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Would love some comments from my esteemed VL family..... about to make a bow purchase. Recently demo'd a bunch of bows....under 1k price point....mostly middle of that. REALLY liked the feel and smooth sound of the Codabows. I have read an article on Codabows that rates the NX as most forgiving....SX as forgiving, yet better sound, and GX as not forgiving to the less skilled but best tone. I dont find too much difference in the forgiving factor...and I have a lot to forgive! ::) but i do appreciate the GX tone quite a bit more.....it just may be that I am not good enough to rate them well....but I know it absolutely has a richer sound. It is a lot for my budget, but if I like the sound better...I will practice more....and sound better....and practice more.... here's where I would love some guidance.....would a bow touted as "professional" be a wrong choice and hold me back some how from the naturale progression of development? Or, if I seem to be able to handle it....is it something I can learn to appreciate even more as I progress. I always heard it said you should buy the best equipment you can afford....especially bow. I was not a believer in how much difference a bow can make until now....it IS an instrument unto itself as Rowell has said. I know Joe P. like the SX....and that bow, like the NX model does seem to glide a bit better....but, boy the GX for my ears really added some depth. Someday I will return to pernambuco....but for now these bows sound the best for the price range I am at now. a big thanks in advance for any guidance I consider while making a decision.
Couple of details:
Wanted to upgrade violin first, but did not find the right one yet...and discovered Codabows, especially GX, GREATLY improved the tone of my instrument.
If a bow can improve my tone, maybe I will hold off on upgrading instrument for a while.
Played Codas on a couple of trial violins and it seems to improve all instruments....so maybe not as much worry that when I do upgrade my violin, the bow wont be right for it?
Want a bow I won't grow out of fast....like the "too light weight" entry level pernambuco bow I bought last year.
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Posted: April 29, 2013
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Posted: May 1, 2013
Everyone, thanks for all the great comments. On day six of my bow trial from Shar..... still liking the Codabow Diamond GX the best....and the weight has seemed to improve my technique some for many days now (hopefully that sticks). Tried to look up comments from Laurie Niles as Diane suggested, but did not have any luck....have seen some postings on other sites, however. The GX bow I have has some cosmetic issues, so for that price I asked Shar to sent me couple others to try (GX model) as I have read (backed up by a call to Codabow) that each bow my vary slightly due to frog being genuine ebony with different weights, etc.
Beth, thanks for the encouragement to follow my passion about this bow....wow, surprising that parents want their budding violinist to "suffer" through bad equipment.....their version of suffering for art....? we adult student do know of that....LOL
Did not (have not) tried Carbondix.... but many Pernambuco, Cadenza, Codabow Prodigy, Joule, and three diamond series NX, SX, GX. Joe, I can understand why you like SX....I did too. Tricia, glad to hear you still like your GX. Diane said omething interesting about your bow being able to teach you some new things....Already I have felt some of that....but did not know how to put it into words until I read Diane's comment.
I am not quick to choose on pricey stuff....so I will no doubt take this trial to the maximum time limit :-)
Diane in SOCAL
Posted: May 1, 2013
Hi Andres and JD...here's some discussion from Laurie Niles site...the violinist.com
on the Carbondix bows...both for violin and viola.
Carbondix CF bow - it's rather good! - Violinist.com
www.violinist.com/discussion/response.cfm?ID=5305Oct 19, 2004 I just bought a new Carbondix CF bow for 130$, and I'm really pleased with it comparing to my old cheap bow, which came with my violin outfit.
This might be a good bow for some folks who want to upgrade to a bow that is better than the one that came with the violin outfit they bought. Also try a bow out first...ask to have it for a trial period before purchase...if a dealer or shop will not allow that...find another that will. Have a great day and stay tuned.
Posted: May 1, 2013
Thx Diane :) The prices I looked up are for the viola-version of the bows :). I think its better to wait until I really can afford such a bow before trying it although I´m really curious about the difference... I´m afraid the Dörfler will be degraded as a growing aid for my tomatoes ;)))
JD did you try bows from Carbondix too? Or Diane or someone else have one? They have a price range from 50 to 350... would be interesting to know the difference to the Codabows :)
Diane in SOCAL
Posted: April 30, 2013
Hi Andres....a bow and viola have to work together..are synergistic, to get the best possible tone. Your best bet would be to try a Coda Diamond with your instrument, (Viola bow), SX or GX and HEAR and FEEL what tone they pull, you do that with you bowing arm as well...:>). You'll have to try it out with your instrument for a few days to know the essence of how it plays in your hand as well as how it sounds on your viola. I would have a teacher eval it as well if your going to spend that type of money on a bow. I would discourage anyone from just buying a bow that you have not had time to evaluate with your instrument.
Remember, a viola bow is alot heavier than a violin bow so you would need to try out one that is specific for a viola. You might look up Coda Bows on the internet and send them an email to find out a string shop near you in Germany where you could try one in your own home and with your teacher for more advanced technique...I say that because you want a bow that will teach you new tricks....LOL.
Diane in SoCal
Posted: April 30, 2013
Very interesting discussion... I wonder if would make a huge difference from my bow to a Diamond Codabow. My Dörfler was about 270 / 350$ when I bought it... in comparison the Diamond SX costs around 500 / 650$ and the Diamond GX 690 / 900$ here in Germany :/ What do you think about the difference in tone and playing??
Posted: April 29, 2013
Hi JD:
I have some good as well as easy on the pocket items and I can tell you that, even an inexpert like me, can notice the huge difference. I have a CodaBow Diamond GX and I love it. It is registered with my name and address because the stick (Carbon Fiber) has a warranty for life.
I agree with Beth, purchase the best equipment you can afford.
Joe P
Posted: April 29, 2013
A few months ago I upgraded to the coda bow diamond SX which was at the upper end of my price range. I love it! My old inexpensive bows feel like toys in comparison.
