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Florida is Cooler
Today the weather map for the USA shows Florida is cooler than most other places. That's a switch. This heatwave has hit the entire lower 48 states. It's miserable.
I decided to do a salad for dinner with tuna sandwiches instead of cooking. It's just too hot. I bet the sister missionaries were thankful we didn't bake lasagna for dinner. (Elizabethe is!)
Ice cream for dinner, again because it is too hot.
Not a Good Day
It's not a good day health wise. Yesterday I experienced a sudden loss of strength in my fingers. Coupled with the other symptoms I searched for what it could be. The first thing that popped up was ALS. Oh, I hope it isn't that. Reading that just compounded my already existing stress.
Drug Trial
Elizabethe is in a drug trial program. It's an already existing drug that has a side effect of weight loss. They are testing to see if it is effective as a weight loss. So far, it has taken away her appetite. I joked that she'll lose weight, but I'll gain what she loses because I'll have to eat her leftovers too.
Actually, that's not going to happen. Whatever it is that I have is making me less hungry than before.

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The Cheyenne River mission
On June 15-23 Ellen Mustoe and Frieda Herman, Washington residents and members of Washington Baptist Church's congregation, traveled along with 26 others on a mission trip to Eagle Butte, S.D., on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation. The mission has been going on for about 15 years, and Ellen has participated for 10 years, Frieda for eight.
At least eight different churches from four states sent participants on the trip, although the project is now based at the Hamilton Baptist Church in Hamilton, Va.
The Cheyenne River Sioux are one of the currently recognized five tribes of the Great Sioux Nation. Based at the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in north-central South Dakota, 2.8 million acres set aside by Congress in 1889, the tribe suffers from extreme poverty, Ellen explained. Ziebach County, one of two counties where the reservation is located, ranked as the country's seventh-poorest county in 1990. Data gathered through various sources suggest an undeniable connection between alcohol abuse and a higher-than-average mortality rate on the reservation.
According to the 2010 census, the reservation's population, at about 1,300, has a median income of less than $18,000, and an unemployment rate said to be as high as 87 percent. Less than one quarter of the children who start school at age 5 will graduate from high school, Ellen Mustoe explained, and most who do graduate go to college, trade school or into the military and do not return to the reservation.
"Although Eagle Butte is only two times zones away from us," Ellen said, "it has been likened to a third-world country."
At Washington Baptist Church, which supports the Eagle Butte community through their annual Christmas sock and glove tree, it was decided this year that offerings made for the joint Vacation Bible School of the Washington Baptist Church and Trinity Episcopal Church would go to the Eagle Butte community, split evenly between St. John's Episcopal Church and First Baptist Church of Eagle Butte. "The children of our Bible school also colored delightful book bags in which were placed school supplies and a child's edition of the Bible, which will be sent as well," said Washington Baptist's Rev. Phil Bailey.
In Eagle Butte this year, Ellen and Frieda served on a team that conducted, with the local First Baptist Church, a Vacation Bible School for 85 children and 12 adults. Supper was provided each evening before study time, and a basketball camp brought in some 50 teenagers in Eagle Butte and another 30 in nearby Cherry Creek. Another activity they helped with, Bailey said, was the "Off the Wall," program, a time of fellowship and Bible study that he said attracted many of the young people who used to hang out in front of an abandoned building across the street from the church.
Also assisting the team were Pastor Ben and Tiffany Farrar of First Baptist Church, and Amy and Clint Holly, local Southern Baptist missionaries serving at the Windswept Academy Christian School. where Clint is now headmaster. Anne and Ilhomi Konur from Hamilton Baptist Church started this school and will be at Washington Baptist Church on Sunday, Dec. 2, to talk about it. Everyone from the community is invited to come.
With the more than 15 years of dedicated service of the Eagle Butte ministry, Bailey said, many positive results have occurred. One of the young people who attended at an earlier time said he wanted "what the people who came from the Virginia churches had," because they were so joyful and loving. His name is Ivan Uses the Knife, Bailey said, and he has now finished his first year of college and has put into print several Christian comic books that he designed and wrote.
