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Booklist Reviews 2008 August #1
*Starred Review* It hasn't gone well for L.A. lawyer Mickey Haller since the events described in The Lincoln Lawyer (2005). The recovery from being shot was slow, and the addiction to prescription drugs was worse than the recovery. But Haller has kicked the pills and is ready to practice law again when his friend and fellow attorney Jerry Vincent is murdered, and Mickey inherits all Vincent's cases, including a career-maker: the trial of a studio executive accused of killing his wife and her lover. Quickly, Mickey realizes he's caught in the middle: defending the mogul requires concealing facts that could help solve the Vincent murder. OK, Mickey's used to playing fast and loose with the cops, but the investigating officer, Harry Bosch, knows when he's being played. Careful Connelly readers will know that there's a connection between the author's two heroes, Bosch and Haller, even though this is the first time the two costarred together (see The Black Light, 1993). Connelly plays the dueling characters off against one another effectively, especially for those familiar with the previous books, but it isn't all about backstory. Like Lincoln Lawyer, this is a fine legal thriller, full of both electric courtroom scenes and fascinating behind-the-scenes stuff about the business of lawyering. Connelly is justly celebrated for his characters and his ability to create mood from the sights and sounds of L.A., but he's also a terrific plotter, and that skill is in high relief here. Essential for fans; a great read for anybody. Copyright 2006 Booklist Reviews.
LJ Reviews 2008 June #2
Mickey Haller takes the case of a Hollywood lawyer who's been murdered--and discovers that the killer is now after him. With a ten-city tour. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
LJ Reviews 2008 September #1
Mickey Haller, last seen in The Lincoln Lawyer , returns to the courtroom in an unusual way here. Former colleague Jerry Vincent is murdered, and his caseload is dropped in Haller's lap. One of Vincent's high-profile cases involved a movie mogul accused of killing his wife and her lover in a jealous rage. As Haller prepares the mogul's defense, he discovers that Vincent's killer might have chosen him as the next target. Haller must trust Harry Bosch, the police officer investigating Vincent's murder, if he is going to survive and trust his instincts if he is going to succeed in convincing a jury of his client's innocence. Connelly is firing on all cylinders in this epic page-turner. The intriguing story line, the chance to view Bosch from another perspective, and Haller's reappearance as a main character add up to a fantastic read. One of the best thrillers of the year and a mandatory purchase for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/08; $1 million marketing campaign.]—Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.[Page 114]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
PW Reviews 2008 August #3
Bestseller Connelly delivers one of his most intricate plots to date in his 20th book, a beautifully executed crime thriller. When L.A. lawyer Mickey Haller, last seen in The Lincoln Lawyer (2005), inherits the practice and caseload of a fellow defense attorney, Jerry Vincent, who's been murdered, the high-profile double-homicide case against famed Hollywood producer Walter Elliot, accused of shooting his wife and her alleged lover, takes top priority. As Haller scrambles to build a defense, he butts heads with LAPD Det. Harry Bosch, the stalwart hero of Connelly's long-running series (The Black Echo , etc.), who's working Vincent's murder. When Haller realizes that the Elliot affair is bigger than simply a jealous husband killing his cheating wife, he and Bosch grudgingly agree to work together to solve what could be the biggest case in both their careers. Bosch might have met his match in the wily Haller, and readers will delight in their sparring. 10-city author tour. (Oct.)[Page 38]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.


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Astros owner Jim Crane said Sunday the organization continues to plan to relocate its Class AAA minor-league franchise to an area north of The Woodlands.
According to ballparkdigest.com, the Astros have been in negotiations to purchase the AAA New Orleans Zephyrs and could move the team to Montgomery County, which is centered around Conroe and is north of Houston.
The Astros' contract with Class AAA Oklahoma City runs through 2014. The Astros would have to purchase a AAA team before they can relocate a club. The Redhawks are owned by Mandalay Baseball Properties and OKC general manager Michael Byrnes said in March the city plans to retain a AAA team even if the Astros end their partnership with the Redhawks.
Former Astros star Craig Biggio is taking a lead role in the planned relocation, Crane said.
Crane also said Sunday the Astros plan to relocate their spring-training home after their lease expires in 2016 with Kissimmee, Fla. The Astros plan to have another MLB team with a spring-training base already in Florida join them at their new facility.
Ballparkdigest.com reports it's the Toronto Blue Jays and the clubs would be based in Palm Beach County.
"We've got to get a vote in from the state. If they approve it, then (we) get the money," said Crane, referring to the Astros' spring-training move. "We've got to get the state to put up some money and the local city to put up some money. And they're willing to do it. It's in motion."
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This slideshow offers examples of some of the technology spotted at this year's iteration of TIMTOS, Taiwan's biennial machine tool exhibition.
Taiwanese manufacturers continue to advance capabilities. The gallery below depicts examples of a number of trends I spotted at TIMTOS 2013, including:
Complex Motion. Rare was the machining center supplier that didn't offer a model with more than three axes, and most supplied equipment capable of full simultaneous five-axis moves. Increasingly, machine axes aren't traversing via ballscrew, either—linear motors seemed ubiquitous on the show floor, appearing in equipment ranging from HMCs and VMCs to grinders and EDM equipment.
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Multiple processes, one platform. Turn-mill machines were also a common sight at the show, and the range of offerings included more than just lathes with live milling and drilling tools. In addition to subspindles for part hand-off, notable offerings included machines with more than two turrets to balance production between the main and subspindle and Y-axes for off-center milling and drilling, among others. This trend extends beyond just turn-mills--one supplier, for instance, showcased a VMC with integrated laser marking.
Advanced control technology. More so than simpler configurations, five-axis and turn-mill machines depend on CNC features such as tool centerpoint control, robust simulation, machine monitoring and so forth. Taiwanese builders like YCM, Chevalier, Chmer and Tongtai, among others, are increasingly developing their own such features rather than sourcing from elsewhere.
Component suppliers step up. King Wang, chairman of TAMI's machine parts & elements committee, said Taiwan's machine parts and component industry has made considerable progress during the last few years. In fact, total export value for this sector amounted to nearly as much as machine tools themselves. Additionally, TIMTOS 2013 marked the first time that the Machine Tools Industry Awards for Excellence in Research and Innovation included a category specifically for machine components.


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"Celebration" is not the word that comes to mind as market players observe the fifth-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers crash.
Rather, what now inspires investors to remember the crash is the cautionary tale it offers of the terrible things that can happen when the financial world spins out of control. Indeed, "caution" is a better word to describe why anybody should mark the date of Sept. 15, 2008, when Lehman filed for bankruptcy, according to Jon Sundt, president and chief executive of alternative investment firm Altegris.