I had tried several bows in shops but took the Coda Luma and the diamond SX on a week long trial. Before I tried them I thought I would like the Luma better because it was noticeably lighter. I was wrong. The SX just felt like it had been custom made, just for me.
Oh, and before I decided I had both my classical and fiddle teacher try both bows and they were both VERY enthusiastic about the diamond SX.
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Posted: April 29, 2013
HI, I HAVE BEEN GOING THRU SOME OF THE SAME THINGS OVER BOWS. I HAVE BEEN USING A CARBON FIBER BOW MOST OF A YEAR ,NOW..I FOUND IT MORE ''FORGIVING'' THAN ANY CHEAP WOOD.....WHEN THE HAIR NEEDS REPLACED--EVERYTHING GOES down hill....(Ifigured that out as the rest of the story unfolded)....SO RECENTLY I'VE COMPARED SOME NICE PERNAMBUCO BOWS...THE GOOD QUALITY HAIR---DOES MAKE A BIG IMPROVEMENT -IN ITSELF-----HOWEVER I FOUND A VERY WELL BALANCED , ''SELF-DAMPENING'' WOOD BOW--THAT I WILL USE....I'VE A SOFT 'PERNAMBUCO' HEX BOW= IT BOUNCES WITH MY HEARTBEAT.. OTHER INEXPENSIVE 'WOODS' DO NOT FEED ANY VIBRATION TO THE HAND--DEAD FEELING..AND DOESN'T ENHANCE THE SOUND EITHER...THE C.FIBER BOW DID GIVE FEELING AND DIDN'T DAMPEN THE STRING VIBRATIONS/TONE.....OVER ALL, I HAVE A NEW APPRECIATION OF GOOD 'WOODEN' BOWS, THAT I HAVE COME TO BELIEVE WILL ENHANCE THE SOUND---BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT I CAN FEEL THE VIBRATIONS IN MY FINGERS...NOT BECAUSE THE BOW IS SO SOFT IT'S ''SHAKING''....BUT BECAUSE THE BOW IS 'CONTRIBUTING ' TO THE PRODUCTION OF SOUND/FEEDING SYMPATHETIC 'VIBS' BACK INTO THE VIOLIN.....ok, i'll quit !I LIKE THE CARBON FIBER BOW...I LIKE THE MID PRICED, MODERATELY FIRM, WOODEN BOW A LITTLE MORE......<2years in the 'practice' and counting the little epiphanies (Beth) at every turn....GOOD PLAYING !!
Diane in SOCAL
Posted: April 29, 2013
Hi JD....are you talking about the Diamond GX? If so, that is a good bow for the money. Some professionals I know have said that the Diamond GX is equal to an upper, (intermediate level) student grade pernamboco bow. Here are a few pointers to look for:
What is the weight of this bow that your considering? Under 60 grams could be too light ...over 62 grams might be too heavy later on as you mature with your bowing. a heavier bow fatigues the right arm and hand. Also, bows are synergistic with violins...so you need to pick one (try it out for a few days) that is best suited to the violin your now playing on. If your not going to upgrade your violin then up-grading your bow is an excellent idea. I found that when I upgraded my bow it made it a joy to play and I DID PRACTICE MORE!!!! I
sounded so much better with a great custom-made bow : >)! Do you know someone in your area that is an excellent player..maybe a professional teacher...let them try out the bow and help you evaluate it...especially for some of the more advance techniques that you have not mastered yet but want to. Only buy that bow which you have tried out for a few days...most good violin shops and dealers will let you try out something and then decide. Bow are not all made the same...balance points, weight can make a difference...so before you purchase..make sure it sounds great to your ear on your violin. I would also go to the website: violinist.com and go to the archives and search for Coda Diamond GX bows and see what is mentioned about them...there are alot of professionals on Laurie Niles site that will have comments. I did try a Diamond GX at the NAMM show here in LA, California a few years ago and liked the balance and feel in my hand...I did not have my violin with me at the time...but the bow was nice. I personally like wood bows, but I have a JonPaul carbon fiber bow that is a back up when I travel. Good luck and let us know how your search goes.
Stay tuned. Diane in SoCal.
Beth Blackerby
Posted: April 29, 2013
Hi JD,
I've heard people at the shop that they didn't want to buy their kid a good instrument because they thought they would learn more if they had to "struggle". I feel just the opposite. Bad equipment holds you back. e.g. You can't develop a good spiccato if your bow is improperly balanced. It sounds like you're executed about this bow. I say go for it. If the day ever comes that you have a violin that doesn't seem to marry well to the bow, you can sell it and look for another one.
Posted: April 29, 2013
Have you watched this?
"What to Look For When Buying a Bow" http://www.violinlab.com/videoLibrary/lesson.php?id=350
If you like the Coda bows, also try the Jon Paul carbon fibers. They are very similar, have several grades and are priced competetively with Coda. maybe a little cheaper even.


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GML Recording Machine @ Vienna
Tuesday 31 May 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized
GML Recording Machine is an ongoing project to build a low cost hardware and software system to record graffiti motion data during graffiti writer's tag writing process in the city. I started to this project after the announcement of GML Field Recorder Challenge and with the motivation to contribute the GML community. This post will briefly describe the project and present a demonstration video of the device in streets of Vienna.
