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The term Impressionism, as used in painting, is misleading. It was coined in 1872, to describe the work of certain painters who professed to record the impression which they had received from the object studied. But in this sense no painter who undertakes to paint what he sees can help being an Impressionist. He can only paint the thing as it impresses his individual eyesight.
Later, the term was used to denote a certain method of painting; particularly the one practiced by Claude Monet and his followers, which will be explained presently. It is sufficient here to say that it did not represent the object with that exact and finished imitation to which people had become accustomed. At close range the picture appeared confused and unintelligible; it was necessary to stand some distance away from it in order to discover "what it was all about." So people came to apply to this class of pictures the term Impressionistic. It so happens that they were, but not because they were painted in this way, for there are other Impressionistic pictures in which the paint is laid on differently.
Impressionism, really, is a matter of point of view; of the way in which a painter sets out to see his subject. He will tell you that his motive is a more natural kind of Naturalistic one.
There are two ways of using the sight: one analytical, the other synthetic. You may look at an object to study it in detail; or you may look at it to gain the general effect of its appearance and character. The latter is the more usual way of seeing an object. We unconsciously employ it, for example, every time we take a walk, either in a town or in the country. The scene is continually shifting; innumerable pictures pass before the eyes. They come, they go; and the brain registers an impression, more or less complete, of each. That tangle of wild flowers, for instance, clustering at the foot of a hedge - we take in its beauty at a glance. A painter will do the same thing and paint it as the glance records it to him. On the other hand, he may pick a bunch of flowers, and take them home and study them singly and exhaustively, and then paint the result of his detailed and prolonged examination. In either case, the painter is a Naturalist; but if he works with the former purpose in mind, we distinguish him as an Impressionist. The latter, then, is one who paints an object as he actually sees it and not as he knows it to be, either from previous or present study of it. Further, he becomes more and more interested in the momentary and fleeting appearances of things. As he walks the street, the figures and buildings present a series of kaleidoscopic pictures; they do not remain long enough to be studied in detail; moreover, it is the very change that fascinates because it is a feature of life. These moving pictures are living pictures. So, too, in the country - it is not so much the fixed position of the hills and trees and so on that fascinates one, as the changing expressions on the face of the landscape, due to the effects of light and atmosphere and movement. It is these momentary and fleeting aspects of nature that the Impressionist loves to record. This becomes the motive of his pictures; just how he will lay the paint depends upon how he feels he can best interpret the impression which he has received.
So the stages of Impressionism in painting are threefold. It began by recording the impression that the eye naturally and immediately receives; then it occupied itself more and more with the surprises of sight; and, in doing so, learned quickly the part played in them by light, atmosphere, and movement. The leader in this way of seeing the subject and of recording what the eye sees was Edouard Manet. He was biased towards the Naturalistic motive; but at first did not look at nature through his own eyes, but those of the old masters. By degrees he came under the spell of Velasquez; recognized the truth of his records of nature, and studied his vital and characterful method of painting and his reserved but beautiful color schemes. The result was a number of picturesone of them is the " Boy with the Sword," of the Metropolitan Museum - in which he reproduced Velasquez's style. They belong to what may be called his "black and grey period." Then, during a visit to the country house of the painter De Nittis, Manet was one day attracted by the picture which his friend's wife and children presented as they sat on the lawn in the sunlight beside a flowerbed. He painted the picture in the open air. This picture was the beginning of "plein-air" painting; at least in modern times, for it is clear that some of the early Italians practiced it. Henceforth Manet's work was distinguished by a wide range of color and a greater variety and luminosity of light and atmosphere. Its example was immediately followed by many other painters, and the exhibitions began to be enlivened with these glowing pictures.
A Bar at the Folies BergereEdouard Manet
The public and many artists declared that they were untrue to nature; the fact being that up to this point, people had not been accustomed to look at nature directly, but were in the habit of accepting it as it was represented in pictures. For example, painters had rendered shadows black or brown or red, without reference to the local color; but now, when artists studied nature at first hand, they found that the hue of shadows varied with the local color, and with the quantity and quality of the light. They found, for instance, that the shadows upon snow might be blue or violet. Most of us to-day know that this is so; because through the influence of the pictures, painted by the open-air Impressionists, we have learned to look at nature with our own eyes.
One thing more had to be learned by these Impressionists. This they derived from the study of Japanese prints, which began to reach Paris in increasing numbers during the early sixties. These exhibited a new principle of composition, which the Japanese themselves call "notan" or the "spotting of dark and light." Instead of the formal building up of the composition with studied proportions and balance, this arrangement has the appearance of being natural and spontaneous. It had an elasticity and quality of unexpectedness that exactly suited the expression of movement and life, and the momentary and fleeting aspects of nature. It was adopted by Occidental artists, and is still the principle of composition employed by most Naturalistic and Impressionistic painters and draughtsmen, as the pictures in magazines testify.
One of the first to employ the principle of "notan" was Hilaire Germain Degas, who is best known by his pictures of the race-course and of the opera, both in front of and behind the curtain. In the foreground may appear the head and shoulders of a bass-player in the orchestra, while beyond spreads the stage, spotted with figures; or we may be shown a room in which the dancers are training. It is as if we had come upon the scene without the knowledge of the people engaged in it. Everything appears to be unpremeditated, an instantaneous impression; differing from that of a camera, since action is not suspended, but retains the elastic rhythm of moving life. Degas is a great draughtsman, and in this respect has been influenced by Ingres, whom he has always greatly admired, despite the difference between his own impressionistic motive and the other's classical one. Degas has carried the cult of "the ugly" farther than most painters. His ballet-dancers have no beauty of face or grace of figure in the ordinary sense. The charm of his pictures is abstract, consisting in their rhythm of color, light and shade, and movement.
Four DancersEdgar Degas
Another famous member of the early group of Impressionists is Pierre Auguste Renoir. His early work reflects the influence of Courbet, Manet, and Velasquez. It is characterized by sumptuously grand harmonies of black, grey, pearly white, and subtle rose, and blue. Then he followed Manet's development towards a fuller palette and more luminous color. In doing so, he carried forward the art of Fragonard, which, as we have seen, was a heritage from Rubens. Renoir may be said, in fact, to have translated the Flemish artist into terms of modern Impressionism. Hence Renoir is the most distinguished colorist of the Impressionistic group. His nudes and pictures of young women and children, as well as his landscapes, are symphonies of the rhythms and harmonies of luminous color.
