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What kind of secrets are included in 501 Web Site Secrets? Well, there's parts of a site you didn't know existed. Or ways to use the site that you weren't aware of. Or special commands that help you get even more out of the site than you could before. Cool stuff like that—and more.
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Hi Adrienne, I appreciate your comments to my earlier post. Truly, it furthered my thinking and I hope it furthers this debate. A little call and answer below. #
Adrienne: "I appreciate the larger debate here about the balance between leading and serving the cultural audiences we work with in the visual and performing arts. Key to this debate is indeed striking a true BALANCE rather than swinging to one extreme or another. As 'popular' trends influence everything from programming to funding, the importance of an expert's assessment of an unusually talented, creative and valuable artistic voice is essential." #
Me: I agree, but it can't stop here. #
Adrienne: "It is STILL the role of the presenter to be able to discern extraordinary skill, quality, and creativity in order to bring this to the attention of the less experienced audience." #
Me: Bring this to the attention how? Once audiences are attentive, then what? #
Adrienne: "In the age of blogging and social media where opinions are published on an equal playing field without regard to differences between 'expert' and general public there is a true liability of dumbing down quality." #
Me: I don't agree here. Audiences are more discerning if given the opportunity to engage in the dialogue. If connections are made at levels that are accessible, a lot can be achieved. And isn't this also the role of the presenter? #
The way I see it, experts are poised perfectly to best engage in the dialogue. They have depth of knowledge that is uniquely valuable. They can lend themselves better (than anyone else) to an enrich engagement with the audience and the work of art. So why as art institutions do we miss this opportunity more often than not? #
Adrienne: "The reticent, non-blogging artist who is not suited to personal outreach with the general public is confined to obscurity if the measurement of their worth is fully dependent on the kind of general personal appeal that the blogging artist elicits with the general public. Having such artists cut out of the cultural landscape would be an enormous loss. We can all imagine how malnourished our souls would be without some of the greatest artists in history who were, by nature, highly private or reticent people whose hearts and souls were given to their audiences only on stage, or in their writing or through the creation of their visual worlds. These people are now far less likely to reach the public eye at all because audience preferences are being overly influential." #
Me: Has it swung this far? Is this why some cling to the other side? Perhaps the means are insufficient, especially for organizations. The practice of traditional marketing, pr, communications, outreach—all have limits. And with the rush to embrace technology, have we lost our ability to ask, what is this all for? Practicing asking a series of generative questions (why?, why?, why?) may help us understand how best to reassess and simplify. It may also clarify one's intentions and sense of purpose. I hope it better serves us all to engage with art and engage the people with the art. #
Adrienne: "If we only use the criteria of audience preference, the audience would never have the opportunity to discover less known artists who could well be some of the best and brightest throughout the world. I implore arts leaders to continue to choose their presentations based upon their own best judgement of exciting and important talent, even if the artist's assets include the kind of depth, complexity, and obscurity that might be less accessible to some members of the audience. The legacy of our cultural future is dependent on this kind of leadership. Thank you for your continued courage !" #
Me: Agreed, but again, might we do more, take the next several steps, be the inventors and creators of new organization practice that better suits? One way is with language. Language matters here. It conveys one's bias (we ALL have them) and general orientation to any engagement. Others notice. Audiences notice. We need to notice more as we take steps to bridge the gaps. #
And how are we defining engagement between statement 1 (organization/artist) versus statement 2 (audience/public)? Are we debating which merit ruler to use? Perhaps this is wrongheaded. I see engagement as a continual dialogue in pursuit of understanding and meaning. ##

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December graduate focused on quantitative areas of business and finance
11/22/05Stepanka Frey is the recipient of the 2005 Financial Executives Institute (FEI) Outstanding M.B.A. Student in Finance award. Frey is an accounting manager for Skidmore Sales & Distributing Co., a full-service distributor and broker of industrial food ingredients with eight warehouse locations and technical sales coverage in 22 states.
Frey immigrated to the United States from the Czech Republic in 1995 and received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. Frey graduates from Xavier in December with her M.B.A. and plans to sit for the CPA exam.
While attending Xavier part time, Frey extended her interest in the quantitative areas of business by focusing in finance. Her goal was and is to diversify her knowledge and skill base by learning and mastering a subject matter closely related to, but highly different from, her undergraduate expertise.
Kathryn L. Cutre was honored by the FEI as this year's Medallion recipient as the outstanding accounting student. Accounting undergraduates Sarah M. Heitker, Andrea L. Longmeier, Bryan L. Moritz and Alan B. Williams were also recognized as exceptional students.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Former Governor Tommy Thompson will announce Thursday whether he'll run for the U.S. Senate this fall – but it's looking like he won't. Long-time Thompson aide Bill McCoshen tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel it's "fair to say a run is unlikely" against incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold. The paper also quoted another source who said Thompson's family is not up for another campaign.
WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee also quoted a source close to the family as saying the 68-year-old Thompson won't run. But Thompson told the Associated Press he's the only one person who knows what he's going to do – and he's not sure what it is yet. The announcement is expected Thursday at the Tax Day Tea Party rally at the State Capitol.
McCoshen said Thompson wanted to sleep on his decision after a strategy session last night – and he promised to make his intentions clear at Thursday's rally. If he doesn't run, there are reports that Thompson might mention some other possible Republicans.
Former state Commerce Secretary Richard Leinenkugel and Oshkosh business executive Ron Johnson are said to be considering a run. Republicans Terrence Wall of Madison and Dave Westlake of Watertown are already in the race. The new developments come a day after Feingold's campaign reported having $4.3 million on hand.


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Mozilla's new Web developer portal is online
Anyone who develops for the open web should feel at home here: The Mozilla Developer Network has replaced the old Mozilla Developer Center.
