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I stick the DVD of Mark of the Rani into the player and Simon inspects the cover. 'Is she called the Rani or just Rani? Was she actually christened "the"?' The story begins and Simon is unconvinced by the opening sequences. 'What's this, Worzel Gummidge?' he asks also noting that he cannot understand any of the Welsh accents! I point out that it wasn't set in Wales to which he responds 'Of course its set in Wales, it s a mining village!'
We cut to the TARDIS console room and he is unconvinced about Peri's contributions, 'She has absolutely no purpose here! She might as well have been on the loo for all she adds to this scene – he could have just muttered all that exposition to himself!' It gets worse when they leave the TARDIS and he sees the full horror of her costume, 'What on Earth is she wearing? She looks like she should be protecting a toilet roll! If this was made now she would head straight back into the TARDIS and put on something more suitable for the scenery.' He's also extremely worried that Peri's frightening cleavage might escape her tight blouse!
Simon is not exactly sure what is going on but he is disturbed that as Peri hoists up her skirts and we cut to a wet towel fight that this might be some weird 19th Century porn! The scripting of Pip'n'Jane comes under scrutiny when the Doctor says he is keeping an open mind about why the machinery was wrecked, 'He knows where they are and he knows that machinery was wrecked in that time – there's no deductive reasoning in these scenes its just supposition.'
'Why was the Master a scarecrow? Are you telling me he just hung about in that field until the Doctor showed up? What was the point of that? And what's all the marks on those guys necks?' At least the huge marks of the Rani haven't been missed!
Peri once again comes under scrutiny when she rather limply throws lumps of coal at the Doctor's attackers. 'Pathetic' Simon sums this scene up with. He's also not sure why the unconscious guy opens his mouth and starts chewing when the maggot is prised inside.
Finally Simon finds something he quite likes about this 80's story. 'The Rani kicks ass. She's a bit real, not over the top like the Doctor and the Master and I love that she doesn't give a shit about either of them…she just wants to get on with her work!' Although he is having terrible difficulty trying to figure out where the Rani's cameras are. He laughs out loud at 'He'd get dizzy if he tried to walk in a straight line.'
It is at this point that Simon's mum enters the room. She has found her blood pressure kit and would like to see if it still works properly. 'Please do' he says, 'I'm watching Colin Baker.' We are all shocked to discover he is 120 over 80, perfectly normal! Proof if it was need that a Pip and Jane Baker story does not raise your blood pressure.
Simon is still confused about the Rani's name. 'The Master walks in and just calls her Rani as if its her name but the Doctor goes 'well, well, well…the Rani!' Get over it, pet. Simon much prefers the Rani to the Doctor and ponders that she should have been the hero since she's far more likable than Baker's Doctor (who just sort of bellows all the time!).
Nicola Bryant comes under fire as she heads in to rescue the Doctor and hangs around as the three Time Lords have a loquacious bitch fight. 'She's so stiff and wooden, she just sort of stands there like she's on stage!'
Episode one is over and Simon is not impressed. 'It's not very good is it? I have no idea why the Master is there (and what he was doing standing in a field), Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant treat the story like a stage play and over emphasise everything (they are theatrical rather than natural) and in all honesty I have no idea what is going on! Why can't it be called the Master and the Rani show?' Simon is still perturbed that he needed the subtitles to understand the Brummie accents! He comments that if this story was made today the Luddite riots would have been treated far more dramatically, with more exciting set pieces and drama.
We get some tea and settle down for part two. Whilst shaking his head in disbelief at Peri pushing the Doctor down the hill he wonders how on earth it manages to stay on the path for so long without crashing, managing to turn every corner with effortless skill! 'Run Doctor run!' screams Peri and Simon asks if someone could knock her out!
For a moment all is silent and I wonder if Simon has finally been gripped by the story. 'Luke has a very tight package, doesn't he?' he comments. Groan.
Again he's not convinced by the action and declares 'what a fucking idiot!' at the Doctor's 'peripheral vision.' The way the scene is cut makes no sense whatsoever. They face the Rani's mustard gas trap and he thinks it's a shame that she didn't use napalm to melt their faces off. 'Why didn't they just walk around the screen?'
At this stage he yawns and says, 'How much longer is this?' Never a good sign.
Simon is quite impressed by the Rani's TARDIS claiming it is much 'sexier' than the Doctor's.
'Everyone seems to have forgotten that the TARDIS is stuck down a hole! Even me!' The Doctor suggests Peri stays with Lord Ravensworth to see what she can do. 'Bore them to sleep, probably!' He's annoyed at Colin Baker's constant quoting of poetry saying that he is 'always talking nonsense.'
He boggles when Luke has the biggest case of wood he has ever seen! 'What was the point of turning him into a tree? What was the purpose of that? Never mind Peri, she's wooden enough already!' The Rani asks if Peri can walk without falling flat on her face: 'No!' screams Simon.
I tell him at this point that the show was put on hiatus after season twenty-two. 'Hardly surprising', he muses.
The story ends and he sits there wondering what the point of that hour and a half worth of television we have just watched was. He definitely thinks Colin Baker belongs on the stage because a TV screen is too small to contain his HUGE acting. He thought the storyline was crap, some nonsense about the Rani collecting semen like liquid and the Master cocking everything up and wonders why everybody kept going on about the meeting of geniuses if it was never actually part of the plot! He declares (having seen some of their stories before) he has never seen the sixth Doctor and Peri worse than they were here (and cites Trial of a Time Lord as a time when he really liked Baker's Doctor). He says Colin Baker reminds him of Bruce Forsyth, every time he makes a joke he wants to staple something to his head.
I ask him for something positive and he said 'It looks very nice. You could never tell it was 25 years old. Plus the Rani was very good, she alone kept my interest.'
An unmemorable 5/10 for Simon then and his final word on the story is 'dull'.
Planet of Giants
Now it astonishes me how much he has picked up as a non fan, some of it must rub off from my enthusiasm, other bits he has picked up dipping into the classic series and recently on a long trip to a job interview he listed all of the Doctor's companions in a row without hesitation! Now that's commitment! I'm sure you've all been here, wracking your brains for which stories to show a non-fan to introduce them to the different eras. Tom Baker was a pretty safe bet an he loved Genesis and Talons, Colin Baker was a surprise hit in Trial of a Time Lord and he would happily watch any Jon Pertwee story because he likes the UNIT set up very much. Davison and McCoy were instantly rejected and Troughton despite so many missing stories he really took to his heart. I was really reluctant to show him any creaky, slow Hartnell stories fearing his mirth (he loves the flashier, fast paced TV of today) and yet he caught me watching The Gunfighters one afternoon as he returned from work and quickly tried to fight him for the remote to turn it off. He absolutely loved it! The music, the jokes, the rubbish accents and especially Hartnell who made him roar with laughter at his 'I'm afraid I don't touch alcohol but a little glass of milk and I'll only be too delighted!' He asked to see more first Doctor stories – he lapped up The Romans, adored the madness of The Chase and even thought The Web Planet was 'brave like only Doctor Who can be.' His one complaint about the era is Susan who he finds a pointless, shrieking harridan (he made me turn off The Keys of Marinus because 'my ears are melting with all her screaming!'). So it was with mixed feelings that I put in the tape of Planet of Giants…
He compliments the theme music straight away saying it is 'much more atmospheric than the 80's.' The opening TARDIS scenes are met with a stony silence, the doors opening in flight as a dramatic flourish to start the season. He notes that the Doctor looks very perturbed by these events claiming 'he's just upset because Susan wasn't sucked into space!' Simon is especially pleased that Ian and Barbara ask sensible questions, noting that they are far better foils for the Doctor than Susan or Peri (from last months Mark of the Rani). As they venture out of the TARDIS to explore this unknown place that has had such an effect on the ship he wonders 'why don't they ever arm themselves with a baseball bat? They just wander out in to God knows where unprotected!' This isn't the Cartmel era honey!
