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A perfect replacement for the legendary Selmer Balanced Action of the 1930's.
Inspired by one of the truly great saxophones, the Selmer Reference 36 is an amalgamation of vintage sound and aesthetics and modern day reliability, bringing players closer to the famous saxophonists of yesteryear.
The Reference Series is Selmer's nod towards their hugely popular saxophones of the past, encapsulating the spirit of these fantastic instruments into a newly refined design. In the Reference 36, Selmer took their inspiration from the sound of their hugely popular Balanced Action - a big warm sound with plenty of spread, whilst redesigning the neck, bore size and ergonomics.
The result is an instantly recognisable sound in a sax that is a joy to play.
Compared to many vintage instruments, the key work on the Reference 36 is smooth and easy to play with a modern layout that improves tuning stability and makes side and palm keys a lot more accessible.
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That quintessential smokey Jazz club tenor sound, in the shape of a modern production Selmer! For my money one of the best top end saxophones on the market. Matthew Racine (Sax.co.uk)
This is one of my personal favourites; the big spread of sound that this sax produces is incredible and it offers up an alternative for those who want a slightly darker sound than a Mark VI sax. Whilst the Reference 54 is likely to draw more attention due to its Mark VI heritage, the Reference 36 is the sax to go for if you are looking for that smokier, more characterful tenor sound a la Joe Henderson or Mark Turner. Scott (Sax.co.uk)


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But I went to the beach this week for the first time this year. That's really late for me. Usually I start beaching by Memorial Day! But this spring was a little on the cool side, and I've been so busy with other things, I hardly noticed it had gotten to be JULY and I'd yet to put on a bathing suit.
BATHING SUIT. Now, I'm not one of those gals who's all "Oh, I can't wear a BATHING SUIT out in public, people might SEE ME," and ends up sweating the day away in shorts and a tee or a sundress, refusing to go in the water in her clothes. No, I'm probably more comfortable wearing a bathing suit on a crowded beach than a short or sleeveless dress to work or to the market. At the beach, who gives a crap what a stranger thinks about the way I look? If they don't like seeing my body, TURN YOUR HEAD THE OTHER WAY. That's THEIR problem, not mine. But of course, they're STRANGERS. I DON'T care about a stranger's opinion. But to go sleeveless (GASP!) at work, THAT was a big deal.
People are funny, no??
Anyway, I put on my suit this morning, this is its 3rd summer…and while the suit is essentially fine (other than me just being a little weary of it), the straps are very stretched out and not doing such a good job of keeping the girls in place. And I spend a lot of time in the water and can get knocked around a bit, so I need Good Straps.
SO. It's That Time. Bathing Suit Hunting Time. And it's late in the season for it. Every year I say I'm going to do this early in the year when there's a good selection of suits in the stores. And I always end up shopping in July or August. Sigh.
But I went to the mall tonight in the middle of a disgusting humid drenching downpour…to try on some suits. First, Macy*s, which had ZERO for me to even try on. Ruh-roh. Usually Macy*s is my go-to for the mid-summer suit. Next, JC Penney's…BINGO. I didn't LOVE anything I saw in my size, but at least there WERE suits in my size that checked off enough boxes for me:
- 1 piece
- skirted
- relatively modest
- super stretchy snug fit
- very very supportive straps
- not a fortune
This is what I found to bring into the fitting room with me – a mix of size 18s and 20s.
I'm really weary of black, black and white prints, and what I call "pool liner blue." But, sigh, that's all there was in my size.
Unfortunately 2 of these turned out to be tankini tops. I am not enamored of the tankini as so many others are. I do too much ocean time getting tossed around, I can't afford to wear something that could flip up…or get pulled down. The daisy one was so tight I couldn't even get it up past my hips anyway.
This one was also tight – size 18 – but I managed to wriggle myself into it. Everything was pretty smooshed in and down. I like a snug suit, but this was a little TOO snug.
This one felt just right. Stretchy and snug without being TOO snug. The straps aren't going anywhere. And the print…eh, whatever. At least I won't be flashing my fellow-wave divers at the beach when my suit falls down. That's more important than color or print to me.
Success. Disappointed there wasn't more of a selection, but that's totally my fault for looking so late in the year. Amazed that I found something after only two stores.
NEXT year I'll start my hunt earlier so I have time to shop online where there are SO many more options. Some places I've seen cute plus-size suits online are (they *all* have more options earlier in the season):
The tag price was $96 (wh-a-a-t?!) but it was 50% off AND I had $7.57 (ha) left on a JCP gift card from 2012. So, not too bad.
Both suits were by Azul.
See ya in the surf (ooh, corny)!

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TAUNTON — Taunton Police Department grant writer Sgt. Richard Correia said one woman complained on Facebook that the car parked on Taunton Green — with a crash dummy protruding through its smashed windshield — was overly graphic.
"But that's the point," said Carreiro, noting that people oftentimes need to be strongly reminded about buckling up.
The banged-up red Chevy Cobalt, with its twisted hood and front bumper kissing the pavement, is actually outfitted with two life-sized crash dummies.
The one sitting in the front-passenger seat, in contrast to the unfortunate "driver," is wearing a shoulder restraint.
A large sticker on the unbroken side of the windshield reads: "Can't Stop a Crash With Your Face."
Carreiro said the police department previously has used crash dummies and wrecked cars — at both Taunton High School and Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School — to get the point across to young drivers and passengers that buckling up saves lives and prevents serious injuries.
Carreiro said it was Taunton Police Chief Edward Walsh's idea to park the car and crash dummies on Taunton Green's traffic island — which normally is reserved for police vehicles — because of its high visibility.
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS), Carreiro said, had no problem with that.
The car, which was donated to the EOPSS by Car Heaven — a Canton-based scrap-yard business that collects and recycles wrecked and unwanted cars — was dropped off at the island by a Southern New England AAA-authorized tow truck, Carreiro said.
There's also a state police "click it or ticket" reminder painted on the side of the car, as well as a no-nonsense message reading "Unbuckled? The Crash Is On You."
Carreiro said the car, which was dropped off last Tuesday, will remain on display until Thursday of this week.


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San Francisco--A spokesperson for the North America West Area of the Mormon (LDS) church sent a fax to the San Francisco Examiner this morning to let the publication and reporter Carol Ness know that a 'disciplinary council' that was scheduled to discuss the membership of Owen Edwards of San Francisco has been cancelled. The 'council' was apparently cancelled due to a front page story this morning in the Examiner about the church 'excommunicating' people who have formally resigned from the church. Edwards, a gay man and former Mormon, was featured in the article because his bishop had let him know excommunication proceedings had been scheduled to be held on July 23, despite a formal letter of resignation that Owens wrote to the church in late February.
