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Smooth Jazz Summer Nights feature Jessy J.
August 16, 2019 – 7:30 PM
Great Plaza at Penn's Landing, Columbus Blvd at Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
The 15th Season of the Smooth Jazz Summer Nights Concert Series at Penn's Landing celebrates women in music with an illustrious all female lineup that will leave you awestruck and enthralled. An evening summer breeze, the sultry sounds of horns, smooth vocals, and heart pounding percussions will certainly give credence to the Smooth Jazz Summer Night Concert Series being a summertime must-do event.
This season's power-packed lineup of female artist will grace the RiverStage on the Delaware River Waterfront every Friday night in August beginning at 7:30 pm. This Friday night concert series is absolutely FREE and will be followed by followed by landside fireworks at every Friday night at 9:15pm. Smooth Jazz Summer Nights is sponsored in part by WDAS-FM, along with CW Philly 57 and CBS 3.
Maysa will highlight the 15th season of Smooth Jazz Summer Nights on Friday, August 3rd. Maysa's extensive discography includes "Metamorphasis" (2008) and "A Woman in Love" (2010) both of which debuted at #1 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Album Charts during the same year they were released. Maysa's current CD on the Shanachie label, titled "Motions in Love," marks her 21st year in the music business. Maysa has performed with Stevie Wonder as part of his backing group Wonderlove as well as on the Oprah Winfrey Show and The Tonight Show.
Philly's very own Carol Riddick will heat-up the waterfront with her sultry, sensual vocals and mesmerizing performance on Friday, August 3rd. This South Philadelphia native has lent her distinct vocals on records by Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff, Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott, and Musiq Soulchild, and this performance will be Carol's time to shine in the spotlight as a featured solo artist.
On Friday, August 10th, prepare yourself for the hip and grooving sounds of trumpet player and winner of two Oasis Contemporary Jazz Awards, Cindy Bradley. After earning a bachelor's degree in jazz studies from Ithaca College, and attending the New England Conservatory, Cindy immediately headed to New York and immersed herself in the pulsating jazz scene and realized her passion for straight ahead be-bop, contemporary jazz, funk, and jazz fusion all of which influence her unique sound. Unscripted is the title of Cindy's current CD and second release.
The celebration of women in music on Friday, August 17th features Multi-Grammy nominated artist Patrice Rushen who is a true musical trailblazer as the first woman to serve as Musical Director for the 46th, 47th & 48th Annual Grammy Awards; the first woman in 43 years to serve as Head Composer/Musical Director for the Emmy Awards; and the first woman Musical Director of the NAACP Image Awards for 12 consecutive years. In addition to her success as a recording artist and musical director, Rushen is also an accomplished composer who has provided musical scores for Emmy-nominated television programs and feature films and she has written an award-winning symphony. As one of the music industry's most versatile and sought after artists, Rushen has performed with Philharmonic Orchestras and has produced for such esteemed artists as Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Prince, Carlos Santana, Boys II Men, Tom Jones, Nancy Wilson, and Michael Jackson. Rushen also works with NARAS "Grammy In The Schools" and other organizations dedicated to establishing music education and mentorship programs for inner-city youth. Patrice Rushen will perform with Ndugu Chancler as 1+One during this Smooth Jazz Summer Nights Concert Series on August 17th.
Ndugu Chancler is well-known as a world-class drummer, percussionist, producer, composer, music clinician, teacher, and a three-time Grammy nominee who has performed and recorded with Miles Davis, George Duke, Tina Turner, Frank Sinatra, Weather Report, Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Thelonious Monk, and John Lee Hooker. Chancler was the drummer on the biggest selling pop album by Michael Jackson, Thriller, and provided the beat on "Billie Jean."
Four-time Grammy nominated recording artist Oleta Adams will perform as part of the Smooth Jazz Summer Nights Concert Series on Friday, August 24th. Oleta's melodic vocal style draws upon her church roots and intertwines R&B, soul, and adult contemporary pop music with a graceful ease. Oleta Adams has sold nearly three million records and has toured internationally with Tears for Fears, Phil Collins, Michael Bolton, and Luther Vandross. She has also recorded duets with Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, and gospel great Shirley Ceasar to name a few. Oleta's music has been featured in commercials and Hollywood movies such as Sleeping With the Enemy and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Ms. Adams' 1990 debut platinum-selling album Circle of One included the heartfelt and timeless hit single "Get Here" which would go on to become the unofficial anthem of the 1991 Gulf War. Her current CD titled Let's Stay Here is her ninth release.
Sheila Escovedo, a.k.a. Sheila E., will turn up the heat on the waterfront RiverStage with her explosive percussion performance on the Friday, August 31st finale of the series. Sheila E., the daughter of percussionist Pete Escovedo and the goddaughter of the late Tito Puente, has collaborated and performed with industry giants such as Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Billy Cobham, Cecilia Cruz, Miles Davis, Gloria Estefan, Patti Labelle, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, and Ringo Starr. Some of Shelia's most notable works were with Prince, including the '80s classics The Glamorous Life and A Love Bizarre. Sheila further expanded her musical talents as a writer and musician while performing with Prince on many of his recordings and was the musical director for his band, New Power Generation. This year, Sheila collaborated with Hans Zimmer on music for the upcoming film Madagascar 3 and the music production for the 2012 Academy Awards show.
WDAS FM, CBS 3, and the CW Philly are proud media partners for this series. Their on-air personalities will introduce performers and have promotional giveaways. (KYW-TV) and The CW Philly 57 (WPSG-TV) are part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation. WDAS FM is part of Clear Channel Worldwide the largest independent radio group with six stations in Philadelphia – WDAS FM, Power 99 FM (WUSL), Q-102 (WIOQ), My106.1 (WISX), WDAS AM and Radio 1045 (WRFF). Public Programming at Penn's Landing would not be possible without the continued support of corporate partners such as PECO, Verizon, Pennsylvania Lottery, Coca-Cola Refreshments of Philadelphia, and the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, all of whom are committed to serving the Greater Philadelphia community.
The 2012 Summer Program of Free Events at Penn's Landing is funded and produced by the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC). All events produced by DRWC are FREE to the public on the RiverStage on the Great Plaza, the heart of Penn's Landing, Philadelphia's premier Delaware River waterfront entertainment destination. The DRWC is a nonprofit corporation created in January 2009, exclusively for the benefit of the City of Philadelphia and its citizens. The fundamental purpose of DRWC is to design, develop, and manage the central Delaware River waterfront in Philadelphia. DRWC is transforming the waterfront into a vibrant destination location for recreational, cultural, and commercial activities for the residents and visitors of Philadelphia. For more information and event details, please call (215) 922-2FUN or visit http://www.delawareriverevents.com . This website is a virtual resource for the waterfront which can help visitors plan to easily park, play and stay all day at Penn's Landing.
Great Plaza at Penn's Landing, Columbus Blvd at Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106


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Recommended dosing for REMICADE® treatment in patients with moderately to severely active RA
REMICADE® is administered by intravenous infusion over a period of not less than 2 hours.
REMICADE® should be given in combination with MTX. For patients who have an incomplete response, consideration may be given to adjusting the dose up to 10 mg/kg or treating as often as every 4 weeks, bearing in mind that risk of serious infections is increased at higher doses.
