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J. Allyn Rosser
Chance had brought the six of us close
for a few weeks, close enough for liking,
unstrangered, and would scatter us the next day
across the wintering continent,
zipping up our hearts and waving
with gloves on, breath fogging our last sight
of each other as we hoisted
luggage jammed with limitations
(Patrick would live through July)
into the trunks of idling cars.
Perhaps it was for this reason,
our sense of precarious communion,
that when the table began to shake
we all instinctively reached out
and held hands, the way they do
at séances, and laughed out
an incongruous, sweet laughter
like children getting away with something,
our fear muted by our distance
from the fault that, once roused,
had shifted everything in the world
but only slightly, an inaudible rumble
stirring the guts of our existence
as it tickled the candle flames,
spangled the moment of wine
balanced on its fragile stem,
jigged the chairs and table legs,
and tingled through bootsoles.
Shock and odd pleasure lay in
how sharply and simultaneously
and consciously aware we were
of our heightened awareness
of each other and our transience.
For once there was no distraction:
no lust; no self-conscious adrenalin;
none of the spiritual glassiness
that settles over assembled mourners.
This was just the grave world
catching us off guard —
grabbing each of us by both shoulders
and giving a shake, saying only
Here. Now. Take a good look.
Rodin: Crouching Woman
Not quite cupping, not quite tearing her breast;
not exhaustion, not grief, nor anything so simple
as despair. Her contortions radiate
a voluptuary pleasure in aloneness,
even or especially with the sculptor watching,
grabbing at the rock he will make of her,
chiseling, wiping off and blowing and
chiseling, looking into her darkest recess
open to view because he's got her in a crouch
clutching one ankle, one elbow leaning on
the other ankle, drooped head resting — rather,
cast against — the massive shoulder that turns out to be
her giant knee, her own knee as if it were
some other's. One hand not-hers not-not-hers
and one full frontal — look. So what?
She doesn't care who sees the passageway
no man enters fitly.
The sculptor sucks his knuckle,
squints, calibrating her isolation.
She feels like laughing at his effort to get it,
the anguished angle of her neck he wants.
She'd get away from herself if she could.
She'd have her all to herself if she could.
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Hold on now, hear me out.
The players don't choose who plays or not, the coaches do. In the Chiefs case, I think it seems clear that the GM is making that decision at least at QB. What the players DO choose to do is be a TEAM.
Winston is standing up for his teammate. He's circling the wagons. He's trying to inspire his teammates to be 'brawlers', to get physical and kick some ass. I like it.
I wish it were not necessary, and that we could actually have a balanced offense, but I appreciate the backbone the guy is showing. It says that they are playing for each other, which is what you want.
It just sucks that Cassel is so bad at his job. He's clearly a great guy, to inspire this sort of response even after being sooooo bad on the field. Maybe Quinn's lightbulb goes on and we start winning. It's a pretty talented team overall.
Winston is a clueless ****ing 'roidhead that had no idea why the fans were cheering.
**** him and his $22 million dollar contract.
He's no leader.
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Well, what I want this query to do is go search for the answers for a particular poll, for instance, a poll with a poll_id of 2, and figure out how many times each answer has been given and, if this is possible, what percentage of people gave that answer.
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Morelia, the not so pretty town.
We arrived at Morelia in the night and it wasn´t such a great start as the both the bus and the taxi ride through the streets of Morelia took us past a load of strip joints. The hostel was packed and our room was tiny- sharing it with an older American couple. There wasn´t enough room on the floor for our bags and Noemi hates top bunks. So we went out on the streets to find another place. The hotels in the immediate area were bad reminders of terrible 80´s architecture or were principally for men who live elsewhere to visit the strip clubs and perhaps get lucky. So we grabbed our lonely planet and took a taxi trip to the other side of town. Luckily we found another hostel- built in an old monastery with private rooms the same price as our hostel.
The next day was better- the streets were full of people and the shops were open. Morelia wasn´t so bad after all.
Dresses for 15 year birthday celebrations.
Craft supplies are plentiful and cheap (and very colourful!)
We used the time to catch up on washing, some sleep plus wander the streets and try some of the local food. The main delicacy here is gaspacho, which isn´t a soup but a salad made of fruit topped with hot salsa, chilli, lime, orange juice and crumbled cheese. The fruit includes melon, papaya, mango, pineapple and the Mexican fruit jicama. Mango wasn´t in season here but it was still tasty without it- you can imagine how refreshing this is when it is really hot.
We left Morelia the next day for Mexico City reasonably early, but I had some time to run to the church that was described in the lonely planet guide as a ´set piece from Willy Wonka´s psychedelic spiritual dream´.
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The city has been rocked by more than a month's worth of thunderstorms in less than a week
The public face of Environment Canada calls it a "rock and roll summer."
Many Londoners, especially those with small kids and dogs, might be less eloquent, asking "what's with all the thunder?"
No matter how you put it, one thing's clear: London is living up to its reputation as one of Canda's thunderstorm capitals, rocked in less than a week by more than a month's worth of the booming storms.
Second only in Canada to Windsor for the storms that make many dogs hide and kids cry, London averages 51 days a year of thunder in a typical year.
But in the last 10 days, six have packed thunder in the skies above — boosting the city's average summer thunder count by 40%.
"It has been more a rock and roll kind of summer from a thunderstorm point of view," David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said Tuesday.
While first-place Windsor averages 67 days of thunder a year, London is off to a flying start in August with four days of crackling skies this month.
"It hasn't been a quiet one," Phillips said.
London has been drenched with more than its share of showers, too. So far this summer, there's been 291 mm of rain — nearly 10% higher than the seasonal average.
"It has rained heavily," Phillips said.
Connie Bailey works at Oxbow Glen Golf Course just outside Komoka. Her husband texted her Tuesday morning to warn her a storm was on its way.
"It was pretty sudden," she said of the morning thunderstorm. "It was just so out of nowhere."
Bailey said she's noticed more thunder and lightning this summer, but even more, she said it's impossible not to notice all the extra rain — and its effects on her course.
"It's so lush and green out there in August," she said, which is unusual. The grass is usually brown and burnt by now.
At Ironwood golf course near Exeter, Stephanie Forman said it seems they've had a thunderstorm every week on the same night.
"It seems like Tuesdays are always bad days," she said, adding that's the evening set aside for men golfers.
When the thunder hits, Forman sounds the course's airhorn to call in stubborn duffers.
Sun-seekers can take some solace in the long-range forecast.
There's a 30% chance of showers Wednesday, followed by predictions of sunshine and temperatures in the mid- to high 20s for the next five days.


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The proceedings of the Schenker Documents panel, which was convened at the last Mannes Schenker Symposium (New York, March 2013), have now been published as Volume 34, No. 2 of the journal Music Analysis.
They include analytical studies of Schubert's "Der Doppelgänger" (David Bretherton) and Bach's French Suite in E major (Ian Bent), together with essays on Schenker's involvement in the Photogram Archive in the Austrian National Library (Marko Deisinger), his unpublished writings on music criticism (Georg Burgstaller), his critique of the first decade of radio broadcasting in Vienna (Kirstie Hewlett), and his activities as a pianist and piano teacher (Hedi Siegel).
A further contribution, not presented at the conference, is a study of Schenker's Jewishness as reflected in his commentaries on the literature by or about Jews that he read or saw in the theater (Andrea Reiter).
The proceedings are introduced by William Drabkin, the Editor of the journal (who chaired the 2013 panel). Burgstaller and Hewlett received their Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southampton in 2015.