GML (Graffiti Markup Language) Recording Machine is a DIY device that is capable of capturing and writing a spray can's movement to a microSD card. With two separate strings attached to each foot of the graffiti writer -writer needs to keep his/her feet still in this case- (also can be attached to the wall, to keep the writer's feet free), position of the spray can is tracked during the tag writing process. These string's length are measured by a simple ball mouse where these strings turns the X and Y rollers inside the mouse and the strings are retracted by two retractable tape measures. These measurements are processed by an Arduino and stored in an SD card to be converted to GML later on with a simple script. This device can be constructed using and modifying everyday found materials such as:
- Arduino
- Arduino microSD Shield
- Retractable tape measure x 2
- Ball mouse
- Strings
- Water tube to attach the spray can and mount the mechanism inside
- A nut and a bolt (too keep the can attached)
For the ones asking why didn't I just use an accelerometer and a gyroscope:
I tried to use an accelerometer in the beginning. The data was not that clean and I had some problems with processing the accelerometer output. After discussing with some friends, I decided to find a mechanical solution just to see if I can find something that will work properly. It was of course a bit more challenging but much more exciting to work on. Creating a small and compact enough system that will consists of the all required elements was not easy. For now, the last (and the third) prototype is the one that you can see here is the best I could so far (visit here to see the second prototype):
I will try to release a howto guide soon for the ones who would like to understand how the mechanism works.
The solution that I came up with, has some advantages and disadvantages. This seems the first system that can record GML with multistroke with the help of the button attached to the spray cap. And also writer do not need to carry a computer with himself/herself. There is not much time (actually not at all) needed for calibration and setting up the device. So it is easy to run away right after drawing the tag.
As a disadvantage, graffiti writer cannot move his/her feet during graffiti writing if the strings are attached to the feet. Another problem about the mechanism is that the can must be hold vertical to the ground to have a clean data since the mechanism actually measures how far the spray can's "bottom" away from feet of the writer. If the can is not hold properly, data capturing goes wrong ending up with partly distorted tags.
First public experiment with this device has been done during the Playface Intercult exhibition which was organized in collaboration with amberPlatform from Istanbul, Turkey and Interface Culture Programme of Linz University of Arts Department of Media, Linz Austria. During the exhibition I used an XBee to make the communication between the computer and the device. For visualizing the captured GML data, i used GLM4U library for Processing. Thanks to Jerome for his help for providing me the sketch that animates the drawing of GML nicely.
I went to visit the exhibition to Vienna for the last days of the exhibition and with help of Evan, had the chance to met with an anonymous graffiti writer there.
The following video (thanks to DRAWVOLUTION) shows some real action done on the streets of Vienna with GML Recording Machine in right hands:
GML Recording Machine from muharrem yildirim on Vimeo.
Tags in the video are visualized by Graffiti Analysis 2.0. For some reason, some parts of the tags (usually stroke beginnings and endings) do not look good. However, you can see the raw png output below. You can see that we actually captured the data but could not visualized it properly using GA2.0. The PNG files are generated using GMLImageRenderer, nothing fancy. You can also see the GA2.0 output next to the raw PNG files. You can download GML data and the PNG's here.
In the demonstration video, data is captured to the computer for debugging purposes, since that was my last night in Vienna and we wouldn't want to risk not being able to see if something goes wrong or not with the machine even though there is an LED indicator on the device.
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To its respectable neighbours Campbell Road was easily identifiable as the roughest street in north London. As Jerry White argues here, to its residents this reality was more complex...
Richard Mullen looks back on the wedding of Prince Albert Edward to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
J.B. Donnelly looks at the many pictures carried off from Vienna by the victorious Italians, including the magnificent Madonna of the Orange Grove by Cima da Conegliano.
Noel Carrington recalls how he was a Witness to the Past, as the Prince of Wales toured India in 1921.
Nicholas Goddard on the Victorians and the agricultural utilisation of sewage.
History taught Machiavelli that, as a prince must know how to act as a beast, he should be a fox to recognise traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.
Gerald Strauss assess the attempts in the 1520s to ensure continued public support for the new churches.
'Bold is the man that dare engage For Piety in such an age' wrote a seventeenth-century poet. Yet, as Antonia Fraser shows here, the aristocratic Puritan, Mary Rich, sought to serve God as much by her tenacious moral example as by her prayers.
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The former Mystique (Romijn) has decided to just fold her hand, give up on the game of life and star in the new Tyler Perry movie Good Deeds (the protagonist's name is Glen Deeds, you see). It will also star Thandie Newton and Jamie Kennedy. Synthesize that information however the hell you please. (Deadline)
Enough sad news about falling stars. Let's talk about the new Mystique, Ms. Jennifer Lawrence (of Winter's Bone and the upcoming Hunger Games). She looks...kinda silly. Like an especially awkward mutant. I half-expect to see braces when she smiles.
But, then again, Mystique always did. Let's hope that Lawrence gets to flex her Oscar-nominated acting chops outside of the latex, otherwise it seems like a bit of a wasted opportunity for everyone involved in X-Men: First Class. (The Wrap)
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"Lisle & Hahn" producer Kelley Kendall works the crowd Friday morning at Fiesta Cerveza at BeerBellys Sports Bar & Grill on the South Side. That blue guyabera on the chair next to her is my pathetic excuse for festive wear.
I've done my Friday "RJ After 9" spot on KISS-FM's "Lisle and Hahn Morning Show" live at a couple of fall food drives, but never at Fiesta Cerveza, the show's annual excuse for beer drinking that always falls on Battle of Flowers Day.
Until today. This time, I decided to risk my parking space to Battle of Flowers watchers (the route is a block from our office, and First Presbyterian Church, from which we lease my parking lot, gets to sell our company parking spaces after 10 a.m.) and do it in person. Mainly because, the last time I tried to do it by phone when they were on location at the Cowgirl Breakfast at the Perfect 10 strip club in January they could hear me but I couldn't hear them. That made for great radio.
Doing it live had some risks, too. For one thing, they don't call it Fiesta Cerveza for nothing. At 7 a.m., the beer starts flowing. Since my spot isn't until 9:15, I figured the crowd might be, shall we say, less than enthused about, and maybe even a bit hostile toward, "RJ After 9." Especially since the OTHER Fiesta Cerveza tradition involves hot women engaged in some sort of eating contest.
