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MUTEK_10 Previews: A\VISIONS & A\V+
International Showcases for Cutting-Edge Experimentation
Dimitri Nasrallah - 04 de mayo de 2009
With less than one month to go until the launch of MUTEK_10 and advance sales reaching record levels, this year's anniversary edition is all set to be one of the most memorable five days in the life of the festival.
With so much of the public's attention geared toward the more festive offerings at the MUTEK table – such as the NOCTURNES and the MUTEK//PIKNICS – we would like to take this occasion to pay homage to the diverse bounty of cutting-edge experimentation available as part of this year's A/VISIONS showcases. The MUTEK experience, we feel, would be infinitely less rewarding without the continued cultivation of its avant-garde roots. Just as the electronic arts have grown to feel as equally at home in the art gallery as it is in the DJ booth, the festival has always committed itself to furthering the twin paths of digital creativity.
To this end, the 2009 A/VISIONS showcases push the envelope further than any previous year. Expanding to four showcases, this year's series moves to the grandeur of Montreal's prestigious Monument-National Theatre (capacity 800) and the spaciousness of acoustically superior SAT (capacity 1000).
New this year, an A/VISIONS pass , which costs $75 CDN . Otherwise, individual tickets are $25 CDN. All passes and tickets are available at the MUTEK_10 box office . All A\VISIONS showcasess start at 8pm.
A/VISIONS 1 – EXTENDED FOCUS Monument-National Theatre – $25 CDN // May 27, 8pm // presented by SAQ
The official starting line of MUTEK_10, Wednesday evening's A/VISIONS 1 gets going with the Canadian premiere of Wolfgang Voigt's GAS . Touching down in North America for only three dates, the Voigt ambient live experience promises to be as immersive and all-consuming as the classic series of albums upon which he staked his reputation in the 90s. As displayed in this footage below, filmed at the Club Transmediale festival in Berlin this past February, Gas live is 90 minutes of uncompromised infusion into nature's ability to dwarf human perception. Look closely at the bottom left-hand portion of the screen, and there you'll find Voigt hiding in the shadows of artificial trees.
Performing alongside Gas is Montreal multi-media artist HERMAN KOLGEN , who continues with the theme of human immersion, but pulls us instead out of the forest and into water. IN/JECT receives its world premiere at MUTEK_10, and it provides the perfect vehicle to showcase how Kolgen creates interactive soundtracks to filmic séances of sensory alienation.
Monument-National Theatre – $25 CDN // May 28, 8pm // presented by SAQ
Thursday evening's A/VISIONS 2 offers an altogether different experience, with creativity boiling over on stage as some of the world's most inventive live instrumentalists push the conventions of rock in new and exciting directions. The soirée begins with Cambridge post-rock duo THE FUN YEARS , and then moves to a rare North American exclusive engagement by musical chameleon BURNT FRIEDMAN and veteran CAN drummer JAKI LIEBEZEIT , whose stage sparring conjuring up the best elements of their long and storied careers. Below is a short conversation with the duo discussing the nature of their collaboration and what inspires them after all these years.
Equally storied are the parallel careers of two of Quebec's most internationally renowned musical adventurers, MARTIN TÉTREAULT and MICHEL LANGEVIN . Tétreault arrives at the festival with a long history of musique concrete collaboration, while Langevin, who serves as drummer for speed-metal quartet Voivod, has been deeply involved in the popular and avant-garde output of Quebec since the 80s. This preview below, filmed during a soundcheck to one of their Montreal performances at La Sala Rosa, gives a good sense of how this unlikely pairing functions on stage to create thoroughly unique effects.
Monument-National Theatre – $25 CDN // May 29, 8pm // presented by SAQ
Friday evening gets underway with a triple-bill featuring some of the globe's most notable manipulators of electricity, practitioners who make it their process to cull from currents and rhythms the very template that can make techno burst with energy. But in their hands, the results of techno are abstract, futuristic, and artful.
Sheffield's masters of glitch SND inaugurate the Monument-National stage with selections from their fourth full-length, the critically acclaimed Atavism, which was released to rave reviews earlier this spring on the Raster-Noton label – incidentally the focus of A/VISIONS 4 the next night. As viewed in this video below, the SND live experience is an austere affair, always threatening to boil over with digital funk but never quite letting go of its gallery space foundations.
Meanwhile, NSI 's Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer revisit the improvisational roots of early live techno, but always make sure to inject their own singular identities into the rolling, spontaneous electronic journey. The duo will be accompanied by the visuals of Montreal's Jimmy Lakatos.
The evening culminates with Montreal's own ARTIFICIEL and the world premiere of their new audio-visual installation POWEr , a hybrid project that marries the contemporary art of digital electrification with the rhythmic impulses at the core of techno's heart.
SAT – $25 CDN // May 30, 8pm // presented by Hydro-Québec
For Saturday evening, the Hydro-Quebec joins MUTEK to host an electrifying showcase at the Society for Arts and Technology. A\V+ marks the return of the mighty Raster-Noton family to Montreal.
Japan's Ryoji Ikeda and Germany's Carsten Nicolai reunite for the highly anticipated North American premiere of CYCLO. Both of these established artists are masters of computer music, able to deftly combine architectural notation, microscopic frequencies, and pummeling bass repercussions into one insurmountable auditory assault. To get in the mood, the footage below features one of the better videos available online of just what Ikeda is capable of mustering on record.
Following up Ikeda and Nicolai is none other than the man with a million faces, Uwe Schmidt , appearing here in his most natural guise of ATOM TM . Schmidt and the rest of the Raster-Noton family have long been friends of MUTEK, and we would be remiss to celebrate a tenth with them. Schmidt has always had a distinct talent for navigating between uncompromised artistic statement and dance floor aesthetics, and these clips from a performance at Tokyo's Spiral Hall perfectly demonstrate his allegiance to alienated funkiness, dry humor, and pushing boundaries.
