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Serenade for Tenor Solo, Horn, and Strings, Opus 31
Edward Benjamin Britten was born at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, on Saint Cecilia's Day, November 22, 1913, and died at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on December 4, 1976. On June 12 of that year he had been created Baron Britten of Aldeburgh in the Queen's Birthday Honors, making him the first musician to be elevated to the peerage. The Serenade was written in 1943 for tenor Peter Pears and horn player Dennis Brain, and was first performed by those artists with Walter Goehr and his orchestra in London on October 15 that year. The San Francisco Symphony first performed the Serenade in March 1985 when tenor Jon Garrison and then-SFS principal horn David Krehbiel were the soloists and Edo de Waart conducted; in the most recent SFS performances, in November 1993, tenor Neil Mackie and David Krehbiel were soloists and Iona Brown conducted. The Serenade is dedicated to Edward Sackville-West, brother of the famous Vita, himself a music critic, and of assistance to Britten in selecting the poems for this work. Performance time: about twenty-five minutes.
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy, phear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers, Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce, And to our high-rais'd phantasie present, That undisturbed Song of pure content. . . . —John Milton, At a Solemn Musick
Night and Silence, these are two of the things I cherish most. —Benjamin Britten
It was a work for string orchestra—the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, introduced by the Boyd Neel Orchestra at the 1937 Salzburg Festival—that put Benjamin Britten's name firmly on the map; first and foremost, however, Britten was a composer for Milton's "harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers." And, while John Harbison was right in pointing out that composers of vocal music have usually excelled either at opera or at song, Britten, in almost unique defiance of Harbison's Law, was a master at both.
Actually, not counting his notations at age five of "hundreds of dots all over the page connected by long lines all joined together in beautiful curves," Britten began his life as a composer with instrumental music, "elaborate tone poems [for piano] usually lasting about twenty seconds." His first large-scale effort combined theater, song, and music for instruments: This was a play with incidental music called The Royal Falily [sic], based on the recent death of Prince John, the thirteen-year-old son of King George V and Queen Mary. The precocious author-composer was six or seven. "Walztes"—spelling was not his strong suit—he wrote at nine and ten were good enough for him to use ten years later in his Simple Symphony. The summer he was fourteen, he wrote Quatre Chansons françaises, settings of Hugo and Verlaine. They were not performed until 1980, but they proved to be quite a find, not only as songs worth listening to, but also as evidence of the early flowering of Britten's poetic imagination and of an astonishingly sure technique.
Meanwhile, Britten was learning a thing or two about the musical climate in England between the wars. That same summer of the French Songs, someone asked him at a tennis party what he wanted to be when he grew up. "A composer," he said. "Yes, but what else?" came the reply. A year later, he started at a new school and on his first day was identified by the music teacher—with obvious disapproval—as "the little boy who likes Stravinsky." And it was not just the musical climate. The future composer of Our Hunting Fathers, the War Requiem, Who Are These Children?, and Owen Wingrave had left his previous school in disgrace as the author of an essay that his biographer, Michael Kennedy, describes as "an impassioned criticism of hunting and extended...to include all organized cruelty, including war."
But by then something had happened that made all the difference. At ten, he had heard Frank Bridge conduct his suite The Sea, and he "was knocked sideways." At thirteen, he was equally stunned by Bridge's rhapsody, Enter Spring. This time, his viola teacher, Audrey Alston, under whose guidance he had done his first writing for strings, took him to see Bridge, and before long the boy was taking lessons, "mammoth" ones, with that remarkable man. Bridge, a comfortable member of the English "pastoral school" as a young man, had become a lonely figure in the twenties: He was a pacifist (there, too, he would leave his mark on Britten) and, unlike nearly all of his compatriots, he found what Stravinsky, Bartók, and the members of the Schoenberg circle were doing to be of enormous interest. From his pupil's account, not to mention Britten's achievement, Bridge must have been an inspired and inspiring teacher. More than thirty years later Britten recalled: "In everything he did for me, there were perhaps above all two cardinal principles. One was that you should try to find yourself and be true to what you found. The other—obviously connected with it—was his scrupulous attention to good technique, the business of saying clearly what was in one's mind."
As Britten entered his twenties, some things went well, others not. In 1934, he heard a broadcast of Wozzeck—it was the British premiere, a concert performance conducted by Adrian Boult—and he knew at once that he wanted to study with Alban Berg. At that point, in perfect exemplification of English insularity and anti-professionalism, Sir Hugh Allen, director of the Royal College of Music, intervened by advising Britten's parents to refuse permission because Berg was "not a good influence." Britten surmised that "there was some confusion in my parents' minds--thinking that 'not a good influence' meant morally, not musically." Britten might have been ready for this rebuff: he had already seen the librarian of the Royal College refuse to buy a score of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire!
On the other hand, Britten was getting performances under such progressive auspices as the chamber music series organized by the violinist Ann Macnaghten with the conductor Iris Lemare and the composer Elisabeth Lutyens, and at Sir Henry J. Wood's Promenade concerts; and the BBC provided the occasional opportunity (its musical activities were then guided by Edward Clark, a student of Webern). He was increasingly in demand as a composer for documentary films, the important publishing house of Boosey & Hawkes took him on, and he was even getting played abroad.
Still, British criticism, then in a period of obtuse provincialism, was hostile to anything so removed from the pastoral tradition (as represented most notably by Vaughan Williams), so manifestly tainted by foreign influences, and so shamelessly brilliant as this new young man's work. "Too clever by half," was the consensus. Britten's loyalty to left-wing and pacifist causes and his ties to such writers as W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood also made him a suspect figure. So, of course, did that then undiscussable issue, his homosexuality.
Stanley Baldwin's and then Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler drove him to despair. When Auden and Isherwood moved to the United States in January 1939, Britten made arrangements to follow suit. His companion on the journey—for life, as it turned out—was the tenor Peter Pears, whom he had met three years before, at which time they had given a benefit recital for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
Britten and Pears traveled widely in America, and they lived for some time in Brooklyn (at the famous bohemian house at 7 Middagh Street, whose residents included variously Carson McCullers, Auden, Gypsy Rose Lee, Chester Kallman, and Paul Bowles), but they always returned to Amityville, Long Island, and the hospitality of William and Elizabeth Mayer, a remarkable couple from Munich, he a psychiatrist and physician, she a pianist and translator. Britten's ties to Suffolk County (the one on Long Island now, not his own home county in East Anglia) even included assuming the conductorship for the 1941-42 season of the Suffolk Friends of Music Orchestra. The American professional world was beginning to take notice as John Barbirolli in New York, Eugene Goossens in Cincinnati, Serge Koussevitzky in Boston, and Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia all programmed works by Britten.
Auden and Isherwood, each in his own way, settled in America and with Americans. Britten's American experience, agreeable and stimulating though it was, made him realize how deeply rooted he was in England. During a stay in Escondido, California in the summer of 1941, he saw in the BBC magazine The Listener an article by E.M. Forster about the East Anglian poet, George Crabbe. "To talk about Crabbe is to talk about England," Forster began. That sentence struck home. It brought to the surface his feeling that he must return to England, and it was in Crabbe's The Borough that he found the material for Peter Grimes, the opera that was a milestone in his life and in the history of British music. It was hard to get passage during the war, but on March 16, 1942, Britten wrote in the Mayers' visitors book, "The end of the week-end (see Aug. 21st 1939)". A month later he and Pears were home.
