Abducted by the 80s is the forthcoming sixth studio album from the English band Wang Chung. It is scheduled to be released on Geffen Records sometime in 2010. Abducted by the 80s will be the band's first studio album in over two decades.
A sample of the title track is currently available on the band's MySpace page.
Background
In an interview with Music Pleasuredome in October 2005, Jack Hues implied that he and Nick Feldman began recording new material since April 2004. The two were "working on and off" the album until they got "invited to perform on 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' in Los Angeles" in June 2005. Though the band did not advance to the finals, "the great response we got...cemented our intention" to complete the album. Hues stated that the band hoped "for a release in Summer 2006", but talks subsided for years to come.
On March 19, 2009, Wang Chung was invited to the 2009 Regeneration Tour; it was the band's first tour as a group since 1987. Fifteen total tour dates were scheduled across the U.S., and subsequently uploaded to the band's website. Nick Feldman remarked that "the real driving force (behind the tour) was the new album" that the band had worked on and off for years.
On April 8, 2009, the band's Twitter page stated that they were "in the studio recording", which was the first sign that the band progressed towards a forthcoming album since Hues’ interview with Music Pleasuredome three and a half years ago.
A sample of the title track is currently available on the band's MySpace page.
Background
In an interview with Music Pleasuredome in October 2005, Jack Hues implied that he and Nick Feldman began recording new material since April 2004. The two were "working on and off" the album until they got "invited to perform on 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' in Los Angeles" in June 2005. Though the band did not advance to the finals, "the great response we got...cemented our intention" to complete the album. Hues stated that the band hoped "for a release in Summer 2006", but talks subsided for years to come.
On March 19, 2009, Wang Chung was invited to the 2009 Regeneration Tour; it was the band's first tour as a group since 1987. Fifteen total tour dates were scheduled across the U.S., and subsequently uploaded to the band's website. Nick Feldman remarked that "the real driving force (behind the tour) was the new album" that the band had worked on and off for years.
On April 8, 2009, the band's Twitter page stated that they were "in the studio recording", which was the first sign that the band progressed towards a forthcoming album since Hues’ interview with Music Pleasuredome three and a half years ago.
Digital Group Audio (DGA)
History
Digital Group Audio (DGA) was founded in 2007 by Erik Groset and Robin Defay. This start up company is located in Carlsbad, CA. Business Week has recognized DGA as being one of the “Most Promising Start-ups.” Digital Group Audio introduced the Livespeakr in January of 2009.
Product Overview
LivespeakrTM, is the first consumer-available product from DGA. The Livespeakr's cradle can be turned to work with devices in both portrait and landscape orientations. It contains a rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery that lasts for up to 16 hours. The Livespeakr™ works with the iPhone, iPod touch,iPod classic,Motorola DROID,Google Nexus One, and Palm Pre.
Product Specifications
*Product Height: 2.4/ 6.1 cm
*Product Length:6.3 in/16 cm
*Product Width: .9 in/2.3 cm
*Product Weight: 12.8 ounces/ 363 grams (.36 kg)
*Available Colors: White, Black
*Audio Connection:
*Battery: Lithium Ion Battery
*Speaker diameter: 2x 1.25 in/ 3.2 cm
*Driver: 2x Neodymium
History
Digital Group Audio (DGA) was founded in 2007 by Erik Groset and Robin Defay. This start up company is located in Carlsbad, CA. Business Week has recognized DGA as being one of the “Most Promising Start-ups.” Digital Group Audio introduced the Livespeakr in January of 2009.
Product Overview
LivespeakrTM, is the first consumer-available product from DGA. The Livespeakr's cradle can be turned to work with devices in both portrait and landscape orientations. It contains a rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery that lasts for up to 16 hours. The Livespeakr™ works with the iPhone, iPod touch,iPod classic,Motorola DROID,Google Nexus One, and Palm Pre.
