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Corriere Delle Dame, 1812.
A big thank you to Julia, a very generous reader who shares scans of her fashion plates with us! I adore this outfit- from the bonnet to the bands on her sleeves to the sweet little shoes!
La Belle Assemblee, Evening Dress, July 1812.
I can't quite wrap my mind around that trim (are the loops held together with pearls?!) but it is certainly striking!
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1812.
I need to get my hands on some orange wool and some faux ermine fur, RIGHT NOW. This outfit must be mine!
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1812.
I thought about doing mourning/black gowns, I thought about doing fancy dress, but those all seemed too obvious, so instead I present you with two days of ORANGE! Happy Halloween!
Lady's Magazine, Morning Dress, October 1812.
Oh what a sweet little bonnet and lovely pelisse! This looks like a simple enough outfit to make- perhaps it should to into my to-make queue!
Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1812.
How can you be sad when you're wearing such a beautiful outfit?!
Lady's Magazine, Evening Dress, November 1812.
What a sweet little plate!
La Belle Assemblee, Parisian Head Dresses, May 1812.
I never posted this one here, so forgive the reblog. The blue stovepipe bonnet on the top left is one of my all-time favorites!
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La Belle Assemblee, Ball Dress, August 1812.
This one is a little…strange? A little too many design elements thrown in for my tastes, but I do like the colors.


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I love waking up to the comments on my blog. Only recently they've started to arrive in Dutch. My New York friends, who like reading your 'Dutch take on things' are a little thrown. So I've taken the liberty to translate your treasured comments into English. No offense to you, dear Dutch bloggers - and hopefully non taken?!
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Ok now then this is English obviously, who is going to translate it in Dutch?
Just kidding ya know.
@ Blips; you're cute! The Dutchies have to pride themselves once again in being 'the world travellers' - open to speak a different language, even in blogland!
if you don't mind that there will be a lot of faults in my englisch, i'll try to comment in english
Don't mind at all! Sounds good to me - thanks, Smara Ratih!
I'll try it in English also, feel free to change any mistakes I'm bound to make!
That's cute Ireen, will do!
I'll give it also a try… but please correct me when I make mistakes…?
Will do so - thanks for being so willing all of you!
I like practicing my English, so no problem!
Ofcourse, English is fine too Just figured that you'd maybe like to hear a little mother-tongue from time to time
@ Merel; I sure do! But I also love the fact that two cultures find out about, are surprised, and discuss each other's cultures (theme of my documentary films). It'll be a while before my English friends graduate from their Dutch language courses, so that's where this came from….thanks Dutchies, for being so co-operative!
Do you mind if I add your blog to my link-list? I enjoy reading you!
Dutch is a difficult language to speak, write and read for foreigners, so I'm told… So, of course, Dree, translate away!
@ Goentah; Not at all - I see that as a (big!) compliment - please do add!!
@ Puur Kaat; thanks, I will translate away!
@ All - I have very limited access to a computer this month - but will be back full force soon!
Cheers, Dree
Ha! I'm commenting on several english blogs of dutch persons, and sometimes I just HAVE to say it in english. You know, things like 'spreekwoorden' (don't even know the word for that in english…)
But on all the other occasions, english is fine I love that language!
@ Rose; if you only knew how many times I really wish there was a good translation for one of our Dutch 'sayings'…And then there are moments where I wish I knew how to translate an English one like 'my way or the highway' well…..
Of couse it's okay.
My name is Robert Key and I am a runner from Houston, Texas. I saw your blog listed when I was looking through the RBF directory and very much enjoyed reading some of your entries. I especially liked the speech you gave your boyfriend for not running. Hilarious!
Back to your blog…. I have a web site at http://www.faithfulsoles.com that is inspirational stories for walkers, runners and athletes of all ages and abilities. I recently added to the site a categorized and searchable Running Blog Database where members of my site can find a blog of interest to them based on other walkers, runners or athletes of similar abilities, goals and interests. To my knowledge it is the only one of its kind specifically for walkers and runners on the internet. I would appreciate it if you would take a moment to put a link to your blog in our Running Blog Database (in the first week I had it online, I had over 50 bloggers from around the world link their blogs to it). Just click on "Link your running blog" under "Free Features" from the home page. If you want to learn more about my running background, just click on "Meet Robert" from the main menu , or to learn more about my involvement in the running community, click on "Faithful Soles in the news" in the left column under "Weekly Features". I also have a blog that I just started at http://faithfulsoles.blogspot.com, but most of my running information is on my web site. Also, if there is anyone else in your blogger network that you think would be interested in listing their blog, please feel free to pass this information along to them. Thanks and continued good luck in your training.
Dree, time to start posting again!
You're so right, Ireen! Total stand still due to busy work travels with very limited internet access!! Please stand by - coming soon to a blog near you!
Okay! I will wait, I know it's worth it.
Thanks, Ireen! That's an inspiring compliment!
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For "branding" purposes, the Tea Party pretends to reflect the views of the Constitution's Framers but it actually follows the Slave South's hostility to the strong federal government that the Framers created. That historical link to the Confederacy is crucial for understanding the Tea Party's goals, as Beverly Bandler explains.
Health Reform
Exclusive: Dick Cheney's new book about his life-saving heart transplant has drawn much fawning coverage. But little attention has gone to the hypocrisy of the ex-vice president accepting expensive government-funded surgeries while endorsing the Tea Party's campaign to deny health coverage to millions of Americans, writes Robert Parry.
The Abject Failure of Reaganomics
Exclusive: House Republicans got next to nothing from their extortion strategy of taking the government and the economy hostage, but they are sure to continue obstructing programs that could create jobs and start rebuilding the middle class. What they won't recognize is the abject failure of Reaganomics, writes Robert Parry.
The Anarchy of the Tea Party
As a catastrophic U.S. debt default looms, Republicans keep demanding they "get something" in exchange for reopening the government and removing a gun from the head of the economy. The new talking point is that "Democrats won't negotiate!" But ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar sees an anarchic method behind the madness.
Why Right's Lemmings Don Suicide Vest
Exclusive: The government-sabotaging fervor of the Republican Right – likened by one GOP congressman to "lemmings with suicide vests" – can only be understood from inside the right-wing bubble where a distorted view of the Constitution prevails and actual democracy is disdained, writes Robert Parry.
The Right's Made-Up 'Constitution'
From the Archive: Behind the U.S. government shutdown is the Right's erroneous belief that the U.S. Constitution tightly limits the federal government and carves out broad powers for the states, a bogus history that suggests the Tea Partiers don't understand the Founding document, as historian Jada Thacker wrote in July.
The Founders' 'Musket Mandate'
From the Archive: At the center of the Republican shutdown of the U.S. government is the claim that a "mandate" requiring Americans to get health insurance violates Founding principles, but the Framers of the Constitution were comfortable with a similar mandate for an armed militia, as Robert Parry noted in 2012.
The Four Eras of the American Right
Exclusive: In the coming weeks, the Republican Party and its Tea Party extremists vow to create budgetary and fiscal crises if the Democrats don't gut health-care reform and submit to a host of other right-wing demands. But a driving force in this craziness is an anti-historical view of the Constitution, writes Robert Parry.
