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Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities, and Ian Evans BA '06, a PhD student at the University of Arizona, coauthor a book that guides readers through the standard theories of knowledge while simultaneously using these as a springboard to introduce current debates. Each chapter concludes with a "Current Trends" section pointing the reader to the best literature dominating current philosophical discussion.
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The Medical Association of Atlanta (MAA) is a non-profit association founded in 1854 dedicated to the advancement of organized medicine in the Atlanta, GA area. The MAA membership is made up of the most actively-involved participants in organized medicine, united together to form "The Pulse of Atlanta medicine."
MAA members have united their individual voices and efforts into one cohesive body of progress, representing the new face of organized medicine in areas of legislation, community service, and individual patient care. Our members don't wait for change to come along, they make the changes that are necessary to support Atlanta's vibrant body of organized medicine, and their community at large.

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Letter, A. C. Morton to Mr. [Hiram] Hill
Author: Morton, Albert C.
Date: June 28, 1857
Albert Morton wrote from Quindaro, Kansas Territory, to Hiram Hill in Massachusetts. Morton informed Hill that the package containing money from him had been located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and he expected to receive it soon. Morton also described various aspects of Quindaro's development, including the building of a new store, and confirmed that the railroad would in fact come to Quindaro.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Hiram Hill Collection, #382, Box 1, Folder 6
Item Number: 102203 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Hill, Hiram; Morton, Albert C.; Quindaro, Kansas Territory; Railroads; Town development; Wyandotte County, Kansas Territory
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LON is an open network technology which is mainly used in building automation. The name LON is short for Local Operating Network. It is an event-based technology that supports a variety of physical network standards, making it ideal for use on all automation levels.
The LON technology is mainly used in building automation and building management systems (BMS) worldwide, including office buildings, schools, hospitals, libraries etc.
Open and interoperable technology
With LON, it is possible to integrate devices from different manufacturers into a common network system.
LON is an open and interoperable technology which means that any manufacturer can use the protocol to transfer data between connected devices like valves, pumps, fans, sensors etc. Data can travel from any point on the network to the building management system or to any other device e.g. to control a pump using a sensor.
Event-based communication
A LON system typically uses event-based communication, meaning that data is only transferred when an update occurs in a device, hence minimising the data traffic on the line.
Decentralised system
Most fieldbusses are based around centralised systems, where all computational decisions are made in a single network device, often called a Master. However, if the Master fails, all of the network communication will also fail.
LON however is a decentralised system, meaning that there is no Master; hence operational reliability is increased.
An operator / building manager has the option of remote controlling the connected devices. This includes start/stop, change of operation mode, and settings.
At the same time he receives data, such as status messages, alarms, operation hours or energy consumption from the connected devices, which allows him to optimise the operation of the building.
LON is mainly used within the following building applications:
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Focus points of LON are within building automation and control. Other areas of use are industry automation and process automation, energy technology and traffic.


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Visiting Sinai
Approaches to the Sinai from Israel and Jordan are covered here. Serious divers and trekkers should acquire the 1:250,000 Sinai Map of Attractions, an English-language tourist map sold at most resorts.
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You can visit part of the peninsula on a free Sinai-only visa, valid for two weeks and covering south Sinai only. If you wish to visit Ras Mohammed, other parts of Sinai's interior or mainland Egypt, you'll need a regular visa, which can be obtained upon arrival at Sharm el-Sheikh airport.
Sinai's climate
Sinai's climate is extreme. On the coast, daytime temperatures can reach 50°C (120°F) during summer, while nights are sultry or temperate depending on the prevailing wind. In the mountains, which receive occasional snowfall over the winter and the odd rainstorm during spring, nights are cooler – if not chilly or freezing. Outside of winter, you should wear a hat, use high-factor sunscreen and drink four to six litres of water a day (more if you're trekking) to avoid sunburn and heatstroke. During summer, the heat is likely to make you spend less time on the beach and more time in the water, and to forgo trekking or camel riding entirely.
Although the overwhelming majority of tourists visit Sinai without incident, it is important to be aware of the security situation. Between 2004 and 2006 a series of bomb attacks struck Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Taba, and the risk of further terrorist attacks in the future remains real. It is important to keep up to date with the latest security situation.
Armed Bedouin groups – who often clash with the police – kidnapped several groups of tourists in early 2012 on the roads between Nuweiba, Dahab and St Catherine's Monastery, although all the tourists were released unharmed within hours. There have also been cases of roadblocks and robberies on these highways, as well as on the Suez–Sharm el-Sheikh road, which is currently unsafe to travel at night – SUVs are particularly at risk.
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If you've used the newly arrived Windows 8, you may have noticed that among the army of colorful tiles, there's something important that's conspicuously absent: Google. Microsoft is pushing its own Bing and Internet Explorer hard, but if that doesn't cut it for you, Google put out this catchy little video on how to get your Google back.
In a bid to make re-Googling as easy as possible for the new Windows 8 crew, Google has set up GetYourGoogleBack.com to walk users through installing the Google Search and Google Chrome apps. If nothing else, it serves as a reminder that Google is exiled from Windows 8 by default. With a video like this floating around though, it probably won't stay that way for most users. I mean, who doesn't want Google? [Get Your Google Back via Engadget]


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On last week's Revolution, Miles imagined Monroe asking him to return to his post in the militia, and according to co-executive producer David Rambo, Miles' dream will become reality during Monday's midseason finale.
But does the militia founder want to return? Billy Burke, who plays Miles, told reporters that he felt his character would want nothing to do with it, but Rambo hints at a different tale. "We say that Miles is seeking redemption for all the bad stuff he did [in the militia], but at the same time, it's a little seductive," he teased.
Revolution's Billy Burke and Daniella Alonso on Monday's big twists, meeting Monroe and moreBut if Miles did return, it wouldn't be to fix the corrupt system and raise the militia to its once-imagined glory. "I think the part of Miles that wants to go back is the part that really liked everything he was doing, that would love to do it again," Rambo said.Whether Miles accepts his old friend's offer, Rambo wouldn't say, but he did reveal the reunion will be "very emotional, but [result] in an epic swordfight."And while Miles might be going over to the dark side, Rambo revealed that we'll be seeing a different side of Monroe (David Lyons ) as well. Rambo told TVGuide.com that Monroe "will be even more [humanized] in our winter finale."Does that mean we'll be seeing more of the militia general's sexy smile on Monday? You'll have to tune in to find out.


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"The damage was bad. I'm surprised (the trees) made it this long and hadn't fallen down already, especially with the winds this area sees," artist Lance Kellogg said. "You touch certain parts, and it just falls apart in your hands. But this way the county didn't have to get rid of the trees, we can turn it into something beautiful."
