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Shipping & Returns
Once your order is received, processing will take approximately 24-48 to ship. We ship on business days (Monday through Friday).
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You will be pleased to know that we have very competitive shipping rates in the U.S. as well as internationally. The current shipping options available are United States Post Office Priority Mail and Fedex. We will determine the least expensive method at the time of shipping for phone orders or you can determine it during checkout of your online order. All orders sent to Canada, Guam or Saipan are sent through United States Postal Service. Shipments may be tracked at www.usps.com and www.fedex.com. You can get a shipping quote by adding products into your shopping cart and then click on the 'get a quote' button in the shopping cart prior to completing your order.
For pallet size orders and containers, please contact us for a more accurate quotation. Additional discounts may apply for larger orders.
Return Policy
Bubble Tea Supply inspects each item for freshness and quality prior to packing and shipping out products. Products are packed carefully and methodically to prevent damages from occurring during shipment.
Upon receiving your package of bubble tea products, take the time to inspect your items carefully for damaged or defective items. Flavored powders should be packaged in a sealed bag and tapioca pearls should be in a vacuum sealed bag. Tapioca pearls will be sealed air tight; however, the pearls should still hold its round shape. Condensation may show in the bag due to the moisture the pearls hold. Handle the tapioca pearls with care as they are very delicate to the touch.
In the event you find shipping damage or a defective product, please contact our offices within 7 business days. This is because the shipping carrier has a time limit to submit damage claims. You can call our customer service number at 1-877-404-2622 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please provide customer's name, order or invoice number and the name of the item that is damaged or defective. A customer service representative will get back to you within 24 to 48 business hours regarding the damaged or defective product. Depending on the situation, the shipping company may require the product to be available for them to pick-up and examine. The customer service representative will let you know if the product will be picked-up by the shipping company or if it can be discarded.
If you decide within 7 days of receiving your order that you would like to return product purchased from Bubble Tea Supply, contact our customer service number at 1-877-404-2622 for an RMA# (Return Merchandise Authorization number) and a representative will instruct you how to return the merchandise. Please keep in mind that returns will only be considered for products that are unopened and unused. A 20% restocking charge will be levied on all returns. This is not a guarantee sale. After receiving returned products in to our warehouse, an inspection will be performed to explore the conditions of the product and resale ability. If the return is found in good condition, we will credit your credit card for the merchandise only. No shipping charges will be reimbursed by Bubble Tea Supply. We reserve the right to refuse returns that are not sent back within two weeks of authorization. Please note that REFUSED or UNDELIVERABLE SHIPMENTS will not be refunded.
Bubble Tea Supply reserves the right to determine whether or not a product is defective. Open or used product will not be considered for return unless found defective by Bubble Tea Supply.
Beyond shipping damages, Bubble Tea Supply is making adjustments to its refund policy in an attempt to protect itself and customers. Bubble Tea Supply will not accept any returns or process any refunds during the coronavirus outbreak (purchases made February 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021). Bubble Tea Supply is closely monitoring the pandemic and wants to protect its customers from any transmission of any kind on its product and packages. All purchases from Bubble Tea Supply is a final sale.


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Why Do We Get Sick?
Cloudy is sick and coughing all over the place. Let's look at these five tips to help prevent us from getting sick!
You are a germ trying to infect the bad guys before they can finish their evil plot. Can you make it past their bodies' defense systems?
Wash Wash Baby
A message about keeping clean during the COVID-19 pandemic to the tune of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby"
Personal Hygiene
Tim and Moby help us learn about the importance of hygiene. Learn about keeping your body, teeth, and surroundings clean and healthy.
Your favorite Cartoon Network characters help you go over the important steps for washing your hands, which is really important for helping you not to get sick.
Handwashing for Kids
Discusses the importance of washing hands and teaches kids a 20 second song to sing while scrubbing.
Germs Song
Sing along to discover how to keep germs out of your body.
Help give the farm animals a bath so they can get rid of all their germs.

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Here's who would have competed in Eurovision this year and how to watch the BBC's coverage
The 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest had been set to take place in May, with entries from 41 countries participating.
The contest was supposed to take place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with two semi-finals on May 12 and 14 followed by the final at the Rotterdam Ahoy arena on May 16.
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Hide AdBut the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) confirmed in March that the event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
They said in a statement: "It is with deep regret that we have to announce the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam.
"Over the past few weeks we have explored many alternative options to allow the Eurovision Song Contest to go ahead.
"However the uncertainty created by the spread of Covid-19 throughout Europe - and the restrictions put in place by the governments of the participating broadcasters and the Dutch authorities - means the European Broadcasting Union has taken the difficult decision that it is impossible to continue with the live event as planned."
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James Newman had been the UK's entry and was hoping his track 'My Last Breath' could bring success.
Newman is one of the UK's most successful songwriters, having penned several multi-platinum selling records and been nominated for a slew of awards.
He won the Brit Award for British Single of the Year in 2014 for his chart-topping song, 'Waiting All Night', performed by Rudimental and Ella Eyre.
Who else was meant to be competing?
Ken Bruce will be bringing listeners "Virtual Eurovision" on Radio 2, playing tracks from Eurovision 2020 and featuring some of the best of this year's entries which sadly won't get to take part in the final.
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Hide AdHe'll also be hearing from previous years' stars and past winners reminiscing about their memories.
The full list of entrants who were due to perform is as follows:
- Australia: Montaigne – 'Don't Break Me'
- Belarus: VAL – 'Da vidna'
- Ireland: Lesley Roy – 'Story of my Life'
- Lithuania: The Roop – 'On Fire'
- North Macedonia: Vasil – 'You'
- Russia: Little Big – 'Uno'
- Slovenia: Ana Soklič – 'Voda'
- Sweden: The Mamas – 'Move'
- Azerbaijan: Efendi – 'Cleopatra'
- Belgium: Hooverphonic – 'Release Me'
- Croatia: Damir Kedžo – 'Divlji vjetre'
- Cyprus: Sandro – 'Running'
- Israel: Eden Alene – 'Feker libi'
- Malta: Destiny – 'All of My Love'
- Norway: Ulrikke – 'Attention'
- Romania: Roxen – 'Alcohol You'
- Ukraine: Go_A – 'Solovey'
- Austria: Vincent Bueno"Alive'
- Czech Republic: Benny Cristo – 'Kemama'
- Estonia: Uku Suviste – 'What Love Is'
- Greece: Stefania – 'Supergirl'
- Iceland: Daði og Gagnamagnið – 'Think About Things'
- Moldova: Natalia Gordienko – 'Prison'
- Poland: Alicja – 'Empires'
- San Marino: Senhit – 'Freaky!'