GOP's Mad Health-Care Vendetta
Republicans and their Tea Party allies are plotting one more frenzied assault on the Affordable Care Act by disrupting congressional townhall meetings and possibly holding the full-faith-and-credit of the United States hostage. But the madness may just expose how crazy the GOP has become, writes Beverly Bandler.
Racist Roots of GOP War on Obama
Exclusive: Right-wing Republicans in Congress are plotting to cripple the U.S. government if Barack Obama, the first African-American president, doesn't submit to their demands. The battle pretends to be over the size of government but it echoes the whips, chains and epithets of America's racist past, writes Robert Parry.


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The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]" <—- passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <—- active
(Found from FYCD.)
She wondered what it would be like to be with him in anyway other than slightly courteous housemates. It was there just on the edge of her imagination like those words she knew the meaning to but forgot the way to say them. It would be like a series of hits and misses, Lily decided watching him with narrowed eyes across the table one morning in the Great Hall. There would be tears for sure and lots of bickering but there would be laughter too and the teasing would pile high. She could see it for just a moment like a diagram she'd done for school: fun times connecting to bad times, tears connecting to laughs, road trips and arguments; all of them connected together in this great big web of fond memories. Lily looked back down at her plate and sighed, cursing broom closets and firewhiskey; those parties that the boys threw, her own lack of self-control and above all the cause of this mess in her head: James Potter.
Sirius found James pacing outside a room in Mungo's on the 31st of July 1980. James didn't stop but started babbling once Sirius was within earshot. "She's in there with the healers now, you know. She's in there. and she's in labor. Oh Merlin. She's having a baby. She's having OUR baby. How did this happen? Oh boy. Oh is that screaming? That must be a lot of pain. Bloody hell, Sirius, what if she dies?"
"Er, mate," Sirius replied cautiously, "I highly doubt she's dying. but on the off chance that she is, wouldn't you much rather be in there with her than wallowing out here with us?"
That got James's attention quickly. "Right. Right. Lily. Baby. Us. Family. Got it. In there. Going. Now." He spun around and marched into the room leaving a chuckling Sirius behind.
Two hours later James was quite certain that he had lost feeling in his right hand and hearing in his right ear but bloody hell he didn't care because he gained the whole world right there holding his son.
James and Lily just looked at each other and they knew that everything they had been through and everything they were fighting for was worth it if it meant keeping their son safe.
It was Lily who began laughing first. It started off slowly and weakly as James held Harry James Potter for the first time, his eyes bright with glee. Lily let out a raspy laugh and continued to do so, gaining a bit stronger with each passing chuckle. And then James joined in. They must've looked positively mad to anyone around them but they didn't care. They took turns cradling their precious son and laughed and laughed because they were, in some sense of the word, okay.
They knew it. All would be well.
First off, I'm sorry about your ovaries.
Secondly, I like writing stories. It is pretty much my favorite thing to do. Hopefully I will write many, many more books—so many that you become tired of them and all become Hipster John Green Fans and say, "His early stuff was okay but after TFiOS he just became a hack."
Lily woke up, confused by her surroundings. Quickly she realized she was in the Common Room. As she slowly got up, she realized she wasn't alone. "Hey, sleepy head," James called softly across from her. "You've been out for the last few hours. Everyone's at dinner. I figured I'd wait for you." Lily smiled a little. "C'mere, Lils." She got up, wrapped herself in the blanket, and plopped down under James's arm. They didn't say much, a bit of small talk here and there. As they settled into silence, Lily couldn't help but realize how comfortable it was. Sitting there, watching the flames in the fireplace, with James stroking her hair, Lily didn't find the need to talk. Often they did this and talked about their days and plans and friends. But moments like these, they sat in the silence at peace. Lily was grateful for these moments. All anyone wanted to talk about lately were Death Eaters and attacks and war. But James understood. She could sit with James and relish in this silence. These moments were reserved for whispered I love yous, smiles, and kisses on the forehead.
actually I don't even think it's long enough to be considered a one-shot but it's my first venture into the world of writing fanfiction. forgive me.


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Mercury Lyrics - Brave Saint Saturn
And in other news, the crew of the USS Gloria has at last completed their survey of the planet Saturn and its moons. The crew has been on their mission for almost 5 years now, and they'll begin their return sometime later this week. Personnel at the Kennedy Space Center are eagerly anticipating the end of the trip and expect the return of the astronauts to be sometime next year.
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- flowergirl Mar 5, 2009 09:53 PM
I will be staying in Wellfleet in mid May. We will have a car and don't mind driving. Would love the following recs. Happy to do the same for anyone visiting Southern California
Breakifast in Wellfleet - local, good American breakfast -
Casual, local, fresh seafood - both close to Wellfleet and worth the drive -
Romantic, special restaurant with great food -
Favorite Provincetown Restaurants
Lunch spot with great soups, salads, burgers etc. both in Wellfleet and worth the drive
Favorite Nantucket Restaurant (there for a day)
Hopefully everything will be open the week of May 21st Thank you!
re: jspear
Forgot to mention the Brotherhood of Thieves on Nantucket, they have grog ;)
I have to say that I am really surprised that no one mentions Finely JP's in Wellfleet on this board. They serve great, local food. I will grant that the quality was a bit better before they expanded, but it is still great. Try the Wellfleet Paealla, or their grilled scallops over linguine. It is what I would call casual elegant--I have seen people in shorts and flip-flops, and people in khakis and ties....They are open year round.
For breakfast, try the Lighthouse ( http://www.mainstreetlighthouse.com/ ) in the center of Wellfleet. Also open year-round.
The Bookstore in Wellfleet is often under-rated. They have their own shellfish beds, and their raw bar can't be beat. They also serve a great breakfast, and have stunning views of the Wellfleet Harbor. They are open year round ( http://wellfleetoyster.com/ ) --service can be a bit spotty, but is probably better off-season than on (In my experience).
Wellfleet is a special place, and one of my favorite spots on earth, especially in the off-season. I hope you enjoy yourself!
re: justme123
Thank you - these all sound wonderful! Again, we are happy to drive anyplace on the Cape for dinner
re: justme123
I used to like both the Lighthouse and the Bookstore, but not anymore, as I haven't had a good meal at either in a long time. Much better food, for about the same prices, can be had a Wicked Oyster in Wellfleet. Great for breakfast or dinner.
Also, check out Black Fish in Truro, a great spot, you'll need a reservation.
re: winedude
I agree with winedude: I love The Wicked Oyster (Wellfleet) and Black Fish (Truro). The Red Inn in P-town is great for a sunset drink...fab and romantic. Dinner is good too, but $$$. I like Ross' Grill in P-town, too.
