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What are the visa requirements to visit Panama?
United States, Canadian as well as most European citizens do not need a visa to visit Panama and may stay to 180 days. All visitors to Panama need to carry a passport that is valid for at least 90 days following the departure date from Panama. Should you be traveling alone with a child, be prepared to carry a notarized letter of consent from the absent parent. Visitors to Panama are also required to have the equivalent of US$500 on their person or a credit card with an equivalent limit, plus a return or connecting ticket dated to depart the country within 180 days. Like every airport there is an airport departure tax which is charged upon departure, at Tocumen it is US$40 however, also like many other airports it is usually included in the price of your airline ticket. That said it is a good idea to confirm this ahead of time. If it is not included in your ticket you want to insure you have $40 cas only or you won't be permitted to leave. That could obviously get messy, especially if you are at the end of your 180 days because you won't be permitted to stay either!
Can a foreigner purchase property in Panama?
Absolutely. You have the choice of purchasing land with, or without, a house, or a business either in your own name or through a corporation. Most property in Panama is under freehold title, meaning you own your investment free and clear enjoying the same property rights as a Panamanian citizen.
There are some areas still being reviewed by the government for proper title to establish uncontested ownership, i.e., selected coastal parcels and, occasionally, native Indian acreage. As with all purchases in a foreign country, the importance of dealing with reputable brokers and lawyers can not be emphasized enough. Your lawyer will research your land document ensuring that you hold free and clear title. He will make certain that all necessary legal documents are properly registered with the local municipality. A reputable lawyer protects your interests, providing you with peace of mind. See my letter, Is Panama Safe for more details about titles and land ownership in Panama.
What are the Panama Residency Laws?
Pensionado Residencia
There are several attractive programs available making it easy for foreigners to move to Panama either part or full time. The most popular is the Pensionado Residencia, or Retiree Resident. Under this plan, you are allowed to import a new car duty free every two years. Panama also enhances this program with discounts for movies, sporting events, restaurants, hotels and your home utilities, to name a few. Even drugs and Doctor's visits are illegible for the Pensionad discount. To qualify as a Retiree, you must show a verifiable monthly income of at least $500 which increases an additional $100 per dependent, for instance husband, wife or child. So that means $1,200 per couple. You are required to present a health certificate, which must include proof you do not have AIDS, along with a criminal free record provided by your local police facility. Here's the low down on the Pensionado Benefits and why many consider it to be the best retirement program in the world which us offerred to foreigners:
In Panama, qualified pensionados or retirees are entitled to:
- 50% off entertainment anywhere in the country (i.e. movies, sporting events, live theater, concerts, etc.)
- 30% off bus, boat, and train tickets
- 25% off airline tickets
- 25% off monthly electricity
- 30% to 50% off hotels and resorts
- 15% off hospital bills*
- 10% off prescription medicines*
- 20% off medical consultations*
- 15% off dental and eye exams*
- 20% off professional and technical services
- 50% off closing costs for home loans, and more…
* Private Insurance benefits will be applied prior to any deduction.
If you become a pensionado, you are also entitled to a one time exemption on duties which would normally be due on the importation of household goods up to a value of $10,000. You are also exempt from paying duties on the importation or even the local purchase of an automobile every two years.
Panama's pensionado law also stipulates that anyone who is granted status as a qualified pensioner is guaranteed their status will remain in effect for as long as they resides here. So, even if law changes the pensionado requirements, your status guaranteed…it will never change!
Panama's business investor program
You may also apply for a small business, or investor's, Residencia which involves a minimum investment of $160,000 in any legitimate new business and the hiring of 5 Panamanian employees. Should you be able to qualify as a tourist related business, forestry concern or restorer of national landmarks, you may be eligible for tax incentives, some as generous as 15 to 20 years exoneration on property, sales, vehicle, import, and business necessities taxes. A foreigner can start any type of legal business except for those reserved for Panamanians, namely, a legal firm (lawyers) and a medical practise (doctors).
Beware, the documentation required can be arduous and processing has been known to last up to six years before you are granted permanent residency status.
Panama Self Economic Solvency Visa
If you desire a permanent Residencia immediately, you can deposit a minimum of $300,000US in a three year CD at any Panamanian bank. This money is treated like an annuity program, or interest bearing account, with annual payments made to you over a fixed period of time. Should you decide to leave Panama early, the balance is payable in full. You can also invest the same amount in title real property or a combination of the two investments totally $300,000US.


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If I had to pick a single track to explain to an alien or time traveler what hip-hop is and why it's so awesome, I think I'd pick "Nas Is Like."
Nas has a great flow full of powerful imagery, but what truly sets this track apart for me is DJ Premier's production. It's a complex web of samples and scratches that tie together so seamlessly as to be much greater than the sum of their parts. A lot of the samples are from other songs by Nas himself. Here's a diagram of all the samples, click to see it bigger:
Primo tells the story of the track, including the serendipitous discovery of the killer orchestral string sample, in The 14 Deadly Secrets by DJ Premier:
A transcript:
The day I made this record, I was at my house in Long Island, and I found this old record that I was gonna throw away. It was a ten inch record from a Lutheran church, and it was pink with a black fish on it. And I was gonna throw it in the garbage, 'cuz it didn't look like it had anything hot on it. But somethin' told me "before you throw it away, put it on the turntable, see if you can find something on it.
And I found that sample of "Nas Is Like", and I broke it into 3 parts, scratched it live to the drumbeat that I already had, with the little chirpin' birds and from there, "Nas Is Like" was born, man…
The birds twittering during the intro beat are from "Why" by Don Robertson. And here's the Lutheran record Primo's talking about, "What Child Is This." Very unlikely hip-hop source material.
Most of the lines in the chorus come from Nas' breakout hit "It Ain't Hard to Tell." The "life or death" line is at 0:32, the "Nas is like" that gives the song its title is at 0:44, and the "half man half amazin'" comes in a few seconds later. "My poetry's deep, I never fell" is at 2:41.