- Serbia: Hurricane – 'Hasta la vista'
- Albania: Arilena Ara – 'Fall from the Sky'
- Armenia: Athena Manoukian – 'Chains on You'
- Bulgaria: Victoria – 'Tears Getting Sober'
- Denmark: Ben & Tan – 'Yes'
- Finland: Aksel – 'Looking Back'
- Georgia: Tornike Kipiani – 'Take Me as I Am'
- Latvia: Samanta Tīna – 'Still Breathing'
- Portugal: Elisa – 'Medo de sentir'
- Switzerland: Gjon's Tears – 'Répondez-moi'
What's on instead?
All is not lost for Eurovision fans, and the BBC have come to the rescue and scheduled a raft of programmes designed to bring the joy of Eurovision to living rooms even without the live show.
They're promising "plenty" of Eurovision content across TV, radio and online in celebration of the biggest music competition in the world.
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Familiar faces including Graham Norton, Ken Bruce and Rylan Clark-Neal will bring Eurovision into homes.
"This year people at home can celebrate the amazing spirit of the event and hopefully get the chance to take their mind off the current situation for a few hours," said Norton.
"Eurovision offers a real escapism for people, which is something we need more than ever throughout these times."
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Hide AdRylan will be fronting The A-Z Of Eurovision and Eurovision Kings And Queens Of Pop, and the presenter says he is "looking forward to leaving the current situation behind for a night of pure Eurovision gold!"
The full list of BBC shows replacing the cancelled song contest is as follows:
- Eurovision 2020 - The Cancelled Coronavirus Year – Monday 11 May, BBC iPlayer
- Eurovision at 60 – Friday 15 May, 9:30pm, BBC4
- Dana - The Original Derry Girl – Friday 15 May, 11pm, BBC4
- Eurovision Come Together – Saturday 16 May, 6:30pm, BBC1
- Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light – Saturday 16 May, 8pm, BBC1
- The A-Z of Eurovision – Saturday 16 May, 10pm, BBC2
- TOTP2 Goes Eurovision! – Saturday 16 May, 11pm, BBC2


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Telford, PA, US, 18969
Job ID: 498665
Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We're more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We're a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we're leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.
Job Description Summary
The ideal candidate in this role will perform a wide range of duties in an industrial manufacturing environment. This individual will be part of a team responsible for safely and efficiently producing precast concrete products of the highest quality standards.
- Strip and clean concrete forms and products
- Prepare steel molds for filling with concrete
- Perform basic carpentry skills
- Facility maintenance and housekeeping
- Other responsibilities may be assigned on a temporary or permanent basis as needed
- Minimum high school diploma or equivalent
- Manufacturing or construction experience preferred
- Knowledge of basic math and measurements
- Ability to read/write simple instructions and communicate effectively with team members
- Ability to lift up to 40 lbs. periodically throughout the day
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- Highly competitive base pay
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CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.
If you're up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!
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- 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey
- World Peace
- Stopping Racism in America
- Empowerment of Women
- More Principles...
- Prayer for America
Stopping Racism in America
In 1912, the country was torn with racial division, and "separate but equal" was the highest level of interracial relations to which the nation aspired. 'Abdu'l-Bahá challenged America to go beyond tolerance, to embrace diversity completely, and to demolish racial barriers in law, education and even marriage.
America in 1912, nearly 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation that freed every slave, was decades away from realizing 'Abdu'l-Bahá's vision of racial equality. African-Americans, although now freed from oppressive slavery, were universally regarded as lesser than whites. The so-called "Jim Crow" segregation laws had gained impetus from an 1875 Supreme Court ruling that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did not protect any Black person from discrimination by private businesses and individuals, but only from discrimination by states. So a racial caste system existed in the United States, reinforced from the pulpits of America's churches, and pronounced as evident truth by scientists, phrenologists, and Social Darwinists, all claiming that persons of color were innately inferior both intellectually and culturally to whites.
In every state of the former Confederacy, the system of legalized segregation and disfranchisement was fully in place by 1910. This system of white supremacy cut across class boundaries and re-enforced a cult of "whiteness" that had predated the Civil War. These Jim Crow rules and norms, to name only a few, denied Blacks and Whites the right to dine together without a partition between them, condemned a Black male for offering his hand first to shake that of a White male, and denied the right of Blacks to show affection to each other in public because this supposedly offended Whites. These rules of "Jim Crow etiquette" operated in conjunction with Jim Crow laws—laws that excluded Blacks from public transport and facilities, jobs, and neighborhoods. These laws were largely entrenched across the South until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
But 'Abdu'l-Bahá repeated his theme of racial equality throughout 1912, declaring that differences of race were not only natural, but laudable—to be celebrated.
"… difference of race and color is like the variegated beauty of flowers in a garden. If you enter a garden, you will see yellow, white, blue, red flowers in profusion and beauty — each radiant within itself and although different from the others, lending its own charm to them. Racial difference in the human kingdom is similar. If all the flowers in a garden were of the same color, the effect would be monotonous and wearying to the eye."
The Bahá'í community: Striving for Interracial Harmony
Although the Bahá'ís held separate meetings in the first half of the 20th century, this practice over time disappeared as the Bahá'í community matured. Louis Gregory wrote to W.E.B. Dubois in the 1930s, stating that the new religion was the means of transforming hearts and erasing racism. "Were the Bahá'í Faith merely a cult with a human origin, it could attract only people who shared its views. Its mysterious Power is indicated by its ability to transform people whose views are diametrically opposed to its ideals and to give them new minds and new hearts."
'Abdu'l-Bahá encouraged interracial marriage as a way to unite the races quite literally, saying that such marriages would produce strong and beautiful offspring, children who are both clever and resourceful. In 1914, the first interracial Bahá'í marriage took place.
Bahá'ís of all skin tones were active in Civil Rights work throughout the 20th century and continue these efforts to this day, under the banner of one God, one human race, 100 years after 'Abdu'l-Bahá's visit to America.
Talk at Howard University
In a talk addressed to the students of Howard University, 'Abdu'l-Bahá stated unequivocally that skin color was of no importance before God, except as an adornment and a source of charm. Only among humans, He emphasized, had skin color become a cause of discord.
"The world of humanity, too, is like a garden, and humankind are like the many-colored flowers. Therefore, different colors constitute an adornment.
"Animals, despite the fact that they lack reason and understanding, do not make colors the cause of conflict. Why should man, who has reason, create conflict? This is wholly unworthy of him."