The new platform Developer.mozilla.org is billed as, "A comprehensive, usable, and accurate resource for everyone developing for the Open Web." In In a recent blog entry Jay Patel, Marketing Manager at Mozilla, and Brian Louie, Stanford student and Mozilla intern, gave an introduction to the new website. In addition to the expanded audience that covers add-ons, Web apps, mobile, and traditional applictions, documentation has been given an overhaul. Now, posts from the Mozilla developers forums form a separate menu items that can be viewed alongside official Mozilla documentation.
The Mozilla Developer Center began as a project 5 years ago when the Mozilla Foundation successfully acquired a license from AOL to scour DevEdge content. The Mozilla Foundation hopes that the MDC will become a go-to resource for designers, application developers, and extension writers.
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- Release Date: Jun 7, 2002
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Dec 18, 2012It was a shame to see Anthony Hopkins in a movie like this, who the hell thought that these couple could work together?? totally different types of actors, this was a big fail.
Jul 15, 2014Bad Company has a good mix of action and comedy. The movie has Hopkins and Rock as an action
duo. The movie works because of the constant action and acting from the cast.
Bad Company would just be another silly, intermittently funny, buddy comedy (Anthony Hopkins is Rock's training agent) were it not for a plot unlaughably close to current events.
Like many of the nonpolitical terrorist-as-villain spectaculars that have been held back after Sept. 11, has the whiff of something gone stale. Though it may have sat on the shelf for a while, this project had gone bad long before it was released.
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I think that people forget that they are unique and special because of that. In our society where so much, even waiting in line for checking out groceries, we are treated the same, it is easy to forget all that we have to share, and all that experience which is ours alone.
I was asked 'where do I get my postcards' and the answer, which took weeks in figuring out is 'one at a time, the best that there is.' Most postcards I have are unique: I go and find and buy a postcard or postcards, because it is the best postcard I can find, the most perfect postcard I can find, the postcard that will please you the best. When people want Fairies, I sometimes send Nene Thomas postcards: except Nene Thomas didn't make postcards, but if you bought the 2006 calendar, they had a few in there. So I spend about 6 days searching and finding vendors who specialized in Nene Thomas or calendars and emailed and bought some postcards and had them sent and within 2-3 weeks, I had them. And that is how I got 20 postcards. And that is what I do 1/3rd of my day, with 1/3rd of the income I can make selling my books. Because someone needs to remind you, with an imagine landing on your front door: you are a unique and special individual, and one worth knowing.
It is easy to forget, particularly as December seems the busy month to remind ourselves much less others how important they are, and how important they are to the people around them and in their lives.
I was sick a lot of December and didn't send many each week, but I sent 20, then 30, and 60, and a few more, so 115 this month. But the people I sent too were also sick, or busy with children, or busy with trying to keep up with society and friends and family even though they might have had a chronic illness from depression to fibro, chronic pain, or fatigue. And in all of this, I wanted to let them know that I knew how hard it was some days, and how much they tried. I knew all of that and I admired and respected them for that. And so for them, I always send the best: the best postcard, the best decoration on the postcard and the best custom stamps as possible.
Even when I am ill, and even when things are hard, it matters to me to keep sending the postcards. I want to make sure any who reached out to me, who take a risk like that emotionally, get a postcard from me, someone who wants to know more about them, someone who thinks they are interesting. Life, or the bustle of it can wear us down, or give us illness, or make fighting our illness harder. I hope these helped 100+ people remember that to me, they way they try, the way they reach out in caring, all in so many aspects about them they really are a person worth knowing. It is easy to forget that we make a difference, and easier to forget to look for ways to make that difference.
In risking to reach out and share that you really care and hope that they have a good day, and write you back, you risk and I risk exposing myself emotionally. And when only three or five postcards return from those who are written to, it is easy to feel hurt. And often I do, but that doesn't mean that the message is wrong, it just means people need to remember more than ever that they are kind and caring, and reach out to others, and that is part of what makes the important to me. Each person has unique enjoyments (which I try to match a postcard to), personality and experiences that can be used to remind ANOTHER person how THEY are important, and unique, and so it continues. That is my hope.
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Relocating the comic mojo that went astray in 2007's bleak Lights In The Dusk, Aki Kaurismäki's latest is a deliciously deadpan fable steeped in his usual empathy for the underdog and amour for French cinema.
Set in the eponymous port, it tells of an ageing shoe-shiner (André Wilms) who takes a young refugee under his wing and conspires to sneak him to England.
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The five major Ice Ages
The Ice Ages episode of In our Time with Melvyn Bragg (14 Feb 2013, 43 mins) discusses many fascinating concepts surrounding Earth's glacial history and Climate Change. The most striking things to learn may be…
- There have been at least five major Ice Ages (or glaciations) in Earth's history.
- Earth has been ice-free, even in the high latitudes, for about 85% of its history.
- The first Icehouse Earth occurred at about noon on the 24-hour geologic time scale (about 2.5Ga).
- The last Snowball Earth, where polar ice sheets grow and meet at the equator, occurred about 800Ma and ended with increasing CO2 caused by volcanism.
- The change into an ice age occurs gradually, when more snow falls than melts, rather than a sudden cold snap.
Our current Ice Age
- Our current geologic period, the Cenozoic era or the "Age of Mammals", began 65Ma with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event.
- The current ice age, the Quaternary glaciation, beginning about 2.6Ma has featured 40K/100K year cycles of glacials/interglacials.
- The conditions needed to setup the current ice age took about 40M years, beginning with the thermal isolation of the Antarctic.
- The end of the current ice age will occur when the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt. This will happen whether or not humans accelerate it.
