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Michael McBane the author of the blog "Ottawa Valley Irish: A family history weblog & genealogy database" has said that he is working on a book on the missionaries of the Ottawa Valley and the Pontiac on the Quebec side.
He provides a partial list of Roman Catholic Missionaries served the Pontiac County area in the mid-nineteenth century such as -
1836-1838 Rev Pascal Brunet, curé Montebello/Wm Cannon, vicaire à Bytown
1836-1838 F.L. de Bellefeuille, S.S. Montréal/J.B. Dupuis, Evêché Montréal
To see the rest of the list, go to http://www.ottawavalleyirish.com/2011/08/missionaries-of-pontiac-1836-1851.html#comments
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Finn to make Fleetwood debut at Vegas fest
Crowded House frontman Neil Finn will make his debut as part of Fleetwood Mac's new line-up at a Las Vegas festival in September.
The legendary British-American band have been added to the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 21 and 22, which already boasts Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey, Imagine Dragons and many more.
It will be Fleetwood Mac's first time performing with Finn and former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell. The announcement arrives ahead of a tour that kicks off in October. Lindsey Buckingham, who joined the band in 1975 and was present through its most successful incarnation, was fired in April.
The iHeartRadio festival has traditionally included a veteran act on its line-up. In previous years, Aerosmith, Queen + Adam Lambert and Billy Idol have held that slot. This year, Lynyrd Skynyrd will also be featured.
"It is an honour to be performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival for our very first time," said vocalist Stevie Nicks. "The beauty of an event like this is that it is a true representation of the power of radio. It's an opportunity for artists across all genres to share one stage and what we all love most - music!"
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I'm a sucker for a good buffet, and I found one at India House (2501 Cerrillos Road, 471-2651).
In college, my friends and I would get really stoned and head to the mall to eat at Old Country Buffet, aka "The Trough." There, we would shuffle down the mile-long, sneeze-guarded symbol of our dystopian, diabetic future, piling onto our plates sloppy mounds of grey flesh, sodium and trans-fats. Sweatpants were de rigueur; chewing was optional.
As I've grown older (and reduced my recreational drug consumption to embarrassingly low levels), I've developed a more discerning palate. Out with OCB, and in with India House and its completely satisfying $8.95 lunch buffet. It's loaded with tandoori chicken and a dozen saags and curries—half of which are vegetarian-friendly. There are no vegan options on the lunch buffet; however, owner Amrik Dhindsa informed me that he can turn a number of vegetarian dishes on the dinner menu into vegan options by substituting olive oil for ghee.
According to Dhindsa, India House serves Santa Fe's "most authentic and traditional" northern Indian food. Both the lunch buffet and the dinner menu offer classic regional dishes like chicken tikka, daal makhani, various biryanis and a number of tandoori options. Dhindsa's father, who is from the Punjab region of India, opened the restaurant in 1992.
Contrary to local mythology, India House is not affiliated with any of the other Indian restaurants in town.
What I like most about the House's buffet is that all the dishes taste different from one another (the sign of a good Indian restaurant, in my opinion). Yes, most dishes at India House are seasoned with the same coriander, cumin, turmeric and cardamom, but the flavor profile of one dish stands out from that of another. I especially enjoy the basmati; seasoned with spices and aromatics, it's the perfect sauce sponge and tastes damn good on a piece of naan.
Bonus tip for all you lovers out there: the ingredients used to flavor your favorite Indian dishes (garlic, onions and chiles) are shown to increase blood flow to the lingam and yoni. It's true, good vindaloo can lead to even better sex (India, population 1.2 billion), so next time you're looking to spice things up in the bedroom, try spicing things up in the kitchen first. You never know; you might even get around to polishing those long-neglected countertops.
Dhindsa adds that each dish is made from scratch and is prepared fresh, daily. Items on the dinner menu are made to order, and nothing is par-cooked or reheated. This can be a strain on the kitchen during a busy dinner service, but the owners feel that the resulting quality is worth the wait—and most patrons seem to agree.
Fortunately, waiting isn't a problem at lunch. Trays of food constantly stream from the kitchen, and you can have a plate of food in front of you within minutes of walking through the door.
The owners are also working with a number of farmers and ranchers to supply the restaurant with locally-sourced ingredients. The son of a farmer himself, Dhindsa recognizes the benefits of fresh product, and hopes to continue to push the restaurant further in this direction.
If you're on Cerrillos and need a quick, tasty, satisfying lunch on the cheap, this place is hard to beat. The food on the buffet is fresh and varied; and, with a (sort of lame) salad bar and a few fruits and puddings, it makes for a complete meal. It would be nice to see a mixed pickle on the buffet next to the raita and chutneys, but it can be ordered for an additional $2.50.
If you eat too much, as I usually do, be sure to take a small scoop of candied fennel seeds on your way out. I'm told it's good for wind.
At a Glance
Serving: lunch and dinner
Menu: lunch buffet; full Indian menu for dinner
Order up: How long does it take you to walk 30 feet?
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It's time for another edition of 'Shelf Pleasuring', an occasional feature in which we revisit the sexiest books we stole off our parents' shelves when they weren't looking. Today, Fine Lines proprietrix, blogger, NPR book reviewer and filthy-novel-fiend Lizzie Skurnick writes about 'Wifey', Judy Blume's 1978 novel about having your cake...and getting it eaten out, too.
Can someone please explain this five-course, multiple orgasm thing to me? I don't mean this exact second, you can read the review first, but at the end of this exegesis I would like a few people to enter the comments and iterate the exact circumstances under which one would be able to claim one had enjoyed "Breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack." (I myself am not hungry, per se, but, having never been sure if I've personally taken part in the all-day buffet in question, I need to know if I should request a complimentary voucher or something.)
The source of the question in question is one Sandy Schaedal, a housewife in Plainfield, NJ, flush in the middle of late 1960s Jewish suburbia, wherein which the children of hardworking, Depression-era parents are suddenly experiencing all that club memberships, trips to the Bahamas, open marriages, and browned chicken from Elegant but Easy cookbooks can add to the quota of human happiness.
When we encounter Sandy, she's just recovered from a serious bout of classic debilitating housewife hysteria, and is at the end of her rope with her husband, Norm, the upright, uptight owner of a chain of a dry-cleaning stores. Norm is the kind of tidy husband who asks Sandy to keep track of his dog's "sticks" and "wees," likes his (browned) chicken on Wednesdays and his sex on Saturdays, and chooses to retire to his side of their twin beds every night, joined only by one headboard:
One bed for Norman, with cool, crisp sheets, preferably changed twice a week, not that he didn't want fresh ones daily...and one bed for Sandy, where, once a week, on Saturday nights, if she didn't have her period, they did it. A Jewish nyphomaniac. They fucked in her bed, then Norman went to the bedroom to wash his hands and penis, making Sandy feel dirty and ashamed. He'd climb into his own bed then, into his clean, cool sheets, and he'd fall asleep in seconds, never any tossing, turning, sighing. Never any need to cuddle, or laugh quietly with her. Three to five minutes from start to finish. She knew. She's watched the digital bedside clock often enough. Three to five minutes. Then he'd say, "Very nice, did you get your dessert?"
"Yes, thank you, dessert was fine."
....She's learned to come in minutes, seconds if she had to, and she almost always made it twice. No problem there. She almost always got her main course and her dessert. But usually it was a TV dinner and Oreo when she craved scampi and mousse au chocolat.
Conjured up like some priapic avatar of her most unseemly desires, Sandy has of late been haunted by an odd type of ghost, who conforms to his kind only in that he, too, sports a white sheet (hospital variety). Briefly, there is a man who drives up on her lawn with a motorcycle wearing a Stars and Stripes helmet who masturbates on the lawn, then departs with a wave. (Norm's comment after the first incident: "The motorcycle: Did it leave ridges in the lawn?")