Beyond Tolerance : Unity in Diversity
In this same talk, 'Abdu'l-Bahá praised the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 as paving the way for universal and worldwide emancipation of persons of color, and emphasized the even higher goal for which this nation must strive, that of love, unity and complete integration between the races. This theme was one He returned to again and again. For example, in His talk at Hull House in Chicago, He said:
"Bahá'u'lláh has proclaimed the oneness of the world of humanity. He has caused various nations and divergent creeds to unite. He has declared that difference of race and color is like the variegated beauty of flowers in a garden. If you enter a garden, you will see yellow, white, blue, red flowers in profusion and beauty — each radiant within itself and although different from the others, lending its own charm to them. Racial difference in the human kingdom is similar. If all the flowers in a garden were of the same color, the effect would be monotonous and wearying to the eye.
"Therefore, Bahá'u'lláh hath said that the various races of humankind lend a composite harmony and beauty of color to the whole. Let all associate, therefore, in this great human garden even as flowers grow and blend together side by side without discord or disagreement between them."
Race Amity Conferences
It was a woman, Mrs. Agnes Parsons, a prominent Washington D.C. socialite, who was tasked with planning America's first Race Amity Conference in 1921. 'Abdu'l-Bahá told Mrs. Parsons in 1920 on her visit to the Bahá'í Holy Places in Haifa, Israel, that she must organize a convention in her city to unite the races. This admonition followed closely on the heels of widespread racial tension across the country, called the "Red Summer" of 1919. During July 1919, white servicemen returned from the war fronts and attacked Blacks. It turned into race warfare in Washington, D.C. when white gangs attempted to burn the black district, prompting its residents to arise to defend themselves and their property. It was into this environment, and against the separatism of Marcus Garvey, that Mrs. Parsons and Louis Gregory were thrust forth by 'Abdu'l-Bahá to plan an event that advanced the principle of racial equality, and that aimed at expanding the nation's thinking to embrace not merely tolerance, but racial harmony and amity. Four Race Amity conferences were held between 1921 and 1924, an historic achievement by American Bahá'ís.
Read about one Bahá'í family's experience of the collapse of segregation in the U.S.
As 'Abdu'l-Bahá said in 1912:"[In the future] mankind will be as one nation, one race and kind — as waves of one ocean. Although these waves may differ in form and shape, they are waves of the same sea. Flowers may be variegated in colors, but they are all flowers of one garden. Trees differ though they grow in the same orchard. All are nourished and quickened into life by the bounty of the same rain, all grow and develop by the heat and light of the one sun, all are refreshed and exhilarated by the same breeze that they may bring forth varied fruits. This is according to the creative wisdom. If all trees bore the same kind of fruit, it would cease to be delicious. In their never-ending variety man finds enjoyment instead of monotony."


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WASHINGTON -- As part of President Obama's initiative to fuel the economy and create jobs by promoting travel and tourism, the administration today announced a new design, improved navigation tools and expanded content for Recreation.Gov, the interagency website that guides visitors to 90,000 sites on federal lands such as national parks, wildlife refuges, waterways, forests and recreation areas.
The redesign of www.recreation.gov is an initial step in a multi-year strategy to engage visitors with enhanced interactive content and more multimedia, mobile, trip-planning tools. The seven million visitors who use the web site every year will be able to make reservations, see ready-made itineraries for destination cities, and search for activities on an interactive map.
"Tourism and outdoor recreation are powerful economic engines in communities across the country," Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said. "With the redesign of Recreation.Gov, we are making it easier for people to plan trips, find outdoor adventures, and explore activities at our public lands across the country."
"Outdoor activities contribute an estimated $646 billion to the U.S. economy, according to independent estimates, and this enhanced website will provide a gateway for Americans to enjoy their great outdoors," Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
"If we can provide visitors both here and abroad easily accessible information and itineraries at the click of a mouse, we will increase the number of people who choose to vacation and travel in the United States," Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank said. "From hotels to restaurants to taxis, small businesses across the nation stand to benefit from this new website."
"Recreation.gov is a 'one-stop' website to find places that close to home for a day's fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, and much more. There are so many sites within a short drive of urban areas that people don't know about," Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy said. "At Recreation.gov people can find parks, swimming beaches, boat ramps, and other places to get away to for a few hours, days, or weeks."
Highlights of the updated site include:
The Recreation.gov website update is a joint initiative between federal agency partners – including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, National Archives and Records Administration, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It is a key effort under President Obama's America's Great Outdoors Initiative, which focuses on supporting healthy outdoor spaces and making them more accessible to Americans.
President Obama signed an executive order in January to significantly increase travel and tourism in and to the United States. As part of this initiative, the Departments of Commerce and the Interior outlined a long term strategy for increasing both domestic and international tourism.
The strategy provides a blueprint for the federal government to reach a goal of attracting and welcoming 100 million international visitors annually by the end of 2021. International spending on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services set an all-time record of $153 billion in 2011, an 8.1 percent increase from 2010, and supported an additional 103,000 jobs for a total of 7.6 million industry jobs.


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Made from telephone wire wrapped in the traditional coil method around a rigid hardwire, these baskets can only be made by the most experienced weavers. Inspired by life events and vivid imagination, the artistry of the weavers from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa shines in these platters. May be gently washed with a mild dish detergent to clean.
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The Simple Art of Murder
By Raymond Chandler
By Raymond Chandler
By Raymond Chandler
By Raymond Chandler
Category: Noir Novels | Short Stories
Category: Noir Novels | Short Stories
Sep 12, 1988 | ISBN 9780394757650
Jun 11, 2002 | ISBN 9781400030224
Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler
Last Call
Trouble Is My Business
Heavy Water
The Girl in the Road
The Children of Men
A Week in December
"Raymond Chandler is a master." —The New York Times
"[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." —The New Yorker
"Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." –Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review
"Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." —Los Angeles Times
"Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist." —The Boston Book Review
"Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel." —Literary Review
"[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." –Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." —Ross Macdonald
"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." –Erle Stanley Gardner
"Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since." –Paul Auster
"[Chandler]'s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't. " –Carolyn See
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Generating ideas is just one of many themes that Kevin can speak on. His material is brilliant for stimulating an audience. It can be used as an amusing keynote theme, or as a prelude to inspiring people to articulate their ideas better.
Kevin is a lively and stimulating speaker who favours a collaborative workshop style.
His original approaches to solving business issues are captured in a variety of books.
He is often asked to provide a keynote theme at a conference, to be a catalyst for management teams, or to address whole companies.
A suite of materials can support the theme, including books, apps, podcasts, and online tools. Here's a flavour of some of his material.