The evening continues with the return of Carsten Nicolai to the MUTEK stage, this time in his most popular guise of ALVA NOTO . Looking back at his last two years of releases, which include Unitxt and the first two volumes of the Xerrox series, it's easy to conclude that Nicolai is on a major roll right now, and his MUTEK performance promises to be a sharing of even more new material. Listening to this video interview with Salon Magazine reveals details of his working process, a captivating glimpse into the mind of one of computer music's most forward-thinking figures.
A/V+ reaches its apex with the anticipated return of Olaf Bender's BYETONE to Montreal stages. An alumni of MUTEK's first and fifth editions, as well as our numerous excursions into Latin America, Bender perhaps best embodies MUTEK's twin ambitions to find music that naturally appeals to adventurous ears while at the same time providing the instinctual kick that is at the core of rhythm. Byetone performed at Paradiso in Amsterdam recently, and footage from the concert shows him in top form, pushing the Raster-Noton template into industrial rock territory
As a celebration of our ten years and of the past decade in Byetone's creative endeavours, we're extremely pleased to feature his MUTEK 2000 performance at MUTEKLIVE020 , our ongoing podcast series of live recordings from the first ten years of the festival.
For the full program:>> go to the MUTEK_10 festival website <<


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On Admiration: Heroes, Heroines, Role Models, and Mentors by W.D. Wetherell (Skyhorse Publishing: 187 pp., $12.95 paper) Admiration takes time to form and settle in a person's consciousness. Unlike adulation, it affects the admirer's development, inspires growth (and often action) and is a portal to the higher self. Recent studies raise the possibility that in these times, "the rapidity and parallel processing of attention-requiring information, which hallmark the digital age, might reduce the frequency of full experience of such emotions [as admiration], with potentially negative consequences." W.D. Wetherell hopes to "restore admiration to its rightful place as one of the most honorable and enjoyable of all human emotions." With high humor and heartfelt reverence, he walks us through the heroes and heroines of his childhood, teenage years, college and on: Thoreau, Pete Seeger, Sir Edmund Hillary, Mickey Mantle, Beverly Sills, Winslow Homer, all the way up to Barack Obama. Wetherell and his son went together to hear Obama give a campaign speech in New Hampshire. The writer describes his experience: "It's earthy and tactile more than intellectual and abstract. There's an unlocking or unclenching sensation that comes very fast, and which can only be from cynicism dissolving, or at least starting to melt.... Hope is there, too, and not just in the abstract, but the kind you feel in your gut when you're expecting good news and it's a second before it's delivered. And trust — a calming, soothing sensation…." Wetherellis a born contemplator and an accomplished essayist.
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside (Pantheon Books: 215 pp., $24.95) Like the 1997 novel that made Bernard Schlink famous, "The Reader," "The Weekend" is a study of memory, written with the backward glance that fuses politics and personal history. A cast of characters meet on a country estate in Germany to welcome home their old friend, Jorg, after 23 years in prison. Schlink releases the details of his tale with an almost chilling amount of control — a slow drip of supporting facts. Jorg was a terrorist, a bank robber who killed four people. His estranged son accuses him over the course of the weekend of being the next generation of thugs after the SS. "The Weekend" is written like a play; spare as Beckett, with the occasional scene setting and a historical context that is truly literary, mutable. Who are these intellectuals and activists and what is their cause? Jorg struggles to remember important details from his terrorist past: "I feel as if things have broken out of my memory, not old, unimportant things that have to sink to the bottom so that new things have room, but parts of me. How can I trust myself?" "The Weekend" doesn't have the warmth, the grip of "The Reader." There's hardly a character to grab onto. The ground shifts with each character's perspective on the past.
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American teen lit novelist Maureen Johnson caused a PR nightmare for Hallmark when she was traveling in the U.K. and spotted a shockingly inappropriate birthday card in a shop.
Johnson, who won Mashable's "Most Interesting Twitter User to Follow" in 2009, snapped a photo of the card and sent it out in the Twitter universe with the message, "Look at this shockingly awful card I found today for a 13 year old!"
The red card, distributed only in the U.K., features a childish drawing of an ebullient teen opening a gift box containing a diamond. The teen wears a yellow tank dress that shows off her small breasts.
Gold text reads: "You're 13 today! If you had a rich boyfriend he'd give you diamonds and rubies. Well, maybe next year you will—when you've bigger boobies!"
Inappropriate and obnoxious? Definitely—and users on Twitter agreed.
Take a look at a small sampling from the flurry of outraged tweets that flooded Twitter when Johnson first posted the pic on December 7.
Hallmark quickly responded directly to Maureen Johnson on Twitter.
This card was produced by Creative Publishing prior to Hallmark Cards acquiring the company in 1998. We are as surprised and horrified as anyone else to have discovered that there are still copies in circulation. The card has not been produced for over 15 years and would never pass our own strict guidelines of taste and appropriateness. We would like to assure all our customers that we will do everything in our power to track down remaining copies.
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Bethenny Frankel created a firestorm. When the reality-TV celeb and her business partner launched the Skinnygirl Margarita in 2009, she turned the male-dominated spirits industry on its head.
By zeroing in on what women want, Frankel helped to ignite the skinny cocktail trend — hold the calories, keep the flavor and zing.
"It's the hottest category going," says Andy Hubbard, who buys spirits for Sigel's Fine Wines. "It didn't take long for everybody to get on board." Jose Cuervo does a light margarita now, and Firefly introduced Skinny Tea reduced-calorie, sweet-tea vodka.
Restaurants and bars are lightening cocktails, too, from Neiman Marcus' Zodiac to Dee Lincoln's Tasting Room & Bubble Bar.
"You'd be amazed at how many people are looking for calorie-conscious cocktails," says Corinne Stevens, bar manager at the Bubble Bar's Rosewood Court location. "We have a very pretty crowd, and they like to have a pretty drink in their hands."
