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Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographer of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62 countries"[1] and still spends more than half of each performance season touring in American cities.
Paul Taylor originally performed in the companies of Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, and George Balanchine, but founded his own, Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954. Dancers/Choreographers who emerged from his company include Twyla Tharp, David Parsons, Laura Dean, Dan Wagoner, Elizabeth Keen, Christopher Gillis, Senta Driver, Amy Marshall, and Lila York.
Twyla Tharp joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1963 and two years later formed her own company. Christopher Gillis joined in 1976. He was a member until his death in 1993. Bettie de Jong joined the Taylor Company in 1962. Noted for her strong stage presence and long line, she was Paul Taylor's favorite dancing partner and, as Rehearsal Director, has been his right arm for the past 51 years. She finished her active dancing career in 1985.
The Company has appeared in PBS programs nine times. In 1999, the PBS American Masters series aired Matthew Diamond's Oscar-nominated documentary about Paul Taylor and his company, Dancemaker.
In 2005, it was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.[2][3]
The dance company consist of approximately 17 dancers, who are notable for the longevity of their careers with a single company.
As of March 2017[update], the most senior female dancer is Michelle Fleet, originally of the Bronx, who joined the company in 2002, after dancing with The Ballet Hispanico of New York and the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company.[4][5]
The dancers are (with year of debut in the company):[4][5]
The Company is a charitable, not-for-profit organization managed by a board of trustees, which includes Taylor, as well as chairman C. F. Stone III, and vice-chairs Elise Jaffe, Scott King, Max R. Shulman, Stephen D. Weinroth, and Robert A. Scott, treasurer Joseph A. Smith, and secretary Joan C. Bowman.[6]
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts says "...one of the world's most exquisite ensembles."[7]
- PBS refers to this Dance Company as "one of American's premier troupes"[8]
- Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts says "One of the world's most brilliant dance companies..." and calls Paul Taylor "...a living legend."[9]
Performances on video[edit]
- Nonesuch VHS (1992) Speaking in Tongues, ASIN: 6302550394
- PBS Thirteen/WNET VHS (1996) The Wrecker's Ball (Company B, Funny Papers, A Field of Grass)
- Warnervision VHS (1999) Paul Taylor Dance Company (Esplanade, Runes), ASIN: 1568327889
- Docurama DVD (2000) Dancemaker, ASIN: 0767023447
- ^ http://www.performances.org/performances/performances.asp?performanceID=571
- ^ Roberts, Sam (July 6, 2005). "City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million". The New York Times.
- ^ Carnegie Corporation - News
- ^ a b Playbill, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, March 7-26, 2017.
- ^ a b "Dancers". Paul Taylor Dance Company. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ^ "Board". Paul Taylor Dance Company. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
- ^ Kennedy Center: Information about Paul Taylor Dance Company
- ^ American Masters . Paul Taylor | PBS
- ^ Penn Presents: Paul Taylor Dance Company
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Article at UCSB.edu
- Paul Taylor: Dancemaker at the Internet Movie Database 1998
- "Paul Taylor Dance Company collected news and commentary". The New York Times.
- Constructing The Wrecker's Ball Dance Magazine, October, 1996
- Archival footage of Paul Taylor Dance Company performing Airs in 1982 at Jacob's Pillow
- Archival footage of Taylor's "Company B" performed at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 2000

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Limp Back In To The Big City
Trip Start
Jul 20, 2006
Trip End
Apr 27, 2007
Knee Seems Good
Havent seen a physio, yet... but all seems well. I went for a job interview at a gym and decided that I'm not going to build a PT client base up here in London. I'd rather do that somewhere I would actually like to live. I'm thinking about going either north to visit mums cousin or south to Holland for a few days to catch up with my The Godfather Harry. Not really sure, but I feel I have out stayed my welcome here. I tend to get treated like a little kid. Everything I do is either wrong or inconvienent.
Now I sneak around stealing the occasional slice of cheese and eating their ice cream out of the container.....muhahaha.
Last Day In London
I went back into the city for a last tour around. Saw a few museums and went to a debate on Low Back Pain. Cool.
Last Night In This Fucking Place
The Polish chick whos living in this house fucking hates me. The first thing she ever said to me was "Can you close the door quietly and stop making so much noise. Please, respect my privacy". (She was kind enough to demonstrate how to close a door)..... I was waking her up at 9am with my loud foot steps. Forgive me for my sin.
Then tonight she cracks the shits becasue I wanted to get a spoon for my yoghurt while she's in the kitchen cooking. She hates people.
I told her what I thought about her lack of tolerance. Fucking unbelievable. I should probably never have come here. The mofo's have made me feel unwelcome from day 1. On a plus, I saved a bunch of cash on accomadation.
Thanks for the excellent contact, Mum.
Tomorrow, I'm out of this fucking place. Going to Warwick where mums cousin lives. They're nice people.


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The Kolkata Knight Riders recorded their first ever IPL win as they trounced defending champions, Chennai Super Kings, in a tightly contested match at Chepauk. Manvinder Sultansingh Bisla and Jacques Kallis were the architects of KKR's historic victory; the pair helping their side to a five-wicket win, after CSK had posted a daunting score of 190.
Earlier, KKR were forced to make a couple of changes to their side with Laxmipathy Balaji's hamstring injury not having healed itself completely. Brett Lee came in to the playing XI replacing Balaji, while MS Bisla stepped into the wicketkeeper's role, due to which Debabrata Das sat out. CSK, meanwhile, played an unchanged side.
