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The 6 Top Things To Do In London?S Famous Convent Garden

Browse the eclectic collections at Apple Market

Convent Garden’s Apple Market is home to some of London’s quirkiest vendors. Stalls feature a wide selection of handmade jewellery, fashion, antiques, home ware, and even a selection of vinyl records or specialty-made stuffed bears.

Tailor you market selection by the day at Jubilee Market

In Convent Garden’s South Piazza, Jubilee Market offers a different selection depending on the day. Mondays are dedicated to antiques, while the rest of the week features a general selection of clothes and home ware. Weekends are dedicated to arts and crafts.

Catch a top west-end show at one of the famous theatres

Convent Garden is home to some of London’s top theatres, housing popular musicals including The Lion King and Dirty Dancing.

Catch a world-class street performance

No visit to Convent Garden would be complete without catching a renowned street performance. Performers are subject to a stringent audition, ensuring that Convent Garden is home to some of the best performers around. You can catch anything from entertaining mime to breathtaking stunts.

Sample some of the world class dining

Convent Garden offers an extensive collection of restaurants, cafes, and pubs—here you’ll find everything from fine dining to casual pub fares. Restaurants from all over the world ensure you’ll find a perfect option no matter what you fancy.

Enrich and educate yourself at one of the numerous museums

From the grand National Gallery to the quirky London Transport Museum, there’s sure to be something to discover in one of Convent Garden’s numerous museums.
Why not allow the quirky Monty English to guide you through Convent Garden Market? View the video at http://www.visitbritain.tv

Acclimation for your floor is important

Before installing your new floor sometimes a recommended acclimatisation period is required. Acclimatisation is required as there can be dramatic differences in temperature & humidity between the products’ origin and the installation environment – your home. To ensure your flooring performs as it should, take a moment to read the following and apply it to your installation. The more attention paid to the pre installation and preparation, the better the final result.

Here are our general recommendations:

Solid Wood Flooring – 7 days minimum – 14 days preferred Engineered Wood Flooring – Not essential – 2 days preferred Laminate flooring – 2 days minimum Natural Carpet – 2 days minimum Vinyl Tiles – 2 days minimum

How you acclimatise your floor is as important as the concept itself.

Leave your flooring in the boxes. Do not open them until you start your installation The product must be in the room(s) that the intended installation will occur in or nearby. (Acclimation cannot occur in a garage when the installation is inside the home) The temperature of the environment and specifically of the installation area should be normal room temperature or normal living conditions for that specific area The interior Relative Humidity (RH) should be as close to normal as possible Check the sub floor moisture level and the product moisture level on receipt of your flooring. Keep a record of these readings Before installation check these moisture levels again on the sub floor and product to make sure that they are still within manufacturer guidelines

The whole point of acclimatising your chosen flooring is to stabilise the moisture levels between the product, the sub floor and site of installation as much and naturally as possible. Humidity is everywhere and changes constantly with the seasons and site locations. Your interior humidity is also always changing especially with the intervention of many varieties of heating systems which make this process even more important.

Please make sure you read your specific manufacturer’s instructions before installation as the above is for a general guide use only and these simple rules can vary.

The Change of Music

Mp3 downloads are responsible for probably the biggest change in music buying habits since the invention of vinyl. Whether it will be good or bad for the industry is a matter of some dispute, but it has happened, and a period of adjustment is inevitable whilst the old guard find their feet. Into this turbulent market have entered Megabop; comprising of two arms, MBop Global and MBop Digital, they are poised to take on the big boys in the brave new world of digital music.

With a philosophy of community spirit and openness, MBop are trying to connect with consumers in a way that the major players have not yet managed. This direct connection is crucial, both to consumer and retailer, and this has not changed since the days of physical record purchases. What has changed, however, is the amount of choice available to mp3 purchasers. This is best explained by the theory of “The Long Tail”, first theorised by Chris Anderson; to paraphrase, the internet is about selling small amounts of many goods, rather than large amounts of a few goods.

To help customers through this huge amount of independent and often undiscovered content, MBop are creating a true community network. In conjunction with many well known experts and major players of the industry, MBop are getting the consumer involved like never before. Along with handwritten editorial content from some well known music legends, they are planning download-only mp3 albums curated by renowned experts and cutting edge tastemakers. This will help guide people through the huge array of music on offer. Personal recommendations from music’s finest, available at music lovers fingertips will be a massive draw for MBop Megastore.

Selling to the “Long Tail” or niche market is where MBop Megastore really comes into its own. With a large collection of back catalogue mp3′s, some unavailable anywhere else, and indie labels clamouring to join the MBop Megastore, there is music from Every Genre for Every Generation.

A big difference between the online and physical music worlds is the ease with which it is possible to obtain illegal goods. This, as with so much else on the internet, has probably as much to do with the corporate world’s unwillingness to truly embrace the technology as it does with users willingness to thieve. The easy availability of illegal downloads can be turned to the industry’s advantage, and that is another thing MBop are attempting to do. Where possible the music from the Megastore is offered in non-DRM high quality mp3 format, as MBop believe that consumers do not like to be treated as criminals from the start. High quality mp3′s are worth paying for, and MBop believe that this will be enough to stem the tide of illegal downloads. Music will also be offered in DRM-enabled WMA format to appeal to the Major labels, as this is a business necessity.

Aiming to mix both massive choice with personal recommendations, MBop has a mission to bring the experience of the small high street record shop back into the forefront of consumer’s minds, and maybe bring back the love of hearing and discovering new music all over again.

