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Joined: 27 Oct 2010
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Location: brissie
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:29 pm
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Hi there,
I am in the last year of my degree and will probably finish with a GPA around 5.2 to 5.4, Just under the 5.5 sweet spot. I haven't registered for GAMSATs yet because I do not feel ready yet (i have an intern year to do still)
My questions is: how important is GPA to the entry?
I really want to go to melbourne uni (my brother went there and loves it). How great a GAMSAT score do I need to get into there? With my crappy GPA, can I get into anything at all even?
Feeling fairly depressed, im currently doing pharmacy and I HATE IT. Because I dislike the subject so much, I ended up slacking and giving up on several subjects which really dragged my GPA down.
For the pharmacist out there, how hard was the GAMSATS (given the prior knowledge gained from the degree)
What ballpark score do I need?
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Joined: 01 Apr 2008
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Location: Perth, WA
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:39 pm
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Hi Mate...
This is going to sound harsh; but:
A GPA of 5.2-5.4 is not going to get you an interview at ANY university these days, yet alone U Melbourne.
I suggest that if you're really keen for medicine, you consider post graduate studies to get your GPA up MUCH HIGHER. 5.5 is not the sweet spot, but the 'bare ass' minimum, and unless you're carrying a killer GAMSAT result with that 5.5, then you'll struggle.
Just as a basic guide, the GAMSAT threshold for ND Fremantle this year was 62.
You don't have to trust me, why don't you call the universities you're interested in, and see what they have to say? Perhaps post your experiences to the board for everyone else to see
Good luck.
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Joined: 27 Oct 2010
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Location: brissie
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:17 pm
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Thanks for the reply
What kind of post grad work should I do?
Can't a very good gamsat result redeem me a bit?
I did well when i did physics in high school, and obviously in pharm, we do a fair bit of high level bio and chem. If i work my ass off with my science background, from now ready for 2012 gamsat, can it be achieved?
...for a course anywhere
surely its not unheard of that a GPA of 5.3 getting into med?
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Joined: 16 Aug 2010
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:03 pm
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How do you expect to like medicine if you hate pharmacy, which involves intense study of disease and therapy? Another thing I'd like to add is that you haven't graduated from pharmacy yet, and have not even given actual job a go. At least be open to the profession and its opportunities before you throw it away. The real world is a different view to university.
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Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: Perth
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:29 am
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I have read on a few (not sure which) university websites that if you have a postgrad degree your GPA can get bumped up. However, this is up to the universities to whether to bump it up or not so I would contact the universities that you are interested in attending for medicine.
Hope that helps you
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:45 am
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I have worked in community pharmacy for 4 years, i have worked in 2 different pharmacies with very different focus (privately owned nursing home supplier and priceline style-very commercial) and i have worked in hospital pharmacy as well (in compounding, dispensary and with a clinical pharmacist)
So since starting this degree i have lived and breathed pharmacy and I'm pretty sure I understand what I have to look forward to
My main gripe is: I study so hard to build up my therapeutic knowledge and have absolutely no use for this knowledge. Pharmacist are slaves to the pbs rules and are really truly just business people. This is not why i chose to do a health profession!
I liked working with the clinical pharmacist because i found that they get to use their knowledge to truly make a difference. it was truly fascinating working on the wards. Unfortunately, pharmacist cannot make direct changes and have to rely on doctors to change anything. it just made me jealous of the med students.
This is what makes me depressed about pharmacy. We start off knowing so much and in the end, most pharmacist just work retail.
I am a smart student, my GPA was 6s in the beginning of the degree because i was excited, now that i realised what a shitty idea it was to do pharm, i am truly finding it hard to be motivated to give a shit anymore. i truly hate the idea of selling makeup in a priceline one day
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:49 am
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...and anyway, i am completing my intern year so i can be accredited, im not throwing anything away. my internship will also be in hospital so i get to work in a hospital for a whole year.
i guess i'm just disappointed with the directions this profession is going
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:41 pm
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Fair enough. At least you're seeing it through so it's not going to be thrown away. Hope you enjoy your internship!
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Location: Australia
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:47 am
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I know a friend who is in the same situation as you. Hates pharmacy. Esp of the amount of students + new schools, lower wage rates, and essentially having to work under someone else in a community setting is quite unsatisfying.
Don't some unis take min. GPA of 5? have you done the gamsat?
What if u get a really high Gamsat and a GPA of 5
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I am in the same boat as you elanious.I am final year nursing student and my GPA is around 5.1 - 5.2. I want to shift into medicine because of same reasons "Lack of Power".
You would be quite happy to know that you can actually apply to some uni.s, where GPA is just a hurdle. I think in Monash, you need only 5 Gpa. Selection is based on GAMSAT score + Interview.
Check out the forum, there is lot of info.
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Grants to restore shorelines multiply dollars and deeds
Restoring the Bay is like cleaning house: We do it chore by chore.
Fortunately, the Bay multiplies much of the effort we put into it. Put water in motion and it keeps moving. Put $800,000 into shoreline restorations, and the grants multiply dollars and deeds.
The dozen new shoreline restoration grants in Maryland and four in Virginia are putting that money to work, multiplying the momentum.
This Bay chore is supported by the Chesapeake Bay Trust with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and, in Maryland the departments of Natural Resources and of Environment. Much of the money comes from our taxes, though we contribute voluntarily to the Trust, in large part by buying Treasure the Chesapeake license plates.
From bulldozing bulkheads, building breakwaters and planting grasses to stabilize and soften 7,000 feet of shoreline, 173,073 square feet of wetlands are rising to nurture creatures beyond counting.
Crawling through those wetlands to reproduce are terrapins, our state reptile, an iconic species that are reappearing in restored habitat "largely through the commitment of landowners to this type of project," according to Eric Schwaab, now of NOAA.
Homeowners typically work with riverkeepers in developing projects and seeking funding.
"It's happening all over, with significant funding to Anne Arundel County because we have so many active community groups and so much shoreline in need of stabilization," South River Federation executive director Erik Michelsen told me.
This round's six grants put $253,445 to work in Anne Arundel County, funding living shorelines in the communities of Annapolis Cove and Magothy Beach, at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and, through three riverkeepers, at private homes.
The South River Federation grant, Maryland's smallest at $12,880, helped Church Creek homeowner Brenda Boultwood create a living shoreline stabilized by off-shore breakwaters. Property owners typically pay 25 percent of the cost of a project.
Tara Potter of Beards Creek, also in the South River Watershed, put an earlier grant to work on her 120 feet of waterfront. "It's really working well," Potter said. "It's flushing, and all kinds of critters are swimming."

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Cocktail Overhaul: Long Island Iced Tea
Taking drinks from the Dark Ages of cocktails and revamping them, with delicious results.
Editor's Note: Please welcome Jeff Lucas of The Mix Lab, who will be creating delicious updates of drinks from what many consider the dark ages of cocktails. Take it away, Jeff!—The Management
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The Long Island Iced Tea is the perfect delivery system for a large volume of booze, a Trojan Horse, if ever there was one. Four ounces of spirits are delivered under a veil of secrecy by chemical sour mix and a splash of Coke. Despite being sweet and seductive, she is a fickle beast that will turn on you in an instant—every time you order a LIIT, you are one sip away from a bad decision. Could this potent punch be tamed and yet still retain its delicious bite?
The Long Island Iced Tea doesn't have the long history of the Martini or the Manhattan, but it's still one of the most popular drinks of the last 40 years. Its creation in the 1970s is attributed to Robert "Rosebud" Butt. He claims to have created the drink for a contest while working at the Oak Beach Inn on Long Island.
Bye Bye, Sour Mix
Order a Long Island Iced Tea in a bar, and you will often see the bartender reach for the artificially flavored sour mix, the bane of any good drink. In my cocktail overhaul, the sour mix had to be the first thing placed on the chopping block. Equal parts fresh lemon and fresh lime juice work much better to add a bright note of acidity to the drink.
To balance out that tartness, I used a cola syrup based on the recipe that appeared in the New York Times from the Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda. The original was quite citrus-forward but complex with a touch of floral flavor due to the inclusion of lavender. I tweaked it slightly to increase the spicy punch.
Getting Spiritual
The spirits in a Long Island Iced Tea are cheap gin, scary tequila, bottom shelf rum, and well vodka. Upgrading these spirits is a no-brainer, but I wanted to make sure the gin, especially, was approachable. I picked Old Tom Gin, which is less intensely juniper-laced than London dry gin, while offering a sweeter and more full-bodied mouthfeel. This stuff is an easy, comfortable step into the diverse world of gin. Added to the spirituous mix are a flavorful white rum and reposado tequila, with vodka stuck on the outside looking in.
Carbonate It
The final twist to this Long Island Iced Tea is the carbonation of the entire cocktail using a cocktail carbonator. Carbonation amplifies aromas and gives you the impression of a lighter and more refreshing drink. Carbonating the entire drink instead of adding a pre-carbonated mixer makes for a richer experience. Though iSi's handy Twist-n-Sparkle was recalled, there's also the Perlini cocktail carbonator, but don't despair if you don't have one; just add a little club soda.
With that, we've ushered the Long Island Iced Tea into the modern era. This revamped drink adheres to the spirit of the Long Island Iced Tea—it's still fun, and it's still plenty boozy, but the fresh citrus and homemade cola make for a more refined mix, and the carbonation makes for an explosion of flavor with each sip.