Young Girls at the PianoPierre Auguste Renoir
It remains to mention the group of landscapists of which Claude Monet is popularly regarded as the leader. The other chief names are those of Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Johann Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891), Camille Pissarro (1831-1903), Renoir, already mentioned, and Alfred Sisley (1830-1899). Monet and Pissarro, during a visit to London, were impressed by the purity of color of Turner's pictures. When they returned to France, they found that Jongkind had adopted a style of painting which was very successful in rendering the effects of movement and the play of fugitive light. It consisted in building up the picture by means of a number of little brush strokes. Gradually Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir combined the lessons of Turner and Jongkind. They began to abandon the dark colors and to use yellow, orange, vermilion, lake, red, violet, blue, and intense greens. These they laid upon the canvas in separate touches. Instead of mixing the colors on the palette, they set them in their purity side by side on the canvas, and depended upon the eye to effect the mingling of them; by this means increasing their brilliance and luminosity. This is the principle known as that of "divided color" or "division of color"
In raising the key of their landscapes, so as to approximate more nearly to the effects of natural light, Monet and the other exponents of this method have made the rendering of light and atmosphere their special aim, to which the forms of the landscape have been, as some are beginning to think, unduly sacrificed. Thus Monet painted a number of pictures in which the same haystacks reappear under different effects of colored light. He also produced a series of the west front of Rouen Cathedral, in which the solidity, form, and enrichments of the architecture play no part; the sole purpose being to render the shimmer of light and color and atmosphere on the surface of the building. These facts are mentioned, not as a criticism of Monet's intentions or achievements, but because they indicate the general tendency of this branch of Impressionism.
It is convenient here to allude to a group which has grown out of the one we have been discussing. It has been self-named, very misleadingly, Impressionist; because its members wished to put on record the fact that they were only carrying further and more scientifically what the Impressionists had already done in the use of "divided colors" But they are even more strict than their predecessors in avoiding the mixing of the pigments on the palette, and they juxtapose the pure tints on the canvas according to the laws, derived from the spectrum, which govern color and regulate its harmonies. Their method, in fact, substitutes for the feeling of what will look well, a precise and scientific knowledge. Some lay the tints side by side in square "touches," like a mosaic; others adopt other shapes for the "touches," regulating their size to the size and character of the composition. It is the use of the "touch," and not the particular kind of "touch," that distinguishes them as a group. From the fact that their great aim is luminosity of color and their chief means the scientific application of color, they would be better styled "ChromoLuminarists." The group has included Georges Scunit, Henri Edouard Cross, Albert Uubois-Pillet, Maximilien Luce, Hippolyte Petit jean, Theo van Rysselberghe, Henry van de Vclde, and Paul Signac, who has set forth in writing the aims of himself and his colleagues.


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While in Iceland, I read Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People. I doubt he could have imagined what could come of that phrase.
I waited a long time to see Enemies of the People, and it just became available on Netflix. One man sets out to document the mass-killing that took place during his childhood. He is very patient, meeting with people whom he knows were killers for days, weeks, months, even years, before asking them to tell the truth. In the case of Brother No. 2, shown above (Pol Pot was Brother No. 1), it did take years until he would admit anything, but the reason for the mass-murder remains elusive. Was it all the fruit of a deluded paranoia about Vietnamese spies? In Sideshow, William Shawcross takes the view that the Khmer Rouge, fanatics to begin with, were practically insane after years of enduring B-52 bombings in the jungle, so when they took over, all hell broke loose.
The image below is from a particularly shocking part in which a man demonstrates how he killed hundreds of peasants. (He was one himself.) Their hands were tied behind their backs, and he put his foot on their back as they lay on the ground, pulling back their heads in a way that made if difficult for them to scream.
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"Through this partnership, we are proud to highlight our seamless collaboration with Tagetik, a leading company that shares our same values and passion for cycling," said Renato di Rocco, president, Italian Cycling Federation. "I want to thank the Tagetik management team on behalf of all the Italian Cycling Federation, and I hope that 2015 will be a year of hard work and achievement for our athletes."
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The Azzurro jersey featuring the Tagetik logo will be unveiled today in Camaiore (Italy) at the 'Park Hotel Villa Ariston'. The National Road Cycling Teams "Elite", "Under 23" and "Juniors" will be training on location and will participate in the ceremony.
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Estrada's path to prominence marked by chance
Three years after Greinke injury led to opportunity, righty key part of Brewers' rotation
BOSTON -- When Marco Estrada takes the mound on Friday at Fenway Park, he might want to soak in the scene and say a silent thank you to Zack Greinke for playing pickup basketball.
Greinke suffered a cracked rib when he fell to the floor on a rebound in early 2011, which led the Brewers to audition replacement starters. That resulted in a last-minute call for Estrada, who was marooned in Minor League camp.
Three years later, the 30-year-old right-hander is a big part of the Brewers' starting rotation, set to make his season debut against the World Series champion Red Sox in Boston's home opener.
"I'm thankful every day for the opportunities the Brewers have given me," Estrada said. "Not only that they picked me up in the first place, but that they actually gave me the chance to pitch. With this organization, if you're performing well, they're going to give you a chance."
When he got his chance in March 2011, Estrada didn't know it.
The Brewers had claimed Estrada off waivers from the Nationals a year earlier, and after a strong start to the 2010 season with Triple-A Nashville, Estrada found himself pitching in Milwaukee. But after logging a 9.53 ERA in six relief appearances and one start, his stint ended awkwardly. The Brewers optioned Estrada back to Triple-A on June 1, then had to void the move because Estrada complained of shoulder soreness. They placed him on the 15-day disabled list instead, and Estrada missed the rest of the season.
In October, the Brewers removed Estrada from the 40-man roster and assigned him outright to Nashville.
"When I went to Spring Training [in 2011], I understood what my role was going to be," Estrada said. "I knew I didn't have a chance to make the team. I was prepared to start the season in the Minor Leagues."
Greinke's misfortune changed that. On March 8, 2011, Greinke revealed he had been injured playing basketball, and by March 22, the Brewers were still seeking his replacement. As a last effort before going outside the organization, they called down to the Minor League complex for Estrada, and he delivered 4 1/3 scoreless innings against the Padres.
Still, the assignment felt temporary, Estrada said. He was not even given a locker in the Major League clubhouse, so he retreated to Minor League camp after the game to receive his usual treatment.
"I didn't know about Zack," Estrada said. "All I knew is I was coming over to pitch. I didn't even know I was going to start until I got there.
