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So plain a name as George Chinnery lacks the rhythmic and ponderous sonority of Joseph Mallord William Turner, his near contemporary, younger by a year, but dead a year sooner and a thousand times more celebrated. A Chinnery could easily have drunk with Pickwick, ridden with Jorrocks or been the hapless curate in a Barchester chronicle, thoroughly Victorian, but now it is a name so rare that anyone of my generation, pricking his ears at it, should be forgiven for immediately asking if the bearer has some relationship with the notorious George.
Notorious? Alas, no longer. It would not surprise me if none of the dozen Chinnerys listed in the London telephone directory had ever heard of George, the only Chinnery recorded in the Dictionary of National Biography, the famous painter, the penniless fornicator, the begetter of an uncertain number of illegitimate Chinnerys white, brown and yellow, and the recorder of faces, places, pursuits and pastimes in India and on the south China coast. It is so long since I last saw one of his paintings that I had almost forgotten him, but half a century ago he was greatly in demand among ambitious young collectors of English watercolours, appeared in almost every sale or exhibition of these, and if an oil painting came onto the market it was dubbed "important" and might fetch a whacking price.
There were even two experts, the indistinguishable American brothers Henry and Sidney Berry-Hill, plump, perspiring and faintly ridiculous, to whom everything attributed to Chinnery in the way of oil paintings had to be submitted. They claimed two other areas of expertise, Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-72), a Canadian primitive, and Carl Spitzweg (1808-85), an amusing minor German Romantic painter, both much imitated and even forged. But the Berry-Hills were dealers and, by 1963, when they published a book on Chinnery to reclaim their authority, they were widely suspected (with good reason) of confirming the genuineness of many doubtful works that had, at some time, passed through their hands, and of condemning perfectly genuine works bought from other dealers; this was true too of their Krieghoff and Spitzweg expertise.
In their defence it must be said that there was undoubtedly a "School of Chinnery" in China (the last third of his life was spent in Canton, Macau and Hong Kong) and that some of his Chinese imitators, students, assistants or copyists, when not being too ambitious, produced oil paintings that it is not unreasonable for an amateur to mistake for his; a handful developed very clear identities. The Berry-Hills, however, were not amateurs. I record this information because it is known only to men of my age; younger art historians should know that a Berry-Hill provenance is not necessarily a reliable indication of authenticity for paintings attributed to Chinnery, Krieghoff or Spitzweg.
If the comparatively rare oil paintings were expensive and a decent watercolour might cost as much as lunch in St James's for a week, the pen and pencil drawings, all too common, were not. Auctioneers sold them in groups, dealers sold them singly for a tenner and scissored larger sheets of small studies into individual drawings that could be sold to undergraduates for two or three quid (many a decent collection began with such a first and modest purchase). Now they have disappeared, and with the drying-up of the market, the know-ledge and the connoisseurship too have gone. Say Chinnery to any art buff under 40 and the name will elicit no response, and now that Tate Britain has all but abandoned its responsibility to keep successive generations aware of historic British painting, it is probable that Chinnery will be for ever lost to common knowledge, obliterated, with many other once known artists, by the enforced fashion there for contemporary art. Have other visitors to Tate Britain observed how much reduced and condensed is the display of 18th- and 19th-century painting, how neither painters nor historic movements can now be examined in any depth?
Chinnery is worth retaining in the nation's consciousness if for no better reason than that he spent so many years in India and China, recording not only English nobs and local nabobs, but, unsentimentally, the local architecture and the European impositions on it, the local peasants, their industries and animals (rather good with dogs), and townscapes that may well be the only scrupulous documents recording the appearance of the harbours of south China two centuries ago (not unlike contemporary views of the Bay of Naples). If we care to see it, imperial history is encapsulated in these pretty little pictures.
He was so distant a traveller by chance. Born into a London family of calligraphers in 1774, George Chinnery first exhibited a portrait miniature at the Royal Academy when he was 17; the following year, 1792, he was admitted as a student there, Turner's contemporary. He absorbed the precepts of Reynolds and the influence of Thomas Lawrence (scarcely older than himself, but 10 times more brilliantly precocious), but most of his early works were miniatures and it was as a miniaturist that he took himself to Dublin, then at its peak as a centre of intellectual discourse and Anglo-Irish society but, within a decade, on the point of calamitous decline. At 26 he married, Marianne, his landlord's daughter, perhaps of necessity, for he proved not to be uxorious and there was some debate as to which of them was the uglier - George left many self-portraits from which it is clear that he was as unlovely as a Wesleyan minister or a Left-wing Labour politician. And then, having pupped two children, he deserted them and, in December 1802, reached Madras, before moving on to Calcutta. He was 28.
As some of his sitters were prestigious and Chinnery was convivial and an amusing gossip, portraiture sustained him. His early drawings suggest a shrewd awareness of Benjamin West and George Romney, portrait painters both, but Lawrence's was the abiding influence, though he corrupted it with a disarming domestic informality. Small scale suited him so comfortably that even at half-square-metre level he could lose control of a composition and reduce it to absurdity and disproportion, as in The Marjoribanks Family in which appalling disjunctions of the spine affect Mrs M, the anchor of the group. At more than a metre, as in The Kirkpatrick Children, perhaps haunted by some misty memory of Van Dyck in Genoa, the scale demanded the vigorous and luscious Lawrentian touch, and got it; nevertheless, Chinnery succeeded in depicting these Anglo-Indian children at the Muslim Court of Hyderabad as glum and lugubrious, their heads disproportionately large. In his enchanting later portraits of elderly Chinese merchants, Chinnery exhibited extraordinary sympathy, the small heads dominating the occasional plethora of decorative detail. In portraits of himself he ranged from dispassionate observation to mild mockery; in those of friends, as in On Dent's Veranda, he was as affectionate as a German Romantic among
friends in Rome, touched by Dent's dogs.