The defending champions put on a dominating batting performance for the third game in a row. After MS Dhoni won the toss and opted to bat first, Murali Vijay and Michael Hussey struck an 87-run stand to give the hosts a perfect foundation for a big score. Vijay pulled the quicks and used his feet to loft the KKR spinners. Hussey, on the other hand, charged down the wicket to the pacers and brought out, both the sweep and the reverse sweep to unleash a flurry of fours and sixes. KKR eventually got their first breakthrough when Vijay (42), attempting to pull Rajat Bhatia over deep square-leg, was caught by a diving Shakib Al Hasan in the 11th over.
Vijay's wicket didn't slow CSK down though. Suresh Raina played a blinder to ensure the defending champions stayed on course to post a big score. Raina heaved Kallis for six over midwicket in the 12th over and smote Yusuf Pathan for 14 runs in three balls in the 14th before smashing Brett Lee and Sunil Narine for a six each in the 16th and 17th overs respectively.
The Kolkata franchise picked their second wicket when Hussey (54) was bowled by Kallis off the first ball of the 18th over. But with Raina hitting a feisty 73 off just 38 balls and MS Dhoni chipping in with a nine-ball 14*, CSK finished at a challenging 190 for three in 20 overs. Raina was out, caught brilliantly by Lee off the last ball of CSK's innings.
Chasing 191 to win their maiden IPL title, KKR's hopes were dealt a crushing below when in-form batsman Gautam Gambhir (2) was bowled by Ben Hilfenhaus off a slower ball in just the first over. Bisla, who opened with Gambhir, nonetheless set about reviving the KKR innings. The opening batsman bludgeoned Albie Morkel for four fours in the fourth over and then lofted R Ashwin over the boundary ropes for a couple of sixes in the sixth to bring up KKR's 50 in just 5.4 overs. Bisla then targeted Dwayne Bravo, flicking and lofting the CSK pacer for a four and a six over in the ninth overs, after which he hit Shadab Jakati for two consecutive fours to take his team to 111 for one in 11 overs.
With Bisla firing, Kallis was happy to play second fiddle, and he had scored only 28 when the 100-run partnership between the two was brought up in the 11th over. However, when Bisla (89 off 48 balls) was caught at point by Badrinath in the 15th over, the all-rounder switched gears to take control of the run-chase. With KKR needing 50 off the last five overs, Kallis went after Shadab Jakati and Bravo. He hit them for a total of 23 runs in the 16th and 17th overs respectively.
CSK tried their best to stymie KKR's chances with a couple of wickets, including Kallis' scalp, at the end. However, with KKR needing 16 to win off the last seven deliveries, Shakib Al Hasan (11* off seven) punished Ben Hilfenhaus for bowling a full toss over waist height (no ball) by scooping the CSK pacer for four to fine leg. Manoj Tiwary (nine not out off three balls) then heaved Dwayne Bravo for consecutive boundaries in the last over to bring up a famous win for the Knight Riders.
Man-of-the-match: Manvinder Sultansingh Bisla for his match-winning 48-ball 89 (8x4, 5x6) that helped KKR win their first ever IPL title.


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Dog Day Morning
True Story, Anal, Bestiality, Cum Swallowing, Domination/submission, Non-consensual sex, Rape
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Sun 6th of January 2008
She Has 3 big dogs
Dog Day Morning
She wakes up, rolls out of bed and heads down stairs to make some coffee. She lives alone now her son has been gone and her husband divorced her. This house is too big for just her and her three golden retrievers. She lets the three big dogs sleep in the bed with her every night, taking up most of the bed.
She pours herself a cup of coffee and heads back up stairs to get ready for work. Undressing to take a shower. The water is good and hot and as she washes herself, she gets somewhat excited when she washes cretin places.
She turns off the water and reaches out for her towel. Drying herself off as she steps out of the shower stall. She grabs another one for her hair and is drying her hair when she feels the wetness of a dog's nose sniffing at her crotch. She looks down to see the biggest of her dogs, with his nose in her crotch and then his tongue licking out at her pussy.
She pushes him away and yells at the dog, and she feels the wetness of her pussy from the few licks across her clit. She yells at Clyde and watches as he walks out of the bathroom.
So she continues to dry herself off, meanwhile Clyde does a u-turn and heads back into the bathroom. She has her foot up on the toilet seat to dry off her leg, which spreads her legs apart more as Clyde once again shoves his nose into her crotch. Clyde begins licking her pussy again making it even wetter.
She yells at the dog again and smacks the dog this time turning and walking into the bedroom to finish drying and to get ready for work. As she approaches the bed Clyde following her jumps up with his front paws and knocks her forward onto the bed. Clyde jumps up and starts humping her from behind as she is laying face down across the bed with her feet on the floor.
She feels the dog trying to hump her, when all of the sudden she feels the dog dick enter her pussy about 2 to 3 inches. The dog starts pushing his dick in her hard and fast. She screams at the dog to get off her, but it does no good. So she rolls over knocking the dog off her and out of her pussy.
She smacks the dog again and yells more at the dog. As she feels the wetness from the brief dog fucking, she wonders what it would be like to let the dog fuck her. Then she thinks that is sick. So she walks over to the walk-in closet, when all of the sudden she feels the dog jump up again.
Clyde's paws knocked her forward, tripping her over the laundry basket. Falling forward over the basket she bangs her head on the floor and passes out. Her waist is across the basket leaving her ass sticking in the air.
Clyde quickly mounts her from behind, stabbing with his dog dick trying to find that tight spot again. As he pokes at it his dick finds the wetness and enters into her pussy again. Clyde is rocking inside her wet tight pussy, driving in a half inch each stroke.