- Based on The Smart Thinking Book
- Features 60 bursts of business brilliance
- Covers growth, communication, innovation, creativity, relationships, and thinking
- Ultra fast rapid response provocations for each topic
- Ideal for organizations who wish to get to the nub of an issue fast
- Based on The Diagrams Book
- Features the 50 most effective business diagrams in the world
- Already bought for translation in 12 languages
- Ingenious presentation and pitch techniques that really work
- Examines how to enhance verbal communication and solve any problem visually
- Ideal for organisations who wish to be more creative or sell more imaginatively
- Based on The Ideas Book
- Features a set of idea generation techniques that solve business issues
- Explains how to prepare for and run brainstorms properly – and charge for them
- Ideal for organisations who wish to be more creative
- Based on The Ideas Book and The Diagrams Book combined
- Explains how to have a clear Point of View…
- …and express them pithily using diagrams
- Includes a 12-step process to map out a clear and persuasive Line of Argument
- Ideal for organisations who need to sell products and proposals more effectively
- An amusing session with a serious message about clarity of expression
- Based on The Dictionary of Business Bullshit – a new book with over 2,000 entries
- Deconstruction of why people bullshit, coupled with serious advice about what to do about it
- Highlights the importance of jargon-free language in business and promotes the conditions for faster, clearer communication
- Based on the top-selling book, voted Telegraph Business Club Book of the Week
- Over 6,000 trained, including Carat, Engine, Iris, JWT, Mediacom, Metro, Nokia, Saatchi, and Shell
- Stimulating ideas for coping with chaos at work and improving effectiveness
- Excellent for improving complex working relationships between clients and agencies or suppliers
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- Choose a theme to enhance your business from over 250 important business books – all summarised on one page
- A highly fertile set of possible themes, including strategy, branding, behavioural economics, creativity, leadership, organisation, the best of 2014, and so on
- Great for idea generation, and client/supplier team bonding
- Supported by iphone apps, books, and the only blog of its kind in the world
- Over 2,000 trained, including Arcadia, Brainjuicer, Cello, Heineken, Orange, PHD, RBS and T-Mobile
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UNLIKE OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY, terahertz timedomain spectroscopy allows the engineer to measure complex amplitude instead of the intensity of the terahertz probe. Recently, a terahertz generation and detection setup based on a pump-probe scheme was presented by An-Tao Chen from the University of Washington, Li-Shuang Feng from Beihang University in Beijing, Xiang-Jun Xin and Chong-Xiu Yu from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Zhen Zhou, who is connected to all three of these institutions.
The researchers successfully generated and detected terahertz pulses using the nonlinear optical rectification of high-power femtosecond laser pulses and electro-optic sampling. For their setup, they obtained a 3-THz available spectrum range. To test the use of terahertz pulses for spectroscopy, the engineers measured the absorption spectrums of water in both air and dry nitrogen. If the setup's signal-to-noise ratio is increased, wider spectrum range can be obtained. See "Terahertz Generation and Detection Setup Based on Pump-Probe Scheme," Microwave And Optical Technology Letters, July 2009, p. 1617.


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By Richard Irwin
Like the rest of us, Mont-Sainte-Anne is getting older. The historic ski resort 25 miles northeast of Quebec City turned 50 years old this year.
And during those five decades, the unique getaway has recorded many firsts. Among them, hosting the inaugural Canadian Winter Games in 1967 and the first Snowboard World Cup Stage to take place in Canada in 1993. In fact, the very next year it became the first mountain in the region to welcome snowboarders.
In 1971, the cross-country ski center opened with 90 kilometers of trails. Today, it's the second-largest cross-country area in North America with more than 200 kilometers of trails.
The little ski area began with only 10 trails and four lifts, including the first gondola in eastern Canada. Today, the beautiful resort boasts 71 trails, offering fun runs for beginning skiers as well as the most advanced. These are served by nine lifts, including a high-speed eight-person gondola as well as a new high-speed quad that opened in 2014.
Western skiers may balk when they discover the summit peaks out at 2,625 feet in the picturesque Laurentian Mountains. But in a strange twist, visitors arrive at the summit and it's ALL downhill from there, falling 2,000 sweet feet to the valley below.
And while Mont-Sainte-Anne averages 187 inches of natural snow annually, it has put in a snow-making system that covers 80 percent of the skiable terrain allowing the resort to boast one of Quebec's longest ski seasons, closing on April 24 this year.
While eastern skiing can be icy and wet, the snow was a light powder when we recently visited. Granted, it's not the champagne powder of its sister resort Kicking Horse or Fernie, but the conditions were better than the Sierra concrete often found at our local mountain resorts.
Since being bought by Resorts of the Canadian Rockies in 1999, a lot of money has gone into new gladed trails as well as improving the snow-making system. This is a great place for skiing or boarding through snowy glades.
The first glade for kids, La Foret Enchantee, opened on the north side in 1997, along with a glade for experts on the south side. There's nothing quite like sliding through a stand of snowy pines on a clear winter day.
The mountain offers three faces, each with a personality all its own. One overlooks the majestic St. Lawrence River. The view from the cable car can't be beat. The trail La Crete provides a stunning view of the river and Quebec City.
On our first day, we took it easy, enjoying the well-groomed runs. The longest, Le Chemin du Roy, is 3 and a half miles long.
Mont-Sainte-Anne has a nice beginner's area, with one of the longest magic carpets in Quebec. It offers an excellent ski school for the little ones, as well as the rest of us. Most of the easy trails are located east of the gondola.
The ski runs on the south face have the most slope, while north side has the easiest runs. The west face offers only natural snow and is serviced by a T-bar. So check to see if the area is open before going there.
Expert skiers will be challenged by the black diamond and double diamond runs. The resort has marked 20 percent as more difficult and another 10 percent as extreme.
The mountain also offers four terrain parks and a bordercross. A helmet is required in all snowparks. One park, La Cachette, is set in a forest and is lighted at night.
And you can't beat the price considering the favorable exchange rate, which gave us $1.35 Canadian for every dollar we turned in.
A day lift ticket costs $76, good from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A day/night ticket is $69 and good from 12:30 to 9 p.m.
Night skiing at Mont-Sainte-Anne began in 1986. It has the highest vertical drop for night skiing in Canada.
So give Mont-Sainte-Anne a try whenever you're in Quebec. You'll be glad you did.
Rich Irwin is a freelance travel writer and a member of the North American Snowsport Journalists' Association.
Information: mont-sainte-anne.com


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Dick Dale, King of Surf Guitar, 'Miserlou' composer, is dead
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.
His former bassist Sam Bolle says Dick Dale passed away Saturday night. No other details were available.
Dale liked to say it was he and not the Beach Boys who invented surf music — and some critics have said he was right.
