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(CBS) Giant Squid is one of those bands that defies categorization. There are low-tuned guitars and slow tempos that place them in sludge metal. The band’s tracks are long and many of them have movements that could place them in progressive rock. Lead singer and guitarist Aaron Gregory sings in a guttural growl or a wailing scream. Then vocalist and cellist Jackie Perez Gratz will sing a sweet harmony or countermelody and bring the band and the listener back from the brink. (Click through to listen to Giant Squid’s “La Brea Tar Pits.”) So here’s a new category for Giant Squid: Awesome. As in inspiring awe. It’s rare to hear a group of musicians go between styles, emotions and moods so honestly and organically while still rocking your face off. The live shows will leave you spent. This band, rounded out by Bryan Beeson on bass and Scott Sutton on drums, has evolved from a bombastic, dirge-like doom metal band to a progressive, classical-minded rock outfit to a nimble, melodic, riff-heavy powerhouse over its career (and sometimes within the same song). The band’s 2009 epic and beautiful full-length “The Ichthyologist” will get a 2011 follow-up, the five-track, 35-minute EP “Cenotes,” coming Oct. 25 on Translation Loss Records (with a vinyl release coming in 2012). The band says its new material embraces a “Middle Eastern aesthetic” and is “the deepest,...

(CBS News) At a donors conference in Tokyo over the weekend, $16 billion of aid was pledged to Afghanistan. But the U.S. is putting conditions on that assistance. Taliban claims Afghanistan bombing, which left 6 U.S. troops dead Dollars and diplomacy are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s new focus for the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, 안산출장만남 as military engagement comes to an end. In Tokyo, Clinton said that Afghanistan’s security has to be measured by jobs and economic opportunity. On both fronts, Afghanistan is far from success. There were more than 200 coalition force deaths in 2012 and violence is increasing. Afghanistan is only capable of generating a fraction of its financial needs – its main export is still opium. That’s why much of the Tokyo conference was spent discussing how to attract private investors and cut back on corruption. Aid dollars helped educate more than eight million children and build roads and bridges; those are the success stories. Afghan president Hamid Karzai leaves Tokyo with a total of $16 billion in aid pledges to be paid through 2015. The U.S. is still Afghanistan’s top financial supporter. But Clinton says new dollars will have strings attached. She also wants private investors to put money to work in a country that still ranks as the fourth most corrupt, per Transparency International. “That must include fighting corruption, improving governance, strengthening the...

(AP) ROME – The captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he was distracted by a phone conversation shortly before the cruise liner crashed into a reef off an Italian island 마산출장샵 and capsized, killing 32 people. Francesco Schettino described the collision to private Italian TV channel Canale 5 as a “banal accident” in which “destiny” played a role. More in Concordia Cruise Disaster An Italian judge last week lifted Schettino’s house arrest order, but said he must remain in his hometown near Naples during a criminal investigation in which he is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the liner while many passengers and crew were still aboard. Prosecutors have alleged that the Concordia cruised too close to the island in a publicity stunt, and shortly before it rammed the reef Schettino was on the phone with a retired sea captain on Giglio. Costa Concordia captain free from house arrestSalvage company: Cruise ship will be gone by 2013Costa Concordia to be salvaged in 1 piece “I blame myself for being distracted,” Schettino said when asked about the phone call. Schettino on Tuesday appeared to want to lessen his role, insisting that another official, and not he, was at the helm of the ship at the moment it rammed the reef. “At that moment, I went up to the bridge. I ordered...

(CBS) The miniseries about the Kennedy family that almost didn’t make it on the air in the U.S. earned 10 Emmy nods, including several of the major Emmy nominations, on Thursday. Pictures: Emmy nominees 2011Read more: 부평출장마사지 The Emmy nominationsRead more: List of Emmy nominees “The Kennedys” was one of six nominees for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie and stars Greg Kinnear and Barry Pepper were nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Kinnear played President John F. Kennedy and Pepper played his brother Robert, the attorney general. Actor Tom Wilkinson, who played their father, Joseph P. Kennedy, was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. The eight-episode drama, which also starred Katie Holmes as Jacqueline Kennedy, was created for the History channels in the U.S. and Canada. But History later announced that it would not show the series in this country. It said the finished product was not right for the History channel brand. Media reports said pressure from the Kennedy family caused the reversal. Kennedy family members reportedly said the scripts contained factual errors and were overly critical of the family. The series aired on schedule in Canada and other countries. After various broadcasters declined to pick it up,, US rights were purchased by ReelzChannel, which is seen in about 60 million homes. The first episode aired April...