Naturally, this cannot stand, but Sandy's life simply as the mother of two children, Jen and Bucky, who are now away at camp, has left room for the kind of whole rampant for over-examination, both mental and physical, that needs to find its outlet somewhere — which it has, in a raging itch that's taken over her nether regions. Asked by her brother-in-law, a gynecologist (no comment), about whether or not it might be psychosomatic, she replies, "I don't think I can discuss it with you, Gordon....I don't think I could discuss the subject at all."
Except, of course, with the reader:
My sex life? Oh, you mean my sex life. Yes. Well. Let's see. Ummmm, if you want to judge it strictly on the basis of orgasms it's fine. Terrific. That is, I masturbate like crazy, Gordon. You wouldn't believe how I masturbate. God, I'm always at it. Driving here, for instance, this morning....driving, get that, in traffic, no less....not, not the Cadillac, Norm took that to work. The Buick...driving the Buick...I hear this song on the radio...from my youth, Gordy, like when I was seventeen or something...Blue velvet, bluer than velvet was the night....it reminds me of Shep....and I get this feeling in my cunt....this really hot feeling....and just a little rubbing with one hand...just a little tickle, tickle on the outside on my clothes...just one-two-three and that's enough...I'm coming and I don't even want to come yet because it feels so good...I want it to last. And guess what, Gordy? I never itch after I come that way. I itch only after Norman. So, you see, it must have something to do with him. Maybe I am allergic to his semen...maybe I'm allergic to his cock...maybe I'm allergic to him!
But Sandy isn't only chafing at Norm, but her good-housewife place in the late-60s culture as a whole, which is erupting into all kind of nasty itchings and burnings, both racial and sexual. Unbeknownst to Norm, a stalwart member of the Young Republicans, Sandy has actually voted for Kennedy, for whom she sits shiveh to Norm's consternation, tossing sheets over the mirrors in the house. ("Jesus Christ, now you're going Orthodox?") When, at the urging of her traditionally good-looking, well-adjusted sister, Myra, the couple joins the area's exclusive Club, Norman immediately joins the Grievance Committee and kills on the tennis court while Sandy struggles through golf lessons, idly fantasizing about Roger, the club's golf pro and only black face on the scene, noting that the only part of the lesson she enjoys is when he stands behind her and wraps his arms around her to show her how to hold the club.
She also has very little in common with Myra's friends, who radiate health and wealth in equal proportions, in contrast with her sickly, uncoordinated, secretly sex-craving self. At one of Myra's parties, meeting her tennis-playing buddies, Sandy gets embroiled in a conversation about moving from increasingly black Plainfield to willfully white Watchung:
Sandy thought she might like Funky, with a bandana tied around her head, loaded down with Indian jewelry, best, until they got into a discussion about Plainfield.
"Plainfield, my God!" Funky said. "I thought Plainfield was all black."
"Not quite."
"You mean not yet! If I were you, I'd get out while the going's good and move up to the Hills....In Watching you could send them to public school. We have only two black families in town and both are professional."
"It's really not a racial thing," Brown said, joining them. "It's more of a socioeconomic thing, don't you think?"
"Yes and no," Funky said. "Yes, in the sense that professional ones tend to think more like us and want what's best for their children. No, in the sense that they're still different no matter how hard you try to pretend they're not. I mean, put one in this room, right now, and suddenly we'd all clam up." She took a cheese puff from the tray offered by Elena, the black maid. "Thank you."
Sandy is no social revolutionary, but she's also not particularly invested in her own upward mobility — and therefore not invested in keeping others down. She's not about to join the Black Panthers — her sense of injustice is far more internal, a mordant irony that she only expresses to herself. (Remembering how the one time Norman tried to give her oral sex he had to gargle with Listerine for a half an hour, she quips to herself, "That's why I douche with vinegar...cunt vinaigrette...to make it more appetizing...you know, like browned chicken.") However, in the days where feminism ("Women's libbers," to Norm, "Dykes who want to be on top") is located only in encounter groups in a Manhattan that may as well be 2000 miles instead of 20 minutes away, Sandy has only her fantasies to rebel with—until they slide, as it were, very easily into reality.
Her first affair is with her brother-in-law, Gordy, and not very much on purpose. At one of Myra's blowout parties, Sandy goes into a room to rest and finds herself assailed by a very drunk Gordy, who is endearingly straightforward: "I've always wanted you, Sandy....always loved your little ass....your cunt....every time I examine you I want it....want to kiss it...to fill it...." Her second is with Shep, the boy she didn't marry because her mother never thought he'd go anywhere. "You can't eat handsome!" Actually, Mother, you can, Sandy thinks, remembering:
Still, she dreamed of Shep. She dreamed of kissing him there and over midwinter vacation had a sudden urge to take him in her mouth. What was she going to do about these disgusting thoughts? Decent people, normal people, didn't do those things...didn't even think about them. Shep was perverted. But she let him do that to her. Just once. And oh, it was so good. Like nothing she had ever experienced. She came over and over, as he licked and kissed and buried his face in her. Until she cried, "Stop...please stop...I can't take any more..."
And then he kissed her face and she tasted herself on him. And she liked it.
Sandy's fantasies—and subsequent affairs—aren't because she's a nymphomaniac, but rather, because she's trying to resolve the two things about Norm she can't reconcile: his liking for the rigid class code of the club, and his liking for an equally rigid sex life, where his irritation with Sandy's needs, his inability to give love, leaves her, appropriately enough, irritated: ("Norman, do you love me?" "I'm here, aren't I?") Gordy, sister-in-law-fucker though he may be, is not a pervert — he's just as depressed with the code of the Club as Sandy is. ("You know something, Sandy, I hate this fucking house, this stupid party.") And though Sandy would like to convince herself that she would have had a very different life with Shep, she finally has to admit that it would have entailed the same things as her life with Norm — the Club, kids, car pools — and their same deadening effects.
The flap copy calls Sandy "a very nice housewife with a very dirty mind," but in fact, she's neither. Sandy, cosseted by a life of leisure that's become a straightjacket, buffeted by fucking on the brain, is very, very normal. "So where did things go wrong, Norm?" she thinks, lying in bed. "So what happened? Comfortable. Safe. We had our babies. We made a life together. But now I'm sick....And I'm so fucking scared!...Oh mother, dammit! Why did you bring me up to think this is what i wanted? And now that I know it's not, what I am I supposed to do about it?"
It would have been very easy to make Norm the enemy here, and, truthfully, the husband who rants about woman's libbers, who tells Sandy she doesn't know how good she has it, then responds to her entreaty that she could get a job with, "Your first duty is to make a home for me and the kids. After that, you want a little part-time job, it's fine with me" is grounds for massive enragement.
But after Sandy gets gonorrhea and has to tell Norman about her affairs, she finds a cache of letters written from an ex-girlfriend in the attic:
She had a sudden desire to call Brenda, to ask her what Norman had really been like way back then. Because she could see now that there must have been another Norman. A Norman who dreamed of becoming a biologist...of saving the world. A Norman who loved intensely. Could that Norman still be locked inside the Norman she knew, just as another Sandy was inside her, struggling to get out?
You bet your ass! In fact, America of 1970 is a nation of Norms, struggling to reconcile their golf shoes with riots in Newark. At age 8, I'd never noticed the epigraph to the book, a quote from Good Times by Peter Joseph. "In terms of affluence," It reads, "America in the 60s reached a stage that other societies can only dream of," it reads. It's no surprise that the mystery masturbator wears a Stars 'n Stripes helmet. Wifey isn't a novel of raunch — it's a novel about two Americas, the old 50s model and the long-haired, 70s edition that suddenly need to resolve Sandy's greatest complaint: "Paying isn't caring, Norman."
