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Saturday, May 1, 2010
Bee Lovely
This French Lilac planted by the front doorway is fairly intoxicating.
Last evening two bumblebees lay in a stupor amongst her blossoms.
I reached up and pulled the branch downward to get a better look.
They seemed in no hurry to fly away.
About five minutes passed.
Then together, both seemingly sighed,
turned and gently flew upward, almost slow motion.
It was lovely.
8 comments:
- Patricia said...
Lovely indeed! Very cool photos, too. I think it is too hot for Lilac on Pollywog Creek. *sigh*
- May 1, 2010 at 7:34 AM
- Angie said...
We've been gettng a lot of really huge bumble bees ever since early March. They always seem to me to be very lethargic and slow. Still, as big as they are they would, wouldn't they. Flying takes a lot of energy. |They could be the jumbo jets of the bee world!
- May 1, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- Mama Bean said...
nice macro! well done :)
- May 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM
Lovely photos. I love the smell of lilac ... :0)
Shirl x
- May 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Adeena said...
If your lilacs are out, it must mean mine are next. ;)
- May 1, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Jeanne said...
Beautiful indeed♥
- May 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM
- Gill - That British Woman said...
what super photos. Our lilac is just starting to bloom up here. Not as many flowers on it this year.
- May 5, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Decadent Housewife said...
Hi Mama Bean and welcome.
Thank you everyone.
- May 6, 2010 at 8:05 PM
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Cocktails, food and dancing at Springfield Museum's annual Art Ball
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The Springfield Museum of Art will hold its 43rd annual Art Ball on Sept. 8. The event will be held in the Museum, 107 Cliff Park Road in Springfield.
The black-tie affair serves as the largest fundraising event of the year, according to Ann Fortescue, the museum's executive director.
"We're seeing people from both the city of Springfield and the Springfield region, but also we're beginning to draw some folks from outside the immediate Springfield area," Fortescue said. "I think our attendees and guests are seeing this as a wonderful celebratory event."
The event consists of a cocktail hour, a formal dinner and dancing.
"For the second year in a row, we will be dining in the museum's largest gallery," Fortescue said. "It is a wonderful space."
The McGregor Gallery, named for former board member Jim McGregor, is a 100-foot-long hall with a curved wall that follows the contours of Buck Creek, which runs just outside the Museum.
The event features a tiered pricing structure, with grand patrons (ages 41 and older) tickets costing $185 and young patron (ages 40 and under) tickets costing $145.
In recent years, the Art Ball demographics have been trending increasingly younger, according to the event's co-chair Jeff Smith.
"The event's beginning to attract an increasingly younger audience, which has been terrific," Smith said. "There has been a long tradition of the established generation having been the primary art ball attendees, but over the last few years, more and more younger individuals are coming."
It is a trend welcomed by all involved.
"I will use my one-year experience with this event, as well as comments from guests last year," Fortescue said. "There were quite a number of people who were attending Art Ball either for their first time or this might have been their second time. A number of long-time attendees were just delighted at the number of younger and first-time attendees to the event."
Smith believes the discounted price for younger attendees represents just one factor as to why this is happening.
"Over the last few years, the chairs of the event have been younger couples," Smith said. "The advantage of that has been those couples have drawn in their friends and contacts. I think also the selection of the band has helped. The Red Hot Rhythm Review has provided terrific entertainment over the last two years and we certainly look forward to that this year."
One of the responsibilities of the chairpersons is to select a theme. In years past, it may have been a wide-scoping subject, such as the Greek Isles, but last year's choice to feature one particular work seems to have caught on.
"Last year, the chairs at the time focused on a painting the museum had acquired within that previous year and I really liked that idea," Smith said. "It gives another opportunity to highlight the museum as an active museum in terms of actively acquiring artwork – artwork that fits with the theme and mission of the museum."
This year's theme revolves around Blanche Lazzell's 1926 print of "The Monongahela."
"This Lazzell is a playful, bright, colorful woodcut. It's a piece of Midwestern regional art done by a woman that just really caught our eye," Smith said.
The museum will also participate in the Smithsonian's upcoming Museum Day Live! The event takes place on Sept. 29 and allows anyone with an interest and Internet access to have their own museum experience. Tickets can be downloaded for free from Smithsonian.com.
The Springfield Museum of Art serves as an affiliate of the Smithsonian and is the only art museum in Ohio to carry such a distinction.
Smith believes the role of visual arts and those charged with curating and protecting these works becomes even more important in the modern, over-stimulated world.
"We are inundated with visual images, and in so many cases there is not a lot of thought given to what the visual images look like," Smith said. "So, for an art museum to support, promote and protect artwork that is a visual representation with visual meaning is so important."
Art becomes expendable when viewed in terms of spreadsheets and cost-effective analyses. Smith believes the dollars saved come at a high intellectual and societal cost.
"From a purely capitalistic point of view, many builders and developers don't see a purpose for including art, and yet visual art is so important in today's society to provide a visually appealing, aesthetically appealing society," Smith said.
The Springfield Museum of Art's annual Art Ball will be held on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 6:30 p.m. For more info visit www.springfieldart.museum or call (937) 325-4673. Museum Day Live! takes place on Sept. 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/.
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It was a general view in her case,she said she wouldn't like going out with anybody if her boyfriend didn't like the idea. Ali and Upen made fun of her even more! According to them she highly misunderstood the phrase! Upen felt hurt by her 'No' as he thought they are such good friends.
