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Photos By: Brad Holland
Artist/Band: Angus & Julia Stone
Venue/Date: The Civc, Auckland. Dec 16th; 2017
Libel bring you the latest music news, reviews, interviews and competitions. Based in New Zealand, covering entertainment both locally and internationally.
In one week, Australians and the Australian Music Industry have made it very clear they refuse to stand by and let the Berejiklian Government take away access to music and culture festivals in NSW, Australia.
Find out more about tomorrows Rally in Sydney and/or sign the petition now!
Sadly; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne has announced today that he must, unfortunately, cancel shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. This follows news of the postponement of the entire UK and European leg of his NO MORE TOURS 2 tour on doctors' orders.
Read More…
By Andra Jenkin
Date / Venue: Friday February 15th, 2019 - Alexandra Park, Auckland
Melbourne post-punk trio Cable Ties are delighted to be making it across for their first tour of Aotearoa New Zealand. Playing songs from their self-titled debut album and a whole bunch of new stuff on a lightning-quick four-day charge down the north island.
Who Loves NZ The Most?
Following a Sold-Out Winter Tour in 2018, Kiwi icon's The Jordan Luck Band today announce their massive 19 date New Zealand Winter(ish) Tour.
Trekking the whole country; the massive NZ tour begins the last weekend of April with shows through to late June 2019.
By Charlie McCubbine
Date / Venue: Tuesday February 5th, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland
By Rhiannon Lloyd
Artist: Florence + The Machine
Date / Venue: Wednesday 30th January - Spark Arena, Auckland
By Joelle Reid
Date / Venue: Monday January 26th, 2019 - Albert Park, Auckland
By Teylor Moss
Artist: Slash with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
Date / Venue: Saturday January 26th, 2019 - Spark Arena, Auckland
Florence and the Machine delivered an amazing show recently in Perth and are set to do the same for Laneway 2019.
BROODS are back and they're celebrating by bringing their DON'T FEED THE POP MONSTER tour home to New Zealand.
Due to incredible demand, internationally renowned award-winning musician, comedian, actor, writer and composer TIM MINCHIN has today announced a third and final Auckland show as part of his Australasian tour of his live show BACK.
One of New Zealand's most streamed indie artists, Graeme James releases his Nettwerk label debut album The Long Way Home – available everywhere on the 25th January.
Wellington five-piece Anxiety Club are hitting the road for a three-date nationwide tour in support of their recently released debut EP, BLACK HEART.
Australian indie-folk outfit The Paper Kites are returning to New Zealand shores.
Legendary, GRAMMY-award winning band FLEETWOOD MAC today announced an Australian and New Zealand tour, set to kick off on August 9 with two shows in Auckland on September 16 and 19, along with a welcome return to Dunedin on September 21.
Cirque du Soleil is returning to New Zealand, this time bringing their show KOOZA to Auckland this February and we have a double pass to giveaway!
By Janine Swail
Artist: Mumford & Sons featuring guests Tiny Ruins, Angie McMahon, Michael Kiwanuka & Leon Bridges
Date / Venue: Saturday January 12th, 2019 - Western Springs Outerfield, Auckland
By Lisa Diedricks
Artists: Nicki Minaj, Lil Pump, Mura Masa, Kali Uchis, San Holo, Montell2099 and The Katayanagi Twins
Date / Venue: Wednesday January 9th, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland
Julia Holter is heading to New Zealand to play one show at The Tuning Fork in Auckland and we have a double pass to giveaway!
By Mark Derricutt
Starting his professional career as a member of The Cab, Frank Sidoris soon found himself among the ranks of The Conspirators, touring and recording alongside Myles Kennedy and guitar legend Slash.
Soaked Oats have already begun their 13 stop tour around Aotearoa, spreading their slinky sludge pop across our shores with a mixture of festival appearances and headline shows.
One night
Three cities
Four venues
Over twenty artists in celebration of International Women's Day Friday March 8th 2019.
Event: Falls Festival, Marion Bay, Australia
Date: 29th - 31st December 2018
Photos by - Stephen Boxshall
Photos by Trevor Villiers
Date / Venue: Monday December 31st, 2018 - Silo Park, Auckland
The Auckland Folk Festival will be back this summer with an interesting, both ethnically and gender diverse line-up of local and international artists.


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Here's a delicious pudding I made last November. We use lots of dairy products in Estonia, and drink copious amounts of milk, buttermilk, kefir (and that includes adults). We also eat lots of dairy-based desserts. So it's not surprising that I think of thissimple pudding made with kefir or buttermilk as typically Estonian. For a moment I thought of blogging about it back in November - especially as I quite like the photo - but then I decided it's too humble, you see :)
Did you know that kefir is good for you? The friendly bacteria in kefir can aid in lactose digestion as a catalyst, making it more suitable than other dairy products for those who are lactose intolerant. It can also suppress an increase in blood pressure and reduce cholesterol levels.
Kefir or buttermilk pudding with raspberry jam
(Keefiritarretis maitsva moosiga)
Serves 4 to 6
500 ml (2 cups) kefir or buttermilk
300 g raspberry jam
6 gelatine leaves
4 Tbsp (1/4 cup) water, heated
Place gelatine leaves into a bowl of cold water and soak for 5 minutes. Heat the 4 Tbsp of water. Squeeze the soaked gelatine leaves lightly, then stir into and dissolve in the heated water.
Mix kefir/buttermilk and jam in a bowl. Pour in the gelatine mixture and stir thoroughly.
Divide the pudding between small dessert glasses or ramekins.

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Musicians racking up competition prizes, grants
Brandeisians tapped by Barlow Endowment, League of Composers
The music department keeps churning out winners – competition winners, that is.
Three graduate students have recently been awarded coveted commissions and prizes from the Barlow Endowment for Music and the League of Composers International Society of Contemporary Music.
Emily Koh, a second-year doctoral student, and Christian Gentry Ph.D. '12 were recently named Barlow Commission winners for 2012. The Barlow Endowment for Music sponsors significant new musical works that are not yet in progress.
Koh, who played piano as a child but later switched to the double bass as her primary instrument, also earned the ASCAP 2012 Morton Gould Young Composer's Award as well as the 2012 Param Student Composer Competition. She will compose a work for pierrot ensemble, which includes flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello, with percussion and soprano for the Lunar Ensemble. Koh is already the Lunar Ensemble's composer in residence.
Lunar Ensemble is a Baltimore-based new music group that promotes works for pierrot ensemble by living composers, and Koh says she's excited to work with them. Her piece will premiere in the 2012-2014 season.
Gentry composes for a variety of instruments and genres and previously won a Barlow award in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in the spring and has taught music theory at Brandeis as well as courses like "Music in a World of Words: Popular Music Criticism and Interpretations Since 1967" and "Country Music and Society." Gentry also worked as programming director for the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studios Marathon Concert and as co-director of the New Music Brandeis concert series and as a teaching fellow at Harvard University.
He will compose a 15-minute piece for the trombone quartet, which he expects to premiere in the fall of 2013.
"I am elated and grateful for being a recipient of a 2012 Barlow Commission. I would like to thank all of my Brandeis mentors who have guided my efforts and supported, even championed, my music," Gentry said, naming David Rakowski, the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition; Eric Chasalow, the Irving Fine Professor of Music; Yu-Hui Chang, associate professor of music composition; Martin Boykan, professor emeritus of music; and Allan Keiler, professor of music. "Most important is the day-to-day encouragement, support, and advice from my amazing wife, Laci."
Brandeis students and faculty have done exceptionally well in the competition for Barlow awards in recent years. Prior recipients include Peter van Zandt Lane Ph.D. '13 and Seung-Ah Oh Ph.D. '05, as well as Chang, Chasalow and Rakowski.
Trumpeter Travis Alford Ph.D. '13 has won the 2012 Music and the League of Composers International Society of Contemporary Music competition. The national competition doesn't impose limitations on style, requires submissions that are five and 20 minutes in length which may be written for solo instrument, small ensemble, or any combination.
Alford's piece, "Self, Analyzed," was written for chamber ensemble for flute, bass clarinet, guitar, percussion and toy piano. It premiered with the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble, whose artistic director, John Awlward received his Ph.D. from Brandeis in 2008. A recording of that performance was submitted to the competition. Alford will receive a $500 cash prize and his piece will be performed in New York City.
He has also worked as the co-director of the New Music Brandeis concert series, has been a teaching assistant in the music department and currently teaches at Gordon College and is an affiliated artist at Massachusetts Institute of the Arts.
"I wanted to write a piece using toy piano, which my teacher David Rakowski is famous for. I've never done that before, but found a toy piano at my parents' house in North Carolina that I've had since I was a kid and thought I'd give it a try," Alford said. "It's also the first time I've written for guitar. So it was challenging but also pretty fulfilling when you get it right."
As with the Barlow commissions, Brandeis students have done well in the League of Composers competition previously. Over the past several years, Aylward, Sam Nichols M.A. '99, Ph.D. '06, Mark Berger Ph.D. '11 and Laurie San Martin Ph.D. '03 have won.
"I'm honored and humbled," Alford says. "This competition has a pretty prestigious national profile and I know the people who have won it in the past and others who have applied and they are all very talented."
The three prize-winners perform together, along with a few other Brandeis doctoral students, in a group called The Gentleman's Very (Very) High Art Society of South Waltham, which they refer to as the unofficial graduate composers' ensemble.
