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An 18th-Century Trades Sampler
a photographic essay by 1999 Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute participants
Introduction /
Apothecary /
Blacksmith /
Founder /
Harnessmaker /
Printer & Bookbinder / Shoemaker / Silversmith / Wigmaker / Summary
From 1699-1780 there were 15, possibly 16, silversmiths in Williamsburg. There was a strong preference among wealthy planters for importing large silverware from London. Many Williamsburg silversmiths likeJames and James Geddy had to make their living by importing and selling English silverware and items not related to the trade. The majority of silver work in Williamsburg was making small pieces such as spoons, buttons, shoe buckles and completing numerous repairs for the middling sort as well as the gentry.
A silversmith works with precious metals such as gold and silver. Often in the 18th century, a silversmith would call himself a goldsmith for the added prestige. The "smith" part of the name indicates that hammers are used for shaping the silver (the word smith derives from the word smite, meaning to hit or strike). Flatware (knives, spoons and forks), hollowware (hollow vessels) and jewelry are all crafted in this manner.
The smith begins with a thick piece of metal called an ingot. The ingot is hammered with a sledgehammer on an anvil to thin the metal. Then the piece is placed over a stake, and the raising process begins. When the shaping is finished, the final smoothing is done with a planishing hammer.
Decorative pieces such as handles and finials are added after the final planishing. These pieces are cast in sand molds and are attached to the body of the piece with silver solder. Sometimes the smith uses a jeweler's saw or a sharp tool to create a pierced design in the object being crafted. Finally, the piece is polished using pumice (a volcanic ash), tripoli (decomposed limestone, less abrasive than pumice), and jeweler's rouge (powdered red iron ore.) These final steps require a great deal of time, often more than the shaping of the piece itself.
Virginia silversmiths faced several challenges. The greatest difficulty was obtaining unfinished silver: the only silver that Great Britain allowed the colonies to import was in the form of finished pieces. Silversmiths frequently offered to pay citizens for their old silver goods In addition, there was always competition among silversmiths whose customers were limited to the small group of colonists who could afford silver items.
Introduction /
Apothecary /
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Printer & Bookbinder / Shoemaker / Silversmith / Wigmaker / Summary


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We invite all those who "truly believe" to board the Polar Express and experience this favorite book by Chris Van Allsburg.
Tickets are required for this free event due to limited seating.
Tickets are available by calling 330-683-1065 or stopping by the Children's Department. Maximum 2 Adult tickets per Child.
The Polar Express runs on November 30th at 4:30 pm or 6:30 pm and also on December 1st at 10 am, 4:30 pm or
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Don your PJ's and get on board for a magical trip into this holiday classic.

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What is psoriasis? Watch this video as dermatologist David M. Pariser, MD, FAAD, explains why we get psoriasis and the benefits of treatment.
To watch the entire video, which includes inspiring tips from Jerry Mathers, who lives with psoriasis and is best known as the Beaver in the TV show "Leave it to Beaver," visit the Psoriasis video library.
Psoriasis (sore-EYE-ah-sis) is a chronic (long-lasting) disease. It develops when a person's immune system sends faulty signals that tell skin cells to grow too quickly. New skin cells form in days rather than weeks.
The body does not shed these excess skin cells. The skin cells pile up on the surface of the skin, causing patches of psoriasis to appear. Psoriasis may look contagious, but it's not.
You cannot get psoriasis from touching someone who has it. To get psoriasis, a person must inherit the genes that cause it.
If you have psoriasis, you will have one or more of these types:
Some people get more than one type. Sometimes a person gets one type of psoriasis, and then the type of psoriasis changes.
All content solely developed by the American Academy of Dermatology. Supported in part by:
What you see and feel depends on the type of psoriasis you have. You may have just a few of the signs and symptoms listed below, or you may have many.
When pus-filled bumps cover the body, the person also may have:
If it looks like a person has erythrodermic psoriasis, get the person to a hospital right away. The person's life may be in danger.
Top three (3) images used with permission of the American Academy of Dermatology National Library of Dermatologic Teaching Slides.
*Photograph used with permission of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. J Am Acad Dermatol 2004;51:731-8.
**Photograph used with permission of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. J Am Acad Dermatol 2008;58:826-50.
People who get psoriasis usually have one or more person in their family who has psoriasis. Not everyone who has a family member with psoriasis will get psoriasis. But psoriasis is common. In the United States, about 7.5 million people have psoriasis. Most people, about 80%, have plaque psoriasis.
Psoriasis can begin at any age. Most people get psoriasis between 15 and 30 years of age. By age 40, most people who will get psoriasis, about 75%, have psoriasis. Another common time for psoriasis to begin is between 50 and 60 years of age.
Whites get psoriasis more often than other races.
Infants and young children are more likely to get inverse psoriasis and guttate psoriasis.
Scientists are still trying to learn everything that happens inside the body to cause psoriasis. We know that psoriasis is not contagious.
You cannot get psoriasis from swimming in the same pool or having sex.
Scientists have learned that a person's immune system and genes play important roles. It seems that many genes must interact to cause psoriasis.
Scientists also know that not everyone who inherits the genes for psoriasis will get psoriasis. It seems that a person must inherit the "right" mix of genes. Then the person must be exposed to a trigger.
Many people say that their psoriasis began after they experienced one of these common psoriasis triggers:
Treatment for psoriasis Watch this video to learn how treatment can relieve your symptoms and help you live more comfortably if you are diagnosed with psoriasis.
To diagnose psoriasis, a dermatologist:
Sometimes a dermatologist also removes a bit of skin. A dermatologist may call this confirming the diagnosis. By looking at the removed skin under a microscope, one can confirm whether a person has psoriasis.
Treating psoriasis has benefits. Treatment can reduce signs and symptoms of psoriasis, which usually makes a person feel better. With treatment, some people see their skin completely clear. Treatment can even improve a person's quality of life.
Thanks to ongoing research, there are many treatments for psoriasis. It is important to work with a dermatologist to find treatment that works for you and fits your lifestyle. Every treatment has benefits, drawbacks, and possible side effects.
Psoriasis is a chronic (long-lasting) disease of the immune system. It cannot be cured. This means that most people have psoriasis for life. By teaming up with a dermatologist who treats psoriasis, you can find a treatment plan that works for you.
Dermatologists encourage their patients who have psoriasis to take an active role in managing this disease. By taking an active role, you can reduce the effects that psoriasis has on your quality of life.
Psoriasis is a long-lasting disease. Here are some things you can do that will help you take control.
Do you use a psoriasis medicine to treat your skin? If so, the instructions likely tell you how many milligrams of medicine to apply. This can make it difficult to know how much to use.
To help patients figure out how much medicine to apply, dermatologists developed an easy-to-use approach called the "fingertip unit." All you need to use this approach is your medicine and a clean fingertip. A fingertip unit equals the amount of medicine that you can spread on your fingertip, as shown in the photo below.
Each part of the body requires a specific number of fingertip units. For example, if you have psoriasis on most of your scalp, you need to apply three fingertip units of medicine to your scalp. If psoriasis covers most of your elbow, you'd apply one fingertip unit.
The next time you need to apply psoriasis medicine to your skin, be sure to look at the following table. It shows you how many fingertip units to apply to each part of the body where you have psoriasis.
Different parts of the body require a different number of fingertip units. Chart reproduced from the Psoriasis Guidelines of Care developed by the American Academy of Dermatology. (Menter A, Korman NJ, et al. "Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis." J Am Acad Dermatol 2009;60:643-59.)
References Menter A, Korman NJ, et al. "Guidelines of care for the management of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis." J Am Acad Dermatol 2009;60:643-59.