If you would like more information about the mission project, call the church office at Washington Baptist Church at 540-675-3336.
Rappahannock resident Jim Miller, a member of the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service, and John Sullivan, mayor of Washington, plan a reception for Washington Postmaster Yvonne Jarrell this Friday (July 20) at the post office on Main Street from 10 to 11 a.m. There will be drinks and nibbles, so stop by and wish Yvonne well and thank her for being best postmaster ever! (Yvonne's last day is Tuesday, July 31.)
Condolences go out to the family of Ethel Lorene Dwyer, 88, of Sperryville. Mrs. Dwyer passed away on Sunday (July 15) at her residence. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. today (Thursday, July 19) at Found and Sons, Culpeper, with Pastor Gary Utz officiating. Interment will follow in Washington Masonic Cemetery.
Angels in the outfield?
A birdie told me on my morning walk Monday that there's going to be a coed softball game – Washington Baptist Church vs. Reynolds Memorial Baptist Church – on Saturday, Aug. 4, starting at 6 p.m. at the ball field behind the elementary school. If the time or place changes, I will have the updated information here in my column. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the game and fellowship.
Congratulations go out to Eric Andrew Norman for receiving his master of fine arts degree from Washington State University in May. Eric is the son of John and Nina Bailey of Washington, and grandson of Marilyn Bailey of Washington. Also, congratulations to Laura "Vasara" Akl and Stephen Joel Bailey on their wedding celebration on June 10, at Glen Garden, Fredericksburg. They reside in Alexandria; Stephen is also Marilyn Bailey's grandson, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bailey of Strasburg.
Keep smiling, drink plenty of liquids and try to stay cool in this heat wave we are having.


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|Elvis Express Radio News
Here E.E.R Share With You Some Recent Media Reviews Of Elvis' Latest Smash Hit Album
November 25, 2015 - Various / Elvis Express Radio
In August of this year, Priscilla Presley made the announcement that the Presley Estate would be releasing an album of Elvis' music with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Undoubtedly raising a few eyebrows since, after all, he was the King of Rock and Roll, Priscilla herself hadn't had the greatest track record of decisions with Elvis' music. Indeed,
many fans had considered Priscilla to be the personification of a she-devil. However, when she followed this announcement with the album's first single 'If I Can Dream', many fans
were left with mouths agape wondering, 'Could it be?!'
Without exaggeration, 'If I Can Dream' sent shivers down the spine of its listeners, Elvis fans and music fans alike. The beautiful echo of horns and tap-tap of drums eased the
listener into a song that built to larger and larger beauty, right through to the end. Accompanying one of Elvis' more well-known songs, it fit well with the story and the message of
the song, to the point that the combination of sounds in the song's closure was like a rich feast. However, the follow-up single, 'Fever', whilst echoing the feel of its original, when
compared to 'If I Can Dream', left a lot to be desired. Likewise, one is left with the nagging question; if Elvis were to do one duet with any recording artist of the modern day, would it
really be Michael Bublé?
Of course, when comparing the questionable choice that was 'Fever' with the track list for the album, the excitement and questions remained. Thankfully, overall, they were
answered in the positive. A combination of his more well-known songs and some of his lesser known works, every song is beautiful in its own right, and portrays the versatility of the
King's repertoire. Likewise, each song is accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra in exciting, and sometimes unexpected ways. The mesmerizing blast of horns in 'Bridge Over
Troubled Water', the resounding squeal of strings at the start of 'In the Ghetto' and a mix of the above in 'Love Me Tender', all refresh well known songs. Meanwhile, many listeners
will be introduced to alternative and equally exciting songs in the Presley repertoire via 'Steamroller Blues', 'There's Always Me' and 'How Great Thou Art'. Understandably,
considering the variation of this collection, one or two songs might be overlooked. But this will only be due to personal taste, not lack of quality.