Ian and Susan encounter a giant ant and Simon admits 'that looks pretty good, you know.' Although the Doctor's granddaughter continues to irritate: 'Why is she so hysterical? She's always screaming? Ian and Barbara walk around calmly investigating and she's off her face all the time stressing every discovery! Its like having Colin Baker back!'
The episode continues for some time and Simon says very little. I check to see if he has fallen asleep and he notices me looking concerned. 'I'm not making comments because this is quite good. The acting is natural, the characters hold my attention and there is a good message in there for children about the ecology of the planet.' I point out that The Mark of the Rani had several moments that touched on the subject to which he responds 'Did it? That was nonsense compared to this.'
'Considering this was made 50 years ago they've made a remarkable job of convincing that the Doctor and friends are one inch tall. There's a few duff elements like that obvious blow up picture but on the whole I am convinced.' The Doctor comments on at this size it would be planes versus bees to which Simon enthuses 'Ooh do we get to see that?' I tell him not to get his hopes up.
Simon is unconvinced about Ian suddenly finding his friends so suddenly: 'They are one inch tall in a massive garden, how on Earth did Ian discover the rest of them so suddenly? Probably heard Susan screeching.'
He is impressed by the appearance of the cat at the end of the episode, noting its similarities to Snowy, our tabby. He notes: 'This is actually a genuine moment of peril! I would actually scream if I saw a cat the size of a house in front of me! I've seen how Snowy plays about with insects!'
As we move into episode two Simon shows no signs of fatigue at watching the story. Indeed he keeps asking questions about their situation about ten seconds before Ian and Barbara ask the exact same questions and he notes how intelligent they are! In a moment that makes him choke with laughter and he forces me to rewind to watch over and again the Doctor and co are menaced by a 'huge leg!' and it appears that the Doctor pushes Barbara over to make his escape! Simon notes: 'No time for you Barbara – shove!'
He loves the drainpipe set, suggesting it really suggests their scale.
For a moment he gives Susan a breather from groaning and sighing at her and moves on to Barbara. He doesn't understand why she won't tell Ian that she has touched the insecticide suggesting 'its better to be thought of as an idiot than dead!' Barbara asks Ian if he can get the flap open much to Simon's amusement! She does a big girlie faint in front of the fly and he is considering reassessing Barbara's worth.
Suddenly… 'Ian! Barbara! Can you hear me?' Simon: 'Oh no its Susan screaming! Run Ian and Barbara! There's still time to get squashed before she catches up with you!'
'Move your fat arse, bitch!' Simon screams at Barbara as she takes forever to climb up the plug chain and Ian gives her a heft push up the posterior!
I love his observation about the pace of the story. 'Some people would call this slow paced and by today's standards it is but surely the point of telling a story about one inch tall people is that would take an age to work out how to achieve the simplest of things.' Suddenly Simon starts looking around the room and imagining he is one inch tall himself! He notes the bedside lamp bulb, the height from the bed to the floor, falling into a mug of tea – 'its quite interesting to imagine yourself at that height. Now we know how the woodlouse feel!'
Unconvinced by their plan to use the telephone, he admits that could all use a good nap when they get back to the TARDIS!
'Burn her skin!' 'Cut her hands!' 'Kill Susan!' These are Simon's three unpractical solutions to Barbara's poisonous dilemma!
Simon is now sure that the first Doctor is an arsonist when he suggests 'we should start a fire!' noting that he did precisely the same thing in the Roman adventure! 'Ooh nasty!' he cries as the can explodes in Forrester's face.
Whilst the story has concentrated mostly on the Doctor's shrunken woes Simon is not sure that the story is wrapped up very efficiently. 'I know the policeman turns up and everything but we never find out if they find the body or if the insecticide is stopped, there are lots of unanswered questions, aren't there?'
Again Simon is full of praise for the visualisation of the story which he states has 'very good sets, imaginatively designed to suggest the characters scale without breaking the budget.' He suggests they have it easy these days being able to create all these environments with CGI but this takes real skill.
William Hartnell has struck up another winner it seems with Simon declaring his performance 'funny and entertaining, he's not as loud and theatrical as Colin Baker was in the last story, manages to calm a situation down and steal the scenes without going over the top.'
A very healthy 7.5/10 for Planet of Giants which Simon says was 'much better than Mark of the Rani by which all stories shall now be judged! Sorry I didn't make many comments but I was really enjoying the story!'
His last word: 'Mark of the Rani was released on DVD before this?'


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Samsung plans to manufacture Windows Phone 7 smartphones, which it will launch before the end of 2010. That official announcement follows months of widespread speculation-backed by leaked photos and video-that Samsung would produce the devices.
Samsung already produces several smartphones that run Google Android, one of the major competitors to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. For its part, Microsoft hopes that a healthy number of devices running the operating system, combined with a wide variety of mobile apps and services, will help it re-establish a position in the smartphone market. Unlike Android and the Apple iPhone, which rely on grid-like screens of individual apps for their user interface, Windows Phone 7 aggregates Web content and apps into a series of subject-specific "Hubs" such as "Office" and "Games."
Microsoft is expected to formally launch Windows Phone 7 in October.
"The addition of Windows Phone 7 devices to Samsung's smartphone portfolio is a significant milestone," Simon Stanford, head of Mobile for Samsung UK and Ireland, wrote in a Sept. 30 statement. "Samsung's new Windows Phone 7-based smartphones will play a key role in reinforcing Samsung's leadership in the smartphone market and commitment to providing a range of devices across a variety of platforms."
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Samsung's statement failed to mention the exact number of Windows Phone 7 smartphones it plans on launching; but Europe, the United States and Asia will apparently receive devices during the 2010 rollout.
"For years, Samsung has been a key partner in bringing new Windows phones to customers all over the world," Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft's OEM Division, also wrote in a Sept. 30 statement. "Windows Phone 7 is an important release and we look forward to deepening our collaboration with Samsung on mobile devices and beyond, with our multiscreen strategy."
Windows Phone 7 reached its release-to-manufacturing milestone Sept. 1, after which Microsoft's OEM partners began integrating the software with their devices. That followed a summer of extensive internal testing, with more than 1,000 Microsoft employees evaluating the platform's battery life, usability, and network connectivity.
Microsoft will spend nearly a half-billion dollars in marketing during Windows Phone 7's initial rollout, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg. "This is make-or-break for them. They need to do whatever it takes to stay in the game," he told the blog TechCrunch Aug. 26. "They don't have to take share from Android or Apple, so long as they can attract enough consumers switching from feature phones."
Goldberg estimated Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 marketing tab at $400 million, but that doesn't include the already-substantial development costs for the platform. Microsoft is reportedly offering financial incentives to mobile-applications developers, as part of its bid to develop a robust apps storefront.
