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Let's give credit, where credit is due...
Near the end of last year a furor arose from many of the subscribers to the Godfrey Library on-line resources. www.godfrey.org - Horror of horrors, Godfrey was canceling, or being dropped by, some of the data bases that they provided to their $30 per year "Godfrey Scholar" subscribers. Some of you may remember that I have written about Godfrey both in blogs and on my website favorites and have called it "the best bargain on the Internet!"
Well I will admit that I was upset about losing some of the resources such as FindUSA (which was fabulous for locating missing living relatives,) and ProQuest and some others, but Godfrey either could not absorb the enormous price hike from the vendor, or that the vendor just plain stopped offering the data to everyone. I still would like to know the true story of FindUSA. Is it offered anywhere, at any price? Perhaps the information from the following url might indicate some of the problems are certainly not Godfrey's fault. http://www.primezone.com/ca/news.html?d=93937
Any way, during the midst of the conflagration of angry messages, accusations and people just plain spouting off and not knowing what they were talking about, I renewed my subscription to Godfrey and I am certainly not sorry that I did.
Looking back twenty or thirty years ago when I was in a library some where at every free moment, I used to marvel at a huge collection of books that was an early index to American colonial, revolutionary war, and post rev war families. Some of the librarians called them "The Green Books," some called them the "Rider Index," and they are more properly known as the "American Genealogical-Biographical Index, (AGBI)."
These beauties were just about my first grab when working on a new family line, or when wanting to add more meat to the bones of some previously discovered early ancestors.
There were over 200 volumes of these large green books, starting in 1936, and they had been issued in two parts. By that I mean that the first volumes A through W had been published and then a second edition started with much more information, so the early volumes were retired as the second edition contained the same data plus a whole lot more, at the rate of about four volumes per year.
Knowing what I know now, I can appreciate these books and the Godfrey Library even more.
Fremont Rider was a librarian for the
From a Brief History of the Library, on the Godfrey website,
"The Godfrey Memorial Library was founded by Fremont Rider and was incorporated on 26 Nov 1947 as a "…free public library of books, pamphlets, periodicals and other materials in the fields of American biography and genealogy and in related fields; to carry on and promote investigation and research in these fields and to publish the results thereof…"
A site was selected on a hill near
The Library has continued with its mission of collecting genealogical materials and publishing. Its' list of titles include a number of genealogies, reference books and indexes, including the 226 volume American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI). AGBI is the largest genealogical reference set ever published."
So here is a library built expressly by, and for genealogists. To my knowledge it might be the only one with those credentials in
Whenever I found a reference in the AGBI to the "Boston Transcript." I would get doubly excited and anxious to read these newspaper column queries posted by genealogists from the period of about 1898 to 1941. The person submitting the query would be issued a query number as would anyone posting a follow-up answer or additional information on the same query. The submitters were only identified by their initials, but you could always gain new ideas about where to look for further information. Almost none of the details published were authenticated by any documentary evidence, but it would get the juices flowing and off you could go to new research projects. The Onondaga County Public Library (OCPL) in
You can still take advantage of all of these resources at Godfrey.org and some are also available through Ancestry.com by subscription. If you do not have a set of the Boston Transcript microfiche at hand you can send for a photocopy of the query at Godfrey.
This exciting news showed up today on the Godfrey listserve newsgroup:
"Godfrey Library's Board of Trustees met yesterday and decided to go ahead with the digitizing process of our own holdings. We are in the process of choosing a company to do that for us, but it will be a gradual process since we do not have a lot of money.
In the mean time we will add a paid database about once a month and add links whenever we find a good source that might interest you.
We intend to start with a small collection of family Bibles that we own. They are being transcribed now. When they are ready we will digitize both the transcription and the actual text so anyone interested can make a comparison.
We will not digitize any of our holdings unless they are beyond copyright.
We are perfectly happy to begin with
our home page. Remember that we will not digitize anything published after 1923 nor will we digitize anything labeled as "digital."
Catalog listings are not complete. Most of our vertical files (about 8,000 items) do not appear there and most of our special collection materials (about 500 items) do not appear either. There is currently about a month delay from the time we acquire something new until it appears in our catalog, so that is another group of materials that will not appear.
With all those exceptions, take a look and tell us what you want to see first. We don't promise to do it first, but we really want to start with the materials that interest you most.
We have an excellent collection, in my opinion, of city directories. Here are a couple of examples:
Now, to answer some of your individual questions.
We will not digitize the Barbour Collection (
We will think about the Hale Collection (
As much as we want to, we will not be able to offer the New York Times. ProQuest wants us to pay over $110,000 a year for that newspaper alone, and we simply can not afford it. We do, however, own some years of the Times on microfilm, and we may be able to digitize them sometime in the future.
By deciding to digitize materials that we own, as opposed to depending on outside vendors, we feel that we are in better shape to control our own future. The downside is that we will not be able to digitize materials as quickly as you may wish.
Stay tuned.
Bruce Tyler, Chairman
Godfrey Library Board of Trustees."
How's that for service above and beyond the call of duty?
So, "Thank You" Fremont Rider, you visionary, another one of my favorite people, that I wish had had access to computers, and "Thank You" to the Staff and current Board of Trustees of the Godfrey Library, for so generously sharing your vast holdings, and purchasing databases that are light years beyond the capacity of individual researchers to be able to afford. "Thank You" for most recently meeting and voting to digitize your library's personal holdings, I for one can not wait!
Dick Hillenbrand
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Posted Thursday, March 9, 2017 – 6:10 PM
By Victoria Talbot
There is no substitute for vigilance; that is the message that came across loud and clear Wednesday when the BHPD turned out to talk to the community at Nespresso's Coffee with the Cops.
The "Meet and Greet" included about 20 of the City's finest, including Chief Sandra Spagnoli, celebrating one year as Beverly Hills' police chief.
For full story see the print edition of The Beverly Hills Courier, or download the e-edition.

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* Orion Adrian wrote: >>All you need to do is to come up with something better and convince the >>community, ideally early on the W3C Recommendation Track, but there is >>of course nothing wrong with developing Technologies outside W3C. >>Leaning back and complaining does not yield in better technology. > >I am also free to write another linux variant, but I understand who makes >the rules. Even given a superior spec, it's unlikely that my version will >get attention. Relax NG is a far superior implementation of a schema >language (from my perspective), but most people have either never heard of >it or never used it. I know the W3C is the primary location most people go >to. I won't delude myself into thinking otherwise. Well, you are of course doomed if people do not care much about better technology.Received on Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:40:35 UTC
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Eric Chun qualified for the British Open Thursday at International Final Qualifying in Asia.
Chun, a sophomore at Northwestern University who turned 20 on Monday, shot 67-71 to grab the fourth and final spot at Saujana Golf and Country Club in Kuala Lumpur. Seung-yul Noh, an 18-year-old Korean who won last week's Malaysian Open, Malaysia's Danny Chia and Japan's Hiroyuki Fujita will join Chun at St. Andrews for this year's British Open.
Chun earned his spot in the Open qualifier by finishing second to Chang-Won Han at the inaugural Asian Amateur last November. Han shot 73-68 at the British Open qualifier in Malaysia to finish three shots behind Chun but will play in the Masters next month on an exemption extended as the champion of the inaugural Asian Amateur.


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On Christmas Day, Ciro goes to Enza's apartment building in Hoboken with a box of expensive chocolates for her. The landlady (Anna Buffa) tells him that Enza moved out weeks ago and returned to Italy. She calls Enza a whore and then invites him in for a drink, but he flees outside, brokenhearted and filled with self-reproach that he didn't communicate his love to Enza sooner. He opens the box of chocolates and gives them to children in the street.
Enza and Laura lunch at the automat. Enza asks her friend if their employment agency has found them any work and Laura explains there are jobs for scullery workers who scrub pots and pans and mop the floors. Enza says that kind of work is OK with her, and Laura reassures Enza that they are doing well—living at the YWCA...