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AI read with great interest the current state of Islamic economics and finance as examined by Muhammad Akram Khan, who has given a fresh outlook for the readers to find out its limitations and to search for its solutions. Khan has read widely in the subject matter, and presented his views with reference to literature and thoughtful and logical arguments. While many may not agree with his arguments or will have a better explanation, I find his arguments at least worthy of examination to strengthen the arguments of those who might oppose him. Although Khan is critical of the subject matter, he is very sympathetic to the greater objectives of Islamic economics and provides his own prescriptions to achieve those objectives.A A M. Kabir Hassan, University of New Orleans, US AThis is a very thought provoking book coming at a crucial stage in the development of Islamic economics and finance. Although the reader may not agree with some of the conclusions reached, it is clearly a scholarly and extensively researched piece of work; it should be read by all serious students of the subject area. Amongst other things, it throws light on the reasons why the practical implementation of Islamic economics and finance, particularly in relation to the financial system and financial institutions, has not always conformed to the true theoretical foundations laid down by Islamic scholars.A A John Presley, Loughborough University, UK and recipient of Islamic Development Bank Prize in Islamic Finance, 2001A2002 AAIslamic economic system is a type of capitalism with a spiritual dimensionA is a major conclusion of this book. I applaud this insight of Muhammad Akram Khan. The same can be perhaps said of Islamic finance, which, in its hurry to build viable and efficient financial institutions, has ignored the very same need to start with profits-and-risk-sharing principle and no-riba principles to build pricing models to anchor the new sub-discpline. The good news is that, in the course of time to come, AkramAs advocacy may be realised since such serious works have already begun.A A Mohamed Ariff, University Putra Malaysia and Bond University, Australia AAlthough there are many books on Islamic economics, this critical, but sympathetic, account by Muhammad Akram Khan is worthy of attention. The author has clearly read widely on the subject and appreciates the limitations of much that he has read. Islamic economics is a work in progress and by focusing on its shortcomings, Khan challenges the assumptions of many working in the field. His discussion of methodology is insightful, and even the prohibition of riba, for many the defining characteristic of Islamic finance, is examined from a fresh perspective. While many will not agree with the analysis and the conclusions, even critics should be able to appreciate the strengths of the arguments made. In summary this is a worthwhile, and in many respects an innovative, survey of the state of Islamic economics and finance. It deserves to be widely read.A A Rodney Wilson, Durham University, UK What is Wrong with Islamic Economics? takes an objective look at the state of the art in Islamic economics and finance. It analyses reasons for perceived stagnation and also suggests a way forward. As well as probing various myths, the book presents several innovative ideas and a methodology for developing the subject on new foundations. It also highlights weaknesses in the conventional position on prohibition of interest, which has led Islamic banks devise a series of legal tricks. The author notes how the original aim of devising a new brand of banking has become less prominent whilst Islamic banks now position themselves more closely to conventional banks. The book also offers insights into how certain traditional thinking has seemingly ignored the egalitarian spirit of the law of zakah and created a scenario where zakah is not able to help the billions of poor people around the globe. This detailed book will appeal to students, professors, researchers, Islamic banks and finance houses, consulting companies, accounting firms, and regulatory bodies. Professional economists, libraries in research and training organizations, as well as anyone with a general interest in the topic will find much to interest them.Islam and the economy ofPakistan: A critical analya sis of traditional interpretation. ... Urdu. Lahore: Mustafa Academy. Qureshi, D.M. 2005. Vision table: Questions and answers session. In Proceedings of the First Pakistan Islamic Bankinganbsp;...
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Juventus midfielder Kingsley Coman has accused Paris Saint-Germain of neglecting youngsters following his switch to Italy.
The 18-year-old walked out on PSG to join Juventus and was immediately given a start in the club's first Serie A match of the season.
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At My Credit Specialist, we have been watching the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs' credit repair campaign very carefully, and we would like to respond to some of the claims they made about credit repair companies in the recent article "NJ Launches Credit Repair Information Campaign."
Last week was an interesting one for credit repair companies in New Jersey. The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs came out hard against credit restoration companies that are not compliant with federal law. They have sent out pamphlets, set up an informational website, released radio ads, and put together a video which is available on their website.
Now, My Credit Specialist does not dispute most of the facts asserted by the Division of Consumer Affairs. From the very beginning, we have made a concerted effort to educate the general public about credit repair law and have remained compliant in our business, never charging upfront fees or making outrageous promises. Every day, we have new articles on our blog, and our video series "Debunking Credit Myths" has been featured on other credit education websites. We even give consumers a means to ask questions or give feedback through our Facebook page and Twitter. If you want to talk with us in person, you can stop by our Manhattan office at 16 West 36th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue from 10 to 7 Monday thru Friday or Saturday by appointment only.
At the same time, we realize that not every credit repair company is like My Credit Specialist, and there are, as Thomas R. Calcagni of the Division of Consumer Affairs pointed out, fraudsters who want to "scam consumers out of hundreds of dollars while essentially doing nothing." Where we take issue with Mr. Calcagni's campaign is how he has chosen to present his message. He might be attempting to protect the public from scams, but in the process, he is demonizing all credit repair companies.
When I first moved to New York City, I was looking for an apartment, and I found what looked like a really great deal in the Upper East Side. It was a furnished one bedroom, and they sent me all sorts of pictures of a beautiful apartment. Unfortunately, the beautiful apartment in those pictures was not the apartment they were trying to rent to me. In fact, there was no apartment. I did a little bit of investigating and found out that they had given me an address for a vacant lot where a building used to be. I had almost been scammed, but that does not mean that everyone renting out apartments is a scam artist as evidenced by the fact that I eventually found a really great apartment.
Mr. Calcagni, we appreciate your effort to inform the public, but we do not appreciate credit repair being broadly categorized as scams. There are good and bad credit repair companies; there are good and bad restaurants; and there are good and bad lawyers. We are one of the good ones. Finally, while it is true that people can do credit repair on their own, there are advantages to working with a credit repair company. Anyone can build a house, but it is better to hire a builder. You pay for a work of art, even though anyone can paint or draw. You can represent yourself in court, but unless you have knowledge of the law and court procedures, it is better to hire a lawyer. There is a reason why we call ourselves "credit specialists," and we hope that in the future, you will be more careful about how you characterize our ethics and our work.
To learn more about how My Credit Specialist can help you, go to our website at http://www.mycreditspecialist.com, or call us at 1-866-565-6500.
