar American political landscape. |
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Kitty Knitting Machine
$19.99 kitty knitting machine. Age 6 and up. Hello Kitty Knitting Machine w/ 2 skeins of yarns Includes: 1 Knitting Machine 2 Skeins of Yarn 1 Yarn Needle Project Booklet |
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The Star Machine
$23.72 A leading film authority presents a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis. |
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The Star Machine
$12.63 From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars. With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio star machine worked when it worked, how it failed when it didn''t, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be. She gives us case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the system: the awesomely beautiful (and disillusioned) Tyrone Power; the seductive, disobedient Lana Turner; and a dazzling cast of others. She anatomizes their careers, showing how their fame happened, and what happened to them as a result. Deeply engrossing, full of energy, wit, and wisdom, The Star Machine is destined to become an classic of the film canon. |
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Tattoo Machine
$9.33 As the proprietor of the legendary Sea Tramp Tattoo Company, in Portland, Oregon, Jeff Johnson has inked gangbangers, age-defying moms, and sociopaths; he''s defused brawls and tended delicate egos. In Tattoo Machine, Johnson illuminates a world where art, drama, and commerce come together in highly entertaining theater. A tattoo shop is no longer a den of outcasts and degenerates, but a place where committed and schooled artists who paint on living canvases develop close bonds and bitter rivalries, where tattoo legends and innovators are equally revered, and where the potential for disaster lurks in every corner. |
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Washing Machine
$180 Children can roll the round button for the machine to create its sound and function. It also comes with a place to put detergent. How to play This set provides opportunity for children to learn about the washing machine, the mechanism by turning the knobs and also another way of washing clothes rather than traditional way. Children can role play various characters and tell imaginative stories helping to stimulate imagination and creativity. At the same time they will learn how to wash clothes using the washing machine by imitating their parents and also the benefits of the machine. Parents can teach children how to help and take care of their cleanliness and also include about moral principle and sharing with others. Children can play in groups helping to develop their social skill. This set can be played together with All PlanToys Kitchen Set. Dimensions: W 15.6" x D 12.2" x H 23.6" Age: 3 years + Gift Wrap not available. Shipping Note: This item ships via UPS Ground within contiguous United States only. Cannot be shipped to AK/HI, PO boxes, US territories, or APO/FPO addresses. Green Toy - Green Company. PlanToys recognizes the importance of promoting good quality of life, balanced with concern for environment. They are committed to minimizing their impact on nature and their toys are made from recycled rubberwood that is non chemically treated. PlanToys simplicity in design is combined with innovative use of materials and real-valued function encouraging more creative play in a good learning environment. |
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Swinging the Machine
$27.95 In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives. According to Joel Dinerstein, it was no different in America between the two World Wars -- an era sometimes known as the machine age -- when innovative forms of music and dance helped a newly urbanized population cope with the increased mechanization of modern life. Grand spectacles such as the Ziegfield Follies and the movies of Busby Berkeley captured the American ethos of mass production, with chorus girls as the cogs of these fast, flowing pleasure vehicles.Yet it was African American culture, Dinerstein argues, that ultimately provided the means of aesthetic adaptation to the accelerated tempo of modernity. Drawing on a legacy of engagement with and resistance to technological change, with deep roots in West African dance and music, black artists developed new cultural forms that sought to humanize machines. In The Ballad of John Henry, the epic toast Shine, and countless blues songs, African Americans first addressed the challenge of industrialization. Jazz musicians drew on the symbol of the train within this tradition to create a set of train-derived aural motifs and rhythms, harnessing mechanical power to cultural forms. Tap dance and the lindy hop brought machine aesthetics to the human body, while the new rhythm section of big band swing mimicked the industrial soundscape of northern cities. In Dinerstein's view, the capacity of these artistic innovations to replicate the inherent qualities of the machine -- speed, power, repetition, flow, precision -- helps explain both their enormous popularity and social function in American life. |