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About the Author: Jeff Lucas enjoys gadgets and exotic spirits. When it comes to food and drink he'll try anything at least once. You can follow his cocktail musings on twitter @the_mixlab and his blog at themixlab.wordpress.com
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Rox tix redux: Now the refunds are late?
The Post describes the Rockies' plans to be bargain shoppers this offseason. This, despite the fact they got a huge financial lift from their playoff run. Add in the fact that they still haven't issued all the refunds for playoff and World Series games that weren't played and the ownership team is laughing all the way to the bank.
They told us it would take four to six weeks for refunds, despite the ability to do it electronically in days if they wanted to. I returned my tickets to Coors Field nearly seven weeks ago and still don't have my money back.
What's next, $9 beers for 2008?
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42% of all heart transplants are bridged to transplant with a VAD.1 Our committment to advance the treatment of end-stage heart failure has never been stronger.
The HeartWare HVAD System is the most widely studied implanted centrifugal ventricular device.2-5
2000+ patients enrolled in HeartWare HVAD trials.
350 hospitals trust the HeartWare HVAD System.
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totaling more than 13,000 patients.*
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1. Lund, L, et al. For the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Thirty-second Official Adult Heart Transplantation Report – 2015; Focus Theme: Early Graft Failure, J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015;34:1244-1254.
2. Rogers, J, et al. Intrapericardial left ventricular assist device for advanced heart failure. NEJM 2017;376:451-460.
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August 15, 2013
Barack Obama is pushing harder than ever to fuel hot proxy wars against Putin's Russia, publicly comparing him to Hitler and Stalin on national television, and pushing relations to the brink of full scale war.
When we really look at what's going on, really looking at the way Obama and his handlers are pushing such outlandish and venomous attacks on every front against the slightest possibility of enhanced foreign relations, we come to the realization that Obama is intentionally generating the spirit of conflict between Russia and the United States. And, while we were discussing this months ago, it's now being highlighted in the Russian media and internationally as a blatant reality.
First and foremost we need to examine the 'hottest' form of instigation that is currently ongoing from the Obama administration, and that is the Sryian proxy war that virtually no one knows about. As I've reported in the past, Obama is of course funding the Syrian rebels who run around in the streets beheading the Christians and innocents in general bloodlust. Well, that's bad enough, but it just so happens that Russia is aiding and supporting the opposing side in the war for Syria — Assad's forces.
The Russian media is extremely open about this glaring danger, with RT reporting in the article 'US is involved in 'Hot War' with Russia' how the hot war in Syrian is truly raging on. Even Yahoo News has detailed this scenario, with one piece entitled 'By arming Syria rebels, US drawn into proxy war'. From the Yahoo report:
"Arming the rebels is bound to heighten U.S. tensions with Russia, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad. It could further escalate a brutal, if deadlocked, civil war that has killed nearly 93,000 people and displaced millions, with no end in sight. "
So what you have here is a true proxy war, except it may actually be much worse. You see Russia's involvement with the Syria conflict is potentially much deeper than just the funding of Assad's army, which is the current government military within Syria. If you remember the Israeli strike on Russian missile compounds within Syria, which I originally was reporting on amid a mainstream media blackout, there is now military action that may be directly killing Russian troops.
And it is no coincidence that Putin ordered an immediate 'combat readiness' exercise for 160,000 troops and an arsenal of military machines following the Israeli strike on the Russia missile compound (originally denied by Israel until it was leaked by US intelligence weeks later). This exercise included everything from naval ships to strategic bombers, but as always it was not worthy of appearing in mainstream news reports. At the time, the media was simply too busy reporting on what George Zimmerman was doing that day.
State Of Mind: The Psychology Of Control, from the creators of A Noble Lie. A film that reveals much of what we believe to be truth is actually deliberate deception.
Another hardcore example of Obama's out of control taunting of Putin and Russia at large is evidenced in the recent Jay Leno interview, where both Obama and Jay begin heavily demonizing Russia following the nation's decision to allow NSA whistleblower and hero Edward Snowden into the country. We're talking about the kind of incendiary wording that does not just equate to political pebbles being thrown across the pond, but a full on attack like nothing I've seen before from Obama. In the segment, which CBS News has posted up, Jay and Obama bash Putin for 'rounding up the gays' as if he were Hitler or Stalin.
Meanwhile, the United States has submerged into a spy grid that only Stalin could dream of.
But it's essential that we understand the true severity of this and how hard Obama continues to throw coal into this raging Syrian proxy war. We're talking about a president that back in 2012 issued a 'secret order' to begin funding and arming the barbaric Syrian rebels without any form of oversight or approval — without any form of public announcement or justification. And the media just goes with it, accepting the funding as if it were a part of life.
We can go back to present day to see further evidence of this, however, going beyond the 2012 Reuters report and into a sneak peek that shows just how desperately Obama wants to fund these Sryian rebels. Even in the face of resistance from Congress and policymakers at large, Obama is pushing through the funding one way or another. And with the funding set to end for this year in September, he is on a burning mission to get it instituted once again, and it doesn't matter that the Washington Times has put out articles showing how these Syrian rebels behead Christians and their families.
Yet people think Obama actually cares about them and their families.
The fact is that the classified arming of the rebels is entirely an Obama administration (and handlers) program, and not even the other politicians really have any idea what's going on. Senator Ron Wyden explained to the Daily Star:
"Increasingly, I believe senators on both sides of the aisle want more information about what the end game is here," said Democrat Senator Ron Wyden.
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Surreal Fiction
Article in Adult Fiction and Fantasycategory.
Surreal Fiction takes place in our world- the "real world" and "sane world." But prepare to be shocked because the things that go down are twisted, psychedelic, schizophrenic and macabre. It injects humdrum everyday life with a much-needed dose of bizarre fantasy, letting imagination skyrocket through boundless terrain.
This is the story of the Binewski family, a conspicuous clan of monstrosities who travel the country as a family circus. Papa Binewski intentionally bred his offspring to be mutant freaks by dosing his wife with toxic chemicals and drug cocktails during her pregnancy. From his point of view, there was no better way to guarantee his babies a lifetime of security and financial freedom than to make them be born with an appearance so"miraculous" and extraordinary that wherever they went, people would pay just to gape at them.
"Like most babies smell like butter,
his smell smelled like no other.
He was born scentless and sensless,
he was born a scentless apprentice..."
Perfume is a gruesome, picaresque allegory of an olfactory genius. Though his nose is so sensitive that he can distinguish the smells of the doorknob, the lamp and the chair in any room he walks into, he is completely lacking in sensitivity of the personal kind. His vulcan-esque lack of social emotion and complete inability to relate to others have made him ostracized and hated by his community, but his remarkable nose has brought him fame none the less. He stays locked away in his laboratory, creating heady and tantalizing perfumes. These scents are like none the world has ever experienced and anyone who gets a whiff of one is whipped into an intoxicating frenzy of lust and olfactory pleasure.
The stoic savant lives in a world shaped smell but by a cruel twist of fate, he was born without an odor of his own. As an infant his wet nurse refused to feed him because he never cried and his skin lacked the sweet buttery smell she was accustomed to finding on babies. She suspected him to be satan spawn and crossed herself in his presence. Throughout his life, this lack of a personal scent has been deeply troubling to him. He has no sense of identity! So he begins stealing the body odors of other people.
...And any perfume maker knows that in order to take the scent of a thing, one must first take its life.
Rocknerds will be intrigued to note that Kurt Cobain was a huge fan of this book. The quote at the beginning of this blurb is from the second track on In Utero.
- Judas Coyne likes to collect unusual things like a cookbook for cannibals, a used hangman's noose
- Dean Koontz wrote some of his books in series, but most are stand alone titles. His writing talent always surprises me because his themes are so off the wall. Scary!!


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New York City-based fashion and lifestyle brand Baja East was founded in 2013 by Scott Studenberg and John Targon, long-time friends with backgrounds working in luxury sales and marketing. The pair has since become renowned for androgynously-cut, 'ambisex' collections based on their design ethos of 'loose luxury' – high quality pieces that exude effortless cool. The duo's elevated offerings embody the harmonious convergence of laid-back West Coast elegance and New York street style sensibilities. Fringed and frayed denim and pullovers emblazoned with faded logo graphics project a worn-in aesthetic matched by their relaxed silhouettes and dropped shoulders, while faux-fur slide sandals encourage an insouciant shuffle. Multicolor tie-dye and cartoon characters infuse essential t-shirts with lighthearted appeal, while white-on-black slogan tees provide a lull amid the visual feast.
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There is some good discussion going on about open source software licenses and confusion. From the article:
Back in the 1980s, when Richard Stallman was the only one talking about the need for "free software," no one quite knew what he was talking about. That's not just because people looked askance at someone who said it would be possible to write a version of Unix that could be given away for free, along with all of the compilers, editors, and utilities that a typical Unix installation included.
Stallman also managed to confuse people with the term "free" — he used it as a political statement, saying "free as in freedom," or "free as in 'free speech'," contrasting it with "free as in 'free beer'." But no matter how hard he tried, Stallman was faced with the reality that most people thought of "free software" as programs for which you didn't have to pay money. The fact that Stallman's software was indeed designed to be given away without charge only added to the confusion.