Microsoft hopes that Windows Phone 7 will reverse the company's mobile market-share slide. In addition to the Apple iPhone and Google Android, the company also faces competition in the enterprise from Research In Motion, which seems determined to revive its own fortunes with new devices such as the BlackBerry Torch 9800.
"We missed a generation with Windows Mobile. We really did miss a release cycle," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the audience during his July 12 keynote at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference. However, he promised, "We will give you a set of Windows-based devices that people will be proud to carry."


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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Anniversary Cake
This past weekend my family and I got together in celebration of my parent's 35th wedding anniversary. I had a small party at my house, and the cooking and entertaining was fun of course, but the biggest part of the weekend (for me at least) was giving them their anniversary cake!
I had it planned for weeks, and watching it come to life was really fun. This was the 1st 3-tiered wedding type cake I've done, so I was admittedly (very) nervous about it, but all in all it came out great and wasn't as hard as I thought!
I did two layers of chocolate cake (one filled with raspberry jam, the other with hazelnut chocolate frosting) and one layer of spice cake filled with blackberries (recipe is forthcoming!) and topped the whole thing with buttercream and homemade marshmallow fondant. The calla lillies, leaves, and "35" on top of the cake were made of gumpaste and brushed with silver luster dust.
In terms of assembling the cake, I just placed each cake on top of a piece of cardboard exactly the size of the cake that sat on it, and placed one wooden dowel in the center of all the cakes (make sure you cut a whole in the center of the cardboard before you put the cake on!) so they didn't slide from side to side. Then on the bottom and middle layers, I studded the cakes with wooden dowels the exact height of the cake to support the layer above it.
The cake was a success, and my parents were very appreciative of it and the party!
12 comments:
- KMAYS said...
Wow! The cake looks absolutely stunning. What a gift!
- September 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Jade said...
You did an amazing job on this cake!! It is absolutely beautiful and I'm sure your parents loved it.
- September 8, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- Jigginjessica said...
Amazing! You did a fabulous job!
- September 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- Jakin said...
Oh my goodness Kristen! That is just gorgeous!! I'd say that all your hard work most DEFINITELY paid off! What a special anniversary!
- September 8, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- Kerstin said...
Wow, I'm SO impressed, it looks amazing! You need to start a bakery :)
- September 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Joelen said...
Great job and I love how your cake came out. Your parents are so lucky and here's wishing them many more years to come!
- September 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM
- Colleen said...
This looks beautiful! Great job!
- September 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Beautiful cake! I am sure it was equally delicious!
- September 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Erin said...
Wow! This looks amazing. Great, great, great job!
- September 10, 2009 at 1:29 PM
GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!
- September 12, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- tlm said...
What a beautiful cake!
- September 14, 2009 at 3:05 PM
- Mekala Ashokkumar said...
Wat a gorgeous cake! I love the flowers very much!
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Hutchinson Police Department
Thursday, 7:23 a.m. - An employee of Avenue A Elementary reported suspicious activity.
8:20 a.m. - A 29-year-old Hutchinson man was arrested in the 200 block of West First for possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.
12:25 p.m. - A 28-year-old Hutchinson man was arrested in the 200 block of West First on a failure to appear warrant.
1:40 p.m. - James Wayne Nichols, 45, Hutchinson, reported the theft of his bicycle, which had been locked up at the bike rack at the Hutchinson Public Library. It is a blueish-purple 24-inch Mongoose men's model.
2:02 p.m. - Mary J. Skinner, 49, Hutchinson, reported losing her Kansas driver's license somewhere in the city.
2:33 p.m. - Jennifer M. Craig, 30, Colombia, Mo., reported a known male forged her name on two checks in the city.
3:28 p.m. - An employee of Dog House Motors on West Fifth reported the theft of a 1995 green and black Nissan 300ZX from the 300 block of East Third.
4:15 p.m. - Tommy D. Dobson, 58, Hutchinson, reported finding a wallet belonging to Andrew Wiles, 19, Wichita, in the 2700 block of East 11th.
5:07 p.m. - Amber L. Walling, 21, Hutchinson, was cited for failure to yield the right of way when making a left turn and no proof of insurance after the vehicle she was driving at Fourth and Hoagland struck another driven by Mark K. Dale Jr., 23, Hutchinson. Walling was taken to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center for injuries.
6:11 p.m. - An employee of Don's Car Care reported finding drug paraphernalia in a vehicle towed during an accident.
6:53 p.m. - Amber Barnes, 23, Hutchinson, reported the theft of a cell phone by a white female on Aug. 24.
7:10 p.m. - A 33-year-old Hutchinson man was arrested in the 200 block of East Avenue A for interference with a law enforcement officer.
8:13 p.m. - An employee of Family Dollar on East Fourth reported a female took cash from the business. A 19-year-old Hutchinson woman was advised of criminal trespassing at the business.
10:10 p.m. - Taylir A. Garcia, 19, Hutchinson, reported a known male broke a window at her residence in the 400 block of West Avenue A.
11:41 p.m. - Two 19-year-old Hutchinson men were arrested at their residence in the 3400 block of East Eighth for hosting minors and illegal consumption of liquor. A 20-year-old Hutchinson man and a 20-year-old Hutchinson woman were arrested for illegal consumption of liquor. A 19-year-old Hutchinson man was issued a Municipal Court summons for illegal consumption of liquor.
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Jenna Jameson says the incident this morning between her and Tito Ortiz "wasn't minor" ... but she still wants to work things out with him for the sake of their two kids.
Jenna -- who just told us she has torn ligaments in her arm -- said she's not allowed to see Tito for a month ...we're guessing because of a restraining order.
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These are some photos I find especially powerful regarding the 9/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center. They are somewhat in chronological order and do not include images from the Pentagon attack site or United 93 crash site. Some of these photos are very well known; I do not have copyright on these images but collect them here under fair use terms. There are other slideshows like this on the internet; this one isn't special. I was only going to post a few of the most powerful images, but I kept including more and more until it ballooned to its present size, presently without commentary.
And I think I would finish with this song, which I posted on 9/11 a year ago.
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Tenure is like vaccination: they both work best when nobody opts out.
We're in the middle of two new legislative attacks on tenure in the United States. Anti-tenure sentiment is hardly new, but it seems bound to pick up steam when I look at the current sociopolitical trends in the United States, which might be summarized as, "Don't get comfortable."
We academics will need to be vocal about why tenure is a good thing (here is my own defense of tenure), but I worry a lot that conditions have moved too far for us to mount an effective defense of tenure.
One of the key reactions I saw on social media to the announced bills was that abolishing tenure would cause a "brain drain" in those states, and the institutions in those states would have a hard time recruiting top notch faculty. My mind immediately jumped to this graph:
Any discussion of the academic job market that doesn't take this graph into account is woefully deficient. Possibly even negligent.
One of the arguments for tenure is that the the increases job security compensates, to some degree, for the decreased salary. It's generally accepted that academic pays poorly compared to industry and other non-academic positions. In theory, tenure is such an integral part of being an academic that people should not be willing to accept jobs that do not provide tenure.
The extraordinary surplus of doctoral students rather puts a wrench in that assumption. There are so many doctoral recipients that it is an employer's market. Sure, you may lose those legendary (mythical?) "best" people, but there are plenty of people with Ph.D.s who are more than good enough: they're still highly trained, highly skilled, and completely capable of running productive research programs.