Fortunately, this year, the contest model and TV personality Vanessa Macias Ballew taking on four guys in a hands-free menudo-eating contest had already happened by the time I walked into BeerBellys Sports Pub, just north of Mission San Jose on the South Side. That was a relief, and a bit of a disappointment, since I had brought my camera.
There was another drawback that I didn't anticipate: The station's signal kept cutting out all morning long, and it happened in the middle of my spot. I was getting near the end when I saw producer Kelley Kendall's hand gesture, saying we were off the air. When this happened, they quickly shifted to music and a block of commercials.
But the signal was restored, and "RJ After 9" wobbled to the finish line.
And the place was packed. BeerBelly's is a roomy, multiroom joint with picnic tables and a bandstand in the main room (a band was playing Legs Diamond's "Woman" at one point) and lots of room to move. The Lisle & Hahn team was set up in the front room, which has a bar and standup tables. It was packed, too.
Kendall directed traffic like a street cop, quickly improvising when the signal went out. When she wasn't doing that, she served as carnival barker, inviting the guests (it was the station's usual husky-guy party, with some exceptions) to compete in a beer-belly contest for Spurs tickets. Vanessa wanted to compete, but was disqualified because she didn't have the requisite belly. "You have a beer-belly button," Kendall said.
Anyway, I told the radio audience that this morning I felt like Mr. Irrelevant, the name they used to give to the last person selected in the NFL draft back when it went 12 to 13 rounds. With three days of Fiesta and two Spurs home playoff games this weekend, folks really don't need much help finding things to do. But I plunged ahead anyway.
And thanks to the kind folks who told me they liked Weekender and they actually liked my radio spot. And none of them was a family member. I swear.


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Remember when Jon Koppenhaver was put to sleep via anaconda choke by Yoshiyuki Yoshida at UFC 84? Well Bruce Buffer didn't use his nickname when introducing him and there's apparently reason behind that. Something to do with TNA Wrestling according to Koppenhaver's latest MySpace blog:
SO in case you didn't notice in my last fight the UFC did NOT use my nickname when I fought. Turns out some gay ass wrestling federation threatened to sue them because they recently named one of their wrestlers The War Machine Rhino and trademarked the name.
Too fuckin' bad that I have been using this name for 6 years, have it tatted on my body and it is what my fans yell out when I'm fighting. If you know my personality then you know damn well I am not gonna let some faggot ass, FAKE wrestler steal MY name…SO 6 weeks ago I filed a change of name request and today I had court to make my name officially WAR MACHINE.
Fuckin' funny right? Didn't really wanna have to do it but I am sure as hell not lose MY nickname.
The last "professional athlete" of note to do this was the Ultimate Warrior and we all know how he turned out. For what its worth, the UFC still has Koppenhaver listed under his real name on their website. He isn't scheduled to fight as of right now either so I guess we'll have to wait and see if he's telling the truth.
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In late April, Eli Hutchison, a junior who is home schooled and takes classes at Skyview High School, was busy collecting national and regional wrestling honors in Las Vegas.
In his family, he has to collect honors just to keep up with his sister Michaela, a freshman.
In early April, Michaela won the 108-pound freestyle division at the FILA Cadet Body Bar Women's Nationals in San Diego.
In late April, Eli matched his sister by winning first place at 132 pounds at the FILA Junior National Championship - Greco Roman in Las Vegas. In the final, Hutchison topped Travis Lang of Minneapolis.
It was a busy week in Las Vegas for Hutchison, who wrestled 22 matches in just three days. While there, he also wrestled in the FILA Junior National Championship - Freestyle, the West Junior Regional Championships - Greco Roman and the West Junior Regional Championships - Freestyle.
Hutchison did not place in the FILA Junior National Championship - Freestyle because, according to his father, Mike, he was worn out.
In the West Junior Regional Championships - Greco Roman, Hutchison finished third at 130 pounds. He picked up a technical fall over Paul Bjorkstrand of Burnsville, Minn., in the third-place match.
In the West Junior Regional Championships - Freestyle, Hutchison finished second at 130 pounds. In the championship, he lost a 4-2 decision to Jordan Frishkorn of Chesapeake, Va.
Mike Hutchison said Eli, who has not lost a match in Alaska in his three years of high school, was the only wrestler in Las Vegas to enter all four of the tournaments. He said the other wrestlers did not want to deal with all the matches and weigh-ins in such a short period of time.
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It's said that the stock market climbs a wall of worry, but what's unsaid is that most investors can let others do the worrying for them.
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A new report published August 6 in the journal BMJ, likely details the first human-to-human case of transmission of the deadly H7N9 bird flu in eastern China.
Based on reports thus far, the virus first killed a 60 year old man who was exposed to live poultry followed by his 32 year old daughter, reported to have been previously in good medical condition while caring for him.
However, many other people who were apparently exposed to the two affected persons did not become ill. As a result, the conclusion based on these findings so far is that H7N9 is likely capable of limited transmission, as opposed to sustained transmission at this time.
What this means is that transmission is not sustainable: the virus has made one leap from poultry to humans, but has not been able to then leap from person to person. If it does gain the ability to do this, this could potentially lead to a pandemic. We are not there yet, but caution is certainly needed at this time.
The bird flu virus, H7N9, first identified in February, 2013, has been lethal in nearly a third of the persons who have developed illness after exposure. As of June, 2013, 43 people had died out of 133 cases reported.
The World Health Organization has indicated that the number of cases reported since May has drastically slowed, potentially the result of warmer temperatures in China, along with shutting down a number of avian markets in the provinces that have been affected thus far.
The H7N9 virus is different than the earlier described bird flu, H5N1, in that it can become integrated into both human as well as bird DNA. In this way, the H7N9 bird flu may have a higher chance of jumping from birds to humans.