Examiner reporter Ness called Edwards this morning to let him know that she'd received the fax telling her that the 'council' to discuss Edward's 'membership' had been called off.
Edwards says he isn't necessarily thrilled that the council has been called off, "because it only means they won't harass ME due to my resignation. What about other people who send in their resignations? Will they be forced to call the media when the church threatens to excommunicate them in response to their resignations? When will the church stop this harassment?" [an error occurred while processing this directive]


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http://www.sportsbookreview.com/soccer/ - Chelsea seems to have the Premier League locked down as they have moved seven points ahead of Liverpool to secure themselves the number one position most likely til the season ends. Chelsea is the heavy favorite in the soccer odds for this match-up. Take a look at our handicapper's top soccer picks in what should be a lopsided match.
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The 2016 Fasching Carnivals have started in Europe. Last weekend we made a trip down to Nassereith Austria just across the Germany border to attend a Fasnacht carnival that happens only once every three years. Nassereith is located in the Tyrollean uplands and is one of the few places in Tyrol where the traditional old Fasnacht carnival customs are still kept alive today. They follow a centuries-old, almost mystical tradition hosting the Nassereith "Schellerlaufen" pageant, one of the most flamboyant Fasnacht celebration's in the entire Austrian Alpine region.
The focus of the Schellerlaufen "is the triumph of spring over winter, which is embodied in the figures of the Bear and Bear Beaters." The bear represents Spring and the bear beater represents Winter. A fight between them ensue and the Bear wins, signaling the coming of Spring.
The Tyrolean Fasnacht carnival, "Nassereith Schellerlaufen," features very unique and expressive wooden masks made by local artists. Colorful handcrafted and elaborately embroidered silk garments and costumes of the "trains" consisting of a Scheller (ringer), Roller (jumper), Kehrer (sweeper), Spritzer (sprayer), Sackner (sacker), Schnoller (smacker) and Kübelemaje (a bucket maid). You can read more about the carnival at NASSEREITHER SCHELLERLAUFEN and some interesting history at Schellerlaufen German Wikipedia .
Here are a few images and short video from our visit.
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The 1992 Package Travel Regulations provide protection to consumers who buy package holidays. While these Regulations have effectively protected consumers in the market for many years, the sector has changed significantly since they were introduced. Technical innovation and in particular the growth of the internet and mobile technologies, have opened up new ways of buying and selling holidays.
This consultation sets out our proposals for updating our laws to align with the 2015 Package Travel Directive. The changes we are proposing will extend protection beyond traditional package holidays to give clear protection to UK travellers who book other forms of combined travel.


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A massive load of slide and photo scans were made over the past couple of weeks. I hope you don't mind, but here's 86 of them. These pictures we're made at various locations from the early 80's until half way up the 90's. Have fun!
A massive load of slide and photo scans were made over the past couple of weeks. I hope you don't mind, but here's 86 of them. These pictures we're made at various locations from the early 80's until half way up the 90's. Have fun!
The dark months of the year have begun, so now is the time to doing some slidescanning. Below is the result of several locations, all of these were taken in the 1980's and 90's. I hope you like 'm.
Recently I was able to visit GLV-V at the Oirschotse Hei in the Netherlands on two separate occasions. Both times I was lucky to find helicopter practicing there. This area is open to the public, although caution is necessary to keep things safe. Below is a map where you can find a parking spot along the Eindhovensedijk in Oirschot. The red stars represent the locations the helicopters were practicing on these occasions, although any other spot is possible too. Once you get into the field, just follow the noise and you'll find the choppers. If you're lucky they repeat their routine several times, so you can reach the spot in time to catch the next go around. If you're not so lucky…. you can run up and down these dunes forever chasing choppers. Good luck!
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An enjoyable afternoon at London Heathrow Airport. On the map below the positions I took these photos can be seen. The landing shots are from position 1 (a dead end street called Myrtle Avenue), the take shots from position 2 (Esso gas station along Southern Perimeter Road). Be aware that the southern runway is used for landing from early in the morning until 3PM, after that the northern one is used. What I did was start at position 1 and at 3 PM switch to position 2.
Just an ordinary day but with extraordinary light along the fence at Schiphol.
Every new year I look back at the past year and select my best for that year. This year there's 20 I could not resist. Unfortunately not too many exotic locations, but some nice pics nonetheless. 2014 will be better:
April 30th, Queens day at Schiphol
May 16th, North Island
May 16th, LAX
June 4th, Volkel
June 28th, Wittmund
July 7th, Schiphol
September 13th, Eindhoven
September 13th, Sanicole
September 14th, Kleine Brogel
November 23rd, Schiphol
By the time the end of a year is nearing, there's always someone on the Scramble-message-board who starts a "best off topic". Below is my contribution to that topic about 2011. Most of these are in other posts on this site too, but I thought it to be nice to have the best in one post, so here we go:


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As founding partner of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, Melvyn I. Weiss is generally considered one of the country's premier class-action litigators, particularly in the areas of accounting and securities fraud.
His firm has been responsible for some $45 billion in recoveries since its inception, with a roster of high-profile class-action judgments against companies such as Rite Aid, Lucent Technologies, Raytheon, Oxford Health Plans and Prudential Securities.
Outside the securities fraud arena, Weiss was also instrumental in helping recover some $6 billion from banks in Switzerland and Germany to benefit Holocaust victims.
He is also a frequent lecturer and author on legal issues affecting the accounting profession.
Recently, he spoke with WebCPA on the current state of the accounting profession, its future and how practitioners can protect themselves from potential litigation in a climate of heightened regulatory pressure.
WebCPA: You were one of the first class-action attorneys to aggressively pursue accounting fraud some 30 years ago. Outside of the obviously larger scope of the current examples of accounting fraud, how has the paradigm of class-action litigation changed for your firm since the 1970s? For example, is it harder to prove?
MW: With the globalization of American businesses and the number of foreign issuers, investors and other users rely more and more on financial statements, that in whole or in part are audited abroad. In addition, the recent news of international financial fraud, such as at Ahold, Lernout & Hauspie, Royal Dutch/Shell and Parmalat, among others, has brought to the forefront the issue of fraudulent financial reporting by overseas companies.
In most instances, the audit opinion on the company's financial statements is typically from a U.S. firm, which relied on a foreign affiliate to conduct the portion of the audit relating to the company's foreign operations. This frequently creates difficulties in obtaining workpapers from auditors in foreign countries. In many instances, only a subset or summary of the workpapers are produced, rather than the original foreign affiliate workpapers. Electronic workpapers also provide many challenges, such as intentional or unintentional altering. Language barriers also create problems.
Another major problem that has become frighteningly more prevalent is document destruction. The courts, however, are bound to react aggressively against such conduct.