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It's easy to fall in love with 'Thalia', so it's no wonder this outstanding heirloom from 1916 is still popular today. Graced by lovely pure-white flowers and a sensuous fragrance, 'Thalia' reliably comes back year after year. Plus, even the hungriest deer and rabbits pass it by in search of tastier treats. In addition, it's a great cut flower.
Name: Narcissus 'Thalia'
When asked why it's a favorite, the BHG garden group editor in chief said, "What can't you say about this plant?" It's supereasy to grow, spreads over time, and displays true-blue color. A great choice for mixing in the lawn for a dose of early-spring interest, Siberian squill even thrives in shade. It's truly a plant-it-and-forget-it bulb.
Name: Scilla sibirica
Garden experts around the country applaud 'Jack Snipe'; this cheery little daffodil bursts forth with yellow-and-white flowers. It's a vigorous grower that pops up early, produces lots of blooms, and features elegant, swept-back petals.
Name: Narcissus 'Jack Snipe'
One of the earliest daffodils, 'Tete a Tete' creates a carpet of gold in early spring. This miniature variety bears several flowers per stem and looks great with purple crocuses. It's long-lived and pestproof, too.
Name: Narcissus 'Tete a Tete'
While 'Baby Moon' looks delicate, it's a tough plant -- and furry critters don't want to eat it. It blooms in shade, and its tiny yellow flowers pack quite a fragrance.
Name: Narcissus 'Baby Moon'
With warm colors reminiscent of the tropical island that shares its name, 'Tahiti' is an ideal plant for welcoming spring. It bears fully double blooms in shades of yellow, orange, and red. It multiplies over time, too, putting on a better show every year.
Name: Narcissus 'Tahiti'
A stunning split-cup daffodil, 'Cassata' bears white petals and a yellow cup that fades to a sumptuous shade of creamy yellow. Its split cup gives it a distinct butterfly appearance. Like other daffodils, it's long-lived and makes a great cut flower.
Name: Narcissus 'Cassata'
Besides the yellows, whites, and oranges commonly seen in daffodils, there are also exquisite pinks and peaches, such as 'Pink Charm', which features white petals and an ivory cup broadly ringed in coral pink.
Name: Narcissus 'Pink Charm'
This charming daffodil offers big white petals and a tiny but intensely colored yellow cup ringed in red. It also features a rich spicy scent.
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One of spring's most recognizable bulbs, 'Globemaster' looks like a big purple lollipop. It's a perfect partner for peonies and roses -- which hide its fading foliage after blooming. Deer, rabbits, and other critters avoid alliums.
Name: Allium 'Globemaster'
One of the stars in late spring in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden, 'Purple Sensation' bears bold violet-purple flower heads atop 3-foot stems. This variety is an excellent cut flower. Or leave it in the garden to dry and then use the seed heads in fall crafts projects.
Name: Allium aflatunense 'Purple Sensation'
A late-spring stunner, 'Spring Green' offers creamy-white flowers boldly feathered in green. It creates a bright spot in the garden and looks wonderful with white-variegated hostas or brunnera.
Name: Tulipa 'Spring Green'
Dark and moody, 'Queen of the Night' bears good-size blooms in midspring. Pair it with light-color tulips for a bold look.
Name: Tulipa 'Queen of the Night'
A classic lily-flowering tulip from 1942, 'White Triumphator' is popular today thanks to its gracefully shaped, long-lasting ivory-white flowers. Its white color looks stunning alongside any plant.
Name: Tulipa 'White Triumphator'
A favorite of many springtime visitors to the Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden®, 'Fusilier' is great for naturalizing putting on a better show each year. The flowers are an intense reddish orange with several blooms per stem.
Name: Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier'
You can count on this wild tulip to come back every year, no matter how dry the summer or how cold the winter. Each stem bears numerous pale yellow flowers that look like butterflies dancing in a breeze.
Name: Tulipa turkestanica
This unique dwarf tulip produces yellow petals with broad tips that look as if they've been dipped in farm-fresh cream. A wild-type tulip, it is a true perennial and is perfect for borders and rock gardens.
Name: Tulipa tarda
This tulip is a demure, delicate pink in evening and early morning when blooms close tightly, but bold, brassy red-orange in full sun when flowers are fully open, 'Toronto' has a colorful split personality. In addition to its color-shifting blossoms, this early-blooming species tulip has attractive blue-green foliage with maroon stripes.
Name: Tulipa greigii 'Toronto'
This little gem is a long-lived wild-type tulip. It bears small lilac-pink flowers with bright golden-yellow centers, and its demure size makes it perfect for tucking at the front of a border or along patios and sidewalks where you'll be sure to see it in spring.
Name: Tulipa bakeri 'Lilac Wonder'
It may be a little tough to find, but blue-eyed tulip is definitely worth growing. This wild-type variety has starry white flowers with a pure blue blotch at the centers. Though long-lived, it tends to be slow growing.
Name: Tulipa humilis 'Alba Coerulea Oculata'
Most spring-blooming bulbs need well-drained soil to thrive, but camassia doesn't mind wet feet. This late-spring bloomer offers spikes in shades of deep blue and purple and is a perfect complement to alliums and peonies. Native to West Coast areas, it comes back reliably every year.
Name: Camassia cusickii
After a long winter, the first bulb to flower is often a favorite bulb -- and crocus usually wins. 'Goldilocks' offers delightful deep yellow flowers in early spring, sometimes before the snow has melted.
Name: Crocus chrysanthus 'Goldilocks'
One of the first flowers to bloom in spring, 'Harmony' is an especially beautiful variety. Each fall has a white patch and is speckled violet-blue with a dark yellow tongue stripe along its center. The classic fleur-de-lis flower form looks good with any other plant.
Name: Iris reticulata 'Harmony'
We admire tenacious little snowdrop's get-up-and-go -- after all, it can't be easy waking up so early in spring. This bulb produces nodding white flowers that resemble a flock of tiny white doves when they emerge from barely thawed earth in late winter and early spring.
