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IN concert, Mark Zeltser's fingers seem to defy the laws of physics, attacking the piano keyboard with such speed and energy that they become a blur. A critic for Le Figaro in Paris once wrote: ''Zeltser's hands are as powerful as a steelworker's, while his fingers have the brilliant agility of butterflies.''
The Soviet-born pianist has put those fingers to work on a different kind of keyboard, and not to make music. His stated goal is to offer, by Internet-connected computer, every classical note ever written. ''Virtually every note,'' he hedged, pleased with his play on words as he described his new Web site, everynote.com, which offers sheet music for more than 4,000 compositions for piano and violin by 160 composers.
''As a professional musician, I can assure you that we have at least 99 percent of major composers' works'' for piano and virtually all for violin, he said, not to mention obscure pieces and composers. Bramwell Tovey, music director of the Vancouver Symphony and Luxembourg Philharmonic, was surprised to find works of the lesser-known Moritz Moszkowski as well as giants like Mozart.
Mr. Zeltser, who holds a doctorate from the Moscow State Conservatory, started up the site this spring with piano literature and added a violin section last month after waiting more than a decade for the technology to catch up with a brainstorm he had on a six-week tour in Australia. On that trip, the smaller of two suitcases contained his wardrobe; the big, heavy suitcase was filled with his music. He began to dream of classical sheet music instantly available anywhere in the world.
''I seriously went to work on the idea, but the idea was ahead of the technology,'' he said, remembering hard drives as bulky as his suitcase full of scores, and scanners that lacked the resolution needed for printouts in which a speck can change the tempo.
After marrying a Russian computer programmer, Mr. Zeltser realized almost four years ago that the technology had become available to create a niche site for professional musicians and master teachers like himself. He and his wife, Violetta, began building the site in a bedroom in their apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
They followed his original concept of scanning in classical sheet music and allowing the first page to be viewed before being purchased and printed out. Unlike some sites with sheet music, Everynote requires no special software beyond Adobe Reader 5.0 or later. Russian immigrants in Brooklyn designed the site, but Mr. Zeltser selected every entry; most are accompanied by a brief biography of the composer.
Copyright was the least of the challenges he faced. Most of the works played by concert artists like Mr. Zeltser are in the public domain, which under American law includes editions published before 1923, among them works by ''modern'' composers like Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Bartók as well as the familiar Bach, Beethoven, Grieg, Liszt and Mozart.
''Naturally, 95 percent of our library consists of the works created in the 18th and 19th centuries,'' he said. ''The difficult part was to find publications before 1923 in good condition.''
The quest for complete and clean scores suitable for scanning took him to public libraries in New York, Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he also maintains a home. The New York collection was bigger than those in the other cities but showed the wear and tear of frequent use and often required tracking down two or three copies to achieve one digital version. In Los Angeles he found 19th-century sheet music that looked as though it had been ''printed yesterday.'' In Fort Lauderdale he discovered an 1876 edition of Beethoven's Bagatelles that appeared brand-new.
How such sheet music arrived in Fort Lauderdale, a city not incorporated until 1911, puzzled Mr. Zeltser. ''Instead of throwing out the music, perhaps someone gave it to the library,'' he said.
About 30 percent of the music on the site comes from European sources, particularly the former Soviet Union, where the Stalinist era left an unexpected legacy for musicians. Even small towns of 20,000 inhabitants, he said, were required to maintain musical libraries equal to what could be found in Moscow. He discovered a trove of untouched scores and transcriptions by legendary Russian musicians.
He arranged for the music to be photocopied and shipped to him by weight rather than by the piece. ''Sometimes we would get 40 kilos, because the people there didn't know music,'' he said.
Having been a child prodigy in mathematics and music and winner of international prizes like the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, Mr. Zeltser needed no help in evaluating the scores, although his mother, Bertha, a concert pianist and daughter of a concert violinist, did make space in her East Side apartment for a sophisticated scanner. His daughter, Elizabeth, a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, consulted on the violin section.
Mr. Zeltser has kept his personal life private. The Everynote site says only that professional musicians created it. His own site, markzeltser.com, has a discreet Everynote icon under a column of his record album covers, which include the Beethoven concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma and Herbert von Karajan, who introduced Mr. Zeltser to the West in the late 1970's.
Today, at age 56, he spends the concert season on tour: this fall he will travel to Europe, Latin America, Japan and Korea after performing next month with his daughter at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. He is also recording works of Prokofiev with the Moscow Symphony.
He makes time for Everynote, he said, because he wants classical sheet music to be more widely available and affordable, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to make money, particularly since he has invested $300,000 in the project. He hopes to attract buyers through his pricing: mostly under $5, for music that might cost 3 to 10 times as much elsewhere.
Mr. Zeltser does seem to have struck a chord with fellow musicians. Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic and a faculty member at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, likened the site to an online music store like Apple's iTunes in its immediate gratification. ''If the teacher wants a student play a Beethoven sonata, the student can get started right away without having to go somewhere to fetch it,'' he said.
Furthermore, he said, students cannot use the excuse that music is unavailable, nor must they rely on library copies marked up by someone else.
And not only the more advanced students are affected. Lisa Muratore, a Dallas piano teacher who teaches children under age 10, had no idea who was behind Everynote when she replied to a promotional e-mail message by writing: ''This is a piano teacher's dream. Now we don't have to buy an entire book just to get one piece.''
Mr. Zeltser plans to introduce other instruments, voice, chamber music, orchestral works and new composers as fast as he can scan. Bowing to requests from site visitors, he will add the classical guitar next, although he he was surprised to find that the classical guitar seems more popular than the flute.
So far responses have come mostly from people in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but he has also received inquiries from China, Vietnam and Bulgaria. Technology has caught up with his ideas, but not e-commerce. Many of the musicians who crave classical sheet music use the Internet. They just don't have credit cards.
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In addition to Everynote, there are at least three other extensive online sources of digital sheet music: musicnotes.com, sheetmusicdirect.com and sunhawk.com.
The sites offer digital and mail order sheet music across a broad variety of genres and instruments.
Sheet Music Direct is a partnership between two major music publishing groups, the Hal Leonard Corporation in the United States and Music Sales in Britain, and advertises 10,000 digital titles. Musicnotes, based in Madison, Wis., claims 20,000. Sunhawk, begun by Seattle software developers, offers 30,000.
Not all titles are available at all sites, but as an example, Debussy's ''Clair de Lune'' costs $1.49 at Everynote, $1.95 at Sheet Music Direct and $4.95 at Musicnotes and Sunhawk. Nancy Beth Jackson


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On October 1, 2003, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) were merged into one independent administrative institution to be able to perform all their activities in the aerospace field as one organization, from basic research and development to utilization. The independent administrative institution is the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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"The Finance industry has effectively captured our Government... recovery will fail unless we break this financial oligarchy."Simon Johnson, former Chief Economist of the IMF, May 2009
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I hope your week is starting off well. To give it a shake I offer you a poem by Nigel Paul. Nigel is a "writer and artist with a strong interest in the relationships between media, culture, society and politics."
