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The first product that's on sale is the Kindle Paperwhite. This device is the standard-bearer for all e-readers. Having owned a few Kindles over the years, I can safely say that the Paperwhite is an awesome device. It's a nice gift for that special someone, especially if they are voracious readers. It's only $100, which is a nice $20 savings over the normal retail price.
Buy the Kindle Paperwhite for $99 ($20 off) at Amazon
If you prefer movies and TV to books, then there's also a discount on Amazon's Fire tablet. This inexpensive device is a great way to bring your favorite apps and content with you anywhere, and it's on sale for $10 off its already low, low price, bringing it down to only $40. If you want to equip yourself and a loved one with a tablet, Amazon's also discounted the special 2-pack pricing to reflect this discount.
Buy the Fire Tablet for $40 ($10 off) at Amazon
If you were looking for one of the other Kindle devices, there are two more that are getting temporary $20 price cuts. The basic non-backlit Kindle and the premium Kindle Voyage are both cheaper. I hesitate to recommend the entry-level Kindle, even if your budget is really tight. $60 is a tempting price, but take it from me, the lack of a light-up display is a dealbreaker. The Voyage is a nice device, but unless you want the page turn buttons on the sides of the display, it's functionally identical to the Paperwhite. The extra $80 isn't worth it for most people.


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An anti-war parade in downtown Hood River on Saturday held almost a festive air with live music and colorful signboards — except for the serious message that both the lyrics and words portrayed.
"No Blood for Oil," "Vengeance is Not Justice," "Beware of Fundamentalists with Weapons," and "Bush is Using Weapons of Mass Destruction" were some of the central themes depicted at the demonstration which was organized by the Columbia River Fellowship for Peace.
"I'm a patriot, that's why I'm here," said Kathy Janz of Tygh Valley. "Being a patriot is speaking out if you think the government is doing something that is wrong."
In some aspects, the afternoon assembly of about 85 people at Overlook Memorial Park was reminiscent of similar rallies in the '60s, including music from John Lennon and Bob Dylan — and even a tie-dye t-shirt or two. But, unlike the Vietnam era, the theme in 2003 was loud and clear that the protesters, while opposing President George W. Bush and his decision to invade Iraq, were supportive of the young men and women in the Armed Forces.
"We support our troops and pray for their safe return but we don't trust the judgment, motives or honesty of those leaders who have sent them to Iraq," said Frank Thiess of Hood River.
Although law enforcement officials had feared a clash between the anti-war demonstrators and members of a "support your troops" rally that had been held from noon to 1 p.m. in the same location, there were no problems. Police Chief Tony Dirks said organizers of the peace parade met with him on Friday and decided to set the time of their event back by one hour, until 2 p.m., to avoid any possible confrontation.
"We would have been ready to respond to any problems but it was not necessary and we hope all future events go as well," said Dirks.
At the March 29 gathering, Hood River resident Susan Crowley read from "A Resolution in Support of Our Troops" that outlined the position of the anti-war demonstrators. That formal statement saluted the military men and women for their willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the nation, but demanded their immediate return from a "pre-emptive, unilateral" war that was being fought "without international support." In addition, the government was urged to adopt a foreign policy that "achieves victory through diplomacy" rather than "resorting to war as the first option to resolve disputes."
"Avoiding and ending unnecessary combat in Iraq is the best way to support our troops and ensure their safe and speedy return home," said Crowley in conclusion.
John Lepke of Hood River took a more militant stand in his opposition to the war. Lepke carried an upside down flag to show that the country was in "severe and profound" distress and referred to the troops as "human nukes."
During an open mike session, audience members stepped forward to share "Poems for Peace," and some of these expressed grief for the death of innocent Iraqi civilians at the hands of the United States military.
Mosier resident Daniel Dancer brought a live "Peace Pigeon" that was carried by his 8-year-old son, Nicholas, to promote the theme that "War Is Not the Answer."
"I think we just want our government to stop the killing unless national security is involved, we'd like our troops brought home safely," said Dennis Anderson of Gresham.
Deanna Sewell, also of Gresham, said she also agreed that the war in Iraq was unfounded, especially because no link could be proven that the Middle Eastern country had participated in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast.
"I don't think the administration has made a case for why the soldiers are there," said Sewell.
Following the opportunity for citizens to publicly speak out about their grievances with the war, the protesters began a drum cadence and paraded on a loop through downtown streets.
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The BioCAS 2014 conference was hosted at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva. Lausanne boasts a dramatic panorama over the lake and the Alps.
Thank you for joining us for an unforgettable experience in Lausanne, Swizerland, October 22-24, 2014!
Welcome Reception
The BioCAS 2014 Welcome Reception was held on Wednesday, October 22 at 7:00 pm. We enjoyed an evening of food and drink, along with the Live Demonstrations and Exhibits. This was a perfect time to re-connect with the BioCAS community!
Conference Gala Dinner
The BioCAS 2014 Gala Dinner was held at the beautiful and historic Beau-Rivage Palace on Thursday, October 23 at 7:30 pm. The Gala Dinner was in the Sandoz Room, undeniably the jewel of the hotel, richly decorated for a perfect setting for our special evening.
The Beau-Rivage Palace has never closed its doors since 1861, and over the years has played host to many illustrious guests. Victor Hugo, Charlie Chaplin, Coco Chanel, Nelson Mandela and Tina Turner are just a few of the many famous names.
We enjoyed a special evening with beautiful music, exceptional dinner, and a few surprises! It was an unforgettable evening!
Conference Farewell Reception
The Farewell Recpetion was held at the Olympic Museum, with a tour of the museum from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
The attendees enjoyed a tour of the museum from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, with the reception of food and drink from 8:00 to 10:00 pm.
We had a unique opportunity to say "Farewell" to BioCAS colleagues"OLYMPIC STYLE!!"


text: Google suspended its Real Time Search feature, which gave users results from Twitter and a bunch of other real-time news sources. Today, Google told Search Engine Land the reason: its 2009 deal to suck information from the Twitter "firehose" has expired, and the companies haven't reached a deal for Google to continue using it. Google signed the deal in October ...Read More »


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Nollywood movie 'Unguarded' premiered in New York
The premiere of new movie 'Unguarded' took place on Saturday, the 3rd of November, 2012 in New York. Uche Jombo – Rodriguez, her hubby – Kenney Rodriguez, Ramsey Nouah, Monalisa Chinda, Emem Isong were all in attendance. See pictures below;
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Human Flower Project
Monday, November 29, 2004
Korea's Modernist Master Dies
Kim Chun-su, who exemplified modern poetry in 20th Century Korea, has died at age 82.
Kim Chun-su
Korea's most beloved poet died Monday after a three month hospitalization. Kim Chun-su was born in 1922 near Pusan. As a student in Tokyo, he was expelled for protesting Japanese colonial rule of his native country and jailed for seven months.
Returning to Korea, he began teaching and writing poetry.