Pretty and skinny, that is. Read on for more on the skinny cocktail craze and a bunch you can make at home.
Big in skinny
Bethenny Frankel who, along with David Kanbar, created Skinnygirl Margarita in 2009, has become the face of the skinny-cocktail movement. She wrote two best-selling books and starred on Real Housewives of New York City and her own show, Bethenny Ever After, both on Bravo. When Frankel was in Dallas at Sigel's Fine Wines in May to promote her Skinnygirl cocktails, the line wrapped around the side of the building. Frankel and Kanbar sold Skinnygirl to Fortune Brands' Beam Global Spirits & Wine in March for an amount rumored to be between $100 million and $150 million. Now Frankel's the Skinnygirl spokeswoman. Check out her brand at www.bethenny.com.
How skinny is it?
Alcohol and sugar are the calorie culprits in most cocktails. There are 97 calories in 1.5 ounces (3 tablespoons) of 80-proof vodka, gin, rum or whiskey, and 16 calories in a teaspoon of sugar. In contrast, a 5-ounce serving of table wine packs 123 calories. Most skinny cocktails aim for about 100 calories per serving, like Skinnygirl Margarita, but the calories can go much higher. Morton's the Steakhouse Spa-tinis make under-200 calories their benchmark. The DonQ Skinny Colada had 152 calories before we substituted light coconut milk. That cute little bottle of Chi-Chi's Skinny Margarita actually contains 161 calories, not 95, as the label suggests. It's 95 calories per 4-ounce serving. Trouble is, the bottles hold 200 milliliters, or 6.8 ounces. Caveat emptor.
Why they're skinny
Here's the bag of tricks mixologists and manufacturers use to slim down cocktails:
They use less or no sugar.
They use less alcohol. Skinnygirl is 12.7 percent alcohol, comparable to some wines.
They use artificial sweeteners, the taste of which can be masked by the spirits.
They use agave nectar or stevia, natural sweeteners that are sweeter than sugar. Skinnygirl Margarita contains agave nectar. "I use honey from the garden or agave nectar because they're more round on the palate," says Michael Nicol, bar manager at the Pyramid Restaurant and Bar. He also infuses a reduced-calorie simple syrup with garden herbs, such as mint, thyme or lavender, to add flavor.
They forgo the sugar or sweetener entirely and rely on ripe fruit for sweetness.
They use reduced-calorie spirits, such as Voli Light Vodka (60 proof).
What's out there
The pre-mixed skinny cocktail, skinny spirits and skinny mixer stampede has begun, and these are a few of the early entries. Smartini is a line of mixers, in flavors ranging from Lemon Drop to Caliente Texas-tini, that uses natural and artificial sweeteners. Chi-Chi's Skinny Margarita comes in cute little single-serve bottles. Firefly Skinny Tea sweet-tea vodka uses the sweetener Truvia and cuts the alcohol to 30 percent (60 proof). Jose Cuervo offers a pre-mixed Light Margarita (100 calories per 4.5-ounce serving). Skinnygirl has just launched a white sangria.
1 ounce lemon juice
1 ounce light simple syrup
2 ounces Deep Eddy's Sweet Tea Vodka
Mix lemon juice, simple syrup and vodka in a shaker and pour into a glass full of ice. Top off with water.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 88, No fat, Sodium 3 mg, Carbohydrates 11 g
SOURCE: Dee Lincoln's Tasting Room & Bubble Bar
6 Roma tomatoes, cut in half
1 bay leaf
3 fresh basil leaves
4 sticks Thai basil (divided use)
Slivers of chile pepper
Pinch of sea salt
½ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon aged balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons vodka
Lemon wedge
Place tomatoes in a blender or food processor and rough chop. Remove and strain through cheesecloth or chinois to extract the juice. Discard solids. Cut up bay leaf and add to tomato juice. Add basil, 3 Thai basil sticks, chile, sea salt, lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. Refrigerate, covered, for at least 4 hours so flavors meld.
To serve, strain mixture into a tall glass full of ice. Add vodka and stir. Garnish with lemon wedge and remaining Thai basil stick.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 172 (4% fat), Fat 1 g, Sodium 165 mg, Fiber 5 g, Carbohydrates 18 g, Protein 4 g
SOURCE: Michael Nicol, Pyramid Restaurant and Bar
3 cups ripe watermelon
¼ cup Absolut Citron Vodka
2 tablespoons Midori Melon Liqueur
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 cup ice cubes
Watermelon rind
4 (2-inch-long) thin strips of lime ring (lime twist)
Dice 1 cup watermelon; set aside. Purée remaining watermelon in blender. Add vodka, liqueur, lime juice and ice and blend well. Divide among martini glasses. Divide diced watermelon and add to drinks. Garnish with watermelon rind and lime twists.
Makes 4 servings
PER SERVING: Calories 91 (2% fat), Negligible fat, Sodium 2 mg, Carbohydrates 12 g, Protein 1 g
SOURCE: www.skinnytaste.com
1 thin wedge of cantaloupe
1 thin wedge honeydew
5 raspberries (divided use)
3 blueberries
2 Mexican mint marigold leaves
¼ cup Dolan dry vermouth
2 short (1-inch) rosemary springs
1 (2-inch-long) thin strip of lemon rind (lemon twist)
Dice cantaloupe and honeydew into small cubes. Place diced melon, 3 raspberries, the blueberries and the Mexican mint-marigold leaves in a shaker and muddle. Add vermouth and ice, and shake. Fine-strain over ice or straight up. Stuff rosemary sprigs into remaining raspberries and pierce with bar pick for garnish. Twist the lemon rind to release oils on top of the cocktail and wrap around pick.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 188 (1% fat), Negligible fat, Sodium 9 mg, Fiber 1 g, Carbohydrates 6 g
SOURCE: Michael Nicol, Pyramid Restaurant and Bar
3 tablespoons Grey Goose Citron Vodka
4 crushed raspberries
¾ cup Smartini Lemon Drop mixer
Shake all ingredients in a shaker. Strain into a martini glass.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 112, No fat, Carbohydrates 2 g
SOURCE: Dee Lincoln's Tasting Room & Bubble Bar
2 (1/4-inch) rounds of cucumber, skin-on (see Note)
3 raspberries or blackberries
1 teaspoon light agave nectar
¼ cup reposada tequila
Club soda
In a tall glass, muddle the cucumber, berries and agave nectar. Add tequila, then ice. Top off with club soda.