As for subject pictures, the daily life of Bengal and China was rich with narratives affecting enough to qualify as "picturesque", the category into which fell the charming cottagers and children of Gainsborough, Reynolds and the less lofty George Morland. Of these there were hundreds, thousands perhaps, of drawings, annotated with date, time, place and other remarks, in an easy form of shorthand only recently deciphered; translated into oil paintings, the best could hang at ease with their Dutch equivalent two centuries earlier (the Bamboccianti), but the worst descend into the heavy-handedness of the hack, the contrasts of light and shadow particularly clumsy.
Chinnery should have grown wealthy, but debt stalked him and so did his wife - after a separation of fully 16 years during which he had pupped more children with an Indian mistress, Marianne found him in Calcutta in 1818. In 1821, deep in debt, he fled to the nearby Danish settlement of Serampore, the haunt of all fraudulent bankrupts in India. In 1825, bailed out by friends, he scarpered to the China coast, there to remain until his death in 1852, leaving them the poorer by some £40,000.
It is a merry tale, prettily told, not at Tate Britain but at Asia House, sponsored by enthusiasts. This is precisely the kind of exhibition of which there should be a constantly rolling programme at the Tate, drawing from the rich well of history, reminding us of forgotten minor artists whose paintings and drawings were once familiar, revealing artists of whom many of us now know nothing, not even the name, and Asia House is to be thanked and congratulated for mounting this, the first loan exhibition in London devoted to Chinnery since the Arts Council housed one in 1957 (the Council would, of course, not dream of supporting such an exhibition now).
The Flamboyant Mr Chinnery: An English Artist in India and China is at Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, W1 (020 7307 5454; asiahouse.org) and runs until Jan 21 (closed Dec 24-Jan 2). Open Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm, admission free.
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Seminole 44, St. Petersburg 37: By staying methodical on offense and stifling on defense, the Warhawks snapped a six-game losing streak to their Class 7A, District 10 rivals.
Better still, Seminole can wrap up the No. 1 seed in the district with a win against Countryside next week. Noah Weller came up big for the Warhawks, battling through a shoulder injury to score a team-high 18 points, including a 3-pointer in the final two minutes that gave Seminole a lead it never relinquished.
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East Lake 4, Northeast 1: The PCAC title game was delayed a day due to a scheduling conflict with the girls district tournament, but the wait was worth it for the Eagles. East Lake jumped out to a 2-0 halftime lead and didn't let up. Josh Page scored two goals. Ben Stevenson and Mathias Ghiena each added a goal. Overall, East Lake had 15 shots. Jeff Richmond recorded five saves in goal for East Lake. Will Wiard had four saves for the Eagles.
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Meaghan Thomas, Dixie Hollins: Granted, the Rebels lost 67-40 to Lakewood Ranch, but Thomas scored 29 of the 40 points. She hit five 3-pointers and made 11 field goals.
Josh Page, East Lake: Page helped the Eagles win the PCAC boys soccer championship over Northeast by scoring two goals.
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Yea I have a friend who wants to race me in his 1992 or 91 mustang 5.0 LX. I think its stock except for an intake.Who do you think will win?
If that's correct, then he may as well not have any mods at all. Because he's still going to be going though the stock airbox, air meter, and throttle body.
Now if by "intake" he meant one of those K&N Filtercharger things, then he may as well be stock with that too.
One thing you need to know about the 5.0 is that there are very few single mods that make a difference. Everything works together as a system, and that holds true for modifying it as well.
If he wants to see the benefit of a better intake, then he'd need to also change the throttle body, air meter, and filter box.
Now he's getting air into the engine better, but on the exhaust side things are still restrictive. In fact, the 5.0's exhaust is very restrictive. That's usually the first thing that's modified. So changing all the intake stuff won't do much good unless he can get the air out of the engine as well as he's getting it in.
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Feature running time: 134 minutes
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Written by: Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
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"One for bad. Two for good"
Film Synopsis:
Following the death of their father, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise, Valkyrie) discovers he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie) and now the two are on the cross-country trip of their lives. Nicknamed RAIN MAN, Raymond pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world. But what began as an unsentimental journey for the Babbitt brothers becomes much more than the distance between two places; it's a connection between two vastly different people and a poignant, profound and powerful film.
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"My father stuck it to me all my life," complains Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), a bitter, self-centered, smooth talking car hustler who feels he's been cheated out of his three million dollar inheritance. Left only with his late father's prized rose bushes and a vintage '49 Buick, Charlie soon uncovers yet another surprise - Raymond, the autistic brother he never knew he had. Discovering After discovering Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), in an institution, Charlie abducts him in a last-ditch attempt to extort his 'fair share' of his late father's estate. Together they head from Cincinnati to Los Angeles (in the Buick), but what begins as an unconventional journey across the country evolves into a mystical odyssey of love and self-revelation and Raymond forces Charlie to grow beyond the limits of his handicapped heart.
Rain man is probably my all time favorite road trip movie. It is a classic that needs no introduction especially among film enthusiasts. I have owned it on DVD since it became available and enjoy revisiting it from time to time. Cruise and Hoffman have wonderful chemistry and the story flows naturally as we watch their characters bond over the course of their seven day trip across country. There are many memorable moments that impart a tangible richness that helps establish an emotive connection to the heartwarming aspects of the story. The humor has a genuine quality which is derived from Raymond's innocence and Charlie's frustration at his cacophony of mutterings, ticks and compulsive behavior. Here are a few of my favorite moments:
- The reading of the will
- Son of a bitch!!!!!!!
- Serious injury Ray?
- Did you fart?
- We don't go outside when it rains..
- Ray, Charlie, and Wapner on the farmhouse porch
- K-Mart (in Cincinnati) is the only place to buy underwear
- Quantas??!!
- Water burn baby!!!!!