Categories: Arts, Student Life


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Overview of ObesityOverview Of Obesity - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Facts about obesity
Overweight and obesity together represent the second leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Obesity is a serious, chronic disease that can inflict substantial harm to a person?s health. Overweight and obesity are not the same; rather, they are different points on a continuum of weight ranging from being underweight to being morbidly obese. The percentage of people who fit into these two categories, overweight and obese, is determined by Body Mass Index (BMI).
Public health professionals agree that overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions in this country. Public health officials say physical inactivity and poor diet are catching up to tobacco as a significant threat to health. According to the most recent data from the 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, one out of five or 17 percent of U.S. children, ages 6 to 19, are obese. In addition, more than one third of the U.S. adult population is obese. Obesity prevalence did not differ between men and women; however, adults aged 60 and older were more likely to be obese than younger adults. From 2007-2008 and 2009-2010, the prevalence of obesity among adults and children did not change.
BMI is a measure of weight proportionate to height. BMI is considered a useful measurement of the amount of body fat. Occasionally, some very muscular people may have a BMI in the overweight range. However, these people are not considered overweight because muscle tissue weighs more than fat tissue. Generally, BMI can be considered an effective way to evaluate whether a person is overweight or obese.
In adults, a BMI from 18.5 to 24.9 is considered normal while a BMI of more than 25 is considered overweight. A person is considered obese if the BMI is greater than 30 and morbidly obese if the BMI is 40 or greater. In general, after the age of 50, a man's weight stabilizes and even drops slightly between the ages of 60 and 74. However, a woman's weight continues to increase until age 60 and then begins to drop. When assessing a child's weight, the BMI is calculated and then plotted on a BMI for age percentile curve. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed sex-specific BMI for age growth curves to account for a child's for body fat variances across ages and genders. Public health professionals classify a child overweight if his BMI for age percentile ranking is in the range of the 85th to less than the 95th percentile, or obese if his BMI for age percentile ranking is greater than the 95th percentile.
Another measure of obesity is the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR). The WHR is a measurement tool that looks at the proportion of fat stored on the waist, and hips and buttocks. The waist circumference indicates abdominal fat. A waist circumference over 40 inches in men and over 35 inches in women may increase the risk for heart disease and other diseases associated with being overweight.
Consult your doctor with questions regarding healthy body weight.
What causes obesity?
In many ways, obesity is a puzzling disease. How the body regulates weight and body fat is not well understood. On one hand, the cause appears to be simple in that if a person consumes more calories than he or she expends as energy, then he or she will gain weight.
However, the risk factors that determine obesity can be a complex combination of genetics, socioeconomic factors, metabolic factors, and lifestyle choices, as well as other factors. Some endocrine disorders, diseases, and medications may also exert a powerful influence on an individual's weight.
Factors which may influence the occurrence of obesity include, but are not limited to, the following:
Genetics. Studies have shown that a predisposition toward obesity can be inherited. Although researchers have identified several genes that appear to be associated with obesity, most believe that one gene is not responsible for the entire obesity epidemic. The majority of current and future research aims to better understand the interaction between these gene variations and our ever-changing environment in the development of obesity.
Metabolic factors. How a particular person expends energy is different from how someone else's body uses energy. Both metabolic and hormonal factors are not the same for everyone, but these factors play a role in determining weight gain. Recent studies show that levels of ghrelin, a peptide hormone known to regulate appetite, and other peptides in the stomach, play a role in triggering hunger and producing a feeling of fullness (satiety).
Socioeconomic factors. There is a strong relationship between economic status and obesity, especially among women. Women who are poor and of lower social status are more likely to be obese than women of higher socioeconomic status. The occurrence of obesity is also highest among minority groups, especially among women.
Lifestyle choices. Overeating, along with a sedentary lifestyle, contributes to obesity. These are lifestyle choices that can be affected by behavior change.
Eating a diet in which a high percentage of calories come from sugary, high-fat, refined foods promotes weight gain. And, as more U.S. families eat on the go, high-calorie foods and beverages are often selected.
Lack of regular exercise contributes to obesity in adults and makes it difficult to maintain weight loss. In children, inactivity, such as watching television or sitting at a computer, contributes to obesity.
Health effects of obesity
Obesity has a far-ranging negative effect on health. Each year obesity-related conditions cost over 100 billion dollars and cause premature deaths in the US. The health effects associated with obesity include, but are not limited to, the following:
High blood pressure. Additional fat tissue in the body needs oxygen and nutrients in order to live, which requires the blood vessels to circulate more blood to the fat tissue. This increases the workload of the heart because it must pump more blood through additional blood vessels. More circulating blood also means more pressure on the artery walls. Higher pressure on the artery walls increases the blood pressure. In addition, extra weight can raise the heart rate and reduce the body's ability to transport blood through the vessels.
Diabetes. Obesity is the major cause of type 2 diabetes. Obesity can cause resistance to insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar. When obesity causes insulin resistance, the blood sugar becomes elevated. Even moderate obesity dramatically increases the risk of diabetes.
Heart disease. Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) occurs more often in obese people compared to those who are not obese. Coronary artery disease is also more prevalent because fatty deposits build up in arteries that supply the heart. Narrowed arteries and reduced blood flow to the heart can cause chest pain (angina) or a heart attack. Blood clots can also form in narrowed arteries and cause a stroke.
Joint problems, including osteoarthritis. Obesity can affect the knees and hips because of the stress placed on the joints by extra weight. Joint replacement surgery, while commonly performed on damaged joints, may not be an advisable option for an obese person because the artificial joint has a higher risk of loosening and causing further damage.
Sleep apnea and respiratory problems. Sleep apnea, which causes people to stop breathing for brief periods, interrupts sleep throughout the night and causes sleepiness during the day. It also causes heavy snoring. Respiratory problems associated with obesity occur when added weight of the chest wall squeezes the lungs and causes restricted breathing. Sleep apnea is also associated with high blood pressure.
Cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, being overweight contributes to an increased risk for a variety of cancers including breast (among postmenopausal women), colon and rectum, gallbladder, esophagus, kidney, pancreas, endometrium (lining of the uterus), and uterus. Men who are overweight have a higher risk of prostate cancers.
Metabolic syndrome. The National Cholesterol Education Program has identified metabolic syndrome as a complex risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Metabolic syndrome consists of six major components: abdominal obesity, elevated blood cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance with or without glucose intolerance, elevation of certain blood components that indicate inflammation, and elevation of certain clotting factors in the blood.
Psychosocial effects. In a culture where often the ideal of physical attractiveness is to be overly thin, people who are overweight or obese frequently suffer disadvantages. Overweight and obese persons are often blamed for their condition and may be considered to be lazy or weak-willed. It is not uncommon for overweight or obese conditions to result in persons having lower incomes or having fewer or no romantic relationships. Disapproval of overweight persons expressed by some individuals may progress to bias, discrimination, and even torment.


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|via this is colossal
(Great example of graphic, interior, furniture design)
Recently, I have been asked the question quizzically "what exactly DO you do?"...Hmmm, sometimes I ask myself the SAME question! my answer usually goes something like this
"Well, I am a freelance graphic designer by trade...so I am translating that talent into the Interior World....a dream of mine...melding the two together....I basically have been designing most of my life." (not the best elevator pitch, but it will do for now!)
Which has made me think, what makes Graphic Design "translate" into Interior Design? I know there are some guiding principles that overlap. So I got out my design books and started looking into it...I might innately know the principles, but I thought it might be fun to delve into it and really look at the correlation.
And over the next month I am going to show you why Graphic Design a predominantly 2D world translates into Interiors a 3D world....with a few guiding principles. I bet I will learn something along the way too!
Class is in session!


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More need, more work for JFS
Larger caseloads mean more work for Auglaize County Job and Family Services (JFS) employees going into 2013.
"No one is handing out money and telling us to do good things," county JFS Director Mike Morrow said of funding to support these increases in work across the board.
"They are telling us to do more good things with less," he said of state and federal funding for the department.
Describing 2012 as a challenging year, Morrow said they are not allowing excuses and his staff is working harder to get support in the hands of the people that need it.
"I don't anticipate doing anything different than what we have been doing all along," Morrow said of 2013.
That means no big purchases and no major contracts for the department in the new year.
"I am really nervous about proposing anything major with the changes coming down the road," Morrow said.
He said they took a close look at staffing, considering who they may lose to retirement and have to payout benefits to, and reviewed mileage on vehicles, as well as wear and tear and repair costs as they set a budget for the new year. As the office continues moving to a more paperless system, less also is expected to be spent on equipment, such as copiers.
Factoring in salary increases not yet approved by the Auglaize County commissioners, Morrow presented a proposed budget of more than $3.1 million on Thursday. The budget reflects a 4 percent increase from 2012.
"I put 3 (percent pay increases) in every year," Morrow said of his budget. "That is what we have always done, then we change it to whatever you approve."
Employee salaries with 3 percent increases would represent more than $1.3 million of JFS's total budget.
In addition to benefits, other line items in the budget include $85,000 for supplies, $100,000 for equipment, $200,000 for contract services, $22,000 for travel, $106,155 for other expenses, $100,000 for facilities, and $284,673 for general relief.
"These numbers look great but they aren't worth they paper they are written on," Morrow said. "There are too many variables, but we need to be somewhat prepared.