The eagle would have had a 6-foot wing span, been clutching fish in its sharp talons, an intricate pattern of vines would have weaved its way down the stump and another eagle would have been carved from another branch, perched on a nest with baby eagles inside. Camdenton chainsaw artist Lance Kellogg put three days of work into carving that first vision on one of the dying trees on the Camden County Courthouse lawn before he had to take his chainsaw to the bottom of the tree. "I got depressed over that one," Kellogg said. "I had the wings done, the head cocked just right, even did a lot of the detail work on the wings and head. When I started in on the body, I ran into rot and it just fell apart. I cut down the tree to see how far it was gone and it was completely. There was nothing I could do." With the tree cut down, Kellogg moved on to the tree next to it. "I was more determined than ever to make this work. I got a little hard-headed about it," he said. With the eagle plan scrapped for the last tree, Kellogg modified it for the second. A single eagle would sit perched on top, detail would be worked in to bring back the texture of the bark all the way down the stump with cascading rocks at the bottom, reminiscent of the Ozark mountains. The problem is, the rot was considerably worse in the second tree. On the first tree, one whole side was almost completely rotted away. Only the top part of the second tree appeared dead from the outside. Kellogg held onto the hope his plan could work. When he cut into the second tree, he found out the extent of the problem. The rot had almost made its way completely through the second tree. Kellogg's determination won out in the end. He managed to carve around the damaged part, and a perched eagle now stands guard over the courthouse. But the damage has been done, and the two-tone line down the eagle spells trouble in the future. Kellogg has treated the wood with an anti-rot, anti-insect solution to halt the damage. When he did so, he said 20 to 30 pine beetles came out of the wood, a possible cause for the trees' death. Kellogg thought he saved the tree for a period of two to five years. "The damage was bad. I'm surprised (the trees) made it this long and hadn't fallen down already, especially with the winds this area sees," he said. "You touch certain parts, and it just falls apart in your hands. But this way the county didn't have to get rid of the trees, we can turn it into something beautiful." County commissioners turned to the public for volunteers last month to carve the trunks of the two dying trees before one of them fell and hurt someone or damaged a vehicle parked nearby. Kellogg picked up chainsaw sculpture as a hobby after retiring and has since turned it into extra money by opening BearRoots in Camdenton. He offered his services to the county after he noticed the trees were going to be cut down. He has put in an estimated 40 hours of work on the two trees and still has several more hours' worth of detail carving and staining to complete before the final eagle will go on display. Weather permitting, he hopes to be done Wednesday afternoon. Contact this reporter at email@example.com.


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Frank Shay...is on good terms with all the prominent writers, artists, sculptors, etc., with all of the mighty who live in or come to the Village on a visit. Most everyone visits his shop to have a look at his queer door...
—"Magazines are Published by Greenwich Artists,"
The Oregonian
, March 26, 1922
IN THE EARLY 1920s, noteworthy visitors to Frank Shay's bookshop at 4 Christopher Street began autographing the narrow door that opened onto the shop's office. Signed by 242 artists, writers, publishers, and other notable habitués of Greenwich Village, this unusual artifact is now housed at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. A literal portal to the past, the door reveals the rich mix of innovators—from anarchist poets to major commercial publishers—that defined this slice of Bohemia from 1920 to 1925.
This exhibition reconstructs the bookshop and its community. The door is not accompanied by an archive of the bookshop, so this project seeks to create a virtual "archive" on the web. Artifacts gathered from across the Ransom Center's collections provide audiences with documentation of the shop's operations and the lives and careers of its customers. This is an ongoing project: we hope that audience participation will enrich the project with further information. Explore
The Door
to learn about the lives, careers, and relationships of almost 200 identified signatures—and help us identify those signatures that remain mysteries. Read the forgotten history of
The Shop
, immerse yourself in
The Village
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who browsed the shop's shelves.
The bookshop door has been in the Ransom Center's collections for more than 50 years, but until the internet made this exhibition possible, it had been little studied. After the bookshop closed in 1925, the manager (and perhaps owner, at that point) Juliet Koenig stored the door in her New York apartment. In 1960, she sold it to the Center through dealer Lew David Feldman. It was added to the Center's large Christopher Morley collection, since Morley and many of his friends and professional colleagues were patrons of the bookshop. In 1972, doctoral student Anna Lou Ashby, who was writing a dissertation on Morley, wrote an article about the door for the Center's
Library Chronicle
. Ashby identified a number of signatures and provided a brief history of the shop, but since then, there appears to have been no further research on the door or the shop.
Massive databases of searchable books, newspapers and magazines from the 1920s that are now available online have made it possible to identify dozens of the more obscure names on the door in a matter of minutes or hours. The internet's flexible structure allows us to more easily reconstruct the community and its complex web of associations. The flowering of virtual social networking in recent years inspired us to see how it was now possible to reconstruct a community that was firmly grounded in the physical space of 4 Christopher Street. Finally, the web enables us to join in one place hundreds of items housed in more than 60 separate collections in the Ransom Center. Image metadata and links to catalogs and finding aids ensure that researchers can find these materials and study them further.
The rich resources of the web are, of course, a bittersweet development for those of us who have long loved browsing, talking, and learning from each other in bookstores. While resources on the internet have fostered this project, they have also led directly to the closure of thousands of bookstores over the last decade. We hope that telling the story of this shop and its community will encourage audiences to be mindful of the history of bookstores, bookselling, book buying, and the power of place, as we experience this moment of enormous change.
—Molly Schwartzburg, Cline Curator of Literature
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- Tomorrow is Friday and I am PUMPED as usual.
- I talk to my mom everyday on the phone & had an especially good chat with her today.
- Cupcake is sitting by my feet right now- a purring machine!
- Shower time for me! Have a good night!


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Dallas flew into town on Tuesday for Thanksgiving and we thought that it would be fun if we all went out to dinner. So Me and Johnna, Brett and Erica, Dallas, and Ashley all met up for dinner. Whenever we can get the majority of the siblings together we have what we call "Dinner on Tom and Sherrie". Me and Brett still have one of their credit cards (he he he).
This is a funny picture of Itsy. Johnna gets her so much junk. This is her rockin her pink hoodie. We laughed SO HARD when we saw this picture on the back of the camera.