H7N9, compared to H5N1, has a greater predilection for human receptors on cells, leading to the possibility that it may be more of a threat to humans overall.
The H7N9 virus has a specific affinity for tissues in the respiratory tract, specifically the cells lining the trachea, bronchioles, and specific cells making up the lung tissue, referred to as "alveoli".
Although there have been a number of suspected cases of human-to-human transmission of H7N9 thus far, but this is the first report to be formally published.
Based on the BMJ report, the affected patient visited a live poultry market quite frequently, and developed fever and cough 5-6 days after his last exposure to the birds.
After entering the hospital March 11, his condition deteriorated, and was then transferred to the ICU March 15. He apparently developed worsening pulmonary symptoms, then subsequently died of multiple system organ failure after a prolonged ICU stay on May 4.
Based on reports so far, his daughter did not have exposure or contact with poultry, and was with her father when he developed symptoms. She apparently was managing his oral care and cleaning, and did not wear any gloves, mask, or protective gown.
According to the report, she developed symptoms 6 days after her last contact with her father. She was then admitted to the hospital March 24. She declined rapidly, and was transferred to the ICU March 28, and subsequently died of multi system organ failure April 24.


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I have decided it's time to take all my many scraps of paper and cookbooks with just one much-loved recipe and consolidate them into my own "cookbook". I see a lot of software available to do this--has anyone done this and do you have a recommended software program (or just some recommendations in general?)


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London, Jan 25 (ANI): After insisting on sticking to his Blackberry, US President Barack Obama has finally given his nod for a secure, souped-up, high-tech personal digital assistant (PDA) Sectera Edge.
According to reports, the new White House resident will carry a Sectera Edge, made by General Dynamics, the military contractor, and developed specially for the National Security Agency (NSA).
The Sectera Edge boasts encryption devised by the NSA, which gathers intelligence from cyberspace.
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said that the buzz about Obamas BlackBerry replacement is almost as exciting as the presidential dog, reports Times Online.
The PDA can turn into secure communications device just with a touch of a button.
When used in classified mode, the top-secret smartphones screen turns red and then it can communicate only with similar handsets.
With a price tag of 2,465 pounds, the Sectera Edge includes the option to exchange secure e-mail with government personnel.
And thus, it wont be possible for anybody to forward presidential e-mails to third parties.
President aides have been searching for a secure BlackBerry-style phone, after Obama made it clear that he was determined to hang on to his lifeline to people outside the White House bubble.
Theyre going to have to prise it out of my hands, he said.
His insistence raised security fears about terrorist hackers being able to pinpoint the presidents location, but Obama has finally overridden the concerns. (ANI)
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The To-Do List: This weekend offers a passage in time, not miles
Published 9:33 pm, Thursday, May 9, 2013
This weekend, New York City's Grand Central Terminal will offer visitors a chance to do more than simply travel from Point A to Point B. A special event will have them traveling back in time, or, at least feeling as if they have.
More than 20 historic train cars from across the country, including several from the Danbury Railway Museum, will be pulling up to tracks 34 to 37 for two days of embarking and gawking during the Grand Centennial Parade of Trains. It is part of a year's worth of events to celebrate the terminal's 100th anniversary.
The event will run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, in different terminal locations.
"An important part of the centennial is to tell the story of Grand Central, which has many chapters and this is just another chapter -- the great and famous trains that not only served the terminal, but also the country," said Randall Fleischer, co-director of the centennial celebration and vice president of Grand Central Terminal. He also is vice president of corporate development for MTA Metro-North Railroad.
From the Danbury Rail Museum's 1910 Railway Post Office car built for Pennsylvania Railroad to the new Metro-North M-8 car that has gradually replaced older models on the New Haven line, one can see all manner of passenger, locomotive and engine cars.
"We cast a wide net over the nation," Fleischer said of efforts to track down cars in private ownership. "They are coming from as far away as the West Coast. Cars are traveling in from all parts of the country."
Arriving from New Jersey will be the Hickory Creek, a sleeper and observation lounge car built in 1947 for New York Central's 20th Century Limited express passenger train service. Organizers will recreate what a passenger in the 1940s or 1950s would have experienced while boarding, right down to one of the line's original hostesses, Joan Jennings Scalfani, and some of the original conductors.
Karl Zimmermann, a New Jersey-based train enthusiast and author who has written about American train travel, said the significance of the parade of trains, which coincides with the May 11 observation of National Train Day, is the opportunity to see the cars that were once as common as the commuter trains that daily shuttle more than 700,000 passengers through the terminal.
"Grand Central is busier than ever, but what's missing in the story, when I walk through it today, is the feeling of what the station was like when it sent trains all over the Eastern half of the country. There were sleeping cars that reached all the way to the West Coast," Zimmerman added.
There will be several of those cars, such as a Pullman observation and sleeper car, the Tonawanda Valley (also from the Danbury Rail Museum) built in 1928 for New York Central, as well as the Pacific Sands and the Dover Harbor, built in 1923 by the Pullman Company for Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited and Spirit of St. Louis trains. The Pullman Company manufactured and operated railway cars.
"It really gives you an idea of what Pullman travel was all about," Zimmerman said. "It really exemplifies the Pullman heritage."
In addition to the parade, the largest and most diverse gathering of privately owned train cars ever in Grand Central Terminal, "Kid Junction" will take over a part of Vanderbilt Hall, with free activities for families, including a train display from "Chuggington" an animated Disney Junior series. Master builders from Legoland Discovery Center in Westchester will be there. And, the "Railroadiana" antiques and collectibles event will bring retailers and railroad museum representatives to another area of the hall.