"Kim's most famous poem is 'Flower,' which was written in his early days and showed the influence of the Austro-German poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the philosophy of existentialism. The poem has been ranked as a favorite poem among South Koreans….
"Concerning 'Flower,' Kim once said: 'Some people view it as a poem of romance. In truth, however, it is philosophy about language and existentialism.' "
I found the translations of 'Flower' clunky. But here's a lovely one, both floral and fit for today.
Whenever the wind shook it,
the fence
raised sorrowful sounds.
Cockscombs, lilies, balsams and the like
bloomed in season
and faded without a sound.
Even in cold midwinter,
the lonely sunshine dozed
on the stepping stones
and was gone.
Only time kept flowing listlessly;
people lived as in a dream
and passed away.
(Translated by Kim Jong-gil)
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Sunday, November 28, 2004
Tucson Enjoys Fluttering Junket
The botanical gardens in Tucson, welcoming 400 chrysalides weekly through January, will be keeping these winged "internationals" under guard.
"Butterfly Magic at the Gardens" is featuring the emergence and short-life of more than 40 butterfly species from now through January 30th, with visitors from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Surinam and Thailand.
Blue Clearwing and Lantana Blossoms
Puerto Vicente, Ecuador
Photo: Hank and Priscilla Brodkin
It's a post-9/11 climate, even for insects. "Vestibules at the entrance and exit of the exhibit are required by (U.S. Department of Agriculture) guidelines to guard against non-native butterflies escaping into the Sonoran Desert. Volunteers man each station to limit the number of visitors in the space at one time and to make sure the butterflies remain within."
Of course, flowers are a big part of the show. Caterpillars feed on host plants like citrus trees and survive on the nectar of flowers. Lantana, passion-vine flowers and pentas are especially delicious to butterflies.
Here's a terrific butterfly gardening site, with a chart showing which flowers attract which species.
And here's a guide to native butterflies in all 50 United States. HFP visitors from outside the U.S., please send us your butterfly guides; USDA clearance NOT required.
A Double-Duty Bouquet
Ukraine's parliament has refused to say "I do" to the results of the nation's recent presidential election. In Lviv, a Ukrainian bride lodges her own protest, with a bouquet of orange roses—the color of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
Photo: Janek Skarzynski, AFP
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Saturday, November 27, 2004
You See a Weed, They See World History
850 botanists are working for free to document The Flora of North America, a big job considering that just "The sunflower family has 2,438 species."
Long feature stories are becoming rare as ginseng. So thanks to the L.A. Times for this in-depth report on a huge botanical research project, to record all the botanical species in North America.
Emily Green's feature takes us all the way back to Swiss botanist Linnaeus, and probes the complexities of carrying out ambitious field work in, as they say, "the current economic climate."
That climate—good for building Humvees, and for studying DNA and "solar space dust"—has not been kind to The Flora of North America endeavor, but the intrepid botanists whom Green profiles carry on.
Peter Stevens, a prickly Englishman who's leading the decade-long expedition, described the fix that grant-poor botanists have found themselves in: "To me, to try and preserve things simply based on economic value is basically buying into the system that's causing all the problems."
To see how politics, economics, ecology, personality, and flowers bloom and wilt together, read this.


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One of my favorite quotes is William Faulkner's unforgettable words that "The past is never dead. It is not even the past." Nowhere is this more evident lately than in the educational issues that arise with the Civil War Sesquicentennial--the marking of the fact that earlier this month was the 150th Anniversary of the Southern takeover of Fort Sumter, usually hailed as the official opening of the American Civil War.
But dealing with the Civil War is tough for us as a nation. To use another iconic quote, I think the American Civil War was truly for us the period in our history where "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." It was a time when our commitment to our founding ideals of freedom and equality were really put the test, and ultimately prevailed. But it was also a time where we had to face how our country had ignored those ideals for the cause of economic profits, both in the North and in the South. It was a horribly sad time, destructive of land and of a generation of young people, and still the bloodiest and most deadly war in which the US has ever engaged. But it also laid the foundations for an American dream that was even broader and more inclusive than the founding fathers ever imagined...even if it has taken decades of progress to achieve it.
I think probably all nations have a civic mythology of their historic greatness that endows them with power and respect (see Hugh Grant's wonderful "England may be a small nation, but we're a great one, too" speech from one of my favorite movies ever, Love Actually, as one example). Maybe it is because we are such a relatively young nation, and one that was gifted with incredible natural resources, but I think this idea of our past as inherently blessed and outstanding--our historic belief in America as "the city on the hill" and our Manifest Destiny--has an even stronger hold on our civic identity than it does on most countries.
So that is why I think it is so hard for us as a country to deal with this time in our history honestly and openly and in an unvarnished way. It exposes some of our ugliest truths, and few of us like to acknowledge those. Therefore, both sides like to romanticize their cause. For the North, it is presented as a fight for the liberation of African Americans. Except, really, it wasn't. As Lincoln wrote towards the beginning of the war, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it," (although he personally was in favor of the abolitionist cause). At least at the beginning, the fight for the North was keeping the country together, not securing rights for black people. Eventually Lincoln, and other Northern leaders, realized that slavery had to be abolished to secure a united nation, but even so, few Northerners envisioned African Americans being given equal political and economic benefits to white people.
For the South, the argument has grown that it was not really an issue of slavery per se, but rather of states' rights of self determination. Except, again, really, it wasn't....at least according to almost all legitimate historians of our times. The investment in slaves at the time of the Civil War has been estimated to be about $3.5 billion in 1860 dollars. As a share of the Gross National Product at the time, that would compare to almost $10 TRILLION in modern money. People had more money invested in slaves than they did in railroads, factories, banks, and ships combined. The cotton produced by slave labor was the driving economic product for the entire nation, both from cotton-selling states in the South and textile-producing states in the North. It was not something that South plantation owners, who were the political powerhouses in the South, could even conceive of giving up voluntarily. And while it is true that the majority of Southerners, especially those who actually fought in the war, owned no slave themselves, most were fueled by their horror and fear of what would happen to their communities if African Americans, whom they believed to be sub-human, were not kept under control via the institution of slavery.
However, we don't like admitting that our greed and economic tunnel vision led us to go against our founding principles and to have treated people as inhumanly as we did. So not long after the war came to an end, the South began to glorify its role in the Civil War as an advocate for states' rights, lovingly couched as the romantic "Lost Cause," rather than seeing their support for slavery for the morally indefensible position that it truly is. An article in the April 18th edition of Time magazine entitled "The Civil War: 150 Years After Fort Sumter: Why We're Still Fighting the Civil War" by David von Drehle does a great job of explaining how the South sold this vision to the country; you can read the article as a PDF by clicking here.
But though the states' rights argument is largely a face-saving myth, it has been powerfully effective (largely, I believe, because we want to see our 19th century ancestors with the same aura of wisdom and moral vision that we ascribe to our 18th century founders). A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that 48% of people believed that states' rights was the main cause of the Civil War compared to 38% who thought it was mostly about slavery (with 9% saying the two causes were equally important). A Harris poll confirmed this finding, with 54% responding that states' rights was the primary motivation for the South's split from the US, compared to 46% attributing it to an attempt to preserve slavery.
