Not the Evening Blues yet again. This is going to be a bass sampler and I'll probably be doing dinner when it first postsor soon after. Nonetheless, but there's a hole to plug here.
Yep, BASS, Different types of instruments, styles and genres. It all starts, right after the orange Btfsplk.
Some News and Opinion
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has conceded election defeat to conservative challenger Andrzej Duda following the release of exit polls.
They suggested Mr Duda had taken the run-off vote by 53% to 47%.
Mr Duda had edged Mr Komorowski, who had been the favourite, in the first round but did not gain the 50% needed to win outright.
The president has limited powers, but is head of the armed forces and can veto new laws.
Same-sex marriage: Catholic church needs reality check, says Dublin archbishop | World news | The Guardian
One of Ireland's most senior Catholics has said the church needs a "creality check" following the country's overwhelming vote in favour of same-sex marriage.
The first gay marriages are likely to take place in the early autumn, after a referendum found 62% were in favour of changing the constitution to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Ireland has become the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote in a move hailed as a social revolution and welcomed globally. And Diarmuid Martin, the archbishop of Dublin, said it showed the church needed to reconnect with young people to regain its traditional cultural standing and moral authority in Ireland.
Greek minister says Athens cannot make IMF debt repayments | World news | The Guardian
Greece cannot make debt repayments to the International Monetary Fund next month unless it achieves a deal with creditors, its interior minister said on Sunday, the most explicit remarks yet from Athens about the likelihood of default if talks fail.
Shut out of the bond markets and with bailout aid locked, cash-strapped Athens has been scraping state coffers to meet debt obligations and to pay wages and pensions.
After four months of talks with its eurozone partners and the IMF, the countryu2019s Syriza-led government is still scrambling for a deal that could release up to &euro 7.2bn (£5.1bn) in remaining aid to avert bankruptcy.
Early results from Spain's local and regional elections suggest gains for new anti-corruption movements, at the expense of traditional main parties.
The governing People's Party (PP) seems to have won the most votes, but it may have lost Madrid city council for the first time in 20 years.
Full results are expected shortly.
Vaccines developed for H5N1, H7N9 avian influenza strains -- ScienceDaily
A recent study with Kansas State University researchers details vaccine development for two new strains of avian influenza that can be transmitted from poultry to humans. The strains have led to the culling of millions of commercial chickens and turkeys as well as the death of hundreds of people.
The new vaccine development method is expected to help researchers make vaccines for emerging strains of avian influenza more quickly. This could reduce the number and intensity of large-scale outbreaks at poultry farms as well as curb human transmission.
It also may lead to new influenza vaccines for pigs, and novel vaccines for sheep and other livestock, said Jürgen Richt, Regents distinguished professor of veterinary medicine and director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases.
China and Peru agree to study transcontinental rail link | Reuters
China and Peru have agreed to study the feasibility of a controversial 5,300 km (3,300 miles) transcontinental railroad that will connect Peru's Pacific coast with Brazil's Atlantic coast, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The agreement came as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Peru, on the third leg of a Latin America visit. This week, Brazil and China agreed on a feasibility study for the rail link.
In talks with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala on Friday, Li called for cooperation in the oil, clean energy, mining, agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors, the news agency said.
Russia's Putin signs law against 'undesirable' NGOs - BBC News
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill which allows foreign organisations to be banned from operating in the country.
The law allows the authorities to prosecute foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or firms designated as "undesirable" on national security grounds.
Is It Time for Atheists to Hunt Bigger Game? | Al Jazeera America
The god of the monotheists is a diminished figure nowadays. Sure, some 55 percent of our species is at least nominally Christian or Muslim. But the influence these cults exert in everyday life canu2019t hold a votive candle to the secular (though hardly rational) creeds that wield the real power.
Today nonreligious belief systems dominate our world, often with a savagery that would make Yahweh drop his drink. It's these non-god gods that ought to worry us. Atheists really need to start hunting bigger game.
The free market
Divine omnipotence is nothing compared with the mystical powers wielded by the free market -- a papier-mâché Babylonian stage-prop god if ever there was one.
History: Dany the Red 'phone home
Once expelled by France, Cohn-Bendit gets French nationality - SFGate
PARIS (AP) -- German Green party politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit has been granted French citizenship nearly a half century after being expelled from France during the May 1968 student uprising.
Once known as the youthful firebrand "Dany the Red," Cohn-Bendit was one of the best-known leaders of the student revolt against President Charles de Gaulle's government.
In an email to friends obtained Saturday by The Associated Press, Cohn-Bendit said Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve had called him a day earlier to pass on the good news.
Some Greens
China readies national carbon market to fight climate change - SFGate
BEIJING (AP) -- At first, the numbers and company names flashing on a big board in Beijing's financial district suggest a booming market.
A closer look indicates otherwise: The scrolling list rotates the same dozen or so trades, all from last year.
The lights from the Beijing Environment Exchange - one of seven pilot markets in China for trading carbon - raises questions for the country as it prepares for next year's roll-out of a nationwide system that could help the world's biggest emitter of heat-trapping carbon dioxide rein in its emissions.
A successful carbon offset, or "cap-and-trade," market could play a big part in cutting China's emissions and help the world tackle global warming.
Agricultural and Biofuel News: Agricultural practices to reduce runoff
The same spring rains that lessen producers' concerns about drought can also lead to soil erosion and nutrient runoff. Keeping soil and fertilizers where they belong -- in the field -- benefits producers and the environment.
No-till farming, cover crops and rotational grazing will help producers reduce surface runoff to improve soil and water quality, according to South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station researcher Sandeep Kumar, an assistant professor in the SDSU plant science department.
Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off - SFGate
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of oil on the California coast was the only pipe of its kind in the county not required to have an automatic shut-off valve because of a court fight nearly three decades ago, a county official said.
The original owner of the pipeline skirted the Santa Barbara County requirement by successfully arguing in court in the late 1980s that it should be subject to federal oversight because the pipeline is part of an interstate network, said Kevin Drude, deputy director of the county's Energy and Minerals Division. Auto shut-off valves are not required by federal regulators.
"It's the only major pipeline that doesn't have auto shut-off," Drude said. "For us, it's routine."
My emphasis
Hawaii groups plant coconut trees, protest against Monsanto - SFGate
HONOLULU (AP) -- Demonstrators planted coconut trees and waved signs in rallies across the Hawaiian Islands as part of an international day of protests against agriculture business Monsanto.
The protesters on Saturday complained about the effects that companies like Monsanto have on the community when they spray fields with chemical pesticides. They say they want agribusiness companies to stop using Hawaii as a testing ground for pesticides and genetically modified foods.
"Get off the island," said Diane Marshall, a Honolulu teacher. "I would like to see them close up shop."
And now back to the business at hand, remember, you're listening to the bass --
Jack Casady
Willie Dixon
Slap bass mix because I couldn't find any Bootsy Collins I wanted to put here.
Jaco Pastorius
Christian McBride
Rob Wasserman
Ray Brown
Jack Bruce
John Clayton
Al Gare (with an 'a') Johnny's got a boom boom (Imelda May)
Phil Lesh, who may have had the hardest job of all of them
Casady & Garcia Dark Star
Hellraisers Preview
From the International Socialist Review: "Between Meals in a Miner's Cabin" by Mary R Alspaugh.
publishes at 1:00 pm Central = 11:00 am Pacific
Diaries and Posts of Note
Apparently, 136 Bullets Were NOT Enough.
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