WebCPA: As CPAs expand their practices into new client areas and niches, what are the common but frequently overlooked legal dangers inherent in this era of increased oversight, and what can practitioners do to protect themselves?
MW: Clients will increase their reliance on outside consultants to protect them from regulatory and litigation exposure. While the headline cases tend to be the actions brought by third parties, such as shareholders and creditors, the exposure to client malpractice actions are the hidden dangers. Accountants must increase their independence and improve their forensic skills to better protect both their clients and themselves from legal dangers.
CPAs need to be cognizant of how their relationship with the client will be perceived by third parties. Simple common sense should be sufficient to alert practitioners that they are treading in areas that will be perceived to involve conflicts of interest. As an example, if you negotiate a consulting arrangement while performing an audit, the consulting arrangement will be viewed as a payoff for a compliant audit.
WebCPA: In a similar vein, you hear and read about CPAs outsourcing a variety of services to other countries. Are there legal ramifications outside the normal risks of doing business that firms who outsource should be aware of?
MW: While it is legitimate to be cost-conscious and outsource certain work to other countries, a relaxation of the quality standards will not be tolerated and the plaintiff's bar is highly sensitized to the potential for malpractice in these areas.
For example, accounting firms need to ensure that the high standards touted in the U.S. are consistently applied and utilized by their overseas affiliates. As former SEC chief accountant Lynn E. Turner stated, "[T]here is no guarantee that the foreign affiliate adheres to anything resembling the high-quality auditing standards that U.S. firms must apply to their U.S. clients."
WebCPA: Do you think Sarbanes-Oxley is going to be the linch-pin of a whole new generation of class-action suits?
MW: Without doubt. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 establishes duties and responsibilities for management and consultants. In the past, plaintiffs had to first prove industry standards and then demonstrate failures in order to succeed in court. Such standards were not easily provable and the argument by defendants that these were areas where judgment had to be used reduced plaintiffs' ability to convince a jury that defendants acted with the requisite scienter to hold them liable.
Under SOX, we now have a clearer understanding as to the duties and responsibilities of the board of directors, management and the accounting professionals than in the past. In addition, SOX has created oversight agencies that are likely to be more pro-active in ferreting out improper conduct. It will make it easier for courts to be convinced that the conduct complained about is actionable.
WebCPA: Does the SOX legislation help companies or just expose them to more liability?
MW: I think it's logical that a company with enhanced internal controls and increased independent oversight of management by independent directors will be in a better position to avoid litigation. To be sure, some of the most egregious examples of accounting fraud existed in an environment of weak or non-existent internal controls. Some of the basic examples include Waste Management, Rite-Aid, Enron, Sunbeam and CUC. That conduct continues even today -- just look at Marsh & McLennan and AIG as examples.
I guess, at bottom, no matter how clear the rules, greed, unfettered power or feelings of omnipotence will lead some people into bad conduct.
WebCPA: As a result of the massive school audit scandal on Long Island, do you think SOX will trickle down to nonprofits as well as SEC issuers?
MW: Nonprofit boards are sure to be held to a higher standard of care given the consequences of lax conduct evident in recent scandals. Litigants and courts may well look to SOX for guidance on how to judge the conduct of those vested with similar responsibilities in private companies and not-for-profit organizations.
But only three provisions of the SOX apply to persons other than public reporting companies. These three provisions, generally known as the "Arthur Andersen provisions," make it illegal to:
* Destroy or falsify any record with the intent to impede, obstruct or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any bankruptcy case;
* Knowingly, with the intent to retaliate, interfere with the lawful employment or livelihood of any person providing to a law enforcement officer any truthful information relating to the commission or possible commission of any federal offense; or,
* Obstruct, influence or impede any official proceeding.
The remainder of SOX, including its basic principles, literally applies only to public reporting companies.
WebCPA: Over the next few months, there will be a spate of trials for CEOs charged with fraud and engineering massive accounting scandals. With the recent conviction of WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers, do you feel that verdict will set the jury "tone" for others on trial?
MW: It's unlikely that juries will believe that CEOs didn't know about the fraudulent activities, especially when they were the greatest beneficiaries through their compensation packages. These CEOs cannot have it both ways.
WebCPA: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is now just over two years old. What is your opinion of its effectiveness? Have you noticed a decided shift toward greater accountability and caution among firms since its creation?
MW: It's too early to tell. SOX requires the PCAOB to conduct inspections annually for firms that provide audit reports for more than 100 issuers and at least triennially for firms that provide audit reports for fewer issuers. The PCAOB has only issued 13 inspection reports. In addition, the PCAOB only conducted "limited inspections" on the Big Four for work performed during 2004. Also, according to the PCAOB Web site, there are no pending enforcement actions against firms.
WebCPA: You've seen a lot of changes in the structure of accounting firms over the years. With everything that has unfolded over the past several years, do you envision a "firm of the future," where the basic business model of a firm has been molded to deal with liability and increased legislation?
MW: If accounting firms focus on their original purpose, which is the detection and prevention of fraud, then the threat of litigation will be reduced. Developing forensic skills to understand both the clients' business and the industries within which it operates is the paradigm for a firm of the future.
Not only users of the financial statements but corporate boards are more and more reliant on the independence and high degree of professionalism of the auditor as "gatekeeper." Implicit in that responsibility is the ability to understand the essence of the transaction and whether it comports with normal commercial activity. In other words, does it make sense? If it appears to be strange -- increase the audit scope, hire consultants, ask a lot of questions and speak directly the top officials of the company and the audit committee of the board, and don't stop until you are satisfied that the essence of what is going on makes sense and is legitimate.
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When the injustices and disappointments of the lover, working man, and second class citizen brought him down, he called out in his pain.
In the blues, matched to refrains and a beat that came from down deep in their consciousness, African-Americans found a soothing balm. Growing out of the chants and field calls of their time as slaves, the blues brought form to raw pain and having encapsulated it, sublimated it to an act of joy. Perhaps because it captured such deep emotion, and reached so deeply into the soul of the black man and woman, the blues reverberate in much of the music we hear today.
It is not surprising, then, that those reverberations reached into the broader realm of art – that the blues has meant something primal for black writers, artists, and filmmakers as well as musicians. Curator Bennett Simpson of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, who organized Blues for Smoke, the traveling exhibition currently on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH, sees the blues as a matrix for a constellation of art forms. He synthesized the branches of the blues tree into a show that combines art, videos of music performances, and films.
Simpson picked elements of the blues – its pride of individualism, its use of the crossroads as a metaphor, its rhythmic element, and its resistance against the hand of oppression – and located works from the past roughly 60 years that resonate to those themes. The title of the show, from a piece by American jazz pianist Jaki Byard, refers to the way art cuts through to the essence of a culture, providing a vista into the truth about it. Recordings of a dozen of his pieces, in which the two hands play off of each other, creating interwoven threads laden with syncopation, is one of the highlights of the show.
