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Bubble Organics
We offer high quality organic soaps and organic bath and body products. Our soaps are made with organic ingredients made by local farmers.
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Hi guys! I need a logo that puts a modern take on natural/organic brand. My target audience is mainly middle to upper class men and women. They are very fashion forward and usually shop at LA/NY boutique shops, Trader Joes, Whole Foods. They are conscious about the environment and possibly donates to non-profit organizations. The logo is going to be used to print on recycled/kraft type of materials so it should be able to stand out clearly. Modern, vintage, trendy, classic and clean is what I have in mind. Final product would be in vector art, must be scalable and must be able to be used in web and print.
Below I've attached a photo of the website to give you an idea about the company image. The website isn't live yet so I can't give you a link but hopefully these photos help you out.
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I got it!!
Tanya_Birklid19: I think it's fantasmical!!! I plan on sending a letter, too. I sent a letter once to Dan Aykroyd and I got an autograph from him. this was probably three or four summers ago and it made my day. :)
Hence the point of the thing in the parentheses.
"terribly sorry, Mr. Palin, but seeing as virtually nothing rhymes with your name, I could not think of a punchline for your limerick"
No rhyme with Michael... no punch line
exactly! because of the pythons never having punchlines in sketches and stuff
The Ex-Leper: another thing! does he automatically send back an autograph or should I request one?
The Ex-Leper: great thanks I will try to concoct an actual letter and mail it here pretty soon maybe over christmas break because I will have a lot of free time. do you guys know how long it will take for me to get a response from him or even if I will get one?
well I am planning on a full letter with the limerick included
it's supposed to be unfinished because it goes along with how the pythons almost always never had a punchline for their sketches and it is disorienting and also because I honestly couldn't think of a finishing line to go there : )
sit-on-my-face: yeah... well you've got to look how many stamps are needed for England particularly but anyway, go to a post office and they'll do it all. I also wish very much to send him a word... but that's stressing me out!!! What could we say without sounding corny or worst... ORDINARY...
The Ex-Leper: also I have never mailed anything to anyone out of the country before (I live in America) and I was wondering exactly how it works...liek if I have to pay a fee or how many stamps I need or stuff like that so if you have any information/advice please let me know thanks! : )
You need to have 'United Kingdom' as the last line of the sending adrress and 'USA' as last line of the return.
You can check postage online at the usps.com website.... the heavier/bigger the more expensive. I think it was around 1-3 dollars last i sent... i forgot... it's been a while but yea
thats basically it. lol
No problem. I've sent a few things to the UK before so it should be alright. I still don't trust international post though but theres no way to et around.
However... it generally can take up to a month+ or so to even reach him. At least if you do regular first class mail.
OH! another thing! does he automatically send back an autograph or should I request one?
sit-on-my-face: HER NAME IS POLLY!!!!!!
Still good anyway! (maybe "punchline" is better than finishing line? Like in all those "The BBC would like to apologise for this lame sketch without any proper punchline. You must understand that we're kind of short on money these days..." and so on.
yes but Steve rhymes with receive so it works but yes I think I will change finishing line to punchline right now...yea the whole no munchline thing was what I was aiming for because they did it all the time with sketches so thanks! : )

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The Louisiana Board of Ethics wants no part of Democratic state Rep. Noble Ellington's bill to allow lobbyists to pay more than $50 to entertain legislators and other public officials while they are attending state, regional or national conferences. The new state law, part of sweeping ethics reform measures enacted last year, allows such an exception to the $50 cap only for an event, like a dinner, that is held in conjunction with a conference. Ellington wants to be able to exceed the limit for any entertainment "held during the same time period and in the same general locale."
The Advocate reported today that the board is sending its objection to the Winnsboro representative's bill to the governor. The ethics board also opposes another bill that would further water down the ethics reform law by giving officials free admission to a number of events they are currently required to pay for.
Read the story here.
Coton de tulear and wirehaired vizsla join Westminster; Paypal splitting from Ebay; first US Ebola diagnosis and more national and international news for Wednesday, October 1, 2014.
A constellation of South Louisiana musical stars descends on Parc Sans Souci to honor an ailing David Egan.
INDStyle Awards 2014 was one for the books; the American Cancer Society took over The Victorian's big tent; and the battle of the sexes was alive and well for Walk a Runway's Christmas fundraiser.