Then as Clyde get most of it in her, the knot is caught and won't go into this tight pussy. He repositions his legs to ram it harder and drives into her with a violent force. He feels the knot force in her and with each pump into her pussy it goes deeper. As the knot moves in her deeper it is ripping and stretching her tight pussy.
She awakens just in time to feel pain from the bang on her head and the tearing of her love canal. She yells out in pain at the dog as she feels about 7 or 8 inches of dog dick inside her. But the worst part is the big knot slowly moving further up inside her. She tries to move to get it out of her, but it causes her more pain as she is stuck in this position at the mercy of her dog and no strength left from the blow to the head.
She feels the knot being driven deeper yet and the pain is unbearable to her. When all of the sudden she feels the dog explode inside her. She starts screaming louder at the dog, with no relief because the dog won't listen.
She feels the knot going away and the dog dick shrinking inside her. She is feeling relief from the pain and thinking soon she was going to kill her dog. Knowing that her dog just attacked her and raped her.
She feels the dog dick come out of her and tries to push herself up with her arms still half weak from the blow to the head. She feels another dog jump up on her from behind.
She turns her head to see this time its JD up behind her trying to get his doggy dick in her. As he is stabbing and poking at her it finds its way into the wet sweet spot he was looking for. And JD keeps banging away inside her with each stroke driving it deeper and deeper.
She feels the second dog fucking her and feels the dog dick going in her harder. She feels the pain from the first one ripping her pussy as it went in with the knot. Knowing this will happen again, she tries to push herself up with her arms again. Then she feels something above her head.
Clyde meanwhile isn't done yet, for three years he's never gotten his rocks off, cause she keeps them where they can't ever get to any female dogs. And right now several dogs in the neighborhood are in heat and these dogs can smell it. So now they have to get off with however they can.
So Clyde lies across her head and shoulders so his weight will keep her down. When he lies down across her head his dog dick is right there at her face.
She feels the knot of JD's dog dick entering her pussy opening and ripping it even more. She turns her head to the side to try and get more air thinking how could this happen. And lets out a scream as the knot rips into her. She feels something in her mouth and weight push her head down onto the floor as this wet thing is in her mouth is going further and further as it grows.
Clyde feels her head turn and when her mouth opened to scream he just inched forward, pushing his dog dick into her mouth. While lying down across her head he had the perfect position to drive it and keep it in her mouth. With a slow rocking and pumping of his body, his dick was in a wet warm place that felt good to him. So he continued to force it in more and more.
She could feel two dogs now raping her body, one ripping her pussy into and another shoving his doggy dick into her mouth. She could feel the dog dick right at the back of her throat, and she felt the knot at her lips. Thinking oh my god he's going to choke me with this thing.
JD was driving his dog dick into her pussy with such a force that it was causing blood to come out and run down her legs. He was 5 and never got laid and was going to enjoy this first time fucking of his owner. He started feeling the knot move to the end and Bang he busted loose inside her with a smashing force. Doggy cumm shooting into her hard and long squirts.
She could feel the dog dick inside her explode like she has never felt before. Loads of dog cum pumping inside of her. While another dog dick was going down her throat, causing her to gag each time it came out and re entered. She could feel the big knot inside her mouth inching closer towards her throat, thinking she would die from this if it tries to go down.
As JD's knot shrank and dick went down he pulled it out of her and freed her pussy from his violent fucking. Meanwhile Jr mounts her from behind and pokes for the same hole.
His dog dick has no problem finding the hot wet hole and he starts pumping his dick into this pussy fast and hard.
She is lying there helpless with the third of her three big dogs fucking her cunt. She wishes she could wake up from this nightmare. Again she fells the knot in her mouth being forced to the back of her mouth at her throat. With deep gagging coming from her insides, she feels the dog dick down her throat and the big knot pushing its way into her throat. She also feels the dog dick fucking her pussy again like twice before.
The gagging is making her throat muscles contract tightly around the dog dick. When all of the sudden she feels it explode down in her throat. She feels the hot cum gushing down into her belly. Filling her up, like she just ate a meal. She feels it throbbing in her throat until the knot is gone and the dog dick comes out to just her mouth.
She feels the dog pumping her pussy hard and feels guilty because she is having an orgasm. Oh God how can this be happening. I'm being doggy gang raped and liking it.
She feels an orgasm like never before and feels the dog dick in her mouth. She begins sucking on the dick hard, but soft. She tries to move her head back and forth but the weight of the dog won't let her. But at least she can just suck on it. She feels big waves of cum flowing from her pussy with each pump the dog is forcing. The knot inside of her is going deeper and causing her orgasm after orgasm.
Clyde just lies there as she is sucking on his dog dick. Enjoying this like nothing he has ever felt before. Meanwhile Jr is pounding away at her pussy so hard and deep until he busts his load completely inside of her.
She begins to think its over and I can punish these dogs. When all of the sudden she feels another dog from behind. What she thinks how can this be possible, how can these dogs fuck so much?
JD jumps back up behind her and starts poking away at her again. This time he's at a different angle and the hole he finds isn't the same one. This hole is a bit tighter and dryer then the other one. So he just keeps forcing it in more and more.
She feels the dog behind her and poking his doggy dick around for seconds. Then she feels the sharp stabbing pain from her ass hole. The dumb dog stuck it in the wrong hole and oh God it hurts really bad. So she tries to move and pull it out, but she can't. By now this dog has 6 inches inside her ass just ripping it into. Oh My God I can't take this, she thinks and knowing that the knot is not far away from going inside her ass.
She feels the dick in her mouth getting harder again and wonders what's going to happen next. Then she feels the knot up tight against her ass hole. She squeezes her ass not wanting to let it in. as the pain is unbearable already and knowing the knot entering her ass will surely rip her into. She squeezes hard and harder trying not to let it in.