In the show's catalogue essay, Simpson describes the blues as "a sensibility or stance shaping culture." As a particular form of song – one emphasizing raw emotion and the inflections of everyday language – the blues provided a platform for the development of jazz, rhythm and blues, and now hip hop. And the picture of oppression it painted gave shape to black consciousness and helped bring about the civil rights movement.
Blues for Smoke includes works by both African-Americans and whites that speak to racism and oppression, to the rhythm of life in the black community, to the architecture of the ghetto, and to the dissemination of the blues worldwide.
Without any syllable spoken or guitar strummed, a live feeling of the blues saturates some works, as though the camera or canvas were swaying with some blues tune. In Roy DeCarava's photo Dancers, New York, two figures in silhouette dance in sync in a darkened hall exuding the pulse of the blues genre. Romare Bearden's collages take off on the crossroads theme, which, in the blues of musicians such as Robert Johnson, represents a place of departure with both a sense of hope and the possibility of disappointment. In Watching the Trains Go By (c. 1969), images of men (some wearing dresses) and symbols of the countryside, such as a pot of beans and a bird in a tree, juxtaposed with a train, suggest the yearning to escape the harshness of rural life.
Art also provides a commentary on the blues, which like its cousin, jazz, constantly evolves, pushing new musicians to the forefront. Bob Thompson's 1960 painting Garden of Music, pictures four jazz innovators, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, and Charlie Haden, playing their instruments, surrounded by a largely uninterested group of people. Aside from hinting at the challenges that innovators may face in finding an audience, the painting could be seen as an allegorical representation – alluding to the Garden of Eden – of the challenges of a racially and ethnically diverse world.
In Rodney McMillian's installation From Asterisks in Dockery (2012), a small gallery converted into a chapel, entirely "clothed" in crimson-colored vinyl, hints at two seemingly contrasting elements of the blues: its rawness and its association with the spiritual. The installation's title alludes to the Delta plantation Dockery Farms, where many of the legendary blues musicians lived and worked in the sharecropping days of the 1920s and 30s.
Artists have confronted the injustices of slavery for decades, in different media producing various messages. While some of the work of that genre in this show seems too overt and obvious (to wit Melvin Edwards' amalgams of chains, cages, and other instruments of confinement), others, like Kara Walker's Fall frum Grace: Miss Pipi's Blue Tale, give new meanings to the institution of slavery. The video, in which Walker manipulates cut outs like puppets, tells the story of a white woman's seduction of a slave and her white lover's violent retribution. Through the erotic thrusts of their lovemaking and the later violent strangulation of the slave, she conveys the raw forces of the slave's joys and misery. The black and white expressionless silhouettes moving to a background of carefree minstrel tunes suggests that slave and master alike were caught in a tragic snare by the defined and limiting roles of plantation life.
Much of the art in Blues for Smoke is conceptual, and installations – some taking up an entire room – abound. Jack Whitten, drawn to the music of John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor in the early 1970s, finds the conceptual approach allows him the freedom to capture the spontaneity and spirit that jazz embodies. "I translate Coltrane's sheets of sound into sheets of light," he says in an essay published in the catalogue.
In Whitten's painting Black Table Setting (Homage to Duke Ellington), (1974) narrow bands of color cross the canvas horizontally. While for the most part they create a seamless flow, deviations in a few places where dark lines suddenly become white, or where there is a break in a straight line, cause a burst of light color or a dip or fracture. Like a blues or jazz piece, it has a rhythmic beat and refrains that repeat. But there is also syncopation — breaks in the pattern – that awaken the listener and create surprise and irony.
While the show is all about what the blues did for the arts, there is little explanation of what the blues is. For viewers without a grounding in the blues, such as myself, this seemed essential. Watching videos of artists such Howlin' Wolf (of the Chicago blues scene of the 1950s) at stations at several points throughout the show is worth the time. But since the recordings run up to an hour, it's hard to balance the listening and viewing while keeping a visit within the typical two to three hours.
The show is arranged thematically, but there are no narratives connecting the works within a gallery space to each other or to the blues, so for the most part it is up to the viewer to see the commonalities. That makes for a challenge in a show as vast as this one: 40 individual artists, many represented by multiple works, plus films and videos.
What the show does quite successfully is present the widest spectrum of what the blues signify, and to that extent it is mind-expanding. It can be seen as a series of snapshots of art relating to the black experience over the last half century, glimpsing works of artists who interpreted that experience. The show covers an immense amount of ground and is underpinned by outstanding research, apparent in the show's rich catalogue. As a measure of the blues' influence, Renée Green's Import/Export Funk Office is a walk-in demonstration of how the blues was "translated" when it reached Germany, where it has a large following.
Placing blues music side by side with art produces the potential for a powerful synthesis of artistic forms. With the soothing trombone and jolting saxophone in Stan Douglas's video installation Hors-champs (1992) echoing in your mind, you wander out to a view Kerry James Marshall's painting Blue Water Silver Moon (Mermaid), which idealizes the black female form. As an exploration of a uniquely American art form, the show is a must, both for anyone already captivated by the blues, as well as for those who want to gain an unusual perspective on how it has influenced the arts landscape.
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IIT Delhi scientists develop superfast laser fingerprint scannerNovember 17th, 2007 - 1:50 pm ICT by admin
London, November 17 (ANI): Two scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi have developed a portable device that can scan fingerprints in microseconds.
Satish Kumar Dubey and Dalip Singh Mehta, who developed the device, have revealed that the system works using a technique called optical coherence tomography.
The scientist duo insists that the invention promises to be better than existing fingerprint detection methods because it does not warrant any chemical processing.
This is the first time that optical coherence tomography (OCT), an optical version of ultrasound imaging that is routinely used in medicine, has been endeavoured to be given a forensic application.
The technique provides a transparent three-dimensional picture by sending light though the pattern of natural secretions left on a surface by a finger and combining the reflected beam with a "reference beam" produced by bouncing light from a laser off a mirror.
It produces an interference pattern at a photo-detector, the same as is found in a digital camera, which can then be used to reconstruct an image of the original fingerprint.
The scanner also has a provision for filtering out undesired reflections by using a mathematical approach called selective Fourier filtering. It provides the system with the capability to detect fingerprints from surfaces that do not reflect light well, such as paper.
Conventional techniques require chemical processing to enhance the contrast of fingerprint impressions.
Since the device currently uses a low frame-rate digital camera as its photo-detector, its response time is limited.
"This can be improved using a high speed camera with smaller pixel size, which means the device will have the speed of a few microseconds," New Scientist magazine quoted Mehta as saying.