The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra teams up with choreographer Clare Cook for a modern take on a Stravinsky classic.
Local food pantries begin seasonal drives
A girl's best fashion friend
Stage 4 vet takes on cancer and reminds us all what it really means to get involved.
Creative living flourishes at Downtown's artist hub
Four bedroom cottage or four bedroom traditional
Bold looks for fall define INDStyle Awards 2014
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Project Front Yard has been launched to help us change our image and our habits.
Alleged victim is a Navy vet with brain trauma resulting from a car accident three decades ago.
Is Mary fading as Vitter solidifies his lock on the fourth floor?
Richard Buswell was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison for his role in an investment scheme that defrauded his clients of more than $6 million.
The Latin Music Festival returns to Parc International this Saturday, Oct. 4, from noon to 10 p.m.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has renegotiated contracts for six LSU hospital privatization deals, hoping to reach a compromise with federal health officials that will keep Medicaid dollars flowing to the privatized patient services.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu is defending her record on gun rights, seeking to rebut sharp criticism from the NRA in a state where the right to bear arms is given special constitutional protection.
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Citizens, you have less than a week to register to vote in the Nov. 4 election. Remember, if you don't vote you can't complain about the outcome. Well, you can but it's kind of hypocritical.
After being forced out by its former landlords last year, the community garden has a new location and a 10-year lease.
The party says it has hit a milestone, reaching 10,000 registered voters in the state.
Defensive captain Junior Galette is disgusted by the Saints' sluggish start.
The use of $60 million in Louisiana's public school financing formula to pay for nearly three dozen charter schools violates the state constitution, a statewide teachers' union claimed Monday in a lawsuit.
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SEP 30 Here's another story that makes Louisiana look backward; blogger Manny Schewitz writes about a church that won't allow AA to use its facilities because those boozers might track in some gay. Every time he sees one of these, as he calls them "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" type of stories, he always starts wishing: "Please don't let it be Louisiana... Please don't let it be Louisiana..."
SEP 30 Blogger Bob Mann is asking a question that a lot of intelligent people have been asking for several years now - "How gullible does Bobby Jindal think we are?" In this post, Mann is taking a look at the Jindal administration's "smarmy, shameless reliance on our ignorance."
SEP 30 Ever wonder what goes on in a football locker room following a game like Sunday's embarrassment? Here's a post on ESPN about the "reality check" the Saints had. Among the comments: "Right now we're not a very good football team."
SEP 30 Just for fun, here's the Advocate's "Mike and Me" gallery, featuring submitted photos from readers who have taken pictures with LSU's mascot, Mike the Tiger. When the promotion started, the paper expected pictures with the big cat who lives outside the stadium, and they got those, but they also got pictures with the "human" version, and the big statue of Mike.
SEP 30 Anybody who has attended LSU since the late 1980s is pretty familiar with Highland Coffees. It's a cool little (non-chain) coffee shop near the north gates of the university. The recent announcement that it would be moving because the shop can't "come to terms" with its landlord has caused horror and anguish among LSU students and alums. This post on the Red Shtick pokes fun at the landlord who might have other plans for the spot. (The story includes links to a "real" post on Baton Rouge Business Report).
SEP 30 Bobby Jindal probably has a shiny idea of what his legacy will be, and it's a sure bet it doesn't match up with what columnist Clancy DuBos says in this post on Gambit, to wit: "Jindal will be remembered as the governor who lacked the guts and integrity to do what's right." Man, DuBos, don't hold back -- tell us how you really feel.
SEP 30 It's a good thing we got all that BP money to spend on tourism advertising, because plenty will be required to convince people that we aren't a bunch of gun-toting lunatics down here in the swamp. This post on TIME magazine can't help: it's about a Port Allen restaurateur who offers a discount to anybody with a gun. (Anybody? Hmmm.)
SEP 30 This post on PoliticusUSA, an extremely liberal blog, takes aim at Bobby Jindal's disingenuous attempts to play both sides against the middle on the evolution/creationism issue. Jindal is "dutifully serving his Koch masters" on the climate change issue as well, blogger Rmuse writes.