But, you know what? Caring is caring, and that's what Norman and Sandy find out they both do. Shattered by Sandy's betrayal, Norm doesn't throw her out but instead makes a surprising offer: "We could get a double bed. I know you've always wanted one." (He also agrees to try oral sex after being told by Sandy "I think you have to develop a taste for it, Norm, like lobster.") Surprisingly, Sandy hasn't gone mad on her bed in a room of yellow wallpaper. She's made several beds, and she's lain — not lied — in every single one. God Bless America.
Lizzie Skurnick [The Old Hag]
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Enough. Enough talking about Democrats and Republicans. Enough tearing this nation apart. Enough of talking left and right. Enough of pitting us all against each other.
Enough. Enough talking about Democrats and Republicans. Enough tearing this nation apart. Enough of talking left and right. Enough of pitting us all against each other.
Wake up, people. We are all one nation under God. Can't we all just work together for once to create the common good? All these letters I read have the same impact ... help us all. We are supposed to be one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do it. For the kids, the elderly, us all.
Regardless if your president was Bush or Obama, you are bound by your allegiance to this country. Tell our representatives we are no longer willing to accept their limited bidding. The education situation in this country, even in our state of New York, is absolutely unacceptable. They have to do something to change it or there will be a major revolt.
What happens when every school district says no? What happens when every incumbent is voted out? What happens when every voter stops voting? What will society do then?
Hello, Gov. Cuomo. Do something different — now. Before we talk to your predecessor.
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All the gun ban bills and personal agendas of the president, vice president, Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Cuomo show no real concern for the public. They continue to fight for their opinions.
The only solution is to have the same laws and regulations in every state. One state is strict, another is lenient. All states should have background checks, past health checks and fingerprints.
Biden should not try to force people to do what his own state does not require. Bloomberg should not tell people not to have protection while he is well protected. Cuomo should not go off the deep end to win an election.
If truth be told according to the above, no one should be able to buy knives, gas, pressure cookers, nails or any dangerous material anywhere in the USA.
President Obama was elected to lead us all and should not try to push his own agenda and ignore the people he has been chosen to represent. All the rules and laws we now have are not enforced, so more will not help.
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I'd also like to point out the prices of these items, AND the fact that I also purchased "Awesome Bleach" that day.
Anyway, weeks passed and nothing happened to my weird little cannisters. I also had a pound of dates still sitting in my fridge from when I made the crust for the frozen raspberry cashew cake last month. And then a recipe comes along that calls for exactly what you have! Well, except for the cherries in Chocolate Chip Cherry Brownies.
In replacing the 1 cup of cherries, I thought about maintaining the same approximate amount of sweetness, pectin, and just plain bulk. I ended up using 1/4 c additional dates and 3/4 c walnuts. Sadly, I didn't have quite enough chocolate chips, so I ended up just melting the entire 1 3/4 c that I had, rather than melting 1 1/2 c and folding in an additional 3/4 c later. I also used soymilk instead of almond milk, and I chopped and soaked the dates in the milk before processing to give them a head start.
I love the idea of using a date-and-milk puree as a base! The pectin in the dates makes the liquid so thick.
The batter tasted pretty great; it was incredibly sticky and fudgy.
And indeed, the finished product, straight out of the oven, was also fudgy and delicious. The next day, though, the texture was a little bit dry and mealy. I'm going to try reheating them, but I think these are best eaten right after baking--which has nothing to do with their lack of gluten--what brownie doesn't taste best when it's still warm from the oven?
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about 16 dates
1/2 c nondairy milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/4 c non-dairy chocolate chips, divided
1 c superfine brown rice flour
1/3 c potato starch
1 tsp salt
3/4 c walnuts, toasted
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2. Combine pitted dates and non-dairy milk, and vanilla into food processor and puree until very smooth.
3. Over double boiler, melt 1 1/2 c chocolate chips. Pour the melted chocolate into the date mixture and blend again until super smooth.
4. In large mixing bowl combine brown rice flour and potato starch and salt
and mix until well combined. Fold in remaining chocolate chips and toasted walnuts.
5. Transfer to pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes, then allow to cool before cutting into squares and serving.


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The firmware has nothing to do with that.
Sure manufacturers can always get away with "well you can just convert it to a big TIFF file (or DNG) in later stage in the process using tool ABC we provide on platform XY under license Z", but is it really so unreasonable to demand that the camera output is an open format? I don't think so.
Anders there are (too?) many cooks here but did you see my reply?
standard question - you are Panasonic, you want to bring a new camera to the market with software optics corrections, DNG does not support that (tags)... what are you going to do ?
you have the full right to demand everything and they have the full right to follow the real market demand and real market demand is not about DNG because you buy and use non DNG cameras, hence your demands are not serious... you do not have any alternatives otherwise you will be there... manufacturers understand only $$$ and only demands that when unmet results in $$$ loss... DNG demand does not mean $$$ loss.
DNG is still controlled by Adobe (and remember - Google makes hardware, MS makes hardware... there is good chance that Adobe will start making hardware too... and which hardware Adobe might start to make ?) - no changes or additions to DNG standards so far can be done w/ Adobe's OK regardless of where DNG standard was submitted... free != safe.
Allow me to summarize this thread to date:1. There is no good reason.2. Deeejjaaaa disagrees, but is unwilling to share his proprietary data source
my view:1. if you want a back with DNG, buy one or make your own;1a. DNG converter if you want it so bad;2. the cameras I have that don't have DNG, I am perfectly OK with. I knew when I purchased them what they had;3. I don't trust Adobe any further than I can throw them.
Who will support your raw files if your camera/software maker passes away?
1. There is no good reason.
I've seen you make this claim before...
Adobe is not and never has been interested in hardware, just cross platform software. There is no evidence what so ever for this claim.
As far as 3rd parties making changes to the DNG SDK?
I know of several occasions where Adobe changed aspects of DNG to satisfy 3rd parties.
Adobe allowed the ISO to change the TIFF spec for TIFF-EP...
so there is history at Adobe for working with standards. Compare that to the camera companies...EXIF is a standard too, which Nikon and Canon (and others) often choose to ignore. The various camera company's track records are very poor relating to standards.
Say if Canon completely changed the raw format, encrypted it and only made raw processing available through their native processing software, and they would say "you can always develop to 16 bit tiff in our software and continue in lightroom whatever afterwards" would I then sell my Canon gear? I don't know really. It would surely hurt a lot, but it's a mess to change camera platform.
The opcodes for DNG do indeed support lens data correction...so all Panasonic would need to do is correctly embed the lens correction data.
source code to access the raw data is available forever...
look, if you imagine something about "C" you can as well imagine something about "A"... the reality is - C does not have DNG files and I am yet to witness somebody leaving C for XYZ because of that... specifically people who are living in Adobe's raw conversion realm and who do not experience any difference based on what is the input for their LR or ACR... Adobe's software is like a gun... it makes everything so equal, so far from raw
and we know that nazis (no relation to Adobe) granted some exceptions to some jewish people... so ?


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Four Bands Community Fund Kick-starts Small Businesses
Four Bands Community Fund is a Native American community development financial institution based in South Dakota. Founded in 2000, it has grown to be the leading organization on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in the areas of small business training and lending, entrepreneurship education and financial literacy. It encourages the economic development and quality of life for all communities and residents on the reservation.