"I think 2008 crystallized this idea that you need to be diversified," Sundt (left) said in a recent interview with ThinkAdvisor. "The people who didn't have diversified portfolios to this day are still suffering. It's a stark reminder that you had better build a portfolio that can survive bad unforeseen outcomes."
Sundt remembered that he was sitting at his desk in Altegris' headquarters in La Jolla, Calif., the day that Lehman crashed.
"It was a bit of 'shock and awe," he recalled. "We had dozens of managers that we allocate to and thousands and thousands of investors. My biggest concern at the time was: Do we have any counterparty risk? We quickly determined that we had no direct exposure to Lehman. Some of our managers didn't do so well, but those in the managed futures space did well, and so did people with hedges."
Sundt's own firm has gone through transmutations since the Lehman crash. After he founded Altegris in 2002, Genworth Financial bought his firm in 2010 for approximately $35 million, and earlier this year Genworth sold its wealth management unit, including Altegris, for $412.5 million to a partnership of two private equity firms, Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital. Altegris currently has more than $4 billion in assets under management and employs 120 individuals.
Today, Sundt focuses much of his energy on promoting the idea of using equity and fixed income long/short strategies as core allocations. To be sure, that focus stems from Altegris' relatively recent launches of the Altegris Fixed Income Long Short (FXDAX, FXDIX, FXDNX), on Feb. 28 this year, and the Altegris Equity Long Short Fund (ELSAX, ELSIX, ELSNX), on April 30, 2012.
Year to date, according to Morningstar, FXDIX has outperformed its benchmark, the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (which tracks the broader debt market in the same way that the S&P 500 follows stocks), with a $10,000 investment in FXDIX currently yielding $10,090 versus the Barclays index's $9,686. The growth of $10,000 for ELSIX currently comes to $10,915, underperforming the benchmark S&P 500 index's $12,018 by a wide margin.
"This is a prudent approach," Sundt said in defense of ELSIX'S underperformance. "You want to participate in this party, but you don't want to drink too much. You want to participate in a way to preserve capital. A great way to do that is equity long/short. Our managers have exposure to the market for the upside but short positions in case the market corrects. If you're 100% net long, you can get hurt."
Similarly, Sundt noted, FXDIX offers a smoother ride for fixed income investors during an extremely volatile period for bonds. "If you have a portfolio with a lot of holdings, it may be a good idea to get into a long/short fixed-income fund, which is a corollary to long/short equities," he said.
More thoughts from Jon Sundt on why fixed income long/short is a good idea:
- Normal bond funds that investors sought out as "non-risky" investments are not as safe as they used to be when rates were at record lows. With a rise in interest rates on the horizon, these lower risk funds could end up hurting a portfolio's total return.
- The bond market may not turn as drastically as people fear, but it does require a change in asset allocation strategy. Fixed income portfolios should employ more flexible strategies that can be found in mutual funds with the ability to go long and short.
- Investors should look for a multi-disciplined, nontraditional approach to fixed-income investing, with moderate correlation to major fixed-income indices.
- Long/short managers combine fundamental analysis with effective duration management across various credit and interest rate environments.
Read 5 Years After Lehman Crash: 'Dark Times' Ahead at ThinkAdvisor.


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There's something magic about becoming part of a world-famous scene.
And here in the Namib Desert that scene is a beautifully curved red sand dune, where sunlight meets shadow on a sharply defined ridge. Now imagine climbing up along the knife-edge of that ridge - whether it's the popular Dune 45 (so-called because of its 45-degree angle), Big Mama, or the ultimate challenge of Big Daddy, where you climb up the steepest part on your hands and knees.
"But what happens if we fall off one side or the other?" Guide Stewart replies: "You can't fall down the dune, you would simply sink into the sand as you slowly slide down."
So we start to climb, placing one foot ahead of the other with a steady rhythm, "with an attitude that you don't really care whether you reach the top or not," says Stewart.
And we keep going, with our feet feeling heavier and heavier - not because we are exhausted, but because our shoes are filling up with the fine red sand.
After labouring up the ridge for an hour and then sliding down the side of the dune in about 10 minutes, we decide to give Big Daddy a miss.
Back at Little Kulala Camp, where plunge pools provide a cool respite in the summer, the enclosed guest lodges and unlimited hot water offer the winter visitor a respite from the overnight temperatures which often sink close to zero.
Glass walls allow clear views of the surrounding desert, with impalas, ostriches and springbok, and an outside upstairs deck for stargazing.
Indeed, we later dine under those stars around a campfire while the kitchen and serving staff entertain us by singing and dancing.
With its fireplaces inside the main lodge and gas heating, Little Kulala could be ideal for people who aren't quite ready to give up all the creature comforts to see the creatures. It provides an easier experience for safari beginners - ready to climb sand dunes and explore the desert, but perhaps not yet prepared for tenting.
However, we are good to go as we head for Somalisa Camp, in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
On our first day, we walk out from our tented camp and look directly into a very large elephant's eyes, barely a metre away. She then decides to scratch herself up against one of the tent's supporting poles.
Is this the moment when we were supposed to blow the portable airhorn provided to summon help? Well, no. This was just one of the "up close and personal" moments you come to expect when you visit a place like this.
Later in the day, when we have our bucket shower in the open bathroom at the back of the tent, another elephant looks at us over the two-metre wall and then proceeds to shake the nearby acacia tree in search of seeds the size of large bean pods.
When it was time for afternoon tea, we walk over to the camp's plunge pool. But we didn't really expect three herds of elephants to join us.
They start out at the water hole, about 10 metres away. At first, we see just 18 elephants, drinking and spraying water and mud over themselves.
Then a large bull approaches, and the younger elephants move away. Occasionally, if they fail to show proper respect, the bull lunges and roars at them. The babies try to imitate what their mothers were doing, at the same time stay close.
Several elephants start moving up toward the camp's plunge pool - the pool where we are sitting holding our cups of tea and now wonder whether it is time for us to move away.
But acting manager Shane and her partner Johnny reassure us. "As far as the elephants are concerned, you are just part of the landscape," Johnny says. "Just stay there and don't make any sudden moves."
Soon the elephants are gracefully dipping their trunks into the plunge pool, sucking up the water with a slight gurgle, then lifting their trunks high in the air to release the water into their mouths.
But Africa offers far more than the animals. On Sunday, we had asked to attend a local church service in the nearby village of Dete. For the next four hours, the singing, swaying, dancing congregation, accompanied by drums and maracas and punctuated by shrill ululations, transform the Roman Catholic mass into a colourful, lively, harmonious and deeply moving experience.
On Monday, we put on a public speaking workshop at the Main Camp school in Hwange National Park. Then on the outskirts of Dete, we visit one of the families living in rondevaals - simple round brick and mud buildings with thatched roofs.
