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• Raising the pension age by easier stages could minimise political hostility

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 124
  It is widely agreed that state pension age (SPA) needs to rise to reflect the financial downside of the happy prospect of greater life expectancy. The current government is committed to this, albeit over a leisurely time horizon. George Osborne recently kicked up a bit of a storm by suggesting bringing forward the ...
  3 days ago

• Shackleton – Three EPs [Perlon]

  
  the // sonic // minefield — Authority: 118
  Back from the dead after the smoke has settled on Skull Disco and the bones picked on Mordant Music, Shackleton is back with brand new material on the renowned techno imprint Perlon, which is the home to people like Ricardo Villalobos who Shackleton managed to catch the ear of way back with his sublime ‘Blood On ...
  5 days ago

• Full Moon and Twilight

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 126
  Lyubov Orlova in Antarctica Isn’t that a magnificent view? Towering, snow covered mountains, with clouds swirling above the water. I have no idea at what time of day the photo was taken. If it were taken below the Antarctic Circle that could just as easily be midnight as midday. I won’t be crossing the ...
  5 days ago

• Scientific advice? Take it or leave it

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 124
  The brouhaha surrounding the sacking of Professor David Nutt by Alan Johnson leaves me in two minds.   On the one hand, I think public policy can be enhanced by having the advice of experts. The process of thinking through a problem, adducing relevant evidence and engaging in internal debate with fellow ...
  5 days ago

• Shackleton, Three EPs

  
  Little White Earbuds — Authority: 545
  [ Perlon ] ( buy vinyl ) ( buy CD ) Despite his dubstep pedigree, Sam Shackleton’s association with Perlon really hasn’t raised many eyebrows. “Blood On My Hands,” his seminal 9/11 anti-anthem caned by Cassy and eventually remixed to mindblowing effect by Ricardo Villalobos, introduced the minimal ...
  6 days ago

• The Courage of Optimism

  
  Drew Rozell.com :: Insights For Consciously Creating a Very Cool Life :: — Authority: 98
  One of the books Im reading is called The Endurance by Caroline Alexander. The book recounts the 1914 adventure of Ernest Shackelton and his twenty-seven man crew in their attempt to be the first people to cross Antarctica on foot. Their ship — The Endurance — becomes trapped in the ice pack, crushing the boat ...
  1 week ago

• Small business, startup founders, and leadership.

  
  crowdSPRING Blog — Authority: 493
  Thinking about leadership in crisis, I was remembering the story of one particular venture. The leader who put together this tiny company was a visionary, a learner, and an insatiably curious individual. The venture was not his first; he had already served as a founding member of one team which launched a successful ...
  1 week ago

• Animal spirits from the past

  
  Antarctic conservation blog — Authority: 113
  Temperature today: -20 o C Wind speed: 15 Knots Blue skies, some hazy cloud Back in the 1980s an international treaty agreed that in order to maintain the pristine natural environment, all non-native species should be removed and banned from returning to Antarctica. There is of course one very notable exception – ...
  1 week ago

• Jeanette Pryor: Palin-Shackleton Part II

  
  Texas for Sarah Palin — Authority: 559
  Jeanette Pryor delights us with a second essay in the Palin-Shackleton theme. This time it is written in the light of recent events in NY-23. Excerpts: The Reagan Orphans in New York’s 23rd district were told by the Good Ole Boys Party that the only way they were going to avoid handing their Congressional ...
  1 week ago

• Shackleton Equity Partners Buys SafeHarbor

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 561
  Beverly Hills-based private equity firm Shackleton Advisors announced today that it has acquired SafeHarbor Technology , a Seattle-based provider of software for managing inbound telephone, email, and chat requests. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. SafeHarbor provides software used to service customer ...
  1 week ago

• Youre a nice girl. But youve got clothes like a fricking dorkhead..

  
  Just Press Play — Authority: 411
  A couple of excellent Kraut features to draw your attention too: Last week BBC 4 ran a superb doc entitled Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany featuring all your favourite German heros. If you missed it head on over to the Iplayer sharpish. Rough Trade have also compiled a nifty box set featuring seminal releases ...
  1 week ago

• Historians Excavate 100-Year-Old Antarctic Scotch

  
  Asylum — Authority: 730
  Filed under: Booze , News , Weird Science , Weird Since seeing "March of the Penguins," we have been pretty convinced that the only things in the Antarctic are about a billion penguins and Morgan Freeman. But turns out theres another reason to head to the end of the world for a visit -- you can get ... Read ...
  1 week ago

• Whiskey On The Antarctic Rocks!

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  WTF, weve been saving them for Christmas!! OMG, when Ernest Shackleton attempted to reach the South Pole in 1907, he took along a bit, OK a lot of alcohol, 25 crates of Scotch whiskey to be exact. Come on people, it was cold and dead boring and besides, snuggie blankets hadn’t been invented yet! Anywho, in 2006 ...
  1 week ago

• Anyone want some of Ernest Shackleton’s old whiskey? It’s on ice!

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 590
  The failed Antarctic explorer’s whiskey supply has been stuck near the south pole for 100 years. Which means that it’s REALLY good scotch. SOURCE
  1 week ago

• Reptet 7″ / Glen mashup video

  
  mainly music meanderings — Authority: 425
  Seattle jazz band Reptet has a new 7″ vinyl out called Agendacide .  It’s available in vinyl/mp3 and mp3-only versions via the Reptet website , CDBaby , or ( I expect eventually ) the Monktail Creative Music Concern’s webpage .  They’re headed out on a West Coast tour ( that I won’t be able to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Out of the Gate and a Clump Down to the Folly

  
  Dulwich OnView — Authority: 125
  We live among acres of sports fields, parks, ponds, woods and tree-lined avenues of mansions, slap bang in the middle of London. Spring in Dulwich is beautiful; Autumn is sublime. Lucky sods, that’s what we are.Out of the house and a short clump down to the folly. This staggering and reeling is supposed to be [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Abstract Paintings by Amy Schackleton: Where Urban and Rural Collide

  
  EmptyEasel.com — Authority: 468
  Canadian artist Amy Shackleton is intrigued with the relationship between urban and rural environments. She not only paints these collaborations as subjects, but emphasizes them through her distinctive painting technique. Amy uses an interesting process to create her unique works of art. She begins with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dying in the Wool

  
  'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' — Authority: 496
  Part of the appeal of crime fiction conferences and other events is that you bump into people, perhaps very briefly the first time, and then over a period of time you sometimes have the opportunity to talk to them at greater length, and start getting to know them better. In just this way, I came across Frances McNeil ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shackleton “Three EPs” 3×12″

  
  OMG Vinyl ...Because Records Sound Better — Authority: 136
  Yep, that’s right, we’re posting dubstep releases again. 99% of you just stopped reading – for the one person still left, you really have to pick this album up. 60+ minutes of dubbed-out, fucked-up percussion and skewed vocal samples – it really is an epic release. Shackleton crushes skulls and speakers alike ...
  3 weeks ago

• Homes from home

  
  Antarctic conservation blog — Authority: 113
  Weather: clear blue skies; -18 degrees C; less than 10 knots of wind. When I first looked at a map of Ross Island, Antarctica, I was surprised to see that the historic huts of Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton at Cape Evans and Cape Royds are only about 5 kilometres apart. They are both built by the seashore of ...
  3 weeks ago

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