JD is pumping hard into her ass with all his force, as he feels his knot against the opening of this tight hole. He moves his legs forward to thrust harder and bang it enters and it is so tight around his knot as he pumps harder and deeper. The knot moves in further and further.
She feels the knot being forced into her ass and tries to scream, Oh my God it hurts, please get it out of there she is thinking and praying to God to help her end this ordeal. Then she passes out from the pain.
Jd is pumping faster and harder now and is about to blow his load. Boom he pops his load into her ass and her muscles are contracting all around his dog dick. Causing it to suck his dick more. He fills her up so much that it is squirting back out her ass hole.
Once his swelling goes down he pulls out of her ass and Clyde pulls out of her mouth and jumps on her from behind. He hits the tight ass hole too pumping and forcing his dick deep into her ass also. He keeps this up for several minutes until he busts his load into her ass also. Feeling the anal canal contracting around his dick, sucking like motion draining his doggy dick dry.
All three dogs head down stairs for water and food to fill up the energy the have lost fucking their owner.
She wakes up ½ hour later, feeling her pussy and ass burning and hurting like hell. She tries to get herself up but can't seem to find the energy or the strength. She lay there wondering how this could have happened to her, She takes good care of her dogs, so why did they gang rape her like that.
She finally gets herself up and back into the bathroom. She shuts and locks the door this time so the dogs can't come in there. And from now on she is going to make sure she dresses before she comes out of the bathroom. Never again will she walk around the house with no clothes on.
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2013-09-22 21:58:25
I am a mom and my son's dog jumped me when I was walking back to the bed room after I took a shower. We was locked for a while and I will never give that dog up for any thing. I was forced to injoy and take what my son's dog have to give me. It is not so bad to have a dog force fuck you. I know a woman would get to like it if she would let it happen. I did.
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2013-08-05 12:26:39
Apparently what little you know about dogs fucking is what you read from other wannabe writers who also have little or no actual knowledge of the subject. Pretty dismal writing. You obviously should return to school and learn how to write before trying it again.
Don't give up your day job at Burger King - you won't make it as a writer.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Dr. Dinosaur
Michael May's Adventureblog is a consistently rewarding blog about movies, comics, and all sorts of sci-fi and fantasy goodness. Well written, too. He sends a fair amount of folks this way, so I figured it's high time I thanked him out loud.
I also need to thank him for tipping me off to Dr. Dinosaur. I don't know how I missed this the first time around. The good doctor, who may not be as much of a genius as he claims, appears to be a naked (i.e. unfeathered) Deinonychus. Dr. Dinosaur was introduced in an Atomic Robo Free Comic Book Day exclusive, and May reports that he's back for more.
I really love this mini: hilarious trash-talking between the two adversaries, with some very funny humor steeped in the pseudosciences. When Dr. Dinosaur claims that he time traveled via the power of crystals, I was downright delighted. Crystals. Freaking crystals.
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Well... maybe not so pleasant a surprise. I haven't read any Trek lit, I'm afraid. I do enjoy TNG quite a bit, but that's just about the extent of my Trek knowledge. But I do heartily welcome any Trekkish information that can be brought to the proceedings here, for sure! Keeping tabs on where dinos pop up in the culture is far too mig a job for one man...
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Today's J-blip: Ikea pops up all over Cat Street
Moved by the plight of homeless people in Tokyo Ikea Japan has … Making a bold commentary on the rabbit-hutches that Tokyoites have been conditioned to tolerate, Ikea Japan has … Doing a spin on pop-up shops, Ikea Japan has invaded hinter Harajuku and wedged 14 "galleries" into various nooks and crannies on Cat Street. With a name that plays on the Japanese word for "gap," Sukima Gallery is not only a clever way to bring a catalog to life and showcase Ikea interiors in the city (all the Ikea stores are located in the suburbs), but also an inspired social media campaign: Choose which one you like with an "ii nee" and then enter a lottery for a chance to win a gallery of Swedish stuff. Naturally, some assembly will still be required. Launched on July 31, the event ends Aug. 5.
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Chart of the Day: When Southwest Comes Calling, On-Time Performance Goes South
Here's an interesting, unintuitive tidbit about the airline market. When Southwest enters a market, it forces incumbent carriers to lower their fares. No surprise there. But according to a recent study, it does more than that. It also reduces everyone's on-time performance:
All three conventional measures of arrival delay indicate that airlines begin responding to the threat of entry before Southwest even threatens the route; incumbents' on-time performance begins to worsen before Southwest actually enters the second endpoint airport, and it continues to do so following Southwest threatening the route, and following entry, as well.
As the chart on the right shows, average travel time for flights starts to increase sharply about four quarters before Southwest begins service in a new market, eventually rising by two minutes three quarters after service begins. The number of flights more than 15 minutes late rises from 18 percent to about 21 percent. Why? The authors find the same effect when other airlines enter a new market, but only if the new competitor is a low-cost carrier. Their guess? Pretty much what you'd expect: "Incumbents worsen [on-time performance] in an effort to cut costs in order to compete against Southwest's low costs."


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A bug allowed Facebook users to view their friends' chat sessions on the site, prompting the social-networking company to disable its internal instant-messaging service. The bug also let people see their friends' pending friend requests.
To exploit the now-patched hole, people had to manipulate "in a specific way" the site's feature that lets members preview how their profile looks to each of their friends, Facebook said Wednesday on its official corporate page on the site.
The vulnerability existed "for a limited amount of time," the company said. The chat function is now working again.
Technology news site TechCrunch first reported the bug and posted a video that demonstrates how the bug could be exploited.