Nigel says:
I was driven to write it as my family have been affected by cancer on a number of occasions and I feel that there is little more tragic than cancer in the young.
This poem will stay with you. Do check out Nigel's other work.
(She's) Dancing With The Idiots (Tonight)
by Nigel Paul
She's just nineteen and she's got cancer and she's the only one that knows,
She doesn't want to tell anyone until she knows that the cancer grows,
And although the secret eats her, like the cancer eats her,
She's dancing with the idiots tonight.
They say that ignorance is bliss, knowledge is a dangerous thing,
But when you're forced to count and can only hope,
You see things for what they are,
So the show goes on, the boys flock round, stop and stare, pretend to care,
It means nothing to her now,
She sees things for what they are,
It's not a game of 'let's pretend', it's clear thinking and self preservation,
It's the sensible thing to do,
Carry on, put on the show and dance with the idiots tonight,
They say the truth will out, the story will be told,
And she will look into their eyes, searching for the genuine sympathy, the genuine empathy,
And the truth will out,
But until she is ready, until it's time,
She's dancing with the idiots tonight,
And we cry, a sadness by proxy, our personal release, our personal relief,
And we will cry,
So let us dance like only an idiot can dance,
Let's dance as only idiots dance,
Let's dance like idiots tonight.


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At the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians in San Francisco this year, Dr. Eric B Larson, the immediate past chairman of the ACP board of regents had this to say regarding the pay for performance movement. "...Word on the street is it's a disaster". Details of this disaster were discussed in part in an earlier blog It is refreshing to hear some straight talk from someone high up the ACP organization as opposed to some of the politically correct platitudes we sometimes hear from the ACP, a peeve I ranted about here.
We can only hope that the joint efforts of ACP and AAFP with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will be able to turn around the harmful programs that some insurance companies imposed unilaterally and put something reasonable in place.
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Does anyone really think UHC will make a 180 degree turn?
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I'm not an MD, I'm a billing advocate. I've been reading a lot about P4P, and know about what UHC is doing. This is not the way P4P advocates describe the program. Are there other more, ah, progressive ways this has been implimented anywhere? (Besides, say, a Kaiser facility?)
My fear is that it will be sold to the public as a necessary improvment to the system, when it is really just another method to control the doctor/patient relationship.
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To answer the question asked in this thread, "Who is Major Hayden? ", here is a recent quote by now General Hayden:
[""As an intelligence professional, I stand back in absolute awe and wonderment at the Chinese espionage effort against the United States of America," Gen. Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, said at cyber security conference last year. "It is magnificent in its breath, its depth and its efficiency.""]
This indicates the address queried about in this thread, 18.104.22.168, probably a CIA net-connection monitoring site. Connection monitors record times and addresses and MAC IDs. Theoretically if anything should ever flag as a threat in connection to the MAC the monitor system record can be combed to obtain a general previous connection pattern for the MAC, if it was disconnected and reconnected. Used to be the CIA recorded outside the USA, the FBI in, though both fudged, with other agencies, private and of other nations doing the same. Usually no one shared, since sharing would reveal doing or extent of doing.
Today at least four of these auto-triggered "connection-test" sites are ubiquitous, becoming built-in for being included in programs connection program builders use. Some are added after. Not all are public agency maintained. They are potential-spyware, since the data recorded is for use only if a reason to wonder should ever arise...
Today, of course, mobile-phones record more, more gratuitously and more geographically accurately, with your phone conversations also being recorded. Recorded by Big-Brother Government in places like China, and by obedient private enterprises, "As Required By Law", in places like the USA, where the "Democratic Government" façade is maintained.
General MICHAEL Hayden isn't the same as this guy.
They DO however, look as though he may be General Hayden's son.
However, being as he's in Texas, I may track him down and find him one day so that I can find out hehe.
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I'm Major Hayden and I operate icanhazip.com. The purpose of the site is to allow people to find their external IPv4/IPv6 address with zero advertisements, cookies, or tracking of any kind. I work for a pretty large hosting company and I'm able to provide the service to people free of charge.
It sounds like Puppy Linux has been updated to query my site to figure out the external IP address of machines running Puppy Linux. I didn't make that change and I didn't have any input on the change.
With that said, I have absolutely no issues with Puppy Linux using my site and I welcome any other questions or comments you have about icanhazip.com.
As an aside, you should know that:
neither of my parents have Hayden as their last name
I have zero affiliations with any government agencies (I work for a large hosting provider)
I welcome any comments or questions that you have
You can find me on freenode as 'rackerhacker' if you want to get in touch.
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Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2012, 19:16
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Seeing as you've only joined today and made 3 posts on the forum, I can't help but wonder how you got here.
Were your ears burning?
Or did your CIA pals tip you off that your cover was blown?
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Seeing as you've only joined today and made 3 posts on the forum, I can't help but wonder how you got here.
Were your ears burning?
Or did your CIA pals tip you off that your cover was blown?
Google Alerts.
If you care about your own personal security and the credibility of your reputation, you really ought to set up Google Alerts for your full name and any forum/IRC/IM handles that you regularly use. It helps you find forum threads like these which exist to drag your name through the mud.
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Thanks for dropping in rackerhacker to put the record straight and your more detailed reply at
. Be assured that the Puppy community is not made up entirely of paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Your link to the Onion should keep them happy for a while :
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Thanks for dropping in rackerhacker to put the record straight and your more detailed reply at
. Be assured that the Puppy community is not made up entirely of paranoid conspiracy theorists.
I figured as much.
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Your link to the Onion should keep them happy for a while:
The scariest thing about that video is that it could easily be true.
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Posted: Mon 06 Aug 2012, 18:09
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rackerhacker wrote:
The scariest thing about that video is that it could easily be true.
Google Alerts- so it was the NSA.
Actually, the scariest thing is that it IS true.
I happen to know a guy that does background checks on people that apply for government jobs. He has a badge and everything.
He admits that 80% of his job is just looking at their facebook page. Seriously.
Every time you google something or publish something, the web is indexing real stuff; from the flow of merchandise to political gatherings and all sorts of social and behavioral data.
You are essentially providing information that is most useful to those that would attack or enslave you, rather than protect you. Even if they just know demographics, they know how the herd responds, and it allows them to manipulate and herd you in many ways.
For instance, they can predict how people respond to a message, and tailor it so you respond favorably. So instead of talking about how we inflict "cruel and unusual punishment" which is clearly illegal, they debate whether or not it's torture, to keep you from demanding the law be upheld regardless of international law against torture.