"It Ain't Hard To Tell" includes some hot samples of its own, including the synth intro from "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson and a saxophone riff from the much-sampled "NT" by Kool & The Gang (listen at 3:12.)
The other source for the "Nas Is Like" chorus is Nas' "Street Dreams" from 1996. Samples are at 3:16 ("I'm a rebel) and 3:18 ("no doubt.")
This track is also a composite of different memes – it quotes "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics and samples its beat from "Never Gonna Stop" by Linda Clifford.
The most inventive sample in "Nas Is Like" is a single syllable from "Nobody Beats the Biz" by Biz Markie. It's the line "highly recogNIZED as the king of disco-in'" at 2:06. Out of context, "NIZED" sounds like Biz is saying "Nas." That might be the single most creative sample usage in hip-hop history.
No wonder DJ Premier loves Biz — both like using a lot samples and allusions. Biz's chorus is a play on a commercial jingle that'll be familiar to anyone from the NYC region who grew up in the eighties (or has watched Seinfeld.) Biz also samples the drums from by "Hihache" by the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, "Fly Like An Eagle" by Steve Miller and, to heighten the self-reference even more, one of his own classic tracks, "The Def Fresh Crew" with Roxanne Shanté.
To add yet another layer of reference, there's a bit in here where Biz quotes the jingle for Meow Mix! Biz is so much bigger than copyright law.
Nas does a lot of bragging in his rhymes. I learned excessive self-deprecation as a virtue from both my Jewish and middle American Protestant sides, so swagger feels deliciously subversive for me. There's nothing more balling than sampling yourself in your own songs. Any sample-based song carries a dense web of associations, and I love the complexity that gets introduced when people sample themselves, or when they sample tracks containing samples, or best of all, both. "Nas Is Like" has a complex family tree, a set of allusions to allusions to allusions. This is as it should be. Fundamentally, all music is built of reshuffled bits of other music. Hip-hop makes this fact an explicit part of the music's message, and that's the biggest reason why I love it.


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Al-Qaida-linked forces warned of military showdown
Published 9:50 pm, Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Tribal leaders in the besieged city of Fallujah warned al-Qaida-linked fighters to leave to avoid a military showdown, echoing a call by Iraq's prime minister Wednesday that they give up their fight as the government pushes to regain control of mainly Sunni areas west of Baghdad.
The warning came as gunmen attacked an Iraqi army barracks in a Sunni area north of Baghdad, killing 12 soldiers. Seven soldiers were wounded in the assault in Diyala province, authorities said.
The United Nations and the Red Cross, meanwhile, said Fallujah and nearby areas are facing mounting humanitarian concerns as food and water supplies start to run out.
Sectarian tensions have been on the rise for months in Sunni-dominated Anbar province as minority Sunnis protested what they perceive as discrimination and random arrests by the Shiite-led government. Violence spiked after the Dec. 28 arrest of a Sunni lawmaker sought on terrorism charges and the government's dismantling of a year-old anti-government Sunni protest camp in the provincial capital of Ramadi.
Last week, al-Qaida-linked gunmen seized control of Ramadi and nearby Fallujah, cities that were among the bloodiest battlefields for U.S. forces during the Iraq war. The militants overran police stations and military posts, freed prisoners and set up their own checkpoints.
The United States and Iran have offered material help for the Iraqi government but say they won't send in troops.
Speaking in his weekly television address, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hinted of a possible pardon for supporters of al-Qaida's local branch, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, if they abandon the fight.
"The war that is being fought by the Iraqi security forces, tribes and all segments of Iraqi society against al-Qaida and its affiliates is a sacred war," he said. "I call on those who were lured to be part of the terrorism machine led by al-Qaida to return to reason."
In exchange, he promised that his government will "open a new page to settle their cases so that they won't be fuel for the war that is led by al-Qaida."
Iraq's government has rushed additional troops and military equipment to Anbar and has been carrying out airstrikes in an effort to dislodge the militants.
Skirmishes between Iraqi forces and militants broke out on the outskirts of Fallujah and Ramadi again Wednesday, according to witnesses, and militants blew up a small bridge on the edge of Ramadi, officials in Anbar said. There was no immediate report of casualties.
At least four crew members were killed when a military helicopter crashed in Anbar, according to army and government officials in the province and state TV. The officials said the cause was poor weather conditions in the area and there was no indication militants brought it down. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.


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The Golden Globe-winning actor-musician talks about his sophomore CD, "Didn't It Rain"—a collection of jazz and blues standards.
Actor-musician Hugh Laurie
Tavis Smiley: Good evening from Los Angeles. I'm Tavis Smiley.
Tonight, a conversation with actor and musician, Hugh Laurie. The six-time Emmy nominee for his indelible portray of "House" on the long-running FOX series is now on tour with the Copper Bottom Band performing classic songs from his second blues album, "Didn't It Rain."
We're glad you've joined us. A conversation with Hugh Laurie coming up right now.
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Tavis: With six Emmy nominations spread out over the eight-year run of "House, M.D." on FOX, Hugh Laurie convinced us he was a brilliant, albeit disdainful, physician now on his second blues CD titled "Didn't It Rain." He's convincing us he's a logical inheritor of the great blues traditions of W.C. Handy and Jelly Roll Morton. Let's start our conversation first with a cut from this CD called "Evenin'."
Tavis: So every artist that I've ever talked to in my entire career either loves or hates the way they sound, so…
Hugh Laurie: Hate. Hate, hate, hate. But it's always been that way. Can't stand myself on voicemail or anything, no. Always, always hate. Hate the way I sound and hate the way I look. I think that's the natural state.
I cannot understand people who are happy to look at themselves, hear themselves. It's an absolute mystery to me. I admire it. My God, I wish I could do it, but I can't.
Tavis: So then how does one judge, how does Hugh Laurie judge, whether or not he is happy with the project? How do you feel that out if you're not enamored by your own sound?
