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Sometimes a girl just needs a little something Italian. At least this girl does.
My favorite cookbook for recipes that are pretty simple is Giada De Laurentiis' "Everyday Italian." There are so many great dishes to choose from but Chicken Piccata is the choice for this adventure.
I've only made this dish one other time and it was an interrupted meal. With the food still cooking on the stove, I received a phone call that a relative's house had been destroyed by a tornado. The Chicken Piccata went into the fridge and was finished later. Needless to say, it didn't turn out as it should have.
This time around, thankfully, there were no interruptions, except for the one time I had to stop and chase Boo the Labrador around the house because he stole the butter wrapper out of the trash can. Like most of us, he has an unhealthy attachment to butter.
The recipe is pretty straight forward and the directions are easy to follow so I didn't make any changes to the preparation method.
One item some might not be familiar with is capers. Usually about the size of a pea, capers are the bud of the plant. Some varieties grow to the size of an olive.
Capers usually are pickled and are found in the grocery aisle near pickles and olives. More expensive brands can be found in the Italian food section. I just used the basic, cheaper version.
One change I made was in plating the dish. Instead of pouring the sauce over the chicken I placed a large spoonful on the plate and placed the chicken on top of it. When you are serving a dish to guests and are not sure if it meets their particular tastes, placing the meat on top of the sauce is a better way of serving it. That way guests can get a taste of the sauce, and if they like it can add more. If it doesn't meet their taste, this plating method doesn't smother meat.
This night I invited my mom over to dinner. Because mom is a fan of Italian, the dish suited her.
The Chicken Piccata was paired with bread, salad and light pasta tossed with olive oil, seasonings and parmesan cheese.
Chicken Piccata often is served over pasta, risotto or vegtable ribbons that look like noodles.
Any way you fix it, Chicken Piccata is delicious.
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Chicken Piccata
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, halved crosswise
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
All- purpose flour, for dredging
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (from about two lemons)
1/4 cup drained capers, rinsed
2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper. Dredge the chicken in the flour to coat lightly and set aside. In a large sauté pan, melt two tablespoons of butter with two tablespoons of oil over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook just until brown, about 3 minutes per side. Using tongs, transfer the chicken to a plate.
Add the broth, lemon juice and capers to the same pan. Bring the broth mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, scraping up the brown bits from the bottom of the pan for extra flavor. Return the chicken to the pan and simmer until just cooked through, about five minutes. Using tongs, transfer the chicken to a platter.
Whisk the remaining two tablespoons of butter into the sauce. Pour the sauce over the chicken, garnish with parsley and serve.
Recipe from "Everyday Italian" by Giada De Laurentiis.
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After releasing a handful of singles, Modest Mouse went into the studio with Johnson as producer to record an EP, The Fruit That Ate Itself, but by the time it was released, the group had already moved on to another Northwest-based indie label, Up Records. Released in 1996, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, produced in collaboration with Steve Wold (who would find fame a few years later as grizzled blues hobo Seasick Steve), was Modest Mouse's first proper album, and received enthusiastic reviews in the independent music press. In 1997, Modest Mouse returned with The Lonesome Crowded West, which earned more positive press and was a considerable sales success by indie label standards, supported by extensive touring. As Modest Mouse's following grew, they were courted by major-label scouts, and they eventually signed with Epic Records, who released The Moon & Antarctica in 2000. A collection of demos and session outtakes, Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks, was issued in 2001, and Brock released an album with his side project Ugly Casanova in 2002. In 2003, it was announced that drummer Green had left Modest Mouse; Benjamin Weikel of the Helio Sequence became the group's new percussionist (he also doubled on keyboards), and Dann Gallucci, who had been a guest guitarist on the sessions for Sad Sappy Sucker and The Lonesome Crowded West, became an official member of the band.
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, in Manhattan. He was the only child of Herbert Sondheim, the proprietor of a dress manufacturing company, and Etta Janet (Fox) Sondheim, the chief designer for the company. He exhibited an early interest in music and first took piano lessons at approximately age seven. As he approached adolescence, he made the acquaintance of lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, who became his mentor. In high school, he began writing amateur musicals, continuing his apprenticeship while attending Williams College. Upon graduation, he won the Hutchinson Prize, a fellowship that he spent studying composition with Milton Babbitt. The show that should have marked his Broadway debut as a composer/lyricist was Saturday Night, but financing for it fell apart when its producer suddenly died.
The score for Saturday Night served as Sondheim's audition piece, and it got him a job writing lyrics to the music of Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story, which opened September 26, 1957, and ran 981 performances. But the lasting popularity of the show must be ascribed to the film version, which opened in 1961. The soundtrack album spent over a year at number one, selling over three million copies. Among the many re-recordings of the entire score, notable are a Grammy-winning studio cast version conducted by Bernstein that was released in 1985 and the various-artists album The Songs of West Side Story, which went gold in 1996. West Side Story was revived on Broadway in 1964, 1968, 1980, and 2009.