Re: Nantucket...not too sure what will be open here at that time. Nantucket Wine Festival is mid-May, so most will be open by then. Lots of rumors flying around here as to what will not be reopening this year. Since you'll be here "for the day", does that mean you'll only be here for lunch and not dinner? If only lunch, I would skip the Brotherhood unless it is your only option. Fog Island is great for lunch downtown. Not sure if the Galley at Cliffside Beach will be open yet (very $$$$$$ but if you're only going to be here once, go for it). We have surprisingly few restaurants on the beach/water, and that's one of them. There's a new restaurant opening on Broad St, "Dune" (across fr Brotherhood in the former Cioppino's spot) but don't know if they'll be open by then, or even doing lunch. Ditto for a new place slated to open in the old Water Street location, yet to be named, and owned by the couple who owns the Boarding House and The Pearl. It's going to be latin themed with a ceviche bar.
re: ciclista
Agreed on all recommendations except the one for Ross' Grill....bad management without any sense that they are in the wrong....please avoid.....
re: jspear
If Tera Luna is open in Truro check it out..I had an ok lunch at Ross's but not amazing. What about Red Inn?
re: phelana
We've been guided to Red Inn recently by some locals who say it is better, not as stuffy and the food is good. We are usually stopped by the size of our party and they state that it is difficult to sit a large party.
re: Shooley
Victor's is next on my list.....
Nantucket-check out American Seasons,,,Boarding House,, BlackEyed Susans,,Stop at the Chicken Box just for a taste of local hangs...Back on cape watch for when the Beachcomber will open,,May31st? Enjoy
re: mom2
gotta second Moby Dick's.....really just the best of everything there! Chowders are amazing, fish perfectly cooked, sides wonderful. Don't be put off if you show up and there is a seemingly long line outside. They have an "order at the register and we bring it to you" system, and they only allow a certain number of folks inside at the registers at a time. Its all very organized and runs like a clock. Moves quite fast.
We've stayed in Wellfleet for a week each summer for the last 10 years. Although we find lots of places to eat well between there and P-Town, we always take the 30-40 min. drive to the Wequassett Inn in Harwhich to eat at 28 Atlantic for 1 special meal: great food, service, ambience, and view!
I think Mac's Seafood down at the commercial harbor ibn Wellfleet is absolutely great seafood....yeah it's a stand up chaotic experience like most Cape Cod seafood places, but the food is a cut above...seems pricey at first, but hold judgement till your done eating. I love their rare Tuna steak sandwich.
I cast an added vote for Wicked Oyster....
I also like Cooke's in Orleans.....not a universal opinion by any means but I go there many times a year, like Mac's.
Moby Dick's is great, too, but it always seems like such a mobscene that I don;t have the patience....like Arnold's in Eastham. The key is to phone order and doing your waiting at home before you show up....especially true at Arnold's...just add a half hour to any time they tell you when u call. Moby's timing ispretty accurate.
Blue Moon in Dennis is a nice Bistro.
I agree with comments about Finely JP's...a quirkily run restaurant with good food if you have a little patience....kind of a diamond in the rough.
Highly variable results from Academy Ocean Grille....everything from total deilight to leaving without paying the check over a number of years. THey can;t seem to get the reservation loading for the place right....also horrible acoustics inside.
re: ChowPlow
I LOVE Mac's Shack, but I didn't mention it because I wasn't sure if they'd be open mid-May. Food is wonderful and I love the location.
Van Rensaleers in Wellfleet is good for steaks and seafood, with an expansive salad bar; they also do breakfast. I have been disappointed with the Bookstore over the last year or so, and had a very unsatisfactory meal at Finely JPs but maybe it was an aberration...went to Wicked Oyster and the parking situation was miserable...we drove around for 15 minutes or so waiting for a space to open up and then the meal was so-so (and this was during off-season, the parking lot is simply unacceptably small and there is no street parking allowed in this area) Outside of Wellfleet, I love the pizza at the Fairway, just down the road in Eastham. Other people rave about their ribs but I haven't tried them. For a more romantic dinner, I like the Beacon in Orleans. When in Ptown, I usually end up at the Lobster Pot. They have a house salad dressing that I am completely addicted to..some sort of garlicky concoction. The outer Cape is beautiful any time of year...enjoy!!
I highly recommend Front Street in Provincetown, The Mews is also good.
I have not experienced the problems others noted at The Bookstore in Wellfleet, it's a favorite stop, with great oysters. Arnolds in Eastham is a great clam shack experience, they probably will be open over the weekend.
Special restaurants worth the drive include Abba in Orleans, and especially Brewster Fish House in Brewster, consistently excellent in my experience, and the best fish kitchen on the Cape. The Fish House is small and does not take reservations, so plan on a wait, or dine early.
Enjoy your visit.
re: Dan D
We used to recommend both front st and the mews but lately we have been struggling with the mews. They will not take a reservation for more than 7 until after 9. Might not be an issue for others but we have struggled with it twice. Definitely, front street for the food and atmosphere.....


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Here's part two of New Times' August 15th interview with Sacred Reich/Human Condition guitarist Wiley Arnett.
We're debuting a new feature with Up on the Sun where every Friday we're gonna give you the heads up and 411 on any just announced kick-ass or big-ass concerts that will be visiting Valley venues in the coming months.
New books document heavy metal's ugly history
A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him.


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Chuanr times. Missing the 'jing. (Taken with Instagram)
cantonese style offal dotted with pickled vegetables, chili. sultry heat.
small ice cream truck
peering in
curry fishballs, intestines, squid, sausage, etc. hk version of malatang chuanr. potently spicy, flavor bombs
nice bowls, for street food standards. at some carts i've just gotten liangpi precariously dumped into a tissue-thin plastic bag.
chicken liver and heart chuanr, chicken head - split in half, cumin, la jiao, chinese 'bbq' sauce; several small bones, but nuggets of pure meaty, rich, fatty skin, charcoal-grilled flavor.
egg yolk (just the yolk), pork baozi. apologies for the half-masticated shots, but the cross-section action is where it's at, and i rarely carry the proper utensils.
giant shandong jianbing, thrown onto the griddle, spinning like a pottery wheel. sharply crisp, fresh (the lettuce, scallions), then hints of oil and fat, sour pickled nuggets, spice.
tucked away behind walls
zongzi, in heaps.
smattering of da bao'd malatang chuanr, with kuan fenr (flat, wide noodles made from mung bean flour). seems like it can only be found in beijing by that name.
douse everything with ma jiang (sesame paste, usually thinned out)


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My name's Jennifer Gerhardt. I'm a God Scout.
I live in Round Rock, TX (just north of Austin) with my husband and favorite person, Justin Gerhardt, preaching minister at Round Rock Church of Christ. We have two precocious, preschool-aged daughters. We like to hike and swim and read good books in the sunshine.
In the past I've worked as a journalist and lecturer in college English.
I started writing when I found my grandmother's typewriter in second grade. I've been speaking to women about God for thirteen years.
My skills include reading Dostoyevsky on the elliptical machine at the gym, writing long account numbers on my personal checks without looking, and orchestrating preschool dance parties.
In the instance of a zombie apocalypse you'd find me in the woods, sleeping in a pup tent beside a creek wielding a bow and arrow fashioned from a cedar sapling. That is assuming I learn how to fashion a bow and arrow between now and then and assuming you can make them from cedar, the first alliterative tree to pop in my head. All of this is, of course, dependent on the onset of a zombie apocalypse.