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The Time Machine
$5.99 When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings--unearth their secret and then retum to his own time--until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen. H.G. Well's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition, and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction. |
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Age
$11.99 Age |
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The Age
$23.93 The Age |
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MacHine
$5.99 MacHine |
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War Machine: The Rationalization of Slaughter in the Modern Age
$29.35 This fascinating book examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the origins of modern philosophies about the nature of war and conflict. |
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Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America
$63.32 The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, William Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes in the lives of craft apprentices. In this book, W. J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories, gleaned from numerous letters, diaries, and memoirs, into a narrative that examines the varied experiences of individual apprentices and documents the massive changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution. |
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The Everything Machine (Hardcover)
$18.01 The citizens of planet Quirk don`t even bother getting out of bed any more, they have a wonderful Everything Machine that does it all. Need to paint the house or bake a pie? The Everything Machine will do it. The magical machine even fills in coloring books. But one day, the machine breaks, and Quirkians find that they have to actually do everything for themselves? Is this the end of a culture or the beginning of a fabulous new age? With funky illustrations. |
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The Everything Machine (Hardcover)
$13.89 The citizens of planet Quirk don`t even bother getting out of bed any more, they have a wonderful Everything Machine that does it all. Need to paint the house or bake a pie? The Everything Machine will do it. The magical machine even fills in coloring books. But one day, the machine breaks, and Quirkians find that they have to actually do everything for themselves? Is this the end of a culture or the beginning of a fabulous new age? With funky illustrations. |
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The Everything Machine (Hardcover)
$14.88 The citizens of planet Quirk don`t even bother getting out of bed any more, they have a wonderful Everything Machine that does it all. Need to paint the house or bake a pie? The Everything Machine will do it. The magical machine even fills in coloring books. But one day, the machine breaks, and Quirkians find that they have to actually do everything for themselves? Is this the end of a culture or the beginning of a fabulous new age? With funky illustrations. |
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The Everything Machine (Hardcover)
$12.64 The citizens of planet Quirk don`t even bother getting out of bed any more, they have a wonderful Everything Machine that does it all. Need to paint the house or bake a pie? The Everything Machine will do it. The magical machine even fills in coloring books. But one day, the machine breaks, and Quirkians find that they have to actually do everything for themselves? Is this the end of a culture or the beginning of a fabulous new age? With funky illustrations. |
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The Soul of a New Machine
$15.56 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances. Tracy Kidder has written a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition. |
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The Soul of a New Machine
$10.66 Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the mystique of programmers, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. By tracing computer culture to its roots, by exploring the soul of the machine that has revolutionized the world, Kidder succeeds as no other writer has done in capturing the essential spirit of the computer age. |
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Iron Man 2 War Machine
$22.89 The Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine is a buildable set of armor with 26 magnetic pieces. With its revolutionary magnetic design, war machine can be built and taken apart in seconds.*Brand: Megabrands *Name: Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine *Model: 29548A *Materials: Plastic, metal and magnet *Color: Multi *Dimensions: 9 inches tall x 7 inches wide x 2 inches long *Weight: 0.75 pounds *Age Recommendation: 6 years and up *Assembly required *No batteries required |
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Iron Man 2 War Machine