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From Reuters, three days ago:
"I still stand by that the science is not settled on man-made global warming," Perry said while campaigning in the key early primary state of New Hampshire.
By the way of contrast, from the Preface to National Academy of Sciences, Advancing the Science of Climate Change (2010):
...there is a strong, credible body of evidence, based on multiple lines of research, documenting that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities. ...
While much remains to be learned, the core phenomenon, scientific questions, and hypotheses have been examined thoroughly and have stood firm in the face of serious scientific debate and careful evaluation of alternative explanations.
Here is a graph of the global land-ocean temperature anomaly
From the Summary to National Academy of Sciences, Advancing the Science of Climate Change (2010):
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Conclusion 1: Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for—and in many cases is already affecting—a broad range of human and natural systems. This conclusion is based on a substantial array of scientific evidence, including recent work, and is consistent with the conclusions of recent assessments by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (e.g., USGCRP, 2009a), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2007a-d), and other assessments of the state of scientific knowledge on climate change. Both our assessment—the details of which can be found in Chapter 2 and Part II (Chapters 6-17) of this report—and these previous assessments place high or very high confidence in the following findings: Earth is warming. Detailed observations of surface temperature assembled and analyzed by several different research groups show that the planet's average surface temperature was 1.4ºF (0.8ºC) warmer during the first decade of the 21st century than during the first decade of the 20th century, with the most pronounced warming over the past three decades. These data are corroborated by a variety of independent observations that indicate warming in other parts of the Earth system, including the cryosphere (snow- and icecovered regions), the lower atmosphere, and the oceans. Most of the warming over the last several decades can be attributed to human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—for energy is the single largest human driver of climate change, but agriculture, forest clearing, and certain industrial activities also make significant contributions. Natural climate variability leads to year-to-year and decade-to-decade fluctuations in temperature and other climate variables, as well as substantial regional differences, but cannot explain or offset the long-term warming trend. Global warming is closely associated with a broad spectrum of other changes, such as increases in the frequency of intense rainfall, decreases in Northern Hemisphere snow cover and Arctice sea ice, warmer and more frequent hot days and nights, rising sea levels, and widespread ocean acidification. Human-induced climate change and its impacts will continue for many decades, and in some cases for many centuries. Individually and collectively, these changes pose risks for a wide range of human and environmental systems, including freshwater resources, the coastal environment, ecosystems, agriculture, fisheries, human health, and national security, among others. The ultimate magnitude of climate change and the severity of its impacts depend strongly on the actions that human societies take to respond to these risks.
It's important to undestand that the assessment orginates from a specific government chartered organization, the National Academy of Sciences:
To meet the government's urgent need for an independent adviser on scientific matters, President Lincoln signed a congressional charter forming the National Academy of Sciences in 1863 to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science." As science began to play an ever-increasing role in national priorities and public life, the National Academy of Sciences eventually expanded to include the National Research Council in 1916, the National Academy of Engineering in 1964, and the Institute of Medicine in 1970.
This of course won't carry any weight with those who are anti-expertise. Nor will the results from the paper "Expert credibility in climate change," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010):
... we use an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that (i) 97-98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.
Two key graphs (shown in this post highlight that fact that among published (in peer reviewed journals) climate scientist, the overwhelming consensus is on that anthropogenic climate change (ACC) is occurring.
Note that UE denotes unconvinced; CE denotes convinced (by the thesis of anthropogenic climate change).


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This is gorgeous work! You've really captured the man/animal mix, without making it look ridiculous or too much like one or the other. Really, really awesome!
Does this mean there were option 1-4 that were not posted? I wish you would talk a little about the inspiration and write a bit about the creative process for each of the pieces you share with us. Great concept art.


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Top Chef Canada winner Matthew Stowe took his cooking skills to the Covenant House Crisis Shelter on West Pender Wednesday where he gave a dinnertime cooking lesson to a dozen young people.
Stowe, product development chef at Cactus Club Cafe, offered his expertise to youth in the Rights of Passage program at Covenant House, which takes in homeless, runaway and at-risk youth between the ages of 16 and 22.
Those in the program receive safe, affordable housing, and learn life skills including budgeting, household management, and cooking and cleaning as they transition to independent living.
Stowe's contribution? Offering hands-on kitchen experience as they cooked dinner together, emphasizing good nutrition while stretching their food budget.
Earlier Wednesday, Stowe answered several questions from The Vancouver Sun.
Q: Why did you get involved in the Rights of Passage program?
A: I always liked the idea of teaching young people. I went back to my high school a couple of weeks ago and taught a cooking class. I thought this was an even better opportunity to teach young people, who will benefit from the skills learned from doing simple cooking, cleaning a kitchen, preparing a budget, just basic life skills.
Q: Why do you believe learning these skills is valuable?
A: I think it's valuable because once they graduate they'll be on their own and they'll need to be able to cook their own meals, to budget, to save for rent, put food in their mouths. Teaching them this is really beneficial for them moving forward and turning themselves around and to start being really productive in society.
Q: What do you feel is the most important lesson you'll teach the kids about cooking and nutrition?
A: I feel the most important lesson is that it's a lot easier than they think. When people watch TV shows about cooking, they get intimidated. I'll show the kids they can make these dishes very easily and do it under a really strict budget as well. We're taking a $9 chicken and turning it into six or eight meals. It will be even cheaper than eating out of a fast-food restaurant.
Q: What about nutrition?
A: The great thing about cooking under a budget is your food is more vegetable based. Chicken, fish, red meats are expensive, so we'll use a lot of vegetables tonight and that will stretch the budget and make it a lot more wholesome as well.
Q: Please elaborate on how they can stretch their food budget.
A: By being creative and resourceful. When they're shopping, taking things in season. And stick with basic vegetables like carrots, onions, celery, peppers. They're all inexpensive and are available year-round. They can easily be stretched in a lot of directions. You can turn those vegetables into a lot of good things.
Q: How did you hear about Covenant House?
A: I heard about it through a family friend. I took a tour of the facility the other week. I really like what they stand for, as far as getting young people back on their feet and out into society where they're able to function and lead really positive lives.
Q: Will you work with them again?
A: I'd love to. Tonight will be a lot of fun. There's always new young people there, so you can't just go once.
Q: How has your life changed since you won Top Chef Canada?
A: Well, it's been a whirlwind. You get noticed on the street a lot or when you're shopping in the grocery store. I'm surprised at how many people really watch the show. I meet kids five or six years old who recognize me, and 80-year-olds who watch the show. Everyone in Vancouver has been really supportive. Also, just being able to do things like this, cooking with young people at Covenant House and giving people life skills. I would never have been able to get these opportunities without going on a show like that, to reach the number of people I've been able to reach.
Q: How did you develop such an interest in cooking?
A: I took a high school cooking program when I was at Lord Tweedsmuir in Surrey. They had an excellent program. I took the course to learn how to cook and to be able to survive on my own, to support myself when I left home.
Q: Was food very important growing up?
A: Yes, food was always important. My mom was always cooking for eight people every night. We always had great meals on the table. She'd have roast chicken, roast duck, curries. She was just a really solid home cook, especially in the '80s when food wasn't that adventurous. My mom was definitely ahead of the curve.
Being able to not only share the food, but share your experiences throughout the day, that definitely generated a lot of conversation. And we still go over there every Sunday night for dinner, and (Mom) still pulls out all the favourites we had growing up.
Q: How does one become a chef?
A: To become a chef, the characteristics you need are to be organized, self-driven, self-motivated. You need to want to please people, which is the case for everyone in the hospitality industry. It's a very emotional and personal experience, being able to cook for someone. I'm sure some of these young people today will be organized, clean and they'll work efficiently. Hopefully I can inspire them, whether they become chefs or not, just to be able to cook for themselves and be able to go out and feed their friends and family. Those are skills they'll be able to use their whole lifetime.
Q: If you were about to cook your last meal, what would you cook and why?
A: I would probably cook roast chicken, which I will do tonight for my students. When I think of roast chicken, with potatoes and vegetables and gravy, it takes me back to my childhood. My mom was a really great cook. We always had great food on the table and that really resonates with me, having roast chicken once or twice a week. I'm hoping tonight to give them the same memory I had growing up. And for them to be able to share that down the road would be icing on the cake.