Laurie: I don't. I am resigned to perpetual discontent. Usually I need about 10 years to go by and then I can look back on something and I go, well, that was okay. Or I can hear something and that was okay. At the time, I don't think it's possible.
The only thing you could do is to surround yourself with people you trust and hope that they will steer you in the right direction and say that's not really happening or thumbs up. I think that's all you can do. Otherwise, you can get so sort of tied up in your own head, you know, on the tiniest things, sometimes things that no one else would notice.
Tavis: It's one thing, Hugh, I suspect to not be in love with the sound of your voice. But it's abundantly clear to me that you know what you love in terms of music when you hear it. I mean, you know the stuff that inspires you.
Laurie: Oh, I do.
Tavis: You know what turns you on.
Laurie: Completely, completely.
Tavis: Well, what was that back in the day?
Laurie: Well, I suppose the first – I'm not completely sure what the first song was. I think it was a Willie Dixon, but I couldn't swear to it. I was probably eight or nine years old when I heard this song.
I suppose it was the first blues song I ever heard, that blue note, and it just hit me like a thunderbolt and I've been vibrating ever since. It was like a sort of magical kingdom that I could go to through that door that opened.
And Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it.
Tavis: You started singing or playing first?
Laurie: Oh, playing, playing. No, the singing, this is a recent arrival. I'm getting better at it [laugh]. It's something I should have done – well, all of this stuff I should have done more of when I was younger.
And there isn't a human being alive who doesn't wish they'd worked harder at a musical instrument. Right, right. I've never met anyone who says, you know, I'm really glad I gave up the clarinet, you know. Nobody says that.
Tavis: I kick myself every day that I stopped playing saxophone and piano.
Laurie: Yeah. Do you touch them at all now?
Tavis: If I walk across a piano, if I walk past one, I'll stop and play.
Laurie: Oh, you will?
Tavis: Just…
Laurie: Oh, so the…
Tavis: The saxophone thing, though, I wish I'd stuck with it.
Laurie: The flame is still burning.
Tavis: Yeah. It's never too late, they say, but…
Laurie: They do say that. I'm not sure if they're right to say that [laugh], but they do say it, yeah.
Tavis: They do say that. When you look back on your life and your career – this is one of those impossible questions. Let me ask it anyway. How do you think – 'cause I ask myself this all the time – how do you think things might have been different had you been more committed to your musical gift early on in your life?
Laurie: Well, it wasn't that I wasn't committed. I mean, my love for this music has been an absolute constant throughout my life. But in terms of actual performance, of actually putting myself out there and doing it, it's so hard to know. I mean, I realize I'm now in this incredibly blessed position of being able to play with this band and go out on the road and put on these shows.
But, of course, that's only happened after 30-odd years of being an actor. It's not like it's a shortcut, being an actor. I wouldn't advise it as a shortcut. But it's so hard to know. I mean, you know, music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me.
For example, if my kid said to me, I want to give it all up, whatever it is that they're doing, and I want to take my saxophone and go out, I would say, "May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing."
That doesn't stop it from being incredibly hard. I mean, it's a brutal, pitiless business in many ways and is only getting more so with, as we all know, the collapse of the record industry. It's a very, very tough life, but, my God, it's a beautiful one.
Tavis: I have echoed what you said a moment ago, Hugh. I've been asked, I guess, a thousand times over the course of my career about this show, you know, in particular why it is that I talk to so many artists like yourself.
It's because I believe that music is the noblest, the highest, of all the art forms. I know why I feel that way. Why do you feel that way?
Laurie: I just know – well, here's one little tiny piece of evidence. After a hard day's work of doing anything, anybody doing any job anywhere, who goes home and says, "Honey, I've had a terrible day. Why don't we do a scene from "Coriolanus" to unwind?" [Laugh] Nobody does that.
Tavis: Yeah [laugh].
Laurie: You know, what people do is that their last refuge when times are hard and when times are not, when times are sweet, the first place people want to go and the last place people go is music.
They want to lose themselves in music, be transported by music. Its ability to soothe, to console, to enliven, to inspire is like nothing else that I know of.
Whether people want to dance or they just want to let it wash over them, it has a power that language, for all its great beauty and sophistication, cannot ever quite address. Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human – I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.
Tavis: So that, if I take your point, any gift that is pregnant with that kind of power, any gift that is that noble, has to be, I think, treated and regarded with the kind of respect that a vocation like that demands.
Laurie: I completely agree.
Tavis: And some artists do that and some artists don't.
Laurie: I completely agree, absolutely. And one of the things I'm so keen to do in the show that we're doing on the road now is to express in the most respectful terms, I mean, without it becoming, you know, Poe faced, but to express my admiration and my love for this music as respectfully as I can.
The only thing I could say, I suppose, is that – and I could put my hand on my heart and say that everything we do in the show is sincere. We don't do anything, or I couldn't imagine us doing anything, that is just for effect, you know.
Oh, we don't really like this, but it'll probably go well. You know, this will get them on their feet or this will – I can't really do that. I can't imagine doing that. The songs we play are the songs we love and I love them as much today as I did yesterday and will tomorrow. It's sincere is what I mean.
Tavis: Give me some sense of the show. When this project first came out, we talked about it on my radio program.
Laurie: Right, right.
Tavis: I've been listening to it since it came out and loving every piece of it. And now, as you mentioned, you and the band are on tour around the country going to different places, different venues. Give me some sense of what I'm going to see, what we are going to see when we see you on the road. What's the show like?
Laurie: Well, I'll tell you first of all what I wanted it not to be.
Tavis: Okay.
Laurie: And that was, I didn't just want it to be a recital. I wanted it to have a sort of theatricality to it, a sort of – you know, for it to really be a show with a capital S. And I hope that we have – I believe – no, I'm gonna go further. I know that we have achieved this.
I'm so proud of the show that we're doing. And I know that, if I were sitting there, I would love it. That sounds cocky, I know, but I'm gonna say…
Tavis: If you can't buy it, you can't sell it.