SEP 29 Here's another national media story on Edwin W. Edwards, this one from National Public Radio - despite the fact that, he says, "people who listen to public radio don't vote for candidates like me." His story, with the young lovely wife, new baby, political backstory and criminal history, seems to be irresistible to the media, especially after they've met him and experienced the full force of the Edwards charm.
SEP 29 Here's more speculation on what's next in the Bruce Greenstein situation from the fourth estate. James Gill calls it "the Greenstein problem." What's the problem? If Greenstein lied about the process of awarding a huge contract to his former employer during an investigation, as is alleged in his indictiment, what's the truth? And who else was involved?
SEP 29 To be fair, this story was posted on Business Insider before Sunday's game (and the wailing and gnashing of teeth that followed it). It's about a study that looked at the communities in which NFL teams are based, and what kind of support those teams have there. No team has stronger community support than the Saints, the study found. (But again, that was before Sunday.)


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Victor Bell is a Certified Packaging Professional with more than 20 years of experience with environmental issues associated with packaging and products. In 1998, Mr. Bell founded Environmental Packaging International (EPI), a consultancy that advises global brandowners and retailers on a wide range of environmental packaging and product stewardship issues. He served on the Sustainable Packaging Coalition Executive Committee in the past and participated in the ISO Packaging Standard Committee and Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability. Mr. Bell received his MMA (Marine Affairs) and BS (Natural Resource) degrees from the University of Rhode Island and an MS (Urban and Environmental Studies) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Paul Earl-Torniainen is a Sustainability Manager at General Mills in Minneapolis. Paul's focus is to "operationalize" sustainability, which includes developing tools that simplify sustainability so that it can be used regularly in business decision making, creating business processes to identify and implement projects that reduce both environmental impact and cost, and educating employees and consumers. Paul has been at General Mills for 18 years, working for most of that time in Packaging R&D prior to joining the Sustainability team. He leverages his experience to drive progress in organizations such as the Sustainability Consortium, Wal-Mart's Sustainable Value Network, and the Consumer Goods Forum. Paul holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University and an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and he has earned six patents.
Kim Frankovich joined Wrigley in May 2013 as Global Sustainability Director where she is responsible for driving global programs, policies and procedures to meet Wrigley's sustainability goals for product, packaging and operations. Prior to joining Wrigley, she spent four years as VP Sustainability for Solo Cup Company, a single use packaging manufacturer where she was responsible for setting sustainability goals and strategies to lower Solo's environmental impact, advising on sustainable raw packaging materials, and managing strategic recycling and composting partnerships. Her prior association work includes committee or board memberships with the Association of Post Consumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), the National Association of PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), and the Biodegradable Product Institute (BPI). Before moving to sustainability full time in 2009, she spent 12 years as a securities and finance attorney including roles as Assistant General Counsel at Solo Cup Company, Corporate Counsel at Baxter International Inc. and as an Associate Attorney at Lewis, Rice & Fingersh in St. Louis, and Grippo & Elden in Chicago. Kim holds a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, IN and a B.S. in Economics from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT.
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Laura is responsible for working with Sappi's leadership to set strategy, establish long term goals and drive key initiatives that have enabled Sappi to be recognized as a leader in sustainability. A self described "paper geek", Laura has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and an MS and PhD in Paper Science from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology. Since 1995, she has held a variety of positions within the paper industry including R&D, mill environmental, product development, and most recently marketing and sustainable development. Laura proudly serves the industry through numerous collaborative efforts including the TwoSides US Sustainability Committee, GreenBlue's Forest Products Working Group and AF&PA's task force on extended producer responsibility.
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Easy & Cheap: Make Salt Dough Ornaments for Your Tree
We'll guarantee you have the ingredients to make salt dough ornaments in your kitchen: flour, salt, water. Nope, they won't taste or smell lovely (like these iced gingerbread ornaments), but they keep well from year to year, and you can decorate them with pens, stamps, glitter—all that stuff you wouldn't put in your mouth but looks pretty on the tree. Here are five beautiful ideas.
There's everything from simple, unadorned shapes to circles decorated with elaborate ink stamps. The possibilities are endless! Salt dough ornaments are hard and durable enough to decorate any number of ways.
Any one of the links below will take you to a basic recipe.
• 1. Natural Salt Dough Ornaments, from Fly Through Our Window.