"When we received reports of the problem, our engineers promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function," a Facebook spokeswoman said via e-mail.
"We worked quickly to resolve this matter, ensuring that once the bug was reported to us, a solution was quickly found and implemented," she added.
When asked how long the vulnerability existed, she replied: "We don't have specifics on how long the vulnerability existed, but it was for a short period of time."
The bug comes at a time when privacy concerns regarding Facebook have heated up, after the company recently introduced features that allow third-party Web sites to tap into users' profile data to personalize their experience for them.
Two weeks ago, Facebook announced it had revamped its application development platform so that its site and external sites can mesh their users' "social graphs" to individually customize their interaction with them.
"People can have instantly social and personalized experiences everywhere they go," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO.
Key to this vision is Facebook's Open Graph API (application programming interface) and Open Graph Protocol, a system to mark up objects in a uniform way so that Facebook and participating sites can understand them the same way.
Facebook also released plug-ins for developers to easily incorporate on their Web pages Facebook functionality, such as the already widespread "Like" button, which lets end-users express interest in content and inform participating Web sites.
Facebook's site has become a highly complex technology operation serving a massive number of users, which increases the likelihood of breakdowns, so the company must be increasingly vigilant about preventing and fixing bugs and malfunctions, said Augie Ray, a Forrester Research analyst.
As Facebook grows in size and importance, with hundreds of millions of people using it to store and share very personal information, the stakes are sky-high whenever a bug causes a security or privacy breach, he said in a phone interview.
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Scandinavian Smörgåsbord Halvorsen, Bull, Grieg, Svendsen, Kuhlau, Nielsen, Alfven, Lumbye. Oivin Fjeldstad, John Frandsen, Lavard Friisholm, Sir John Barbirolli. Full contents list at end of review MAGDALEN METCD 8017 [78:34]Scandinavian Smorgasbord METCD 8017 See John Sheppards review James Murray is the guiding hand and mind behind this nostalgic and tightly packed collection of short Scandinavian treasures from the analogue catalogue of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The sound is crystal clear and enjoyable but inevitably shows its age. Murray also provides the extensive notes on composers and artists. Its lighter fare that is strong on charm and pictorialism. Most of Halvorsens music fell away into obscurity for years. His Entry of the Boyars kept his name alive with recordings by Ormandy and Berglund. He subsisted as a one-hit wonder for years rather like Reznícek and Donna Diana and Weinberger and Schwanda the Bagpiper. Everything changed with the Chandos series of four volumes under Neeme Järvi. This Fjeldstad-conducted Entry of the Boyars is typically cheery and with woodwind playing that ripples with close proximity character. That splendidly mobile virtuoso clarinet introduction sets the tone for the rest of the piece. Allow for a little blare, given the clear-as-a-pin 1958 vintage sound. The Grieg Norwegian Bridal Procession links nicely with the crisp rustic charm and chuckle of the famous Alfvén piece. The Svendsen shouts majestic confidence and hymns the lights of long-dead imperial ballrooms. Theres approaching 25 minutes of Friedrich Kuhlau his Elverhoj music captured for the first time on CD. This is John Frandsens 1955 recording for Philips with the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra. The music makes play with the vocabulary of Rossini and the lighter Beethoven: pleasant rather than attention grabbing. Back to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Fjeldstad for the sentimentally romantic Ole Bull which made me wonder whether Percy Grainger knew and loved this piece. Much the same applies to Griegs Last Spring heard here in a sometimes urgently impelled 1958 Barbirolli recording. There are three Lumbye dances peopled with strutting hussars and twirling moustaches in the Britta Polka and novelty railway sounds in the Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop. The Lumbye style is a counterpart to the Vienna of the Strauss family, Lanner, Gungl, Komzak and Kalman. Fjeldstads Intermezzo from Nielsens Little Suite feels a shade rushed though the pressure works well with the Cockerels Dance. This is a confident romp through innocent Scandinavian fare resuscitated from the 1950s-60s LP era. Rob Barnett Contents: 1. Johan HALVORSEN (1864-1935) Bojarnes Inntogsmarsj - Entry of the Boyars [4:14] 2. Edvard GRIEG (1843-1907) Norwegian Bridal Procession Op 19/2 (arr. Halvorsen) [3:23] 3. Johan SVENDSEN (1840-1911) Festival Polonaise Op 12 [7:50] 4-8. Friedrich KUHLAU (1786-1832) Elverhøj Op 100 Overture [12:22] and Ballet Music (Polonaise; Contredanse; Childrens Dance; Menuet) [12:17] 9. Ole BULL (1810-1880) Sæterjentens Søndag - Herdgirls Sunday (arr. Svendsen) [3:12] 10. Hans Christian LUMBYE (1810-1874) Britta-Polka [2:04] 11. Carl NIELSEN (1865-1931) Little Suite Op 1 Intermezzo [5:14] 12. Hugo ALFVÉN (1872-1960) Midsommarvaka - Midsummer Vigil Op 19 [12:15] 13. Carl NIELSEN Maskarade Dance of the Cockerels [4:40 14. Edvard GRIEG Elegiac Melodies Våren - Last Spring [4:26] 15-16. Hans Christian LUMBYE Champagne Galop [2:01] Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop [3:37] Nos. 1, 2, 3, 9, 11-13 - Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Ølvin Fjeldstad; rec. Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, 11 April 1958 No. 4-8 Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra/John Frandsen; rec. Radio Studio, Copenhagen, 28 February & 1 March 1955 Nos. 10, 15-16 Copenhagen Symphony Orchestra/Lavard Friisholm; rec. originally issued in 1961 No. 14 Halle Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli, rec. Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 9-10 August 1958


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Aisha belongs to Sonam Kapoor - Subhash
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Sonam's world harks back to Jane Austen's giddy-headed British gentry class where match-making was not idle chatter. It was religion. When placed in the neo-rich spiced-up politically-charged atmosphere of Delhi Jane Austen's characters seem to come alive in unexpected spurts of sassy splendour and unbridled joie de vivre. You can't help laugh at these young often-aimless people's self-importance.