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IGF1 stimulation of THP1 cells - (Sep/28/2012 )
Hi there,
We plan to investigate the miRNA expression profile in THP1 cells after IGF1 stimulation. The aim is to identify biomarkers related to IGF1-doping in professional sports.
Is there anybody, who is experienced in stimulating cells and can recommend any good IGF1-concentration in cell culture? We have chosen to use amounts which are in the region between ED50 until 10-times higher (10ng/ml and 125ng/ml). But there is also literature describing that more than 750ng/ml was used.
In addition, does anybody know good markers for best IGF1 stimulation? So far, we are using CSF1, VEGF, and PHLDA (which are all described to be IGF1 responsive).
Thanks, Dirk
I would recommend you produce a dose response curve for this type of work, and determine your own EC50 in your hands and in your specific cell type. This should be easy as you have a dose range I would do 7 doses, it will be essential to the the top and bottom of your sigmoid curve.
This might seem a bit repetitive of published work but in my experience is essential (particularly if you want a good publication) as peptide ligands can be very tricky to work with as they can "stick" to plastics tips etc and each lab uses different consumables so variations are common.
In terms of read out are you looking for a secreted marker? But if you are looking for receptor activation I have done work with a phospho-IGf1R antibody: http://www.cellsignal.com/products/6113.html which is quite good.
This will give you a absolute measure of activity as this is the first signalling event in the IGF-1 cascade.
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Last week, Chromestory brought you complete specs and price of upcoming Samsung Chromebox. And then an unboxing video. Now, here is a review of the Samsung Chromebox!
This is a review from Jay of GearWERKZ.net (thanks a lot Jay!!). He used Chromebox for a week and provided me his initial thoughts as a guest article. Check out his blog for more interesting reviews and tips! Stay tuned for a detailed review of the Chromebox, coming soon!
Additional commentary can be found over at my blog, GearWERKZ.net, including an unboxing and another 1-week report, covering slightly different content (heat, noise, apps, and benchmarks).
Is The Chromebox For You?
If you are on this website, you probably have already made the decision that you are capable of handling a paradigm shift from normal ops in other x86 OS'. Some people cannot, and I perceive that that is the root-cause of negative perceptions of the Samsung ChromeBox XE300.
No, neither the ChromeBox nor anything that is powered by ChromeOS, is going to be able to do everything that a Windows PC or a Mac is going to be able to do. But a question to be asked is why you are going to pay more than you would pay for the ChromeBox to be capable of doing things you only do 2 to 5% of the time? Granted, sometimes that 2% to 5% is the most critical capability you need. I only produce a podcast once a month, but when I need to do audio editing, I absolutely have to have a device that does that, so I get that end of the argument.
However, there is a gray area in that thread, and sometimes the question needs to be asked whether or not the real problem is that you just need to consider a different way of doing something, in order to gain other advantages. After one week, I will say that my own opinion is that the ChromeBox appears to be a totally serviceable computing solution. It is a paradigm shift, however, and some may not be willing to entertain that change.
Is It Good?
The ChromeBox is a good, simple, easy to use device that provides plenty of power for basic computing and media consumption needs. Of this I am absolutely certain. Does that mean that the ChromeBox is for everyone? No, not really. The device is a curious paradox of being both a low-end inexpensive, simple device that also interestingly requires one to do some digging to extract certain basic Windows-equivalent functions out of it. I struggled for a couple of hours (off and on, not continuously) trying to figure out how to find out how much storage space I had left on the device as I loaded local versions of music files, pictures, and video to the SSD.
The argument might be that the average user of a ChromeBox would likely not be loading a lot of local files. But then I ask, does the average consumer have the use of Cloud Apps completely threaded into their normal workflow and use-cases? Most of my friends and family are not deeply rooted into DropBox, Evernote, Google Play Music, iCloud, or the other services that you really have to be savvy about in order to survive without local storage. Once I knew how to make sure I was not overstuffing the ChromeBox, I then had to figure out how to to use and access and especially organize local storage. That was a slight side-step from Windows/OS X conventions, and non tech-savvy users might get annoyed unless they have someone to walk them through it the first time. For users that already use Chrome as a browser on Windows, or are familiar with the Google Drive style interface, the change will be less. For users who do not mind a little Googling to get up and running, this will also be an easy step as well. But a lot of users expect to just GO when they take a computing device out of the box.
My Life With The Samsung Chromebox
In the last week, I have gotten around to trying out some productivity apps on the ChromeBox . I have predominantly been using Scratchpad, but I have also tried using Sticky Notes as a blotter for managing article ideas and content planning for my blog. Sticky Notes is a good fit for this type of work and organization. The webapp has an export function that generates code for exporting your notes to another PC, although I have not tested that function at this point. I could see using Sticky Notes for planning PC Projects, house projects, and continuing to use it as a blog planning tool. I also like the background options and color schemes for notes.
The main point is, the ChromeBox meets my minimum needs for productivity apps for writing, note taking, and project planning. There are options that meet those needs in the Chrome WebApp store and users should be able to find something that meets their basic needs. I have still not found a good notebook-style app that allows me to categorize or label notes, partitioning them into discrete sections by topic or other filters. I found the Versitek Organizer, but it requires signing up for an account, which I have not wanted to do yet. I may get around to checking that out in the 2nd week of the review.
On the audio-visual front, I have received a lot of questions on how the ChromeBox might do as a home-theater PC (HTPC). My plan for the 2nd week is to hook it up as a component in my entertainment center. I was a bit befuddled by the dual DisplayPorts at first, having not worked with this type of connection before. I had to spend the first few days testing the ChromeBox out over a DVI connection. Once I got up and running, however, a few minutes of research turned this up on Amazon. I ordered it and it arrived before the weekend got started. This allowed me to connect dual displays. You can see notes here on the limited functionality of dual displays in ChromeOS as it works today. I have tested the cable hooked up to a 23″ Acer LCD and it works just fine, although it is rendering at 1280 X 1024, vice this display's max resolution. Of course, display resolution is not something you have control over in ChromeOS, at least not without being in Developer Mode. It just is what it is.
I still have a question as to whether or not the 'Box puts out audio over DisplayPort and I am thinking it must given Samsung's apparent use-cases the device is intended for. Add that there are no other audio ports except for the 1.8mm jack up front. There are not any speakers on this display, so I have not been able to actually test sound output over the DisplayPort-to-HDMI. All research I have done points to an expectation that this will work once I hook it up to my 50″ plasma.
For those desiring Surround Sound, you should expect that sending this to a receiver equipped with HDMI inputs using this cable, or something similar-to, will provide the audio experience you are looking for.
The Good
- instant up/instant down; start-up and shutdown times are basically instantaneous
- thermals very low; ambient noise non-existent
- video playback handles various codecs; capable of playback of direct dumps from digital cameras, camcorders, and playback of older .avi files with no issues. Did not play back my 1-week review video, but it did transfer it off the camera and then file-transferred it to YouTube
- handles video playback in one window and multi-tasking another app into a different window with no problems
- handles bluetooth pickup out of standby as well as any device; better than most Android devices and at least as well as most Windows PC's
The Bad
- offline capability is very limited
- multi-tasking workflow management is not the best; In one instance you are looking at a single spawned instance of an app, the next all of your app tabs and windows appear to have collapsed into a single browser icon.
- scroll wheel on at least some Bluetooth mice are not recognized
- opening File Manager automatically has the first file or folder selected. If you do not know this, and then select a file and then select "Delete", you've blown away the one you wanted and unintentionally blown away the first object in the list because it was auto-selected
- not viable as a gaming platform due to apparent dearth of non-casual games in the WebApp Store; jury is still out on this one as I have more games to test
Those are some of the basic notes of what I have experienced so far on the ChromeBox, but not everything. Please feel free to post questions here. If I do not see them directly, Dinu will send them to me and I will get you guys a response as soon as I can. Check back in another week for the 2-week wrap-up!