Icehouse, Greenhouse, Snowball Earths
- An Icehouse Earth is one in which the global climate makes an ice age possible
- A Greenhouse Earth is one in which tropical temperatures may reach the poles
- A Snowball Earth is one where nearly the entire surface of the Earth is frozen
We gather data on climate change from not only geological strata, ice cores, and the atmosphere, but from the ocean floor, geochemistry, and other surprising chemical and archaeological relations as well as our understanding of the earth's dynamics and kinematics.
The five major Ice Ages Ice Age Million years ago (Ma) % of Earth's Age Notes I Huronian 2,400-2,100 50% Configuration of continents highly speculative II Cryogenian 850-635 83.5% Snowball Earth, followed by Cambrian Explosion, first marine animals. III Andean‑Saharan 450-420 90.3% First land plants, continued marine diversification. IV Karoo 360-260 93.1% Land animal diversification, coal bed formation, followed by "Great Dying" (P-Tr) extinction event. V Quaternary 2.5 99.9% Current Ice Age
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Pit Bull Terrier - Doobie - Medium - Young - Male - Dog
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English Coonhound - Boomer - Large - Young - Male - Dog
English Coonhound - Boomer - Large - Young - Male - Dog
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Van Gogh's Starry night in dominos (via Colossal)
Via Colossal, check out this awesome find
I've been wanting to post the work of Yulia Brodskaya for almost a year and was thrilled to discover this new art piece entitled Loves Doves. Her work is unique in that it involves the placement of carefully cut, colored and bent strips of paper called quilling
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Another fantastic stop motion clip via the awesome Colossal.
Hudson - Against The Grain (by Dropbear)
A wonderfully animated stop motion music video for Melbourne indie-folk artist Hudson, animated by Jonathan Chong. Some making of shots here. (via kuriositas)
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In the August 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine [1], writer Andrew Corsello describes his experience of being the spouse of the new rector of a prominent Episcopal church in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco.
Reading about all the "perks" of his new life may make some readers wonder what he has to complain about. Yet he does an excellent job of naming the particularly visible state of invisibility that clergy spouses experience.
Feel free to comment, of course!
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RUviews - Season 2 Episode 6
- Written by GHERU on Monday, April 12 2010 and posted in Podcasts
World War Hulks #1, Vengeance Of The Moon Knight #7, S.H.I.E.L.D. #1, Deadpool & Cable #25, Turf #1, Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love #6, Uncanny X-Men #523, and an all new non-comic related ASK RU!
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World War Hulks #1 – this book sucked! If you haven't yet DO NOT BUY IT. Instead of being a book about World War Hulks, you know the Hulk event happening right now, it's a stupid anthology book with maybe 3 of the 6 stories being worthwhile. Read the last story "Stupid Champagne Room" in your comic book shop as a lead in for Hulked Out Heroes.
Vengeance Of The Moon Knight #7 – I am not going to even try and pretend that I bought this for any other reason than Deadpool was on the cover. But if Marvel is trying to use a popular character to get people to read new books, it worked. I dropped the previous Moon Knight series after he moved to Mexico, it just wasn't doing it for me anymore, but this one issue made me go online and find the first six (already in the mail). Read this book.
S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 – I am beginning to think that maybe Hickman isn't my cup of tea, first I drop Secret Warriors and now S.H.I.E.L.D really did not impress me. I will give this some more issues, but I have already read Planetary and I hope that this offers something new besides complications for the sake of it.
Deadpool & Cable #25 – Maybe one of my favorite single issues of 2010 so far. A great cap to the Cable series, a great cap to the Cable & Deadpool series, a fantastic fill in the gaps issue between X-Men 200 and 205 (death of Cable – Cable rescuing Hope). Duane Swerczynski shows again that he can write the hell out of Deadpool (see Messiah War) and if he ever wants a limited series or to take over the main on-going Marvel should let him.
Turf #1 – I picked this up based on a recommendation from Thefourthman at theouthousers.com and I must say that it was entertaining and I'll give it another shot, but there are some problems with it. First, it is way to busy: for a first issue, too much happened and there are competing suspensions of disbeliefs all around. Second, Way to damn wordy, a comic book is not a novel with pictures. Finally, the art was off. It was difficult to tell who was who. The story, vampires vs. mobsters vs. aliens may end up being great, but for now it feels sloppy.
Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love #6 – wonderful final issue to a limited series that had way more good than bad. I highly recommend this book to anyone even if you only have a limited grasp of Fables. Vertigo, cause I know you watch these vids, please keep putting out Cinderella minis.
Cowboy Ninja Viking#5 – yesterday I re-read all 5 issues of this in one sitting and they were still amazing the second time around. This book is original, quirky, funny, and exciting. I cannot stress enough that you should be reading this. There is a collection coming out soon that is priced great and I might double dip for it.
Uncanny X-Men #523 – I bring this up here at the end because I have a bet going on with a fellow reviewer at the Outhouse, Starlord, about the identity of Hope. I say that there is no way that she will be revealed as Jean Grey (read NOT JEAN GREY, she can still host the Phoenix entity) and he says that she is Jean Grey. I am so confidant that I am right that I have put up my self imposed exile and a little bit of my sexuality. The problem is that we can't figure out what Starlord should bet, so please follow this link and make some suggestions.
ASK RU #3– from Big Sexxy Jude Terror "What are your top three favorite whiskies?"
A – Well, Jude, my 'everyday' whiskey is Jameson. For the price and the quality you just can't go wrong, its smooth, but sot so smooth that you forget that you are drinking hard liquor, and I can usually afford a bottle. For more special occasions, I love me some Red Breast. It is oaky but not too much and I cannot bring myself to insult this drink with even one ice cube. But, the end all be al of what I can afford I love The Glenlivet. I know that it is not the best scotch in the world, but for some reason it holds a special place for me and its what I reach for on truly special days or when I really feel like I accomplished something.