Product Specifications
*Product Height: 2.4/ 6.1 cm
*Product Length:6.3 in/16 cm
*Product Width: .9 in/2.3 cm
*Product Weight: 12.8 ounces/ 363 grams (.36 kg)
*Available Colors: White, Black
*Audio Connection:
*Battery: Lithium Ion Battery
*Speaker diameter: 2x 1.25 in/ 3.2 cm
*Driver: 2x Neodymium
Mary Rose Kaczorowski, known as Redwood Mary originally based for a number of years in Redwood Country on the Mendocino Coast has been working from the local to the global—from the
grassroots to the U. N. Her work has included being on the frontlines of the struggle to protect watersheds and forests, endangered species and also has included the struggle for grassroots women's participation in sustainable development. In 1998 she founded the Plight of The Redwoods Campaign and worked with many organizations and on advocating for saving the redwood forests, watershed and salmon habitat protection in Northern California from Humboldt County down to Santa Cruz.
In The fall of 1998 Redwood Mary was one of 14 founders of the original Save the Redwoods Boycott the Gap Campaign including Mary Bull, Mary Pjerou and Anna Marie Stenberg . This campaign was launched after the Mendocino Coast Community had a failure of a positive outcome meeting with John Fisher and his son - the new owners who came up from San Francisco to meet with the coastal community - a community who eagerly looked to a friendly and welcoming partnership with the new owners. Mendocino Redwood Company LLC was started by the Fishers’ after their purchase of the Louisiana Pacific Forest Holdings in Mendocino and Sonoma counties (after LP said their land held little merchantable timber with majority of trees less than 19 inches in diameter and abruptly put the land up for sale).
Redwood Mary and several local residents proposed to the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, who were considering acquiring the land, and presented an offering of a free unbiased professional land assessment in order to utilize the former LP land for eco recreational enterprises, critical habitat restoration and protection and limited restoration and limited sustainable long term rotation sustainable harvesting. Before that was able to happen, the Community learned that the Fisher Family (Gap, Baby Gap, Banana Republic) had acquired LP’s land and was set to continuing logging the severely clear cut and over logged land under the guise of Sustainable Certified Practices.
The Community put together an impressive assessment of the holdings and presented a
10 point plan to the Fishers including suggestion for habitat restoration and to hire local unemployed fisherman and loggers. Also Coho Salmon habitat was at risk as well as the Spotted Owl and several other endangered species. The Fisher’s rejected all the community concerns and hopes for a partnership. The community than learned of the run on filings and continuing Timber Harvest plans still in effect by MRC.
That is when a community decided to take a further stand that already had been devastated by the decline in fisheries and the cut and run bad logging practices of the 1980’s and mill jobs moved to Mexico, and who had been fighting to return back to getting the logging practices back to Sustainable logging (80-100 year rotations, mixed stands etc.) and to protect old growth redwood wood and Douglas fir watershed habitats so they could recover (see Redwood Coast Water Shed Association (RCWA), Judi Bari (Earth First!), Judith Vidaver (Friends of The Ten Mile River, Friends of the Albion River, Mendocino Environmental Center, Redwood Summer Ft. Bragg CA, etc.) .
Save The Redwoods Boycott the Gap aimed to take their plea outside of this rural coastal forest community to the larger world and ask for assistance in their cause.
Redwood Mary, in November 2008, founded Plight of the Redwoods Campaign
Plight of the Redwoods Tour and "Have A Heart - Save The Redwoods" Valentine's Day Campaign
References or related articles
*It’s Time for UC to Call a Truce!- by Redwood Mary
*Mary & Julia by Singer songwriter Sharon Abreu - Honoring forest defenders trying to save the Redwoods. This song is about California Redwood Forest activists Redwood Mary and Julia Butterfly Hill.
*Activists Increase Efforts at Ramsey Gulch Tree Sit
*Redwood lovers take the stage to plead case
*Redwood Mary Calls for Protection of Redwoods - Ulster County NY
LUNA ATTACKED: 2000: Redwood Mary describes attack upon Luna... "The news hit me in the heart. Someone took a chainsaw to trunk of Luna and cut her about 2/3rds to 3/4's but she is amazingly still standing as a beacon to the world. This is as an assasination attempt to all that Luna stands for -- a strike against our movement, at the families of Stafford Village and an attack at the work of Julia Butterfly Hill. I talked and cried to folks at Circle Of Life Foundation..."
grassroots to the U. N. Her work has included being on the frontlines of the struggle to protect watersheds and forests, endangered species and also has included the struggle for grassroots women's participation in sustainable development. In 1998 she founded the Plight of The Redwoods Campaign and worked with many organizations and on advocating for saving the redwood forests, watershed and salmon habitat protection in Northern California from Humboldt County down to Santa Cruz.