"A couple of days later, someone said, 'You know Zack is down, right? You're going over there for a reason.' I was like, 'Oh, man.' I remember thinking that it stunk for Zack, but this was my opportunity and I needed to take advantage of it. Obviously, I did take advantage of it."
Five days later, Estrada made the same march across the parking lot at Maryvale Baseball Park in Phoenix to pitch six quality innings against the White Sox, sealing his spot on the Opening Day roster. He made one start in Greinke's stead and stuck for the entire season, making 36 relief appearances and seven starts. The Brewers set a franchise record with 96 wins and made it to the National League Championship Series.
It was the opportunity Estrada needed.
"I feel like I've said that every year: 'Just give me an opportunity,'" he said.
Armed with an average fastball and an excellent changeup, Estrada has primarily pitched as a starter for the Brewers the past two seasons. When he has been healthy, he has been very effective. In 2012, Estrada posted a career-best 3.64 ERA in 29 games (23 starts) and struck out 4.93 batters for every walk, the fourth-best ratio among Major Leaguers who logged at least 100 innings. But he also missed a month with a quadriceps strain.
In 2013, Estrada was a full-time starter for the first time and went 7-4 with a 3.87 ERA in 21 starts. He was 3-0 with a 2.15 ERA in his final nine starts of the season and won Brewers Pitcher of the Month honors in both August and September. But before that, he missed two months with a hamstring injury.
"There's obviously been a lot of injuries," Estrada said. "More than I want."
Estrada took steps over the winter to ensure a healthier 2014. At the end of last year, he viewed his usual offseason protocol with Brewers strength and conditioning coordinator Josh Seligman, who thought Estrada was doing too much heavy weight work to strengthen his legs. This winter, Estrada worked out with less weight and more repetitions, and he increased his focus on stretching before and after workouts.
He feels the difference today.
"If I can give them 180-plus innings this season, obviously I'm doing something right," Estrada said.
Here's another thing Estrada does surprisingly right, given his 89-90 mph fastball: Strike batters out. For pitchers who have worked at least 200 innings over the past two seasons, Estrada ranks fourth with 4.50 strikeouts per walk (behind Cliff Lee, Adam Wainwright and Matt Harvey) and a respectable 17th with 8.82 strikeouts per nine innings, not far behind the likes of Justin Verlander (8.99) and Clayton Kershaw (8.95).
"It's been weird," Estrada said. "I've never thought of myself as a strikeout pitcher, but for some reason, they're there, I get them. I'm not trying to strike guys out. My thought is just try to get them to swing early, get out of the inning early, and save my pitch count and get deeper into the game. If you get the strikeouts, great. If I could have zero strikeouts and pitch 200 innings with a low ERA and a lot of wins, I'm happy."
What makes Estrada a strikeout pitcher?
"That changeup," Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy said. "When you have a great changeup, it makes everything else better."
Estrada didn't even throw a changeup when he debuted as a professional. A pitching coach named Paul Menhart suggested in 2006 that he add the pitch to his fastball/curveball combination, but the pitch was only "OK, not great" at first, Estrada said.
The breakthrough came in 2007, when Estrada learned a new grip for the pitch from Clint Everts, a former first-round Draft pick of the Expos. In time, Estrada mastered the art of throwing changeups with the same arm speed as his fastball.
"All of a sudden, it felt really good," Estrada said. "It went from there, it got better and better, every year. Not only can that be a swing-and-miss pitch, but it makes your fastball that much better. That's big, because obviously I don't have much to work with with my fastball."
Estrada won't be working in entirely unfamiliar territory on Friday afternoon. He has experience in an opponent's home opener, having started against the Cubs at Wrigley Field last April 8, holding Chicago to two runs and five hits in seven innings. Estrada has also pitched at Fenway Park, delivering four bullpen-saving innings in June 2011 after Shaun Marcum exited after the first with an injury.
"It was loud, but it was fun," Estrada said. "There's a lot of history there, obviously, and you think about the fact so many greats have pitched there."
What will it be like seeing the Red Sox get their rings?
"It's going to stink," Estrada said. "That's obviously something every player wants in their lifetime, and for them, they just did it. It's a special moment for them. But for us, it's just another day. You say your congratulations, and that's about it. We want the same thing."


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R.I. Redoubles Efforts for Intellectually Disabled
For the first time in years, students with intellectual disabilities in the 23,000-student Providence, R.I., school district started school in August attending some classes alongside their typically developing peers—the result of an agreement between the district and the federal government that the U.S. Department of Justice calls a "landmark."
The 84 students, who represent most of the students with intellectual disabilities in the system, are taking art and physical education classes with other students at Mount Pleasant High School, which has an enrollment of about 1,100. Educators are helping them explore opportunities that may be available to them when they leave school. And teachers are expected to educate them to a higher academic standard than they had experienced before.
Those changes, prompted by a Justice Department probe launched in January, are a huge shift from earlier practice. These students, who mostly have Down syndrome and autism, previously were housed in a separate wing of Mount Pleasant High School, in a program called the Harold A. Birch Vocational School.
The environment at Birch was safe and nurturing, parents and Providence officials said. But it was also devoid of expectations for students beyond eventual employment in a sheltered workshop, where they might spend decades sorting jewelry or packaging medical supplies for a dollar or two per hour.
"Sometimes, educators can be well-intended and think that they're protecting a child by having low expectations," said Susan F. Lusi, who has been the superintendent of the Providence district for three years.
Ms. Lusi said that parents had not complained about the program to her or to other school officials, but she also acknowledged that the district had let the program operate with little oversight.
"It is completely possible to have both high expectations and a safe environment for children with disabilities," Ms. Lusi said.
National Issue
Nationally, the U.S. Department of Justice since 2009 has been intensifying its efforts to fight improper segregation of individuals with disabilities. Segregation of the type that was at the Birch school "is all too common when states allow low expectations to shape their disability programs," Eve Hill, the senior counselor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in a statement released when the department announced its agreement with the district in June.
In a 30-page report dated June 13, the department described the students' isolation, their inability to access integrated employment opportunities, and the lack of any systematic transition planning for them.
The agreement with the Justice Department, which was released the same day as the complaint, also requires Rhode Island to bolster its integrated employment-support services.
The Justice Department's findings were painful to district leaders, Ms. Lusi said. But early in the investigation, "we decided the best way to address what has really been a very long-standing set of issues is to shine light on it," she added.