Haida Liang of UKs Nottingham Trent University, who is an expert on the technique, said: "OCT is a 3D instrument, hence excellent for the job. The technique reported here is trying to image fingerprints with better sensitivity and clarity. There's certainly potential in using OCT for fingerprint detection and very little has been done on this application.
The new system has been described in Applied Physics Letters. (ANI)
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Making sour dough starter couldn't be easier. I dont know why people complicate it! Simply mix any sort of flour with water together in a bowl. Every day put a little more flour and a little more water in the bowl. Mix it up, let it sit. You can cover the bowl with a wet towel or slip it into a plastic bag if you want, or leave it uncovered – it really doesnt matter. You want the sour dough starter to be about the consistency of pancake batter. It should be easy to mix with a wisk or spoon.
One important thing: Smell the starter every day. At first it'll smell like flour, not surprisingly! But within a couple days you will start to smell the slight acidity, or sourness, developing. You will probably also see a brownish liquid rising to the surface of the starter. Just stir the liquid back into the starter when you add your daily flour and water.
After a few days – 3 to 7 depending on how warm your kitchen is – you'll see bubbles rising to the surface of the sour dough starter – evidence that the natural yeasts are starting to multiply. Its not ready yet though. The yeast is turning the starter into an environment it can thrive in. So be patient; add about 1/2 cup of flour and maybe a 1/4 cup of water every day for another week or so. The brown liquid will stop rising to the surface and the smell will become less acrid. Soon the sour dough starter will mellow out to a pleasant smelling and appealing pet that lives in a bowl in the corner of your kitchen.
We dont throw any starter away. Some instructions tell you to pour off some of the starter before feeding it. I dont see any reason to do this. We use starter for sour dough pancakes, sour dough pizza crust as well as sour dough breads. So build it up through the week then have sour dough pizza Saturday and sour dough pancakes Sunday morning!
Note that some will try to sell you some special sour dough starter, or tell you about some special yeasts harvested from grapes grown in some special place. Rest assured this is unneccessary hooey. Even if there was such a thing as special yeast it would quickly be overwhelmed by whatever yeast you happen to have in your kitchen! Basically, yeast is yeast – as least as far as sour dough bread is concerned.
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Don't Panic.
Jane the Virgin is one of my favorite Netflix series, mostly because I find Jane's character so relatable. Jane is a planner, an over-analyzer, a crier, and a writer. She gets me. So, naturally, when a recent episode aired talking about Jane struggling with panic attacks, it was just another reason to find her character relatable.
It's May right now, and that means a few things. A.) I just finished enjoying Cinco de Mayo. B.) it's Mental Health Awareness Month, something we're taking seriously at BrooklynButtah. C.) The season finale of Jane the Virgin airs in a few weeks. And D.) It's been about a year since my last panic attack.
This isn't something I talk about a lot, not even out of shame or embarrassment, but kind of out of fear of speaking them up. I'm writing this with one hand and knocking on wood with the other, hoping acknowledging them and activating them aren't the same thing.
Even when I wear my counselor cape during the day, I have a hypocritical habit of not talking about my problems until I've solved them. For me, anxiety is a little different. Though it is a puzzle, I'm not sure it's realistic to expect it to be solved in the long-term. So I won't be sharing tried and true tips to keep you calm. Instead, I'll be transparent about what I was going through so that you may know what to look out for.
Mental health can affect any and everyone, so even if you aren't suffering, this may help you help a friend.
I Panicked.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I went to school, went to school again, landed the job, loathed the job. I mean, second month, panic attack. Not what I expected it to be, didn't feel I could make it what I wanted it to be. How millennial of me, I guess.
I was drowning in work that just didn't stop coming in, and I didn't know where to start because I didn't know what to do, and people kept knocking on my door for something they needed, so I couldn't even begin to start. I hated my job, but I couldn't tell anyone that. No one wanted to hear me complain. Beside, I had a degree in this, so this was all I could do, right?
I didn't have any other options. This was all I'd ever know from now on. And I couldn't quit. I had just signed my contract. But forget that, I had just signed my lease. Bills wouldn't wait. And neither would my boss and the endless list of things I couldn't finish or start. And one day I just couldn't breathe. I could not catch my breath, and I didn't have time to stop and try catch my breath. Because I had work to do. I had to do it all and do it well.
Just writing this, my chest is starting to hurt. Like I ran a marathon with no training. Like my brain and body couldn't keep up with each other. It was awful. And it was different. I'm used to having slight test anxiety – I had to test for my driver's license three times, y'all – but this was new. I was gasping and gasping and not getting any air. I still don't know how panic attacks end. Some part of me must refocus onto some part of reality that reels me back in and roots me, even though it feels like I can't stand up straight. Somehow my breathing become normal again, and I blow out the little bit of air I have, wipe my tears, and get back to work.
Now, a year removed, I see all my lapses in judgement. My anxiety rarely involves logic. It is strictly black or white thinking; they are no exceptions, no options, no grey area. It focuses on the past and the future, but not the present. What I've done or what I have to do, what I've said or what I need to say. Not what I can actually control.
Then and Now
Isolated vs. Integrated
Then: My anxiety affected way too much of my life. I would go to work, have a panic attack, and come home and never leave my couch. So I didn't say anything. Declined most invites. I knew they would ask me about my new job, and I knew I would be honest and tell them everything. I hate it. Everyday I feel like a fraud. Sometimes I can't even breathe. I didn't think anyone wanted to hear that over dinner and drinks. I boxed myself in, at home and at work, and didn't say anything.
Look out for the friend you never see anymore.
Now: A lot of the time we think separating ourselves from people will help us most, when really we should think about letting people know what they're going through. I felt like the biggest fraud, counseling all day but not able to deal with my own stuff. I'm naturally an introvert, but when I feel it would be nice to switch things and let people both over my place and inside my head, I do just that. And it's truly helpful. Everything doesn't have to experienced alone.
Perfect vs. Person
Then: Death to perfectionism. Really. I think it's a huge part of what made me anxious my first year on the job. Not only did I feel I couldn't perform; I felt I couldn't perform well. And for me, the perfectionist, the people-pleaser, that was the equivalent of telling me every Target worldwide was going out of sale. I just couldn't grasp the concept. Even though a good amount of the pressure I felt was indeed placed on my shoulders, a lot of it I put on myself.
Look out for the friend who does it all yet never feels like it's enough.
Now: That first year at work was the perfect crash course to getting over myself, getting things wrong, and giving myself the grace to make mistakes. I'm a human-damn-being, which means I can guarantee a few missteps. I steer clear of anything or anyone that encourages my perfectionist mindset.
Stuck vs. Searching
Then: Even when I did tell people I hated my job – leaving out the part about the panic attacks – most of the feedback I got involved staying in the position. I personally couldn't think outside the box enough to see what else I could be doing.