Several of the works Britten had composed in America and that had not yet been heard in England—the Sinfonia da Requiem, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the String Quartet No. 1, Hymn to Saint Cecilia, and A Ceremony of Carols—were quickly introduced in the composer's homeland and had a more positive reception than most of his prewar compositions. The big project at hand was Peter Grimes (which Koussevitzky had commissioned just prior to Britten's departure from the US), but before that, and as the first music he wrote after his return to England, Britten wrote the Serenade.
He was turning out scores for radio commentaries on the war effort, usually for airing at 3 a.m., and the orchestra that played them was the Royal Air Force Orchestra, whose principal horn player was Dennis Brain, then twenty-one. Dennis Brain's father, Aubrey, was England's most eminent performer on the French horn and was himself the son of a superb horn player; Aubrey's brother Alfred was principal horn of the New York Symphony and, later, the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But Dennis, who made his debut at seventeen (he and his father can be heard in the 1938 Busch Chamber Players recording of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 1), set new standards for his instrument. In his book The French Horn, Reginald Morley-Pegge calls him "the first horn player of genius since Punto [1748-1803]." Morley-Pegge also tells us that Brain was "a superb organist and when he decided to make his career with the horn, his teacher said that it would be a great loss to English organ playing." He was killed in an automobile accident at thirty-six.
Britten recalled later that, once he had discovered Dennis Brain, he took great pleasure in writing the most elaborate horn solos into his documentary scores, and their conversations in the BBC canteen soon led to a request from Brain for a concert piece. In an obituary article, Britten wrote that Brain's help was "invaluable in writing the [Serenade], but he was always most cautious in advising any alterations. Passages which seemed impossible even for his prodigious gifts were practiced over and over again before any modifications were suggested, such was his respect for a composer's ideas. . . ."
What Britten wrote for Brain in the Serenade—his expectations in the matter of command of color, agility, and poetic imagination—tells better than any words what kind of musician and virtuoso Dennis Brain was. Happily, he was amply recorded, not only in solo and chamber music, but as principal horn in the Royal Philharmonic and the Philharmonia orchestras.
The Serenade is also one of many works that celebrate the genius of Peter Pears. No other singer in our time except Callas had a voice so instantly and unmistakably recognizable. Sir Peter, as he had become in 1977, sang until he was well into his sixties and did, it often seemed, the best singing of his life at that age. His was not a conventionally beautiful voice, but it had a range of color, a flexibility, an intensity and penetration—Michael Kennedy speaks of "monastic ecstasy"—altogether exceptional. It was, furthermore, in the service of a level of intelligence, taste, and poetic fantasy not often encountered. These qualities, combined with his technical address, made him one of those performers whose presence changes the world of music. The roles that Britten wrote for him (and happily we have Albert Herring to remind us of his comic gift), as well as the many songs, make up a vivid composite portrait of one of the great artists of our time.
Britten based most of his song cycles on the work of a single poet, but he also enjoyed assembling mini-anthologies, usually bound by a theme. The Serenade is the most famous of his cycles in that genre. Fifteen years later, the Serenade also acquired a sequel in the Nocturne, a deeper, darker, less immediately obliging, and therefore much less known work that also extends the idea of pairing the tenor voice with an obbligato instrument, in that instance a different one for each of the seven songs.
Pears was a partner in most of Britten's literary choices, and in the early years Auden was also a tremendous influence. At the same time, it is clear that when it came to poetry, Britten had a mind of his own as well as extensive knowledge and profound love.
Before we get to words—but not before we get to poetry—there is a Prologue, fourteen magical bars for horn alone, fanciful in their rhythmic freedom, wide in dynamic range. Britten directs that the player must use the natural harmonics of his instrument only, not the valves, so that certain notes sound exotically and evocatively out of tune to our ears. (Twenty years earlier, Vaughan Williams had used the same effect in A Pastoral Symphony.)
Muted strings pick up a characteristic trochee from the Prologue and, reiterating it, set the background for the first song, "Pastoral." Charles Cotton was a minor seventeenth-century poet who made an excellent translation of Montaigne's Essays and contributed a section to Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler. I know of no settings of his verse other than this one (Britten uses four of ten stanzas). The music is of inspired simplicity, consisting mainly of descending triads and fragments of scales, but charmingly responsive to the text ("A very little little Flock"). As the sun descends, so does the horn, coming to rest on a tonic pedal throughout the last stanza.
After rustic calm comes the Romantic flamboyance of "Nocturne." The trochees in the strings are incisive now, and voice and horn engage in exciting dialogue against screens of glittering trills and tremolandos. All his life, from the Simple Symphony to the 1975 Phaedra, Britten had a remarkably imaginative touch with string orchestra. Listening to this song, we can also understand with special force what Britten had in mind when he said (apropos Peter Grimes): "One of my chief aims is to try to restore to the musical setting of the English language a brilliance, freedom, and vitality that have been curiously rare since the death of Purcell."
The horn had the stage to itself in the Prologue, receded to the role of agreeable seconder of the tenor's motions in "Pastoral," and stepped very much to the fore in "Nocturne." Now, in "Elegy," the horn is the protagonist, singing a wide-ranging song against a quiet but restlessly syncopated accompaniment. Blake's brief and frightening poem is set as a short recitative in the middle of that song, almost like something inserted with a caret as an afterthought. The strings add just one fierce punctuation to this recital. (Blake was a poet whom Britten would revisit extensively in 1965 when he wrote his Songs and Proverbs of William Blake for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.)
With the feeling for balance and contrast that is always characteristic of Britten in his cycles, he has the voice begin the "Dirge" alone. Alone, and very high, with great slides from octave to octave. The strings strike in with new material of their own; at the climax, they are joined by the horn in a ringing molto forte. The song vanishes in pianissimo, with the voice again (almost) alone. ("Lyke" is one form of a Middle English word meaning body, especially a dead body—compare the German Leiche.)
"Hymn" suggests a solemn music, but this is a hymn to Diana, goddess of chastity, hunting, and the moon, and Britten sets it—presto a leggiero—as a hunting-scherzo, "light, silver and insubstantial," in the words of Peter Pears. It is brilliantly virtuosic for tenor and horn player alike. This is Britten's only setting of Ben Jonson.
The Australian poet Peter Porter has remarked on Britten's "[undaunted] confidence in his ability to find notes for the most finished [poetic] structure," and he was thinking especially of Hölderlin's hymn, "Hälfte des Lebens" ("The Middle of Life") and Keats's sonnet "To Sleep." (Britten returned to Keats—the first stanza of "Sleep and Poetry"—in the Nocturne.) Now the horn is silent—indeed, the player leaves the stage altogether—and the strings, just thrice rising above pianissimo, create a luminous context for the voice. With a sense of detail that Purcell would have enjoyed—"the amen," the poppy's "lulling charities," "burrowing like a mole"—Britten (and again I quote Pears) "winds the Serenade to stillness."
Stillness, but not yet silence. The Epilogue repeats, note for note, the music of the Prologue, but heard now from far away.