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Noticed it on the mele version, contacted host provider and was rudely rejected this IP is covered by some security protocol and you can't even complain, May do so in person, this host HQ is local to me!
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Posted: Thu 09 Aug 2012, 00:17
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Well that's not surprising. I mean, the hosting provider is probably doing their job by not disclosing stuff about customers. "MajorHayden" of rackerhacker is here in Texas.
As has been stated on other threads, Puppy has been built with networking stuff that pings his site to confirm that your connection is working. It just stays connected- but doesn't seem to transfer much of anything afaik.
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Location: Oslo, Norway
Posted: Sun 23 Dec 2012, 17:48
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Would it be possible to get easy in control of Puppy Linux, given there is not set a strong password and uses the default live or even installing it?
Assuming that users never MAKES a strong password for the root account.
Its not given any advice on this as seems to be important in other distroes, whereas one usually sets a passwords at during installation.
Should setting a password been a part of the first boot window in order to protect your computer more safe?
Or asked another way... Can this "foreign address" somehow connect to your computer if your IP address is of a list of interest?
That said... I do not take a stand on this specific address 126.96.36.199, but more in general...
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Posted: Wed 01 Jan 2014, 14:46
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This has been discussed many times. If you don't like it remove it.
Hi micko, your comment implies that the ipinfo file is readable as a text file but on pemasus upup raring 3992 the file is not readable. (It has the same sort of icon as something like libflashplayer.so does...). Were you implying I could just remove the ipinfo file and the problem will go away?
And isnt ipinfo the actual script that displays the connection info? If I were to remove that file how would I know what connections were being made? Is there another way?
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Posted: Wed 01 Jan 2014, 19:53
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greengeek wrote:
but on pemasus upup raring 3992 the file is not readable
It is readable/writable on all puppies - just right-click and open it as text. Remove/comment out the offending line (#23):
var0="`wget -O - -q icanhazip.com`"
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It is readable/writable on all puppies
Ooops, my bad. I didn't look closely enough. I was looking at lpinfo, not Ipinfo
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Gilder Boathouse is a 22,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility for Yale crew. It is double the size of Yale's previous facility and stretches south to the finish line of Yale's 2,000-meter race course.
The building incorporates design features specific to the needs of the program and the requirements of the site on the Housatonic River and offers an extraordinary view of the races and finish line.
Selected in a design competition in February 1998, the New Haven firm of Turner Brooks Architects designed building and provides this description:
"The main building entrance brings athletes, coaches and visitors through the heraldic sliding oar 'door' (a clustered frieze of aluminum oars) onto a porch that opens up dramatically to a framed view of the river. Here a generously expanding stair spills down to connect with the docks and the water below. The staircase and deck function as a multipurpose space for team meetings and other group activities. The athletes proceed out along the porch overlooking the river to enter the locker rooms. The coaches have their own office and lobby area. A lounge is located south of the river for viewing the approach of racing boats. This space, anchored by a large fireplace, houses trophies and other memorabilia.
Yale rowing has a long history in Derby ever since Frank Gates of Derby undertook to induce Yale to bring its rowing activities to Derby in 1852, first in lower Derby and later on Lake Housatonic above the dam starting in 1918. Mr. Gates managed to convince Yale's British head coach Guy Nickalls of the suitability of the Housatonic for his crews, and in 1918 the first intercollegiate race was held on the lake with Yale and Harvard competing. At the same time, the Bob Cooke boathouse was dedicated in honor of one of Yale's famous rowing coaches. Down through the years, the boat house and Yale crew racing was a favorite spectator sport in the area. At one time Derby Day was an attraction that drew thousands to the banks of the Housatonic to view the races. A special observation train ran along the course of the race on the Shelton side of the river. Crews from around the country made the Hotel Clark in downtown Derby their headquarters while staying in Derby.
Though the Derby Day races are no longer held, rowing on the Housatonic has been undergoing a revival not only with the construction of the Gilder Boathouse, but also with the New Haven Rowing Club farther upstream. The Rowing Club hosts a the Head of the Housatonic Regatta in October each year that is growing in popularity. The boat house is also one of the stops on the Heritage Valley Driving tour.
Yale has also created a community rowing program that provides a special educational program that is a tremendous benefit and experience to children in Derby and the surrounding area.


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The saga of the Nevada Supreme Court and the budget debacle gets more fascinating all the time. My buddy and colleague Vin Suprynowicz and my employer, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, may soon be sued by Supreme Court Justices Miriam Shearing, Bob Rose and Deborah Agosti for defamation because of a column Vin wrote about the high court's ruling that set aside a portion of the state constitution. (Read the column here.)
From the news story:
According to Suprynowicz's column, he had lunch on July 1 with a retired Nevada judge who told him: "The fix is in. Guinn went to Rose and Shearing on the Supreme Court some time ago and got their agreement that they'll impose the tax hikes. Agosti is wavering, but it'll probably be 6-to-1."This seemed a tad paranoid to me then," Suprynowicz wrote. "Now we know. The judge called it right."
Later in the column, Suprynowicz wrote, "And so the thin veneer that had still duped many of us into believing we had a government of law, and that our political leaders were not bought-and-paid-for shills of the gaming industry and the big government unions, has now been stripped aside ..."
According to [attorney Dominic] Gentile's letter, the column libeled his clients.
"That such a statement is an accusation and allegation of bribery and corruption in its common meaning in the present day is irrefutable," the attorney wrote.
The letter demands a retraction, which the justices won't get. But here's where it gets real interesting. In a telephone interview with reporter Carri Thevenot, Rose
said the Review-Journal "should certainly be willing to identify the retired judge" who claims Guinn met with justices before they ruled on the tax issue.
But the letter doesn't ask Vin or the RJ to reveal the source, which led the paper's attorney, Mark Hinueber, to describe
Gentile's demand letter as "an outrageous attempt to chill the Review-Journal's aggressive, thorough and fair reporting on the Nevada Supreme Court and to discover confidential sources of the newspaper."
Bingo. The idea is to find out who made this comment and punish this person, so that other confidential souces will know what's good for them when they think about volunteering information to the paper or answering a reporter's question. This little show of muscle is every bit as outrageous as any "fix" that might have occurred, if Vin's source is correct. And it simply reinforces Vin's larger point. Nevada is corrupt from stem to stern.
Speaking of defamation ...
The Las Vegas Sun's smear campaign against GOP Assemblyman Bob Beers, the ringleader of tax resistance in the Legislature, was renewed on Friday with a front page, above-the-fold story headlined, "Beers blasted for 'racist' remark." So what was the lawmaker's sin? Read the lede:
Assemblyman Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, who has previously made inflammatory comments about Episcopalians and casino workers, took a shot Thursday at an AIDS awareness program aimed at the black community.