$17.99 The Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine is a buildable set of armor with 26 magnetic pieces. With its revolutionary magnetic design, war machine can be built and taken apart in seconds.*Brand: Megabrands *Name: Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine *Model: 29548A *Materials: Plastic, metal and magnet *Color: Multi *Dimensions: 9 inches tall x 7 inches wide x 2 inches long *Weight: 0.75 pounds *Age Recommendation: 6 years and up *Assembly required *No batteries required |
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Iron Man 2 War Machine
$18.91 The Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine is a buildable set of armor with 26 magnetic pieces. With its revolutionary magnetic design, war machine can be built and taken apart in seconds.*Brand: Megabrands *Name: Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine *Model: 29548A *Materials: Plastic, metal and magnet *Color: Multi *Dimensions: 9 inches tall x 7 inches wide x 2 inches long *Weight: 0.75 pounds *Age Recommendation: 6 years and up *Assembly required *No batteries required |
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Iron Man 2 War Machine
$16.08 The Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine is a buildable set of armor with 26 magnetic pieces. With its revolutionary magnetic design, war machine can be built and taken apart in seconds.*Brand: Megabrands *Name: Iron Man 2 Metal War Machine *Model: 29548A *Materials: Plastic, metal and magnet *Color: Multi *Dimensions: 9 inches tall x 7 inches wide x 2 inches long *Weight: 0.75 pounds *Age Recommendation: 6 years and up *Assembly required *No batteries required |
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Bloodjinn - This Machine Runs On Empty *
$17.94 Bloodjinn: Justin Carter (bass instrument); Brian Lewis (drums); Kyle Rakes, Joel Collins , McKenzie Bell.Personnel: Joel Collins (vocals); Kyle Rakes, McKenzie Bell (guitar).Audio Mixer: Jamie King.Recording information: VuDu Studios.This Machine Runs on Empty is Bloodjinn`s third label in as many albums. Interestingly, their post-hardcore, thrashed out brand of melodic metal has remained intact and in fact has only gotten better with age. Blastbeats and big, big guitars that lie distorted by clear and fast metal riffs and dual leads -- can anyone say Thin Lizzy? -- with Joel Collins now-trademark lead vocals. Despite more mature lyrics, Collins keeps it direct, lean and mean and the band follows suit. The sound is enormous and menacing, but its hooks draw the listener unmistakably toward the center of each cut. While the album is virtually seamless from beginning to end, there are a number of standouts including "Mirrored Human," "In the First Degree," "A Moment of Clarity," "The Unloved," and the title track. Music this heavy isn`t usually this deep while keeping its musical edge raw and intact. For This Machine Runs on Empty, though, Bloodjinn is a machine alright, yet it is anything but empty. ~ Thom Jurek Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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Bloodjinn - This Machine Runs On Empty *
$14.83 Bloodjinn: Justin Carter (bass instrument); Brian Lewis (drums); Kyle Rakes, Joel Collins , McKenzie Bell.Personnel: Joel Collins (vocals); Kyle Rakes, McKenzie Bell (guitar).Audio Mixer: Jamie King.Recording information: VuDu Studios.This Machine Runs on Empty is Bloodjinn`s third label in as many albums. Interestingly, their post-hardcore, thrashed out brand of melodic metal has remained intact and in fact has only gotten better with age. Blastbeats and big, big guitars that lie distorted by clear and fast metal riffs and dual leads -- can anyone say Thin Lizzy? -- with Joel Collins now-trademark lead vocals. Despite more mature lyrics, Collins keeps it direct, lean and mean and the band follows suit. The sound is enormous and menacing, but its hooks draw the listener unmistakably toward the center of each cut. While the album is virtually seamless from beginning to end, there are a number of standouts including "Mirrored Human," "In the First Degree," "A Moment of Clarity," "The Unloved," and the title track. Music this heavy isn`t usually this deep while keeping its musical edge raw and intact. For This Machine Runs on Empty, though, Bloodjinn is a machine alright, yet it is anything but empty. ~ Thom Jurek Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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Bloodjinn - This Machine Runs On Empty *
$13.84 Bloodjinn: Justin Carter (bass instrument); Brian Lewis (drums); Kyle Rakes, Joel Collins , McKenzie Bell.Personnel: Joel Collins (vocals); Kyle Rakes, McKenzie Bell (guitar).Audio Mixer: Jamie King.Recording information: VuDu Studios.This Machine Runs on Empty is Bloodjinn`s third label in as many albums. Interestingly, their post-hardcore, thrashed out brand of melodic metal has remained intact and in fact has only gotten better with age. Blastbeats and big, big guitars that lie distorted by clear and fast metal riffs and dual leads -- can anyone say Thin Lizzy? -- with Joel Collins now-trademark lead vocals. Despite more mature lyrics, Collins keeps it direct, lean and mean and the band follows suit. The sound is enormous and menacing, but its hooks draw the listener unmistakably toward the center of each cut. While the album is virtually seamless from beginning to end, there are a number of standouts including "Mirrored Human," "In the First Degree," "A Moment of Clarity," "The Unloved," and the title track. Music this heavy isn`t usually this deep while keeping its musical edge raw and intact. For This Machine Runs on Empty, though, Bloodjinn is a machine alright, yet it is anything but empty. ~ Thom Jurek Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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Bloodjinn - This Machine Runs On Empty *