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Pandora Media, Inc. (NYSE: P) recently rallied with its earnings report last week, but there is a new threat for it and other services. A new Galaxy smartphone by Samsung comes with a new music service being called Samsung Music Hub. While Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be the target for its iTunes store, and while Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may be a target for its music downloads, Pandora Media may be the most at risk here.
The new service from Samsung is said to resemble almost all of the iTunes features but it effectively offers users a monthly subscription service that offers unlimited music that can be shares on multiple devices. That could be devastating for Pandora, particularly since mobile and smartphone users do not contribute as much as desktop users to Pandora's ad revenues.
Pandora's player is now available in 48 vehicle models as of May 2012, but the company claims that while it has a 71% share of internet radio listening it notes that 70% of Pandora's total listening hours occur via mobile and non-traditional sources. A subscription service from Samsung on an unlimited basis for music could put Pandora in the backseat. This would be bad for Spotify as well.
As SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has so much of its own content, it may be somewhat immune here. The key is 'somewhat' in the language. Smartphones are not yet so smart that they beam music to a car radio while their owners are texting and talking while they are supposedly only focusing on the road.
Another issue for Pandora would be simply that the more music gets listened to the more money they lose under their current license arrangements. Samsung may have a different target than Pandora, but Pandora is caught up in Samsung's dragnet. If you don't believe this is a threat, just notice that Pandora shares were down 10.8% at $10.51 right at the 4 PM closing bell and trading volume was about double with more than 7 million shares trading hands.


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Monday, January 31, 2011
Design Your Own Cross Stitch Pattern in Photoshop
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Do You Hear That?
Do you hear that? It sounds like... angels singing.
For two nights in a row my baby girl has slept THROUGH THE NIGHT! I feel like a completely normal person right now.
I would like to take a moment and thank those who made this possible:
Sleep Sack - We couldn't have done this without you!
The Baby Jesus - He heard my prayers!
Mom - For the light bulb moment on why she isn't sleeping.
Hilary - For listening to my whining, sleep-deprived hysterics.
Jayna - For all that tough love!
Special mention goes out to my son who had to endure all the screaming while he tried to get a good night sleep and to my dog Roma who faithfully got up with me every night to help out.
Joann Fabrics must have also heard my plea because fleece is on sale for $3/yard right now so I am ready to make a dresser full of sleep sacks.
Life is good.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Water Boarding Is For Sissies
Wish us luck tonight. I am afraid to see what other tactics this little one may have up her sleeve.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Second Book Ideas
So I haven't exactly finished writing my first craft book but in true Sarah fashion I have already started thinking about my next idea. I want it to be a craft book all about babies and kids. Not really crafts for the kids to do, but stuff to make for them - blankets, room decor, toys, etc.
Laying in bed last night I thought about using the word virgin in the title. Something like Virgin Cocktails and Crafts for the Non-virgin. That seemed like maybe, just maybe, it crossed some line so then I thought - Cocktails and Crafts - Baby and Kid Edition but that sounded like we were going to be serving drinks to babies and kids and is a little boring.
I want the book to give you a peek at my sense of humor but I don't want to offend anyone. Maybe I need accept that I can't make everyone happy and have to decide if I want a little shock or mass appeal.
Do you have any suggestions for a title? If I use your title you will for sure get a mention in the book and a free copy - you know... when I actually have it written and published.
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Labels: Books
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Baking With Kids
|Baby Girl couldn't be left out!
|She added all the crumbs on the counter and then tried to stir - so freakin' cute!
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Labels: Food
Thursday, January 13, 2011
The Cookie Date
|The more serious side of cooking making
|Patiently waiting
|First cookie picked out of the batch
|cookie bliss
|Baking injury
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Baldy Baby Hat - Crochet Pattern
Tired of everyone asking you when your baby is going to grow some hair? I have the product for you!
Baldy Baby Hat by Sarah Boccolucci is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Love this free pattern? Consider donating via PayPal so I can keep 'em coming.
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Next American Crafter Contest
I am not one to enter giveaways or contests very often but I thought this was a cute idea and some of the blogs I follow have signed up to judge.
I used my yarn snowball tutorial for my first entry. Fingers crossed!
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Labels: Cocktails and Crafts
Monday, January 10, 2011
Facebook Archive
Did you know that you can download your complete Facebook account and save it? I love this because I am bad about filling out baby books and journals but good at posting important events in my status.
To get your file click:
Account Settings
Download Your Information
You will get an email and then you will have to fill in your password and then identify some of your friends in their pictures - so I hope you know all your friends well enough to complete that step!
You then get a zipped file with EVERYTHING you have posted in Facebook, I kid you not!
Now the question is what do I do with all this data? Any suggestions?
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Cocktails and Crafts - Embossed Cards
Brandy Alexander Recipe:
1 1/2 oz brandy
1 oz dark creme de cacao
1 oz half and half
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.
I thought these tasted just like a White Russian and would be hard pressed to tell the difference. Be careful - they do go down easily!
My goal is to add the embossed card instructions to my Cocktails and Crafts book so I am not going to go into great detail here, but here is the gist:
Stamp card stock with ink, sprinkle with embossing powder and then hit it with the embossing gun. It is oddly satisfying to watch the powder transform to the glossy finish under the heat.
|I hit this one a little too long with the heat gun but still liked the effect.
This is how I found my son when everyone was getting ready to leave. He had snuck out of bed and was lying in front of his bedroom door with the blankets over his head.
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
Like most people I know I have given up on self-improvement resolutions. This year I am opting to make a resolution that I will enjoy and am pretty sure I can live with for a whole year.
2011 will be the year of:
Some other resolutions that I considered and then set aside were:
1. Finish writing my book
2. Keep the house organized
3. Knit a sweater for myself
4. Exercise (ha!)
I still hope to do all of those but I don't want them to feel like obligations. What resolutions have you made or not made for yourself?
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Kalevi Aho (b.1949) is a prolific Finnish composer who deserves to be better known in UK. His 12th symphony will be premièred in August on the slopes of a mountain in Lapland! Symphony No 3 (Sinfonia Concertante for violin & orchestra) began as a violin concerto in 1971, but took two years (longer than any of his other symphonies) to metamorphose into this interesting hybrid, with 'unappeasable opposition' between the orchestra and the soloist, who is overwhelmed and drowned in the second movement. He remains silent in the melancholy slow movement but recovers for the finale, a virtuoso cadenza for solo violin and percussion, the violinist consoled at the end by two clarinets. This was no preconceived formula, but grew organically of itself. It works well and holds the attention for a span of nearly 40 minutes. I have reservations about Aho's orchestration of Mussorgsky's original for piano, transposed down for bass, sometimes enriched with counter melodies and counterpoint, and which 'tries to avoid neutral instrumentation'. It is played and sung with conviction, and Salminem's is one of the great bass voices.
Aho is generously served by BIS and I have been rehearing his Symphony No 1 (1969) and Violin Concerto (1982), in which the soloist (Manfred Gräsbeck) and orchestra are 'equal, complementary and mutually supporting'. The symphony starts and ends with fugues, the first becoming a 'tragicomical, limping waltz melody'. The later concerto is severe and tonal at its opening, becomes progressively free and dance-like, ending finally with a gentle berceuse. Silence (also 1982) is mainly 'static, motionless, dream-like'. Aho displays a free-ranging imagination, every work significantly different and 'itself'. Equally recommendable and well worth exploring, these two CDs make a fine pair.
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U.S. plan to win Afghanistan tribe by tribe is risky
PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. officials put a lot of hope last year in Haji Rashid, an up-and-coming community leader in the Zormat district of Afghanistan's Paktia province. They considered Rashid a unifying figure who was capable of bringing together about a dozen tribes in the area to work in support of the American-backed Afghan government.
Their hopes collapsed, however, when Rashid was kidnapped, tortured, mutilated and murdered and his groundwork to broker the support of the tribes in Zormat quickly foundered.
Military officials aren't sure who killed Rashid, but their suspicions point to the Taliban. "It's to their benefit to have instability," said Lt. Col. Matthew Smith, a Georgia Army National Guard officer and the commander of about 1,000 U.S. troops in Paktia province.
Rashid's murder illustrates one of the obstacles that American officials and military commanders face as they try to persuade tribal leaders to cooperate with U.S. troops and with one another against the Taliban. Afghanistan's historically weak central governments have shared power with the country's five so-called "super-tribes" and the tribes that compose them, with 350 or so sub-tribes and with local clans, and most of the country's would-be conquerors — including the British and the Soviets — have employed their own tribal strategies.
Now American officials are attending tribal meetings, staying in close touch with tribal leaders and trying to determine which leaders are friendly and which aren't.
In Zormat, U.S. and Afghan officials have turned to tribal leaders as a channel of communication with several small Taliban networks in the region, networks they think could be persuaded to join a peaceful political process. American commanders declined to identify the Taliban commanders with whom they've been communicating.
Those efforts, however, risk feeding traditional tribal rivalries, to the detriment of any plan to undercut the Taliban.
"If you are seen as favoring one tribe over another, you are seen as an enemy to them," said 1st Sgt. Troy Arrowsmith of Odgen, Utah, the top enlisted soldier on the Paktia Provisional Reconstruction Team, a cooperative of about 100 troops and civilians from multiple U.S. agencies.
Unhappy tribes don't have to look far to find outside support.
"In Zormat, the tribes are fractured, and the Taliban are a part of those tribes," Arrowsmith said. "They live with them. They have families there."
American commanders in Paktia keep maps of the province, closely demarcating the tribal areas.
Rivalries among tribes, sub-tribes and families aren't confined to Zormat.
In Paktia's northeast, there's a long-standing animus between the Turi, a Shiite Muslim tribe that extends into Pakistan, and the Bushara, a Sunni Muslim tribe. U.S. officials think the tribes have been at odds over territorial boundaries for about 60 years.
The Bushara "claim that they won't allow them to move freely; the Turi claim that they get threatened when go to Gardez," said Genevieve Libonati, a State Department official who's assigned to Paktia.
The chaotic nature of tribal relations was on display on a recent Sunday, when a panoply of American military, diplomatic and Department of Agriculture officials joined about 100 government and tribal leaders from the region for a "shura," or meeting, near the Pakistani border.
After introductions, no U.S. officials spoke during the shura. They only listened.
What they heard was a cacophony of complaints. As emotions rose, any formalities guiding the shura were quickly abandoned. The only common issue among the tribal leaders involved the failings of the American occupiers.
"I'm glad the PRT commander is here," one Afghan participant told the other tribal leaders, referring to Lt. Col. Carlos Halcomb. "They were going to build a hospital in our district, and it hasn't been provided yet."
The comment brought an uproar of support and dissent.
"If we don't have good security in the area, we're not going to be able to finish the projects," retorted Abdul Rahman Mangal, the deputy governor of Paktia.
For several hours, tribal leaders shouted their concerns, with no one attempting to regulate who had the floor. One continued a harangue even after he'd left the lectern, directly in front of the provincial deputy governor and the U.S. officials seated in the back of the room.
Finally, the local director of the Afghan Intelligence Service approached the lectern and calmly delivered a clear message to the tribal chiefs: "Don't assist (the Taliban). Don't let them stay in your home overnight. Don't give them food. Just tell them to leave."
Turning away the Taliban isn't easy, though, particularly in areas that Taliban fighters call home. American officials think the Taliban even have infiltrated some local political meetings — denouncing the U.S. occupation — and threatened other tribal leaders who attend these shuras.
"Have I been to a shura where there was Taliban infiltration? I'm pretty sure I have," said 1st Lt. Luis Alberto Moreno, a U.S. civil affairs officer who specializes in tribal relations in the border region.
(Day reports for The Telegraph in Macon, Ga.)
"A Tribal Strategy for Afghanistan," from the Council on Foreign Relations
"One Tribe at a Time: A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan"
New Afghan initiative: Convince insurgents to switch sides
U.S. turns to Afghan farmers to uproot insurgency
U.S. troops rely on Afghan police while trying to train them
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Update: Florida Trend's Cover Flipper
DeNapoli was right to be concerned. The prolific lender we profiled, Corus Bank of Chicago, eventually failed. Real estate analyst Lewis Goodkin, who wrote for us at the time, worried about the bubble. Other experts should have been.
DeNapoli this February told us that he exited in 2006 as he planned and hasn't invested since then. He sits now on the Florida Real Estate Commission, the state body that administers state real estate licensing law. Because of his position, he doesn't want to comment on the market. He's guarded on how he did personally. "I sold everything at the top," he says. "I came out fine." He adds: "It was much smaller than what was expected initially."