=> Read the Fine Print on "Open Source" Software ( via Linuxtoday )


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Win Tickets To A Tiny Union Show
THE UNION release brand new album, SIREN'S SONG, next Monday and to celebrate we have an
We are giving you and three of your friends the opportunity to see a TINY acoustic performance from The Union backstage at their final UK tour date at Manchester Academy 3 on 26 October. You will also get tickets to the full show afterwards and a deluxe copy of their fantastic new album.
We also have deluxe editions of the album to give away to seven daily runners up.
SIREN'S SONG is the stunning new album from THE UNION.
It is the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2010 self-titled debut and it surpasses even that lofty standard, with Luke and Peter producing a set of songs that rivals just about any rock record in 2011.
From heavy duty rock n roll (the huge, brilliant, swaggering title track) to country rock swing ('The Remedy'), via the blues ('Cut The Line') and beautiful acoustic diversions (such as the lovely 'Orion') this album is like taking a trip through the history of rock music, and loving it all over again.
It's a "classic" album, in the style of the best rock records of the past 40 years - a coherent and complete whole that should be absorbed in one sitting, and then enjoyed repeatedly after that. It's a timeless, and undeniably brilliant rock record and easily one of the best albums of recent years.
The album is released as a standard single CD edition and a fantastic super-deluxe edition which includes Siren's Song on CD, a numbered 12" gatefold hardback cover signed by Luke & Pete, two 12" sized 24 page full colour booklets, a T-Shirt, and a fantastic bonus eight track CD containing previously unreleased live and acoustic tracks.
You can see Luke and Peter on tour in the UK in November where they'll be playing tracks from Siren's Song, their excellent debut and no doubt throwing in some other surprises.
They'll also be supported on the tour by the excellent Fighting Wolves.
Tickets for the shows are on sale
Here's the dates:
19/10/11 York - The Duchess
20/10/11 Newcastle - Academy 2
21/10/11 London - Islington Academy
23/10/11 Bristol - The Fleece
24/10/11 Nottingham - Rock City Basement
25/10/11 Glasgow - The Cathouse
26/10/11 Manchester - Academy 3
Each day this week we will be giving away daily deluxe editions of Siren's Song, and everyone that takes part in our daily competitions to win the CDs will be entered into a prize draw to win FOUR tickets to a tiny acoustic performance from The Union which will take place ahead of the band's final UK show at Manchester Academy on 26 October.
If you win the grand prize then you also get four tickets to the band's Manchester show plus a deluxe edition copy of the album.
All you will need to do to be in with a chance of winning one of our daily prizes or that stunning grand prize is tune in to Lucio, Rob, Darren or Nicky (or head to PlanetRock.com) any day this week and you will hear cunningly disguised classic rock songs played on a siren (see what we did there).
When you hear the "siren song" come back to this page and tell us what the song is and if you get the answer right you will go into the daily prize draw and the week's grand prize draw (you every day this week if you want to).
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Applause Atlanta George Vest led a discussion of special problems under the new tax bill at the Tax Forum presented by the Atlanta Chapter, Georgia Society of CPAs and Emory University on November 2-3. Boston Philip Shapiro was selected by the Massachusetts Society of CPAs to serve on a committee of one of the technical meetings held during November. He appeared as a panel member discussing current accounting and auditing problems on November 19, when his subject was "Confirmation of Receivables." Hugh Dysart, Jr. was selected as a discussion leader at a seminar sponsored by the Massachusetts Society in cooperation with the U. S. Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration and College of Business Administration of Boston University on October 27. The theme of the seminar was "The Accounting and Taxation Problems of Small Business." Chicago On October 16, Robert Trueblood spoke before the Michigan Society of CPAs on the subject "The Future of the Profession." On October 24, with James Bragg and Justin Davidson, he conducted a one-day seminar in Madison, Wisconsin for the University of Wisconsin Management Institute on "The New Frontier for Financial Executives." William Schwanbeck appeared on a panel at the October 17 meeting of the Chicago Chapter of the Financial Executives Institute, discussing "Depreciation Guidelines and Rules Under Procedure 62-1." On December 4 he spoke on "Depreciation Recapture" at the Illinois Society of CPAs Tax Conference and on December 6 he discussed "New Tax Legislation" at a luncheon of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity. Justin Davidson participated in an all-day session sponsored jointly by the American Statistical Association and the AICPA Committee on Statistical Sampling held in Minneapolis on September 10. He spoke on "Sampling Techniques Applied to Accounts Receivable." On September 13 he addressed the Federal Government Accountants Association in Chicago on "Sampling Techniques in Accounting." On October 1 he was in charge of the session on "Accounting for Business Transactions" at the American Management Association Seminar on "Accounting for Non-Financial Executives" held in Chicago. Herbert Golden has been admitted to membership in the American Institute of CPAs. On August 24, Robert Trueblood spoke at the AICPA Staff Training Program at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois on the subject, "The Future of the Profession." DECEMBER 1962 51


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The State of Social Security: Maybe a Little Better, Maybe a Little Worse?
The Social Security Trustees released their annual report yesterday, showing a small improvement in the system's finances over the long‐term. That's rather surprising given that the recent recession has reduced the program's revenues and brought forward the date when the program begins to drain money from the general budget — from 2016 last year to 2015 in the new report. The Trust Fund exhaustion date is 2037, the same as it was in last year's report.
The new health care law is likely to increase the program's revenues as employers reduce payroll‐tax‐free health insurance coverage and offset the reduction in employee compensation through higher wages that would be subject to payroll taxes. This sets up a competition between the health care law – induced increase in Social Security revenues and declines in revenues and increases in outlays for other reasons — a sluggish economy, improving longevity, the addition of another year at the end of the 75‐year projection horizon, and changes in economic and demographic data, assumptions, and methods.
The positive revenue effect of the health care law (14 basis points) more than offsets the negative effects of all of the other factors (6 basis points) on the system's long‐range actuarial balance. That yields a total improvement of the program's actuarial balance from –2.00 percent of taxable payroll to –1.92 percent. In next year's report, however, this year's "legislative" effects may be folded into changes from technical adjustments and incoming data. We may never know whether today's assumptions on the revenue effects of the health care law are correct or not.
It could be that those assumptions are too large, especially if Congress postpones the tax on Cadillac health care plans because of pressure from unions. It could also be too small if many employers decide to eliminate health insurance coverage and opt to pay the less costly penalty. On balance, I've concluded that, faced with such wide uncertainty about future outcomes, the Social Security trustees have chosen to be relatively conservative in their estimates of the health care law's revenue effect.
Another curious item is that the program's long‐range imbalance increased from $15.1 trillion to $16.1 trillion. However, the report states that "the near‐term negative effects on employment of the slightly deeper recession than assumed last year are offset by higher than expected real growth in the average earnings level" (Section D: Projections of Future Financial Status). As a result, the program's total (infinite‐horizon) imbalance ratio declines from 3.4 percent in 2009 to 3.3 percent today.
Note that a deeper recession and higher unemployment than was assumed last year does not necessarily justify a correspondingly faster recovery, with unchanged long‐term equilibrium unemployment and earnings growth rates. The trustees are discounting the possibility that the unemployment rate may remain higher than was assumed last year and that, therefore, earnings may not rebound any faster compared to last year's assumptions. It appears that that incoming data on unemployment and GDP growth played little if any role in informing assumptions about future earnings growth rates.
Finally, it should be noted that this year there were no public trustees to oversee and modulate the report as it was being produced.


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Lovely Southampton Summer Home
A young family's Southampton summerhouse stretches past stereotypes to reach new heights of unstuffy sophistication
Beach houses, done well, can make coastal themes and colors rock. Yet even the most gifted designers struggle to overcome the genre's limitations—there are only so many ways to riff on surf, sand, and all things nautical. New York designer Young Huh, known for bringing a global perspective to her projects, dodged the dangers inherent in beach-house decorating in a delightful dovetail with her client Rose Caiola Musacchia, who wanted to instill her family's Hamptons home with elements of exotica from their travels.
"Rose had a distinct vision inspired by her passion for Moroccan and Indian art and design," says Huh, who enjoys nothing more than bringing reminders of her clients' great cultural experiences into their homes. "At the same time," she says, "we didn't want to make the design appear 'costumey' or out of place. That meant respecting the traditional shingle-style architecture with a composition that overall was somewhat traditional, with modern and ethnic flair for a global point of view."
Photography: John Bessler
Produced by Jenny Bradley
Interior designer: Young Huh, Young Huh Interior Design, 23 W. 73rd St., Suite 202, New York, NY 10023; 212/595-3767, younghuh.com.
Neutral Entry
That flair, though tightly edited, does the heavy lifting that personalizes this beach house for Rose, her husband, Carl, and their two young children.
A jute rug from Stark sets a casual scene.
Wall paint ("Carrington Beige" #HC-93); woodwork and trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Hanging lanterns: existing.
Jute area rug ("Blithe"/Braid): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Pair of corbels: vintage.
Faux tortoise paint: by Nina Helms, 516/510-5119.
Vases (19th-century cast iron urns): Ruby Beets, rubybeets.com.
Statue on corbel: owner's collection.
Chair (vintage): Aero Studios, aerostudios.com.
Mirror at end of hallway ("Prescott Small Oval Mirror" #2143): Arteriors, arteriorshome.com.