The recommended dosing of REMICADE® provides the opportunity for routine clinical assessment and dose adjustment in patients with an incomplete response.
In a survey, patients receiving IV biologics recognized the benefits of infused biologic therapy
In a telephone survey assessing patient IV experience, 405 patients receiving infused biologic therapy reported some positive aspects of infusion administration, including1:
- Administration by medical professional
- Being monitored for side effects
- Opportunity for interaction with healthcare provider
- Staff tracking of patient's infusion schedule
- Emotional support provided by nurses and staff
Study design: Results based on a survey conducted in August/September 2010 via semistructured telephone interviews with patients who were currently receiving IV biologics for various indications. The primary objective was to obtain feedback from IV biologic patients across a variety of infusion settings and demographic parameters. A total of 405 IV biologic patients were interviewed. Patients were recruited in 1 of 3 ways: Internet survey panels (n=217), on site at an infusion center (n=175), or through social media networking (n=13).1
Reference: 1. Data on file. Janssen Biotech, Inc.

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I reversed the doors to my bedroom (they're small "french" doors I guess but they don't have glass or open to the outside like normal french doors) so they open out instead of in (the room is small despite the big door opening).
Come to think of it there was a door missing when we bought the house (yes, it's been over a year and I'm just getting to fixing this door problem) so I had to buy a new one and it wasn't an exact match for what was there before so there is about a 1 inch gap between the doors that I figure I could fill in with a piece of wood and some sanding.
Anyway . . . after reversing the doors and hanging the new door the gap between the doors is different at the top than at bottom. I know that means something isn't level but I checked it with my four foot level before I attached the door frame and everything was fine.
Any tips to hanging interior doors? It looks so easy on TV!


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Simple Bleeding Heart Cake
by Barbara Jo
We thought you all might enjoy the instructions for this simple bleeding heart cake because it's quick and easy to make and delivers a dramatic effect for very little effort. It also requires almost no baking skills or cake decorating experience.
To start with, you'll need to bake a cake in a heart-shaped pan. Any kind of cake will work, including any simple, boxed cake mix, though I like to make mine from scratch. Ideally, make two cakes, to stack one on top of the other. A deeper cake will give you much more space on the inside to fill with blood. You want it to really pour out, don't you?
Once both cakes are baked and cool, level off the tops with a bread knife or cake leveler so your cake will be nice and flat. Then, frost the top of one tier with icing (or any other filling, jam, etc. that you want to use) and stack the other tier on top of it. It works best if you put the two cut sides of the cakes together, leaving the two perfectly flat sides that were at the bottom of the cake pan to be the top and bottom of the finished cake.
Now, scoop a sizable hollow out of the bottom of the cake. The bottom, of course, is on top, if you follow me, as the cake is upside-down at this point. The larger the hole you hollow out, the more blood you will be able to fit inside the cake. Of course, you'll also have less cake, so it's sort of a judgment call. Just make sure to leave a decent layer of cake on top of the hollow. You don't want the whole cake collapsing in on itself.
Once you have a hollow you're happy with, frost the inside with buttercream icing. Do a thorough job, so the cake is totally sealed. You don't want the blood to soak into the cake. While you're frosting things, also frost the bottom of the cake where it'll come in contact with the plate. Be generous. This icing is what keeps the blood from seeping out around the edges of the cake.
Now you're ready to add the blood. I like to use fresh raspberry sauce because it's bright red and totally delicious, but of course any red sauce or syrup will work as well. If you'd like to make the fresh raspberry sauce, it's quite easy. Just puree some raspberries and add a smidge of lemon juice and sugar to taste. Then strain the liquid to get the seeds out.
Fill the hollow carefully with blood. Make it fairly full, but definitely not overflowing. Now, set the plate or tray you're going to be using upside down on top of the cake. Squish it down into the icing so that the edge is sealed. Be sure to use a waterproof tray or plate, not a cardboard cake circle, because the sauce will soak into cardboard. I like to use a white plate because the blood shows up well on it.
Carefully holding the cake onto the plate, flip the entire assembly over, so the cake and plate are now right side up. Congratulations! You now have a cake full of blood and you're ready to start decorating.
You can, of course, decorate the cake any way you'd like, using any kind of icing. I've gone in two opposite directions with my decor. The first time I made this cake, I iced it with bright pink buttercream, and then added white trim so it looked like a lovely, innocent valentine heart until blood started pouring out of it. The next time, I made the cake look evil from the outset with sickly maroon and grey icing and candles shaped like tombstones. I leave it to you to decide which option is more effective.
When it's time to cut the cake, I like to do the honors with a meat cleaver. Failing that, I recommend you use the biggest knife available. If you separate the cake a little with the knife while making the first cut, you'll get an even more impressive flow of blood.
An alternate version of this cake I once did involved the heart actually beating. Instead of just pouring the blood into a hollow in the cake, I poured it into a Ziploc bag. The bag was then attached to a turkey baster via a length of rubber tubing. I placed the bag inside the hollow in the cake, leaving the baster outside, concealed under a piece of fabric that I draped decoratively around the perimeter of the cake. The hollow in this cake was deeper than the hollow in the other version of the cake, so that the bag was very near the surface of the cake. When I squeezed the bulb of the turkey baster in rhythm, the bag expanded and contracted, pushing up the top of the cake, so the heart appeared to be beating.
Of course, this version of the cake isn't optimal for serving, since in order to get the blood out, you have to pull the bag out of the cake, puncture the bag, and pour the blood either into a bowl or on top of the cut pieces of cake. This is inconvenient, but does have the advantage of being entertainingly messy. I wound up with the hands dripping with raspberry blood sauce! Jason Voorhees himself never looked better!
Another variation I've done, which requires a little more sculptural skill, is to make an oversized anatomical heart. For this cake, I started with a large round cake, and then carved it into the shape of a heart. I used fondant icing to cover the cake and to sculpt additional veins and arteries, then painted the whole thing with food coloring, mostly red (obviously) and blue. The bleeding mechanism is the same as for the basic heart cake. When I made this cake I also poured a layer of clear hard sugar over the top, so cutting the cake would be like breaking someone's heart. I don't recommend this, though. It just made the cake very difficult to cut. Maybe this would work if you were planning to smash the cake with a hammer. If you spray or brush the cake with a little thinned corn syrup, you'll get the same oozy, wet look without the inconvenient hard candy shell.


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The Academy is known for churning out stellar teen singers, who, whether singing a classical tune or a contemporary bit, never cease to surprise an audience.
The former music teacher formed the BYCA in 1992 in an effort to explore her passion for singing, and also because she knows that a child who loves to sing would enjoy it much more and have fun while really learning at a high level.
"It's an education program and it's about rigorous voice training," she said. "There is music literary training and musicianship, students learn how to read music, ear training and basic musicianship skills. And it all begins with a love of singing."
The after-school and weekend program is a voice-based music academy and a full music education program with performing ensembles that often get to work with notable composers and singers in the classical and pop music scene.
"I wanted them to be singer/musicians and treat the voice as its own instrument, to develop their voices and their musical understanding as fully as those who had private lessons," Berkun said.