Sondheim next agreed to write lyrics to Jule Styne's music for Gypsy, based on the memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and starring Ethel Merman. It opened May 21, 1959, and ran 702 performances. The cast recording reached the Top Ten and won the Grammy for Best Show Album. When a movie version appeared in 1962, the soundtrack album made the Top Ten. Gypsy was revived on Broadway in 1974, 1989, 2003, and 2008.
Sondheim finally got his chance to write both words and music for Broadway with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, based on the comic plays of Plautus and starring Zero Mostel. Forum opened on May 8, 1962, and ran 964 performances. A movie version appeared in 1966. Forum was revived on Broadway in 1972 and 1996. Sondheim's next show, Anyone Can Whistle, was a quick flop when it opened on April 4, 1964, running only nine performances. He returned to writing only lyrics when he collaborated with Richard Rodgers on Do I Hear a Waltz?, which opened on March 18, 1965, and ran 220 performances.
Sondheim went nearly five years without being represented on Broadway with another show. During this period, he worked on Follies, a musical about a reunion of women who had appeared in a Ziegfeld Follies-style revue. But it was preceded by Company, based on a series of short plays about affluent middle-aged couples. Called the first "concept" musical, Company was organized around the character of a bachelor celebrating his 35th birthday and pondering marital commitment. It was called a "concept" musical because there was no linear plot, but rather a series of scenes and songs organized around the subject of marriage. When it opened on April 26, 1970, Company enjoyed a profitable run of 690 performances. It was recorded for a cast album that won the Grammy Award for Best Show Album. Company also garnered Sondheim his first Tony Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. The show was revived on Broadway in 1995 and 2006. Follies followed, opening on April 4, 1971. Although it failed to turn a profit, it ran 522 performances and gave Sondheim his second consecutive win for Best Score at the Tonys. The cast album provided only an abbreviated sense of the 22 songs the composer wrote, and in 1985 producer Thomas Z. Shepard organized a concert performance of Follies to give the score a more complete recording. When Follies in Concert was released, it won the Grammy for Best Show Album. Follies was revived on Broadway in 2001.
Sondheim followed the experimental Company and Follies with a more conventional musical, based on Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film comedy Smiles of a Summer Night. As A Little Night Music, it opened on February 25, 1973, and became a hit, running 601 performances and winning Sondheim the Best Score Tony for the third consecutive year. The cast LP won the Grammy for Best Show Album. After Judy Collins scored a Top 40 hit with the show's melancholy ballad "Send in the Clowns," it won the Song of the Year Grammy for 1975. A Little Night Music was adapted into a movie that opened in 1978. In 2009, it was given its first Broadway revival.
Having succeeded with a conventional show, Sondheim turned to his most experimental effort yet, Pacific Overtures. It was another concept musical, this time about the opening of Japan in the 1850s. Pacific Overtures opened on January 11, 1976, and closed after 193 performances. In 2004, a production that had originated in Japan transferred to Broadway. Sweeney Todd, based on the old Grand Guignol story of "the demon barber of Fleet Street," a serial killer in Dickensian London who sliced the throats of his customers, was Sondheim's next unexpected inspiration for a musical. It opened on March 1, 1979, and ran 557 performances. Sondheim won another Tony for Best Score and another Grammy for the Best Show Album. The show was revived on Broadway in 1989 and 2005. A movie version was released in 2007.
The musical Sondheim moved to next was an adaptation of the play Merrily We Roll Along, which examines the decline of an idealistic young man into a sellout, using the unusual structure of moving backward in time. It became Sondheim's biggest commercial failure since Anyone Can Whistle when it opened on November 16, 1981, running only 16 performances. Nevertheless, he became no less experimental with his next musical, Sunday in the Park with George, a show based on a painting, Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It opened on May 2, 1984, and ran 604 performances, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The cast album won the Grammy for Best Show Album. A 2005 London revival transferred to Broadway in 2008. Into the Woods, the next Sondheim musical, was based on a series of fairy tales. It opened on November 5, 1987, and ran 764 performances. Yet again, Sondheim won the Tony Award for Best Score and the Grammy for Best Show Album. The show was revived on Broadway in 2002.
Sondheim wrote three songs that were sung in the 1990 film Dick Tracy by Madonna, among them "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)," which won the Academy Award for Best Song. He next worked up a one-act musical with another unusual subject, the assassins and would-be assassins of American presidents. Assassins premiered off-Broadway in January 1991. It finally ran on Broadway in 2004. Next came Passion, based on the film Passion d'Amour. It opened on May 9, 1994, and ran 280 performances, winning Sondheim another Tony for Best Score and another Grammy for Best Show Album.