• 2. Stamped Circles, from Tortoise and the Hare.
• 3. Swirly Red Snowflakes, from Katy Elliott.
• 4. Ink-Stamped Ornaments, from Even Cleveland.
• 5. Iced Star, from Country Living. (Click through to slide 13. This is technically a sugar cookie, but we thought it included a good tip: If you want to buy pre-made dough, knead in extra flour to make it sturdy enough for ornaments.)
Do you make salt dough ornaments for your tree?
Related: Red, White, and Adorable: Two Candy Cane Cookies
(Images: Darby/Fly Through Our Window; Tortoise and the Hare; Katy Elliott; Stephanie/Even Cleveland; Keith Scott Morton/Country Living)
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Never made them outside of kindergarten (salt dough is always a popular "gift" to make for mom and dad in every school I've seen) but I do remember as a girl finding a big baggie of salt dough "cookies" my mom and dad made and iced with some kind of egg wash with food coloring. We never put them on the tree (they were pretty ugly!) but they do last forever! ha
I never knew these were a thing people did, but growing up we had a couple of very nice store-bought ones. I never really knew what they were, they definitely SEEMED like a cookie but I thought it might be some kind of plastic, so I decided to test the theory by taking a tiny bite. I still remember how shocked/offended I was that people would make something that was so like a cookie but was just salty and horrible. I'm not sure I could ever make these without it feeling like a betrayal.
I made some when my eldest son was 1. I put his handprint on them as presents for the grandparents. As expected, the grandparents went absolutely gaga over them!
I make salt dough ornaments with my boys each year; they love making them and giving them to family members for the holidays.
i've been looking for some nice DIY ornament ideas all day :) I love the stamped ones!
I recall a Martha Stewart Christmas spread that featured over sized dough ornaments on the tree.I thought they were great at the time.Very traditional decoration for the tree.
My dog would looooove these. Unfortunately.
i got a little cookie press last year in an after christmas sale but haven't used it yet - this gives me the idea to try it out on some ornaments so i can can get the hang of it and hopefully make some pretty things! :)
LOL! brittanykate.
I never thought of that and I have dogs.Thanks for the reminder!
I still love these types of ornaments.if you look around online some people are making wreaths and boughs with them.You can really cut loose with this idea.
I turned 26 today... my mom has decorations from my childhood that look just like this on the tree. They do in fact last forever!


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The Dial — digitising a classic Cambridge creative writing magazine
The Dial is a creative writing magazine for students at Cambridge University. It initially ran from 1906-1953 and was reborn in 2008 when students at Queens' College gained funding to bring it back. It aims to "give space to the new, original and tough work which is the essence of student writing at Cambridge".
Back in early 2010 I contacted the editor Florence Privett with the promise of free technical labour (PHP, XHTML, the standard) and we had some great chats about design strategies. A poetry magazine has to be content-centric. The crux is providing enough highlight to individual poems, while retaining some form of navigation system. I contacted Robert Leadbetter, a contemporary of mine, to finish the concept. The final result can be seen at thedial.org.uk and the resource will improve over time as past issues are added.
The interface
My aim was to start with a typographic layout and then add flourishes of emphasis afterwards. This initial design was based on the styling provided in the Michaelmas 2008 edition of The Dial: Lizzie Robinson elegantly separates the different content types with unobtrusive line marks.
One criticism of my first approach was the amount of space given to navigation. With the poem Jessica, above, the navigation and poetry have the same total area. It is preferable that the text is the focal point. In addition, italics and size changes could be used to distinguish between body and header content, providing a subtle but clear separation.
This final design was cut up and placed online. Personally, I like the concise multiline navigation menu at the top.
Behind the scenes
Content is published by uploading text files using FTP and full metadata is provided with a fixed filename/directory format that contains IDs and indexes. A small page is then provided containing controls to regenerate the site with the latest content. The suffix "-draft" can be used to hide years, issues or individual articles from the navigation interface.
Many poems have precise formatting requirements, where the spacing between lines and characters is important. This issue is compounded as character widths vary between most fonts. The solution is to set the font for the body text in concrete (we went for Georgia) and transcribe poems from source PDFs into an text editor using that fixed font; the online content will then match the text editor of the less-technical transcriber.