- Showing Ray how to dance
- I like having you for my big brother
Nominated for eight and winner of four Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor) it features a sterling performance from Tom Cruise and a compelling, memorable and Oscar winning performance from the multi-faceted and iconic Dustin Hoffman. It has been a while since I have seen Rain man but my reaction to it is always the same. I love it.
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The rating is for language, partial nudity, a scene of sensuality and thematic material.
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REFERENCE = 92-100 / EXCELLENT = 83-91 / GOOD = 74-82 / AVERAGE = 65-73 / BELOW AVERAGE = under 65
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This is a fair high definition presentation that doesn't quite compare to the best catalog releases I have seen but compared to the standard definition DVD this looks very good indeed. It boasts clean, well depicted colors that offer a good mix of secondary hues that mate well with the source material. Resolution is definable with varying degrees of fine rendering that appear scene dependent. Sharpness wavers, which results in some scenes offering discernable clarity while others are noticeably lacking well defined edges and delineated detail. Black and white levels are stable which gives a fair amount of pop to colors and brighter exterior sequences while darker/low lit segments exhibit quiet blacks with visible gradational detail in backgrounds. Grain is present with moderate texture and uneven rendering that suggests to me that the image has been digitally touched up. The effects are noticeable but minimal and nothing approaching the worst cases scenario. I saw a fleck or two on the print but otherwise it appears in good shape.
The lossless soundtrack is almost entirely dialogue driven with the music score being the only other driving element. Hans Zimmer's progressive music score holds sway over the front soundstage and is presented with open expression. The sound quality is on point and provides clear and concise voice reproduction and good front channel imaging. The surrounds are used sparingly to broaden depth during scenes such as those that take place in the busy environment of the casino in Vegas. Compared to today's movie soundtracks this presentation sounds a bit dated but I found little to complain about and thought it sounded fine.
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- Audio commentary by director Barry Levinson
- Audio commentary by writer Barry Morrow
- Audio commentary by writer Ronald Bass
- The journey of Rain man featurette - 22 minutes
- Lifting the fog: A look at the mysteries of autism - 20 minutes
- 1 deleted scene
- Original theatrical trailer
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Rain man is a classic film and personal favorite that I never seem to tire of watching. It makes its long awaited high definition debut from MGM/20th Century Fox featuring fair video quality and satisfying lossless sound that easily bests any previous home video release. I am thrilled to own it on Blu-ray and consider it to be a worthwhile upgrade for fans.
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This past Wednesday, Boston Bruins star Tyler Seguin attended a Lowell Spinners and was nearly struck in the head with a foul ball.
Seguin was at the game as a part of his promotional speed dating, where young female fans had the opportunity to meet the player for a few minutes at a time throughout the game.
However, a with Seguin's back to the field, a foul ball was laced directly towards his head. Luckily for Seguin and the Bruins, Spinners vice president Dan Beaulieu was seated nearby and managed to block the incoming ball with his phone, which was destroyed.
A video capturing the sequence can be found here.
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Yes, you can set up a lasagna garden in the winter or spring and have it ready for planting. Truthfully it will break down better if started in the fall but you may not know you want a garden. I have even known a few people that create the layered garden that day and plant it immediately.
When starting a lasagna garden late in the winter or spring you will use the same process as a fall garden. But I add a few "cheating methods" to help it break down faster.
For those of you new to lasagna gardening its a method where you lay down layers of natural materials on the ground that will decompose and blend to make a rich garden soil. The benefits are you can improve your soil by using material you have on hand or get cheaply. You can also garden in an area where the soil is horrible, such as a newly grated, rocky construction site.
Getting started in no dig gardening.
Lay down two layers of cardboard or eight layers of newspaper. Wet the newspaper to stop it from blowing away before you have the time to layer it with another garden layer. I have started to lay down two layers of cardboard and either shed newspaper or crinkle the paper and put on top. Worms love newspaper and will be drawn to it and this will help my new bed to break down faster. To further entice the worms I place manure next. This is my beginning base to the garden area.
The next step is to create layers of brown materials and then green materials. Brown materials would be leaves, paper, peat or pine. Green materials would be vegetable scraps, grass clippings, garden trimmings. Make your layers 4 to 8 inches deep. Often between the brown and green layers I add a thin layer, one or two inches, of compost or well rotter manure. This will help the layers to break down faster. Top the garden bed off with a layer of compost or top soil.
Do not use any contaminated materials, meat or grease. And believe it or not you can use human hair or dryer lint.
In the spring I cover a newly layered lasagna garden with black plastic to attract the sun and create heat to break the materials down. In two weeks you can get a good start on the new bed.
If you are starting to directly plant in a new bed, pull the layered mix aside and add a bucket of soil to the bed. Plant your transplant in the soil. If you are using seed, I make a row about 6 inches deep and 4 inches wide and add soil. Plant your seeds in the soil.
The advantage of the lasagna garden is it is a "no dig garden." Such a garden is better for soil structure and great for those who do not have a rototiller or have soil that needs extra amendments to be considered proper garden soil.
This garden style also lends itself to square foot gardening or raised bed gardens.
This week I will be setting up a lasagna garden to use for photographing for a seminar I am presenting at Come Grow with Us. I hope that it will be ready for planting in a few weeks. It will be my future cutting garden.


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The Wikipedia and the Death of Archaeology
Monday, October 30 2006 @ 05:30 PM CST
Contributed by: Andy Updegrove
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Of course, archaeology permits us at best to see through a glass very darkly. Not only are we limited by the vagaries of what has survived through fortuitous chance, but by the fact that few materials used in daily life are designed for long-term survival under harsh conditions. As a result, not much has been consistently preserved from before the last millennia other than a limited number of works of art, personal adornment and handwritten books, records and plays. For more, we must grub around in the ruins of palaces and hovels to see what has survived the unforgiving embrace of dirt, or search about in the more preserving, but much less accessible, chilly depths of the sea.Hence, the farther back we look into the past, the less we are likely to find, and the more limited are the types of artifacts we can hope to discover. For a few hundred years of history, we may discover glass and metal, crockery and bones, and (particularly in arid regions), scraps of basketry and fabrics. For a while longer, there are seeds and pollens, stones and bones. But soon enough there are only enigmatic stone flakes and tools � not much from which to intuit how a people lived, what they knew, and how they understood themselves, their gods and the world around them.