How you acclimatise your new wooden floor to your home

Before installing your new floor sometimes a recommended acclimatisation period is required. Acclimatisation is required as there can be dramatic differences in temperature & humidity between the products’ origin and the installation environment – your home.

Here are our general recommendations:
•           Solid Wood Flooring – 7 days minimum (14 days preferred)
•           Engineered Wood Flooring – Not essential (2 days preferred)
•           Laminate flooring – 2 days minimum
•           Natural Carpet – 2 days minimum
•           Vinyl Tiles – 2 days minimum

How you acclimatise your floor is as important as the concept itself.
•           Leave your flooring in the boxes. Do not open them until you start your installation.
•           The product must be in the room(s) that the intended installation will occur in or nearby.
(Acclimation cannot occur in a garage when the installation is inside the home)
•           The temperature of the environment and specifically of the installation area should be normal room temperature or normal living conditions for that specific area.
•           The interior Relative Humidity (RH) should be as close to normal as possible.
•           Check the sub floor moisture level and the product moisture level on receipt of your flooring. Keep a record of these readings.

• Before installation check these moisture levels again on the sub floor and product to make sure that they are still within manufacturer guidelines.
The whole point of acclimatising your chosen flooring is to stabilise the moisture levels between the product, the sub floor and site of installation as much and naturally as possible. Humidity is everywhere and changes constantly with the seasons and site locations. Your interior humidity is also always changing especially with the intervention of many varieties of heating systems which make this process even more important.

Please make sure you read your specific manufacturer’s instructions before installation as the above is for a general guide use only and these simple rules can vary.

I’m too stupid to understand RAP CRAP?

Apparently I’m too stupid to understand these RAP lyrics. Can you help me?

Here are the lyrics:

Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic
Community to it’s drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to
Calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and
Re-released at the same given moment of recorded history, yet at a
Different moment in time’s continuum has allowed history to catch up with
The present.

We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, “keep it real”, especially when punctuating or
Anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically
Or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as
Retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.

Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of
Being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular
Manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased
By a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal
Aggressors.

Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a
Number as least half the rate of it’s standard or decreased at ¾ of it’s
Speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.

Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the
Unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season

Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the
Centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and
Effect
Reject mediocrity!

Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given
For you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the
Diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative
Symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed
Pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but
With the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.

Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD’S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN,
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN,
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA,
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY,
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMNINOV,
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON,
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI,
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY, COSBY,
SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers’ stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full
Of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
Supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for
Today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies
Into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry,
Crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to
Uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed – two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed – two rappers slain

What do you think of this Rock poem?

I’m not that good of a poet. Is this poem any good? I call it….

Coded Language:

Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic

community to its drum woven past

Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to

calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.

Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and

re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a

different moment in time’s continuum has allowed history to catch up with

the present.

We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.

Statements, such as, “keep it real”, especially when punctuating or

anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically

or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as

retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.

Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of

being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular

manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased

by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal

aggressors.

Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize

We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a

number as least half the rate of it’s standard or decreased at ¾ of it’s

speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.

Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the

unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season

Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the

centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and

effect

Reject mediocrity!

Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given

for you to understand.

The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the

diet of an infant.

The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative

symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed

pears

Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.

The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but

with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.

Thus, in the name of:

ROBESON, GOD’S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN,

LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN,

BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ,

SIDDHARTHA,

MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER,

HOLIDAY,

DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE,

RACHMNINOV,

ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON,

MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI,

LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING,

FOUR

LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY, COSBY,

SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.

We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.

We are determining the future at this very moment.

We now know that the heart is the philosophers’ stone

Our music is our alchemy

We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full

of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down

supply the percussion factor of forever.

If you must count to keep the beat then count.

Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.

Curve you circles counterclockwise

Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.

Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.

Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for

today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies

into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry,

crafts, love, and love.

We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.

Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.

Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to

uplift the consciousness of the entire ******* World.

Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed – two rappers slain

- Saul Williams

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse | Dark Night of the Soul

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse | Dark Night of the Soul
EMI (2010) A vague dispute between Danger Mouse and EMI sabotaged a timely release of this last year, and that was followed by the mega-bummer suicides of both Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous and key collaborator Vic Chesnutt last winter.

Rap Is A Disgrace To Music?

I’m very angry! I’m angry cause Rap sucks! I’m especially angry cause I cannot understand these Rap lyrics! Rap is supposed to be easy to understand! I’m mad! Can someone help me understand these Rap lyrics? Can you interpret them for me?

Here are the lyrics:

Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic
Community to it’s drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to
Calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and
Re-released at the same given moment of recorded history, yet at a
Different moment in time’s continuum has allowed history to catch up with
The present.

We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, “keep it real”, especially when punctuating or
Anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically
Or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as
Retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.

Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of
Being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular
Manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased
By a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal
Aggressors.

Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a
Number as least half the rate of it’s standard or decreased at ¾ of it’s
Speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.

Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the
Unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season

Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the
Centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and
Effect
Reject mediocrity!

Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given
For you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the
Diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative
Symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed
Pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but
With the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.

Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD’S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN,
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN,
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA,
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY,
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMNINOV,
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON,
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI,
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY, COSBY,
SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers’ stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full
Of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
Supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for
Today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies
Into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry,
Crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to
Uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed – two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed – two rappers slain

Is this poem any good at all?