Aisha is a 2-hour celebration of pre-nuptial rituals. Though no one says it, every girl in the picture wants only one thing. And it isn't necessarily love, but somewhere close. The bristle and bustle of Delhi come alive through the slender intellectual faculties of the protagonists.
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Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive innovation is the data collection process which combines traditional survey instruments with behavioral economics experiments. The survey data include information on demographics, risk and loss aversion, time preference, planning, non-verbal IQ, and the MPQ personality profile. The data collected by behavioral economics experiments include risk and loss aversion, time preferences (discount rates), backward induction, patience, and the preference for cooperation in a social dilemma setting. Subjects will be followed over two years of their work lives. Among the major design goals are to discover the extent to which the survey and experimental measures are correlated, and whether and how much predictive power, with respect to key on-the-job outcome variables, is added by the behavioral measures. The panel study of new hires is being carried out against the backdrop of a second research component, the development of a more conventional in-depth statistical case study of the cooperating firm and its employees. This is a high-turnover service industry setting, and the focus is on the use of survival analysis to model the flow of new employees into and out of employment, and on the correct estimation of the tenure-productivity curve for new hires, accounting for the selection effects of the high turnover.
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Cottage Witch (3.5e Prestige Class)
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Cottage Witch[edit]
The cottage witch has settled down in one carefully chosen location, building herself a cottage to house herself and her equipment, and gaining the acceptance of the local populace as their primary village witch. She now focuses on accessing her hitherto latent psionic powers, using them to guide and care for her flock.
Alignment: Those allowed to witches, ie, neutral good, lawful neutral, neutral, chaotic neutral, or neutral evil.
Feats: Build Witch's Cottage, Gain Local Acceptance.
Races: Those allowed to witches, ie, half-elf, human, wood elf, forest gnome, lightfoot halfling, pixie, wild elf, aquatic elf, rock gnome, tallfellow halfling, gray elf, high elf, drow, deep halfling, maenad, lizardfolk, centaur, aasimir, tiefling, satyr, jann, rakshasa, hound archon, ogre mage.
Skills: Profession (village witch) 6 ranks, Witchcraft 10 ranks.
Level | Base Attack Bonus |
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1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Discipline | 2 | 1 | 1st | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | Brew Minor Tonic | 4 | 1 | 1st | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | Evasion | 6 | 2 | 1st | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Brew Lesser Tonic | 8 | 2 | 1st | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | A Thousand Faces | 10 | 3 | 1st | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | Brew Medium Tonic | 12 | 3 | 1st | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | Camoulflage | 16 | 4 | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8th | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | Brew Greater Tonic | 20 | 4 | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9th | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | Hide in Plain Sight | 24 | 5 | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Brew Major Tonic | 30 | 5 | 2nd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level) Knowledge (architecture/engineering) (Int), Knowledge (local) (Int), Knowledge (psionics) (Int) and Psicraft (Int). Disciplines and Class Skills |
Class Features[edit]
All the following are class features of the cottage witch:
Psionic Powers (Ps): A cottage witch's powers are those of a psion, since she uses her willpower to discipline her psychic abilites; however, unlike psions and like wilders, the ability modifier for her powers is Charisma rather than Intelligence.
Power Points/Day: A cottage witches's ability to manifest powers is limited by the power points she has available. Her base daily allotment of power points is given on Table: Witch. In addition, she receives bonus power points per day if she has a high Charisma score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Power Points). Her race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items.
Discipline: A cottage witch must decide at 1st level which psionic discipline she will specialize in. Choosing a discipline provides a psion with access to the class skills associated with that discipline (see above), as well as the powers restricted to that discipline. However, choosing a discipline also means that the psion cannot learn powers that are restricted to other disciplines. She can't even use such powers by employing psionic items.
Powers Known: A cottage witch begins play knowing a single psion power of her choice. Every second level thereafter, she unlocks the knowledge a new power. She selects her powers from the psion power list or from the list of powers of her chosen discipline. She cannot choose powers from restricted discipline lists other than her chosen discipline lists. She can choose powers from disciplines other than her own if they are not on a restricted discipline list. (Exception: The feats Expanded Knowledge and Epic Expanded Knowledge do allow a witch to learn powers from the lists of other disciplines or even other classes.) A witch an manifest any power that has a power point cost equal to or lower than his manifester level.
The number of times a witch can manifest powers in a day is limited only by her daily power points.
A witch simply knows her powers; they are ingrained in her mind. She does not need to prepare them (in the way that some spellcasters prepare their spells), though she must get a good night's sleep each day to regain all her spent power points.
The Difficulty Class for saving throws against cottage witch powers is 10 + the power's level + the witch's Charisma modifier.
Maximum Power Level Known: A cottage witch begins play with the ability to learn 1st-level powers. As she attains higher levels, a witch may gain the ability to master more complex powers.
To learn or manifest a power, a cottage witch have an Charisma score of at least 10 + the power's level.
Tonics: A cottage witch gains bonus witchcraft feats to create increasing complexities of tonic at 2nd (minor), 4th (lesser), 6th (medium), 8th (greater) and 10th (major) levels. Tonics are drunk and affect the drinker in ways particular to the recipe of the tonic. Anyone can drink a tonic, but if they do not recognize the type of tonic they are drinking, the results may be unexpected. A witch (and her bondmate, if she has one) can always recognize tonics she has crafted. Drinking a tonic is subject to the same rules as drinking a potion. A newly created tonic has 50 measures.