$12.6 Bloodjinn: Justin Carter (bass instrument); Brian Lewis (drums); Kyle Rakes, Joel Collins , McKenzie Bell.Personnel: Joel Collins (vocals); Kyle Rakes, McKenzie Bell (guitar).Audio Mixer: Jamie King.Recording information: VuDu Studios.This Machine Runs on Empty is Bloodjinn`s third label in as many albums. Interestingly, their post-hardcore, thrashed out brand of melodic metal has remained intact and in fact has only gotten better with age. Blastbeats and big, big guitars that lie distorted by clear and fast metal riffs and dual leads -- can anyone say Thin Lizzy? -- with Joel Collins now-trademark lead vocals. Despite more mature lyrics, Collins keeps it direct, lean and mean and the band follows suit. The sound is enormous and menacing, but its hooks draw the listener unmistakably toward the center of each cut. While the album is virtually seamless from beginning to end, there are a number of standouts including "Mirrored Human," "In the First Degree," "A Moment of Clarity," "The Unloved," and the title track. Music this heavy isn`t usually this deep while keeping its musical edge raw and intact. For This Machine Runs on Empty, though, Bloodjinn is a machine alright, yet it is anything but empty. ~ Thom Jurek Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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Soft Machine - Softs [7/6]
$28.49 At this point in the band`s history, Soft Machine was a little bit like the original axe that George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree -- original except that the head had been replaced three times and the handle twice. On Softs, Mike Ratledge, the only remaining original bandmember present on Bundles, the group`s preceding Harvest LP, was relegated to guest status, contributing synthesizer to only two tracks, "Song of Aeolus" and "Ban-Ban Caliban." Otherwise, keyboard duties now fell completely to Karl Jenkins, who joined the band prior to the recording of Six and had gradually taken over the conceptual reins as the Softs finished their tenure with Columbia and moved over to Harvest. On Softs more than ever before, Soft Machine was Jenkins` band; he composed fully seven of the LP`s 11 tracks, making the album a vehicle for his own artistic conception. And yet, as Soft Machine albums go, this one is just fine, thank you. Jenkins had always put his own personal stamp on the material he wrote for the band, but he also retained elements of a Soft Machine style that emerged around the time Ratledge began penning LP side-long opuses on Third: a marriage of modalism and minimalism with simple but memorable themes in layered counterpoint and an occasional backdrop of rippling, echoey overdubbed electric keyboards, giving the music a trippy, trance-inducing quality. Nimble keyboard and reed solos were also an important element of the Soft Machine sound, although, as the band entered its Harvest fusion period, they tended to take a back seat to the work of fleet-fingered electric guitarists, first Allan Holdsworth on Bundles and then John Etheridge here. With Etheridge proving that Holdsworth wasn`t England`s only blindingly fast fusion guitar riff-meister, and with new saxophonist Alan Wakeman being a somewhat stronger reedman than Jenkins, the Softs lineup was plenty strong enough in the soloing department, so Jenkins could concentrate on overdubbing an arsenal of keyboards to give the music its overall structure and mood. Meanwhile, the Roy Babbington (bass) and John Marshall (drums) rhythm-section team, intact since Seven, was as strong as ever, kicking the band into overdrive at the drop of a hi-hat. While Softs has plenty to satisfy the Canterbury and jazz-rock fusion fan, another stylistic element -- new age -- can be heard blowing in with the synthesized wind and strings of the slow and lovely "Song of Aeolus." A precarious balance is usually maintained and the music keeps its footing in jazz-rock fusion, although Softs certainly has more polish than grit. Moments of subtlety and understatement, like the pastoral soprano saxophone and acoustic guitar duet of the opening "Aubade" and Etheridge`s folk-jazz duet with himself on the album-closing "Etka," are balanced by passages of high drama, or perhaps grandiosity -- so many layers of guitars and keyboards are piled onto the closing of &quo |
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Soft Machine - Softs [7/6]