And it would not be possible without…
The Student Run Computing Facility (SRCF) at Cambridge graciously provide hosting and administration for student societies. They also have the best customer service out of any organisation I have ever dealt with, providing incomprehensibly fast 2 minute email responses. A toast to them.
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eigenstateLine breaks: eigen|state
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A quantum-mechanical state corresponding to an eigenvalue of a wave equation.
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- Mathematica aside: it is fairly easy to see that superposing two eigenstates of O corresponding to different eigenvalues will give a state that cannot be a simple eigenstate of O.
- The reader should take note that an important visual component of both images is the representation of the electron eigenstates - wavelike structures - within the corrals.
- You will clearly hear more than you ever wanted to know about wave functions and eigenstates in the course of this book.
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By Judy Benson
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New London — Gail Lawson, the chief executive officer of Sound Community Services since 2005, left the agency Monday night after a Board of Directors meeting that ended with city police being called to the offices at 21 Montauk Ave. and staying on the premises for nearly an hour.
On Tuesday, Lance Niles, the nonprofit mental health agency's corporate compliance officer, would say only that there has been "a leadership change" and that the board would issue a statement later this week.
"We are forward focused," Niles said.
Lawson's departure comes about five weeks after The Day reviewed copies of the agency's credit card statements that showed Lawson and two other employees had charged more than $222,000 in expenses for airplane flights, hotel stays, restaurant meals and retail purchases over an 18-month period.
Jean Miner of Lyme, the former Sound Community Services clinician who served as spokeswoman for a group of former employees who initially wrote to the board about high turnover and tyrannical management at the agency, said Tuesday she was pleased with the developments.
"The board finally did what it is supposed to do," she said. "Now the agency can begin to heal and move forward for the sake of the clients and dedicated staff. I hope the board will never again turn a blind eye when concerns about Sound are brought to them."
According to agency sources who asked to remain unnamed, a trio of administrators — Niles, Jessica DeFlumer-Trapp, the director of community support, and Gino DeMaio, the director of residential/housing services — has been put in charge of the agency. Employees were told by their supervisors Tuesday about Lawson's departure, and that Niles, DeFlumer-Trapp and DeMaio would conduct an all-staff meeting Friday, according to the sources.
Neither board Chairwoman Jane Cable nor Lawson, a Foster, R.I., resident, could be reached to comment.
Two city police officers were called to Sound Community Services' administrative offices at about 8:40 p.m. Monday, according to Deputy Chief Peter Reichard. He had no additional information.
Sound Community Services has been under state scrutiny since this summer for financial and management issues raised by the group of former employees in a letter to the board, and in a whistleblower complaint to the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
DMHAS began monitoring the agency this winter over client care issues involving a lack of medical staff to prescribe and administer psychiatric medications, among other concerns. A provider of outpatient psychiatric services for about 700 adults, Sound Community Services receives most of its $10 million annual budget from state and federal funds.
After the DMHAS review, the state Auditors of Public Accounts began examining statements of agency credit cards issued to Lawson and two other top administrators, Informatics Officer Christopher "Heath" Bish and Chief Financial Officer Cindy Kirchhoff. The auditors also began reviewing information about an electronic medical records consulting business being run out of the agency by Lawson and Bish. The review is not concluded, state auditor John Gerogosian said Tuesday. The employment status of Bish and Kirchhoff was unclear on Tuesday.
The Day also obtained payroll records that showed the three received a combined $50,000 in additional earnings on top of their regular pay. Lawson's annual salary is $135,000, while Kirchhoff is paid $107,000 and Bish makes $99,000 annually.
In a statement Tuesday, DMHAS said it has been informed that Lawson is no longer the chief executive officer of Sound. DMHAS said it will work closely with the board and the new senior leadership to ensure an orderly transition.
DMHAS involvement in the situation includes a visit to the agency about a month ago by Deputy Commissioner Paul DiLeo, during which he met with senior staff, as well as phone conversations between DMHAS Commissioner Patricia Rehmer and Cable.
DMHAS said that if the auditors' investigation concludes that revenue from the consulting business was used inappropriately, it would take "immediate corrective steps."
"DMHAS will continue to actively monitor Sound Community Services to ensure that the state programs run by Sound Community Services are meeting the needs of the department's clients," the statement said.