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Television prices typically go up in February. There are fewer deals as stores get rid of their older 2012 stock to make way for newer 2013 LED models. You won't see bargains like this again until the holiday shopping season arrives.
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A local tide table displays the predicted times and heights of high and low tides. The height of the water is relative to a point called Mean Lower Low Water, which is the average height of the lowest tide during the recording period of a tidal station.Continue Reading
A tidal table features the predicted height of the water level for high and low tides of a given period, but it does not display the predicted water level for the intermediate times. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website also provides a graphical plot of the prediction of the water level for periods between a day and a month. The predicted water level is represented as an oscillating line in a coordinate plane. The horizontal line represents time, and the vertical line represents the height of the water level, relative to the Mean Lower Low Water.
Tidal stations provide the data on which the predictions displayed in tide tables are based. These stations measure the height of the water level at each high and low tide. The NOAA website features the history of recorded heights, a comparison of predicted and actual tides, and a two-year tidal table for more than 3,000 locations around the United States.Learn more about Tides


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The big screen is coming to Big Spring
An independent film being put together by Santa Rita Pictures L.L.C, is coming to the city of Big Spring and is set to begin shooting for the project next month.
The Austin-based production company has chosen Big Spring as the site for their next film "The Iron Orchard", which is based off a book by Tom Pendleton published in 1968.
The film depicts 1940s West Texas and follows the story of a young man's introduction into the hard life of the oilfield and his journey through the ranks until be becomes a "formidable wildcatter."
"It's a West Texas wildcatter story that was set in the 1930s and 40s. A rags to riches story," said Producer Van Folger.
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There's plenty of news out in the Perl world that is worth noting, but doesn't get a full-blown write-up in Perlbuzz. Someone will send me something saying "Hey, this is cool for Perlbuzz," and it is, but I don't have anything to say about it, so I never run it.
I'm going to start posting more of those to the Perlbuzz Twitter account at [http://twitter.com/perlbuzz](http://twitter.com/perlbuzz). You can follow that feed, even if you don't have a Twitter account, because every Twitter account has RSS/Atom syndication.
I'm using [App::BLT](http://search.cpan.org/dist/blt) to do the posting. Makes it super simple for me to pop open a shell, type in
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The fall's first storm of the season hit the Mountain Area in waves over the weekend, causing gusty winds and a widespread power outage late Sunday night.
William Peterson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Hanford, said winds during the storm were stronger than anticipated, with precipitation levels close to what was forecast.
In a 72-hour report finishing early Monday morning, the Oakhurst Sheriff's substation received 1.11 inches of rain, Peterson said, with 3.39 inches in Fish Camp, 1.89 in Ahwahnee, 0.87 in Coarsegold, 0.17 in Yosemite Lakes Park, and more than 1.64 inches in Bass Lake.
Yosemite Valley received 3.19 inches of rain, Peterson said. No official reports had been received by Monday as to snow levels in the park, but Peterson noted snow was seen only at the highest elevations above 8,000 feet.
Rainfall began late Friday and continued throughout the weekend into early Monday, Peterson said. In the Valley, only minor amounts of rain were recorded, but winds reached as high as 50 mph.
In the extended forecast, Oakhurst and the surrounding area are not expected to receive any rain, Peterson said. He added temperatures will rise into the mid to high 70s as high pressure moves into the area.
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Avoiding Career Blunders
I graduated a few months ago and just received a great job offer, which I've accepted. While I'm excited about beginning my paralegal career, I'm also worried about making mistakes, being new to the job. What sorts of things should I be paying attention to so that I start out on the right foot?
Congratulations on landing the job. Legal hiring is picking up, so, as you set out as a newly minted paralegal, it's natural to want to do everything in your power to make a great first andlasting impression on your new boss and colleagues. Here are some good habits to develop as you start your legal career.
- Pay strict attention to details.
Accurate and clear written communication is a basic requirement for any professional role, but meticulousness is essential in the legal profession. Messy briefs, memoranda and complaint letters would net you a lower grade during school. But in the "real world," they will harm your reputation and hold back your burgeoning legal career. You don't want to be reprimanded by a judge or have your case dismissed over bad legal writing. Minimize mistakes by not rushing. Carefully research, draft, check and double-check each document. Make sure names, dates and figures are consistent, the content is organized, and all citations are correct and current.
- Be on time.
Promptness is non-negotiable if you want to grow in your legal career. Punctuality shows respect for your boss, colleagues, clients, other counsel and, potentially, the judge. When you're consistently late for appointments, meetings or court appearances, others will start to see you as unreliable and immature. To establish yourself as a trustworthy and dependable legal professional, make tardiness a rare exception. Allow for extra travel time so you can show up on time, every time.
- No one is an island.
Get to know your colleagues and earn a reputation as a can-do team player. Take the time to engage coworkers in other departments. Schedule lunch or coffee with a coworker, and attend work functions so you can deepen your relationship with other employees. In-house networking not only will help make your job more enjoyable, it also can help boost your legal career.
- Know where to draw the social line.
At the same time, the law firm is not your home or a social hangout. While you want to be open and friendly with colleagues, you should set some boundaries between work and personal life. Don't bring your problems to the office. You won't solve them there and, worse, you could gain notoriety for being melodramatic and unprofessional. Here are some ways to stay above the fray:
- Remove yourself from gossip by changing the subject or walking away.
- Tread carefully when it comes to social media.
- Do socialize at work, but within limits. You don't want to get a reputation as a time-waster or chatterbox.
A strong network won't happen overnight. It takes steady work, self-initiative and occasionally venturing outside your comfort zone when the situation calls for it. But robust legal careers are built on quality relationships, so your extra effort to build a first-rate network will likely result in knowing the right people in the right places to help you get to where you want to be.


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Perception is everything in college football. It is how the Playoff is virtually decided. And the Iowa Hawkeyes have never been big on perception.
Iowa went 12-0 last year in the regular season and arrived in the Rose Bowl as underdogs, getting stomped against Stanford. The Hawkeyes were favorites to win the Big Ten West and then quickly saw their status wrested away through Wisconsin's strong play and a loss to North Dakota State at home.
Somehow Iowa just became Iowa again, falling back into the team's usual narratives. The Hawkeyes are good, not great. And perpetually underachieving.
Iowa followed up its difficult running game against North Dakota State with an equally shaky win at Rutgers for the Big Ten opener.
The Hawkeyes are no longer the division favorites. And now no game seems certain. Not even that run-first identity with Akrum Wadley.
Luckily for Iowa, the team's next challenge comes from another team seeking an identity.
Northwestern has struggled this year too. The defense has not quite been up to the same level as last year and the offense has again struggled to find footing. The Wildcats have seemingly been just good enough in their early games to keep things close. And that is about it.
And Iowa may be the best team Northwestern has seen all year — although Nebraska steamrolling to Lincoln East in Evanston might be close when it comes to Big Ten West competition.
As Northwestern leaves Ryan Field for the first time and Iowa returns to Kinnick Stadium, both teams are seeking identity and a chance to right the ship and meet expectations.
1 Burning Question: Can Iowa get its ground game going
Iowa is known for one thing: big offensive linemen and a ground game that takes advantage of them. This is Iowa football.
This Hawkeyes football team is not that football team. Not so far this year.
Iowa is averaging 159.3 yards per game with the veteran Akrum Wadley running for only 274 yards through four games. Iowa is struggling to run the ball. That is a weird statement to say for Iowa.
And the Hawkeyes offense has been inconsistent because of it.
Iowa is averaging 30.5 points per game. But to get only 14 points against Rutgers was somewhat alarming for Iowa. Particularly after struggling against North Dakota State the week before.
Wadley has a good track record against Northwestern. And Northwestern is not the strongest run defense as it is.
The Wildcats have given up 177.5 yards per game on the ground this year. The defensive line struggles to get push. And while the team is relatively disciplined, the team also gives space.
Nebraska was able to run well against Northwestern, racking up 310 yards on the ground. A lot of that came from Tommy Armstrong at the quarterback position. That is not a luxury Iowa has.
Something is going to give though. As both the run offense and run defense are the keys to both team's success.