Friday, November 28, 2008
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Colorado Weekend
This past weekend Chris and I got to spend the weekend in Colorado with my sister Tami and her family. We had tons of fun hanging out with Tami and Caleb and their four boys. My sister Ashley and a couple of her kids came over one of the nights and we all played Hyper Dash with the kids. It was a really fun/action packed game. We also went out to a cute little town called Estes. It was a beautiful drive! On the way back we stopped at a sweet spot to take their family photos. I would post some of those but I don't want to spoil their Christmas card. As usual Chris and I didn't get any candid pictures of our trip, but here are some my sister sent me.
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Guard Dog
The latest and greatest news at our home is. . . we got robbed on Wednesday. After the fact I started to hide anything & everything of value or importance, even just silly things like our mail keys (which I totally forgot where I put them!). You could say I've gone a little overboard with this. Chris came home early yesterday and throughout the day I received countless texts of, "Do you know where _______ is?" After about the fifteenth text that day I was getting some pretty good laughs out of my little hide and seek game. Now I'm going overboard in other, more productive ways. Besides all the top secret security measures we have taken, I have been thinking a Guard Dog would be nice. And considering what happened I think I might actually convince Chris this is a good idea. The only thing is I kinda have to convince myself first. I'm not a BIG dog lover. I just like the little yappers. My question is, can you keep a big dog outside all year round in AZ? Do any of you do this? Is it cruel? At any rate, I'm wondering what you guys think.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Wedding Weekend
This past weekend Chris shot a wedding on Friday and Saturday. YAY for Chris! Saturday's wedding was super fun and extra special because it was our good friends J.C. and Niki's. I can't even tell you how nice it was to go to a wedding where I actually knew some people. Most of the time I go with Chris on his shoots because I am convinced he needs me. . . he just doesn't know it. Lucky me, that was actually true this time. Okay, so maybe not so much with the actual photography part, but still. I was able to do an impromptu hairstyle for Nikki. It was so fun to be a part of her special day and be of use. We are so happy for J.C., Nikki and Kyson! Even more excited that they live so close. Yay for couples dates!
P.S. Have you ever scene an orange watermelon?! They had it at their reception. Very cool.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
Happy Post
Chris and I have been sensing the need for a 'Happy Post.' As you can imagine it's taken a lil bit to really get in the 'Happy Post' mood lately. But hello! It must be done. At any rate, here are a few things that have brought Chris and I a bit of joy these days.
I think this picture says what I would like to say without me getting emotional on you guys so we'll just leave it at that.
Pets come and go but our love is forever! I'm soooo grateful for Chris and all that he does for me. I love him TONS and in the grand scheme of things a little more time with just the two of us couldn't hurt. Also, I'm looking at us in that picture wondering what happened to that skinny little bod. So if anyone wants a walking buddy I'd love that.
Paxman Photography is taking off. Woot! Woot!
Well, this one is all me. I love me some Dr. Pepper but laid off all things caffeine while I was pregnant but now that we are in the clear; hello beautiful red can!
A little retail therapy never hurt anyone right? Plus it's got me thinking about Christmas early for once. My house is even decorated already. Chris has even been coming home with lil presents from him, to him. . . . so cute. As long as he waits for Mrs. Clause to bring him an XBOX 360 it's okay in my book.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Simple Acts
Chris and I would like to give a heartfelt thank you to all those who have sent their love and prayers our way. Sometimes the simplest acts can mean the most.
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NEW YORK - The New 42nd Street Studios, where many Broadway musicals rehearse, are full of drama. Once at this very address, a hung-over Billy Joel spilled coffee all over a furious Twyla Tharp's sacred dance floor. And if, some warm September Saturday, you find yourself sharing an elevator with a couple of chatty dancers confounded by the ability of glitter to hold persistently to the body after at least three showers, well it's just another ordinary day at this particular theater factory, where hoofers kvetch on every floor. Hey, when you're playing a drag queen eight shows a week, clingy glitter is a very real issue.
These studios actually are just north of Manhattan's famous garment and fashion districts. But before rehearsals for new musical "Kinky Boots" moved in this fall, along with the pop star Cyndi Lauper, the much-esteemed writer Harvey Fierstein (an expert on glitter himself, and a poet of what it leaves behind), and the exuberant director-turned-choreographer Jerry Mitchell, these venerable rooms surely had never been filled with so many shoes.
The rack after rack of footwear — loafers, Oxfords, Dr. Martens, boots — crowding out the actors in the space, did not belong to Lauper, a girl always having fun, but was there to allow the diverse cast of an all-new Broadway musical, upon whose broad shoulders and long legs many hopes of the otherwise limp 2012-13 Broadway season rest, to get used to populating a factory in Northern England that lives and dies by soles and uppers.
Along with the shoes came the machinery for mass-producing them: custom conveyor belt units that look like terrifyingly oversize treadmills, but can be pushed together (or flung apart) to make an assembly line upon which shoes can travel and invading drag queens and bemused shoe-factory workers can dance, maybe even together.
When a visitor inquired about the provenance of these bizarre, seemingly self-contained machines, a stage manager leaned over and explained that the actors were actually switching them on and off, that they (the machines, not the actors) were equipped with their own air-assisted braking system, and that these were indeed the real things that would be transported out of town with "Kinky Boots," which begins previews this week in Chicago at the Bank of America Theatre.
"The batteries alone cost, like, $16,000 each," the stage manager said in her visitor's ear, sotto voce. "Believe me, these aren't just for rehearsal."
"After I saw the film, I knew had to have them if I was to bring this thing to life," Mitchell interjected, as an impossible tall and lean dancer sailed by on one of the conveyor belts, glittering and looking like a horizontal pretzel, yet to be twisted. "So I said, let's just build these puppies."
What Jerry wanted — after the producer Daryl Roth sent him a DVD of the 2005 British movie (directed by Julian Jarrold and starring mostly unknowns) about a struggling, family-owned shoe factory that is saved from going out of business after its young boss, Charlie, comes up with the idea of creating custom fetish-type footwear for drag artists — Jerry mostly got.
Aside from the contraptions that torture dancers — and bring to life a factory floor in what looks like it will be one of the more interesting conflagrations of glittering campery and industrial grit in Broadway history — the Mitchell wish list included Fierstein, whom Mitchell had wanted, but failed to persuade, to write the book for "Legally Blonde" ("I just couldn't see it," the gravel-voiced wit would say later, in a Broadway watering hole, simultaneously grinning and rolling his eyes) and Lauper, who, despite having never written a stage musical in her life, seemed to both of these men to be a singular fit for this kind of material.
"Seriously," Lauper would say a little later that day, during a lengthy conversation — more accurately, a lengthy series of candid observations — about her life, work and times. "How much of a stretch is it for me to write songs about fashion, funny relationships, people changing their minds and shoes?"