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I am new to this software and the building of my family tree. Any chance of a user group to work with would be very welcome!
Any one interested?
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Primarily for use in 2" and 4" (50 mm and 100 mm) monitoring wells, they can also be used in smooth boreholes and wells with 1.9 - 5" (48 - 127 mm) inside diameters. Typical inflation pressures for the 1.8" (46 mm) packers are from 20 - 40 psi (140 - 345 kPa) above hydrostatic pressure, and from 20 - 30 psi (140 - 205 kPa) for the 3.7" (94 mm) packers.
The Packers utilize a gland of black carbon reinforced rubber (BCR) on a Sch 80 PVC body. They are lowered on flexible low density polyethylene (LDPE) tubing or a rigid PVC drop pipe. If a rigid drop tube is not required for your application, it is recommended to attach a safety line to the eyebolt provided. The Solinst Model 103 Tag Line provides a convenient, graduated support cable that can be used for this purpose, as well as for measuring placement depth. The inflation line of 1/8" (3 mm) low density polyethylene (LDPE) is easily attached using the nylon compression fittings on each packer.
Solinst packers are ideal for use with Integra Bladder Pumps or Double Valve Pumps, which can be easily attached above the packers. The water inlet can be below a single packer, or through perforated pipe fitted between straddle packers. For hydraulic conductivity testing, Solinst Leveloggers can also be suspended, either below or between packers, from the eyebolt on the bottom of the packer.
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By Lauren Benn
THERE'S A new-concept store coming to Terrace and its philosophy is to be an eco-conscious social enterprise.
Pioneered by the Terrace and District Community Services Society, the store which will be located in the old garden centre on the former Terrace Co-op property on Greig Ave. will be selling items refurbished.
These will be refurbished items that would otherwise have been tossed into the trash.
But the key here is not to turn a profit, at least one that will line the pockets of a private interest. Instead, that money will go to getting people in the community job ready, and the refurbishing work to be done there will teach essential skills as well.
"We want to invest in people," said Casey Eys, who works for the community services society and who is managing the project. "We want to use that as a vehicle for people to get retrained or reintroduced into the workforce."
The COReStore, as it is named, stands for Community Oriented Recyclable Store. It will operate on a volunteer basis for everything from management to refurbishing work to sales.
"Anybody is welcome to show up and lend a hand," said Eys.
The store will focus primarily on accepting materials like construction waste that can be reused, reusable appliances, fixtures, furniture and larger household items.
"What we want to avoid is turning it into a garage sale," said Eys, who clarified that there are many reusable products that need a little TLC but which are now thrown away because there's no other place for them to go.
And it's the TLC part that will see community members – employed or not – using or learning skills that can be applied in a variety of contexts.
Eys pointed out that when it comes to employment, gaps in a resume can raise flags to employers and that the COReStore is a great way to fill space and show future employers one's motivation to be engaged.
Also, money raised will be dedicated to training people who require it elsewhere — and the formula for deciding who gets help will depend on need and motivation, said Eys.
Before the store can open, which is estimated to be in late May or in early June, improvements to the building will be need.
The community services society will be providing seed money, which will be spent getting the building move-in ready.
A trailer will be brought in to act as an office and washroom facilities will be provided.
The City of Terrace will be renting the building for $1 a year.
The building's most recent inhabitants, city firefighters who trained inside, have moved out their equipment.
Repairs needed include a new stairway into the building, some electrical, flooring and drywall fixing, and possibly some roof repair.
"It's not a lot at this point," said Kwiatkowski. "We're keeping it fairly simple."
For the store, Eys said details as to what exactly will be accepted and how are being hammered out, but ideas include a possible pickup service.
Cash donations to go toward job and life skills training for those who will be working at the store will also be accepted, he said.


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Maredomus Hotel in Fortaleza is located in the charming Paria de Iracema and offers a comfortable and cozy accommodation for those who visit us.
Maredomus Hotel in Fortaleza is located in the charming Paria de Iracema and offers a comfortable and cozy accommodation for those who visit us.
Maredomus in Fortaleza Hotel has 80 comfortable rooms distributed in 40 sea front and 40 standard.
The apartments at Maredomus Hotel are decorated in soft tones and designed to receive both who comes to ride and for those conducting business. We have a rooftop pool overlooking the sea, sauna, fitness center, restaurant, and event structure for Wi - Fi in all environments.
Maredomus is 5 minutes from the best restaurants, bars and hottest clubs of the city.
The Hotel is located on the beach of Iracema. The place is a bit deserted, but had no problems. You can walk to Pirata Bar (Best Mondays ever!) I liked the room, the hotel staff met us very well. The pool is on the roof and has a very panoramic view of the beach of Iracema. The hotel cafe is well served.
Nice! Very clean hotel! Staff members are very polite and the breakfast is excellent!!! Hotel helps a lot talking about rides and tips about places to eat… The pool is small, but with all those amazing beaches, you won't even miss it! It's a great deal! I'm looking forward to my comeback.
The hotel has a good service. The breakfast has a good variety, but the Meireles Beach is not suitable for bathroom … who wants to leave the hotel to Praia do Futuro has great stalls where beach is a 20 min drive.
Very good hotel. Good service. Excellent location. Amazing breakfast. Dinner could be a little better. The pool is small but very cozy. The view from the pent is amazing. Pretty much worth it.
The restaurant Maredomus Hotel Fortaleza offers to its guests and the general public with a contemporary menu. Seasonal produce and fruits then reinforce the breakfast that is brought in daily.


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2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon chili-garlic paste
2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
2 pounds green beans, ends trimmed
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Preheat oven to 450 F. Lightly oil a shallow roasting pan or rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray or a thin film of oil. Whisk together the sesame oil, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, chili-garlic paste and minced garlic. Place the green beans in pan and drizzle with sauce. Toss to evenly coat each bean with some sauce, then spread into a shallow, uncrowded layer.
Roast until beans are well-browned, giving pan a healthy shake now and then for even cooking. It will only take about 15 to 20 minutes. Remove pan from oven, season beans with the freshly ground black pepper, transfer to a warmed serving bowl and serve immediately.
Makes 4 to 6 servings.
VARIATION: For additional depth of flavor, include a peeled and sliced onion, tossing it in sauce with green beans. Onion will brown and caramelize during roasting process.
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text: The King Of Comedy is one of Martin Scorsese's best flicks, and also one of the most human, with Robert De Niro playing a fame-obsessed talk show stalker. It's not something you'd immediately expect to be the source material for a new Cut Copy video given the band's pill-shaped turn for the rave, but it's right here all over "Meet Me In A House Of Love." Cardboard versions of the band are interviewed by a very eager host, who also assume their role as musical guests in front of brightly coloured screens, in a further nod to De Niro's deranged character.