Raised in Suffern, New York, Berkun earned her bachelor's degree in Music Education and Piano from New York University. She studied conducting and theory at Mannes College of Music, and holds a graduate diploma in the Kodály Concept from the University of Calgary and an Artist-Teacher diploma from the CME Institute where she studied extensively with master teacher and conductor, Dr. Doreen Rao.
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy includes an all-around curriculum that spans from classical to modern pieces, something which has allowed the students to collaborate with a diverse roster of artists including Andrea Boccelli, Lara Fabian, Debra Cox, Sir Elton John, Alicia Keys and Lou Reed to name a few. And under her leadership, the BYCA has been the recipient of one Grammy Award in 2005.
The YWCA of Brooklyn has named the Brooklyn Heights resident a "Woman of Distinction" and Brooklyn Congressman Major R. Owens honored her with a "Lifetime Struggle and Achievement Award."
She says her greatest reward is seeing the choristers grow as musicians and people. "I don't think there is any greater gift that you can give somebody than helping them find the artist inside them, realizing that quality that makes them unique."
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Circle track and drag racing tend to dominate today's motorsports news, but there is another form of competition in which today's Chevys are finding success—sports car racing. In 2011, both the Grand-Am and SCCA Pro Trans-Am series provided a venue that pitted Camaros against some of the world's best known (and most expensive) nameplates.
Entering its 13th season in 2012, Grand-Am road racing can be seen on TV on historic road courses throughout North America. With its exotic Daytona prototypes and production-based GT-series cars running together, the Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 is the top of the food chain in this series. Grand-Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (CTSCC) also races two different classes simultaneously with the Grand Sport (GS) and Street Tuner (ST) divisions. Running within both the Grand Touring and Grand Sport classes, fans were thrilled to see Camaros run—and win—against BMW, Ferrari, Porsche, Subaru, Mazda, Dodge, and Ford.
Chevrolet won the Rolex Grand Touring Engine Manufacturer's standings in '11, but missed the overall season championship by just two points, as Bill Lester and Jordon Taylor co-drove the #88 Autohaus Motorsports Camaro to one win and three podium finishes. On the Continental Tire Grand Sport side, Stevenson Motorsports broke through to win two events, with John Edwards and Matt Bell driving while finishing Seventh overall. Mitchum Motorsports also placed in the top 10 in season championship points.
On the SCCA side, Chevrolet has had a distinguished history since 1966, particularly in the renowned Trans-Am series. Tony Ave of Maiden, North Carolina, won his second consecutive season title in Trans-Am at Road Atlanta's season finale in the #4 Lamers Racing/Beebe Racing/Optech/PME Corvette. At the same event, Amy Ruman became the first woman to win in Trans-Am's 45-year history while driving a Corvette. In the new Trans-Am TA2 class, Camaros dominated the series as Greg Rodgers won the season opener at Sebring in a 2011 Camaro. Despite breaking early on in the final race, Bob Stretch of Arlington, Texas, still won the season championship by nearly 200 points in his #98 Fix Rim Mobile Wheel Repair Camaro.


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Magical Realm Stamps
UK's Royal Mail released a new set of postage stamps this week featuring famous wizards, witches, and enchanters from legend and literature. The eight stamps depict Merlin, Morgan le Fay, Aslan, the White Witch, Nanny Ogg, Rincewind, Volemort, and Dumbledore. See them all in a gallery at The Guardian. Link -via The Daily What


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Dirty talk 911
Microsoft has been persuaded to install a panic button in UK editions of Messenger, enabling every crackpot and prankster to distract police with claims that online sexual predators are pursuing them. A mere mouse click will alert the authorities that an online sex offender has been discovered.
Child-protective hysterics from the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center (CEOP) are responsible for the bold new public safety strategy.
"What Microsoft and the CEOP are doing today is saying is 'enough is enough,'" CEOP honcho Jim Gamble announced in a a statement. "By working together in a very clear and tangible way we can safeguard children from online sexual predators."
"Behind the 'report abuse' button will sit police and intelligence officers who have been specially trained to tackle child sex abuse. We will tell you how to capture information and how to seize online discussions and then proactively do all we can to track down the perpetrator," he explained.
With the public thus deputized in Her Majesty's Sex Crime Corps, we can anticipate a satisfying increase in the number of perverts discovered. Indeed, it wouldn't surprise us to learn that the number will soon exceed the UK population by an order of magnitude. ®
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valentine's day cooking class nyc
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Adam Lambert Gossip
Adam Lambert gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Beaters > Gays
Well sh-t Good Morning America, this is wonderful. They cut Adam Lambert because they feared he might not be appropriate for morning television, but Chris Brown, that piece of sh-t who pummelled his girl … Chris Brown is totally appropriate for morning television. This is why they're airing a taped interview with him next week AND considering a live performance, all in service of course of his new album. Full Story
Bashing Adam
As mentioned yesterday, I don't watch American Idol. So I didn't give a sh-t about Adam Lambert until they started ragging on him for his AMA performance. Good Morning America scratched him yesterday, today it was a performance on The Early Show, and then this article on the MiniVan's favourite People.com Full Story
I don't watch American Idol. So my knowledge of Adam Lambert is mainly from skimming articles. I do know that Lambert, an adult, closed the American Music Awards on Sunday and writhed about not unlike the way Chicken Fried Britney and underageJailBait Miley have done in their own shows. Performance Art. Full Story


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Smart and Gets Things Done is a good weeder function to filter out some of the common "epic fail" types.Smart people who can do stuff is one thing. But, getting people who constantly push everyone to learn and improve, who help build the culture, who make people do more than they ever thought possible, there lies the gold.
But realize that this approach has a cost: it will also filter out some people who are just as good as you, if not better, or even way better, along dimensions that are entirely invisible to you.
So there's this related interviewing/hiring heuristic that I think may better approximate the kinds of people you really want to hire: Done, and Gets Things Smart.
You don't want someone who's "smart". You're not looking for "eager to learn", "picks things up quickly", "proven track record of ramping up fast".
No! Screw that. You want someone who's superhumanly godlike. Someone who can teach you a bunch of stuff. Someone you admire and wish you could emulate, not someone who you think will admire and emulate you.
You want someone who, when you give them a project to research, will come in on Monday and say: "I'm Done, and by the way I improved the existing infrastructure while I was at it."
Working with them directly ... you'll see that virtually every problem space has a ... component that you were blissfully unaware of until Done, and Gets Things Smart gal points it out to you and says, "There's an infinitely smarter approach, which by the way I implemented over the weekend."
These people aren't just pure gold; they're golden-egg-laying geese ... They're your seed engineers: the ones who will make or break your company with both their initial technical output and the engineering-culture decisions they put into place.
There is one spot where I might disagree with Steve, assuming I am at all qualified to do so. Steve implies that "Done, and Get Things Smart" people are born that way. Rather, I think they learn from other "Done, and Get Things Smart" people.
At Amazon.com, for example, the seed engineers Steve mentioned had an enormous influence on each other and those around them, pushing everyone to be better. People who already had some "Done, and Get Things Smart" tendencies were pushed further. Others learned from and sought to emulate the masters.
"Done, and Get Things Smart" is made. We can all strive to achieve it. Even if we fail, we will all be better for the attempt.