Garden Room
The airy garden room, the most heavily trafficked by the children with its pool access and TV, blends practicality and cultural flavors. Ethnicity exudes from ikat curtains—one of Rose's favorite fabrics, in a warm gray—and from paler gray-on-cream hand-blocked Indian wallpaper that Huh inset into preexisting panels. "It was very much a typical beach house before, with tropical palm trees in the insets," Huh recalls. A pediment above the inset from an earlier design was retained for the sense of definition it brings to the fireplace.
To streamline the room, Huh remade an existing rattan sofa into an all-upholstered piece that sports a clean, modern style with graphic color blocks of dark gray and white. For durability, she chose a fabric for the frame that takes the sting out of spills with its easy cleanup. "Otherwise, it doesn't make sense to use white in a beach house with children," she says. Fabric on the seat cushions is hard-working but not without sophistication: Up close, threads of the linen cushions reveal "a silver shock" for a touch of modern glam.
The family's existing sculptural wood coffee table provides an important visual connection to the wooded property and its acres of gardens. The round mirror above the fireplace is framed in the delicate plasterwork of Stephen Antonson. It echoes the shape of the round window above the French doors.
Wallpaper ("Katara Paisley"/Oyster #5005330, Jaipur Hand Bock Wallcovering Collection); drapery ("Darya Ikat"/Stone #174833, Martyn Lawrence Bullard Collection): Schumacher, fschumacher.com.
Trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Drapery hardware (custom); sofa (custom): Stitch NYC Inc., 718/875-6763.
Area rug: owner's collection.
Sofa fabric ("Crypton Suede"/Bone): Robert Allen, robertallendesign.com.
Black seat cushion on sofa ("Divine"/Pewter #ED85063.935, by Threads): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Faux bois pillow ("Sandis"/Nightfall #K12143, Knoll Luxe): Knoll, knoll.com.
Cream-colored pillow ("Tavish"/Neige #7028/09): Castel, castelmaison.com.
Zebra-patterned pillow on sofa ("Shadows"/Granite #ED75013.5, by Threads): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Chandelier: existing.
Sofa end table ("Barrington Side Table"/Storm): Mr. Brown, mrbrownhome.com.
Lamp on end table ("Marbleized Lamp"/Black): Bunny Williams Home, bunnywilliamshome.com.
Box on coffee table (bone box): Aero Studios, aerostudios.com.
Coffee table: owner's collection.
Mirror above mantel ("Round Dexter Mirror", by Stephen Antonson): Dessin Fournir, dessinfournir.com.
Glamorous Living Room
"We wanted a design that was welcoming, approachable, and glamorous," says Huh, who invested the living room with the home's most luxe look. Its artful design shimmers, especially at night. An existing artwork—an image of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and the only piece reused in the space—served as the design catalyst. "It's a photograph that's entirely covered in tiny glass beads," Huh says. Giving a nod to traditional Hamptons architecture, she framed the art with white-painted millwork and flanked the space with bookshelves. She matted the walls behind the art with a hand-painted celadon paper dramatically accented in gold leaf. "We put lighting all around the framework so that at night the entire wall has a warm glow, and the glass beads sparkle," she says.
Bringing the home's earthy palette into the more glamorous living room could've been daunting, but Huh extended her Midas touch to the black-and-gold velvet covering the sofa, an understated gold pattern on the chairs' creamy upholstery, and a metallic gold glaze on the linen curtains. The custom sofa is dressed in a Lee Jofa velvet stripe placed on the diagonal for a chevron effect.
Wallpaper behind art ("Beadazzled Leaf"/Coco Butter): Maya Romanoff, mayaromanoff.com.
Wallpaper on remaining walls ("Manila Hemp"): Phillip Jeffries, phillipjeffries.com.
Trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Area rug ("Latham"/Silversmith): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Drapery ("Ibiza"/Flax Silverprint #DE12376): Holland & Sherry, hollandandsherry.com.
Drapery fabrication; hardware (custom): Stitch NYC Inc., 718/875-6763.
Sectional sofa (custom design by Young Huh): J&P Decorators, jpdec.net.
Sofa fabric ("Oblique"/Beige, Noir #GWF-3050.816, by Groundworks): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Gold pillows (alpaca): Studio Four, studiofournyc.com.
Patterned pillows ("Papiro"/Dark Brown on Bourette, colorway discontinued): Fortuny, fortuny.com.
Trim on patterned pillows ("Le Pilat Cord"/Chocolate Brown): Samuel & Sons, samuelandsons.com.
Lumbar pillow on sofa ("Biarritz"/Sapphire #92705-09): Rogers & Goffigon, rogersandgoffigon.com.
Gold trim on lumbar pillow ("Aristotle Greek Key"/Golden Strie): Samuel & Sons, samuelandsons.com.
Fabrication: Ruffled Window, theruffledwindow.com.
End table in front of bookcase (vintage, French): 1st Dibs, 1stdibs.com.
Pink table lamp ("Aurora"/Shell Pink): Christopher Spitzmiller, christopherspitzmiller.com.
Coffee table (vintage, French); lacquered tray on coffee table ("Flair Collection Striscia Tray"): Flair, flairhomecollection.com.
Pottery on coffee table (from Belize): owner's collection.
Pair of chairs (in style of Robsjohn Gibbings): J&P Decorators, jpdec.net.
Chair fabric ("Selim"/Naturale, by Fadini Borghi, discontinued): Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Striped pillow on chair ("Channing"/Oasis #1021095382, by Hodsoll McKenzie): Zimmer + Rohde, zimmer-rohde.com.
End table by chair ("Mirrored Bunching Tables," discontinued): Bunny Williams Home, bunnywilliamshome.com.
Pink vase on end table ("Porcelain Mini vase" #VA08.6): Global table, globaltable.com.
Spiky object on table ("Gold Starburst Decorative Accent"): Two's Company, twoscompany.com.
Art behind sofa (by Russell Young): owner's collection.
Custom Chest
The hand-grooved doors of a clean-lined custom chest glow with a subtle gold finish, and above the chest, a bespoke Moroccan mirror frame echoes the chest's lovely low sheen in hand-pierced brass. Warm beige grass-cloth walls, though neutral and beach-house appropriate, appear lustrous.
Adjustable lamps from Circa Lighting reach the desired height without competing with the custom chest and Moroccan-style mirror.
Wallcovering ("Manila Hemp"): Phillip Jeffries, phillipjeffries.com.
Cabinet (designed by Young Huh): fabricated by VanFox, vanfox.com.
Lamps on cabinet ("Jake Buffet Table Lamp"#TOB3720, by Thomas O'Brien): Circa Lighting, circalighting.com.
Mirror (designed by Young Huh): fabricated by Sheherazade Home, sheherazadehome.com.
Bench in front of cabinet: Aero Studios, aerostudios.com.
Obelisk and crystal point: Creel and Gow, creelandgow.com.
Box on cabinet: Flair, flairhomecollection.com.
Area rug ("Latham"/Silversmith): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Classic Kitchen
In spaces that include the master bedroom, kitchen, and baths, white beadboard on walls and ceilings remains. Huh and the homeowners opted to leave the rooms untouched, reveling in the classic cottage look. "What we love most about the design is, it's not ostentatious," says Rose. "It's not a home that screams, 'Look at me!' "
Canine family member Romeo stakes his place beneath the skylight in the classic white kitchen.
Cabinetry; appliances: existing.
Flooring: Jerusalem Gold marble.
Perimeter countertop: copper.
Dazzling Dining Room
Hung at staggered heights, luminous lanterns from Morocco cast a dazzling glow on a rustic wooden table paired with upholstered chairs. "We wanted them to look a little bit random, but we actually did drawings for precise placements to ensure that look," Huh notes. At night, the flickering flames of candles—a must-have for Rose when dining after dusk—play a shadow game with the lanterns' lacy light. "The room feels exotic, like being in a souk," the designer says.
Wall paint ("Natural Cream" #OC-14); ceiling paint ("Smokey Taupe" #983, flat); trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Area rug ("Jovana"/Chamois, Wide Collection): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Dining table: owner's collection.
Chairs ("Addison Side Chair" #2854-10, by Thomas O'Brien): Aero Studios, aerostudios.com.
Chair fabric ("Dazzle" #6086/50): Carnegie Fabrics, carnegiefabrics.com.
Hanging lanterns (custom): through Artesana Interiors, artesana-interiors.com.
Drapery ("Parker"/Eclipse #D13803, by Rodarte, Knoll Luxe Collection): Knoll, knoll.com.
Hardware (custom): Stitch NYC, 718/875-6763.
Media Room
In the media room, easy chairs covered in a navy blue, crocodile imprinted leather provide roomy seating. A custom bar in the room ensures guests are well equipped to enjoy the entertainment.
Master Bedroom
Beadboard on the walls and ceiling warms the high-vaulted space, which boasts a tiny private garden just outside that's even equipped with a small gate.
Paint ("White Heron" #OC-57): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Lantern on wall: existing.
Drapery ("Ilka" #4045-4, Koroko Collection): Koroseal, koroseal.com.
Fabrication: Stitch NYC, 718/875-6763.
Carpet ("Ebbe & Flow"/Silver, Wide Collection): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Bed: owner's collection.
Duvet ("Aerial"): John Robshaw, johnrobshaw.com.
Pillow on bed: Hawaiian Quilt Collection, hawaiian-quilts.com.
Table lamp ("Brush Stroke Lamp"): Bunny Williams Home, bunnywilliamshome.com.