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Performer: University of Washington
Project No: FE0007272
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Combinatorial Materials Exploration (CME) is a thin film based technique to rapidly screen materials properties from a broadly distributed compositional range of the specimen (CME library). Experimentally, a pulsed laser deposition is used to fabricate a binary or ternary CME library, from which a compositional range to yield desired functional properties is determined by mapping technique. We will use this technique to screen the compositions of ferroelectric materials for thermoelectric applications.
Powders of optimal compositions (determined by the CME process) are sinter-forged to make textured bulk polycrystals. We use pore formers and partial sintering to create hierarchical porosity thermoelectric oxides. The application of the stress during sintering, leads to texture in both porosity (shown in the micrographs in the bottom row) and in grain orientation.


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I've felt that crushing disappointment when confronted with the words 'sold out'. I understand how reckless one can be in those five minutes between the thrill of thinking you'll get to see your favourite band and the bitter blow that you can kiss goodbye any notion of seeing your heroes in the flesh. Of course the secondary ticket sites understand these five minutes better than anybody, which is why they will ensure that their allocated tickets are on sale the minute they are made available to the public (and, tellingly in some cases, days before they are made available for public on sale).
This year has been a bit of a belter for me music-wise with some great releases from heavyweights and old favourites as well as a few new acts and surprises.
I hate trying to do proper numbered top tens so instead I've just given my favourites in no particular order but split out into to broader categories of ratings.
Top of the Pops
(my 9 & 10 out of 10 albums - 'zomg amazing')
The Next Day - David Bowie
Yeezus - Kanye West
Bangerz - Miley Cyrus
Artpop - Lady Gaga
Bloodsports - suede
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
The Big Dream - David Lynch
Best of the Rest
(7 & 8 out of 10 - 'bloody good but not perfect')
The Minutes - Alison Moyet
Exile - Hurts
Tales of Us - Goldfrapp
Days are Gone - Haim
Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
Kiss Land - The Weekend
Seasons of Your Day - Mazzy Star
Innocents - Moby
Three - Charlotte Church
Dead Ends - The Rumour Said Fire
Could do better
(6 & 7 out of 10 ratings - 'a few belters and a bunch of fillers')
Swings Both Ways - Robbie Williams
The Marshall Mathers LP2 - Eminem
Rewind The Film - Manic Street Preachers
Closer To The Truth - Cher
Great song but the album was a bit rubbish
Roar - Katy Perry
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding
New act that deserves a mention on the basis of one song alone
Take Me to Church - Hozier
Man of the year
David Bowie - For being the best at keeping a secret ever.
Woman of the year
Miley Cyrus - For cultural whiplash due to her unexpected smackdown on the pop landscape
Performance of the year
Artpop at Swinefest - Lady Gaga
Because sometimes the simplest move is right.
'Moment' of the year
Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus
For straddling the zeitgeist as well as the ball.
Gig of the year
Suede - Glasgow Barrowlands
Because that's where I go, and that's what I do..
Most anticipated for 2014
Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
Artpop volume 2? - Could just be a scurrilous rumour
More suede please!
I've started writing this review several times and in several ways now. There is so much to review in a new Lady Gaga album, such a weight of context, hype and explanation that I've found it hard to know how to tackle it. Do I review it as a 'reverse Warholian experiment', as a follow up to a divisive but ultimately artist-defining sophomore(ish) album, as an exuberant meditation on sex and drugs, as an exercise in pairing back and joining the dots between the simplicity of The Fame and the madness of Born This Way - or somehow all of the above? I decided to take a big meditative Abramovic breath (EAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY) and dive head first into the actual music itself so forgive me for almost totally ignoring the other amazing parts of the Gaga package like videos, outfits, artwork and so on. Trust me I care about that stuff a lot but I also don't want to write a PHD by accident..
I am very aware that Lady Gaga is critiqued against a bar much higher than that of any of her peers, in truth a bar higher than many other recording artists right now full stop. It's not so much just that she is expected to be better (whatever that means) but that she is expected to be all things to all people. A great album will never be enough - she must be a juggernaut of cultural change and a singularly unique vision backed by music that will blow our brains, slicing through genre bias as it goes. Anything less is a failure. And in fairness she has no-one to blame for this but herself - with great ambition comes great expectation. How ARTPOP, or any album really, will ever square up against that I'm not sure but I'm comfortable in saying that as an audio experience it is certainly not a failure. Does it surpas Born This way for me? I don't think so yet but it's not a disappointment either and perhaps almost as importantly it's a progression not a retread.
The sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be
Whilst the mission statement of her pre-fame Fame era was a tantalising combination of knowing pretension and pop sensibility Gaga's later ascension into mainstream success via songs like Pokerface and Just Dance always felt like something of a trojan horse and though the Fame / Fame Monster was punctuated by moments that gave a heady glimpse into what you hoped she was capable of there was often an undeniable gulf between what you got on record and what she presented in person. It took until her last album for her to make a tangible connection between her lyrical content, her sound and her visual imagery achieving something that felt, however polarising, like it all made sense together. Where previously her emotional rawness was buried under too-generic production - or dark, sprawling videos were attached to songs that could barely hold them - Born This Way seemed to gather up all that had gone before and, in Gaga parlance, vomit it back out as a difficult, noisy, crazy and near-perfect fully formed thing.
All artists have 'that' album (if they are very lucky a few throughout a long career) that all future work is held against and doubtless Born This Way will be that for Gaga. Not because it was a unanimous critical success or because of world conquering sales figures but because it seemed to so completely say 'This Is Lady Gaga'. And like many artists faced with what to do after that moment she has, on the face of it at least, done the exact opposite.
Artpop is ebulant, sexy, funny and unashamedly POP. Of course what words like 'pop', 'mainstream' and 'experimental' mean with Gaga will always depend what side of the fence you are sitting on. While her music is generally considered too full throttle, her lyrics too 'alienating' and her genre-influences too wide for conservatively chart-focused listeners she is also ironically still constantly berated by others for being too safe, too generic and too corporate. In trying wilfully to straddle both sides of the chart/alt pigeon hole she seems to often end up impaled in the middle. Standing before you in the divide, as it were.
How can I protect something so perfect without evil?
On first listen Artpop feels like a volte-face dash back to her earlier, less threatening sound but for me it is the logical combination and progression of everything she has done so far. Combining the slickness of The Fame and the uncompromisingly Gaganess of Born This Way Artpop is more hippy disco and less gothic springsteen but somehow it seems to make perfect sense in the here and now.
The early days of my love affair with Gaga were soaked in macabre imagery - the VMAs hanging, the pvc Juddermen of the Bad Romance video, the ever increasingly copious amounts of fake blood on the Monster Ball tour - and it seemed to me then that her appeal lay largely in her desire to bring the gothic to the dancefloor. To open a chart smash with a line like 'I want your ugly, I want your disease' was a pretty strong statement of intent and rather than Bowie or Madonna she seemed to me more like the flipside to Marilyn Manson's Dope Show era pop flirations. The fact they collaborated on a (better than the album version) remix of Love Game seemed to suggest that she agreed.