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In the wake of the 2016 Oscar nominations, many are speaking out against the films and performances AMPAS has decided to reward this year. First, there was Jada Pinkett Smith's suggestion that maybe black actors, directors, and other members of Hollywood shouldn't participate in the Oscars as presenters and performers if they weren't going to be included in the stable of nominees. Now, a producer of Straight Outta Compton, which probably deserved more than the nominations it received (especially one for Best Picture), has published a letter calling out the Oscars for their shortcomings in recognizing diverse projects and performers.
Even though Straight Outta Compton screenwriters Andrea Berloff and Jon Herman got a Best Screenplay nomination, they are noticeably some of the few people involved with the movie who are white. Will Packer made sure to congratulate them in his post, but chastised The Academy in equal measure. Packer's Facebook post included these comments:
To my #OscarsSoWhite folks who are angry at the absurd lack of diversity highlighted yet again by this year's Oscar noms. Trust me, I get it. Those of us in the industry who labor to make the best content we can are especially sensitive to a perceived systemic bias against a group of people or type of film. One thing I will say, is that The Academy's voting record is only part of the issue. These films/performances and the scripts that drive them often go into development YEARS before they are released and thus in Oscar contention.
After stressing the idea that more movies need to be sent into production now so that the Oscars have something to nominate in the next few years, Packer continues:


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This flip clock flips automatically every date, day, and month with quartz time. Quality SKP Japan Movement. Fartech Design. Great for your retro home or office. This item comes with user manual, screw for wall mount, and flip numbers the year. It can be a desk clock / wall clock.
- Calendar (Date, Week & Month) runs automatically year-round by a quartz control system.
- Calendar needs only be adjusted one day (Feb. 29) in leap year.
- 16 pcs of numbers are in numbers compartment. Just need to change it once a year.
- Monday to Friday is Black, Saturday is Green and Sunday is Red.
- Dimension: 12.5″ x 12.5″
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Now that the harvest is rolling in, the farmers markets across the world are filled with bounty in some places, not so much in others, depending on how certain regions fared over the summer with the weird weather. Not really missing the lack of genetically modified corn or soybeans, I found the time to look into this little time management game of a Farmers Market.
This is one Farmers Market that seems a bit tedious to keep running. You have base resources being brought in by local farmers, and little stalls that are selling products made from the base resources. So, you are always sending market workers to get the items you need. Not only that, the resource sellers themselves have to upgrade their wares so your secondary sellers can have oil or butter, along with milk and corn. Sure, this must smell great to all your little green shoppers, until someone forgets to empty the trashcans, so you have to send your little market workers to clean the place up, or you'll get very annoyed by the sound of buzzing flies.


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Bigg Boss 9: 5 ANNOYING things about Salman Khan's show!
Salman Khan's controversial reality show premiered last night. While the show promises high-voltage drama and entertainment from Day 1, we have our share of disappointments with the show.
Let us get into it right away…
Double Trouble music theme
While the Bigg Boss theme tracks are generally catchy and make you sing along, this season's theme song is just plain annoying. The makers could have paid a little more attention to making the tune a bit catchier considering it is going to play on loop for the coming four months.
Tacky clothes for contestants
Ken Ferns designed the clothes for all the contestants going inside the house. We have to say that we were expecting contestants to come decked up in better outfits, like how it was last year. The outfits, regardless of who wore them, were mostly tacky, gaudy and and unimpressive.
Disappointing list of contestants
If you were going "Who is that again?" the whole time while watching the premiere episode last night, we echo your sentiment. While most of the contestants hail from the world of television, almost all of them aren't as "jaane maane" (popular or famous) as the show claims. The "celebs" who entered the Bigg Boss house last night and far lesser known than contestants who have participated in previous seasons.
Ridiculous panel of journalists
The three journalists representing media on the show last night who were apparently present at the premiere to "grill" the contestants before they entered the house were nothing short of stupid. It was an idiotic move to get senior journalists on the show and make them ask juvenile questions of the contestants and then have them laugh at what ensued. We were just laughing at them, not with them.
Pointless Cameo by Elli Avram and Daisy Shah
Right at the beginning of the show, Salman Khan performed with his Jai Ho co-star Daisy Shah and then Elli Avram. While the performances were okay, Salman's fav ladies lingered longer than necessary and just annoyed the hell out of us with their drama. Can we not have such cameos in the future please?
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Yeh Hai Mohabbatein: It's so LAME of Raman to not tell Ishita about Shagun's truth!


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Corn fritters or Bakwan Jagung in Indonesian or Bahasa Indonesia, also called Perkedel Jagung, have been one of the staple food in Indonesian tables. From snack food to side dish, corn fritters have been one of Indonesians favorites. Simply and easy to make, corn fritters are readily available and easy to find in just about anywhere in Indonesia.
I grew up with corn fritters, I crave and make this recipe often. I got this recipe from my mom. This is the way I like my corn fritters, the way I have been eating them since I was little and I still enjoy them until today.
1 can of 15 oz corn kernel
2 tbsp full flour (regular tablespoons, not the measurement spoon)
1 egg
1 stalk of green onion
1 small shallot bulb, minced
1/2 tsp garlic powder or two cloves of fresh garlic, minced
1/2 tsp sugar (optional, usually the corn is already sweet enough)
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup small baby shrimps (optional)
oil to fry
Drain the corn kernel. Place them in a big bowl. With big spoon, slightly mash the corn kernels. You don't ned to mash them all. Just enough to have some so the fritters don't look like lumps of corn kernels. Then, mix all the ingredients but the oil into the half mashed corn kernels. Mix well.
Heat oil in a pan for deep fry. Using a tablespoon to scoop the corn kernel mix, drop them into heated oil. Deep fry the corn kernel mix until golden brown and crispy. Set aside.
Eat them while they are hot with steam rice. Enjoy!


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PREPARE TO BE UNDERWHELMED, FOLKS. NBC announced full season pick ups for three of their fall shows last night (due to the Olympics, they premiered their new programming before the other networks), and they're decent at best and I hate you, Ryan Murphy at worst.
NBC ordered nine additional episodes of Go On, The New Normal, and Revolution, bringing their episode totals for the season up to 22, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Revolution has been a solid performer for the network on Monday nights, debuting to 11.7 million and a 4.1 rating in the adults-18-to-49 demographic, the biggest drama premiere since 2009. The J.J. Abrams-produced series…has consistently retained The Voice's lead-in, with its most recent airing drawing 8.4 million viewers and a 3.2 on Monday.
Go On…bowed during the Olympics to 16.1 million viewers and a 5.6 rating. In its usual timeslot, the show debuted to 9.6 million viewers and a 3.4. Its most recent outing drew 7.3 million viewers and a 2.7. Ryan Murphy's The New Normal…debuted to 7 million and a 2.5, dropping its latest outing with 5.2 million and a 2.0 rating. (Via)
The best of the bunch is Go On, though even then, the most complimentary thing you can say about it is, "Well, it's like Community without any of the charm or wit or Alison Brie and/or Gillian Jacobs, but hey, it's got a black guy and an old person, so, um, when's Community back? Oh, that long?" Dustin shared his thoughts on Revolution, and I agree shrugheartedly. As for The New Normal, well, you know how you occasionally watch a show because someone you like is in it? You'll convince yourself that, sure, it doesn't look good, but this actor has done something I previously enjoyed, so I'll keep trying. Surely Hypothetical Actor won't let me down! I made it five minutes into the New Normal pilot before literally saying out loud, "Why, Andrew Rannells? Why?" It's crude, poorly written, hateful, bland, and offensive, but not in the way that Ryan Murphy intended — it's offensive in the way that Murphy's getting paid large sums of money to write lines like, "I am extremely tolerant to all peoples. When they opened that Chipotle here, I was the first of my friends to go. And that is Spanish food."
But I digress. On the flip side of the NBC pick ups is Fox's The Mob Doctor.
Monday night's episode fell 23 percent to 3.5 million viewers and a mere 1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. That makes Mob Doc the lowest-rated show on a major broadcast network last night, putting it 47 percent below the second-lowest show. (Via)
This news should please lovers of pun headlines everywhere. "The Mob Doctor Is On Life Support" and "The Mob Doctor Is About to Get Whacked" are there for the taking.