"We will need to anticipate retroactive changes that could go back to July," he said of federal funding the department receives."I am extremely nervous."
JFS's budget has remained steady for several years, Morrow said, noting that he feels comfortable that despite changes in funding sources they will be able to operate within the numbers he proposed.
Steady budget numbers and increasing case loads may mean more work for his employees.
Morrow said 1,350 more county residents are expected to be eligible for Medicaid. With caseworkers having between 470 and 525 cases each, the additional numbers add up to the equivalent of three more positions.
"That will never happen," Morrow said. "The money doesn't exist, yet it will have an impact on their caseloads."
The increases also are expected to impact food assistance.
"Many more people are now eligible than we have ever had before and they just keep coming," Morrow said. "We continue to do the best we can with that."
While there isn't money in the department's budget to add all three new positions needed, Morrow said they did build enough money in to cover one of those positions because he didn't want to be caught totally unprepared.
"We would need to add at least one more position," Morrow said.
Child welfare cases also have increased 100 percent in the last year and staff members are working hard to keep costs low and children out of out-of-home placement, which means less money spent on keeping children in custody.
In the Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA), Morrow said there is a full-fledged press to get collections and subsequent federal incentives up.
With a budget of $988,286, of which salaries account for half, projected for the CSEA in 2013, Morrow said his staff is working hard, but again is being faced with record numbers of child support modifications, which is time consuming. Enforcement has gotten aggressive as fiscally clients continue to struggle.
Federal support for the program could increase or decrease going into the future, Morrow said.
"Sometimes what goes unnoticed after all three major reviews is no problems were found and we are under no corrective action plans," Morrow said of his agency. "That is a real testament to the job the employees are doing."


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Hi everyone,
Today we picked the winners out of the bowl,
Under strict supervision of Bear.
And the winners are number 37 and 4
37, Claire from Haken en Meer is the winner of this kit,
en 4, Country rabbit wins the finished toadstool.
Claire and Country rabit congratulation!
Please send us your posting address
so we can send you the gifts.
so we can send you the gifts.
My sewingmachine is temporarily into a retreat,
and until he comes back it's time
to start quilting!
Groetjes Corry en Heleen


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"A tavola non si invecchia". - Italian proverb (At the table with good friends and family you do not become old).
Sharing authentic Italian recipes entrusted upon me through the privilege of being invited into many Italian homes and kitchen's abroad. I travel, cook, eat, share, learn and photograph my experiences, a truly soul enriching journey. There are now over 100 recipes on this blog to search from. I am a Melbourne born girl who now resides in Pietrasanta, Italy. Sharing my love for food and all things Italian with you. I am not a professionally trained chef, just a person that really loves cooking and has made my passion my reality! Through talent and drive I now work as a private chef in some of the most prestigious private villa`s here in Tuscany, Italy!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
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by Kelly Dean Hansen, Ph.D., Musicology
In an ongoing project, I am constructing distinctive real-time listening guides to the works of the German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. By nature, the guides are recording-specific, but they can be adapted to any recording of the given works by simply changing the timings. I am willing to do this for anybody who would like to provide a recording.
Email me
if you have any requests for specific guides for works that may not be posted or
for guides tailored to alternative recordings. The most recent additions will be marked as
for at least a week.
: I should have indicated long ago that I can no longer take requests for specific guides, and I have not done so for some time. I have explained to some people who have emailed me that it is just not feasible, and that it is best to stick to the random order I generated long ago. The guide you want will eventually be available. The site should be finished in the next 2-3 years. 84 of 122 opus numbers have now been done. For whatever reason, I have not changed this introduction since 2006, and I really should have done so. I AM still willing to tailor EXISTING guides to alternate recordings (with changed timings), although with the new public Spotify playlist, this should not usually be necessary.
Brahms Complete Works
on Spotify!
Brahms Complete Works
on Spotify! (URI)
Notes on the Spotify Playlist
: In the almost ten years since beginning this project, it has been a personal labor of love. It has been extremely gratifying to hear stories of people who enjoy what I have done and find the guides useful. It has been even more satisfying to see my work here cited in various papers and projects. But this is a labor-intensive project for which I receive no material benefit or compensation. The guides are and always will be free to use and to cite (as long as I am properly credited), but I feel that it is finally time to drop this little button onto the top of the site. If you feel that my continuation and eventual completion of the project is of value to you or to others, please consider helping me out. Two days ago, I publicly announced (above) that I would not take any requests for guides. However, for any donation of $20 or more, I will immediately drop what I am working on and move directly to a work of your choice from the 38 remaining opus numbers (no WoO numbers at this point). First come, first serve. Guaranteed completion within ten days of the donation or, if somebody is ahead of you, within ten days from the point at which the previous guide in the queue is completed. Thank you in advance to anybody who is moved to help.
The following guides are now available:
Opus 1
: Piano Sonata #1 in C Major [December 21, 2005--REVISED March 26, 2010]
Opus 2
: Piano Sonata #2 in F-sharp Minor [December 21, 2005--REVISED
January 24, 2010]
Opus 3
: Six Songs (Gesänge) [December 21, 2005--
REVISED December 26, 2012]
Opus 4
: Scherzo for Piano in E-flat Minor [September 16, 2014]
Opus 5
: Piano Sonata #3 in F Minor [March 4, 2013]
Opus 9
: Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann for Solo Piano [June 30, 2010]
Opus 10
: Four Ballades for Piano [March 31, 2015]
Opus 12
: Ave Maria for Four-Voice Women's Chorus and Orchestra or Organ [October 14, 2008]
Opus 13
: Begräbnisgesang (Burial Song) for Chorus and Wind Instruments [August 28, 2008]
Opus 14
: Eight Songs and Romances (Lieder und Romanzen) [September 6, 2008]
Opus 17
: Four Partsongs (Gesänge) for Women's Chorus with Two Horns and Harp [November 13, 2008]
Opus 18
: String Sextet #1 in B-flat Major (includes arrangement of second movement for piano) [November 13, 2008]
Opus 19
: Five Songs (Gedichte--Poems) [January 23, 2009]
Opus 20
: Three Duets for Soprano and Alto [February 7, 2006--REVISED
March 28, 2011]
Opus 21, No. 1
: Variations on an Original Theme for Piano [January 31, 2009]
Opus 21, No. 2
: Variations on a Hungarian Song for Piano [January 31, 2009]
Opus 22
: Marienlieder (Marian Songs) for Mixed Chorus [August 24, 2009]
Opus 24
: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of G. F. Handel for Piano [November 23, 2009]
Opus 25
: Piano Quartet #1 in G Minor [July 9, 2009]
Opus 26
: Piano Quartet #2 in A Major [May 31, 2013]
Opus 27
: Psalm 13 for Three-Voice Women's Chorus and Organ [October 28, 2009]
Opus 28
: Four Duets for Alto and Baritone [August 15, 2009]
Opus 30
: Geistliches Lied (Sacred Song) for Mixed Chorus and Organ [October 14, 2008]
Opus 31
: Three Quartets for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass [October 24, 2008]
Opus 32
: Nine Songs (Lieder und Gesänge) to Texts by Platen and Daumer [September 15, 2009]
Opus 33
: Fifteen Romances from L. Tieck's
September 15, 2009]
Opus 34
: Piano Quintet in F Minor [January 7, 2014]
Opus 34b
: Sonata for Two Pianos in F Minor (after the Piano Quintet) [January 9, 2014]
Opus 35
: Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Studies for Piano) [January 9, 2009]
Opus 36
: String Sextet #2 in G Major [August 4, 2014]
Opus 37
: Three Sacred Choruses (Geistliche Chöre) for Four-Voice Women's Chorus [September 26, 2008]
Opus 38
: Cello Sonata #1 in E Minor [July 11, 2013]
Opus 39
: Sixteen Waltzes for Piano Duet or Piano Solo (All Versions) [November 4, 2008]
Opus 41
: Five Partsongs (Lieder) for Four-Voice Men's Chorus [May 31, 2008]
Opus 42
: Three Partsongs (Gesänge) for Six-Voice Mixed Chorus [January 2, 2006--REVISED
August 19, 2009]
Opus 43
: Four Songs (Gesänge) [June 29, 2006--REVISED
January 25, 2010]
Opus 44
: Twelve Songs and Romances (Lieder und Romanzen) for Four-Voice Women's Chorus with (Optional) Piano Accompaniment [June 23, 2012]
Opus 45
: Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) to Words of Holy Scripture for Two Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra [December 26, 2008]
Opus 47
: Five Songs (Lieder) [June 10, 2009]
Opus 49
: Five Songs (Lieder) [February 26, 2014]
Opus 50
, Cantata for Tenor Solo, Male Chorus, and Orchestra [September 17, 2013]
Opus 51, No. 1
: String Quartet #1 in C Minor [March 31, 2017]
Opus 51, No. 2
: String Quartet #2 in A Minor [March 31, 2017]
Opus 52
: Liebeslieder Waltzes for Vocal Quartet and Piano Duet [April 15, 2010]
Opus 53
: Rhapsody for Alto, Male Chorus, and Orchestra [September 18, 2009]
Opus 55