And we know that there are many people with doctorates who are desperate enough to take positions that do not offer tenure: many of them are called "adjuncts."
We are in a crappy situation all around. Tenure has a perception problem, because people see it as a "job for life" and a blanket protection for incompetence (it isn't). The adjunctification of so many universities demonstrates that there are enough people willing to take jobs without tenure that both legislators and university administrators feel emboldened to reduce or eliminate tenured positions. I am deeply worried that the concept of tenure in the United States may not be able to survive these assaults.
What we are left with is the principle of the thing: tenure is supposed to allow us to do amazing long-term research, and speak truth to power. Fellow academics, if you have tenure, I urge you to use it, actively and frequently.
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I had heard about this when it was briefly in theaters, and was eager to see it, but never made it. It was described as being a non-narrative "lyrical" (read: boring) film shot at a Montreal zoo, and to focus on people and animals looking at each other. So it sounded like a gentle, introspective film asking us to quietly reflect on the sameness and differences between humans and animals, which would leave one in a wistful and warmly contemplative mood, like Microcosmos or Winged Migration. Turns out to be a harrowing, hard-to-watch exploration of animals driven insane by captivity.
This is distributed by a company called "Fun Films," although it turns out to be anything but. We open with a close up of a girl's eyes and she looks UP, then down, then UP, then down, and you're left for a while wondering why this should be so compelling. We see more people looking, then looking away, and gradually pull back to reveal that they are drawing, looking at a taxidermied animal, then back to their drawings.
Then we cut to a buffalo, standing in a pen. We stare at him so long, we start to see facial expressions, and though you don't want to anthropomorphize, you start to imagine the buffalo thinking "How did I get here? What am I doing in this place?" Cut to a Llama, standing at the edge of the fence, looking at something in the distance. It paces back, then forth, then looks, then back, then forth, then looks, then back... while you're starting to think "That animal seems completely bewildered," while simultaneously noting that the structure of the shot makes the animal and its' thin legs into a kind of abstract composition. By the time we've seen gorgeously-photographed and impeccably-composed shots of animal horns, or a buffalo hiding in the corner of a holding cell, we can see that there is a real photographer's eye at work here.
Meanwhile, the animals are being held in pens, reacting with bewilderment to loud bangs and industrial noises. They seem shocked and bewildered, unable to process what is happening to them. Around this time I started to think "Is this movie not sweet and wistful at all, but a nasty treatise about animals being driven insane by captivity?" Suspicions mounted as I watched more animals reacting in tense fear to loud offscreen bangs, then suspicions are confirmed as we see that the cause of these bangs in a zebra kept in a small concrete room, throwing itself repeatedly against the iron door. We see the zebra trying to run, but not even having enough space to get going, scrambling back after being repelled by the door--and it was excruciating to watch.
The tone lightens just at the right moment as we see heads of ostriches popping in and out of view, but they are soon revealed to be huddling in a small area to get away from the loud noise of power tools being used in their pen. Then a monkey clinging to a worn stuffed teddy bear as it looks around in terror and bewilderment. Then an exotic bird with one wing attacking itself in a mirror that has been placed in its pen. Then a small antelope walking obsessively in circles as it twitches. Okay, this is becoming unbearable again! Then lions pounding incessantly at the door of their cages. And occasionally we cut to zoo workers as they ignore the loud pounding of the animals, or create their own loud noises by throwing buckets or using power tools without regard to the animals. Just as you're thinking "I'm not sure I can watch this all the way to the end," the screen fades to black. And new horrors await.
We join a taxidermist. He is using a power tool to scrape every last bit of flesh from a bird's skull. It is quite, quite gross, even to those who have watched a fair amount of gruesome horror films. We see him stuff a plastic shell into the carcass, also quite horrific, and by the time we pull back to see the man, he seems like some terrifying doctor death. A series of shots showing the blank eyes of taxidermied animals invites us to compare them with a vivid consciousness we could see in the live animals covered earlier.
At last, the film moves on to animals kept outside in large "natural" environments. They seem a lot more mentally stable than the animals in smaller pens, although the movie shows zebras walking through long lines of cars on a "natural safari," and savannah animals walking listlessly in the cold Canadian rain. The last shot is of an elephant meandering off near the edge of a parking lot, which somehow seems to close it all out appropriately.
Basically, it was excellent. These non-narrative documentaries, that don't tell you what to think or make any overt case, leave your mind free to wander and have your own thoughts. I found the majority of it pretty harrowing and horrifying, but judging from reviews, not everyone saw it that way. It successfully centers on the idea of looking, beginning with the art students' looking at the taxidermied animal, then us looking at real animals, then seeing the process of a real animal being turned into a stuffed carcass for us to look at, and finally looking at animals from behind the safety of plexiglass or from within cars. It also invites you to reflect on the effect of animals in captivity, taken from freedom in natural environments and put in steel or concrete pens and dealing with loud industrial noises. And throughout it features nice, understated photography and excellent compositions. So it's a good film to watch if you love animals, though if you love animals, you might find it pretty hard to sit through.
Yes, it's very well done and inspires a lot of interesting thought.


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Since its launch, Figure 1 (so called application) has continued to evolve, combining different search options. Now you can get and hang a selfie with a burn on your arm … If you're so concerned, don't worry! Health professionals will tell you that cream is best suited to heal the wound! The use of new technologies is no longer limited to finding old friends on social networks, now you can go much further and find your doctor.


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King Lear
I enjoyed Sam Mendes' grizzly production of King Lear at the National Theatre starring Simon Russell Beale. Shakespeare's insults are wonderful:
Kent: Fellow, I know thee.
Oswald: What dost thou know me for?
Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.


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"A writer's job is to take one thing and make it stand for twenty." ~ Virginia Woolf
Friday, April 5, 2013
Eggplant Casserole
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Wow - sounds delish and easy - too of my favourite attributes in a recipe! We have a vegetarian daughter so are always figuring out something for her. Thanks for dropping by Karen!ReplyDelete
Yummy. This is one I will keep handy.ReplyDelete
I have never tried eggplant before.ReplyDelete
Dani @ Entertaining Interests
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Thanks for the recipe. I've been meaning to buy some eggplants for a change. It's amazing how much oil the eggplant drinks up. I've never tried it this way with pasta. I shall try it this way sometime. I usually layer it with potato, and Bechamel sauce, Greek style. Hope all is well with you. Have a wonderful weekend!Replies
Jacqueline, Wow, that sounds good! I'm pretty sure I'd love it as I enjoy any food Greek style.Delete
That sounds delicious. I love eggplant.ReplyDelete
I like eggplant!ReplyDelete
seriously gotta come back and jot this one down---eggplant is my favorite food!!!!!ReplyDelete
That sounds absolutely delicious. I know I would never take the time to cook it, but I can dream...ReplyDelete
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HI, Karen,ReplyDelete
What a great theme for your A-Z... haven't seen you in a while ... I hope all is well!