By 1995, Sondheim was at work on a musical about the brothers Wilson and Addison Mizner, the former a con man and playwright, the latter an architect. It progressed slowly. As Bounce, the show finally appeared in regional productions in 2003. As Road Show, it ran off-Broadway in 2008. ~ William Ruhlmann
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He somehow knows exactly how to make a musical that entrances me, where I'm not measuring the actors' talent or judging the blocking. Price of watching too many musicals (there really can't be too many though)
But I have never been distracted by little things in his musicals.
there has to be some sort of magic involved here
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Damn, am I the only Pole in the world? I feel so… lonely
P.s. Polacy nie gesi, swoj jezyk maja
I also think we need more Poles. They have the world's most beautiful woman!
My wife is Polish/Ukrainian, and she may or may not have a gun to my head…
KingDog said
I also think we need more Poles. They have the world's most beautiful woman! My wife is Polish/Ukrainian, and she may or may not have a gun to my head…
That's right!! Polish women are sooo beautiful, and it's hard to pick them up but foreigners don't think so…
Congratulations, give my regards to your wife
Don't know why, but our countrymen really like to hide themselves on ThemeForest.
I think there are a lot of Polish composers here, I had the pleasure to talk with a few of them at least I'm just not sure if any of us made to become a top author yet.
Well, as for the girls, if not only Polish people think our ladies are so beautiful, we just might make one of future Envato meetings in Poland In about 2 years, my city will finish an awesome conventions centre which would be a perfect place for such a meeting:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-4xpmlG2kM
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[...] I'm just not sure if any of us made to become a top author yet. [...]
There're many polish top authors on other marketplaces (mainly ThemeForest).
Wow… It has changed a lot since I started this thread (including my avatar LOL :D). I think that my question is no longer valid, there is quite a few of us here, and it's so strange, cuz there are no musical roots in our wonderful country …
BTW IMO Euro12 was perfect opportunity to meetup, everything is gone now, there is only snow and cold here
When I uploaded my first track about a month ago I didn't expect such an pleasant feedback from other Junglers, especially from other Polish musicians. That's amazing – you can expand your musical horizons by listening to loads of talentful people from around the world, craft your skills as composer, get inspired by others and meet someone from your country.
I'm not Polish, but I'm Korean living in Poland for a long time:)
I´m not exactly from Poland, but we are neighbors
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by snoopy, Aug 29, 2013.
I don't know the reference, but that still made me laugh
Rexy knows what I'm talking about.
And I agree with agal's analysis. My cats never respond to any of my hare-brained schemes with "What are you doing THAT for??"
Unbelievable post.
I totally disagree and have to ask, how many animals have you raised and how close are you to them?
Dogs require major lifestyle and behaviour changes - more than cats- particularly if you get a puppy. And any pet owner who doesn't consider the needs of the pet much is not a responsible pet owner. But cats do require changes as well. We got our cat about one year ago and that required me to put away a vase of peacock feathers that was sitting on the floor because the cat would ruin it. No, not a big deal, in itself, but now that we have a new puppy as well, the carpets have to be rolled up so he won't chew them. The house has to be puppy proofed, which means no shoes on the floor, no food within puppy's reach, and so on. In the meantime, the cat has made a mess of the chairs in my office with his claws (fortunately not leather). Oh, and I have to try and keep the cat in at night, because it is best for cats not to be on the prowl - another focus.
And then, there is the discipline and attention that a puppy requires on a daily basis, for obedience and housebreaking. It requires significant lifestyle changes on the part of the owner. We dedicated most of the last six weeks to our new puppy and only now are starting to leaving him for short periods of time. As the pup has separation anxiety, it will be slow working up to leaving him for a number of hours. I can't just go out whenever I want, for as long as I want.
The puppy wakes us up earlier than we like, which means a change to our routines, and for a number of years, his exercise will be part of our daily routines, regardless of the weather. He's a golden retriever - an energetic, athletic dog - and will need several outings a day.
I also have to say my relationships with my animals are not one-sided. Animals have emotions, personalities, intelligence and interests. They interact with people and other animals. Dogs especially are social animals.
I agree that animals' lack of judgment is a reason we love them so much and enjoy their company.
And would add that animals' honesty is reason I enjoy their company more than some humans. Animals don't play mind games and don't pretend to be anything they are not. They don't lie and they don't hide their feelings behind a veneer of pretense.
Plus, they live in the moment. Something humans only aspire to do, often through countless hours of meditation.
My dogs (and cats, to a lesser extent) have shared their joy of life with me. And it is interesting to observe dogs in a social situation. They really get along with each other better than humans do, in general, and there is much to be learned from them (not that we humans will ever enjoy sniffing each others bottoms).
All of my pets have been cherished companions. I have enjoyed their company and they have enriched my life immensely.
I don't like animals more than humans. But I agree they are easier to deal with than humans. Not to mention generally cuter! Lol
I find them easier because I do not have to view them as my equal.
If you have a cat, just make sure you don't tell him/her and turn his/her world upside down!!
