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We've been having fun with our Valentine's Day countdown. It has been a wonderful way for R (4 yrs) to learn about kindness. I wanted to do something else in the lead up to Valentine's Day which focused on why we loved each other. After seeing this super sweet Valentine's Day idea at Skip To My Lou, I decided to do something similar for R. The idea is that beginning February first, you add a heart shaped note to your child's door each day leading up to Valentine's Day. The notes are filled with the reasons why you love them. How adorable is that?
Rather than stick the notes directly on R's door, I attached a sheet of pink craft paper on his door and have been adding heart shaped love notes to that each day. I add the notes at random times of the day (each morning would be great but I just haven't been that organised!) When I let him know that a new note has been added to his door he sprints to his door and asks me to read the next note. I've also been writing "xoxox" on the notes and when he learnt that these meant hugs and kisses and he gives me a kiss for every "x" I write and a hug for every "o" I write on each note. I've been writing notes such as "I love you because you are kind, because you give the best cuddles, you are helpful" etc If I'd been a bit more organised I would have written all fourteen notes ahead of time – maybe next year! I have however written out the very last note, the one R will receive on Valentine's morning. It reads "I love you because you are YOU!" The very best reason of all.
If you love this idea as well, then it's not too late!! Sure, Valentine's Day is tomorrow but why not write out a few love notes today and pin them on your children's doors over night so they wake up to see them on Valentine's morning? We decided to make one for my husband and we didn't start it until February 11. On that day we wrote out 11 reasons why R loves his Daddy and we've been adding a new heart each day since then. My husband LOVED it when he came home from work and read all the notes. So here's what we did.
We cut out fourteen heart shapes from pink paper. R told me the reasons why he loves his Daddy and I wrote them out for him. R glued the first eleven hearts onto some pink craft paper – eleven because we made this on the 11th and wanted to add a new heart each day after that leading up to Valentines. If you are making this today to give to someone tomorrow just add all fourteen hearts at once, they'll love it!
After he had glued on the hearts, R then decorated the page with metallic cut outs of hearts and other shapes – just some craft bits and pieces we had on hand. That's it! Simple, quick and easy Valentine's craft and a wonderful way to show someone how much they are loved!
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Thanks, also, if anybody wants to, they can PM/VM me for a battle.
I would also like to try out for the war team. I should be on the Smogon server of PO for a while under the name DualShock1080P.
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Roundup: Aculight sold, Vmware in Wenatchee, Facebook apps
John Cook
on July 29, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Steve Strauss of USA Today
puts together
his top 10 entrepreneurs of all time, with Microsoft's Bill Gates and Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos on the list. All of the others on the list — including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and Walt Disney — are dead.
Todd Bishop has a
report and video
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Aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. has
to buy
, a 15-year-old Bothell maker of laser technologies. Terms weren't disclosed. Aculight employs 90 people.
VMware, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based server virtualization company that
former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz as CEO earlier this month, is expected to lease a 189,000-square-foot data center being built by Sabey Corp. near Wenatchee. According to
The Wenatchee World
, VMware chose the site due in part to the hydropower supplied by the Douglas County Public Utility District. The Columbia River area in Washington and Oregon has attracted Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo — because of the cheap hydro power produced from nearby dams. More on some of the projects
Andrea James
that Amazon.com has issued a
lengthy explanation
for the outage of its S3 storage service from earlier this month, with the online retailer saying: "Though we're proud of our operational performance in operating Amazon S3 for almost 2.5 years, we know that any downtime is unacceptable and we won't be satisfied until performance is statistically indistinguishable from perfect."
there are now more than 1,000 applications in Apple's new iPhone APP Store, with 53 of the top 100 applications being games. No wonder the iPhone was a hot topic at the Casual Connect games conference last week in Seattle. I played around with Urbanspoon's
popular restaurant finder application
for the iPhone while in Ballard this weekend and it took me three shakes to find a decent pizza restaurant.
Facing a lawsuit from Hasbro, the popular Facebook application Scrabulous has been
shut down
in the U.S. No wonder RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser
didn't want
to wander into this mess. Speaking of Facebook apps, Seattle-based Pelago (
maker of Whrll
) has introduced a new game called "Been Here? Like it or Not?" that used the location technology so users can rate clubs, restaurants and other local establishments.
good read
in The New York Times on people paying small sums for domain names, then fixing up the Web sites for sales to larger companies. The Times calls these entrepreneurs flippers, much like house flippers who try to score cash by fixing up an old or run-down property. Seattle's Marchex has been following this strategy to some degree.
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This is a kind of selective attention like 'Mental Filtering' except this time you are discounting the positives of an experience. The moderation examples used in the last post would be equally applicable to this.
Or again using my blogging example someone might congratulate me on a post and I would dismiss it out-of-hand, believing it to be undeserved. I might also automatically inwardly interpret the compliment as an attempt at flattery or perhaps as a result of naivety on their part, as in 'wait until you find some of the really good sober blogs'. I might then dwell on how much better these other bloggers are instead. This is a genuine thought process of mine at times and I'm not looking for people to blow smoke up my arse (thanks FFF!)
As with mental filtering, if you have to accept something as not really bad, then you discount it by saying well it wasn't really good either. It was nothing. Damned if you do, damned if you don't ….
Here it is important to remind ourselves that filtering out good experiences only leaves negative ones to focus on and that increases the risk of depression. I'm not suggesting we become all Polyanna-like but I think some balance in our thinking is critical and crucial to our recovery. We need to celebrate the wins of not drinking rather than dismissing or minimising them as that way drinking again lies. Sober treats and self-care reminder! 🙂


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A former chairman of the tribe that owns Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort Casino admitted to investigators that he used a tribe-issued credit card for personal expenses and knew that was prohibited, an FBI agent testified at his trial on theft charges.
Michael Thomas is accused of improperly charging about $100,000 in personal expenses on a credit card issued by his Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. Prosecutors say the charges included rides by a limousine service to doctor's appointments for his mother and television and satellite radio for himself.
"He admitted to me he did utilize the card for personal expenses," said FBI agent Robert Bornstein. "He knew that personal expenses were prohibited pursuant to a tribal resolution which had the power of law. He admitted personal expenses in violation of the resolution continued."