The timing wasn't bad for Lauper, either. "I could have done something like this before," she said that afternoon, laughing. "But it would have wrecked my career. They'd never have let me back on pop radio."
Fierstein and Lauper were already friends. Mitchell had met Lauper when he'd choreographed a benefit for her ("I was worried," Lauper said, "I'm not Liza Minnelli.") and he'd decided that since she was a "True Colors" outsider and a rebel herself, she'd be ideal to write songs about nonconformists and strugglers who share a love of shoes. Lauper, who did not want to do something that made her "feel like a hack" was down with that.
"I am Lola," she declared, naming the drag queen whose arrival and footwear needs save the shoe factory and will be played in this show by Billy Porter. Plus, Mitchell well knew, Lauper not only had years of experience crafting a danceable tune, but actually is far smarter than some people think (one "Kinky Boots" lyric, for the record, compares and contrasts the "strength of Sparta' with the "patience of Job"). And then there is the little matter of her selling more than 50 million albums and 20 million singles, making the 59-year-old one of the best-selling artists of all time.
"I am a pop writer," Lauper said, eyes suddenly alive, that day, after being asked about one-third of the traditional question about making the transition of writing songs for the stage. Lyrics for musicals, after all, can't just be ever-intensifying restatements of a theme (a la, say, "True Colors") but are expected to actually move a particular story along in something close to a linear fashion. "Don't deny what you are," she said, now seemingly addressing herself. "You are what you are. You've been brought up with the suits telling you, 'Where's the hook?'"
At that point, Lauper, no fan of music-industry executives as a breed, switched into her suits voice, a kind of emasculated whine. "Oh Cyndi, that's very nice now, but how am I going to sell that?" She then curled her lip in disgust.
Suits or not, the selling of "Kinky Boots," the musical, will be an interesting challenge, as its producers are well aware. The show is still set in England, with everyone involved keenly conscious of the different choice that was made with a thematically similar British movie, "The Full Monty." It was moved to Pittsburgh in what most Broadway hands now view as a serious mistake.
Both Mitchell and Fierstein say that they don't want to overemphasize the potentially camp aspects of the "Kinky Boots" plot, perhaps scaring off straight men, a notoriously fickle group when it comes to buying theater tickets, but then again, they also don't want to apologize for the mascara, and nor do they want the show's humor and zest to be torpedoed by the dour business of an industrial factory fighting for its life in a struggling part of recession-smacked Britain. After all, that made things tougher for "Billy Elliot," another musical based on a British movie that not many people in America saw and that turned out, for all its brilliance on the stage, to be too rough and raw to turn a big profit
Asked to describe the intended tone of "Kinky Boots," Mitchell says that he wants it to "have the grit of 'Once' (the hip, earnest, understated 2012 Tony winner set in Dublin) "and the celebratory tone of 'La Cage Aux Folles,' the hit musical with which it happens to share a writer in Fierstein. That potential fusion, clearly, will be the sweet spot for which everyone here is reaching.
In the rehearsal that day, Porter and the well-regarded actor Stark Sands brought the contents, human and mechanical, of the rehearsal room to silence when they sang one of the show's most pivotal numbers, "I'm Not my Father's Son," a stirring ballad (and duet) wherein both Porter's Lola and Sands' Charlie, the young man confounded by his family factory's sudden demise, come to see that they share the problem of suffering the crippling expectations of an often cruel father. The song was written by Lauper, who came up with it in her head at home and then sang it into her iPhone, for the arranger, Stephen Oremus, to then write down and, eventually orchestrate. This is how Lauper composes.
Later in the bar that day, Fierstein said that the biggest difference between the movie and the show, aside from the drag queens singing as they pass along the assembly line, will be that the movie is, at its core, about the saving of a factory and the musical will be, at its core, about two young men who come from seemingly opposite worlds who figure out that they have a lot in common, beginning with the need to stand up to their dads. That, the "Kinky Boots" crew is thinking, is all the Americanization this story needs.
"Harvey thinks he's Lola. Jerry thinks he's Lola. I think I'm Lola," Lauper said, jovially. "We all think we're that same drag queen. And I think we all are."
As for the score, Mitchell and Fierstein both say that they're charmed by Lauper's ability to write in distinct voices for the different characters — as compared, say, with the modern tendency for the composer's voice and style to trump all.
"I feel like I'm a little kid again, doing all the voices," Lauper said. "I never hung out with a lot of people when I was little. I'd go out at eight in the morning looking for someone to play with, but not wanting to find anybody. I am an outsider. I know what that life is like. At intermission of this show, if people were to go out and call their kids, then that would make me happy."
And thus it started to emerge that Lauper, despite her reputation as a provocateur, has poured a lot of herself into these songs, this project. And she's clearly invested in Mitchell's approval, particularly.
"You know,' Lauper said, after a pause, without waiting for a question, "in the 1980s, everyone dressed like me. You remember? Everyone. It felt like they'd sucked it up, spit it out. I thought, 'Oh my God, I've just had my clothes stolen from me.' That's what they try to do to you. But I didn't let them. I wanted to be my own person. To have the freedom any man had. ... Sure, I knew you had to be famous to do your gig, but I thought I could make the famous part fun."
There was another brief pause.
"But then," Lauper said, "they overbook you."
It's not a simple matter, this Lauper and her being overbooked business, given that there's actually a reality-TV crew filming Lauper around the "Kinky Boots" process (and headed to Chicago with the show), not to mention a new Lauper autobiography, just released this month. But in this instance, clearly, Lauper is booking herself, even as Mitchell, Fierstein and, above all, the dancers in her show seem to be worrying most about keeping the glitter in check without dulling its shine.
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Church of Restoration: Sixteen years have passed since the Great War ended and the children left behind have grown up fatherless. In the wake of the devastation, Balastrade's King Everett II partnered with the Church to provide the kingdom's children with homes and education. But the years of charity have taken their toll on Church coffers, and now they accept only the brightest students – much to the resentment of those less fortunate.
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[Election 2008]
If Barack Obama wins the American presidential election in nine days' time, it will be because he has beaten the Republicans at their own game, according to Karl Rove, the noted "architect" of President George W Bush's two victories.
The Democrats have copied Rove's formidable tactics and ground operation, pumping out a disciplined message, assembling a broad-based coalition which includes young first-time voters and African-Americans, and drowning their Republican opponents with money.
"I've got to tell you, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," Rove said in an interview. "I can say, I'm deeply flattered."
Rove recalled how Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, outlined their electoral strategy at the Democratic convention in August: "He explicitly said we have deliberately copied the army of persuasion of the Republicans."