This is how so many people in Zimbabwe live: Cooking in one of the huts, sleeping in the other, with no electricity or running water, keeping a few chickens and growing a few vegetables.
This particular family - parents, two children, a nephew - shakes our hands with slightly shy smiles. We later discover we are the first white people to visit them.
If you want to lose - or perhaps find - yourself, this is the place to come.
Soon after takeoff from Windhoek, Namibia's capital, in a Wilderness Air five-seater aircraft, you forget about civilization. For 90 minutes, you fly over the sparse beauty of the Namib Desert.
Every so often you see individual or groups of the mysterious "fairy circles" with nothing growing inside the grassy circles - possibly because of termite action below the ground, though mineral radiation is another theory. "When I took some of the sand away, I was able to grow things in it," said Wolwedans camp guide Simon. "But when I planted the same things within the circle itself, nothing grew." He added people can own a circle for 500 Namibian dollars (about $50) a year; a plaque in the circle has the owner's name on it.
Now it's time to land ... but where? As the plane starts to descend, all you can see is the desert. Finally, there is a barely distinguishable dirt track as the wheels touch down.
From nowhere, an open safari Land Rover appears. You and your luggage are "transferred" and off you go for a 45-minute drive to the camp. How could there be anything remotely resembling human life in this stark land? At least there's animal life to reassure you that this is still indeed Africa, that you have come to the right place: zebra, oryx (Namibia's national animal), springbok, bat-eared fox.
"We're almost here," said Simon - but again, where? You drive up a little red sand dune and when you reach the top, you see the camp - a collection of half a dozen accommodation tents and a large central tent, all on permanent bases.
In winter (July and August), which is the most popular tourist season because of the summer's extreme heat, temperatures can drop close to zero at night. And so it's a warming surprise to find a hot water bottle or two in your bed at night. Wolwedans is dedicated to making the lightest possible footprint on the environment with four different camps, all with elegant safari furnishings and fittings. At Dune Camp, for example, solar power gives the tents 12 volts of electricity for lighting and hot water for showers. An air horn is provided to call for help in an emergency, and earplugs in case the noise of tent canvas flapping in the wind keeps you awake.
Before sunrise each morning, hot water in a Thermos plus coffee-tea makings and biscuits are left on the outdoor deck. It's a nice way to wake up as, covered with blankets after you have moved to the outside daybeds, you watch the sunrise.
Visiting Wolwedans is all about the spectacularly open and colourful scenery - after all, this is a vast desert at around 1,200 metres above sea level plus surrounding hills climbing another 1,700 metres. The clear air and lack of light from any civilization also make for spectacular nighttime skies and stargazing.
You leave this area with, as the Wolwedans brochure says, memories of "the majestic landscapes of red Namib sand dunes, golden grass savannah and impressive purple mountain ranges."


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Although they promised an update after suggesting this morning that a side-wager between Packer players may be the reason Adrian Peterson was injured last week, the guys at profootballtalk.com have gone silent. They're liveblogging the game tonight but haven't seen fit to mention the non-controversy or explain their obviously flawed reasoning on the issue. We've posted on it here and here.
Also, as far as we know, PFT never commented on this story from the New York Daily News, here.
The secret to the Giants' devastating pass rush this season isn't new defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo's blitz schemes or an improved secondary. It is actually a pool in which each defensive end contributes money based on his salary, with the winner taking home the loot based on his production.
The pool has all the defensive ends talking trash and desperately trying to top one another in stats. So far, Osi Umenyiora is running away with the money.
And if the NFL "investigated," as they are reportedly doing in this case, they did so very quietly. Is there a double-standard at work?
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The visiting Quakers outlasted the Redskins 18-25, 25-13, 22-25, 26-24, 16-14 in an ECOL match.
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Coshocton's reserve team improved their record to 8-4, winning in three sets.
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The mobile revolution gets personal
I'm writing this from CES 2007 the latest and greatest Consumer Electronics Show, where 140,000 attendees crowd 2,700 exhibits packed into 1,660,000 square feet of space in more halls and hotels than I'll bother to count. There's a lot of noise here, and a certain amount of signal; though the ratio of the former to the latter is no less lopsided than it always is. Everybody's not only showing their good sides, but paying millions to crow about it through mass quantities of advertising and PR.
Yet the whole damn thing got upstaged Tuesday by Steve Jobs and his on-stage announcement of the long-awaited iPhone.
Normally CES and Macworld overlap barely or not at all. But this year the two shows are spread across the same week, forcing many (including yours truly) to choose one or the other though I know a number of folks who flew to San Francisco for Jobs' speech and then back again. Of course, I chose to spend as much time as possible here at CES, because it's a show packed with Linux stories. (My first report on the show is here. This is second. A third will follow.) Yet, like every reporter here, it was clear to me that the biggest news of the week or perhaps of the year was delivered by Apple in San Francisco.
Jobs called the iPhone "a revolutionary product... that changes everything". He said the iPhone would be no less world-changing than the Macintosh in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. He said the iPhone was "three revolutionary products: ... a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device" that together "reinvent the phone". He dumped on "smartphones" like the Trio, the Blackberry, the Nokia E62 and the Moto Q, with their "keyboards are there whether you want them or not".
The iPhone "gets rid of all these buttons", he said, and gives users "a giant screen" that uses fingers as a pointing device. The smartness behind the screen "works like magic", Jobs says. Specifically, it is highly accurate, ignores unintended touches and obeys multi-finger gestures. (Playing music, anyone?) "And you can bet it's patented." It's called MultiTouch. The screen is 3.5 inches diagonally, and 160 pixels per inch. It has three controls: "home", volume and mute/ring. The other orifices are for a 2 megapixel camera lens, speaker, microphone and 30-pin iPod connector. It senses ambient light and turns off the screen when your face gets close. An accelerometer rotates the display to adjust to your orientation. As you would expect, it looks cool.
It's also a platform for software. Specifically, OS X. (Which, for what it's worth, is built on open-source BSD.) This will allow "desktop class" applications to be built on the thing. They're starting with software that's "five years ahead" of the rest of the mobile phone class.
That's the phone side of the thing. It also syncs with your Mac or PC. Most notably through iTunes. (No, we're nowhere near Linux yet, but we'll get to that.)
As a phone maker like Nokia, Motorola and all other competitors, Apple had to cut a deal with a carrier. Cingular got the nod, at least for the U.S. That means the iPhone does GSM and will work overseas as well as on Cingular's domestic cell phone system. The iPhone also bridges computers to the Net over wi-fi or Cingular's EDGE.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt came on stage talked about combining Apple virtues with "the new architecture of the Internet" that allow you "merge without merging" through "open protocols and data services". He spoke of "enormous brain trusts", "powerful cloud computers" and "many many data services" that give you "full integration" that "comes together seamlessly".