Art: vintage.
Bench; lounge chair: owner's collection.
Lounge-chair fabric ("PS1"/Sky Cloud #3265/03): Jim Thompson Fabrics, jimthompsonfabrics.com.
Master Bedroom Garden
Rose is a passionate gardener, aided by landscape professional Maureen Ford. The multi-acre property's profusion of colorful annuals creates a magical setting. Faux bois furniture in this intimate space is from Janus et Cie.
Table and side chairs ("Surrey," Faux Bois Collection): Janus et Cie, janusetcie.com.
Tea set: ABC Carpet & Home, abchome.com.
Tray: One King's Lane, onekingslane.com.
Quiet Sitting Area
A club chair and ottoman provide a daytime reading spot next to the French doors in the master bedroom. Lightweight raw-silk curtains with a metallic silver glaze are lined with blackout material, making it easier to sleep in. The small table is upholstered in leather.
Wall paint ("White Heron" #OC-57): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Chair ("Houdan Chair"); ottoman ("Houdan," discontinued): William Yeoward, williamyeoward.com.
Chair-and-ottoman fabric ("Vega"/Naturale, by Fadini Borghi, discontinued): Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Area rug ("Ebbe & Flow"/Grey, Wide Collection): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Stool beside chair: Aero Studios, aerostudios.com.
Drapery (raw silk): Anichini, anichini.com.
Photograph of woman and palm tree (by Cig Harvey): Robin Rice Gallery, robinricegallery.com.
Art to left of photograph: Uprise Art, upriseart.com.
Art top left (by John Hall): owner's collection.
Master Bath
The barrel-vaulted ceiling adds drama to this light-filled space, which looks onto a rock garden.
Cabinetry; hanging lantern: existing.
Paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore, benjaminmoore.com.
Blinds: HunterDouglas, hunterdouglas.com.
Rug runner ("Porshim"/Silver): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Flooring: mahogany.
Guest Room
A neutral backdrop sets the scene in the guest room allowing the bed to take center stage. Patterned pillows from Zak and Fox play with the vintage embroidered Indian wool blanket on the canopy bed. Striped drapery panels add additional pattern.
Pool Pavilion
Instead of lighting with predictable nautical lanterns, Huh introduced Moroccan-made iron lanterns in the tented poolside pavilion.
The Musacchia family enjoy their tented pavilion by the pool in privacy thanks to a stepped-back double row of beautifully verdant boxwoods and a canopy of trees. Janus et Cie furniture repeats the graphic gray and white palette of the garden room just inside.
Settee, chairs and coffee table (Veneto Collection); cushions (Janus et Cie textile); standing lantern; chaise lounges by pool (discontinued): Janus et Cie, janusetcie.com.
Turquoise bowls: Global Table, globaltable.com.
Family Portrait
The Musacchia family—Carl, Rose, and their children, Sofia and Carmelo.


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Pattinson: Anonymity is priceless
Robert Pattinson has told how shooting his new movie in the Australian Outback made him realise his anonymity is priceless.
The 28-year-old actor is a paparazzi and fan favourite at home in the UK and in America, thanks to his Twilight fame and former relationship with his co-star Kristen Stewart, but he said life was quieter when he was making The Rover in the Aussie wilderness.
"It was incredibly peaceful," he said.
"You really realise the value of your anonymity again, and how priceless it is."
"But also, it was an unusual place as well," added the actor. "There was a mysticism to the area. It's not like being out in nothingness; there's an intensity to it."
The Rover is se t in a dystopian world a decade after global economic collapse, and sees R-Patz play Rey, a petty criminal who is wounded in a botched heist as his fellow gang members make off in a stolen car. The car's owner Eric (Guy Pearce), is determined to get his only remaining possession back, and forces simple-minded Rey to join him and help hunt down the gang.
Robert said he loved working with the "amazing" Guy.
He added: "Neither one of us knew exactly what the movie was about when we started, and so we were kind of figuring it out. It's not like one of us had a really set idea of how to do something and clashed with the other person. We were really trying to find it together, which doesn't happen that often."
Discussing how indie films compare with blockbusters like Twilight, Robert admitted The Rover was "an extreme one", with the cast sleeping in makeshift accommodation on location.
"When you have a big budget, it creates expectations of how you're supposed to be treated as an actor. And when you're there [in the outback], there is literally no other option than staying in the shipping container," he explained.
"It's kind of nice. Everyone's on a totally equal footing, and it doesn't give your vanity a chance to take hold."
:: The Rover is in cinemas now.
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Picture: LA Police Chief Charlie Beck - LA Mission's Annual Thanksgiving For The Homeless - Los Angeles, California, United States - Thursday 28th November 2013
Rocker Beck is sealing his 2014 comeback by releasing two new albums.
The Loser hitmaker announced in October (13) that he was preparing to release his first album in six years, and he later revealed his long absence from music was down to a recurring spinal injury.
Now he has told how he is planning to release two discs of new material in 2014 and also recalled how, at his lowest point, he feared his health woes would be the end of his career.
Beck tells NME magazine, "I had a few years where I thought that was probably it for me. I mean, I'd always make music, but you have to be out there, waving a flag, saying, 'Hey! Over here!' Some of my favourite artists never even had an audience in their lifetime and there's something to be said for working in that kind of self-contained vacuum...
"(When I was able to play guitar again) there was a jot of joy. It was a relief for me. I'd been looking at that guitar for years, wishing that I could pick it up, wanting to be able to play it again. So there was a lot of emotion when I finally did."
Beck has previously announced he will release new album Morning Phase in 2014, and he revealed to Nme he will also put out a second, as-yet-untitled record later in the year.
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This week, the nice weather inspired me to check out my neighborhood "community gardens", and I found a few fun things to cook with. Of course, if you live in the suburbs, you might already have a lot of these interesting greens growing in your own property.When it comes to that stubborn backyard weed… why kill them when you can eat them?
Dandelion greens, for example. They make a great addition to a salad, but you can also try something fancier. They pair perfectly with cheese. Make sure they are not treated with toxic chemicals. And stay tuned – more "weed" coming soon! Next is borage…..
- 1 puff pastry sheet
- 1 cup (unpacked) dandelion leaves
- 4 to 6 ounces semi-soft, ripened cheese such as taleggio, Brie or Camembert
- extra-virgin olive oil to taste
- salt and pepper to taste
Pre-heat your oven to 350 F. Wash the dandelion leaves and pat dry.
Roll out the puff pastry and cut it into rectangles. Arrange them on a baking tray lined with parchment, leaving some space in between because they'll raise. . Brush with little olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Decorate with the thinly sliced cheese and the dandelion. Drizzle with little more oil and add a touch of black pepper. Bake at 350 F in a pre-heated oven for about 25 minutes or until the puff pastry is golden. Enjoy immediately.


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Yodeling (also yodelling or jodeling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the high-pitch head register or falsetto. The English word yodel is derived from the German (and originally Austro-Bavarian) word jodeln, meaning "to utter the syllable jo" (pronounced "yo" in English). This vocal technique is used in many cultures worldwide.[1]
Alpine yodeling was a longtime rural tradition in Europe, and became popular in the 1830s as an entertainment in theaters and music halls. In Central Africa, yodeling was a form of communication announcing the yodeler's location and identity. In the United States, traveling minstrels were yodeling in the 1800s, and in 1920 the Victor recording company listed 17 yodels in their catalogue. Music historians credit the first country recording to include yodeling to Riley Puckett in 1924. In 1928, blending Alpine yodeling with traditional work, blues, hobo, and cowboy music, Jimmie Rodgers released his recording "Blue Yodel No. 1". Rodger's Blue Yodel created an instant national craze for yodeling in the United States and, according to a black musician who lived near Rodgers in Mississippi, everyone, both black and white alike, began to copy Rodgers. The popularity lasted through the 1940s, but by the 1950s it became rare to hear yodeling in Country or Western music.[2]
Most experts agree that yodeling was used in the [4]
In Persian classical music, singers frequently use tahrir ("tremolo" in English), a yodeling technique that oscillates on neighbor tones. It is similar to the Swiss yodel, and is used as an ornament or trill in phrases which have long syllables, and usually falls at the end of a phrase.[5] Tahrir is also prevalent in Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Armenian, Afghan, and Central Asian musical traditions, and to a lesser extent in Pakistani and some Indian music.