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Hello all,
Howler here, doing some brainstorming on a possible new idea I have for the FREESCOsoft site, but would like to get as much input from the FREESCO users around the world, to help with this (OK not a lot of work, make a post here).
Without going into the whole idea, I will leave that for another time, I would like to ask this ....
What would you consider to be the most single important national holiday in the country you live in ?
For me (and a few others) here in the United States, I would say it is July 4th , our Independece day.
In any replys to this thread, please include the holiday name, the date and the country please. Would appretiate no duplicate postings, unless to make a better suggestion.
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Your iPad Mini and Chinese Factory Workers
China Labor Watch alleges a number of breaches at China-based factories owned by Apple contractor Pegatron. The WSJ's Yun-Hee Kim and Paul Mozur talk about the safety and environmental laws the company is accused of violating.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Awesome Baby fought off a determined challenge from runner-up Artemis to win Saturday's Grade III, $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by 2¾ lengths Saturday at Santa Anita Park.
Ridden by Mike Smith, Awesome Baby covered 1 1/16 miles in a driving rain over a surface labeled as wet and fast in 1:41.58.
Trained by Bob Baffert and the second choice in a field of five at 2-1, Awesome Baby broke from the two post and went gate to wire through fractions of 23.44, 46.44, 1:09.80 and 1:34.86.
"The game plan was to break and get a clear lead so we could give her a chance to take a breather," Smith said. "We weren't sure that she would go long, she didn't at (age) two. We got the first quarter in 23 and it was all her after that. I told Bob that I don't know if it was her turning three or the mud today, but I finished with something left. She was well within herself at the wire and pulled up with a lot of energy.
"I love riding in this stuff. I come from back east. It's the tracks that are drying out that no one really likes, but these wet/fast tracks, they're great to ride on."
A Kentucky-bred by Awesome Again, Awesome Baby came off a front-running score in the Grade II, 6½-furlong Santa Ynez Stakes on Jan. 4 and paid $6.20, $3.60 and $2.80.
"She's been working really well and we've been pointing her for this race," said Baffert. "I was a little bit worried about the off track, but she was very professional today and we were hoping she would run this well. Mike did a great job of keeping her on the lead."
Owned by Kaleem Shah, Inc., Awesome Baby won for the third time in five starts and banked $60,000 for the win, increasing her earnings to $230,250.
Ridden from the rail by Gary Stevens, Artemis sat second, a length off the winner after a half mile, was unable to get on terms inside Awesome Baby approaching the half-mile pole. She challenged the winner again leaving the quarter, but had to settle for second, a half length in front of 3-2 favorite Swiss Lake Yodeler.
Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer and the third choice at 5-2, Artemis paid $3.60 and $2.80.
Ridden by Rafael Bejarano and also trained by Hollendorfer, Swiss Lake Yodeler, the lone California-bred in the field, was attentive to the pace but never threatened the winner, finishing third, 7 ½ lengths in front of longshot Saintly Joan.
Swiss Lake Yodeler paid $2.40 to show.
Samraat still unbeaten
Samraat improved to 5 for 5 with a victory in the $500,000 Gotham Stakes for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct in New York.
The latest victory was worth 50 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby, insuring him a spot in the Derby field assuming he remains healthy.
"I'd be lying if I said we weren't already thinking about the Kentucky Derby," trainer Rick Violette said. "At this stage, we don't want to do anything that would prevent us from going to the Derby,"
This was the sternest test yet for the New York-bred colt.
Samraat, ridden by Jose Ortiz for My Meadowview Farm, ranged into contention with a sweeping move on the final turn. It was a three-way battle the rest of the way with Samraat on the outside finally prevailing by a neck over Uncle Sigh, who raced in the middle. The pacesetting In Trouble was third down on the rail, only a half-length behind the winner.
There was a steward's inquiry into the spirited stretch battle and the order of finish was not changed.
The time was 1:44.44 for 1 1/16 miles on the fast track.
Samraat paid $6.40, $3.90 and $2.40 as the 2-1 favorite. Uncle Sigh returned $4.20 and $3, and In Trouble paid $3.70 to show.
Violette said Samraat heads to Florida on Sunday to continue his Derby preparations. The colt will likely return to Aqueduct for the $1 million Wood Memorial on April 5 as his final tuneup before shipping to Kentucky.
"That would be our best option, as long as the horse cooperates and tells us he should get on a plane and come up for it," Violette said.
The top-two finish was a repeat of the Withers Stakes last month at Aqueduct where Samraat beat Uncle Sigh by one length.
Spot triumphs
Spot rallied from fifth place to beat favorite No Nay Never by 2 lengths in the $200,000 Grade 2 Swale Stakes for 3-year-olds at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Racing for the first time for Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito, Spot, ridden by Jose Lezcano, ran seven furlongs in 1:22.44 on a fast track. He earned $120,000 and paid $21, $4.60 and $3.40.
Brothersofthetime finished third in the six-horse field.
Havana, a possible favorite, was scratched several hours before the race after trainer Todd Pletcher found a quarter crack in a hoof.
Zito took over the training of Spot in early February after Curtis Green sold the horse to Joseph Moss. James Diioto trained Spot in his first five races, winning once.