I will definitely filing many of these yummy recipes for future feasts.... Thanks!
yummy... i am big fan of this idea... may need to sneak some meat into it... defeats the purpose.ReplyDeleteReplies
Jeremy, Have it as a side dish then with your meat, you carnivore you.Delete
Oh fab - a vege meal. Will give it a go (maybe daughters can come round - this looks like it's a big meal.)ReplyDeleteReplies
Jo, It is wonderful left over too, just in case your daughters don't help you finish it :)Delete
Absolutely love eggplant! This sounds great.ReplyDelete
All your recipes sound great so far. (So THAT'S what an amber pie is...)ReplyDelete
Eggplant is one of those neat foods that takes on the taste of what you cook it with and this combination is a winner!ReplyDelete
Never was an eggplant fan. :( But all the rest of it sounds delish!ReplyDelete
Eggplant is yummy, especially from my garden!ReplyDeleteReplies
Kerri, How cool that you can grow it. I've never tried growing it in my garden. And now that we've downsized and moved away from our "garden home" looks like I won't be. But whenever I see eggplant on sale at the store I buy a few and make this.Delete
Oh, you're doing recipes! How wonderful. You could pdf them all at the end of the month... Or I could, since I'll be saving - and probably printing - many of these! I love eggplants. And that amber pie sounds yummy too!ReplyDeleteReplies
Deniz, These recipes and many others will all be in my upcoming recipe book!Delete
*shudder* I am clearly in the minority here but I do not like eggplant. I do love your recipes usually though - there were lots of nice ones in Lighting Candles in the Snow.ReplyDelete
I love eggplant! I actually never fry it though. I don't fry many things, I have trouble getting the coating to stay on.ReplyDelete
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Mountain Fire Lily of the Valley
Pieris japonica 'Mountain Fire'Item #6520 USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 - 8
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Fiery red new growth rises from the lustrous evergreen foliage then ages to a deep green. Profuse, broad, drooping clusters of white flowers cool the flames, creating a breathtaking spring show. An ideal shrub for use in a foundation planting or landscape groupings, and an excellent companion shrub for azaleas.
- OverviewLight Needs:Partial shade to partial sunWatering Needs:Water regularly - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.Average Landscape Size:Slow growing; reaches 6 to 10 ft. tall and wide.Key Feature:Sensational Flowering ShrubBlooms:SpringLandscape Uses:
- DetailBotanical Pronunciation:PY-er-is ja-PON-i-kaPlant type:ShrubDeciduous/evergreen:EvergreenGrowth habit:RoundedGrowth rate:SlowAverage landscape size:Slow growing; reaches 6 to 10 ft. tall and wide.Special features:Dramatic Foliage Color, Year-round InterestFoliage color:GreenBlooms:SpringFlower color:WhiteFlower attributesShowy FlowersDesign IdeasThis Pieris is a bold colored plant for partially shaded gardens. It thrives in natural woodland settings. An excellent background plant with conifers in Japanese tea gardens. A great solution for the damp, acidic soil conditions in the Pacific Northwest. Bright foliage color and charming flowers makes it a suitable accent plant for condo and town-house patios, city gardens and courtyards. Valuable foundation plant on north and eastern exposures. Once matured, it can be used as a side-yard privacy screen.Companion PlantsRhododendron (Rhododendron); Holly (Ilex); Camellia (Camellia); Oregon Grape Holly (Mahonia); Mountain Laurel (Kalmia)
- CareCare InformationProvide organically rich, slightly acidic, evenly moist, well-drained soil, with protection from harsh winds. Thrives in dappled shade. Water deeply and regularly during the first growing season to establish an extensive root system. Keep roots cool with a thick layer of mulch. Feed with an acid fertilizer after bloom.Pruning time: spring after flowering.Light Needs:Partial shade to partial sunWatering Needs:Water regularly - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.
- History & LoreHistory:This is a genus of Ericaceous flowering plants from Asia and North America, classified in 1834 by David Don, 1799-1841. He named the genus after the Pierides or nine muses of mythology The parent species is P. japonica, introduced in 1784 as Andromeda japonica. The plant was first collected and described by noted physician Carl Thunberg while working for the Dutch East India Company in Japan. Plants are native to eastern China and Taiwan as well. It was introduced under P. japonica to the west in England by 1870 as the most cold hardy of all species. This and many of the P. japonica varieties likely include P. formosa for color and P. floribunda in their family tree.
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There are a plethora of social networks you can get involved in that allow you to effectively interact and engage with other people. Due to the sheer number, you may be wondering what networks you need to put your attention on.
You may already know and can easily name, off the top of your head, the largest five social media networks:
But, there are many more that are quickly increasing in stature or are important because they fit certain niches and audiences. In fact, there are so many, you may wonder which ones to put your focus on.
Never fret! Here are some helpful tips to find the perfect social network for you to put your attention on.
4 Tips To Picking A Social Network For Your Social Media Marketing Campaign
There are all kinds of advice circulating about social media marketing. The best so far is that a company needs to pick the social networks that will fit their plans and help them to meet the social media goals they want to attain.
In plain English: there's no reason to sign up on all social media networks. Choose only the ones that would matter to your audience and then to you. Of course, you may be wondering how you narrow down these sites. There are four factors that you must take into consideration:
1 – Time
What amount of time can you give to the social network? It's best to spend at least 60 minutes a day, in the beginning, navigating the site and making updates to your page. And, once the ball gets rolling, you can use tools such as Buffer to save you some time.
2 – Resources
What things do you have at your disposal? What kinds of skills do you have? Do you have any personnel you work with? With Instagram and Pinterest, you need pictures and images. With Twitter and social networks similar to it, there is an emphasis on quality content. Are there any resources that will allow you to produce what you need?
3 – Information and Familiarity
What kind of learning curve will you have on the preferred social network? Are there any social networks that you're currently familiar with? Be sure you do some research to learn more about the different social media networks available.
4 – Target Audience
Where can you find your target audience? What social media platform are they using? This is especially important to consider if you're going to extend your reach beyond the popular six.
If you see that target audience is on a fringe social network, it could be in your best interest to set up your brand there.
Not sure how to get started? Connect with me, I would love to help you.
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For Best Chefs America
David Abrahams calls the crew at his restaurant, Red Water Café, the black sheep of the restaurant business in Waimea, Hawaii. Abrahams' restaurant is a hub where local misfits and high-end travelers alike can gather for conviviality and fine cuisine. Red Water Café is also one of the only exclusively chef-owned restaurant concepts on the northern coast of the Big Island, which makes it unique.
"We're the counterculture restaurant in town," he says.
Abrahams' style of food is undefined. He has an ability to jump around genres. He's not working for anyone else anymore, like he did for decades as he climbed his way up from being a dishwasher to chef de cuisine at a AAA Four Diamond resort. He can put classic French food, curry, sushi, burgers, and more on one menu. He can do whatever he wants, and the public agrees that it's good. With its mix of Polynesian, Japanese, Micronesian, and 'mainland' culinary influences, Hawaii is a great place to showcase fusion food.
What Abrahams remains steadfast in is his commitment to farm to fork sourcing. The list of farms Abrahams works with is long. Everything from butternut squash to fern shoots to taro leaf to lilikoi are grown on the island and used in his menu. If it weren't for Red Water Café, the only other place to get true farm to table food in Waimea would be Merriman's, where it's hard to walk out without spending a few hundred dollars. Abrahams specifically made Red Water Café accessible to many budgets. Prices range from 10 to 40 dollars a plate.
During lunch, Red Water Café is a greasy spoon restaurant. Abrahams and his team dish out giant bowls of saimin (Hawaiian style ramen), sandwiches, huge salads, the fuji sushi roll, and a plate of fresh sashimi. During dinner, you won't see any burgers. There are Asian-inspired appetizers, rib eye steaks, shrimp fried rice, macadamia nut creme brulée, and more. A full sushi menu is also available, and Red Water Café makes rolls large enough for an entire meal. Sake, wine, and cocktails with handmade syrups and blended fruit are served alongside food.