Among standards he mentioned XML and HTML. He didn't mention RSS, but should have. He could have mentioned a hundred other standards, protocols and wide-open building materials, practices and methods without which we wouldn't have the iPhone, Apple, Google, the Internet or the countless industries that won't happen until the old corporate forts and walled gardens finally break down.
Many have spoken or written about what the iPhone won't do. Tom Evslin laments the locked-in exclusivity of Apple's Cingular partnership, and also provides a nice run-down of comments from his own readers and other sources. Dan Miller says "The lack of attention to the need for hands-free operation alone is shocking", and adds a pile of other criticisms as well. Both Tom and Dan are veteran industry figures.
My own first question was "Where's the GPS?" Absence of that would be a deal-killer for me. But then at CES I talked with Garmin folks about the universal connected utility of bluetooth GPS receivers. The iPhone does bluetooth. Nothing to stop anybody from making the iPhone display and otherwise add value to information from a bluetooth GPS receiver.
And will Apple prevent customers from using Skype to talk over wi-fi or EDGE? Not if Apple wants to make good on Steve's description of the iPhone as " a breakthrough Internet communications device".
Knock what's closed about the iPhone all you want; it's still a computer with a mike, a screen, a speaker and a pile of other input and output openings that invite developments of many kinds. That's why I think iPhone is going make the cell phone market a lot bigger. It will encourage participation by developers and customers that have until now been forced to cope with far less than they've wanted from the cell phone industry. And that includes all the legacy cell phone players with which Apple now partners or competes. [See here. - DS]
Think of the Big Brother Apple add from 1984. I think this is just as big a hammer as the one that woman in the red pants threw at a screen 23 years ago. The phone business ain't gonna be the same any more.
So yes, the news is about hot gear and safe sex between consenting corporations. Yes, it's also about a company and a platform playing closed as well as open games. But its also about breaking down silos and opening up markets. And that's what matters most here.
Markets are mashups. By vendors. By manufacturers. By developers. By customers large and small. And, most importantly, but the "long tail" Apple correctly called "the rest of us" long before 1984. That is, by customers and users. We haven't been part of this market before, except as a source of noise and cash. Now we can start participating. The doors are opening. Some were already open. Tuesday's news just brings that fact to light.
Pull your mind for a moment out of all the hot news and vendor sports jive -- and think instead about the construction industry. This is the oldest and most mature industry in the world. It is also the model toward which the software industry has been moving since the beginning.
The basic building materials and methods of the construction industry are all open source. There are no secrets to rock, straw, grass, metal, wood and other base materials we cut, shape, mill and otherwise put to use in countless ways that no corporation controls. Where companies do control the manufacture and distribution of building materials, there are few if any cases where one company controls the way everybody builds their house. No maker of lumber or cement can tell a contractor that everything in a new house has to rest on that maker's "platform". When a crew figures a better way to hang a door or put up wallboard, they share that expertise with other crews and the whole market changes and matures. Opportunities open up. Work gets better.
Today the LAMP stack has grown to over 140,000 building materials. The rosters of standards and practices that nobody controls only get bigger as well. Apple may have patented MultiTouch, but there are sure to be plenty of other goods in the iPhone that are as open as the sky. Or Apple wouldn't have been able to build the thing.
Best of all, Apple has raised the ceiling for conversation as well as development in the broad new category of personal telephony. Long before the iPhone comes out (it's still months away), we can start talking about countless other devices we are now more encouraged than ever to invent or improve. We can talk about applications and services that no big company would ever invent, but will open the market to all kinds of opportunities.
My own first choice is making the phone a useful instrument for asserting ourselves as autonomous and independent "players" in every social setting -- including the one we call marketplaces. That is, free of every vendor and every organization that gives us the plastic cards that carry our names in our wallets -- as well as every company that has been trying to trap us in silos for generations.
We need to be able to roam freely, as identifiably or anonymously as possible. We need to be able to engage and disengage, to establish, manage and end relationships -- on our terms, and not just those of companies that list us in their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
How do we do that?
Well, some of us have been working on the independence part of this thing for the last several years through "user-centric" identity development. We're starting to work on the engagement part through VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management an idea that has just begun to come together in the last several months. Now we need make user-based identity mobile. We need to base it on phones and other personal devices. After all, phones are far more personal than any computer.
And that's what we're going to talk about at the Mobile Identity Workshop at CNet headquarters in San Francisco on Friday, January 26. And sign up soon. Attendance is free, but space is limited.
I'd also like to see folks from Apple, Google (some have already signed up), Yahoo, Cingular and various other outfits who have been involved in the iPhone project and are now free to come out, meet with engaged users and other developers, and help empower people to operate in free ways in freed-up markets.
And I'd especially like to see folks from the growing Linux and open source corners of the mobile space come forward and weigh in as well, including Trolltech,
We can, and must, come from our own independence. Because that's what mobility, one of our most human of attributes, is really about.


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Martin Baron, editor of The Boston Globe, to become editor of The Washington Post
Martin Baron, the editor of The Boston Globe who oversaw the news organization when it won six Pulitzer Prizes over the past decade, will become the executive editor of The Washington Post in January, both papers said Tuesday.
The Globe will launch a national search to fill Baron's job, said Christopher M. Mayer, publisher of the Globe. While citing the talent within the newsroom, he said he would also consider outside candidates. Mayer said his goal is to fill the position as quickly as possible.
"We're looking for the right person at the right time to really carry on the quality journalism that's the embodiment of everything we are doing today,'' said Mayer in an interview.
Mayer said Baron built a talented staff and leaves a strong legacy. "Marty is a terrific editor who led the newspaper in a tremendous and creative fashion in a challenging time.''
Baron, 58, said in an interview that he was proud of what the Globe staff had accomplished under his tenure. He cited its investigative reporting, arts coverage, narrative journalism, and war reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as its push into digital and multimedia formats.
"I am especially proud that we have consistently held powerful institutions and individuals accountable,'' he said.
Baron said, "We're on solid footing here at the Globe. The Globe has a good future ahead of it. And for me, it's a good time for a change.''
Baron said it was premature to discuss his plans for the Post until he has talked with its leaders and staff. But he said his goal was to maintain its journalistic integrity as it moves into a new era.
"We have to prepare ourselves for the future,'' he said. "We are facing a digital future. It holds great promise for us but also great challenges.''
Baron said he was excited to join the Post — the legendary newspaper that covers Washington DC and broke the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
"The Post has played a distinctive and defining role in American politics, American policy, world affairs, and its own community, as well as an inspiring role in journalism,'' Baron said.