2 Key Stats
–250: Well, Clayton Thorson did not quite reach 250 yards last week against Nebraska. He was at 249. But after throwing for 320 yards against Duke, Thorson has put together back-to-back strong passing games. At least in picking up yards. He has four touchdowns and four interceptions in his last two games. But the Wildcats have some good receivers that have begun to emerge. Northwestern may suddenly have a passing attack. Not a consistent one, but one to be wary of.
–155.0: Akrum Wadley loves seeing Northwestern. He averages 155.0 yards per game against the Wildcats in his two games. Last year that included 204 yards on the ground and four touchdowns. He had 104 yards off the bench with a touchdown against the Wildcats in 2014. The bruising Wadley just finds a way to overpower the Wildcats defense the past two years. This is exactly the team he wants to see to right the ship.
3 Key Players
Justin Jackson, Northwestern RB: It has not been a strong year for the junior running back. Northwestern's struggling offensive line certainly has a part to do with that. Jackson has 173 yards on 48 carries the last two games — 3.6 yards per carry. Jackson is still effective. But the Wildcats need a bigger game from him to give Thorson some time and create balance.
C.J. Beathard, Iowa QB: Iowa will be without Matt VandeBerg, the team's leading receiver. That leaves tight end George Kittle as the only other receiver through four games with double-digit receptions. Beathard is a solid game manager as a quarterback, but he lacks some weapons. This is a time for Iowa to gain a little bit of confidence though. Northwestern will be without two of their top cornerbacks.
Josey Jewell, Iowa LB: Josey Jewell and his magnificent mustache has anchored Iowa's defense all year. He has been good in the run game — 33 tackles and 1.5 tackles for a loss — and in coverage with one pass breakup. Northwestern is going to run the ball and that will put Jewell in the spotlight again.
4 Staff Predictions
Andy: Iowa 28-14
Dave: Iowa 21-17
Phil H.: Iowa 24-17
Philip R-R.: Iowa 24-20
Zach: Iowa 20-10


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Silk hydrangea bouquets can make a beautiful addition to the floral pieces of your wedding Silk hydrangea bushes come in a variety of soft and bright colors, including white, pink, purple, burgundy, brown and blue options. You can use these silk hydrangea bushes to create beautiful floral arrangements at the altar or other area that you use as a focal point for your ceremony.
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Clustering and Load Balancing Now Included Among Enhancements Featured in Linoma Software's Latest GoAnywhere Services 3.1 Release
Jan 09, 2013, 08:35 EST
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As organizations become increasingly integrated with their trading partners, it is even more critical that electronic documents/files can be exchanged without delays or disruptions. Organizations are therefore looking at how to provide the most consistent access -- or high availability -- for their file transfer environments, usually comprised of one or more SFTP servers, FTP/s servers and HTTP/s servers.
Clustering is a modern approach for providing high availability in applications, and it is now available in the latest release of GoAnywhere Services™ version 3.1. Clustering spreads out the file transfer workload across multiple GoAnywhere Services systems that communicate with each other through designated channels. If one of the systems were to fail, trading partners are automatically served by the remaining systems in the cluster. This "active-active" failover approach requires no human interaction or third party tools.
The clustering feature in GoAnywhere Services is supported by all of its server components including its integrated SFTP server, FTP server, FTPS server and HTTPS server. To simplify implementation, all systems in the cluster share the same settings, trading partner accounts and security policies. Remote administration for GoAnywhere Services is provided through an intuitive browser-based interface that also allows access to audit log information for all systems in the cluster.
Another advantage of clustering in GoAnywhere Services is that traffic can be load balanced over multiple systems which is important when servicing a large number of trading partners. All that is required is to install a load balancer like GoAnywhere Gateway™ in front of the cluster, typically in the DMZ, as the initial point of contact for trading partners.
"Clustering and load balancing is something we've wanted to add to GoAnywhere Services for a long time," says Bob Luebbe, Linoma Software's Chief Architect. "Our customers can now provide the best possible up-time for their secure FTP and HTTPS servers, helping them to meet SLAs and compliance requirements."
The release of GoAnywhere Services 3.1 also includes several additional enhancements including better management and archiving of audit logs, improved SSH key management, advancements to ad-hoc secure email, as well as support for the Oracle database for storing configurations.
For more information about GoAnywhere Services and other GoAnywhere products, visit GoAnywhere.com to see product specs, customer testimonials and additional research materials. Fully functional trials of GoAnywhere software are available, and live demos can be arranged.
About Linoma Software
Founded in 1994, Linoma Software provides innovative solutions for managed file transfer and data encryption. With a diverse install base of more than 3,000 customers around the world, Linoma's focus on research and development, as well as customer service and support, contributes to its leadership in the software industry.
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About This Artist
By Matt Damsker
The controversies surrounding Robert Mapplethorpe's photography seem like vague moralistic squabbles in the two-plus decades since his death. While his notoriety soared as his homoerotic and bondage-oriented images scandalized the political establishment of the 1980s, time has only affirmed the formal beauty and distinctiveness of his varied black-and-white portraiture. The classic Mapplethorpe photo--from the organic celebration of a floral still life to the stark study of a robust human form--stands apart from its contemporaries as night from day, investigating the austere classicism of black-and-white with rigorous control and purity of vision, never trendy, always frank, daring, often beautiful as well as brutal in its declarations.
Mapplethorpe's work is highly stylized yet never fussy or precious. His subjects are posed powerfully against neutral ground, light gracefully shading into dark, sometimes against brick walls that add textural and incidental interest. But in nearly every case there is no imposition of drama or narrative; Mapplethorpe courts instead the ineffable gestures of nature: the unfurling of a doomed floral blossom, preserved perfectly, eternally, in a silver print, or the muscular presence of a human form, often nude, posed in all its vitality, as if straining against the bonds of flesh, time and tradition. His floral studies are either close-up delineations or lovingly staged designs in which vase, stalk and flowers are apotheosized. His nudes are posed for what they are, or how they might choose to be presented--as sexual object, perhaps, or theatrically self-defined, but always as exemplars of form and humanity, intimately explored but not exploited by the artist.
The photos in this exhibition are sufficiently diverse to define Mapplethorpe through his brief but productive heyday in the 1980s, when his command of subject matter and his choice of models reflected a mature sensibility that began to embrace its mortality. Thus, the floral studies from the late 1980s, when Mapplethorpe was battling AIDS, are poignant visual essays in impermanence that evoke the context of the era's health crisis even as they triumph at face value. The portraits of female nudes, especially of body-builder Lisa Lyon, are paeans to prime physicality, the sinewy ripplings and perfected physique that Mapplethorpe fetishized.
Indeed, the fetishistic aspects of Mapplethorpe's oeuvre tend to overshadow, in the public eye, his larger dedication to form and his disciplined mastery of the studio. His minimal, yet never starved, settings are in conscious opposition to the extravagance of '80s boom-time culture, when painting re-emerged as a bloated symbol of Wall Street wealth and status, and visual artists became the equivalent of rock stars. At the height of his briefly lived fame and physical powers, Mapplethorpe exemplified--ironically, perhaps, given his often shocking subject matter--a certain timeless tastefulness, a rejection of showiness and excess in favor of controlled tonality, unforced effect and the primacy of the photographic image's ability to confront the viewer with unmediated reality and artful focus.
For if Mapplethorpe's work is about anything, it is about the power of the artist to enhance reality without trumping it up or drowning it in affectation. The deliberateness of Mapplethorpe' s approach, the directness and ease with which he frames his subjects, guiding our eye without overwhelming our gaze, are marks of an artist always in control of his medium, an artist who sees infinite possibilities in the simplest object and the essential physicality of the most complicated personage. For Mapplethorpe, devotion to a seemingly narrow range of stylization doesn't seem constricting so much as liberating. In his studio, he could confront and be confronted by life, serving it up to his audience to startling, or soothing, or simply beautiful effect, imprinted in every case with his unmistakable, searching, searing point of view.