—Michael Steinberg
Michael Steinberg, the San Francisco Symphony's Program Annotator from 1979 to 1999 and a contributing writer to our program book until his death in 2009, was one of the nation's pre-eminent writers on music. We are privileged to continue publishing his program notes. His books are available at the Symphony Store in Davies Symphony Hall.
More About the Music Recordings: Peter Pears (tenor) and Dennis Brain (French horn) with Sir Eugene Goossens and the New Symphony Orchestra (Regis) | Peter Pears (tenor) and Barry Tuckwell (French horn) with Benjamin Britten and the London Symphony Orchestra (Decca) | Martyn Hill (tenor) and Frank Lloyd (French horn), with Richard Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia (Virgin Classics)
Reading: Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction, by Heather Wiebe(Cambridge University Press) | Benjamin Britten: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter (Scribner) | Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, edited by Donald Mitchell (California) | Benjamin Britten, part of the Master Musicians series, by Michael Kennedy (Schirmer) | The Britten Companion, edited by Christopher Palmer (Faber) | Remembering Britten, edited by Alan Blyth (Hutchinson)
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Montezuma's Revenge (Commodore 64)
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You play as a treasure hunter named Panama Joe, whose goal is to find an ancient treasure hidden by Aztec warrior deep inside catacombs. But beware, the catacombs are a large maze inhabited by monsters. Bouncing and rolling skulls, dancing spiders, disappearing and re-appearing chains and tons of fire await you. You'll have to find many keys and unlock doors in order to reach your goal. Panama Joe can jump and climb ladders, but doesn't have much to offer in terms of combat. That's why the monsters in the game should be avoided: a collision with an enemy leads to a premature death. He will also find amulets which make him invulnerable for a short time. Except for the Master System version, they are activated directly when picked up.There are two ports with significant changes: Panama Joe for ZX Spectrum and the Atari 2600 version.
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A 35kb prototype version of the game was created by Robert Jaeger based on the concept given to him by his friend Mark Sunshine. Robert Jaeger began making the game at the age of 15. The game was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1983. The game was bought by Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers decided to release Montezuma's Revenge in 1984, but the game was adapted to the version that required only 16kb of RAM by removing some game elements. Parker Brothers made some cuts to the graphics, removed the intro, simplified maze construction, and changed the name of the main character from Pedro to Panama Joe.Graphics
Montezuma's Revenge is one of the few PC titles that supports 16 colors exclusively in PCjr mode.Awards
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- April 1991 (Issue 7) - listed in the A to Z of Classic Games article (Great)
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Once again, Colin Brennan has positioned himself nicely for a run at his first Massachusetts Amateur title, securing medalist or co-medalist honors for the third consecutive year.
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Brennan, despite being the No. 1 match-play seed each of the past two years, lost both times in the quarterfinals. He'll be the top seed this time, too, and will face Ian Thimble in Wednesday morning's first round. Thimble earned the 32d and final match-play spot in a seven-man playoff for five spots.


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In my efforts to lose weight and get healthy I have cut out traditional white bread, not that I ate it a lot but as I worked on my health I knew I needed to have food at work that would keep me from going out to get food. That meant making sandwiches a few times a week.
I have found myself very fond of Aunt Millies Fiber Light Potato bread, it tastes great, has only 70 calories per serving (2 slices), and has 5grams of fiber.
My boss is a health nut and gave me some gruff for eating white bread, looks the same so you can't tell the difference from just looking. When I said it was the Potato bread he said it was just as bad.
I personally cannot stand whole grain bread, occasionally I can deal with it but not often. The aunt millie's potato bread has less calories, less sugar, and more fiber than ANY wheat bread I have found.
What am I missing?
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There is whole wheat potato bread.
White vs. Wheat
There are two big differences: how they're processed and how healthful they are. The flour for both is made from wheat berries, which have three nutrient-rich parts: the bran (the outer layers), the germ (the innermost area) and the endosperm (the starchy part in between). Whole wheat is processed to include all three nutritious parts, but white flour uses only the endosperm. When put head-to-head with whole wheat bread, white is a nutritional lightweight. Whole wheat is much higher in fiber, vitamins B6 and E, magnesium, zinc, folic acid and chromium.
But of all these nutritional goodies, fiber is the star:
*In a 10-year Harvard study completed in 1994, men and women who ate high-fiber breads had fewer heart attacks and strokes than those whose tastes ran to bagels and baguettes.
*Simply switching from white to whole wheat bread can lower heart disease risk by 20 percent, according to research from the University of Washington reported in the April 2, 2003
issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
*Fiber has long been known to aid digestive health too.
*Fiber can help you lose or maintain weight because eating fiber-dense wheat bread helps you feel full.
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7 years ago
Have you tried light wheat bread? It's only about 80-100 calories per slice (or bun), and my kids are not really into the real hearty wheat variety. The consistency is like white, but nutritionally it's a bit better. Village Hearth is a brand we buy here in MN.
However, keeping things in perspective, as long as you like it - go with it. Just make sure the rest of your diet is in proportion and you are getting fiber from other whole grains, fruit and veggies.
7 years ago
Nicole, I found the same article but it doesn't really talk about potato bread.
I don't believe the Aunt Millie's bread is considered a wheat potato though.
Eric I did try both light wheat bread and honey wheat bread just didn't get into it.
Here are the nutrition facts on the bread: Aunt Millie's Light Potato Bread "Healthy Goodness"
Serving size 2 slices
Calories 70
Total Fat 1g
Saturated .2g
Polyunsaturated .4g
Monounsaturated .2g
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesteral 0mg
Sodium 200mg
Potassium 20mg
Total Carbs 18g
Dietary Fiber 5g
Sugars 1g
Protein 4g
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Speaking for myself I enjoy the tastes of whole grain breads but when I eat a sandwich Bread plays little in overall flavor for me. I'm more interested in if the bread can hold the sandwich together. Maybe dress your sandwich in healthy ways that would help you not to think of the bread as Whole wheat. I'm sure everyone has a take on this. I grew up on eating white bread as a treat, rolled into little balls or jelly rolls. Wonder bread.. hehe. If you haven't tried give Arnold* Sandwich thins a shot. 100 cal, 1 g fat, 22 carbs, 5 dietary fiber.. Hope this helps
7 years ago
I obviously haven't seen these specific products (other than what was posted here), but as a registered dietitian, I think all of the options presented sound just fine!!
7 years ago
Focus less on bread and focus more on raw fruit and vegitables. If you think you need bread for lunch sandwiches, forget that and switch to salads. I eat salmon salads I prepare myself before I go to work. No bread. Bananas and blueberries for snack breaks.
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Focus less on bread and focus more on raw fruit and vegitables. If you think you need bread for lunch sandwiches, forget that and switch to salads. I eat salmon salads I prepare myself before I go to work. No bread. Bananas and blueberries for snack breaks.
3 years ago
I think that it is really simple. Try to squeeze your slice of bread a little and if it is coming back – you can eat it, but if it stays in like a mold then sorry, do not eat it. You feel like you are eating clouds and then you fell like there are stones inside of you...and it is typical cheap American bread. Spend more money on bread - it is worth it, we have only one life.
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Concerns have been raised about anonymous donors backing an organization opposed to the construction of a waste transfer facility on the waterfront in College Point.
Friends of LaGuardia Airport Inc. is seeking to put the brakes on the North Shore Marine Transfer Station, a proposed garbage collection point for Queens, with good reason.