From Sept. 2010 to Sept. 2012 Four Bands implemented a Social and Economic Development Strategies project designed to prepare local entrepreneurs to start or diversify 20 businesses. The basis for this project was a report Four Bands commissioned in 2008 called "Business Opportunities in the Cheyenne River Reservation Market." This report examined the local business marketplace, consumer demand, possibilities for start-ups and expansion of existing businesses. This report informed the organization's development of strategies to increase business growth on the Cheyenne River Reservation.
Four Bands recruited interested entrepreneurs and paired them with business mentors. This mentor-entrepreneur relationship allowed entrepreneurs to research, develop and write business plans with the assistance of experienced local business leaders and the Four Bands business development manager. Participants in the program were assisted in achieving concrete, specific and meaningful goals towards starting or expanding their business. Such milestones included applying for and receiving financing; depositing savings into an Individual Development Account to acquire owner's equity; creating marketing budgets; and securing leases or purchasing sites for their businesses.
Many of the entrepreneurs did not have access to traditional means of business financing through banks and Four Bands provided participants with capital through the Four Bands Community Fund Revolving Loan Fund. This gave access to essential start-up or expansion capital to some businesses. Some went on to secure loans from local banks to expand. Four Bands also supplied 12 businesses with $2,000 in marketing materials and three businesses received $5,000 packages.
Through the work of Four Bands, 20 businesses were created or expanded during the project period. These businesses included:
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The Public Policy Institute of California has found that, by 2025, California will have one million fewer college graduates than it needs to fill the jobs that will require that level of education.
But there's little reason to be optimistic that this state can close that gap. After all, we can't even produce enough high school graduates.
Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee dissects new numbers on high school completion and finds that the percentage of California high school students who graduate is falling -- even as the same percentage is increasing nationwide.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and prepare to announce to the world tomorrow night where you will be going. Will it be Miami? Will it be Cleveland? What's that? You're going to TOPEKA?! All this waiting for that? LET'S GO!
TOP CHEF – 9:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Teasers for tonight's episode promise the return of them fightin' Voltaggio brothers tonight. This makes sense, given they're DC guys and the show is in DC this year (Michael "Jersey Shore" dude is also coming back for this one), but it's never a good omen for a show like this when I get jazzed about seeing the people from LAST season return. I should be more excited about the present cast, and I'm not. Also tonight, the chefs have to make baby food for Padma's newborn. Oh, so these chefs are your personal wet nurses now, lady? This is like when they had to cater Gail Simmons' engagement party. TOP CHEF IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL PEAPOD SERVICE, HOSTS. Anyway, I'm sure the newborn will spit out everything and somehow manage to throw the spoon despite Padma's best attempts to prevent it from happening. That's just what newborns do. They're sneaky little things. ANTICIPATION: DECONSTRUCTED GERBER!
THE CHOIR – 10:00PM (BBC America) A documentary show about a teacher trying to form a choir at one of England's toughest schools. Ooooh, I'm so scared. Tough British youth! They're hardcore. They drink tea out of DIXIE CUPS and don't care who knows it! Anyway, this reality show promises to be a lot like "Glee," if "Glee" had more gun violence. And really, shouldn't it? ANTICIPATION: JAZZ HANDS SAVE LIVES!
WORK OF ART – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) They booted John last week, which made no sense given that they had their pick of nutjob Eric or Christian Lady and kept both. Christian Lady is particularly irritating. Every sentence is, "As a Christian…" Listen, lady. I think it's great you're a Christian. But it needn't be a condition of every sentence out of your mouth. "As a Christian, I'm really enjoying this burger." "As a Christian, I think this floor could use a good mopping!" "As a Christian, I wish you had used your turn signal!" Enough. Boot her. ANTICIPATION: CRAZY!
PREGNANT AT 70 – 8:00PM (TLC) Please don't show the birth please don't show the birth please don't show the birth. ANTICIPATION: BIRTHY!
REAL WORLD: NEW ORLEANS – 10:00PM (MTV) Yes, because the Gulf wasn't quite oily enough these days, MTV had to go and send down its annual crew of self-absorbed imbeciles. This season's cast features a girl named Jemmye, and that's really all you need to know. ANTICIPATION: UNGRATEFUL YOUTHS!
Wednesday Watch List: Top Chef! Real Glee Clubs! Old People!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and prepare to announce to the world tomorrow night where you will be going. Will it be Miami? Will it be Cleveland? What's that? You're going to TOPEKA?! All this waiting for that? LET'S GO!


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Want to entice birds into your backyard so that your family can observe and nurture them?
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This quick project is a fun way to spend time together as a family and teach your kids to appreciate wildlife right in your own backyard.
As the weather changes, some bird species migrate away, others visit your area while migrating through and still others stay close to home to stick out the winter months. With this project, you can help feed local and traveling birds any time of year.
My kids love being able to look out the window, even days after we hung our bird feeders, and watch the birds eating. It gives them a sense of satisfaction and fosters stewardship to see that they can help the creatures find something to eat when the snow on the ground would otherwise make that difficult.
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To read the full detailed review with sound samples see: Fender Super Champ X2
In the world of guitar amps, war is raging. The transistor forces from the digital world are fighting the tubes army. Turning itself into a peace dove, Fender tries to put an end to this war by introducing a hybrid concept: the Super Champ X2. This new amp made in Mexico combines digital technology with tubes has finally seen the light of day. It's on neutral ground so I can start examining the beast. Hopefully this leads to a peaceful co-existence.
What a Cute Combo
I thought I would break my back carrying this new amp. But surprise, surprise, the newcomer is light (considering it's an amp!), so I was able to climb up the stairs carrying it single-handedly. Aesthetically, it is very Fender looking: black vinyl covering and silver grill cloth with Fender logo. The front panel in Blackface style is not what I'd call original, but it still looks very nice. Manufactured from 1964 to 1967, the Blackface is part of Fender's legend. Insiders will understand that I refer to the Princeton Reverb, Deluxe Reverb and Vibro champ. The dimensions are somewhat small (9.2″ x 17.5″ x 15″) and the weight reasonable (24 lbs). It will match a vintage environment perfectly. Under the hood, you'll find all you need to have a blast! You get a pair of 6V6 power tubes for a total output power of 12 watts, one 12AX7 tube in the preamp stage and several transformers matching the tubes. The speaker is a 10" Fender Special Design allowing the combo to stay compact.
Too Much for Beginners?
One of my worries with digital technology is that you have to turn and push a lot of different controls and you can't understand anything without the user's manual. But don't fear this Super Champ X2: it provides only a few, easy-to-understand controls. The amp provides two separate channels based either on tube or digital technology. Both channels share the EQ section with Treble and Bass controls, the FX selector, the Tap Tempo switch, and the FX Adjust control. Each channel has its own volume control. Plus, there's a channel selector and a 16-way Voice selector. The rear panel is even more simple: a mains power socket with On/Off switch and fuse. You also get a speaker out, a line out, a footswitch connector (unfortunately, a matching footswitch is not provided), and a USB port. When it comes to effects, we've been spoiled: Reverb (Large Room, Concert Hall, spring reverb, delayed reverb), Delay (130 or 300ms), Chorus (fast sweeping, deep sweeping, chorus+delay, chorus+reverb), Tremolo (slow, normal or fast speed), Vibratone (slow or fast speed).
Now let's take a closer look…
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The Super Champ X2 is a nice surprise. The amp models sound very good, the tube power amp adds natural warmth and compression to your tone, and you get a dedicated, easy-to-use software. Considering the wide range of amps provided, you'll easily find your own tone, regardless of your playing style (blues, rock, ska, metal, etc.). Unfortunately, the output power (15 watts) won't allow you to use the amp in all situations. It's perfect for playing at home or in a recording studio, but it's not powerful enough for rehearsals if you have to compete with a drummer. Fender won its bet with this small combo sold for $300 — and this small jewel is also available as an amp head for $250. Unfortunately, the matching footswitch is not included…
- Compact size
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- Effects
- Tube power stage
- A mid setting on the front panel would be nice!