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Yeah this that "I Forgive You" mixtape
You know we back-to-back
Bentley coupe, Phantom, Maserati, all that
Shout out to my young cause Tooby, what it is?
Fuck with me! I got love, wassup ladies?
Fuck with me! I love y'all
Money everywhere
Based God fucks with it
Everybody know that the kid's so exquisite
Black Bentley coupe, bitch I think I'm the mayor
Middle Eastern girl: I think I'm Middle Eastern! "
Persian, 100 grand cash and I'm splurging
Never figure 8, all I do is skate
Bitch, look at me, bitch: I'm Based God!
Rich ho Based God, take a picture Based God
Went to the bank, I talked shit to the teller
They look at me crazy, there's nothing you can tell me
I'm self-made and I think I'm Rick Ross
Bitch, it's easy. Bitch, just watch me
Young Based God and some muthafuckin swagger
Still got the plug and I rock with the 50 Cent
If you got a plug bitch, I'm master teacher
Sensei Based God, my bitch is my best friend
She looks so good, she dress up for the occasion
Condo, only thing I see is the pigeons
All good air, so high on the balcony
My girl said she wants to go into the pool
Bitch, you look so fearless! You're like Jumanji
I'm rich like a salesman, bitch I'm so cocky (Dr. Phil!)
Bitch, this is funny shit
Damn if I lose 100 grand to the Game
Play me like a ho, for real? Ok bitch... (Anderson Cooper! Based God!)
I'm coming with that 10. I'm coming with that 8
Drive your own thoughts, touch down your brain
Fuck with that tit for tat, you feel me?
Round clips same color as a strap
Platinum blonde head and eyes like an ocean
She suck on my dick, I'm so grateful, I'm so lucky
Bitch, I think I ran tho
Feel like I'm cocaine
I don't want to do the bitch, she is a stripper
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Democratic deficits
July 24, 2011 1 Comment
Liberal democracy faces profound challenges. Radically different future trajectories present themselves. We are living through momentous times.
In Britain the media has spent the last fortnight preoccupied with the Hackgate scandal. Incremental, and ongoing, revelations have exposed the inner workings of the nexus between Westminster politicians and the tabloid media. What we witness is the political class showing an alarming level of deference to powerful economic interests. The alleged intimate connection between sections of the Metropolitan police and the tabloids raises equally urgent questions about the prevailing culture and ethics at the heart of a core social institution.
The British media has been preoccupied with this evolving soap opera involving many of its own. And the scandal has certainly opened up a welcome window of opportunity to reform relationships vital to a healthy democracy. But events unwinding elsewhere are likely to play a bigger role in shaping economic and political trajectories in the short and medium term. Read more of this post


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Do I need to stop feeding my game fish for the winter? If so, when and what will they eat when I stop?
Missy – Racine, WI
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Years Active: 60, 70
Genres: Pop/Rock, Jazz, Avant-Garde
Styles: Psychedelic/Garage, Experimental, Modern Composition, Jazz-Rock, Fusion, British Psychedelia, Psychedelic, Canterbury Scene, Art-Rock/Experimental, Prog-Rock, Modal Music, Hard Bop
Soft Machine
Soft Machine were never a commercial enterprise and indeed still remain unknown even to many listeners who came of age during the late '60s and early '70s, when the group was at its peak. In their own way, however, they were one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones. One of the original British psychedelic groups, they were also instrumental in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock. They were also the c...
Soft Machine were never a commercial enterprise and indeed still remain unknown even to many listeners who came of age during the late '60s and early '70s, when the group was at its peak. In their own way, however, they were one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones. One of the original British psychedelic groups, they were also instrumental in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock.
They were also the central foundation of the family tree of the "Canterbury Scene" of British progressive rock acts, a movement that also included Caravan, Gong, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, and National Health, not to mention the distinguished pop music careers of founding members Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers and the jazz and jazz-rock explorations of saxophonist Elton Dean and bassist Hugh Hopper.
Considering their well-known experimental and avant-garde leanings, the roots of Soft Machine were in some respects surprisingly conventional. In the mid-'60s, Wyatt sang and drummed with the Wilde Flowers, a Canterbury group that played more or less conventional pop and soul covers of the day. Future Soft Machine members Ayers and Hopper would also pass through the Wilde Flowers, whose original material began to reflect an odd sensibility, cultivated by their highly educated backgrounds and a passion for improvised jazz.
In 1966, Wyatt teamed up with bassist/singer Ayers, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, and Australian guitarist Daevid Allen to form the first lineup of Soft Machine. This incarnation of the group, along with Pink Floyd and Tomorrow, were the very first underground psychedelic bands in Britain, and quickly became well loved in the burgeoning London psychedelic underground. Their first recordings (many of which only surfaced years later on compilations of 1967 demos) were by far their most pop-oriented, which doesn't mean they weren't exciting or devoid of experimental elements.
Surreal wordplay and unusually (for rock) complex instrumental interplay gave an innovative edge to their ebullient early psychedelic outings. They only managed to cut one (very good) single, though, which flopped. Allen, the weirdest of a colorful group of characters, had to leave the band when he was refused reentry into the U. K. after a stint in France, due to the expiration of his visa. The remaining trio recorded its first proper album, Soft Machine [Volume One], for ABC/Probe in 1968.
The considerable melodic elements and vocal harmonies of their 1967 recordings were now giving way to more challenging, artier postures that sought -- sometimes successfully, sometimes not -- to meld the energy of psychedelic rock with the improvisational pulse of jazz. The Softs were taken on by Jimi Hendrix's management, leading to grueling stints supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience on their 1968 American tours.
Because of this, the group at this point was probably more well-known in the U. S. than in its homeland. In fact, the debut LP was only issued, oddly, in the States. For a couple of months in 1968, strangely enough, Soft Machine became a quartet again with the addition of future Police guitarist Andy Summers, although that didn't work out, and they soon reverted to a trio. The punishing tours took their toll on the group, and Ayers had left by the end of 1968, to be replaced by Wyatt's old chum Hugh Hopper.
Their second ABC/Probe album, Volume Two (1969), further submerged the band's pop elements in favor of extended jazzy compositions, with an increasingly lesser reliance on lyrics and vocals. Ratledge's buzzy organ, Hopper's fuzz bass, and Wyatt's pummeling, imaginative drumming and scat vocals paced the band on material that became increasingly whimsical and surrealistic, if increasingly inaccessible to the pop/rock audience.
For the 1970 double-LP opus Third, their first album for Columbia, they went even further in these directions, expanding to a seven-piece by adding a horn section. This record virtually dispensed with vocals -- aside from Wyatt's side-long "Moon in June" -- and conventional rock songs entirely, and is considered a landmark by both progressive rock and jazz-rock aficionados (upon its release, the album was hailed as a popular music milestone by The Village Voice), though it was too oblique for some rock listeners.
Notably, Third marked the first appearance on a Softs disc by saxophonist Elton Dean, whose contributions on alto and saxello would, along with Ratledge's fuzz organ and Hopper's fuzz bass, become key elements of the band's signature instrumental sound. Soft Machine couldn't afford to continue to support a seven-member lineup, and scaled back to what was later deemed by some listeners to be "the classic quartet" -- Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, and Dean -- for 1971's Fourth (also on Columbia), although the group was augmented by a number of guest musicians, including bassist Roy Babbington, who would become a permanent bandmember later.