"We are thrilled to have Marty Baron lead The Washington Post's newsroom,'' said Katharine Weymouth, publisher of the Post. "He has a demonstrated record of producing the highest quality journalism, which matches the legacy and expectations of The Post.''
Baron succeeds Marcus Brauchli, who will step down as executive editor, effective Dec. 31. Brauchli will take on a new role as vice president of The Washington Post Co., to review and evaluate new media opportunities.
Under Baron, the Globe's six Pulitzers have included public service, explanatory journalism, national reporting, and criticism. Most notably, the Globe received in 2003 the Pulitzer's highest honor, the public service award, for a Globe Spotlight Team investigation into the cover-up of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
Baron also oversaw the Globe newsroom during an extraordinary period of transformation for the newspaper industry, as readers and advertisers flocked to the Internet for news. The shift has forced the Globe and media organizations around the country to build a robust web presence.
Under his helm, Baron helped build Boston.com into the region's leading news website and among the nation's largest newspaper websites with more than six million monthly unique visitors. Last year Baron also oversaw the launch of BostonGlobe.com, a subscription-only news website.
Just this year the Globe and Boston.com have won numerous multimedia awards including six national Edward R. Murrow Awards in the competition sponsored by the Radio Television Digital News Association, and three EPPY awards in the competition sponsored by Editor & Publisher magazine.
Prior to the Globe, Baron served as executive editor of The Miami Herald, and under his leadership, the paper won the Pulitzer for breaking news coverage in 2001 for the raid of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an immigration custody battle.
A native of Tampa and a Lehigh University graduate who speaks fluent Spanish, Baron has also held high-level jobs at The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. In 2001, Baron was named "Editor of the Year'' by Editor & Publisher magazine.
Under Brauchli, the Post won four Pulitzer Prizes — for international reporting, feature writing, criticism, and breaking news photography.
The Post has a daily circulation of just under 500,000 and Sunday circulation of 675,000. The Globe has a daily circulation of about 230,000, and a Sunday circulation of about 372,000.
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Will your prescribing of Sarcasma increase, decrease, or stay the same based on your meeting with the sales rep?
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Well, that's easy. The answer has to be yes. If you said no, you'd be lying. They're just trying to weed out the liars.
I disagree, the answer is no. The amount prescibed may not change 'based on meeting the sales rep'. Dr G. already is at the maximum dosage allowed.
That's true. I'm on the highest Sarcasma dose allowable, and my staff feels I've become immune to its benefits over time. Like I care.
that would still be a yes as it would 'stay the same'
I think C is the correct answer.
Does that include the imaginary part?
Definately decrease. You don't want them to visit, do you? Then again, you might get free samples.
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It is a govt. survey.
If you try to hard to fill out forms like this, your brain will start to hurt.
Does Sarcasma fix that?
That depends on what they brought to eat and if they remembered the diet coke.
"I'll keep doing what I always do- flip a coin."
I think there is another option ...
4 ! If I have a sales meeting WHILE consulting the rep for a medical question in the hospital!
BTW: I no longer prescribe it!
WV: dewal:: Had dewal with above mentioned sales rep..she lost! Can you come collect her body?
The answer is no. Prescribing habits will be what they will be, and visits with the rep have nothing to do with them. Right?
Could it mean "When your prescribing of Sarcasma increases, decreases or stays the same, will it be based on your meeting with the sales rep?"
Maybe. (Option not listed.) Do you still get to keep the $5.00?
Can you check both boxes?
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Is Sapphire the Answer to the Scratched iPhone?
Apple is betting $700 million that sapphire, a harder and more expensive material, can replace glass and better protect the newest iPhone. WSJ's Daisuke Wakabayashi joins the News Hub with Sara Murray.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Today's share is the 2 cards that I prepared for the team Make 'n Takes
I was blessed to be on the design team for the STAMPARATUS so I was able to get mine early and show the gals how to use it. I know that they are excited to get one of their own too.
I chose to feature this card (inspired by Kelly Acheson) because it also features my favorite little Party Panda!! One of the stamp sets that you can get for FREE with a qualifying purchase
The little "Happy Valentines Day" is from TEENY TINY WISHES
This stamp set is chuck full of little sentiments for all occasions like this, and a must-have for your card making.
On the front of the card the sentiment comes from the stamp set LOVELY INSIDE AND OUT
We went over several tips on the Stamparatus that I have learned along the way.
1. The Stamparatus is perfect for these pandas because if I don't get the panda black enough all I need to do is re-ink my stamp and it is already lined up and I get a perfectly crisp image.
2. Sometimes (many times) I stamp my Sentiment crooked and I always blame it on my astigmatism, but... my sentiments are still crooked. I can lay out my stamp where I want it and by protecting my card stock with a sheet of acetate I can stamp and make sure everything is straight before committing the ink to my card.
These are my 2 favorite tips, but also...
3. This tool is super perfect for when you are making multiple cards. Every card will turn out exactly the same!!
4. Also perfect for your 2, 3 or 4 step stamping, like the BABY BEAR , the new SWEET LITTLE SOMEONE , and the WATERCOLOR WINGS Stamp Sets.
Our second Make 'n Take was playing with the NEW Brusho Color Crystals
This layout was cased form Patty Bennett
What a fun new product! so many tips out there as well.
Every image will look different depending on the technique or colors that you choose.
1. add water to your area then sprinkle on the Brusho
2. sprinkle on brusho then spritz with water... this is what we did with the butterfly (after stamping with Versamark and heat embossing with White Embossing Powder).
3. you can let your image dry naturally, dab off with a paper towel or heat it to dry it with your Heat Tool.
4. add some Brusho to a silicone mat (or clear block) then use an Aquapainter and brush your color on.
5. Brusho comes in a set of 5 colors: Blue, yellow, green, orange and red.
So much fun! I spent a full day one day just playing with the Brusho Color Crystals!!
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Well, look at this. It's official. Rumors for years
about "them." The questions in my e-mail now and then can
stop and the message boards now can focus on something
else. Garth and Trisha are engaged. Sure, its kinda a
big deal but not really, they have spent a lot of time
together and everyone pretty much knew it was going to
However, their is a backside story to this. Timing of the
whole proposal; I believe there is more to this than we
even know yet. Not about the actual marriage, but the
future plans for Garth Brooks.
Take a look at the last few months. A benefit
performance, followed by an appearance on the ACM Awards,
and also an appearance at the induction ceremony at the
Hall of Fame. Then last night's appearance with the
marriage proposal during the unveliing of the "Legends in
Bronze" event at the Buck Owens' Crystal Palace in
Bakersfield, CA .
All were made very public and I believe all for a
Remember the ACM award appearance? Did you notice his
reaction... the emotions could be seen in his eyes; he's
got the performance bug, bad.