The vocational school, now reborn as the Birch Academy at Mount Pleasant, could eventually serve as a model for other districts that are also working to appropriately educate students with intellectual disabilities, Ms. Lusi said.
"We are absolutely not all the way there," she said, but the work that her staff has undertaken represents a dramatic improvement.
Federal Probes
The probe into the Birch Vocational School program started with a U.S. Department of Labor investigation into Training Through Placement, a North Providence, R.I., program that received state funding to provide both sheltered-workshop and day programs for about 90 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. According to the Justice Department report, individuals typically stayed at the program for 15 to 30 years.
Programs like Training Through Placement are legally allowed to pay less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. However, they have to comply with certain labor laws in order to retain that authorization.
In March 2012, the Labor Department's wage and hour division started investigating Training Through Placement for violations of its authorization to pay less than the minimum wage. The state launched its own investigation, and earlier this year placed the program under new management.
In October of last year, the Labor Department notified the Justice Department that there were potentially other violations that fell under its jurisdiction, as the enforcer of the American with Disabilities Act. The Justice Department focused part of its efforts on Birch, which ran its own sheltered workshop that served as a pipeline to Training Through Placement. Students spent one or two 55-minute class periods performing "various mundane tasks," in the words of the Justice report, such as assembling jewelry and hand-sorting buttons. Students aged 16 to 21 earned between 50 cents and $2 an hour, while younger pupils were unpaid. Other work experiences for Birch students involved helping cafeteria employees at Mount Pleasant empty trash cans.
Rising Scrutiny
Sheltered workshops have come under increased scrutiny nationally. This year, the Justice Department is supporting the plaintiffs in a class action filed by disability-rights advocates in Oregon. The suit, Lane v. Kitzhaber, alleges that thousands of Oregon residents have been placed in sheltered-workshop programs when they could be served in integrated employment settings.
In addition, a bill in the U.S. Senate to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act seeks to curtail efforts to steer people with disabilities into jobs that pay below the federal minimum wage. People could be placed in those jobs only if a rehabilitation counselor reviewed the placement every six months to ensure that it was part of training a worker for later employment at competitive wages. Some advocates say that the bill would still allow people with disabilities to languish in dead-end jobs.
Rhode Island has said that as part of its agreement with the Justice Department, it will do away with all state-funded sheltered workshops and day programs in the next 3 to 5 years.
The Justice Department was not the first entity to raise concerns about the Birch program. In 2011, a team from the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization of the nation's large urban public school systems, was invited to the Providence district to assess the school system's special education program. Among other findings, the team's final report noted that Birch students had a "very low level" of access to academics. None graduated with a standard diploma.
The council's report also said that some Birch students experienced integrated employment at area hospitals and medical centers, but that stopped when those facilities instituted mandatory immunization of workers. In the words of Birch's longtime principal, Larry Roberti, the students had "suffered enough," the report said.
Competing Priorities
Among several recommendations, the organization's report suggested making changes at the Birch program to ensure that it operated with research-based practices.
Ms. Lusi, the superintendent, said that those recommendations came at the same time the district was working to improve its programming for English-language learners. The special education program took a temporary back seat.
"The context was, 'You have some issues in special education, but you by far need to pay more attention to English-language learners,' " Ms. Lusi said. "For whatever reason, it didn't flag [the issue] for me in the way that the Justice Department [report] did."
Mr. Roberti, who retired from the district in June, could not be reached for this story. In April, the mayorally appointed school board voted against an administration recommendation to fire him, after many community members spoke in his support.
One of those who supported Mr. Roberti, parent Zulma Garcia, said in an interview that parents were not told about the Justice Department investigation, only that the school's well-liked leader was facing termination.
"I specifically wrote emails to the school department and never got any response," Ms. Garcia said. "I went and supported him at the hearing with good faith." Had the Justice Department's report been released before the meeting, the response from the community may have been different, she said.
The situation in Providence, though amplified by the federal report, is not unique, said Debra Hart, the educational coordinator at the Institute for Community Inclusion, based at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
"I think many school districts across our country, and in Massachusetts where I'm most familiar with, struggle with the transition time frame, in particular for students with intellectual disabilities," Ms. Hart said. "They've developed transition programs that track kids with certain labels like [intellectual disability] into specific programs."
Her organization is a partner in the federally funded Center for Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, which promotes programs that allow such students to attend college. But such programs are still little-known, Ms. Hart said.
"Parents don't know what they don't know," she said. "And teachers and guidance counselors don't know about this either."
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Providence is attempting to bridge that knowledge gap, its officials say.
After the results of the Justice Department's investigation were released, Lisa Vargas-Sinapi, the district's director of special education, and Nancy Stevenin, the director of transition services, were tasked with leading the effort to revamp the Birch program. One of the first groups that needed to be won over were the parents.
Ms. Garcia admits she was worried for her 18-year-old son, Nicholas, who has what she described as "global delays."
"I was afraid he would be bullied, and that he would not be able to defend himself" if placed in a regular classroom, she said. But the school district has been very responsive, she said, and "Nicholas loves his new classroom and he seems to be adjusting well."
Her son is a bit frustrated by the curriculum because it's all new for him, she said. "I'm still a little nervous about it because it's not in full swing. I think there will be a lot of learning lessons this year for the staff and the parents," she added. "We're starting from scratch at Birch."
Ms. Vargas-Sinapi said the district has worked closely with parents, and that regular-education students at Mount Pleasant have been welcoming to their new classmates. The school is also looking at how to connect Birch students to sports and other after-school activities.
"We're really committed to this," Ms. Vargas-Sinapi said. "We really feel this is an opportunity to shine and do the best for our students."
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The third Social Media Club (SMC) meeting of 2009 was a success. The event was hosted at Sole Repair on Capitol Hill in Seattle and featured H&R Block as a sponsor.
Kevin Urie, SMC Seattle Founder, kicked it off and David Escobar of H&R Block kept it flowing.
At first when I heard H&R Block was going to speak I could not quite figure out what they could say. Well, I was pleasantly surprised and can report that H&R Block has a set of services that relates very well to many of the Social Media Club members. The services offered include help understanding the implications related to taxes for the self-employed and those thinking of becoming a free agent. They also offer help to maximize benefits and write offs available for those that have been laid off and how to itemize deductions related to job searches. Finally they discussed what the 2009 Stimulus means to us. All of this in less than 10 minutes. David spent time taking questions and talking 1:1 too. Great speaker, great sponsor, great information.
Thanks H&R Block and David Escobar.