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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Border officials say 30 new passport kiosks at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will reduce waits for travelers returning from foreign trips.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection hopes the machines will help avert delays that stretched to four hours last summer.
One Texas airport official said Judson Murdock the machines also will free officers to focus on travelers. The new DFW system can electronically process up to 30 arriving travelers simultaneously.
DFW is the latest of several U.S. and Canadian airports to add the automated kiosks, where U.S. and Canadian citizens can enter their passport information. More than 320,000 people have used them since their October installation.
DFW plans to add 24 more machines for use by permanent U.S. residents and visitors from countries with visa-waiver agreements with the United States, including the United Kingdom, South Korea and the Netherlands.
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Bruker Announces New Scientific Instruments and Software, plus Innovative, Turn-Key Analyzers
|(Nanowerk News) At Analytica 2010, Bruker Corporation today announces launches of numerous novel scientific instruments and software capabilities, as well as high-performance analytical solutions for applied markets and industrial applications. The new systems introduced today are focused on bringing robust, easy-to-use and affordable turn-key solutions to routine analysis, as well as on opening new scientific horizons for advanced research applications.
|Bruker is leveraging its high-performance technologies, applications know-how and close customer collaborations to pioneer innovative and unique analytical solutions that are more compact, easier to use, more productive, more sensitive and feature higher specificity and analytical reliability. These new products address an expanding array of applied, food, petro-chem, pharma-biotech, solar, advanced materials and nanotechnology, as well as academic research and teaching markets.
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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 file photo, United States goalkeeper Hope Solo (1) clears the ball from in front of her net during the second half against Costa Rica at the CONCACAF women's Olympic qualifying soccer game action at B.C. Place in Vancouver, Canada. Solo has lots to say heading into the Olympics. And she'll have even more to say once the games are done. The goalkeeper for the U.S. women's soccer team is releasing her memoir on Aug. 14 _ two days after the closing ceremony. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward, File)


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Illegal Oranges Part of Mayoral Bet
Playful wagers between mayors of cities competing in big sporting events is a commonplace event. Or it usually is. Take the playful bet that took place between the mayors of San Francisco and Miami for the Emerald Bowl. Had Miami won, Mayor Manny Diaz would have received a case of Napa Valley wine and several loaves of sourdough bread. Miami didn't win - the Cal Bears did. And so San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was to get some oranges. Or so he thought.
If you're scratching your head as to why the Mayor of San Francisco was involved representing a team from the city of Berkeley you may not be alone. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates would make three of us.
So Newsom, the wannabe future Governor of California and I suppose the Mayor of Berkeley took the prize. Except taking the oranges would have been illegal.
Florida oranges can't be shipped to California under federal regulations because of citrus canker, a contagious bacterial disease that causes leaves and fruit to drop from trees prematurely.Oops. So Newsome will be getting Stone Crab claws instead. Perhaps he'll share the fruit of Cal's victory with Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates.


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For years, the wrestling room was one of the last places where it was still boys-only.
While girls were playing football and hockey, the only females you'd see in the wrestling room were team managers or cheerleaders. But in recent years that's changed.
This year, four females are wrestling for the Juneau-Douglas High School Crimson Bears, a record for the end of the season. Junior Amanda Krafft is in her third year with the team, while junior Courtney Wetzstein and freshmen Wrenna Klose and Brooke Morgan are all in their first years with the Crimson Bears.
The girls and the rest of the Crimson Bears will be in action in Sitka this weekend as Juneau attends a tournament at Mount Edgecumbe High School. Matches start at 6 p.m. tonight, with more action at 10 a.m. Saturday and championship matches at 6:30 p.m.
The idea of females wrestling is still controversial to some -- Anchorage Christian Schools has a standing policy, a policy that's cost the team medals in region tournaments, that any wrestler drawing a female in a tourney bracket must forfeit the match. But girls have been on high school wrestling teams for about 12-15 years in Alaska.
In the last couple of years, the number of girls wrestling has grown and now two are ranked in the current fall season state poll -- Skyview's Melina Hutchison (fifth at 112 pounds) and Nikiski's Tela O'Donnell (eighth at 119). Both Hutchison and O'Donnell wrestle in national tournaments for female wrestlers, with Hutchison the top-ranked girl in the country in her age group and O'Donnell ranked second in hers.
"The girls earn respect on our team," said Juneau coach Bob Mahon, whose helped coach Hutchison and O'Donnell on Team Alaska. "When Amanda first came out for the team three years ago, the only thing she was afraid of was not being respected."
Krafft is the leader of Juneau's four female wrestlers, and her teammates call her "Mama Manda" because of the way she watches over the others. Krafft hasn't wrestled as much this year as in the past because of a bad back and a family vacation over the Thanksgiving week, so she's served as the team manager and helped coach when she's not squeezing in a match or two.
"I wrestled in the eighth grade and Bob saw me and encouraged me to try out," said Krafft, a 112-pounder who also plays goalkeeper on Juneau's soccer team. "I wanted to have fun, but there were never any girls out. I quit volleyball for this. I was the manager as a freshman, but I decided that was dumb and boring. I didn't want to wash towels, I wanted to wrestle."
Klose and Morgan both wrestled when they were in middle school (Klose in Juneau and Morgan in Anchorage), but this is Wetzstein's first year in the sport. But she has an older brother and that's meant a few unofficial living room wrestling matches. In fact, it was a challenge from her brother, Matt, that prompted Wetzstein to go out for the wrestling team.
"It was a different sport to try," said Wetzstein, a 171-pounder who also plays soccer. "My brother said I wouldn't make it through one of the practices. It was a little tough at first, but wrestling's like that."
Klose has been the most successful female wrestler at Juneau this year, posting an undefeated record at 112 pounds three weekends ago at a Skagway tournament and splitting a few matches last weekend in Juenau's tournament. Klose struggled early in the season, but a change in her diet and a look at some videotape turned her season around.
"I wrestled in the eighth grade, then in the club (Mahon's Juneau Tornadoes Wrestling Club) this summer," Klose said. "I wanted to try something new and I'd been in dance since the fourth grade. Most of the time, girls can't handle the practices. I was so sore, my muscles ached. It hurt to lift dishes at home. But I saw Melina and Amanda wrestle and I want to be like them. Hopefully I'll do this all four years."
Morgan, who has been battling asthma and a couple of broken bones in her right hand, has the least action under belt for Juneau. Morgan said a friend got her to go out for the Wendler Junior High School team in Anchorage last year, and she decided to stick with the sport when her family moved.
"When I wrestled up there, I beat all the girls I wrestled and I even beat a few guys," said Morgan, a 160-pounder. "I've always enjoyed the team aspect of the sport. When people find out I'm wrestling, I'll get a few, 'Go for it, girl,' comments. But I'll also get others who say there's no way a girl should be on the wrestling team. I don't mind who's in the sport and if a girl wants to put in all the practice time they should be allowed to wrestle. There's contact in any sport, even soccer and basketball."
On the contact aspect, Mahon said the boys quickly learn there's really no difference in wrestling a girl as there is with a boy. The matches go by so fast there's no time for groping. And Mahon said if the boys aren't careful, the girls will dump them on their backs and pin them. He said five East Coast colleges are now giving female wrestlers athletic scholarships, and Pacific University in Oregon is close to becoming the first school on the West Coast to offer scholarships.
"I get asked all the time what the difference is coaching girls," Mahon said. "At first it was a little different. You've got to approach the girls differently, but then you have to approach each kid differently. On the other hand, you can't treat them any differently than the other wrestlers on the team. I think the girls end up having better technique than a lot of the guys. They have to, they're not as strong."
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Last week, several UK water companies introduced a hosepipe ban. They subsequently admitted they were unsure about how long it would stay in place for. All will depend on how much rain we will get - something that isn't very likely, even though a lot of people are likely to have got a good wash over the Easter period.
The truth is, the droughts have been building up over the last two winters as the UK has experienced significantly lower rainfall than normal, combined with a rising population, and rising demand for food, all of which increases the stress on our water system. The drought might even extend to the north and west as it strengthens its grip on Britain.
This could, and should, be the perfect opportunity to ask ourselves a few questions:
1. Why are we using water so unsustainable?
2. Should we have an all-year-round hosepipe ban?
3. Is a hosepipe ban really an effective solution to our water problems?
We should be worried about the drought. Just look at Texas, whose citizens have recently fought a year-long drought - that followed a year of flooding.
This extreme weather is just another example of the impacts of climate change which we're starting to feel now in the developed world.
It's becoming impossible for us to predict the weather, even and in our own backyard. Just a few weeks ago Aberdeen was basking in record temperatures of 23 degrees, only to be replaced by arctic weather that left thousands of homes without power just days later.
The reality is that we don't really know what is normal anymore and weather forecasters find it increasingly hard to predict the weather, even though our systems gets more and more advanced!
So what do we do about it?
I believe a hosepipe ban presents a backward way of thinking. How can you have a water saving system that relies on neighbours to spy on each other and report transgressors to the water board?
All the while, you can still get away with using as much water as you like, provided you don't use a hosepipe.
Don't get me wrong, I think several things that you use a hosepipe for are pathetic, like watering lawns, sports grounds, filling up basins and swimming pools. We certainly need some kind of ban all-year-round regardless of whether we're facing a drought or not, but we will need to find a coherent manageable system; not an old fashioned one that belongs in the 50's.
So how do we save water then?
One of the most obvious ways is to make it mandatory for everyone to pay for their water, based on a water metering system. That is the only sustainable, sensible and fair solution.
At the moment everyone can chose to pay a set amount every month, regardless of how much water they consume. That is not fair on those who are sparing in their water use and might even have invested in watering butts and rainwater harvesting.
It's not right that they should be charged the same amount as someone who decides it's necessary to wash their cars every weekend.
Investing in rainwater saving systems ought to be the priority of the government and water industry. But perhaps it's not in the companies' interest as big investments in these techniques could revolutionise where we get our water from in this country.
Perhaps to encourage this, the UK government should be looking at something similar to the popular, though now reduced, feed-in tariff scheme (FIT) where you are paid on a rate based for every kWh of electricity you generate.
It would be easy to have the same system with water, based on the amount of rainwater you collect. That would definitely encourage investment in these technologies. Needless to say, it should also be made mandatory to have these things installed into all new buildings.
Pricing of water which will come alongside water metering should also be looked at. Water in the UK is currently very cheap compared to other countries in Europe and it's about time we start pricing it for what it's really worth. Water isn't as abundant as we might think, financial regulation and proper pricing is the key to save water.
Add to that, a high tariff that would come into place when you used more that what is calculated to be sustainable depending if you're living on your own or a family of four.
This leads up to my conclusion that we need to develop a proper sustainable and modern water system that reflect the world of today and not to rely on old out of date methods.