The results can be seen in the long queues for early voting in western and southern states and a series of national polls pointing to the emphatic election of America's first black president. They could herald the dawn of "Obamaland" – Democratic control of the White House, the Senate and House of Representatives – offering the Illinois senator the chance to shape the nation for a generation.
Democrats are daring to dream of a "liberal super-majority" not seen since the eras of Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal in the 1930s, and Lyndon B Johnson in the 1960s, who set out to transform education, welfare and civil rights under the rubric of the Great Society.
If the Democrats can win an extra nine Senate seats – still a long shot, Rove believes – they will have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority and will be able to pass any legislation they like. "I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs," Obama said in Virginia last week.
Several well-known Republican senators, such as Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, are under threat. The greater the bloodbath, the more leftwingers such as Al Franken, a comedian and radio host who is running for the Senate in Minnesota, may be elected.
"If the US really is entering a period of unchecked leftwing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting," The Wall Street Journal commented. It listed universal healthcare, greater regulation of business and industry, the restoration of union power and substantially higher taxes as likely consequences.
While the Democrats cannot quite believe their luck, the "precriminations" among Republicans are already underway, with accusations flying inside John McCain's campaign about the wisdom of choosing the charismatic but flawed Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate as well as the crippling lack of a coherent message, organisation and funds. Obama spent $82m on advertising in the first two weeks of October, crushing McCain in some areas by seven to one.
"The first step if the party loses is to say the candidate has let us down. The second step is to say the people have let us down, and only slowly do you wake up to the idea that maybe 'we' let them down," said David Frum, a former White House official under George W Bush, who believes the party is suffering from an ideas deficit. "Emotions are running high and we need an attitude of amnesty and oblivion to anything people are saying in the last weeks of the election."
Battle lines are being drawn ahead of a possible Republican rout. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-show host, said furiously last week: "There are a bunch of people off our reservation in the conservative media." Casting Frum and other respected conservative pundits into the political wilderness for finding fault with Palin, he added: "I don't know to what extent they were ever really on our side, to tell you the truth."
The revelation that the Republican National Committee spent about $150,000 (£94,000) on Palin's designer wardrobe, $36,000 on her make-up artist and $19,000 on her hairdresser has detracted from the Alaska governor's folksy, moose-hunting image. Her standing among independent women voters, a key target group, has declined by 24 points since the Republican convention in early September, according to a poll in The Washington Post.
On the road, however, she continues to hold McCain's ramshackle campaign together, drawing enthusiastic crowds to rallies and galvanising voters who would like to see her run for president in 2012 if the Arizon a senator is defeated.
Rove believes Palin, 44, remains "an enormous plus" for the party. "She has been a much bigger help than a hindrance," he said. However, he believes she will need to raise her game if she wants to be a future leader of the party.
"There will be a different standard for her," he said. "When you're fresh and new, people make allowances for you. If you're a first-time candidate, you are not expected to know the name of South Ossetia or Abkhazia. When you come back on the stage, you're expected to have a higher degree of sophistication, knowledge and ability."
A number of Obamacons – Republicans for Obama – have been lining up behind the Democrat alongside Colin Powell, the former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, since he criticised McCain's judgement and selection of Palin last weekend.
As if to confirm Obama's charge of recklessness, McCain and his running mate both called to offer sympathy last week to Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old student campaign volunteer, after she claimed to have been mugged by a crazed Obama supporter, who carved B into her cheek. She turned out to be a fantasist who had cut herself.
The cool and collected Rove is not ready to read McCain's last rites yet, pointing to a poll last week by AP showing Obama, 47, just one point ahead. "I'm one of these people who really dreads in advance of the election proclaiming with clarity and conviction that we know how it is going to turn out," he said.
He believes McCain, 72, can confound his critics and emerge the victor if he hammers Obama on the threat of higher taxes and national security, two areas of traditional weakness for Democrats. "Wanting to raise taxes – anyone's taxes – in a slowdown is a warning sign of a misguided economic philosophy," Rove commented recently.
McCain took up the theme in Denver, Colorado on Friday, warning that "the answer to a slowing economy is not higher taxes, but that is exactly what is going to happen if the Democrats have total control of Washington". He has one last week of campaigning to press the point home.
The electoral map on Rove's own influential website shows pivotal states such as Ohio, Virginia and Colorado, which voted for Bush in 2004, tumbling to Obama. According to his projection, if the election were held tomorrow, the Illinois senator would win 306 electoral college votes to McCain's 171, with 61 too close to call. A RealClear Politics polling average showed Obama leading McCain by 50% to 42% this weekend.
Could Rove's dream of a permanent Republican majority give way to a sweeping Democratic victory? With more than 30 states voting early, Obama's get-out-the-vote operation is already flexing its muscles. Nearly a million people have cast their votes in Georgia and more than 600,000 in Florida. It could be a sign ofa coming "electoral tsunami" for Obama, according to Rove – or merely proof that reliable voters have cast their ballots early.
In North Carolina, formerly a solidly Republican state, 210,000 African-Americans registered as Democrats have already voted, compared witha total of 174,000 registered Republicans of all races. Blacks have made up 31% of early voters so far, even though they form 21% of the population.
A Republican campaign official told ABC News: "It's a whole different game . . . it's a new paradigm . . . it's scary."
Some Democrats have gleefully proclaimed "the death of Rovian politics" after the attacks on Obama's radical associations, such as his relationship with William Ayers, the former leader of the terrorist group the Weather Underground, failed to take hold. But they have mistaken the enduring nature of Rove's influence.
The "architect" believes, on the contrary, that "this campaign is a confirmation on both sides of the best elements of Rovian politics".
It is a game the Democrats have so far been playing more artfully than the Republicans. McCain wrapped up his party's nomination in March, but waited until the summer to turn the fire on his opponent with a "celebrity" ad comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
Rove believes the McCain campaign should have defined the Democrat's weaknesses sooner. "We know people have a tendency to discard things they are hearing at the end of a campaign," he said. "If you want to establish an argument, it is important to make it in plenty of time so that people can judge whether it is correct." America still tilts to the right, he added, citing as evidence Obama's carefully calibrated conservative message.
"This year we've got a Democratic candidate whose principal campaign ad is, 'I'm going to provide a tax cut for 95% of Americans.'
"There is a particularly vicious ad that is now running everywhere saying that McCain wants to raise taxes on your health benefit – it's not exactly the most liberal of themes," he observed.
Contrary to legend, the winning coalition for Bush in 2004 relied on far more than simply turning out the Republican party base. "We got 48% of women, 44% of Latinos, 25% of Jews, a majority of Catholics and 38% of union households," Rove recalled.