- We wish there was a version with more output power
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Published: 05/13/2010 12:40:00
There are some misconceptions about common household waste recycling in Juneau, you sometimes hear that there's no true recycling, there's no market for the products, they don't take glass, and it all just goes to the landfill anyway, but we found out that's not the case.
VIDEO: There are some misconceptions about common household waste recycling in Juneau (Image: Rik Pruett)
Jim Penor, the Solid Waste Coordinator for the City and Borough of Juneau tells us … "The recycling program is a recycling program and the waste segregation of the waste streams is being one hundred percent recycled, as you can see on the boards right here, we're taking plastics number one, If you look at the bottom of your containers, your milk jugs, your pop liter bottles and that, you'll see a recycle arrow and then right in the middle of it will be a number, it'll be one, two ……… Currently we're recycling plastics number one and plastics number two".
They also accept Grocery bags, Tin Cans, Aluminum Cans, white office paper, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard and glass.
Mr. Penor went on to say, "We're taking in glass, we are separating it for the waste stream, and they are using it for a beneficial use and I urge people to keep their glass separate, throw it in the containers, because it is a beneficial use for the landfill for road material".
They're able to use the glass on a local level, but some people still say that there's no market for the rest of it.
Jim assured us that "The commodities that we're accepting is the plastics and the tin and the aluminum, the cardboard and the mixed paper, that's your higher end recycling material and there IS good markets for that, the markets are volatile, they do go up and down, but we've been very successful".
In 2009, they shipped right at 1,850 TONS of material to markets in Seattle at a profit, and the cost to residential users? Nothing. There's even a small incentive to recycle.
"It's absolutely free, actually if you can drive through the landfill, and get a little ticket, after twenty stops of coming to the recycling, you get a free dump, and that's pretty nice".
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Review Fujifilm's FinePix S9500 Zoom is a nine megapixel all-in-one 'bridge' camera with a long 10.7x optical zoom lens and SLR-like styling. With its design and features, Fujifilm is clearly targeting buyers of budget digital SLRs, quoting LCD-based composition, a tilting monitor, movie mode and no concerns over dust getting on the sensor as key advantages. It's also comfortably cheaper than most budget digital SLRs...
Of course, if you can't remove the lens you'll want some decent glass up-front, and the S9500 certainly delivers the goods in terms of focal range at least. Where most compacts and all-in-ones start at a modest wide angle equivalent to around 35mm, the S9500 boasts a considerably more useful 28mm. It then optically zooms right into a powerful telephoto equivalent to 300mm and even offers a ridiculously close Super Macro mode of just 1cm. Try doing all of that with the bundled 3x zoom you get with a digital SLR.
Combine this with the tilting screen, movie mode and respectably high sensitivity of 1600 ISO for an all-in-one, and you've got quite a compelling package. Of course, in their favour, digital SLRs should deliver lower noise levels, superior manual focusing and the ability to swap lenses should you want to. Can the S9500 really compete with a budget digital SLR, or will it end up appealing to a different market?
We've used Fujifilm Europe's product naming convention in this review. The S9500 is known as the S9000 in the US, but it's exactly the same camera as reviewed here.
Measuring 12.8 x 9.3 x 1.3cm, the S9500 is virtually the same size as the Canon EOS-350D/Digital Rebel XT equipped with its 18-55mm kit lens - although the S9500 has a much longer zoom range. Unlike most SLRs, which have their lens mounts roughly in the middle of the body, the S9500 has it's lens barrel shifted to one side. This leaves plenty of room for a decent sized grip and your fingers to hold onto it without them being pinched by the lens barrel. Overall, build quality is to a very high standard, although not quite up to the feel of Panasonic's FZ30.


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In Persian Jasmine means "Gift From God", enjoying it as I am at the moment it truly is.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
When The Jasmine Is High
The Jasmine is out out the moment it is glorious, I love it and have planted lots of evergreen and deciduous varieties in my garden. The flowers light up at dusk and look like thousands of little stars and the fragrance just wafts all over the garden, with the windows open it is permeating the house. I have been languid every afternoon as I lie on a chaise longue, watching Wimbledon, I get sudden bursts of it's beautiful fragrance and in the late evening, outside, draining the last of a fine bottle, with friends, the fragrance is still working it's magic on all our senses.
In Persian Jasmine means "Gift From God", enjoying it as I am at the moment it truly is.
In Persian Jasmine means "Gift From God", enjoying it as I am at the moment it truly is.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
A Vintage Day Out
I think I have mentioned in previous posts that MG is a petrol head, MG recently met a fellow petrol head and now he and his lovely (long suffering, quite enthusiastic but not a complete petrol head!) wife have become good friends.
N, petrol head number two restores and sells retro cars, mainly Messershcmitts (that's Micro cars to you and me, he has barns full of his collection of amazingly quirky cars which include Bubble cars some of which have been used in pop videos) and vintage motor cycles like the Brough Superior most famous for being the vehicle of choice to Lawrence of Arabia, N informed me he died by crashing his seventh one whilst the eighth was on order.
Messershcmitt (Micro Car) MG thinks they look like Mud skippers
I think he has a point!
N recently sold one of his lovingly restored and very valuable Brough Superior motor cycles and re invested in a 1923, three litre Bentley. He kindly invited MG and I out for a motor ride which included a picnic and
A Concours d'Elegance.
As I have been posting a lot recently on this era, I jumped at the chance, for a ride in a vehicle of this period and Crusoe was also invited.....
Here she is in colour, she is beautiful and much more comfortable and stately than modern cars, you really have a sense that you are sitting in a carriage and the quality of workmanship and detail is gorgeous, no plastic or cheap upholstery involved, not to mention the fact that she purrs along quite happily at around 60MPH, I believe they can reach speeds of 90MPH, quite a feat for a car that is nearly 90 years old. I thought it would be jerky and uncomfortable but no, a very smooth ride.
Crusoe's ears flapping in the wind, he enjoyed it too, smelling the countryside whizzing by, although we did hold onto him, just in case he felt the urge to jump out to chase something.
We had to strap the picnic hamper onto the running board as there is no boot.
Whilst at the show we admired other cars, this is a 1929 Hotchkiss.
Whilst the boys talked about technical things, I pondered on what previous passengers might have stored in these little boxes.
Mmm my favourite an E Type Jaguar.
That's what I call a dash board!
MG, explained this one is better, can't remember why, think because it's older! And it's series one.
And something to do with original bucket seats!
This one is pretty, another Jaguar, can't remember which one, I'm useless with cars, I just go "Oh look at that one, it's pretty" MG keeps trying to teach me about chassis and stuff but it just goes in one ear and out of the other, he despairs.
Front View
Interior View
N's lovely Bentley came second in the pre-war class, the Hotchkiss came third, the boys were amused that a 1970 Fiat 500 came first in this class, which war were they talking about?
Back at N's he put's his elegant Green Lady to bed (In her personal garage)
A lovely day, with a lovely picnic washed down with Champagne I now know why a headscarf is essential wear for open topped cars, even though I had my hair tied in a pony tail, it still took me ages to get the knots out!
I wore my new vintage ring, remind you of anything? Note I am lacking bangles, next time...with the marcel wave and headscarf.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Nancy Cunard
Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Henry Crowder, and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brancusi, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams.