Evasion (Ex): At 3rd level, a cottage witch can avoid even magical and unusual attacks with great agility. If she makes a successful Reflex saving throw against an attack that normally deals half damage on a successful save, she instead takes no damage. Evasion can be used only if the witch is wearing light armor or no armor. A helpless witch does not gain the benefit of evasion.
A Thousand Faces (Su): At 5th level, a cottage witch gains the ability to change her appearance at will, as if using the disguise self spell. This affects the witch's body but not her possessions. It is not an illusory effect, but a minor physical alteration of the witch's appearance, within the limits described for the spell.
Camouflage (Ex): A cottage witch of 7th level or higher can use the Hide skill in any sort of natural terrain, even if the terrain doesn't grant cover or concealment.
Hide in Plain Sight (Ex): While in any sort of natural terrain, a cottage witch of 9th level or higher can use the Hide skill even while being observed.
Ex-cottage Witches[edit]
A cottage witch whose cottage is destroyed or who loses the acceptance of her associated village loses all psionic abilities. She cannot thereafter gain levels as a cottage witch until she rebuilds her cottage and regains acceptance of her village (although if necessary, she can move to a new locale and work to gain the approval of a new village).
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#2919: Unconventional String Quartets
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Hear a lot of new music for string quartet on this New Sounds. Listen to Raz Mesinai's work for string quartet and four turntables and music by Steve Reich .
Mesinai's piece is one in which the string instruments are recorded and then manipulated by DJs, resulting in a hybrid of composition and turntablism. Then there's Reich's haunting Triple Quartet, which can be a string section of 36 players, three string quartets, or string quartet and pre-recorded tape. Also, hear music from Elvis Costello, from his partnership with the Brodsky Quartet , inspired by an Italian professor's decision to reply to the many thousands of letters written every year to Shakespeare's fictional Juliet. Plus, works by Bruno Letort, Johann Johannsson , and more.
PROGRAM # 2919, New Music for String Quartet (First aired on Tues. 4/1/09)
Raz Mesinai |
Dubwar Podcast 06 |
String Quartet for 4 Turntables, Part 1 [4:00] |
Steve Reich / Kronos Quartet |
Triple Quartet |
Triple Quartet [14:00] |
Nonesuch 79546 |
Procédé Rodesco -Letort |
Volume Premier |
Letort: Suite for String Quartet and Diverse Machines [11:00] |
Tangram TC 3026 www.tangram-records.com or download from iTunes |
Jóhann Jóhannsson |
Englabörn |
Petta Gerist a Bestu Baejum (It Happens In The Best Homes) [1:00] |
Touch TO:52 |
Elvis Costello / the Brodsky Quartet |
The Juliet Letters |
Romeo's Séance [3:30] |
Warner Bros. 45180** |
Jóhann Jóhannsson |
Englabörn |
Salfraedingur (Psychologist) [3:30] Salfraedingur Salfraedingur Deyr (A Psychologist Dies) [3:00] |
See above. |
Raz Mesinai |
Dubwar Podcast 06 |
String Quartet for 4 Turntables, Part 2 excerpt [3:00] |
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Whether they run, jump or swim, there are plenty of robots around to be fearful of. None have quite exacerbated our arachnophobia as much as Robugtix's T8 octopod, however. The 3D-printed spiderbot not only looks the part, but employs 26 servo motors to drive its unnervingly life-like movement. Bigfoot's baked-in "Inverse Kinematics Engine" deals with all of the background computations, so you don't have to be a coding genius to work it. Instead, users send "short and simple commands" to the bot via wireless XBee or any other method you can hook up to its Rx / Tx pins. Expected to ship at the end of September, the T8 is available now for a special pre-order price of $1,350, and you can add $85 to that if you want one of Robugtix's analog-stick controllers for real-time direction. If that sounds a bit pricey, there's another option in the much cuter $250 iitsii hexapod, which is predicted to ship late August. Check out the shudder-inducing video of the T8 below, then follow it up with the iitsii demo to help you forget.
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I know this is going to come across completely ignorant, because while I know crystal meth is bad for you (a little fact I picked up by watching Six Feet Under and Geraldo), I had no idea that it mucked up your teeth this much! The pic to the left is of The Pogues' singer Shane MacGowan's distinctive smile, which is often attributed to his use of the drug. So, what causes meth mouth? It's supposedly due to the corrosive acids used to produce the substance, and whether meth is smoked, snorted, eaten, or injected, its effect on smiles is pretty apparent (it's characterized by brown or black cracked teeth and severe gum disease). And because the teeth are literally rotting in the mouth, the odor of meth user's breath is said to resemble "decaying carcasses." Delish.
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Hi Everyone!
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Kathryn Barrett, our library's genealogy program speaker for our May 2012 program, was kind enough to provide me with a series of paper handout aids that are at the Great Lakes Region of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that can help the genealogical researcher. Kathryn does volunteer work at the Great Lakes Region for genealogy.
I thought this presented an opportunity for me to scan these aids and ultimately get them up on the blog to help other researchers be able to read up on some of the handout material available at both the National level of NARA as well as local to us here at the Great Lakes Region location at 7358 South Pulaski Road in Chicago, IL and some other local regional offices of NARA.
As you can see I have created this additional "page" on this blog to accommodate the 27 documents that Kathryn provided to me. These documents are in the form of PDF files. Some are single page documents, some are multi-page documents. Some have short, manageable titles, some have extremely long titles. They are generally in alphabetical order.