When it was put to him that his campaign was broader than McCain's, he replied: "That's correct." Despite McCain's long-established reputation among independents and "security moms" and his liberal record on immigration, he has turned off Bush's wider constituency over the course of the campaign.
The shift in the Hispanic vote towards the Democrats could be particularly significant if it leads to an Obama victory in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada.
The threat of losing the desert and mountain states has left McCain so short of routes to victory that his hopes now largely rest on winning Pennsylvania, where white, blue-collar voters proved resistant to Obama's charms in the primary against Hillary Clinton.
Most polls give Obama a sizeable double-digit lead in the state, but Ed Rendell, the Pennsylvania governor, declared last week he was "nervous" after seeing internal polls showing McCain just two points behind.
Obama will be heading to Pittsburgh tomorrow, and Rendell has asked him to come back with Bill and Hillary Clinton before the election is over. The Democrats have 80 campaign offices in the state, compared with just over 50 for the Republicans.
Palin travelled last week to western Pennsylvania – an area described with unusual frankness as "redneck" and "racist" by a Democratic congressman – to rally the antiObama forces. In Beaver, a former Republican stronghold surrounded by declining steel towns, she said to cheers: "We're gonna win this state, I guarantee it."
Bill Eggert, 54, a car dealer whose sales have slumped this month, was sceptical. But he said fear of Obamaland could put off voters. "I believe socialism is at our back door. They're going to bring higher taxes, socialised medicine and a socialised energy policy. These are things that could tip us into a Great Depression," Eggert said.
"It's tough enough that we've already got the burbling idiots in Congress spending our money. If they control the White House as well, where's the balance going to be?"
The next morning, Palin gave her first policy speech of the campaign on extra help for special-needs children. Gina Mannion, 34, the mother of a two-year-old child with Down's syndrome, echoed his fears. "I would hate to see socialist healthcare," she said. "My daughter had to have surgery the day after she was born and heart surgery four months later. I don't think she would be here today because she wouldn't be high on the list of priorities."
Rove is not convinced an Obama administration would be socialist. "If there is an Obama White House, there will be tension with the old bulls in the Senate who will see it as an opportunity to fulfil their long-held personal ambitions." There could also be tensions with "Blue Dog" Democrats who were elected on a more socially conservative platform.
He recalled that Bill Clinton "ended up in a different place than he wanted after a disastrous first year", and said Obama was likely to find himself hampered by similar "stresses and strains" within his own party.
"Will an Obama presidency move the country to the left? Yes. How much? We don't know," he said. If the polling trends are accurate, it could be the Republicans' only comfort on election night.
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Holiness Camps
The camp meeting is a North American contribution to church history. Begun as frontier wilderness evangelistic meetings, they were not the original invention of the Methodists, who were among the leaders in the "holiness" movement. However, they fit so well with the Wesleyan message and itinerant methods of ministry that holiness groups came to play a prominent role in the camp meeting phenomena across America. Attempts to introduce camp meetings to the settled church life in Europe had only short-lived and modest success, though they did lead to the establishment of the Primitive Methodist denomination in England. They had greater success in the countries outside Europe and North America where Wesleyan groups established missionary work.
The rise of holiness denominations in the last half of the 19th century was significantly tied to the camp meeting tradition. It was felt that the older Methodist churches were neglecting John Wesley's doctrine of entire sanctification. Holiness advocates in the Methodist churches joined hands with the newer Wesleyan denominations to make the camp meetings the major platform for holiness teaching. Thus, the National Camp-Meeting Association for the Promotion of Holiness, the parent body of what became the Christian Holiness Association, was born in 1867. The number of camp meetings held annually in North America has reached ca. 1,000 in the late 1980s, indicating the continuing strength of the movement.
Holiness camp meetings became a part of the two Anabaptist-Mennonite churches which espoused Wesleyan views in regard to the doctrine of sanctification: the Evangelical Missionary Church (one branch of which was formerly called the Mennonite Brethren in Christ) and the Brethren in Christ Church.
Less than a decade after several Mennonite groups came together to form the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, the first camp meeting was held in 1880 at Fetter's Grove near Wakarusa, IN. Within a matter of a few years, meetings were being held in all districts of the church. In time property was purchased and permanent camps established. In 1986 Missionary Church camp meetings were located in James River, AB; Fetters Grove, IN; Ludlow Falls, Ohio; Stayner and Kitchener, ON; Brown City and Mancelona MI; Weeping Water, NE; and Mountain View, WA.
The Brethren in Christ Church did not hold its first camp meeting until 1936 at Roxbury, PA. It was an outgrowth of evangelistic meetings held annually at Roxbury from 1933 onward by area Brethren congregations. When it became apparent that the ten-day camp meeting for the promotion of holiness had become an annual event, land was purchased in 1941 and buildings constructed to assure the permanence of the camp and enhance its ministry. It holds the distinction of being not only the first, but also the largest of the Brethren in Christ camp meetings.
Soon, however, other districts of the church established camp meetings in their areas. Niagara Holiness Camp began at Fort Erie, Ont., in 1941. Memorial Holiness Camp near West Milton, Ohio, was launched in 1944. Other camp meetings were conducted for a time in Iowa, Kansas, and California. In 1963 Camp Freedom was begun in Florida to minister to those who frequented Florida. The United Zion Church, closely related to the Brethren in Christ, also operates a camp meeting grove.
The central purpose of the camp meetings was to promote the doctrine and the experience of entire sanctification. No other structure of these churches, except possibly the annual congregational revival meetings, has proved as effective as camp meetings in leading church members to experience the more extensive work of the Holy Spirit in their lives.
Initially the camps enjoyed extensive evangelistic influence in the communities where they were held. While the evening evangelistic service is a regular feature of most camps, it now ministers more to the church constituency than it does the community. Home and foreign missions have been enthusiastically supported by the camp meetings, with special emphasis days devoted to missions promotion. Along the way, the special needs of children and youth have given rise to separate facilities and programming for them.
The camp meetings through the years have been a unique family experience, both in terms of the nuclear family and the church family. They have brought together more members of the churches in something of a family union atmosphere than any other church structure. Consequently, they have helped to shape a denominational identity through intimate association and focused teaching regarding the distinctive doctrinal emphases of the respective denominations. While some aspects of the camp meeting histories are difficult to appreciate today, this positive benefit can not be overlooked. It is one reason why the camp meetings remain a vital force today though different in style than they were in past generations.