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Thursday, 3 December 2015
Crazy Coloured Fish (and a Crazy Person!)
The first is a Bluefish - which is a fish which is blue! And the second is Surge Wrasse, which really is the most insanely colourful fish I have ever seen! The guy in the hat? Well, the less said the better!
You can find more pictures of animals from around the world over at Saturday Critters.
30 comments:
- Liz Needle said...
Amazing colours. They look like they should be in some exotic fish aquarium.
- 3 December 2015 at 21:48
- Marilyn Kircus said...
Ditto on the previous comment. Hope they tasted as good as they looked.
- 3 December 2015 at 22:15
- Author R. Mac Wheeler said...
Nature is so awesome.
- 4 December 2015 at 00:13
- eileeninmd said...
Wow, they are pretty colorful fish! Did you catch them yourself? Great photos, enjoy your day!
- 4 December 2015 at 05:01
- Missy George said...
Gorgeous..(All three of you)...They don't even look real..We have bluefish in the Bay here..anything but blue!!Are you still having trouble with my blog??
- 4 December 2015 at 05:20
- TheChieftess said...
Wow!!! Even Hawaii doesn't have those amazing colors!!! And such a nice looking crazy person!!!
- 4 December 2015 at 05:24
- Lea said...
Beautiful, wonderfully colored fish!
Hope you have a great day!
- 4 December 2015 at 05:27
- Chris Rohrer said...
This fish is insane!!! I thought it was fake but um....no. Nice catch!
- 4 December 2015 at 05:46
- CountryMum said...
Amazingly colourful fish.
- 4 December 2015 at 06:03
- Mariusz from Nowy Sacz said...
how to paint these piranhas?
- 4 December 2015 at 07:39
- Rhodesia said...
They are amazing, so beautiful. Diane
- 4 December 2015 at 08:08
- Linda W. said...
Woah - I had no idea there were such crazily colored fish in nature! Thanks for sharing.
- 4 December 2015 at 08:22
- Brian King said...
Those are some gorgeous colors!
- 4 December 2015 at 09:06
- Yamini MacLean said...
Hari OM
Oh that takes me back to my own day on the waters round LHI... it is just such a special place. I didn't get anything like as good a piccie as that one of the blue fish though!!! YAM xx
- 4 December 2015 at 09:48
- Lee said...
I imagine the wrasse is beautiful eating...the Maori Wrasse are.
Are bluefish good eating, Stewart? I read somewhere that bluefish are called Tailor in Australia, but that bluefish is not at all like a tailor - not in any way...and, I know what tailor look like. I used to catch many tailor during our frequent visits to Fraser Island and off the beach at Teewah and Double Island Point also, when my ex and I lived at the Sunshine Coast
Aha! I just did some further research and here in Aus, the bluefish are also called "blue drummer"; and as far as their eating quality goes...I imagine if upon catching they're treated the same way tailor is when caught....bled, cleaned and filleted immediately...they'd make for excellent eating.
- 4 December 2015 at 10:05
- John @ Sinbad and I on the Loose said...
These are so beautiful one would think they were ceramic sculptures created by an artist.
- 4 December 2015 at 11:14
- Florida Farm Girl said...
Wow, those fish are gorgeous? WAs it a catch and release or did you eat those puppies?
- 4 December 2015 at 11:55
- Andrea said...
They are so beautiful and so big, i cannot finish one in a week!
- 4 December 2015 at 12:45
- Margaret Adamson said...
Great Cauthen and wonderful colouring.
- 4 December 2015 at 17:29
- FOREST SNAPPER said...
great catch Stewart
- 5 December 2015 at 07:50
- eileeninmd said...
Hello Stewart, they are beautiful colored fish. Great photos! Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Have a happy weekend!
- 5 December 2015 at 22:41
- Gunilla Bäck said...
Nature is an amazing artist. Those fish are gorgeous and the crazy person isn't bad looking either. :-)
- 6 December 2015 at 07:11
- Di Pearton said...
So, that 'blue' fish is clearly brown, or possibly black?? :)
Love the wrasse, which is actually the 'blue' fish that I asked Ian about (didn't seem to be interested in fish??)
Also, stop telling people about LHI, people may want to go there.
Cheers, Di
- 6 December 2015 at 08:45
- ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...
Spectacular fish. Our bluefish aren't nearly that blue!
- 6 December 2015 at 09:13
- carol l mckenna said...
wow! What a catch! ~ Both are beautiful ~ too pretty to eat ~
Wishing you a magical weekend,
artmusedog and carol
- 6 December 2015 at 09:37
- genie said...
These are two of the most beautiful fish I have ever seen. My husband being a fisherman, I called him in to look at them and he agreed. The second one really left him in awe. It was the blue of the first one that did it for me.
- 7 December 2015 at 14:03
- Ruth Rieckehoff said...
They are so pretty! I do not want to be cruel but, how they tasted? I imagine they were eaten.
- 8 December 2015 at 15:26
- Andrea Priebe said...
Oh my, who knew? Nature is a digital artist :) And there is no explaining the guy in the hat :) Looks like the best kind of fishing to me ... lucky, lucky you!
Andrea @ From THe Sol
- 9 December 2015 at 01:48
- EG CameraGirl said...
WOW! Very colourful!
- 9 December 2015 at 02:27
- David Gascoigne said...
You should start a contest - would you rather kiss the guy in the hat or the fish he is holding? My wife has already voted but I can't divulge her response!
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Improving your health is not a difficult task, but when you're stuck in the office from 9 to 5 it suddenly becomes much trickier to find the time to stay in shape. From fatty pub lunches to being seated all day, there are a number of things seemingly designed to make it hard to stay in good shape. Here are some things you could change in order to get some exercise in and around the office.
1. – Change Your Journey to Work
One of the simplest ways to get a bit more exercise is simply to walk more often. If you drive to work, park further away – either down the road or at the far end of the car park, if that suffices. If you get the bus, think about getting off one stop earlier than usual, or if you already walk, consider jogging or cycling.
It's a quick and easy fix, and getting a little cardio before and after work helps you to de-stress, ultimately helping you get to sleep more easily and thus improving your health all-round.
2. – Change Your Work Habits
Again with the walking! If you have to move to another floor, the easiest thing in the world is to wait for the lift. But instead of waiting a few minutes and then cramming into a cramped metal box with a horde of other people, why not take the stairs instead? Walking up stairs is easy, and is one of the best forms of cardiovascular exercise. And it often takes less time than the lift!
Other ways you could walk more in the office involve offering to make the coffee for everyone, or to go and talk to a colleague instead of shooting off a quick but impersonal email. Try and get up every thirty minutes or so – it's good for you and stops any cramping.
3. – Change Your Posture
Firstly, how are you sitting as you read this? My guess is that you're slouching with your shoulders slumped. Ideally, you should be sitting erect, with your shoulders back. This will help with any back problems and should improve your posture overall.
Next, try some simple exercises at your desk. Do some stretches, such as rolling your head to stretch your neck, or roll your wrists and ankles. This can help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome and even deep vein thrombosis, so it's worth a few minutes of your day.
4. – Change Your Eating Habits
I know the Friday pub lunch might be tempting, but you'd be much better off bringing in your own lunch. By being in charge of what you eat throughout the day, you can track your intake and eat more healthily, losing pounds from your weight whilst saving pounds from your bank account.
If you like to snack, bring in some fruit or cereal bars, and make sure to have a bottle of water by your side at all times – most people don't drink enough of it, even though it's good for you and helps suppress appetite.
5. – Change Your Colleagues!
Not literally change who you work with, of course, but rather change their habits, while you change yours. Organise a sports team for the office, or communal sessions at the local gym. There are even classes you can take whilst still at work, just avoid contact sports or there might be some medical claims involved!
By getting together and involving your colleagues, you might find the group morale makes it much easier for you and everyone else to keep fit without even leaving the office. Easy!
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Lisa Ash Drackert, M.Ed, RYT-500, is a yoga instructor, educator and minister based in Kansas City, Missouri. She is owner and Curriculum Director of Westport Yoga KC.