Her father was Sir Bache Cunard, an heir to the Cunard Line shipping businesses, interested in polo and fox hunting, and a baronet. Her mother was born Maud Alice Burke (1872-1948), and was an American heiress; adopting the first name Emerald Lady Cunard became a leading London society hostess. Nancy had been brought up on the family estate at Nevill Holt, Leicestershire but when her parents separated in 1910 she moved to London with her mother. Her education was at various boarding schools, including time in France and Germany.
She had a short-lived marriage during World War I to Sydney Fairbairn, a cricketer, an army officer and wounded war veteran; it lasted less than two years before they separated. She was also at that time on the edge of the influential group The Coterie, associating in particular with Iris Tree.
She contributed to the Sitwell anthology Wheels, providing its title poem; it has been said that the venture was originally her project.
Cunard's lover Peter Broughton Adderley was killed in action in France less than a month before Armistice Day, within the year she announced her engagement to Fairbairn. Many who knew her claimed that she never fully recovered from Adderley's loss.
In 1920 Nancy Cunard moved to Paris, where she became involved with literary Modernism, Surrealists and Dada. Much of her published poetry dates from this period. During her early years in Paris, she was close to Michael Arlen.
A brief relationship with Aldous Huxley influenced several of his novels. She was the model for Myra Viveash in Antic Hay (1923) and for Lucy Tantamount in Point Counter Point (1928).
It has been suggested that she became dependent on alcohol at this time, and may have used other drugs.
In 1927 Cunard moved into a farmhouse in La Chapelle-Réanville, Normandy. It was there in 1928 that she set up the Hours Press. Previously the small press had been called Three Mountains Press and run as a hobby by William Bird, an American journalist in Paris, who had already produced work by Ezra Pound. Cunard wanted to support experimental poetry and provide a higher-paying market for young writers; her inherited wealth allowed her to take financial risks that other publishers could not. Hours Press became known for its beautiful book designs and high-quality production.
It brought out the first separately published work of Samuel Beckett, a poem called Whoroscope (1930). It also published Pound's initial XXX Cantos. By 1931, Wyn Henderson had taken over day-to-day operation of the press, and in the same year it published its last book, The Revaluation of Obscenity by sexologist Havelock Ellis.
In 1928 (after a two-year affair with Louis Aragon) she began a relationship with Henry Crowder, an African-American jazz musician who was working in Paris. She became an activist in matters concerning racial politics and civil rights in the USA, and visited Harlem. In 1931 she published the pamphlet Black Man and White Ladyship, an attack on racist attitudes as exemplified by Cunard's mother, whom she quoted as saying "Is it true that my daughter knows a Negro?" She also edited Negro: An Anthology, collecting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction primarily by African-American writers, including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. It also included writing by George Padmore and Cunard's own account of the Scottsboro Boys case. Press attention to this project in May 1932, two years before it was published, led to Cunard's receiving anonymous threats and hate mail, some of which she published in the book, expressing regret that "others are obscene, so this portion of American culture cannot be made public."
In the mid-1930s she took up the anti-fascist fight as well, writing about Mussolini's annexation of Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War. She predicted, accurately, that the "events in Spain were a prelude to another world war". Her stories about the suffering of Spanish refugees became the basis for a fundraising appeal in the Manchester Guardian. Cunard herself helped deliver supplies and organize the relief effort, but poor health — caused in part by exhaustion and the conditions in the camps — forced her to return to Paris, where she stood on the streets collecting funds for the refugees.
In 1937, she published a series of pamphlets of war poetry, including the work of W. H. Auden, Tristan Tzara and Pablo Neruda. Later the same year, together with Auden and Stephen Spender, she distributed a questionnaire about the war to writers in Europe; the results were published by the Left Review as Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War.
The questionnaire to 200 writers asked the following question: "Are you for, or against, the legal government and people of Republican Spain? Are you for, or against, Franco and Fascism? For it is impossible any longer to take no side." There were elicited 147 answers, of which 126 supported the Republic.
Five writers explicitly responded in favor of Franco: they were Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Blunden, Arthur Machen, Geoffrey Moss and Eleanor Smith.
Among sixteen responses that Cunard, in her eventually published compendium, grouped under the skeptical heading "Neutral?" were H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.The most famous response was not included: it came from George Orwell, and began: "Will you please stop sending me this bloody rubbish. This is the second or third time I have had it. I am not one of your fashionable pansies like Auden or Spender, I was six months in Spain, most of the time fighting, I have a bullet hole in me at present and I am not going to write blah about defending democracy or gallant little anybody..."
During World War II, Cunard worked, to the point of physical exhaustion, as a translator in London on behalf of the French Resistance.
After the war, she gave up her home at Réanville and travelled extensively. She suffered from mental illness and poor physical health, worsened by alcoholism, poverty, and self-destructive behavior. She was committed to a mental hospital after a fight with London police; but, after her release, her health declined even further, and she weighed only sixty pounds when she was found on the street in Paris and brought to the Hôpital Cochin, where she died two days later.
Her body was returned to England for cremation and the remains were sent back to the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris. Her ashes rest in urn number 9016.
There is a biography on Nancy Cunard go here for more info.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Return Of The Sun
The bad weather has gone for now, and the sunshine returned on Monday. Apologies for lack of posts, I have been looking at my sidebar and seen all your new posts come up, which I have barely managed to glance at, I am hoping to get back to full blogging capacity soon. Truth is I have had a mountain of work to catch up on plus, Sunday was out as we had a couple of good friends round for lunch, we had a great time, they left at midnight and the empty wine bottle count was ten! So not much was achieved on Monday.
Blue Skies, This Morning
The Shade of the Gazebo, This Afternoon, at least all the rain has made everything lovely and verdant.
Crusoe showing off his new possession, his old cushion was so grotty it had to be binned but not before he received a nice new one, I bought it especially for him from Peter Jones in London. He likes a cushion to rest his extremely long muzzle on and he brings it out to show guests...It's his way of offering hospitality! Thankfully he loves it as much as the old one.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Eight Films For A Rainy Weekend. Part II
Well, the weather here is abysmal, it has done nothing but rain for days, It's coming up to midsummers day and we have experienced scant good weather, what on earth is going on! The garden is waterlogged, our guests left early as they had had enough. There is little to do in the countryside when it's like this. I am fighting the urge to google estate agents in warmer climes or drink my way through the wine cellar. No, instead it's back to the DVD's so here is another in my series of eight films for a rainy weekend.
As I am in a 'Jazz Age' kind of mood at the moment I am choosing eight films set in the Art Deco Period.
The Cat's Meow
A Good Woman
The Great Gatsby
That concludes my eight films for a rainy weekend, I love films set in this era, so if you have any
more suggestions please let me know.
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and it is less damp where you are!
(Please excuse the dodgy spacing on this post, Google html, does not seem to be doing, what I want it to)
As I am in a 'Jazz Age' kind of mood at the moment I am choosing eight films set in the Art Deco Period.
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O 'Toole, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd, Simon McBurney, Michael Sheen
Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel 'Vile Bodies' Bright Young Things is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of fashionable London. As his friends look for newer more dangerous sensations they crash and burn one-by-one.