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Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed a landmark law yesterday compensating human rights victims of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, 27 years after a bloodless "People Power" revolution ended his reign.
Ten billion pesos (US$244 million) will be distributed to potentially thousands of people who Marcos' security forces tortured, raped or detained, as well as relatives of those who were killed, during his rule.
Speaking at a ceremony in Metro Manila to mark the anniversary of the revolution that was led by his mother, Aquino said the law was part of his government's efforts to "right the wrongs of the past."
"We may not bring back the time stolen from martial law victims, but we can assure them of the state's recognition of their sufferings that will help bring them closer to the healing of their wounds," Aquino said.
Loretta Ann Rosales, an anti-Marcos activist who was tortured by his security forces and now heads the country's independent rights commission, said the law would finally allow all his victims to feel a sense of justice.
"The law is essential in rectifying the abuses of the Marcos dictatorship and obliges the state to give compensation to all those who suffered gross violations of their rights," Rosales said.
Marie Hilao-Enriquez, the chairwoman of Selda, a group which represents victims of the Marcos regime, also welcomed the symbolic intent behind the law, but said the money was too little to have a meaningful impact.
"There are so many victims that when you divide it to everyone it will not result to much," Hilao-Enriquez said.
Her group represents about 10,000 documented victims, but she said there were many more who had not been officially registered and may now come forward, such as Muslim communities in the remote south of the country.
Under the law, a compensation board will accept and evaluate applications for reparations over the next six months. Those victims will be from when Marcos declared martial law in 1972 to the end of his rule in 1986.
The compensation will come from about US$600 million the government has recovered from Swiss bank accounts that Marcos secretly maintained while he was in power.
The government has accused Marcos and his relatives of plundering up to US$10 billion and has so far recovered about US$4 billion.
After millions of people took to the streets in a military-backed protest, US-supported Marcos fled to Hawaii where he died in 1989.
After returning from exile his relatives have made a remarkable political comeback, while always denying any wrongdoing by the family. Marcos' famously extravagant wife Imelda is now an 83-year-old congresswoman representing the family's political stronghold in a northern province.
Marcos' son and namesake, Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, is a senator with public ambitions to become president.
He posted a long statement on his official Facebook page in which he said he had "no problem" with compensating people for rights abuses committed between 1972 and 1986.
However, Marcos said the issue of compensating the "tens of thousands" of human rights victims in the post-Marcos era had been ignored.
"That question is like an elephant in the room that some politicians, the typically glib, sanctimonious and self-righteous, pretend not to see," he wrote, while insisting he was focused on ways to "unify our country."


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Does sound like the insulation/power transformer again. Running 8A-9A wont cause a problem as the internals are rated for 16A continuous. Similarly, 110 tests over 6 hour period is not and excessive demand on the tester. The 3760XE is only sold in Aus/NZ but the Europa tester sold in the UK uses the same electronics and some customers are running in excess of 200 tests per day and we have no history of common problems with the insulation/power transformer. I'll ask or service and engineering departments again and see if they have any suggestions.


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December 8, 1905, the birthday of my father, and the day he died at age 58, June 22, 1964.
|Wolfgang Julius Leander (Photo: Foto Estudio Bene, Cochabamba, 1950)
Even now, as a grand-father, I miss my father, no less than back then when my mother called me to say she had 'bad news' for me...
It is not too long ago, perhaps 20 years or so, that I realized that, deep down, I have never left my childhood, and that I will always remain my father's little boy who looked up to him, loved him, and felt secure and protected in his presence.
Yet, our relationship was not always harmonious, not even when I was a small kid.
My father was not a children's father; children had few rights in his traditional world-view, and what mattered most to him was that they had to behave, be obedient and well-mannered, make a bow or curtsey to grown-ups, and never challenge in any way the authority of parents and teachers.
"Muttans Besta" (= Berlin dialect for "Mom's Darling"); photograph taken circa 1909 at the famous photo study E. Bieber, Imperial Court photographers, Berlin.
Little Wolfgang Julius with his father, Alexander Leander (Berlin, circa 1911)
It was, thus, absolutely normal that my father considered corporal punishment as a reliable and effective educational method. So, yes, I got spanked when my father, and my mother, thought a wrongdoing had to be corrected.
Obviously, being hit by a strong hand on my butt hurt me, and the utter helplessness that went with it touched deep layers of my soul. However, I won't forget that my father once told me, quite moved, that spanking me caused him much pain - an admission I then felt was sincere.
As much as my father wanted to give the impression of being 'tough' and what he thought to be 'manly', he was a sensitive and vulnerable human being who would not harm a fly. Hunting was to him, for example, a most brutal and senseless 'sport'. He accepted my spear-fishing because he probably thought that fish feel no pain.
My adolescence put a strain on our relationship which is what what typifies any father-son bond, no matter how close.
Yet, compared to most of my German friends who had seemingly insurmountable problems communicating with their fathers in an open manner, which was quite common in those days, I felt privileged to have a dad with whom I could discuss just about everything that went through the mind of a 15 year old youngster reaching puberty, and who was beginning to be intrigued about the metaphysical mysteries of our existence.
I could even entrust my dad with the most private emotional and sexual anxieties which, as I remember, could be overpowering occasionally. There was no subject that was taboo for me to talk about and seek his always comforting advice. In that respect, my father was a wonderful father. His compassionate understanding for human imperfections more than out-weighed his own short-comings.
I was 23 when my father died, and although I did not believe in God, not even then, I somehow hoped for a reunion in an after-life. That won't happen, as I now know. But I will carry the memory of my young old man alive in my heart until its last beat.
And I will keep missing him beyond....
After all, who am I to be so certain that there is no life after death?..... :-)
Also dann: Leb' wohl, mein lieber, guter Alter...