Considering the activities are free, plan to wait a bit. However, organizers said they are prepared for the many visitors they expect to see. It's important to note that no backpacks will be permitted in the event spaces, including Vanderbilt Hall and the tracks 34 to 37. For more information, visit http://www.grandcentralterminal.com
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THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT—PROBLEMS OF HISTORY AND THEORY, Volume I, Progress Publishers, Moscow.
THIS is the first of the proposed seven volumes on the international working class movement and it deals with the origins of the proletariat and its evolution as a revolutionary class. The USSR Academy of Sciences and Progress Publishers, Moscow, have, obviously, undertaken a stupendous and monumental task which, when completed, will open up new vistas of knowledge about the international proletarian struggle—its history and theory.
The present volume is divided into two parts and eleven chapters. Part one includes five chapters which deal successively with the origins of the proletariat, the formation of the industrial proletariat, its unification and organisation into a class, the forerunners of scientific socialism and the emergence of the politically independent working class movement. Part two contains six chapters—the emergence of Marxism, the working class in the European revolutions of 1848-1849, the development of Marxism in the 1850s and early 1860s, the new upsurge of the working class movement and the formation of the First International, the ideological struggle around the proletariat's historical role and some results of the working class struggle in the first stages of its development.
It is quite obvious that the project undertaken by the USSR Academy of Sciences has a wide coverage, both in terms of the period as well as in terms of the theoretical problems. As regards the scope of the first volume Academician B N Ponomarev, in his introduction, clearly states that the wide chronological limits of the volume are motivated by the exposition of working class history beginning with the emergence of the proletariat. "The authors", he says, "have been guided by the instructions of Marx, Engels and Lenin, who considered the proletariat as a historical category, which came into being along with the emergence of the Capitalist mode of production and dates back to the time when the feudal system was on the whole still predominant."
The Marxist-Leninist criteria for the study of the dynamics of the development of the working class and the labour movement necessitate, however, an examination of the development of the working class in the process of its conversion from a 'class in itseelf into a 'class for itself. Such an examination specifically must analyse


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OTTAWA, June 2, 2016 /CNW/ - Thursday's demand in the House of Commons by NDP MP Scott Duvall (Hamilton-Mountain) must be acted on if the federal government has any intention at all of saving Canada's steel industry, says United Steelworkers' Ontario/Atlantic Director Marty Warren.
"Mr. Duvall has repeated our sustained call for a release of details on the secret deal signed by the previous government with U.S. Steel in 2011," said Warren. "Workers and retirees are on the front line and have the most to lose if this vital piece of the puzzle is missing. Our union is involved as much as any other stakeholder. Our status must be respected if there are discussions around potential buyers."
The 2011 deal ended a federal government lawsuit over U.S. Steel's failure to fulfil the terms of the original secret deal that allowed the takeover of the former Stelco in 2007.
As USW and the City of Hamilton file yet another motion to the Ontario Court of Appeal for release of details that give U.S. Steel and its parent company priority over every other party involved in discussions around restructuring, the federal government could take one simple step now that would end the court wrangling and allow fruitful dialogue, said Tony DePaulo, assistant to Warren and a lifelong resident of Hamilton.
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The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Frances Deloach and the late Harold Deloach of Ludowici, and Oreeda Griffis and the late Mack Griffis of Kville.
She is a 2002 graduate of Long County High School.
The groom-elect is the grandson of Robert and Hazel Parker of Ludowici, and Nell Home and the late Jack Home of Ludowici.
He is a 2004 graduate of Long County High School.
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MILWAUKEE - Following a pair of 3-0 shutouts, defender Katie Hishmeh and goalkeeper Natalie Kulla were honored by the BIG EAST Conference and TopDrawerSoccer.com. Hishmeh was tabbed the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, while Kulla was named to TopDrawerSoccer.com's Team of the Week.
Hishmeh logged 180 minutes in the two wins over Providence and Connecticut, while also recording three points on a goal and an assist. The Brookfield native was integral to MU holding the Friars and the Huskies to a combined five shots on goal.
The defensive player of the week honor is the first of her career. Hishmeh is the third Golden Eagle to earn the honor this season.
Kulla also played every minute of each game and totaled five saves while earning her 39th and 40th shutouts of her career.
Including Kulla, Marquette has had a student-athlete named to TopDrawerSoccer.com's Team of the week five times in 2011.The website ranks Marquette No. 9 this week in its Tournament 64 National Ranking.
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The New York Business Development Corp., an Albany-based group that provides financing statewide to small businesses through banks, says it gave out 56 loans totaling $18.5 million during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
The group says those loans created or retained 514 jobs.
Among the local companies that received loans are Peanut Principle in Cohoes, Crossroads Incubator Corp. in Johnstown, Shady Harbor Marina in New Baltimore, Power Pallet in Amsterdam, Tops Diner in Schenectady and X-Ray Optical Systems in East Greenbush.
The group said loan disbursements statewide increased 16.7 percent for the year to hit $103 million.


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Job: Works with a team of artisans to create three-dimensional, informational exhibits for Bishop Museum
At the time, in 1977, Kemble was an illustrator in Bishop Museum's entomology department. Kemble last week explained that back then, each museum department had to create its own exhibits, but after the museum put together the Hall of Hawaiian Natural History, it decided to form a division devoted solely to creating exhibits, and Kemble was asked to lead it.
Kemble credits his varied college liberal arts education in preparing him for the opportunity, as well as his own curiosity that led him to pick up useful skills informally.
For example, when he wanted to learn how to silk-screen T-shirts for the museum, he asked Rodolfo Valera from the Honolulu Zoo (now retired) to teach him.
"Rudy used to do all their exhibits," Kemble said.
Kemble moved to Hawaii from Boston with his family when he was 6. He is a graduate of Punahou School, as well as the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in liberal studies. He also attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison for two years, before returning to Hawaii to attend UH..