Most people might associate Hawaiian agriculture with the images of lush abundance that an exotic environment evoke. The land here in Hawaii is very green. You're in the jungle. Anything that can, will grow. There's food everywhere. Papayas, mangos, coconut, and jackfruit fall off the trees, but the European produce most people regularly eat has a hard time producing. The soil is full of cinder. Blight is everywhere. It rains constantly. People on the Big Island live on an active volcano. Conditions are extreme.
For Abrahams to source local, he has to take advantage of available ingredients anywhere he can find them. He and his staff forage for citrus. He buys local beef and lamb.
"We're here to showcase what's around," Abrahams says.
He's also here to cook food that helps Waimea flourish. Abrahams took a failing restaurant space and turned it into a business that helps farmers generate income without a middleman. Red Water Café also provides solid jobs for its servers, who make an average of 50,000 to 70,000 dollars a year waiting on the many tourists who visit Hawaii. Red Water Café has stayed so consistently packed since its opening that Abrahams paid off all his debts in two years.
Red Water Café is also a social center. There's music here most nights of the week. Then there's "Bring It" — an open forum every second Saturday of each month, where people can air grievances and argue about anything political happening in town that they want. It gets rowdy.
The kick off of the Big Island Jazz Festival took place at Red Water Café on the night we visited. Top musicians from New Orleans and around the world were playing together for the first time ever, improvising on the washboard, guitar, trumpet, and more. Abrahams was also awarded the Kilohana Award for the Best Chef in Hawaii by HawaiionTV.com on this night.
Abrahams prides himself on running the kind of restaurant where people can order anything they want off the menu, because his cooks are skilled enough to make it. Abrahams does, however, state that he's anti-starch. That's why edamame, rather than bread, is served as a starter before dinner.
His kitchen has four stations. There's a person who works both sauté and garde manger, a sushi chef, a grill master, and someone on the wok. There are always four to six specials offered each week. These dishes are planned in advance by Abrahams and his team. They're not made from leftovers.
Red Water Café is also known for its sushi. If you order sashimi, you'll be able to taste traditionally cut melt-in-your mouth ahi, sea bass, and house cured salmon — all caught from the Hawaiian coast, sometimes that very day. Specialty rolls incorporate creative combinations of many types of protein: fried soft shells, tuna, shrimp, seared strip steak, even nigiri topped with local pork tataki.
fresh sashimi
pork tataki nigiri
For appetizers, locals recommend the sautéed mushrooms with a red wine demi sauce, a pesto poached organic egg, and grilled sourdough toast. As your fork cracks open the seal of the egg, the yolk runs out and on top of the mushrooms resting hot in a soufflé dish.
sautéed mushrooms
One of the day's specials is what Abrahams deems "the next generation of salad." It includes a blue bell heirloom tomato marinated in red wine, paired with local goat cheese, daikon, and fried onions.
"the next generation of salad"
Another special of the day is apple cider braised Berkshire pork shank, paired with chard, cremini mushrooms, and pickled onions. The flesh flakes off bone after being smoked for five hours and braised for eight.
apple cider braised pork shank
Portions at Red Water are hefty, but don't let the homestyle plating fool you. The flavor pairings are delibrate, creative and nuanced. The ingredients taste vibrant and healthy. The sheer variety of food available makes any meal at Red Water Café an exploration into just how many dishes from different cultures one neighborhood restaurant in the Pacific Ocean can pull off.
There's a reason why Abrahams has now been named "Best Chef" by more than one media outlet. In a paradise paved with chain restaurants, Red Water Café is the breath of fresh air that foodies come back again and again to enjoy. Abrahams is proof in the power of tapping into what's missing in any given location. His success shows that artfully bending the rules in the realm of food can not only earn you business, it can bring people together and push a town forward.


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Gujarat polls: Congress promises free laptops, tablets
Ahmedabad : The Congress Tuesday roped in Sheila Dikshit, its three-time Delhi Chief Minister, as star campaigner for the crucial Gujarat assembly polls and unveiled its manifesto with a series of promises, including free laptops and tablets to students.
Releasing the manifesto, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee chief Arjun Modhwadia slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government for ignoring farmers, minorities, healthcare facilities and small-scale industries during its rule in the state.
The Congress promised it would provide free laptops and tablets to students, reduce their fees and grant scholarships to minorities.
The party said if voted to power, it will also implement the Sachar Committee report which advocates granting more facilities to Muslims to bring them into the mainstream.
Dikshit, who led the Congress to a record three successive victories in Delhi assembly elections, slammed the Narendra Modi-led government in Gujarat for its "misrule".
"We never make promises which can't be fulfilled. Our manifestos are based on basic requirements of the people and it includes every section of society," she said.
Modhwadia, who read out the manifesto, said the Congress government in Gujarat would provide better irrigation facilities, construct more dams (both small and medium), provide VAT-free fertilisers to farmers and ensure regular supply of electricity to them.
"They (BJP) made promises which were never fulfilled. Some of their promises figure in every election manifesto," he said, describing the BJP's poll manifesto as a "document full of lies".
The Congress manifesto also promises to make diesel, petrol and LPG cheaper, implement the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, right to education to all, set up fishing harbours and provide insurance coverage to fishermen.
It also promises to revive small-scale industries and set up more industries in backward areas where 85 percent employees will be recruited from local population and strictly implement the labour laws.
The manifesto promises to provide free life-saving drugs, pure drinking water to all and complete the Narmada dam.
The state goes to the polls Dec 13 and 17. The counting of ballots is slated for Dec 20.


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By MIKE HUFFMAN
Managing Editor
While not in the 2014 budget, the Spokane Valley City Council are poised to vote next Tuesday to appropriate $423,213 to hire more police officers and restructure the department to more effectively respond during the greatest hours of need.
The issue, which was studied at a February council retreat, came to light after a study was conducted to assess the current staffing levels of the Spokane Valley Police Department, a division of the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.
The city has contracted with the county since incorporation in 2003, and this is the first major uptick in service in that time, say city officials.
During a study session on Tuesday, City Manager Mike Jackson said the city's population has grown from 82,000 in 2003 to 91,500 in 2013. Businesses have also increased to 7,517 in 2013 from 6,015 in 2007 without an upswing in police officers.
While the city hasn't increased its police presence, it hasn't had to take officers off the street during the recession.
"We've had exactly the same police force," Jackson said, but added that the need for more officers is apparent.
To meet that requirement, however, Police Chief Rick VanLeuven said efforts will be made to use existing resources.
"Based on a collaborative effort, we are confident that we have come up with a plan," VanLeuven said. "I think it's a very good plan and am honored to share it with you."
Two additional officers are to be hired along with the reassignment of six patrol corporals in order to create a "power patrol" that would overlap during the day and night shifts from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. when the highest number of calls come in.
Also, there would be less visible changes. Existing corporals (and that rank) would be reassigned with three upgraded to sergeants, two becoming property crimes detectives and another named a patrol deputy.
This year's one time-costs would include improvements, such as new cubicles, to the Sprague Avenue Precinct. Recurring costs would be $347,000 going forward from 2015.
Hiring could begin as early as May, however it will take another year to get the officers trained at the academy and on patrol.