Part of College Point is less than 5,000 feet from the runways at LaGuardia. Garbage trucks would drop off refuse at the facility, which would then be packed onto barges. The opponents of the plan say the garbage will attract seagulls and other birds which pose a risk to planes taking off from and landing at LaGuardia.
The city says the garbage will be containerized and not attract birds. We don't believe that and neither do the Friends of LaGuardia. If there is a bird strike on a plane taking off from LaGuardia, the kind that forced an airliner to land in the Hudson River, there is a possibility that plane will land in College Point and kill people.
Nevertheless, we think the Friends of LaGuardia should be upfront about where the money is coming from. Why should the donors list be anonymous?
Ken Paskar, the head of Friends of LaGuardia, said the policy of cloaking donors' identities is designed to protect contributors from potential retribution from the Federal Aviation Administration or the city government.
The policy has led to speculation that some of the donors may have ulterior motives related to real estate.
The best way to silence that kind of talk is to publish a complete list of donors. That way, the fight against the transfer station will remain above board.
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Elected officials led by state Assemblyman David Weprin are trying to force the NYPD to reform its dress code to allow Sikh employees to wear turbans and beards in accordance with their religious faith.
Weprin introduced a bill in Albany that would "prohibit discrimination" against uniformed employees who wear religious dress.
We resent Weprin asking Albany to micromanage the NYPD. Uniformed services require uniforms for good reason. It's not discrimination, it's common sense.
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On Sunday Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario feels the full force of rock power when the X103.9 FM Merry Meltdown concert takes over with P.O.D., Switchfoot, Sick Puppies, Lit, Anberlin, Dose of Adolescence and the laid-back reggae rock of the Dirty Heads.
Like many bands before it, the Dirty Heads started out in a garage.
âWe met in high school,â guitarist/singer Dustin âDuddy Bâ Bushnell said in a recent phone interview. âWe met through our older brothers. So we were hanging out. We always just did music for fun.
What was different for the Dirty Heads, who formed about a decade ago in Huntington Beach, is one of those early tapes turned a mostly-for-fun group into something different.
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It turned out, the manager wasnât blowing smoke (or any other substance) when he brought up the notion that the Dirty Heads might have a future in music.
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Unfortunately, after finishing the CD, thatâs when the seemingly charmed life of the Dirty Heads took a turn.
âWe made the album and it didnât really get released,â Bushnell said. âIt was just sitting around. We didnât know what was going on.â
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That first album was called âAny Port in a Storm,â and it very much put the Dirty Heads on the national music map after its release in 2008. The CD included guest appearances from M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold and keyboardist Billy Preston (yes, the one that played with the Beatles on the âLet It Beâ album). It yielded a single, âLay Me Down,â that became one of the biggest alternative rock hits of recent years, holding the number one slot for 11 weeks.
This gave the Dirty Heads a good head of momentum heading into its recently released second CD, âCabin by the Sea.â
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The Dirty Heads, which also includes Jared Watson (vocals), Jon Olazabal (percussion), Matt Ochoa (drums), David Foral(bass), will get to showcase its new material with a few shows to end 2012.
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AllThingsD, which is traditionally very close to Apple, says the iPad Mini announcement will happen October 23. Consider that date set in stone.
But even more interesting is that Apple will unveil its new tablet just three days before Microsoft launches its first tablet, the Surface.
Microsoft announced the Surface in June, but it left pricing and release date a mystery. We're now just two weeks away from the Surface launch and we still don't even know where it'll be sold. (Aside from the popup stores Microsoft will have in select cities on October 26.)
So there's a very strong chance Apple will be able announce pricing and availability for the iPad Mini before Microsoft can even set pricing for a tablet it announced about four months ago. That's going to make Microsoft look pretty silly.
It's the same pattern we see with just about every hardware company besides Apple and Amazon. There's a big, flashy event for an unfinished product that will launch on an unspecified date for an unspecified price. Of course, companies don't have to announce those details, but it's confusing to consumers who are trying to figure out what to buy. Why wait months for an unfinished product like the Surface when you already know what you're getting with excellent tablets like the iPad and Nexus 7?
The timing of the iPad Mini announcement couldn't be better for Apple. This thing is going to sell like crazy and completely overshadow Microsoft's Surface launch a few days later.


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Last offseason, I never would have guessed that your Houston Texans would have cut a positive-contributing starter, let alone someone popular and beloved in the City of Houston, for cap relief. Yet Eric Winston packed his bags and headed north for Kansas City after being released. One year later, it's now easier to believe that defensive end, and ninja assassin, Antonio Smith finds himself in a very similar situation.
Smith is in the final year of a five-year, $35.5 million contract and is scheduled to be a cap hit of $9.5 million. According to Spotrac.com, the Texans would save $6 million by cutting the Ninja Cowboy. This is double the relief Houston could gain from any other single player move. Pro Bowl guard Wade Smith offers $3 million in cap relief, for those wondering who was second.
Moving back to Smith, the Texans would be foolish to cut him and let him join other castaways in Baltimore. Unlike Winston, Smith hasn't plateaued on the field. The Ninja Assassin is coming off a career season with seven sacks, three passes defensed, two forced fumbles, and a truck-load of gaps penetrated. Nor do the Texans have any serviceable options to replace him as a starter, a tall order considering Smith has only missed one game in his four-year Texan career. Given all of that, the Texans should extend him. Yet the leverage isn't completely in Smith's corner.
There is that huge cap relief number of $6 million, combined with the fact that Smith's going to turn 32 during the season. For a guy whose game comes chiefly from his off-the-snap quickness,his age may get more attention. If the Texans draft a defensive end in round one, like UCLA's Datone Jones, that would signal an end to the Era of the Ninja.
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Congress & DOJ Take On Internet Data Privacy
The Justice Department hopes to force ISPs to archive personal user data usage for help facilitate future law enforcement investigations, which puts the fate of our Internet privacy up in the air. Kevin Pereira talks to EFF's Richard Esguerra about the upcoming hearing and the details.
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Too me it's 100% BS and i'm saying what going you going put people in jail for viewing playboy site and what happens some 5th or 6th grader wants to do sex education homework essay to get straight a's. wtf world coming this BS we have admit rights in this country and the government should go after terrorists and plus economy is so bad in this country people can't afford goto movies give theses people some high paying jobs. plus the government get into our private let parents teach there kids and the schools about internet safety. To me for odds like this it won't too many ISP's won't support they can't afford and it will violation internet privacy rights..
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Have learned what happen in Egypt this week ll about protests and if they do this we would be like america people on streets like what happened in Egypt protests this week.
you guys didn't heard about Egypt government shut down internet i guess those people didn't get no xbox live for 4days. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_ egypt_protestPosted: January 28, 2011 7:30 PM -
Vice President Joe Biden will be answering questions on yahoo answers (answers.yahoo.com) shortly. I've already posted a question about mandatory data retention so if everyone could thumbs up that question (I guess you'd have to do a search for it) or post their own question about data retention get everyone you know to give it thumbs up, then hopefully the vice president will have to talk about it.Posted: January 27, 2011 8:14 PM -
You can already get fired for the content on your facebook account, despite that being your personal life; where do we draw the line between public and private use of content? And I think we can all agree that the U.S. government should finish what they already can't chew before they bite off more.