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Definition of skinder in English:
skinderLine breaks: skin|der
Pronunciation: /ˈskənə , ˈskɪnə/
(also skinner) South African informal
noun[mass noun]
Gossip: we can catch up on the skinder
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- And that skinder or gossip accounts for a large part of his success as a writer.
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Engage in gossip: he wondered what his wife and her friend were skindering about
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- What is immoral is stealing and being nasty to other people and skindering and seeking revenge for petty things and killing people and lots of other things.
from Afrikaans skinder 'to slander, gossip'.
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Mark Zinno: James Gandolfini Embodied Tony Soprano Better Than Anyone Could
James Gandolfini died of a sudden heart attack in Rome and the tender age of 51. And while, we can all agree that he was taken away too soon, his character of Tony Soprano probably wouldn't have lived that long.
Glenn Younes Talks Troubled Athletes With Mark Zinno
Listen to Glenn Younes and Mark Zinno cross talk about Chad Johnson, Adam "Pac man" Jones, and other athletes that get in trouble off the field.
Zinno's 6-4-3: MLB Round-Up
We are hitting our stride as the summer begins to heat up. The standings are also beginning to shake up around Major League Baseball. It's a great time to be a baseball fan. Let's do this!
Kevin Gausman Joins Zinno
Orioles rookie right-hander Kevin Gausman joined Zinno at Camden Yards prior to the start of the second game of the Orioles-Angels series.
Zinno's 6-4-3: MLB Round-Up
Over a third of the season is gone. It's been mostly tight around the league so far. Lots of parity in the game right now. Here we go!
Mark Zinno: Hypothetically Speaking
Zinno debuted a new segment on Last Call, called "Hypothetically Speaking."
Ian O'Connor Talks Rutgers University
Ian O'Connor of ESPN.COM talks about all the controversy surrounding Rutgers University.
Free Agency With Mike Harmon
Mike Harmon of FoxSports.com and Swollendome.com joined Mark Zinno for a weekly check-in with the show. He covered contract talks, impending Ravens free agents and the upcoming 2013 season.
Joe Flacco's Agent Sits Down With Zinno
Joe Linta, agent of Ravens QB Joe Flacco, sat down with Mark Zinno on "Last Call". to discuss the Super Bowl experience of having 4 Ravens players he represents in the game and ,of course, the contract negotiations of last summer and the possibility of the franchise tag.
Dannell Ellerbe Talks Ravens Football
Dannell Ellerbe joins Haynie & Zinno to talk about Ravens football.
Brian Roberts Talks Orioles Baseball
Orioles second baseman, Brian Roberts, joins the Haynie & Zinno show to talk about the upcoming Orioles season.
Mike Harmon Talks NFL Football
Mike Harmon from Foxsports.com joins the Haynie & Zinno show to talk about NFL Football.


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Spray Falls, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Michigan, USA)
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Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) in a written reply to FIDSNS, dispelled speculations that LAKSHYA is going to be converted to cruise missile. LAKSHYA aerial target is currently under regular production at HAL, Bangalore. It was designed and developed by ADE Bangalore and HAL was given ToT for serial production. Currently HAL is executing a production order of 27 LAKSHY As. LAKSHYA also has a indigenously designed and developed engine named PTAE7.
Asked about UCAV program, ADE wrote to FIDSNS that "As far as UCAV programme is concerned, ADE Bangalore has not proposed any such programme." ADE is proposing to undertake MALE UAV programme to meet the services requirements. The broad QR's are still under discussion with services.
ADE is currently trying to identify a production agency for regular production of NISHANT UAV. NISHANT UAV, designed and developed by ADE Bangalore, is currently under productionisation at ADE Bangalore. Army has placed the order of 12 NISHANT UA V along with ground support equipment at a cost of Rs.234 crore. ADE is in the process of identifying regular production agency.
On the status of FLUFFY Ariel Target, ADE wrote "The Fluffy target was designed and developed by ADE Bangalore in early 70s and it was used for target practice by services for Surface to Air missiles. It had a maximum endurance of 5 minutes and could be launched from the maximum altitude of 30,000 feet. After the development of reusable Aerial Target LAKSHY A, the use of Fluffy has been discontinued as the requirements can be met in a simpler and cheaper way by LAKSHYA."Google+


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Erectile Dysfunction Health Center
Not everyone, including Lue, is convinced that BetterMAN is the answer to men's woes. "I believe Viagra is still the drug of choice, "says Lue, who also involved in a clinical trial of Viagra. "However, if a patient doesn't want Viagra and asks for herbal alternatives, I will tell him about it."
Muta M. Issa, MD, an assistant professor of urology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, compliments the study on its methodology, but tells WebMD the results are "too preliminary" to offer any advice to humans.
"The study is done with rats -- different animal, different species," he says. "It's quite literally there to give someone an idea, if they want to investigate, take it to the next step. Whether [the herbal formula] is promising or not is difficult to say."
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The recent sale of Acuff-Rose Music by Gaylord Entertainment to Sony/ATV Music Publishing evokes one of the oldest chapters in Nashville's music history. The venerable music publishing firm -- home to some of the most distinguished song copyrights in music, from works by artists ranging from Hank Williams to Roy Orbison to the Everly Brothers -- is perhaps the main reason that Nashville became the home of country music. Had it not been for Acuff-Rose, Atlanta or Cincinnati or Chicago or any of several other cities might well have developed into what Nashville became as the center of country music.