Council Member Ed Pace said he is supportive of the move, but would like to see more update reports from city staff on the status of the contract with the sheriff's office.
"We ought to have an annual review and discussion," he said.
Council Member Bill Bates said, however, that he didn't want to see the city constantly trying to renegotiate a contract that is "clearly working."


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Computer music
Perhaps the most important development in electronic music is the use of digital computers. The kinds of computers employed range from large mainframe, general-purpose machines to special-purpose digital circuits expressly designed for musical uses. Musical applications of digital computers can be grouped into five basic categories: data processing and information retrieval, including library applications and abstracting; processing of music notation and music printing; acoustical, theoretical, and musicological research; music composition; and sound synthesis. In all these fields considerable research and experimentation is being carried out, with sound synthesis perhaps being the most widespread and advanced activity. Dramatic illustrations of the growth of this work include the appearance of the periodical Computer Music Journal, the formation of the Computer Music Association, made up of hundreds of members, and the holding each year of the International Computer Music Conference. The 1982 conference dominated the Venice Biennale—one of the major festivals of contemporary music.
Computer composition
Composition and sound synthesis are complementary processes because the first may lead to the second. Composers may elect to use a set of compositional programs to produce a composition. They may then stop using a computer and print their results for transcription to instrumental performance. Alternatively, they may transfer their results directly into electronic sounds by means of a second set of programs for sound synthesis. Finally, they may desire only to convert an already composed score into sound. When composers do this, they translate their score into a form that can be entered into a computer and use the computer essentially as a data translator.
The first point to understand about computer composition is that, like electronic music, it is not a style but a technique. In principle, any kind of music, from traditional to completely novel, can be written by these machines. For composers, however, the main appeal consists not in duplicating known styles of music but rather in seeking new modes of musical expression that are uniquely the result of interaction between the composers and this new type of instrument.
At present, composers above all need a compiling language comprised of musical or quasi-musical statements and a comprehensive library of basic compositional operations written as closed subroutines—in effect, a user's system analogous to computer languages (such as Fortran) used by mathematicians. Two major obstacles stand in the way of building up an effective musical computer language. The first is the obvious one of allocation of sufficient time, money, and other resources. The second is defining what goes into the subroutine library—i.e., stating with precision the smallest units of activity or decision making that enter into the process of musical composition. Unlike mathematics, in which traditional modes of thinking prepared the way for such a definition of subroutines, in music the defining of "modules" of composition leaves even sophisticated thinkers much more at sea.
The earliest example of computer-composed music is the Illiac Suite for String Quartet (1957) by two Americans, the composer Lejaren Hiller and the mathematician Leonard Isaacson. It was a set of four experiments in which the computer was programmed to generate random integers representing various musical elements, such as pitches, rhythms, and dynamics, which were subsequently screened through programmed rules of composition.
Two very different compositions, ST/10-1,080262 (1962), by Yannis Xenakis, and HPSCHD (1968), by John Cage and Hiller, are illustrative of two later approaches to computer composition. ST/10-1,080262 is one of a number of works realized by Xenakis from a Fortran program he wrote in 1961 for an IBM 7090 computer. Several years earlier, Xenakis had composed a work called Achorripsis by employing statistical calculations and a Poisson distribution to assign pitches, durations, and playing instructions to the various instruments in his score. He redid the work with the computer, retitled it, and at the same time produced a number of other, similar compositions. HPSCHD, by contrast, is a multimedia work of indeterminate length scored for one to seven harpsichords and one to 51 tape recorders. For HPSCHD the composers wrote three sets of computer programs. The first, for the harpsichord solos, solved Mozart's Musical Dice Game (K. 294d), an early chance composition in which successive bars of the music are selected by rolling dice, and modified it with other compositions chosen with a program based on the Chinese oracle I Ching (Book of Changes). The second set of programs generated the 51 sound tracks on tape. These contained monophonic lines in microtone tunings based upon speculations by the composers regarding Mozart's melodic writing. The third program generated sheets of instructions to the purchasers of a record of the composition.
Hiller has continued to develop compositional programming techniques in order to complete a two-hour cycle of works entitled Algorithms I, Algorithms II, and Algorithms III. Otherwise, interest in computer composition gradually has continued to grow. For example, Gottfried Michael Koenig, director of the Instituut voor Sonologie of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, has after a lapse of several years written new computer music such as Segmente 99-105 (1982) for violin and piano. Related to Koenig's work is an extensive literature on theoretical models for music composition developed by the American composer Otto Laske. Charles Ames, another American, has written several works for piano or small ensemble that are less statistical and more deterministic in approach than most of the above. Clarence Barlow has written a prize-winning composition, Çoğluatobüsíşletmesí (1978), that exists in two versions—for piano or for solo tape. A different, but nevertheless important, example of computer music composition is Larry Austin's Phantasmagoria: Fantasies on Ives' Universe Symphony (1977). This is a realization, heavily dependent on computer processing, of Charles Ives's last and most ambitious major composition, which he left in a diverse assortment of some 45 sketch pages and fragments.
The borderline between composition and sound synthesis is becoming increasingly blurred as sound synthesis becomes more sophisticated and as composers begin to experiment with compositional structures that are less related to traditional musical syntax. An example of this is Androgeny, written for tape in 1978 by the Canadian composer Barry Truax.
Computer sound synthesis
The production of electronic sounds by digital techniques is rapidly replacing the use of oscillators, synthesizers, and other audio components (now commonly called analogue hardware) that have been the standard resources of the composer of electronic music. Not only is digital circuitry and digital programming much more versatile and accurate, but it is also much cheaper. The advantages of digital processing are manifest even to the commercial recording industry, where digital recording is replacing long-established audio technology.
The three basic techniques for producing sounds with a computer are sign-bit extraction, digital-to-analogue conversion, and the use of hybrid digital–analogue systems. Of these, however, only the second process is of more than historical interest. Sign-bit extraction was occasionally used for compositions of serious musical intent—for example, in Computer Cantata (1963), by Hiller and Robert Baker, and in Sonoriferous Loops (1965), by Herbert Brün. Some interest persists in building hybrid digitalanalogue facilities, perhaps because some types of signal processing, such as reverberation and filtering, are time-consuming even in the fastest of computers.
Digital-to-analogue conversion has become the standard technique for computer sound synthesis. This process was originally developed in the United States by Max Mathews and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 1960s. The best known version of the programming that activated the process was called Music 5.
Digital-to-analogue conversion (and the reverse process, analogue-to-digital conversion, which is used to put sounds into a computer rather than getting them out) depends on the sampling theorem. This states that a waveform should be sampled at a rate twice the bandwidth of the system if the samples are to be free of quantizing noise (a high-pitched whine to the ear). Because the auditory bandwidth is 20–20,000 hertz (Hz), this specifies a sampling rate of 40,000 samples per second though, practically, 30,000 is sufficient, because tape recorders seldom record anything significant above 15,000 Hz. Also, instantaneous amplitudes must be specified to at least 12 bits so that the jumps from one amplitude to the next are low enough for the signal-to-noise ratio to exceed commercial standards (55 to 70 decibels).
Music 5 was more than simply a software system, because it embodied an "orchestration" program that simulated many of the processes employed in the classical electronic music studio. It specified unit generators for the standard waveforms, adders, modulators, filters, reverberators, and so on. It was sufficiently generalized that a user could freely define his own generators. Music 5 became the software prototype for installations the world over.