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MANHATTAN — Kansas State didn't need any help from Las Vegas to embrace the art of self-deprecation, but hey, who's going to argue with the oddsmakers?
"We're ranked, but we're picked as underdogs against a 2-2 football team," safety Tysyn Hartman said. "It happens. The guys who make those odds know what they're talking about. We haven't beat Missouri in five years."
The Wildcats have been flawless in the underdog role this season. From Miami's speed to Robert Griffin's aim to Missouri's balance, they have accentuated the strengths of every opponent while carefully concealing their own.
This week brought more of the same, with K-State employing a familiar psychology.
"They have four guys at 6-4 or taller at the wide receiver positions," coach Bill Snyder said. "Our tallest guy is maybe 3-3, something like that."
The humility is becoming an increasingly tough sell with K-State 4-0 and ranked No. 20. Missouri, the team that comes to Snyder Family Stadium as a field-goal favorite, has seen enough to know the Wildcats can play.
"Obviously they have a lot of confidence," Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. "They're playing well on both sides of the ball and have some good players."
The secret is out after the Wildcats beat Miami and Baylor in consecutive weeks. This earned K-State a spot in the rankings for the first time since 2007, a distinction that comes with its own set of challenges.
"Whatever the media says, whatever the polls say, that was yesterday and the day before," Snyder said. "You start letting that change how you prepare yourself, how you live your life, how you do things, you probably get yourself in some serious trouble.
"I just want our young guys to understand how they got where they are."
If the Wildcats need a reminder of their humble beginnings, they can look at the Vegas line. That K-State is an underdog on its home turf — a fact that did not go unmentioned in Monday meetings — signals the Wildcats have some respect left to earn.
K-State is OK with that, especially after last year season, when a 4-0 start was followed by five losses in seven games. Any suggestion that K-State has turned a corner would be premature, Hartman said.
"I wouldn't make that prediction yet," Hartman said. "We started 4-0 last season and won (three) more games the rest of the year.
"I believe we're on our way, but there's still a lot to be done."
When assessing Missouri, the Wildcats didn't have to stretch far to find the strengths. The Tigers allow 87 rushing yards per game, which means the teams will go strength-on-strength when K-State runs the ball.
"We like playing against the run," Tiger tackle Dominique Hamilton said. "That's what we play first. They are a running team, and we feel like we can dominate."
Balance is the operative word for Missouri's offense, as the Tigers are the only team in the Bowl Subdivision averaging at least 250 yards rushing and passing. Quarterback James Franklin, a first-year starter, has thrown seven touchdowns and one interception, while running back Henry Josey averages an astounding 12.4 yards per carry.
"How does that happen?" Snyder said. "That's an impossible stat."
Missouri also has won five straight meetings in the series dating back to the final game of Snyder's first coaching term.
Oddsmakers think the streak will go to six, which is OK with the Wildcats. They don't mind taking the points.
"I guess it's kind of fun playing the underdog role," Hartman said.
Records: Missouri 2-2, 0-1 Big 12; K-State 4-0, 1-0 Big 12.
Kickoff: 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Snyder Family Stadium, Manhattan
Radio: KTOP-FM (102.9)
Line: Missouri by 3
About the Tigers: Injured running backs Kendial Lawrence and De'Vion Moore returned to practice this week, though both are questionable for Saturday's game ... Michael Egnew, who led all tight ends with 90 receptions in 2010, has eight catches this year ... Missouri's five straight wins in the series have come by an average margin of 18 points ... Tailback Henry Josey leads the Big 12 and ranks sixth nationally, averaging 133.25 yards per game ... Kicker Grant Ressel is 6 of 10 on field goal attempts this year after hitting 43 of 46 the previous two seasons ... Missouri ranks 97th nationally in pass defense.
Two K-State players to watch:
• DT Ray Kibble, a consistent force for the Wildcats this season, will try to stuff the Big 12's top rushing offense.
• Coming off a career day against Baylor, WR Chris Harper will look to exploit Missouri's shaky pass defense.
Austin Meek's prediction: K-State 28, Missouri 24. Playing at home, K-State summons more late-game mojo to stay unbeaten.
Kevin Haskin's prediction: K-State 38, Missouri 34. Confident defense comes up with more heroics to contain explosive Tigers.


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Royal Brunei Airlines has launched Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights to Melbourne.
The new fuel-efficient, twin-aisle jet touched down at Melbourne Airport for the first time on Thursday, and will now serve the Australian city daily, direct from Brunei.
Royal Brunei became the first Southeast Asian airline to operate the Dreamliner, when it received its first new B787-8 aircraft in October 2013. It now operates two of the aircraft, with one flying to London (via Dubai) and the second deployed Down Under on the Melbourne route.
The new aircraft comes equipped with 254 seats in two classes, including 18 flat-bed seats in business class and 236 seats in economy.
Royal Brunei becomes the third airline to operate the Dreamliner at Melbourne Airport, following Jetstar and Air India.