The Cat's Meow
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley
In November 1924, multimillionaire William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann) hosts a weekend of festivities aboard his 220-foot steamer in honor of filmmaker Thomas Ince's (Cary Elwes) birthday. It seems that everyone on board wants something from Hearst. Ince and his partner, George Thomas (Victor Slezak), need his financial assistance for their faltering business; gossip columnist Louella Parsons (Jennifer Tilly), an East Coast Hearst employee, wants to transfer to Tinseltown; and comedian womanizer Charlie Chaplin (Eddie Izzard) wants Hearst's lover Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst) for his own. Joined by other party goers, including English Victorian novelist Elinor Glyn (Joanna Lumley) and Ince's mistress, the actress Margaret Livingston (Claudia Harrison), the group ships off for a weekend of fun and debauchery. The festivities soon turn more serious as Chaplin pursues Davies, fueling Hearst's jealousy over their alleged relationship. Ince, meanwhile, attempts to ingratiate himself with Hearst by keeping an eye on Chaplin and Davies. Ultimately, jealousy leads to tragedy, with all of the party goers sworn to secrecy over what transpired. Director Peter Bogdanovich (MASK) successfully recreates the opulence of Hearst's lifestyle and the spirit of the Roaring Twenties right down to the bootleg moonshine and the Charleston.
A Good Woman
Starring: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers
Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson fight over the same rich young man in this sumptuously elegant and loose adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windemere's Fan. The setting for the action is moved from Victorian England's parlors to Italy's gorgeous Amalfi coast in the early 1930's. A vacationing American couple, the Windermeres (Johansson and Mark Umbers), meet scandal when caught up in a web of expatriate British slander after Mr. Windermere apparently starts having an affair with the notorious gold-digger, Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt). Meanwhile, the debauched Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore) takes it upon himself to comfort the tearful and lovely Mrs. Windermere, and Tuppy (Tom Wilkinson), an older member of the British circle, sees there's a sweet woman being hurt by all the malicious gossip and falls for Mrs. Erlynne himself. The gossip may be malicious, but no one writes it as well as Wilde, and here his famed quips--many flown in from other plays--flourish in wild abundance. Johansson is a knockout, and there are lots of elegant costumes and intricately decorated Italian villas, all captured in an enticingly dusky cinematographic style. Performances vary in stylistic approach, with Wilkinson carrying the day as the well-intentioned, self-effacing Tuppy, the vulnerable human center of this dizzying ring of barbed witticisms and elegant subterfuge.
Starring: Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jessica Biel, Kimberley Nixon
Set in the twilight of the roaring twenties and at the cusp of the next decade, Easy Vrtue is the story of John Whittaker, a young Englishman who, after falling head-over-heels in love with glitzy American Larita, finds himself getting married rather promptly. Returning to the family home, Larita's newfound mother-in-law develops an instant allergic reaction to the Whitakers' newest family member. While accommodating to Mrs Whittaker's prickly personality at first, Larita quickly discovers that in order to make her marriage work, she must play her mother-in-law at her own game, and a battle of wits ensue...
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Donald Pleasence, Ingrid Boulting
The seedy underbelly of the Hollywood film industry is brought to light in Elia Kazan's powerful adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last, unfinished novel. Robert DeNiro anchors the film with his commanding portrayal of 1930s movie mogul Monroe Stahr (modelled after MGM's studio head Irving Thalberg), a ruthless businessman who dominates studio politics but remains haunted by a lost love from his past. Scripted by playwright Harold Pinter, this rich evocation of 1930s Hollywood features strong supporting performances by Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Nicholson
The Great Gatsby
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson
The story of Jay Gatsby the dashing millionaire who takes a shine to the spoiled Daisy Buchanan. Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind.
Tony and Brenda Last (James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas) appear to be the perfect married couple - with money, position, a great country house and an adored son, John Andrew. When Tony inadvertently invites John Beaver (Rupert Graves), an idle and penniless young socialite, to stay for the weekend, he sets in motion a series of events which drastically disrupts the course of all their lives. Brenda drifts into an affair with the worthless Mr Beaver, with disastrous consequences, particularly for Tony, who remains unaware of Brenda's betrayal until the tragic death of their young son. As Brenda leaves home to take up a precarious life with her lover in London, Tony sets sail with an eccentric explorer on an expedition to the South American Rain Forest. Lost in the jungle and stricken by fever, Tony is rescued from death by the eccentric half-caste Mr Todd (Alec Guinness), with unexpected and sinister results.
That concludes my eight films for a rainy weekend, I love films set in this era, so if you have any
more suggestions please let me know.
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and it is less damp where you are!
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For individuals that seek the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology, the 2020 Standards and Implementation Procedures for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology provide guidance on:
Are there requirements to supervise student clinicians?
Yes. Supervisors should have established competency in any area of practice in which the supervisor or student may engage (e.g., supervisors without experience and competency working with pediatric populations should not supervise a student who is working with a child). The Issues in Ethics: Supervision of Student Clinicians includes further discussion of this issue.
To meet ASHA's Standards for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP), student clinicians must be supervised by an individual who 1) holds ASHA certification in the appropriate profession, 2) has completed a minimum of 9 months (or the part-time equivalent) after earning the CCC-SLP, and 3) has completed a minimum of 2 hours of professional development in the area of clinical instruction/supervision (see Standard V-E). University programs also may require the supervisor to hold the necessary state credential to practice in their setting, i.e. license and/or teacher certification.
Is there a requirement about the number of years one needs to be ASHA-certified before supervising a graduate student?
Under the 2020 Standards, supervisors must have a minimum of 9 months of full-time clinical experience after earning the CCC and have a minimum of 2 hours of professional development in the area of clinical instruction/supervision after earning the CCC before being eligible to supervise graduate clinicians. In all cases, the supervisor should have acquired sufficient knowledge and experience to mentor a student and provide appropriate clinical education. Obtaining knowledge and skills related to principles of student assessment and pedagogy of clinical education is encouraged.
Is there special "training" you need?
As with any area of practice, SLPs who are clinical educators should have established competency in supervision. There are a number of ways one can establish and maintain competency in this area. ASHA's position statement on clinical supervision outlines the competencies needed and training options. For any clinical educators or supervisors who will be supervising graduate students, 2 hours of professional development in the area of clinical instruction/supervision must have been completed after earning the CCC.
How do I find an academic program that will send me student clinicians to supervise?
A list of graduate programs in speech-language pathology is available on ASHA's Web site. You can speak with the department chair, graduate program director, or clinic director for further information.
How much of the practicum has to be directly supervised?
According to Standard V-E of both the 2014 and 2020 SLP Certification Standards, the amount of direct supervision must be commensurate with the student's knowledge, skills, and experience; must not be less than 25% of the student's total contact with each client/patient; and must take place periodically throughout the practicum. Supervision must be sufficient to ensure the welfare of the individual receiving services.
Also see the ASHA document, Quality Indicators for Professional Service Programs in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, which includes information about supervision.
In addition, facilities, payers, and other regulatory agencies may have requirements regarding supervising student clinicians that may impact the amount of supervision provided.
Can I supervise more than one student at a time?
Yes. Supervisors often find that they are called upon to supervise more than one student at a time. There is no language within the standards that specifies the number of students that can be supervised by one person.
Do I have to be on-site when the student is on-site? Is it okay to have other SLPs on-site?
As noted in the question above, the amount of direct supervision provided must be appropriate to the student's needs and ensure the welfare of the client. If the primary supervisor cannot be on site, another clinician may supervise the student, if needed. It is important to note that all persons who take on supervisory responsibilities must hold the appropriate CCC in the professional area in which the clinical hours are being obtained in order for the graduate student clinician to apply those supervised clinical hours towards their own CCC application.
To learn more about payer requirements for reimbursement of services provided by student clinicians and how this may influence the issue of on-site supervision in health care settings, see the first question in the Health care section below.
Am I liable for the treatment provided by the student under my supervision?
As a supervisor, you are responsible for any actions taken by the student while under your supervision. You should ensure that the amount of supervision provided is appropriate to the needs of the client/patient and for the graduate student's experience and skill.
Do I have to co-sign all notes, such as treatment plans and IEPs, written by the student? Can anyone else sign the student's notes?