When you open one of the PDF links just look to see at the top of the page if it looks like it indicates the document originates from the Great Lakes Region located in our area. It will be more meaningful to you if you will be going to the facility in our area to do your research. Some of the documents apply to some of the "other" local regional offices or even to the national location in Washington, D.C.
They may still be used as the "handouts" but it is possible that some may be out of date.
You may just want to peruse the titles and see if any could be of help to you in your own research giving you enough background information to pique your curiosity on data that exists that you may never have known about.
Or you may just want to be aware that they exist on this blog if it strikes you in the future you might want to check them again.
Enjoy the documents.
I want to especially thank Kathryn Barrett for providing these guides to me that she obtained from the Great Lakes Regional center of NARA. It does astound me about the variety of data that exists within NARA that makes genealogical research so fascinating when we consider more than just searching surname indexes! These "aids" give you an insight into materials that are available that you would never have thought about!
I hope you enjoy the variety of the links above. Take a peek at some of the links to see what our National Archives puts together to help genealogy researchers.
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even though it's a bunch of leftovers from last year, I really like this lineup. I'd probably attend if I was in a better financial situation.
it's a vast improvement from last year, which was only 2 days. they're certainly not ahead of the curve or bringing anything new to the table, but this is going to be only the 2nd one, and it's encouraging.
here's last year:
it's only $150/169 for tickets, so there's definitely some value here. what exactly is Atlantic Station?
That's a very nice lineup.
not Outkast? I know they are playing Conterpoint, but I assumed that they were just waiting for Counterpoint to sell some tickets before announcing them.
haha, rad. that's almost exactly what I posted when I shared the lineup poster on facebook.
This appears to be the exclusive non-outkast festival this year.
Its a large mixed use development with retail, apartments, and office buildings built on an old contanimated site. I haven't seen it in three years but I lived across the street from it for about five years when they were building it. There's some green space by the retail area where they could do a little fest. And the IKEA is there so you can grab some horse meatballs on your way in.
The weather would be nice that time of year. Not a bad line up for something of that size.
so, it's in a strip mall?
oops, missed the apartments and office buildings part, but that still seems like a really odd location.
The collection of artists/bands for this is amazing, and I'm debating going.
lol. it rained during this thing last year btw. it always rains in Georgia.
i will be in Atlanta during this so hopefully my work schedule will allow me to go. just bought tickets a few minutes ago. presale password is NATIONAL. $162 total with fees.
It sounds odd, but if you know the area it makes sense. There's sizable green space in the middle of the complex sort of a Central Park-ish area where they can fit a couple stages. If you image search "Atlantic Station" you can sort of see it.
This is only twenty minutes from me, so it's tempting to go. The lineup makes me a little nervous, though. Now that it's three days, I could see one of them being really bleak if the lineup falls a certain way.
Thanks for the advice. Did you look up the Braves schedule? if you did, thanks for enabling my laziness haha. I'm getting excited about this. I was sure I was going to make it out to Austin Psych Fest, but this lineup is so good and I promised myself as a kid I'd go see the Braves play on their home field eventually.
So what part of Atlanta is Atlantic Station in?
Man, this festival is built for me. I'd like to see basically everything in the first 12 lines. If I wasn't broke, I'd be buying plane tickets.
I live in ATL.
We bought the early birds for Shanky for $99 and that turned out to be a great decision.
Will be interesting to have it at Atlantic Station. Last year it was a the Masquerade music park and it was super muddy. This one should be on concrete. There is a big area by Atlantic station where they have food festivals/ Cirque de Solei, the ATL Tennis Open, etc. I honestly just don't know if there's enough room though.
As for MARTA. Don't do it. Marta sucks. Download an App called "Uber". You're welcome.
They added The Replacements!
Damn that's a nice looking lineup, and with the Replacements addition, it's tempting to dump this Coachella pass and go to Atlanta instead.
Day by day breakdown poster. Replacement are sub headliners below modest Mouse.
Strikes me as a low billing for such an exclusive booking, unless it was booked after others were promised the top line.
The Replacements aren't as big as Modest Mouse even with the so called exclusivity. This is my favorite lineup out of any American festival, and it's cheap.


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March 25th, 2011 – Sketch-A-Day: Banjo Sparky!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.25, 2011, under Cartooning, Sketchbook
While on UStream today had a number of visitors and we got talking about music. I made some mention of attendee Terisa Glover's dog, Sparky, providing banjo music at her store and the sketch above came to mind.
This came to mind also after learning that Cedric Hohnstadt is showing various drawings from his 'Dueling Pigs' site. I contributed one back in October.


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Directors Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky are bringing their drama "Francine" starring Melissa Leo to this year's SXSW Festival. The directors think audiences will come out of their film with questions about what they have seen. They come to the festival hoping to get a U.S. distribution deal for the film, more festival invitations and "maybe a hat."
What It's About: Academy Award winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and restrained performance as Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs working with animals, Francine turns away those who take an interest in her and instead seeks intimacy in the most unlikely of places. Gritty, elliptical, and voyeuristic, Francine is a portrait of a near-silent misfit and her fragile first steps in an unfamiliar world.
The Directors Say: "We started as photographers and have a background in documentary filmmaking. 'Francine' is our narrative feature debut. There are many diverse and beautiful locations in 'Francine.' Incorporating so many locations into a very tight shooting schedule was a large undertaking.
"We are in development on our next narrative feature project, but can't say any more."
Indiewire invited SXSW Film Festival directors to tell us about their films, including what inspired them, the challenges they faced and what they're doing next. We'll be publishing their responses leading up to the 2012 festival.
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