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Sonatas for violin with harpsichord bass
Violin and continuo
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Edited by Nicolas Fromageot. This edition: Facsimile. Collection Dominantes. Score. Published by Anne Fuzeau Productions - France (FZ.5663).
Item Number: FZ.5663
ISBN M230656634. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.
This facsimile of an original by Antonio Vivaldi is part of our Dominantes collection. Sonate a violino, e basso per il cembalo - Edition: Bortoli, Venise, 1709. Sonate a violino, e basso per il cembalo - Edition: E. Roger, Amsterdam, undated (= c. 1710). Presentation by Nicolas Fromageot: bibliography of the work - Some points of comparison between the two editions - annexe: title and first page of the Walsh edition (c. 1721).
Sonate a violino, e basso per il cembalo. Bortoli, Venise, 1709: Facsimile in reduced format of the original Italian edition, for documentary purposes (4 images per page). We have chosen to reproduce in full the Amsterdam edition, which is much more legible. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of copies from: - Municipal Vincenzo Soppi Library of Udine (Italy). - National Library of Paris (France). - British Library of London (England). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.


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Aston Villa are expected to wrap up the signing of Chelsea midfielder Steve Sidwell.
The Daily Mail says Sidwell will be signed by Aston Villa as skipper Gareth Barry's direct replacement in the next 48 hours.
Manager Martin O'Neill expects to open negotiations with Chelsea midfielder Sidwell over a £5million transfer.


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Monday, November 2, 2009
Is Lithography Art?
Color lithography is having a moment. At the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Allen Ruppersberg has assembled a museum of found images, spanning early 20th-century sheet music and c. Summer-of-Love rock posters. It's all anchored by two mural-size circus posters. Are vintage chromolithographs art? Nobody asks that question, not when they're part of a contemporary artist's installation.
Across town is the Huntington's "The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection." Last, otherwise known as a founding father of Silicon Valley and collector of African art, has promised his 135,000-piece archive of American color lithography to the Huntington. In the museum world "ephemera" describes printed images created for a commercial purpose and not intended to last for the ages. In fact these things have long been collected. Examples on view include theatrical posters, tobacco and cigar box labels, trade cards, seed packets, orange crate labels, children's books, board games, city views, calendars, and much more. It's all fascinating as a demonstration of how much American life has changed, and how much it's stayed the same.
The remarkable thing is how few of the images impress contemporary eyes as art. That's puzzling because the art audience has been conditioned to accept just about any early photograph as art. Police mug shots? Check. Botanical specimens? Check. Documentation of surgeries and anesthesia? It's all good.
Color lithography and photography each burst on the scene around 1840. As in a romantic comedy, they were rivals who completed each other. Photography offered detail without the toil and distortion of the artist's hand. Lithography supplied the color early photography couldn't. With diligence, it too could verge on photographic exactitude.
Cases were made, early on, for photography and lithography as fine art. Advantage, lithography. Goya was an early adopter, albeit in black-and-white. Both media offered artists scope to invent new types of pictures, even as the underlying technologies were being refined and reinvented. Both went through cycles of critical acceptance and rejection. In the twentieth century, the art trade invented editioned lithographs as a form of affordable art by famous painters. For much of that century, photography was ephemera, the province of crazy collectors who couldn't afford real art — not even lithographs.
A couple of decades upended that opinion. Snapshots went up on art museum walls as "vernacular photography." Color lithography began to feel less of the moment — even Picassos, much less baseball cards.
Consider Carleton Watkins. He's now called the first great American artist in the West, or the greatest American artist of his age. This reflects a very recent upgrade. John Coplans rediscovered Watkins in the 1960s, and only in the 2000s has Watkins rated superlatives. Above is Late George Cling Peaches, c. 1888, owned by the Huntington and until recently filed under documentation of the Old West. Now, everyone in the art world's got a hard-on for this sort of thing. It's pop, it's minimalism, it's postminimalism.
It's also an advertisement for peaches. It must have been created for purposes not too disimilar from the produce labels, posters, and trade cards in the Huntington's lithograph show. Why is there no color-litho equivalent to Watkins? (The two household-name lithographers are businesses, not individual artists: Currier and Ives and Milton Bradley.)
One answer might be text. The lithography medium makes it easy to incorporate text into the image. In fact the typography is one of the most innovative things about these pictures. But it means the images are forever married to sales pitches for defunct precursors of Lady Gaga, Rogaine, and Grand Theft Auto. A photograph, such as Watkins' peaches, exists independently from any sales pitches that might once have been appended. It leaves future generations a blanker slate on which to project.
Another theory: Clients must have kept lithographers on a short tether, demanding beatific expressions, unsubtle humor, and artistic conventions fondly remembered. Those clients may have been less hands-on with photographers. They weren't buying art, they were buying photography = truth. The best artists, like Watkins, realized how much slack that gave them.
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- Donald Frazell said...
Purpose is everything, at least when done so well that it accomplishes ones desire, and triggers these emotions in others.
There are many forms of art. These lithos are applied arts, advertising. Thats their purpose, and none other can be found, though contempt types can find the most absurdly shallow meanings in dog poop, or cow splats. Ask my boy William Wray, an excellent cartoonist and illustrator, who also does creative art now, but knows the difference,. Art schools dont, as if they all get blended together, it is so much easier to sell degrees.
The photos are informative, but also this one lookng for order and patterns in the combination of nature and man, seeking god within it. On a minor level, but actually successful, and so creative art. Not fine art, which thinks it is creative, when truly only about mollifying their clients wants, the rich and self absorbed. Fine art refines things into nothingness so nothing disturbs the owner, but gives a sense of superiority and power of objects, to seemingly control life. Now thats truly an absurd "concept" and why contemporary artistes can never be trusted to qualify anything,. What have they ever done? Nothing, and thats what sells. Therapy, absurdist humor, childish self expression, and decorations.
But true creative art exists, when one seeks it. Finding order in chaos. meaning. Purpose. The enemies of contemporary art, of this Salon, just as that of the nineteenth century. And it is going down,. The age of excess is over.
But this above is some truly childish nonsense, all about the maker and viewers childhood, Grow up damnit, it is time to put aside childish things, we got work to do.
Time for Men and Women, in creative art, we are needed.
art collegia delenda est
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Portrait of J.
- Artist: Brian Chiu
- Genre: Jazz
- Release Date: 11/8/2005
'The Portrait of J.' is an original instrumental fusion jazz CD that mixes rock, funk, R&B, blues and Latin rhythm. Strong melodies and a groovy rhythm feature Brian's innovative and unique electric bass playing. The other talented musicians on this CD include Mike McLaughlin and Roberto Zayas on guitars, Fred Lu on keys, and Xiao Bai and Alan Wong on drums. Brian has been a professional bassist for over 20 years. He has done numerous studio dubbing works and has been touring with various artists around Asia and U.S.A. Brian wrote and released his bass curriculum, 'Complete Bass Playing' in 2002. His first solo CD, 'The Portrait of J.' was released in 2004. Here are some notes from Brian about this recording: I had a complete melody line in my head when I walked out of this modern art museum in Chicago. This evolved into track #1, Chicago Shuffle. Boracay Island was written after my first visit to this beautiful island in the Philippines. In The Park, is a melody I started humming one summer afternoon as I played with my son in the park. The Portrait of J. is a song that I wrote for my wife.
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The pub is located at 2 Cohoes Road. Call 273-9646 for info or reservations.
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Roast Duckling: glazed with an orange ginger sauce. $18.95
Rack of Lamb: roasted and served with mint jelly. $18.95
All specials are served with a side salad and your choice of pasta or potato and vegetable