Acuff-Rose was formed in 1942, in an era when Nashville was one of many cities with a country barn
dance show on the radio. The Grand Ole Opry on WSM competed with such powerhouses as station WLS and its National Barn Dance
in Chicago, Cincinnati's Barn Dance on WLW, Boston's Hayloft Jamboree on WCOP, the Hayloft Hoedown on WFIL in Philadelphia,
KRLD's Big D Jamboree in Dallas and Shreveport's Louisiana Hayride on KWKH. Los Angeles had the Hollywood Barn Dance on KNX
and the Hometown Jamboree on KXLA. Atlanta's WSB was the first radio station in the South and became a country giant. Atlanta
was also the site of many early country field recordings by the New York record labels. Most pre-World War II country recording
was done in New York City, where station WHN's Barn Dance competed with other New York country stations. New York was also
the world's music publishing capital.
Acuff-Rose was the first country music publisher in Nashville. It was a curious
partnership: Roy Acuff was a staunch hillbilly singer -- as they were known then --
from East Tennessee, who was so famous that when Japanese troops attacked American forces in the Pacific during World War
II, their battle cry was often "To hell with [President Franklin] Roosevelt, to hell with Babe Ruth, to hell with Roy Acuff."
Acuff's partner, Fred Rose, was a recovering alcoholic, a Christian Scientist and
an accomplished Tin Pan Alley songwriter out of Chicago who wrote pop hits for Gene Autry and Sophie Tucker and penned such
songs as "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," which many years later became Willie Nelson's
first No. 1 single.
When Rose discovered the raw, young Alabama writer and singer Hank Williams in 1946, he found
Nashville's future, as well as his own. Rose groomed Williams like a son and so thoroughly coached him and polished his songs
that to this day experts cannot agree on just how much of Williams' songwriting genius was actually due to the old pro's work.
became firmly implanted on the music map by the crossover success with Williams' songs. Rose was able to call on his friend
Mitch Miller, the A&R head of Columbia Records in New York, to place Williams' songs with pop artists. After Tony Bennett,
Rosemary Clooney and Jo Stafford had success with Williams' songs, the crossover appeal of Nashville songs became very apparent.
Patti Page had a No. 1 pop hit with the Acuff-Rose song "Tennessee Waltz."
Record labels began to set up permanent
offices. RCA, Decca and Columbia established beachheads in Nashville, and recording studios sprang up. More song publishers
appeared, and songwriters began to be attracted to Nashville. The Music City identity began to evolve.
Another Acuff-Rose
legacy has been a paternalistic attitude that set the tone forever for Music Row. Acuff-Rose served as Hank Williams' publisher,
manager, booking agent, accountant, record producer, music arranger, and publicist. That kind of control has slowly flowed
back to artists over the years -- especially after rebellions by the likes of Waylon Jennings
-- but artists in many ways are still serfs.
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The Salzburg Festival (German: Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer (for five weeks starting in late July) within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. One highlight is the annual performance of the Everyman (Jedermann) dramatization by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Since 1967, there is also an annual Salzburg Easter Festival held by the same organization.
Music festivals had been held in Salzburg at irregular intervals since 1877 held by the International Mozarteum Foundation, but discontinued in 1910. Although a festival was planned for 1914, it was cancelled at the outbreak of World War I. In 1917, Friedrich Gehmacher and Heinrich Damisch formed an organization known as the Salzburger Festspielhaus-Gemeinde to establish an annual festival of drama and music, emphasizing especially the works of Mozart.[1] At the close of the war in 1918, the festival's revival was championed by five men now regarded as the founders: the poet and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the composer Richard Strauss, the scenic designer Alfred Roller, the conductor Franz Schalk, and the director Max Reinhardt, then intendant of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, who had produced the first performance of Hofmannsthal's Jedermann at the Berlin Zirkus Schumann arena in 1911.
The Salzburg Festival was officially inaugurated on 22 August 1920 with Reinhardt's performance of Hofmannsthal's Jedermann on the steps of Salzburg Cathedral, starring Alexander Moissi. The practice has become a tradition, and the play is now always performed at Cathedral Square, from 1921 accompanied by several performances of chamber music and orchestra works. The first operatic production came in 1922, with Don Giovanni conducted by Richard Strauss. The singers were mainly drawn from the Wiener Staatsoper, including Richard Tauber as Don Ottavio.
A first festival hall, the present-day Haus für Mozart, was erected in 1925 at the former Archbishops' horse stables on the northern foot of the Mönchsberg mountain according to plans by Clemens Holzmeister and opened with Gozzi's Turandot dramatized by Karl Vollmöller. At that time the festival had already developed a large-scale program including live broadcasts by the Austrian RAVAG radio network. In the following year the adjacent former episcopal Felsenreitschule riding academy, carved into the Mönchsberg rock face, was converted into a theatre, inaugurated with the performance of Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni.
The years from 1934 to 1937 were a golden period when the famed conductors Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter conducted many performances. In 1936, the festival featured a performance by the Trapp Family Singers, whose story was later dramatized as the musical and film The Sound of Music (featuring a shot of the Trapps singing at the Felsenreitschule theatre). In 1937, Boyd Neel and his orchestra premiered Benjamin Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge at the Festival.[2]
The Festival's popularity suffered a major blow upon the Anschluss annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. Toscanini resigned in protest, artists of Jewish descent like Reinhardt and Georg Solti had to emigrate, and the Jedermann, last performed by Attila Hörbiger, had to be dropped. Nevertheless the festival remained in operation until in 1944 it was cancelled by the order of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels in reaction to the 20 July plot. At the end of World War II, the Salzburg Festival re-opened in summer 1945 immediately after the Allied victory in Europe.