Kemble said that while at UH, he took on an independent-study project of making a book of his own writings and illustrations, which got him interested in bookbinding, which put him in contact with Bishop Museum.
"I came back here to study under a master bookbinder at the museum (Paul Schneller), and that was my first contact with Bishop Museum -- other than when I was going to grade school here."
After forming the museum's exhibit department, Kemble stayed at its helm until the mid-1990s, when he stepped aside to become its senior designer.
Now 57, Kemble is married to Carolyn Oliver, an occupational therapist at the Hawaii State Hospital. They have a dog, Ally, and reside in Kailua.
David Kemble: Well, the exhibits are team efforts. They involve content people, education staff, exhibit staff ... So an exhibit designer is basically an expert in the medium of exhibits, which is a medium in its own right, like books or films, but it's a three-dimensional medium.
So basically, we're the ones that say, "This is the story you want to tell, this is what you have to tell it with, and this is how we can put it into a three-dimensional space to make it work as an exhibit."
It is a little, specialized nook of the broader design universe. Most people don't think of it when they go to school to become designers. Most people who think of graphic design are thinking of advertising and things like that. But it is a very interesting and specialized field of design.
Q: Do you help with coming up with the ideas for the exhibits, or do you just help execute them?
A: Again, everything is part of the team process, and I'm part of the team.
I guess the scheduling of exhibits is done by a team that has people from different parts of the museum, and I tend not to be a part of that. But when they put an exhibit on the schedule, then I'm on that team.
It's the in-house exhibits that we do ourselves. So, like, when we have an exhibit, like dinosaurs, a lot of people don't know that that's a borrowed exhibit. I don't generally work on the borrowed ones that we bring into Hawaii. We do more the ones that tell about Hawaii to the world.
We're just about to set up an exhibit about the brain, but that's an example of a borrowed exhibit; it's set up by our technicians and our ground staff, but it's nothing that's done in-house in terms of exhibit design. We still have to figure out how to make it fit in our space, but you're installing something that was made by somebody else.
Q: What exhibit are you working on now?
A: The big renovation project we're working on right now is Hawaiian Hall, the one with the big whale hanging from the ceiling.
Q: I remember that from when I was a kid.
A: A lot of people tell us that. But anyway, in the Hawaiian Hall's case, it's a building that opened in 1903, and over the years, little changes have been made, but the integrity of the hall as an integrated exhibition had broken down. We had individual exhibits, but we weren't telling properly the story of Hawaii.
Part of the challenge of the hall is that we're working in a historic architectural interior environment, so we view the hall itself as being an historical artifact in its own right. We're not working in a black box that you can make into anything you want; you're working in a Victorian architectural setting.
For example, there's all these koa cases, with the big glass windows, so the tendency is to think that whatever is put in there is dead and preserved. But what we're trying to do now is tell the story of Hawaii from a Hawaiian point of view, which means trying to bring it to life. So that's the fundamental challenge of the design: how to bring the story to life. We're trying to bring the jewel back to shining, and also it's a special thing of timing where we're trying to make it like you're stepping back into the past.
So that's unusual, when you're constrained by the architecture -- unlike when we opened the Mamiya Science Adventure Center two years ago, where we could do anything we wanted. We were building a new building from scratch.
A: I've actually been with Bishop Museum since shortly after graduating from UH in '72. I started off (in 1973) as a part-time illustrator in the entomology department. My job was to draw mites, ... so I was having to draw with a microscope, since mites are so small. I only did that part time, because it would be really hard to do that full time. When you're looking through a microscope for so long, it's hard on your eyes.
When I started here in '73, there was no exhibits department. So botany would make their own exhibits, and entomology would make theirs, and so on.
So I was in the entomology department as a scientific illustrator at the time, and the chairman of the department, Dr. Frank Radovsky, wanted to make a new Hall of Natural Hawaiian History, so he drafted me into service to make this new exhibit because there was no exhibit department. So he is the one who gave me my break in getting going in the making of exhibits. It was a field I happened into, not what I planned to do. I got into it pretty much through the back door. Nowadays, you pretty much have to have a degree and credentials to get into it.
Q: When was the exhibit department formed?
A: After the opening of the Hall of Hawaiian Natural History in 1977. They brought together an artist from anthropology, a cabinet maker, a preparator (who basically makes mounts and props) and me, an artist in entomology, and we started a new department. I was then in charge of it until the mid-'90s, when I stepped aside to become senior designer. The manager of the department these days is Kathy Izon.
A: I had an art adviser at UH, but basically, like I say I'm self-taught in exhibit design for the most part.
Q: Do your illustrator skills still come in handy?
A: I don't do that any more, actually. Sure, in doing sketches, it helps, but the part of exhibit design that appeals to me, where I think my strength is, is using the medium to help tell a story. You're trying to tell a story by using objects and space. I
Q: What other skills do you need? Blueprint reading, carpentry?
A: Yeah. Basically it's very much a generalist job. I mean, I carry a little tape measure in my pocket. Everything is about space and making things fit in that space. There's a whole bunch of different aspects to it. Lighting and color. But it's gotten very sophisticated. We're no longer a four-person department; we're an 11-person staff now, so if something has to be drawn, we get the illustrators to do it. Plus, we have technicians and graphic designers.
Q: What are some of your favorite exhibits that you helped create?
A: Well, I guess I'm pretty proud of that science center. And now also on the Hawaii Hall project. They're very big projects, and we're working with mainland exhibit design firms. So in that case, I'm a liaison between the staff and the exhibit design firms. That's a very different role from when you're doing everything yourself.
Q: If you've been there 34 years, how many more years do you expect to keep working there?
A: I'm now 57. I still have some life in me yet. (Laughter) But I think one of these days they'll put me in one of those (koa) cases because I'm getting to be an artifact in my own right.