In polyphony.[6]
In Central Africa Pygmy singers use yodels within their elaborate polyphonic singing, and the Shona people of Zimbabwe sometimes yodel while playing the mbira.[7] The Mbuti of the Congo incorporate distinctive whistles and yodels into their songs. Living from hunting and gathering, they sing hunting and harvest songs and use yodelling to call each other. In 1952, ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey recorded their songs and they have been released on compact discs. [8]
British stage performances by yodelers were common in the nineteenth century.[9] Sir Walter Scott wrote in his June 4, 1830, journal entry that "Anne wants me to go hear the Tyrolese Minstrels but...I cannot but think their yodeling...is a variation upon the tones of a jackass."[10]
Human voices have at least two distinct vocal registers, called the "head" and "chest" voices.[11] Most people can sing tones within a certain range of lower pitches in their chest voice and tones within a certain range of higher pitch in their head voice. Falsetto is an "unsupported" register forcing vocal cords in a higher pitch without any head or chest voice air support. The range of overlap between registers, called the passaggio, can be challenging for untrained singers. Experienced singers can control their voices in this range, easily switching between registers. Yodeling is a version of this technique in which a singer might change register several times in only a few seconds and at a high volume. Repeated alternation between registers at a singer's passaggio pitch range produces a very distinctive sound. For example, in the famous "Yodel - Ay - EEE - Oooo", the "EEE" is sung in the head voice while all other syllables are in the chest voice. Bart Plantenga, author of Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, explains the technique:
"The basic yodel requires sudden alterations of vocal register from a low-pitched chest voice to high falsetto tones sung on vowel sounds: AH, OH, OO for chest notes and AY or EE for the falsetto. Consonants are used as levers to launch the dramatic leap from low to high, giving it its unique ear-penetrating and distance-spanning power."[12]
The best places for Alpine-style yodelling are those with an
Huro (singing) includes mahon'era – low-pitched syllabic singing without meaning; chigure/magure – high pitched syllabic singing without meaning, including yodelling; and song texts
The Tarzan yell is the yodel-like call of the character Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starting with Tarzan the Ape Man (1932). The yell was a creation of the movies, based on what Burroughs described in his books as "the victory cry of the bull ape."
Bob Nelson was a Brazilian singer-songwriter that sang yodel. He was a frequent apparition at television shows, and has recorded many yodel songs, such as "Boi Barnabé", "Como é burro meu cavalo", and "Vaqueiro no samba".
Mary Schneider is an Australian singer and performer who yodels the works of classic composers. She mainly appears in club and pub venues around Australia as well as overseas, but she has also performed at many arena venues. Her daughter Melinda Schneider is also a country music singer and yodeller.
Joy McKean, Australian country music singer-songwriter, is known as the "grand lady" of Australian country music. By the age of 18 she was performing with her sister Heather on their own radio show as the McKean Sisters, noted for their yodeling harmonies. Mckean performed with her husband Slim Dusty till his death in 2003. Slim, a singer-songwriter and yodeler as well, wrote his first song, "The Way the Cowboy Dies" when he was only 10 years old. He received 37 Golden Guitar and two ARIA awards and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.[69]
Kishore Kumar was a playback singer from India, famous for his yodeling,[67] while it was JP Chandrababu talented comedian of Tamil film who introduced yodeling as playback singing in India.[67][68][68]
Australia"s first singing cowboy Smoky Dawson was well known for his western-style yodel, and featured yodel on his first single Im A Happy Go-Lucky Cowhand" In South Africa, yodeling is featured in some Afrikaans-language pop music.[66]
One of the earliest songs to portray an unusual marriage between yodeling and rock music was "Hocus Pocus" by the Dutch band Focus released in 1971. Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan is renowned for her yodelling particularly in tracks such as "Dreams", one of several Riordan-penned singles from the double platinum album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? by The Cranberries.[13]
In England, Edith Sitwell featured a "Jodelling Song" as part of her series of poems Façade, set to music by William Walton.[65]
Harry Hopkinson (1902 – 1979) has been credited as one of the world's greatest yodelers. He used the stage name Harry Torrani and was billed as the "Yodeling Cowboy from Chesterfield". Frank Ifield, an Australian-English singer, released a double A-sided single record, "Lovesick Blues" and "She Taught Me How to Yodel" in the UK in 1962. It reached number 1 in the UK charts, and also reached number 44 in the U.S.Billboard Hot 100.
Bobbejaan Schoepen was an extremely accomplished, successful, and versatile Belgian entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, actor, and professional whistler. In 1948 "De Jodelende Fluiter" ("The Yodeling Whistler") was Schoepen's first hit. In 1953, he was one of the first Europeans to appear at the "Grand Ole Opry" in the United States.[64] Outside of regional Volksmusic, Karl Denver was a Scottish singer who had a series of yodel-based hit singles in the early 1960s. Most famous of these was a 1961 version of "Wimoweh".
Franz "Franzl" Lang, known as the Yodelking (German: Jodlerkönig), is a famous yodeler from Bavaria. Lang also plays the guitar and the accordion and he has authored several books on yodeling. Ursprung Buam is an Austrian folk music trio from Zillertal, Tyrol. One of the most popular touring groups in Austria, Ursprung Buam often tours Germany and many places across the European Union, as well as the Tirolean festival scene. Oesch's die Dritten is a Yodel Volksmusik family group from the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.
Yodeling is a major feature of folk music (Volksmusik) from Switzerland, Austria, and southern Germany and can be heard in many contemporary folk songs, which are also featured on regular TV broadcasts. Stefanie Hertel is a German yodeler and popular performer of Alpine folk music. Hertel has won numerous prizes as a performer; in 1992, she won the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song "Über jedes Bacherl geht a Brückerl"
Pop rock singer Avril Lavigne, with a singing style very much influenced by Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan who is well known for her yodeling, is known for yodeling in some of her songs, especially in her early works, although one can also hear slight yodeling in songs from her newer albums as well, such as "Let Me Go" and "Falling Fast". The singer's yodeling style is very discrete, and yet noticeable.
Stompin' Tom Connors of Canada is also noted for yodeling in some of his songs.
Canadian country singer and yodeler Donn Reynolds set a world record yodelling non-stop for 7 hours and 29 minutes in 1976.[61] Reynolds later established a world record for the fastest 5 tone yodel (3 falsetto) in 1.9 seconds in 1984.[62] His release of the yodelling song "She Taught Me How To Yodel" reached #2 on the Canadian country music charts in 1965.[63]
Canadian Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) was known as the "Father of Canadian Country Music". He began singing in the 1920s after seeing a traveling Swiss performer named "The Yodeling Fool" in a nearby town. Carter sang in the "singing cowboy" style and developed a yodel with a Swiss-sound sometimes called an "echo yodel" or a "three-in-one."[60]
In a skit that aired on the TV "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", the actor Brad Pitt and Jimmy Fallon engaged in a yodeling conversation atop New York City skyscrapers. As they yodeled back and forth, subtitles inform viewers of what they are saying to each another. After some small talk Pitt asks Fallon if he'd like to try a "double yodel." Fallon responds, "A double yodel? But that's never been done before!" and the episode concludes with the two yodeling in harmony.[59]
The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein contains a yodelling song, "The Lonely Goatherd", in which Mary Martin yodelled to good effect in the original production on Broadway in 1959. Gwen Stefani also yodeled in 2006 single, "Wind It Up". The lead vocalist for American electro-punk band the Epoxies is also known for her yodeling in a lot of their songs. Soul singer Aaron Neville said he was inspired by Gene Autry's yodelling to develop his unusual vibrato singing style.[13]
According to Bart Plantenga, author of Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, "...unlikely yodellers include the Muppets (with, of course, special guest Julie Andrews), Shakira, Goofy, Bill Murray (remember Charlie's Angels?), Gene Wilder (who was taught to yodel by Rough Guide contributor and yodel legend Kenny Roberts), and South Korea's former Miss World Ji-Yea Park."[57][58]
Kerry Christensen, who hails from Idaho, has been performing since he was three years old. He yodels in both western and Alpine styles and also plays the accordion, the zither and the alphorn...and is very good at imitating chickens. Yodeler Taylor Ware was a contestant on America's Got Talent when she was eleven years old. According to Ware, she taught herself to yodel from an audiotape and instruction book when she was seven years old.[56] Alyse Eady, who holds the title of Miss Arkansas 2010 and was 1st runner-up in the Miss America 2011 Pageant, both yodeled and did ventriloquism in the song "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" as her talent performance.
Other western music yodeling singers include Douglas B. Green (Ranger Doug)[52] and Wylie Gustafson. Green sings with his band Riders in the Sky.[53] He is also a music historian and has written a book, Singing in the Saddle "the first comprehensive look at the singing cowboy phenomenon that swept the United States in the 1930s". Gustafson learned to yodel from his dad, who learned from Austrians on the ski team in Bozeman, Montana. In 2007, he released an instructional book and CD titled, How to Yodel: Lessons to Tickle Your Tonsils. Mike Johnson is an African American yodeler who combines the Jimmie Rodgers, Swiss, and Cowboy yodeling styles, . In 2007, 114 of his yodeling songs were inducted into the Recorded Sound Reference Center's permanent music collection in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.[54][55]
Paul McCartney cite Whitman as an early influence[49] [50][51] In the film Mars Attacks!, a Kansas teenager discovers that the Martians are vulnerable to Whitman's song "Indian Love Call", whereupon he and his grandmother use it to destroy the Martians.
Jazz singer Leon Thomas, best known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, particularly the 1969 song "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Sanders' Karma album, was known to break out into yodeling in the middle of a vocal. Thomas said he learned to yodel from listening to African Pygmy singers. This style has influenced singers James Moody, Tim Buckley and Bobby McFerrin, among others.
Yodler Kenny Roberts was another member of the Down Homers; he taught Bill Haley to yodel before he did a stint in the Navy when Haley took his place in the band. In later years Roberts was popular on children's TV shows where he used to leap over two feet in the air while playing guitar and yodeling.