: Triumphlied (Song of Triumph) from Revelation Chapter 19 for Eight-Voice Chorus, Baritone Soloist, and Orchestra [September 22, 2012]
Opus 57
: Eight Songs (Lieder und Gesänge) to Texts by G. F. Daumer [August 28, 2008]
Opus 58
: Eight Songs (Lieder und Gesänge) [November 7, 2009]
Opus 59
: Eight Songs (Lieder und Gesänge) [February 20, 2009]
Opus 63
: Nine Songs (Lieder und Gesänge) [July 15, 2006--REVISED November 7, 2009]
Opus 65
: New Liebeslieder Waltzes for Vocal Quartet and Piano Duet [October 24, 2008]
Opus 66
: Five Duets for Soprano and Alto [September 15, 2009]
Opus 68
: Symphony #1 in C Minor [March 26, 2010]
Opus 69
: Nine Songs (Gesänge) [April 3, 2013]
Opus 70
: Four Songs (Gesänge) [September 11, 2008]
Opus 71
: Five Songs (Gesänge) [May 30, 2014]
Opus 72
: Five Songs (Gesänge) [June 15, 2014]
Opus 73
: Symphony #2 in D Major [January 29, 2010]
Opus 74
: Two Motets for Mixed Chorus [June 30, 2009]
Opus 75
: Four Ballads and Romances (Balladen und Romanzen) for Two Voices and Piano [March 28, 2011]
Opus 76
: Eight Piano Pieces (Klavierstücke) [November 26, 2008]
Opus 77
: Violin Concerto in D Major [February 9, 2009]
Opus 78
: Violin Sonata #1 in G Major [September 1, 2009]
Opus 79
: Two Rhapsodies for Piano [August 13, 2014]
Opus 80
: Academic Festival Overture [June 12, 2013]
Opus 81
: Tragic Overture (D Minor) [October 14, 2008]
Opus 82
: Nänie for Chorus and Orchestra [April 25, 2014]
Opus 84
: Five Romances and Songs (Romanzen und Lieder) for One or Two Voices [June 26, 2006]
Opus 85
: Six Songs (Lieder) [August 18, 2008]
Opus 86
: Six Songs (Lieder) for Low Voice [November 20, 2008]
Opus 88
: String Quintet #1 in F Major [July 21, 2009]
Opus 89
: Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates) for Six-Voice Chorus and Orchestra [February 26, 2009]
Opus 92
: Four Quartets for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass [June 26, 2009]
Opus 93a
: Six Songs and Romances (Lieder und Romanzen) for Four-Voice Mixed Chorus [October 14, 2008]
Opus 93b
: Tafellied--"Dank der Damen" ("The Ladies' Toast"), Glee for Six-Voice Mixed Chorus and Piano [June 26, 2009]
Opus 97
: Six Songs (Lieder) [September 26, 2008]
Opus 98
: Symphony #4 in E Minor [June 17, 2009]
Opus 99
: Cello Sonata #2 in F Major [January 26, 2013]
Opus 100
: Violin Sonata #2 in A Major [February 9, 2006--REVISED
July 11, 2009]
Opus 101
: Piano Trio #3 in C Minor [October 2, 2008]
Opus 104
: Five Partsongs (Gesänge) for Mixed Chorus [December 28, 2008]
Opus 106
: Five Songs (Lieder) [January 10, 2006--REVISED June 5, 2010]
Opus 108
: Violin Sonata #3 in D Minor [March 28, 2007--REVISED
September 1, 2009]
Opus 110
: Three Motets for Four- and Eight-Voice Mixed Chorus [August 19, 2009]
Opus 111
: String Quintet #2 in G Major [September 29, 2009]
Opus 117
: Three Intermezzi for Piano [April 2, 2011]
Opus 118
: Six Piano Pieces (Klavierstücke) [December 28, 2005--REVISED
August 3, 2009]
Opus 119
: Four Piano Pieces (Klavierstücke) [August 3, 2009]
Opus 120, No. 1
: Clarinet (or Viola) Sonata #1 in F Minor [November 23, 2012]
Opus 120, No. 2
: Clarinet (or Viola) Sonata #2 in E-flat Major [December 26, 2012]
Opus 121
: Four Serious Songs (Vier ernste Gesänge) for Bass Voice and Piano [May 31, 2010]
Opus 122
: Eleven Chorale Preludes for Organ (posthumous) [April 8, 2014]
(3/31/17): So how is everybody! Yep, two years to the day since I posted an update to the site, and I am genuinely sorry. I didn
t mean for this to happen. In mid-2015 I did the guide for the Op. 51, No. 2 String Quartet, which was a request from a donor.
It's been done since about June of that year.
It's also been available and uploaded onto the site, but I never linked it from the front page. That
s because I didn
't want to put it up without its companion quartet. So I started to work on Op. 51, No. 1. It was around that time that life started to catch up with me in a lot of ways. It suffices to say that a great many things have happened during that time. All that time, however, I was slowly working on Op. 51, No. 1, but it was taking a very long time. This may be the most complex and intricate piece Brahms ever wrote, and it was surprisingly difficult to analyze and construct the guide. Anyway, in the meantime, the site has moved to a new Plesk server after GoDaddy retired the old Windows-based one. I was able to get a free year on the new server, but as of June 2016, I was no longer grandfathered into the free unlimited hosting. What that means is that I
m now paying for both the domain and the hosting, and I had never paid for the actual hosting since I got the domain in 2008. So I now have an extra real expense to actually keep the site up and available. I hate to plead for donations after being absent for so long, but I
ve been paying for hosting for almost a year without saying anything publicly about it. I have found that I can
't guarantee new guides within a timely manner, although I will still give priority to donor requests. I have to go back and see what previous donors have said they want. And yes, the Op. 84 guide needs to be dealt with, along with all the IMSLP links from that opus on. Also in this time frame, Emily Ezust
's Lied and Art Song Text Page has migrated from recmusic.org to a new server. Fortunately, all those links are not dead--they just lead to redirects, and everything seems to land on the right page. Still, it
's another time-consuming task that I should undertake to make the text links more clean. The March 2015 update below promised less gap time between postings. That was obviously a promise I couldn
t keep, and I won
t make it again. But I am hopeful that with the very difficult guide for Op. 51, No. 1 completed, I can move on to some works that are a little less challenging. I am committed to finish the project, no matter how long it takes. Thanks again to everyone who has supported my efforts.
(3/31/15): Yes, it's been a while, with another unexpectedly busy stretch of time, but I have been working fairly steadily (if slowly) on the Op. 10 Ballades since September. This has been one of the most requested guides (as have all the solo piano works), so I
m glad to finally have it available. With its posting, the only solo piano opus remaining is Op. 116, but it really is time to give attention to other genres. And it is REALLY time to revise the Op. 84 guide. That is absolutely my next task on the site. After that, I will finally fix the remaining score links (which should work up to Op. 82). I
've been tweaking the Spotify list a little (adding true quartet recordings of Op. 103, Nos. 8-10, interspersed with the solo versions of 1-7 and 11; adding at least the original piano duet versions of the Hungarian Dances, WoO 1). And I
m going to gently mention the little PayPal button at the top again. After I posted it, I received a fair number of generous donations, for which I am grateful, but the well has been dry for a while. If you are interested in seeing the project brought to completion (and in avoiding long September-March gaps between postings--there were also no donations during that time), then please consider clicking the button and helping me out. Thank you!
Additional Note: With the Op. 10 guide, I'm experimenting with a new idea--adding links to other guides when reference is made to other works. I think that is something I should have explored long ago, but again, it will be an extended project to add these to existing guides.
(8/19/14): This is mainly for the Brahms scholars who may be skeptically watching me with wagging fingers. At some point, I knew about the ten measures that Brahms apparently cut from the very end of
's main section, but long ago forgot about them. This is partly due to the fact that my Kalmus reprint of the
Sämtliche Werke
edition edited by Eusebius Mandyczewski does not include the front matter with editorial notes. (Oh, Dover, why did you never reprint this? The Kalmus is overpriced and incomplete.) These editorial notes included the ten excised bars as a supplement. When I was assembling my Brahms recordings in the late 1990s, the Sinopoli/Kollo
on DG (part of the re-released Complete Edition) really was the only obtainable version. It did not include the ten bars, and neither did the only readily available full score. I never did consult the piano/vocal score. I tend to avoid those when analyzing choral/orchestral works. Obviously, I should have done so. Anyway, to my horror, those ten bars reared their ugly head while I was listening to the Albrecht/Andersen recording on Chandos. I discovered that at least one other recent recording, De Billy/Botha on Oehms, includes them. I then recalled that they are, in fact, in the first edition (to which I have linked in my guide). So I had a quandary. I completed the guide for
last year, and I believe it to be the site's
magnum opus
. I have neither the desire nor the willpower to change the recording, and no available full score (they are all reprints of the
Sämtliche Werke
edition) includes the measures. Yet piano/vocal scores include them even today. I have no idea what will happen when the new Henle
Brahms Gesamtausgabe
tackles the piece. I know that Professor Robert Pascall disagrees strongly with Mandyczewski's consistent assumption that Brahms's changes in his personal copies of the first editions represent his final, definitive thoughts. Indeed, no edition published in Brahms's lifetime cut the measures.
The problem is that I really don't like these ten measures. They sound strange, like an interpolation. Indeed, their material is almost entirely new. And really, asking the tenor soloist for a high B-flat (sung fairly quietly) at that point of the work is rather sadistic. If Brahms meant to cut them, it was a good decision. But I am a completist to a fault. I go out of my way to use recordings that include every repeat. So I felt that I needed to address the ten measures in my guide. I have therefore added a brief explanation and description of them at the end of the main section, before the final chorus. Brahmsians, please give me credit for this!