Look out for the friend who thinks in absolutes. Black or white thinking: no in-betweens. I thought long and hard about it, and still came back to work for a second year.
Now: Honey. HONEY. I am not the hugest fan of second chances. It takes very little time for me to know what is and isn't for me. And, because I know this ain't it, I'm looking for what is. And dare someone to give me their two cents about it.
It's May. Jane's parents are in love again and planning their wedding. I'm pushing my resume to anyone with a salary and a job description. And it's been a year since the weirdest, quarter-life-crisiest time of my life. It took Jane 90 therapy sessions to feel confident enough to handle her anxiety on her own, and it still briefly crept back up and surprised her. Mental health issues may happen. The important thing to do is find ways to heal and deal with them.
I don't doubt that I'll experience anxiety again, but at least I know I can conquer it.
All I ask is that we be aware. Check on people. Check in on yourself. And challenge your own thinking. Even if this isn't happening to you, it's happening to someone. Maybe even someone you know.


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Mud Volcano Trail is a 0.7 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Canyon Village, Wyoming that features hot springs and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, nature trips, and birding and is best used from May until October.
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Turbulent pools of hot, muddy water, hillsides strewn with trees cooked by steam, strange odors, and a bizarre landscape. This sums up a normal experience when visiting the Mud Volcano loop or as some call it "Cooking Hillside". Mud Volcano has been described as "most repulsive and terrifying" by early explorers. The volcano-like cone stands 30 feet high by 30 feet wide, with mud erupting and covering nearby trees. The area is called "Cooking Hillside" because the surround landscape has soil temperatures of 200 degrees. Some of the other features of the area include Mud Cauldron, Mud Geyser, Sizzling Basin, Churning Cauldron, Sour Lake, and Dragon's Mouth Spring.
So many mud pots. It's my first time to see the boiling mud. Very cute.
This was our first loop / home at Yellowstone, an excellent way to start. Relatively short and super informative, many interesting features to see.
everything is beautiful. it's all on a different scale of beauty
This was a nice walk. A lot of people complain about the smell. It's not pleasant by any means but It didn't bother me. Maybe I just happen to be there on decent afternoon. There was several bison on the trail to see as well. And I mean up and close.
Awesome. Other than mud pots and funerals saw buffalo
Such an interesting hike with lots of geological features!!
Interesting but a bit too smelly. Nice information if
You have a guide who is passionate about the area.
I enjoyed it with Wildland Trekking.
Good family friendly hike
The short walk was make all the more interesting with the 4 inches of snow cover...giving the area a 'rather steamy' fog like look as you walked. Interesting area to explore.
About as simple as it gets for a Yellowstone hike and a couple cool thermal features as well takes about 30 minutes
This trail displays some of the stranger and even disturbing sites at Yellowstone. Smells of sulphur and thick clouds of steam waft while you visit the mud volcano. Also watch out for bison they like the location because the ground is so warm and won't hesitate to cross the walking path you're asked to stay on.
This was a very stinky walk, not surprisingly. Kids quickly lost interest in the fundamentals of an active volcano as sulfur filled the air. The dragon's mouth was a highlight.
Do the whole loop. The uphill is hard for beginners but worth it.
This is a neat spot to check out and was one of the first we got to when we got into the park. Great path around the area and the Dragons mouth is pretty wild to listen to. Easy little walk around the path.
Best boiling mud in the park, plus you always seem to catch a buffalo or two here as well, easy walk, good place to stretch the legs
Easy walk, stuff to see, watch for buffalo
Went here with family years ago and loved it! Could spend so much time admiring the hot springs and mud pots! So beautiful and so unique!
Really short and cool loop, got surrounded by buffalo during Mating season, cool experience.
More of a scenic stroll than a hike, but pretty unique
Neat stinky spot. The Dragon mouth cave is the coolest.
You can't call this a hike, but it's a nice walk.
It rained and hailed, but the hike was well worth it. I wouldn't let a little pea sized hail stop me from njoying my time in Yellowstone.
Lovely and stinky place to stop and take a short hike around some very interesting mud pools.
Another fun geyser basin within Yellowstone. A short paved/boardwalk trail. The area seems to be frequented often by bison. There was even one standing right next to the trail as we did this hike. The sulfur smell always reminds me of being in Yellowstone, and this place smells like sulfur.
I always like stopping here. Its a short walk and has good variety. I like the noise it makes
One of many geyser basins in Yellowstone. The area reeks of sulfur, and is frequented by bison. The Dragon's Mouth Spring is probably the most awesome.
The place smells. Still fun to see. Very short site seeing trail. We saw a big wolf during the hike also. He was not ob the trail, but one level up on the mountains. Far enough that won't cause harm. He's beautiful!
Really offers incredible geology. There are better hikes in Yellowstone, but still incredible. IMO there really isn't any hike in Yellowstone that deserves below a 4 star,Yellowstone is marvel.
Fun little area. The mud volcano was definitely not as exciting as the Dragon's Mouth Spring which was located about 100 ft from the mud volcano. Dragon's Mouth Spring was making lots of hissing noises and was a joy to see.


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Canon 3 November Global Product announcement - Canon have sent out invitations for a global product announcement for 3 November 2011 in Hollywood, what product or products will be released is anyone's guess however Wide Open Camera suggest the company may be releasing several DSLR and Lenses, with a … [Read more...]
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There are a number of accessories that have been developed exclusively for the Canon EOS-1D X which are not compatible with other Canon DSLR bodies. Canon GP-E1 GPS Receiver The first of which is the Canon GP-E1 GPS receiver this GPS receiver feeds Latitude Longitude and altitude information, … [Read more...]
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Details of the Canon EOS 1D X were officially announced today, and from the initial features and specs sheets the Canon EOS 1D X already looks like most photographers dream have all come true at once. With the entry into the market of the Canon EOS 1D X this body will take over the role as Canons … [Read more...]
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II Price Slashed, the massive 21.1 megapixel Full Frame DSLR has recently had its price slashed down to $1,999 in Canada in addition there have been various price drops in other countries, but not yet in the US, however it is expected that Canon US will soon follow suite . The … [Read more...]
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This year has been phenomenal for family photography. I've met some amazing families and together we've created some lovely images and I hope also some great memories. The end of the year saw the introduction of some incredibly successful mini-sessions in Saltwell Park and Jesmond Dene, and my BabyGro bump to baby packages continued to be popular also.
So what can you expect from Andy Turner Photography in 2015? Well more of the same I hope! I will be running mini-sessions at least once per month, and would love to give a few new locations a go (any suggestions most welcome!) I will also be continuing to improve the range of products available for you to showcase your images.
I hope you enjoy the images I have chosen - once again it was really hard to keep the number of images chosen down to a reasonable amount!