Thomas told the judge he does not plan to take to testify. Prosecutors have said they plan to finish presenting evidence Tuesday, and Thomas' attorney said he plans to call no witnesses.
A defense attorney, Paul Thomas, pointed out that nearly 90 percent of the expenses, or $89,000, was for the rides for doctor's appointments for Thomas' mother.
"He didn't tell you if he believed those were improper, did he?" Thomas asked
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Thomas said Monday during his opening statement that the jury will have to decide whether the credit card charges really were disallowed.
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Earlier, prosecutors sought to show jurors a photo of Thomas' large house. Prosecutors say they wanted jurors to see the photo to show the expenses were personal.
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In situ analysis of capturing dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles in a microfluidic system
Munir, Ahsan ; Zhu, Zanzan ; Wang, Jianlong ; Zhou, H. Susan ;
Smart Structures and Systems, volume 12, issue 1, 2013, Pages 1~22
DOI : 10.12989/sss.2013.12.1.001
Magnetic nanoparticle based bioseparation in microfluidics is a multiphysics phenomenon that involves interplay of various parameters. The ability to understand the dynamics of these parameters is a prerequisite for designing and developing more efficient magnetic cell/bio-particle separation systems. Therefore, in this work proof-of-concept experiments are combined with advanced numerical simulation to design and optimize the capturing process of magnetic nanoparticles responsible for efficient microfluidic bioseparation. A low cost generic microfluidic platform was developed using a novel micromolding method that can be done without a clean room techniques and at much lower cost and time. Parametric analysis using both experiments and theoretical predictions were performed. It was found that flow rate and magnetic field strength greatly influence the transport of magnetic nanoparticles in the microchannel and control the capturing efficiency. The results from mathematical model agree very well with experiments. The model further demonstrated that a 12% increase in capturing efficiency can be achieved by introducing of iron-grooved bar in the microfluidic setup that resulted in increase in magnetic field gradient. The numerical simulations were helpful in testing and optimizing key design parameters. Overall, this work demonstrated that a simple low cost experimental proof-of-concept setup can be synchronized with advanced numerical simulation not only to enhance the functional performance of magneto-fluidic capturing systems but also to efficiently design and develop microfluidic bioseparation systems for biomedical applications.
Investigation of smart multifunctional optical sensor platform and its application in optical sensor networks
Pang, C. ; Yu, M. ; Gupta, A.K. ; Bryden, K.M. ;
Smart Structures and Systems, volume 12, issue 1, 2013, Pages 23~39
DOI : 10.12989/sss.2013.12.1.023
In this article, a smart multifunctional optical system-on-a-chip (SOC) sensor platform is presented and its application for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor interrogation in optical sensor networks is investigated. The smart SOC sensor platform consists of a superluminescent diode as a broadband source, a tunable microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based Fabry-P
rot filter, photodetectors, and an integrated microcontroller for data acquisition, processing, and communication. Integrated with a wireless sensor network (WSN) module in a compact package, a smart optical sensor node is developed. The smart multifunctional sensor platform has the capability of interrogating different types of optical fiber sensors, including Fabry-P
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rot filter. A tuning range of 46 nm and a tuning speed of 10 Hz are achieved. The smart optical sensor platform will open doors to many applications that require high performance optical WSNs.
A novel Fabry-Perot fiber optic temperature sensor for early age hydration heat study in Portland cement concrete
Zou, Xiaotian ; Chao, Alice ; Wu, Nan ; Tian, Ye ; Yu, Tzu-Yang ; Wang, Xingwei ;
Smart Structures and Systems, volume 12, issue 1, 2013, Pages 41~54
DOI : 10.12989/sss.2013.12.1.041
Concrete is known as a heterogeneous product which is composed of complex chemical composition and reaction. The development of concrete thermal effect during early age is critical on its future structural health and long term durability. When cement is mixed with water, the exothermic chemical reaction generates hydration heat, which raises the temperature within the concrete. Consequently, cracking may occur if the concrete temperature rises too high or if there is a large temperature difference between the interior and the exterior of concrete structures during early age hydration. This paper describes the contribution of novel Fabry-Perot (FP) fiber optic temperature sensors to investigate the thermal effects of concrete hydration process. Concrete specimens were manufactured under various water-to-cement (w/c) ratios from 0.40 to 0.60. During the first 24 hours of concreting, two FP fiber optic temperature sensors were inserted into concrete specimens with the protection of copper tubing to monitor the surface and core temperature change. The experimental results revealed effects of w/c ratios on surface and core temperature developments during early age hydration, as well as demonstrating that FP fiber optic sensors are capable of capturing temperature variation in the concrete with reliable performance. Temperature profiles are used for calculating the apparent activation energy (
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Piezoelectric nanocomposite sensors assembled using zinc oxide nanoparticles and poly(vinylidene fluoride)
Dodds, John S. ; Meyers, Frederick N. ; Loh, Kenneth J. ;
Smart Structures and Systems, volume 12, issue 1, 2013, Pages 55~71
DOI : 10.12989/sss.2013.12.1.055
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is vital for detecting the onset of damage and for preventing catastrophic failure of civil infrastructure systems. In particular, piezoelectric transducers have the ability to excite and actively interrogate structures (e.g., using surface waves) while measuring their response for sensing and damage detection. In fact, piezoelectric transducers such as lead zirconate titanate (PZT) and poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) have been used for various laboratory/field tests and possess significant advantages as compared to visual inspection and vibration-based methods, to name a few. However, PZTs are inherently brittle, and PVDF films do not possess high piezoelectricity, thereby limiting each of these devices to certain specific applications. The objective of this study is to design, characterize, and validate piezoelectric nanocomposites consisting of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles assembled in a PVDF copolymer matrix for sensing and SHM applications. These films provide greater mechanical flexibility as compared to PZTs, yet possess enhanced piezoelectricity as compared to pristine PVDF copolymers. This study started with spin coating dispersed ZnO- and PVDF-TrFE-based solutions to fabricate the piezoelectric nanocomposites. The concentration of ZnO nanoparticles was varied from 0 to 20 wt.% (in 5 % increments) to determine their influence on bulk film piezoelectricity. Second, their electric polarization responses were obtained for quantifying thin film remnant polarization, which is directly correlated to piezoelectricity. Based on these results, the films were poled (at 50
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DNA-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube-based sensor array for gas monitoring
Zhang, Wenjun ; Liu, Yu ; Wang, Ming. L ;
Smart Structures and Systems, volume 12, issue 1, 2013, Pages 73~95
DOI : 10.12989/sss.2013.12.1.073
Nine deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences were used to functionalize single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) sensors to detect the trace amount of methanol, acetone, and HCl in vapor. DNA 24 Ma (24 randomly arranged nitrogenous bases with one amine at each end of it) decorated SWNT sensor and DNA 24 A (only adenine (A) base with a length of 24) decorated SWNT sensor have demonstrated the largest sensing responses towards acetone and HCl, respectively. On the other hand, for the DNA GT decorated SWNT sensors with different sequence lengths, the optimum DNA sequence length for acetone and HCl sensing is 32 and 8, separately. The detection of methanol, acetone, and HCl have identified that DNA functionalized SWNT sensors exhibit great selectivity, sensitivity, and repeatability with an accuracy of more than 90%. Further, a sensor array composed of SWNT functionalized with various DNA sequences was utilized to identify acetone and HCl through pattern recognition. The sensor array is a combination of four different DNA functionalized SWNT sensors and two bare SWNT sensors (work as reference). This wireless sensing system has enabled real-time gas monitoring and air quality assurance for safety and security.