So it is really interesting to see that the majority of Americans do not know what almost all professional historian agree was the root cause of the American Civil War. Is that an indication that we are continuing to fight the Civil War--if not with each other, then with our ideals about how we would like our history to be?
A liberal (actually, he's a social democrat) columnist in the Washington Post recently wrote another interesting article about the Civil War still being waged in modern times. In his April 12 column, "150 years later, we're still fighting," Harold Meyerson argues that the North and the South have continued the labor patterns of the pre-Civil War US, with the South's tradition of low-wage and few or no worker benefits or rights (epitomized by the Arkansas-based Wal-Mart) battling the North's support for organized, unionized, and better paid labor battling for dominance out West (cough cough WISCONSIN cough) and in the nation at large. I found his article to be interesting reading, and looking over only a few of the 270 comments to date show that it has definitely generated some debate.
Another article I would recommend is an NBC/CNN post on April 11 by John Blake called "Four ways we're still fighting the Civil War." Blake picks out four ways that today's politics are similar to those of the Civil War era:
- A lack of the political center (You agree with us or you are the evil enemy, with no room for compromise)
- Arguments over the role of the federal government (Some of the Tea Party leaders sound like antebellum Southerners)
- Underestimating the extent of war once begun (Both North and South were convinced the conflict would be over within a few weeks because they underestimated the strength of the opposition....sound familiar?)
- Presidents overstepping their bounds (I don't really agree that Obama's support of health care is comparable to Lincoln's suspension of Constitutional rights, but I guess there are some that are arguing that...)
So, like I said....it is not like the Civil War is really over.
But where does that leave us as parents and as educators? What should we be teaching students when this event that they think of as ancient history is still so much in flux today?
Personally, I think it is a good thing that we are still unsettled as a nation about the meaning, the outcomes, and even the causes of the Civil War. I think students will find history more interesting when they see it is not something cut and dried and in the past, but a study that is still being debated, still being questioned, still being fleshed, and DEFINITELY still relevant to the choices we are making about our future. I believe it is wonderful for the students to consider that the Civil War is still not really "done," and that it may be their generation who will be the ones who "settle" it (or not....)
Other than that, I say that we need to tell them the truth. I was raised in the "Great Man" presentation of history, where all these wonderful things happened thanks to our national demi-Gods like George Washington and company. But I don't think that really serves our students. First of all, it isn't true. Not to disparage our Founding Fathers and other major figures of history, but sometimes....maybe a lot of the time...they were able to accomplish what they did because they were lucky, or happened to be in the right place at the right time, or were merely the manifestation of the mores of their times rather than the causal agent. Secondly, when we set up these figures on a pedestal, how can our children ever hope to emulate them? Showing them as humans, flawed with strengths and weaknesses just like the rest of us, is, I believe, a more powerful place to develop our heroes and leaders of the future. Third, we hate to look at our failings and our ugly parts and the times we didn't live up to our ideals. But without truth, there can not be forgiveness and redemption and ultimately, reconciliation.
And if there is anything we need in our political sphere these days, I think reconciliation is way up there.


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Finding Livelihood—Where Labor and Love Meet
07/06/15 | Finding Livelihood, Nancy Nordenson
Over at Collegeville Institute, Nancy Nordenson is talking about work and life. Here's a snippet:Just yesterday I read this overused line in a magazine for perhaps the millionth time, "find work you love and you'll never work a day in your life." This kind of cliché implies that if you don't love everything about your work, you just haven't found the right work yet. It doesn't admit that even
Praise for "Finding Livelihood": Leslie Leyland Fields
06/02/15 | Finding Livelihood, Nancy Nordenson
Leslie Leyland Fields, author of "Surviving the Island of Grace: A Memoir of Alaska", had this to say about Nancy Nordenson's "Finding Livelihood":"In this extraordinary new book, Nordenson asks what we all want to know: Can our daily workplace grind really become our daily God-blessed bread? (My personal question: Can cleaning fishing nets of rotting jellyfish really be redeeming work?) Nancy answers
Author Bret Lott on "Finding Livelihood"
05/26/15 | Finding Livelihood, Nancy Nordenson
Bret Lott, author of books such as "Jewel" and "Letters and Life", had this to say about Nancy Nordenson's book "Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure":"This is an absolutely timely book, and an absolutely beautiful one too. Ms. Nordenson examines what it means to work, and does so in a lyrical, practical, moving, and spirit-filled way. In giving us her personal stories and universal observations,
Nancy Nordenson on the cover of Comment
03/25/15 | Finding Livelihood, Nancy Nordenson
We're delighted to announce that our author Nancy Nordenson is on the cover of this quarter's Comment Magazine!Inside the magazine, you'll find an excerpt from Nancy's upcoming book from Kalos Press, "Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure", along with lots of other great writing.You can find out more about Nancy's book here, and more about Comment Magazine here.


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Victor/Victoria is the story of a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. Julie Andrews who played the lead in the movie is back on Broadway to once again take the lead part of Victor/Victoria. Blake Edwards, her husband has also returned to direct the musical as he did for the motion picture. This story was written by Blake Edwards and music was by the legendary Henry Mancini.
We start off in a Paris bedroom where Carroll Todd (Toddy to his friends) and his lover Richard are just waking up. While leaving, Richard also takes all of Toddy's money. To get out of debt Toddy get a job at the gay nightclub of Henry Labisse. (Paris By Night) The next day Victoria Grant auditions for a singing job there, Toddy like her, but Labisse rejects them both, and fires Toddy. Toddy is a woman trapped in a man's body and Victoria would rather be a man because of the advantages, as she explains in If I Were a Man. Victoria is going back to her apartment dressed in Richard's clothes, when Richard walks in and insults Toddy. Victoria punches him in the nose and Richard leaves thinking Victoria was a man. Toddy then get a great idea: cutting Victoria's hair and strapping down her bosom, they could pass her off as a man who impersonates women. Victoria is opposed to the idea, but Toddy just says Trust Me and that was that. Toddy takes Victoria to Andre Cassell, Paris's leading agent. Of course to Cassell, Victoria's real name is Count Victor Grazinsky. When Victor hits a G-sharp, Cassell immediatly takes him in. Victor opens to a sold-out audience and sings Le Jazz Hot!, which makes Paris audiences think Victoria really is a man.
Attending the performance are the Chicago ganster King Marchan along with his blond brassy girl Norma, and Squash, his loyal bodyguard. King is not convinced that Victor, or Victoria, could actually be a man. He sets out on his own mission to proves he is really a she. To test this theory he has Norma dance the Tango with Victor to see if he can lead. (The Tango/Paris By Night) Of course, Victor passes with flying colors. The real reason King wants to succeed on this mission is because he finds Victor attractive as a woman. At the four-star hotel, where Victor and Toddy are staying, Norma, King, and Squash happen to be right next door. Norma tries to seduce King with the song Paris Makes Me Horny, but fails. Victoria is unhappy because she likes King, but she is trying to convince him that she is a man! This brings Victoria to sing Crazy World.