Laurie: Right, exactly. Exactly right. So, you know, I hope that it's a show that will do all the things that you hope any piece of entertainment will do, that it will make people laugh, that it will make people think, that it will make people cry, it will give people chills at times, it will make them dance.
You know, I hope it's all in there because all those things are in this music. All human life is in this music. It encompasses everything.
Tavis: Do you think music still has the power, the resonance, to do that in this day and age? And maybe the question isn't so much a question about music as to whether or not we're open to allowing music to impact our lives in that way, to move us in those ways.
Laurie: I think so, yes. I mean, I think – you know, it's a strange thing about the world. Everything seems to be speeding up year by year. Everything becomes more fragmented. We seem to be addressing our communications with each other and with ourselves in smaller and smaller pieces.
You know, it's 140 characters this year. Maybe someone will come up with it saying, yeah, you can do it all in 10 characters. Well, is that the way we're thinking about our lives?
But I think music does now and always will transcend that sort of fragmentation. I think music is the refuge. It's the place we go to escape, to find comfort and find peace and happiness, joy.
I mean, I think it's – I can't imagine – at least if that time ever does disappear, I'm out. I no longer – I hand back my ticket for a ride on this spinning globe because I can't imagine what life on this earth would be like without music. I can't conceive of it.
Tavis: Give me the good and the bad, the up, the down, you know, you take my point, of coming into this kind of exposure for your music after you have become a star?
Laurie: Well, I suppose…
Tavis: What's the up and what's the down?
Laurie: Well, the up – the most obvious up is that I don't necessarily have to hammer on doors, you know, take the skin off my knuckles trying to break through to an audience to get people to come to the show. First of all, they're curious to see what the hell's this? What's this gonna be like? Which I understand. I would be doing the same.
I suppose if there's a down, maybe coming with that is the difficulty of transforming what people expect you to do. They're used to seeing you in one particular way and why should they devote any energy to seeing you in another way? And that's also understandable.
So my responsibility to the music and to my own love for the music is just to keep going. It's to not necessarily just think about, you know, tonight's show and tomorrow's show, but actually think 10 years from now.
I'm gonna be still trying to express these songs that I found that I love, that I think can move other people as much as they move me. This is something that I can share. You know, I will just – I'm determined to persevere. I will keep on persevering.
Tavis: I suspect, whether you know this or not, whether you ever come in contact with it or not, Hugh, I suspect that at every one of your shows – this will change over time. But I suspect at every one of your shows, there is a slice of the audience, to your earlier point, who will give you the benefit of the doubt of buying a ticket to see you because they want to see you in this other space.
Laurie: Right, right.
Tavis: But they walk in with an attitude that says prove it to me.
Laurie: Yeah!
Tavis: How do you respond to that slice of the audience who sit there on their hands saying, okay, prove it to me?
Laurie: The funny thing is that that side of it doesn't bother me at all only because that's me. I would be doing that. I know that, if someone persuaded me to go and see – I'd better not mention any names [laugh] – an actor, I know that I would have this slight feeling of, oh, really? I think that's completely right. That's as it should be. Nobody should get a sort of free pass and I'm determined to sort of win people over just through the show itself.
And I hope, I do hope and I believe – well, I know it actually because we've had these sort of conversations after the show that, you know, there have been people who come knowing nothing about what to expect, knowing nothing about this music, not even knowing the name, can you believe it, Bessie Smith. And during the course of the show, I hope – I mean, I talk about Bessie Smith a little bit and the wonderful Jean McLean sings a Bessie Smith song.
And I hope that, by the end of it, there are, you know, young or old, there are people who are going, wow, you know, the name rang a bell, but I didn't really know anything about that.
And they go back and they listen and they become connected to this music in a way that they wouldn't otherwise have done. If that even happens just to one person in a show, I consider that a victory.
Tavis: Let me ask how seriously you take the role and the responsibility you've just now sort of earmarked to educate the audience as much as to entertain them.
I was just in New York a couple of days ago and finally got a chance to see Audra McDonald in her "Lady Day" thing. I mean, Audra, five-time Tony winner. She's barely 43 years of age, got five of these things already. I mean, Audra is all that and then some.
So I knew the show was gonna be great. But I went backstage afterwards to talk to her. I was saying to her how moved I was and how pleased I was at the education that she gave the audience.
'Cause it's a wonderful performance, but you're learning about Bessie Smith, you're learning about Lady Day, you're learning about The Prez, you're learning about – I mean, she's giving you as she acts a history lesson. And I get the sense that, to what you said a moment ago, that in your show, you're weaving some of that.
Laurie: I do. I can't help it. It's partly because I'm a bit of a nerd and I just can't help gabbling on about this stuff because I love it so much. I mean, God, I would hate people to think that it's some sort of dry musicology lecture.
Tavis: No, no, no. Those crib notes, as they were, I think, are good for the audience.
Laurie: Well, I think they – I mean, I think they add to the pleasure of it. I mean, when you learn, for example, that Lead Belly was on two separate occasions – once in Texas and once in Louisiana – was released from prison by the state governor because of the songs he wrote.
The governor of Texas – actually, I believe he got off a life sentence in Texas because the state governor fell in love with the song, "Goodnight, Irene." He just said you can go [laugh]. You know, God speed.
Tavis: That didn't work for James Brown.
Laurie: It did not. It's not a uniform strategy [laugh]. It's not completely 100% reliable. In fact, kids, don't count on it. But I can only think that just sort of adds to the pleasure. I think it changes the way you listen.
Once you have that little fragment about somebody's life, even if there's a lot of invention and myth-making which I'm sure there is, that's part of the fun of it in a way. It sort of adds to the way you hear it and the way you respond to it. This is a song written by a real – you know, this wasn't a committee just sort of rolling out this stuff.
This was a guy who lived a life and a hell of a life too. And his life is in these songs; his imagination is in these songs. And I think just to know that even if it's only that about Lead Belly, I think it just sort – I think it adds to the texture of the evening.