An avid surfer, Dale started building a devoted Los Angeles fan base in the late 1950s with repeated appearances at Newport Beach's old Rendezvous Ballroom. He played "Miserlou," "The Wedge," "Night Rider" and other compositions at wall-rattling volume on a custom-made Fender Stratocaster guitar.
"Miserlou," which would become his signature song, had been adapted from a Middle Eastern folk tune Dale heard as a child and later transformed into a thundering surf-rock instrumental.
His fingering style was so frenetic that he shredded guitar picks during songs, a technique that forced him to stash spares on his guitar's body. "Better shred than dead," he liked to joke, an expression that eventually became the title of a 1997 anthology released by Rhino Records.
Dale said he developed his musical style when he sought to merge the sounds of the crashing ocean waves he heard while surfing with melodies inspired by the rockabilly music he loved.
He pounded rather than plucked the strings of his guitar in a style he said he borrowed from an early musical hero, the great jazz drummer Gene Krupa.
"Dale pioneered a musical genre that Beach Boy Brian Wilson and others would later bring to fruition," Rolling Stone magazine said in its "Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll" adding "Let's Go Trippin'" was released in 1961, two months ahead of the Beach Boys' first hit, "Surfin.'"
The magazine called Dale's song "the harbinger of the '60s surf music craze."
Although popular around Southern California, Dale might have remained just a cult figure if surfing had not exploded in worldwide popularity during his peak creative years.
When the first of a series of "Beach Party" movies made to cash in on the phenomenon was released in 1963, it included Dick Dale and the Del-Tones performing "Secret Surfing Spot" as teen heartthrob Annette Funicello danced on the beach.
Dale had released his first album, "Surfer's Choice," a year earlier. He followed it with four more over the next two years while appearing in several "Beach Party" sequels and other surfer movies.
Other popular Dale songs included "Jungle Fever," "Shake-N-Stomp" and "Swingin' and Surfin'."
His star dimmed after the Beatles led music's British invasion onto the pop charts in 1964 and his record label dropped him. His career also was sidelined by a battle with cancer in the 1960s and a serious foot infection in the 1970s that was the result of a surfing injury.
His musical influence was profound and included guitar virtuosos Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan and movie director Quentin Tarantino, who selected Dale's "Miserlou," as the theme song of his 1994 film "Pulp Fiction." That helped pull the guitarist back into the pop-culture spotlight.
Dale himself had begun to launch a comeback with the 1987 film "Back to the Beach," which reunited Funicello and her co-star Frankie Avalon as a middle-aged couple returning to their old surfing haunts. He teamed up with Vaughan to record the classic surf instrumental "Pipeline" for that film, earning the pair a Grammy nomination.
In 1993 he released "Tribal Thunder," his first album of all new material in nearly 30 years. He followed it with "Unknown Territory" the following year.
Dale continued to tour into his 80s, in part he said to pay the medical bills that advancing age was saddling him with. Having beaten cancer in the 1960s, he suffered a serious recurrence in 2015.
Born Richard Anthony Monsour in Boston on May 4, 1937, Dale moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1954, where he immediately fell in love with surfing and the electric guitar.
As a child, he listened to Lebanese and Polish folk tunes played by his parents. Eventually he graduated to big band, swing, country and rockabilly.
Self-taught on guitar, the left-handed Dale couldn't afford a custom-made model, so early on he played a standard right-hand guitar upside down and backward. That ended after a meeting with legendary guitar builder Leo Fender, who offered to make Dale his own left-handed model if he'd test a line of guitars and amplifiers Fender was developing.
"I became Leo's personal guinea pig," Dale told The Associated Press in 1997. "Anything that came out of the Fender company, I played."
He played so loudly that he blew up one amplifier after another until a frustrated Fender built him a "Dick Dale Dual Showman" doubled-sized amp. It was a model that would become popular with aspiring Los Angeles guitarists.
As he began to become well known, he began calling himself Dick Dale, explaining years later that a radio disc jockey had suggested it was a better name for a rock star than Richard Monsour.
His surfer buddies had already nicknamed him King of the Surf Guitar, a title he said he initially resisted, fearing it would limit his audience. When the spirit of surfing caught on everywhere, however, he came to embrace the crown.
Dale is survived by his wife, Lana, and a son, James, a drummer who sometimes toured with his father.
This story has been corrected to say that Dick Dale died at age 81.
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Baked Shrimp Scampi
2008, Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, All Rights Reserved
Prep Time:30 minInactive Prep Time: — Cook Time:13 min
6 servings CUT BUTTER AMOUNT WAY TOO MUCH
2 pounds (12 to 15 per pound) shrimp in the shell
3 tablespoons good olive oil
2 tablespoons dry white wine
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
4 teaspoons minced garlic (4 cloves)
1/4 cup minced shallots
3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley leaves
1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary leaves
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 extra-large egg yolk
2/3 cup panko (Japanese dried bread flakes)
Lemon wedges, for serving
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Peel, devein, and butterfly the shrimp, leaving the tails on. Place the shrimp in a mixing bowl and toss gently with the olive oil, wine, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper. Allow to sit at room temperature while you make the butter and garlic mixture.
In a small bowl, mash the softened butter with the garlic, shallots, parsley, rosemary, red pepper flakes, lemon zest, lemon juice, egg yolk, panko, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper until combined.
Starting from the outer edge of a 14-inch oval gratin dish, arrange the shrimp in a single layer cut side down with the tails curling up and towards the center of the dish. Pour the remaining marinade over the shrimp. Spread the butter mixture evenly over the shrimp. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until hot and bubbly. If you like the top browned, place under a broiler for 1 minute. Serve with lemon wedges.


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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Worlds, Green and Otherwise
[Though it starts off with a meditation on the professional, this post quickly becomes personal -- probably too personal for some readers. If you come to ITM mainly for news of happenings in the humanities and prefer disembodied or impersonal ruminations, skip this one]
The Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo can seem a world set apart: a break from the routines of grading and writing that structure the academic calendar, from the schedule of activities that quietly regulate personal time. Every Green World, segregated as it may seem, has its clouds, muck, darkness. Even if this darker ecology seems to intrude from elsewhere, its heaviness is already part of its fabric. But returning to the everyday after such a space set apart can be an adjustment, especially because the congress was so invigorating (evidence here, here, here, here, here; and look for a BIG POST tomorrow on Activism).