In the beginning of Act 2, Victor is having even greater success with Paris audiences and we see her in action as she sings Louis Says. Norma is unhappy because she is being sent back to Chicago because King likes Victor, which still troubles him (King's Dilemma). Victor, King, and Toddy go to dinner and then to Labisse's nightclub. Labisse does not believe that Victor is a man either and he tries to prove it by asking Victor to sing a song. Toddy comes to the rescue and they sing You and Me. When Richard arrives and Victor trips him, a major brawl starts which is broken up by the police. After Victor and King get away, King kisses Victor saying that he doesn't care if he is a man. Victoria tells King that she is not a man, but he still doesn't care. (Paris By Night (Reprise)) In the hotel room, Squash barges in on King and Victoria in bed. Before King can tell Squash the truth about Victoria, Squash admits that he is gay. Victoria and King contemplate being seen as two men in Almost a Love Song.
In Chicago, Norma is trying to outperform Victor by singing in a nightclub. (Chicago, Illinois). She tells King's partner Sal that King has fallen for another man. Sal cannot believe it and immediately goes to Paris to confirm this rumor. After all, the mob does not approve of gay lifestyles. Meanwhile Toddy and Squash are living it up in bed, and King and Victoria are trying to not be seen together in public (Living In the Shadows). Victoria has decided she no longer wants to be a man. Toddy agrees the time is right to end this sham. Sal and Norma arrive in Paris and King admits he loves Victor. Just in time, Victor takes Norma in the bedroom and proves to Norma that Victor is really a woman. Norma is horrified. Outside, sitting on the window sill is Labisse, trying to expose Victor. In Victor's farewell appearance (Victor/Victoria), Labisse is ready to expose this fraud. Victoria had seen Labisse at the hotel room, so Toddy has a great idea. When the time is right, he will replace Victoria in a flash, and Labisse will look like a fool. In the end it works and we have two loving couples: King and Victoria, and Toddy and Squash. I know this play sounds very bad, but it truly isn't. Julie Andrews and Norma (played by Rachel York) bring it all together to make this one of the most humorous shows I've seen. Julie Andrews had made this role her own, and now it would seem strange to see anybody else in the role, her beautiful singing voice seal this one up. Rachel York deserved a Tony Award for her portrayal of Norma, she was always there to provide humor when it was needed. This play is one of the funniest, livliest plays I've seen in a long time.
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Canestrelli alia Marinara
1 small onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 tablespoons Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 pound bay scallops or sea scallops, cut into quarters
¼ teaspoon dried sage
½ cup white wine*
6 ripe plum tomatoes, chopped
1 teaspoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon white pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh Italian parsley
Salt to taste (optional)
Serves 4
In a medium skillet, sauté the onion and garlic in Colavita Extra Virgin Olive
Oil until soft. Add the scallops and sauté lightly until opaque; do not
overcook. Remove the scallops and keep warm.
Add the sage, wine, tomatoes, lemon juice, pepper, parsley, and salt to the
skillet. Boil over high heat for 3 to 5 minutes until reduced slightly.
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Hairdresser Kenneth Dies at 86
Kenneth Battelle, the quintessential celebrity hairdresser, whose clients included movie stars and society mavens died May 12 at age 86 at his home in Wappingers Falls, New York. Known simply as Kenneth, he created Jacqueline Kennedy's iconic 1960s bouffant and pampered Marilyn Monroe's over-processed blonde, restoring it to perfection. His salon was in New York City's Waldorf Astoria. Despite his fame and the esteem in which his clients held him, he always considered himself simply a working hairdresser.
Color expert and educator Beth Minardi shares one of her memories of Kenneth.
"Kenneth was so special. A true artist. Kenneth would make sure the hair was very thoroughly shampooed and lightly conditioned and combed through. He used only a bit of setting lotion and wet-set the hair on magnetic rollers and dried it bone dry under the dryer. Then, he "broke" the set with a very good brush... he really brushed the hair though. He then set the hair on hot rollers and allowed the rollers to stay in until they were cold. He believed this "double set" gave the hair both wet and dry "memory". His finishes lasted for days... and looked like a million bucks."
Batelle is survived by his sisters Joan Conine, Jane Lyon and Lynn Johnson.
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This winter White Mountain New Hampshire landscape painting was done by contemporary American artist William R. Davis (1952-). Davis was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, grew up in Hyannis Port, MA and became well-known in New England and across the country as a self-taught artist of luminist marine and landscape paintings. Oil on panel, signed lower right, as well as titled and signed on verso "Saco River, off River Rd, N. Conway NH," and housed in a beautiful gold gilt frame. Dimensions: 6" h x 8" w, actual; 12 3/8" h x 14 3/8" w, framed.
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C. - posted on 12/07/2010 ( 170 moms have responded )
Ok, so a friend of mine posted something about how people keep complaining that Obama wants to freeze military pay for three years and continued to say that they should stop complaining and that military members are not any more special than the rest of us (even though they risk their lives on the daily..) And she's the fiancee of a soldier (but she is from the UK, so maybe she doesn't understand all the things we really have to pay for b/c she's not the one that gets the bills?)
Freezing military pay would include:
Less housing allowance and less retirement pay.. And if I remember correctly, cutting down on the 'tax-free' things (like Commissaries and BX/PXs- Even though we already have to pay a surcharge for shopping there- at least we do here in Hawaii, so it's not really 'tax-free', we just pay a LITTLE less).
Also, we have to pay a yearly rate for TRICARE (less than other insurance, I suppose, but it certainly isn't free contrary to popular belief) and have to pay co-pays if you go off-base/post, which isn't always cheap. We get housing allowance (where you are stationed depends on how much you get- like in Hawaii you get more b/c the cost of living is so high.) And next year we are going to have to pay for all the extra water and electricity we have to use (they give us x-amount and have the houses on meters and if we go over each month, we have to pay-- Which I don't have a problem with b/c there are so many families that overuse and leave lights on when nobody is in the room, A/C on when it doesn't need to be, leave the water running when no one is using it.. And it costs housing a butt-load.) But again, contrary to popular belief, we do not get a 'free ride'. Things still come out of our pay.
My thing is, our military is going overseas to protect our country.. Why shouldn't we (military families and single soldiers alike) get certain compensation for it?
There are so many other ways they could cut costs that don't include taking away from the families that risk their lives everyday (even when they aren't deployed, their jobs are still dangerous).
For one thing, there are SO MANY families on Welfare, Food Stamps and Medicaid that DON'T NEED TO BE. IE: They're lying in the application process saying they can't work, but yet have at least 1 or 2 jobs just b/c they want the extra benefits and are greedy for money (and YES, there really are people that work the system like that!!!) It sickens me. AND publicity stunts that cost our government more than $300k.. Whose money went towards that?? The taxpayer's! That money could have gone toward some of our debt instead!