If you had asked me to pick a song from The Fame Monster that I thought would signal her future direction I would have put my money on Dance In The Dark - an uptempo but tragic song with an anti-Vogue middle eight name checking 'Marilyn, Judy, Sylvia' and of all people Jonbenet Ramsay. I was in part right as Born This Way, sonically, was much more the industrial, kitchen sink sound of Dance In The Dark than the pure pop of Telephone or Pokerface but thematically a new Gaga had emerged. Increasingly using the Monster Ball tour as a platform to talk about love, acceptance and personal freedom I found myself viewing her more and more as some kind of punk hippy. Sort of a BE NICE OR GO FUCK YOURSELF kind of a thing. And indeed for all the leather, and whisky and consistently dark imagery that accompanied the Born This Way album it's central themes are positive to the point of saccharine, saved only by her off-the-beaten-tracks lyrics and 'putting the love in Courtney Love' rock & roll persona. Indeed even You & I the albums sister-track to the fabulously nihilistic Speechless is a much more straight-up love song than it's predecessor no matter how much more tortured (and the better for it) the production sounds.
If the Fame Monster was a dark album masquerading as light and fluffy one then in a lot of ways Born This Way was the reverse. What I feel she has managed to with Artpop is both sonically and lyrically melt these things together into something that is hard to position one way or the other. It is neither as stridently activist as Born This Way or as throwaway as The Fame. As an album it has highs and lows (emotionally, musically and chemically) and despite seeming on the face of it more vacuous it somehow ultimately feels more personal. At it's very core Artpop is about sex and drugs and very little else. And do you know what ? That's fine because those are the twin anchors of the history of music, though typically for Gaga more commonly rock than pop. Sex and drugs and the struggles there within.
Sometimes the simplest move is right
Gaga's songs can often suffer from a case of the James Dean Bradfield's (although unlike poor James she's only got herself to blame) cramming ideas and words into melodies that can barely accommodate them. This can deliver easter eggs of genius like the, ironically generally unheard, ear-condom lyric in Judas but can just as easily lead to un-necessary (if often hilarious) clumsiness like
in Marry The Night. Indeed it's often seemed to me that her most effective lyrics are her 'worst' and vice versa. Not to say there aren't exceptions to that but I've generally felt like the more she has to say the worse she communicates it.
It is clear listening to Artpop that there has been a conscious effort to pair back, open the windows and let some air in. Everything feels fresher, lighter, cleaner and less bogged down in 'MEANING'. Now don't get me wrong, this isn't Back To Basics - this is still an album that includes a pig-themed, techno-rave-out about sexual abuse - but on the whole it's a much more streamlined Gaga than we had become accustomed to.
Thematically as I said the songs rarely stray from sex, drugs and er.. Donatella Versace .. but make no mistake this is still a very Gaga take on such subjects. The sex is kinky (and more than a little gender-bending), the drugs are fun.. until they're not.. and the whole thing has a sort of Hair (the musical not the song) meets Hot Gossip meets The Shamen vibe about it that is at once both totally surprising and completely perfect.
Whilst perhaps Artpop fails to deliver the mission statement she promised it certainly succeeds on it's own terms. Will it generate a seismic shift in the landscape of popular music? It's unlikely but it will surely enrich my life and my CD collection enough that I'm very glad it exists in the world. To try and assess it in pre-retrospective terms like 'impact' and 'reach' feels futile but as a record, as as set of 15 vibrant, fun, occasionally moving and frequently peculiar songs, it's a solid piece of work. It's a very good Lady Gaga album and an exceptional pop album by most other people's standards.
Track by Track
Enigma popstar is fun
This was the song most written about before the album was released due to it's demo title of 'Burqa' although the apoplectic blog-rants have subsided to a quiet whine now that the song has been released and, somewhat anticlimactically, references the aforementioned clothing item precisely twice and so innocuously and apolitically that no one really has the energy to even bother saying the words 'cultural appropriation' out loud anymore. Aura has a great chorus and works well on the trailer for Machete Kills but I could happily lose it from the album. Thematically I understand it's position as the opener ('I killed my former and left her in the trunk on highway 10' she tells us in the opening lines) but for me it's a throwback and sounds out of place on Artpop.
Aphrodite Lady Seashell Bikini
A wonderfully camp, retro, disco tinged piece of froth that comes off like a Kraut-pop I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper. It contains the lyrical gem of rhyming 'Uranus' with her screaming 'DON'T YOU KNOW MY ASS IS FAMOUS??'. To get the full picture of the hippy-diva brilliance of Venus it's worth watching her windmill around in a smock while she sings it:
Let me be the girl under you that makes you cry
It's hard to knock a track written entirely about being a power bottom, especially one as innuendo-filled and filthy as this. The thing I love most about G.U.Y is that for a song containing lyrics like 'I'll lie down, face up this time', 'mount your goddess', and 'I know you'll wear my makeup well' along with various astrological metaphors about things ramming into the atmosphere somehow it never feels like it's meant to shock you. Titillate or amuse you, sure, but the sheer joy of it all doesn't for a minute feel like she thinks she's being in any way offensive, which just makes it all the more fun really.
There's a lyric that's listed in the CD book as 'I'm going wear the tie' but I'm utterly convinced she's singing 'tower' and what with it rhyming with 'power' and all that bossy-bottom ramming and mounting that's going on I'm not being told any different. Surely it's time we all had a ride on her disco stick right?
(Oh, and there's some Germanic yelling at the end. No idea why but it sounds great.)
Sexxx Dreams
We're both convicted criminals of thought
Let's white glove the bed
Gaga once fessed up that the video for Alejandro was about being a fag-hag, perpetually in love with gay boys (I can empathise) although in most subsequent interviews the sentiment was sadly sanitised to the more generic pro-LGBT 'it's for all my gay fans'. The 'heard your boyfriend was away this weekend' lyric suggests she's either indulging in similar fantasies again - or she's back to 'bluffin with her muffin'. Either way Sexxx Dreams is a throbbing Prince via Janet piece of sauce that lyrically calls to mind the Eurythmics Sex Crimes.
Jewels N' Drugs
I know that my habit's expensive and you might find it quite offensive
When she played this at the iTunes festival I thought it was completely awful but it's been the very definition of a grower for me and I absolutely love it now. I'm not entirely convinced that it sits well within the rest of the album pushing as it does towards the hip-hop/rap end of urban (featuring 3, count 'em 3 guest rappers) rather than the smooth, sex jam side of things like Do What U Want but unlike Aura I enjoy it enough that I'm happy for it to be there even if it does stick out a little.
Touch me in the dark
Put your hands all over my body parts
I'm pretty sure she's singing 'salon's enough for her' but I swear it sounds like 'Cylons'. Seriously though this is a real highlight of the album for me. Pop-rock in a way that brings to mind Joan Jett, Suzy Quatro and Toni Basil. A total earworm.
Do What U Want
You can't have my heart and you won't use my mind but do what you want with my body
Musically and lyrically this song gives me flashes of Michael Jackson (the bits about the press not about her body obviously) and although it seemed a bit urban-light to me at first it's surprisingly settled in as a highlight on repeat listens. R. Kelly's chunk is hugely enjoyable (to the point of dare I say it almost overshadowing Gaga) making it feel much more like a duet than a 'featured artist'. His 'FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU' is hysterical and I'd love to see them perform it together live as gloriously awkward as it would likely be. That said some of her solo performances of it have been absolutely knock out.