Makes 1 serving.
Note: English hothouse cucumbers have thinner skins.
PER SERVING: Calories 153, No fat, Sodium 13 mg, Carbohydrates 6 g
SOURCE: Corinne Stevens, Dee Lincoln's Tasting Room & Bubble Bar
3 tablespoons SIbieski Citron Vodka
2 tablespoons honey syrup (recipe follows)
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon pomegranate juice
1 (2-inch-long) thin strip of orange rind (orange twist)
Shake all ingredients except orange twist in a shaker. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with orange twist.
Makes 1 serving.
Honey syrup: Mix honey and warm water in a 1-to-1 ratio, such as 2 tablespoons honey to 2 tablespoons water.
PER SERVING: Calories 181, No fat, Sodium 4 mg, Carbohydrates 21 g
SOURCE: Jonathan Pogash, Sibieski Vodka, About.com
¼ peeled fresh, ripe peach
5 Berries
½ teaspoon agave nectar
¼ cup Ty Ku Sake
Muddle peach and berries with agave nectar at the bottom of a glass. Add ice. Top off with sake.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 141 (2% fat), Negligible fat, Sodium 2 mg, Fiber 2 g, Carbohydrates 14 g, Protein 1 g
SOURCE: Adapted from www.trytyku.com
½ lime
1 cup ice
1 ½ tablespoons lime juice
½ teaspoon gently warmed honey
¼ cup clear rum
½ cup club soda
Mint and lime for garnish
Cut lime half into 6 pieces. Muddle in a shaker. Add ice and lime juice.
Combine honey, rum and club soda. Add to muddled mixture. Stir until well chilled. Strain into rocks glass and garnish with mint and lime.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 155, Sodium 26 mg, Fiber 1 g, Carbohydrates 8 g
SOURCE: www.bethenny.com
2 (1X1-inch) pineapple cubes
2 tablespoons mint-infused light simple syrup (recipe follows)
3 tablespoons Veev Acai liquor
Pineapple juice
Sparkling wine
In a shaker, muddle pineapple cubes with light simple syrup. Add Veev Acai and a splash of pineapple juice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass or into 2 champagne flutes. Top off with favorite sparkling wine.
Makes 1 to 2 servings.
PER SERVING: Calories 148 (1% fat), Negligible fat, Sodium 5 mg, Carbohydrates 21 g
SOURCE: Ray Elizardo, Pyramid Restaurant and Bar
1/3 cup distilled water
2/3 cup water
½ teaspoon agave nectar or to taster
Mix stevia and water in a small saucepan and bring just to a rolling boil. Quickly remove from heat and cool to warm. Add agave nectar and refrigerate.
Makes 2/3 cup.
Mint-Infused Light Simple Syrup: Follow directions above. When syrup cools to warm, slap a mint stalk against the palm of your hand to release the oils, then pick the leaves off the stem and add to the stevia-water mixture. Add the agave nectar. Let cool 1 hour and refrigerate. Once it's completely chilled, remove mint leaves and strain into a container. Tightly close and seal. The syrup should be very light green. The longer the leaves are left, the browner the tint will become. You can use this infusion method for other herbs, such as rosemary, oregano and basil.
PER 1-OUNCE SERVING: Calories 13, Sodium 1 mg, Carbohydrates 3 g
SOURCE: Michael Nicol, Pyramid Restaurant and Bar
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Corzo Silver Tequila
2 sprigs fresh cilantro
2 slices fresh jalapeño
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
¼ cup distilled water
2 packets Splenda or similar low-cal sweetener
Lime wheel (thin horizontal slice)
Shake all ingredients except lime wheel in a shaker. Serve on the rocks in an 8-ounce glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 58(1% fat), Negligible fat, Sodium 3 mg, Carbohydrates 5 g
SOURCE: www.shape.com
1 quarter-size piece fresh ginger
¼ cup Ty Ku Sake
2 tablespoons diet ginger ale
Edible flower (optional)
Muddle ginger in a shaker with sake. Add ginger ale and ice, and shake. Strain on the rocks. Garnish with edible flower, if you like.
PER SERVING: Calories 100, Sodium 9 mg, Carbohydrates 4 g
SOURCE: Adapted from www.trytyku.com
¼ cup DonQ Coco Rum
2 tablespoons unsweetened pineapple juice
1 tablespoon coconut milk
Pineapple slice
Mix all ingredients in a blender. Serve in a stemmed tall glass. Garnish with pineapple slice.
Makes 1 serving.
PER SERVING: Calories 186 (20% fat), Fat 1 g (1 g sat), Sodium 2 mg, Fiber 1 g, Carbohydrates 12 g, Protein 1 g
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This is a big question. The Society of Australian Genealogists attempted to help find an answer for 25 or so budding genealogists earlier this month in a day-long seminar showing demonstrations of 6 different family tree programs – Family Tree Maker, Legacy, Personal Ancestral File, Reunion, something else, and The Master Genealogist.
The answer is different for everybody. I find that TMG is best for me, after doing some thorough research (as a good genealogist does!) on the features of each program a few years ago. So far I haven't seen anything to change my mind about this, although I've seen programs that do some things better and have nice little features that I like, none of them have enough of these to make me want to change programs.