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We would totally order more of this design. My son has one of the originals and my girls really wish they have one. Yellow can be a hard color to wear though, D is popular in our house!!ReplyDelete
The original is still one of my favorite shirts. I also prefer D in this new lineup.ReplyDelete
C and D....love it!ReplyDelete
A is still the best. Not a fan of the browns (maybe an olive or green would go better in Adventureland?)ReplyDelete
We will most definitely stock up on these. We have growing kids and need to make sure they have these as they grow up!
B or D- in a women's cut! :)ReplyDelete
Gee, if only there were some crappy design choices here—you know, like the Disney Parks Blog gives us—it would be much easier to decide! I think my husband would wear any of these, but maybe D the most? His only complaint about your original shirt is that it's a little too short, so I guess his vote is for whichever shirt is longest.ReplyDelete
Prefer the shirt style of D but the color of B. Not a fan of the banded sleeves.ReplyDelete
If you make it, we will buy it!! I chose B, but honestly, I'd buy it in any color! Could you make a citrus swirl shirt, too?! ;)ReplyDelete
D has the best overall contrast; B is my fave shirt color.ReplyDelete
I like the yellows but I would rather a scoop neck or v-neckReplyDelete
I love my original version of the shirt, so I'm voting B!ReplyDelete
I am voting B. I missed buying the first version, I won't miss this one!ReplyDelete
I'll be buying like 5 of these when you run them again! And I have enough friends that I know will buy around 20...ReplyDelete
I like the color of B and the style of D!ReplyDelete
"I told myself I would never do a rerun of the original tiki whip shirt I created two years ago and I still stand behind that...but I never said anything about a new take on the graphic..."ReplyDelete
You are a cruel, cruel man, Richard.
Oh, Richard. You have just made SO many people SO very happy with this post. I bought an original and I will buy multiples of whichever new design is picked.ReplyDelete
Thank you for ALL the incredible work you share with us.
The yellows look awesome! I'd got for bothA and C if I could!ReplyDelete
I ordered the first one as a gift for my husband but the next one is all mine. :)ReplyDelete
I also vote for a v neck / ladies cut option! And I like the lighter brown color for more contrast between the print and the shirt. Love love love.ReplyDelete
Who would have ever guessed a t-shirt could have such a passionate following? Great job! For the next run, can you offer it in an athletic cut?ReplyDelete
D, yellow is not my best color, but I still enjoy my original.ReplyDelete


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Just wanted to create something cute. So here it is a Teddy Bread.Maybe
it will make a good Valentine's Gift !!!
Almost too cute to eat but
Almost too cute to eat but looks delicious! Great idea...
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That is SO cute! I love it! And you could put a little necktie on it for Valentine's Day. Or if it's a girl, a little bow in it's hair (fur).
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What do you think? Do 4-year-olds need email? Pros/Cons?
Young kids need this like they need their own cellphones or phone privileges in general. Maybe my mom was strict, but I wasn't allowed to use the phone until I was 10.
In addition, this country already has problems with childhood obesity. The little ones don't need something else that encourages them to be sedentary.
I also have to say, the lower age of their target user seems a bit puzzling. Is a 4 - 6 year old literate enough to send or read an email?
A very cynical part of me sees this as a rather blatant attempt to gain brand loyalty at a very early age.
Youngsters are given so many unnecessary items that they are
becoming loners. Instead of interacting with others,they are
playing video games;texting on cell phones;doing the computer tots thing. It has gotten out of hand,and will only get worse as the "toy and computer/cell phones/iphone,etc industry" grows.
It's going to encourage computer literacy in general, which makes more sense as more and more jobs go towards things being online. It's going to encourage literal literacy, forcing kids to read and understand not only how e-mail works but how communication in general works. Hopefully this will equate to more children using actual words while conversing online, not the dumb LOL OMG stuff that perpetuates itself now.
I don't have kids, but if I did I'd use this like any other piece of technology. I'd control the content, control the doses, and have this be an accessory to actually experiencing interpersonal relationships and being outside. It's a tool, why not use it and give your kid the heads-up in school? Intellect isn't just being smart, it's about being able to apply that smartness to tasks, and having a child who better understands a day-to-day task makes sense to me.
Re: "Whatever happened to going to kindergarten and making friends, taking naps, learning your ABC's and doing little art projects?" ...while none of that is a bad thing, and should be maintained...what happened is that the world changed.