In a recent interview, Priscilla Presley claimed that "this is the album Elvis would have wanted to do, but couldn't". His relationship with the Colonel is well documented, and indeed,
before the album was released, nobody could deny that Elvis was overly controlled by Tom Parker. However, many would have been slow to give too much credence to what Priscilla
said. Loyal as they come, Elvis fans undoubtedly queued in their droves to take a taste of this new flavour of Elvis' music. And they came away grinning from ear to ear, hoping
there may one day be a second reconditioning of Elvis' music. Priscilla was right; there are many reasons studios would have been slow to consider Elvis recording with an
orchestra. But herein lies the beauty of modern technology – we can meditate on what could have been.
If I Can Dream is so close to the perfect Elvis Presley album, one would be reluctant to see how it could be made more perfect. As it stands, the album skyrocketed straight to
number one and, accordingly, broke the record for the most successful album by any male artist in the UK. Whether a die-hard Elvis fan or new to his music, this album is so worthy
of a listen, one must wonder why you're still reading this article. Get on it!
***** Stars
Long live the King!
Nearly 40 years after his death in 1977, Elvis Presley once again returns to the music charts. "If I Can Dream" features a flawless blending of the entertainer's original vocal
recordings reworked with the lush and elegant accompaniment of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The stirring orchestration gracefully breathes new life into 14 Presley classics
that showcase the singer's unforgettable voice.
It seems everyone is a Presley fan to some degree or another. My first exposure to the cultural icon occurred while viewing his comeback performance aired on NBC in 1968. While I
may have only been four years of age at the time, I can still fondly recall being in awe of Presley's stage presence performing hits like "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Hound Dog" and
thinking that this guy with all the swagger and charm was certainly one of the coolest dudes I'd ever seen.
A spirited version of "Burning Love" opens the album as the added strings feverishly propel Presley's passionate singing to a higher level of excitement. In addition to the added
orchestration, the refreshed material gets some additional assistance from other artists. Italian pop trio Il Volo adds some vocal assistance on "It's Now or Never," Michael Bublé
partners with Elvis on "Fever" and Duane Eddy provides the guitar work on Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
My personal favorite track on the album is a touching version of "Can't Help Falling in Love," which was also played during the first dance at my wedding reception. Other highlights
include a dramatic rendition of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," a stellar version of James Taylor's "Steamroller Blues" and an inspirational cover of "How Great Thou Art."
Priscilla Presley serves as an executive producer of the album and keeps the memory of her former husband alive and well through this special project that she has stated he would
have always wanted to do.
For her devotion to making his dream a reality, I simply say in my best King impersonation, "Thank you, thank you very much."
***** Stars
I Can Dream: Elvis Presley With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is exactly the kind of grandiose pop statement the singer would've loved. Presley may have been the King of Rock
n' Roll, but he also was a sucker for lush strings and sentimental ballads. And there's plenty of that here. Classic Presley vocals are paired with new arrangements from London's
world-renowned orchestra. Plus, the collection contains cameos from traditional pop crooner Michael Bublé and classical crossover trio Il Volo.
The seed for this audacious concept -- overseen by executive producer Priscilla Presley -- actually reaches back to Elvis (a.k.a. the "'68 Comeback Special"). The NBC program is
legendary for its unplugged segment when Presley, wrapped in black leather, reaffirmed his commitment to hip-swiveling rockabilly. But for the show's finale, Presley traded black
leather for angel white and unveiled "If I Can Dream," a stunning ballad that quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, assassinated the previous spring.
Looking back on "If I Can Dream" (as well as his many other orchestrated works), it's easy to hear how Presley – deeply inspired by Italian great Mario Lanza -- was an early
innovator of blending rock with traditional pop and even opera. It's an amalgam that in recent years has become a global phenomenon thanks to Il Divo, Josh Groban and, of
course, Bublé. It's this aspect of his legacy that the new collection fleshes out.
The 2015 "If I Can Dream" doesn't differ all that much from its late-'60s predecessor. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra simply enriches the rousing arrangement already in place.