The departure of Lawson is a positive and overdue step to bring issues at Sound Community Services toward resolution, said Robert Davidson, executive director of the Eastern Regional Mental Health Board.
"It took so long because Gail was a hard bargainer," he said. "She's a very tough businesswoman, and for a while that was her strength. The most important thing now is that she's gone and the agency can rebuild."
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The Brewers will be making a move to bolster the tired bullpen. They may have already made it as you read this. And unless they can find someone to place on the DL (Braun?) the team will be forced to release someone...and that someone will probably be Rule 5 pitcher Wei-Chun Wang. When a team keeps a Rule 5 pick on the major league roster out of spring training they have to keep them on the roster for the entire season or offer them back to the team they came from...in this case the Pittsburgh Pirates. And despite his struggles in limited work this season, the Pirates would take Wang back. The Brewers think Wang can be a good starting pitcher at the major league level some day...but that some day isnt now. And Milwaukee has found themselves in first place going into May and a chance to be a contender all season. They cannot afford to work with a short bullpen all season and Wang is the likely casualty. Some would like to see the team cut bait and release Rickie Weeks. Despite the fact that Weeks can only play 2nd base and his value as a hitter has fallen to the point that the team may be better off using Yovanni Gallardo as a pinch hitter, his massive salary makes it difficult to pull the trigger and say goodbye. The decision though is do you throw good money after bad by continuing to use Weeks while the team is contending? He's whats called a sunk cost at this point and even though its a hard pill to swallow...replacing him with someone more versatile and talented at this point would be the proper decision.
Did anyone look more like a ballplayer and fall as quickly as Rickie Weeks?
The LA Kings became only the 4th team in NHL history to come back from an 0-3 deficit and win a playoff series. They advanced over San Jose last night.
Another week of rain is playing havoc with the high school schedule. We'll see if any of the fields are playable for the games today. Foxsports radio has a DH scheduled...DC Everest at Wausau West and Wausau East vs Merrill.
Songs Of The Day (from my I-pod)
My Love-Paul McCartney & Wings (1973) nobody wrote pop love songs in the 70's like the former Beatle.
My Man-Eagles (1972) from the album "On The Border" comes this tribute to the late Gram Parsons from his friend Bernie Leadon. In my opinion the Eagles became less interesting when Leadon left and they moved away from their country-rock roots


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Performing Baroque Music
|Course code MUSI1142
|Units 10
|Level 1000
|Faculty of Education and ArtsSchool of Creative Arts
Solo and ensemble performance study in at least two different styles 16th to 18th centuries. Students in a wide range of instruments including voice may enrol. The course gives the opportunity for keyboard students to study harpsichord and/or fortepiano; baroque brass, etc. The course will involve detailed study, performance and analysis of works from the chosen periods or styles, including improvisation and continuo playing; and performance techniques specific to the aims of historically informed performance.
Available in 2014
|The course is designed to give students
* practical experience in an area of increasing importance in professional music-making i.e. in historically informed performance
* an integration of practical and academic studies
* a broadened repertoire experience in 16th to 18th century music
* knowledge of improvised ornamentation in solo repertoire relevant to instrumental and vocal teaching
* experience of different types of historical vocal and instrumental ensembles.
|This course is presented as part of a proposal to consolidate student access to and experience in types of ensemble found especially in 16th to 18th century music. It will be taught by existing full time staff, and will make use of the collection of baroque instruments that has been built up at the Conservatorium over the years, and the extensive library collection in this field. The unit complements the academic elective, Performance Practice, from which it is distinct by the emphasis on practical performance.
|Replacing Course(s)
|Industrial Experience
|Assumed Knowledge
|An awareness of historical periods of music.
|Modes of Delivery
|Internal Mode
|Teaching Methods
|Assessment Items
|Contact Hours
|Workshop: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
|2014 Course Timetables for MUSI1142


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The UVa men's basketball team is off to its best start in ACC play in 19 years with a 5-1 record after a convincing 76-61 win over North Carolina Monday night at John Paul Jones Arena.
UVA's Joe Harris and Malcolm Brogdon led the 'Hoos with 16 points a-piece, while freshman point guard London Perrantes added a career high 9 assists.