(6/15/14): I can
't believe that I haven
't done this yet, but in an exciting development, I have assembled a complete Brahms playlist on Spotify! Almost all of the recordings in this playlist are the ones I have used or will use in the guides. Only one recording for guides I have already done, the two-piano works performed by Argerich and Rabinovitch on Teldec, is not (yet) available on Spotify. This applies to the Sonata, Op. 34b and to the two-piano version of the Op. 39 waltzes. For now, I
've included a substitute recording for these pieces, as well as for the five or so other works whose guides are not yet completed and for which I could not find my intended recording. The playlist is in opus order, and includes all the alternate versions covered in the guides. It should be self-explanatory. I have included two recordings for Op. 84. This is the only existing guide that still requires major revision, and this will happen shortly. In the revision, I am going to include timings for a recording with two voices as well as the existing timings for the solo recording. The playlist does not yet include works without opus number. I have no intention of doing guides for these
"-numbered pieces (including the Hungarian Dances, the F.A.E. Scherzo, all folksong arrangements, the early organ pieces, etc.)
until all the opus numbers are done. The existence of this playlist should GREATLY enhance the usability of the guides, giving instant access to the recordings. If I have previously given anybody private access to the recordings, have no fear, that location will continue to be updated and available. One great aspect of the Spotify playlist is that Spotify smoothly transitions between tracks where there should be no gap (
and some variations sets are good examples of where this is desirable). Of course, if it
's time for an ad, all bets are off. So, without further ado, access to the playlist is
For more detailed clarification on the playlist, particularly all the alternate versions, click
IMSLP score links are now repaired through Op. 82. Alternate keys for songs are now indicated through Op. 72 (the newest guide). We
're getting there!
In the distant future, when the guides are done, I may revisit the issue of song keys in the guides (a point that continues to trouble me), giving indication as to which keys are used in the recordings and possibly for the various other complete song sets that are available (such as the CPO and Brilliant sets). Analysis in the guides is ALWAYS done with reference to the original key, whether or not (usually not) the song in question is sung in that key by Fischer-Dieskau or Norman.
(2/26/14): Well, it had to happen eventually. The
has finally arrived at the Brahms Listening Guides website. This is for the other 95%--I guess. But you, sophisticated regular visitors, will never call it
"Brahms' Lullaby" again. And even if you do, you
'll rebel against the horrible AP style
and properly style it as "Brahms
s Lullaby." After all, we wouldn
't want to imply that the most famous cradle song in the world was written by several members of the family Brahm! Or even better, you will demonstrate your sophistication by putting your child to sleep while singing
, Op. 49, No. 4, making sure the infant grows up knowing it
s proper designation.
In more mundane news, I neglected to mention on this front page that last month, I added the version without voices (Op. 65a) to the guide for the New Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 65a, in the same manner that this was done for Op. 52, as described below. Score links have now been fixed and updated through Op. 69!
(1/9/14): As mentioned in the guide itself, I have departed from my usual practice in constructing separate guides for the Piano Quintet, Op. 34, and its version as a Sonata for Two Pianos, Op. 34b. Typically, alternate versions of works are presented within the same guide (e.g., Opp. 12, 18, 39, 52, 65, 120 Nos. 1 & 2). The reasons for doing a separate guide for Op. 34b are actually obvious; the fact that neither piano part in the sonata matches the piano part in the quintet (and the sheer scope of the differences in the scoring) really left me no choice. The guides are among the largest I have done for instrumental works, which speaks to the vast content and compositional intricacy of this music, in either of its two versions. I did use the guide for Op. 34 as a template for Op. 34b, but I made an effort to treat the two-piano version independently, with as little reference to the quintet version or to string instruments as possible, only doing so in a few cases of particular interest.
I apologize once again for the long delay; this was one of the most challenging works to tackle, and I had to do it twice (at a busy time of the year). I now intend to turn for a time to song sets and other smaller works--the Piano Quintet has kind of drained me. Expect to see more movement on the updating of score links as well, as more low-voice versions from the Peters Edition of the songs become available on IMSLP.
(9/17/13): Whew! Now that I
've tackled
, the greatest obstacle to eventually finishing this long project has been removed. I had been concerned about this particular work for some time. It is the most singular and unique among all of Brahms
's major works, his only choral setting of an overtly dramatic text, and the only large composition to have an almost completely continuous structure. I had debated for many months how I would handle this guide when it came up. Even the issue of posting translations for such a long text proved a puzzle, as did the issue of how to handle a multi-track recording of a piece with only one real break. The result is what will likely be the
magnum opus
of the Brahms Listening Guides. No, it
's not the biggest Brahms work or even the most profound. In fact, it is probably the least familiar of all the major compositions. But it provided challenges to my established method, and I am extremely happy to have finished it. I hope you enjoy my approach to this unusual piece. As you can see, it took a while. Another much-demanded piece, the Piano Quintet (Op. 34), is coming next.
I am mindful of the need to update the rest of the score links. I am kind of stalled there right now because the low-key editions for the later song opus numbers have not yet been posted to IMSLP. Still, I intend to move forward with non-song opus numbers. The links are fixed through Op. 55.
On another subject entirely, my city of Boulder has been ravaged by disastrous floods in the last week. Ironically, with everything shut down because of an abundance of water, I was able to find time to finish describing Brahms
's thrilling setting of Rinaldo's voyage away from Armida's enchanted island. We find silver linings where we can.
While my family was fortunate to escape with no damage to health or property, the devastation around us is awesome and terrible. I ask for thoughts and prayers on behalf of those who suffered devastating losses in this incredible catastrophe.
(6/4/13): The guide for the Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52, has been updated to consider the version for piano duet without voices published as Op. 52a. I had resisted including this version because I consider it inferior. But it does have a prominence among arrangements because of the separate opus number with letter, because it was included in the
Sämtliche Werke,
and because recordings are readily available. There are very few alterations of any significance from the piano duet parts of the main version with vocal quartet. The most prominent of these is the embellished repeat of No. 7, Part 2. I hope that my method of considering this version is unobtrusive, but still useful. I did not consider it worthy of its own separate outline as with, for example, the viola versions of the Op. 120 sonatas. At some point in the near future, this update will also be done for the New Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 65.
Score links have been updated and corrected through Op. 55 (and for any guides with higher numbers constructed from 2012 on). The latest new guide is the A-major Piano Quartet, Op. 26, the composer's longest instrumental work! On deck are the Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80, and the First Cello Sonata, Op. 38.
(3/4/13): I've again moved the updates to the archive page (linked below). I am regularly posting guides again, but at a slower pace than in 2008 and 2009. The latest guide to be posted, the F-minor piano sonata (Op. 5), has been long awaited and requested. I'm happy to finally have it available. Score links have been updated through Op. 33. Indications of alternate keys for solo songs are also being added as I fix the score links. Again, this will be an extended process, as most of my time on the site will be spent creating new guides. Thanks again for all the messages of support!
All guides copyright 2004-2015 by Kelly Dean Hansen. Feel free to use them in any way, but please give me credit


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Sprint Mails Customers A "Get Out Of Sprint Free" Card
Sprint has mailed postcards to its customers saying that, beginning January 1st, it will stop charging so-called "recovery" fees and create new fees to replace (or possibly exceed) them. Sprint customers are now asking themselves whether or not this is a change to the Terms & Conditions—if so, then they should be able to cancel their contracts without paying an ETF, or early termination fee.
One Sprintusers.com forum member posted that a Sprint CSR read the following to him:
Sprints current policy as read by account services: "On Jan. 1st 2008 Sprint customers who have been affected by the fees, [consumer and IL customers], will have their ETF waived if they wish to terminate their contract. There will be no post-dating of cancellation where the ETF will be waived as only customers affected by the new surcharges will be eligible."
There's some debate on the loooong forum discussion, but a reader wrote us to say he just used the pricing change to get out of his Sprint contract ETF-free, "staying on as a customer OOC, and receiving retentions deals and perks the same day."
(Click image for larger version.)
This writer has a special hatred of Sprint from several years ago, when they debited over $1500 from my checking account (for a $120 bill) and then tried to insist it would take over two weeks to replace the stolen money. Sprint, may you rot in hell.
(Thanks to Harry and Ryan!)
"Sprint Changing Terms And Conditions Of Service" [sprintusers.com]
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FP Status Updateby quasilucid on 2018/10/31 at 8:02 AM
Happy Halloween!
So, back in July, I decided to take a break from producing FP.
It's been horribly wonderful.
Back in July, I had so many lofty goals: Research/Launch a Kickstarter for a book, revamp the website, write, and decompress.
In the months since then, I've been able to write a ton and do a fair amount of decompressing, but not much else. Too many distractions have made it easy to put off working directly on FP. My computer gave up its ghost, I injured my arting hand, I injured my back, I've had to unexpectedly travel for work, and on top of that stuff, I've contended with all the rest of life and the world.
When it comes down to it, making False Positive takes a ton of time. I probably could have carved out some hours for FP, but I didn't. I've failed to make it a priority because I've been enjoying the many hours freed up for other pursuits.
When I started FP, I was full of passion for the project, but right now, I feel like I'm still a little out of gas for making the sequential art. Or at least, I'm much more excited to write than I have been to make the art.
So, for the next few months, I want to focus on making some art that isn't sequential. If I follow through, I'll share that stuff and any other progress on FP via Patreon.