The same can be said of "Can't Help Falling in Love" and the gospel classic "How Great Art Thou." On both the Royal Philharmonic is wise not to step on Presley's toes -- the vocals
are so hypnotic and enveloping that it would be foolish to challenge them.
But the production isn't always so conservative. Where Presley's original "Fever," recorded for 1960's Elvis Is Back!, is sparse and moody, its reimagining -- which features Bublé
sharing lead -- is as rich and thick as chocolate mousse. What the tune lakes in atmosphere it more than makes up for in sugary confection. Equally ostentatious is opener "Burning
Love." At first blush, the early-'70s rocker, Presley's last Top Ten hit in the States, seems an unlikely fit for the pop-oriented project. But that doesn't stop the Royal Philharmonic's
string section from chugging along.
Maybe the cut that most successfully drives home Presley's ahead-of-its-time pop vision is "It's Now or Never." A loose adaptation of the Italian aria "'O Sole Mio," the 1960 hit can
certainly be considered a pioneering example of classical crossover and popera. Il Volo provide backing vocals that are subtle and supportive, while the orchestral treatment is a
significant improvement over the original's thin accompaniment. One of Presley's most robust performances finally meets its equal in the Royal Philharmonic's lyrical strings and
brass. The King would be pleased.
***** Stars
The new Elvis Presley album, If I Can Dream, posthumously pairs the King with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a set of 14 brand new arrangements. Presley's isolated vocal
tracks are expertly overlaid atop bold orchestral backing. Despite a hearty endorsement in the liner notes from Priscilla Presley, who speculates that her ex-husband would've
considered the album "a dream come true," we of course have no way of knowing if Presley would've liked this. In fact, it's a safe bet he would've recorded new vocals to go with the
orchestral tracks, so If I Can Dream remains a piece of music 'fan fiction' at best.
With the griping about posthumous tinkering (or grave-robbing, depending how strongly you feel about the matter) now out of the way, it can also be said that If I Can Dream is
handled with relative grace and good taste. The results are extremely listenable and, as far as these "what if" type projects go, this is a very worthwhile experience for Elvis fans.
Any temptation to make this a full-on "duets" album was mostly resisted, with only "Fever" becoming a twosome with Michael Bublé dropping in. And while on paper it seemed like a
questionable idea, on disc this is a fun, sexy piece that ends up being an album highlight.
Overall, If I Can Dream retains the "DNA of Elvis" (as Priscilla puts it in the liner notes) while managing to cast the songs in subtly different moods. "Burning Love," which opens the
record, trades the original's raucous rock for a more tempered, formal setting. Ballads like "Love Me Tender" and "Can't Help Falling in Love" wind up with more predictable,
supportive backing. "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" is treated a suitably big, bold, powerful score. Italian trio Il Volo back up Presley vocally on "It's Now or Never." Duane Eddy
adds guitar to "An American Trilogy" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
In the end, while the new album may not ever be considered essential, it is a potent reminder of the power and beauty of Elvis Presley's voice. The audio fidelity is spectacular, with
the decades-old vocal tracks blending seamlessly with the newly recorded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra backing.
***** Stars
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The World's First Travel Blog Post
Karena termasuk salah satu orang yang mencintai perjalanan, maka menjadi penting bagi saya untuk berbagi tulisan ini. Inilah tulisan yang kemudian menjadi cikal bakal dari apa yang sekarang kita kenal sebagai travel blog. Dipublikasikan dua hari DUA PULUH tahun yang lalu, 6 Januari 1994 di Global Network Navigator, tulisan ini adalah catatan perjalanan (betul-betul ditulis saat dalam perjalanan darat dan laut – tanpa sekali pun menggunakan jalur udara) pertama yang diunggah di dunia maya. Ketika itu, istilah blog bahkan belum ditemukan sampai lima tahun kemudian!