Tavis: So here's the question that you know I was going to ask.
Laurie: Oh, no.
Tavis: Yeah, which is I love the stuff that you've been doing on these projects. But you been doing other peoples' stuff.
Laurie: Yeah.
Tavis: So what's the question I'm about to ask?
Laurie: The question is when will I set out in my own little rowboat and actually do – well, I mean, have I got that right?
Tavis: You are prescient and prophetic.
Laurie: It's incredible, isn't it?
Tavis: Yeah [laugh].
Laurie: It's possible that the next go-around, it's possible. I mean, it's something that I wanted to do and have done. I mean, I write songs. I'm just so conscious of the fact that there are so many undiscovered treasures out there. You know, some of the songs we do have barely been heard since they were recorded 80, 90, 100 years ago.
And as long as there are those precious jewels lying out there, I feel the world doesn't necessarily need more songs. But then the world doesn't need more of anything really. The world's got plenty of plenty.
Tavis: Good point.
Laurie: But I do think, you know, at some point I have to take my courage in both hands and say, yes, this is me and the moon in June. I wrote that line, yeah. What do you make of it [laugh]?
Tavis: I like it. I like it.
Laurie: Well, there's something in there.
Tavis: Hey, Jonathan, put the cover of the CD back up for me. I mean, I love this cover, man. You gotta tell me who's idea this was [laugh]. There's that little piano. I love this.
Laurie: This was my idea. I wanted to – well, I'd always loved that Schroeder, the Peanuts thing. But I also – I wanted to have some image that managed to combine a sort of gravity, the seriousness of what this means to me, but also the knowledge that I don't want people to think that I'm not aware of how odd this is that I'm doing this, you know.
That some people may go – you know, I'm gonna be sitting at a piano with a manuscript and sort of sucking a pencil going this is my creative soul [laugh]. I want people to know that I know how hard it is. It's a lot to ask people to swallow and I want people to know that I understand that. So that was the idea.
Tavis: And "Didn't It Rain." First of all, "Didn't It Rain" is a great track. It's a great song.
Laurie: Thanks. It's amazing.
Tavis: Why do you love it so much and why did it get to be the title track?
Laurie: Well, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was just huge for me when I was growing up. In fact, now we're doing two Sister Rosetta Tharpe songs in the show and she was just an enormous influence on me in her sort of spirit and her cool.
She was just so damn cool standing there with that white Fender. She gets the hairs on the back of my neck going just even thinking about her, never mind hearing it. So she's just been a central figure. I also wanted – there's something I wanted to do with this album unlike the first was to have more of a female voice to it.
I was aware the first time around that it was a group of men hammering away on guitars. I mean, I'm very proud of it. Don't get me wrong. I'm very proud of the first album, but I wanted the second one to be – because in my mind, a lot of this music actually comes from women.
The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.
Maybe that's what it all comes – it is so primal. And I wanted to get that – not to do something romantic exactly, but to do something that's more of a conversation between men and women.
Tavis: Mission accomplished.
Laurie: Why, thank you, thank you, Tavis.
Tavis: Mission accomplished. As I mentioned earlier, we had a chance to sit and talk to Hugh on our radio show when this project first came out. And how fortunate are we now that he's actually touring the country now. If you can get a ticket to get in to see this guy somewhere over the summer, you will not want to miss Hugh Laure and his band as they are doing their thing on the road.
The latest project from Hugh Laure is called "Didn't It Rain." You having fun on tour? Are you enjoying it? Playing for these people?
Laurie: It's sort of indecent how much I'm enjoying myself [laugh]. I feel like someone's gonna come, like the waiter's gonna come with the check any moment. I'm gonna go, oh, my, yes. I'm sort of braced for it because I'm sort of having too much fun. It shouldn't really be legal. I apologize, yeah.
Tavis: Well, if you're enjoying him on "House," you'll really enjoy him on the stage. Real good to see you, man.
Laurie: Yes. You too. Thank you so much.
Tavis: Congratulations. Have a great tour, man.
Laurie: Thank you.
Tavis: That's our show for tonight. Thanks for watching and, as always, keep the faith.
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County Seat – Tyler
Built – 1955
Architect – Thomas Jameson & Merrell
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Having newly started our quest to visit and photograph all 254 county courthouses, Smith county was our fourth courthouse. I have to tell you right up front, this building did not impress at all. It is an example of a style called modern – out of the 50's, and that style went for clean lines and functional – but not much else. Whatever, this building did not impress me as a good example of any style.
My camera ran out of batteries here and I was only able to get two picutes – and I was determined not to come back to get more. clem did get more – so I was able to present more than 2 photos for the slide show. To be fair to Smith County, maybe, if we'd been able to get inside, it would have been interesting – but that didn't happen.


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Polar Equation of a Circle
Date: 04/12/97 at 16:26:52 From: Frank P. Subject: Polar Equation of a Circle I was wondering if you could provide for me a description of the following polar equations for a circle. r = a*sin (theta) and r = a*cos (theta). What influence does a have on the graph? What influence does theta have on the graph? What's the difference in using sin or cos, and how do they change the graph?