But surely we must know all we need to know about the post-Gutenberg era? Well, not really, as so little that may be of interest in the future seems to have much value in the moment to those that own it (the contents of your garbage can as you read this, for example). How great the gap can be between those two perceptions can be demonstrated by the archaeology projects that are ongoing at any point in time. Those efforts include simple explorations of the contents of privies that stood in the backyards of colonial Boston, and far more ambitious efforts to investigate, and even raise, ships from the last century.
If such is the case, certainly there must be some better way to preserve the reality of modern existence, thereby avoiding the future need to use trowels and screens, laboratory analysis and intuition to recreate what has so recently been real?
In fact, there is.
Consider this: Given a sufficient amount of server space and the commitment to maintain it, a resource already exists that may not only sound the death knell of archaeology, but also the opportunity to enable a greater depth and sophistication of anthropology than has ever existed before. So radical an innovation would this new anthropological methodology represent that it deserves its own name.
Call it Wikipediology.
Is the Wikipedia sufficiently comprehensive to replace the tangible record of the past as a subject of study? According to the Wikipedia's description of itself as of 18:14 UST on October 29, 2006 (the entry was last updated at 15:18 UST the same day), this most dynamic of all on-line resources currently hosts more than 5 million articles (over 1.4 million entries in the English-language version alone). In all, there are 229 language editions, sixteen of which already have more than 50,000 articles each.
But, you may ask next, is the Wikipedia accurate enough? After all, there is an ongoing controversy over whether its accuracy is the equal of a traditional encyclopedia.
That question, I think, entirely misses the point. Why? Because I believe that the real significance of the Wikipedia is not its status as a compendium of information, but rather its ability to provide a record of how we see ourselves, our heritage, our current events and our culture in real-time as those perceptions evolve. And that significance clearly transcends the utility of the static, shelf-bound reference works traditionally described as encyclopedias.
I would encourage you to consider this definition of the Wikipedia, which captures the importance of the Wikipedia more concisely:
The Wikipedia is the most detailed, comprehensive, concise, culturally-sensitive record of how humanity understands itself at any precise moment in time
Viewed in this light, when the Wikipedia is "inaccurate" due to bias or limited understanding rather than simple error, it becomes more interesting because it is inaccurate. Looked at from this perspective, the word "inaccurate" ceases to have any meaning, because the Wikipedia is being used to determine how we see the world, and not whether that view is "accurate" in any empirical sense. In this light, the more accurate an entry is, the less useful and interesting it becomes. And, of course, what those that contribute to a given entry have found to be worth including is most interesting of all.
But wait (as they say) � there's more!
Since the Wikipedia exists in many non-identical, language-based independent editions, each of which is constantly changing, all of the editions taken together provide a real-time record of not only how our perception of ourselves morphs over time, but how that perception differs culturally around the world as well.
Let's conduct a simple test to determine what the Wikipedia would tell a future Wikipediologist in a few moments, as compared to what a tradtional archaeologist could only guess after significantly greater labor.
We'll use this brief account of the contents of Katherine Nanny's late 17th century privy in what is now downtown Boston. That account provides no end of interesting guesses about the life of Ms. Nanny, an evidently feisty personage who divorced her husband in 1671, accusing him of (among other bad acts) "whoredomes," and "abuses of the marriage bed." For example, do the scraps of fine material indicate that Katherine dumped her husband's clothes down the chute rather than send them to her faithless husband when he requested them, after absconding with the pregnant servant girl? Or perhaps that she simply made the family's clothes? That the Nanny's were comfortably well off, or that Katherine was a seamstress for the well-to-do?
Or what of this?
Most intriguing of all were 250,000 seeds and pits from fruits, nuts, and spices, analyzed by Lawrence Kaplan and Marie Mansfield King of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Cherry and plum pits made up 95 percent of the total, far more than any normal household would consume. Was Nanny making brandied cherries, or a steeped alcoholic drink called cherry bounce? "It looks like she was making preserves," says state archaeologist Brona Simon. "I think it was her business, a cottage industry." "There had to be something going on," Bob Hasenstab agrees, speculating that granary weevils, pollen, spoiled flour, and cherry pits meant Nanny was baking cherry pies.
Intriguing though these guesses may be (or not, depending on how you feel about granary weevils), merely guesses they must remain.
Note also that analyses such as these obscure the true purpose of archaeology to begin with, which is not to determine how Katherine Nanny in particular spent her time towards the end of the 1600s, but what life was like in general in Boston at that time. And the contents of one privy, no matter how interesting, do not a cultural portrait of an entire people make.
Now let's consult the Wikipedia to see how it would compare, using a Wikipedia definition of an archaeological artifact commonly found from the same period: the spoon. Likely enough Nanny's three-holer (a commodius facility, to be sure) must have yielded at least one spoon, which could have been interesting from its style, composition (silver or pewter) and maker's mark, if any. But beyond that � not much.
In contrast, consider the following extracts from the Wikipedia entry on this humble implement
Extract from "Uses":
"Teaspoons are commonly employed by heroin addicts to "cook" the drug in by use of holding a flame underneath. The resulting liquified heroin is then transferred to a syringe and injected.
As of the 1940s, a combination utensil of spoon and fork, the spork, has been in use. Likewise, small, often flat, disposable wooden spoons are commonly given away with ice cream, cakes, and malts for use during their consumption. The runcible spoon is a spork with a cutting edge like a knife.