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So, everyone ready for the police state?
I find it funny that the country cannot get a effective universal health care plan due to Washington having a lack of foresight , but this "internet Gestapo" crap gets started with no effort what so ever..Posted: January 26, 2011 8:52 PM
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"I don't like days off," Matt Kemp said as he bounded up the dugout steps before his first off-day of 2013, on his way to take batting practice for the second time Wednesday.
The last time he took a day off was Sept. 9, 2012. Kemp was nursing a then-undisclosed torn labrum in his left shoulder. This time, the problems aren't physical. Kemp is batting .185 with no home runs and just four RBIs through the season's first 14 games.
"Just body language, more than anything," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "Being around the game, you see guys struggle. Sometimes it helps to sit back and watch a game where you don't have to be out there. … It gives him another day tomorrow, almost three days with the night game (Friday) in Baltimore. I wanted to give him 10 to 12 days off over the course of 162 anyway."


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Shock beat Stars 95-90 behind 22 points from Paris
TULSA, Okla. (AP) Courtney Paris scored a career-high 22 points and the Shock made three late free throws to beat the San Antonio Stars 95-90 Thursday.
Jennifer Lacy sank a pair of free throws with 33.7 seconds remaining and Roneeka Hodges added another with 13 seconds left to seal the win. Glory Johnson added a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds to help the Shock (8-15) snap a five-game losing streak. Skylar Diggins had 19 points and Odyssey Sims scored 15. Lacy finished with 12.
Danielle Adams scored 17 points for San Antonio (11-12) and Sophia Young-Malcol had 16. Danielle Robinson and Kayla McBride scored 15 apiece.
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Italy 10-Year Bonds Rise a 5th Week on Stimulus Bets; Bunds Fall
Neal ArmstrongItalian 10-year bonds rose for a fifth week, with yields dropping to the lowest in more than seven years, after the European Central Bank cut interest rates and pledged further stimulus to support growth.
Spain's securities also rallied, with the 10-year yield dropping below 4 percent for the first time since October 2010. Yields on two-year Italian notes fell below 1 percent for the first time on record after the ECB cut its main refinancing rate on May 2 and signaled it was open to a negative deposit rate. Italian bonds also advanced as the swearing-in of a new prime minister ended nine weeks of political deadlock. German 10-year bund yields fell to the lowest since July.
"The ECB decision to cut rates creates a supportive environment for the periphery," said Luca Cazzulani, a senior rates strategist at UniCredit SpA in Milan. "The ECB is going to keep liquidity abundant. The rally in Italian and Spanish bonds can continue."
Italian 10-year yields dropped 24 basis points, or 0.24 percentage point in the week, to 3.82 percent at 4:45 p.m. London time yesterday after falling 70 basis points in the four weeks ended April 26. They slid to as low as 3.68 percent yesterday, the least since February 2006. The 5.5 percent security due November 2022 rose 1.925, or 19.25 euros per 1,000-euro ($1,314) to 113.52.
Two-year yields dropped 25 basis points in the week to 1.04 percent percent after sliding to 0.942 percent, the lowest on record.
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Spain's 10-year yield fell 24 basis points to 4.04 percent. The rate slid to 3.94 percent yesterday, the least since May 2010. The nation's two-year rate declined 38 basis points to 1.55 percent after dropping to 1.46 percent yesterday, the least since April 2010.
Spanish and Italian bonds led gains in Europe's government securities after ECB President Mario Draghi said on May 2 the central bank was "technically ready" to charge banks to park their excess liquidity with the central bank overnight and would address any unintended consequences if it decided to act.
The ECB lowered its main refinancing rate by a quarter percentage point to 0.5 percent at its policy meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, and cut its marginal lending rate, which banks use for overnight credit, to 1 percent from 1.5 percent.
New Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta assembled a coalition government by forging an alliance with former premier Silvio Berlusconi. The nation was in a political deadlock since inconclusive elections on Feb. 24-25.
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Yields on Portugal's 10-year bonds dropped to 5.5 percent, the least since October 2010, and were 37 basis points lower on the week. German 10-year bunds gained four basis points to 1.24 percent, even as they slid to 1.15 percent on May 2, the lowest since July 23.
Euro-area retail sales dropped 0.1 percent in March from a 0.3 percent slide the previous month, a report on May 6 is forecast to show. Spain is scheduled to sell three-, five- and 10-year government debt on May 9.
Italian securities gained 5.2 percent this year through May 2 according to indexes compiled by Bloomberg and the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies. Spanish bonds returned 8.9 percent and German debt earned 1.4 percent.


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Teixeira targeting May 1 return to Yankees — NEW YORK — Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira said Wednesday that he's now hoping to return by May 1 from a right wrist injury he sustained preparing to play for Team USA in the days before the opening of the World Baseball Classic.
Dan Shaughnessy / The Boston Globe:
At this rate, will the Red Sox ever lose? — NEW YORK — They may never lose. — They may never trail. — Worst to first. Two games into the season, this is the theme of the 2013 Red Sox. — And is it possible for Jackie Bradley Jr. to be the Face of the Franchise after only two games in the big leagues?
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Associated Press:
Red Sox Chill Yanks, 2-0 for First Time Since 1999 — NEW YORK (AP) — Clay Buchholz chilled the Yankees' bats, speedy Jackie Bradley Jr. got his first major league hit and the Boston Red Sox beat New York 7-4 on a cold Wednesday night to open a season with consecutive wins for the first time since 1999.
CBSSports.com and Boston Globe
Tim Dierkes / MLB Rumors:
Tigers Sign Jose Valverde — The Tigers signed reliever Jose Valverde to a minor league deal, tweets Patrick Reusse of 1500 ESPN. The team confirmed the signing, noting that he will report to Lakeland for extended spring training. Valverde, a client of the Boras Corporation …
Baseball Nation and Bless You Boys
Associated Press:
Twins Rally Past Tigers in 9th for 3-2 Win — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eduardo Escobar's two-run double with one out in the ninth inning lifted the Minnesota Twins to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday. — After Joaquin Benoit issued a leadoff walk to Trevor Plouffe, reliever Phil Coke took over.
MLB, CBSSports.com, CBSSports.com and Twinkie Town
Anthony Rieber / Newsday:
Mets' Matt Harvey deals hot stuff on a cold night — Considering the frigid conditions, there could only be three types of fans at Citi Field Wednesday night: Hearty fans. Hardy fans. And Harvey fans. — Hearty because only a true die-hard would come out in weather like this.
Wall Street Journal, NY Daily News, Metsblog and New York Times
Associated Press:
Pennington Lifts D'backs Over Cards in 16 Innings — PHOENIX (AP) — Cliff Pennington's single in the 16th inning brought home Jason Kubel from second to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 10-9 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in a game that didn't end until early Thursday.
Baseball Prospectus and AZ Snake Pit
Mark Bowman / MLB.com:
Grateful Gattis homers in big league debut — ATLANTA — When Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez put Evan Gattis in the lineup for Wednesday night's game against the Phillies, he assumed the powerful rookie catcher would add to the magic of his journey by doing something special in his Major League debut.