The question, then, is – which family tree software program is best for you? You have to work out what is important to you. Any program you use should have the basics, and I would be very surprised to find any on the market, or free on the internet, that don't. The first one I ever used that my uncle, an amateur programmer, wrote, and although he was a good programmer he was not much of a genealogist. For example, the program didn't have a place to put death dates. This is what I mean by basics – any program you find will have places to put basic information – birth, christening, marriage, death and burial dates and places, links to spouses and children, the sources for all of this, and some way to get the information out again – reports and charts.
After the basics everything else really are just extras that you may or may not decide you need. So you need to see how easy it is to use, and understand. There are different layouts, some that look like a family group sheet on the screen with parents at the top and children in a list underneath, and others that look like Windows Explorer with folders that open other folders.
Before you go out and buy a program, try one of the many free ones. Cora Web has an excellent page on family history programs here http://www.coraweb.com.au/software.htm that I won't try to copy. Or have a look at the Genealogical Software Report Card at www.mumford.ca/reportcard/ for a comprehensive comparison of all of the popular programs.


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Freedom of speech should come with sense of exercising responsibility. If people cannot tolerate that their parents, children or relatives are insulted in public then how can they demand Muslims to tolerate any thing insulting towards a personality who is many times more respectable than parents. But protestors should also know that violent protests are not a way to protest and what happened in Libya is also against Islam. It seems some pro-war lobby ignited the fire to fuel more hatred and clashes between civilizations. We should not fall into their traps and the best way I find is to simply ignore these retards or if some people want to protest then they should keep it peaceful.
The attack on Libyan embassy and brutal murder of an unarmed ambassador is totally against Islam. Shame on those who did this. If the protest was against the insult of Islam then this action has brought more insult than the video. We should show discomfort at the promotion of hatred among different religions and cultures but without committing more hate actions during the protests. The best way to condemn the work of those film makers is not to fall into their trap of creating more clashes among religions. Reacting violently to the actions of some moron is like playing in their hands. No matter how much these evil minds try to insult Prophet (S.A.W), they will not be able to reduce his stature as the most respectable human being of all times.
We condemn the movie against Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W). We also condemn the murder of unarmed diplomats in Libya.


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We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo;
How about you, you, you?
You can come too, too, too.
We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
~Tom Paxton, Going To The ZooI have taken the summer off for the most part, but our school has a summer program that I am occasionally helping out with. My first summer "adventure" was a trip last week to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, SC. We took the school-aged kids (kindergarten-5th) from our 3 schools on our annual trek up the highway.
We had to get a few pics of the kids before they set out to see the sights.
We saw lots of pretty birds!
The Silverbacks are amazing!
We got there in time to see the feeding. We were inside a building (pictures through the glass) and the Silverbacks were outside. The zookeepers threw the food down from the roof into the brush for the gorillas to get. They are pretty good and will reach up to catch a head of romaine lettuce with one hand!
This little guy's name is Lewis. He is absolutely adorable!
We were chillin' with the elephants!
Isn't this guy too cute?
These little meercats seem so intelligent!
Hey, we found Timon! Hakuna Matata!
Riverbanks has an aviary with tropical birds that you can walk through and see them close up.
You can purchase nectar to feed the birds. Mr. S didn't realize they would just start landing on you if you had the nectar in your hands!
Soon, it was like a mini feeding frenzy!
One of the dads bought our group Icees to cool us down. Thanks, Mr.S!
We had a great time and many of the friends enjoyed a much needed nap on the long drive back to school.
I'll leave you with one of our family's favorite zoo songs. It's not preschool appropriate, but it's a classic and we love it! (This is a pretty cool montage to the song!)
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Winter Break in Antarctica
Jan. 9, 2012 -- Some college students fly South over the winter break. University at Albany graduate student Lynsey Cross kept going -- all the way to Antarctica and the South Pole.Cross, a second-year student in UAlbany's Master of Public Health Program, is in Antarctica for five weeks on an 11,000-mile journey with the 109th Stratton Air National Guard Base of Scotia, N.Y., and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
UAlbany School of Public Health student Lynsey Cross is in Antarctica over winter break as part of her duties with the 109th Stratton Air National Guard Base of Scotia, N.Y.
"We are the only base in the U.S. with C-130s that have skis, making it feasible to land on ice and snow," said Staff Sergeant Cross, of Hudson Falls, N.Y. "We have a very unique mission - to fly and support the NSF in Antarctica, and fly to Greenland for training purposes."
The specialized planes take scientists and support teams to camps across the continent and fly sustainment materials to the South Pole.
While her time in Antarctica is not specifically related to her field of public health, Cross said her time at UAlbany's School of Public Health has made her more aware of the impact humans have on the environment.
"For example, not much is just thrown out here," she wrote in an e-mail from Antarctica. "We obviously have to take out everything that we bring in and/or use."
During her visit, Cross is learning a great deal about how scientists measure the impact of global warming. With much speculation about the effects of thinning ice, scientists are searching for evidence to support this.
Various camps are also studying an array of environmental topics, including the species found in Antarctica. There are no trees, bugs, rodents, and very few "animals" living on the continent with the exception of the Skua-bird, penguins, and seals.
Scientists are intrigued by the "lake" that exists between the ice layers. There are organisms living under the ice in the ocean and between the ice layers. There is controversy surrounding what country has the authority to drill into this lake, and the potential effects of doing so. However, drilling will allow scientists to find and study the life forms that are living in the lake.
Cross has also taken advantage of her spare time on the five-week trip. She has snowboarded, had her photo taken with Adelie penguins, and toured Scott's Hut, a 100-year-old hut with everything inside -- including food and a dead seal -- well preserved over the years by the freezing temperatures.
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Flat Pack Shipping Containers - Who Wins?
Will flat pack sea freight shipping containers replace their rigid competitors and if so how will this change the container shipping market?
According to an article in Freight Business Journal, a Dutch company Holland Container Innovations HCI has patented a flat pack container called 4Fold. It will be the first container of its type to gain ISO certification, so they could be used on container ships and road transport.