If you are looking for a family photographer in the North East and would like to find out more about my sessions and prices please take a look here and please get in touch if you would like to book a session.
Here's to a happy and successful 2015.
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This week I received an email from someone that reminded me of something true, and I wonder if you'll feel the same. The woman who wrote this email is not someone I knew at the time. And this is her story:
"…at the time I was struggling as a first time mom at age 35 and staying home with my baby after years in the professional world….and you said to me "How is it going?" I think I must have given you a look of exasperation because you then said "It's difficult isn't it?" This was the first time in my 3 months of being a mom that someone acknowledge how difficult it truly is being a mom. Up the that point people just looked at me funny when I described how much trouble I was having adjusting and I felt like a freak."
I think there is no greater crippling lie than believing that easy = good. But that's what we hear, messages from everywhere. I love cooking shows but I often find myself wanting to yell at Giada, with her perfect hair and skin, her nails clean and manicured, I want to yell at that image "your food looks great but I know it was hard to make it! Where's the prep cook chopping all those perfectly squared vegetables? Where's the busboy cleaning up that truckload of dishes you just created? Where's the nanny holding your baby so she's not gripping at your knees and whining for a cookie?? COME ON GIADA THIS ISN'T REAL LIFE!"
I have serious issues, but you already knew that.
But when I get emails like this, I am reminded that these are issues we all face, starting with this bold lie that slips down into the deepest parts of our souls:
if it's good it should be easy. Therefore, when it's not easy, it's not good. Hard is bad. Hard means something is wrong with me. Hard means I am a "freak," like my email friend says.
We are all looking for easy. We are looking for peace. For rest. For security. We chase one thing after the next, thinking that around this next bend of life's path we will find that place that is good and easy.
But here's what I know. There is almost no time in life where good equals easy.
When I've failed it's been hard, and when I've succeeded it's been hard.
Sometimes it's really hard to work and sometimes it's really hard to rest.
Sometimes it's really hard to be with people and sometimes it's really hard to be alone.
Sometimes it's really hard to be passionate and sometimes it's really hard to not care.
Sometimes it's really hard to be disciplined and sometimes it's hard to be lazy. Wait. It's always easy to be lazy. Except then it's hard to be lazy because we end up not liking ourselves very much.
It's hard to say no. It's hard to say yes. It's hard to stay content. It's hard to change. It's hard to love well. It's hard to love ourselves well. It's hard to grow.
But if we would stop thinking hard = bad, we'd be a lot better off.
My email friend ended her note explaining what happened when she accepted that hard is OK:
"…I let myself relax a bit and enjoy the downs of being a mom with the ups… I am feeling privileged to be chosen as her mother instead of disappointed and overwhelmed."
When we stop thinking that easy = good and hard = bad, everything changes.
I love this encouragement from Paul to the younger Timothy, words that mean as much to me now as they meant to Timothy then:
"But you – keep your eye on what you're doing; accept the hard times along with the good; keep the Message alive; do a thorough job as God's servant." 2 Timothy 4:5
Steady. Sure. Lively. Persistent. Press on, knowing that hard doesn't need to be bad, and in fact, it often creates something very, very good.


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Sri Sathya Sai Medical Services
Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation Andhra Pradesh has been rendering medical help to hundreds of villagers in all the districts and apart from Mobile Medical services weekly camps and monthly camps are being conducted in all the major Samithis. Several doctors have been doing 'self-less' service in these medical camps and this folder contains the doctors' details who have been helping the Organisation since a long time and it is a small effort to publish the doctors names and highlight the noble services of these doctors.
1) Dr R Durga Rao, M.S, TADEPALLIGUDEM, WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT
Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, West Godavari District have started free medical services on 6.1.1994.
During the inauguration of Vijaya Durga Nursing Home, Tadepalligudem, Dr. R. Durgadas announced that he allotted permanently one room for the patients who identified in various medical camps conducted by the organization. He started surgeries in 1994 at free of cost in his own nursing home and by 25.5.2013, he completed 400 surgeries.
Dr. Durga Das has done 400 surgeries like Hernia, Hydrocele, Lipoma, Hemorrhoids Piles, Abscess, Anal Fisnune and Anal Fistula, Fibroadenosis, Cesarean, and other types of gynic procedures. 280 women and 120 men were benefitted so far. With Bhagawan's Divine Grace, all surgeries are successful. No surgery failed.
Local Samithi members both gents and ladies are rendering service to all patients from the date of joining to date of discharge. Sevadal members attending the patients providing food, water, washing of patients' cloths. Patients who have not having blankets have been provided.
Besides above, from 2004-2006, on every Sunday free clinic is being organized by Dr. R. Durgadas with local doctors viz. Dr. Kosuri Ravi, MBBS, Dr. Y. Muralidhar, MBBS, Dr. Y. Muralidhar, MBBS, Dr. Kosuri Srilatha, M.D. Dr. P. Shammi Rani, MBBS, DGO, Dr. Ch. Padmin, MBBS. Free medicines given to all patients. In recent visits to West Godavari District, Sri S.G. Chalam, S.P. informed Dr. Durga Das to perform surgeries at Ch. Pothepalli Hospital also.
2) Dr Surendra, Ortho Surgeon, Siddipet
Doctors of Siddhartha Hospital siddipet are participating in Mobile Hospital S.S.S.M.H. from 2006 under direction of Dr. Narasimhan. This programme is an extension of Bhagawan's Mobile Hospital Services.
Siddhartha Hospital holds every month last Sunday camp for physically challenged persons. First camp was inaugurated by the state President Sri.Chalam on 30th January 2011. Till today 163 surgeries were done for 141 patients(See Cases in PDF ) and also providing medicines, bus passes, calipers and they also conduct Balavikas classes for some beneficiaries by Bhagawan Baba's blessings.


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In February 1965, the culmination of Katherine Dunham's 11-week period as an Artist-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University Carbondale was a stage performance of Gounod's opera Faust. Dunham staged and choreographed the production herself and gave it a unique twist by setting it in World War I Germany. Over the next few years, Dunham would continue to teach as an Artist-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. By September 1965, she would honor Morris Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) by donating her personal and faculty papers highlighting her career through the period of her association with Southern Illinois University Carbondale ending in the late 1960s.
The Katherine Dunham Papers consists of correspondence, writings, scripts, notes on dance techniques, and musical scores that illuminate the extraordinary journey of a woman who changed the face of American modern dance. Her collection documents all aspects of her varied experience as an African-American anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, and educator. Her personal correspondence makes up the bulk of this collection. Among others, notable correspondents include Josephine Baker, Harry Belafonte, Doris Duke, W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Butterfly McQueen, Anthony Quinn, and Paul Robeson.