UVa guard Malcolm Brogdon said, "Coach Bennett made adjustments at halftime, told us to slow down and play our game and I think we did, we got some stops, didn't let them get second chance points off the boards and we started playing Virginia basketball."
UNC head coach Roy Williams said, "The more efficient team won the game. Tony has just done a really great job, Tony and his staff with that team, gotten everyone to buy-in to a certain role and understanding how he wants them to play and he's done a much better job than I have."
Bennett says, "That second half, they responded. We use that saying when you whip a donkey it kicks, when you whip a thoroughbred it responds. I'm not calling us a thoroughbred or a donkey and I don't even think we got whipped but I challenged them and challenged them to get the game back where you can get it and the fact that they responded to it and played quality possessions, that's what I liked the most."
Virginia's next game is Saturday against Virginia Tech.
Here are some of the high school sports highlights from Tuesday night.


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Minecraft snapshot 14w30b brings "major" improvements to optimization
Minecraft is a CPU intensive game, not that its players seem to mind. I've seen teens hunched over laptops, merrily battling single digit frame-rates in order to expand their Creative repertoire. Does it have to be this way? Mojang think not. Their latest Minecraft Snapshot lets player trial what they refer to as "major optimizations" to the client's rendering, hopefully making for a smoother game.


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Colorful Tapestries & Wall Hangings
These days, tapestries may be most commonly associated with patchouli-scented dorm rooms, but wall hangings have a long history in the decorative arts going back to the dark ages, and they double as an affordable and non-permanent way to add a large swath of color and pattern to a wall.
Here are some colorful wall hanging sources that are certainly worth a second look:
1. Marimekko's bold patterns are always in style, and CB2 offers a changing selection of their wall hangings, currently available is "Siirtolapuurtarha" by artist Maija Louekari.
2. Wall tapestries by Alexander Calder are pricey with a capital "P" — the one above rings in at about $20,000 — but keep an eye out on eBay for graphic tapestries from the 50s and 60s by other lesser known artists. Textile designer Alexander Girard also created some wonderful wall hangings that can sometimes be found for a steal.
3. Urban Outfitters does cater to the college-age set, but their unique collection of tapestries, like the All Seeing Eye shown above, are appealing no matter what your age.
4. Among the more typical Grateful Dead tapestries available from Sunshine Joy is this gorgeous hummingbird design by artist William Schaff.
5. Design your own tapestry! Spoonflower allows you to print your designs on a variety of fabrics — the fabric above was created from a simple pencil sketch. With a computer and a scanner, the possibilities are pretty much endless.
Images: 1, CB2; 2, deconet; 3, Urban Outfitters; 4, Sunshine Joy; 5, Sarah Rainwater
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I really love Marimekko - not only for its Northern simplicity and clean lines but for how attainable it is.
Tapestries are woven textiles where the pattern is created with the use of colored threads in the weaving.
Most of these aren't tapetries - they're merely printed fabrics.


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SPOKANE, Wash. - Former Spokane police officer Karl Thompson was in court Friday where a judge heard arguments for and against a new trial.
Thompson's defense attorney says he did not get a fair trial when he was convicted for using excessive force in the death of Otto Zehm in 2006.
He says that the judge did not turn over evidence that would clear Thompson, including reports from an expert witness.
Thompson's attorney says the surveillance video had limitations and could be open to interpretation.
However, the Zehm family attorney for the civil suit says the court may already have enough information.
The judge did not make a ruling on Friday, stating he wants more time to look over things.


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According to the current RDC President the RDC has enough money to start the Greenway Project.
Also as posted by Dave G the Mayor doesn't have the authority to turn down the Grant as he doesn't have a vote on the RDC. RDC's are separate entities. Go to the RDC meeting this Thursday night at City Hall and find out what's going on.
I think you will not like that answer as the whinings of one small neighborhood DO NOT dictate what is best for the ENTIRE CITY.
Here are pics of 2 phases of the Greenway project. Since no one in City Hall could provide the images I have requested them from Schneider Corp so that everyone can see them. Here are 2 of them that I have so far.
Right after the Mayor was elected he added 2 million dollars in new debt for the City. Why would he not choose to spend $235,000.00 to get 1.5 million in Grant Money? This project would greatly benefit the City.
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