Commenting on the fact that the Las Vegas organization Fighting AIDS in our Community Today (FACT) is to receive $250,000 in state money, Beers dismissed it as a program that does little more than give condoms to gay black men.
"From what I understand in the newspapers this FACT program is dedicated to putting condoms on gay men in the black community," Beers said in an interview with the Sun.
In a follow-up e-mail to the Sun, Beers said he was referring to a news report that said the program was targeted at gay black men because, as an ethnic group, they are highly at risk for AIDS.
This, racist? And worthy of top billing on the front page? Only because the "story" was invented from whole cloth. Sun reporter Jennifer Knight then sought out several left-wing black Democratic lawmakers (and the Legislature's only openly gay member) who have been fighting tooth and nail to jack up state spending by 30 percent ... and didn't get their way. They can't stand Beers and his poltical philosophy and will gladly pile on.
BTW, interested in the "inflammatory" comments Beers made about "Episcopalians and casino workers"? Return to the story:
He first drew fire in February when, in an e-mail to a constituent, he described casino workers as "prone to dropping out of school, reproducing illegitimate children, often while little more than children themselves, abusing drugs and alcohol more frequently, and even killing themselves more often than people who do value education."
Beers was criticized again in March for his response to an Episcopalian bishop who urged lawmakers to address a $704 million shortfall in the state budget.
Beers responded by saying: "There's gotta be more Episcopalian bishops besides you. ... Your opinion is pretty far out there and strikes me as an opinion of a woman with no taxpaying parishioners."
Impolitic? To be sure? Inflammatory? Perhaps, to the people with whom he was corresponding. But they were private communications. And it turns out that the correspondents were themselves political activists trying to bait Beers. After all, the e-mailers were not exactly inviting Beers to dinner. They were asking him to impose the largest tax increase in state history. And they weren't even his constitutents.
Among the lawmakers who expressed any resistance to the size of the tax hike, Beers possessed all the intellectual candlepower. Without him there would have been no check on the gamers or the public employees. So that's why the Sun wants to take him out.
Predictably, the Sun published its yellow "news" story on Friday, when no one will read it (weekday circulation is about 30,000). But I'm willing to bet a substantial amount of money that on Sunday, when (thanks to our lovely JOA) the Sun is delivered with 220,000 Review-Journals, there will be an editorial and at least two columns which will have scant reference to the facts but will still call for Beers to be run out of town on a rail.
Bob Beers can take care of himself. But the degree of unhinged-ness that runs rampant at the Sun is beyond comprehension.


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Metro Community College offers new associate degree program
Metropolitan Community College is partnering with local companies to tailor degree programs to better prepare students for Omaha jobs after graduation.
Travel and Transport is one of the biggest travel companies in the country. The company books 2 million plane tickets for companies across the county every year, but as the company grows, managers say less people are applying.
"There are no travel academies left. So you're really left finding people that have experience, and there's no one left willing to invest in people to give them that experience," said Vice President Jim Winterscheid.
To fill positions, Travel and Transport partnered with Metropolitan Community College to teach candidates the skills they need.
"What if you all developed the courses around your topics, that you're strong in, and we will use our courses that we're good at," said Dr. Tom Pensabene, dean of Information Technology.
The college created a new associate degree program where students can take general education classes through the college and travel classes though Travel and Transport.
"When people come here, we expect them to be engaged in actual work that will get them jobs. I seriously believe you're going to see things change dramatically in the next 10 years," Pensabene said.
Pensabene said the skills the students will receive will translate to any travel company. He said an associate degree could count toward a bachelor's degree.
Classes for the program begin this summer. Travel and Transport will hold an open house Thursday from 3 to 4 p.m. at the company's tower near 72nd and Grover streets.
The college said students are guaranteed at least an interview with Travel and Transport after graduation.
The community college has dozens of partnerships with other companies. Administrators believe the array of partnerships, like the one with Travel and Transport, is changing how the college is educating its students.


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I usually reserve eating ribeye for when I am alone. When the fiancée is off interviewing for jobs and going to school, I'm home alone with a simply prepared steak and usually absolutely no vegetables. It's simple, indulgent, and slightly embarrassing. The only flourish of cooking prowess was a pan sauce, most often made with red wine. Sometimes I didn't even bother—too many times the sauce would come out bitter or too fatty. I needed some help.
According to Simple to Spectacular, this is as simple as pan sauces get. Luckily, it doesn't really taste like it. The trick, I've learned, is to let the pan cool slightly and drain as much of the fat from the pan before deglazing. I'm always leery of adding anything extraneous to my steaks, but the ginger and soy never feel like they're trying to steal the steak's thunder. And that's the way it should be. What the ginger and soy do for this recipe is accentuate some of the higher notes. The results tickle the back of your tongue instead of obscuring the seared goodness of a perfect steak.
This is also the first time I've ever not put salt on a steak. It felt weird. But the soy sauce more than made up for the missing sodium.
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Kilian Jornet and Emelie Forsberg climbed to second and third overall respectively in the Ski Mountaineering World Cup rankings after some solid performances at Prato Nevoso, Italy.
Kilian pushing downhill. ©ISMF
Another exciting weekend for Suunto Ambassadors, Kilian Jornet and Emelie Forsberg. The pair joined dozens of the world's best ski-mo racers under the incredible blue skies of Prato Nevoso, Italy for one of the final races of the season.
Kilian had some mixed results – finishing second in the vertical race, fourth in the individual race and 22nd in the sprint. He has two more shots at reaching his ultimate goal at the end of April – winning the overall ranking in the World Cup, which combines the different Ski Mountaineering World Cup disciplines. Currently, Kilian lies in second spot behind overall leader Robert Antonioli.
He said: ''The combined World Cup is a title I'd really like to try to win because it proves the versatility of the skier in the different events. I'm second right now, but I am I hoping to score enough points in the two races left, to be able to fight for victory against Roberto."
Emelie in action. ©ISMF
Not to be outdone, Emelie Forsberg placed second in both the individual and sprint races, and fourth in the vertical race. It was her first-ever second-place finish in a World Cup competition, and with two team races left, moves her up to third position in the overall rankings.
She said: "I am feeling very well in this moment of the season. The results this weekend couldn't have been better and now I am third in the overall ranking. I'll try to keep the good energy for the races left."
Despite the individual events coming to an end, the Ski Mountaineering World Cup is far from over. Check out Check out ISMF on Facebook for updates, photos and lots of exciting videos from the Ski Mountaineering World Championship.
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If you're at all familiar with the success of Skylanders, the colossally successful mash-up of videogames and collectible toys, you won't be too surprised by Disney's latest gaming initiative.