The supervisor of record for the case would be expected to sign all treatment documentation, in accordance with the facility's policies.
How many minutes are in a clinical practicum hour?
The Council For Clinical Certification defines one (1) clinical practicum hour as equal to 60 minutes. When counting clinical practicum hours for purposes of ASHA certification, experiences/sessions that total less than 60 minutes (e.g., 45 minutes or 50 minutes) cannot be rounded up to count as 1 hour.
Can I bill for services provided by a graduate student clinician?
In the ASHA Issues in Ethics statement, Ethical Issues Related to Clinical Services Provided by Audiology and Speech-Language Students (2013), it states that "the ASHA Code of Ethics [2010] recognizes the professional acceptability of appropriately supervised clinical practice by students; hence, there is no basis for suggesting or requiring that fees charged for services delivered by students differ in any way from the fees typically charged for services provided by certified audiologists or speech-language pathologists." Therefore, billing for such services is allowable, provided those services meet or exceed professional standards of supervision.
Payers differ in their regulations regarding paying for services provided by student clinicians. Medicare coverage of student clinicians differs depending on setting and whether the person is a Part A or Part B beneficiary. To find out the requirements for private payers, it is best to contact them directly as each will differ and may or may not follow Medicare's regulations.
Do I need to supervise the student more for swallowing cases than other disorders?
Supervision requirements do not differ based on disorder or patient population. The amount of supervision provided should meet or exceed minimum requirements and should be based on the individual needs of the student and the welfare of the client/patient being treated. Many student clinicians will come to the facility with minimal experience in swallowing, simply because swallowing disorders are not commonly seen in the university clinic setting. These student clinicians may require additional supervision to develop competencies in this area.
Are criminal background checks required for student clinicians?
The need to conduct a criminal background check depends on state law and the facility's policy. Part of this decision is whether or not the state law specifies student clinicians as a category of personnel who are required to have a background check. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations expects background checks to be done in accordance with such laws.
Under HIPAA, can I share personal health information with a student or do I need to get authorization from the patient or family?
HIPAA regulations were designed so as not to impede the provision of normal health care operations. "Health care operations," as defined in regulation, includes "conducting training programs in which students, trainees, or practitioners in areas of health care learn under supervision to practice or improve their skills as health care providers." (retrieved from http://www.hhs.gov/hipaafaq/limited/209/ on June 18, 2007).
Student clinicians will need to learn about HIPAA regulations and should be introduced to the facility's HIPAA policies and procedures. Facilities may require that student clinicians receive HIPAA training as part of their orientation. Student clinicians are expected to abide by the privacy rule regulations just as any employee in the facility.
Do I need to have the patient or family sign a consent form to allow the student to work with them?
Most health care facilities that allow for student trainees include a statement in their consent forms that services may be provided by a student clinician under the supervision of a qualified professional. The inclusion and wording of such statements will be influenced by relevant state laws and facility policies.
The ASHA Code of Ethics stipulates that "individuals shall not misrepresent their credentials, competence, education, training, experience, or scholarly or research contributions (Principle of Ethics III, Rule A [2010])." Student clinicians and supervisors should identify themselves appropriately to patients and families at all times. See the Issues in Ethics statement, Ethical Issues Related to Clinical Services Provided by Audiology and Speech-Language Students (2013), for more information.
How do I convince my administration to allow me to supervise student clinicians? What are the cost benefits of supervising student clinicians?
ASHA developed Frequently Asked Questions on What Administrators Need to Know [PDF] that can be used to frame discussions with health care administrators about supervising student clinicians.
The main issues have to do with personnel shortages and staff development. If a student is exposed to speech-language pathology services in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, home care, or private practice, they may become part of the pool of appropriately-trained, qualified professionals from which facilities can recruit when they have open positions. In 2007, ASHA conducted a focus group with SLPs on the topic of externship supervision. Participants generally agreed that externships influenced a student's thinking about job choice and that graduate education programs can be used as a recruiting tool.
Supervising student clinicians also benefits the supervising SLP in a number of way, including:
In speech-language pathology, as in any field, it is as important to keep good employees as it is to find new ones. While there may be some impact on the SLP's productivity and the facility's bottom line for speech services when the SLP supervises a graduate student clinician, it is unlikely that the impact will cost as much as recruiting and hiring new staff. Estimates on the cost of personnel turnover run as high as 1/3 of a new hire's annual salary to replace an employee ( U.S. Department of Labor, retrieved June 18, 2007). Happy employees tend to stay with an employer. Giving SLPs the opportunity to grow professionally and personally by supervising a student clinician is one way of improving morale and ultimately retaining that SLP.
Can I bill Medicaid for services provided by a graduate student?
The need to conduct a criminal background check depends on state law and organization policy. Part of this decision is whether or not the state law specifies student clinicians as a category of personnel who are required to have a background check. Check with your administrator or contact the State Education agency.
Under The Family Rights and Education Privacy Act (FERPA), can I share student health and education records with a graduate student being supervised by me or do I need to get authorization from the family?
A graduate student being supervised by you may generally be considered a "school official" with a "legitimate educational interest" and, as such, may be provided access to students' education records under FERPA. FERPA requires that schools specify the criteria for determining which parties are school official and what the school considers to be a legitimate educational interest.
However, graduate students should be made aware of their responsibilities under FERPA not to disclose personally identifiable information from education records, unless authorized to do so, either with parental consent or under one of the conditions in FERPA permitting disclosure without consent.
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Pencil Sketches
This show brings together Emily Dickinson's original poem manuscripts and Robert Walser's microscripts for the first time in an art museum setting. Although Walser, who was born shortly before Dickinson died, was most likely unaware of her work, both writers were obsessively private as well as peculiarly attentive to the visuality of their texts. Walser wrote in tiny, inscrutable script on narrow strips of paper using an antiquated German alphabet that was long considered indecipherable. Only recently have these scripts been shown to consist of early drafts of the author's published texts. Similarly, Dickinson fitted her multifarious poetic fragments to carefully torn pieces of envelope or stationery, which were discovered among her posthumous papers. (W. B. Sebald once referred to Walser as a "clairvoyant of the small," and this description might apply to Dickinson as well.) In both cases, the form of these texts affects the language itself as both writers crafted their words in response to the form at hand. Rarely in literature has the manner in which words are made been so integral to the way in which they might be read. The Dickinson/ Walser exhibition, which proposes the notion that art may be used to make language, is a fitting corollary to Drawing Time, Reading Time, which appears concurrently in the Main Gallery.
Curated by Claire Gilman.
The New York Times review
"Together, the two exhibitions prompt mind-stretching reflection on the complicated relations between writing, communication and reality." - The New York Times
Dickinson/Walser: Pencil Sketches is made possible by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, and New York Coucil for the Humanities.
Read Drawing Papers 109: Dickinson/Walser: Pencil Sketches.
Buy the catalogue.
Image: Emily Dickinson, We Talked With Each Other About Each Other, c. 1879, Amherst Manuscript #514. Pencil on Envelope, 1 sheet, 5 1/10 x 7 9/10 inches (13 x 20 cm). Courtesy The Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
Emily Dickinson, We | talked with | each other, c. 1879
Robert Walser, Microscript 215, October - November 1928
Robert Walser, Microscript 107, September - November 1928
Robert Walser, Microscript 131, April 1926
Robert Walser, Microscript 419, 1927-28
Emily Dickinson, 'Twas later when | the summer went, c. 1873
Emily Dickinson, Glass was | the Street –- | It came his | turn to beg –-, c. 1880
Emily Dickinson, Not to Send Errands by John Alden, c. 1880


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