Trisha Yearwood has a new single, so a new album in the
works, so the timing of this announcement is not just by
chance I don't think.
I believe that this boost is publicity is a preface, a
foreshadowing if you will, of what is to come in the very
near future. Don't be surprised one bit, and you can mark
my words, we will be seeing Garth Brooks on tour very soon
in some capacity. It may not be a world tour or some
large scale-every night of the week tour, but something is
bound to be in the works both from a tour and an album
No, no inside sources or anything like that, but just the
feeling I have. We will see in the next coming weeks and
months if this feeling is correct.


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CHICAGO (AP) Gary Talton scored 20 points, including a perfect 12 for 12 from the free-throw line, and added five rebounds and five assists to lead Illinois-Chicago to its seventh straight victory by defeating Colorado State 64-55 on Saturday afternoon.
UIC (8-1) trailed 46-45 with 5:45 remaining after Wes Eikmeier hit a free throw for Colorado State. Seconds later, Will Simonton made a lay-up to give the Rams a 47-46 lead and Colorado State went on a 17-9 run from that point on to seal the victory.
Daniel Barnes scored 14 points, Marc Brown had 12 points and four rebounds and Josh Crittle chipped in with 10 for the Flames, which haven't suffered a loss since Nov. 16 when New Mexico beat them 66-59 in the Paradise Jam Tournament.
Greg Smith scored 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds for Colorado State (6-2) and Pierce Hornung had eight points and 10 rebounds.


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3D printers are changing the world, for good and ill. Doctors can now 3D-print replacement bones perfectly customized to their patient's anatomy while terrorists could potentially print untraceable automatic weapons. In between these extremes are projects like 3D-printed graffiti by artist Greg Petchkovsky. Some might consider it a next-gen nuisance, while others see it as the evolution of an art form.
Petchkovsky's graffiti is minimal and almost purposefully invisible. He finds architectural details that have suffered damage and designs 3D-printed "prosthetics" that attempt to fix them — but with a surprise twist. A broken corner of a sandstone staircase reveals a Lego skeleton; meanwhile, pitted clay bricks appear to melt, an homage to old-school "drip" style tags.
He creates his pieces by taking multiple photographs of the object he plans to embellish. A software package called Agisoft PhotoScan stitches the photos together and creates a 3D model, which can be imported into a solid modeling program like 3DS Max. From there, Petchkovsky can model replacement parts, add color and texture, and output a file that can be created on a 3D printer.
The process was not without hiccups, or a trip to an old-fashioned art store. He says, "There were a range of technical challenges, getting the scale right, some fairly technical modelling to make the boolean subtraction of the scanned mesh work. Getting the colors right is a bit of a challenge. In this case I just made my best estimation on the computer, then touched up the 3-D print slightly with paint."
As cool as the Lego blocks are, Petchkovsky couldn't commit to making his piece permanent. "I didn't camp out to see people's reactions, I never actually glued it down or left it there for very long. The color 3D-printing material I used isn't perfectly weatherproof; it tends to warp and discolor if it gets wet, so I think the rain would ruin it. Also, as much as I love street artists like Will Coles, Banksy, etc., I'd feel slightly conflicted about gluing down the 3D print permanently without first getting permission from whoever owns the sandstone staircase. I love the idea of being a street artist, but I'm possibly too much of a chicken."
For those that would like to expand on Petchkovsky's piece with their own collection of bricks, you'll have to wait for higher resolution machines to come online. He says "For the moment only the most high end and expensive 3d printers would be up to the task of printing custom Lego pieces that match the quality of the real thing. I've found that the accuracy, tolerances, and material properties of real Lego bricks are extremely finely balanced, so my 3-D print is just that tiny bit off, enough to be annoying." However, for artists undaunted by the technical challenges, Petchkovsky has created a tutorial on Instructables and a 3-D printed swatch book that will help calibrate printer colors to those in the real world.
Petchkovsky is a self taught CAD guru who works for a digital agency in Australia where he has created special effects for shows like Farscape, along with graphics for TV commercials, video game cut scenes, and some nightmare fuel renderings in his off hours. After a decade working professionally in computer graphics he has an interesting perspective on the technology and says "3-D printing is a really interesting technology. I've essentially dedicated my life to making stuff in the virtual realm, so the idea of being able to bring those objects into the real world is incredibly exciting to me."
3-D printing is the cool thing now, but always a forward looker, Petchkovsky has his eyes set on a new technology — literally. He says "I'm currently waiting for an Oculus Rift VR prototype to arrive; I'll be very keen to see what kind of artwork I can make with that."
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my most inspirational home
I really have a list of inspirational homes but I remember when I first saw the home of Emma Persson Lagerberg way back in 2009 in a Elle decoration magazine, I instantly fell in love. It was my first introduction to white floors and my love for an all white colour scheme allowing all the quirky cool finds, Ikea pieces and design classics to jump out, creating a real electric mix of wonderfulness.
This would normally be too cluttered for me and my space at home but I find this space incredible inspirational and I have an urgent feeling of wanting to live there! The interior is styled effortlessly and has a great sense of character, drawing me straight in. There is so much for the eye to see yet the space feels somewhat calm and you really get a sense that a family enjoys staying here.
I hope you like this home as much as I do. On a plus, the drummer of The Cardigans lives here and Im a big fan!
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Oh I love it! and like you said for me the first picture will be too much cluttered but in this house looks really great, I think is a lot of factors like the white floors, all that natural light, white walls that contribute to the beauty of this home.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely day Deborah!
Absolutely gorgeous although I'm not the biggest fan of a disco ball hanging in the middle of your living room!ReplyDelete
oh, the cardigans. good stuff!ReplyDelete
its lovely and i'm hooked on white floors now!ReplyDelete
i really like the effect all the white has given the place! so light and spacious! but cosy too which is hard with so much white!ReplyDelete
I could have that exact same Disco ball hanging from my sealing anytime... :D Great post Deborah! Great house - I love the mix of modern and bit romantic feeling of this home! And the Cardigans - Gotta love it! :DReplyDelete
My favorite part of this post Deb is that it was your FIRST inspirational home to white floors. I remember the first time I saw the simple, clean, white scandinavian style. I still have a sentimental attachment to the blog and photos that first introduced me to this style. I was immediately hooked! AMM was a big part of that introduction:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2012
Have you seen this home again in Elle interiör magazine/April 2012? It has changed a bit and I still love it! This home is thoroughly inspirational as you said. My all-time favourite :)ReplyDelete
Really wonderful home. You really do have great style! I love your blog.Amazing pictures. i really impressed by this blog.ReplyDelete
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I love this home, I remember seeing it in Elle Decoration :)ReplyDelete
I also love the changes made in the September Elle issue. Stunning. I really want white floors.