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Four bids received for contract
L3 Communications Vertex Aerospace has won a $6.5 million contract to provide the Navy with maintenance and logistics services for tanker operations.
The services will support the KC-130J aircraft for the government of Kuwait under the Foreign Military Sales program.
The KC-130 aircraft is an extended-range tanker aircraft that is manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
Work will be performed at Al Mubarak Airbase, Kuwait. The contract runs through August 2015.
Funding in the full amount of the contract is obligated at the time of the award, and will not expire at the end of fiscal 2014.
Four bids were received for this contract.
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So here we are, one week into my marathon training and only 27 weeks to go. All has gone well so far and I have managed to complete my scheduled 5 varied runs and notched up an encouraging 15 miles.
Before starting my training in earnest I invested in a new piece of kit, much to my wife's amusement. Yes I am now the proud owner of my very first pair of Running Tights! Now sure they look hideous and they do tend to cling to certain parts of the body however, they are very warm when running in this cold weather and even have an inside pocket for my ipod! After being severely mocked by friends over the weekend for my new purchase I'm staying strong and sticking with them, at least until the weather starts to pick up.
Next week's training will follow a similar pattern to this week with only a 1 mile increase for my long run on Sunday. I am very conscious of not upping my mileage too quickly so as to avoid injury and further ITB problems which I encountered in the run up to last year's half marathon
Please keep checking back for more news of how training is going, details of events I'll be taking part in and details of how you can donate or contribute to fundraising events.
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Have you heard about the latest data sell-off? Right now, the taxman, HMRC, is considering a plan to sell our personal tax details to private companies. Our incomes, the amount of tax we pay, and our tax histories could be sold to the highest bidder.
Tory MP David Davis has branded the plan "borderline insane". But right now, HMRC is thinking about whether to go ahead anyway. If enough of us come together to create a huge petition, it will show HMRC, and the government that we won't stand for them selling off our tax details.
Can you sign the petition now to demand HMRC rethink these plans?
Only a few months ago NHS England floated plans to sell off our health records. The outcry was huge, with organisations like the Royal College of GPs responding furiously to the idea that individuals might be identifiable from the data. In less than 24 hours, 150,000 members of 38 Degrees pledged to opt out of the scheme. Together, we forced a change of plan. NHS England panicked and paused the sell-off for 6 months.
If we act fast, we can do the same with HMRC. There is already opposition. MPs have criticised the plans. Tax experts have expressed concern, and organisations like Big Brother Watch are worried about "serious risks to privacy."
A huge petition could make headlines and embarrass HMRC into dropping the idea. Can you add your name now and stop these plans before it's too late?
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Ian R. Kahn is an American stage and television actor, perhaps best known for his roles on TURN: Washington's Spies, Dawson's Creek, Sex & The City, Bull and The Unusuals. He made his Broadway debut in ENRON at the Broadhurst Theater in April 2010. In September 2009, he made his off-Broadway debut in MCC's Still Life. He has appeared in major regional theater companies across the United States. Some of his roles have included Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace at Baltimore Center Stage, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Arena Stage, Jamie in Long Day's Journey Into Night at The Alley Theater, Johnny Wheelwright in A Prayer For Owen Meany at Roundhouse theater, Tom in The Glass Menagerie at St. Louis Rep, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at The Media Theater, Septimus Hodge in Arcadia at the Wilma Theater, and as William Shakespeare in The Beard of Avon at the Cape Playhouse. He graduated from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, Bronx, New York in 1990 and from Skidmore College in 1994. He portrayed George Washington in three episodes of the 2014 TV series, Turn.
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Since its foundation just over seventy years ago, the Museum of the History of Science has been better known for its work in charting the history of technology than it has for partaking in the use of new technologies – until recently, the computer used by the secretary was about the only example of a calculating device owned by the Museum to contain a microchip. However, over the last few months the Museum has taken the first steps towards joining the information technology revolution, through the installation of an up-to-date computer system.
|During January and February of this year, cabling was installed in the Museum, linking together all the galleries and offices through a computer 'Ethernet'. In March, this internal network was connected to the outside world, via a fibre-optic link to the University's Ethernet backbone. In April, delivery was taken of five new computers to attach to the network, with the result that the Museum can finally be declared 'on line'. Those who wish to can now contact the Museum by electronic mail, at the address firstname.lastname@example.com.
|Substantial work lies ahead in the development of the new system, but over the course of the next six months a number of facilities will be made available to staff, as well as to users of the library, Museum visitors, and anyone with access to the global Internet. High on the list of priorities is the creation of a 'virtual collection' of the Museum's contents – a computerized database of text and images that will provide quick access to indexed information about each of the 10,000 or so objects in the collection.
|Perhaps the most significant advantage that the new computers will offer is the ability to prepare publications entirely 'in-house'. Almost all the pre-press production of a publication can now be done within the Museum: full-colour illustrations of a quality fit for publication can be scanned into the computer, layout can be carried out by staff, and proofs can be printed. The printer need only be handed a floppy disc, bringing down the cost of publication significantly.
|Computers also make novel forms of publication possible and the Museum intends to explore these fully. In the future, CD-ROMs will be published to accompany exhibitions, but to begin with, material will be made available to the public through the 'World Wide Web'. By the autumn, anyone with access to the Web will be able to browse through pages of information about the Museum, obtain details of current exhibitions, view images of objects in the collection, and even read an electronic edition of this newsletter. Other readers need not fear: there are no plans yet to discontinue printing Sphæra on paper.


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Trends in tech
Trends in technology change so rapidly it's easy to mistake yesterday's news for tomorrow's. Same goes for trendsetters. But what separates the trends from the fads? Fads come and go, but true trends actually go somewhere.
Kristin Russell, the state of Colorado's newly minted secretary of technology and chief information officer, sees today's trends leading to a bright high-tech future.
"I believe Colorado is the best-kept secret when it comes to innovation and tech industry growth," she says. "We have a highly educated work force. We can tap into some of the best institutions of higher learning in the country. And we have a lot of land and a good climate for green tech."
Identifying the expansion of rural broadband as a priority that will catalyze the economy (as well as education and medicine), Russell says she is also committed to luring Fortune 500 companies to the state as well as fostering homegrown startups.
"We need to be able to focus on both ends of the spectrum and everything in between," she says. "It is an ecosystem that evolves over time. I'm really bullish about Colorado and our future, and specifically our future in technology."
Looking at six of Colorado's hottest tech sectors - aerospace, bioscience, cleantech, cloud computing, social networking and telecom - the dynamics and logistics are so disparate that it's not easy to pull the curtain back and identify the common thread. Experts in these sectors talked with ColoradoBiz to help illuminate the issues that are defining their markets today, not to mention tomorrow.
