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Fairly or not, Blackshaw has come to represent the "academic" side of the acoustic guitar (as opposed to the raw American Primitive sound of the late Jack Rose), so it's a surprising and somewhat ballsy move to put aside the full, resonant sound of a 12-string acoustic for the staccato feel of the electric guitar, with all the rock baggage that instrument carries.
NPR: First Listen: James Blackshaw, 'All Is Falling'
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CSOB's profits rose, but only because it also under-provisioned, reckons Jack Schrantz, a strategist at Austria's Raiffeisen Zentralbank.
ECONOMIST: Czech banking
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William Jack, chairman of the Tay District Salmon Fisheries Board, said catches of spring salmon rose in size to more than 12lbs last year, compared with 10lbs a few years ago.
BBC: River Tay salmon fishing season gets under way
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Rose, with her hint of a Jane Austen dilemma (if she follows her bliss and goes off with Jack, it will leave her family in ruins), is the young feminist who now has the peril, as well as pleasure, of choice.
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