Talking Chop
Joe Frisaro / MLB.com:
Hernandez, Cox, Maine staying in organization — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gorkys Hernandez will be remaining in the organization after all. So will Zack Cox and Scott Maine. — After clearing waivers on Wednesday, Hernandez and Maine were outrighted to Triple-A New Orleans, with Cox outrighted to Double-A Jacksonville.
Fish Stripes
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Rockies beat host Milwaukee Brewers to take first series of season — MILWAUKEE — So eager were the Rockies to get the ballpark Wednesday, a bus awaited outside their hotel at 1:30 p.m. on 3rd Street. There were five autograph seekers downtown, a couple of whom actually recognized the players.
Purple Row
Dylan Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:
Dodgers players feel at home in new clubhouse — State-of-the-art quarters are part of the $100-million-plus renovations at Dodger Stadium and Adrian Gonzalez calls it 'probably the best clubhouse in baseball.' — Adrian Gonzalez says the Dodgers' new facilities have given L.A. "probably the best clubhouse in baseball."
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Mugabe Must Stop Brutal Tactics
I join with people of all faiths in the United States and around the globe in calling for an end to the religious persecution taking place in Zimbabwe. These offenses are an affront to everyone and, as we know, religious persecution anywhere is a call to action everywhere.
[Africa: Op-Ed]
As the turmoil in Zimbabwe continues after a seriously tainted election process, President Robert Mugabe is employing brutal tactics against dissenters in an attempt to retain power.
In addition to raids on opposition party offices and the killing of opposition democracy activists by Mugabe supporters, there are increasing reports that the police are interrogating, arresting, and beating Anglican parishioners and preventing them from attending Church.
I join with people of all faiths in the United States and around the globe in calling for an end to the religious persecution taking place in Zimbabwe. These offenses are an affront to everyone and, as we know, religious persecution anywhere is a call to action everywhere.
Zimbabwe's families and communities teeter on the edge of starvation and economic distress while intimidation and violence toward people of faith is being carried out by the ruling party.
This past Sunday while many participated in Holy Communion, a church service was raided and congregants had to run for safety instead of participating in their most holy sacrament.
We, as a free nation, must join in prayer for the faithful of Zimbabwe. In April, the worldwide Anglican Communion called on everyone to pray for Zimbabwe's rescue "from violence, the concealing and juggling of election results, deceit, oppression and corruption."
Let us all join in this call to prayer seeking an end to the persecution, for the church of Zimbabwe to remain faithful and strong for justice and truth, for an end to the drought that is creating a food crisis, for those suffering from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and their families and the clergy who are weary in their ministry. Let's work to lift up this nation during their time of distress.
As First Lady and Senator, I have spoken out against religious persecution around the world, from China to Afghanistan to Ukraine. And in places such as Northern Ireland, I have worked on behalf of religious reconciliation to help foster peace.
As President, I will continue to speak out for religious freedom and work towards religious tolerance and peace around the world.
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The Lives of Dax
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An anthology of stories focusing on the hosts of the Dax symbiont.
- From the book jacket
- Three hundred fifty-seven years. Nine lives. One soul.
- Mother, father, engineer, ambassador, scientist, statesman, serial killer, Starfleet officer: At one time or another, Dax has been all of these things and more. The near-immortal part of a composite species known as the Trill, Dax is a sentient, wormlike symbiont joined body and mind to a succession of humanoid hosts, carrying the memories of each lifetime into the next. Each incarnation is different. Each has its own personality, its own triumphs, its own tragedies, its own dreams. And each one... is Dax.
- Here for the first time are tales from the lives of one of the most unique and compelling Star Trek characters ever created, told by voices as diverse as the hosts themselves: Steven Barnes, Michael Jan Friedman, L.A. Graf, Jeffrey Lang, S.D. Perry, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Simpson, and Susan Wright.
- Much more than an anthology, this unique collection of stories weaves the tapestry of one being's life... through three and a half centuries of history in the Star Trek universe.
- Imagine who she's known. Imagine what he's seen.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
"Second Star to the Right..." (Ezri) Edit
When her date with Dr. Julian Bashir gets interrupted by a medical emergency, Ezri decides to wander around in Vic's program. She gets herself lost in a junkyard of broken Las Vegas signs. When she wonders if she should end the program, Vic Fontaine appears and strikes up a conversation with her. Ezri opens up to Vic about her joining to Dax.
At the end of 2374, the USS Destiny is called to Deep Space 9 to transport the Dax symbiont to the Trill homeworld. As the Dax symbiont is transferred aboard, Ezri Tigan and Brinner Finok are questioned by Dr. T'pek about their suitability for joining. As Ensign Tigan never wanted to be joined, and never bothered with the usually requisite questionnaires, Ensign Finok is ordered to the vessel's sickbay to be on hand if a joining is necessary. When Ezri later goes to see Brinner, he begins to act strange and is revealed to be a Founder, who previously impersonated Dr. T'pek, intent on somehow joining with the Dax symbiont. Because of Ezri's involvement, the plan is ruined, but not before the Founder sends a signal to near-by Jem'Hadar fighters. The USS Destiny is attacked and the Dax symbiont needs to be joined to a host. With Ensign Finnok incapacitated, Ezri becomes the only Trill available to be joined. Instead of the years of training that Trill initiates usually receive, Ezri Tigan only has a fifteen minute briefing from the Destiny's CMO, a Human named Franklin Solon. A cover story was created to hide the fact that a Founder had been captured, and so Ezri Tigan became the "only Trill" aboard the Destiny.
First Steps (Lela) Edit
Dead Man's Hand (Tobin) Edit
Old Souls (Emony) Edit
When Sinnit Arvid enters a gymnast competition, his roommate, young Leonard McCoy comes to watch him. While the competitors are warming up, McCoy's and Emony Dax' eyes meet. The competition doesn't go very well for young Sinnit, as he fails to qualify for the finals. Later, after the semi-final, McCoy manages to get Emony to go on a date with him. After they make love, she tells him about her secret, that she has a symbiont inside her. McCoy doesn't know how to respond and he flees back to his dorm room. The next morning he realizes what an idiot he's been and he goes to the gym to apologize for his reaction. But as Dax is busy with the competition, he waits until she is free to speak to... when Sinnit appears and tries to kill Emony Dax. One of the other competitors manages to intercept a fatal blow, but is hurt badly as a result. As McCoy is forced to hold the athlete's artery, he realizes that he enjoys saving lives. After Sinnit is arrested and the athlete is recovering, McCoy asks Emony if they could spend some more time together; she refuses but leaves him with the hope that they may one day meet again.
Sins of the Mother (Audrid) Edit
In a letter to her daughter Neema, now joined to the symbiont Cyl, Audrid Dax explains what really happened to her husband, Neema's father, Jayvin Vod. Initially Audrid told Neema that her father had died and that the symbiont Vod lived on; but later, Neema investigated and found out that the symbiont had died as well, thus accusing her mother as a murderer and broke up with her.
The reason for Audrid not telling the truth to Neema is that the incident that lead to Jayvin's death was classified by both Trill and Starfleet. Here's what happened:
On Stardate 1230, when Audrid was head of the Trill Symbiosis Commission for just about a year, a comet was discovered that would bypass Trill pretty close. On the comet, life-signals somewhat related to Trill life signals had been detected by Starfleet – but as no one outside Trill knew about the true nature of their species, Starfleet scientists were unable to tell that the life signals were in fact related to those of a Trill symbiont. When Trill scientists discovered this, Starfleet and Trill assembled a joint expedition to the comet – including Audrid, Jayvin, and starfleet veteran Christopher Pike.