Not only that, the cat would know you are deluded.
You cannot apply a word like "honesty" to animals. Animals (with the possible exception of chimpanzees) lack the capacity to be honest or dishonest. Neither do they have the capacity to pretend anything, or to tell lies. This is just sentimental anthropomorphism.
While that is true to a point, I think most of the posts in this thread rather prove agalisgv's point--people keep saying that animals aren't judgmental, for example.
There are two ways to look at that--one is that animals accept you as you are and that's a wonderful thing. But the other is that animals accept you as you are and that's maybe not such a wonderful thing.
Does no one else see any irony in saying things like "People suck! Animals never judge!"
Well, anyway, yes, humans will judge you. A pet will never tell you to get your finances in order, take your meds, stop feeling sorry for yourself, get a second job, go back to school or clean the bathroom, for god's sake. A dog won't care if you get an F, screw up at work, miss a rent payment or blow your paycheck on a spray tan, and your cat will still purr for you even if you run up your credit cards, tell lies, let the laundry pile up or go to bed drunk every night. That one night stand that should never have been? That project you didn't get done at work? Those big plans you had when you were younger that never panned out? Your pets don't care; as long as their simple needs are met, life is fine.
Again, there are two ways to look at that. It's wonderful to have a pet to curl up with when you are miserable or feeling sorry for yourself; it's another, at least IMO, to consider your pet your primary source of emotional validation.
But isn't that kind of what we all love about our pets? Not what they are, but all the things we read into them?
A lot of people in this thread seem to be doing that, so maybe you're right that most (though not all) people do that. I have no pets now as they're too much of a tie and a hassle, but when we had a cat, I always just thought of her as a cat. Don't think I gave her any human qualities.
I see my dog as a dog, but I also see more and more people who see their pets as children, family members, best friends, etc.
I don't think it's possible to see your pet in that light without engaging in some anthropomorphism.
Yes, I agree.
Behavioral science indicates many, maybe all, animals do indeed have emotions (and not just chimpanzees). Pet owners cue into this very well. While we do anthropomorphize them, there are emotions and personality in each animal that we recognize. Some people are more attuned to this than others and they are the ones most likely to both have pets and to study their behavior. I see my dogs as dogs because to do otherwise isn't fair to the dog. I am also sensitive to their emotions and they are to mine as well. Dogs are especially good at sensing human emotions and that's one of the reasons for the domestication of the dog and the long interwoven history between humans and dogs. And the types of dog burials we find in archaeological context indicates that the anthropomorphization occurred millennia ago as well as the "familial" connections between humans and animals.
Sure, I'm prepared to believe that some animals have intelligence and emotions, particularly dogs, some (perhaps all, I don't know) cetaceans, the great apes, pigs and various others, but most of the world's animals are insects. And the thread title says "animals", not "pets" or "dogs". I doubt that many people value insects above humans. As for the idea that invertebrates have emotions, here's an interesting article about bees and emotion: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-bees-have-feelings
rfisher, I'm aware that you know far more about this than I do and probably more than anyone else here, so it would be interesting to read your thoughts on this.
My particular interest is in cetaceans and primates. The problem is how do we measure or even assess emotion in other species. There is a lot of research being done with both cetaceans and primates and the research indicates there is so much we don't know due to a for lack of better words, a failure to communicate. The more cetacean research understands about the ways they communicate with each other, and most will use the terms language now, the more we realize how little we know or understand about other species. When in grad school, I convinced my linguistics prof to let me write my research paper on cetacean language. I hated linguistics and was trying to find something to write about that didn't make me want to poke a fork in my eyes. It took a lot of persuading to overcome his skepticism, but I did and got a grudging admission that maybe anthropology needed to look beyond its field. And, I got an A on the paper. This was over 10 years ago and there have been much advancement in the mean time. I just read a new paper on tool use by an octopus which is the first observation in a non-mammalian species. So, if other, not just species but entirely different orders of animals exhibit deliberate use of tools, a trait once thought exclusive to humans, the possession of other mental abilities can no longer be dismissed out of hand. We simply don't know.
Even when I am frustrated, ready to scream, hit them, or tear my hair out because of something stupid my animals did, I can remind myself that they do not know any better and they are not doing it deliberately.
As far as coworkers and customers go....rarely can I use that excuse. They're either doing it deliberately or they don't know any better despite having the capacity to know better. That is vastly more annoying than my dog peeing on the floor because he just can't hold it any more.
Don't tell that to the pooches featured on Dog Shaming -- their guilty faces (most of the time) say it all .
The faces of the kitties featured on Cat Shaming, however, tell an entirely different story -- there's a lot of , , , , and regarding their transgressions .
Cute is a good point. We shouldn't underestimate the cute factor. It is probably not to dissimilar to the pretty girl who can get old men to help her steal bikes. Cuter people can get away with behavior not cute people can't. It would also explain, to orientalplanes point, why we don't often try to make insects and cows pets. And even with the pet category, the cuter cats get adopted first.