I like how it still has that simple look too it but it's really fun...like you would just be dancing around the rooms. Great details!ReplyDelete
I really like this!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2012
WOW beautiful!!ReplyDelete
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I love this home. It is so perfect but also manages to look effortless. Stunning.ReplyDelete
Wow! amazing tables and furniture. This room is very good looking. i wonder this background. Really good pictures. have a wonderful post together. Thanks for sharing this.ReplyDelete
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Yes, I have a Crown Royal bag full of little leaders and pigtails that have collected over the years.Ecoastprock wrote:Is there any way to connect these
to a RRD kite? I have 2 bars but they both use carbinha style connection points, the opposite of the RRD connections.
I don't really want to alter the bar because i use it for another kite. Does anyone have any experience with anything like this??
Very easy to change most bars to accommodate most kites and to deal with line stretch from fronts to backs, or for uneven stretch from lefts to rights.


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The Body Shop is amazing, isn't it? When I'm strolling through the "big mall," as we call MacArthur Center around these parts, you can always smell The Body Shop before you get anywhere near it. I always have to stop in and see what they are burning in their fancy oil burners and perhaps take a few home to add to my ginormous collection.
Lucky us, they have released three new collections just in time for the holiday. There isn't one that I would turn away. Then again, I'm not sure The Body Shop has ever released anything that I didn't at the very least appreciate.
Merry Cranberry Festive Treasures $50. Sweet cranberry certainly evokes the idea of the season. This set includes 1.69 oz. Body Butter, 6.75 oz. Body Smoother, 8.4 oz. Shower and Bath Gel, 3.5 oz. bar Soap, two tone red/gold Bath Lily, all in a decorative gold wire basket.
Velvet Apricot Celebrations $15. Creamy and sweet, Black Velvet Apricot features a plum note, too. This gift idea includes 2 oz. Body Lotion, 2 oz. Bath and Shower Nectar, and 2.5 bar Soap.
Nutmeg and Vanilla Joy To Your Skin $20. Toasted nutmeg and sweet vanilla make this set perfect for anyone who prefers a gourmand scent. Set includes 1.7 oz. Body Butter, 2 oz. Shimmer Lotion, 2 oz. Bath and Shower Gel, white Bath Lily, all put together in a cotton canvas bag with metallic stitching.


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James Yorkston | 27/02/13
James Yorkston releases his Spanish Ants EP on Monday the 22nd of April 2013. The EP features Spanish Ants, from James' much praised I Was A Cat From A Book album + remixes of the song by fellow Fence Collective luminaries Seamus Fogarty and The Pictish Trail, who will be joining James for a round of dates in March and April.
I Was A Cat From A Book is an album full of energy and great musicianship, and contains James' strongest and most bewildering set of songs yet.
'A record that will draw you in and keep you close' – Mojo
'A remarkable record – Yorkston's best yet' – The Skinny
'As always with this gem of a musician, all human life is here' - Q
The tracklisting for the Spanish Ants EP is:
Spanish Ants
Spanish Ants (Yorkston Regrets Trail mix) – remixed by Pictish Trail
Spanish Ants (Fly in the Oink mix) – remixed by OnTheFly
Kath With Rhodes (Disco Rhodeo mix) – remixed by Seamus Fogarty
Full dates are as follows:
James Yorkston with The Pictish Trail & Seamus Fogarty
March – Scotland
Sat 16th The Tolbooth, Stirling
Tues 19th Eden Court, Inverness
Weds 20th Universal Hall, Findhorn
Thurs 21st The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
April – England
Sun 14th The Sound House, Leicester
Mon 15th The Junction, Cambridge
Tues 16th The Blind Tiger, Brighton
Weds 17th South Street Arts Centre, Reading
Sat 20th Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Thurs 25th Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry
Fri 26th The Kazimier, Liverpool


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VIDEO DOWNLOAD - 5 Dollar Wrestling - Road Trip to Indiana
5 Dollar Wrestling presents "Road Trip: Indiana"
It's time to load up the 5 Dollar Wrestling van and hit the road once again. This time we stop in Charlestown, IN where they use to seeing wrestling action that is on par with 5 Dollar Wrestling. Luckily, Jake Manning filmed all the little experiences along to way. As Freight Train, Jeff Hart & War Dawg get to find out what it is like to travel like a indy wrestling superstar.
Also, on this release a new 5 Dollar Wrestling star is born in Jimmy "the Snake" Roberts. Watch as he slithers his way into your heart as his good buddy Jake once did before.
The early reviews are going nuts about another 5 Dollar Wrestling Road Trip:
"5 Dollar Wrestling needs to take a long road trip off a short cliff" - Shane Howard, RoadtoWrestlingGlory.com
"On the Wrestling Highway of life, 5 Dollar Wrestling should be pulled over, locked up for life, butt raped mercilessly until they hang themselves in the cell late one night." - Chase Rockwell from #GuyTalk Blog Talk Radio
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- Jimmy "the Snake" Roberts vs. Bubbalicious (Winner faces Freight Train for the 5$W Title)
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- Burke County Boys (Big Donnie & Porkchop Cash Jr.) vs. Lil Donnie & Mad Man Pondo w/ Crazy Marry
- Jimmy "the Snake" Roberts vs. Freight Train (5$W Title Match)
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- Jimmy "the Snake" Roberts Interview
- Bubbalicious Interview
- Alan the Ref Interview
- War Dawg Interview
- Jeff Hart Interview
- Freight Train, Cliff Compton, Colt Cabana & Mad Man Pondo talk about girls
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It's hard to imagine a more charming maritime setting than the harbour town of Husum on the vast North Sea. Delightful narrow lanes are lined with old fishermen's houses, a succession of harbour taverns and gourmet restaurants offer great food and drink, and walks along the dikes reveal wonderful views of the North Sea and the UNESCO Wadden Sea mudflats.
When a great flood tide submerged large parts of the coast in 1362, Husum more or less became a harbour town overnight. The locals seized the opportunity, establishing a market square and watching in delight as their village became a thriving centre of trade. Although the harbour later lost some of its importance, Husum went on to flourish as a destination for holidaymakers, who found relaxation and unspoilt scenery in beautiful Husum Bay. Getting away from it all, doing a spot of shopping now and then, and letting yourself be pampered: that is what Husum is all about.