The financial benefits for shipping lines could be substantial, but what are the knock on effects for shippers in markets that have traditionally benefitted from cheap shipping rates, due to the imballance in trade? Shipping Lines have been virtually giving the container space away to get the containers back to markets like China, where the export market is so much stronger than the import market.
We see two possible ways the markets could move.
The shipping lines will cut the price difference between import and export cargo, maybe dropping the export charges whilst raising the import charges slightly.
The other option is keeping export rates high and increasing the import rates to make up for some of the loses incurred over the last few years.
Only the shipping lines know how this will pan out.
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June 27, 2013
Everywhere you turn in the Obama administration, it seems, another high-level official has another excuse for why things have gotten completely out of control. "I know nothing!" seems to be the mantra of the executive branch these days, as if all these NSA surveillance programs, IRS targeting scandals, DHS ammo purchases and secret kill lists of American citizens somehow sprang into existence without anyone in the White House knowing about them.
"They went rogue" seems to be another excuse from the top. As if all the underlings running the IRS, NSA, TSA or other departments don't take orders from their bosses. Apparently they just show up to work and dream up whatever jobs they want, all while collecting a fat government paycheck they clearly don't deserve.
But my favorite excuse — and this one really takes the ticket — is the quote from the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. When explaining why he lied to Congress when he claimed that the phone calls of Americans were not being surveiled, he said he answered "in the least untruthful manner" possible.
In other words, he lied. But he made a real effort make sure that his lie was a "minimum" lie, and we should be grateful for that, right?
So I began to wonder: If the United States of America is a nation where all men are equal under the law, then why can't common criminals use all the same excuses as the Obama administration? Why can't a rapist show up in court and explain that he tried to rape his victim "in the least offensive manner possible?" Because that makes it all okay, you see, according to Obamalogic.
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HONOLULU — At its monthly meeting held today at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the Board of Regents (BOR) approved the establishment of a new Bachelor of Education (BEd) degree in elementary education at the University of Hawaiʻi — West Oʻahu.
The new BEd program, effective in Fall 2007, is designed to address the ongoing state need for new teachers by providing an additional pathway by which to meet the academic and professional standards for becoming a licensed elementary school teacher in Hawaiʻi.
Traditionally, teacher education programs were designed for full time undergraduate students who are able to attend classes during the day. However, this new program will serve both students who enroll on campus as freshmen as well as transfer students or other non-traditional students that wish to become full licensed teachers.
In other action, the BOR approved giving authority to the UH Mānoa chancellor to increase rental rates for student housing to a ceiling of 5 percent annually starting in academic year of Fall 2007 through Spring 2012.
"Enhancing the quality of our student life is a high priority and we need more resources to finance long-overdue repairs and maintenance projects in the dormitories," says Chancellor Denise Eby Konan. "We will hold public hearings before any housing fee increases are implemented so that we have the benefit of students' views on this important issue."
The Board also approved the appointment of Kathleen Cutshaw to be UH Mānoa Vice Chancellor for Administration, Finance and Operations. The appointment is effective immediately through January 11, 2010.
Cutshaw, who has held the position on an interim basis since January 2005, has more than 30 years of leadership and management expertise in higher education administration. She previously served as the Director of Administrative services for the UH Mānoa School of Ocean Sciences and Technology for seven years.


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Last week, the Urban Institute released a study sponsored by the Justice Department that focused on the underground commercial sex trade in eight major U.S. cities over approximately 10 years. While it was billed as a "landmark" report—first of its kind, etc.—it mostly revealed the government's ignorance about the complexities of the sex trade and the people operating within it (pimps, sex traffickers and prostitutes chief among them).
I should know. I've spent the last 20 years working as a sensual masseuse, dominatrix and/or stripper. And if that experience has taught me anything, it's that this study got pretty much everything about being a sex worker wrong.
Fast Cash Earned Is Spent Even Faster. Let's start with the one fact the study got right: Sex workers aren't great with money. Basically, they treat cash like catching snowflakes—it's gone before it even touches the ground. As the study points out, they also move around a lot, chasing job opportunities wherever they may present themselves (another city, another state, another country). They go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras. They head South for Nascar's Sprint Cup Season. They set up shop wherever the Super Bowl is being held. At these events, strippers and hookers can capitalize on big tourist crowds and double their money, walking away with approximately $500-$1,200 a night, depending on the club, atmosphere and their hustling skills.
Other Money Matters Aren't So Clear-Cut. The Urban Institute researchers attempted to follow the cash in order to track the financial impact of the sex trade nationwide and to gain an understanding of its operational structure. According to a handy New York Times bar graph, they discovered the following:
- Men in Dallas like their drugs and guns considerably more than their hookers.
- Men in Miami like their hookers considerably more than their drugs and guns.
- Men in Washington, D.C., like their drugs and hookers equally.
I'm not sure what to think about lumping together drugs and guns with sex work, but I guess I'll just blame Hollywood. The New York Times article begins with a compelling, yet dehumanizing and sad, declaration about a hypothetical street prostitute in Dallas making as little as $5 per sex act before stating that "pimps can take in $33,000 a week in Atlanta." The report itself states that the going rate for full-service sex nationwide is $150 per hour. White girls are pricier—unless its Veterans Day and they're running a special. No joke.
I've never met a $5 hooker, but Hollywood movies seem to crave that version so I thank the study for reinforcing the stereotype. Also: Interesting finding about the Veterans Day Special. The reality is that sex workers would only run a special like that if veterans were their gold-star VIP clients.
From my experience, the going rate for Hollywood Handshakes (hand jobs) in Los Angeles is about $200 per hour if the girl is not off the tracks. Posing naked, topless or doing full service goes for about $300 per hour. These are women who generally advertise online, operate alone and don't have pimps. They're musicians, students, aspiring fashion designers and freelance videographers, in case you were curious.