The post-war festival slowly regained its prominence as the premier summer opera festival, especially in works by Mozart, with conductor Herbert von Karajan becoming artistic director in 1956. In 1960 the Great Festival Hall (Großes Festspielhaus) opera house opened its doors. As this summer festival gained fame and stature as the premier venue for opera, drama, and classical concert presentation, its musical repertoire concentrated on Mozart and Strauss, but other works, such as Verdi's Falstaff and Beethoven's Fidelio, were also performed.
Upon Karajan's death in 1989, the festival was modernized by director Gerard Mortier, succeeded by Peter Ruzicka in 2001. In 2006, Salzburg celebrated the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth by staging all 22 of his operatic works (including two unfinished operas), to great acclaim. All 22 were filmed and were released to the general public in November 2006. Since 2006 the festival is led by intendant Jürgen Flimm and concert director Markus Hinterhäuser. Alexander Pereira is scheduled to succeed Flimm, future director of the Berlin State Opera, after the 2011 summer festival.
The Salzburg Whitsun Festival (Salzburger Pfingstfestspiele) is an extension of the traditional Salzburg Summer Festival established in 1973, performing operas along with works from the great Baroque orchestral repertoire at the Grosses Festspielhaus during Whitsun (or Pentecost) weekend. In 2005, it presented Handel's Acis and Galatea and his oratorio Solomon. Since 2007 the Whitsun Festival is led by artistic director Riccardo Muti.


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ACLJ and Congressman Rehberg to Defend Jesus Statue
Many of you are aware of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's (FFRF) ridiculous effort to have a 60-year old war memorial in Montana taken down because it depicts Jesus. In fact, over 70,000 of you signed our letter urging the National Forest Service (NFS) to ignore the FFRF and renew the lease for this memorial on Big Mountain.
Fortunately, the NFS listened and the lease was appropriately renewed. Predictably, as has become its rather frivolous habit, the FFRF has filed a lawsuit against the memorial. The suit makes the usual complaints that the mere existence of this memorial – which has been prominently in place and unchallenged since the 1950's – is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. While these are tired arguments, they certainly cannot be ignored.
That is why we are so pleased that Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, has agreed to file an amicus brief with us in defense of the statue and in opposition to the FFRF. Congressman Rehberg has been leading in Congress on this issue from the beginning, and we are honored that he would join with us in taking that fight to the courts on behalf of his Montana constituents. With Congressman Rehberg's leadership, we will call on other Members of Congress to also join with us in this important effort.
We learned long ago to resist the temptation to ignore some of these ridiculous claims, and to always engage aggressively. By doing so, we routinely demonstrate the protection under the law that is afforded to this type of memorial.
Remember, this is the same group who, when talking on national television about this issue, was willing to blatantly lie about the fact that Moses is depicted in the Supreme Court. Even something as minor as a factual statement about Moses' depiction in the Supreme Court cannot be tolerated by this group.
Fortunately, the FFRF has been served notice today that the ACLJ and Congressman Rehberg will be bringing the fight back to them in federal court. We applaud Congressman Rehberg and call on his colleagues to follow his leadership.


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Best Weekend Road Trips in WA July 13 – 15
Ready to get out of town this weekend? Whether it's noshing, sailing, aviation, garden touring, art festivals, or beer and wine tasting (did we mention noshing?), there's plenty to do in Washington state!


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An economist at a left-leaning university (Quinnipiac, which has a very influential political polling operation) just released a study of concealed weapons laws & crime rates.
"Using data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects, the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states. It was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level. These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level. The results of this study are consistent with some prior research in this area, most notably Lott and Mustard (1997)."
Another observation from Reason:
"The most recent Reason-Rupe poll reports that 63 percent of Americans don't believe that stricter gun laws would keep weapons out of the hands of criminals."
I realize that these observations are old news to gun owners. But having respected establishment media organizations admit them is a relatively new thing. And having these facts in your back pocket can help you shut down the lies of anti-gunners that you will inevitably end up debating in your life.
The aftermath of the Sandy Hook Massacre has not been pretty.
The gun-grabbers have made a spectacle of themselves by lying and fabricating stories to help win victories over the Bill of Rights. Sadly, this spectacle has remained visible only to those citizens who make the effort to circumvent the anti-gun bias of the lame-stream media.
In a move which will surprise no one who isn't a hardcore liberal, the ringleaders of the anti-gun movement have gotten busted lying to their own supporters yet again:
Once again, the mad dash towards gun control has resulted in complications that need to be worked out.
"Dirty Andy" Cuomo had to revise his love-letter to the Brady Bunch to exempt the law-enforcement personnel that he mistakenly targeted with his absurd magazine ban.
The Connecticut legislatterns who sprinted to ram a punitive package of gun laws down the throats of people who hadn't done anything wrong have started the process of clarifying and modifying the mess they made.
And there are issues with Dyslexic Dan's gun control wet dream.
While I am not surprised that the whiny Newtown parents are actually hypocrites that don't really care about child safety, it was shocking for me to see that they are so open about it:
Newtown Voters Reject Budget Hiring Security Guards for Schools
"Newtown voters on Tuesday rejected town and school budgets that contained an extra $770,000 to cover the cost of hiring new police officers and security guards for Newtown's public and private schools.
Legislative Council chairman Jeff Capeci said: "At the end of the day, Newtown voters thought it was too much of an increase."
Yeah, it's not like there's childrens' lives at stake or anything.
They had no problem loudly and obnoxiously agitating for unconstitutional state laws that will cost many millions of dollars to implement (and will end up bankrupt and ineffective like Canada's now-scrapped registration scheme), but when it is coming our of their own wallets, child safety is apparently not important enough to pay for.
I shouldn't be so hard on them I guess. It takes a lot of money to pay for their mansions, pleasure boats, and zoning restrictions that keep minorities out of Newtown. They might not have any cash leftover to protect their own kids.