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Lanes of officials' homes hawker-free, not rest of Mumbai
Sunday MiD DAY visited four different localities in the city, only to find that in each case, particular streets which housed apartments of senior IAS and police officers were almost magically hawker-free. Yet in each instance, just a few lanes away, dozens of hawkers squatted on the footpath, selling their wares
Some are more equal than others, the saying goes — but in Mumbai, bureaucrats are a little more than mere equals, as we found out. When we visited four different areas over the last week, we found hawkers conspicuous by their absence around government quarters at Andheri, Bandra, Mohammed Ali Road and Churchgate, while adjacent areas were bursting at the seams with hawkers.
For instance, Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh's bungalow, Kruttika, located next to Bandra police quarters, has no hawkers around it at all. But right next door, Linking Road is still swarming with hawkers.
When this was pointed out to him, Singh said, "There are some police colonies in the city where there is indeed a hawkers' problem. Ultimately the administration has to decide on a hawkers policy." Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte remained unavailable for comment.
Yashodhan, Churchgate
One of the nerve centres of the city, Churchgate has several government offices and courts. Among its residential complexes is the tony Yashodhan Apartments, next to Marine Drive police station. Several judges and senior bureaucrats call this building home. Just a stone's throw away is KC College, around which many food stalls are scattered.
On our walk down from Churchgate station on the road towards Oxford bookshop, the footpaths are teeming with hawkers, selling everything from clothing, to mobile covers, newspapers, ragda patties, chaat and Chinese food. As we get closer to Dinshaw Wacha road, we notice hawkers reducing in number. Keep in mind, this is an arterial road crowded with office-goers and college students — all potential hawker customers.
At the crossroad, outside Churchgate Restaurant and Stores, a solitary newspaper vendor is all we see. All of Dinshaw Wacha road is free of hawkers, save for two authorised stalls outside the entrance of Cricket Club of India. The rest of the road is empty.
Mandvi Police Quarters, Pydhonie
The Pydhonie area under the JJ Flyover on Mohammed Ali road is reputed for its food and clothing shops. The road has rush hour traffic all day and night. Hawkers occupied nearly all footpaths. To top it all, cars, tempos and two wheelers are haphazardly, often illegally parked everywhere.
On the same road opposite Mandvi post office are the Mandvi police quarters in a lane off Mohammed Ali road. Not even a single hawker can be seen on the footpath, not even on the road. One of the hawkers on condition of anonymity said, "The police and BMC do not allow any of us near the colony."
Where the compound wall of the police quarters ends, hawkers crowd both the footpaths. Three buildings away from the police quarters, we witness a police crackdown against hawkers on the road. Yet just a stones-throw away, the roads and footpaths surrounding the colony are teeming with hawkers.
Police Colony, Bandra
Injustice is most apparent in the suburb of Bandra, where till recently, hawkers proved to be a serious menace. But in the post-Dhoble era, a newly invigorated police force began a relentless crackdown, and has at least partly succeeded in keeping the hawkers at bay. Still, Hill Road remains a shopper's — and hawker's — paradise.
Waterfield Road, which connects Hill Road with shopping hub Linking Road, is home for Mumbai Police Commissioner Dr Satyapal Singh. Next to his bungalow Kruttika, is the Bandra Police Colony, where hundreds of lower-rung policemen live.
Here too the footpath opposite Globus is occupied by hawkers, till just before the compound wall of Singh's home. Just two authorised stalls interrupt the 'hawker-free zone' between Kruttika and the police colony gate. Beyond this, the footpath is deserted.
Police Quarters, Andheri
Moving in and out of Andheri station is an ordeal — especially during peak hours, thanks to overcrowding, traffic and the terminally under-construction VAG metro. Hawkers are everywhere. We head straight to the police quarters outside Andheri (E) station.
Either side of the police quarters and even footpaths are hawker-free. Nor do we see a single banner or board. However, just two buildings away, we catch sight of the first of the hawkers, and then many more who have put up illegal stalls, making life tough for pedestrians.
The quarters are situated in the centre, with two main railway bridges opening on both sides of the road and a bus depot on one side. Local resident and railway commuter Jitendra Singh tells us, "The problem is such that now even in the mornings and late nights it is difficult to walk."
There are fruit vendors, sellers of pirated CDs and more here. Yet the area around the police quarters is peaceful. Not even cars or autos are stationed near the entry gates.
What we looked for
- An area with government quarters or colonies
- The presence of a commercial potential in the area, which is not exploited
- Adjacent residential or commercial areas that have a sizeable hawker presence


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The dried-droplet method is the oldest and has remained the preferred sample preparation method in the MALDI community.
Step-by-step procedure:
1. Prepare a fresh saturated solution of matrix material in the solvent system of choice: A small amount,10-20 mg, of matrix powder is thoroughly mixed with ? 1mL of solvent in a 1.5 mL Eppendorf tube, and then centrifuged to pellet the undissolved matrix.
2. Place 5-10 mL of the supernatant matrix solution in a small Eppendorf tube. (Note: Typical concentrations in saturated matrix-only solutions are in the 1-10 millimolar range.)
3. Add a smaller volume (1 to 2 mL) of protein solution (1-100 mM) to the matrix.
4. Mix the solution thoroughly for a few seconds in a vortex mixer.
5. Place a 0.5-2 uL droplet of the resulting mixture on the mass spectrometer's sample stage.
6. Dry the droplet at room temperature. (Note: Blowing room-temperature air over the droplet speeds drying.)
7. When the liquid has completely evaporated, the sample may be loaded into the mass spectrometer. Typical analyte amounts on MALDI crystalline deposits are in the 0.1-10 picomole range.
Crystal washing: The analyte/matrix crystals may be washed to etch away the involatile components of the original solution that tend to accumulate on the surface layer of the crystals (segregation). The procedure most often recommended is to thoroughly dry the sample (dessicator or vacuum dry) followed by a brief immersion in cold water (10 to 30 seconds in 4? C water.) The excess water is removed immediately after by flicking the sample stage or by suction.
This method is surprisingly simple and provides good results for many different types of samples. Dried droplets are very stable and can be kept in vacuum or in a dark drawer for days before running a MALDI experiment.
The dried-droplet method tolerates the presence of salts and buffers very well, but this tolerance has its limits. Washing the sample as described above can help; however, if signal suppression is suspected, a different approach should be tried (see crushed-crystal).