Date: 04/12/97 at 17:34:07 From: Doctor Mitteldorf Subject: Re: Polar Equation of a Circle Dear Frank, You are familiar with writing an equation in x and y and then plotting the curve that represents all points obeying that equation. Well, you can do the same thing using r and theta instead of x and y. In fact, r and theta are related to x and y by x = r*cos(theta) and y = r*sin(theta). Equivalently, r^2 = x^2 + y^2 and tan(theta) = y/x. Another way to write this second equation is sin(theta) = y/sqrt(x^2+y^2). The obvious way to write the equation for a circle in polar coordinates is r = a. Then theta can be anything. This makes a circle of radius a around the origin as center. The equation you've written, r = a sin(theta), is also a circle, but it's not so obvious, and it's not centered about the origin. It's centered around another point. In a few minutes, you should be prepared to answer what that point is, and what the radius of the circle is. >what influence does a have on the graph? We should be able to answer this in a minute >what influence does theta have on the graph? This isn't a meaningful question. Theta is one of the variables in the equation, like x and y were in the cartesian equation. To see that you have a circle, and to see where the center and the radius are, just substitute into your equation r=a sin(theta). Let r = sqrt(x^2+y^2) and let sin(theta) = y/sqrt(x^2+y^2). Rearrange the equation and you'll have the form x^2 + (y-a/2)^2 = (a/2)^2. When you see the equation in that form, it should be clear what the radius is and where the center is. Let me know if this is not clear, please. -Doctor Mitteldorf, The Math Forum Check out our web site! http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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The procedural power of Houdini is now accessible in other applications via the Houdini Engine plugin. This allows technical directors to package and export systems as Houdini digital assets (HDAs) for use in environments that artists are already comfortable with Maya, CINEMA 4D, and other popular 3D tools.
This course introduces the typical Houdini pipeline for creating complex systems that can be passed along to shot creation. Scott Pagano shows how to load the Houdini Engine in Maya and CINEMA 4D, create simple geometric networks, build more complex particle systems and fluid simulations, and create a procedural building generator for quickly blocking out buildings in Maya and C4D scenes.
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Hey everyone! I hope you all are really enjoying the holiday season this year! The holidays are rapidly approaching, so I wanted to share one last handmade gift diy with you all. I needed an extra little gift for my mamas this year. I know they always love gifts for the kitchen, so I thought I'd whip up some quick hot pads for them! Hot pads are a super easy sewing projects and you can whip up a bunch in just an hour or so. These hot pads are a great use of larger scraps of fabrics you may have at home too! I use cutter tablecloths a lot in my crafting projects and I also make totes with them for my shop. I always end up with large scraps from them, so I knew they would be perfect. The old prints are incredibly charming as well!
Here's What You Need:
*Vintage Tablecloth Scraps
*Large Scraps of Cotton Fabric
*Heat Resistant Batting
*Basting Spray
*Ribbon or Trim
*Rotary Cutter and Self Healing Mat
*Quilting Ruler
*Marking Pen
*Sewing Machine and Thread
First gather all your supplies. Cut a front and back fabric piece to 9″ square. Cut a piece of batting and a piece of your heat resistant batting to 8″ square.
Spray both your batting pieces with basting spray on one side.
Center your batting pieces onto the wrong sides of the front piece and the back fabric piece, basting spray or sticky side down. Smooth out and iron.
Cut a piece of ribbon or trim to 4″ or so. Fold the ribbon and stack the ends at the bottom to make a loop.
Now sandwich your loop in between the right sides of the front and back pieces in one corner. Lay the loop so the loop is towards the center and the ends are in the seam allowance area. You also want the right side of the ribbon to be facing the right side of the front fabric piece.
Pin the layers together. Place a pin where your loop is too to keep it in place.
Stitch all the way around the square with a 1/2″ seam allowance, leaving a couple inches open at the bottom for turning.
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Turn your fabric right side out and iron.
Top stitch about 1/8 to 1/4″ away from the edge all the way around.
Now, you can leave your potholder with just the edges stitched or you can top stitch a little pattern on the top to quilt it. I stitched across mine diagonally to form an x on each pot holder. Finish off your hot pad by snipping any excess threads and giving a good iron. Voila! Easy, right!
I LOVE these little hot pads! They are so much fun to make, I may have to make a few for my kitchen too! I know there are tons of tutorials on how to make pot holders and hot pads. This may not be the very best way to make one, it's just how I have always made mine. You can really have fun with these and personalize them to your gift recipients style and color scheme. The vintage fabrics work well for my mamas since they all love pretty cottage prints. You can use your favorite fabric prints, funk it up with some ribbon, stitch a little ricrac to the edges. A few of these packaged sweetly make a wonderful stand alone gift, or use them to make a kitchen gift basket extra special. I hope you all will give this diy a go sometime. I think you'll love it! I'll be back soon with some fun holiday wrapping ideas. Until then…
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The circus Princess has replaced the Queen of summer
In the framework of the graduation concerts of the Moscow state Academy of choreography on the Historic stage of the Bolshoi theatre hosted the premiere of John Neumeier's "seasons". The largest European choreographer has long worked with Russian theatres (the Mariinsky theatre, More Musical theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko), but for our choreographic school, he puts first, and the importance of this project to develop the school can not be overestimated.
A fragment from the ballet of John Neumeier's "seasons". Photo By Alexei Brazhnikov.
The ballet "the seasons", though, and is based on the beautiful music of Glazunov, the scene is not often. Productions of this ballet were less successful and are not entrenched in ballet. A setback suffered even Marius Petipa, who set the ballet in 1900, after the triumphant success they created together with full-length Glazunov's ballet "Raymonda". In contrast, "the seasons" ballet in one act. In fact, we have the dance Suite. The composer created the music for the theme of eternal renewal of nature and life, the decaying, the rising again. And the idea of an allegorical ballet in which each season serves with his symbols and attributes that have arisen from Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the former "theatrical autocrat," by the time removed from the office of the Imperial theatres and was appointed Director of the Hermitage. For the Hermitage theatre of the Winter Palace ballet and was raised. And as always this francomano, was intended to create a Baroque atmosphere in the spirit of the court ballets of the era of French absolutism. One of the main parties in it — the Queen of the summer, Spike has fulfilled his Royal mistress, the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, which lose their impact Petipa and wanted to enlist.