One of the best of these was designed by Barry Vercoe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 1970s. This program, called Music 11, runs on a PDP-11 computer and is a tightly designed system that incorporates many new features, including graphic score input and output. Vercoe's instructional program has trained virtually a whole generation of young composers in computer sound manipulation. Another important advance, discovered by John Chowning of Stanford University in 1973, was the use of digital FM (frequency modulation) as a source of musical timbre. The use of graphical input and output, even of musical notation, has been considerably developed, notably by Mathews at Bell Telephone Laboratories, by Leland Smith at Stanford University, and by William Buxton at the University of Toronto.
There are also other approaches to digital sound manipulation. For example, there is a growing interest in analogue-to-digital conversion as a compositional tool. This technique allows concrete and recorded sounds to be subjected to digital processing, and this, of course, includes the human voice. Charles Dodge, a composer at Brooklyn College, has composed a number of scores that incorporate vocal sounds, including Cascando (1978), based on the radio play of Samuel Beckett, and Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental (1980), for computer-altered voice and tape. The classic musique concrète studio founded by Pierre Schaeffer has become a digital installation, under François Bayle. Its main emphasis is still on the manipulation of concrete sounds. Mention also should be made of an entirely different model for sound synthesis first investigated in 1971 by Hiller and Pierre Ruiz; they programmed differential equations that define vibrating objects such as strings, plates, membranes, and tubes. This technique, though forbidding mathematically and time-consuming in the computer, nevertheless is potentially attractive because it depends neither upon concepts reminiscent of analogue hardware nor upon acoustical research data.
Another important development is the production of specialized digital machines for use in live performance. All such instruments depend on newer types of microprocessors and often on some specialized circuitry. Because these instruments require real-time computation and conversion, however, they are restricted in versatility and variety of timbres. Without question, though, these instruments will be rapidly improved because there is a commercial market for them, including popular music and music education, that far exceeds the small world of avant-garde composers.
Some of these performance instruments are specialized in design to meet the needs of a particular composer—an example being Salvatore Martirano's Sal-Mar Construction (1970). Most of them, however, are intended to replace analogue synthesizers and therefore are equipped with conventional keyboards. One of the earliest of such instruments was the "Egg" synthesizer built by Michael Manthey at the University of Århus in Denmark. The Synclavier later was put on the market as a commercially produced instrument that uses digital hardware and logic. It represents for the 1980s the digital equivalent of the Moog synthesizer of the 1960s.
The most advanced digital sound synthesis, however, is still done in large institutional installations. Most of these are in U.S. universities, but European facilities are being built in increasing numbers. The Instituut voor Sonologie in Utrecht and LIMB (Laboratorio Permanente per l'Informatica Musicale) at the University of Padua in Italy resemble U.S. facilities because of their academic affiliation. Rather different, however, is IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique), part of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. IRCAM, headed by Pierre Boulez, is an elaborate facility for research in and the performance of music. Increasingly, attention there has been given to all aspects of computer processing of music, including composition, sound analysis and synthesis, graphics, and the design of new electronic instruments for performance and pedagogy. It is a spectacular demonstration that electronic and computer music has come of age and has entered the mainstream of music history.
In conclusion, science has brought about a tremendous expansion of musical resources by making available to the composer a spectrum of sounds ranging from pure tones at one extreme to random noise at the other. It has made possible the rhythmic organization of music to a degree of subtlety and complexity hitherto unattainable. It has brought about the acceptance of the definition of music as "organized sound." It has permitted composers, if they choose, to have complete control over their own work. It permits them, if they desire, to eliminate the performer as an intermediary between them and their audiences. It has placed critics in a problematic situation, because their analysis of what they hear must frequently be carried out solely by their ears, unaided by any written score.Lejaren Hiller


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They're record holders and already wearing gold medals from the Rio Olympics. But champion swimming sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell still need their parents at times of stress.
But getting that contact can be hard during a full-on event like the Olympic Games when the girls are either in the pool or in the village, and security is high. But after years of international travel and with the eyes of Australia increasingly upon them, Cate, 24 and Bronte, 22, both Swisse ambassadors, have worked out novel ways to communicate with their parents.
Bodyandsoul.com.au spoke with their mum, Jenny Campbell, who herself faces a certain amount of stress when she watches her two girls take to the blocks at the pool.
"On the whole we let the girls make contact when they want to and we limit our communication to texts," says Jenny. "We sometimes speak with their coach before contacting them so we know the timing is right."
Jenny says she and the girls have come up with more interesting ways to communicate with their kids – and it involves playing online word games.
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"I have played games, like Boggle and Scrabble with them which keeps us in contact but allows them to decide on topics for conversations," she says.
"I guess the most important thing is to be available and to be prepared to listen. This year we have a family Whatsapp where we share photos of what we're doing and short messages."
If Jenny is able to physically be there for her girls, and it's a case of mopping up the tears of disappointment, so to speak, she also knows exactly how to provide comfort – and it comes in the shape of treats. "Maybe some chocolate or a trip to the ice-cream shop."
Thank you, Mum
Talking about mums and the roles they play in the lives of their athlete offspring is a guaranteed puller of the heart strings. And some of the world's big brands have jumped onto this.
Multinational consumer goods giant P&G has been honouring mums of athletes for several years now – and their video campaign for this year's Olympics is a total tearjerker and if you look beyond the commercial intent, you will certainly need to grab for the tissues.
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Called Thank You Mom, this year's video theme is "strong" and follows the Olympic Games journeys of four mums and their kids, showing the moments when a mother's strength makes all the difference.
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Republic Business Credit announced that William Kemp has joined the business as Vice President, Business Development Officer. In his new role, Kemp is responsible for driving new relations for the company in the Midwestern region and supporting businesses that need cash flow funding ranging from $250,000 to $10 million. He is based in Chicago.
"William is a proven sales professional who is well established in the Chicagoland marketplace," said Robert Meyers, Chief Commercial Officer, Republic Business Credit.
Meyers added, "He is an exceptional relationship builder and is a professional who takes the time to fully understand a business' needs and work with stakeholders to find the funding solution that is the best fit. He will be a key team member in building on our reputational strength in the region and we are all excited to have him on board."
Prior to joining Republic Business Credit, Kemp served as a Business Development Officer at Bibby Financial Services, where he sourced transactions up to $1 million in facility size and supported the credit underwriting. During his leadership there, he won Bibby's Sales Excellence Award in 2015.
"William has a strong background in customer satisfaction and being solutions oriented, which complements our values as we pride ourselves on having a people-and-customer-first approach to supporting our clients," said Stewart Chesters, Chief Executive Officer, Republic Business Credit.
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FireLink's Fundraisers for Firefighters
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Online Auctions
A site called IDonateToCharity.org developed a great online auction site that lets anyone auction off items and have the money donated directly to a charity or non-profit in their name.
Many communities are raising thousands of dollars for their local fire house by having people sell used household items through online auctions. "Better then a garage sale" one user said.
Once an item sells, the money is collected by the site to prevent fraud, a shipping label is generated (if needed) and the money is mailed to the fire house in the seller's name.
Tax receipts are automatically generated for tax write-offs and best of all, it's FREE to use! When a fire house signs up with the site, they can receive the money directly from the buyer and not wait for a check in the mail. This is quickly becoming one of the most successful ways of raising money due to ease of use.


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