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Her dream is to create a community of hope, health and happiness that inspires students to connect with the inherent Divinity within.
"Most of us move through life yearning for freedom and space to 'be ourselves.' Yoga provides an individualized architecture that is based on thousands of years of collective wisdom to help us do just that. Teaching yoga is teaching people to genuinely heal, love, and be themselves," Lisa explains.
Lisa holds a Master's Degree in Education and undergraduate degrees in both Education and Religious Studies. In 2015, Lisa graduated with her RYT-500 hour Credentials with a specialization in Yoga Therapeutics through The Integrated Institute of Yoga Studies (IIYS). Lisa studies with Yoga Medicine and her primary teacher is Tiffany Cruikshank. She is an expert in spinal anatomy and using yoga as a functional therapy for back pain and spinal injuries. In 2015, she won the Critic's Choice Award in The Pitch for Best Yoga Teacher in Kansas City. Her studio Westport Yoga KC was recognized in The Pitch as a "Best of KC" Yoga Studio in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Westport Yoga KC was featured in SELF magazine as one of 14 studios in the country changing the way we think about yoga.
She currently serves as a Lululemon Athletica Brand Ambassador and is a leader in her community teaching meditation for stress relief.
Lisa Ash Drackert studies extensively with Renee DeTar of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Yoga Studies and Tiffany Cruikshank of Yoga Medicine. Her other teachers include Kate Sargent, Kathleen Kastner-Mortenson, Gretchen Robinson and Rusty Wells.
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According to scientists, polluting emissions have already caused irreversible unbalancing to the delicate balance of the planet with bioclimatic still unpredictable consequences on populations and human settlements. The challenge that the man will face over the next century is of historic proportions, never seen, and requires immediate intervention measures but also a rethinking of industrial development model that is able to cover also the environmental factor in its budget economic growth. In this scenario fits the need of going to reduce the impact of all human processes ecosystem lower emission and try to recover the energy lost in transformations.
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The field of thermoelectricity began in 1822 with the discovery of the thermoelectric effect by Thomas Seebeck. Seebeck found that when the junctions of two dissimilar materials are held at different temperatures (ΔT), a voltage (V) is generated that is proportional to ΔT. The proportionality constant is the Seebeck coefficient or thermo power: α = −ΔV/ΔT. When the circuit is closed, this couple allows for direct conversion of thermal energy (heat) to electrical energy.
Thermoelectric power generation is one of the current interests in clean energy research. Thermoelectric power generation technology has been widely used for many years power generation, heating and cooling applications.
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Nick Young has been part of many trade rumors this offseason, as well as reports saying that he will get released. However, the latest speculation implies that Young is part of the current plans of head coach Luke Walton but he has to get his game together because it is his last chance.
There were high hopes for Young when his career started but his immaturity prevents him from reaching his full potential. Now entering his tenth season in the NBA and third in Los Angeles, this will be his last chance to prove his critics wrong.
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According to Aaron Senghera of Sir Charles In Charge, Luke Walton will give all his team the freedom on offense. It is unlike during the tenure of Byron Scott, who has been very inconsistent in his rotation during his two years in Hollywood.
One of the players affected was Nick Young, who will get playing time for several games before getting benched in the next two. It was a hot and cold rotation for Scott and it certainly had an effect on the play of his team that only won a total of 38 games in two seasons.
Senghera opined that Walton's new offense and personality as a player's coach benefit not only their young core but also Nick Young. However, he noted that the 30-year-old also has to do his part or else he might get traded at the deadline.
"Luke Walton isn't going to hold Young back offensively, so now it's up to him to make the most of this opportunity, because if he doesn't, his time with the Los Angeles Lakers will be coming to an end," Senghera wrote.
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Nick Young has also started to make amends with D'Angelo Russell, who leaked a video of Young revealing his infidelity to his then-fiancé, Iggy Azalea. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the two players have started talking again which is good for the team's chemistry heading into the new season.
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The concept of Dodge Viper is quite simple, it is based on the idea of being a fast, very fast and extremely fast car. For those looking for a high performance car that only looks at every part of the coin fell in love with the Viper, and those looking more have seen this in recent models. With the 2018 Dodge Viper looking at the sports car industry, it will be interesting to see how new trends are being received.
Well known for its sumptuousness and luxury, Evite Viper is an incredible vehicle that meets many specific needs of sports enthusiasts. Comes with a comfortable cab and engines running. Fiat Chrysler Cars is likely to be that reputed vehicle on another level, and that's the reason they will download the 2018 Dodge Viper within a year or less.
Another model of the Dodge will probably be available in two styles of Hardtop Coupe bodywork. The design and style of the exterior can be intense this time by boldly using the timeless viper's facial lines. The chassis of the new model consists of aluminum, and one of the main external features considers that, due to gas consumption, the new 2018 Dodge Viper will be updated. Also, the most important thing is the fact that you put ducks on your mudguard. The lights and taillights are beautifully created and work with guided lights. Everything with this vehicle is intended to increase the aerodynamics and purpose of the rear spoiler. Exterior features such as hood, entrance doors, bumpers, decorative mirrors and panels predisposed to become impeccable design. We can most likely expect big tires, 19 ". The interior of the new 2018 Dodge Viper is manufactured with the regular Viper cab with more emphasis on lowering the excess weight with this car will be built. A number of internal elements are removed as they indicate a lot of weight for this car in a location that looks at the radio inside the cabin, for example, longer. Almost the entire inside wrapped co2 fiber, even if the solar panel is removed. The gear lever of the equipment is also the natural leather Alcantara; Better accessibility could be included. In the cockpit, we see many powerful technologies and sensors. The cabin offers comfort and ease and activity seat with twisted fine leather. The advice will be excellent, and here we see the previous screen with good amenities.
Under the hood 2018 Dodge Viper we hear an 8.4-liter engine with nearly 650 horsepower with a 6-speed transmission. The gas mileage will usually be for a high performance sports car that moves to about 13 MPG / City and 22MPG / highway.
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The new health care reform has several provisions affecting the future of oral health for Americans. These various provisions in HR 3590 and HR 4960 will be going into effect from 2010 to 2018. The American Dental Association made a strong presence during the passing of the bill to ensure the House bill contains provisions to improve oral health nationwide. The 2010 oral health care provisions focus on oral health prevention, oral health workforce, health care quality, public health infrastructure, insurance fraud and abuse.
The oral health care and prevention provision involves a five-year national oral health campaign focusing on educating the public on oral health and prevention of dental decay. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will be working with states to establish strategies like community water fluoridation, school-based sealant programs and programs for dental caries prevention.
The oral health workforce will provide support and development of dental training programs. These programs will afford high quality education and funding to students. A National Health Care Workforce Commission will oversee the workforce to ensure the supply and demand for oral health care workers is being met. In addition, programs are being established to make certain the delivery of health care services and patient health outcomes are improving.
The public health infrastructure provision will give grants and loan repayments to oral health care workers who practice in underserved populations, public health clinics and health professional shortage areas. This provision also gives an initiative to expand oral disease prevention to the workplace. The CDC will facilitate the establishment of employer-based wellness programs to educate on oral health.
Fraud and abuse of Medicaid by providers will be addressed through the reform as well. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will work with the Internal Revenue Service to identify providers that have evaded filing taxes. Arizona's Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is one Medicaid program that may be protected by this new provision. Protection of Medicaid funds may provide oral health care to more Americans.
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The City of Broken Arrow recently launched a new Parks Locator tool for residents and visitors to use. Using the new online tool, residents can find all relevant information about any City-owned park or recreation facility.
The tool works on both desktop computers and is mobile-friendly. Anyone using the locator can find parks by type of activity or facility offered or distance to their current location. Directions to a park are also just a click away.
"The Park Locator will help our citizens and visitors find Broken Arrow Parks quickly, directions to parks via Google Maps, and up to date amenities offered with pictures," said Scott Esmond, director of Parks and Recreation. "Our goal is to improve customer service by providing accurate information that is readily accessible."
The locator tool can be found at www.brokenarrowok.gov/Parks.