Name: Galanthus nivalis
Celebrate spring with grape hyacinth's beautiful blue bells. In addition to great color, this easy-growing bulb offers sweetly fragrant flowers. And it naturally pushes up foliage in fall -- helping you remember where you planted it.
Name: Muscari armeniacum
Offering spring's sweetest fragrance, 'Peter Stuyvesant' bears clusters of deep blue-purple flowers. It looks especially stunning mixed with smaller grape hyacinths or white tulips and daffodils.
Name: Hyacinthus 'Peter Stuyvesant'
A perfect bulb for naturalizing, glory-of-the-snow creates a bigger colony every year. It blooms in early spring with starry, long-lasting blue flowers. It's an ideal choice for growing with groundcovers such as vinca, lamium, or epimedium.
Name: Chionodoxa forbesii
This multiflowering tulip puts on a big show because each stem holds several beautiful scarlet-red blooms decorated with a bright yellow base. As its name suggests, 'Red Bouquet' is perfect for cutting.
Name: Tulipa 'Red Bouquet'


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The Mortgage Lending for New Advisers Course is a three-day course which can be completed as part of working toward the New Zealand Certificate in Financial Services.
This course is conjointly delivered between Financial Advice New Zealand and Professional IQ College (PIQ) to provide students with the training and assessment requirements of the NZQA accredited Residential Property Lending Strand of the New Zealand Certificate in Financial Services, Level 5. The course content includes loan structures and best practice loan applications. As well as attending the three-day Tutor led course, you will be required to complete four unit standard assessments to receive the Mortgage Advice Module 6 Certificate, within 3 months of completing the workshop.
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Yesterday we attended a seminar on point cloud 3-D scanners. I've been following the scanners and the technology for the last three years so I was very interested to see one live. The demonstration was really cool and it was amazing to see the accuracy of a room re-created in a point cloud. During the meeting I made a statement that wouldn't it be cool that you could scan a building and then someday be able to re-create it using a 3-D printer. Of course I got the that is crazy look from some people in the room but of course I ignored that.
As usual, being a BIM visionary, and intuitively knowing where the industry is going, I was really happy last night to see the following article Architect to build home with 3D printer. So, I can't wait until a certain someone reads this in the next few minutes and I get to see the look on their face when they see that this technology does actually exist and there are really incredible thing you can do with point cloud scanners.


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I grew up in Ottawa and joined the Army at the age of 18. I served proudly in the Canadian Airborne Regiment. The highlight of my 22-year military career was serving 15 years as a Search and Rescue Technician (SAR Tech).
My first exposure to nursing was practicing annual medical training as a SAR Tech in area hospital emergency rooms. The nurses would share their assessment skills, and we would practice our IV skills. It was here where I acquired a great deal of respect for the nursing profession.
In 2002, I retired from 22 years of serving my country and enrolled in the BScN program at Seneca College. The four years were intensive, but I embraced the learning and excelled; I graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2006 and took an Emergency RN position with Sunnybrook Health Science Center in April. I was the first new grad ever hired in the Sunnybrook emergency department, and now it has become routine to see newly graduated nurses among the staff. While in my integrated practicum, I received The Sopman Humanitarian award from the University Health Network. This was a privilege and an honour for me.
I found when starting work as a new grad I relied heavily on the knowledge I gained in the first two years of the nursing program at Seneca. As an older student, I was initially intimidated about going back to school with all these younger students. The youth inspired me and the professors at Seneca encouraged me. The professors were truly passionate about their teaching, and I was grateful to have chosen this program. It was here that basic nursing skills were introduced to me and would prove to be ever so valuable at the bedside. I have fond memories of Seneca as the curriculum was challenging and the campus had wonderful surroundings. A colleague once said to me " Hang with the winners" and I did. I have made lifelong friends at Seneca, and I find it interesting to watch my colleagues pursue their careers and see where their practice is taking them.
Recently I have taken a position in Las Vegas, Nevada in the emergency department of a small cardiac hospital. My wife and I are looking forward to our new adventure and the warm weather. I will always stretch the boundaries of my practice and strive to keep things fresh. As for what the future holds... one never knows, perhaps the Nurse Practitioner program might be something for me. But for now I am happy and content, and for those teachers who have helped me along my path of life, they shall never be forgotten.
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When it doesn't do what was intended. The Early Church did. We read in the Book of Acts of a united fellowship, a place where believers assembled, encouraged one another, shared meals, discussed. They did more - a lot more - than most churches do today.
In the Early Church, no doubt the pastor didn't lord it over the flock. Members even sold their homes and possessions, with proceeds shared among the believers. The money was not used on hugely expensive buildings (used once or twice a week) but to fulfil everyone's needs. They were people with hearts for God, they had commitment and guts; they did what Jesus said - and it resulted in supernatural events which are rare in this generation.
What is a "Christian church" today?
Today's church has strayed too far from its beginnings. Too often the institution itself is the "bigger and better" goal, rather than providing for those who attend, and reaching the world outside. There is a seemingly endless desire to impress, as though the very size of the church indicates the faith of those attending. The church was not intended to be the vehicle for an ego trip. Jesus was/is the essence of humility; He rode into town on a donkey, remember?
People attend now probably because of Hebrews 10:25: "...not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some..." There is guilt if they don't. The real crux of the matter is how does one define "church"?
The "how-to" is in Acts, but men today prefer their way to God's way. How arrogant! So what is now called a Christian church is not that at all. The size of the church is irrelevant.
However big a church building, the "non-churched" can match it with something bigger and even more impressive. There can be ten thousand people assembled in a church, but not one with the courage to hand out a gospel tract. The issue is not how big the church is, but how big are the hearts toward God of those who attend?
Rather than a building fund, wouldn't it be better to have a people fund? Let's hear: "Folks we'd like you to give generously today for Frances, who has three children. She is now a widow after the road accident, and she needs our help."
Is the church doing its job?
Partly. Today's church practises some of what the Bible says, such as visiting the sick, helping the poor, being charitable. Yet in the most important aspects, the church fails. The power of the Early Church is missing. "...having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof; from such turn away." 2 Timothy 3:5."