Perhaps yodeler Bill Haley of Bill Haley and the Comets has one of the strangest histories of all. Bill Haley zoomed to fame as the "King of Rock and Roll" when his song "Rock Around the Clock" was featured in the popular film Blackboard Jungle. But it is little-known that Haley and his band had been around for years doing Western swing music with Haley featured as a yodeler. Haley was born in 1925 and "Rock Around the Clock" made the scene in 1955 and at that time he and his band were using the name the Comets. However, prior to that time they had gone under the names the Down Homers, the Texas Range Riders, the Four Aces of Western Swing and finally, The Saddlemen. At one point in the 1940s, Bill Haley was even awarded Indiana State Yodeling Champion for his skill, perhaps something that his skillful manager Colonel Tom Parker felt not important to mention to his screaming teenage rock 'n' roll fans.[45][46][47]
"Yodelin' Slim Clark", hailed from Maine and performed for 70 years. (See the sound file above "The Old Chisholm Trail" recorded by Clark in 1956.)[43] Yodeler Don Walser was from Texas. Though widely known in Texas, his singing career didn't really take off until he was 60 years old in 1994. In 2000 he received a lifetime "Heritage" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he and his band played at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[44] Jimmie Davis, who served two terms as the Governor of Louisiana, was also a successful country singer who yodeled.
Yodeler Hannès Schroll was the voice for the Goofy holler, a stock sound effect that is used frequently in Walt Disney cartoons and films. It is the cry Goofy makes when falling or being launched into the air, which could be transcribed as "yaaaaaaa-hoo-hoo-hooey!"
Singing cowboy Roy Rogers yodeled, as did his box office competitor Gene Autry. (See the sound file above in which Autry sings the Jimmie Rodgers song "Blue Yodel No. 5") Zeke Clements, known as "The Dixie Yodeler" acted in "singing cowboy" Westerns and also provided the voice of Bashful, the yodeling dwarf, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film).
The DeZurik Sisters were two of the first women to become stars on both the National Barn Dance and the Grand Ole Opry, largely a result of their original yodeling style. Carolina Cotton[40] and Patsy Montana were early cowgirl yodeling singers as well.[41] Patsy Montana's signature song, "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" was again popularized in 1946 by Rosalie Allen, a "singing cowgirl" from Pennsylvania, who went on to host her own "western" radio show in New York City. Margo Smith covered it in the 1970s, and singer/yodeler LeAnn Rimes again brought the song back in the 1990s. In 1996 Rimes also recorded "The Cattle Call", a "singing cowboy" song written by cowboy yodeler Tex Owens, with legendary singer Eddy Arnold. "The Cattle Call" was Arnold's signature song, but it has been recorded by many artists including Emmylou Harris and even Elvis Presley.[42]
Tommy Duncan, vocalist for "Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys", was a good yodeler. (See the sound file above with Duncan singing Rodger's "Blue Yodel No. 1" in 1937) Bob Wills is considered by music authorities to be the co-founder of Western Swing.
Hank Snow was one of the great country legends of the 1950s, but he had actually been singing in Canada for years where he was known as "The Yodeling Ranger". He admired Jimmie Rodgers as well, and learned to yodel by listening to his records. He even named his son Jimmie Rodgers Snow.[39]
Jack Guthrie, the cousin of Woody Guthrie, performed in the thirties and early forties. Known as "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy", he developed a style of singing and yodeling influenced by his idol, Jimmie Rodgers, and his experiences as a bucking-horse rider and rodeo performer.[38]
Blue yodeler Cliff Carlisle was one of the most prolific recording artists of the 1930s, and a pioneer in the use of the Hawaiian steel guitar in country music. He frequently released songs with sexual connotations including barnyard metaphors (which became something of a trademark).[37]
In 1934 yodeler Elton Britt recorded what was to become his signature song, "Chime Bells". Like so many others of that era, Britt listened to records of Jimmie Rodgers, which inspired him to learn how to yodel. Eventually he became renowned for his ability to sustain his yodel for an unusually long time, a skill he reportedly learned while swimming underwater for several minutes at a time.[35] Swiss-American Country singer Jewel yodels and is known for her version of "Chime Bells" as well. Jewel says that she learned to yodel from her father who also learned to yodel by listening to Jimmie Rodgers.[36]
Known as the "Texas Drifter," Goebel Reeves claimed to have taught Jimmie Rodgers to yodel. Reeves came from a middle-class background, but chose the life of a hobo. His most famous song, "Hobo's Lullaby," has been covered by numerous singers, notably Woody Guthrie and his son Arlo.
Today radio listeners can enjoy rare outtakes of historic cowboy yodeling on the "Calling All Cowboys" western music program on community radio KPOV-FM and streamed on the internet.
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By 1948 the song had sold about 100,000 copies in Africa and among black South African immigrants in Great Britain and had lent its name to a style of African a cappella music that evolved into isicathamiya (also called mbube), popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.[32] It was covered internationally by many 1950s pop and folk revival artists, including The Weavers, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba, and The Kingston Trio. In 1961, it became a number one hit in the U.S. as adapted by the doo-wop group The Tokens. It went on to earn at least 15 million US dollars in royalties from covers and film licensing. Then, in the mid-nineties, it became a pop "supernova" when it was used in the film The Lion King, its spin-off TV series and live musical.
"Mbube" wasn't the most remarkable tune, but there was something terribly compelling about the underlying chant, a dense meshing of low male voices above which Solomon yodeled and howled for two exhilarating minutes, occasionally making it up as he went along. The third take was the great one, but it achieved immortality only in its dying seconds, when Solly took a deep breath, opened his mouth and improvised the melody that the world now associates with these words:
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.[31]
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.[31]
One famous yodeling tune known the world-over is the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimoweh". It was first recorded by Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds in South Africa in 1939.[30] Linda, a singer of Zulu origin, wrote the song, originally titled "Mbube" (Zulu: lion), while working for the Gallo Record Company as a cleaner and record packer. According to South African journalist Rian Malan:
According to a black musician who lived near Rodgers in Mississippi, everyone, both black and white alike, began to copy Rodgers: "Every one who could pick a guitar started yodeling like Rodgers."[29] Rodgers died in 1933. Many performers that followed him claimed that he had been a big influence in their singing style and career.
Another famous early yodeler was The Singing Brakeman Jimmie Rodgers, who recorded dozens of popular songs in the late 1920s and early 1930s. While working on the railroad he learned blues techniques from African American gandy dancers, and eventually created his characteristic sound - a blend of traditional work, blues, hobo, and cowboy songs and his trademark "Blue Yodel." His first blue yodel, known as "Blue Yodel No. 1" (T For Texas), was recorded in the Trinity Baptist Church at Camden, New Jersey.[26] When the song was released in February 1928 it became "a national phenomenon and generated an excitement and record-buying frenzy that no-one could have predicted".[27] Rogers sang about everyday affairs and woes that many Americans of that time could relate to. Here are the lyrics of "Blue Yodel No. 3":
In 1923 and 1924 black performer Charles Anderson recorded eight sides for the Okeh label which gave a summary account of his vaudeville repertoire during the previous decade. Five of the recorded songs are yodels : "Sleep, Baby, Sleep", "Comic Yodle Song", "Coo Coo" (J K Emmett's Cuckoo Song, adapted for Anderson's famous 60-second sustained soprano note), "Laughing Yodel" and "Roll On Silver Moon", a sentimental ballad, similar to Jimmie Rodgers' various Southern ballad recordings. Some historians credit white singer Riley Puckett with the first recorded yodeling record.[16]
Most music historians say that the first country music record to include yodeling was "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep" sung by Lovesick Blues", which was later a major hit for country singer Hank Williams. Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, was also influenced by Miller (see the sound file above with Will's singer Tommy Duncan singing "Blue Yodel No. 1" in 1937)[24] In the early 1920s, African-American Winston Holmes started a record label, Merritt Records, and was a performer himself. His vocals included bird calls, train whistles and yodels. He managed and made some songs with blues singer Lottie Kimbrough in the twenties.[25]
While some of the blue yodels heard on late 1920s Race recordings - those by the Mississippi Sheiks, for example - probably do owe something to Jimmie Rodgers' phenomenal success, others - like Billie Young's When They Get Lovin' They's Gone (accompanied by Jelly Roll Morton on Victor 23339,1930), Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes' Lost Lover Blues (Gennett 6607, 1928), and Clint Jones' Mississippi Woman Blues and Blue Valley Blues (Okeh 8587, 1928) - seem more deeply connected to these precedent recordings by Charles Anderson, and to the venerable line of African-American yodelers they represent. There is no reason to doubt that Jimmie Rodgers, who could not resist a show, was exposed to and influenced by the black yodeler-blues singer tradition. Its practitioners were thoroughly entrenched in minstrelsy and vaudeville, and accessible to all races of people. Perhaps Jimmie even saw Charles Anderson himself perform, or heard some of Anderson's crystalline blues and yodeling 78s, before rising to immortality on his own great 'Blue Yodel' recordings. At any rate, the Freeman references strongly suggest that Charles Anderson and his generation of black professional yodelers had introduced the blue yodel in African-American entertainment before Jimmie Rodgers recorded.
Authors Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff write:[23]
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Country blues singer Lottie Kimbrough, billed as The Kansas City Butterball (she was a rather large woman), sang in speakeasys and nightclubs. Kimbrough recorded her music from 1924 through 1929 and is now best known for her collaborations with Winston Holmes. Holmes supplied a series of yodels, vocalized bird calls and train whistles on some of their recordings. A good recording of Kimbrough and Holmes singing Wayward Girl Blues (1924) is available on YouTube.