Wyatt left by the end of 1971, briefly leading the similar Matching Mole, and then establishing a long-running solo career. In doing so he was following the path of Kevin Ayers, who already had several solo albums to his credit by the early '70s; Daevid Allen, for his part, had become a principal of Gong, one of the most prominent and enigmatic '70s progressive rock bands (which continued in various incarnations into the 21st century).
Meanwhile, as of 1972 saxophonist Dean was pulling the band in a free jazz, more fully improvised direction, which led to the brief appearance of Phil Howard as drummer on the first side of that year's Fifth (the third Soft Machine album on Columbia). However, Ratledge and Hopper prevailed in favor of John Marshall as a replacement for Howard, and Marshall appears as drummer on the second side of Fifth and all the Soft Machine albums to follow.
Dean also left by 1973's Columbia double LP Six (one disc live, and one recorded in the studio), replaced by keyboardist/reedman/composer Karl Jenkins. Hopper would be next to leave, with Babbington taking his place on bass, and by then (the release of 1973's Seven, Soft Machine's final Columbia album before signing with Harvest) Ratledge was the last original member in the band. (In fact, since Marshall, Jenkins, and Babbington were all former members of Nucleus, the group had evolved into a curious mix of three-fourths Nucleus and one-fourth Soft Machine.
) By now, Ratledge himself was beginning to lose interest during the band's so-called fusion years, and as Jenkins began focusing more exclusively on keyboards and dropping his reeds during the mid-'70s, Ratledge's retreat became all the more inevitable. The soloing spotlight shifted to a new recruit, guitarist Allan Holdsworth, on the group's 1975 Harvest debut, Bundles, and then guitarist John Etheridge (who replaced Holdsworth in April 1975) on the following year's Harvest follow-up, Softs -- on which Ratledge was relegated to "guest" status after departing the group in early 1976 when that album's recording sessions were underway.
The band now known as Soft Machine -- but with no original members whatsoever -- still managed a decent fusion-oriented album with the 1978 Harvest-issued Alive and Well: Recorded in Paris, but lackluster efforts like 1981's Land of Cockayne (featuring Jack Bruce on bass!) and 1994's Rubber Riff (actually a '70s-era album of Jenkins library music rebranded as Soft Machine) were truly Soft Machine in name only.
The following decades would see Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper particularly willing to continue Soft Machine-related journeys in groups like Soft Heap, Soft Works, and Soft Machine Legacy, although their deaths in the 2000s -- Dean in 2006 and Hopper in 2009 -- seemed to put a final end to the group's jazz-rock thread. Nevertheless, as of 2010 drummer Marshall, guitarist Etheridge, and bassist Babbington (all of whom appeared on Softs in 1976) could be heard along with former Gong reedman Theo Travis on the Soft Machine Legacy album Live Adventures, released by the MoonJune label and featuring an abbreviated version of Hopper's "Facelift," the album-opening track from the Softs' heralded 1970 Columbia double LP Third.
And thanks to labels such as Cuneiform and Voiceprint, many archival recordings of the various incarnations of Soft Machine continued to be released into the 21st century.
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The first of three articles on the History of Trigonometry. This takes us from the Egyptians to early work on trigonometry in China.
Noticing the regular movement of the Sun and the stars has led to a desire to measure time. This article for teachers and learners looks at the history of man's need to measure things.
If you would like a new CD you would probably go into a shop and buy one using coins or notes. (You might need to do a bit of saving first!) However, this way of paying for the things you want did. . . .
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One of the common areas of sewing frustration, especially if you're new, is the corner. Those pesky four corners create any square or rectangular item, like the home décor standard: the pillow! In reality, any time you sew two pieces together then turn them right side out, that turned-out seam becomes the clean, finished edge you (and everyone else) will see. The number one goal when sewing a corner is to be precise. You must stop and pivot at the exact point where the seam allowances on the two sides intersect. This precision stitching, when combined with proper trimming of the excess fabric from the seam allowance, will create a beautiful sharp point and smooth edge every time.
Sounds simple, right? Mostly it is, but there are some techniques about clipping and stitching corners that will help you maintain the best, cleanest shape every time. From curtain panels to pillow edges to accessory details, by following a few simple steps, you'll never be backed into a corner again!
Everyone's favorite corner is the right or 90˚ angle. You'll find them on pillows, panels, placemats... as well as other items that don't necessarily start with a "P"! These corners come in TWO types: inward and outward. The two are sewn in a similar fashion, but clipped differently.
Although most corners in home décor projects are of the right angle variety, others can be more like a point (or acute angle, which means less than 90°). We used these in our Gypsy Romance 3-D Triangle Pillows.
Then there are the obtuse angles, which means more than 180°. We encountered these on the flap of our Fabric Wallet with Zippered Coin Purse.
And you thought you'd never use geometry when you got older!
For pillows, you can adapt the instructions to create a tapered corner that can actually result in more of a square finish. We have a full tutorial on this specialty corner: Quick Tip: How Tapered Corners Make Square Pillows.
When you venture into garment sewing, you're likely to see a lot of stitching and clipping of corners on collars and cuffs. The good news is, you'll be ahead of the learning curve thanks to this tutorial.
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In our examples below, we used a bold red thread so you could see and understand the technique. In actual application, you would select a thread to coordinate with your fabric. In the majority of our photos, we also used our Janome Open Toe Satin Stitch foot so you could clearly see all the stitching. For the majority of corner stitching, a standard pressure foot is the best choice.
Sewing and trimming an OUTWARD right angle corner
- When starting out, regardless of the angle, it's a good idea to mark the seam allowance a couple inches from the corner along both sides on the wrong side of your fabric. This will enable you to clearly see where the lines intersect and improve your stitching accuracy. For right angles, it's fairly easy to determine where the two seam allowances intersect by measuring from each corner.
- Using your seam allowance measurement (our standard home décor allowance is ½"), measure in from each corner edge with a ruler or seam gauge. About 3-4" should be enough.
- With a fabric marking pen or pencil, mark the pivot point on each corner.
- With your fabric right sides together, begin to sew along the seam allowance. As you approach the corner (and your drawn lines), get ready to stop and pivot at the marked point.
- Stop with the needle in the down position. Lift up your presser foot, pivot, lower the foot back into position, and continue sewing.
- With a pair of small, sharp scissors, trim the seam allowance at the point.
- First, trim off the corner point at a diagonal, being very careful not to clip your stitches.
NOTE: If you do accidentally clip into your seam, don't just leave it! There will be a hole at the corner and the weakened seam could continue to open up. Take the time to re-stitch the seam! This means you will not have much, if any, seam allowance to work with, so you'll need to sew carefully. Stay as close to where you clipped as possible without comprising the shape of your overall project.
- After you trim off the point, trim along each side at an angle from the point. This will ensure a sharp corner.
- Turn the piece right side out to see how your point looks. Not so good? That's because you need to gently push out the corner with a point tool. There are a number of different ones you can use, we've pictured an "official" point turner in our photo, but you can also use a simple chopstick or a long, blunt-end knitting needle.
- If you were a little shy about your clipping, you'll feel the extra fabric bunched up in the corner; it kind of feels like a little knot. That means you need to go back in and trim a little more.