The locator tool is part of a service called ArcGIS offered by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), with whom the City has contracted. The locator tool is just the public side of a great new resource for the Parks and Recreation Department.
The department can use other functionalities of ArcGIS to manage its assets in place at all the parks around the City and monitor their condition in real time, complete with images. An inventory of all benches, playgrounds, athletic fields and everything else maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department has already been created using ArcGIS. Even trees or groupings of trees are monitored with the system, which will help mitigate when disease or pests start affecting trees in a park.
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I remember researching the Gold Coast before Jake and I left the UK. At the time I was overwhelmed by the size of Australia and the number different places we wanted to see. Straight away the Gold Coast stood out as a must visit because of its theme parks and water parks. With Movie World, […]Read More ›
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Hi Ladies! I am so excited to extend my FIRST FREE EBOOK to you ...and in perfect timing! What better holiday than Thanksgiving to get Comfy in your Kitchen.
Looking back throughout the years Thanksgiving has always been one of the most special holidays celebrated with my family. We had a kids table at Grandma Ruth's house that my cousins and I would sit at... this is where we would put olives on our fingers and wait for all the Thanksgiving fixins to be ready.
Grandma was always worried the turkey wouldn't be done in time. ..Mom was faithful bringing her famous apple pie... Grandpa was at the center island slicing the ham with an electric knife...the house was filled with laughter, dishes clanging, and the most delicious aroma of gravy cooking on the stove. Amidst all the chaos of getting the meal timed just right and everyone seated, this holiday has always brought my family so much comfort and joy.
I hope you will enjoy some of my family's FAVORITE recipes- some of which have been passed down from generation to generation. Try my Uncle Raymond's fried turkey, Grandma Ruth's homemade noodles, or Mom's Apple pie...As always, nothing fancy, just good, home cooked and simple dishes that will be sure to please.
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CoPilot Live Premium – Reviewed
Written by Charlie Marraffa
It's been a long time since I have used CoPilot that came preinstalled on a Windows mobile device several years ago. I had been using the Windows Mobile platform along with various GPS applications that included TomTom, Destinator, IGO8 and others for nearly a decade that all started with the introduction of the HTC XDA.
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I'm always amazed by some of the historical gems that have been uploaded to YouTube. Who knew you could see Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet in the fencing scene with Laertes from an 1899 London production of Shakespeare's tragedy? Or a clip of "the Divine Sarah" as Queen Elizabeth in a silent film from 1912?
Some people dread falling into a K-hole. My weakness is falling into a Y-hole and bouncing around YouTube for several hours while watching archival footage -- like this pristine videotape of the original Broadway production of 1976's Pacific Overtures.
While it's easy to find clips of Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard in the 1954 television version of Peter Pan, several musicals from the 1950s were broadcast live or performed before a studio audience.
- On February 28,1954, audiences watching The Colgate Comedy Hour were treated to a live television version of Anything Goes starring Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, and Bert Lahr.
- On March 31, 1957, CBS broadcast the world premiere of a new musical written exclusively for television by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Cinderella starred Julie Andrews (a year after her Broadway triumph as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady). The premiere was watched by more than 100 million viewers.
- In 1957, NBC recorded a live performance of Annie Get Your Gun starring Mary Martin and John Raitt.
In 1958, CBS taped a performance of Wonderful Town starring Rosalind Russell and Jacqueline McKeever (the full show is available on YouTube starting with this clip):
Despite the criticism of Carrie Underwood's performance as Maria in the recent live television production of The Sound of Music, NBC has announced that it will pursue plans to telecast future live stagings of classic Broadway musicals. It isn't often that a television executive makes me laugh out loud, but this comment from Robert Greenblatt (Chairman of NBC Entertainment) did the trick:
"There is no snarkier universe than the Broadway world. It just sort of invites it. It's okay. I'd rather have people deeply engaged than ignoring it. Somebody I once worked for said to me once, 'Everybody hated it but the audience.' And I'll take that."
Each year, performing arts organizations search for something new to offer audiences during the holiday season. With an increasing sense of political correctness, many impresarios try to avoid anything that will seem too religious or preachy (like Gian-Carlo Menotti's one-act opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors). This year Marin Theatre Company presented a brilliant production of Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol directed by Jon Tracy while Berkeley Rep hosted Kneehigh Theatre's production of Tristan and Yseult.
Based on the popular film Miracle on 34th Street, Meredith Willson's 1963 musical, Here's Love, proved to be a real holiday turkey. If I had my druthers, I'd like to see a regional theatre company take a crack at Celebration, a 1969 musical by the creators of The Fantasticks (Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones) and see what might happen if San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon exhumed 1961's Subways Are For Sleeping (with its Act I finale, "Be A Santa").
In Beverly Hills, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Arts recently scored a hit with an adaptation of Miklós László's charming Parfumerie (which provided the inspiration for films like The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and You've Got Mail). Of course, it's never too soon for another production of 1963's She Loves Me.
For some theatre companies, the challenge of the holiday season is to find a way to make an old story seem relevant to contemporary audiences. Two of 2013's Bay area productions (based on classic pieces of literature) offered audiences an unintentional opportunity to do just that.
I'm sure that Hans Christian Anderson never intended his lengthiest fairy tale, The Snow Queen (1845), to be viewed through the lens of a young man suddenly developing a critical drug addiction. Nor would anyone suspect that Louisa May Alcott's 1868 classic, Little Women, might have audiences wondering if the tomboyish Jo was little more than a clueless lesbian. But Christmas is supposedly a time of miracles and, if one chose to examine these stories through such modern lenses, at least the opportunity to do so was lurking in the subtext.
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Each December, TheatreWorks stages a holiday musical in the intimate environment of Palo Alto's 300-seat Lucie Stern Theatre. While some of their productions (Into The Woods, The Secret Garden) have been magical, almost transformative theatrical experiences, I think the hidden ingredient to their success has always been that the audience genuinely cares about the characters it encounters onstage. As the company's artistic director, Robert Kelley, notes:
"When I saw the Broadway production [of Little Women] in 2005, the soaring music, engrossing characters, and superb performances swept me away. But one element was missing in the elaborately produced world of the Great White Way: the intimacy of a close-knit household that America had long since claimed as its own. The show continued to haunt me, however, especially its comic focus on Jo's development as a young writer (which mirrored Alcott's own progress from the popular Gothic sensationalism of much 19th-century fiction to the highly personal introspective voice that made Little Women one of America's best-loved novels).
The idea of revisiting the musical grew on me after our exuberant holiday productions of The Secret Garden and Big River flourished in the cozy confines of the Lucie Stern Theatre. Perhaps its intimate stage would summon the attics and anterooms, parlor sing-alongs, and back porch proposals that made the March family seem so endearing and familiar. Musical Director Bill Liberatore was soon on board, committed to giving the glorious songs the welcoming feel of a chamber musical, and designer Joe Ragey imagined a warm and flexible setting that could evoke many scenes and seasons -- from a snowbound New York City to a cluttered Concord attic."
Aunt March (Elizabeth Palmer) tries to teach Jo (Emily Koch)
a lesson in posture and etiquette in Little Women
(Photo by: Mark Kitaoka)
From Joe Ragey's elegant show curtain (and the Currier & Ives-style paintings on the set's sideboards) to the sensitive sound design by Jeff Mockus, this production was blessed with the kind of theatrical assets which should be standard fare (but, unfortunately, have become endangered species).
- First and foremost is a narrative with momentum (a book by Allan Knee that knows where it's going and gets there without ever losing focus).
- Second is a score by Jason Howland (with lyrics by Mindi Dickstein) that keeps the story within an identifiable musical framework without any fear that the performers will ever be overwhelmed by the musicians in the pit.
- Third is an ambiance of Civil War era gentility, captured in Fumiko Bielefeldt's costumes as well as the smooth and sensitive stage direction by Robert Kelley.
- Fourth is yet another radiant performance by Sharon Rietkerk as Meg, the oldest of the March sisters who is the first to break their covenant by accepting a marriage proposal from John Brooke (Justin Buchs).