The Internet As Pimp. The main finding seems to be, "Hey, the internet has affected the sex industry a lot." Well, duh. The internet and mobile credit gizmos have entirely changed the game. But the report's proposed solution to upending the digital revolution within the sex industry—"impose more fines for ad host websites"—is sure to fail.
One thing to realize is that working girls are smart, and they will simply adjust their prices accordingly. Another thing to realize is that advertising on adult service websites like Backpage, Redbook or Eros.com is so cheap and simple that fines (no matter how severe) won't stop sex workers from using them. (Sex workers abandoned Craiglist long ago when vice cracked down in 2001.) There are other benefits to these sites, too. Online, working girls set their prices before they meet the client, which also can serve as a screening process to weed out the cheap or sketchy clients who will try to cut a deal.
In other words, a fine is just a slap on the wrist. Instead, the government needs to help sex workers help themselves and regulate this type of e-commerce. Speaking of regulation…
Other Misguided Solutions. The Urban Institute proposed two additional policies to better criminalize pimps and to protect minors from human-trafficking predators: (1) increase awareness among school officials and the general public about the realities of sex trafficking; and (2) consistently enforce the laws for offenders to diminish low-risk perception.
Here's the reality. You want real policy change? Legalize and regulate sex work. Incarcerate sexual predators. Provide financial assistance to sex workers who want to transition out of the industry. And allow for more resources to help women and children escape pimps and sex traffickers.
I'm talking about things like SafeNight, a new app developed by Caravan Studios. It helps provide victims of human trafficking and domestic violence with housing when shelters are full. It solves a real problem. Every day thousands of women are turned away from overcrowded shelters, and while some shelters will cover the cost of a hotel room when they're out of space, their funding to do so is limited. SafeNight allows individual donors to pay for hotel rooms through the app so victims of sex trafficking don't have to rely on their pimps or abuser for shelter. It also connects them with support services to help steer them away from the street life.
As for enforcing the laws for offenders, the actual scenario is much different than the Urban Institute thinks. If a hooker is an adult and picked up for solicitation, she's charged with prostitution—a misdemeanor. (If it's a repeat offense, it's a felony.) A big fine for solicitation means she's back on the track the same day in order to pay the fine (along with all of her other bills). And newsflash: An individual with little or no education who is making more than $100 an hour would be hard-pressed to flip burgers at minimum wage for her next job—even if getting caught resulted in serious prison time. It's a long road back into the straight world, and it takes a serious motherfucker to turn off that money faucet once it's full blown. It's like stopping a river.
Instead of arresting sex workers and fining them, programs should be developed that provide women with alternatives to sex work. Have you ever spoken to a woman who has been in the sex industry for a few years? Having the sexual power to procure cash from men over an extended period of time is like nurturing a crack habit. Sex workers need housing, counseling, job-readiness programs—i.e., the support it will take for them to rebuild their lives. The process could take years. They might even backslide and do some dirty while recovering from the lifestyle. This is normal, and it's particularly true of women who have been under the control of a pimp or abusive boyfriend and have been the earner in that dynamic for many years.
That's not an easy answer. But it's the truth. A truth—like many others—the Urban Institute missed.
Antonia Crane is a writer, adjunct professor and performer living in Los Angeles. Her memoir, Spent, about her mother's illness and the sex industry is now available. Follow her on Twitter @antoniacrane.
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Every year we turn our clocks forward by an hour at the last weekend in March. This year the change to daylight-saving time, or summer time as many people call it, took place yesterday, on March the 25th.
Summer time will reduce energy costs by aligning the time we spend awake and working with daylight. Since it's introduction in 1916 the clock change has caused many debates and has resulted in many research studies. Research teams have proposed health risks due to the change in clock time twice a year, saying it has similar repercussions to jetlag, shift work and sleep deprivation.
Imre Janszky from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in Sweden has found in a second study that the hour of clock change in the end of March has a short-term influence on the risk of suffering from an acute heart attack (also known as acute myocardial infarction). With an international team of scientists, he found that the sleep deprivation caused by the one hour of time difference resulted in a 4% increase in people admitted to the coronary care units in Sweden over a period of approximately one week. "The sleep-wake cycle appears to require several days to adjust to the official time after the shift," he states.
The daylight-saving adjustment has also been criticized for not having a significant impact on energy consumption. Dr Simon I Hill and his team from the University of Cambridge found that "having BST year-round would lead to energy savings on the order of at least 0.3% in the months in which the UK currently has GMT" (winter time).
This is one of the reasons for the proposed Daylight Saving Bill in the UK which received ministerial backing last autumn for a trial period of three years. The switch to the GMT+1 timezone would help aligning waking hours with daylight hours in Britain.The daylight-saving time has reportedly been found to reduce the risk of accidents. In January, however, the bill was brought to a halt due to a lack of time in the parliament and the Scottish Government has been reported to object because of the longer duration of darkness in the morning.
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Post election: Morning-after quarterbacking
In the days immediately before and after last week's May 4 City Council election, the charges flew: intimidation, bribery, and– immaturity. Mercifully, fears of a dull election proved false.
No one seemed too surprised the three Dem candidates– incumbent Kevin Lynch, Kendra Hamilton, and David Brown– won the three open seats on council, despite last election's upset win by Republican Rob Schilling.
What did surprise? The huge margins.
"It was more than a landslide," crows Councilor Blake Caravati. "We tarred 'em."
Hamilton, Brown, and Lynch– in that order– all garnered over 3,000 votes each. Republican Ann Reinicke came in a distant fourth at 1,782 votes, followed by her running mate Kenneth Jackson with 1,557 votes. Independent Vance High trailed at 717. And of the 778 write-in votes, 700 of those went to Meredith Richards, who lost her party's nod for re-election back in February.
Local politicos agree that Schilling's election two years ago over Alexandra Searls by 84 votes– making him the first Republican on council in 16 years– shook the Democratic machine to its core.