(I also have to give special mention to the now memetastic bit where R. Kelly sings 'you're the Marilyn, I'm the President' and it sounds for all the world like 'you're the melon on the president'.)
A hybrid can withstand these things
My heart can beat with bricks and strings
My Artpop could mean anything
Easily the best lyrics on the album - both a mission statement and a superb get-out clause - set to a swoonsome Blondie / Kylie piece of sophistopop and another woozy, hippy love-in chorus. A centerpiece of the album for me. It also spawned one of my favourite ever of her performances:
I know, I know, I know you want me
You're just a pig inside a human body
Squealer, squealer, squeal out, you're so disgusting.
You're just a pig inside.
So, there was this moment during the iTunes festival where she started introducing this song by talking about being taken advantage of when she was starting out in the industry, loss of innocence and so on and it got really pretty dark and heavy. Someone I know tweeted 'is she about to tell us she got gang-banged for a record deal?' and they were joking but it was heading in that direction. Then a minute later we are watching her leap about to a rave-inspired, glow-stick waving techno track whilst men in pig suits wearing gas masks descended from the roof. Only in Gagaland.
Now the white-dust has cleared from that unexpected performance what Swine presents is the proposition that you don't have to sing rock music to get angry about the shit that's happened to you in life. And that if you are going to sing about the bad shit that happened when you were 18 and coked out of your nut then what better a way to do it than in a piece of nasty techno?
I recently made up a t-shirt with the Animal Nitrate artwork and the lyrics from Swine in the suede font as a jokey nod to my two great loves and their pig obsessions but I was only partially joking. Thematically, if not musically, the songs have quite a lot in common. Violence, sex, abuse, self medication and the animal inside. Gaga spoke frankly on Howard Stern recently about how her early experiences made it difficult to engage with sex in a healthy way for a long time and I couldn't help but think 'what does it take to turn you on now your animal's gone?'
A brave, challenging, sonically stuffed curio that really only Gaga could produce.
Walk down the runway but don't puke
Musically enjoyable enough but the only song that edges towards filler for me. The pre-chorus has a good old Bow Wow Wow stomp about it but it somehow falls short of the standard of the rest of the tracks. Could be a grower.
Married to the night.
I own the world, we own the world..
Lyrically total frippery but musically this was one of my first favourite tracks. The verses bring to mind a little of Bowie's Fame while the choruses swoon and crash all over the place. One of the most self assured, musically mature (in a good way) songs she has produced. It's exactly the kind of song that would lead someone elses campaign but will be sadly buried in Gaga's.
Oh, and yes she does already have a song called Fashion and no it's not the same one. This one has an exclamation mark at the end. (!)
Mary Jane Holland
I don't like to boast but our truffles are the most.
Mad magical in Amsterdam
Only Gaga could write an ode to weed as a club banger, but here we have it and it's fabulous. One of the most unashamedly pro-drugs songs I can think of inside of pop or otherwise - it opens with her sparking up and ends with her taking a puff. This dubious message is somewhat softened by the two hander of this and the following track Dope but as it stands on it's own she's happy to let us know over a big squelchy, bouncing beat that she could be just fine 'if she could be Mary Jane Holland tonight'. Musically it has every right to be a single but this will never happen for all the obvious reasons. Talk about gateway drug though, so infectious is this song that it almost makes me, a life long tea-totaler, want a blunt.
There's also a fabulous bit in the middle (more than a little reminiscent of the middle 8 in, of all things, Geri Halliwell's Look At Me) where she howls 'I know that Mom and Dad think I'm a mess but it's allright because I'm as rich as pissed..'
This and, funnily enough Dope, are probably my favourite tracks on the album and as a 'highs and lows' double whammy back to back they are top notch.
I need you more than dope
A desperate plea for a lover not to leave her even as she struggles to put them above her vices and addictions. Sung in a booze-soaked affectation she tells us she's been 'hurting low from living high for so long.' Dope is pretty much the song that Speachless nearly was had it not had the life sucked out of it in the studio. The most gut wrenching bits for me are the lyrics 'mine myself like coal, a mountain of his soul' and when she sings 'stay with me Bell Bottom Blue' - no doubt a reference to the Eric Clapton song containing equally gut wrenching lyrics like 'Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you? Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?'. There is no pride or ego in this song, just pure desperation.
I don't want to be alone forever, but I can be tonight
A joyous celebration of life on the road and a welcome 'IT'S ALL OK FOLKS' after Dope. This one has future single written all over it. Reminiscent of a slightly more ebullient Edge of Glory and ready-made for tour adaptations during the bit where she name-checks half the world.
One second I'm a Koons then Suddenly the Koons is me
I thought this was a great lead single being as it it's slightly weird but nice and hooky and serves as a bit of an 'ok let's get this over with, the thing about me is..' song - cheekily dealing as it does with her artpopist leanings and addiction for fame (I found the vein, put it in here). In retrospect it's maybe not that indicative of the album but I still think it was a good choice and personally would prefer it at the head of the album instead of Aura with Gypsy closing out. Yes, yes, I know it's meant to be the encore but still.
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Battery operated pepper mill, thoughts? Reviews?
- PinotPlease Sep 12, 2007 08:37 PM
Hey All: I wanted to get people's reviews and views of battery operated pepper mills. I wanted to get one as a gift for my So who saw one with the light and the whole deal at a restaurant recently and flipped. Looking at the shopping sites they seem to have a wide range of prices from about 20 bucks to 100, it's hard to get a bead on what is the best and what's just hype. I know a lot of people love the magnum, but it's not battery operated. Anyone have some 411 or personal experience?
re: Chowtimore
I bought two of the Gravitis at BB&B for $19.99 each and I had coupons too. i received one for Christmas and was underwhelmed until I began to use it. I had two good Peugeots, one for black and one for white. Now I grab the Graviti first. Saw something last weekend that said it can be used for a salt mill.
re: Hungry Celeste
If you have a problem with the Peugeot mills, you can get a pepper mill with a hand crank to make them turn with less effort. Penzeys sell them. http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzey...
Alton Brown modified a pepper mill to be powered by a cordless drill, but I think he was going for MacGyver-esque laughs.
I agree with Celeste, unless you've got some kind of disability which prevents you from using a mechanical pepper mill, use a mechanical pepper mill. I like the grinding mechanism of a William Bounds mill.
I had one, it's now hidden away somewhere. The Unicorn Magnum peppermill is the very best I have ever used. Very easy to fill, and to adjust the grind is easy, It is $45, and you will never need another one. The only downside is, that it only comes in black!! I think they make a small one too, but I love the big one.
re: Mother of four
Agreed. A quarter turn and you get a lot of pepper from a Magnum. Somethings just don't need batteries.