I wonder if sad-sack crybaby Neil Heslin will drag his framed paintings to the town budget meetings to protest this dangerous breach of child safety?
I apologize for the sparse postings lately, but we have been extremely busy fighting the gun grabbers and making preparations for the worst-case scenario. By now you have probably heard the news. The worst-case scenario has come true.
In a knee-jerk response to Sandy Hook, Connecticut's Democrat-controlled legislature passed a comprehensive array of vague, contradictory, unconstitutional and virtually unenforceable gun laws in the dead of night. Somehow, these idiots think that they can register high-capacity magazines!
The police report on this incident has still not been released.
We still have not seen the autopsy or toxicology reports on the killer.
None of the proposals address mental health.
None of the proposals address school safety.
And the Asshole Governor rammed the law through the legislature under bogus emergency protocols, avoiding public debate and committee review of the law. Someone must be pulling his strings, because Dan Malloy's former secretary says that he was too stupid to turn on his own computer while mayor of Stamford.
The law took effect immediately, when it was signed by the Asshole Governor at 12:30 at night, but the specifics of the law were not spelled out for dealers or citizens to read. Result: gun stores are sitting on unsaleable guns because this Frankenstein monster of gun laws neglected to exactly define what was and was not permissible under the law. Ammunition manufacturers like Nutmeg Sporting Cartridge can no longer sell to police departments because police departments are not considered a FFL.
Lawsuits have been filed. This will be fought. Many CT-based gun companies are planning to relocate.


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A dream is the experience of envisioned images, voices, or other sensations during sleep. Dream interpretation is as old as mankind and many of us would like to know why we dream and more importantly, what is the significance of our dreams?
Understanding dreams was and still is an important matter for many of us. Dreams are used in therapy since the two psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung have stated that the dreams represent an interaction between the unconscious and the conscious. Dreams have also been interpreted by psychics and astrologists. So, here is a small dictionary of dreams, offering explanations about things you came across in your dreams. The dictionary is not a scientific, but more an astrological dictionary. However, the explanations are quite interesting. The program is built as a search engine (based on Internet explorer engine): input the word you are looking for and the click the 'Display' button. The explanation will appear as a redirect to the 'Mystic Board' Web site. You can also search by wildcards or 'Google' search.
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We, Cheap Girls, have been out doing shows around the U.S. for around a month now. We began this trip in Cleveland on March 1st where we met up with the Sidekicks. We were fortunate enough to start this trip off playing a handful of our favorite and most comfortable cities: Cleveland, Buffalo, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia etc. This is a reasonably long tour and the first one we're doing for our new record "Giant Orange." Whenever going out for such a lengthy period, it's always a benefit to start in comfortable areas, surrounded by friends, keep the drinking on a semi-light level, and so on. It's also good to have friends around, so for the fifth time we had our friend, Trevor, from Wales (now London), come along for a couple weeks to keep the conversation healthy.
So anyway, we did the East Coast, some of the south, headed down to Austin for SXSW, and then back up to the Midwestern parts. We met up with the Menzingers in Chicago for a show at the Beat Kitchen. We were fortunate enough to spend the first three-and-a-half weeks with some of our friends in the Sidekicks but to add another group of people we've been close with for years adds another level. So, we were rolling 14-deep post-Chicago and headed onwards to the Triple Rock in Minneapolis, a city that we've grown incredibly fond of over the last couple years. The Triple Rock, specifically, has a pretty large place in our hearts because we're able to spend the evening eating one of the better meals of a tour, drinking everything in the place and doing it all with some of our favorite people. Again, another thing that's heightened by being on a tour with such good buddies. This night ended with a lot of us (joined by Patrick Costello) singing karaoke in the front of the bar. I believe we did a fairly ambitious version of "The Weight" by the Band/Staple Singers with each person imitating their favorite accents of the Last Waltz. This was all followed by the roughest morning in recent memory. Fortunately we had the following day off and headed onward to Omaha to watch the Menzingers play at a cool space (we had played Omaha and Lincoln days prior to our triumphant meet-up).


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Ford's highly influential head of design, J Mays, has announced that he'll be retiring from his position after 33 years in the industry, 16 of which were at the Dearborn, MI-based company. Upon departure, he'll be succeeded as group vice president of design by Moray Callum. If that last name sounds familiar, yes, he's the brother of Jaguar's Ian Callum.http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/05/j-mays-retiring-ford-moray-callum/
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Sorry fella - one of the drawbacks of the written word - often taken out of context...
Saturn me old china, I've a perfectly good sense of humour.
Fawlty Towers - brilliantly scripted and superbly funny
Hugelean's constant, odious and virtually gleeful remarks about riders crashing due to pressure by Rossi - neither funny nor clever. Can't see much to laugh about there...
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So rumour has it that Mick Doohan and Casey Stoned got on the sauce and let some air out of Cals and Jorges front tires as a prank..... back fired a bit...... Vale kept buying them drinks and dared them to do it, please keep this hush hush.
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... although you'd think a pro athlete would lose the moobs.
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cal has access to the works Yamaha data but some of it cant be used to the same affect as his bike is different
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...but I was thinking about the tweaks that Vale's crew had made to the forks in particular (that allowed him to ride more like the Vale of old last time out) might be transferable to Cal's bike in some form. Those front end wash-outs at Sachsenring were scary - particularly painful to see the Ducati boys going down...
The comments arose about Mugello 2010 purely as a counter to Wosi's constant sniping that Stoner cracked to pressure from all or anyone whenever it suited him. If that argument applied to one, it applies to all - simple as that.
It's a simple fact, they all crash from time to time and it's the luck of the draw as to whether they get injured or not.