The dried-droplet method is usually a good choice for samples containing more than one protein or peptide component. The thorough mixing of the matrix and analyte prior to crystallization usually assures the best possible reproducibility of results for mixtures.
A common problem in the dried droplet method is the aggregation of higher amounts of analyte/matrix crystals in a ring around the edge of the drop. Normally these crystals are inhomogeneous and irregularly distributed, which is the reason MALDI users often end up searching for "sweet spots" on their sample surfaces. As an example, it has been observed [ ] that peptides and proteins tend to associate with the big crystals of 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid that form at the periphery of air dried drops containing aqueous solvent, whereas the salts are predominantly found in the smaller crystals formed in the center of the sample spot at the end of crystallization. In a clever set of experiments, Liang Li and co-workers [ ] used confocal fluorescence to demonstrate that with the dried-droplet method, the analyte is not uniformly distributed among or within the matrix crystals. In fact, some crystals show no analyte at all. Most well-written MALDI software packages allow for automated sweet-spot searching during data acquisition, a procedure by which the sample surface is scanned with the laser beam until a portion yielding strong signals is located.
Another problem that is often observed during crystallization is what is known as segregation: as the solvent evaporates and the matrix crystallizes, the salts and some of the analyte are excluded from matrix crystals. This is particularly important in cases where cationization is the ionization mechanism, such as in the case of synthetic polymers and carbohydrates. Component segregation yields an inhomogeneous mixture of analyte throughout the sample, resulting in highly variable analyte ion production as the laser is moved across the sample surface.


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In an "all-Mexican" 2003 CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinals, Club América took a giant step towards reaching this year's final after posting a 4:1 victory over host CD Toluca FC in the first-leg of the two-game series at the Estadio Nemesio Díaz this afteroon in Toluca, Edo., while CD Necaxa could only manage a 0:0 draw against visiting CA Monarcas Morelia in their series opener later that evening at the Estadio Azteca.
Toluca opened the scoring in the 28th minute of the first half with a goal by César Lozano, but Marcelo Lipatín gave Club América its first goal of the afternoon six minutes later for a 1:1 score.
In the second half, Oscar Mariscal gave the visiting squad the lead 2:1 in the 56th minute-mark.
After Lipatín notched his second goal of the match in the 62nd minute, Cuauhtémoc Blanco closed the scoring for América with seven minutes remaining for the 4:1 final.
In the other Champions Cup semifinal, Morelia, surprisingly, were on offense most of the first half, but couldn't get past goalkeeper Omar Ortiz as Necaxa relied on the counter attack through the few openings off the flanks.
In the second half, the host began to create more chances and outshot Morelia 7-2 (10-4 overall), but couldn't break the scoreless (0:0) deadlock.
The CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinals continue with second-leg matches as CA Monarcas Morelia host CD Necaxa at the Estadio Morelos on 7 May, while Club América takes a 4:1 aggregate lead to the Estadio Azteca against Toluca set for 14 May at Ciudad de México.
This is first time in the 41-year history of the competition the final four features teams all from the same country.
30.04.2003: Toluca, Edo. MéXICO; Estadio Nemesio Díaz (A: 8000)
CD TOLUCA FC - CLUB AMéRICA 1:4 (1:1)
Cesar LOZANO 28' - Marcelo LIPATíN 34', 62'; Oscar MARISCAL 56'; Cuauhtémoc BLANCO 83'
CD Toluca: Cesar Lozano - Sergio Ponce, Armando Palomino, Erick Espinosa, Emilio Viades, Edgar García (65: Isaac Moreno), Ariel Franco, José Núñez, Josué Castillejos, Emmanuel Ruiz (76: Diego De La Torre). Booked: Ruiz 22', Viades 32', García 37'; Sent off: Castillejos 82'
TD: Alberto JORGE
Club América: José Luis Ramirez - Carlos Sánchez, Adrián Gracía Arias, Marcelo Lipatín, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Alberto Becerra Acco, Carlos Infante, Marcio Del Vi Da Costa (54: Efrén Hernández), Israel Martínez (23: Raul Alvin), Daniel Uribe Solis (58: Oscar Mariscal), Oscar González. Booked: Da Costa 42', Sánchez 75', Lipatín 81'
TD: Manuel LAPUENTE
R: Jorge Eduardo GASSO (MEX)
30.04.2003: Ciudad de México; Estadio Azteca
CD Necaxa: Omar Ortiz - Diego Martinez, Hernan Vigna, Rafael Mejia, Miguel Ostersen, Mario Perez, Rodolfo Espinosa, Miguel Larrosa (46: Adelino Batista), Hector Herrera, Victor Ruiz (69: Fabián Peña), Angel Sosa (77: Gamadiel Garcia). Booked: Ostersen 70'
TD: Raul ARIAS
CA Monarcas Morelia: Miguel Fuentes - Eder Morales (64: Alejandro Pliego), Dario Franco, Jorge Almiron, Carlos Gutierrez, Miguel Hernández (46: Martín Gomez), Juan Urteaga (61: Ricardo Ruelas), Ismael Iniquez, Adolfo Bautista, Cristian Ramírez, Antonio Charel. Booked: none
TD: Rubén RAMANO
R: Gilberto ALCALA (MEX)
Champions League


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Hughes makes the cut / Fresh perspective in paper pieces
Published 4:00 am, Saturday, June 16, 2001
Art seldom objectifies the fragility of ideas as does the work of British artist Dean Hughes, who has his first exhibition in the United States at Hanley.
Working mostly with paper, Hughes has limited himself to a few operations: knife cuts, perforations with a hole punch, insertions, collage.
In the floor piece "Staples Through Paper" (2001), he has made a sort of abstract relief sculpture by pushing the prongs of unused staples through pinholes in a white page.
Two and only two staple ends share each pinhole. All the staples connect in a zigzag maze -- with no facet longer than a staple's span -- that covers almost the whole sheet from center to edges.
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Unframed, "Staples Through Paper" stands about a quarter inch off the floor on its dozens of protruding wire legs.