On the one hand I've been busy planning what's next for the MEMSI "Ecologies" panel (more soon), mapping out the session the Institute will sponsor next year (quite future oriented), and also editing the essays that have arrived for Prismatic Ecologies (some great ones, some that need substantial work). My family has also been dealing with ongoing academic and social troubles for our fifteen year old: no one told us that ninth grade would be such a trial by fire. Every problem seemingly solved leads to a new one surging elsewhere to the surface. It's a Bad Rhizome. Don't get me wrong: we are not dealing with the severe troubles that too many parents cope with at this age. Fifteen, for those of you who may have forgotten, is a time when some adolescents lose themselves in substance abuse, rebellion to the point of crime, and other difficulties that can haunt for the entirety of their lives. That is not at all Alex. He is having an impossible time giving his academic responsibilities the sustained focus they require; balancing a desire to fit in with a confidence to be his own person; and learning to think longterm (weeks instead of hours or minutes). In other words, he is pretty much a normal teen. But here is the hard thing: neither of his parents were normal teens. My life went into crisis when I received a C in Latin in ninth grade, and I never failed to turn in an assignment again. Like my spouse, I was that annoying person who had the paper finished two days early so that it could be revised. Alex on the other hand forgets about a test -- despite having it in his planner and the assignments available online -- until 9 PM the night before. His perpetual habit is to think that everything will be OK nonetheless, and then to be surprised when it is not. And then the disappointment he feels in himself and for letting his parents down ... well let's just say that there has been plenty of shared pain. As difficult as it is to realize that your children are not and will never be you, and that these differences may well in some form become their strengths (what a simple thing, but one many parents don't seem to comprehend) -- well, that realization takes daily practice. [EDIT: I also want to add that going on to win translation prizes in Latin because you've applied yourself with so much energy to mastering the subject in no way improves your life. Despite such achievements, or maybe even because of them, I was miserable throughout my adolescence -- depressed, actually, to the point of contemplating harming myself. I felt like an alien interloper in my schools, my family and, really, this world. I didn't emerge from this darkness until I moved to DC after graduate school and finally realized that for an academic feeling deeply weird and out of place can be a strength, as well as the basis for lasting and sustaining friendships. I NEVER want my children to go through that pain, and am certainly not requiring that Alex or Katherine "succeed" in the same way I did. I know how much that success can cost.]
All in all it's been a frustrating year. While I feel like we are in some ways at the same place we were when things started to spiral downwards in October, I also know that despite making all these mistakes Alex is maturing as he moves through them. Growing up hurts. Self awareness comes with pain. I wish it didn't work that way. I sometimes wish as a parent I could protect my children from having to experience how rough it can be to discover consequences ... but of course it is only through these feelings that they decide who they want to be. And don't get me wrong: Alex might be almost as tall as me, and almost stronger than me, but a part of him remains the sweet, sweet boy he has always been. I never lose sight of what a good heart he has, and I know in the end that's what will get him through. It's funny, that is the ONLY part of him his doting sister Katherine beholds, and so I learn much from her.
So yesterday morning I was not in the best mood: too much to do, too many things going wrong, too many disappointments, overworked and overwhelmed, spouse out of town so nonstop activities to coordinate and ...
Then yesterday became a day set apart. We'd been invited by a friend to come to his family farm not far from the Chesapeake Bay for an annual gathering. Everyone brings food, beer, families. The day unwinds slowly, with eating and drinking and canoeing and hikes and a go kart. We wandered the fields, sat under trees and chatted, waded in the river, admired the sun from the small dock. Late in the day Ben gave us a tour of the farm, which has been in his family since chartered to them in the mid 1600s. He showed us a stable from 1910, filled with the remains of old stage coaches and other detritus of lost ages. Ben's dad talked to us about growing soybeans, and the dependence of the area upon the poultry business. The family graveyard contains the stones of those who came to Maryland from London for mysterious reasons, likely political. Not far from the manicured family plot is an uneven expanse of brambles that may be the slave cemetery. For the farm was of course worked by enslaved people until the Civil War. The Eastern Shore of Maryland was known as an especially inhospitable place, where slaves were sent to be broken. The remains of slave quarters are still present on the farm. A small house in which one or two enslaved families dwelled stood in good condition until it toppled during a storm. Ben's family reconstructed the building. During the archeological dig that preceded carved figures were discovered that connect to African religious rites. Ben told us that rebuilding the slaves' dwelling was not an easy decision for his family, and that they still argue about what to do with this disturbing inheritance: forget about it, declaring that episode over? Memorialize it by learning as much as possible and talking about it, retelling what history can be brought forward? It's a big question, and not wholly different from ones that surround Holocaust commemoration. I believe that secrets serve no one well, not the living and not the dead.
So we had our perfect day at the farm, my family mixing with other families (and here it is worth noting, families of many racial origins), all of us aware how fragile these moments of community are, how they are built on troubled histories but not predetermined by this past. History hurts, but that isn't a compulsion to silence: by speaking about the injustice and wrongs and things that should not have been we move, tentatively, towards something better. Looking around, seeing that Alex and Katherine took seriously this knowledge, took seriously knowing that the ground beneath them had been worked once and traversed once by those who did not wish to be there made me think: there is nothing to be gained by willed ignorance.
We stayed at the farm until long after sunset. Our friend Lowell had come with us: he brought a tent and was camping out, and we envied him the quiet beauty of that long night. I wish we could have stayed. As we walked from the river across the fields to the car, fireflies glimmered. It was almost too much, as if a special effect had just been cued. Katherine told me she was proud of herself for having had the courage to ask some adults she did not know to take her on the river in the canoe. Alex raved about how Ben had trusted him to drive the Go Kart by himself, and how his excellent driving skills demonstrated that he was ready for a Learner's Permit. Alex has a tendency to draw into himself (I've written on this blog about he was hazed at school, so I understand why: when you have been attacked in a space which should be safe, you withdraw). Ben's act of kindness in offering the Go Kart was a reminder to Alex that the world can also be unexpectedly kind, and that this kindness should be savored.
There are no Green Worlds. Our lives don't endure long enough. They are limned by tragedy. No place set apart exists. A family cannot protect. The ground of a tranquil farm was worked by the kidnapped and enslaved. We have good reasons to be anxious, because we are not always wished well by others. We are judged, we are disciplined, we are reminded that whatever happiness we possess is built on others' misery. We have many reasons to despair. And yet we have moments when communities to which we did not expect to belong coalesce. Acts of unlooked for kindness arrive, and change what is possible. The future can hurt as it comes into being, especially when that future refuses to forget the difficult past.
Maybe it is the respite offered by a day of good food, cheer, a river, a sunset in which yellow yielded to pink, fireflies so perfect in their timing that if this were a novel I'd throw the book to the floor. Maybe it is the fact that despite all my optimism I know that I carry with me too much worry, and I felt that anxiety drain for a while yesterday. But the day was perfect: not because it was uncomplicated, not because it was set apart, but because it simply was.
7 comments:
- John Walter said...