Hugelean seems happy that each time misfortune befalls a rider, he can gloat that it's because they tried to match Rossi in some way and failed. That's what I find odious.
I'd prefer them all to be fully fit and all with a sporting chance of taking a win on bikes that are closely matched and with tyres that last a full race
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do you ever stop crying like a little bitch?
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But dani has gone and fucked it right up and chucked it up the road at turn one. I am off to the bookies to put £2.50 on Bradl to win. If any one wants me I will be at the beach spending my winnings. Good point huge lion
Wait, you said no. So pressure comments about Rossi's crash in 2010 are not odious?
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Here's a little test. If you know who Tom Savini is but have never heard of Krzysztof Kieslowski, then this delightfully naked rip-off of Star Wars (1977) from Roger Corman -- that master of cheesy, no-budget "filmmaking" (a term that can only be carefully, loosely applied to his darkly lit, stiffly performed oeuvre) -- is a treasure-trove of delights for you, a discerning appreciator of Z-grade entertainment. Here are the top ten aspects of this 1980 relic that you may savor on repeated viewings: (1) Whip smart despite his drive-in sensibilities, Corman decides not to directly rip off Star Wars -- which is, of course, precisely his intention -- but to rip off an example of classic Japanese cinema from the 1950s, The Seven Samurai (1954), in much the same way that Star Wars rips off an example of classic Japanese cinema from the 1950s, The Hidden Fortress (1958). How many of Corman's typical ticket buyers got the joke back then? Probably not many, which makes it even funnier. (2) The utterly perplexed, slightly crushed, and disappointed performance of "John-Boy" himself, Richard Thomas, clearly wondering how whiny no-name whelp Mark Hamill was cast as Luke Skywalker instead of him. A good question, Richard. A good question. (3) That space ship that looks like it was cast directly from a mold of a Victoria's Secret catalogue model's torso? Designed by James Cameron. Hmmmm. He does write strong female roles...(4) John Saxon, typically chewing up the scenery and spitting it back out as venomous darts in the role of the villain. Ah, Saxon. Where is the next generation's Saxon? It could've been Michael Ironside, but his energy seemed to dissipate at the same time as his ER guest-starring role. (5) The hilariously disturbing thought that Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987), which is intended as a wicked spoof of George Lucas' fantasy universe, is eerily similar in both tone and content to this film. (6) The realization, when seen in the reflected glory that is George Peppard's train-wreck of a performance as a space cowboy, of how extremely good an actor Harrison Ford really is. (7) Although you won't be able to detect his artistic fingerprints much except in the credits, the simple, pleasurable thrill of knowing that John Sayles wrote this screenplay. And that the money he made -- as well as checks for penning dual Jaws (1977) rip-offs Piranha (1978) and Alligator (1980) -- probably funded the production of Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980), itself to be ripped off later as The Big Chill (1983). Somehow, this has all got to be related to Kevin Bacon. (8) Robert Vaughn plays the same character here he portrayed in The Magnificent Seven (also a rip-off -- er, homage -- to The Seven Samurai), and even his dialogue is essentially the same. Possibly the man's easiest payday ever. (9) Budget for hair? $0.00. (10) Sybil Danning, in an era before silicone or saline, ushering nearly as many young boys to the cusp of manhood as did Tina Louise in Gilligan's Island.
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You may remember I recently spoke up for the much maligned Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus). So this following post may seem a little contradictory.
A phrase often used in arboricultural circles is "The right tree in the right place." Trees should be planted with due consideration to many factors, e.g. location, size at maturity and specific needs (soil minerals, sunlight and shelter etc). This is particularly important in a garden like Scotney where space can be at a premium.
Our problem was a stand of nine large Sycamores that were simply "the wrong trees in the wrong place." They were shading out an area containing other trees with greater horticultural value including a Silver Lime (Tilia tomentosa, a Red Oak (Quercus rubra) and a beautiful young Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea). They also produce hundreds if not thousands of seedlings that germinate all across the garden causing a headache for our gardeners and volunteers. Finally, but perhaps most significantly there were signs of ill health and the possibility of failure could not be ruled out. Taking these factors into consideration we decided to don our black caps and pass sentence.
A lot of people were involved in this project and it took several weeks to complete. First into action was our volunteer 'King of the Strimmers' Chris who did a great job brush cutting around the base of the trees. This is where it became obvious that there was serious decay present.
As you can see from the picture above one of the trees was completely hollow at its base. Our next task was to carefully delimb and take the tops off the trees. As we were working in a fairly confined space straight felling was not an option. The most efficient way was to do this was to use climbing spikes and to sectionally fell the trees. The use of spikes is confined to tree removal and emergency rescue only as they cause considerable damage to the tree, as you can see in this picture.
So, once at the top of the tree we got started (after taking a few minutes to admire the view).
After battling through the ivy we could secure a central work position allowing safe access to all areas of the tree that needed removing.
By removing the entire canopy and all lower branches we were left with a series of trunks. These were then reduced in sections to a manageable height for normal felling. This is the point where we once again call on our own 'Saw for Hire'. Anthony The Terminator was now able to start felling the remaining trunks in situ. Here he is hammering in a wedge to get one to topple over.
Duncan and the rest of the gardening team took care of the huge clear up operation and the sound of chainsaws rang across the garden for several weeks. Having these trunks standing also gave us a rare opportunity to practice our spiking technique and to give others a chance to try it out. Here's
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This unique totem pole collection will soon disappear as The Terminator will continue to remove these trunks over the next few weeks.
The removal of these trees has transformed this area of the garden. Views have been opened up from many different aspects and the general gloominess created by the dense canopy cover has disappeared. Longer term development of this area will continue over the course of the year, so keep an eye on this blog to see how things pan out.