- Last, but certainly not least, is Emily Koch's deliciously spunky yet unexpectedly poignant characterization of Jo (the tomboy and aspiring writer whose devotion to her sisters drives the narrative).
John Brooke (Justin Buchs) proposes to Meg (Sharon Rietkerk)
in Little Women (Photo by: Mark Kitaoka)
Excellent work in supporting roles comes from Christopher Vettel as Professor Bhaer; Richard Farrell as the neighboring Mr. Laurence; Matt Dengler as his nephew, Laurie; Justin Buchs as Mr. Brooke, and Elizabeth Palmer doubling as Aunt March and Mrs. Kirk. Others in the March household include Elizabeth Ward Land as the stoic Marmee (whose husband is doing duty on the battlefield as a Civil War chaplain), Julia Belanoff as the sweet and ill-fated Beth, and Arielle Fishman as the social-climbing Amy.
Amy (Arielle Fishman), Jo (Emily Koch), Meg (Sharon Rietkerk) and
Beth (Julia Belanoff) are the four March sisters in Little Women
(Photo by: Mark Kitaoka)
This production could easily disarm the most hardened cynics and warm the hearts of those who have grown inured to the appeal of standard holiday fare.
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I wish I could be as enthusiastic about the new musical adaptation of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale that recently received its world premiere from the San Jose Repertory Theatre. The marketing blurb describes The Snow Queen as:
"...a fantastical coming-of-age adventure. As you follow Gerda through an unimaginably dangerous and whimsical world with singing flowers, a chattering crow and a talking river to save her friend, Kai, you'll realize this isn't your average bedtime story. An original pop rock score, alluring ballads, urban steam punk flair and the enigmatic Snow Queen turn this traditional fairy tale into an epic quest."
Kai (Tim Homsley), Grandmother (Lee Ann Payne), and Gerda
(Eryn Murman) in The Snow Queen (Photo by: Kevin Berne)
With the company's artistic director, Rick Lombardo, acting as stage director and choreographer (in addition to co-authoring the book and lyrics with producing artistic director Kirsten Brandt and composer Haddon Kime), this new holiday venture aimed to take advantage of some impressive young talent from San Jose State University's theater and music departments. David Lee Cuthbert's excellent lighting and projection designs (coupled with the versatility of Erik Flatmo's break-away unit set) helped to spark the audience's imagination. Many of Frances Nelson McSherry's costumes were fancifully designed.
Gerda (Eryn Murman) and the Old Crow (Jason Hite)
in The Snow Queen (Photo by: Kevin Berne)
Unfortunately, at the performance I attended, there were noticeable problems with Steve Schoenbeck's sound design (which often transformed some of the cast's legitimately trained voices into unnecessarily strident squawking). This sound distortion was especially unwelcome during moments when the voice of Jane Pfitsch's Snow Queen rose above the staff, making her lyrics barely intelligible.
Jane Pfitsch as the Snow Queen and Tim Homsley as Kai
(Photo by: Kevin Berne)
Credit goes to Eryn Murman, whose lively portrayal of Gerda took her around the world in weighty ways. As the evil Snow Queen who seeks the secret to eternity, Jane Pfitsch demonstrated a powerful, near-operatic range with a solid stage presence.
Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale about a young boy who sees the world with an icy realism instead of a child's awe (after being stabbed in the eye and chest with shards of cynicism from a magic mirror) is meant to tell a story about the bonds of friendship. However, with Tim Homsley's excellent portrayal of Kai as an impulsive young math whiz who, having been kissed by the Snow Queen, craves the sensuous touch of her deadly lips like a meth addict craves his next fix, Kai's troubles took on a startling resemblance to a drug dependency whose evil spell is broken by a kiss from his best friend.
Tim Homsley (Kai) and Eryn Murman (Gerda) in The Snow Queen
(Photo by: Kevin Berne)
Others in the cast included Rhett George (as a troll, a river prince, a reindeer, and a snowflake), Cindy Im (as Rose, a princess, a bullying robber girl, and a snowflake), Lee Ann Payne (as the children's grandmother, a witch, a robber, a mother, a wise woman, and a snowflake), Jason Hite (as a flower, an old crow who accompanies Gerda on a magical journey, a robber, a gang member, a pigeon, and a snowflake), Janice Engelgau (as a flower, a snowflake, and a pigeon), Summer C. Latimer (as a flower, a lady, a crow, a snowflake, and a pigeon), and Jomar Martinez (as a flower, a snowflake, and a pigeon).
Although roughly the same length as Little Women, San Jose Rep's new musical painfully meandered back and forth across the stage with plenty of sound and fury that amounted to much less than the sum of its parts. That's not to say that the show (which boasts 30 songs) lacks assets -- only that they fail to gel into a cohesive whole.
I left the theatre with the feeling that The Snow Queen's creative team had thrown everything they had onstage in the hopes that something would stick. Unfortunately, they ended up with a Christmas musical that, despite all the energy exerted by its young and appealing cast, proved to be surprisingly tiresome. Here's the trailer:
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Julie Bertucelli's movie "The Tree"
The Tree (L'arbre) is a French feature film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marton Csokas, directed by French director Julie Bertucelli and produced by Sue Taylor and Yael Fogie.
Have read the novel?
Judy Pascoe 'Our Father Who Art in the Tree'
"A 10-year-old girl in suburban Australia finds a unique way of coping with her father's death in this brief, fairy tale-like coming-of-age story. When Simone's father finally succumbs to a lifelong heart condition, her mother is consumed by grief, and her brothers, two older and one younger, are either too preoccupied with their studies or too young to be of any comfort to their sister. Desperately seeking solace, she climbs into the huge poinciana tree looming over their house, and suddenly her long-held suspicions ("If you climbed high enough in the tree in our backyard you came to another world") are confirmed when she hears her father's voice in the highest branches."
Soundtracks for "The Tree"
Die Kriegsknechte aber, da sie Jesum"
(from "St. John Passion", BWV 245)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
Composed by Pablo Beltrán Ruiz
Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Performed by Dean Martin
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Maine Google barge soon to ship out
Google barge was Maine mystery
Google's barge in Portland, Maine, is on the move, but the mysterious structure's destination is unclear.
The Portland Press Herald reports the four-story barge moved to South Portland on Wednesday. The owner of the cargo terminal where the barge is docked tells the paper an "international barging company" purchased the barge and it and is soon leaving Portland for an "ocean voyage."
The barge first docked in Portland Harbor in October. The Press Herald reported in December the barge would be one of three floating luxury showrooms Google planned to launch in San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles.
Portland's Google barge is untouched since first being hauled into Portland Harbor by tugboat on Oct. 10.
Google did not return a phone call seeking comment.


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text: TORONTO — An Air-India jumbo jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean last month on a flight from Toronto and Montreal to Bombay and New Dehli. Nobody knows for certain why the jet went down, but a bomb is believed responsible. News peg: Indian officials will arrive in Canada this week in the next phase of their inquiry. The Indians will join officials of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board and travel to Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. They will tour airports and interview some Canadians. Reports said the Indians also will be given findings of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into the crash. Note: All 329 people aboard the plane were killed.


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Last week the ladies of Real Housewives of Atlanta hit up Anguilla for what was supposed to be a vacation. It was instead a trip devoted to baby-sitting Kenya Moore – and it seems tonight will be no different!
The socially inhibitious Housewife proceeded to get her drink on and flirt/molest every single man in site – including the very married ones. The only person not getting their fare share of Kenya's attentions was made for TV pseudo boyfriend Walter Jackson who was literally just along for the ride!
Tonight Kenya continues her charade of pretending she loves Walter while shoving her coochie crack near some other men and Porsha Stewart can take no more. Porsha explains that her disgust for Kenya's behavior began when Kenya was inappropriately grinding on Cynthia Bailey's husband, Peter.
And of course Kenya's shameless flirting with Apollo NIda. And Porsha commends Phaedra Parks for demonstrating her "Big Buns or Double Side of Mash."