A restaurant was gauche enough to use a batter operated pepper mill? Yikes. Kinda like the time a new bartender at work brought in one of those screwtop corkscrews; we tried using it once and realized very quickly that some things are just better the old-fashioned way. The Unicorn Magnum comes very highly recommended from a great many people; I got the little one from IKEA for seven bucks and it does an absolutely splendid job of grinding things.
re: JK Grence the Cosmic Jester
Maybe I misunderstood your post, but the peppermill from IKEA is not a Unicorn Magnum.
re: Mother of four
I should have said "I got a little grinder from IKEA for seven bucks". Hope that clears things up.
re: JK Grence the Cosmic Jester
Thanks,I was about to say, "What a deal"!!!!! When I saw the picture I knew the deal went south!!!!
Spend the money on quality peppercorns, not batteries!
Some jazzy gadgets are more work then wonder.
A quality peppermill can be had for prices high & low but quality pepper should be your goal. I tend to crack pepper with the back of a steel knife and savor the "corns" instead of pulverize 'em.
If the man wants a battery powered pepper mill, get him one (I'm taking for granted your SO is a man, since it falls into the power tool category). We have a pair (one for salt, one for pepper). Don't know who made them (I'm thinking brookstone, but could be wrong). Both are stainless steel and heavy (they look nice and feel well made). They come in handy when you're cooking and just want to add a little bit here and there withough going into the dining room to get the ones in there. From experience, they work, they're handy, and if someone has their mind set on something, there are no substitues.
re: HunterJay
Thank you HJ I'm a chef so I know from quality and understand people's love of the Pugeot et al, but this really was more of a gadget question. Thanks for the tip!
re: HunterJay
We got these for our wedding over a year ago and have been happy with them since: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/produc...
Yes, maybe pricey for the pair, but I think they're just what your SO is looking for. My husband seems to find pleasure in using them as well (and he's far from a chef!)
I bought a Graviti grinder when I spotted it at Sur la Table a couple of months ago. Got it because there are many times when I'm cooking that I can't use both hands with my regular pepper mill, and I thought it would be nice to be able to just pick this up, turn it over, and voila! That's really the only time I use it, though, because I don't want to replace the batteries too often. I still use my regular crank pepper mills, too.
We have the battery operated ones from Williams' Sonoma... we love them... a little on the pricey side but haven't had any problems
re: Oh Robin
I just checked Target and they have a iTouchless Automatic Pepper Mills/Salt Grinders Set - Stainless Steel for $19.99 (if you have AAA you get 10% off). They do look pretty cool, what man wouldn't want a flashlight on a pepper grinder (I consider myself a typical man have a thing for flashlights and powertools). Now the only question is is it an LED light or a standard bulb (I like the LED's personally). Would I be disappointed if I got this as a gift, heck no. I may even try to cook a little more, just so I can play with it.
re: HunterJay
Not sure of the "bulb type" but I do remember the one I bought took like six batteries. Yikes! My dad seriously loves it though.
re: HunterJay
What's with the AAA getting 10%off? Is this for everything in Target? First I have heard of this.
re: Mother of four
Online shopping only. Go to the AAA website > member benefits > online shopping and it has the link (you have to use the link to get the discount).
I soo got suckered into the hype, when I saw one on Nigella Bites a few years back. I ended up buying a Rachel Ray orange one for a good friend of mine, his kitchen is in orange..and picked up a red one for myself. I don't even know where the thing ended up after the batteries ran out, and I don't miss it. If you buy one, get it for novelty purposes.
re: Chuckles the Clone
If you're going to wind it for a whole minute (or two or three, like the radios and flashlights), why wouldn't you just "wind" it a few seconds at a time when you need your pepper?? Kinda defeats the purpose for anyone who physically "needs" it and seems more than just a bit silly for those without arthritis, etc...
For what it's worth, I received Peugeot mill as a wedding present in 1971. We use it every day. It doesn't look as nice as it did, but it still grinds like a champ. I have serious doubts that an electric gadget will last as long - or do as good a job.
Great thread here! I'm also in the market for battery powered mill. My Italian mother, who turned the big 8-0 could really use it. She still cooks alot but doesn't have the strength for a regular mill. Like someone said, there's really a big variance in prices of these things. I'm all for spending extra money for quality, but not junk. So I'm trying my best to read page after page after page of reviews on what peeps are saying. I really like this thread cause it seems that it may be marketers that are populating in part on the well traveled sites like Amazon. But even with having to read through some of these questionable posts, I've reached a bit of a conclusion on getting the Trudeau Graviti mill. BTW, looks like Walmart carries these too. I still got a good 1-2 hours of reading up on reviews on these mills, so haven't yet made up my mind.
The one thing I'd like to add to this thread is the use of batteries. You can now easily use and charge not only rechargeable batteries(Ni-MH), but can also recharge alkaline batteries! The charger isn't some gizmo from NASA or something either. I got mine on sale for $20 at Newegg. My brother ended up getting one as well as my father. So really batteries should be hardly an issue any more. Search for Rosewill RGD-CT505 and see for yourself.
Oh yeah, thanks for the tip on Target having some battery powered grinder. I really like to deal with bigger retailers for any problems that come up. I'll look into that set too.
I too have looked a lot for an effective pepper mill. Have probably bought 20 over the years. I now am very happy with the IKEA one. So spend .the money on Winyard or Maldon pepper.
I like the Peppermill Supreme 2000. Very powerful and rechargeable. The only downside is that it is large. It does have a light! http://www.distinctive-decor.com/rech...
Hey yo,
Thought I'd get back to posting on this thread with an update. I ended up getting a Trudeau Graviti Pepper Mill Grinder via eBay for me momma. At first she was like, wtf? Then after she saw me using it a couple times, I guess things started clicking with her. She ended up taking it back and I'm happy now. The grinder seems well made and feels like it will last for quite awhile.
Good luck on finding one and I wish you the best.


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A number of compounds with pharmacokinetics similar to that of chloroquine, including verapamil (and its analogs), desipramine, ketotifen, cyproheptadine, nifedipine, diltiazem, and chlorpromazine, have been tested in animals (Bitonti et al., 1988; Peters, 1990b). All but chlorpromazine have been found wanting because of toxicity, an inability to cure infection, or both (Vennerstrom et al., 1991). The combination of chloroquine and chlorpromazine can cure experimental P. falciparum infections in aotus monkeys (Rossan et al., 1990).
Like chloroquine, chlorpromazine has a long half-life. A great deal of clinical experience has been obtained with this drug. It has a good safety profile at the doses required to treat malaria and is inexpensive. Other phenothiazines should be evaluated for their ability to reverse chloroquine resistance.
If the efficacy of a chloroquine-chlorpromazine combination is supported by field studies, the addition of chlorpromazine or similar drugs to preparations of chloroquine could have tremendous potential for treating falciparum malaria. It should also be determined whether the chloroquine-chlorpromazine combination is useful for chloroquine-resistant P. vivax malaria.
Three classes of compounds are in various stages of pre-human testing. These include analogs of floxacrine, which has unsuitable toxicity; quinazoline folate antimetabolites; and 1,2,4-trioxane derivatives, which are synthetic analogs of artemisinin.
The discovery and subsequent development of novel antimalarial drugs have little value unless those compounds reach the people who can benefit from their use. The way drugs are manufactured, packaged, stored, distributed, and marketed is crucial to this end. Although these processes are dependent to some degree on the management of malaria control programs and the infrastructure of malarious countries, they are very much part of the drug development process. These issues are too broad to discuss in detail here, but it is essential to recognize that the development of antimalarial drugs is futile unless those drugs reach the populations that require them: the residents of malarious regions.