Framed pieces from a series titled "Hole Punch Discs Slotted Through Paper" feature sheets patterned in low relief by little cuts into which Hughes has inserted the circles popped out of other pages by a paper punch.
Viewers who know the work of American sculptor Tom Friedman will think of him often in Hughes' show.
But "Lots of Cuts in a Piece of Blue Card" (2001), and a related piece in black, bring Sol LeWitt to mind. The unframed blue sheet, leaning against the wall on a small shelf, has been cut almost to ribbons by countless tiny incisions at right angles to each other.
The grid, timeworn foundation of pictorial abstraction, flickers back to life here with a magic not seen since LeWitt's early wall drawings.
Delicacy, commitment and a sense of the absurd beneath the mundane converge here in a manner we rarely see in contemporary art.
Like Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996), Hughes seems to work with great concentration but little strain.
He tweaks the dry idioms of conceptual and process art into fresh, improbable expressions of love for the real.
Some artworks specify the kind of attention they merit. John De Andrea's sculpture at Modernism solicits double takes. It cannot withstand contemplation.
Like his older contemporary Duane Hanson, De Andrea makes full-scale polychromed human figures, cast directly from live models, then hand-painted and tricked out with hair and glassy eyes.
Their realism turns instantly to surrealism.
Perhaps gender consciousness in the art world has reawakened interest in De Andrea's work, which first came to prominence 30 years ago. For his nudes freeze their viewers into a position so voyeuristic as to clarify the impossibility of seeing the human figure asexually.
De Andrea's realism palls quickly, not because of its undeniable spookiness but because it aims to control, or at least constrain, response.
All questions about the work devolve to one: Can we view it any way but literally?
De Andrea's topical ensemble "American Icon" (1991) seems to react to this question.
The two nudes here -- a male lying prone, a female above him, half crouching, arms outspread -- look oddly familiar. De Andrea has duplicated, but denuded, two figures from a famous 1970 news photograph taken at the Kent State University anti-war protest in which National Guardsmen shot four students dead.
The two figures' gray color signals their source in a black and white photograph, but it also plays morbidly upon the fatality of the Kent State incident and the deceptive lifelikeness of all of De Andrea's work.
Some years ago Bay Area painter Guy Diehl found the still life formula that generated the works on view at Hackett-Freedman.
With smooth, unfinicky realism, Diehl describes arrangements of books -- frequently art books -- envelopes and other objects stacked on a tabletop under raking daylight, with darkness behind.
The composition of a picture such as "Still Life With Picasso Guitar" (2000) smartly recalls the internal geometry of Russian constructivism and De Stijl. Showing a book open to an image of one of Picasso's most famous sculptures, the painting gives Diehl a chance to re-create and salute an artist hero's work.
But Diehl's failure to challenge himself and his viewers more over the years undermines the tribute his work makes to artists he admires. How much pleasure visitors take in his show will depend on their familiarity with his work.
DEAN HUGHES: Works in paper. Through July 8. Jack Hanley Gallery, 395 Valencia St., San Francisco. (415) 522-1623.
JOHN DE ANDREA: Sculpture. Through July 7. Modernism, 685 Market St., San Francisco. (415) 541-0461.
GUY DIEHL: Paintings. Through June 30. Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 250 Sutter St., San Francisco. (415) 362-71852.


text: Rajkumari lives in northern India in a small mud-thatched hut with her husband, four children, two daughters-in-law and grandchildren. She provides for her family by weaving thread. Rajkumari had wanted to put her very small savings aside for future expenses, but without a savings account, she often spent it instead.


text: It was a beautiful fall day at CentruryLink Field for a game on Sunday as the Seahawks hosted the Tennessee Titans. It could have been a homecoming game for Titans Quarterback Jake Locker but he was unable to play because of a hip injury he suffered a couple weeks ago. The Titans played a scrappy game and kept close if not ahead for a good part of the game, but the Seahawks turned on their home dominance and pulled away with a 20-13 victory. Marshawn Lynch put the Hawks on his back and carried the load with two scores on the day.


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Welcome Carole Jelen [1], literary agent and author platform builder. If you're looking to increase your reader base, you need to build your author platform – and here's Carole to tell us how!
There's no way around the fact that the joys of receiving the world's communications right in our pockets through a handheld device also means that you as an author must participate.
The digital era has ushered in the need for readers to find you and dialog with you. Now readers want to know you as a person, to reach out and hear from you directly and are enabled to do just that via comment boxes, Tweets and more. Ann Rice, whose books have sold nearly 100 million copies once said "I enjoy the web a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a close relationship with them." The authors who embrace shifting from monologue to dialogue find that using the power and strength of the internet engine propels them forward. It's time to get on board.
Are there easy to understand fundamentals to creating and building an author platform? Yes, and better yet, the tools are free. The digital world has brought with it a new model: authors must build an interested audience, not a continuation of an outdated model: selling to everyone. Although platform building is different from traditional marketing or selling, it's not rocket science to understand it and build your own.
I've worked with and learned from many successful author clients for decades as a literary agent and have been teaching new author clients to use the same techniques and inside secrets to build their own. In the end we see not only higher sales of books but also we see a demand created for authors to write more books, in the form of revised editions and additional books or series of titles.
To start out, a good exercise is to assess your own platform: try searching on Google for names of top selling authors like Ann Rice, and then top authors like the ones mentioned at the end of this post, or you can use my own website at jelenpub.com [1] as a model. Then search Google for your own name for a comparison. How findable are you? How much does your platform represent what your readers should learn about you? Your platform may not match top selling authors yet, and I mean yet, as we are in an era where a solid author platform to serve as your magnet for readers is in reach.
Here are some tips to get started:
Create your central author web site. The secret isn't just having a site; this grand author location needs to be constructed to tie all of the pieces and locations together. All online tools work together if you know how to connect them. As an example, take a look at the author web sites mentioned below by searching on Google for these authors' names. You'll see clear buttons for the big 4 social networks and sharing, tabs, blogs, and links to articles, talks, audios and videos. This is the hub location for your platform.