Jesus told the disciples to preach the gospel (He didn't mean inside a building), heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead. They did, and so did the apostles after Jesus ascended.
In today's average church, Jesus' instruction is forgotten, carefully avoided, or put in the "too hard" basket.
However, John 14:12 says it is possible. Thank God for those who believe that - and act on it. Those following hearsay and human tradition say the supernatural is not for today. The denial to that is in Hebrews 13:8. There is no time limit.
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Lansing, Mich.— As part of its effort to help level the playing field for sustainable livestock farmers in Michigan, the Less=More Coalition has made available information about taxpayer-funded Farm Bill conservation subsidies in one place online at http://tinyurl.com/
"Farmers are busy folks, and sustainable farmers often lack the kind of outreach and support for farm program applications that large-scale industrial farm operators receive," said Sandy Nordmark, vice president of the Michigan Farmers Union, which is a member of Less=More. "We aim to make it as easy as possible for them to access funding possibilities for their conservation practices by putting all the information they need in one cyber-location."
Less=More is a sustainable agriculture coalition launched earlier this year to address the inequity of Farm Bill subsidy distribution in Michigan and how the system favors polluting factory farms over safe, sustainable livestock farms at the expense of the environment and public health
The Less=More web link connects farmers with basic information about 2013 Farm Bill subsidies in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) in Michigan. It includes a listing of the more than 100 conservation practices funded by EQIP and the amount of money available for each practice as well as the most current EQIP application.
"This information is available on the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service Michigan website, but it can be tricky to find if you don't know where to look," said Lynn Henning, a Water Sentinel for the Sierra Club Michigan Chapter, another Less=More coalition member. "We make it as simple as possible. A farmer can sit down and get an idea of what's out there for him or her with a click or two of the mouse."
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the agency that distributes taxpayer-funded subsidies through a State Conservationist in Michigan, is mandated to distribute 60 percent of the EQIP funds to livestock operations. Currently, most go to support Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), also known as factory farms, in Michigan.
Of the 104 EQIP subsidies available in 2013, 53 are practices identified by the NRCS as being applicable to farmers with organic certification, according to Henning. These include such activities as brush management, grassed waterways, fencing and filter strips.
Although about half of the practices are listed as organic, the reality is that the biggest EQIP subsidies go to support practices dealing with waste -- handling, storage, separators, transfer systems and biodigesters -- that are specific to large-scale operations with thousands of animals that generate millions of gallons of manure. For example, a factory farm can apply for and receive more than $43,000 for a solid/liquid waste separation facility, and anaerobic digesters fetch anywhere from roughly $300-$600 per animal unit, which translates to a substantial sum for an operation with thousands of animals.
"Essentially, factory farms take a perfectly good natural material – animal manure — and concentrate it until it becomes an environmental issue and then they receive federal money to address the problem they've created," said Anne Woiwode, Sierra Club Michigan Chapter director. "Meanwhile, sustainable farmers who work with nature and have appropriate numbers of animals for the amount of land available have little need for funds to address such problems, but they—and consumers--would benefit greatly from receiving more support for their sustainable practices."
In addition, this taxpayer money doesn't always solve an operation's underlying environmental problems, according to a recent report by Less=More, Restoring the Balance to Michigan's Farming Landscape, which demonstrates that many polluting factory farms have continued to receive taxpayer money. The report found that 37 Michigan factory farms cited for environmental violations and unpermitted discharges over the 15 years ending in 2011 were awarded nearly $27 million in various Farm Bill subsidies between 1995 and 2011. Of these operations, 26 jointly racked up fines and penalties of more than $1.3 million for their share of these violations.
"Taxpayers are providing millions of dollars in government subsidies to industrial mega-farms in Michigan that generate pollution and cause health risks while undermining sustainable farms at the same time," said Woiwode. "This happens at a time when more and more Michigan consumers are seeking safe, healthy, local sources of meat, dairy, poultry and eggs at farmers markets, stores, restaurants and community supported agriculture."
Less=More is a coalition of organizations engaged in various aspects of our food system that seek to level the playing field for sustainable farmers by addressing the inequity of how taxpayer subsidies are distributed in Michigan. It includes: Beery Farms of Michigan, LLC, the Center for Food Safety, Crane Dance Farm, LLC, Environmentally Concerned Citizens of South Central Michigan, Food & Water Watch, Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council, Groundswell Farm, Humane Society of the United States, Michigan Farmers Union, Michigan Voices for Good Food Policy, Michigan Young Farmers Coalition, Sierra Club Michigan Chapter and Socially Responsible Agricultural Project.
Restoring the Balance to Michigan's Farming Landscape and other information about Less=More is available at www.MoreforMichigan.org.


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The property manager and staff make living at Bexley at Heritage a pleasure! The staff works very hard to keep the community looking very nice. They are to be commended!Barbara and Pat T., Residents
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36-year-old Minos Wilson and his nephew, 27-year-old Chad Wilson were arrested on Tuesday following an investigation into copper theft in the area.
Troopers responded to reports of chainsaw noise in a farm field on Deer Forrest Road around 3:00 p.m. on January 24th. They found two empty pickup trucks under an irrigation system.
A canine unit led police from the trucks to the home of Minos Wilson and later determined that he was the owner of one of the trucks.
The other vehicle was not properly registered.
Investigators learned that Minos Wilson and his nephew Chad had cut several pieces of copper from the irrigation system before fleeing the scene.
Both men are being charged with theft and related offenses. They were released on $5,000 unsecured bail.
Police say that copper theft from irrigation systems is an ongoing problem in Delaware, and they are asking anyone with information relating to this crime to contact Troop 4 Property Crimes Unite at 302-856-5850 or Delaware Crime Stoppers at 800-TIP-3333.