Colorado is third in the nation in terms of aerospace employment, with more than 160,000 workers in the industry's ranks here. Considering California and Florida are ranked ahead, and Texas is ranked behind, it's clear Colorado is playing with the big boys in this industry.
But it's small companies that capture the imagination of Diane Dimeff, executive director of eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship in Boulder. She touts the hybrid propulsion technology of TIGON EnerTec, currently a client of eSpace's in-house incubator. "I'm really excited about it. It's kind of like a flying Prius."
Dimeff notes a worrisome trend in aerospace: an aging work force and no heir apparent. "The industry is very worried about it," she says. "They won't have the personnel to keep us competitive. Many companies are reaching out to colleges and universities with space-related programs." eSpace is in fact a collaborative effort of a private aerospace company - Sierra Nevada Corp. - and the University of Colorado. "Especially the larger companies are reaching out to educate teachers on how to teach aerospace-related subjects and encourage students to study aerospace."
Also a hot topic: the commercialization of space transportation. "The whole issue of the commercialization of space transportation is a huge shift in how the government has approached space transportation," Dimeff says. "The government is saying private companies can do it less expensively. There's a real entrepreneurial opportunity for companies to commercialize space exploration, and not just the companies that are flying spacecraft, but all down the chain. It's a significant change, and with that comes challenges as well as opportunities."
Is the change a net positive? "I like the idea, but the jury's still out, and it will be for quite some time," Dimeff says. "Aerospace is not like the software industry. It moves much more slowly. They can't put out a beta rocket. It has to work the first time."
On the confluence of cleantech and aerospace, Dimeff notes that aerospace was green before it was in vogue. "Spacecraft have always had to be green by definition. They need to reuse energy. There is no garbage. A lot of the green breakthroughs we've had on Earth have been related to the development of spacecraft."
Holli Baumunk, president and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) in Denver, is bullish, and she has the numbers to back it up.
"Biotscience is one of the few sectors that's been growing in the past two years," Baumunk says. From 2005 to 2010, the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in Colorado grew by about 3 percent, while the larger industry suffered through a 4 percent contraction over the same period nationally. And Colorado's medical device industry outdid biotech and pharma by growing 8 percent over those five years.
However, not all is well in bioscience, Baumunk says. "We're a little concerned about regulatory issues at the federal level and financial issues around the country," she says. "The FDA is undergoing major reforms that are having an impact on the bioscience industry. It's becoming a lot more stringent toward the medical device industry.
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New devices could have to go through the same trials a drug goes through. The cost of that is extremely high. What we're really concerned about is what this will do to U.S. competitiveness globally. If we're constantly implementing more and more regulation on our companies, it's not going to be cost-effective for them to manufacture here. It's a long haul already, and this makes it longer."
Proposals to lower the length of a patent on biosimilars, generic versions of biotech drugs with expired patents, from 12 years to seven have also raised the industry's ire, Baumunk says.
"It doesn't give companies enough time to recoup their investment," she argues, noting that the average drug requires a decade to get out of the red. "Why develop it? Where's the money? Another thing we're very concerned about is lack of financing for emerging bioscience companies. Venture capital money has really dried up."
The CBSA is pushing for a five-year renewal of the Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program, which funneled $27 million to early-stage companies in recent years. "We want that to continue," Baumunk says. Same goes for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding at the federal level.
Nevertheless, Colorado is well-positioned with its fast growing medical campuses and programs at the state's institutions of higher learning. Baumunk cites both University of Colorado and Colorado State University as well as Colorado School of Mines. "We are really lucky to have all of these research institutions."
"You might use the headline, 'Renewables under threat,'" says Adam Rentschler, a Denver-based cleantech consultant and executive, judging chair in the Rocky Mountain Region of the Cleantech Open.
"The economics of renewable energy are sensitive to the price of legacy fuels," Rentschler says, specifically citing the flat pricing projections for the U.S. gas market. "Natural gas prices are now decoupled from oil. That's all based on where this stuff comes from." Rentschler says hydrological fracturing, or "fracking," will potentially uncork a century or more of natural gas for the country, threatening the economics of utility-scale wind and solar.
Intermittency and storage are two complementary issues also holding up renewables, Rentschler adds. "Solar and wind are both intermittent. To overcome that, the renewables industry needs to come up with better storage solutions." Rentschler says it's unclear what technology will emerge from concepts as disparate as pumping water uphill to storage rooted in chemical energy. "It's very difficult to pick the winners right now," he says.
"The intermittency also becomes a problem for the utility," Rentschler adds. "It turns out that coal and nuclear plants do not like to be turned down."
Rentschler says natural gas-fired generators are more "throttle-able," but exactly how to balance generation and demand becomes increasingly complex as more and more variable renewable sources enter the mix. He also foresees a coming shakeout in solar generation technologies. "It's all going to come down to dollars per watt."
But the domestic cleantech industry will likely need further federal support to fulfill its promise. "We would do well to emulate Germany and Canada. Incentives are really low in this country," Rentschler says.
"With a coherent national energy policy, we can overcome these challenges," he adds. "The goal is to beat coal, oil and gas on price as well as cleanliness."
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Cloud computing
Cloud computing has boomed in the last year at Englewood-based Statera, an IT consulting firm with five offices. "It's probably at least a third of our business," says Brad Weydert, Statera's president. "Last year it just exploded. It's not just hype anymore."
Largely implementing name-brand cloud computing solutions from Salesforce.com and Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS), Statera worked on a number of large projects for Fortune 500 companies in the last year. "Cloud computing is prime time now," Weydert says. "It's not a risk anymore. Security is there, integration with other apps is there. It's not just early adopters anymore. Now you're seeing government moving to the cloud. You're seeing hospitals moving to the cloud. There's peace of mind."
The benefits of cloud computing are many. "You can access your system anywhere, anytime," Weydert says. "You don't have to hire an IT staff. You don't have to invest in hardware. It's like electricity and the light switch: You just flip it and away you go."
Not only is cloud computing cheaper than traditional computing on a per-user basis, but it's also easier to implement than previous solutions. Instead of a two-year installation of a CRM system, "You can be up and running in three to six months," Weydert says. "It's incredible how quickly you can get them done."
Weydert describes a client: an architectural firm with more than 100,000 public folders. "They want to streamline their operations," he explains. "They don't want to be in the IT business." A "hybrid solution" was carved out that relied partially on the cloud, without eliminating the legacy systems entirely.
Some legacy systems, he adds, won't ever be ported to the cloud. "They're just too complicated," he says.
"You're seeing all sorts of creative ways to cut costs," Weydert says. "You don't have to make that investment in hardware, software, telecom, people and electricity anymore. We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. Any time you're in a down economy and people are looking to cut costs, technology is a good place to do it."
But Weydert also sees cloud computing as the IT industry's "last big wave," adding, "By the time we're done helping clients move their apps to the cloud, I'll be retired."
Social networking
Facebook 's 500 million users are a testament to the profound impact social networking has had in Silicone Valley, Cairo, and pretty much everywhere else.