In fact, Social Media Club and H&R Block have teamed up to create the Social Media Tax Center and will host 10 meetings across the US. If you want more information for a meeting in your region check here. Each city will host a 15 minute Q&A session with additional time afterwards for one on one discussions based off the following short presentation H&R Block: Tax Tips for Consultants
The SMC Seattle events are always a lot of fun and a great chance to meet new people, catch up with friends, and even celebrate a birthday. Tamara Weikel was serenaded by the SMC Seattle crowd as they sang Happy Birthday to her.
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- Pictures – Tamara Weikel and Kevin Pedraja were snapping lots of pictures. Pics will be posted to the SMC Seattle Flickr site.
- Another SOLD OUT event – Thanks to Rachel Bergstedt and Joann Jen
- Live from Sole Repair – Brian Westbrook was live streaming throughout the evening
A few things I heard and saw tonight
There are a few people I always look forward to seeing. Shauna Causey of Comcast is one – she is always willing to jump in and help and she knows everyone. Another is Kenji Onozawa he always brings great ideas to conversation. I always enjoy catching up with TJ Sopher and Veronica Sopher too. Together they have a great perspective on the Social Media scene. I also got a chance to catch up with fellow surfer (real Ocean Waves & Interwebs) Charl Pearce and met a long time Microsoftie and fellow California native checking out the SMC scene – Markee Foster.
"Social Media flattens the hierarchy – tonight I met executives, interns, and students. I love it that everyone can bring something to the conversation."
"I attend a similar event called the Art Klatch – also on Capitol Hill – and wanted to see how other groups interact and learn from each other."
It's also great to see Warren Sukernek and Blake Cahill. Both work for Social Media Measurement firms – Radian6 and Visible Technologies, respectively – yet they are talking and chatting it up. They realize that the best way to work in Social Media is the BE SOCIAL & SOCIABLE. As I have often said – You never know when you might be working together … again.
Long Riders – People will come a long way for the SMC
- Leavenworth – I had the pleasure of meeting Geordie Romer at the last two SMC meetings. He may be the person that travelled the greatest distance to attend. He comes all the way from Leavenworth. In case you don't know where Leavenworth is — it's a few hours away and requires the navigation of at least one mountain pass (it snowed this week) and is fashioned after a Bavarian Village. It's a beautiful weekend getaway. Geordie can help you find a place too.
- Mt. Vernon – John Moody comes from the gateway to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival where he is a Ruby on Rails developer. He came to the event to connect with people that are in the Social Media community — He came to the right place.
Thanks for all the hard work from the SMC Seattle board members for putting the pieces in place to make this event a success. A huge THANK YOU to the SMC members and the guests that attended the SMC Seattle March meeting. We hope to see you in April.
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If you could not make it tonight don't worry. The next event will be in April. Details will be posted shortly. We hope to see you there.
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Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner predicted Americans would die because of the swap of five Taliban detainees in exchange for the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
"We are going to pay for this. There is not any doubt in my mind that there are going to be costs, lost lives associated with what came out of this," Boehner told reporters Tuesday in his first public comments since the administration announced the deal.
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The speaker argued the administration broke with the practice of not negotiating with terrorists and warned that the deal would trigger severe consequences.
"We have violated that policy, and as a result we have made Americans less safe here and all around the world," he said.
Boehner blasted the administration for not briefing him and other top congressional leaders about the deal, noting that he was trusted with classified information about the plans to pursue Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
"Six months before Osama bin laden was taken down I was briefed on this. I was briefed multiple times over the course of the six months. I was given a heads up several days before this happened. So this idea that they couldn't trust us to not leak things is just not true," the speaker said. He didn't provide further details about how specific the briefings were, especially the information he got right before the 2011 raid.
Boehner and other top committee leaders on Capitol Hill were told back in 2011 and 2012 that the administration was discussing a possible prisoner swap of five detainees for Bergdahl's release. In those briefings there was bipartisan resistance to the idea. The speaker on Tuesday insisted he never got detailed information on what the administration was negotiating that led to the trade last month.
"I was never briefed about a five to one swap nor were there ever any names. There was a discussion several years ago about efforts to get Bergdahl back, and we are glad that he is back. But I was never briefed on any specific negotiation."
Under the law, the President is required to notify members of Congress 30 days in advance of any release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. The administration points to a signing statement that the President added to last year's defense bill as the legal basis for going through with the trade without providing that notice to Congress.
Even some congressional Democrats who agree the President could act without telling Congress believe he should have given leadership a heads up.
"My advice to the President would have been, notify. Pick up the phone," Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, told reporters Tuesday.
CNN's Paul Courson contributed to this report.
Smith-Should America REPEAT the Mistakes of Vietnam against returning Soldiers ? That's where we 're heading. Let's stop it NOW. To hell with who's in the WH.
Hello out there in the orange world. Americans have been dying before these five were released. You are NOW going to blame American deaths on them and blame our a President? You think they were the ones behind friendly fire this morning?
As a matter of fact more Americans, including our veterans, are dying right here in the US from not being able to obtain healthcare (Medicaid expansion comes to mind) than anywhere else and you and your clowns don't seem to care much about that.
Going through life a crying drunken fool must not be much fun.
smith – @Sonny Chapman- It was liberal hippies throwing dog feces at soliders and calling KIA and POW`s parents saying they deserved what happend to them. That being said, liberals are once again targeting men who served with honor because they are speaking up about Bergdahl going AWOL.
For once I agree with you, the treatment dispensed on all people returning from the Nam because of My Lai and other really stupid attempts of cover-up from the authorities (both military and civil ones, and from both parties) were still unjustifiable. Yeah, My Lai (and it attempt of a cover-up) did happen, but that did not meant that it was a widespread behavior from the guys and gals out there, and definitely (I repeat) does not justify any of the shameful and disgraceful behavior showed by a large portion of Americans at the time.
That said, 'liberals are once again targeting men who served with honor because they are speaking up about Bergdahl going AWOL'?
We only want to know who are Bergdahl's accusers. Is it ask too much to ask who are his accusers?
The correct is 'Is it too much to ask who are his accusers?'