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The newsroom will always be home
April 30, 2012
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There are many angles I could take in this, my final piece in my cherished Massachusetts Daily Collegian. I could floridly describe how I got here, explaining that I never intended to end up in Amherst, that I was never supposed to be toiling away in our cobwebby Campus Center basement office.
I could narrate the arc of my personal maturation and self-discovery process in lofty, probably overstated terms, elaborating on how developing a congenital disease taught me the fallibility of concrete expectations and shook my faith in the inherency of fate.
I could expand on my disillusionment process at my previous school, the University of Missouri, where I entered as a freshman naively thinking I'd be a present-day Tom Sawyer, rambling down dirt roads along muddy rivers in pick-up trucks while sparring fervently with my long-anticipated journalist brethren about the 2008 presidential election and the implications of the constant encroachment of media further into our lives.
While I'm at it, I could finally even spill the beans to you, dear readers, that I'm not one of you at all, that all this time you've been deceived, that I still don't go to the University of Massachusetts and have been an outsider from Hampshire College in your midst all along.
Or I could take the classic, accessible "inspirational" tact; encouraging my beloved readership to take advantage of their time in college, to mind their p's and q's while taking risks, to seize the day and make friends and learn all while having a grand old time.
I'm not going to write any of those stories.
Instead, I'd like to take a moment to illustrate why and how this rag-tag roll of ink and trees we call the Collegian and the potentially insane confederation of folks who madly devote their lives to it are so special and imperative. With any luck, this will reach someone delusional enough to be inspired to come down here and make this a better paper.
And, fortuitously enough, my story takes me right back to Missouri.
It was with both a gasp and a chuckle that I read the news early in April that the student newspaper where I'd been a freshman reporter just three haltingly brisk years ago had been rocked by controversy after an ill-advised April Fools' edition title landed its staff in hot water and its long-established reputation sullied across the media universe.
The paper, the University of Missouri Maneater, had given its satire edition a name which can be used disparagingly for lesbians and which does not really need to be repeated (use the wonders of Google to find it yourself).
What made the incident both humorous and saddening for me was that I could empathize, and I knew there would be light at the end of the proverbial tunnel for the shamed staff in the Show-Me State. Having served in various editorial capacities here at the Daily Collegian since my freshman year, I have lived through our editorial staff green-lighting several pieces which were in unimaginably poor taste, enraging and alienating our readership and reflecting terribly on the professionalism and standards of my beloved paper.
And yet, out of those careless editorial choices and the fiascos they facilitated, I have grown immensely as a journalist and as a person. The very nature of a student publication like the Collegian lends itself to failures, but they are recoverable. We here are a team of woefully overworked, generally unpaid – or certainly underpaid – full-time students, part-time aspiring writers, editors and designers, who also have scores of other obligations eating at our time and energy.
A great portion of our staff is extremely inexperienced in the journalistic world, frequently unaware of some of the basic conventions of the field, and we are all learning and evolving as we go.
So, while working at the Collegian as an individual who considers himself well-experienced for a budding journalist has at times been extraordinarily stressful, sometimes even bewildering when perusing the next day's finished product, I would not have had it any other way.
Over the course of my three-plus years in our quaint, idyllic valley, I have probably spent more time under the unrelenting, oppressive fluorescent lights of our shabby Campus Center basement office than I have in my own bed. It's a toss-up, honestly. I've wracked my brain for innumerable hours trying to reword miserably disjointed sentences, become completely incensed at what I've seen as lacking motivation on some of my coworkers' behalf, banged my head on keyboard after keyboard when hackneyed, source-less, editorialized pieces have reached my desk, and it's all made me a more vigilant copy editor, a more creative writer and a more relaxed person.
I've learned that working myself up over disappointing content is frivolous; that getting angry at kids – or professionals – for making mistakes while just trying to do their job is futile, improved at articulating exactly what I'd like to see of colleagues and developed much-improved interpersonal skills, as I've honed my skills at giving constructive feedback while emphasizing changes I'd like made and complimenting fellow staffers on their strengths.
At times, my experiences down here have been genuinely maddening. I've probably shed more tears over my work and the work of others here than I have over just about any experience in my life, and it's all prepared me to be a far more composed, dynamic reporter in the "real" world.
It takes a certain, possibly masochistic demeanor to want to work in a dusty basement office, frantically attempting to rework oft-jumbled copy while searching for usable images and losing sleep, study and leisure time in favor of polishing a product that, in reality, few in the outside world will care all that much about (unless one makes a mistake like the aforementioned Maneater gaffe).
But, for those with such a seemingly illogical drive, this basement and its sporadically functional computers, its quirky denizens and its stacks of archived Collegians is and always will be home.
When I look back on the time I've spent here in Amherst, I would not, indeed could not, have had it any other way. And when, over the course of time, I think back to my days here, I'll remember that the Collegian really was a springboard for quite a few genuinely cool opportunities.
Not to toot my own horn (toot-toot), but when I reflect, I'll remember this paper gave me the chance, before I was of legal drinking age, to cover a gubernatorial election, a special senate election, to scoop national news sources on the search for a new UMass system president, to be plagiarized by professional reporters when covering the case of a student who threatened a Florida representative, to investigate why the flagship university in a state as educationally rich as Massachusetts is so awful at fund raising, and even to pen a few pieces of humor of my own, my personal favorites being "Hampshire College to switch to cannabis-based currency system" and "9 in 10 UMass students agree: Wooo!"
And I've made some lasting friends and what I hope will be professional connections, to boot. I could not have gotten through these years without the unyielding support of my classmates Alyssa Creamer and Chris Shores and several of their predecessors, especially Will McGuinness, Matt Rocheleau and Nick Bush.
So it is with mixed emotions that I bid this newsroom and its dusty stacks of archives, unnerving mechanical whirs, seemingly self-generating half-eaten bags of Doritos and always affable custodial staff adieu, though I know I'll always have a home in mangy offices like this one. I can only hope there are more weirdoes like me to come.
Sam Butterfield was General Editor at the Daily Collegian. He can be reached at [email protected]


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"I NEVER knew nostalgia could be so big," says sixties' heart-throb Mark Wynter.
The 70-year-old singer turned actor, who scored four Top 20 chart hits in the 1960s including Venus in Blue Jeans and Go Away Little Girl, is talking about Dreamboats and Petticoats, which returns to the Capital today for a week-long run at the Playhouse.
Written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the team behind TV sitcoms Goodnight Sweetheart, Birds of a Feather The New Statesman and Shine On Harvey Moon, Dreamboats and Petticoats is set in 1961. Emotions are running high as young musicians Norman and Bobby compete to win a national song-writing competition – and, more importantly, the attention of the gorgeous Sue.
But when Bobby discovers that shy Laura is no slouch on the piano, love and rock 'n' roll fame beckons.
Featuring classic tracks from the likes of Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, and many more, Wynter was delighted to discover that three of his own tracks were included in the score.
"Which is nice because I haven't sung them on tour for about 40 years. It's a nice way of reminding me about my early life," he says. "Music from the 1960s is simple, and that's why everyone loves it. We can relate to them, and everything they need to say, they say."
So, if you remember jiving away to the likes of Shaking All Over, Bobby's Girl, Little Town Flirt, Only Sixteen and Runaround Sue, take a trip down memory lane to the golden era of rock 'n' roll at the Playhouse, all this week.
Dreamboats and Petticoats, Playhouse, Greenside Place, Monday-Saturday, 7.30pm (matinees 2.30pm), £12.90-£38.90, 0844-871 3014


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