The lesson learned, says party chair Lloyd Snook, was to nominate good candidates and support them. "That didn't happen before," he says, when Caravati and Searls were the candidates. "Two years ago, the candidates didn't like each other and disagreed," says Snook.
In fact, after the 2002 election, Searls told the Hook she wished she'd run an independent campaign and didn't feel like she gotten party support.
This year, the big difference, says Lynch, was that "we had a more solid team in place. It started with candidates who got along well, whose different strengths complemented each other."
Lynch seems unfazed at coming in third behind the new Dems on council. Frontrunner Hamilton won 3,465 votes to Lynch's 3,183.
There's some speculation that "the McGuffey thing"– his stance that the heavily city-subsidized McGuffey Art Center should be paying more rent– cost him a few votes among the arty crowd.
"I'm sure it did," he acknowledges, but he says it was a position shared by the other Democratic candidates. "We all said we had no intention of kicking artists out."
David Toscano, former mayor and Dem treasurer, admits the party had been "resting on its laurels for far too long." The party organized, created databases, and raised more money– close to $32,000– than ever before for a City Council race.
It targeted Democrats who tend to vote in national and state, but not local, elections. "From the primary in February, we identified about 4,200 people who are highly motivated," says Toscano. "There's no reason you can't capture a lot of that vote."
He sees the Dems "smashing victory" as an indication that "people are basically satisfied with the direction the city is going."
Ann Reinicke says she went into the race knowing she was the underdog: "I had no political connections and no false hopes."
She did think the race would be closer, especially after spending the day at the polls. "The response I was getting was so overwhelming," she says.
That feeling evaporated pretty quickly. "I actually got the call from the Daily Progress telling me I'd lost," she says.
Reinicke is a political novice no longer. "What I've learned is we're going to have to start before the nomination," referring to her own last-minute decision to run at the pleadings of Schilling and Republican chair Bob Hodous.
"I don't know if I'm going to run again, but whoever does will have more support than being thrown in at the last minute," Reinicke says.
The day after the election, Kenneth Jackson is ready to run again in two years. "The fact I got 1,500 people to say, 'Mr. Jackson, we heard you,' in two more years, I'll have another 1,500."
Jackson attributes the Democratic landslide to the party's "gung ho" efforts, including bringing out former Democratic mayors. "Anytime you pull out that much old school power– [Francis] Fife, [Nancy] O'Brian, [John] Conover.... When they come out of the woodwork, you know we put a scare in them."
Post election, Jackson complains that Democrats at the polls on Election Day allegedly snatched the sample ballot he passed out from the hand of a little old lady. "They were just rude," he says. "It made me feel better that I ran on ethics."
He adds, "For me to be the youngest, I thought the other candidates were acting childishly."
"Mr. Jackson was off the mark all over the place," says Caravati. "The coup de grace: calling the Democrats 'immature'."
Caravati says the Republicans ran a "poor" campaign. "They were all negative, with no solutions. The Democrats were very optimistic. We know what the problems are and we will solve them."
He cites the creationism flap, in which Reinicke reportedly said she supported teaching creationism in schools, as one factor in the race. "Thomas Jefferson almost came out of his grave and didn't go back until last night," he says.
Reinicke has denied that she believes creationism should be part of the science curriculum.
Caravati didn't take a Democratic victory for granted and says he worried about several factors, including "the Daily Progress losing its mind for a day" with its endorsement of Reinicke and Jackson.
Then there was the Vance High spoiler potential, and High's May 1 press release titled, "Council candidate bribed," in which he alleges David Brown called and offered him a position on an unspecified board seat if High withdrew from the race to prevent the independent from drawing votes away from Brown and Lynch.
"'Bribe' is the right word," insists High. "I'm willing to get a polygraph to prove it." He says Brown proposed a Sunday night announcement before the Tuesday election.
"I did call him," says Brown. "I did suggest if environmental issues were important to him, he might consider dropping out to avoid a Ralph Nader effect."
Brown says he encouraged High to stay involved with something like the streams committee, but he laughs when asked if that was a bribe, pointing out that the streams committee's work is nearly done.
"I was surprised after the phone call that he misunderstood," says the councilor-elect. "In retrospect, that was a really bad idea to call him."
In more post-election finger pointing, Rob Schilling accuses the Democrats of intimidation at the polls. "The word is that poll watchers were told to note people taking a long time voting, because they were probably writing in Meredith Richards' name," he says.
"That is patently absurd," blasts Caravati. "How would you do that and assuming you did, what would you do with the information?"
The voting machines did get curtains for the May 4 election. "I know we had some phone calls from voters concerned about privacy," says registrar Sheri Iachetta. "We thought this was a good time to implement curtains."
Disappointingly for Schilling, the election did not shift power and his status as lone Republican on council– nor is it likely to change his often-acrimonious relations with some of his fellow councilors.
"I don't insult people based on their party," says Schilling. "I hope the new councilors will have a different approach."
New triumvirate on City Council: Kevin Lynch, Kendra Hamilton, and David Brown easily hang on to the Democratic majority.


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1. To surprise someone with something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is always used between "catch" and "cold." News that I'd gotten the promotion really caught me cold—I didn't think they were seriously considering me for it!
2. To surprise an opponent in order to gain an advantage. If we can catch their defense cold, we should be able to tie the game.
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To become ill with the common cold. I hate going to the doctor's office—I always seem to catch cold after being around all those germs!
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Fig. to contract a cold (a common respiratory infection.) (Use with catch is more frequent.) Please close the window, or we'll all catch cold. I take cold every year at this time.
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Also, catch one's death (of cold). Become infected with a cold virus, contract a bad cold, as in Jane manages to catch cold on every important business trip, or Put on your hat or you'll catch your death. The first term originally (16th century) meant becoming chilled by exposure to cold and took on its present meaning in the late 1600s. The hyperbolic variant, often shortened, is somewhat newer.