This collection also highlights Dunham's early explorations as an anthropologist in the 1930s when she studied a multitude of movement types and dance forms. However, it is Dunham's focus on the movements and dances of the African diaspora that so influenced her development as a performer, choreographer, and teacher. Her papers also contain examples of music from her field research from Haiti, recorded by Dunham and others. Additionally, the collection consists of photographs documenting Dunham's remarkable career as a performer and choreographer for her company, which introduced African and Caribbean dance movement to the American public, as well as her manuscripts related to her published works The Dances of Haiti (1938), Journey to Accompong (1946), Island Possessed (1969), and The Negro Dance.
Dunham's papers provide direct support for teaching and research at SIUC while also serving a larger research community around the world. These papers are recognized as a leading source of biographical information about the artist herself, in addition to supporting research by national and international scholars of dance. Also, Dunham's papers serve the Southern Illinois University Carbondale community as a foundation for research and exhibitions, as it contains extensive material, including early sound recordings of Haitian music, for historians and students of African-American dance and dance anthropology. More information about Dunham's collection is available on SCRC's Web site. Other institutions that have some holdings related to Dunham and her work include the Library of Congress and the Missouri Historical Society.
Collection Profile and Overview: Pam Hackbart-Dean
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It is that time again!! International Home of the Legends Thumbpicking Weekend in Powderly, KY - Merle Travis Music Center.
We will be giving away another Gretsch (G6122-1958 Country Gentleman) to the Grand Champion of the Thumbpicking Championship, and also a Gretsch G5420T to the winner of the youth division (age 17 & under) - as well as good ole cash!
The event starts with the doors opening at 5:30pm on Friday, Sept 27
Pre-show with Paul Moseley & friends at 6pm, and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony begins at 7
There will be a special tribute to Merle Travis following the ceremony featuring Shane Adkins, Randy Buckner, Roger Hardin, and many more!
Registration for the International Thumbpicking Championship begins at 9:00am on the 28th, with competition starting at 10:00 - we will have the Traditional, Contemporary, & Junior classes - the playoff will be between the Traditional & Contemporary winners for the Grand Prize Guitar!
Saturday evening will open back up at 6:15, pre-show with contest winners at 6:45
7:00 will begin the first part of the evening with performances from Scott Taylor and then Pat Kirtley, who will be joined by the Endless Road Strings
8:00pm will begin a very special tribute to a dear friend and a legendary picker (who does not know, email me for details) - this tribute will feature Paul Moseley, Freddie Russell, John Knowles, Mark Thornton, and others - we will finish the night off with a performance by Bobby Bare!
Please contact me via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by message here, or visit www.ntphf.com for more details, full schedule, prices, etc. This event is growing every year! Thank you all for your support!
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Sounds like another great weekend Joe. Sorry I won't be able to make it but I'll be there in spirit.( I know you didn't organize the event for a bunch of spirits but my work schedule won't permit me to be there in the flesh. Gotta hold that job. Otherwise I won't be able to afford to play the guitar!)
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Khao Phanom Bencha National Park Krabi
- Khao Phanom Bencha National Park comprises 50 square kilometers in Ao Luk, Khao Phanom and Mueang Districts of Krabi Province in south Thailand.
- The geography of Khao Phanom Bencha National Park is a rugged mountain range lying in a north south direction. The National Park includes Khao Phanom and Khao Phanom Bencha. The highest elevation is 1,397 meters above sea level.
- The vegetation ecosystem is Tropical Rain Forest. Rainfall is all year.
- The wild mammals include, Malayan Tapir, Clouded Leopard, Stump-tailed Macaque, Dhole, Civet, Slow Loris, Asiatic Black Bear, Panther, Serow, Wild Boar, Black Giant Squirrel, White-handed Gibbon, Dusky Langur and Mouse Deer.
The main tourist attractions at Khao Phanom Bencha National Park are;
- Khao Phanom Bencha at its peak of 1,397 meters with views of Krabi Town
- Khao Pheung Cave
- Huai Sakhe Waterfall
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"Is the tea ready yet Hon?" I ask as I rub my bleary eyes awake. The kitchen clock reads nine am. I smile sheepishly, knowing that this hour is atrocious. Any decent person should have been up ages ago, but I don't care. I feel delicious. At least I've thrown on my T-shirt and shorts… Continue reading "Car Wars" originally entitled "Road Rage of the Modern Era"
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So....I know it has been a while since I blogged here in bloggerville. I wanted to put up some recent work and let the 30 or so of you that follow this thing, know things are going well.
I have been doing a lot of work commercially and (always) busy with some kind of dance stuff. I got the new dance brochures done and will post them soon. So, if you are aware of any dance studios looking for great photos and stellar video, send them my way and I will woo them with my moustache 😉
About the fire trucks. This was a shot I had thought about a long time ago but didn't want to copy a shot that was hanging in the Lincoln Fire Museum so at the time I dismissed it. The Captain on Truck 7 called me and wanted to know if we could recreate the iconic Capitol shoot. I didn't realize that the two trucks in the original photo were Truck 7 and 8. And it just so happens that we are getting them replaced after 20 some odd years. So, before they were turned loose on the streets, we scheduled this shoot.
I wanted it to be different and stand out more in the style I have become fond of for shooting vehicles and creating a dramatic message in advertising. The KDP team spent quite a bit of time planning and figuring out the lighting setup ahead of time as I knew we were going to be blocking traffic in a big way, or two big ways!! There was a lengthy table top and a few pages on the old steno pad to get it right.
I had an awesome crew and need to thank Jessie Mac, Jessie T, Captain Scott, Timmy, and all their families that helped get things set up and helped with traffic. Also, a huge shout out to the band 311 who was playing directly behind us at a live venue that overlooked the Capitol Building.
I will try to keep up on the blog better and when the studio is finally finished I will do some kind of video tour or something….promise.
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Title of Bulletin Board: Get "Caught" Being a Good Sport
Category: Sportsmanship
Suggested Grade Level: 3-5
Materials: netting, old sporting equipment, lettering, fish cutouts and border
In our school we have a program called "Getting Along Together" (GAT) that encourages good habits in all areas of relationships, including sportsmanship, so we decided to go along with this school-wide theme and focus on sportsmanship in PE as well! We used an old, torn volleyball net for our fishing net and then used staples to hold them up onto the board. Behind the netting are fish cutouts and around the edge is a border of water and fish. In addition to the bulletin board, our school has "positive referrals" that are filled out by teachers when a student is seen doing the weekly "cooperative challenge" from GAT and which go into a bucket in the main office. Once a week a student is chosen from each grade's bucket and a prize is given. Other ideas to make this board go further: once the board is established take out the sporting equipment and start putting names on fish cutouts of students that are "caught being a good sport" in class!
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