Charles Anderson began touring with a vaudeville show in 1909, singing a combination of blues and yodeling.[22] A 1913 St. Louis review reports:
Known as The Jolly Hendersons, Beulah Henderson toured with her husband Billy from 1905 through 1910. Billed as "The Classy Colored Comedy Pair", Beulah was featured as "America's only Colored Lady Yodeler". In Indianapolis in 1911 manager Tim Owsley noted:
And from a 1917 review:
By the 1880s the minstrel show had been replaced by Vaudeville and American Burlesque.[20] By around 1905, more than 20 years before Jimmie Rodgers introduced his blue yodel, African Americans were touring the country singing and yodeling. The most noted yodelers of that time were Monroe Tabor ("The Yodeling Bellboy" - though he was not a bellboy), Beulah Henderson (who appeared in black face), and Charles Anderson (who played a singing "mammy" and a female impersonator in several of his acts). Tabor performed with the Dandy Dixie Minstrels. In New York in 1908, a 'well-known critic' reported:
The American minstrel show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the American Civil War, black people in blackface. Minstrel shows toured the same circuits as opera companies, circuses, and European entertainers, with venues ranging from lavish opera houses to makeshift tavern stages. When the European Tyrolese Minstrels toured the United States for several years in the early 1840s and created an American craze for Alpine yodeling music, four unemployed white actors decided to stage an African-American style spoof of this group's concerts. Calling themselves Dan Emmett's Virginia Minstrels, the performance was wildly popular and most historians mark this production as the beginning of minstrelsy in the U.S. According to jazz historian Gary Giddins:
[2]); Rodgers would eventually come to be known as the father of both country music and American yodeling when he combined the yodel with southern African-American blues.Bristol sessions (at the Jimmie Rodgers as the second yodeling record ever made (the first was "Rock All Our Babies to Sleep"). "Sleep Baby Sleep" was also the first song ever recorded by Riley Puckett which was later recorded in 1927 by [18] In 1897 Watson recorded the song, "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" [17][16]
Other traveling American minstrels were yodeling in the United States as well. Tom Christian was the first American yodeling minstrel, appearing in 1847 in Chicago. Recordings of yodelers were made in 1892 and in 1920 the
In 1839, the Tyrolese Minstrels toured the United States and started an American craze for Alpine music. During the 1840s, dozens of German, Swiss, and Austrian singing groups crisscrossed the country entertaining audiences with a combination of singing, yodeling, and "Alpine harmony."[14] The success of the European groups led to the formation of many American family singing groups as well. The most popular was the Hutchison Family Singers who toured, singing harmony and yodeling. Minstrel shows parodied the Hutchison's yodeling with their own, calling it "Tyrolesian business". In 1853, Christy's Minstrels burlesqued (mocked) the Hutchinson Family singing 'We Come From the Hills With Tyrolean Echo'.[15]
It is thought that yodeling was first introduced to the United States by German immigrants in Pennsylvania in the early 1800s. As the new settlers traveled south through the Appalachian Mountains and beyond into the Deep South they came into contact with Scots-Irish immigrants, Scandinavians (practitioners of a unique yodeling called kölning), and other nationalities including African slaves who communicated with "field hollers", described by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1853 as a "long, loud, musical shout, rising and falling and breaking into falsetto".
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Pan seared scallops
Kevin Hannigan, Local Eatery, Laconia
Parmesan Risotto
8 cups chicken stock
1 diced onion
3 tablespoons butter
2 garlic cloves
2 1/2 cups Arborio rice
2/3 cup Jewell Towne Cayuga wine
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
Pan seared jumbo scallops
1/4 cup canola oil
1 pound jumbo scallops
Tomato and New Hampshire mushroom ragout
1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 pound New Hampshire Mushroom Company king oyster mushrooms
1 shallot
1 garlic clove
1 cup ground tomato
1/2 cup Jewell Towne Cayuga wine
Prepare Parmesan risotto
Bring chicken stock to simmer in a sauce pot . Meanwhile, heat butter in sauce pot over medium heat, stir in onion and garlic cook till soft (not brown) 5 minutes. Add rice and cook, stirring, 1 minute, add wine and, cook, stirring , until absorbed, 1minute. Stir 1 cup simmering stock into until absorbed. Continue cooking and adding broth, about a cup at a time, stirring frequently and letting it absorb every time until the next addition, cook until rice is tender (15 to 20 min). Remove from heat stir in parmesan and heavy cream season with salt and pepper to taste.
Prepare Ragout
Saute mushrooms over medium heat in canola oil, till brown(about 5 minute), add shallot, garlic, cook till tender (about 2 minute), add wine, reduce for one minute then add ground tomato. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Pan seared Scallops
Heat sauté pan with oil, till almost smoking, put seasoned scallops in pan very very carefully using tongues, when browned on bottom edge turn to other side sauteing for three more minutes. Serve over risotto, topped with ragout.


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Arvest Bank is pleased to announce the hiring of Shane Stover in its Oklahoma City market.
Stover will serve as mortgage loan officer and be based out of the bank's branch at 1900 S. Douglas Blvd., in Midwest City.
Stover is an Oklahoma native and has lived in-state except for his time serving as a member of the U.S. Air Force. With a career in consumer finance spanning more than 18 years, Stover has particular expertise in VA, FHA and conventional mortgage lending. He also provides homebuyer education designed specifically for the veteran community. Shane and his wife have two children and live in Greater Oklahoma City, where they are both active members of the Mid-Del real estate community.
Welcome, Shane!
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Here at UW Bothell Learning Technologies, we've produced dozens of video tutorials to help UW students, faculty and staff find their way around technologies like Canvas, UW Google Apps, Tegrity and more. Previously, all of the videos could only be found on the site among the written tutorial pages. In an effort to make our video selection more centralized and easier to browse, we're introducing the Learning Technologies Video Tutorial Library!
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My boyfriend and I saw this jacket on Parisian Gentleman the other day, which prompted his question, "Remember when you used to make clothes?" To which I replied a very sad and deflated "Yes. I'm gonna start sewing again, but I'm just so busy with roller derby." There it is. The excuse for not sewing. Roller derby. I love playing roller derby, I have so much fun doing it, but I also love sewing, and I want cool jackets like this one, and I want to finish all the designs I have in my head, and I want to blog more, and I want to create more sewing tutorials. That is not going to happen if I devote all of my time to roller derby, which is what I feel like has happened.
I've decided to scale back my roller derby time. Normally, I would practice most Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Now I am just going to practice on Monday and Thursday, which gives me an extra night during the week to spend sewing or blogging. I've debated for some time about trying out for the all-star team, but they practice on Wednesday nights, which would just add another day back in. I also forgot to mention that I am captain of my team, The Swarm (updated photos coming soon)! So now I am thinking about roller derby all the time: plays, drills, uniforms, rules, what to coach during practice, attendance policy, watching footage. . . I need to dedicate "roller derby thinking days" as well, because I can get sucked in to looking up all things roller derby on the internet, and before you know it, there went an entire evening. "Roller derby thinking days" shall also fall on practice days.
Ok, roller derby two times per week, done. Now what about my sewing classes? I am only teaching one class on Tuesday mornings, which is fine, but that is also one of my days off of work. The class is over in five more weeks, and I am going to put teaching on hold for a while.
So, in five weeks, I'll have a lot more time to play around with. Less derby and no sewing classes. More time to sew cute things out of my current stash of dress/shirt fabric:
I am not allowed to buy any more new fabric until I have made something out of every one of these fabrics, with one exception that I have been eying at the fabric store for months, I just haven't bought it yet. I'll post a picture of it when I buy it.
This is my suiting stash that I hope to get under way after I have completed several dresses/shirts from the fabric above.
I also have bolts of fabric that I am going to sell by the yard. They will be priced at $4-$5 per yard, so be ready for that stuff soon.
No more excuses, my friends.


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Joel Kishler Goodin was a active participant in the Topeka Movement. He served as clerk of the House of Representatives that met in Topeka and also as secretary of the Executive Committee. He was a delegate to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention where he promoted the adoption of the Topeka Constitution.
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Afghan migrants on Greek island clash; 1 dead, 3 injured
Afghan migrants on Greek island clash; 1 dead, 3 injured
KABUL (Pajhwok): One person has been killed while three others have sustained injuries in a clash among Afghan migrants on the Greek island of Lesvos, a news report says.
With the cause of the altercation among 10 Afghan nationals yet to be ascertained, Greek police have launched an investigation into Sunday's incident, the Associated Press reported.
The clash occurred at a house near the Moria refugee camp. Over 8,500 refugees and migrants are staying on Lesvos, with 6,600 living in camps having capacity f0r 2,300.
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Hey guys, I have the exact same problem as described in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60223&p=284026#p284026
I just cannot import my .ics file from Thunderbird into Zimbra. I'm getting a parsing error. In Thunderbird, there is an option in the calendar for "Offline-Support". When I check this option, the .ics file is about 50kb, while leaving the option unchecked, the file is about 1mb and thus too big or whatever the problem may be. Is there an option so get a more detailed log to sort out the specific error? Maybe it is enough to remove the string which is causing the error..
Error message: A parsing error has occured. parse error: Caught ParseException parsing calendar: net.fortuna.ical4j.data.ParserException: Error while parsing VEVENT
PLease help!
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Thunderbird to Zimbra - .ics file import fails!
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Re: Thunderbird to Zimbra - .ics file import fails!
No help at all? Still struggling with this issue.. the conversion doesnt work as well..
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