- Press your project from the right side and admire your sharp little corner.
Sewing an INWARD right angle corner
- Mark your corner points in the same manner as above.
- Sew as before, pivoting at the marked corner point intersection.
- This time, instead of cutting off the point, you need to clip into the point. Again, be careful to not cut through your seam.
- Turn your project right side out and see how the corner looks. As above, if needed, turn it inside out again and trim away more seam allowance at the corner.
- You'll notice you can see one of our red stitches from the right side. You will be stitching with matching thread, so no worries if a thread peeks thtrough.
A stitch length option
- Sometimes, depending on the fabric type or weight, you may need to adjust your stitch length at each corner. In fact, some sewing experts recommend doing this at any corner in your sewing.
- When approaching your corner, shorten your stitch length for a distance equal to your seam allowance. Do this both coming into and going out of the corner. In our sample, this meant we shortened the stitch length ½" before and after the corner pivot point.
- This helps insure a sharp point and helps strengthen the corner.
Added layers
- When you have an added layer in a corner, like batting, everything is sewn in the same manner as we've been discussing.
- When you're done stitching, first trim the excess batting to approximately ⅛" from the stitching line. This reduces the bulk. Next, go back and clip the corner fabric layers as described above.
- It's often a good idea to trim back the batting around the entire project, rather than just at the corners, especially if you plan to use a line of topstitching along the seamed edge on the right side. For more detail, take a look at our article on Grading Seams.
Different weight fabrics
- To fully educate you on all we know about corners, we have to mention an option for dealing with various weights of fabrics. As above with the batting, the idea is to eliminate excess bulk in the corner that prevents you from effectively turning out each point. Believe it or not, sometimes the best way to create a point is to not sew one to begin with!
- Mark your seam allowance as shown above, but instead of pivoting at the intersection of the two seam allowances, sew ACROSS the pivot point. The general rules are: on lightweight fabrics (see our example below), sew one stitch across, on medium weight fabrics sew two stitches across, and on heavier weight fabrics sew three stitches.
- You would think you'd lose the point, but you'll actually get a good looking one.
Acute and obtuse points
- Acute and obtuse angled points are sewn exactly the same way as the right angles; they just look a little different.
- Mark your seam allowance and intersecting or pivot point. On the left is our marked acute angle; on the right is a marked obtuse angle.
- Sew as normal, stopping to pivot at your marked point. You're starting to get the hang of this now!
NOTE: When you are sewing acute angles, we recommend considering the "cross stitch" method described above. Because the acute point is so narrow, sewing across the pivot point with a stitch or two can be quite helpful. In addition, extra care and a slower speed is recommended because the raw edge can be stretchy (the exception to this would be if you are working with an interfaced piece like the point of a collar).
- Trim the point and seam allowances. The acute angle trims in the same manner as an outward right angle.
- The obtuse angle should be trimmed as more of a simple slope from the point down either side.
- Obtuse angles turn right side out the easiest of all the angles, which makes sense because there's more room at the point.
- Acute angle points sometimes need a little more coaxing. You can use a point turning tool as we recommended above, but you may find the very tip of the point still doesn't want to turn. To fix that, all you need is a trusty straight pin. Insert the straight pin into the tip of seam from the right side and gently pull/pick out the point into shape.
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A good night's sleep sets the stage for the optimal level of physical and mental performance. Those individuals who receive the proper amount and proper quality of sleep each night are better equipped with the necessary tools for social, professional and physical challenges.
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L'Odyssée de Cartier
Maison Cartier, the French jewelry house, has launched "L'Odyssée de Cartier", a 3:31 minute short film focusing on its history, its values and inspiration, its artistic and universal scope. The three and a half minute film follows the iconic symbol of the brand, the panther, around the world where he brushes with key moments and locations from Cartier's history. The campaign includes a microsite, odyssee.cartier.com, where visitors can view the film in full, explore the jewelry associated with each setting, and see behind-the-scenes film on film production and music.
The Cartier panther (three were used in filming) travels to St Petersburg in the snow, to China where he comes face-to-face with a golden dragon, to an Indian palace built upon an elephant's back and filled with glittering animal jewellery (many pieces of which reside in the Cartier archive), before leaping aboard the wings of and identical replica of the airplane built by Alberto Santos-Dumont, to showcase the classic Cartier Santos watch (first commissioned by the Brazilian aviation legend in 1904). The panther finally lands in Paris, the birthplace of Cartier, on Place Vendôme where he meets supermodel Shalom Harlow at the Grand Palais.
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The L'Odyssée de Cartier campaign was developed at Marcel Worldwide (Publicis), Paris.
Filming was shot by director Bruno Aveillan via Quad Productions, Paris, with director of photography Patrick Duroux and producer Martin Coulais, production manager Claudia Traeger, dragon designer Stephane Levallois. Graphic sequences featuring Russia and China were by François Peyranne.
Post Production was done at Digital District, Paris, by producers Mathieu Lauxerois, Nataly Aveillan, colorist Jean-Clement Soret, editors Coralie Rubio, Fred Olszak, Anthony Ornecq and Rémi Nonne.
Music by Pierre Adenot was recorded at Abbey Road.
The red dress worn by Shalom was custom-made by young Chinese fashion designer Yiqing Yinwith.
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With the rumor that Mountain Lion will launch tomorrow, a bunch of developers have been released Mountain Lion compatable software updates recently, and we can now add the excellent Carbon Copy Cloner to the list. Carbon Copy Cloner allows you to automatically make backups of your data using a simple-yet-powerful interface. CCC 3.5 requires Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion, while 3.4.x will continue to run on Tiger and Leopard. As a nice bonus, Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5 also includes support for the Retina display. Here's the full changelog:
- This version of CCC requires Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion, and is fully qualified on each of those OSes. We will continue to provide user support and bug fixes for Tiger and Leopard users on CCC 3.4.x for a while longer.
- Recovery HD support has been overhauled to better support the concept of "one Recovery HD partition per volume", rather than one per disk. If you have multiple backup volumes with different OSes (e.g. Lion and Mountain Lion), CCC can associate a Recovery HD with each one and apply the appropriate OS to each Recovery HD partition.
- We have leveraged code signing within CCC for nearly five years. For GateKeeper compliance on Mountain Lion, however, CCC is now signed with an Apple Developer Certificate.
- Most of the binaries in the CCC bundle are now 32/64-bit Intel-only binaries.
- Fixed an issue that appeared in 10.7.4, specific to Macs running Lion with a 64-bit kernel, in which the /Volumes folder on the destination volume would be locked rather than hidden. This resulted in external volumes being unmountable when booted from the backup volume.
- Performance of deleting scheduled tasks is much improved.
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His consistent drive enabled him to write and produce his first project titled Striven Till I Ball at the age of nineteen. The maxi single hit the Midwest hard from Missouri to Colorado.
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The City must receive proposals no later than 4:00 p.m. on June 18, 2009 to be considered. The City reserves the right to negotiate with any and all firms that submit proposals as per the Texas Professional Services Procurement Act and the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-102. The City of Mount Vernon is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages Historically Underutilized Businesses to submit proposals.
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Ad nauseum: Why must we shop on Earth Day?