I recall a video of a herd of elephants finding the bones of a departed herd member. They caressed the bones gently with their trunks and seemed to be mourning the passing of a family member.
Family members and friends don't have to be humans. It is entirely possible to have a close and loving relationship with an animal while recognizing that the animal isn't human.
But if any of the above impinge on your capacity to care for your animal, it will impact their lives. You need money to feed it and pay vet bills. If you go to school or get a second job, you will need to consider your dogs need's for exercise and socialization - and IMO cats should not be left alone for 12 hours of the day, either. If you get evicted because you don't pay your rent - perhaps got fired because of that project you didn't get done - you need to find a place that accepts your pets.
Granted, cats are easier than dogs. But I would not describe the needs of my dog as a simple, not at all.
Some people love and bond with animals more than others. And so what if they find companionship and comfort in their animals? This doesn't mean there is something 'wrong' with them. And if they anthropomorphize a bit, so what? People often do that just in good fun (i.e. dressing pets up for Halloween). And what a non-animal lover might consider anthropomorphism, someone closer to animal might see as fact. For example, I called my last golden retriever an 'extrovert' and she was exactly that. And when I said she 'wiggled her bottom and batted her eyelashes', it was also true. Though it certainly could appear to be anthropomorphism. She knew how to work her eyes to get people to do what she wanted (play fetch) and wiggled her bottom a lot because she was a happy, excited dog. She could present her ball or stick to 100 strangers and 99 of them would do her bidding and throw it for her.
I'll add that I find love of animals to be an attribute that connects me with people. The people I want to spend time with are usually interested in my pets and enjoy going for walks with me and my dogs.
Further, there is a lot of research suggesting that people with animals live longer, healthier lives - some studies are based on blood pressure. I'm not going to cite a bunch of studies and dissect their validity. The happiness that therapy dogs bring to seniors in nursing homes is evidence in itself. I volunteered with my dog for a year at a nursing home and it was amazing to see the joy she brought some folks. And the joy that children find in animals is also very precious.
Anyone who doubts that animals have emotions should read the book 'When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals'.
Why, yes, Japanfan, your family can be whatever you want it to be. My point had nothing at all to do with what constitutes a legitimate family connection.
And your pet will still not judge you for any of it, nor will your pet nag you all about your inadequacies. Which was my point.
I've had dogs all my life. And I think their needs are simple relative to the needs of people (the subject at hand).
They should be shot on sight. Really, where did I say that people shouldn't find companionship or comfort in their animals????? That's one of the great benefits of having a pet.
I guess it depends on how you define 'simple'. Some family members and friends are high maintenance and/or very needy, but a lot of people - adults- take care of their own needs for the most part. They are not dependents, as animals are.
I would never describe the needs of my dogs as 'simple'. One was elderly, diabetic and blind for four years. She was a 'high needs' dog and we had to do all that a diabetic person would do or have done to him/her in terms of testing her blood sugar and trying to regulate her. It was far from an easy and simple task. Unlike a person, she couldn't test herself or tell us that her blood sugar level was crashing. We would never have kept her for four years without being very dedicated and having the help of a 'pets with diabetes' forum. It was hard to regulate her - we thought she was down for the count a number of times - and we couldn't leave her with anyone to take a trip (well, we did leave her once with the vet for two days to attend a family wedding, but she was miserable and got a stomach bug).
Now I'm training up a new puppy. His needs for socialization, exercise, company and training are far from simple. Granted, the level of training a dog needs depends on the type of activities one wants to do with one's dog. Some dogs just run free and/or go for daily walks with their owner, or live free outside in a pack, like farm dogs. But the training needs and demands of a working dog such as a seeing eye or police service dog are huge.
Cats are easier than dogs, which is why they are the most popular pet.
And human children obviously are more demanding than animals and the rearing of them a longer and more complex process. However, I still wouldn't describe my dogs' needs as simple in comparison, particularly the first year of a dog's life.
I agree that animals can be work - since I witness people put work into animals that they would be unwilling or begrudgingly do for humans. and that was the original question. So explaining that animals are emotional doesn't explain it since humans are emotional. It is more likely that because animals have simpler emotions do we treat them better than humans.
I don't think an adult has to be high maintenance to be more complex and demanding than a pet. And I think many of the comments in this thread, including the ones in your first post in this thread, bear that out.
And I would say that a dog's needs during its first year of life are simpler than a child's needs in her first year of life--and by a pretty big margin. And much easier to deal with as a human adult.
I will say it again--I have had dogs my entire life. I have also had cats, guinea pigs, a couple of hamsters, and fish. I understand that pets are work.