$23.54 At this point in the band`s history, Soft Machine was a little bit like the original axe that George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree -- original except that the head had been replaced three times and the handle twice. On Softs, Mike Ratledge, the only remaining original bandmember present on Bundles, the group`s preceding Harvest LP, was relegated to guest status, contributing synthesizer to only two tracks, "Song of Aeolus" and "Ban-Ban Caliban." Otherwise, keyboard duties now fell completely to Karl Jenkins, who joined the band prior to the recording of Six and had gradually taken over the conceptual reins as the Softs finished their tenure with Columbia and moved over to Harvest. On Softs more than ever before, Soft Machine was Jenkins` band; he composed fully seven of the LP`s 11 tracks, making the album a vehicle for his own artistic conception. And yet, as Soft Machine albums go, this one is just fine, thank you. Jenkins had always put his own personal stamp on the material he wrote for the band, but he also retained elements of a Soft Machine style that emerged around the time Ratledge began penning LP side-long opuses on Third: a marriage of modalism and minimalism with simple but memorable themes in layered counterpoint and an occasional backdrop of rippling, echoey overdubbed electric keyboards, giving the music a trippy, trance-inducing quality. Nimble keyboard and reed solos were also an important element of the Soft Machine sound, although, as the band entered its Harvest fusion period, they tended to take a back seat to the work of fleet-fingered electric guitarists, first Allan Holdsworth on Bundles and then John Etheridge here. With Etheridge proving that Holdsworth wasn`t England`s only blindingly fast fusion guitar riff-meister, and with new saxophonist Alan Wakeman being a somewhat stronger reedman than Jenkins, the Softs lineup was plenty strong enough in the soloing department, so Jenkins could concentrate on overdubbing an arsenal of keyboards to give the music its overall structure and mood. Meanwhile, the Roy Babbington (bass) and John Marshall (drums) rhythm-section team, intact since Seven, was as strong as ever, kicking the band into overdrive at the drop of a hi-hat. While Softs has plenty to satisfy the Canterbury and jazz-rock fusion fan, another stylistic element -- new age -- can be heard blowing in with the synthesized wind and strings of the slow and lovely "Song of Aeolus." A precarious balance is usually maintained and the music keeps its footing in jazz-rock fusion, although Softs certainly has more polish than grit. Moments of subtlety and understatement, like the pastoral soprano saxophone and acoustic guitar duet of the opening "Aubade" and Etheridge`s folk-jazz duet with himself on the album-closing "Etka," are balanced by passages of high drama, or perhaps grandiosity -- so many layers of guitars and keyboards are piled onto the closing of &quo |
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Soft Machine - Softs [7/6]
$21.98 At this point in the band`s history, Soft Machine was a little bit like the original axe that George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree -- original except that the head had been replaced three times and the handle twice. On Softs, Mike Ratledge, the only remaining original bandmember present on Bundles, the group`s preceding Harvest LP, was relegated to guest status, contributing synthesizer to only two tracks, "Song of Aeolus" and "Ban-Ban Caliban." Otherwise, keyboard duties now fell completely to Karl Jenkins, who joined the band prior to the recording of Six and had gradually taken over the conceptual reins as the Softs finished their tenure with Columbia and moved over to Harvest. On Softs more than ever before, Soft Machine was Jenkins` band; he composed fully seven of the LP`s 11 tracks, making the album a vehicle for his own artistic conception. And yet, as Soft Machine albums go, this one is just fine, thank you. Jenkins had always put his own personal stamp on the material he wrote for the band, but he also retained elements of a Soft Machine style that emerged around the time Ratledge began penning LP side-long opuses on Third: a marriage of modalism and minimalism with simple but memorable themes in layered counterpoint and an occasional backdrop of rippling, echoey overdubbed electric keyboards, giving the music a trippy, trance-inducing quality. Nimble keyboard and reed solos were also an important element of the Soft Machine sound, although, as the band entered its Harvest fusion period, they tended to take a back seat to the work of fleet-fingered electric guitarists, first Allan Holdsworth on Bundles and then John Etheridge here. With Etheridge proving that Holdsworth wasn`t England`s only blindingly fast fusion guitar riff-meister, and with new saxophonist Alan Wakeman being a somewhat stronger reedman than Jenkins, the Softs lineup was plenty strong enough in the soloing department, so Jenkins could concentrate on overdubbing an arsenal of keyboards to give the music its overall structure and mood. Meanwhile, the Roy Babbington (bass) and John Marshall (drums) rhythm-section team, intact since Seven, was as strong as ever, kicking the band into overdrive at the drop of a hi-hat. While Softs has plenty to satisfy the Canterbury and jazz-rock fusion fan, another stylistic element -- new age -- can be heard blowing in with the synthesized wind and strings of the slow and lovely "Song of Aeolus." A precarious balance is usually maintained and the music keeps its footing in jazz-rock fusion, although Softs certainly has more polish than grit. Moments of subtlety and understatement, like the pastoral soprano saxophone and acoustic guitar duet of the opening "Aubade" and Etheridge`s folk-jazz duet with himself on the album-closing "Etka," are balanced by passages of high drama, or perhaps grandiosity -- so many layers of guitars and keyboards are piled onto the closing of &quo |