On Tuesday, the company announced Disney Infinity, a multi-platform game coming this June that does something Disney is typically reluctant to do: combine potentially every Disney property and franchise, from Cars to Dumbo to Phineas and Ferb. Slated for June, Infinity is half straight-up action game and half Minecraft-style sandbox. And it won't work without a special set of character figurines that interface with your game console. A few of the 17 initial characters will come packaged with the game, and the rest you'll have to buy at $13 a pop.
"This is one of the most creative things in the interactive world that I have ever seen," Disney chief creative officer John Lasseter said of Infinity at an event in Hollywood on Tuesday. "It's a tool chest for creativity."
Infinity will launch with characters from three popular films: The Incredibles, Pirates of the Caribbean and Monsters University, the upcoming prequel to Pixar's Monsters, Inc. that will hit theaters on June 21. Out of the box, the $75 "starter pack" for Infinity will feature three "playsets," or traditional action games, based on each of those franchises. Throughout the course of the year, Disney will roll out more characters and playsets based on its other popular cartoon and live-action series.
You'll only be able to play characters within the levels based on their franchise — Captain Jack Sparrow can only swashbuckle on the Pirates-themed level, for example, but can't matriculate at Monsters U — and buying add-on collectible toys will not only add more playable characters within levels, but unlock entirely new levels to the game.
But while this careful separation of franchises may keep things canonical within the game proper, all bets are off in the Toy Box mode, where players can build their own levels by mixing and matching Disney characters and worlds. Want to slap laser guns onto Cinderella's carriage? Be our guest — just as long as you've purchased the proper toys to make that happen.
"We are going to allow this place that's kind of like your living room floor," John Blackburn, Disney VP and general manager of Infinity developer Avalanche Studios, told Wired in advance of Tuesday's announcement. "We're not going to go into [your living room] and tell you how to play with your toys, and that's the same thing here. We give you a bunch of toys and say, here, go play."
If this all sounds like a colossal undertaking, Disney can at least be assured that the formula has worked before. Rival gamemaker Activision Blizzard has had stunning success with Skylanders, which pioneered the formula. Last week, Activision said that sales of all Skylanders figures and games had passed $500 million in the U.S. alone since its 2011 launch. Moreover, Skylanders toys outsold all other action figure lines last year, topping even Star Wars.
While the basic formula is the same, Infinity adds a few new ingredients. Besides the figurines that unlock new characters and playsets, Disney will sell "power discs" — RFID chips set in a small piece of plastic. When a player stacks these up on the interface device, they might add specific new items into the Toy Box mode, like the aforementioned Cinderella carriage. Other discs will augment the game characters when you place them between the figure and the interface. A disc with Wreck-It Ralph's face on it will give that character more physical strength, and like baseball cards (or the collectible figures that the company sells in its Disney Stores and theme parks), the power discs will be sold in blind packages: $5 gets you two random discs.
Infinite Toy Stories
The seeds of Infinity were planted with the Toy Story 3 videogame developed by Avalanche for the Pixar film in 2010. Besides straightforward platform-action levels that were themed around the movie, the game featured a Toy Box mode that let kids play creatively, building and rearranging a town while pursuing many open-ended goals.
"We weren't able to push it as far as we wanted to in that particular game," Blackburn said. "There were a lot of things in Toy Story that [Pixar] wouldn't allow us to do." Avalanche wanted to allow players to customize and tweak the characters, but Pixar didn't like the idea of making changes to Buzz Lightyear's look. But when the animators took the game home, they found that the features their kids wanted were all the things that they'd stopped Avalanche from including. After that, Blackburn said, Disney trusted the developer more to tweak the properties while respecting the brand.
Still, convincing Disney's chief creative officer to put every property into a single videogame was not an easy sell. Blackburn's first pitch to John Lasseter involved "all different kinds of toys … childish versions that didn't articulate, full action figure versions, plushies and stuffed animals," he said. "When you put them all together, it looked really weird." Lasseter didn't like it, but he told Blackburn that if he could create one single toy line where Jack Sparrow and Sully the monster could stand next to each other and look like they were meant to be together, he could get behind the idea.
"He said he didn't like it, but then he solved the problem for us," Blackburn said. The final Infinity toys are cartoonish, but more realistically proportioned and aged up a little, something more oriented toward tweens than toddlers.
Players could approach the open-ended Toy Box mode from a variety of different angles. Two players could just jump into the game (whether online or on the couch) and start messing around with everything. Playing through the various "playset" levels will let you unlock hundreds of new toys and parts to play with in Toy Box. More goal-oriented players might use it like Minecraft, building their own creations and inviting other players in to see them. Blackburn showed me a Disney employee's in-game model of the Starship Enterprise, with Sully standing on the bridge.
And players who really want to make something big can actually create a videogame. Toy Box includes parts and features that let players build obstacles, spawn enemies and even reposition the game's camera. Lap counters and start lines let a player easily make a racing game. To illustrate the breadth of the engine, Blackburn showed me Toy Box recreations of games like Donkey Kong and Super Off-Road.
What you can't do with Infinity is self-publish your creation. You can invite a friend to join you online and test your game in real time. But before other players can save your level to their hard drives, it's got to go through Disney. Blackburn says Disney will solicit content and publish the best of the best. The lockdown is just about keeping the game sanitary for kids, Blackburn says: "What we didn't want was, you're a 12-year-old, you go create something vulgar, send it to an 8-year-old, and then their parents see that and say, where did this come from?"
Infinity, And Beyond
"We're kind of launching a five-year plan," Blackburn says. Disney sees Infinity not as the launch of a single game but as a platform that it will grow and improve upon indefinitely. "We've got a lot of our best properties from Disney that you're going to see over the course of a year," he says. All of the new characters and playsets will be included on the disc that players buy, Blackburn said, but they won't be playable until the toys are released later in the year.
Infinity will ship at first on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii and PC. An iOS "companion" app will also be released in June. This will not be a full-fledged action game, but it will allow players to keep raising their figures' experience level and earning in-game rewards that will transfer back to the console versions. (As in Skylanders, the electronics in the toys themselves keep track of that character's experience points.) Each figure will come with a unique "web code" that will unlock that character in the PC and iOS versions of the game.
With its integrated touch screen, the Wii U version of the game would seem to have the most potential for an easy-to-use building interface. "Touch sensitivity, drag-and-drop, point-and-click is really powerful for the building modes," Blackburn said, also noting that the team would like to add two-player split-screen play, with one player using the GamePad while another plays on the TV. But, he said, Avalanche is "still trying to put these features in right now." Because the Wii U just came out, he said, Avalanche only just finished its engine, and is putting in all the features it can, but only has about a month of development time left to do it.