Penulis sekaligus sang peletak sejarah ini bernama Jeff Greenwald, yang pada awal tahun 1993 telah menjadi travel journalist selama lebih dari sepuluh tahun. Tulisan ini dibuat oleh Jeff dengan menggunakan Hewlett Packard OmniBook 300 di Oaxaca, sebuah negara bagian di Meksiko, sepuluh hari setelah meninggalkan kediamannya di Oakland, California. Tulisan sepanjang 1.600 kata ini diunggah Jeff selama tiga jam dengan fax-modem yang lambat, sambil menyeruput segelas cokelat panas saat beristirahat. Cerita lengkap mengenai kelahiran travel blog post pertama dunia ini dapat dibaca di sini.
One Hundred Nanoseconds of Solitude
The warmth of this provincial capital radiates from the grills of the hot cake vendors, from the sun-baked walls of brilliantly painted buildings peeling and flaking in the Mexican sun, from the big-hearted strangers who leap from Chevy pick-up trucks to direct us to the zocalo. And it is the zocalo itself, the central community open-air plaza, that is the metaphorical heart of this magical city. Every Oaxaqueño, it seems, passes through the zocalo at least once a day — to read the paper, chat with friends, have a shoe shine — before spiraling back out toward work or home via the maze of immaculately swept avenues. The rejuvenating effect is palpable, even to a foreigner. Flowing in from the arterial streets like depleted corpuscles, Oaxaca's citizens rely on the zocalo for their social and spiritual refueling, their vivifying daily dose of community.
How do Americans survive without zocalos? How do we cope with the suffocating stresses of metropolitan life without an oxygenated pool of humanity to dip back into? The honest truth is, we don't.
Oaxaca is always a warm city, but this week even more than usual. Today, January 6th, is the 12th day of Christmas: Los Reyes. The holiday commemorates the night when the three wise kings, or reyes, arrived at the infant Jesus's manger bearing exotic gifts. This evening the local children will place their shoes outside their bedroom doors, stuffed with notes — much like letters to Santa — telling the reyes what specific presents to bring (Jesus himself never had it so good). Toy stores stay open all night to satisfy these demands, and the narrow streets are clogged with desperate shoppers.
It's a fantastic time to be in Oaxaca, as colored lights blink in front of the ancient stone Cathedral and the smells of baking bread, hot chocolate and honey-roasted nuts commingle with ozone and perfume. The broad plazas surrounding the zocalo are filled with an all-day carnival featuring Ninja Turtle balloons, local handicrafts, all manner of deep-fried foods, sweet stands swarming with drunken bees and hand-lettered stalls where squinting mestizos armed with hypodermic needles will engrave your name on a grain of rice — a feat of nano-engineering just as miraculous, at least to this beholder, as IBM spelling its corporate symbol out in magnetized iron atoms. Street musicians and beggars wander between tables at the open air cafés facing the zocalo, palms out but not pushy, relying on the generosity of the season. They are seldom disappointed.
The great irony of this journey, which was not part of the original plan, is the dispatch you see before you now. Thanks to an ultra-lightweight computer, I now have the privilege (and burden) of remaining forever tethered to my electronic igloo back home. So while this overland voyage continues to remind me how enormous our home planet is, my fraternity of Internetted cyber-tuna — thanks to the miracles of the fax-modem — will never be more than a telephone jack away.
In theory.
In practice, it's a different story. Right now I'm in the tourism bureau's computer room, a half-block from the zocalo. Carnival rides spin outside the window, couples smooch beneath the rust-colored eaves of the Cathedral, and Sally, my irrepresible partner, is out drinking cold cervezas and watching folkloric dances as I hunt-and-peck my way through the electronic gate of this pesky assignment. I've been coming back to this office for the past two days in a continuing (and so far futile) attempt to connect with CompuServe in Mexico City. Linking with CompuServe in the Bay Area is not a viable option…the Mexican government enjoys a virtual monopoly on telephone service, and a 15-minute link-up would run me the price of a Chevy Nova. So I wait and write, wait and write, consumed by the sinking feeling that this unnerving pattern is bound to be repeated in Guatemala, Senegal, Turkey, Nepal….