I think animals have emotions; I don't know that their emotional experiences are the same as ours. But I think our emotional experiences with animals are simpler than our emotional experiences with humans, and that's why so many people prefer animals to humans. It's easier and in some ways more satisfying, not to mention more validating. I think pets enrich lives. I also think that some people have very unbalanced relationships with pets, just as some people do with humans.
I can't recommend 'When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals' by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson enough. It is research-based and suggests that the emotional lives of animals is more complex than many would think.
I question whether early human-dog relationships were based on anthropomorphization. It's been suggested that one of the bases for that relationship was that both humans and wolves (considered by many to be the ancestor of the domestic dog) hunted in groups by day. And it's pretty easy to see how both dogs and humans would benefit from an inter-relationship - more food to share, combined hunting, dogs' use as guard dog. In those circumstances, humans would rely on dogs precisely for their strengths as canines. Just as people who raise and train working dogs would need to understand and nurture their dogs' strengths and personalities as dogs. But anyone who trains a dog in even the basics has to understand the dog as a dog.
Though it is interesting - when I share my puppy training strategies with the friend who is raising a little girl, she often comments that she has identical strategies, such as positive reinforcement and setting up situations for the child/dog to success at learning.
I'm loving this discussion about animal intelligence
Here's a Nova Science Now episode about animal intelligence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZrzRrPRdC0
Who knew dogs are such great actors? I found the bits about mice helping each other fascinating
I saw that episode - strangely enough, after we put our golden Luna to sleep in July we came home and that show was on the TV. The commentator saying, 'there are over five million dogs in the world (not sure if that was the precise number). The message to us was that one in those five million would be ours.
One of my favorite dog stories is the Moscow subway dogs. I think they were shown on the Nova show?
These are stray dogs who ride the Moscow subways to places where the pickings or hand-outs are best. They know where to get on and where to get off, and take naps along the way.
Pets give you pure love no matter who you are. They never talk back. They never cheat on you. They are affectionate.
They don't leave. And will love you and protect you until they die.
The perfect relationship. I love pets more than I love the people in my like.


text: It's been the stuff of legends and up until now there's only been a grainy version from Trophee Lalique on YouTube. But cantahalfloop uploaded three versions of Laetitia Hubert's "hooker on crack" program from each of her Grand Prix performances (she was seeded in 1998/99). Skate Canada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avdiE1QJiFw (watch with the close captioning for extra enjoyment) Trophee Lalique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Xzp-7ibrY (the ending is painful) Cup of Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVyADS-p4I4 (Amber Corwin enjoyed it) I have to say Canada was my favorite, with the unfortunate fall, the jittery street walk, the hideous layfront spin and the crotch shot. I actually liked her 1998 programs, and all the jazzy stuff she's done. It's a shame, but I can't figure why she would put out a program like this, especially with so much prize money at stake.


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'Olczyk started Surovy and Kostopoulos on the same line last night because of their experience playing together in Wilkes-Barre. Their center with the Baby Penguins has been Toby Petersen, but last night, it was former Sabres player Brian Holzinger.'
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Were you a good student? Did you like school?
I liked school, but I didn't do that well in school, let's put it that way. I was more focused on singing or wanting to go out there and do dancing and going to all these different auditions. I was a bit of a rebel when it came to school. But when it came to school school, I really enjoyed it because all my friends were there.
What was the worst popular trend when you were going to school?
Rugby shirts. I think Neneh Cherry wore one, where it was like, different-colored squares. And then I went through a phase where I had this peach denim jacket, and I had to wear the lipstick to match. Yeah, not cute when I look back on it, but it was cute then.
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On Tuesday afternoon, Gael Clichy took part in a live Arsenal TV Online webchat. He answered questions which had been e-mailed in by Arsenal fans across the globe.
We received over 2,000 questions for the French full back, who was on air for over an hour. The webchat covered a range of topics from the identity of his footballing idol to the best singer in the Arsenal squad.
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Gael on where he would like to live, why he thinks Freddie Ljungberg will do well in the States, the amount of training he does, how he copes with so many games, the cleverest member of the Arsenal squad, what he thinks of rugby, the best singers at Arsenal, his idol when he was growing up, his family and his biggest influences.
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Arsène Wenger was not worried about Robin van Persie's so-called goal drought - even if the man himself may have been.
Van Persie scored his first goal in five league matches in Wednesday's 3-0 victory over Wolves - his 27th Premier League strike of the campaign.
The striker had not previously gone five league starts without a goal since August 2006 and Wenger admits he always had faith in the prolific Dutchman to break his 'duck'.
"It does not look like he is worrying but you know that a striker who has scored in every single game but then has a period he does not like it," said the Frenchman.
"But I am convinced that he thought about it. I didn't worry at all, but the guys who score goals like to continue to score.
"What you can do one day, you can do the next. We are on a strong run and if you look at our last 10 games, we are defensively more stable because we have kept a few clean sheets.