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Solid Explorer File Manager
1,000,000 - 5,000,000 downloads
- FTP file sharing
- Dropbox and Box support
- 100% Intuitive
- Good-looking ICS-like layout
- Root features
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"This is the new generation of file manager"
Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund / Sep 26, 2012
Solid Explorer is a file browser that merges good-looking layout, intuitiveness and professional tools
First off, it doesn't need root to work, although rooted devices will have only-root features. It must be said that there are lots of file browser and some of them work pretty good. There's a point in which most of them fail: scenery and ease of use. Solid Explorer has left away that burden to become the new generation of file manager.
It's set in a good-looking ICS-like layout. It has two independent panels for file browsing and you can set it at your whim: for example, you can choose SDcard directory in one panel and your PC's share in the second. What's more, in portrait mode you can see both panels at once and share files and folder from one to the other just by dragging & dropping. In fact, this is an actual mobile native file browser: just swipe, drag and drop to copy, move, delete or create new files and folders. 100% intuitive.
It supports FTP, SFTP and SMB/CIFS clients, file sharing via FTP and it's integrated with Dropbox and Box. We've noticed any file format incompatibility. Of course, it contains a indexed search bar for fast access to your files and file compressor for sharing files easily.
One of the features we liked most is the panel of detailed info of your device. It provides info a graphs of your storage usage in a good-looking layout.
In a few words: one of the best file browser for Android we've reviewed so far. Must have
Looking for a good file explorer with slick look and many features? Good to see you here!
Solid Explorer is the nicest looking file manager with two independent panels which brings to you a new file browsing experience. It provides to you a wide support for cloud storages including Dropbox, Box, Google Drive and One Drive. This file manager can connect to your Windows PC and many remote servers working with FTP, SFTP and WebDav. You will also appreciate ability to create and extract most commonly used archive formats.
Two independent panels allows for seamless file transfer with drag and drop. Just hold your finger on a file and drag it to other panel. In this way you can easily transfer files between various locations including PC shares, cloud and root folders.
If you're looking for a root explorer, this file manager will meet your needs. It features a root explorer with ability to change system level file properties. You don't need to remember about mounting file systems as read/write. Solid Explorer will do it for you automagically.
Solid Explorer is also a good tool for viewing your media. This file manager can stream music and videos from your PC or cloud without a need to download it. You can even cast the stream to Chromecast!
With this file explorer you will also receive a very elegant UI look with many customization options, such as dynamic list resizing with pinch gesture or custom color schemes, which will even change the file icon colors.
Just give it a try! You will not be disappointed.
- Two independent panels serve as file browsers
- Drag and Drop inside and between panels
- FTP client with support for secure connections
- SFTP client
- WebDav client capable of connecting to Owncloud and Yandex
- SMB/CIFS client allows for browsing network folders shared with Windows file sharing
- FTP server for sharing files to your PC
- Ability to read and extract ZIP, RAR and TAR archives
- Ability to create TAR archives and password protected ZIP archives
- Many cloud clients: Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive (One Drive), Google Drive, Sugarsync, Copy, Mediafire, Owncloud (through WebDav), Yandex (through WebDav)
- Root access makes Solid Explorer fully functional root explorer
- Indexed search finds your files in a couple of seconds
- Detailed file information with storage usage statistics
Tags: file explorer, file browser, file manager, root explorer, cloud browser, cloud manager, cloud explorer windows file sharing, ftp server
THIS IS A 14-DAY TRIAL. In order to continue using the app after this period, purchase the Solid Explorer Unlocker, but first make sure you are fully satisfied with it.
Hotfix 2:
-long file names fix
-missing bookmarks
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Sorry for these problems!
-automatic use of root access when manipulating SD content on KitKat
-fixed file handling with quotes in names
-fixed error messages after successful folder creation
-fixed access to Copy cloud on old Android versions caused by changed certificates
-fixed automatic upload of modified files to Copy cloud
-fixed ACTION_VIEW handling for directories
-small UI bugs fixed
Some lists where this application appears: Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund.
My favorite
The best file manager
Most Complete Manager out there. But Marking Stuff should be straight By Long Press
Probably the best file manager in google play
I installed the full version and it didn't give me the options It promised and it will not refund money
Great designed, very easy to use. With the double windows in the horizon position it makes simple and fast to transfer data between internal and external drives. Could use a little more graphic design and color, but other than that it is a great app.
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Reflections on the Loss of a True Friend: Donald E. Axinn
October 14, 2009
Pictured left to right: Donald E. Axinn, President Karen Gross, Joan Axinn, and Professor Tom Redden
Southern Vermont College lost a true friend on Monday, Oct. 12th, Donald E. Axinn. Husband of SVC Trustee Joan Axinn and beloved by many, Don was a Renaissance person--a novelist, a poet, a businessman, a philanthropist, a pilot, a mentor. SVC students, faculty, staff and the Board of Trustees will miss Don's presence, but warm memories abound, including Don's poignant remarks at the Axinn Community Leadership Scholars Dinner this past April. We will continue to be inspired by Don's commitment to excellence, his passion for life and his deep belief in the power of education. Don saw, cared about and fostered SVC's bright future, and we will work tirelessly to live up to his aspirations for our current and future students.
Nosotros hemos perdido un amigo precioso.
Karen Gross, President
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We reserve the right (but are not obligated to) review all submissions and edit or remove any review in any manner which we deem necessary. Your review should be posted within seven days. Filter by rating: 5 Star: (0) 4 Star: (0) 3 Star: (0) 2 Star: (0) 1 Star: (0) 5 out of 5 WORTH EVERY PENNY! Written By jasonatsr, Pasadena, CA on Thursday, March 09, 2006 When I was purchasing my Sony KDS-R60XBR1, I admit that I was already determined to get this stand to go along with it because when you're spending the money to have the best, you don't want to skimp on an accessory this prominent. However, I was put-off by the $500 price tag and intimidated by the idea of getting it home and building it myself, particularly because of the two large glass panels.First, this stand is not one of those cheaply produced spray-painted pressed-board-style A/V units. It is constructed of high-quality extruded and molded aluminum pieces that fit with precision. Also, you'll actually spend more time taking the pieces out of the box than you will putting the stand together (an extremely easy, one-man job!), so DO NOT pay extra to have this stand thrown together by the delivery guys.IMPORTANT: This stand has no castors to roll on, so I would definitely recommend that after you build it and BEFORE you place the TV on it, apply whichever appropriate "slider" devices under the points of contact between the stand and your floor as necessary. Whether you have carpet or a hard floor, you can find the right sliders at any hardware store. Without them, this stand won't budge easily with a TV loaded on it. Enjoy! 45 out of 47 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No For a more in-depth review and enhanced detailed information on the Sony SU-GW12, please visit the Crutchfield website product page (/ISEO-rccbcspd/p_158SUGW12/Sony-SU-GW12.html ). x Sorry, the Sony SU-GW12 is no longer available for purchase. Looking for a similar item? 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