Partial list from "Spoon Types," with separate supporting entries in each case:
- Iced tea spoon
- Dessert spoon � between tablespoon and teaspoon in size
- Demitasse spoon
- Bouillon spoon
- Grapefruit spoon � a spoon with serrated edges for cutting into and eating grapefruit halves
- Egg spoon � used for hens' eggs; smaller than a teaspoon
- Caviar spoon � usually made of mother of pearl, gold, animal horn or wood. Silver cannot be used because it affects the taste.
- Absinthe spoon � a flat, slotted spoon used to prepare absinthe for drinking
- Plastic spoon cheap and easily mass produced
- Spoodle � a cross between a spoon and a ladle, often used in European cooking, particularly for soups and stews
- Slotted spoon
- Wooden spoon
- Runcible spoon � invented by Edward Lear in The Owl and the *censored*cat, but later given a real meaning
- Love spoon � a carved wooden spoon given as a token of betrothal
- Silver spoon � a small spoon given to a newborn child to ensure good fortune; used as a metaphor for someone born to riches
- When a precious serving spoon is used for an anointment as part of a coronation, it can be given the status of regalia.
- Cocaine spoon � a very small spoon used to sniff cocaine
- Ear spoon � a small spoon used to remove earwax
- Souvenir spoon � may be any of the above types of spoon, but an important additional function is to signify or hold a memory of a place or event, or to display as a 'trophy' of having been there, thus also a classical memento from pilgrimage sites; they are often in more fancy materials and highly ornamentive, depicting sights, coat of arms, associated characters, etcetera.
Try and pull that richness of cultural and factual detail out of a privy!
But there is also more in this single entry, weaving together idioms and everyday practices, and much more, encapsulating within a single Webpage a snapshot of early 21st century life that incorporates details otherwise doomed to disappear beyond the horizon of time sooner rather than later.
Such as the following sampling:
- In the culinary world, a "spoon" is a restaurant owned and opened by a notable chef who sets the restaurant's overall tone and menu, but who largely leaves the day-to-day management to others while the chef operates one or more principal (haute cuisine) restaurants. Spoons are less expensive, but offer many recipes from the high end restaurant.
- Wooden spoon is a phrase used to describe the "achievement" of a team or individual in finishing last in a contest, a wooden spoon being a common and almost valueless object, in stark contrast to the contest winners who will often receive a trophy made of silver or similar precious metal. The term originates from Cambridge University, wherein professors used to dangle a wooden spoon humiliatingly before students who had failed their tripos.
- Spoon! Is the battle cry of the cartoon hero parody The Tick.
Of course, There are also links to other significant resources, including the many quotes � both humorous and non - that can be found at Wikiquote, each focusing on the word "spoon."
Does all of this add up to simple collection of disconnected trivia? Perhaps. But in the anthropological sense, another name for a "simple collection of disconnected trivia" is "culture." In contrast to the contents of a privy or a shipwreck, each virtual artifact comes with its connotations intact, supplied through electronic links. And in real time, too: our spoon entry was last edited only two days ago.
I personally believe that the Wikipedia is too important a cultural resource to risk losing. As a result, I have a suggestion to make to one of the preeminent beneficiaries of the rise of the advent of the Web, I propose that Google partner with the Wikipedia to archive and maintain the entire Wikipedia at some regular interval - not less than annually � and make the copies available to the public indefinitely, perhaps creating and endowing a trust to fulfill that mission, and giving it a suitably grandiloquent name. The "History of Humanity Project" might do nicely. Enabling future Wikipediologists to compare how a given entry changes over time, and how entries on the same topic in different languages compare at the same time, could offer a depth of understanding and study undreamed of in the history of the world.
How about it Larry and Sergey? What do you think?
Oh yes. There remains, of course, one final question. What of the romance of archaeology? If the Wikipedia is the ultimate crystal ball within which all may be seen, will technology have once again made our world a more comprehensible, but less pleasantly mysterious place in which to exist?
After all, I think not. One need only look once again to the Wikipedia entry on the humble spoon, and find reassurance in an external link to "The Spoon Project." The description of the link explains simply (and, as it happens, comprehensively) that The Spoon Project presents a "Gallery of people with spoons on their noses."
Perhaps the significance of this creative endeavor will be instantly comprehensible to future Wikipediologists, who will immediately place it into its proper socio-economic and political context.
But I'm betting not.
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Rinehart Offers to End Children's Suit by Giving Up Trust
Gina Rinehart, Asia's richest woman, offered to step down from managing a multibillion dollar family trust and give up control of almost a quarter of her iron ore company to end a lawsuit by two of her children.
John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart sued their mother in September 2011 seeking to remove her from managing the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust on claims she breached her duty, failed to act honestly and has a conflict of interest. Hancock has offered to replace her as trustee, which would give him control over 23.5 percent of shares in Hancock Prospecting Pty held in the trust, valued at about $4 billion.
"She has advised the beneficiaries that she no longer wishes to be trustee of the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust and desires to be discharged," Rinehart's lawyer Bruce McClintock said yesterday in New South Wales Supreme Court in Sydney. "This should mean that this litigation is essentially over."
"It's not," responded Christopher Withers, John Hancock's lawyer, adding he would press for a trial to go as scheduled next week and seek a declaration from the court that Gina Rinehart acted improperly and to the detriment of the beneficiaries as trustee.
Settlement Incentive
Gina Rinehart's offer to resign was made after a bid to resolve the dispute in mediation last week failed.
Supreme Court Justice Paul Brereton, who's to oversee the trial and make a final determination, issued an order yesterday for mediation to determine a new trustee, saying he planned to proceed "resolutely toward a hearing and provide an incentive for a settlement."
Richard McHugh, a lawyer representing Ginia Rinehart, Gina's youngest daughter who has stood by her mother's side, said Ginia would oppose John Hancock's appointment, as well as any non-family member.