In The fall of 1998 Redwood Mary was one of 14 founders of the original Save the Redwoods Boycott the Gap Campaign including Mary Bull, Mary Pjerou and Anna Marie Stenberg . This campaign was launched after the Mendocino Coast Community had a failure of a positive outcome meeting with John Fisher and his son - the new owners who came up from San Francisco to meet with the coastal community - a community who eagerly looked to a friendly and welcoming partnership with the new owners. Mendocino Redwood Company LLC was started by the Fishers’ after their purchase of the Louisiana Pacific Forest Holdings in Mendocino and Sonoma counties (after LP said their land held little merchantable timber with majority of trees less than 19 inches in diameter and abruptly put the land up for sale).
Redwood Mary and several local residents proposed to the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, who were considering acquiring the land, and presented an offering of a free unbiased professional land assessment in order to utilize the former LP land for eco recreational enterprises, critical habitat restoration and protection and limited restoration and limited sustainable long term rotation sustainable harvesting. Before that was able to happen, the Community learned that the Fisher Family (Gap, Baby Gap, Banana Republic) had acquired LP’s land and was set to continuing logging the severely clear cut and over logged land under the guise of Sustainable Certified Practices.
The Community put together an impressive assessment of the holdings and presented a
10 point plan to the Fishers including suggestion for habitat restoration and to hire local unemployed fisherman and loggers. Also Coho Salmon habitat was at risk as well as the Spotted Owl and several other endangered species. The Fisher’s rejected all the community concerns and hopes for a partnership. The community than learned of the run on filings and continuing Timber Harvest plans still in effect by MRC.
That is when a community decided to take a further stand that already had been devastated by the decline in fisheries and the cut and run bad logging practices of the 1980’s and mill jobs moved to Mexico, and who had been fighting to return back to getting the logging practices back to Sustainable logging (80-100 year rotations, mixed stands etc.) and to protect old growth redwood wood and Douglas fir watershed habitats so they could recover (see Redwood Coast Water Shed Association (RCWA), Judi Bari (Earth First!), Judith Vidaver (Friends of The Ten Mile River, Friends of the Albion River, Mendocino Environmental Center, Redwood Summer Ft. Bragg CA, etc.) .
Save The Redwoods Boycott the Gap aimed to take their plea outside of this rural coastal forest community to the larger world and ask for assistance in their cause.
Redwood Mary, in November 2008, founded Plight of the Redwoods Campaign
Plight of the Redwoods Tour and "Have A Heart - Save The Redwoods" Valentine's Day Campaign
References or related articles
*It’s Time for UC to Call a Truce!- by Redwood Mary
*Mary & Julia by Singer songwriter Sharon Abreu - Honoring forest defenders trying to save the Redwoods. This song is about California Redwood Forest activists Redwood Mary and Julia Butterfly Hill.
*Activists Increase Efforts at Ramsey Gulch Tree Sit
*Redwood lovers take the stage to plead case
*Redwood Mary Calls for Protection of Redwoods - Ulster County NY
LUNA ATTACKED: 2000: Redwood Mary describes attack upon Luna... "The news hit me in the heart. Someone took a chainsaw to trunk of Luna and cut her about 2/3rds to 3/4's but she is amazingly still standing as a beacon to the world. This is as an assasination attempt to all that Luna stands for -- a strike against our movement, at the families of Stafford Village and an attack at the work of Julia Butterfly Hill. I talked and cried to folks at Circle Of Life Foundation..."
Melissa Andersen (born 11 February 1984) is an actress best known for her recurring role as Tarni Baxter in popular drama series Blue Heelers. Melissa was born and raised in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and attended Christian College Secondary School (1996-2001). She began acting as a fourteen-year-old and has been a member of Screen Actors Studio for the past eight years. Melissa has starred in several television commercials and has most recently been seen in new drama series Tripping Over. She currently lives in Geelong and works in Melbourne, but hopes to move to Los Angeles in the near future to pursue her acting career. Her favourite band is Silverchair.