Thank you. A wonderful post giving me much to think about as I'm coming up to my first year of family life. How much personal is too much is always a difficult question, one I'm increasingly struggling with myself. I often look to you as a model.
- Unknown said...
you limn some of my own anxieties in so many areas, Jeffrey....my obscure reasons for staying away from the Academy for so long when all I have ever wanted with all my heart is gladly lerne and gladly teche...and the anxieties of how or whether and when the personal and the professional interact...not least the anxieties of a parent, the agony of watching one's child go through agonies that recall one's own...and then, write large, to have such a beautiful day with friends in this alloyed, tarnished world (that last esp. writ large when one is with one's children and shares this corroded, strangely beautiful and violent world as their only real inheritance)...much to say. I regard you as an especially pivotal person to speak, because you are a leader in your field and you use your power only for good.
(Watch out for the kryptonite)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE - 1:05 PM
- Eileen Joy said...
A beautiful post and very timely as I had a rather horrendous morning. It will be maudlin to say so, but I feel you gathered together here so many bodies -- real bodies, dead and alive, parent bodies and child bodies, but also the multiple selves we each comprise, our child selves, our adult selves, virtual hoped-for but often not realizable selves, bodies that don't necessarily *want* to be held or pressed together -- and in doing so, you performed a sort of reparation, and I think we need more of that. It's called honesty.
- Eileen Joy said...
And also, since I've been thinking a lot lately about writing as action, that this post represents writing as a sort of binding, with "binding" meaning everything from "being bound together" [however uncomfortably] to "the ties that bind," happily and unhappily [family] to constraints that limit our vision sometimes to being "stuck" to "being bound" = adventure/going somewhere.
- Caren Calamita said...
You've a lot of wisdom and self awareness that a lot of parents don't. Alex (and KEC) are lucky to have you for a Dad. You get that that he's not you; it takes many years, sometimes never, for parents to realize that, often to the detriment of both parties. The worry for our offspring will never go away, but it does get easier (so I've been told).
I loved this post. Often times you (and your co-writers) write about a topic that is still very new to me, and I feel dumb (due to my own intellectual insecurities). Your ability to weave it all together is stunningly beautiful. - 9:25 AM
- Caren Calamita said...
The "Unknown" commenter was me.
- Mary Kate Hurley said...
We have many reasons to despair. And yet we have moments when communities to which we did not expect to belong coalesce. Acts of unlooked for kindness arrive, and change what is possible. The future can hurt as it comes into being, especially when that future refuses to forget the difficult past.
I think you've pointed out something I always struggle to articulate, both in this short quotation and through the post itself. Living with the past is also living with one's own past AND the past of others, recognizing how intertwined they are -- not forgetting is also caring, and caring is usually, for better or worse reasons, painful. - 10:03 AM


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6 career defining records of Jeremy Stacey
Jeremy Stacey
"I'm never happy with anything I've done," says Jeremy Stacey, whose career as a drummer and producer has spanned decades and a spectrum of styles.
Here, he tells Rhythm Magazine about the six long-plays he was 'happiest' with, which most-defined his career along the way.
Next page: swing, jazz and "some ropey playing"
Enter The Fire (1998)
British saxophonist Tim Garland came to the jazz world's attention working with Chick Corea. Enter The Fire was his solo debut, recorded over two separate sessions in 1992 and 1994.
Jeremy Stacey says:
"It's hard for me to listen to some of the records I did a long time ago. It was very hard music and we didn't get much time. I think we were sent a demo a couple of days before and I remember going, 'I can't make head nor tail of this, I'll just have to wait until we get there and play together.'"
"There's some ropey playing from me, but it was a group of friends: Jason Robello, Mick Hutton on double bass, Gerard Presencer and Tim Garland - all great players. My swing playing changed in that period."
"I was into Tony Williams then and later I got more into Elvin Jones. They couldn't be more different as swing players and I love them both, but when I got into Elvin it changed my playing massively."
Simple Things (2001)
Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker graduated from engineers to producers when they remixed Radiohead's Climbing Up The Walls. Simple Things was their full-length debut and went gold in Britain.
Jeremy Stacey says:
"Henry and Sam, the two guys from Zero 7, used to work at RAK Studios as assistants and engineers. I used to do a lot of sessions there in the early '90s, so I knew them. When they decided to do a project, they called me to come and play some drums just for an afternoon."
"It was a very creative, enjoyable session - they told me what they wanted, but they left me to do my thing. We didn't know it was going to turn into something huge."
"I've been using my Tama Bubinga a lot over the past year and it's been great. Before that I used this one '60s Ludwig kit, like a Ringo kit. I bought the toms separately then I found a bass drum that was falling apart in Los Angeles for 25 bucks."
New Earth Mud (2002)
New Earth Mud was the debut solo album from the Black Crowes frontman, Chris Robinson. The record moved away from the Crowes' classic blues rock and into improvisation territory.
Jeremy Stacey says:
"Apart from being an amazing singer, Chris is a musicologist. He wanted that band to be like The Grateful Dead. I found it hard to start with. It was a completely different approach because it's improvised rock, but I really got into it. When you get into a project, you absorb it like a method actor."
"I listened to a lot of music I hadn't heard before and played in a very different way. My brother, Paul Stacey, was the guitarist in that band and he was going, 'Great, we're going to play with the singer from the Black Crowes. We're going to rock!'"
"And Chris was like, 'No, I don't want you to rock. Jerry Garcia is like a jazz player - that's where we're going with this.' It's great to get taken off somewhere else."
Bliss Descending (2004)
Since leaving the band Jellyfish, Jason Falkner has divided his time between solo projects and playing on albums by such luminaries as Beck, Paul McCartney, Gnarls Barkley and Aimee Mann.
Jeremy Stacey says:
"Jason's an old friend. I met him through Jack Joseph Puig, an LA producer-mixer who was a big influence on me when I was younger. He's a collector of vintage recording gear and an amazing engineer. He influenced me to really think about sound."
"Now everybody's got old gear or new versions of old gear, but back then we'd just got through the '80s and I was going into studios and saying, 'I just can't get a good sound.' Then I'd go to the same studio with him and get the most incredible sound with the same kit."
"I asked, 'What's going on? I've got to learn about this because it's the difference between sounding good and not sounding good as a player.' That's why I ended up with my own studio."
Colour The Small One (2004)
Sia got her break working with dance acts such as Zero 7 and Massive Attack. Her second solo release, Colour The Small One, moved her style from electronica to pure pop songs.
Jeremy Stacey says:
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5:55 (2006)
The daughter of famed French singer Serge Gainsbourg, celebrated actress Charlotte released her first album at the age of 13, then waited 20 years before returning to the recording studio.