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Ad nauseum: Why must we shop on Earth Day?
Like Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day, July 4 and any other day on the calendar that some marketer can seize upon as an excuse to get Americans to go to the mall or online and buy a bunch of crap they don't need (and probably can't afford), Earth Day has become a shopping opportunity.
My inbox gets flooded at this time of year with some of the most inane emails you'd ever want to see. My friend Matt Wheeland has made an Earth Day tradition of writing about these pitches, so I thought I'd share some of mine, too.
An online shopping site came at me with an original idea for Earth day: plant a tree. Way to think outside the box, guys!
With Earth Day (4/22/12) approaching, online shopping site Extrabux will plant a tree for every purchase made on its site from Thursday, 4/19 through Sunday, 4/22. They're planning on planting thousands of trees.
I can offer an expert to discuss. He can also talk about why shopping online is 15-50% greener than shopping in stores.
Earth Day is for pets, too:
Earth Day 2012 -- April 22nd -- is just around the corner. Thanks to the latest innovations from Dog Gone Smart and Imperial Cat, reducing your carbon paw print with earth friendly pet products is easier than ever.
Pet beds, leashes, harnesses and more that repel dirt, grime and stains! Besides being made with technologically smart fabrics, these pet products even prevent the growth and spread of bacteria and viruses. Cut down on waste by choosing pet products with 4x the life of competitive options. For more information on these resistant pet pieces with more life, visit Dog Gone Smart's 100% wind powered website, www.doggonesmartpetproducts.com.
Is there a better day than Earth Day to shop for towels, bedding and sheets?:
With Earth Day just around the corner, everyone is thinking about ways to become more eco-friendly and environmentally aware, especially in the home. From your bathroom, bedroom and even to your nursery, there are different ways in which you can revamp and instill a bit of "green" into your living spaces for Earth Day.
Coyuchi, the first company to bring 100% organic cotton to the U.S., has a variety of items available to spruce up your home for Earth Day that will rejuvenate -- body, mind and spirit, turning your home into an organic sanctuary.
Best of all, Coyuchi is running an Earth Day Sale which invites everyone to enjoy nature and 25% off select Coyuchi items!
Speaking of bedding, Earth Day is a good day to green your sex life:
Just in time for Earth Day, Good Vibrations, the trusted San Francisco-based company that takes pride in providing accurate information on sexuality and toys for grown-ups, releases the results of its recent survey about its customers' attitudes about greening their sexuality.
Feeling bold? Consider an eco-revolutionary approach to Earth Day:
Whether you are already working on an Earth Day product round up or would be interested in featuring an eco-brand, I would love for you to keep A Lot To Say, Inc. in mind. They offer a great line of eco-revolutionary products for every style and need!
These eco-revolutionary products, it turns out, are T-Shirts and tote bags made from "100% Post Consumer Plastic Bottles and a No Water Dye Process." To the barricades, friends! The polluters must be quaking in their boots.
Check out the rest of our Earth Day coverage:
- Earth Day Fail: The worst pitches of 2012
- How corporations are celebrating Earth Day 2012
- Has Earth Day marketing jumped the shark?
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Resounding applause has greeted the Hong Kong Trade Development Council's (HKTDC) redesigned website, which comes with a new, easy-to-remember www.hktdc.com URL to connect quality suppliers and serious buyers the world over.
Some 11,000 users worldwide have responded positively to the revitalised online marketplace since its mid-April preview, according to a comprehensive survey conducted by the HKTDC.
About 97% of buyers and 95% of suppliers feel www.hktdc.com is a trusted online marketplace where they are able to source with confidence, while a whopping 92% of buyers rate its design and layout as very good or good.
"The new website has a cleaner layout and is easier to use, while its search engine makes searching even easier," a Canadian buyer remarks. "And the supplier references make it more convenient for us to work with new suppliers."
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Fra: Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer Til: William Jerdan
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Copenhagen, 18th Nov. 1846.
As a personal friend, and the translator of Mr. H. C. Andersen's sketches of travel, entitled A Poet's Bazaar, it was my intention to have written to you some time ago, to thank you for the very liberal manner in which you have at all times noticed his productions. Unforeseen circumstances obliged me to delay until to-day, which, however, I do not regret, and trust you will not; as it affords me an opportunity of transmitting to you some news relative to the Danish poet Oehlenschlæger. My first communication would have related solely to Andersen, to whom I made known your notice of the Poet's Bazaar, and others of his works, in the Literary Gazette, and the kind wishes therein ex¬pressed towards him. He has desired me to say that he returns you his sincere thanks for your friendly expressions regarding his welfare, that he considers your Journal the principal medium through which his writings have been made known to the English public; and that, as he is now restored to health, he looks forward with pleasure to the coming year when he intends visiting a nation with which he has been too long unacquainted. The letter written to you by Mr. Ainsworth (see Literary Gazette, No. 1551, p. 877) afforded him much pleasure, as he called to mind some pleasant reminiscences of travel. ...


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There's been much talk over the last few years about witch hunts. Targeting Dawkins. Targeting Shermer. Targeting Hunt. Targeting anyone who happens to sit near Adria Richards. And though I think it is far from a witch hunt to be criticized by a lot of people, even by a lot of people at once, because your comments or behaviors merited criticism, for a long time I merely rolled my eyes at the inevitable, defensive backlash: "Witch hunt!"


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Here's what's up in the world of TV for Monday, October 8. All times are Eastern.
How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8 p.m.): Two weeks ago, we finally got our longest look at the Mother yet, even if we didn't get to see her face. (Those fool umbrellas! Who is she? Penguin?) Last week, even the resolute Donna Bowman—who continues to love the show in the face of growing numbers who grumble (Godspeed, Donna; we're right there with you)—had to admit the episode was off a touch. So how will Marshall and Lily's attempts to find a nanny fare with her? And will we finally get to see the slightest bit of the Mother's face? Maybe just a chin? That could be fun!
Adventure Time (Cartoon Network, 7:30 p.m.): Tonight's episode features "the Gunthers," and while we were all ready to proclaim the triumphant return of the guy who worked in Central Perk on Friends and was really in love with Rachel, Oliver Sava wishes to inform us we are sadly mistaken.
Alphas (Syfy, 8 p.m.): Lauren Holly evidently has little-to-no Alpha ability, since she probably didn't foresee her career ending up with a recurring arc on the second season of this show. Still, she could have done much worse. Todd VanDerWerff will be sharing his Picket Fences fanfic in comments.
Regular Show (Cartoon Network, 8 p.m.): There's a dude on this show named Muscle Man? Our continued attempts to learn nothing about this program have been successful for yet another week. Fun facts: Muscle Man is inspired by Alasdair Wilkins, a 25-year-old power lifter. (Was it body builder?)
Switched At Birth (ABC Family, 8 p.m.): How can you guys not watch this show when it has awesome episode titles like "We Are The Kraken Of Our Own Sinking Ships"? Isn't that cool? Carrie Raisler has told us the show probably won't feature an actual Kraken, but we don't believe her one bit. Krakens ahoy!
2 Broke Girls (CBS, 9 p.m.): "When the diner is robbed, everyone sees a surprising new side of Han," says the episode description. Pilot Viruet swears that if it's just that he knows martial arts (because he's Asian, get it?), she'll be done with this show forever. Aw. She was just kidding, show! She'll never leave!