Blackburn says that plans are in the works for Infinity 2, but notes that Disney is really out to build a "platform." As the company, which now encompasses LucasArts and Marvel Comics, continues to release more films and cartoons, it can release Infinity levels and characters to promote them without necessarily having to create entirely new videogames for each of those properties.
"I'm so excited about this because…. I know the amazing new stories and new characters that we're creating, and this is now something to look forward to, bringing the future to the Infinity game set," Lasseter said at the Tuesday event.
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Texans offensive coordinator Rick Dennison said Wednesday that veteran quarterback Matt Schaub has made "bad decisions" this season and must improve.
Schaub is 85-of-128 passing for six touchdowns and 838 yards through three games. He's also thrown four interceptions, though, including pick-sixes in back-to-back games.
"It's a focal point. He's got to get better," Dennison said. "He can't — he's got to be very sound with the ball. So, that's a thing that we keep pressing. … We hope he can take care of the ball for us."
Dennison said there's not much the Texans can do with Schaub's bad decisions, other than to explain the situation to the veteran QB and ask what he saw on a specific play.
"We keep working on it," Dennison said. "He's made bad decisions … and he's learning. You can't make those bad decisions."
Schaub's grown accustomed to being the center of negative attention when his team fails to meet expectations. After losing to the Ravens, he acknowledged he must play better for the Texans to reach their 2013 goal of reaching the Super Bowl. Wednesday, Schaub said he's willing to absorb the criticism and must set a positive example for his underperforming team.
"It comes with the territory. The better you can understand that as a quarterback in this league at this level, I guess the better you can handle adversity," Schaub said. "You can handle the good with the bad and move forward, and show your team that you're not affected by things.
"You're just going to keep working; you're just going to go right back to the drawing board and keep working. And that's how I am and that's just something that I've learned over time."
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SAN JOSE (CBS SF/ALICE @ 97.3) – Legendary singer-songwriter John Mellencamp is about to join Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne and Joan Baez as a select group of musicians to receive The John Steinbeck Award from The Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.
The award will be presented by Thomas Steinbeck (son of John) on Monday July 30 at the California Theater in San Jose. The award is given to politically progressive figures; other past recipients have included Garrison Keillor, Sean Penn and Rachel Maddow.
John Mellencamp commented, "John Steinbeck's remarkable ability to give voice to the common man and to people on society's margins, to describe their plight and aspirations, continues to inspire us more than a century after his birth. I'm very honored to be the recipient of an award given in his name."
In other Mellencamp news, he has a new documentary film out, It's About You, which chronicles the recording of his 2009 album No Better Than This, recorded at a number of historical landmarks, including Sun Studios in Memphis. It also includes live footage from his tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.
Mellencamp is about to kick off a Canadian tour, with Canada's Cowboy Junkies opening.
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Amidst findings of increased bicycling in the United States, research continues to demonstrate that women and racial minorities are underrepresented as cyclists in the United States (Buehler and Pucher 2012). While quantitative data may reveal estimates of these disparities, we know little about the motivations or deterrents related to cycling as they are experienced by individuals.
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Ph.D., professor of law at Harvard University, will give a lecture on "Why Protest Matters" at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, 2013. The free, public event will begin with a 6 p.m. reception and will take place in the UAB Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. South.
Brown-Nagin's talk is one of several events in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) College of Arts and Sciences' Civil Rights Commemorative series, as well as a part of the UAB and City of Birmingham partnership, 50 Years Forward, the ongoing 50th anniversary commemoration of the seminal events of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
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I loved LOST.
I loved its ability to make you wonder.
OK, we know there ARE polar bears on the tropical island. But exactly WHY are there polar bears on the island? Everything was presented matter-of-factly, leaving the audience to wonder exactly what made the highly improbably possible.
And that's why I love the car on the mountain.
It's far and away the most interesting thing on my hiking trail — a dilapidated white car, sitting several yards off of the Sugartree Trail on Green Mountain in Huntsville.
It makes no sense at all. Having walked the area many many many times. I have no idea how it got there. And, "how" aside, I have no idea why it got there. It's completely random, and possibly the closest thing to a LOST mystery I've experienced in real life.
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FNH USA LLC and ATK Commercial Products Sign Distribution Agreement
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- Date: 12/05/2019 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
- Location: Pflugerville Public Library
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Learn how to use the library's 3d Printer. Participants will then be able to make appointments on designated days to use the 3d printer for personal projects (with staff assistance). Registration for Pfab Lab classes is required. Please see details below. Register online beginning November 1 at 1 pm.
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-This class is for those 12 and up only who are CURRENT Pflugerville Public Library resident or paid non-resident cardholders. (TexShare members are not allowed to sign up for Pfab Lab training at this time.)
-Children are not allowed in the Pfab Lab during adult programs.
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-Attendees must give 24 hour cancellation notice to allow others on the waiting list to attend. Failure to cancel an appointment may result in a temporary block on future class registration.


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Taxpayers filing their 1040s are likely wondering just where all their hard-earned tax dollars are going, anyway.
Washington will spend $31,406 per household in 2010 — the highest level in American history (adjusted for inflation). It will collect $18,276 per household in taxes. The remaining $13,130 represents this year's staggering budget deficit per household, which, along with all prior government debt, will be dumped in the laps of our children.
Government spending has increased by $5,000 per household since 2008, and nearly $10,000 per household over the past decade. Yet there is no free lunch: If spending is not reined in, then eventually taxes must also rise by $10,000 per household.
Washington will spend this $31,406 per household as follows:
Social Security/Medicare: $9,949. The 15.3 percent payroll tax, split evenly between the employer and employee, covers most of these costs. This system can remain sustainable only if there are enough workers to support all retirees, which is why it risks collapsing under the weight of 77 million retiring baby boomers. Unless these programs are reformed, paying all promised benefits would eventually require doubling all income tax rates.
Defense: $6,071. The defense budget covers everything from military paychecks to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to the research, development and acquisition of new technologies and equipment. Lawmakers drastically reduced military spending after the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. The 9/11 attacks reversed this trend, and the inflation-adjusted $2,472 per household increase since 2000 has returned military spending closer to its historical levels (but still lower than during previous wars).
Anti-poverty programs: $5,466. Nearly half of this spending subsidizes state Medicaid programs that provide health services to poor families. Other low-income spending includes: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, food stamps, housing subsidies, child-care subsidies, Supplemental Security Income and low-income tax credits. President George W. Bush increased anti-poverty spending to record levels, and it has grown an additional 32 percent since the end of 2008 under President Barack Obama.
Unemployment benefits: $1,640. Unemployment costs have surged by 411 percent during the recession.