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Two hours later. Suffice it to say that, despite efforts bordering on the heroic (or insane, if you want to be realistic), there will be no link with the electronic web tonight. Which just goes to show: the world isn't quite as small (yet) as I was afraid it might turn out to be after all. Listening to the unrequited gargle of the Mexico City telecom link as it failed to 'recognize' my modem, I experienced a sense of informational isolation and electro-existential solitude rare in this hard-wired age. Years of development, millions of dollars of elegant equipment, a cast of thousands, and I can't even check my e-mail. I guess we still haven't got the bugs ironed out of this 'global village' business.
But if there's one thing I'm learning from this recent series of frustrations, it's that information — recent intelligence to the contrary notwithstanding — operates by its own rules.
Take Oaxaca itself. Two and a half millennia ago, this region was the site of a thriving Zapotecan capital called Monte Alban: A monumental city set on a man-made mesa overlooking the entire Oaxaca valley. During its two-millenia long history (from about 500 BC to the 15th century AD) Monte Alban served, among other things, as the birthplace of both Mexican writing and a highly complex calendric system. The Zapotecs excelled in astronomy, ceramics and metalwork, and developed a sophisticated ritual and political structure. It is fair to say they presumed (not unreasonably, after the first awkward centuries) that their civilization — or at the very least a cogent record of their history and achievements — would be around far into the future.
But the future, as usual, had other plans.
Yesterday afternoon Sally and I explored the vast, flat mesa, now a mammoth archeological site heavy with naked stone stairways, round columns supporting the dusty sky and vast plazas overgrown with dry grass. Much of the architecture is beautifully preserved: an observatory oriented toward the magnetic pole; friezes of captured (and evidently castrated) enemy rulers; empty ball-game courts where copper-skinned athletes once competed, some say, for their lives.
Despite the evidence of these efffortfully displaced stones, the culture that built Monte Alban, and all record of it, has all but vanished. It is an almost total enigma. Elaborate hieroglyphs appear in dark stone alleyways, but no one can decipher their meaning. Archeologists can only speculate on what occured in the sweeping plazas, and why. Even the most commonplace details of life on Monte Alban — how the city was governed, which gods the inhabitants believed in, how they entertained themselves — are anybody's guess.
Beholding the ruins of this 'eternal' Zapotecan civilization, I couldn't help but consider the vagaries of information. What lasts, and why? Our bold and cunning Neosilicate Age is less than 50 years old, but we're already audacious enough to imagine that, if we back up our files often enough, the megabytes we are so tirelessly generating will endure forever — providing future archeologists (God help them) with a seamless record.
I doubt it. The naked truth is that nothing lasts.
In October of 1991, days after the deadly Oakland firestorm, I helped my friends Patrick and Sheila sift through the ashes of their incinerated home. The heat from the blaze forged from their lives a surreal ruin littered with oddly familiar icons: an imploded but otherwise intact light bulb, flat as an idea balloon; a smooth red torpedo, once a can full of Lincoln pennies; a glossy aluminum pool, formerly a no-frost refrigerator.
Among the stray steel screws and bits of charred ceramic we found a clear, oblong marble, roughly the weight of an 8-ball, laying beside a bare twisted U of flat, flesh-colored material. These two mysterious and elemental artifacts — variations on the theme of fused silica — were all that remained of their Macintosh computer.
The record of the Zapotecs, an amazing race who reigned over the Oaxaca Valley for over 50 generations, was carved in stone. It is gone. What hope, I wonder, for these weightless electronic pulses, bleeping through the ether?
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Despite Oaxaca's charm, I have not completely shaken the tensions that dogged me in Guaymas. But perhaps it's not all me. Leonard Bernstein spoke of the 'Age of Anxiety,' and while I suspect that every age has been, at least for some of its citizens, an age of anxiety, I cannot imagine a period in human history during which so much was expected of so many so fast. Our new information toys have not freed us, and the relentless crowding of our minds with information has been far from liberating. Half the people I know seem to be locked in a life-or-death struggle to keep up with their Intel processors.