Create a presence on all the 4 big social networks: Twitter, Facebook fan page, Google+ and LinkedIn. The secret is to be sure to list on –all- of the social networks, not just one or two, and talk to your readers directly by answering all comments and Tweets. All of these networks should have buttons on your own site, as they all lead to separate listings for you when a reader searches Google for your name to find out more about you. Look at the model sites for examples.
Ride the wave on big networks of others. Many of the top authors know that to succeed, they need to form alliances with a community with other authors or like minded people. The big 4 social networks have long lists of communities to join and post to. The top authors also understand that posting directly to groups instead of just one single person magnifies your presence significantly.
Create personal appearances that stay online. Blogs, audio recordings, videos and articles posted online are fantastic to create multiple new ways for readers to connect to your content for all time. But even better is the fact that these all stay online to be watched over and over or at any future date thereby keeping your presence going over time. Authors who write content via nonfiction or about first-hand experiences etc. in either articles, books or other content on your topic grow audience significantly as people connect to your subject. Check out bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver as an example, or Stephen King connecting with the author community via his nonfiction book, On Writing.
Authors supporting other authors is powerful. Another key is that top authors understand is that other authors are readers too; other authors are often their first line and most supportive audience. Being in community with other authors is a smart move in addition to support communities with like minded people.
Find people to give positive reviews, praise quotes, and testimonials. Publishers and authors understand the power of public view online, on Amazon and review sites, where authors now have a showcase reviews and praise from their audience. What others say becomes a magnet for others to become drawn to your writing.
Then: Shakespeare's Author Platform
More than a few years have slipped through the hourglass since William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, now categorized as teen romance set in the midst of warring families. Yet today you'll find on Goodreads: 9500+ reviews for Romeo and Juilet, Facebook: 413,288 likes Romeo and Juliet the filmTwitter: 9,138 followers @RomeoandJuLIet ;Google +: 247,540 followers|375,689 views RomeoAndJuliet on Broadway, just to name a few.
Shakespeare was a writer, and an entrepreneur who understood that he needed audience, community, networks, and locations ie an author platform. Like any top writer, Shakespeare used the author tools of his time, and he understood the importance of building audience, even in the Elizabethan era. We can never hear his voice in a 60 minutes interview, but we have evidence that he worked toward his goals in his career choice to earn his living as a professional writer, indicating that he didn't write and then simply hope that an audience would appear.
He networked with influencers. Shakesepeare enlisted supporters to influence others to follow his work. He was faithful to Queen Elizabeth and her Court, even to the point of becoming an author to write custom plays to order; he was also patron of King James I. He gave private royal performances at the home of his friends and patrons including the Earls of Southampton and Pembroke.
He got praise quotes and reviews. Shakespeare didn't need much more than the royal court to count toward his successful word of mouth positive reviews, but authorities in literary circles praised Shakespeare in quotes that helped him to become known as an excellent dramatist in his time, even though his bigger fame came after his death.
He understood direct communication with his audience. Shakespeare saved money to build the Globe Theatre to showcase his work to his audience front and center. The Globe held 3,000 people, and the audiences packed the theatre at most performances. Remember, yesterday's Globe theater is today's box office, and that romantic comedies rank #7 in top film genres.
Now: Top Romance Authors' Platforms
[2]The following statistics show why so many authors are drawn to writing the romantic novel today and why it's worth taking the time to build your own author platform:
Romance was the top-performing category on the best-seller lists in 2012 across the NYT, USA Today, and PW best-seller lists (Consumer Book Publishing 2013)
74.8 million people read at least one romance novel in 2008. (source: RWA Reader Survey)
39%, of all fiction books sold today are in the romance category (RWA)
So why wait, just start working on your platform every morning over coffee, like so many of us do daily. The easiest way jumpstart an author platform? Don't start from scratch; find a model of a platform similar to what you want and then modify it to fit your style. Here are three top romance writers to use as models to start out:
Madeline Hunter [3]: nominated four times and has twice won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious award.
Sherry Thomas [4]: two time winner of Best Historical Romance RITA awards and Publishers' Weekly Best Books of 2008
Nalini Singh [5]: Jane Porter Award, Clendon Award, Readers Choice Award
Nora Roberts [6]: called "America's favorite novelist." by the New Yorker.
Wishing you best in building and growing your author platform! As you grow, please send me your stories to include in the next edition of our book, Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules: A Literary Agent's Guide to Growing Your Audience in 14 Steps (BenBella publishers, May, 2014)
How do YOU build your author platform? Any tricks of the trade you want to share?
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Eileen Joyce (Piano)
Born: November 21, 1908 - Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia
Died: March 25, 1991 - Westerham, England
Eileen Alannah Joyce's mother was Spanish and her father, an itinerant labourer and mining prospector, was Irish. Eileen was born into relative poverty, in a tent, in the mining town of Zeehan, Tasmania and brought up near Boulder City in Western Australia. Educated at St Joseph's Convent, her first instruction at the piano came from her mother. In 1926 Percy Grainger heard the 14-year-old Eileen, calling her 'the most transcendentally gifted child' he had heard. Wilhelm Backhaus also heard her and recommended that she study in Leipzig. A fund was set up to support her travel and tuition in Germany, and she studied there with Max Pauer and Robert Teichmuller. Pauer gave her the Étude in A flat Op. 1 No. 2 by Paul de Schlözer to study, and when the André family, with whom she was staying in Leipzig, suggested she study the basics of piano playing with Teichmuller, she played this piece for him. Teichmuller provided Joyce with all the ground-work for a strong technique but never charged her for his guidance. She also was exposed to and learnt unusual repertoire such as Max Reger's Piano Concerto and the Burleske by Richard Strauss.
After three years in Leipzig, Eileen Joyce travelled to London with a letter of introduction to conductor Albert Coates from Teichmuller in which he wrote, 'Eileen has a rare piano talent of special originality and high intelligence. She plays the really difficult Concerto of Prokofiev quite wonderfully.' Joyce knocked on Coates's door, and they played through Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26 together.