And when I'm ready, I'll start making False Positive again.
Big Mike
False Positive Comics on Comixologyby quasilucid on 2018/09/03 at 6:01 AM
Want to check out a new way to enjoy your favorite False Positive stories?
You might appreciate the convenience and flow of reading FP digital comic collections via the Comixology app.
Seven flavors now available.
And now you know.
Big Mike
Digital Comics – Comic Book Cover Artby quasilucid on 2018/07/25 at 12:08 PM
New False Positive digital comics need new covers.
I added fresh paint to some existing art in addition to generating a new illustration for the covers of upcoming digital collections. I'll let you know when the new releases hit the digital streets.
Where is False Positive Going? Webcomic Hiatusby quasilucid on 2018/07/18 at 11:00 AM
False Positive is going on webcomic hiatus.
Tentatively, I plan to announce updates regarding more FP around October 2018. It would be awesome to commit to more specific targets now, but I'm not ready for that yet.
Top of my list, I need to take a break from working on False Positive. Easier said than done. That's because my brain never stops working on the stories. I've spent many sleep deprived nights with the brain worm of a story demanding my attention.
Also, presumedly after some manner of a break, I need some time to plot and scheme about where to steer FP in the future.
Currently on the False Positive brainstorming list during the webcomic hiatus:
- Update the design of the website
- The website begs for an overhaul. Perhaps something can be done about that.
- Research printing a book/ crowdfunding the printing of a book
- Between you and me, I'd love to launch a Kickstarter in October for a "best-of" volume of FP.
- Complete the preliminary work on a bunch more stories
- So many plot outlines, so little time. Scripts need to be authored. Breakdowns need to be sketched out. The sequence of stories needs to be nailed down...
- Reconsider everything
- It's time to think about the entire endeavor and how it might evolve. Nothing's off the table.
In the meanwhile, for whatever value it may or may not hold, I plan to author some blog posts, sharing some background information about the production of FP on here. Also, I will continue to share more extensive behind the scenes insights along with ongoing schemes regarding the future of False Positive along with other creations via Patreon.
The bottom line. I plan to make more False Positive and I hope that you'll all come along for the ride.
Thanks for the support!
Big Mike
Patreon Heads Upby quasilucid on 2018/04/01 at 9:03 AM
I just wanted to boost the signal for anyone supporting me on Patreon who might not receive notifications--I'm making changes to the Patreon reward system and content.
Check out my Patreon page for the deats.
In spite of the date, this isn't pointing to a joke.
Big Mike


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The soundtrack to baseball's offseason is running out of time. If it were a song on your iPhone, it would last less than a minute. As the music nears a close, free agents are scrambling for chairs.
With right-hander Matt Garza signed, two prominent free-agent pitchers are looking for homes: Ervin Santana and Ubaldo Jimenez.
The Rockies have mild interest in Santana but are not pursuing him at his current price. They also are reluctant to surrender a draft pick, even a competitive balance selection around the 35th overall.
Santana's asking price is unknown. He started the winter seeking $100 million, according to reports. It's safe to assume he wants to match what Garza received from the Milwaukee Brewers — a four-year contract worth $52 million. The Rockies aren't interested in him at that figure, and given his flyball history, they aren't going to overextend on the right-hander.
As for Jimenez, his time in Denver didn't end well. After putting together the best season in Rockies history in 2010, when he threw a no-hitter, started the All-Star Game and won 19 games, he slumped. He didn't win his first game of 2011 until June as his relationship with the Rockies fractured. He was shipped to the Cleveland Indians at the trading deadline for Drew Pomeranz, Alex White, Matt McBride and Joe Gardner. Pomeranz and White have been traded by the Rockies, with starting pitcher Brett Anderson and reliever Wilton Lopez the key pieces involved still with the team.
Jimenez also should be able to match Garza's money. Teams have been in no hurry to bid on him because of the draft-pick compensation and his wild inconsistency, save for the second half of last year. The Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals and Seattle Mariners are seeking more pitching. They appear ready to make bids for Santana and Jimenez.
The Rockies, like many other teams, will keep looking for depth and value as spring training approaches. They have agreed to a deal with veteran shortstop Paul Janish. He is viewed as Triple-A insurance but will compete for a bench job in spring training with Josh Rutledge and Charlie Culberson. The Rockies, as they did with Reid Brignac last spring, want a shortstop available in the minors in case all-star Troy Tulowitzki is injured again.


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How to: Connect a Remote PC Using a Wireless Laptop
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I put a desktop PC in there because it's also going to be my recording studio. The problem was getting on my local network-- I didn't want to run 75 feet of cable, and it was going to take a few days to order a wireless NIC. So I came up with a quick slick hack to get connected using a wireless laptop.
There are all kinds of bridging howtos all over the Internet so I'm not going to repeat them. This is a pretty good howto: Creating a bridge device. Give your bridge device an IP address that matches your network, and that is the default gateway for the other PC.
I also bought a batch of 2GB thumb drives- at $6 each. Six bucks!! Younguns, I remember the first gigabyte hard drive way back in the last millennium, and it cost a few hundred dollars. This is amazing. Which reminds me- why do some PCs still have a floppy drive, and does anyone use them?
Article courtesy of LinuxToday. To read other related Linux blog posts, click here.


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WordPress, the popular open-source blogging app, has also been bumped to version 2.0 tonight as well. The difference here is unlike Twitter, WordPress did not get a magical alteration.
Indeed since we're not regular users of the app, we're hard pressed to state exactly what has changed and with no changelog available, you will too. One particularly frustrating design decision is to use the web browser control within the app when viewing your page or the dashboard. It's slow, it is bad for low memory devices, and it should be jumping out of the app to internet explorer if at all.
That's not to say there may not be some improvements but with a 2.0 initiation, we're not seeing too many differences. If you're already using version 1.9, released just last month, head here to the Store to get 2.0. Thanks, Steve A., for the tip!


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Police Department
"You Drink & Drive. You Lose." Crackdown
The Labor Day weekend traditionally marks the end of the summer travel season and the beginning of Fall. Holiday weekends also represent some of the deadliest times of year on America's roadways for impaired driving. A number of people will include alcohol in their activities and make the decision to drive impaired. To impact the issue and to coincide with the nationwide "You Drink & Drive. You Lose." campaign, the Lincoln Police Department will be conducting specialized enforcement from August 20, 2010 through September 6, 2010. Increased enforcement for the project is funded by the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety (NOHS).
Throughout Lincoln, extra officers will be conducting high visibility traffic enforcement to deter impaired driving. Officers will take a zero tolerance approach to drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. They will also be alert for other traffic and safety violations.
Last year, Lincoln police officers investigated 8,777 traffic accidents, 1,740 which resulted in injury and 6 accidents which resulted in death. Officers also arrested a record 2,330 drivers in 2009 for driving under the influence. Driving after drinking is a choice. Choose to do the right thing and the safe thing: find alternate transportation, use a designated driver, or don't consume any amount of alcohol if you intend to or need to drive. Because if You Drink & Drive. You Lose.


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Integrated Circuit Image Gallery
Schottky Logic Integrated Circuit
A type of bipolar or junction logic chip (as opposed to a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)), the integrated Schottky logic (ISL) circuit is produced by semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments. During 1988, TI released standard transistor-transistor logic (TTL), Schottky, and low power Schottky (LS) devices.
View a second image of the Schottky logic chip.
Switching speeds, and therefore propagation delays, are quite large for the standard series of Schottky logic because the transistors are switched from cut off to saturation. Using Schottky diodes in the low power Schottky circuit in combination with the transistors prevents transistor saturation. Schottky diodes are crystal diodes with a semiconductor-metal contact. Because electrons transfer more easily from n-silicon toward the metal layer than the reverse, a Schottky barrier (depleted) layer for electrons develops in the silicon layer. Charge transfers consist exclusively of electrons (as opposed to holes), making these diodes suitable for fast switches or microwave electric rectifiers used in wireless communication systems.
Schottky diodes usually exhibit 1-milliampere reverse current while regular diodes typically perform at 5-microampere reverse current. Not only do the former lower power consumption of the Schottky logic, they also increase speed and noise immunity. The 7400 family of advanced Schottky (AS) logic circuits are used in pseudorandom-bit-sequence (PRBS) generators. Operating at 50 MHz clock speeds, this family of Schottky logic chips exhibits edge speeds of approximately 0.6 nanoseconds. Because of the edge speed, board traces over 2 inches long are susceptible to transmission-line effects. Advanced low power Schottky logic chips (ALS) provide a full spectrum of over 130 bipolar logic functions. ALS is used where speed is less critical, and power and speed performance optimization is at a premium. The advanced low power Schottky logic family includes gates, flip-flops, counters, drivers, transceivers, multiplexers and other electronic silicon devices.
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You've been dreaming of opening a restaurant for years and think you might have what it takes to make it successful. You love people, you love food and people are always telling you what a good cook you are. Maybe you've worked in the restaurant biz for years, or are an under-appreciated culinary school trained chef. Perhaps well-meaning friends just won't stop asking why you haven't started up a restaurant of your own. Yet, through it all, you're reluctant to take that step into restaurant ownership - and for good reason. Images of out-of-business restaurants, like the one above, are practically on every corner, and it's a sobering reality of both the economy and would-be restaurateurs not doing their homework.