Interest on the federal debt: $1,585. The federal government is $13 trillion in debt. It owes $9 trillion to public bond owners, and the rest to other federal agencies (mostly to repay the Social Security trust fund, which lawmakers raided annually before the program went into deficit in 2010). Record-low interest rates have recently held down these costs. However, the national debt is set to double by 2020, which will combine with higher interest rates to raise annual interest costs to nearly $6,000 per household.
Veterans' benefits: $1,052. The federal government provides income and health benefits to war veterans. Spending is up 83 percent since 2000.
Federal employee retirement benefits: $1,018. This spending funds the retirement and disability benefits of federal employees, including the military.
Education: $914. Education spending is primarily a state and local function; 9 percent of the total comes from Washington. The federal education budget has leaped 125 percent since 2000. Most federal dollars are spent on low-income school districts, special education and college student financial aid.
Highways/mass transit: $613. Most highway and mass-transit spending is financed by the 18.4 cent per-gallon federal gas tax. Washington subtracts an administrative cost and sends this money back to the states with numerous strings attached.
Health research/regulation: $550. This spending is up 50 percent since 2001, and much of this growth is concentrated in the National Institute of Health. The category also includes the Food and Drug Administration and dozens of grant programs for health providers.
Mortgage Credit: $470. While most of the bank bailouts occurred last year, the bailouts of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the rest of the housing market continue.
The programs listed above cover $29,328 per household. The remaining $2,078 is allocated to all other federal programs, including justice, international affairs, natural resources, the environment, regional development, farm subsidies, social services, space exploration, air transportation and energy.
Taxpayers - and the next generation that will be paying nearly half of the bill - must decide for themselves if they're getting their money's worth.
Brian Riedl is the Grover M. Hermann fellow in federal budgetary affairs at The Heritage Foundation.
First appeared in McClatchy


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The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh put out a book that included a CD of excerpts from Warhol's private audio tape collection. The album is narrated by John Giorno, the poet who starred in some of Warhol's early films.*
Warhol used to carry tape recorders with him everywhere, and the Warhol museum has thousands of hours of 'em. This is but a wee sample, but a fascinating one, featuring goodies like a raw Velvet Underground jamming on "I'll be Your Mirror" with Nico, and some songs I don't recognize; Andy discussing a commissioned portrait of a guy with a hard-on that has never been exhibited in public; a campy Pope Ondine; a no-nonsense Edie Sedgewick; a Man Ray photo session; Holly Woodlawn on why it's a pain to be a drag queen; and a discussion of art featuring famous people's private parts. Yes, Mick Jagger and Studio 54 are here, but we also go shopping with Warhol at a grocery store. As Andy would say, "Oh, gee!"
The Andy Warhol Museum
The book/CD is way out of print and going for crazy sums on Amazon: $160 is a bit out of my price range. There is one (1) copy in the entire L.A. County Library system, and it's in the "closed stacks," meaning a librarian has to retrieve it for you and you can't take it out of the library. So I had to bring my wife's laptop to the library at a later date, they sat me in a special section, and I loaded in and copied the CD. Dang, the things I do for you people. Send me booze and chocolates! Remember me in your will!
*But I know Giorno for the boss albums he put out in the late '70s/'80s on his own label that featured everyone from Laurie Anderson and William Burroughs to The Butthole Surfers. Good stuff.
Friday, November 18, 2011
The Warhol Tapes
5 comments:
Wow Mr Fab,
This is a real gem! thanks for going through all the trouble!
- 4:34 AM, November 20, 2011
- Holly said...
Wow, indeed, Thanks!
- 10:07 AM, November 20, 2011
- Holly said...
Many thanks! And those Giorno lps are good, soundtracked my college years...
- 10:10 AM, November 20, 2011
- Justin J. DuPré said...
any chance for a reupload of this gem?
- 2:05 PM, October 06, 2014
- Mr Fab said...
Hey Justine, it's now available here:
- 2:11 PM, October 06, 2014
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Might we have a section explicitly for scores - as opposed to 'tunes'?
I think more and more of us use abc with tools such as abcm2ps to produce choral (and other) scores, and it seems to me this represents quite a different audience from those interested in the (generally monodic) tunes.
Just a thought.


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Southwark Local History Library and Archive is open to the public and has a wide range of material from historic photographs, press cuttings and films to maps, parish registers and poor law records. For details about the collection and opening hours please visit the Local History Library and Archive pages on the Southwark Council website.
The Cuming Family, living in Walworth during the 18th and 19th centuries, acquired all kinds of objects from around the world. The Cuming Museum also has many local history objects collected since the early 19th century right up to today, which reflect the whole of Southwark's rich and diverse history and its unfolding story.
The Cuming Museum is not currently open to the public. Access to our Cuming Museum and Art collections is limited at the moment as the majority of items are in storage awaiting new premises, but we still welcome enquiries from anyone conducting research and if you have specific questions about any part of the collection then please email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Just because you CAN, does NOT mean you SHOULD.
We have seen multiple questions: I just did a self clean and now the oven won't work? Since most stoves now have electronics instead of the old tried and true mercury based oven controls my hypothesis is this: the extreme high temps associated with self clean messes up them delicate shocktronics.


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by Simba L. Sherf
Hey there, my name is Simba. I turned 10 on 10/10/10, but left this world passing over the Rainbow Bridge less than a month later. I know it was all very sudden, as that nasty tumor in my tummy burst, but who knew? I just wanted to let you know that I was not in much pain, and I'm glad I didn't linger for days or weeks because this new place is really, really cool.
There are no leashes, and you get to run after a ball, sniff other dogs, chew on bones and romp in the water whenever you want. But I really do miss my human pack dearly. I also miss chasing groundhogs in our big backyard, the trips we took in our little cabin on wheels, our daily romps over at Carson Valley or through Fort Washington State Park and having my two-legged pals throw the ball to me over and over and over again. Thank you.
Good old Sparky is here, along with Bear, Lenny, Lennon, Samantha, Taffy, Max, Sadie and all the other good dogs we have met along the way. They came running up to me and brought me over the Rainbow Bridge.
I was reluctant to go at first, but they assured me that my two-legged housemates had each other to get through some rough days, and I really didn't want to go through emergency surgery and months of suffering. So I thought I'd better follow the dog pack and leave my human pack while the going was good. Isn't that what you taught me? Live well, love much, laugh often.
I know you saw that rainbow on Monday around sunset, as you made your way to bury me back by the shed. For a minute I was afraid you all might miss it, but you saw it and knew what it meant, and everybody gathered around to stare at it. I guess you guys are pretty smart. Hey, you adopted me; didn't ya.
I'm glad Barb went back to the animal hospital and brought me home, and Louie and Pete were able to help you guys bury me right near the spot where the groundhogs hide out, and that Jon and Gina were there to say goodbye and sit with you that first night.