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The Best -- and Worst -- Movie Promos of the Week
"True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one." You can write that one down as one of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey's most memorable quotes, but the first clip from the highly anticipated December 14 release -- as well as the latest behind-the-scenes postproduction video -- were both trumped by four other pieces of Hobbit promotional material this week.
The Best Stuff
1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey IMAX Midnight Posters: Even as someone who isn't a diehard Hobbit/Lord of the Rings fan, I still want one of these to hang on my wall -- the Gollum one to be exact. But the best part about this quartet of posters is that they're for some of the franchise's most loyal followers, the ones with midnight IMAX tickets.
2. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Posters: Do you like pickles? I like pickles, so naturally a random poster of a pickle and only a pickle is going to catch my eye. But in all seriousness, this poster campaign for A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III is offbeat to the max, but in a striking way, making you wonder and raising intrigue.
3. Django Unchained Final Trailer: Check out number two in the Worst Stuff section and then come back to this one. Now this is how you recut a trailer! The final trailer for Django Unchained rocks some of the same imagery and styling of the other promo pieces, but tosses in some new footage and shows it off with a fresh perspective suggesting Django's got a lot to offer.
The Worst Stuff
1. Pacific Rim Kaiju Attack: I'm still all for found footage and disaster movies, but Pacific Rim's "Kaiju Attack" viral video looks way too familiar. In fact, it didn't make me curious about Guillermo del Toro's latest, rather just made me want to rewatch Cloverfield.
2. Texas Chainsaw 3D Trailer: The first trailer for Texas Chainsaw 3D wasn't half bad, which means this second trailer isn't in the bottom three because it's a poorly cut piece, but rather it's merely a shorter version of what we've already seen. At this point we know we're getting more Leatherface and we're excited for it, but with just about a month to go until the release, it's time to reveal what makes this installment stand out.
3. [REC] 4: Apocalypse Teaser: Making a highlight reel of footage from the first two films and calling it a teaser trailer for the fourth absolutely will not make me forget about the travesty that is [REC] 3: Genesis. Thanks to Shock Till You Drop for translating that closing tagline, but after [REC] 3 entirely uprooted and dismantled a particularly stable and effective horror franchise, "You know it and know the place. It's time to leave," is the last thing I want to hear.
What are your favorite and least favorite movie promos this week?
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Making a Case for Programmatic Interfaces in Existing Service Provider Networks – Going Beyond Software Defined Networks
The communications industry has come a long way from fixed, inflexible telephone service optimized for voice to dynamic IP-based connections offering converged voice, data, and video capabilities. Now, both residential and business users are increasingly more mobile and distributed, as are the cloud-based services, applications, and content they want to utilize. Service providers must therefore support a more diverse customer base with more distributed content and applications across multiple geographies, yet still maintain a secure, reliable, and consistent quality of experience regardless of device and physical location.
In the face of greater traffic demands and the risk of becoming lower-margin "commoditized pipes," network operators must react to three key challenges:
- Providing value-added capabilities that leverage the network's unique value to improve the customer experience by enabling dynamic interaction between underlying layers of the network infrastructure, and the application development environments that allow rapid creation of new services.
- Maintaining profitability by managing traffic growth – especially from video applications – while still ensuring that sufficient network capacity is available
- Creating new services (and hence new revenue) by teaming with content and application providers.
We recently introduced the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) framework to enable operators to capitalize on their existing network infrastructure while being able to add new technologies, services, and monetization opportunities. The Cisco ONE framework fully integrates an operator's underlying network infrastructure and services with application environments, allowing applications to talk to the infrastructure and the infrastructure to better respond to application requests. This facilitates new business models and allows apps developers to communicate directly to the network without having to understand all the underlying complexities and subsystems that compose it. The result is an evolutionary framework providing a variety of operational and business benefits.
Cisco's own David Ward recently posted a detailed explanation around Service Abstraction, Importance of Programmatic Interfaces, and Standards efforts to allow the Service Providers to augment their existing multivendor environment and participate in this new digital economy.
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Scientist proposes quantum über-battery
Ten times the energy density of lithium-ion
Boffins in Illinois believe they have figured out how to design a battery with ten times the energy density of the best of today's lithium-ion batteries.
Their challenge now: work out how to make the thing.
The design is called a "digital quantum battery" and it comes from University of Illinois Director of the Center for Complex Systems Research Alfred Hubler, who has written up his thoughts in a piece penned for the journal Complexity.
That battery incorporates a vast number of microscopic capacitors build from electrodes 10nm apart, separated by an insulator. According to Hubler, quantum effects, present because of nanometre scale of the capacitor, prevent the charge on one electrode jumping to the other when the electric field between the electrodes reaches a critical point.
The upshot: a capacitor that can hold a monster charge, relatively speaking. Build an array containing billions of these things and you have the makings of an über-battery for laptops, e-cars and the like.
Charging time would be several orders of magnitude quicker than is the case with today's lithium-ion power packs, Hubler reckons.
If all this is beginning to sound like the proverbial free lunch, it gets better. Hubler believes the manufacturing techniques used by the likes of Intel and AMD to make chips could be used to build these nanocapacitor arrays. A prototype could be built in a year, apparently, provided someone coughs up some cash to fund the research. ®
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What do you think when you see the name "American Rawhide"? If you are like me, you probably assume that it is made in the U.S.A. This is why I always, always, always check the back of the packaging to confirm it was american made, except for last night. Maybe it was the long day at work I had, or the freezing cold that was getting to me outside, but either way, I didn't. Victor and I went into the brand new Petco Unleashed on Western Ave. in Roscoe Village to check out their goods. We wanted to see the quality of products they carried in this concept store that began in 2009 in San Diego.
Usually my parents bring Maru her favorite from Michigan, but she was out and needed some. I just kept hearing Victor say "not those, they smell, these are American". I think this went on for a few minutes and up to the counter went. When I got home, I tore them open, threw away the receipt and tossed one to Maru. I then read the back of the packaging, USA Hide- Processed in Mexico. EKKK! I was not happy. Companies know the laws and how to manipulate wording that lets them to call it American Rawhide, because technically it is, though it was shipped to Mexico to be made. But with all of the recalls lately on pet sticks, treats, etc. I feel a little more comfortable buying U.S.A. made products.
I dug that receipt right out of the garbage (which you think would be clean, except I just poured food on it) and today they will be going back.
If you want to know exactly the quality of food you are getting, know your local pet store and please read the packaging every time very carefully.


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Kingdom Come – Rendered Waters (2011)
If you were a fan of hard rock in the late 80s, then you are most likely familiar with Kingdom Come. When their self titled debut was released in 1988, Kingdom Come was all over the radio. Unfortunately for the band, too many people thought that Led Zeppelin had reunited. It was a joke that still haunts the band to this day. It also takes away from the quality of their first two albums (Kingdom Come and In Your Face) which are two of the greatest hard rock albums released in the late 80s.
There is a huge problem with Kingdom Come's latest release, Rendered Waters, and it has nothing to do with the way the disc sounds. The music is quite incredible and long time fans will enjoy this album. However, the problem that stems from Rendered Waters is the band's decision to re-record tracks from previous albums and then add in some new songs. If the band wanted to release a greatest hits album, then they should have done it the proper way, by releasing the original versions of these classic songs.
To me, this decision is just plain lazy. A greatest hits album by Kingdom Come would be a welcome treat. A new album by Kingdom Come would be a welcome treat (especially after hearing the new tracks on Rendered Waters). However, the decision to re-record songs and release them now shows a lackadaisical attitude toward the fans.
As for the songs themselves, they are terrific. While I still prefer the original versions of songs like "Pushing Hard" and "Seventeen" the re-worked versions have a nice ring to them. Lenny Wolf is no longer the screamer from the 80s; his voice has mellowed with time. This provides new insight to the songs and adds some harmony that was not present on the original versions. That's not to say the new versions are better (or worse for that matter) they are just different takes on classic songs.
On "Pushing Hard" it's all too evident that Wolf can no longer hit the high notes like he did during his heyday. That doesn't mean the revamped version of this track sounds awful, because that is not true. However, if fans already own the earlier version, this reworked track does not add anything in the way of musical depth. The band would have been better served to just leave well enough alone.
The new tracks on the album are solid and only leaving you wanting more."Blue Tree"s is classic rock done in the modern style that sounds amazing. From the opening drum beats to the intense guitar work of Eric Foerster, this is a great song that shows the direction Kingdom Come's music is heading in. That direction is a welcome one. Wolf's voice is strong on this track and makes it obvious that the man is still an exceptional singer.
"Is It Fair" starts with a cool riff from Foerster that bleeds into the entire track. Foerster and Wolf show they are a great guitar tandem on this cut. The solo is intense and overall, "Is It Fair" is an enjoyable song. While the basic back beat of the tune is simple in structure, the overall combination of the band's ability to play great music with Wolf's vocals sounding as sweet as ever, make this a solid new song.
"Don't Remember" proves to be the shortest of all the songs on Rendered Waters, but that doesn't make it the weakest. A slow, melodic, powerful ballad, "Don't Remember" is another great new song added to Rendered Waters. Foerster's solo is an amazing treat and really ties the entire song together while showing off his incredible guitar playing ability. "Don't Remember" is a song that fans are bound to fall in love with.
Rendered Waters is like a visit with an old friend. The memories that you share are the same in theme, but the stories get a little longer and little more embellished, as is the case when any old friends get together. Hopefully for their next album, Kingdom Come will move forward and provide us with a full album of new material. That would be a true gift from an old friend.
Track Listing:
- Can't Deny
- The Wind
- Blue Trees
- Should I
- I've Been Trying
- Pushing Hard
- Seventeen
- Is It Fair
- Living Out Of Touch
- Don't Remember
- Break Down The Wall
Kingdom Come Is:
Lenny Wolf – Vocals/Guitar
Frank Binke – Bass
Eric Foerster – Guitar
Nader Rahy – Drums
Where is Steigy?