Taking to her Bravo blog, here's what Porsha has to say:
"I definitely feel like she was showing Kenya what's been holding my hubby down. Get it, girl! I just feel that my reaction to another woman pushing my man would have been to kindly shove her in the lovely pool as a return favor instead of allowing my husband to return the playful gesture. Boom!"
As for Kenya's dancing with Peter, Porsha found that incident equally disturbing. "I was speechless seeing the former Miss USA dropping it on another husband and propositioning a married man for sperm. *Have several seats.* Gross!"
Moving right along, Kenya denies any such inappropriate behavior and claims she was not flirting with Apollo – or anyone else! What show was she watching?
"We were all horsing around and it was HARMLESS. When I watched the show playback I cringed a little. I was acting a fool," Kenya writes in her Bravo blog. "What was in that rum punch? LOL! Does it appear that I flirt with Apollo by pushing him in a pool? I was playing around and being silly — not flirting with Apollo."
"I did not think he was flirting either by pushing me back," Kenya adds. "Now, as to the "tall drink of water," guilty. Perhaps it was passive aggressive behavior. I'm not saying it was proper, but it is a possibility I was acting out."
"With that said, I don't think that having fun or flirting warrants being ostracized or having to wear a scarlet letter on my chest," Kenya asserts. "I don't want any man that is married. When I go to sleep at night, I get in my own bed and there isn't anyone's husband in it."
Tonight is an all-new episode of RHOA. The ladies remain in Anguilla where Kenya continues to "hope" for a proposal, meanwhile Cynthia and Peter renew their vows. Unfortunately Kenya and Porsha's feud takes a crazy turn and the ladies get into an outrageous argument. I soo cannot wait!
Real Housewives of Atlanta airs tonight on Bravo at 9/8c. Reality Tea will be live-tweeting the episode and wishing we could be there to see what happened before editing happened!
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England boss Roy Hodgson has reportedly admitted that Arsenal's Theo Walcott is a Three Lions option in his favoured central striker role - but refuses to talk about 'experimenting' against Brazil tomorrow night, friendly or not.
Walcott has not been bashful about his plan to campaign for the central role at both club and national level - he'll be 'getting in Roy's face' about it apparently.
According to the Press Association, Hodgson accepted that injuries to Jermain Defoe and Daniel Sturridge have opened the door to Walcott spearheading the attack, but insisted he was not looking to use the visit of Brazil as a chance for major experimentation.
"It (experimenting) is not a word I really want to use. We're taking the game too seriously for me to even entertain the word experiment, but on the other hand it is a friendly match, and you don't get to Brazil 2014 and take part in a World Cup by taking part in friendly matches even if you get great results against the top nations.
"For us it's another important step along the way.
"We think it's a great way to start 2013 and our 150th anniversary, and we'll be doing our best to play well and get a good result, but finally for me it's a question of knowing by March what our best team is and what players play best together."
On the fitness front, Hodgson added: "We're disappointed to lose the three players who were originally selected, but luckily we've still got plenty left and everyone's trained today so we're all set for tomorrow."
Hodgson: Kind words not enough for Gazza
On former England hero Paul Gascoigne, who remains in a downward spiralling personal crisis, Hodgson said: "He has our full support, our full morale support and anything we can possibly do to help him we'll be more than happy to do.
"I think it's a question for Paul now to get the treatment he needs.
"Kind words won't be enough, he needs some quite severe action and let's hope he gets what's required in order for him to pull out of this situation and come out on the other side as the player and person we all remember."


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Reading Dr. Wolf's Patient Experience blogs, we learn the importance of involvement in order to achieve excellence, that patients are partners and that we are the patient experience. Whether we're actually the patient, or part of family or professional care teams, we all make up the patient experience. While instituting change may be arduous, if we see a problem, I believe it's our responsibility to try to do something about it. We need to get involved and propel that move toward excellence – even if life has thrown lemons at us – or maybe because it has.
In 1999 my husband, John, received a heart transplant at a major teaching hospital. While in intensive care, he was intubated and was put in hand restraints so he couldn't pull out the tube. Although it was still within his reach, his nurse call button was broken. Although the walls around him were glass, his charts were taped to the window blocking all view of his face. Then something went wrong - and he started choking. He was in distress, frightened and in danger - and he couldn't get anybody's attention to help him. Here in one of the finest teaching hospitals in the world, my husband had no way to signal for assistance. It was horrible for him.
I'll never forget how panicked he was when I came into his room and discovered this inexcusable circumstance. I'll never forget how appalled and angry I was that this had happened to my Darling John! What a horrific patient experience!
Once out of danger, he was given a piece of paper with the alphabet on it and told to point to letters to spell out what he wanted to say. This ridiculous method was infuriating. Yet, any time you or your loved ones are hospitalized, you face the possibility of encountering similar frustrating, frightening and dangerous circumstances because patient communication methods are often sorely inadequate. This shouldn't happen to you, nor to those you love and care about.
Rather than citing the hospital for negligence, I did something more constructive and more important. I invented a patient concierge system to help every hospitalized person, you and your loved ones, have a better and safer patient experience.
Of course you want to have your loved ones close when you are ill, and loved ones want to be close to you. Yet visits aren't always allowed. My secretary had a heart attack and was hospitalized for several months. Because she had a trach tube, written notes were her only form of communication. She was in a long-term relationship, but her gentleman friend was not allowed to visit because he wasn't a relative – thus creating a greatly diminished patient experience for her. Picture your cell phone and computer in 1999 and you'll quickly remember how difficult it was to communicate with anyone – even if you could get cell service. So, technology didn't even provide a serviceable option. As a board certified medical psychotherapist, I know these loving interactions are crucial to a compassionate experience and to creating the most beneficial healing environment.
Instead of focusing just on the needs of the professional care team, which was the norm for hospitals for many years, the focus desperately needed to be shifted to patient-family centered care practices providing direct access links to care staff, support services, food services, and family and visitors. Though it's taken many years since this 1999 incident, we've seen the tide begin to turn making the patient experience and patient satisfaction so fundamental that reimbursements are now linked to them. Patient partnering and involvement are what turned that tide toward an excellent patient experience.
Diana B. Denholm, Ph.D., an internationally recognized caregiving expert, is the inventor of myPAL™ – Patient Access Links and the author of The Caregiving Wife's Handbook (www.caregivingwife.com) which is endorsed by the AARP, National Council on Aging and Mental Health America. She currently writes for Psychology Today, Stroke Network, PBS and a variety of print publications. She may be reached at email@example.com.
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PR 63 - China gets 12 gold medals in the "Water Cube"
The team of China dominated the second leg of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2010, held in Beijing (CHN) on October 12-13, by earning 12 gold medals out of the 34 events contested at the "Water Cube". It was the most important swimming competition in this emblematic venue since the 2008 Olympic Games in the Chinese capital.
China's supremacy was more evident in the women's field, with 10 victories (out of 17 finals). Shiwen Ye was the most prolific winner with three gold (100m free, 200m and 400m individual medley), while Chang Gao (50m and 100m backstroke – Gao was the best performer of the meet with her 50m back win in 26.00, worth 965 points) and Ye Sun (100m and 200m breaststroke) won on two occasions each. The remaining Chinese winners were Qianwei Zhu (200m free), Jing Liu (400m free) and Luomeng Ren (800m free).
Therese Alshammar, from Sweden, got three out of the four titles for her country (50m free, 50m and 100m butterfly) and continues to lead the overall ranking of this World Cup. The other victories among women went to USA (2) and the Netherlands (1).
Among men, South Africa (seven gold medals) and Brazil (four titles) shared the most medals, while China and Japan got two titles each, and Russia and USA had one winner each in Beijing. South African swimmers in evidence were Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Cameron van der Burgh. Brazil's success was mostly due to Thiago Pereira (three wins and best performance in the men's field, with his 200m IM victory in 1:54.21 – 931 points). Pereira reinforced his lead of the overall ranking, after being also the most "valuable" swimmer of the first leg of the circuit, in Rio de Janeiro (BRA).
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