Retaining the structure and partially Glazunov libretto of the ballet, Neumeier nevertheless made a significant change. Allegorical figures of the seasons in his ballet, no dwarfs, satyrs, fauns, and bacchantes wachov. And there are lost in the winter forest girl (the party with a different cast dance Anastasia Anastasia Mamedova and Thompson), who has fallen asleep on the bench and peeled off his circus troupe clown (Pyotr Gusev) and the adolescent athlete (Petr Gorbunov, the second part, Artem Kalistratov), who came into the clearing to practice. All of they for ballet are looking for a way out of the woods and make a journey through the seasons. Like Petipa, the ballet was staged in the spirit of the ballets of Saint-Leon, where the content is important only as an excuse for dancing, and the show always finishes with a large and lush grand pas. There are a lot of birds and flowers (daisies, cornflowers, butterflies and bumblebees), which gives the opportunity to take in the play of the younger students.
Nevertheless, the impression of simplicity and plainness in this ballet is deceptive. John Neumeier asked to compose Glazunov 15 years ago and set it up for students organized ballet school in Hamburg. And this should be considered when evaluating works, because the "seasons" stand out in the work of the Hamburg genius. This ballet is, of course, more readable than the other choreographer's dances, often overloaded with philosophical and cultural associations. Nevertheless, it is intended primarily for children and young people and delivered especially for them and they are not without a rich philosophical connotation. The dance, invented by Neumeier, are in keeping with the exuberant jubilation of Glazunov Orgy, often associated with the Hamburg choreographer with the flesh… But of fauns, satyrs, and bacchantes wachow replaced modern boys and girls dressed in swimming trunks and bathing suits and playing beach ball swimmers and swimmers, one of whom falls for a teenage athlete.
Ballet, like Glazunov, does not end with the image of the approaching winter, and its ending is quite optimistic. In the Suite, named from Glazunov's "Autumn," a clown and a girl (athlete, finding a beach lover, leaving friends back in the summer) and catching up has painted a bright circus wagon with a troupe of actors, and in the final ballet grand pas, built as a circus, Oh, we will see: here dances and eight students — white horses with luxurious manes and tails decorated with sultaniye, with jockey and the ninth horse in the center; and a trio of athletes with swollen muscles, with the stress of the last forces lifting a heavy barbell (the scene is solved with humor, and after a powerlifters one of the prop rod girl raises one hand). Busy here and three Piero directly involved in sochinena Neumeier intricate pas de Deux which in the final dancing Clown and the circus Princess.
Neumeier has created a large-scale dance work, which employs almost one hundred and fifty students of the Moscow Academy of all ages: from primary school students to graduates. Transferring ballet to Moscow, Neumayer, of course, take account of the wider possibilities of the Moscow ballet school and, by his own admission, "sought to demonstrate not only technical but also the artistic ability of all pupils and create, thus, a portrait of the school as a whole."
The portrait was impressive, though I have to admit that after the premiere that was held at the jubilee evening dedicated to the 85th anniversary of Gennady Rozhdestvensky (an outstanding musician and made music Director and conductor of "the seasons"), the ballet was somewhat loose. Not too seamlessly it fit in the second part of the new teenage athlete Artem Kalistratov and his favorite swimmer Margarita Greceanii, who lost in the development of the role originally created these images to Petr Gorbunov and Anna Lebedeva (the organizers did not bother to name the performers in the program, so in the enumeration of names and surnames may be errors). The actor's work here has managed to create consistently danced in the two formulations Pyotr Gusev (Clown) and Olga Ladinos (the circus Princess), a promising graduate, successfully danced in the second part of the concert pas de Deux from the ballet "the Nutcracker" (choreography by Vainonen).
Her partner in this pas de Deux was a graduate of the Academy last year, and is now gaining momentum is the current artist of the Bolshoi theatre David Mota Soares. Excellent speaking Brazilian, with the support of recently returned to his duties the new head of ballet Big Maharlika Vasieva, is now preparing to debut in one of the most prestigious parties of the classical repertoire — the party albert in the ballet "Giselle", so this "warm-up" in the school concert, even though he was not quite incidentally, all, I hope, will give a guy confidence in the first "adult" speech.
The little ballet staged by Petipa in the same year 1900, for the Hermitage theatre, and "the seasons", is from his ballet "Harlequinade," or "Millions of harlequin", Suite from a few years ago, was successfully restored to the school with Yuri Burlaka. It was also shown in the second part of the concert, and with his partner Irina Averina here shone Dmitry Vyskubenko star of this issue, a multiple winner of many international competitions. Starring in the successful film by Dmitry Povolotsky, "My dad Baryshnikov" grew up and unlike your hero has already begun to make a successful ballet career. Received from him suggestions for the placement (there was an offer from the Bolshoi theatre) graduate, according to some, chose Munich, and we, unfortunately, will see this talented dancer up on the stage, now, apparently, not soon.
Recommend to remember for the lovers of ballet and the name of sophomore Mark Chino. They constructed image demonstrated high jump and excellent rotation was impressive, and his performance of the part of the Ocean from the pas-de-Trois "Ocean and pearls" from the famous ballet, Saint-léon the little humpbacked Horse (Gorsky choreography) can be considered almost flawless. However, showed the recent Golden laureate of the ballet competition in Perm and outstanding temperament, and in addition, superb acting ability, Tybalt danced in the ballet "Juliette".
This ballet, despite the fact that was first shown at the school concert a year ago, can also be considered a kind of premiere. Because then marching parallel on the Historical stage of the Bolshoi theater festival Benois de La Danse" to see his managed a few. Created on the Overture-Fantasia of Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" is not very well known choreographer Luciano cannito.
Well, and the work of the school can be recognized as successful. A powerful accompaniment is scheduled dotted Shakespeare the history and suffering of the lovers of Verona (Romeo — Dmitry Vyskubenko and Juliet — Irina Averina) then becomes a "Greek chorus" — six young men dressed in jumpsuits of different colors, symbolizing their belonging to mutually hostile clans. In addition to the released Tybalt — Marco Chino bright plastic image is embodied in the Giulietta and freshman Denis Zakharov. His excellent acting work, made convex and the living image of Mercutio, also became one of the most memorable moments of the school concert.Related posts:


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The Legend of Nipper, the RCA Dog
THE IMAGE OF THE adorable little pup sitting next to a phonograph with his head cocked to the side is etched into all of our minds. Born in Bristol, England in 1884, the inquisitive little puppy named Nipper has become an icon for the music industry.