Even the OmniBook is a mixed blessing. Unlike a traditional journal it needs to be juiced up, protected from physical shock, guarded day and night. I cannot stick feathers or photographs within its pages, or have schoolchildren draw pictures of birds and flowers on its screen. Last night, after dinner, I saw tiny cockroaches scurrying between the keys. I sealed the computer away at once, terrified that one of them might crawl into the machine's innards and cause a short-circuit — making my sophisticated word processor the world's most expensive cockroach motel.
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In a vestibule of the Oaxaca Cathedral stands a statue of San Antonio de Pueda; Oaxaqueños pin medallions, photographs and charm-like metal milagros to his cloak to petition for miracles. Today a 3 1/2" floppy disk hangs amid the offerings, giving new meaning to the concept of 'saving off-site.'
Happy New Year, all. I'll connect again, in a week or two, from another corner of this big, warm, semi-wired world.


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If you enjoy using some Facebook features in apps like OneDrive, People and others in Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone, it looks like they won't be available anymore. A new support page shows that, because of a change in the Graph API, Facebook Connect features are no longer available for those apps, along with other services from Microsoft.
Here's what Microsoft has to say:
"Facebook's Graph API is the tool that we use to connect your Microsoft account to Facebook. It brings contact information from your Facebook friends into Outlook.com and the Windows People app, keeps those contacts up-to-date, and provides options in apps and services like Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, and OneDrive.com to share to Facebook. We collectively refer to these features as Facebook Connect. Due to these changes, Facebook Connect features will no longer be supported."
The support page goes into more detail on what specific apps and services will be affected by this change. Here's the list of apps that will no longer support Facebook Connects features:
- Outlook.com Contacts
- Outlook.com, Windows, Windows Phone and Office 365 Calendar sync
- Windows 8.1 People app
- Windows 8 People app
- Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Calendar app
- Windows 8 Photo Gallery and Movie Maker
- Windows 8 Photos App
- Windows Phone 7 and 8 People app
- Windows Phone 7 and 8 OneDrive
- Windows Phone 7 and 8 Photos
- Windows Live Essentials Calendar and Contacts
- OneDrive Online
- Outlook Social Connector in Outlook 2013
- Office 365 Outlook Web App
You can check out the support page to see what specific features will no longer be available for each app and service.
Source: Microsoft; Thanks to Pete for the tip!


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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
5 comments:
- High-Heeled Foot in the door said...
Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving!
- November 28, 2008 at 9:02 AM
- Ivy Lane said...
I LOVE your "Jackie" fabric!!!
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
- November 29, 2008 at 11:09 AM
- Maison Fleur said...
Hey Michelle,
Happy Thanksgiving! I am over in Australia, have been a fan of your blog for a while and I have finally created my own, have emailed you before, just wanted to say hello in blogland!
Enjoy your holidays!
Brisbane, Australia
- November 29, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Nice blog~
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French building materials manufacturer Saint-Gobain, already with a significant manufacturing presence in Worcester, is now bringing its life sciences division to the city.The company's performance plastics division has opened a life sciences laboratory at the UMass Medical School campus to study the interface between materials and biology, the company announced Thursday."Continuing to build this understanding is crucial to ensuring appropriate levels of material selection, modification and design in our products," said Anne Hardy, vice president of research and development for the company's high-performance materials sector. The facility will be used for application testing of single-use systems, with a focus on the cell and gene therapy market. The facility, designed to meet the highest quality and safety standards in the life science industry, will enable the isolation, processing and culturing of primary and immortalized cells. Equipment in the facility will observe and evaluate material, cell and protein interactions. The dedicated space for application development will support the creation of new products with specific capabilities in sterile welding, pumping and low-temperature testing, the company said.Steve Maddox, general manager of Saint-Gobain Life Sciences, said in a statement the new lab is a critical component to the company's cell and gene therapy work. "It allows us to more readily leverage our material science expertise to advance scalable, single-use solutions in bioprocessing," he said.