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This is the sixth conference in the series which started in 1981 in Paris, followed by conferences held in Zurich (1984), Rio de Janeirio (1987), Barcelona (1991), and Raleigh (1993). The main objective of this IFIP conference series is to provide a platform for the exchange of recent and original contributions in communications systems in the areas of performance analysis, architectures, and applications. There are many exiciting trends and developments in the communications industry, several of which are related to advances in Asynchronous Transfer ModeAm(ATM), multimedia services, and high speed protocols. It is commonly believed in the communications industry that ATM represents the next generation of networking. Yet, there are a number of issues that has been worked on in various standards bodies, government and industry research and development labs, and universities towards enabling high speed networks in general and ATM networks in particular. Reflecting these trends, the technical program of the Sixth IFIP W.G. 6.3 Conference on Performance of Computer Networks consists of papers addressing a wide range of technical challenges and proposing various state of the art solutions to a subset of them. The program includes 25 papers selected by the program committee out of 57 papers submitted.1 10000 8000 0.8 - 4.0 0.6 - 2000 0.4 - 0.20 - a0.2 - -0.4a0.6 - a0.8 - -1 1000+ 500 ; # 100- 150 50 ar-H-I-I-H-I- 10 i i -1 -0.8-0.6-0.4a0.2 ... size b = 1.5, mean interval a = 7.5 slots between batches, intensity X = 0.2. on the contours give the waiting time as a number of slots. The right hand of the pair of charts gives an expanded view of the upper right hand corner of the left hand chart (3, 2 0.9, B, 2 0.9).
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Bringing welcome flair to history, PBS' look at the French and Indian War — a conflict initiated in 1754 via an incident involving then-21-year-old officer George Washington — isn't as riveting as Michael Mann's version of "Last of the Mohicans," but it isn't dry and boring either. Using reenactments as well as actors reading the words of historical figures, this four-hour production will have a long life in public schools, illuminating a significant period about which most Americans are pretty ignorant.
At the core of this presentation on successive Wednesdays, hosted by Graham Greene, is the premise that by winning the war with France for the Ohio territory, the British "unleashed passions that will lead to it losing America." The narrative also sheds light on the disparate approaches to warfare of the colonial powers, beginning with the Brits, who, as Bill Cosby once joked, have a propensity for marching in a straight line while being shot at from behind rocks and trees.
Washington's role in the war is particularly intriguing given that his troops faced multiple setbacks that he internalized when afforded the chance to lead the American forces. And as so many dramatic productions have demonstrated, both the British and French took the Native-Americans for granted, with the French at one point hosting a feast for conquered officers while failing to invite their Indian allies, who helped swing the battle.
Broken into four parts, the program opens with a skirmish resulting in the death of a French envoy, escalating the conflict. Indians, meanwhile, are courted by both sides while rightly fearing they will ultimately lose more of their land.
The second night finds the British beginning to recover after a series of defeats, in part because the French government fails to support the Marquis de Montcalm, who had been kicking British ass across North America. The final hour details how colonials, thinking they were full partners with the British, felt betrayed after the war — a lingering resentment that eventually led to the revolution.
Shooting on location in Pennsylvania, writer-producer-directors Eric Stange and Ben Loeterman (who alternated on the chapters) deliver a handsome production that draws dialogue from journals and first-person accounts to breathe life into the history. Along the way, they capture broken promises that plagued Indians long after the Europeans departed, the difficulties that face occupying forces in strange lands and how Washington gradually learned "to be a leader of men."
The project also notably toes the fine line of employing reenactments without toppling into melodrama. As a general rule, re-creations work best when dealing with pre-cinematic events, though even then such treatments are often heavy-handed and excessive.
Not so with "The War That Made America," the kind of material that seldom finds a home on commercial TV — a fact that by itself helps justify PBS' investment in this nifty trek through U.S. pre-history.


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To provide instructions to agencies for processing discretionary increases.
|Affected Employees
SUNY Professional Service employees in Bargaining Units 08 and 41.
Article 20.7 of the 1999-2003 Agreement between the State and United University Professions (Bargaining Unit 08) and a SUNY Board Resolution of May 31,2000 for employees in Bargaining Unit 41, provides for a discretionary increase based on an employee's June 30, 2003 salary. Payment of the increase is at the discretion of the College President and can be made to employees who were incumbents on the payroll June 30,2003.
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Family pushing for class action lawsuit against provider Revera
The family of a resident who died following a stay at a Canadian nursing home is hoping others will join in a $200 million lawsuit against a provider.
Ross Jones died of "sepsis and suspected pneumonia" in 2011 after an 11-month stay at Main Street Terrace in Toronto, according to the suit announced by his daughter, Lori DeKervor, on Thursday. The complaint claims Jones suffered from dehydration and malnutrition, and had a pressure ulcer that went untreated and became infected.
"He died a painful 13th century death, while being looked after by a giant business entity that is making a ton of money on the basis of its promise to deliver reliable, professional health care to our parents," DeKervor said in a press release.
The suit asks for $200 million in damages for DeKervor and any future complainants from provider Revera, which operates nearly 80 long-term care facilities and almost 130 retirement communities across Canada. The complaint also alleges the company conducted inadequate investigations into complaints, and failed to meet government care standards.
While Jones' daughter is the only complainant currently listed in the suit, the family's attorney, Amani Oakley, believes more will join.
"We found quite a number of instances of cases of Revera residents being injured, being left unattended, being allowed to fall," Oakley told CBC News.
John Beaney, spokesman for Revera, said the company can't comment on specifics of the suit, but that it believes the case has no merit and plans to defend itself in court.
"We provide care to lots of individuals, often at the end of their lives and families are part of that process," Beaney told the Toronto Star. "When a resident passes away it is often the result of a combination of factors. It is not simple … and this can often make it very difficult for their loved ones."
Twenty-four Revera facilities were acquired by United States-based Genesis HealthCare in a $240 million deal last year.


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Thousands of people cycle the UK from end to end every year, for charity or just for the challenge. This book offers a comprehensive guide to a tried and tested cycle route from Land's End to John o' Groats (LEJOG), designed to avoid the busier A roads and take in the best scenery from Dartmoor to Dounreay.