A mutt mix of Bull Terrier and Fox Terrier, Nipper was raised by Mark Barraud. Nipping on the backs of peoples' legs, the way many puppies do, is how this dog earned his name. When Nipper's owner died in 1887, the dog was taken to Liverpool, England to live with Mark's younger brother, Francis, a struggling painter.
At his new home, Nipper discovered the cylinder phonograph with which Francis liked to record and play back speech. Francis noticed how Nipper would sit, head cocked, and appear quite puzzled wondering where the sounds were coming from.
This scene must have been committed to memory for it wasn't until three years after Nipper's death in September of 1895, that Francis Barraud decided to paint the classic image of Nipper next to the phonograph.
In 1898, Francis completed the painting and called it 'Dog looking at and listening to a Phonograph.' Later he renamed the piece 'His Masters' Voice.'
After several unsuccessful attempts to publish this painting at places such as the Royal Academy and printed magazines, he then went to the next place on his list, The Edison Bell Company. This was the largest manufacturer of the cylinder phonograph that Nipper loved to listen to.
Again, Francis Barraud was turned down with the recurring statement, "Dogs don't listen to phonographs". There were even false rumors that the original painting was Nipper sitting on the coffin of his dead master, listening to a recording of his voice.
Francis was determined not to give up. In 1889, with the advice to change the color of the horn from black to gold, Francis asked a newly-formed gramophone company to borrow a brass horn to use as his model.
Right after the painting was modified, the manager of The Strand Magazine, Barry Owen, asked Francis to consider re-painting the work for use by a new phonograph company, The Gramophone Company of London, in their sales campaign.
Francis Barraud agreed, sold the piece to Barry Owen and in January 1900, Nipper made his first public appearance on sales literature. Later that year he appeared on some promotional items.
Also that year Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone, bought the rights to have the copyright for his product in America. In 1910 the painting and title His Master's Voice (HMV) was finally trademarked.
This image of Nipper and the gramophone eventually became the official trademark of RCA Records.
In 1916 Nipper became a part of American Architectural history when four 15-foot tall stained glass circular windows featuring a likeness of Nipper were installed into the RCA building in Camden, New Jersey.
For the rest of his life, Francis Barraud spent his time painting 24 replicas of his original as commissioned by The Gramophone Company. Barraud died in 1924, leaving other artists producing the replicated pieces until the end of the decade.
Although both the dog and master were gone, Nipper and Francis' work would live on forever.
'His Master's Voice' trademark is still instantly recognized today and is in the top 10 of 'Famous Brands of the 20th Century'. Nipper is a constant reminder of inquisitiveness and innocence.
Nowadays you can find all sorts of Nipper memorabilia such as ceramic statues of Nipper and his gramophone, cast iron banks and record player holders, salt and pepper shakers, mugs and postcards. There are even price guides for all of the Nipper and RCA memorabilia out there.
Without a doubt Nipper has not only become the famous symbol of RCA, but also an enduring symbol to the world, of the beginnings of sound recording and music.
Not bad work for a mutt!
There is loads of genuine Nipper memorabilia for fans and collectors here.
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Sum of parts. Thryduulf 18:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Delete DCDuring TALK 19:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
See my comment above s.v. #have a bathe.—msh210℠ 17:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Keep, this doesn't mean "own a bath". "bath" doesn't even have a verb entry at this time, quite rightly IMO. Kappa 08:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- ?? If you'll take a quick look at google books:have, you'll notice that have usually doesn't mean "own". Even if you restrict it to google books:"have a", not one of the top ten hits means "own". Also, you seem to believe that in the phrase "have a bath", bath is a verb? If so, then that belief is mistaken; if not, then sorry, but I don't understand what you're trying to say. —RuakhTALK 14:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- Keep per fancy dress test. Sounds awkward to Americans. DAVilla 05:48, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Kept - certainly is awkward and idiomatic to Americans. A bit like have a laugh sounds awkward to Americans too. --Jackofclubs 12:09, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


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The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic has awarded ManTech International Corporation (NASDAQ:MANT) as one of the four contractors in a multiple award environment to provide scientific engineering and administrative support services to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office (TTO). The three year, multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract has a total ceiling value across all contract holders of $150 million, if all options are exercised.
Under the TTO contract, ManTech will continue to provide integrated systems engineering, technical analysis, and program management solutions to equip future warfighters with the tactical, mobile and responsive technologies for advanced weapons systems, platforms and space systems.
"ManTech is a trusted and longstanding supporter of DARPA, said Terry Ryan, president and chief operating officer of ManTech's Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology Group. "We fully appreciate the importance of DARPA's mission to our national security and look forward to continuing our mission-critical support.
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Memory is the function of the brain, its efficiency and its ability to process information without a glitch. Memory provides us with the competitive advantage in a tough world. While the human brain and its memory may not be expected to be perfect at every occasion and while to err is only human, the capacity of the brain and the ability to capitalise on the powers to memorize could be exploited to its potential by engaging in some simple memory exercises. The role played by memory exercises in the perfection of the art of memorizing and in maximising the power of the brain can never be underestimated. We use only a fraction of our potential when it comes to brain power, and engaging in memory exercises would help us inch towards the maximum that we are capable of, in terms of memory power.
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It is a similar concept at work at one of the more popular memory exercises, which is chess. Playing chess makes you think and puts your brain to work. In fact, if you are not an expert in the game, you would have to race your brain even harder, which would be one of the best memory exercises. In fact, it is suggested that the mere act of being positive about life and challenges and taking on novel situations with the will to emerge victorious would be effective instances of memory exercises. Used keys are always bright, and it doesn't matter how you use them, as long as you make it a point to use them. Memory exercises make your brain sprint, and sprinting is good for the cells and for blood circulation.
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