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Thompson – Geraldine M. (Blouin) Grenier, age 80, of Pompeo Road, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family at home of Alzheimer's on Wednesday, September 28, 2011. She leaves her husband of 61 years and caregiver, Paul H. Grenier of Thompson; a son, Paul B. Grenier of Putnam; a daughter, Jacqueline Oleszewski and her husband… Continue Reading
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1916 – 2011 Putnam – Gerald J. Bibeault, 95, of Smith St., died Wednesday, September 21, 2011 in Westview Healthcare Center. He was the loving husband of the late Loretta (Mathieu) Bibeault. Born in Putnam, he was the son of the late Alfred and Rosanna (Cloutier) Bibeault. Mr. Bibeault was a 1942 graduate of Worcester… Continue Reading
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Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Malice Domestic and the Poirot Award
This time I was presented with the Poirot award; which is given in recognition of a significant contribution to the traditional mystery genre. It isn't awarded every year, and the contribution in question may be quite distinct from writing books - the very first recipient was David Suchet, and last year the Poirot went to Barbara Peters and Rob Rosenwald, whose Poisoned Pen Bookstore and Press have made such an impact over the past twenty-odd years.
It was a great honour, and I was delighted to share the evening of the awards banquet with some special guests, including Doug Greene (a past recipient of the Poirot), Steve Steinbock, and British writers Ann Cleeves and Frances Brody. Also on my table was Cathy Ace, originally from Wales but now Chair of the Crime Writers of Canada, who interviewed me about my career and did a fantastic job. I also enjoyed being part of a panel including other honorees such as Charlaine Harris and Elaine Viets, and signing copies of the Malice anthology, Mystery Most Historical, which includes a story of mine. To my delight, Crippen & Landru produced a specially published edition for convention delegates of my short story "Acknowledgments". .
As ever with conventions, I tried to fit in some sightseeing, and I can certainly recommend a river cruise on the Potomac. One of these days I'll make it as far as Mount Vernon....The weather was gorgeous, so I spent as much time as I could outside, visiting various monuments as well as the botanical garden. Washington is a great city. As for the convention, it passed all too quickly, but I was delighted to spend quality time with old friends and new, including Janet Hutchings of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Gin Malliet, Michael Dirda, and Elaine and English Showalter. It was good, too, to meet John Norris, whose blog Pretty Sinister Books I've long enjoyed, for the very first time. My thanks and congratulations go to the Malice Board, who always do such a fine job. I've already registered for next year, and if you like crime conventions, this is one I can strongly recommend.
7 comments:
- Jonathan said...
Congratulations, Martin, on the Poirot Award! :) I've 'Yesterday's Paper's' sitting on my shelf, and will probably be one of the next four novels I read - having just taken out four books from my local library... Could I ask what the difference is, from your standpoint as the author, between the Lake District and the Harry Devlin series?
- 4 May 2017 at 11:05
- Cathy Ace said...
What a delightful piece, Martin. It was, indeed, a marvelous convention, and I was so honoured to have the chance to "grill" you about your extensive and impressive body of work.
- 4 May 2017 at 16:30
- Martin Edwards said...
Thanks, Jonathan. That's a very interesting question, and I might even write a blog post about it before long. But briefly, there are several key differences. The Devlin books were a conscious attempt to marry Golden Age tropes with a portrayal of a modern urban society. The Lakes books are about the very different pressures on rural society. The Devlin stories focused on the personal misadventures of one hapless guy, the Lakes books on a slowly developing relationship between two people.
- 4 May 2017 at 23:33
- Martin Edwards said...
Cathy, thanks!
- 4 May 2017 at 23:34
- Jonathan said...
Thanks for your reply, Martin. :) Do I rightly recall that you once made some mention that the Devlin novels present more convoluted puzzle plots - like Golden Age mystery novels? I've just started on 'Yesterday's Papers', and I'm enjoying it so far.
- 7 May 2017 at 12:34
- Martin Edwards said...
That's right, Jonathan. I think Yesterday's Paper is quite a good example of that, and I hope you enjoy it. It's one of my own personal favourites
- 7 May 2017 at 18:47
- Christine said...
Belated congratulations, Martin (I am just catching up on my blog reading)! A well-deserved honour.
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