"We can score goals and Robin van Persie comes out of a period when he scored a bit less. We still managed to win the games, that is positive."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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'The Sabres appeared sunk until Satan buried his final shot of the game. Now they trail the eighth-place Montreal Canadiens – who beat the San Jose Sharks in Sunday's only other game – by five points.'
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Artist's BiographyNORLAN BEWLEY
Norlan Bewley, Low Brass Artist (trombone, euphonium, tuba), is a new breed of brass player specializing in performance on all of the low brass instruments. For the past twenty years he has had extensive experience teaching, performing on, and composing for low brass, developing an unparalled perspective, insight, and approach toward these instruments. Through years of private teaching and performance, he has developed direct and effective methods of instruction that address the most basic and difficult areas of low brass playing in a manner clear to all, from beginners to professionals. In his private teaching alone, for the past 10 years Norlan has given more than 700 individual low brass students over 23,000 private lessons. A champion of the instruments, he is dedicated to the improvement, advancement, and increase of opportunities for every aspect of low brass education and performance.
Norlan is the founder and principal composer/arranger for UPBEAT BRASS. A former student and longtime professional colleague of Harvey Phillips, he serves as Associate Director of Harvey Phillips� tuba ensembles and projects, including TUBACHRISTMAS, TUBASANTAS, the TUBACOMPANY, and the TUBASHOP QUARTET. As much in demand for his writing as he is for his playing, Norlan composes and arranges virtually all of the music performed by these ensembles. He also has his own publishing company, BEWLEY MUSIC, which specializes in music for low brass. In 1992, he edited the volume 2 edition of the \"Carols For A Merry TubaChristmas\" music book, adding several of his own arrangements (Jingle Bells, for example) to the original collection of arrangements by noted composer Alec Wilder. Norlan was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for music composition in 2005.
In 1978 he was awarded scholarships to study with his mentor Harvey Phillips at the Indiana University School of Music. While there he won numerous chamber music competitions with TOP BRASS, and toured with Henry Mancini, Mel Torme, Doc Severinsen, and the Indianapolis Symphony. Before founding UPBEAT BRASS, Norlan toured with TOP BRASS after graduating from I.U., presenting more than 1000 professional performances with that ensemble over the past 20 years. His work as a performer, composer, and educator has been supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Ohio Arts Council, The American Music Center, Culture Works, The Mead Foundation, NCR Corporation, LexisNexis, The Harvey Phillips Foundation, Reynolds and Reynolds, and many other organizations.
He is a clinician for the Bach, Holton and Martin instruments of the Conn-Selmer Corporation, and is represented by Joanne Rile Artists Management.
Norlan is also very devoted to Music Education, promoting low brass performance through music publishing, master classes, clinics, residencies, and his large private teaching studio in the Dayton and Cincinnati area. He was presented by Harvey Phillips and Conn-Selmer at the 2005 Midwest Clinic in a session entitled \"Improving The Low Brass Section With The Low Brass Ensemble.\"
The handout for this session is available at [norlanbewley.com/links.htm]
His teachers include Harvey Phillips, Michael Lind, Keith Brown, Rich Matteson, Ashley Alexander, Tom Jenkins, Louis Davidson, Sam Burtis, and David Baker.
Norlan Bewley plays the Bach LT6, LT8G, LT12G, LT16M, LT36BOG, LT42, LT42G, LT42BO, LT42BOG, LT50B3O, and LT39G trombones, \"Urbie Green\" Model Martin TR-4501 and Holton TR-160 trombones, the Besson 968S euphonium, the Holton Collegiate B490RS euphonium, and the \"Harvey Phillips\" Model Holton TU-331 tuba.
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In a competitive music world, music students dream of touring internationally. University of St. Thomas graduate Michael Whitebread is living that dream.
Whitebread graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing, and again in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in music theory and composition. He recently returned from his second international tour with country singer Kareem Salama, sponsored by the U. S. State Department. They traveled to seven different countries in the Middle East playing for workshops in refugee camps during the day and concerts at night.
Whitebread said his involvement with the tour was one of happenstance.
"I taught Kareem Salama guitar lessons a few years ago and we became friends," Whitebread said. "In 2008, we went to Berlin and London and played some events there. He remembered me; we hit it off and he called me when he had this last tour."
The Kareem Salama Tour was designed to bring rising American musical talent, representative of America's diversity of faith and heritage, to audiences in the Middle East to serve as a bridge between their culture and that of America, the U. S. State Department website explained.
"Kareem is an American-Egyptian Muslim," Whitebread said. "We traveled around and he would sing country songs in English and in Arabic."
On this tour, Whitebread was one of Salama's backup guitarists. Whitebread has future plans for more international tours. A trip to Lebanon in the coming months is in the works.
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Whitebread 's UST education has given him the flexibility to work in both the business sector and the music industry.