Upon landing on the comet, they discovered a labyrinth of holes, caves and tunnels. Following the life-signature, they eventually found a basin, somehow resembling the ones in the caves of Mak'ala, but still very different. When Jayvin approached the basin, a creature jumped out of it and joined with him. He turned against his wife and his friends, killing three starfleet officers and hunting down Audrid – until he himself was killed by Pike.
With the dead Jayvin, Audrid returned to Trill, where it was discovered that the creature, now called a Parasite, had cut the symbiosis between Jayvin and Vod, and was controlling Jayvin by directly attaching to his brain. Because of the danger that Vod potentially was also controlled by the parasite creature, it was abandoned to die, too.
Trill classified the material and never released the knowledge of the symbiont-related creatures to public; and Christopher Pike, as one of the only outsiders at that time to finally know about the Trill's true nature, promised to Audrid that he would never tell anyone.
Audrid's letter concludes in regretting that she was never able to speak to Pike again, as around one year after the incident, he had an accident himself that left him paralyzed. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I") But the letter ultimately served its purpose in bringing mother and daughter back together.
"Infinity" (Torias) Edit
Torias Dax is a young pilot working with a group of scientists, including his wife Nilani Kahn, who are testing a transwarp drive that, presumably, will reach warp 10. The shuttle that will be used to test the warp drive is called the Infinity. Though the scientists have observed some potentially dangerous energy fluctuations in simulations, many Starfleet dignitaries, including Admiral Kirk, turn up to view the test run. Torias and the scientists decide that even if the energy fluctuations, which are in a safe margin of error, turn out to be dangerous, the emergency transporter suit that Torias will be wearing will take care of any problems. When the Infinity goes to warp, the fluctuations cause it to explode. Though the ETS does its job, the doctors, though able to save Dax, cannot save Torias, and Nilani watches in horror as he dies.
"Allegro Ouroboros in D Minor" (Joran) Edit
"The Music Between the Notes" (Curzon) Edit
"Reflections" (Jadzia) Edit
"...and straight on 'til morning" (Ezri) Edit
Background informationEdit
- "Sins of the Mother" tells how the neural parasites from TNG: "Conspiracy" are encountered for the first time.
- This anthology, along with A Stitch in Time, was retroactively inserted into the ongoing "DS9 relaunch"; making it, technically, the first release in that series. To make this clearer, the anthology was reprinted in mass market paperback format with the new logo representing the relaunch series.
- The events from "Sins of the Mother" find a conclusion in the novels Unity and Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 2.
- An extract from "Reflections" appeared in Star Trek Monthly issue 58.
The hosts of DaxEdit
Other charactersEdit
- T'Pau
- Skon
- Leonard McCoy
- Christine Chapel
- Captain Styles
- Odan
- Benjamin Sisko
- Odo
- Worf
- Quark
- Kira Nerys
- Julian Bashir
- Cal Hudson
- Vic Fontaine
- Captain Raymer
- Kejjis Nar, Trill athlete
- Sinnit Arvid, Tessman athlete
"Sins of the Mother" Edit
External linkEdit
- The Lives of Dax at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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The Dominion War #4: Sacrifice of Angels | Pocket DS9 Unnumbered novels | Millennium #1: The Fall of Terok Nor |
First novel in series (retroactive) | Relaunch series | A Stitch in Time |
The Left Hand of Destiny, Book Two | Chronological order | As release order |


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It's a triple treat today and I am featuring yet another of my favorite bloggers. Say hello to Traci, from Beneath My Heart.
Good heaven how I love this girl! Traci is just about everything that I believe a blogger should be. Her writing is absolutely honest and she has a knack for translating her personality into the written word.
I was thrilled that when I met her, she was absolutely everything I had imagined and then some…especially on the dance floor.
Enough chatter. I do want to share some fun projects from Traci's site…
1. Wood fruit stand 2. Glazed poppy seed bread 3. Easy to make handmade Christmas coasters 4. Patio reveal 5. Entryway table makeover
She's one versatile, multi-talented lady…Let's learn a little more.
What's in My Handbag: Beneath My Heart
Hey y'all! It's Traci here!
I so excited to be here with you to share my innermost thoughts and desires. It all began when I was just a child…
I'm just supposed to share what is in my handbag?
Um…okay. That's kind of weird, but what-ev.
{I guess we can go deep together some other time.}
So, here's my handbag…
The animal print makes me feel all sassy and saucy.
Just kiddin'. Truth is, I buy about one purse a year. I usually don't even switch out for the seasons. I usually carry a purse until it falls apart.
About a month ago, I had some Kohl's cash AND a coupon and decided to break down and buy me a new purse. The one I was carrying had rips in it, so I figured it was about time.
I was thrilled to be able to get this purse {and a matching wallet} for $30!
I think that is a pretty darn good deal.
I totally forgot that I was going to be doing this handbag guest post, but the timing worked out perfectly.
Nothing fancy in my purse. Just the essentials.
1. wallet
2. business card holder {black and white polka-dot case}
3. makeup bag
4. chapstick
5. sunglasses
6. reading glasses {because my eye sight has gone down hill since I turned 40.}
7. Tic Tacs
8. earbuds
9. a pack of crumbled up crackers
10. hairspray
11. hair pick
12. a bandaid {as a mom of four boys, I can never have too many of these!}
13. ID badge {I substitute teach at my boys' school.}
14. Checkbook
15. Sharpie pen and a flower pen {made by one of my students}
16. pack of gum
17. Germx
18. 4 pennies
19. gold bracelet
20. small bottle of lotion
Yikes! That list looks so long, but it really isn't a lot.
There are some things in that list that do not stay in my purse on a regular basis, but I was trying to keep it real and show you exactly what was in my purse when I took this picture.
There were 2 items missing. My phone and car keys. Those were laying somewhere around the house when I took my pictures.
So that's it! That's for letting me share "What's in my Handbag!"
Come see me at my blog sometime!
I would love to connect with you here too…
Have a blessed day!
Traci, thanks so very much for participating and for sharing your beauty on Beneath My Heart. I love you to death!
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Robert Liss's Event Journal
Saturday October 19, 2013 / 7:30pm
America's Got Talent Live
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How was your experience?
My seats were in the back and far off to the side. The performers seemed to play to the seats in front of the stage. The lighting was very poor. You should have used the large screen to show the performers while doing their acts as is done at many events. There were only 7 act, not 8. I was hoping to see Forte.


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Mass. Cops Caught Egging Boss's House
In December 2012, Massachusetts police responded to a report of teenagers throwing eggs at a house. The house belonged to a local police sergeant. When the suspects were discovered, police were shocked by their findings.
Three officers of the Newton Police Department were involved in the egging incident. The house belonged to their superior officer. All three were off duty at the time. They described the event as "a prank, a joke between friends." The police sergeant is said to be handling the matter internally. No charges have been filed in the affair. None of the officers involved have been named publicly.
Needless to say, if you are a law enforcement officer and you break the law vandalizing your boss's house, you had better make sure you do not get caught. If this was indeed a "joke between friends", there will not be any repercussions. Should these guys still be reprimanded because they committed vandalism? Do you think it should remain solely at the discretion of the homeowner? What are your thoughts?