"The reality is the world is always looking for a better way to tell a story," says Jason Cormier, co-founder and managing partner of Boulder-based social media agency Room 214; clients include the Travel Channel. "We've followed that rabbit hole by offering a whole new service in video scribing."
Video scribing involves animation of a whiteboard art with audio from a brainstorming session; the technique is lauded for its impact and viral nature. "It's next-level infographics with a storytelling bent," Cormier says. "It humanizes our brands."
Cormier says the "attention economy" plays by its own rules. "The reality is you only have a few seconds to capture someone's attention, and keeping it is a whole other strategy." Outside-the-box thinking is mandatory, he adds. "It's easy for marketers to get caught up with the tools in the tool shed rather than what's growing in the garden."
QR codes have also taken social networking by storm. "QR stands for quick recognition," Cormier says. "They are two-dimensional bar codes that you scan with your mobile device to be taken to a website, a contact method, or a field of text." While it's been in use in Japan for more than 20 years, the technology has only taken off in the U.S. in the era of the smart phone - and now that there are 20 million of them, it's here to stay, says Cormier. "This is a trend. It's not a fad, it's a trend."
Look for QR codes on every imaginable product, as well as construction sites in New York and advertisements of every kind. Room 214 is working on a platform for a QR code that takes you to a Facebook 'Like' button. "They're popping up everywhere," Cormier says.
The flip side? "People aren't using them very well. They could be doing a lot more with them. It's still gimmicky, but you're going to start seeing companies use them a lot more effectively. There's a world of opportunity that hasn't been tapped yet."
Boulder-based Trada is Cormier's Colorado company to watch in the space. The company offers crowdsourced pay-per-click marketing and landed a $5.75 million investment from Google Ventures last year. "They're hiring like crazy," he says. "This takes crowdsourcing to a whole different level."
You can never have enough bandwidth: The thirst for high-speed connectivity is proving difficult to slake. "The main thing that stands out is the increasing need for broadband both on the business side and on the consumer side," says Donna Jaegers, a senior analyst specializing in telecom with financial consultancy D.A. Davidson in Denver. She expects to see more build-out in 2011 and 2012. "Qwest is continuing to build out fiber to the node and I would expect CenturyLink will accelerate that."
What was seen as too much capacity a decade ago is now not enough. "A lot of the dreams that inspired the building of that capacity are now coming true," says Jaegers, citing streaming Netflix as the most prominent example of a product of this seemingly limitless bandwidth. "Even the dream that you'd be able to get multiple camera angles of a sporting event from hitting a button on your remote has come true."
With cheap and plentiful broadband comes innovation, Jaegers says. "It's a virtuous cycle. That means you get new apps consumers want and that drives the customer to imagine new apps as well."
Consolidation is on the horizon for the telecom space, especially on the long-haul side, Jaegers adds. "We've got too many players in the market and that's making it hard for them to make money on their investments."
A decade in the making, "The stars are starting to align" for a wave of M&A, she says - Level 3 and Global Crossing might just be the first domino to fall.
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Saturday, January 16th @ 8pm: I will be performing Arlecchino Am Ravenous as part of the PuppetSLAM at Puppet Showplace Theatre in Brookline.
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Little's Creatures
Kyle Mackesey
Paul Sedgwick
Jim Sedgwick
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I have previously performed Arlecchino Am Ravenous at The Gulu-Gulu Café, and Stone Soup Poetry. The piece originated as a series of improvisation on La Fame dello Zanni or "Starving Zanni" lazzo in preparation for a show at Willoughby & Baltic.
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An Enlightenment hero living during a time of revolution and racism in France, Joseph Saint-George, the son of a slave woman, became a world-renowned fencer, a colonel in the French Army, a violin virtuoso, and a composer of enormous influence. With his head high, he befriended a Queen, rubbed shoulders with the Prince of Wales, and directed the works of Haydn, one of most reputed composers in history.
Saint-George was born in 1739 to Nanon, a slave woman, and French nobleman, Guillame-Pierre Tavernier de Boullongne, on his plantation in Guadeloupe. Although Guadeloupe was known for its humane treatment of slaves, it was still a land that viewed black people as sub-human. So, even though he was a white nobleman, Guillame-Pierre's love for and devotion to Nanon and their son was considered socially unacceptable. There was a steep price to pay for having a biracial son in an era when social approval eclipsed personal happiness. Racial laws had been enacted to prevent mixed-race children from inheriting noble titles from their fathers. Never once viewing his son as anything less than noble, however, Saint-George's father dubbed his son "chevalier," or knight, as they had in the medieval era.
Eventually, Guillame-Pierre moved his family to Paris. He knew, however, that it was socially inappropriate to have a committed, monogamous relationship with a black woman in France. To correct this, he married the socially acceptable Catherine de Ravenel. Determined to see his son educated as a nobleman's son, Guillame-Pierre used his connections to secure Saint-George's position as a student at La Boessiere's fencing school. La Boessiere, considered to be one of the top fencers in Paris, and his son, La Boessiere the younger, took an immediate liking to the exceptionally skilled and dedicated Saint-George. A lifelong bond developed between the three men. At this school, the young Saint-George became a man – a man who rejected society's condemnation of himself and his mother, a man determined to control his own destiny and to succeed by overwhelming society with his merit.
At La Boessier's school, Saint-George excelled in academics, running, swimming, and, of course, fencing. Years later, Saint-George traveled to London with his close friend, Phillipe d'Orleans and spent a great deal of time at Henry Angelo's fencing school, where renowned swordsmen flocked to duel with him. It was at Angelo's school where the Prince of Wales would set up Saint-George's most infamous duel –with the cross-dressing French agent, Charles-Genevieve-Louis-August-Andre-Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont.
Understanding that a musical education was essential for all noble personages to rise in society, Guillame-Pierre hired the renowned violinist Jean-Marie LeClair, and the acclaimed composer Francois-Joseph Gossec as musical instructors for Saint-George. Having embraced perfectionism, Saint-George excelled at music as he had at his other studies.
In spite of the racism prominent in pre-revolutionary France, Saint-George forged many friendly relationships. One such friendship was with the rich financier Le Riche de La Popeliniere, a great patron of the arts. Having returned home from school, Saint-George was invited to become the first violinist in La Popelinier's orchestra. The French high-society flocked to see this violin virtuoso.
In 1769, Saint-George's composition instructor, Gossec, founded the Concert des Amateurs. Gossec's first step was to place Saint-George as the first violinist and timekeeper. And, in 1773, Gossec took over direction of the Concert Spirituel, handing the reigns of the Concert des Amateurs to Saint-George. The Concert des Amateurs excelled under Saint-George's tutelage. Critics praised Saint-George for his high standards and ability as a director.
Saint-George's reputation as one of the most talented musicians in France opened a number of doors for him. He was even invited by Marie-Antoinette to play music with her, and he became her musical advisor for a short time.