In London Eileen Joyce had further periods of instruction from Adelina de Lara and Tobias Matthay, and in Berlin attended master-classes by Artur Schnabel at which she studied L.v. Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto. Albert Coates suggested she contact Henry J. Wood, the result being that Joyce made her London and Proms debut at the Queen's Hall on September 6, 1930. She chose to play Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 26, and Henry J. Wood invited her to return for consecutive years when she played L.v. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Op. 19, Ferruccio Busoni's Indianische Fantasie for piano and orchestra, and Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 35. Four years after her debut she took part at the last night of the 40th season of Proms, again playing Ferruccio Busoni's Indianische Fantasie. 'Miss Eileen Joyce played the solo part prettily, if not with any deep understanding of its intellectual qualities, and won much applause.'
From that auspicious beginning, Eileen Joyce had a long and successful career as soloist and concerto performer, having at least seventy concertos in her repertoire including those by John Ireland and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both concertos by D. Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky's Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, and F. Busoni's Indianische Fantasie; but it was her playing of the popular concertos by Grieg, Sergei Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky that endeared her to the British public to whom she was a household name like Benno Moiseiwitsch and Mark Hambourg. Joyce toured extensively, playing in such diverse places as Brazil and Helsinki, and also played with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sergiu Celibidache, as well as with conductors of the stature of Eugene Ormandy and Victor de Sabata, whom she described as 'wonderful' when they performed L.v. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Op. 58 together.
Eileen Joyce, who possessed an arresting beauty, had enormous stamina at this time, being able to play four concertos in one evening: for example Frédéric Chopin's No. 1, S. Rachmaninov's No. 2, the Concerto by John Ireland and L.v. Beethoven's 'Emperor'. During World War II she performed in British cities that had been bombed, sometimes up to three concert venues in one day, and appeared in feature films including Battle for Music (1944), Girl in a Million (1946) (in which she appeared as herself performing César Franck's Variations Symphoniques), and Trent's Last Case (1952) where she appeared playing W.A. Mozart at the Royal Opera House. Joyce is most fondly remembered for playing on the soundtrack of films including The Seventh Veil (1948) and Brief Encounter (1949). A film based on her life, in which she appears, was entitled Wherever she goes (1951). Arthur Bliss and George Malcolm wrote music for her.
Her frenetic working life, where music was the focus to the exclusion of all else, left Joyce disillusioned. 'I worked too hard and travelled too much. I felt depleted spiritually and mentally, I was like a shell with nothing inside anymore.' Her first marriage was not happy and led to separation, but her husband was killed in World War II. Their son was sent to boarding school at the age of two and a half, and Joyce admitted that her breakdown was partly due to her guilt over the neglect of her child.
After thirty years of intensive concert schedules, Eileen Joyce retired from the concert stage in 1962; but her popularity led her to make one more appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1967 when she played S. Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Anatole Fistoulari. 'Her playing had remarkable weight of tone and was unfailingly musical.'
A 'popular' pianist with a vast repertoire of short works by 19th-century composers, Eileen Joyce also played J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, and L.v. Beethoven, and popular works by Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Ravel, Sinding, Cyril Scott and Dohnányi. She had an exceptionally fluent technique which she could turn to anything, but she was not the kind of pianist one would expect to hear play Schubert sonatas or L.v. Beethoven's 'Diabelli' Variations. She knew what she was good at, and excelled in it. Although her fast tempi in Bach may appear excessive today, she always played with great taste and finesse whether in a miniature by W.A. Mozart or Grieg, or a huge Romantic concerto by S. Rachmaninov or Tchaikovsky. There is never a feeling that she is just playing fast for effect, or that anything is at all superficial.
From her first appearance in London in 1930, EilJoyce broadcast for the BBC. Some of her radio and television broadcasts have survived from the 1950's, the most important being a 1953 'Last Night of the Proms' when she played Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Malcolm Sargent. From 1949 another Prom performance has survived of Joyce playing the Ireland Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult at a 70th birthday concert for Ireland.
Eileen Joyce made some records in 1933 for her own use. The company who recorded her, Parlophone, was so impressed with her disc of Franz Liszt's Étude de concert La Leggierezza that instead of charging her £7-10s-0d (£7.50) for making it, she was quickly signed to a contract. She recorded prolifically during the 1930's, almost a disc a month, and made some excellent discs for Parlophone, of which that first one already mentioned is one of the highlights. The repertoire covered a wide range, including J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Paradisi and popular works by F. Chopin and F. Liszt as well as works that could be called 'encores' by composers such as Moszkowski, S. Rachmaninov and F. Liszt. An exception from the piano solos recorded for Parlophone was Arensky's Piano Trio in D minor recorded with violinist Henri Temianka and cellist Antonio Sala. Around 1940 Joyce began to record for Columbia where she set down performances of slightly larger works such as F. Chopin's ballades, some W.A. Mozart's piano sonatas, Grieg's Ballade Op. 24 and Haydn's Piano Trio in G major Op. 73 No. 2. Surprisingly, little of Joyce's concerto repertoire was recorded. In 1936 she recorded Turina's Rapsodia sinfonica for Parlophone, and in the early 1940's for Columbia she recorded John Ireland's Piano Concerto and D. Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 35. Joyce gave the British premières of both D. Shostakovich concertos in 1936 and 1958.
When Eileen Joyce moved to Decca in the mid-1940's, she recorded S. Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Erich Leinsdorf, César Franck's Variations Symphoniques with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra and Charles Munch, and Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 with the London Symphony Orchestra and Anatole Fistoulari. Also for Decca Joyce recorded Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major Op. 44 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Gregor Fitelberg. This latter recording was assigned catalogue numbers but never released, apparently due to technical problems with the recording. It was not until the LP era that Joyce recorded Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16; it appeared on the Saga label with John Frandsen conducting the Royal Danish Orchestra, as did an LP of encores of the type Joyce had recorded for Parlophone.
A handsome two-LP set entitled The Eileen Joyce Album appeared on EMI in 1987 containing a selection of her recordings from 1933 to 1942. On compact disc she has appeared on Testament and Pearl who each have devoted a disc to her. The Decca concerto recordings by César Franck, S. Rachmaninov and F. Mendelssohn appeared on a Dutton compact disc with the Rapsodia sinfonica by Turina in 1998, whilst Dutton reissued the D. Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 in 1994.
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