"There is not any doubt in my mind that there are going to be costs, lost lives associated with what came out of this," "
This from the guy who just today refused to call the NV "revolution" shooting couple who planned to take over a courthouse and the "sovereign citizen" who also shot up a courthouse this past week...refused to call them "domestic terrorists" when they fit every single possible definition of it, including political motivations, etc. This from the guy whose party has spent the past 6 years egging those types of people on, riling them with just the right buzz words and rhetoric that they KNOW FULL WELL kicks the hive into a frenzy, increasing their memberships and their planning activity for things like those two shootings. This guy has the unmitigated gall to complain like that when he's been directly involved in and encouraging the massive surge of that kind of anti-government, "sovereign citizen" militia-wannabe extremism over the past 6 years? He and the GOP/Teatroll have every anti-gov't secessionist south shall rise again yahoo in the country slavering over their next utterance of the words "socialism" or "patriot" or "we the people"...and there's no denying that there is a CAUSAL relationship between the GOP/Teatrolls' disturbing demagoguery and hyperbole when there's a Dem POTUS and the increased membership and activity of such groups...and he has the audacity to point fingers and accuse anyone else of doing something he claims will endangers Americans?
Maybe the fact that we invaded countries we shouldn't have invaded is the reason these " detainees " are so hell bent on destroying us. After 9-11 we should have gone after Saudi Arabia, but then again, they were friends of the Bush family and were removed from our country real fast.
"The quote by McCain below clearly shows that he didn't flip flop"
The quote by McCain below is entirely cherry-picked and out of context.
McCain's desperate rationalizations don't save him.
Sorry "gang", Mr. McCain got the exact deal he was consulted on- those 5 guys for our one. No changes were made for the deal. Once again, the GOP needed a "controversy" more than America needed a POW back.
" Well, at that time the proposal was that they would release Taliban, some of them really hard-core, particularly five really hard-core Taliban leaders, as a confidence-building measure. Now this idea is for an exchange of prisoners for our American fighting man. I would be inclined to support such a thing depending on a lot of the details."
Agreed. McCain spoke as if he had detailed inside knowledge about negotiations for a prisoner exchange involving "five really hard care Taliban leaders .... for our American fighting man." He may not had been informed that the deal was taking place, but he knew the details of a potential deal. He's not as ignorant as he claims to have been.
Ok Boehner, but didn't 2 American policemen get murdered over the weekend? Or was it a dream? I've barely seen any coverage of it. As a matter of fact I saw more media attention for the ACA website than 2 dead cops.
@Sonny Chapman- It was liberal hippies throwing dog feces at soliders and calling KIA and POW`s parents saying they deserved what happend to them. That being said, liberals are once again targeting men who served with honor because they are speaking up about Bergdahl going AWOL.
My brother was serving with the Marines in Vietnam during the time of John McCain's capture. I remember to this day praying for my brother's safe return; ALL our soldiers safe return; ALL our POWs safe return; as well of those of my many brothers (and cousins) serving in the military, but not specifically in Vietnam.
I think we should all sit back and take a deep, deep breath without the finger pointing, which is adding nothing to the conversation by repeating all the ugliness that was once Vietnam.
I will always respect John McCain for all he endured as a POW. That being said, I also find he has become (as so many in politics do become) bitter and angry. And yes: unreasonable.
The truth is, Americans WILL die because of that swap. The attacks in Karachi are just the beginning of the new offensive by those released Taliban leaders. Expect Americans in Afghanistan to feel the brunt by the end of the month.
@Denise-Sorry to mess up your fodder lie. 29% of GOP current congress members have served and less than 1% of current dems in congress have served.
"The attacks in Karachi are just the beginning of the new offensive by those released Taliban leaders ..."
The Taliban leaders are upset we traded one of our own for five of their own? Interesting.
@Lynda- I must say your words are enlightening and would be the best adivce for all to follow.


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I have just spent half an hour going through the list of people who have asked for access to my family website www.geniaus.net. I am genuinely excited when a new cousin contacts me.
What gets up my nose is the number of people who ask for access without telling me how they are related. I have details of living people in the database and will not give access to any Tom Dick or Harriet.
When hear from someone who leaves a message like this I grant them access.
"Hi there!!
I'm a descendant of xxx and xxx and would like to find out more about my ancestors. My maternal grandmother was the daughter of the above, but has no listing in your tree. Also missing is her sister xxx; twin to xxx".
I email those who give no details asking what their relationship is to people in the database and guess what? I usually don't hear from them again.
Through publishing my tree on the internet I have made some very valuable connections and helped quite a number of distant cousins fill in the gaps in their family history. The benefits definitely outweigh the disadvantages but sometimes I just need to have a rant.


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I'm not a minimalist. "Less is more" never applied to me when it came to verbal expression, color-coordinated accessories, lively acquaintances, wall collages, etc. It's just not my nature.
Why, then, have I felt so compelled lately to simplify, to streamline, reduce, and minimize? I don't just mean sorting through and tossing out stained and unused kids' clothes. I do that pretty regularly. We hold at least one enormous garage sale every year. And with four little ones under foot, shopping of any kind is pretty much not worth it. Where do our groceries even come from? I don't know because it is DEFINITELY not worth taking all the kids to the grocery store.
Anyway, I read Simplicity Parenting last year-- loved and embraced it. Still, I craved more simplicity, less clutter, distraction, and mayhem. It's so contrary to my core preferences and yet, I find myself being drawn to a simple, meaningful, minimalist life. Well, let me clarify here. Minimalism with four kids is not being able to fit all your possessions into an over-sized suitcase. And as romantic as it sometimes sounds, it's not moving to a tiny cottage in the woods and living off the land. It's just getting rid of excess, whatever that means.
What it boils down to for me is that there are certain things I greatly value in this life, eg family, friends, faith/relationship with God, good music, nature, books/learning, travel/exploration, wholesome eating, creative expression, "service"/being useful to others, and maybe a few more. Those are the things that fuel me and make my life worth living. Everything else, the way I see it, is a distraction from those things that I truly love and value. Granted, many things are necessary distractions and I don't begrudge those. Others are simply distractions.
My hope, my goal (and I'm really taking a leap of faith here) is to achieve greater peace and fulfillment, as well as time and money to spend on the things I really love by eliminating as much as possible of everything else. So.... I love you, skinny jeans in every color of the rainbow, and I love you, vintage table linens too pretty to ever use, and I love you, boxes of flamboyant holiday decor, and I love you, Millie's adorable collection of bathing suits... but you might not actually be adding to my happiness because, collectively, you're emotionally cumbersome and materially burdensome. (I fully acknowledge that simplifying our schedules, access to media, and other such things are incredibly helpful, too. Physical clutter is what is frustrating me most, though, so I'm starting there.)