The junction by junction description of the Land's End to John o' Groats cycle route, is in 14 day stages averaging just over 70 miles, illustrated with clear customised OS mapping and profiles so riders know exactly what to expect. All the grid key references are included for use with GPS navigation devices (or conventional maps).
The end to end cycle route can be tackled at any time of year, although good weather and clear visibility will make a far more enjoyable experience. The best time to cycle the route is from late March until late October, when the days are longer and warmer.
The route takes in some stunning areas of Britain including Dartmoor, the Welsh Marches, the Lake District, Loch Lomond and the Great Glen, cycling through National Parks, AONBs and SSSI on the way, and key historical features are described along the way.
Overview map
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- Getting there
- Accommodation
- Getting back
- Which way and when to go
- Health and safety
- Training fitness
- What to take
- Food and drink
- Using this guide
The Route
Stage 1 Land's End to Fowey
Stage 2 Fowey to Moretonhampstead
Stage 3 Moretonhampstead to Street
Stage 4 Street to Monmouth
Stage 5 Monmouth to Clun
Stage 6 Clun to Runcorn
Stage 7 Runcorn to Slaidburn
Stage 8 Slaidburn to Keswick
Stage 9 Keswick to Moffat
Stage 10 Moffat to Loch Lomond
Stage 11 Loch Lomond to Glencoe
Stage 12 Glencoe to Inverness
Stage 13 Inverness to the Crask Inn
Stage 14 The Crask Inn to John o' Groats
Appendix A Route summary table
Appendix B OS maps covering the route
Appendix C Accommodation
Appendix D Tourist information
Appendix E Cycle repair shops en route
Appendix F Other useful resources
Appendix G OS grid references
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text: With a potential target audience that spans across the country and the globe, its hard to figure out what all the best venues are for promoting the site. Many of you who have come here have come by the very successful invitations posted on Wizards of the Coast or Meetup.com. We've also gotten the word out at places like rpg.net, enworld.org, sjgames.com, Spycraft Games, Heroes Unlimited, and a few others. Still, there is a vast network left untapped where we could potentially be getting the word out. If you know of a particular venue that would be good for us to reach out to, I'd love to hear about it.


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. January 15, 2007 Turbulence Commission: "html_butoh" by Ursula Endlicher http://turbulence.org/works/html_butoh [Needs Flash Player; high speed Internet connection (DSL/Cable or better); speakers on; Mozilla Firefox 2.0+, Opera 9.10+, Netscape 8.0+, and Safari 2.0+.] "html_butoh" questions the way information is indexed on the Web; it enacts the "Global Top 500" websites and is choreographed by their real-time HTML structure. Small video clips show participants translating the "functionality" of each HTML tag into movement. The URLs, and therefore the "stage," changes every 3:28 minutes, running through 500 websites within a twenty-four hour cycle. "html_butoh" runs on the html-movement-library, an open-for-participation video clip database. In Butoh--a Japanese dance technique--the dancer "becomes" an image through her movements, which parallels to how a web browser scans through HTML and displays its content. By submitting to the html-movement-library every participant instantly becomes part of the "html_butoh" performance. "html_butoh" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation. BIOGRAPHY Ursula Endlicher was born in Vienna, Austria and has lived and worked as a "multiple-media" artist in New York since 1993. Her work resides at the intersection of Internet art, performance and multi-media installation. She focuses, with a critical and yet humorous eye, on the underlying structures of the Web, questioning online identity while often anthropomorphizing and enacting the Web, and bringing the Web into a "physical" realm via alternative human-machine communication interfaces. Endlicher has been shown internationally, including "artport," Whitney Museum, New York and "Illegal Machines" at Art Athena, Greece. Recently she participated in "No body on this line", a research lab at Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria. Endlicher initiated a discussion and web conference about "Curating net art" with Mobile-Studios.org in 2006. She has lectured about her work in the US and Europe. Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann {AT} nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann


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Shenzhen Sightseeing and Shopping Tour from Hong Kong
Discover the vibrant city of Shenzhen on your full-day trip by rail from Hong Kong. With a local guide you'll sightsee Lichi Park and Meridian View Centre, and ...
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5-Hour Hong Kong City Tour with Hotel Pickup in Hong Kong Island
Treat yourself to this 5-hour coach tour exploring the city of Hong Kong and its attractions. This tour offers daily hotel pickup from major hotels in the ...
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Shop your way through the streets of Mongkok! This guided Hong Kong walking tour takes you to the various street markets that the district of Mongkok is known ...
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Walking and Shopping in the Mid-Levels and Central of Hong Kong
The words variety and Hong Kong shopping go hand-in-tote bag. And that's not just in the range of goods on offer, but in the countless ways you can find and ...
Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Shenzhen Lo Wu City Shopping Full Day Join Tour
Shenzhen is an ideal day trip destination just across the border from Hong Kong. It is a general consensus that Shenzhen is Hong Kong's backyard, and shopping ...
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Despite these disagreements, one observation seems to emerge: this spring will feature a healthy prime-time upfront that should top last year's mark of $6 billion in ad commitments.
"All indications are leading to it being a strong upfront," says Joseph Abruzzese, president of CBS sales. "Scatter has been high. Cutbacks in clients have not been dramatic."
"I don't see people paying any less for '97-'98 than they did in '96-'97," says Larry Hoffner, president-NBC sales. "It won't be any lower-I just don't know how much more. That will be determined by the law of supply and demand.
"If we put out a package of shows that's at a $20 CPM and nobody's buying it, we'll go down to a $19 CPM," he says.
"Most of our brands have planned for pricing in the low single-digit increases," says Brian McHale, partner-national media director at Cincinnati-based media-buying service Media That Works.
Making these predictions more interesting are forecasts that other TV media could stand to gain from the networks' pricing cable is getting and at their ratings, there's a huge disparity in the relationship," says Perri Stein, senior VP-network sales for UPN. "It doesn't make sense compared to what you get in broadcast. I think you're paying a lot for what you're getting in cable."