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"I had the snare that I've used on so many records. It looks like a Rogers Dynasonic, but the shell is an Eddie Ryan - very fat sounding drums. It got to the point where I was using this snare on so many different records that I started trying to use other ones, but people would say, 'Have you got a fatter, lower snare?'"
"Nigel made a comment to me, 'If you ever do another session for me, don't bring any other drums. This is the kit for every session.'"


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Monday, November 2, 2009
Great Monday Give: Hatful of Seuss
Last week, I scored this in a junk shop for $1.99... and it was such a great deal that I couldn't pass it up... except we have all the books in here already... so there is only one thing to do with it, and that's give it away! This week's Great Monday Give is a practically perfect hard copy of A Hatful of Seuss, a collection of the great Doctor's work including the classics If I Ran the Zoo, Sneetches and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book, Horton Hears a Who! and Bartholomew and the Oobleck. A wonderful collection... Bartholomew and the Oobleck is one of my all time favorite Seuss books... and it can be yours (maybe) if you comment on this post between now and midnight Sunday, November 8. A winner will be selected at random and announced the following morning.
In case you were wondering who the winner of last week's give is... that delightful wee copy of Golden Guide: Birds? Skye from right down the road in Austin. Congrats sister and send me your info as soon as you can to webe(at)soon(dot)com.
Stay turned for a review later in the morning and all you Dr. Goat fans... know that I have a very very very special treat coming up later this week. That's it for now kids!
36 comments:
- Diandra Mae said...
You know, if I still lived in SA, there would be a high probability I would be stalking you so I could figure out where you find all of your wonderful treasures! LOL!
I think this book would be a great addition to our home library. ;) Fingers crossed! - November 2, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- AmyB said...
This would be great to add to our library! Thanks for the chance.
-carnelin(at)gmail(dot)com - November 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM
- Celeste said...
My hubby is our resident Dr. Seuss reader around here--he does such a good job of it. I know he'd love to add this one to our collection.
- November 2, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Alison Morris said...
I am flattered beyond measure to have been called "incomparable"! Thank you! I am also mortified, though, that in my late-night-blogging state I got the name of your blog wrong. (How embarrassing...) I've corrected that shameful mistake and in so doing am hopefully a bit closer to living up to your compliment. Thanks again!
As for entering the contest in today's post, please don't put my name in the mix. Someone who gets fewer free books than I do should reap those benefits! - November 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- wmmahaney said...
We would absolutely love to win this book. Thanks for the awesome giveaways.
- November 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Unknown said...
On Beyond Z is my current Dr. Seuss favorite. Dr. Seuss is one of those authors that continues to open new realms for me. Another excellent find!
- November 2, 2009 at 12:38 PM
- Swati said...
I am dying to get my hands on Horton hears a who ever since we got the cd of the movie and introduced kiddie to Horton - I must pray this time I think! (Of course the others would be a good bonus!)
- November 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- Antmusic said...
My son would love this set of stories. So, I've got to try for it! Thanks!
- November 2, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- loft2dwell said...
Dr. Seuss is my all-time favorite. My aunt used to read "The Sleep Book" to us every time we slept at her house.
- November 2, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Christine said...
Yay for Seuss! Definitely would love that one. Thanks!
- November 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- heather said...
This would be awesome to win.
- November 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Unknown said...
LOVE Dr Seuss!!!!
- November 2, 2009 at 7:21 PM
- Julie said...
Oooh - Bartholomew and the Ooblek too! We don't have any of these stories (just Green Eggs and Ham and Mr. Brown Can Moo) so this would expand our Seuss collection considerably! :)
- November 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM
- JAC said...
My daughter is in love with the Dr. Seuss Foot Book right now. We'd love this one! Thank you!
- November 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM
- Heather said...
Reading is love, would love to win! :)
- November 2, 2009 at 11:53 PM
- missdenise said...
I would love to share these with my son. We don't have all of these.
- November 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM
- stephanie said...
Wow - we don't have any of these!
- November 3, 2009 at 4:33 PM
- Colleen said...
My daughter loves dr. seuss and doesnt have this(these ones).
- November 3, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- Danielle said...
My boys love Dr. Seuss books, but we only have Ten Apples Up On Top, so the rest we always have to get from the library. I know they would love this!
email@example.com - November 3, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Dr Seuss books are my all-time faves...and my children just love them, too! How fun it is to read books to your children that you grew up with yourself...I feel like I'm sharing part of my childhood with them.
- November 4, 2009 at 3:55 AM
- Brian said...
dr suess is the best
- November 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- daysease said...
OH!!! P-L-E-A-S-E pick me... Oh!!! I would L-O-V-E to win these!!! sigh... and fast beating heart, too... Hope you are well.
celita - November 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- kathy said...
Hoe fun! would LOVE to add these to our bed time (or anytime :) book shelf! thanks for the opportunity.
- November 4, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- Susana said...
Bartholomew is my favorite, too. I'd love to have these. Thanks!
- November 5, 2009 at 8:24 AM
- Dawn D. Lion said...
Entering, too. I need more Suess!
- November 6, 2009 at 8:05 AM
- Winning Readings said...
Can you believe of all the Dr Seuss books we have, we don't have these...
janemaritz at yahoo dot com
We posted about this at Winning Readings: http://winningreadings.blogspot.com/2009/11/hatful-of-seuss.html - November 6, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- Staci A said...
Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend!
The book looks great. My little one loves Dr Seuss, but we've never read some of these stories! - November 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM
- Lady Araujo said...
Me, Me, Me!!!
I'd love to win this book.
Thanks for the chance.
marthanadnny(at)hotmail(dot)com - November 6, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- Honey Mommy said...
Hooray for Seuss! We love his stuff... but then again, who doesn't?
honey2mommy(at)gmail(d0t)com - November 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- Molly said...
My sons love Dr. Suess! Fabulous giveaway! Pleas enter me!!!
mollydawn1981 {@} aol . com - November 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Julie said...
My oldest child is 24 years old-we still have all his Dr. Seuss's books :)
firstname.lastname@example.com - November 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM
- Sarah E said...
Please enter me in this giveaway! I love Dr. Seuss!
saemmerson at yahoo dot com
Sarah Emmerson - November 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM
- Unknown said...
Thanks so much for this giveaway Dr. Seuss books are so much fun and his B-day is the same as mine :)
firstname.lastname@example.com - November 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM
- Chelsea S said...
I would love to have this collection. It brings back wonderful childhood memories.
-- Chelsea S - November 7, 2009 at 11:07 PM
- Megan G said...
Oh I would love a copy of this one.
- November 7, 2009 at 11:20 PM
I would love to be entered in your draw. Thanks.
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