I'm not entirely convinced, though. I do love my stuff. I'm just finally to the point where I don't want to love my stuff as much as I do. And perhaps I'm even prepared to do something about it. Not tonight, but sometime....
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I'm not a minimalist. "Less is more" never applied to me when it came to verbal expression, color-coordinated accessories, lively acquaintances, wall collages, etc. It's just not my nature.
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We continue our efforts in the Galapagos National Park conserving the animals and plants native to the islands and we have been able to diversify and work on the island's highlands, coastal areas and other regions most impacted by alien and introduced species. This month we have been busy clearing areas of alien species in preparation for future reforestation, preparing organic compost, monitoring endemic species in danger of extinction, environmental education and much more.
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We have started a reforestation project around the Junco lagoon found on an extinct volcano frequently visited by tourists. The area has suffered for the presence of the introduced "mora" berry (Rubeus niveus) and guayaba (Psidium guajava). Both species compete with the endemic plants for nutrients and space. At the lagoon we have reforested with Miconia robinsoniana which is an endemic species found only on the populated islands of the archipelago such as Santa Cruz and San Cristobal at an altitude of between 400-500m above sea level. This plant species is not only important as food for native wildlife but also provides ground cover for large colonies of nesting Galapagos petrels (Pterodroma phaeopygia). We worked clearing the area of invasive plants before planting over 200 saplings.
Organic Farming
We have continued working on various different farmsteads in the preparation of organic compost. Our aim is to reduce the farmer's use of artificial chemicals. We are teaching farmers how to prepare the compost using organic materials present on their farms such as dry leaves, fruits and guano from cows and chickens. All the components are left to ferment and after 2 months are used to fertilise the coffee plants we are growing on different farms. At the same time as using compost we clear large areas of mora and guayaba which we use to make more compost!
Wildlife Monitoring
Our activities involving the investigation and conservation of the island's endangered species continues as we continue to build our database on sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) and marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). We have started a bird diversity study from a local tourist view point. This data is very important in comparing and analysing population dynamics and over time we can monitor the health of the bird populations and assess whether alien plant removal and endemic plant reforestation are helping endemic bird species recover the islands they once controlled.
Pest Control
To help the fore mentioned colonies of Galapagos petrels we are controlling the populations of rats on the island's highlands. The rodents are ferocious hunters and will take both eggs and babies from ground nests. In addition, the presence of high numbers of rats attracts wild cats and these are direct threats to the adult birds when they return from fishing at sea. We control the rat populations with a specific poison placed inside tubes that only rats can enter. Our aim is that the reduction in the number of rats will cause an increase in the number of petrels.
Tortoise Breeding Centre
Back at the breeding centre for the giant tortoise (Chelonoidis chathamensis) we continue to help in many different ways all designed to help in the centre's maintenance and correct management of the resident tortoises. These last few weeks we have been concentrating on the feeding and diet of the giants and also cleaning and maintaining the numerous bathing pools around the centre. The centre is being re-landscaped and we have been helping in redesigning and marking the trail system with rocks and gravel.
I am proud to report that since we took over certain maintenance duties the tortoises have had a clean bill of health, their diet is well controlled and the young hatchlings are closely monitored in their special enclosure. Elsewhere at the centre we are continuing to clear a hectare of land to plant the "otoy". This foodstuff is a favourite of the giant tortoise and we hope to be able to grow our own food near the centre to reduce transport costs and possible scarcity when the "otoy" is not available to buy.
Plant Nurseries
We continue to work in the national park plant nurseries in several activities including clearing, maintenance, compost preparation, seed preparation in plant bags, transferring plants to reforestation sites and the care of those saplings planted earlier in the year. We continue our work on Cerro Colorado where we strive to regenerate a natural forest of purely endemic species, as would have existed ancestrally.
Our own plant nursery is thriving and we have successfully germinated saplings from several plant species including cotton and coffee. The plants from our nursery are being used in local communities and schools and are important parts of our environmental education programs with the islands young children and the future of the Galapagos and its conservation.
We performed our regular beach clean-ups where we collect litter washed ashore in the areas where sea lions and marine iguanas breed thus reducing the risk to young animals. The sea will always wash up litter and this is a never ending task but an important one nonetheless.
As you can see we have been very busy over recent weeks and I look forward to bringing you more news from our patch of paradise and our efforts to conserve it… until next time!
Jonathan Guillen
Conservation Manager, Ecuador


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I would be interested to know if there are any south african people on this forum and really interested in the current state of cricket there and kind of wanting to know a bit more about it at the lower levels.
I am fortunate to have just played a tournament in south africa where we played age group sides from western province/boland and south western districts. I am trying to be careful how to phrase this as i dont want people to get into a racial discussion but i was shocked that still today the teams had to have a certain amount of whites and a certain amount of blacks. Does this happen at most levels of sport in south africa still?
I'm looking at returning to do some township coaching as i totally fell in love with the country and the people but I was so touched by some of the stories and found it so hard to come to terms with. People playing cricket so the have access to a first aid kit!!!? Crazy that I live in a country where I didnt realise what was going on. Now i really do realise how lucky i am however I guess it hurt me to see it so i want to help!


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I had fish mollee for the first time at my friend Z's house when we went there for the Iftar party. There were around 15 people for the party and this curry was a super hit of that day. The curry was so delicious and everybody was drooling over. Its very easy to make. Here goes her recipe:
Fish mollee
Serves 4
500 -600 gm Fish cut into 1 ½ inch pieces
½ cup chopped onion
1 medium size tomato
1 ½ tsp black pepper powder
¾ tsp turmeric powder
1 ½ cup thin coconut milk
½ cup thick coconut milk
2-4 Green chillies split lengthwise
4 cloves
2 small piece cinnamon sticks
3 sprigs Curry leaves
½ tsp plain flour
½ tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
Salt as required
Oil – As required
1. Marinate fish in 1 tsp pepper powder,1/4 tsp turmeric powder and salt and keep aside for 20 minutes.
2. Heat a pan and add litttle oil. Shallow fry the fish slightly until partially cooked. Drain them on kitchen towel.
3. Heat another saucepan, add 2 tbs of oil and add cloves and cinnamom. When the aroma of the spices starts to come off, add onion and sauté until golden. Add tomato, pepper powder, turmeric powder, kashmiri chilli powder,green chillies, plain flour and curry leaves and sauté until the tomato goes soft.
4. Add thin coconut milk and boil for around 5 minutes. Add fish to this and boil for further 3 minutes. Add thick coconut milk and boil for another two minutes.