A deed governing the operation of the trust prohibits a non-family member from managing it.
John Hancock had also nominated Bruce Carter, an Adelaide businessman and chairman of shipbuilder ASC Pty and deputy chairman of Skycity Entertainment Group Ltd.
Gina Rinehart, 59, is the world's 41st richest person with a net worth of $18.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with Hancock Prospecting accounting for most of her wealth.
The Hope Margaret Hancock Trust was created by Gina Rinehart's father Lang Hancock for the benefit of his grandchildren, and according to original deed Lang Hancock created in 1988, the trustee shall "stand possessed of the shares and of the income" in the trust.
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Hope Rinehart Welker, who filed the initial lawsuit on behalf of herself and her three siblings in 2011, withdrew earlier this year, saying her expectation of a "quick and quiet resolution was wrong."
The children's lawsuit "would cause major damage" to Hancock Prospecting,'' McClintock said. "Too much of Mrs. Rinehart's time to date has had to be diverted to this unnecessary litigation, and while she is in the process of building a major project for Australia."
Hancock Prospecting is in the midst of talks to raise funds for a A$10 billion ($9.4 billion) mining project in Western Australia.
Withers yesterday told the judge that Gina Rinehart succumbed because documents ordered released by the court showing the tax advice she received proved the children's allegations were "well-founded," and she attempted to mislead them.
Tax Advice
Gina Rinehart warned her children in e-mails sent three days before the trust was due to vest on Sept. 6, 2011, Ginia Rinehart's 25th birthday, that they faced bankruptcy from capital gains taxes that would be imposed if the vesting date weren't extended. She sought to extend the vesting date to 2068.
John Hancock obtained independent advice from the Australian Tax Office, confirming his claim that the simple vesting of the trust wouldn't make the beneficiaries liable for capital gains taxes.
That ruling ignored the fact John Hancock had repeatedly asked for the shares to be transferred to him, which would have made him liable for the tax, Rinehart's lawyer Paul McCann wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
John Hancock declined to comment yesterday.
Correspondence released by court order showed Jay Newby, Hancock Prospecting's chief financial officer, sought to eliminate any doubts from advice given by PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP about whether the children would be liable for the capital gains taxes.
"I am waiting for the sanitised version of the PWC advice, that contains the opinion that CGT would be payable on vesting," Newby wrote in an Aug. 16, 2011, letter to Gina Rinehart. The letter was cited in a Sept. 30 affidavit by John Hancock's lawyer Timothy Price, released by the court today.
The case is John Langley Hancock v. Gina Hope Rinehart. 2011/285907, New South Wales Supreme Court (Sydney).
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Life Policies That Pay The Death Tax
If your heirs may not be able to afford the estate taxes on the family homestead or business--and you don't want them to have to liquidate their inheritance--the life-insurance industry has a solution. It's called variable survivorship life, and it's a hot product these days. In the past year, the number of companies offering it has grown from two to seven, including The Equitable, Allmerica Financial, Merrill Lynch, and John Hancock. And this is just the "first wave," predicts Roger Blease, a product analyst at A.M. Best & Co., which rates insurance companies.
Variable survivorship melds two types of insurance: variable universal life and survivorship, also known as second-to-die. The policies cover two people and pay out after the death of the second, so not only is it cheaper than individual coverage but it is a great tool for couples who want to provide their children with cash to pay taxes. Although estates pass tax-free between spouses, other heirs are liable for roughly 55% federal tax (plus more in some states) on the portion of combined estates that exceeds $1.2 million. As part of a properly structured plan, often using irrevocable trusts to keep proceeds out of the estate and to ensure that Mom and Dad's wishes are followed, life-insurance payouts can be free of both income and estate tax.
FLEXIBILITY. The variable universal-life part allows policyholders to oversee the cash value as they would their investment portfolio, choosing among professionally managed subaccounts made up of stocks, bonds, and money-market instruments. Some companies also offer real estate or international funds. Traditional survivorship life policies accumulate cash value only within the insurer's general account, normally a conservative bond-based mix guaranteed to grow at a rate of 4% or 5%. With variable insurance, policyholders can take on more risk--and likely achieve greater long-term results.
Since it is "universal," you get great flexibility over when and how much to pay in premiums. If your investments fare well, the cash value will accumulate tax-deferred, and you will have more money to withdraw or borrow against. You also might be able to stop premium payments sooner or increase the death benefit, depending on the kind of policy you choose. With John Hancock's Variable Estate Protection, introduced in May, policyholders can elect to increase the death benefit as the cash value builds up. That way, the policy's face value can keep up with growth in your estate, assuring that there would be enough funds available to cover taxes, says Elise Coburn, Hancock's variable-life product manager.
There's another advantage to variable life. With fixed accounts, you are technically a creditor of the insurance company, and if it becomes insolvent, you could lose access to the cash value, says Joel Isaacson, a New York City financial planner. Variable accounts, however, are separate from the insurer's general account, so access shouldn't be a problem if the company gets into financial trouble. Since survivorship policies may be in force for 30 or 40 years--and you can't predict how companies will fare that far into the future--Isaacson feels more comfortable putting clients into variable policies.
But what about the risk that your investment choices will go sour? Many policies guarantee a death benefit, so you won't lose coverage as long as you pay enough in premiums. For that guarantee, Hancock requires you to pay a minimum of 85% of the target premium, so you lose flexibility as to when and how much you pay. Although you may have to pay more to get the guarantee and it is not allowed in all states, Blease recommends you choose these policies if available.
HOMEWORK. You can manage investment risk by diversifying, so it is important to choose a policy with several subaccounts , says Lester Lovier, a vice-president at Equitable Life Assurance Co., which offers 13 fund choices. He also recommends looking for policies with good track records and liberal liquidity and transfer rules.