In addition, some executives note, many of the best-known programs, are on network TV. On a scale of 1, for least interested, to 5, a group of influential agency media buyers said their interest in upfront time on each of the six broadcast networks was at 3 or higher,
according to Myers Reports. In fact, Fox and NBC received scores of 5 (see chart on Page S-8).
Mr. Hoffner expects NBC's "Must See TV" lineup reign to continue.
"There's no question of the demand-that's where people want to be, advertising on 'Seinfeld' or 'ER,' " he says. "If somebody cares what their advertising programs are, they have to move before they're sold out."
Gene DeWitt, president of DeWitt Media, a New York-based media-buying service, anticipates an increase in most advertisers' budgets coupled with a low supply of network inventory will create a difficult upfront.
"For the first time, some advertisers are looking to make their cable upfront buys ahead of their network buys," Mr. DeWitt says. "Cable ratings are up, but they still can't handle the overflow from the networks. It's going to be a tough media-buying year."
Fox and ABC are already running neck and neck for second place behind NBC for 18-to-49 year olds, according to Jon Nesvig, Fox's president-sales.
"I don't think we have any way to surpass ABC in terms of revenue," he says. "We're ahead of ABC in 18-to-34 [year olds]. We'll certainly narrow that [18-to-49] gap and get in a horse race with ABC" in terms of unit costs.
Buyers say few ideas presented at recent network program development meetings stood out as gems. But among the programming trends noted by some buyers was an emphasis on family-suitable shows.
"ABC's done something pretty smart putting 'Wonderful World of Disney' back on Sunday nights," says Steve Grubbs, exec VP-director of national TV buying, BBDO Worldwide, New York.
"At the networks," Mr. McHale says, "the 8 p.m. time period across the board is a time we're very interested in."
Indeed, Mr. McHale says that time period is the key to determining how well the networks will be able to stave off, or at least slow, their collective ratings decline.
Since the networks will start announcing their fall lineups this week, buyers and sellers agree it's too soon to say with absolute certainty where buyers will put their money, what prices will be or how much money actually will be spent.
"Until we get to the point when someone's ready to see, call or fold, nobody's really sure" how the upfront will play out, Mr. Nesvig says. "Once you get to that point, then there's a crush to get in-if it's a good marketplace-and secure


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Sean Lumley has a post on creating an Internet Explorer 7.0 browser template for use in Team System Web tests.
This post walks you through the process of adding a new IE7 browser template that can be used by your web tests when running them stand alone or inside of a load test.
Source: Sean Lumley's Blog : Adding an IE7 Browser Template for use by Web Tests
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A 63 YO male with a 50 pack year smoking history presents with shortness of breath, coughing and blood-streaked sputum. A chest radiograph shows a large mass in the middle lobe of the right lung that is biopsied and the H&E stained slide is seen below.
A. Your diagnosis is:
- Non-small cell lung cancer
- Small cell Lung cancer
- Adenocarcinoma
- Neuroendocrine carcinoma
B. Your diagnosis is based on:
- Glands
- Desmosomes
- Chromogranin granules
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Answer: A: 1 (Non-small cell lung cancer), B: 2 (Desmosomes)
Lung cancers are now classified as: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (which includes squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma) or small cell carcinoma with a miscellaneous category (including pleomorphic, carcinoid, salivary gland and unclassified). Within these morphological types, numerous genetic alterations have been found. The literature has numerous studies implicating genetic and epigenetic changes that lead to tumorigenesis as well as implications for prognosis and treatment.
Sy SM, Wong N, Lee TW, Tse G, Mok TS, Fan B, Pang E, Johnson PJ, Yim A. Distinct patterns of genetic alterations in adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. Eur J Cancer. 2004 May;40(7):1082-94. PubMed PMID:15093586.
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This is the last Alquin studio album from the Seventies … and even it´s not so best Alquin album … it´s a damn good album …
This fourth album is the logical follower of Nobody but that also means that it out of the scope of this site as this is rather poor in Prog contents : I would diagnose less than 5% which means that you will never overdose of it but will likely get bored before reaching the fatal level. Don't get me wrong , this is correct FM rock along the lines of Foreigner (actually, they spring to mind quite often when I hear Alquin) . Even the longer tracks divided into subsection are relatively uninteresting for the proghead. Another comparison would be their great fellow Dutchmen Golden Earring (not any proggier but one hell of more adventure and inspiration , though). In another site , i might have given this a third star. (by Sean Trane)
And I can´ agree with this review … this is another pretty good album by Alquin … one of the best dutch groups from the Seventies …
Listen and enjoy … to songs like "L.A. Rendez-Vous", "Fool In The Mirror" or "One More Night" and you´ll know what I mean …
Ferdinand Bakker (guitar, violin, background vocals)
Michel van Dijk (vocals)
Dick Franssen (keyboards)
Ron Ottenhof (saxophone, flute)
Job Tarenskeen (drums, percussion, background vocals)
Jan Visser (bass, background vocals, percussion)
horns on 01.:
Buddy Beadle – Geoff Wright – Martin Droner – Steve Gregory
The Deadcenter Boys (on 05.)
01. Fool In The Mirror:
01.1. Sham Fight (Bakker/v. Dijk)
01.2. Stars End (Franssen/Visser/Ottenhoff) 3.01
02. Central Station Hustle (Bakker/Tarenskeen/v.Dijk) 5.58
03. L.A. Rendez-Vous (Bakker/Tarenskeen) 4.39
04. High Rockin' (Bakker/Ottenhoff) 5.29
05. One More Night:
05.1. Bootleg Ballet (Franssen/Visser/Ottenhoff)
05.2. Laserlights (Bakker/Tarenskeen/v.Dijk)
05.3. Back At The Losing End (Bakker/Tarenskeen/v.Dijk) 9.02
06 Amy (Bakker/v. Dijk) 4.21
07. Take Any Road (Bakker/v. Dijk) 5.50
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