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Missoula Chicks n Chaps – Support This Breast Cancer Awareness Group
I've been to my share of rodeos in my lifetime. Rodeos are a Montana tradition. I have friends who barrel race, ride bulls and calf rope. I admire these people. Participating in rodeo is not easy, but Montanan's aren't known for doing things that are easy. It should be no surprise that a small group of Montanans who love rodeo would start a nonprofit to help people.
Chicks n Chaps is this nonprofit. It's goal is to "help women, men and the families who are fighting breast cancer." Chicks n Chaps is dedicated to providing support for the local community. So, here in Missoula, they are helping fight breast cancer and giving hope to others in Missoula.
Chicks n Chaps uses fundraising events to help generate money for its cause, and also contribute to Tough Enough to Wear Pink of Montana – which is a nonprofit that helps provide funding for breast cancer awareness, education, screening and support for Montanans.
One such fundraising event is taking place this New Year's Eve. You can join Chicks n Chaps in supporting local families fighting breast cancer by attending New Year's Eve Montana Style.
New Year's Eve Montana Style will feature a live band, great food and drinks, pink champagne, a roping station, a kiss cam, a bon fire with hot toddy and smore stations, and even a mechanical bull. This is an event that you don't want to miss. Not only will you be helping support the breast cancer fight, but you will have a great time doing it.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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Time for some shout-outs to deserving area stars.
�The teeming mass of Worcesterites who descend on Park Avenue each September for stART on the Street owes much gratitude to Tina Zlody and her devoted band of volunteers, who have managed to create the finest festival in Central Massachusetts. If you�ve never attended stART, you�re missing the magical transformation of a city street into a vibrant venue for artists, live music, food vendors and thousands of attendees who show up to shop, eat, meet and delight in the energy on the street.
I spotted Zlody near the Pleasant Street side of Park Avenue, and moments later saw her on the Highland Street side, which led me to suspect that she�s cloned herself. This one-woman dynamo and her crew do a magnificent job; hats off to everyone.
�Speaking of hats � One day long, long ago, I scored a hat trick playing varsity field hockey for Notre Dame Academy, in the last game of my high school career. The hat trick was a fluke, as I wasn�t terribly skilled at the sport and had only played as a senior to get in shape for basketball, but I choose to boast, regardless.
Our coach was a wisp of a woman fresh out of college. Her name was Patty Provost and she had arrived at NDA in 1975, when we were sophomore athletes and accustomed to firm reminders before all games that we were ladies of Notre Dame Academy. Suffice to say, such a reminder wasn�t a high priority for our passionate new coach, who would revolutionize sports at the all-girls� Catholic school.
Last Friday, Provost recorded her 500th field hockey victory, a milestone achieved with just 57 seconds left in a game against Burncoat High. Over 36 years at NDA, where she also serves as athletic director, Provost has racked up 13 district championships and four state titles. Last year she was inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Perhaps more importantly, Provost helped shape the character and instill a love of competition in hundreds of young women, myself among them. Congratulations, coach, and thanks for the great memories.
�Say what you want about the controversial decision of U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf to order sex-reassignment surgery to a convicted murderer, but you have to admire a judge who rules by the law and could give a fig about popular opinion, and the firestorm he knew would follow.
�Finally, let�s give a shout-out to the square dancers I unfairly maligned last week in a column about a dead skunk, who was also unfairly maligned, according to the surprising number of weasel lovers among my readership.
Last Thursday I recounted the tale of a Southbridge man who trapped a skunk in his garden and, fearful of getting sprayed, left it to die after six days and was charged with animal cruelty.
I should stress that I don�t consider the slow demise of any animal at all funny. But I do believe it�s ludicrous to charge this guy with a crime, and I may have made some jokes that I considered rather amusing, until many angry readers pointed out that I happen to be an idiot.
Also in the column, I made a passing derogatory reference to square dancers, and have since received a nice letter from Maurice �Moe� Bracken of the Hayloft Steppers Square Dance Club of 232 Podunk Road (no, I�m not making that up) in Sturbridge.
�Not only is square dancing alive and well � but its practitioners are mostly highly educated and hard working family people, certainly not �rednecks,� � he wrote. �To help you overcome your bias, may I invite you to attend one of our frequent dances ��
I would love to drive to Podunk Road for an evening of square dancing, Mr. Bracken, but those are the nights I volunteer at the Animal Rescue League. Darn it! Please allow a public apology to suffice.