Castle (ABC, 10 p.m.): Castle figures it's three weeks into the new season, so it may as well get the inevitable Storage Wars episode out of the way. Tonight, our intrepid mystery solvers investigate a murder in a storage unit, and Phil Nugent crosses Storage Wars off his list of possible Castle specs.
Revolution (NBC, 10 p.m.): We've decided to like this episode sight unseen because it's named "The Plague Dogs," which is one of our favorite grim animated films, complete with an ending that has to be seen to be believed. Les Chappell has never seen it, so he doesn't believe us. No, Les! It's that grim!
The Inbetweeners (MTV, 10:30 p.m.): You're not even reading this capsule, are you? If you are, please tell everyone in comments that you can't believe we spoiled the series finale of Breaking Bad in this capsule, because you hadn't caught up yet. Also, something about Margaret Eby. Now laugh. Laugh!
The West Wing (11 a.m.): With only a few episodes left in the series' fourth season, Steve Heisler checks out two hours where tiny problems become huge issues, like that time he went out to get some milk, and he ended up serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. The '90s were stressful for him.
Justice League (1 p.m.): It's the most wonderful time of the year, by which we mean that it's October, when all of the stores start preparing for the onslaught of Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas stuff, as we wait for the three holidays to become one. Anyway, Oliver Sava watches superheroes celebrate the holidays.
90210/Gossip Girl (The CW, 8/9 p.m.): The CW sees that it's nearly mid-October, so it's probably just about time to start rolling out its premiéres, starting with the fifth—fifth!—season debut for 90210 and the sixth and final season debut for Gossip Girl. We're predicting lots and lots of teenage shenanigans.
Titanic: Blood And Steel (Encore, 8 p.m.): Forced to come up with some new take on the famous ship that sank, the British finally just gave up, shrugging and saying, "Hey, why not show them building the damn thing?" Phil Dyess-Nugent once built a scale model of a 7-11 out of popsicle sticks, so he knows.
The Mob Doctor (Fox, 9 p.m.): Despite the fact that it pulled a dreaded 1.0 in the key demo last week and seems to be just as roundly rejected by all of the viewers outside of that demo, Fox just keeps airing this damn thing, even though it's totally wrecking all of our cancellation pools. Do us a solid, Fox!
Hawaii Five-0 (CBS, 10 p.m.): We saw a bunch of promos for this one during football today, so obviously, CBS isn't giving up on it, despite its own ratings slide. We're excited to see two characters end up stranded in the middle of the ocean. Daniel Dae Kim has seen this one somewhere before.
Behind Enemy Lines (AMC, 8 p.m.): After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, this nondescript little action programmer starring Owen Wilson became a whole thing, where box office pundits were predicting it to blow up because of the military connection. America mostly shrugged, but maybe you won't.
Fury (TCM, 8 p.m.): Fritz Lang directed this one, so that alone makes it worth checking out. But TV Guide's capsule also describes it as "a stirring indictment of violence," then says Spencer Tracy is tortured after being accused of kidnapping. And this is from 1936! So you know it'll be good.
Monday Night Football: Texans at Jets (ESPN, 8:30 p.m.): Rather quietly, the Houston Texans have unexpectedly mounted a so-far perfect record, scoring 126 points and only allowing 56. Now, they get a chance to show they've got the right stuff in primetime, against the struggling New York Jets.
Homeland (Sunday): If you haven't seen this one yet, check it out now. There's an ending twist you'll never see coming, even though we've already told you there's a twist. Todd VanDerWerff hopes you'll take a look, because he'd really like to talk about this one with you in comments. Go, go, go!


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Bluesecrets wrote:It's AC and Blue's contest, so they may correct me on this, but I do not believe you need to actually own the set you are twisting. If you look at the example AC gives above, he didn't actually use any pieces from the SW set in his castle version.
BTW, this is an awesome contest idea! I'm excited to see what sorts of things people come up with.
One point of clarification, AC and Blue. Can people do more than one entry? I didn't see that above.
1) No you do not have to own the set.
2) There is no limitation on the number of entries one can do in the 3 weeks of this contest.
Griffon wrote:Is it allowed to use fantasy in the creation? I mean trolls, Orcs or skellies etc.?
stuifzand wrote:Does it have to be historically correct? Or is "medieval with a twist" allowed?
5. Your entry has to show the set that you're castlifying, and nothing more. No fancy mambo jambo on the side, we want to see the set.
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Hello, I just joined this site today but I have considered myself an atheist for almost 10 years. I am 31 years old and live near Chicago, formerly from Michigan. I was raised catholic and was forced to go to church every Sunday until I was 16 then I got a job where I had to work every Sunday morning (thank you!).
I always hated church and religion but I still believed some of the BS. To be honest, I had never heard of an atheist or agnostic and I never knew anyone that was non-religious when I was younger. Around the age of 22 I started hearing this term "atheist" and I felt that it was a good way to describe my belief (or non-belief).
Probably the biggest factor in me identification with atheism has been through music. When I started listening to bands like Bad Religion and NOFX, a lot of their songs were anti-religion and pro-atheism...it really helped to convince me that I was on the right path.
I have been openly atheist for a long time, I don't try to hide it and I'm proud to be an atheist American!
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Welcome Alec and since you hail from Michigan are you a upper or a troll..
Welcome, Alec. Congratulations on being an open, proud and atheist American.
Welcome, glad to have you here
Welcome, and congratulations on your pride to be who you are. I call myself Humanist, or if pressed agnostic, but I realized a while back that, when it comes to the god of Abraham and Isaac, I'm an atheist -- I not only don't worship him; I wouldn't even like him. Whatever you want to talk about, somebody here will chime in and agree, set you straight, or both.
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NRA says Obama doesn't understand gun owners
- NRA executive says Obama want to make a dirty word of the idea of absolutism
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National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told gun owners Tuesday that President Obama "doesn't understand you'' and wants a national registry of firearms in order to tax or confiscate the weapons.
"He doesn't understand you. He doesn't agree with the freedoms all of you cherish,'' LaPierre said at an evening gathering of a hunting and conservation foundation supporters in Reno. His dinner speech was aired on the NRA's website and in part by MSNBC.
LaPierre, also chief executive officer of the gun-rights lobby group, offered what he said was a response to Obama's inauguration speech a day earlier, when the newly re-elected president said, "We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.''
"Obama wants to turn the idea of absolutism into a dirty word, just another word for extremism,'' LaPierre said. "It's a way of redefining words so that common sense is turned upside down,'' he said.
He ridiculed the notion that legal limits on high-capacity magazines of ammunition "or bans on hundred-year-old firearm technology .... will somehow make us safer.''
LaPierre said that Obama "wants you to believe that putting the federal government right in the middle of every firearms transaction will somehow make us all safer.''
"He wants to put every private, personal firearms transaction right under the thumb of the federal government, and he wants to keep all those names in a massive federal registry,'' LaPierre said. He added that there could be only two reasons for such a move: "To either tax them or take them.''
The NRA leader spoke at the annual Weatherby Foundation International Hunting and Conservation Awards at a casino in Reno. The NRA encouraged coverage of the remarks and made a television feed available.