Q: Do you ever get tired of going to work there each day?
A: That's the best thing to tell about my job. What makes it so interesting and enjoyable is each exhibit you learn about something different, and what's more, the technology and medium has changed so much that there is no boredom whatsoever. Unlike when I was drawing mites, I would go, "OK, that's all I can take of that," but with exhibits, it's constantly interesting. And you also have those deadlines where you move up to make it into a real thing, and then you move on. So you get a lot of fresh starts.


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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's debt-ridden LOT airline said Wednesday it has improved its finances through cost cuts and a reorganization of its business.
LOT said it will close the year with a loss of some 20 million zlotys ($5 million), or about 110 million zlotys less than had been assumed in a restructuring plan implemented this year.
Spokeswoman Barbara Pijanowska-Kuras said that was achieved by saving money on fuel, cutting administration and personnel costs and renegotiating deals with suppliers. LOT introduced new, flexible tariffs and widened its ticket distribution network.
It also offered chartered Boeing 787 flights to various popular spa resorts and leased one of its five 787s to Finnish airlines until Jan. 10. LOT was Europe's first carrier to have the 787, but suffered losses when the planes were grounded globally for security reasons.
LOT signed a compensation deal with Boeing on Monday, but did not disclose the details. Pijanowska-Kuras said the financial effects of the deal will be seen in 2014, which will be the "key" year for the company's restructuring program.
The European Commission is reviewing LOT's restructuring plan to decide whether to allow some 400 million zlotys ($ 95 million) in government aid that the airline received in 2012.
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New Paltz, NY (9/7/11) - The Montclair State volleyball team dropped its second straight match on Wednesday evening as SUNY New Paltz extended its home winning streak to 33 with a 3-0 victory over the Red Hawks at the Hawk Center. New Paltz, which has not dropped a home match since 2006, won by scores of 25-6, 25-17 and 25-15). as MSU fell to 3-2 on the year.
New Paltz set the tone in the first set and carried that momentum throughout the remainder of the contest. In the first stanza, the Hawks hit at a .458 clip, notching 11 kills in 24 total attempts with no attack errors. In addition, they boasted a sideout percentage of 85 percent. They went on to hit .200 and .375 in the second and third sets to finish the evening at .330.
Freshman outside hitter Bridget Haggerty (Troy, N.Y./Troy) drew her first collegiate start and helped pace the attack, recording a match-high seven kills and compiling a .467 hitting percentage. Senior outside hitter Melinda DiGiovanna (West Hempstead, N.Y./West Hempstead) hit .545 in just two sets of action with six kills on the night. Defensively, sophomore libero Carrie Hack (Baldwinsville, N.Y./C.W. Baker) posted a match-high 17 digs, while junior middle hitter Laura Stanhewicz (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley) fueled the front row with three block assists. The setters also performed well in the 6-2 offense, with sophomore setter Marissa King (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua Academy) dishing out a match-high 17 assists and sophomore setter Brigid Moore (Victor, N.Y./Victor) handing out 15.
For Montclair State, Marta Topor (Bogota, NJ / Bogota) and Megan Cockcroft (Rutherford, NJ / Rutherford) each floored a team-high four kills, while Angela Campo (Washington Township, NJ / Westwood) distributed 14 assists.Kaitlyn Irwin (Cranford, NJ / Cranford) registered 10 digs, while Topor corralled two block assists.
The Red Hawks are back in action this weekend as they head back up the New York State Thruway to Poughkeepsie, NY for the Vassar Invitational. MSU will face host Vassar and Stevens on Friday, September 9 at 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm, respectively. Montclair closes its Invitational appearace versus MIT and Wesleyan (CT) on Saturday, September 10 at 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm.


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Friday, September 30, 2011
B4TW - Boulevard Wheat
If you're not riding in the Tour de BBQ and live downtown or somewhere south of downtown, east of I-35 and west of Holmes, odds are the Tour de BBQ will pass within a mile or two of your house. Why not look at the map, head out to a good viewing point near your house or down Southwest Boulevard near Boulevard, sit down and cheer on the riders. When you get back home or go to a bar, grab a Boulevard Wheat and maybe you'll get a fraction of the wonderful feeling that I and the other 2000 riders will have at the end of the ride. That's why Boulevard Wheat is the beer for the weekend.
As an added bonus, for any riders or volunteers, if you're one of the first 5 to post a picture of you enjoying a Boulevard Wheat with your Tour de BBQ gear visible (helmet tag, wrist band, bib number, etc.) on the KC Beer Blog Facebook page, I'll give you a Sam Adams Perfect Pint glass.
6 comments:
See you tomorrow. It's ON.ReplyDelete
Since you're a veteran, do you have any special advice for rookies? Logistics, what to expect, how much to eat at each stop, etc.?ReplyDelete
Take the time to stand in line at the BBQ stops, especially the first one because it's a long ride to it and a long ride to the next one. I skipped it last year because the line was so long and then the food at the 2nd stop (Hayward's) was awful so I was starving by the time I got to Oklahoma Joe's. The ride through Fairway and Mission Hills was not pleasant.ReplyDelete
Servings are pretty much set so eat what you can get and make sure to fill your water bottles at each stop.
Try to stay in a pack so you're not responsible for knowing where you're going. The course is marked but I get so locked into hating my life during the ride I have trouble locating all the markings. It shouldn't be hard to stay within sight of other riders.
I'm going to get down there about 7:30. Last year the 35 milers started 30 or 45 minutes earlier than expected, so I'm not sure how much weight the 8:30 start should carry.
But, most of all, just ride at your own pace and have fun with it.
Sounds good. We may straggle in a little later, but look forward to the journey...and the Boulevard beer at the end.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2011 at 8:45 PM
BLVD Wheat is one of the best after a long ride on the bikeReplyDelete
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