The market square, Theodor Storm and maritime heritage
Husum also offers plenty in the way of culture – so much, in fact, that the small town has its own culture trail connecting the 32 most important historical and architectural sites. The route starts at the Old Town Hall on the market square where you'll find a whole series of attractions. One of these is St. Mary's Church, an important neo-classical building in Schleswig-Holstein. Outside the church stands the 'Tine', a bronze statue of a young Frisian woman and a famous Husum landmark. Then there is the former manor house in which King Frederick I of Denmark established a mint around 1520, and finally the house where Theodor Storm was born. The town's most famous son, whose literary works put Husum on the map, first saw the light of day on 14 September 1817 at house number nine. A few streets further on is the house where Storm resided in later life, today the Theodor Storm Centre, which is furnished exactly as it was when he lived there. Museums on the culture trail devoted to Husum's seafaring heritage include the North Frisian Maritime Museum and the Nordsee Museum, which has been completely refurbished. The latter looks at the lives of seafarers and their battle against the forces of nature, as well as the cultural features of the region.
Festivities at the palace and a restaurant ship
Husum Palace is a cultural gem: it is located on the outskirts of town in a park which is transformed into a sea of colour every year when the crocuses are in bloom. The palace doubles as a venue for international concert series such as the 'Young Masters' and the 'Rarities of Piano Music' and also provides a wonderful setting for the international puppet theatre festival (Pole-Poppenspäler-Tage). Close by, at the inner harbour, which extends almost as far as the market square, is the Nordertor restaurant ship – one of the oldest in Germany. For visitors who have worked up an appetite after all that sightseeing, it's a welcome sight on the horizon.
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Aubrey Beardsley
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Aubrey Beardsley
by James Russell & Sons
Sepia albumen cabinet print, circa 1890
5 5/8 in. x 4 in. (143 mm x 102 mm)
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James Russell was the founder of Messrs J. Russell & Sons, a photographic studio established in 1852. The firm was granted the royal warrant in 1897; there were branches in Baker Street, London, and in Windsor. James's sons set up further successful studios in Chichester, Landport, Wimbledon and Worthing.[1] The mount for NPG P43 carries the coat of arms of Edward VII (r. 1901–10) which indicates a continuing demand for the Beardsley image.
This photograph is the most formal, least controversial of the known images. It was reproduced the week after Beardsley's death by the Illustrated London News and Black & White.[2] He does not refer to the sitting in his correspondence. A rare, variant pose appeared at Bonhams, 23 March 2010 (25).
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[1] The Wimbledon studio, James Russell & Sons (Photographers) Ltd., is still in operation.
[2] Obituaries, ILN, 26 Mar. 1898, p.429, halftone; Black & White, 26 Mar. 1898, p.426.
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Half-length to left, head slightly turned to front.
Provenanceback to top
Christie's South Kensington, 30 June 1977, lot 175.
Exhibitionsback to top
Aubrey Beardsley: A Centenary Tribute, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa; Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama; and Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan, 1998 (1).
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Snodgrass 1995, p.29.
Wilson & Zatlin 1998, p.38.
See note 2 for reproductions of other prints of this image.
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Stainless Steel Droppings has posted a profile, with lots of pretty pictures, on the Johns, Berkey and Harris -- two of the field's very finest artists.
In the summer of 2004 I was privileged to have attended John Berkey's induction into the Illustrators Hall of Fame. I was quite nervous to meet John and didn't manage to say much more than "hi." Vin di Fate read a wonderful appreciation. "[John Berkey's] signature style is one of vigorously applied brushstrokes -- never labored -- that in a series of strategically placed dots and dashes, form images so vivid and so credible that they seem to go beyond photographic reality, and yet the artist's hand is always present. We look at these illustrations and know that they are paintings -- they are not photographs -- and, more importantly, that they are art." The full essay is reprinted in Illustrators 46.
Here is an earlier post I made on John Harris.
Monday, January 22, 2007
John Berkey and John Harris
Stainless Steel Droppings has posted a profile, with lots of pretty pictures, on the Johns, Berkey and Harris -- two of the field's very finest artists.
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Thanks for the nod, and thank you even more for all the great art you are showcasing on your site. Thanks to yesterday's feature on Jason Chan I have a new desktop wallpaper!
It is not an understatement to say that the work of John Berkey and John Harris not only influenced my early love of science fiction but have helped contribute, especially with Harris' covers for John Scalzi's books, to a resurgent desire to consume new and divergent works of science fiction.
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The thing I'm having difficulty right now is that my drives are not showing up on the filemanager and I dunno which service I need to enable on startup that would automatically detect drives and mount them for me.
I have tried all different filemanagers from pcmanfm to nautilus etc. but all of them have the same problem...but I can see that the usb drives or even external hard drives are detected cos it shows up in the list when I do fdisk -l
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## When you login to your CrunchBang Openbox session, this autostart script
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## Note*: some programs, such as 'nm-applet' are run via XDG autostart.
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Game of Thrones Season 7 is Going to be Hot Garbage
Yes, yes, there's a new season of Game of Thrones coming out. Every new screenshot and trailer triggers a screech of pure fanboy hype so powerful that it's officially the only TV program audible from space. But before you set out the chips, dip, and novelty "Colonel Sandor" chicken bucket for your Hound-loving friends, keep a few things in mind. We love this show as much as anyone, but there's no guarantee that it can maintain the heart-wrenching power of its past seasons. Don't believe us? Well, for starters…
5.) They don't have George R.R. Martin's hand to guide them anymore:
Obviously the show can't go on hiatus until the books are finished in 2337. But remember, Martin did more than create the incredible world of Westeros and fill it with engaging characters. He gave them all motivation to compete against each other, to clash and struggle so that victory for one beloved character meant doom for another.
That's the kind of depth the showrunners can't recapture. When Tyrion and Davos faced off on opposite sides of the Blackwater, it was all the more devastating because we wanted them both to win while knowing it was impossible. Meanwhile, the show has staggered back into boring good versus evil showdowns like every other fantasy series. Take the Battle of the Bastards: visually thrilling, but step back and all you've got is a hero facing an irredeemable villain, almost falling to the impossible odds before a cavalry appears out of nowhere to save his dopey ass. As if we've never seen that shit before.
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Moo all you like about boobs and bloodshed, but dialogue is the true mortar that holds this series together. It's what reveals these characters, explores their connections, and, ultimately, makes us care about them.
It's also sliding downhill like a sled made of dog turds. Just look at Tyrion's awkward ramblings with Grey Worm and Missandei last season — they could have cut the entire scene out of a teenage soap opera and you'd never know the difference. Yes, these are all talented performers that could sell the hell out of a Yelp review reading but there's only so much they can do when the dialogue is so painfully aware it's going to be fitted into ten million tweets the next morning.
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A wise man once said, "Nothing ruins a good thing like knowing you share your opinion with mindless little tits." And sweet jesus was he right. Every season we have to endure the thousands of commercials, the endless surges of unfounded predictions, and the hype trains barreling off the rails one after another.
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