And I keep whispering to Susan and your other human friends to keep checking in on you, and I'm glad they do. You should also know that I am looking over your shoulders, and I read all of the e-mails that went back and forth, and I'm really glad you have a lot of understanding animal lovers in your lives.
That one e-mail from Robin Adams of the Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue got to me when she said that of the hundreds of dogs who passed through their doors, I really stood out. I guess it helped that I had a mistress who is a publicist and writer and a master who is an ace photographer.
I was really proud to serve as Poster Pup for DVGRR and held my head high at every opportunity to do right by those nice folks. Just look at that publicity photo we took for the Golden Gala fundraiser. Remember how many takes it took to get that one shot? I do. 149.
Thank God for digital cameras and sweet Bridgette. She was a great doggy date! But don't tell her that. I don't want her to get a swelled head. I really enjoyed my time with Maggie May in more recent years. She was a great gal, and we wouldn't have gotten to know Tim and Melody and taken our cabin on wheels to West Virginia three times in the past five years if it wasn't for sweet Maggie. On that last trip, I think she was impressed (and maybe even a bit jealous) that I had my own business cards.
Leave it to my two-legged housemates to come up with the idea of making cards with my picture on them and passing them out to people on the trail. It was such a neat idea that the Rescue folks printed their own cards, and now there are lots of them out there touting the fact that they have a lot of other great dogs waiting to be adopted. You guys are really smart, but we already know that cause you adopted me! Or did I already say that?
Anyway, I had the best six years with my pack, so stop beating yourselves up over missing signs you thought you should have seen that I was sick. I was happy romping in the park and even going in the creek the morning that I passed away. Remember? Yeah, I was a bit mopey later in the day, but I really wasn't in a lot of pain, and if I was, I wouldn't have wanted to worry you guys…that's just my nature.
I know you were talking about being really sad as you leave for Florida this winter without me…but don't be. Take some time to travel and be with each other, and when you are ready, go up to the Rescue and give another dog a great 'forever' home.
I know you can't replace me, if I do say so myself; I was quite the character, but there is another furry friend out there waiting for you. I know so. We can see these things from up here. And when your time comes, I will have two balls in my mouth like I did when you took that other neat picture of me, and we won the calendar contest. I will drop one at your feet, and you will throw it and follow me over the bridge. It'll be that easy; I promise.
Until then, keep looking at that plaque you have on the wall that says: Live well, love much, laugh often. As a pack, we practiced that motto every day, and I hope you will continue to do so. You must. That's our pack promise.
Tail wags and doggy slobber.
Until we meet again.
Your special guy, Simba
(Ed. Note: Simba lived with Barbara Sherf and Brad Shapiro in Flourtown. For more photos, visit www.CommunicationsPro.com/blog. For more information on the Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue, visit www.dvgrr.org


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Mansi has been a proactive contributor who is always ready to take new initiatives in the community. She has been actively contributing from day 1 of being Mozillian. She is a versatile Mozillian and very dedicated to community growth.
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While it is unlikely to ever truly compete with traditional currencies, bitcoin could, when combined with the traditional finance system, have cost advantages over credit cards and money transfer firms like Western Union, according to a Credit Suisse article.
Bitcoins – Money Without Physical Form
The article, penned by Jonathan Horlacher, concludes that bitcoin's biggest advantage – decentralisation – is also its biggest drawback because there is no authority guaranteeing its value, preventing its widespread adoption as a means of payment.
"Nevertheless, bitcoins have a future in certain areas and countries," says Horlacher, citing its cost advantage over cards and remittance providers as well as an alternative to state-backed currency in countries, such as Argentina and Zimbabwe, where confidence is low.
Ultimately, he asks: "Who do you trust more, your own central bank or an anonymous online network?"
This leaves open the question of central bank-backed virtual currencies; a prospect which has gained traction in recent months. In February, the Bank of England said that the distributed ledger technology that bitcoin relies on "may have considerable promise. This raises the question of whether central banks should themselves make use of such technology to issue digital currencies."
Last month a senior researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis floated the idea of a government-backed 'Fedcoin' that uses a bitcoin-style protocol but the US dollar as the monetary object, combining the best of cryptocurrencies and cash.
And it has since emerged that IBM is taking the issue beyond the hypothetical, holding informal discussions with a number of central banks about the creation of a blockchain-based digital cash and payment system for major currencies.
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ALAMEDA — The Raiders reduced their glut at punter and quarterback Sunday by releasing Chris Kluwe and waiving fourth-round draft pick Tyler Wilson.
The club also announced it had claimed two players on waivers, guard Antoine McClain and defensive tackle Brian Sanford.
The Raiders had no media availability Sunday, so coach Dennis Allen was not available for comment.
With Wilson, the Raiders gained an unwelcome distinction: He was the highest pick in the 2013 NFL draft to fail to make a 53-man roster. Taken at No. 112 overall out of Arkansas, Wilson played well in rookie camp, minicamps and organized team activities but quickly fell behind undrafted free agent Matt McGloin on the depth chart during training camp.
As Wilson's practice time dwindled behind Terrelle Pryor, Matt Flynn and McGloin, so did his chance to play in the exhibition season. He didn't play at all in the second and third games. His passing line was 11 of 18 for 93 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions. McGloin was 20 of 35 for a team-high 279 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions.
Wilson, who received a $491,000 signing bonus, could be added to the practice squad should he clear waivers, although it would seem a team in need of quarterback help would be intrigued by a fourth-round draft pick.
Kluwe's release makes Marquette King, a first-year player out of Fort Valley State, the successor to NFL all-time leading punter Shane Lechler, who joined the Houston Texans as a free agent in the offseason. King averaged 53.6 yards per punt on seven punts with a 45.3 net, while Kluwe had a 46.6 average on seven punts with a 37.4 net.
King also apparently alleviated any fears Allen had about his ability to be a placekick holder for Sebastian Janikowski.
McClain, 6-foot-5 and 336 pounds, spent the entire season on the practice squad of the Baltimore Ravens last season and made it through camp until Saturday's final cutdown. The Raiders were in need of a guard after placing Tony Bergstrom on injured reserve with a foot injury.
Sanford, 6-2, 280, has spent three seasons with the Cleveland Browns and been active for only six games. He played in one game last season before being placed on the injured reserve list and was in five games in 2011.
Both waiver claims were not drafted. McClain played at Clemson and Sanford at Temple.
The Raiders made no announcements regarding their practice squad, but wide receiver Greg Jenkins and guard Lamar Mady indicated on their Twitter accounts they will be back.
The practice squad will be announced Monday when the team begins preparations to face the Indianapolis Colts on Sept. 8.
Defensive end David Bass, a seventh-round draft pick who was waived Saturday, was claimed by the Chicago Bears and put on their 53-man roster.