To compare costs, ask your agent to illustrate how the policy would work given varying rates of return. If you invest mainly in equities, you might be able to gross 10% a year on average, but you should subtract about 2% to reflect management expenses of the underlying funds. Other fees vary and may include sales and administrative charges.
Despite the management fees, "for most people, having equity exposure will work out better" than fixed policies, says Isaacson. Adding an element of market risk to a life insurance policy isn't for everybody. But if you like to steer your investments and hate the thought of letting your cash value languish in a fixed account, variable survivorship life may be just what you--and your heirs--have been waiting for. Amey Stone
HOW A VARIABLE SURVIVORSHIP POLICY MIGHT WORK For a 60-year-old nonsmoking couple in excellent health in New York State TOTAL AGE PREMIUMS PAID* CASH VALUE** DEATH BENEFIT 60 $38,891 $25,774 $3 million 70 388,910 454,212 3 million 80 777,820 1,161,143 3 million 90 1,166,730 2,044,579 3 million * Assumes premium of $38,891 a year, although great flexibility is allowed in payments ** Assumes an 8% rate of return on policy's subaccounts (6.49% net of expenses) DATA: EQUITABLE VARIABLE LIFE INSURANCE CO.


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But nope, Carly Rae is back and this time she's bringing her mind-numbingly catchy tune to the holidays via a few extra spirited folks with large electricity bills.
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Prepare for some dizzy carolers stumbling across your yard due to visual transfixation caused by the incessant, rapid blinking and twirling of hundreds of bulbs.
The owner of the second home, Jim Kurtz, from Bel Air, Md., told The Baltimore Sun that he has been synching music to pop songs for the past three years in order to "attract a younger audience to his home."
So in honor of these houses, here's a Christmas-Carly Carol:
Santa, I just met you. And you'd be crazy (not to show up with my presents this year). So here's a reminder. Bring me lots this year.
Not maybe, you better show up.
Which house did it better? Vote in the comments below.
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Five years ago, three college girls on a Caribbean vacation got a serious case of the heebeejeebies when a stingray photobombed their "say cheese" moment. The hilarious photograph could have ended up as just a fond vacay memory if it weren't for a friend, who shared the image on Reddit in September of this year.
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Argon Medical Devices Announces Plans to Leave Gainesville
Published July 30th, 2013
GAINESVILLE, Fla.- Argon medical devices has announced that it's letting go more than 100 employees.
Only six weeks ago Argon bought out Angiotech-- including its gainesville operation.
Now they are closing that facility.
Argon medical devices won't be officially closing its doors until December.
So employees at the company's Gainesville office have a choice-- transfer out of state-- or go unemployed.
A statement released by Argon production manager gives Gainesville the opportunity to move to Athens Texas, just outside Dallas.
They posted jobs it looked like the pay rate would be lower and i don't have anything in Texas." , says Argon employee, Susan Few.
Argon also decided to close down its facility in Stenlose, Denmark and move production from that facility to Wheeling, Illinois... Adding 80 jobs to that area.
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Kawata C. (1990). [Self-management of adolescents with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus]. Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine (Nippon Rinsho) 48:1119-25.
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I was at a scary place. Mom called it dog jail. There were dogs barking all the time, lots of bad smells, and one really big, bad, scary smell that I really didn't like (smelled like doggies who don't come back).
I didn't KNOW Mommy was my mommy at first. I met her a couple of times. She was nice, and she never put me in the too-small crate (I has looooong legs, and some people just put me in a tiny crate when we would go for a ride). She took me to a pet store and told me I would find my family there. She loved on me, and told me I give GREAT dog hugs. When she would put me in the crate again, I'd bark and bark at her to tell her how much I wanted to stay with her, but I'm not sure humans speak Dog that well. She told me she had to take me back to jail, but surely my family would be along soon to get me. After all, I really DO give great dog hugs!
I got adopted one day and thought for SURE that lady was my mommy. I even got to spend the night at her house. But the next day, she took me back to doggy jail. Not sure why, but the daddy at that house wasn't very nice to me.
I met my didn't-know-it-was-Mommy again, and she seemed surpised to see me. She asked another lady, "Didn't Bradley get adopted last week?" and seemed sad for a little while. She got out the nice big crate for me again, and we went to the pet store again for an adoption thingy. She got me out of the crate for lots of loving, and even let me sit on her lap (I don't LOOK like a lap dog...but I sure FEEL like one!).
She seemed sad when she had to take me back to dog jail again.
Another family adopted me, and I was excited! I was SURE this was finally MY family, and I would finally not have to go back to jail. Well, some not-very-good things happened there...things that made me afraid of some men for a while after that. I managed to get away from that family, but then I was lost and all alone!
A scary man in a big truck showed up, and he caught me and shoved me in the truck. I recognized some of the bad smells (smells like fear, hopelessness, and despair...Mom says humans can't smell those things), and sure enough, I was back in dog jail not long after that.
Then, whaddaya know! My didn't-know-it-yet Mommy showed up again! Not sure if she was sick or what, but she didn't look good when she saw me. She smelled sad, too, and her eyes kinda leaked. I tried to be brave for her, but I couldn't help but cower a little when she opened my jail cell. The not-good things had made me a bit more wary of all people (but especially men). Her eyes seemed to leak a bit more, and her voice sounded funny, but I was happy to see her.
She put me in a nice big crate AGAIN, and off to the pet store we went. But again, no family picked me that day. The really nice lady, who usually always talked to us jail doggies in a happy, excited voice, seemed really quiet when we got back to the jail. Her eyes were leaking again, and she gave me a big hug.
I was suprised to see her again so soon, but she showed up again a couple of days later (usually it was longer before she would come back to take me to the petstore to try to find new parents). I was glad to see she looked really happy again. She got me out, and we went into a room at the jail I had never been in before. Then the lady did something kinda scary. All of a sudden, she picked me up! And she put me in this big white bowl, and then she got me all wet! On purpose! I was scared, but she was talking so nicely to me, that I tried to be brave for her and didn't jump out of the big bowl.