Lageer, Eileen. Merging Streams: Story of the Missionary Church. Elkhart, IN: Bethel Pub. Co., 1979: 65-70.
Sider, E. Morris. Holiness Unto the Lord: the Story of Roxbury Holiness Camp. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1985.
Storms, Everek Richard. History of the United Missionary Church. Elkhart, IN: Bethel Pub. Co., 1959: 171-80.
Wittlinger, Carlton O. Quest for Piety and Obedience: the Story of the Brethren in Christ. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1978: 331-38.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, pp. 386-387. All rights reserved.
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Wanted to feature this haunt again. The third witch is included in this photo. A live actor.
Oh, the fun that would be had with having two props and one person waiting for each child to approach.
More photos at the Warts and all... blog.
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More Warts And All
Wanted to feature this haunt again. The third witch is included in this photo. A live actor.
4 comments:
- Sara said...
When I took my son out ToTing this Halloween, there was one apartment that had a live body actor and he looked SO fake that I was tempted to think it was just a prop. I saw him breath and I knew otherwise. Kids FLOCKED to that house. No matter how scary it seemed, the fun in approaching this guy and taking candy from his bowl outweighed any fear! It was really fun to watch. I wish more haunts featured live people. It makes a difference. This little apartment had only the live actor going for it, but they had more kids on their doorstep than the decorated houses.
- November 18, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- Pam Morris said...
wow...a truly awesome haunt...which one is the actor?
- November 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM
- Rot said...
The one on the left.
I love the masks.
Thanks for sharing that, Sara.
So cool.
- November 18, 2010 at 10:01 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
I love the idea of having an live person in costume hiding with the static props....
- November 19, 2010 at 7:28 PM


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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team will host Wagner College on Monday night at Detrick Gymnasium. The Blue Devils (10-15, 4-11 NEC) must defeat the Seahawks (8-17, 7-8 NEC) to remain in the hunt for a Northeast Conference Tournament berth.
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Tonight • The Blue Devils (10-15, 4-11 NEC) face the Seahawks of Wagner (8-17, 7-8 NEC) at Detrick Gymnasium in a game CCSU must win to remain in the hunt for a playoff spot. The Blue Devils and Seahawks met on Staten Island earlier this season with CCSU earning an 80-71 victory.
NEC Tournament on the Line • The Blue Devils are currently ninth in the NEC standings behind seventh place Wagner and eighth place LIU Brooklyn. Six of the eight NEC Tournament spots have already been clinched with the Seahawks, Blackbirds and Blue Devils all fighting for the final two berths. CCSU is currently three games behind Wagner in the standings and two behind LIU Brooklyn. Due to the tiebreaker procedures, to make the NEC Tournament the Blue Devils must win their remaining three games and hope that Wagner or LIU lose their final three contests.
Series History • The Blue Devils hold a 21-13 advantage in the all-time Division I series with the Seahawks. CCSU has been even better in the seven seasons under head coach Beryl Piper with a 10-1 record over that span, including a 4-1 mark at Detrick Gym.
Rebounds vs. Wagner • In the last three meetings between these programs the Blue Devils have outrebounded the Seahawks 180-88, which works out to a 60-29 advantage on the glass per contest. CCSU grabbed 58 rebounds in the meeting earlier this season and secured 61 boards in both games last season.
Victory on Senior Day • The Blue Devils earned a 63-53 victory over Sacred Heart in Saturday's senior day game. The Blue Devils were led by 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists from senior Jessica Babe and 15 points and 13 rebounds from senior Jaleen Thomas. The 15 points by Thomas matched her career-high as she posted her first double-double of the season. It was also the second straight home victory over Sacred Heart for the Blue Devils, prior to last seasons win over SHU at Detrick CCSU had not won at home vs. the Pioneers since Feb. 3, 2001.
Double-Digit Victories • Saturday's win gave the Blue Devils 10 victories on the season. CCSU has now posted double-digit wins in six straight seasons for the first time in program history. Last year's 16 wins gave the Blue Devils five straight double-digit win seasons for the first time in the Division I era. The program also had a five-year run at the Division II level between 1975 and 1980.
Closing in on 1,000 • Senior Jessica Babe has been known for her passing and rebounding more than her scoring in her career, but Babe's 323 points this season have her at 945 for her career with three regular season games remaining. A strong performance by Babe over the final three games, and possibly playoffs, would get her over 1,000 for her career.
*Climbing the Career List • Senior Jessica Babe - already third on the CCSU career steals list at 229 - passed Sethe Thompson (343) for fourth on the career assist list on Monday (1/27). With 363 career assists, Babe is 30 shy of the all-time CCSU record of 393 by Nikki Flocco and two behind Kerrianne Dugan's 365 for third place.*This release originally listed Kerrianne Dugan as being second on CCSU's career assists list, which was incorrect.


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The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development has approved a loan to worth Syria 20 million Kuwaiti dinar ($65.3 million), which will be used to expand the Al Nasiriya power plant, located near Damascus.
The expansion project at the Al Nasiriya plant involves the installation of gas turbines, boilers, and steam turbines, which will increase its output capacity 300 to 600 megawatts.
The Kuwait Fund For Arab Economic Development was established in December 1961, to assist Arab and other developing countries in modernizing their economies. It does so by providing loans and grants to facilitate the implementation of development programs.
Prior to this latest loan, the fund was financing 25 projects in Syria, to the tune of 316.2 million Kuwaiti dinar, making it the fund's largest single recipient in the Arab world. – (Albawaba-MEBG)
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Nick Kellie discusses 11th chords and their applications.
Taught by Nick Kellie in Theory and Improvisation with Nick Kellie seriesLength: 4:39Difficulty: 1.5 of 5
Nick Kellie teaches the CAGED system and theory of modes based around this system of learning.