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Soft Machine - Softs [7/6]
$20.01 At this point in the band`s history, Soft Machine was a little bit like the original axe that George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree -- original except that the head had been replaced three times and the handle twice. On Softs, Mike Ratledge, the only remaining original bandmember present on Bundles, the group`s preceding Harvest LP, was relegated to guest status, contributing synthesizer to only two tracks, "Song of Aeolus" and "Ban-Ban Caliban." Otherwise, keyboard duties now fell completely to Karl Jenkins, who joined the band prior to the recording of Six and had gradually taken over the conceptual reins as the Softs finished their tenure with Columbia and moved over to Harvest. On Softs more than ever before, Soft Machine was Jenkins` band; he composed fully seven of the LP`s 11 tracks, making the album a vehicle for his own artistic conception. And yet, as Soft Machine albums go, this one is just fine, thank you. Jenkins had always put his own personal stamp on the material he wrote for the band, but he also retained elements of a Soft Machine style that emerged around the time Ratledge began penning LP side-long opuses on Third: a marriage of modalism and minimalism with simple but memorable themes in layered counterpoint and an occasional backdrop of rippling, echoey overdubbed electric keyboards, giving the music a trippy, trance-inducing quality. Nimble keyboard and reed solos were also an important element of the Soft Machine sound, although, as the band entered its Harvest fusion period, they tended to take a back seat to the work of fleet-fingered electric guitarists, first Allan Holdsworth on Bundles and then John Etheridge here. With Etheridge proving that Holdsworth wasn`t England`s only blindingly fast fusion guitar riff-meister, and with new saxophonist Alan Wakeman being a somewhat stronger reedman than Jenkins, the Softs lineup was plenty strong enough in the soloing department, so Jenkins could concentrate on overdubbing an arsenal of keyboards to give the music its overall structure and mood. Meanwhile, the Roy Babbington (bass) and John Marshall (drums) rhythm-section team, intact since Seven, was as strong as ever, kicking the band into overdrive at the drop of a hi-hat. While Softs has plenty to satisfy the Canterbury and jazz-rock fusion fan, another stylistic element -- new age -- can be heard blowing in with the synthesized wind and strings of the slow and lovely "Song of Aeolus." A precarious balance is usually maintained and the music keeps its footing in jazz-rock fusion, although Softs certainly has more polish than grit. Moments of subtlety and understatement, like the pastoral soprano saxophone and acoustic guitar duet of the opening "Aubade" and Etheridge`s folk-jazz duet with himself on the album-closing "Etka," are balanced by passages of high drama, or perhaps grandiosity -- so many layers of guitars and keyboards are piled onto the closing of &quo |
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RVCA Dark Age Womens Tee
$23.97 RVCA Dark Age t-shirt. RVCA shield and swords printed at front. Short sleeve. Plunge v-neck. 100% cotton. Machine wash. Made in USA. |
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RVCA Dark Age Womens Tee
$23.97 RVCA Dark Age t-shirt. RVCA shield and swords printed at front. Short sleeve. Plunge v-neck. 100% cotton. Machine wash. Made in USA. |
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Time Machine 7 3.5-oz Snake Venom Anti-age Cream (Pack of 12)
$444.83 This doctor recommended anti-age cream is over the top with sciences most powerful 7 anti-aging peptides, neuropeptides and anti-oxidants. This anti-aging cream reduces wrinkles, lines and fine lines. It boosts collagen, smoothes, lifts, firms, micro-sculpts and hydrates. *Time Machine 7 *Snake venom anti-age cream *Pack of 12 3.5-ounces bottle Contains:2-percent SYN-AKE (synthetic peptide)5-percent ARGIRELINE NP, a pain-free alternative to popular injectables that topically target the same wrinkle-formation mechanism in a very different way2.5-percent SYN-COLL peptide, mimics the body's own mechanism to produce collagen3-percent Matrixyl 3000, a collagens and hyaluronic acid boosting dual-peptide that softens and smooths the skin2.5-percent SYN-TACKS, a cutting edge dual peptide boosts collagen, increases skin firmness and tones3-percent COPPER PEPTIDES, hyaluronic acid, max hawaiian red algae Multi-vitaminsDue to the personal nature of this product we do not accept returns. |