After a stop at another pet store, the lady took me to a place with a BIG fenced area. Another lady showed up, and she had a crazy doggy with her. I soon learned that the new lady was the mom of my new mommy, and the crazy dog was gonna be my SISTER!!! YAY!!!!
We met each other there so sister Abbie Lou wouldn't have to defend her house. Then we went HOME together. I didn't know it was home, but Mommy talked to me about it. She said I REALLY needed to love on the He there...that if I got him to love me, too, he could be my forever daddy.
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GILCHRIST COUNTY - Family members of two missing Gilchrist County men say they have found some closure after the body of one of the men was recovered in the Suwannee River on Monday.
The body of Al Melendez, 38, was found by a family friend who was searching the river using another friend's boat early Monday afternoon. Both Melendez and his daughter's boyfriend, Haemont Nathooran, 19, had been missing since they were swept into the river a week ago while trying to rescue one of Melendez's sons from the swift current.
Gilchrist County Sheriff's deputies say they decided to scale down their own search effort on Sunday after a week of searching turned up no trace of the two men. But given Monday's discovery, deputies say they will now shift their search back to a full-scale operation.
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F Am | Am |
We're still in Wisconsin as far as I know
Dm Gm | Gm |
Today was Green Bay and tomorrow's Chicago
C Gm | Gm |
Wish I was lying but there isn't much to report
Bb F
My phone is dying so I've got to keep it short
Am Dm
I just wanted to say, hey
Gm C
I've been writing you a road song
Am Dm
It's a cliche, but hey
Gm C
That doesn't make it so wrong
Am Dm
And in between the stops at the Cracker Barrel
Gm C
And forty movies with Will Ferrell
Am Dm Gm | Gm |
I need some way to occupy my time
Gm C
So I'm writing you a road song
Gm C F | F |
I sure hope you don't mind
Am D Gm C | F | F | F | F |
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh uh-huh
F Am | Am |
I bought you a light blue t-shirt last night
Dm Gm | Gm |
From some band I couldn't stand but their logo's alright
C Gm | Gm |
Some kid threw a bottle onstage, he had an arm like a pro
Bb F
I know it's getting late I guess I should let you go
Am Dm
But did I happen to say, hey
Gm C
I've been writing you a road song
Am Dm
Don't run away cause hey
Gm C
I promise it won't be too long
Am Dm
I know it's not what you'd call necessary
Gm C
And I know that I'm no Steve Perry
Am Dm Gm | Gm |
But even if you roll your eyes and groan
Gm C
I'm still writing you a road song
Gm C F | F |
That you can call your own
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By Bob Baum, AP Sports Writer
GLENDALE, Ariz. Ken Whisenhunt was the early favorite to replace coach Bill Cowher in Pittsburgh. Then Russ Grimm thought he had the job.
It was not to be.
Now both former Cowher assistants are in Arizona, Whisenhunt as head coach, Grimm as his top assistant. They are trying to transform a long-suffering Cardinals franchise into what might be called "Steelers West."
On Sunday, Arizona (1-2) faces the real thing when first-year coach Mike Tomlin brings the unbeaten Steelers (3-0) to the desert.
The game has no special meaning, Whisenhunt insists, even though he spent six seasons as a Steelers assistant, the last three as offensive coordinator.
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for that ballclub, that organization," Whisenhunt said. "It was very good to me. The players were great to me. I love the players on that football team and our relationship, but we moved on."
Grimm is Arizona's assistant head coach and offensive line coach, the same post he had the last three of his six seasons in Pittsburgh. He probably has the most reason to carry some resentment. He thought he had the job, only to find out a short time later that Tomlin had been hired.
"It's one of those things," Grimm said. "You work to get a chance to get in that position and, if you put your neck out there, it's not always going to turn out the way you want it. You get knocked down a little bit. I wouldn't say it's a disappointment. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm happy to be out here."
Arizona backup quarterback Kurt Warner, who had his own memorable return to St. Louis, isn't buying the "just another game" line.
"Inside, personally, there's no doubt you want to go out and show your friends and colleagues that you've come here and you've got a new thing. You're a force to be reckoned with," Warner said. "I'm sure it means a little bit more to them than they're letting on."
Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger politely said he had a good relationship with Whisenhunt, but he praised Tomlin.
"He's a player's coach," Roethlisberger said. "I know you hear that all the time, but he really is. I think the guys enjoy playing for him. They enjoy the enthusiasm that he brings. He's letting his coaches coach. I think that's kind of a breath of fresh air for both the coaches and the players."
Whisenhunt wants to build a run-oriented team, but everyone has trouble moving the ball on the ground against the Steelers. Pittsburgh has not allowed a back to gain 100 yards in 28 games. The Cardinals' Edgerrin James, then with Indianapolis, was the last to do it - three years ago.
Whisenhunt said Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau "has forgotten more about football than I know and probably ever will know."
Through three games, Pittsburgh has allowed 26 points, fewest in the NFL.
"Against these guys, it's hard to run the football. You know that going in," Whisenhunt said. "Hopefully, you can mix the run and the pass and get them a little bit off-guard."
The Steelers will have to be ready to defend two quarterbacks.
Second-year pro Matt Leinart is the starter, but last week Warner came in and ran a no-huddle offense that rallied Arizona to a 23-23 tie at Baltimore before the Ravens won on a last-second field goal.
"First, one's a lefty (Leinart) and one's a righty," Tomlin said. "You don't underestimate the differences in that when you talk about defending people."
Leinart didn't like being replaced, but said this week he has come to understand that he still is the starter.
"I'm going to go out there and be the player that I know I can be, and it starts this week," he said. "There's no worries. I'm going in with the mind-set that I'm going to throw 300 yards and three touchdowns."
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