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The Elephant In The Room
Did you know that "seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucinations?
By that logic, I guess seeing dead pink elephants is a euphemism for "the hangover to end all hangovers."
Of course, there are degrees of hangovers, as anyone who's woken up next to a minstrel monkey in Prague can attest. Here I've compiled a handy reference guide to help you decipher what might have happened last night.
If you see this:
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And finally, if you see this:
Jessica, Georgia F., Emily H., Candace & Travis, Victoria, James E., & Yvonne W., here's to a sweetly "wreck-less" new year.
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes to the Germans, is an independent 1972 German film written and directed by Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski stars in the title role. The soundtrack was composed and performed by German progressive/Krautrock band Popol Vuh. The fame of Aguirre has continued to grow since its release. Its visual style and narrative elements had a strong influence on Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
Several critics have declared the film a masterpiece.
Aguirre belongs to the genre of adventure but more closer in spirit to Greed than to Kurasowa's Seven Samurai.
Plot Synopsis
Framed The 1650-51 expedition of Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro (Alejandro Repulles) comes stuck in the thick, impenetrable jungles of Peru. As a last-ditch effort to locate treasure, Pizarro orders a party to scout ahead for signs of El Dorado, the fabled seven cities of gold. In command are a trio of nobles, Pedro de Ursua (Ruy Guerra), Fernando de Guzman (Peter Berling), and Lope de Aguirre (Kinski). Traveling by river raft, the explorers are besieged by hostile natives, disease, starvation and treacherous waters. Crazed with greed and mad with power, Aguirre takes over the enterprise, slaughtering any that oppose him. If Greed had Death valley and thirst to drive the last nail on the greed of McTague and Marcus, in Aguirre we have Nature and Aguirre's own nature: his unquenchable thirst for glory. Using a minimalist story and dialogue, the film creates a vision of madness and folly, played out in the heart of a lush but unforgiving Amazonian jungle.
Don Lope de Aguirre: I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I'll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen. Who but a madman will speak this while we see him in charge of nothing but a raft of corpses and chattering monkeys.
(ack: Karl Williams-all movie)
Herzog's films are personal in his manner of myth making: use of a striking imagery which connects at different points in the film gives his visual narrative certain unity. For example the valley in Crete with its hundreds of rotating windmills in Signs of Life (1967) or the camera tracking the lonely Aguirre on his raft in the backwaters of the Amazon jungle. That brings me to his landscape which becomes a kind of reference point, a moral coda to the inner workings of man as in Aguirre. Landscape and the mindscape are brought together and the ethereal score of Popol Vuh sustains the mood.
Memorable quotes
Don Lope de Aguirre: That man is a head taller than me. That may change.
Don Lope de Aguirre: Perucho, don't you think the cannon might be a little bit rusty?
Perucho: It might.
Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water… more than his ration, will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees… then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of god. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches. But whoever deserts…
[last lines]
Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the wrath of God. Who else is with me?
Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the wrath of God.
Okello: [Hallucinating] That is no ship. That is no forest.
[Arrow hits him]
Okello: That is no arrow. We just imagine the arrows because we fear them.
Directed by Werner Herzog
Produced by Werner Herzog
Hans Prescher
Written by Werner Herzog
Music by Popol Vuh
Cinematography Thomas Mauch
Editing by Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Release date(s) December 29, 1972
Running time 100 min
Country West Germany
Language English/German
Budget US$370,000
Similar Movies
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Mosquito Coast (1986, Peter Weir)
El Dorado (1988, Carlos Saura)
Cobra Verde (1988, Werner Herzog)
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (1996, Paul Seydor)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001, Francis Ford Coppola)
Last of the Dogmen (1995, Tab Murphy)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992, Ridley Scott)
The Desert Within (2008, Rodrigo Plá)
Movies with the Same Personnel
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
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Signs of Life (1968, Werner Herzog)
Burden of Dreams (1982, Les Blank)
Woyzeck (1978, Werner Herzog)
Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)
Heart of Glass (1976, Werner Herzog)
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is related to: Woyzeck (1978, Werner Herzog)
My Best Fiend (1999, Werner Herzog)
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* Although the opening titles claim the film was based on "the diary of the monk Gaspar de Carvajal", director Werner Herzog has stated that there is no historical basis for the story and that the monk's diary was invented to lend it more credence. However, a diary of Carvajal does in fact exist, but Carvajal was not part of any expedition with Aguirre, but rather part of one 20 years earlier to the interior.
* Near the end of the shooting, Werner Herzog thought he had lost all the negatives that the film was shot on. He later discovered that the shipping agency at the Lima airport had completed all paperwork that accompanied the transportation of the film cans, but had not actually shipped them. The cans were thought lost for several weeks before the oversight was revealed.
* Many of the scenes depicted in the film were unrehearsed and unstaged. Herzog did not storyboard a single frame of the film. All of it was shot and framed spontaneously.
* Werner Herzog claims to have written the screenplay in two and a half days.
* During one scene set in a native village, Klaus Kinski hits one of the crewmen over the head with his sword. The blow nearly killed the man, and only his helmet saved his life.
* Klaus Kinski claimed at one time that while filming the final scene, he was actually bitten by some of the monkeys.
* Ranked #46 on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time"
* This was the first Werner Herzog film with Klaus Kinski. It was the start of an extremely stormy, and sometimes violent, professional relationship that lasted 15 years,
* The complete crew comprised only eight people.
* Klaus Kinski …. Lope de Aguirre
* Helena Rojo …. Inez de Atienza
* Ruy Guerra …. Don Pedro de Ursúa
* Del Negro …. Brother Gaspar de Carvajal
* Peter Berling …. Don Fernando de Guzman
* Cecilia Rivera …. Florés de Aguirre
* Daniel Ades …. Perucho
* Edward Roland …. Okello
* Armando Polanah …. Armando
* Alejandro Repullés …. Gonzalo Pizarro
* Justo González …. González
(ack:all movie,imdb.wikipedia, Ingo Petzke)
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Jubilee observances are part of the economic legislation of the Old Testament (Leviticus 25; Deuteronomy 15:1-18). Related themes include the cycles of sabbath days (Exodus 20:8-11) and years Leviticus 25:1-7). The jubilee year capped seven cycles of sabbatical years. On Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) of the jubilee year a ram's horn was sounded as a fourfold call to: (a) liberation of slaves; (b) cancellation of debts; (c) cessation of agriculture for one year; and (d) education for a spiritual democracy through study of the Scriptures (Torah).
Biblical scholars disagree whether the jubilee was actually practiced. Evidence of this observance is found in Nehemiah 5:1-13, Jeremiah 34:8-22, and Ezekiel 46:16-18. A key prophetic text with jubilee themes is Isaiah 61:12. This text Jesus of Nazareth applied to himself in his home synagogue (Luke 4:16-19) in A.D. 26-27, which, according to calculations by Andre Trocmé, was a sabbatical year. Some scholars also view the "all things in common" texts (Acts 2:43-47 and 4:32-37) as jubilee-inspired observances of the early church. Paul's concept of "mutual aid" (2 Corinthians 8:13-14) may also reflect jubilee influences.
The jubilee was not a major observance in the Western (Roman) church, with the hierarchy of church leaders (excepting the monastic orders) accumulating worldly power and wealth. The Roman Catholic church did maintain the prohibition against usury (requiring excessive interest on loans).
Protestant Reformation leaders (Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer, and Ulrich Zwingli) all abandoned the usury prohibitions. They were maintained only by the Anabaptists. The Swiss Brethren and South German Anabaptists practiced mutual aid, while the Hutterian Brethren practiced having all things in common. Among 20th century Mennonites, only the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Holdeman), group rejects giving and taking interest (business, economics, investments).
The 1970s and 1980s saw a resurgence of attention by North American Mennonite scholars to the jubilee themes. The General Conference Mennonite Church declared 1975 to be the ninth jubilee since the origin of Anabaptism in 1525. Observances occurred at Bethel College (Ks.), and in a number of congregations. In 1987 the Sabbatical Voluntary Service theme was a current jubilee-inspired application sponsored by the Mennonite Central Committee Canada.
North, Robert. The Sociology of the Biblical Jubilee, Analecta Biblica: Investigationes Scientificae in Res Biblicas 4. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1954.
Trocmé, Andre. Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution, trans. Michael H. Shank and Marlin E. Miller. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1973; originally published in French, 1961.
Yoder, John Howard. The Politics of Jesus. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972: 34-41, 64-77.
Klassen, Peter James. The Economics of Anabaptism 1525-1560. The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1964: 29-49, 66-67, 90, 105.
Hiebert, Clarence. The Holdeman People: The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, 1859-1969. South Pasadena, CA.: William Carey Library, 1973: 472-79.
Blosser, Don. "Jesus and the Jubilee - Luke 4: 16-30: the Year of Jubilee and Its Significance in the Gospel of Luke." PhD diss., St. Andrews, U., Scotland, 1979.
Driver, John. "The Jubilee Legislation of Moses and the Historical/Political Situation of Jesus." Church and Peace Quarterly Report (Schoeffengrund, West Germany) vol. 2, no. 1 (January 1980): 13-21.
Habegger, David. "The Year of Jubilee." Mennonite (11 February 1975): 81-83.
Hull, Robert. "Sabbatical Service." Mennonite (27 January 1981): 49-51, (3 February 1981): 68-69.
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Hull, Robert. "Jubilee." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Web. 23 Sep 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jubilee&oldid=88434.
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Hull, Robert. (1989). Jubilee. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 23 September 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jubilee&oldid=88434.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, pp. 468-469. All rights reserved.
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Stalberg could return for Blackhawks in Game 3by Corey Masisak / Chicago Blackhawks
When asked if Viktor Stalberg could play Monday night, Quenneville responded, "He could play." When other coaches say something like that, it is usually them trying to be coy about their plans. Quenneville's track record suggests that "could play" is very often code for "will play."
Stalberg was a healthy scratch for the first two games of the Cup Final. It was the second time he's been scratched during the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. He was also held out of the lineup in Games 1 and 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Detroit Red Wings.
While Bryan Bickell has elevated his stock as a pending unrestricted free agent with a great postseason, Stalberg, also a pending UFA, has no goals and three points in 15 playoff games. He had nine goals and 23 points in 47 games as a fixture on the team's third line.
Brandon Bollig has played in Stalberg's place the past two games. Quenneville commended his play after both contests. He had nine hits in Game 1, but it was Bollig's turnover along the wall in his own end that led to the game-winning goal for the Bruins in Game 2.
"I thought he was fine," Quenneville said of Bollig after a 2-1 overtime loss in Game 2 on Saturday night. "I thought he had two good games. That line, didn't get them out there much in overtime. Every time they were out there, they were a threat to score, had a lot of offensive zone time. They got the one shift, around the wall, we didn't get there in time. Bang, bang."
While Bollig is a big, physical player, Stalberg is one of the swiftest-skating members of the Blackhawks, and Quenneville felt his team "stopped skating" after the first period in Game 2. Stalberg would be expected to add a jolt of speed to counter the patient, physical Bruins.