In 1775, the wife of the duc d'Orleans, Madame La Montesson, asked Saint-George to be the director of her theater and leader of her orchestra. Taken with the talented Saint-George, she convinced her husband to make Saint-George the Master of the Hunt of Pinci for Phillipes de Chartres, the duc's son.
In December, 1780, Saint-George was inducted as a member of the Freemasons, noted patrons of the arts. When the Concert de Amateurs was forced to close for financial reasons, the Freemasons stepped in and established the Olympique de la Parfaite Estime. Immediately, they chose Saint-George to lead their orchestra. It was during this time that the Freemasons sent Saint-George to Vienna to speak with Joseph Haydn, renowned composer for the Esterhazy family. Saint-George asked Haydn to compose for the Olympique, which Haydn agreed to do. The symphonies he wrote, directed by Saint-George, would become an astounding success.
The social turmoil in France was heightening. Saint-George, a good friend of revolutionary Phillipe d'Orleans, was a fervent supporter of the revolution, but he was astute enough to see that divisions were being drawn within the revolution itself. As a moderate Orleanist, Saint-George supported republicanism, but he refuted the extreme tactics suggested by the Robespierre-Marat faction.
Not long after the Storming of the Bastille, which Saint-George did not take part in, the revolutionaries called for an enlistment of patriots to defend their new government. Saint-George signed up immediately, becoming a well-respected colonel in the French Army.
The instability of the new government, however, created enormous havoc. A "de-Orleanization" took place under Robespierre's Terror. Saint-George, along with many of his closest friends, was arrested in 1793 as a "suspicious person" because of his association with Phillipe d'Orleans.
After Robespierre's execution, Saint-George was pardoned. Although he had received a full pardon, Saint-George would never return to his former military position, which had been taken from him upon his arrest. Saint-George returned to music, and was just as successful as he had been prior to his arrest. This was a short-lived triumph, however. On June 10, 1799, Saint-George passed away from an ulcerated bladder – he was 60 years old.


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Not sure where to put this so since it contains drivetrain info I'll stick it here. We decided to go with a Jannetty Racing 4.10 built rear with Ted's posi kit. He seems to think that this will work best for the car and he hasn't steered me wrong yet. Time will tell. Fortunately for me, my Buddy Ray, Fastfaster on here if he hasn't been baned yet, offered me a deal I couldn't resist on the rear so it was a no brainer. It was so gd that it would have been stupid not to do. So maybe I'll run a vinyl deacl of him on my hood at the track in appreciation!
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text: With the launch of NASA's moon-orbiting Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) this fall, the space agency ventured toward what it hopes will be the next paradigm shift in future space communication, especially in deep space. LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about its atmosphere, conditions near the surface, and environmental influences on lunar dust. Aboard LADEE is technology associated with NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD), the space agency's first attempt to show that two-way laser communication beyond Earth is possible. LLCD's main mission objective is to transmit hundreds of millions of bits of data per second from the moon to Earth, the equivalent of transmitting more than 100 high-definition TV channels simultaneously, NASA said. Its receiving capability will also be tested as tens of millions of bits per second are sent from ground stations on Earth to the spacecraft. The demonstrations will prove that the technology for increased bandwidth is possible for future missions, something that could one day allow for 3-D high-definition video transmissions in deep space to become routine. Artist's depiction of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory as it approaches lunar orbit. Photo courtesy of NASA Ames/Dana Berry. "LLCD is designed to send six times more data from the moon using a smaller transmitter with 25 percent less power as compared to the equivalent state-of-the-art radio [RF] system," said Don Cornwell, LLCD manager. "Lasers are also more secure and less susceptible to interference and jamming." In the past, NASA has experimented with sending low amounts of individual pulses to cameras on far-away space probes near Jupiter, Mars and Mercury. Recently, an image of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was transmitted to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft orbiting the moon. "But this was done at only hundreds of data bits per second," Cornwell said. "LLCD will be the first dedicated optical communication system and will send data millions of times faster." The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully demonstrated laser communication between satellites in Earth orbit. The ESA recently launched Alphasat to demonstrate laser transmission between a low-Earth orbit satellite and a satellite in geostationary Earth orbit, but LLCD's laser link from the moon will be 10 times farther away. The short LLCD mission is a precursor to NASA's long-duration demonstration, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, which is scheduled to launch in 2017. The goal of the LLCD experiment, Cornwell said, "is to validate and build confidence in this technology so that future missions will consider using it. We can even envision such a laser-based system enabling a robotic mission to an asteroid. It could have 3-D, high-definition video signals transmitted to Earth, providing essentially 'telepresence' to a human controller on the ground." The LADEE mission is scheduled to last approximately 160 days: 30 days to travel to the moon, 30 days for checkout and 100 days for science operations. The mission will attempt to confirm whether dust caused a mysterious glow on the lunar horizon that astronauts observed during several Apollo missions, and to explore the moon's tenuous, exotic atmosphere. NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Calif., designed, developed, built and tested the spacecraft and will manage the 100-day science mission. For more information, see 'Lunar Orbiter Lasers Mona Lisa to Moon,' www.photonics.com/a52820.


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Although I can't remember how I came to know about the Holga, I know that I instantly wanted one. In a short time I was ready to dive into all things Holga. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but after my second roll of film…there was no going back.
I don't remember how I first heard about Holga cameras. I remember reading online about their cult following, light leaks and low-fidelity photos. I was starting my advanced film photography class and this sounded like a fun way to dive into medium format film.
However, the first roll I shot was somewhat disappointing. I had accidentally double exposed a couple of shots. My focus was entirely strange on others and my composition needed some adjusting. I knew I needed to make some tweaks, but I was already reserving myself to letting the Holga be nothing more than a strange landscape photo camera.
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It was amazing. My focusing was better. I shot from the hip more and didn't stress composition as much, focusing on sky scapes and clouds. Not to mention the panorama effect and the sprocket holes.
Best of all, there were light leaks. I had wanted the light leaks so much, when I didn't see them in my first roll, it was a little bit of a disappointment.
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I fell in love with the errors caused by the low quality construction of the camera. On a trip to San Francisco, the film that pads the takeup spools came unglued and reeled itself into my film, causing fogging on the whole roll of 120 film.
Sometimes, I can't replicate the errors that have created my favorite photos in the past, but even after buying a Diana F+, Diana Mini, countless nameless plastic cameras and 2 more Holgas, my original is still the one I keep going back to time and time again. What can I say? I'm in love.
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Wayside Records and early Detroit bluegrass part 2
Wayside Records, an independent label in Detroit, produced some of the first bluegrass records made in the city. In late 1957, Frank Wakefield and Buster Turner recorded for Wayside.
Wayside Records and early Detroit bluegrass
In his 1985 book "Bluegrass: A History," Neil Rosenberg suggested Detroit's Wayside Records was the first business to advertise bluegrass as a category of music, with a small ad in "Billboard" magazine in 1957. Part one examines Wayside 105, with Frank Wakefield, Marvin Cobb & Chain Mountain Boys.
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