Serve hot with chappathi, puri and plain boiled rice.
My friend Z had added capsicum and I really liked the taste of it. So I also added ½ of a medium size red capsicum diced at step 3 along with other ingredients. But that's purely optional


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Andrew Bird has never been a man to settle for the easy option. In fact, the Illinois songsmith seems to have built a career of making even the most simple things obtuse. His admirable back catalogue is built around sweet melodies contorted into tongue-knotting, rhythmically avuncular sweeps that infuse Bird's musical intellect with his knack for a non-conforming tunes.
Of course, this approach does not a typical mainstream career make. Bird has been toying with a breakthrough since the excellent & The Mysterious Production of Eggs dropped in 2005, yet a dedication to taking his craft into more peculiar territories has always been his undoing. It's more likely a case of maintaining artistic integrity than deliberate self-sabotage, but there's a certain sadness in knowing the record buying majority is missing out on such a mercurial talent.
With Break It Yourself it's perhaps a touch too hopeful to think this will change. But there is still a chance. You see, Bird's seventh studio album finds him finally choosing linearity over his penchant for abstraction. And for the more casual listener, that means these 14 cuts are by far his most listenable. Yet, his followers should not fear: this is still, unequivocally, an Andrew Bird record and he is still stroking tenderly at fraying heart strings with his homely, honeyed tones.
Opener 'Desperation Breeds' quickly reveals Bird's evolution. Formed around creeping, acoustic plucks, the tracks rises into a violin-stained melody that moves with the serenity of a moonlit river. Notably, Bird's vocals sit higher in the mix than ever before; in fact, close your eyes and he could be right beside you as he addresses "accidental pollination in this era without bees" as only he could.
Another indication of Bird's changing persuasion is the delivery. His lyrical acrobatics and airtight metaphors have taken a back seat; in their place is the voice of a man questioning all that surrounds him. The loose limbed 'Give It Away' finds him yearning for a life in the sticks, sheltered away from the complications of the modern world; while on the lilting 'Sifters' he contemplates the strength of his own convictions, quipping: "What if we hadn't been born at the same time, what if you were 75 and I were nine, would I come visit you?"
It's not exactly naked lyricism, but for Bird it represents a significant change in tack. He's telling it as it is, relying on the power of simple melodies to see him through. And it works. 'Danse Caribe', in particular, is magnificently insouciant, its country strums whistling out as effortlessly as a summer breeze. 'Eyeoneye' is equally intoxicating, shimmering and twinkling with the sort of echoic might The Fleet Foxes could only envisage in their wildest wet dreams.
Much of Break It Yourself finds our protagonist scaling heights he's so far resisted, combining subtle instrumental nuances with a considerable depth of emotion. And while the picturesque 'Fatal Shores' may trundle out like Andrew Bird-by-numbers, it's merely a minor lull that's quickly swept away by the shiver of cymbals and guitar that greets his cry of "You're laying mines across the shore, so my heart is ripped and torn" across the swelling, Annie Clark-accompanied 'Lusitania'.
As swansongs go, 'Hole In The Wall' is as powerful as they come, gravitating around a soaring violin that rises in tandem with Bird's slightly quivering intone. But 'Lazy Projector' is the album's real gem. A shameless, lovestruck tearjerker, it gets by on a lonely cowboy whistle, weeping guitar and the cheek-moistening line: "I can't see the sense in us breaking up at all". It's sad, it's lonely, it's Andrew Bird as we've never heard him before: open and exposed.
Stepping back from the throes of this umbilical soul-searching, Break It Yourself is Bird's most consistent work to date. By playing it straight and singing it even straighter, he's created an intensely listenable and emotional album that's impossible not to relate to. Somewhere along the line, Andrew Bird took the easy option. He's never sounded better.
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"Dancing with the Stars" wrapped up Motown Week on Tuesday, but one star's moves just weren't strong enough to get them through to another week in the ballroom.
(SPOILER – this story contains the results of Tuesday's "DWTS.")
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It was Motown legend Gladys Knight and her professional partner, Tristan MacManus, who were cut from the competition, after failing to impress in the Bottom 2 "dance-off" for the judges.
"I am so amazed at this journey, it's been absolutely extraordinary," Gladys said, after learning she wouldn't be continuing on to Week 7. "I learned so many things, found so many friends… and I'm just overjoyed."
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In a clip package, rolled out after the "dance-off" result, Tristan admitted how close he'd gotten to the singing legend over their six-week competition journey.
"I'll probably miss Gladys as much as I miss Ireland when I'm here and I really, really miss Ireland," he said.
The soul singer and Tristan knew they were heading for the "dance-off" after landing at the bottom of the leaderboard on Monday, scoring just 24 points out of 40, and they squared off with Disney star Roshon Fegan and professional partner Chelsie Hightower at the end of Tuesday's show.
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Gladys and Tristan may have gotten the boot, but they didn't give up during their final number, pulling out all the moves they could, and impressing the judging panel.
"Gladys, you dance like you sing – from your heart," judge Len Goodman said.
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But in the end, their moves couldn't put them on par with Roshon and Chelsie, who earned the votes of Len and Bruno Tonioli (Carrie Ann Inaba voted to keep Gladys and Tristan in).
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Milwaukee's U.S. Bank building to debut LED lighting
Milwaukee's tallest building is about to go green while going blue.
The U.S. Bank building, located in downtown Milwaukee, will debut four new LED-lit signs Monday at sundown.
The previous signs were installed in 2002.
New signage for the building features the U.S. Bank logo on a blue background. The four signs at the top of the 42-story building will now be lit using LED fixtures.
Bill Bertha, market president for U.S. Bank in Milwaukee, said the fixtures are expected to save $25,000 in energy costs per year.
"We are committed to the U.S. Department of Energy's 'Better Building Challenge,'" Bertha said. The initiative challenges office buildings to reduce their energy use by 20 percent by the year 2020.
"By replacing the lighting in the four signs on top of Milwaukee's tallest building, we not only reduce our own energy consumption, we hope to set an example in the community," he said.


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I like how Mathers' introduction to the Goetia includes a "practical" explanation of some magical phenomena, for example: to "obtain information" means that it "Brings up facts from sub-consciousness", to "obtain treasure" means that "Business capacity may be stimulated", etc.
So I was wondering: can you explain the subject of planetary intelligences/spirits in a similar manner? That is, given that Tiriel is the intelligence of Mercury and Taphthartharath is the spirit of Mercury, what does it mean?


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