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2013-04-11• Yatah & DNA Results
Start: 11:50:32
vkn: now is the lol not sure of problemo great projects from sister1 would be fun to connect with marsh lol Brad Paisley defends his controversial new single against charges of belittling slavery and racism.
Seventies: good afternoon vkn
vkn: Heyyy hey hay and how is seventies ?
Seventies: I'm doing well. I went ahead and joined Pintrest this morning... Hi daviss
vkn: I think smilies is working again
daviss: hello Seventies and vkn!
vkn: lol lol
Seventies: yep!
vkn: Daviss and how be y ou this day
daviss: I am well vkn, thanks for asking What about you??
vkn: okies
Seventies: I see you commented on the Brad Paisley and LL Cool J song "Accidental Racist" vkn.
vkn: yes seventies what on earth LL is not cool
HistoryBuff: Hey Daviss, Seventies, and Vkn.
vkn: Howdy HistoryBuff
daviss: Hello HistoryBuff
Seventies: hi HistoryBuff
vkn: I be wearing audio phones today. Gotta turn the sound down
Seventies: Ok this is my comment about that song. I don't like it. That is all.
vkn: lol I am with you seventies without even listening
Seventies: Well no, I had to listen so that I could know exactly why I don't like it.
HistoryBuff: I can appreciate that. I'm not sure what the song was trying to say.
daviss: Hello Selma
vkn: Howdy Selma how you be
HistoryBuff: Hey Selma
Selma: Good afternoon daviss, HistoryBuff, seventies and vkn
Seventies: It was yet again legitimatizing the Confederacy as a cultural norm while demonizing black style and telling us to forget about slavery, Jim Crow Etc. Giving the White boy a pass. Wonder how Jews would feel about a song regarding the Nazi Flag. And that was intraEuropean conflict... IJS Hi Selma
HistoryBuff: Indeed Seventies.
yatah: hi all
HistoryBuff: Hey Yatah.
Selma: Afternoon yatah.. Afternoon alt
yatah: i had question
vkn: well well yatah glad to see you
HistoryBuff: Hey Alt
alt: wow!!! got a seat left, hello ladies
Seventies: You know who the CEO of the record company is who most likely put this out? the same folks who gave MJ a hard time for him allegedly saying ki*ke on a record... um hmmm
daviss: out of curiosity Seventies and I did not listen to song. Was LL a contributor
Seventies: Hi alt, yatah what's up??
yatah: thanks i just foward dna result
vkn: eyyyyy and heyyyyy alt glad to see you
daviss: hello alt and yatah!
Seventies: Ok for those who didn't listen to the song, please listen. This will give you a working knowledge of what was said and you can legitimately criticize and critique the song.
Seventies: Never go by title just alone.
daviss: Is it oldschool Seventies?
yatah: 23 and me said almost ready and when result come in e mail will in 72 hrs that normal
Seventies: No not at all... I did say LL Cool J.. lol That is normal yatah.
vkn: I take your words for it seventies. The NEWS segue was enough for me
daviss: lol ok thats what I wanted to know, if he was also involved in song and gave his opinion.
yatah: ok 72 hrs how long will fast lol
Seventies: I haven't watched the news on TV in years... they lie too much.
Selma: No comment, haven't heard the song, nor read the News
vkn: lol
alt: me neither Selma
Seventies: Alright moving on. I joined pinterest!
daviss: so yatah you should be able to see your results by saturday
Selma: and what is "pinterest"?
Seventies: So look for me and my docs there at Family Griot!
vkn: When are results due Yatah
yatah: i am step 4 now but wait 72 hrs from now
vkn: Seventies and how does it relate to Google and Facebook
Selma: Yatah...you will have to come back and give us the results..
yatah: health or dna ? lol
Seventies: It doesn't relate to google. It ties into facebook as you can use your login to access it, but I didn't tie mine into either twitter or facebook.
vkn: dna results and hope you be healthy Yatah lol
Seventies: Its like the old pincushion photo board..
Selma: Ok that was confusng seventeis
alt: so what is the value/application of/for pintinterest?
daviss: yatah, just the dna results
yatah: yeah health results will tell me how ?
Seventies: I struggled with understanding that fora awhile, BUT you can post images there in an organized manner. And it also ties into other social media.
karoshi8: Hello everyone!
yatah: ok i will
Seventies: hi karoshi8
Selma: Afternoon karoshi8
daviss: hello karoshi8!
vkn: Alt and Daviss TribalPages not accepting GEDCOM from Mac OSX What a bummer
yatah: i hope good news about my dna result
alt: okay, so it is another social media "gimmick" lol said grumpy 'ol alt LOL
karoshi8: alt my dear I need your expertise!
Seventies: So I'm using it to post pics and docs... there are quite a few folks already out there on the genealogy side there.
vkn: Howdy karoshi8
alt: oh, oh you're in trouble karoshi8
HistoryBuff: Hey karoshi8
Seventies: Depends on your mastery of social media. But yes that's one view alt. LOL
yatah: hey 23 and me will tell how % of what tribe ? am come from
Seventies: nope
karoshi8: My KY trip was successful! I found 3 deeds with my 3rd great grandmother's name.
vkn: Good for you Yatah
Seventies: great!
yatah: yea i hope i can find something good
HistoryBuff: Great for you, karoshi8!. Deeds are treasures!
alt: don't expect too much 'ancestral' information from DNA & 23andme yatah
karoshi8: The first is in 1859 she bought a property from a Thomas Vaughn. Strange because she is a woman and married.
alt: sounds like a succesful trip karoshi8
Seventies: Ok let me say this, if y'all think 23 and me is going to give you ethnic origins information outside of European... sadly mistaken.. lol
karoshi8: But her husband isn't even mentioned.
daviss: yatah whatever it tells you be it black, what or whatever be happy
yatah: it will tell me how % black of mine ?
daviss: black white or whatever yes it will yatah, you will get percentages
vkn: ouchies seventies
yatah: if i am white and half black i will shock lol
Seventies: daviss dd you get that dna thing sorted out? lol I ran your M# and you are related to yourself! LOL
karoshi8: The second one has her selling it to my 2nd great grandmother. And states that Samuel, Squire(William), and Mary Robinson are living in Urbana, Ohio in 1885.
alt: it will give you you % of ethnic origins yatah
daviss: It will be what it will be Yatah..Its your dna makeup
alt: Urbana, Ohio !!!!!!!! that's home turf for me!!
karoshi8: Yup!
yatah: yea smile
Seventies: You know Tim Pinnick was telling me that his McFarlands came from KY. I'd asked because so many folks came to IL from MS.
Selma: karoshi...so she bought land in KY and sold to folks living in OHio?
karoshi8: So, the plot thickens. Because I was told they didn't come to Ohio until 1906.
yatah: thanks for your feedback
daviss: yatah you will"not" get tribe percentages
karoshi8: Yes Selma, but she sold to her daughter in law.
alt: karoshi8, I know the/a Robinson family in Urbana very well .....
vkn: Henry Ford was buying the tickets seventies and he created a town called Inkster so maybe same in IL
yatah: ok but will tell me black or white or native american or whatever right
Seventies: Hmm interesting.
karoshi8: Now this is the tricky part. I do have a Lillian Robinson on my Winbun/Winburn side that lived around Champaign Co. Samuel Stewart who is mentioned as living there on the deed married into the Winbun/Winburns.
yatah: ouch
karoshi8: My Lillian Robinson comes in with the Elder families.
vkn: Yatah hen you look in mirror what do you see
daviss: whatever your dna makeup is yatah it will tell you by percentages
yatah: hen ?
vkn: hen=when
daviss: You will see that when you get your results
yatah: oh i learn new hen lol
daviss: right!
vkn: lol cut that out yatah lol
HistoryBuff: lol
karoshi8: So, it could be one in the same. But I don't know much about the Robinson's at all.
yatah: my skin light color like olive mix little white on it light than all of my sister or my brother they dark than mine
daviss: one last thing yatah..When you get your results look under Ancestry Composition that is where you will find it
yatah: ok thanks for information
vkn: HistoryBuff not understanding your ? on relatives for Milton Bell. He is brother to my mother and one of 14 sibs
daviss: you are welcome yatah
karoshi8: What do you know of them alt?
Selma: BRB
alt: karoshi8, have you checked Champaign Co., OH census records from the 1900's forward?
Seventies: I'll brb too. Going to get cake.
karoshi8: Yum cake!
HistoryBuff: I'll look further, vkn.
daviss: I wonder what happened to the lady looking into Rusk County vkn?
karoshi8: I know in 1902 Samuel is in Ross county. I can't find any in Champaign Co before that.
vkn: Not sure daviss
daviss: ok
Seventies: Yes cake.. let me tell you about that.. lol One of my coworkers his wife had a baby last week. All are outside running around. Mom is wearing a midriff skirt.. lol I tell you.. not me.
vkn: HistoryBuff I have all of their stories.
Seventies: Who does that???
HistoryBuff: Okay Vkn. I'll follow up with you. Hey Selma.