Lesson 1
Nick Kellie teaches the CAGED system and the 3 point root guidelines to finding your chords.Length: 22:29 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 2
Building on the CAGED system he taught in lesson 1, Nick teaches the major triad arpeggios built off those chords.Length: 7:13 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 3
Nick Kellie demonstrates the dominant 7th arpeggios as they relate to the CAGED system.Length: 9:29 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 4
Nick Kellie demonstrates the major pentatonic scales as they relate to the CAGED system shapes.Length: 7:40 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 5
Nick Kellie demonstrates the major scales in relation to the five shapes of the CAGED system.Length: 5:35 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 6
Now that he has already covered the major CAGED shapes, Nick Kellie demonstrates the minor shapes for the CAGED system.Length: 10:58 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 7
Nick Kellie teaches the minor triad arpeggios for the CAGED system.Length: 5:19 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 8
Nick Kellie teaches the minor 7th arpeggios as they relate to the CAGED system.Length: 6:39 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 9
Nick Kellie demonstrates the minor pentatonic scales as it relates to the CAGED system.Length: 3:10 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
Lesson 10
Nick Kellie demonstrates the natural minor scale using the CAGED system.Length: 4:29 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 11
Nick Kellie discusses intervals and interval spacing on the guitar.Length: 24:28 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 12
Nick Kellie discusses the three parent scales that all other diatonic scales are derived from.Length: 10:14 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 13
Nick Kellie discusses how to harmonize the diatonic major scale.Length: 13:19 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Nick Kellie discusses the seven modes derived from the diatonic major scale.Length: 22:07 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 15
Nick Kellie covers the Phrygian mode of the major scale.Length: 6:43 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Nick Kellie covers the Lydian mode of the major scale.Length: 7:37 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 17
Nick Kellie covers the Mixolydian mode in five positions.Length: 8:10 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 18
Nick Kellie demonstrates the Aeolian mode in five positions.Length: 5:09 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 19
Nick Kellie covers the Locrian mode in five positions.Length: 6:20 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 20
Nick Kellie explains how to change modes while improvising.Length: 15:26 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 21
Nick Kellie discusses and demonstrates how to create modal chord progressions within the seven different modes.Length: 28:35 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 22
Nick Kellie discusses chord development. Taking key strategies from pianists, Nick demonstrates how playing with a single bass note can benefit your chord construction.Length: 15:17 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 23
Nick Kellie discusses and demonstrates how to use the licks you learn.Length: 11:14 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 24
Nick Kellie demonstrates how to find the key of a song.Length: 13:49 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 25
Nick discusses and demonstrates some uses for non-diatonic chords within a progression.Length: 7:08 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 26
Nick explains how to harmonize the major scale with diatonic 7th chords.Length: 11:27 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 27
Nick explains how to use scales and modes effectively when soloing over a chord progression.Length: 9:53 Difficulty: 1.5 FREE
Lesson 28
Nick discusses how to transpose a lick or riff into a different mode.Length: 8:36 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 29
Nick Kellie demonstrates pentatonic scales derived from the modes of the major scale.Length: 9:32 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 30
Nick Kellie discusses 9th chords, how they are used, and demonstrates a few voicings to get you started.Length: 8:35 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 31
Nick Kellie discusses 11th chords and their applications.Length: 4:39 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 32
Nick Kellie discusses and demonstrates voicings for 13th chords.Length: 6:08 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 33
Nick Kellie discusses how to use the Dorian and Super Locrian modes effectively within a single chord progression.Length: 10:03 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 34
Nick Kellie discusses concepts and ideas for soloing over jazz compositions.Length: 20:50 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 35
Nick Kellie demonstrates jazz solo techniques for his song "30 Hour Journey."Length: 10:50 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 36
Nick Kellie demonstrates and discusses building chords and chordal tones from within a scale.Length: 5:58 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 37
Nick Kellie discusses how to read scale charts pertaining to the CAGED system of playing.Length: 8:36 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 38
Nick Kellie returns to his theory and improvisation series with a lesson on understanding modal playing and separating the modes from their parent scales.Length: 35:16 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 39
In lesson 38, Nick discussed more basics on understanding modes and modal playing. In this lesson, he discusses separating your modes from their parent scales to give a more balanced and modal sound to...Length: 16:34 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 40
Returning to his theory and improvisation series, Nick discusses how you might already being applying modal playing without even knowing it. He discusses how you can pull modal scale ideas and progressions...Length: 9:34 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 41
Nick Kellie returns to his Theory and Improvisation series with a discussion on scale sequencing. In this lesson he discusses how sequencing in both numeric and intervalic forms can open up the scale...Length: 12:17 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 42
Now that Nick has covered the basic concepts of sequencing scales, he covers how you might sequence within the pentatonic scale. He also discusses linear and non-linear playing.Length: 14:17 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 43
Nick Kellie returns with another look at sequencing. Nick has been talking primarily about playing sequences using diads or intervals. In this lesson, he demonstrates sequences based on diatonic triads...Length: 7:04 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 44
Now that you've learned how to sequence triads, Nick applies the same concepts horizontally with diatonic seventh chords and their arpeggios.Length: 5:54 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 45
Nick Kellie discusses how a key is harmonized and how this knowledge can help unlock playing over chords and within different keys.Length: 15:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 46
In his 46th lesson, Nick Kellie takes an applied approach to soloing over a backing track. In this lesson, he discusses ways to solo and connect scales and modes over his track "Melody of Hope".Length: 18:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 47
Nick Kellie takes a look at another backing track and discusses how to implement scale ideas over it.Length: 15:17 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 48
In this lesson, Nick discusses how applying the third interval across a scale idea can open up melodic ideas in your playing. To get you started, he teaches the third interval pattern for all adjacent...Length: 10:20 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Nick was awarded the BBC Big Band Jazz awards "John Dankworth trophy for outstanding young soloist" and recorded a special show for BBC radio 2. He was invited to become a member of the Wigan Jazz Orchestra, and has played as part of the Wigan International Jazz Festival. He has played extensive gigs which include accompaniment, reading, soloing as well as styles ranging from Soul, R&B, Blues, Rock and Jazz in locations such as London, Norway, Germany and Greece.
Nick, with his professional approach towards music, brings enthusiasm and musicality to every project he is involved with. As well as being a guitarist Nick is also a fine vocalist and can sing lead vocals as well as backing vocals.
In London Nick has been involved with many projects such as Fresh Claim, which features Nick on guitar, and Jon Plotel on Bass (Billy Ocean, The Real Thing) and Vanessa Haynes band featuring members of Jeff Beck group, Eric Clapton's Band and Allan Holdsworth's Band. For a time Nick resided in Nashville TN where he played with many local musicians. In addition he also played in a Jazz Fusion band named "Shammah", with whom he has recorded an album.
Most recently Nick was signed to Digital Nations www.digital-nations.com - part of Steve Vai's record label and has recorded an album entitled "For A Brother" with his band "Nick Kellie Band". Upon hearing the album, Steve contacted Nick with regard to a release on his own label. It has been released in the USA, Europe and Asia. As well as this, Nick is also an endorsee of Elixir guitar strings, which are world-renowned.
Nick Also contributed to around 21 issues of Europe's biggest selling guitar magazine - "Total Guitar" in his series of articles, "Techniques of the rich and famous" and "Steal their style".
Having taught at Europe's top two guitar schools, Nick was also appointed as head of the guitar department at Guitar Getaways.
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