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Colorado has the most confident, intelligent, thoughtful, inspiring, dedicated, joyful, influential, resilient, adventurous, independent, gutsy, innovative, groundbreaking women in America. Meet them.
Desi McAdam knows well what it's like to work in a male-dominated business. For the past decade, she has braved the testosterone-rich tech industry—a sector that's only about 25 percent female—and learned to navigate the sometimes geek-forward misogyny for which it's known. As a developer and managing director for Thoughtbot, a software development company, McAdam, 37, says her community can be a great place for women—if they're willing to adapt. McAdam offers advice for women who know they can do anything the guys can do (only better).
Read up on the imposter syndrome—that phenomenon where despite evidence of your competence, you are convinced you are a fraud and do not deserve the success you've achieved—because it's real and I think pretty common among women. Knowing it's real helps me stop that thought process.
Don't send cues that make you easily discountable. Do not apologize all the damn time. Do not say, "I may be wrong about this, but…." Do not giggle. Do not let on that you're nervous. Do not say, "I'm not good at this stuff so…."
Tell the men you work with to knock it off with the sexist jokes. I'm not a fan of going the HR route unless something is really egregious. Instead, I think you should just say you've had it with the "That's what she said" jokes. Being direct works with men. Try it sometime.
Find some like-minded women who are at a similar level professionally as you are and talk to them. Vent. Laugh. Ask for advice. You need some female allies when you work with dozens and dozens of men.
One way to kick ass in a man's industry is to try to make it more of a woman's industry—encourage other women to get into the business through mentoring and helping them to be successful in the interviewing process as well as in the work environment.
Don't be afraid of criticism. In my industry, there's a lot of public critiquing, and it seems like women often avoid it—they avoid it so much so that it can be difficult to hire them because none of their work is available to review online. I know to ask to see it, but big companies aren't going to take that extra time.
Understand that men and women think differently. They give and receive feedback differently. It doesn't mean a man is being cruel when he says, "I wouldn't have done it that way." It just means that's not how you would have said it.
Recognize that you have unconscious biases, too. I do my best to encourage qualified women to interview with my company and with others, but I have, at times, found myself leaning toward hiring a man simply because he is the prototypical developer and is there in front of me interviewing.
Negotiate. It's thought that negotiating alone could account for much of the income disparity between men and women. Aside from salary, we also must learn to negotiate with clients and co-workers every day. If you don't stand up for yourself and your needs, who will?


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Last Known Status: Active
Latest Sparzanza News
Below is our complete Sparzanza news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Sparzanza Posts "Into The Unknown" Music Video
Swedish metal act Sparzanza released a music video for the second single from the upcoming new release "Circle." Check out "Into the Unknown" in the player below. "Circle" is the band's seventh studio release and is is set to drop via Spinefarm Records/Black Cult Records on March 28th.
The previously released single/video for "Underneath My Skin" can be seen over at this location. Check out "Into the Unknown" here:
Sparzanza Releases New Music Video
Swedish metal act Sparzanza released a music video for the new single "Underneath My Skin." The song is taken from the band's upcoming seventh full length release "Circle," which is set to drop via Spinefarm Records/Black Cult Records on March 28th.
The video was filmed and directed by Visual Hiearchy. Check it out here:
Sparzanza Posts New Video For "The Fallen Ones"
Swedish metal band Sparzanza posted a new video featuring the new song "The Fallen Ones." The song is the first single from the band's forthcoming sixth release "Death Is Certain, Life Is Not." The album is expected for release this year through Spinefarm Records.
The video features studio and live footage of the band. Check it out here:
Sparzanza Posts Bonus Material Teaser Trailer
Karlstad, Sweden based act Sparzanza has posted two teaser trailers online for the bonus material for the band's upcoming album "Folie a Cinq." The 23 minute "Inside the Madness" documentary will be included along with the album, which is set to be released in February, 2011.
Sparzanza Posts Behind The Scenes Footage
Swedish hard rockers Sparzanza have posted behind-the-scenes footage online from its recent music video shoot. The band filmed a video for the track "Follow Me" which is taken from the group's fifth album, "Folie A Cinq," which is set for release on February 9, 2011 through Spinefarm Records. You can view the footage below:
Sparzanza Signs With Spinefarm Records
Swedish hard rockers Sparzanza have announced thier signing with Europe based Spinefarm Records. THe band have enlisted producer Rikard Lofgren to assist in the recording of the band's fifth studio album, currently planned for release in the early months of 2011.
Spinefarm Records have also released the brand new Sparzanza music video for the track "My World Of Sin." The video can be viewed below:
Sparzanza Announces European Tour Dates
Swedish stoner metal band SPARZANZA has announced the following European tour dates:
04/29 - Debaser Slussen – Stockholm, Sweden
05/21 - L.A. Halle - Cham, Germany
05/22 - Sheunafestival – Altenkunstadt, Germany
06/12 - Kivenlahti Rock - Kivenlahti/Helsinki, Finland
07/08-10 - Getaway Rock Festival – Gävle, Sweden
07/29-31 - Storsjöyran – Östersund, Sweden
Sparzanza Posts Making of "My World Of Sin" Video
Swedish metal band SPARZANZA has posted a making of video of the music video for "My World Of Sin." Watch the video below:
Sparzanza Announces 2010 Scandinavian Tour Dates
Swedish metal band Sparzanza has announced the following 2010 Scandinavian show dates:
01/29 - The Cave Rock Club - Sundbyberg, Sweden
01/30 - Kulturgaraget - Avesta, Sweden
03/13 - Lappland Tattoo Weekend - Torneå, Finland
Sparzanza Announces New Guitar Player
Swedish stoner rock band Sparzanza has issued the following update about bringing on a new guitar player:
"Hey! First of all a big thanks to all of you that came to our release party this friday! We had a blast! Hope that all of you had fun! And also a big welcome to Magnus Eronen, who is the new guitarplayer in Sparzanza!!! Why don't you all wish him the best by signing our guestbook!"
The Haunted Frontman To Guest On New Sparzanza CD
THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving will be laying down backing vocals on the new album from Swedish hard rockers in SPARZANZA. Dolving will be singing on the track "Dead Rising", which will appear on SPARZANZA's third CD, "Banisher of the Light", tentatively due later in the year. Dolving had previously worked with SPARZANZA as the group's producer.
"Banisher of the Light" is being recorded at the Tigra Music studio with producer Rikard Löfgren. Löfgren, a former member of the death metal band DAWN OF DECAY and the goth act BAY LAUREL, also produced the band's second album, 2003's "Into The Sewers".
SPARZANZA is:
Fredrik "Fred Washburn" Weileby - Vocals
Johan "Joey DeJaneiro" Carlsson - Bass
Calle "City" Johannesson - Guitar
David "Demon Dave" Johannesson - Guitar
Anders "Evil" Åberg – Drums
Upcoming SPARZANZA shows:
May 10 - Paris, FRA @ TBA
May 11 - Strasbourg, FRA @ TBA


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seen a hellrot e36 at the pumps on corner of wilson and taunton round 9pm nice ride
Those pesky hellrot E36 drivers, always wrecking hovac on the streets.
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