"I worked in advertising for a couple years and I just didn't really like it, so I came back for my music degree," Whitebread said. "I studied guitar for about five years; I took a lot of private lessons and ensembles while I was doing my marketing degree and I should have known to do music instead of marketing. Like a classic college student, I tried lots of things."
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 116, March 21, 1997
T3E Overview
This article quickly hits on many aspects of the T3E and its user environment. In coming issues, we will delve into the details, but the simple question today is: What are the first things you will notice about the ARSC T3E?
Standalone system
First, the T3E is a standalone system, there is no frontend system such as the YMP. So what does the compiling and other tasks that used to be performed by the front end? To understand this a brief description of the structure of the T3E is needed.
OS, Command, and Application Processors
The T3E consists of a collection of processors connected by a torous in a similar manner to the T3D. However, on the T3D all of these processors were available for user tasks, on the T3E some are defined as OS processors and these perform low level support for the operating system, Command processors which support the users interactive session, and application processors which run the parallel tasks users submit to the system.
grmview, mppview, xmppview
A new utility, grmview, gives a detailed view of the processor distribution between these three classes and the current usage. The numbers in each group will change to reflect the loads on the system. mppview replaces mppinfo in describing the processor usage, a new graphical interface, xmppview, gives a 3d view of the system and various aspects of processor usage.
No more powers of two
Users are no longer restricted to run with processor numbers that are a power of two: any number of processors can be used. Users now have a greater freedom to request the most suitable number of processors for the current job, e.g. the minimum number of processors to obtain sufficient memory. The removal of this constraint should result in greater throughput and improved turnaround overall.
Fortran 90
The fortran77 compiler has been replaced with a fortran90 compiler. This should accept all current f77 codes. Users can test f77 code under the f90 compiler on denali.
Performance has been improved. The observed bandwidth between processors has increased from 120MByte/sec to 320MByte/sec for SHMEM, from 15MByte/sec to 80MByte/sec for MPI. Early experiences show that code taken across from the T3D is running 2-3 times faster without any modification.
With the SHMEM library, SHMEM_PUT and SHMEM_GET now give similar bandwidths so users can choose whichever best matches the data transfer activity. Special hardware how ensures the caches are consistent so calls to the SHMEM_UDC_FLUSH and SHMEM_SET_CACHE are no longer necessary. However users are recommended to keep placing these in code to be portable between the T3D and T3E. Cache coherency functions are no-ops on the T3E. Improved routing in the torous to avoid contention/hotspots means that data sent via SHMEM_PUT many not arrive in the same order as the SHMEM_PUT calling sequence. This is of particular importance for users who determine if a transfer is complete by reading the value of the last data item in a transfer. SHMEM_FENCE can be used to enforce the ordering of transfers or one may test the entire message with SHMEM_WAIT.
Malleable executables, mpprun
Users can compile for a fixed number of processors and simply type the name of the program at the command line for execution. Malleable executables, where the number of processors was not specified at compile time, conceptually replace the T3D's plastic executables. To run these, use the command: mpprun -n NPES a.out [ARGS] where you would have use the T3D command: [mppexec] a.out [ARGS] -npes NPES
Timings on Multiple Cray Platforms (revisited)
Newsletter #99 presented a fortran subroutine which used the "gethmc" system call to obtain the system clock frequency, and worked across Cray platforms. The programmer could bracket some code with a pair of calls to "irtc" to determine the number of clock ticks spent in that code, and then, using the clock speed, compute the Mflop/s rate of that code, elapsed time in seconds, etc.
"gethmc" has been replaced in the PE 2.O libraries with a posix compliant routine, PXFSYSCONF. Here's an f90 module which can now be used, across platforms, to get the clock speed (it is taken from the "man" page for PXFSYSCONF and modified):
cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc module timing implicit none contains integer function iget_clktck () integer ival, ierr, iclktck ival = 0 iclktck = 0 call pxfconst ('CLK_TCK',iclktck,ierr) if (ierr.ne.0) then print *,'FAIL: error from pxfconst = ',ierr goto 9999 endif call pxfsysconf (iclktck, ival, ierr) if (ierr.ne.0) then print *,'FAIL: error from pxfsysconf = ',ierr endif 9999 continue iget_clktck = ival end function iget_clktck end module timing cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
Here's a test program:
cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc program prog use timing implicit none integer :: ticks_per_sec ticks_per_sec = iget_clktck () print*, "ticks per sec: ", ticks_per_sec end cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
And here are results from runs on the three ARSC platforms:
yukon (T3E): ticks per sec: 300000000 denali (Y-MP): ticks per sec: 166666667 denali (T3D): ticks per sec: 150015001
A few T3E WWW Pages
A full description of the ARSC T3E can be found at: http://www.arsc.edu/pubs/bulletins/T3Erelease.shtml
Data on the T3E in general can be found at: http://www.cray.com/PUBLIC/product-info/T3E/overview.html
NERSC's good tutorial and other T3E documentation is at: http://www.nersc.gov/training/links.html
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