Seventies: My grandmother who was a midwife always said that the body needs time to heal before you can go out into the elements. I just don't get it.
vkn: HistoryBuff I have all of their stories. None tie to his military service until his death in about 1932 when each recd a financial award based on the death
Selma: karoshi..did the land purchased in Ohio..stay in the family
alt: karoshi8, Robinson's married into the Stanhope family in Urbana, Ohio. that's one connection I know of from the turn of the century (1900's).
vkn: Well seventies the strain of child "bearing" meant that the bones and muscles had to re connect and "heal"
karoshi8: It was purchased in KY and mentioned the people in Ohio who were originally from KY
vkn: and seventies there could be no light in the room and the abdomen had to be bound
Selma: Oops..OK
Seventies: wow that's old school. My aunt told me to wear a girdle while my body was healing. ha! Now I wish I had... lol
Selma: LOL
karoshi8: Do you know where the Robinson come from?
alt: Robinson's also married Guy's in Urbana ..
karoshi8: I'm thinking Mary Robinson is the daughter of Harriet Stewart Withers.
Seventies: brb
vkn: not old school consider only school and that babies were being caught by midwives and mothers were being taught by midwives
daviss: I have seen several Grimes County Texas relatives listed as midwives on BC's None yet in Harrison County but I know there had to be
yatah: bye all good day
Selma: Bye yatah..come back next week
daviss: bye Yatah
alt: bye yatah
yatah: ok i will
vkn: Yes Daviss and many breeched babies were 'still born'
daviss: so true vkn
alt: yatah's interpretation of her DNa results is going to be very interesting LOL
Selma: Yes it is
vkn: sure will be
daviss: thats for sure alt
Selma: None of these DNA test give tribal affiliations?
daviss: thats what I think I was trying to say to her
alt: It is amazing some of the conclusions folks can arrive at from DNA testing results.
daviss: true vkn but I was jealous and had my own done lol lol
vkn: I posted an excerpt from a DNA expert which said test to be done from oldest male family member. Alt and Daviss what is up with that?
Selma: LOL
daviss: I then had my brother do his
vkn: so what does age have to do with Y and not with X
alt: I agree with that concept vkn.... oldest & possibly youngest members in a family line woudl be ideal.... example me @ 79 y/o & grt-grandchildren @ less than 1 y/o would give a tremendous range of possibilites. and grt-grandchildren would cross many different family lines.
vkn: So just when I get near the DNA shore I get tossed back to sea lol
karoshi8: alt, are there black Stewart's in Urbana?
daviss: lol so do the experts vkn
Selma: I am still treading water in the sea.. LOL
alt: I wish my parents were alive and I was able to get their DNA tested.
vkn: lol lol lol at daviss thanx for the rope and anchor
daviss: oh alt what I would give I saw you in the ocean Selma with your arms stretched wide lol btw nice pic lol
vkn: Me first Selma lol
Selma: Oh right..I forgot I had that picture there...that was the Indian Ocean couldn't you tell
vkn: lol lol lol
daviss: oh really, lol I only know pacific
HistoryBuff: Signing out. See you good folks later.
daviss: later HB
alt: bye HistoryBuff
vkn: Well Daviss best you check out link from Schomburg exhibit okies history
daviss: I meant as far as wading vkn lol lol
vkn: ahhhhhhh
alt: reading some DNA postings .... seems like a lot of "white' folks are finding some african ancestored family members in the genealogy/DNA histories.
vkn: I bet that is on target alt
Seventies: Yes, I found one on 23andme... no e-mail response yet. He shares the same surname as one of my ancestors... lol
daviss: lol alt and I would love for some of those to share basics with me..
alt: can't understand why that is thought to be so unusual, if 25-30 % of AA males have euro ancestry in their DNA.
daviss: besides my known family the rest are way up there and white
Seventies: 35% of AA males What are your thoughts about that daviss?
vkn: Seventies was saving this one for you
Seventies: ok
vkn: Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island Returns to Its Roots BY ANNE RAVER In the hands of a new generation, Sylvester Manor, the 17th-century estate on Shelter Island, has returned to its roots as a working farm, but in a 21st-century sort of way.
daviss: I have no thoughts really Seventies, I want wills and Inventories lol
vkn: Sent to me by niece who hopes to be´engaged in that project
Seventies: ok this is on the Sea Islands off GA?
vkn: Will tell you more tomorrow
alt: I wonder what the % is for AA's who have "white" females in the DNA/genealogical histories?
Seventies: ok daviss, honey best of luck. Look towards those folks. Also Moriah... have you looked for that?
daviss: I have about 7 folks that are 42% and 34 cms
Seventies: That's a great question alt. I have a black cousin who still won't share genomes or respond to me.
vkn: No NYC seventies
Seventies: 66% over 4 segments. okay vkn. hmmmm I'll have to look that up online to get more details. Thanks for sharing!
Selma: Is this someone you already know seventies..or only thru thr results
daviss: I do also and so does my grand. By those % she may have a sister or brother
Seventies: only through results Selma .66% I meant. That seems very high... what are you alls thoughts and opinions on this?
daviss: 3rd cousin mabe Seventies may be a 3rd cousin
Seventies: Definitely 3rd cousin
Selma: Like the paper trail that leads us to folks..DNA is seen as even more intrusive seventies..
vkn: Y'all be good. All the best karoshi8 Naptime selma
Seventies: later vkn
daviss: aside from those who research I can see that Selma fear of the unk
alt: between 23andme, FTDNA & AncestryDNA I have over 1,200 DNA "tested" cousins.... I wonder how many "untested" living cousins there may be out there 100K-200K, more?
Seventies: I mean come on so many families were separated for some reason or another that I don't feel we should take it so personal up to a certain extent.
Selma: Thats you seventies..not all see it that way
alt: and that "extent" is certainly personal Seventies
Seventies: that's true.
daviss: lol alt all I want is a few more of my lines to test and I will be happy. It could settle all those questions that are lurking in the back woods of east Texas
Seventies: I guess its about where you set your expectations.
alt: good luck daviss,
daviss: ha, no luck so far. my knees and clasped hands are raw from asking my three finger salute is almost near range
alt: Seventies, I don't even bother to respond to sharing requests unless the person has some knowledge of their ancestry.... I'm too old to be acting as a 'family finder" for just the inquisitive ... grumpy old man speaking LOL
Seventies: lol Gosh alt you have been grumpy for a while now. What's going on???
Selma: Grumpy is good.. lOL
Seventies: lol Selma
alt: I'm just old & tired Seventies, too tired for a lot of jibberish & BS, my time is now too valuable
Seventies: Yep I understand that... :} Anything else good going on with you all?
daviss: bye all, gotta make a few calls
alt: I love to help folks, but I ain't gonna any longer do their "heavy lifting" as far as genealogy is concerned.
Selma: Folks have to run..alt, my mom is waiting for 3 PM so she can watch the Masters
alt: Tiger was even par after 4 holes Selma
Seventies: have a good time Selma
Selma: Think I need a nap.. don't want to be GRUMPY
Seventies: ok look here. I'ma talk to you all tomorrow. Behave yourselves... Selma and alt! lol
Selma: LOL
alt: okay .. y'all take care
Selma: Bye ..bye karoshi


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ADDISON COUNTY — Although lumber companies are concerned with possible onset of the invasive emerald ash borer, they're currently preoccupied with a case of the ash yellows — a sometimes fatal disease that slows the growth of ash trees.
The main cause is a mycoplasmalike organism (MLO) — an organism with no cell wall — that Addison County Forester Chris Olson said "defies categorization." But he indicated there are other potential stimuli that may encourage such symptoms in ash trees like an overly wet, too dry or other extreme environmental conditions.
He explained that the primary MLO spreader in Addison County is the spittlebug, which can often be found on long blades of grass, where it leaves behind a path suggestive of saliva. The spittlebug transmits the MLO to the plant and the organism dams the tree's circulatory system.
"It basically clogs the plumbing of the tree and causes what looks to be like drought-like symptoms," said Olson. "If you're looking at ash trees and you see them dying from the top down, it's a pretty good bet that the trees are infected by MLOs."
Even if there was a method for killing these MLOs, Olson thinks that people would still find problems with ash.
"Ash is a fickle tree and has limitations related to changes in soil moisture or temperature and different environmental variables," he said.
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Lynne Cohen: Between Something and Nothing
Co-organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
This NGC@WAG partnership surveys the pioneering photography of Lynne Cohen. The exhibition traces the evolution of her photography of 'readymade' spaces over the past 40 years. In addition to the 21 borrowed works from the NGC, the exhibition will be supplemented with Cohen holdings from the WAG's collection as well as new work by the artist.
Lynne Cohen (born July 3, 1944) is an American-Canadian photographer. She has lived and worked in Canada since 1973, initially in Ottawa, and in Montreal since 2005. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Cohen is known for her photographs of domestic and institutional interior spaces, which have included living rooms, public halls, retirement homes, laboratories, offices, showrooms, shooting ranges, factories, spas, and military installations. Despite this interest in living and working spaces, Cohen's photographs are usually devoid of human presence. She photographs using an 8 x 10in view camera, allowing her to capture great detail, and create very large prints. Her work has been published in catalogues such as Occupied Territory (1987) and No Man's Land (2001).
Related Programs & Events
Past Programs & Events
Member's Opening: Lynne Cohen: Between Something and Nothing
This exclusive member only event will offer private tours by Paul Butler, Curator of Contemporary Art at 12pm and 2pm.
Friday April 11, 2014 at 11am
Public Opening: Lynne Cohen, Micah Lexier, & 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
Join us for the free public opening of three exhibitions, Lynne Cohen: Between Something and Nothing, Micah Lexier: This, That, Those, and 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
Friday, May 9, 2014 from 7pm to 10pm
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
- Closed Monday